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CUTE CANADIAN LIVEBLOG OF HISTORIC OBAMA VISIT: Get the blow-by-blow of the most exciting thing to ever happen in Canada in the the history of history. Sample: “10:34:43 AM Why is the president not wearing his hat? Or *a* hat, at least?” [Macleans.ca]
No thanks, I’ll just wait and buy the collectible plate set commemorating the visit.
Well this just proves what we already know, that Canuckistan loves them some Muslins.
Wrong economy to stimulate, you hoser!
It must be my American cynicism and jaded attitude, but this reads like the breathless recitation of a 14 year old girl with a crush (then again, Hopey does seem to inspire that–leg tingling, anyone?). And, yes, very cute.
You can always rely on Macleans to keep you posted on the current state of hattedness of important foreign leaders, eh?
The internet in Canadia is totally socialist.
what is it with those canadians and their obsession with “hats”. it’s like asking me why i’m not wearing my pants (or at least *a* pant). it’s because we’re americans.
the most exciting thing to ever happen in Canada in the the history of history
Canada is so fucking boringly lame. Contrast, for instance how we, the US of A (huah!) gained our independence to the way Canada did:
1) USA: We totally fought a bloody kickass war with them that began with dumping a shitload of tea in Boston harbor, then they burned up a church full of American women and children (I’m going by that Mel Gibson movie here) and then Washington retaliated by crossing the Delaware while standing on the bow of a boat and fucking knocking their asses back to Not-so-great-anymore Britain.
2) Canada: read a whole fucking boring ass book where one gets burned alive in a church to find out about a bunch of treaties and shit. And oh… in the end… guess what… Canada is still technically ruled by Queen Elizabeth (who’s gotta be something like 999 year sold now, right?)
Serolf Divad:
*Canda: should read “where no one gets burned alive in a church”
Is eveyrone in Canada that happy? Cutest. Liveblog. Evah.
The site has pictures. Although as one of the comments:
“*Yeesh* Could our national capital look any less bleak and Soviet?
Pyongyang on a good day.”
well, once we have our socialist, muslin, atheist, marxist society set up (along the lines of - heaven forbid- Sweden), this will look good.
You Canadians call those comments? Complete, complex sentences, with excitement and emphasis provided by *asterisks*? DON’T YOU HAVE FUCKING CAPS LOCKS UP THERE?
This “picture post” is the saddest thing:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/02/19/itqs-o-day-in-pictures-by-berrycam-of-course/
Is everything in Canada grey and foggy? Even the indoors?
i’m confused, these crowds they aren’t burning flags & nobody is throwing shoes. are we sure the american president is really visiting?
Well that is just delightful.
dippinkind:
It’s rather cold up here in Canada City. We’ve been brainwashed, er, conditioned since birth to worry about hats because our moms don’t want our precious ears to fall off from frostbite.
Serolf Divad:
Sort of. The most exciting events that happened to Canada all revolve around hockey (which I know you guys don’t give a shit about.) Much talk about 1972 when we beat the Sovs and in 2002 when we beat you guys for Olympic Gold.
I think we should try to recruit that blogger with the Capt. Jack Sparrow avatar to our own warblog.(I mean really, who the hell blogs Macleans). He doth have a facility with the mother tongue. An obviously unemployed dandy would fit right in around here.
“White House New Media staffer Jason Djang is along for the ride and will be liveblogging from the road.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/19/Liveblog-canada-trip/
Who needs sassy Canuckistan giddy-casters when you can get it from the WH?
The Governor General of Canada (the lady in the picture at the top of the linked page) is black. This is a HUGE slap in the face to Hillary and all of the PUMAs.
I wonder if the five other black people currently within the Canadian boundary are also planning to attend?
Wait a second, I think with MS “Paint” I could print myself up some of those press credentials.
By the way, I’ve got to give major kudos to the RCMP officers on Hill duty today — there seem to be a couple stationed every fifty feet or so along the path — for going out of their way to be friendly and helpful. I’ve heard more cheerful “Good morning!”s so far today than I do in weeks.
Communists. If this had been the NYPD, this “blogger” would already be in jail being sodomized by a broomhandle.
WadISay: Agreed, the lamest fucking comments evah. no assfucking or truck nutz. EPIC FAIL
jagorev: Jesus, it looks like some Communist dystopia. Like us soon.
11:40:54 AM
Did he - he did! He waved! And the entire lawn waved back. I’ve honestly never seen a Hill rally made up of such entirely happy people.
Cutest liveblog post ever.
jagorev: How come it looks just as bleak inside? Is Canada so fucking cold that it snows indoors as well? I has a sad for our hoser neighbors.
I would watch the liveblog, but the Humane Society arm-twisted me into joining their boycott of everything about Canada until they end the baby seal hunt.
jagorev:
It’s just Ottawa. It’s a Canada City Moscow minus the, um, whimsy and sunlight during the winter.
bago: Take off, eh.
Okay, so the crowd is — actually, about as random as you can imagine — old, young, black, white, male, female, you know the drill — lots of O-poster and banners and a sense of O-verall O-nticipation. Also: snipers!
This lady should join Wonkette as our official Northern correspondent.
BTW, their commenters are begging for Wonkette commenters to show up and be entertaining.
jagorev: Kady O’Malley is awesome. She can make a liveblog of a committee meeting hilarious and there is probably nothing more soul crushing on earth than Canadian Parliament committee meetings.
Red Zeppelin: I’m flapping my arms as fast as I can.
No one knew of Canada’s existence until Obama decided to visit.
ManchuCandidate: The most inexplicable characteristic of Canuckistanis is their affection for curling, which they somehow got into the Olympics last time, almost certainly for the one and only time. Buncha guys dressed like janitors, sweeping — now that’s excitement!
All I can say is, Hopey better call us in the morning, ‘coz there’s nothing more brutal than a Canuckstani princess willingly sodomized, then scorned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Marsden
The real drama is that the current Prime Minister of Canada refused to let Obama meet on Parliament Hill with the Leader of the Opposition, Michael Ignatieff who is a former Havard Professor, Author, British TV personality and Russian Count (seriously). Their meeting is relegated to a backroom in the airport.
V572625694:
I’m a son of immigrants who never played the game and I watch curling on the tube from time to time. So does my dad who yells at the TV and who has never thrown a rock (I did for a high school PE class many moon ago.)
And, no. I don’t quite understand it either.
Canmon (the Inadequate): I first read this as bathroom in the airport. But that would be if we had President Larry Craig.
They know we are watching:
Craig Radcliffe: “Looks like Kady just became the official “CUTE CANADIAN LIVEBLOG OF HISTORIC OBAMA VISIT”. Wonkette is showing her some love.”
B: “Oh dear. This will almost certainly end badly. Or hilariously. Definitely one of the two.”
operation limey:
Not me. I hate MaClones magazine (which is accused of/joked about a clone of much loathed Time magazine.)
Canuckledragger: I’d hit that:
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w24/vidabo/2008/artwork_images_799_209941_bettina-r.jpg
…but it would have to be a hate fuck.
Serolf Divad: Oh and well done. So Canada managed to become independent without a civil war, without a revolution, without, you know, slaves, and has a more stable economy, universal health care, better racial integration, that sort of thing. I’ll take my boring homeland any day. Because behind the boring history, there’s lots of socialist communist muslin-loving gay buttsechs going on.
And I’ll add that Kady O’Malley is easily the coolest, nicest, funnest, and wonkiest journalist in the history of forever, who also is great about emailing her fans, including her honourary president of the Los Angeles Kady O’Malley Fan Club.
jagorev: I’ve often thought Wonkette would do well to enlist foreign correspondents: one from France, one from England, one from Boston, one from Kenya.
suchsweetthunder: I’d suggest one from Moscow, too, but I’m guessing that would be a position with… high turnover.
Canuck13652: Well, much the same could have been said of the late lamented Barbara Frum, and look what she gave to the world: a useless neocon hack journalist. Nothing good ever comes from Canada!
BREAKING NEWS from the official White House liveblog:
“Ottawa is white.”
Well, yes, the are.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/19/Liveblog-canada-trip/
Red Zeppelin: Please do not equate all of Canuckistan with the waste of skin issued by Barbara Frum’s vulva. It is untrue.
And some of us are trying to eat lunch here.
suchsweetthunder: Why does the White House liveblog point out that there’s a National Post liveblog, yet refrain from mentioning the Wonkette liveblog?
Got something against futt-bucking and PUMA jokes, Hopey?
@operation limey: it looks as though as least one commenter is looking forward to the arrival of some wonketteers. TI-Guy :”I hope some of Wonkette’s commenters show up here. They’re funny.”
Canuck13652: I read through some of her other posts,and Ms. O’Malley is definitely my new pretend internet imaginary girlfriend, Canadian edition.
We’ll be expecting Canada’s application for US statehood any day, now.
Canmon (the Inadequate): Okay, now we know how those polite people have baby seal hunters amongst them–They’re members of Harper’s Conservatives. Rat Bastard baby killers.
WonksRunAmuck: “BTW, their commenters are begging for Wonkette commenters to show up and be entertaining.”
By that, do you mean show up and ruin entire thing for them.
One thing I don’t get–Hilary is abroad, getting love from Indonesians and other people who used to hate us, Hopey is in Canada shoring up our image. WTF? Didn’t Karen Hughes already do that?
suchsweetthunder: How about a correspondent from Darkest Oklahoma? For the pitch-fork wielding, in bred peasant view of the world.
BTW, this is your blogger, Kady O’Malley.
ManchuCandidate: “So does my dad who yells at the TV and who has never thrown a rock (I did for a high school PE class many moon ago.)”
Excuse me, but throw rocks? Through the teevee? I appreciate being an ardent fan, but doesn’t that get expensive?
V572625694: Most women will tell you there is nothing sexier than a man with a broom…unless it’s a man with a vacuum.
TGY: Shit. I was sure she’d be red-haired, freckled and wearing pig tails. This just really bums me out.
I hope some of those funny Wonkette commenters show up here. They’re funny.
She’s also posting pictures: http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/02/19/itqs-o-day-in-pictures-by-berrycam-of-course/
DustBowlBlues: Well, I did my part. I went over there and made a joke involving Steve Harper and TruckNutz. I’m not sure they understood what I was talking aboot.
Canuck13652:
Granted buttsecs is exciting… but is it really more exciting than dumping a boatload of tea in the water and then being all: “yippie ka yaay, motherfucker!”
Really, Canada is kinda like Switzerland, except you don’t owe your standard of living to all the billions of dollars that 3rd world dictators shoveled into your banks while their people starved. That’s pretty boring, too.
Mr Blifil: Is Anson Carter still in the NHL?
A bit of culture shock: the Americans seem bemused by the pre-press conference huddle — our quaint tradition, when given a limited number of questions, of working them out in advance, through a sort of negotiated free-for-all discussion amongst the various media outlets
If this is what socialized healthcare leads to, then I’ll take Freedom instead.
Serolf Divad: “Toronto is New York run by the Swiss” - Peter Ustinov
She’s well armed to be a blogger. 21 booze salute!
I call shenanigans on this alleged blogger. There is no mention WHATSOEVER of Don Cherry. This woman clearly not a Canadian blogger.
TGY: Alcohol in hand, she’d fit in.
jagorev: Do they remember to slip in Times of India questions every so often to provide some softballs?
Canada sure does have teh gay for our Barry. Just so those bitches know they can’t have him, he’s ours.
ManchuCandidate: ok but did your Mom ever sling rock?
Wow! Newsflash to the Nation of Slaves! Jealous Much? We may be still owned by the Queen, not that she is likely to collect, but under the yolk of $10,793,650,595,481.49 who’s your Daddy? Sorry about being happy, stupid Canadians, what were we thinking!? Just hoping you might get your sheet and shites together sometime soon and stop ramming the world’s econmy down the toilet. 412 Billion dollars in interest payments a year?! Must make you a little sour, eh?
(tiptoeing) Um… cadboy? Wows, you’re STILL here, aren’t you?! Now there’s no need to rock back-and-forth like that. …Hmmm? No, I’m not the nurse. No, I’m not here to make you take your meds, either. Everything’s fiiiiiiiiine, caddy. Here’s the thing: As LOUD as those voices are in your head - there’s nobody here to listen! No, really. All the cool kids took off, like, 3 hours ago! …So why don’t you take my hand and I’ll walk you back to that fun room with the nice squishy walls, OK? That’s a gooooood cadboy…
She mentioned how nice the RCMP were because generally they prefer to stand around in groups taking turns tasering innocent citizens to see who gets the “funniest” reaction from the taseree. Unfortunately some of the taserees have spoiled the fun by dying so this form of recreation for them has been curtailed.