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[theweaselking]

Nature magazine study shows that Wikipedia is about as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica, if not nearly as well written.

Also,
A Stephen Harper speech from 1997 to the American Council For National Policy - an ultra-right-wing theocratic group - has surfaced just in time for the election.

Selected excerpts:
"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term."
"your country, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world."
"the NDP is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men,"

Jamey Heath, NDP spokesperson, gets the definitive comment on the matter:

"I think Canadians have figured out where Stephen Harper stands on issues and I'll let Stephen Harper speak on where he stands today," Heath said. "I think there are more important things to talk about in the election campaign than an eight-year-old speech from someone who's failed to deliver a thing in this Parliament."

Also,


Also,

Prison inventions

Also,

The Cat Stroller Only $150 USD.

Also,
"Santa lives in the North Pole where he crashed to earth thousands a years ago in the time before time, when the Jolly Ones walked the earth and stalked primitive man in the halls of the Jingle King. Now he sleeps beneath the frozen wastes waiting for the one time a year when the stars are right and he can rise from the ice to spread toys an goodies an Christmas cheer an feast on the brains of naughty children everywhere."

Also,

At last we located the Disney Princess collection, including a number of Disney Princess accessories of questionable countenance.

"Is that a phone?"

"I think so."

"It has fur on it."

"Yeah."

"If I was a princess, I would demand that all my phones be shaved."

Ursula Vernon goes christmas shopping.

Comments

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine a cat enjoying such thing.

I just got back from taking mine to the vet. He sulked all the way home.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> I can't imagine a cat enjoying such thing.

I theorize that it might be intended to be therapeutic revenge for the owner.

> I just got back from taking mine to the vet. He sulked all the way
> home.

Mine cries all the way there. I think he might sulk on the way home, but I'm usually so relieved that it's over that I'm afraid I might not have noticed his Great Feline Cold Shoulder.

[jerril]

I can imagine my last cat being at least entertained by it, but this is the same cat who's nickname was Houdini. He could regularly open up his travel crate door, although it took about 15 minutes of struggling and standing on his head to do it. He likes to sit in the crate, he just doesn't like having the door locked...

So he'd be entertained by escaping from the stroller, and then by running away from me and then by getting into someone's garbage can.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Mine cried all the way there for the first visit; for the last two, he cried when I put him in the crate, but then chilled out. If he can see me he gets less anxious.

However, he gets very annoyed about getting a thermometer up the butt. Hence the sulking.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

"I think Canadians have figured out where Stephen Harper stands on issues and I'll let Stephen Harper speak on where he stands today," Heath said. "I think there are more important things to talk about in the election campaign than an eight-year-old speech from someone who's failed to deliver a thing in this Parliament."

Translation: The Conservatives have tanked again, and while we could rub salt in the wound, we'll look like the 'better man' if we do, so we won't. Besides, we don't need to.

-K

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I know. It's catty and snarly and lets them deny saying anything rude about Harper while saying all the rude things about Harper that they want to.

I love Canadian politics.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

See, this is what I've been saying. It's not that wikipedia is particularly unreliable, it's that all encyclopedias are unreliable, becuase they're not designed to be relied on, but instead to be a starting point for research.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

...you've been saying that encyclopedias are unreliable because they're meant to be a starting point for research?

*beats head against desk*

I hope like hell you are using "unreliable" to mean "non-comprehensive" as opposed to meaning "a questionable and undependable resouce".

Because the alternative is trying to see you as someone who seriously imagines that the staff of, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica sit around the office, boozing it up and saying "Flux? Flax? What's the difference! We've only been around providing a decent work of reference since 1768, of course no-one who cares about reliable information would look to *us*!", and I try to have a better opinion of your grasp on plausible reality.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I mean it's a tertiary source, and thus shouldn't be refrenced when writing a research essay (at least as a source, you could probably use it for a word definition or something).

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Ok. "Tertiary source" does not mean the same thing as "unreliable".

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Howso?