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Re: Hey, Calgary! We’re Number One! (…in violently hating people) | mike soron . com

the boy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:57:33 -0000

My two cents:

$.01 - Looking up "white pride" in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_pride) brings up a picture of Calgary (the same used here in this entry).

$.02 - "Today, ads on Calgary Transit invite anybody — restaurant server, oil services worker, general contractor" don't forget dogs. You don't even have to be human.

Re: The Obamas are way more adorable than the Clintons

MikeSoron — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:19:43 -0000

so... that's it!

I find the Obamas to be particularly adorable and the top photo captured that really well.

Re: The Obamas are way more adorable than the Clintons

Kuri — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:49:52 -0000

Um, so?

Re: Is Barack Obama Muslim?

Glen — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:30:20 -0000

The sad part is that that website had to go up.

Re: Stop! (motion) Genius!

the boy — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:14:41 -0000

mind sufficiently blown

Re: Politicizing Ironman

the boy — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:55:53 -0000

Aha!

Re: Barry Cooper’s no friend of science, law, or the value of my degree.

MikeSoron — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:15:23 -0000

Thanks for the clarification, Andrew. The Calgary Foundation isn't discussed at length in the info out there and I probably inferred volitional complicity without knowing enough.

Glad to hear that the Calgary Foundation -- whose "Vital Signs" I've used at work and elsewhere with a lot of respect -- wasn't directly involved with wrongdoing. It's a shame that a lot of institutions and organizations have been brought into this.

I'm curious to see, too, how Cooper's pundit career will fare in the coming years as a result, too.

Re: Barry Cooper’s no friend of science, law, or the value of my degree.

Andrew — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:43:16 -0000

Mike,

The only thing worth clarifying in this story is the relationship of the Calgary Foundation and the Friends of Science. From speaking with someone at the Foundation, I need to point out that the impropriety was entire Dr. Cooper's (mis)administering the charitable funds into purposes other than those specified in the arrangements by the Calgary Foundation and the stated purposes of their use.

The Calgary Foundation is an important charity, that does lots of excellent work. I invite you to examine their "Vital Signs" report on Calgary where the city receives dismal marks in almost every category. www.calgaryvitalsigns.ca

But to be clear, I think Dr. Cooper's conduct was shameless and does constitute criminal wrongdoing. I've never been a fan of his shameless promotion of the Iraq war from the CanWest pulpit either.

-Andrew