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Archive for July 29th, 2007

A little snippet here from ‘real life’.

I was at the local grocery store earlier, and a fellow came up to me in the dairy aisle with clipboard (not a good sign), asking me if I would please complete a short survey. He had a cart full of bottles of some kind of cleaning liquid by his side.

“No thanks”, I replied. “I’m in a hurry”.

- “But, it’ll only take 30 seconds”.

“No thank you“.

- “Don’t you care about the ENVIRONMENT?” he persisted, with an air of self-righteousness.

Well, at that point he may have just as well waved a red flag in front of my face. My disdain for solicitors of any kind is only surpassed by my total disgust at having the word ‘environment’ shoved down my throat every time I turn around.

“No!“, I snarled back.

- “Not even a bit?”, he stared at me incredulously.

“No, not even a bit!”

- “Well! Have a good day then”, he muttered and sought out his next victim.

I walked down the aisle amidst a crowd of astonished onlookers.

I am an environmental pariah.

Just don’t cross my path today.

Angelo Persichilli appears to be trying to defend his friend, master Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella in today’s op-ed - “Kinsella scandal covers up real issue“.

So does Sheila Copps - “One quirky comment could prove costly“.

Why would they try to “help” their friend by bringing up this story again today? If it’s a non-issue, as they seem to be suggesting, why not let it die?

Unless, as a reader of Adam Daifallah’s blog pointed out:

It is strange timing for Mr. Kinsella’s little blunder. Just as the excrement is hitting the Liberal fan over the “slush fund”, Dalton’s chief spinmeister is taking a lot of heat over an unfortunate cartoon caption. Could it be Warren taking one for the team?
It has given him a chance to post lots of nice emails about himself on his blog along with diverting attention just before the report came out.

muttsrus | 07.27.07 - 7:50 am

H/T to Vicki for bringing this to my attention.

Let’s not take the focus off Cricketgate. We at least owe that much to ourselves - the taxpayers of Ontario.