Showing posts with label Foolishness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foolishness. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2007

Wildroser attacks! I'll put him off till later.

An interesting development occurred yesterday. A Wildroser posting under the pseudonym of "doktor" appeared on Project Alberta.

He made a couple of posts on a thread set up for the sole purpose of discussing little old me.

Rather aggressive I must say. I love it!

Doktor, I am not a salaried official in a right wing federalist political party, nor do I draw a cheque from a right wing federalist advocacy group, which means I don't have access to a list of benighted federalist Myrmidons that I can fleece for donations while providing them with absolutely nothing of value in return. I actually work for a living, and if I don't work, I don't get paid. I am a tad busy at the moment, and must postpone my response for a wee while, so I can research some issues that you have raised. So please do not read anything into my tardiness, doktor, because I do take your posts seriously, and intend on responding fully. It may very well be that a mea culpa is in order, and, if I determine it is, I will gladly issue same. However, doktor, I would like to quickly draw your attention to my public bookmarks (namely, the eighth bookmark from the top), and the screencap in this post. If you mouse-over the image, you will note that it is in fact a clickable link. Both of these URLs are properly formatted, and were published last Thursday evening. Yet, when I clicked on either of them, they both bounced higher than the final employee paycheques issued by The Report Newsmagazine. I was greeted with the screen I reproduced in the screencap embedded in my September 13 post.

The URL you see in the address bar in the screencap contains an "amp" string that is not part of the URL in my public bookmark, so it would appear that it is the server that is inserting the "amp" string - at least on this occasion. I say this, because I note you completely ignored these properly formatted URLs in your post, and have offered no explanation as to why these bounced, choosing instead to deal only with the URLs that bolstered your theory.

I have no way of proving what URLs I submitted to the server that formed the basis of my August 30 post. I believe I navigated to the "Executive" page through the menus on the Wildrose Party's site. The URLs that are reproduced in the links contained in my post certainly contain "amp" strings, but these strings would have been included in the server's response after my query bounced. That is when I would have done the cut and paste, and inserted them in my post.

One last thing. I notice that Cory Morgan has weighed in on the Project Alberta thread in this post. The following sentence concerns me:

Now we have to fear that the good Doktor may break down some of the rest of us and our loony postings.
Cory, I give you fair warning to stay away from doktor. I think I know who he is. He is a rather highly placed Wildroser. Given his background and reputation, it is safe to say that he will be at the forefront of the ongoing effort to cannibalize the Alberta Alliance. Friendly banter with such a person is not in your interests; he would just as soon eat your liver, along with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Thup thup thup thup thup.

You best leave doktor to me.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

The Wildrosers are up to their old tricks again

This screencap may result in deja vu for regular Wildrose Report readers:

Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy

"You are not authorized to view this resource. You need to login." Hmmm. Where have I read that before?

Oh yeah. Scroll down to the August 30 update.

I confess, I have been poking around on the Citizens Centre website in order to complete the research necessary to finalize my evisceration of Link Byfield's June 15 article entitled "Enough talk. It's time to go political." The link the Wildrosers are blocking is the link to that post. It worked fine just a couple of hours ago.

Well, I guess I'll have to go see if I can find the article I need in the Google cache, just like I did last time.

Be back in a tick.

Update 09/13/07: I have obtained screencaps of "Enough talk. It's time to go political." It was originally spread over five pages on the Citizens Centre site. You can get the links for all screencaps and links for the other references I am using in my upcoming article at my public del.icio.us bookmarks.

Given that this is now the second attempt at obstructing my access to information - and the second humiliating failure to do so - I hope the Wildrosers will, from this point forward, cease and desist from such nonsense.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Wildrose Party Executive loses three

While reviewing the Wildrose Party website for some sign as to where they are at with their registration petition, I couldn't help but notice that Gordon Stamp, Don Weisbeck, and Don Gebauer are no longer listed as being on the Executive. According to a Wildrose Party media release dated June 26, 2007, the roster of the original Executive Committee read as follows:

Officers:
  • Rob James, president (Calgary)
  • Link Byfield, executive director (Morinville)
  • Sharon Maclise, vice-president membership (Edmonton)
  • Gordon Lang, vice-president fundraising (Calgary)
  • Gordon Stamp, vice-president policy (Edmonton)
  • Don Weisback [sic], vice-president communications (Brooks)
  • Eleanor Maroes, treasurer (Edmonton)
  • Marilyn Burns, secretary (Edmonton)
Southern Directors:
  • Don Gebauer (Calgary)
  • John Hilton-O'Brien (Calgary)
  • Rosemary Craig (Calgary)
Northern Directors:
  • Faye Engler (St. Albert)
  • Phil Gamache (Edmonton)
  • Daniel Johnson (Edmonton)
The present Executive can be found here.

I can find no explanation on the website as to why over 20% of the executive is gone in such a short time frame, and why no replacements have been named.

The current list:

Officers:
  • Rob James, president (Calgary)
  • Link Byfield, executive director (Morinville)
  • Sharon Maclise, vice-president membership (Edmonton)
  • Gordon Lang, vice-president fundraising (Calgary)
  • Gordon Stamp, vice-president policy (Edmonton)
  • Don Weisback [sic], vice-president communications (Brooks)
  • Eleanor Maroes, treasurer (Edmonton)
  • Marilyn Burns, secretary (Edmonton)
Southern Directors:
  • Don Gebauer (Calgary)
  • John Hilton-O'Brien (Calgary)
  • Rosemary Craig (Calgary)
Northern Directors:
  • Faye Engler (St. Albert)
  • Phil Gamache (Edmonton)
  • Daniel Johnson (Edmonton)

Update 08/30/2007: It appears that the Wildrosers have moved the listing of their shrinking Executive to a secure part of the website where it is not viewable by the public:

Wildrose Party Executive

You can see how it looked earlier this morning at the following places:


Update 09/01/2007: Apparently you can still view the executive list if you are not referred to the Wildrose Party site from this blog. I guess they set up a referral block (or an IP block), just for me.

This of course proves that the Wildrosers are reading this site. Cool.