Cam is unamused by Fox and explain a few interests

[misscam]

(In news about little Miss Cleric - OFUM still be up, and I appear to have recieved a private message at GAFF with some "apology". I shall ponder carefully what to reply, oh yes.)

Fox News Suggests Canadian Katrina Generosity Meant To Embarrass George W. Bush

Gibson asks, "You know uh..Ambassador McKenna um..uh..uh..you know..justlemme uh..have you..uh..lemme address one thing. Uh we know that there's lots of people in Canada on the left side of the political spectrum who don't like George Bush. Is there any..any part of this..big Canadian help designed to..maybe embarrass the President?"

...

And I guess Europe also offered to help because we're eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil socialists and sniggered evilly in our socialist beards when the hurricane hit. And clearly, all that help during the tsunami was to embarrass Indonesia. There is no such thing as sympathy or compassion.

I'm going to respectfully suggest that if the US government has come out looking bad due to the Katrina rescue effort, it managed that spectaculary on its own.

ETA: CSI makes Fandom_Wank (Or rather, CSI icons.)

Meme!
Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.

Australia - Well, I lived there. And quite enjoyed the country. It's full of odd creatures, ancient wonders and generally underappreciated stuff. Where else can you find proto-ants that died everywhere else hundreds of billions of years ago?
British humour - I grew up with the likes of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers. It has forever warped coloured my impression of what is funny. I love Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Little Britain, The Office, Absoloutely Fabelous... And the British funny writers like Douglas Adams (wail!) and Terry Pratchett.
CSI - One of my current favourite shows. Crime, brainy men, hot men, blood, violence and sex in my head makes that a given.
DVDs - DVDs are shiny. I like shiny. And commentary tracks. And extras. And shiny look of old favourite DVD shows in DVD wrapping.
Fanfiction - I write it. Obvious much?
Goodfic - I snicker and is amused at badfic. But I enjoyed goodfic. There needs to be more.
Hunks - Shallow as I am, I enjoy a good-looking fellow.
Lizards - They're kickass. I've loved lizards (and dragons) since I was young and if I could ever own a blue-tongue lizard, I would be happy. In the meantime I settle for having one tattooed on me.
Mythology - I was brought up in the echoes of Nordic mythology. It reveals a lot about where my people came from and was shaped by - and perhaps all the mythologies do the same for humanity at large.
OFUM - Honestly, this one is more listed because others added it to their interest list and I figured that if anyone did a search on it, my name should be there. So now it is.
Religion - I may not believe in any of the religions, but I still find them fascinating for what they say about humanity.
Silmarillion - Morgoth!
Theatre - I did drama for three years in Upper Secondary school. Great fun. And I still enjoy plays.
Warrick/Catherine - One of my 'ships. He's hot, they both have a certain darkness in them and... Well, I like. Shut up.

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Comments

O_O

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

I don't have a desk. But I will find one, because I need to headdesk really really badly right now. Good LORD, Fox is full of morons! If it helps any, most of the civilized US thinks Fox is full of it.

Oy. Words fail me. May all of my Canadian friends forgive me for being American right now. ::burrows under covers, pretending she's Norwegian or something that can't possibly be related to anyone at Fox::

Re: O_O

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Though not everyone, I've noticed.

(You can borrow Hugh Grant's desk.)

I'm sure there's no Fox blood in you. And really, the owner is actually Australian of origin. Joys of joys.

Re: O_O

[musemistress.livejournal.com]

Oh...great...

*curses her Auzzie blood*

But maybe the fact I have an aunty and full blood relations in Canada might help and have part Ontario Indian somewhere in me?

*uses Grants desk too and leaves a dent*

Re: O_O

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

::borrows desk, headdesks::

Re: O_O

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

yes, Rupert Murdoch, no? Tallyho, barf barf!

I signed your wall... didn't work properly the first two times, but the third was OK. Couldn't figure how to delete, though.

Saz woz ere 05!

Re: O_O

[misscam.livejournal.com]

At least you can comfort yourself with him being Aussie no more.

Three times, huh? You really do like to leave an impression.

[musemistress.livejournal.com]

Can't really say much about it...'cept that media is doing what it has always been doing. Making people believe them.

Truth or otherwise, even mere suggestions can be taken in any way.

Le sigh.

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day lassy...it'll not be the same mind you since the storm.

*puts a desk in front of highwindpav and uses it also*


~Mel~

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I can't talk like a pirate. Will talking like a Viking do?

And you're quite right.

[musemistress.livejournal.com]

Vikings are perfectly acceptable. They were a type of pirate anyway...same as the Australian settlers hehe.

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

::sees desk, bashes head into it repeatedly:: Thanks. Ow, now I need aspirin...

[hadria.livejournal.com]

Oh, now, FUCK YOU FOX. That just crosses the fucking line

I don't believe I've ever been this offended in my entire life.

Why don't you send our search and rescue guys that saved 100+ people and got there five days before anyone from your own administration back up here and those 100 people can just...die? And please, take my 100 dollar check and shove it up your fucking ass.

And some Americans wonder why we can't stand some of their countrymen. I swear to God...

[highwindpav.livejournal.com]

As a Californian, I'd like to take a moment to thank Canada for letting us borrow your super-scooper airplanes to put out fires. SOME of us ::glares at Fox:: appreciate the help.

[hadria.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And I know a lot of Americans appreciate it (they've said as much in all the emails our government has been getting) and really, appreciation isn't even necessary - help is what any normal country would do - but I am so goddamn tired of having my country be shit on by this inept administration and the media cronies that hump it.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm offended on your country's behalf. I believe the phrase "sodding toads" were included in my first reaction.

There's singing to new lows and there's digging giant abysses. Bite me, Fox. I'll give you indigestion.

[musemistress.livejournal.com]

Maybe a new administration should be formed of edible polititions and cannibles.

Not indigestion, just good ol food poisening.

[hadria.livejournal.com]

Bite me, Fox. I'll give you indigestion.

LMAO! *kisses you*

In CSI semi-related news...

[ladyiapetus]

...Gary Dourdan has a damn fine singing voice.

Re: In CSI semi-related news...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Now I'm envious. I won't get to see.

Re: In CSI semi-related news...

[ladyiapetus]

Well, it was during the Emmys last night (although if they let him sing in the show, I wouldn't object!). They decided to do some thing called "Emmy Idol" for favorite classic TV theme song, and Gary performed "Movin' On Up" with Macy Grey.

My newspaper this morning called his performance "strained". I say the person who wrote that article don't know what s/he is talking about.

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

Canadian Ambassador to the United States, Frank McKenna during an interview by Fox news reporter Frank Gibson last week was grilled by Gibson on Canada's motives for reacting so quickly to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Uh... a government reacting "quickly" with aid should, IMHO, be a GOOD thing. A thing to be envied, even. If there's any embarrassment of the U.S. government resulting from this, it certainly reflects more on the U.S. government than on Canada.

FOX, quit saying things that are more likely to embarrass sane Americans.

*enjoys vandalism*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

A thing to be learned from, you'd think. But noooooo, can't have that.

Twat.

[alswaiter.livejournal.com]

Canadians don't have a plan to embarass the States, they do that all by themselves and then stick their foot in it later.

I don't have much respect for FOX to begin with, so it can't make me like them very much less. They're all ignorant morons. The Daily Show may very well have something to say about this, and I hope they do.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

You'll have to share if it does.

*wubs Daily Show*

[alswaiter.livejournal.com]

Absolutely I'll share. There's no way that I wouldn't.

[sekhmets-temple.livejournal.com]

::sighs::

You know, I get the feeling that within the Bush administration's eyes, Canada is damned if they do and damned it they don't. What FOX saying is, if our urban search and rescue teams had stayed put, drinking the ubiquitous beer and talking about the soon to be returning hockey season, the Bush administration would not have accused us of ignoring them and willfully not offering assistance? Please. They would have started calling Canadian bacon Freedom bacon, or something equally as assinine.

But that never happened because the Canadian urban search and rescue teams did get to areas of the disaster site and did everything in their power to assist the victims of the hurricane...five days before anyone else got to some of those places. And now they get crapped on with the suggestion that it's all part of a Master Plan to make the current administration look bad? 'Scuse me, but the current administration doesn't need any help from us Canadians to help them look bad.

::feels the lack of an appropriately patriotic Canadian icon::

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Liberty Bacon.

Quite right. Next you know, someone will accuse Canada and Europe for launching the tsunami to make the US look bad or something equally idiotic.

[sekhmets-temple.livejournal.com]

Next you know, someone will accuse Canada and Europe for launching the tsunami to make the US look bad or something equally idiotic.

Ah yes, we're all weather-controlling mad scientists.

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

Yes, precisely. That's exactly it. Canada is damned if we do and damned if we don't, regardless. Because of some kind of perceived massive ideological differences, because we don't seem to want to bend our will to Shrub's administration, because we didn't participate in Iraq.

Are we supposed to let people die just because they were okay with it? I can't fathom any public official or any news anchor saying that we shouldn't have saved lives because it embarrassed them. It's not our fault that they were so badly prepared for and so utterly complacent with the storm's effects.

Further, what amuses me is that they have spent years telling us to increase our military budget, as it's currently inadequate (in their eyes). And yet, there we are, able to save lives five whole days before they even get to the area. (Though, I don't believe it was a military unit that was sent.) We're sending ships and equipment and whatnot.

[belegcuthalion.livejournal.com]

Okay, next time the Canadians should stay at home and let a few more people die in the mud - just to keep the US-government from feeling embarrassed. *fumes*

And the german election? Ah well... the thing is, people may not be all too happy with the policy of the last SPD-government, but they started renewing a few matters that should have been tackled for years and years. And Mrs. Merkel's party silently signed (and agreed with) most of the changes - and then yelled around that this would be the end of the social state, blocking urgently needed steps wherever possible. And it is a fact that more than 50 % of the german people still want Schroeder as chancelor (me included). It's as simple as that. I would really like to see a woman do the job, but not her. (Beside the fact that when that Iraq disaster started and the whole world stared disbelievingly at the lies spread by the US-government, Mrs. Merkel took the next flight to Washington to show her support. Thank God she had nothing to say then, or our soldiers would die in Iraq, too.)

Sorry for deleting and revision. My fingers were faster than my brain.

[falena]

Mmm *ponders on your comment* This is v. interesting indeed.
Being Italian, I don't know much about German politics and your comment helped me clear some things up. Thanks.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

MSN hates me. Apologies for leaving, MSN decided to play wonky on me and I've decided to give up and go have a snooze.

TTYL:

[falena]

I thought so.

Have a nice nap!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

What's the chance of the left parties all coming together and keeping SPD in power?

I bet she ain't as eager to be supportive of the Iraq war now.

[belegcuthalion.livejournal.com]

I fear it will take weeks for them to find any kind of agreement. He stubbornly claims to be still on duty and she (and her party) will have to make a rather big jump over their own shadow (as we say over here) to let him remain where he is. Sometimes their behaviour reminds me of a kind of sand box war - half a dozen screaming kids, foghting over a shovel.

*sigh*

(When she was asked during a Merkel/Schroeder-TV duel what she thought about the failure of the american government during the Katrina disaster, she wasn't able to answer that question and fled into giving another answer to an already answered question. Of course everybody noticed it and of course he took the chance, answering the question for her. He said she should at least be able to say what the american president had just said himself - that things didn't work as they should. I guess she lost many votes in that moment; people remembered all too clearly her behaviour when the Iraq War started).

[ailanreanter.livejournal.com]

"What's the chance of the left parties all coming together and keeping SPD in power?"

Not that good, since the SPD refuses (so far) to consider to work with the leftist "Linkspartei".
The Linkspartei themselves say they don't want to reign, they want to be in opposition, rather.
But they'd be needed to get a majority together with the "Grünen"...

[falena]

*headdesk to infinity*

Btw, I signed the graffity with a self-explanatory "Down With Fuckwits"...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Now there's a motto for the 21st century.

[beautyid.livejournal.com]

>.< Oh my God, fucking Fox News! I thought that it wasn't possible for them to sink any lower but they have. It makes me want to be violently ill, on them. If Fox News went bankrupt and everyone on it had to beg out in the gutter, I would laugh, and probably kick them as I went by. I can't believe people like that are allowed to spread their filth on the air.

I know I'm sounding over-the-top and ridiculous, but I've had enough!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*offers trout*

Smack hard, and smack with just cause.

[valantis.livejournal.com]

I don't know which is dumber: a president that manages to so badly embarrass himself; or a media head that thinks other people/countries doing better than that president is a major cause of the embarrassment.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Probably the child of the two, should they ever mate.

[briasoleil.livejournal.com]

I tried to sign your graffiti wall. But both times, my saying is only partially apparent. So, I'll say it here:

Cam for World Leader!

[chunkylimes.livejournal.com]

. . .


THEY DID NOT!

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*kills FOX "NEWS"*

All I'll say is that George Bush doesn't need any help in embarressing himself. Even if we were trying to, we could scarcely do a better job.

By the way, your interests list is awesome. Morgoth indeed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tallian_/]

*boggles at fan wank*

Ow ow ow.