Morton is laughable February 25, 2008 at 12:25 p.m.

James Morton is an embarrassement and a joke - his reference to the Radler, Black saga as " tragic " is laughable. The only tragic persons in the entire Hollinger debacle are the shareholders and the felons' families.

Time tickin' away February 25, 2008 at 1:07 p.m.

Tower of London, indeed. I suppose it has a bit of class about it. It's where they used to top royalty and aristocrats, whereas the "ordinary people" went to a much less graceful death at Tyburn.

Nice to see Lit 200 has seen the error of her ways.

http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/232...

Lit200 February 25, 2008 at 1:52 p.m.

No tragedy there, it happens every day. Innocent folks are put away for long periods of time at the behest of an over-reaching "special investigator." Black did nothing wrong, the shareholders were not "jobbed" by him (under Black's management they got fat dividend payments) but by a crook by the name of Richard Breeden, who gutted the company and is now fleecing other unsuspecting investors with his (two and twenty) hedge fund.

Free Conrad Black!

REN'S COUSIN February 25, 2008 at 2:40 p.m.

SPLIT 200

Give it a break! Black is cooked, done as a dinner.

He's going to jail where he deserves to be.

Find another hero other than this corrupt specimen, would you please?

reality bites February 25, 2008 at 2:53 p.m.

Lit200 February 25, 2008 at 1:52 p.m.

No tragedy there, it happens every day. Innocent folks are put away for long periods of time at the behest of an over-reaching "special investigator." Black did nothing wrong, the shareholders were not "jobbed" by him (under Black's management they got fat dividend payments) but by a crook by the name of Richard Breeden, who gutted the company and is now fleecing other unsuspecting investors with his (two and twenty) hedge fund.

Free Conrad Black!

It must be incredibly reassuring and uplifting to know that you are 100% dead on that Black is innocent, despite the fact that he has been found 100% guilty of 4 felony counts by a jury of his peers. But then of course you never considered that jury to be comprised of Black's peers, did you?. Your most recent post above sounds remarkably like it emanated from someone very close to Black - his secretary, perhaps - Joan Maida. Did Black at least foot the bill for all those dumb T - shirts? All your posts prove is that you are nothing more than a sad Black sock puppet.

knock knock February 25, 2008 at 2:57 p.m.

Lit 200: Free Conrad Black!

Yeah, with 200 Coca-Cola bottle tops!

Is Lit 200 suffering from (or delighting in) schizophrenia?

http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/232......

Has anyone read Amielticket's latest waffle in Toothpaste?

Apart from the predictable tributes to herself and glimpses into the alleged poverty from which she escaped and mention that her mother was preggers for the fifth time, plus the sweeping statements about "Marxist infestation" of Canadian universities, it's difficult to see what her point is - if indeed there is one. Interesting that he has four full or half-siblings. She probably had little or no contact with them when she became "famous" and eventually even "Lady Black", but they might be good enough for her now that she is going down in the world. On the other hand, I really wonder whether she would have neck enough to use that title in the UK, where she is now viewed as the worst kind of tragicomic trash.

Savia February 25, 2008 at 3:03 p.m.

Conrad Black will always be an inspiration to our young people.

Kelly February 25, 2008 at 3:05 p.m.

Doug Bell says:
"There is little or nothing “tragic” in all of this. A bunch of fraudsters who jobbed shareholders out of their money are getting pretty much what they deserve."

Amen.

"Beyond that, The Independent in London started what I’m sure will be an avalanche of cheap shots as Lord Black fades from the scene."

I don't normally like cheap shots but if anyone has earned them, it would be Black or for instance his increasingly spiteful supporter, Lit 200. They both insult too many with low-blows (like CMB calling Kennedy "puffy" or Lit 200's "tranny" etc.). So I say, fire away.

Anyone who thinks Black is innocent at this point must be morally or mentally decrepit. It's in the public interest that this repeat offender be put away.

2013 February 25, 2008 at 3:07 p.m.

Does Lord North of Mudchute really think Amielticket will be waiting for him when he gets out some time in 2013? And does she really think he'll want a woman whose "extravagance knows no bounds" after five years of adjustment to the simple things in life and learning what true friendship is all about? She ought to cough up the money, because I suspect she knows where it's stashed, and try to do a deal with the Americans to have him released sooner, provide he admits his guilt and shuts up with all that victimization stuff already.

reality bites February 25, 2008 at 3:09 p.m.

From a once ego boosting, if nothing else, job as Black's gofer / secretary to mindless and mind numbing days and nights glued to the internet posting all manner of drivel in praise of one's former lord and master, is a huge disgraceful downfall. At least you have something to occupy your time - posting tripe on the web and attacking anyone who dares to disagree with you. Start thinking for yourself, Ms. Maida alias lit200 - you might find that a boost to your morale.

Agree with Kelly February 25, 2008 at 3:16 p.m.

Yes, indeed, those two deserve every "cheap shot" in the book, for decades of nastiness in the media they controlled, when "ordinary people" couldn't buy a paper without finding some of Amiel's sickening columns. Before this excellent blog came alone, the likes of me had virtually no chance of answering back. Try sending in a "letter to the editor" to rectify some of Amiel's hateful drivel. It just ended up in the wastepaper basket, but now the boot is on the other foot. Even so, Lit 200's calling Roger a "tranny" and so on is not by any means the whole of it. What about the Finnish poster who seemed to have some inside line to camp Black and was soon denounced as a pedophile, his phone number posted and others invited to go round and sort him out? Then followed leaf's spurious crime report to the Finnish police and her insane phone calls in the middle of the night (eastern European time). Why do you think is behind all that? Time will tell, just as it told for Black.

Where is leaf? February 25, 2008 at 3:34 p.m.

No sign of leaf for a while. Maybe she only appeared online when you-know-who's Ritalin dosage was out of whack. Then she made a big mistake when she sneered at the RCMP as incompetents. They do get their man/girl/beast/whacko quite often, and leaf may already have heard the knock at the door. She admits herself to leaving dozens of messages on voicemail in the middle of the night. In what country again? Oh yes, Nokialand. That's about as clever as Black was when he stole from the rich in what country? Oh, yes, the United States of America. In a way you have to feel sorry for those losers, who think they are sooooo clever, but end up with their ass between a rock and a hard place. This week will be one of major instability for Amielticket. Watch out for some real fireworks.

reality definitely bites big time February 25, 2008 at 3:41 p.m.

Agree with Kelly February 25, 2008 at 3:16 p.m.

It's called karma or commeuppance and your post is so correct. There has to be an explanation for the fact that only about 1 in 10 people anywhere, not just on this blog, believe that CB is guilty as charged and proved and convicted. In a few short days or weeks, he will disappear into the prison system where, hopefully, he will shut the hell up and fade from the news. One can only hope.....

RENE'S COUSIN February 25, 2008 at 3:44 p.m.

Split 200's as an alias cum sock puppet for North of Mudchute and Amielticket has to be a little more Anglo literate than the locally hired Espagnol speaking weed wacker and hedge trimmer....and someone with a smattering of things historical..maybe even an old standby like Andrew Roberts, just maybe...

Who's to know but Splitz Ditz 200?

Who really cares? Not I ..

Because today there is one rat down and three to go plus the Big Jelly Cod Fish, hisself.

reality definitely bites big time February 25, 2008 at 3:46 p.m.

correction to above post - " 1 in 10 believe CB to be INNOCENT ..". Our exuberance at the felon's imminent disappearance into US prison system forced us to make that typo.....

Bubba February 25, 2008 at 3:47 p.m.

Whut in tarnation wif thet court hearin' t'morry ah's as nervous as a long-tailed houn'dog in a room full of rockin' chairs. On the other han', ah knows fum experience thet appeals nearly allus haf th' same outcome: no, no, no. Then I'll knows fo' sho'nuff thet th' Kinadian real English lo'd feller is a-comin' her t'join our li'l community. Some of th' fellas hyar haf real ambishuns an' pretenshuns t'class. Others jest haf a trimenjus boner at th' prospeck of a noo bitch.

Dear Prison Administration February 25, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.

Just a few requests before I take up residence in Coleman FCI.

I need to have a largish bathtub so that I can continue to exercise my mental abilities by arranging model ships in the order of great naval battles such as Salamis, the Nile, Trafalgar, Jutland and Midway. About 2 x 2 metres would suffice, but preferably 3 x 4 metres.

My cell should be large enough to accommodate my shaving stand, which once belonged to the great Emperor Napoleon.

Then I shall need space for the 350 volumes that I have selected, one computer terminal and a small wine rack.

Trusting that you can accommodate me in these matters,

Yours

Black of Crossharbour, Order of Canada, Privy Counsellor, Knight of the Holy See and Grand Master of Opus Dei.

Coleman won't be like this February 25, 2008 at 4:07 p.m.

Looked on Youtube to see if they have anything about Coleman FCI, where the Baron will be taking up residence next Monday, but all I found was thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgWtlcQAhzg

Not at all what he's going to! hee hee hee

Sorry February 25, 2008 at 4:09 p.m.

This is the active link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgWtlcQAh...

Lit 200 February 25, 2008 at 5:35 p.m.

Tricoteuse, tricoteuse
Knitting your noose
One day it's Black
But next day, it's youse.

Avee February 25, 2008 at 5:42 p.m.

Privy Counsellor or perhaps Privy Cleaner.

it's off to prison he goes February 25, 2008 at 6:04 p.m.

The following pretty much says it all about Conrad Black and his sorry predicament -
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5...

Fitzgerald has it nailed exactly and we hope the Appeal Judges agree - so long, Lord Mudchute...

lol February 25, 2008 at 6:21 p.m.

Dear Prison Administration February 25, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.

LOL

jab3 February 25, 2008 at 6:23 p.m.

Agree with "Agree with Kelly"--with emendations:"Yes, indeed, those two [and Radler] deserve every "cheap shot" in the book, for decades of nastiness in the media they controlled, when "ordinary people" couldn't buy a paper without finding some of Amiel's sickening columns [and/or the take-over of the paper by Black and Radler's neo-con editorial stance, or one of Black's 'letters to the editor', or news of yet another libel suit by Black]. Before this excellent blog came alone, the likes of me had virtually no chance of answering back."

I disagree that there is nothing tragic about the downfall of Black and Amiel--in the 1970s, I thought they had potential; by the 80s and 90s they had become somewhat powerful, influential people (to my mind, misusing their potential); and now they have fallen, brought down by their own miscalculations and the nemesis of the US Justice system. (The pro-Blacks and the anti-Blacks disagree as to the nature and culpability of the miscalucations and as to whether the nemesis was substantially just or substantially unjust.)

So Radler, it seems, is going to a private prison in the US. If he were a man of principle--seeing he is right-wing and all--he would elect to spend out his prison term there rather than enter the public prison system of Canada.

long live karma February 25, 2008 at 6:28 p.m.

Kelly February 25, 2008 at 3:05 p.m.

You forgot to mention CMB's spurrious, uncalled for and inexplicable insults towards Michelle Obama. The Blacks - Lord and Lady North of Mudchute - are finally coming to see what it's like when the shoe is on the other foot. Let's hear it for karma and just desserts....!

charlie February 25, 2008 at 8:06 p.m.

Lit 200 wrote on the last thread--"Gothe was a pedophile". Really? You mean Goethe? Please elucidate....

Kelly February 25, 2008 at 8:20 p.m.

Agree with K:
This may sound a little self serving, but anyway....good points, lol.

long live karma February 25, 2008 at 6:28 p.m.

The two examples I gave are just the tip of the iceberg - didn't mean to suggest that's the extent of CMB or Lit's invective.

For sure the insults towards both Obamas are unprovoked and I find it particularly repugnant that Lit has repeatedly slandered Breeden by calling him a thief at the same time she denounces anyone who rightly calls Black a felon.

*****

Dear Prison Administration:

Too funny, especially the "small wine rack". Didn't realize they bottle prison brew - hopefully it's a good year....

Esmeralda February 25, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.

Terribly bad news for the 3 felons. With the departure of Mr Susssmen, Mr Patric Fitzgeraldine has taken over the direct day to day work on the file of the 3 felons. Mr Fitzgeraldine is a batchelor and a work alcoholic, he has handle the case of 'Dapper Don'. Dapper has been sitting in jail for 10 years. Patric also handled Mr Libby's case.
Mr Libby was pardoned by Mr Cheney, after Mr Libby threatened to sing about Mr Cheney his boss. In hind-sight it is too bad that Mr Lord did not a boss, he could have exposed them. On second thought, Mr Lord did have a boss, that being the board and the audit committee. In a strange twist of fate, the Lord's boss --the board and tha audit committe-- exposed Mr Lord. The Lord may truly say: I was fooled again.

long live karma February 25, 2008 at 8:37 p.m.

long live karma February 25, 2008 at 6:28 p.m.
Kelly February 25, 2008 at 8:20 p.m.
The two examples I gave are just the tip of the iceberg - didn't mean to suggest that's the extent of CMB or Lit's invective.

For sure the insults towards both Obamas are unprovoked and I find it particularly repugnant that Lit has repeatedly slandered Breeden by calling him a thief at the same time she denounces anyone who rightly calls Black a felon.

I could not agree more, Kelly. Breeden has been unfairly and maliciously maligned by anyone who is in Black's camp and it is sickening to read.
It is absolutely incomprehensible that Black apparently continues to slander others and beyond belief that he continues to believe that this is ok for public consumption. Importantly, however, please notice how anyone of significance has essentially ignored the Lord North of Mudchute - anyone of consequence, anyway...lit 200 and the rest of her ilk deserve derision and ostracism.

Lit 200 February 25, 2008 at 8:57 p.m.

To all of you who wish to denigrate me by referring to me as female... Have at it! It proves your mysogyny. I am pleased to be considered female, though I am a male and everyone here knows it. If you wish to insult me by referring to me as a woman, well, God bless you and your twisted ideas. In fact, I am a feminist!

I believe the days of the machismo male, the so-called alpha male that Roger and his ilk seek to project, is over. As the only opponent here I respect, W101, once said, put a fork in him and all his pals, and turn him over - he's done, they are done. If this is the best you can do, there is not much substance to the lot of you.

Erwin February 25, 2008 at 9 p.m.

Incredible but true, the lord's defense team has allegedly filed yet another appeal. This appeal is an appeal about their last appeal, which voided the previous appeal that was denied. If any blogger does not understand this, don't worry coz this is because you are not sophisticated enough.
In other words you are like the jury, uneducated, blue-collar, unsophisticated females. A courier entered the bail-appeal judges chamber and handed each of them the latest defense team's appeal. This action woke up the benchers who were snoring so loud that one of the glass panel windows fell. The pretty trial judge was being interviewd by the CBC's Mr Petur Mansbridgeness --also known a dick head-- on the sidewalk when the huge glass piece fell on them and plastered them into a pancake. The canadian population was happy for having been freed from Mr Dick-head. Very beautiful CTV reporter Lisalotte LaFlare will be substituting dick-head, since Mr Lloyd is going to live forever as anchor Tutankamuun.

Lit 200 February 25, 2008 at 9:03 p.m.

It is interesting that in their 47 page response to the request for continued bail, the prosecution referred to Conrad Black's effort as "Hurculean." It is, indeed. Hurcules was a hero in Greek mythology. And this story is not over.

Personally, I detest most of Conrad Black's philosophy. I have said this before.

But this trial is a travesty. And the hatred that pours out of 99 per cent of the posters on this blog is drivel. You are all losers. None of you can see through the veil of your preconceptions.

Welcome to your closed minds. To your closed worlds. You are of the mentality that leads to fascism.

This story is not over.

Lit 200 February 25, 2008 at 9:09 p.m.

I am a male. Married, children, grandchildren. It pleases posters here to refer to me as a female. I am not insulted but I am surprised and amused.

If you call me a women, does it insult me? I don't take it that way at all. But it reveals a lot more about you than it does about me.

I am quite pleased to be considered in my thinking and in my approach to philosophical questions, to be a female.

The day of the "male mind" the hedgemony, is over. Women will carry the world forward from this time forward. The male... as exemplified by Roger and his ilk... is over. They have had their shot and they have fuked it up.

I am more than pleased to be considered among the contingent of humanity that will write the next chapers of the human adventure.

Enjoy yourselfs men and women, mysogynists.

railway employee February 25, 2008 at 9:40 p.m.

Erwin February 25, 2008 at 9 p.m.

Yup - another whacko reveals itself on this blog. How do you loons come up with this stuff anyway? Well at least some of you have figured out how to pass the time in your empty lives. And you aren't even humorous.

Kelly February 25, 2008 at 9:42 p.m.

More hysterics and bitterness from Lit 200 - guess it's to be expected now that her hero's incarceration draws closer.

But for determined, able prosecutors like Fitzgerald and Sussman, white collar criminals like Black would be free to steal another day and investor confidence in the capital markets would eventually erode.

Just for the record, I refer to Lit as a female because I believe she previously said as much and I couldn't be bothered to change that every time she decides it's expedient to switch gender. The suggestion that it's some sort of misogyny is laughable.

Nothing says "low functioning" and "loser" like spending copious amounts of time on this blog defending a corporate scam artist.

P.S. It's HERcules, funnily enough.

another who agrees with Kelly February 25, 2008 at 10:11 p.m.

Nothing says "low functioning" and "loser" like spending copious amounts of time on this blog defending a corporate scam artist.

P.S. It's HERcules, funnily enough. - Kelly

Brilliant point made re HERcules...lol...and very astute observation about lit = loser - nothing demonstrates her irelevance more than her ridiculous support of Black and her ad infinitum and silly postings about a convicted ( rightfully AND legally so ) felon. Lit 200 is probably another seniors' home dweller with little to keep her productively occupied.

ROGER February 25, 2008 at 10:13 p.m.

ALL INCOMING PRISONERS ARE THOROUGHLY EXAMINED TO ASCERTAIN THEIR HEALTH STATUS, SEX, and any signs of infectious diseases or contraband or weapons hidden on or in their person. So, they will check to make sure Black is indeed a male. They will check all his hiding places. When Lord Black tries to engage in chit chat, a drill sargeant like booming voice will scream, "Silence!" and Lord Black will jump with fright. In the realm of his reeling senses, transformed from Lord Black to plain old con Connie, Black will shuffle along naked in leg irons to his cell to the wolf whistles of his new family, cages rattling, the reception committee rousing in their salute to the much anticipated celebrity in their midst. Black will carry his bedding, uniform and pitiful possessions to his new accommodations. Then he will be introduced to his new comrades, no doubt carefully selected to ensure the Lord is kept busy, too busy to make complaints and demands on the precious time of wardens and guards and clerks, all of whom are now in superior positions to Black and every other inmate, except for the prison dons. Boarding school will look like Club Med by comparison. This might not be the end. No, it is merely the end of the beginning. Black will travel the long road to reinvent himself as a person. Black will now be in a world of men. Lit knows what that means.

ROGER February 25, 2008 at 10:47 p.m.

I WISH BLACK WELL!

If Black takes up the cause of prisoners in American jails with all the vigour that Lit200 and her colleagues are now investing in pointing out real and imagined flaws in the American justice system, he could redeem his wasted life.

Prison reform and prisoner rights is a neglected concept in America. While I am a supporter of punishing criminals, there seems a great inequity and injustice in the American system, which Black can spend the rest of his life exposing. Of course, to have any credibility, he would have to concentrate on the well-being of other people and completely surrender his egotistical self-centredness if he wishes to be taken seriously by anyone. If all he does is carp about his own predicament, all he will meet is scorn and contempt. How much more empathic one could be if Amiel were to devote herself to working with ebola patients, the poor and indigent. The best places to start for Amiel and Black are in the National Post and Macleans pages to say, "Sorry for everything!"

BBQ February 25, 2008 at 10:52 p.m.

This is not over! How right. It has now entered the stage of sound bites.
David Radler: Helped the prosecution to convict Conrad Black.
Conrad Black: Convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice.
Epilogue: Best short documentary by a 'Security Camera' category.
Moral: If you're going to borrow your big sister's bike make sure you don't return it to her with a scratch (audit committee) or she's going to pull rank to have you grounded for something completely unrelated.
Learning Outcome: Aim higher.

jab3 February 26, 2008 at 12:37 a.m.

Lit 200: "I am a feminist!

I believe the days of the machismo male, the so-called alpha male that Roger and his ilk seek to project, is over. As the only opponent here I respect, W101,"

As I recall, I called W101 on his macho strutting--something about kicking me in the balls, was it?--and an macho anti-intellectual posture.

There have been a lot of anti-Black women posters here, and the only anti-Black poster whom the "feminist" Lit 200 respects is W101!!

An interesting question is why all the regular self-identified-as-female posters on this blog have been anti-Black (with the exception of leaf, who seems female but has never confirmed it), and the staunch pro-Black posters, fewer in number, who have idetified their sex, have all been male.
Anyone have any answers to this question?

Faust February 26, 2008 at 12:44 a.m.

charlie February 25, 2008 at 8:06 p.m.

Lit 200 wrote on the last thread--"Gothe was a pedophile". Really? You mean Goethe? Please elucidate....

Charlie, Clit sees paedophiles everywhere, especially when she is in leaf mode. Why do you think Fintan, one of Black's chief detractors and someone who made sneering at Amielticket almost an art form, because the target of such vilification?
In fact, I find it very difficult to shake off the impression that Clit really is --- well, do the math yourself!

The Day of the White Male February 26, 2008 at 1:44 a.m.

Once we had it made, we could do no wrong, all we needed was a little bit of pecker, spring in our step, fawning babes at our feet, visible minorities (we didn't call them that back then) to be gofers, and we could goof up and goof off as much as we liked, 'cause we were white males, white males.

Damn suffragettes rebelled, freed slaves demanded end to Jim Crow, and the last good war was WW2, and it has been downhill since for us white males, white males.

Now we drop out of grade 8 and there is no lifetime job waiting for us on Archie Bunkers loading dock.

Now the girls want to know why we don't do our share of the housework. They don't understand, we once had it made because we were white males, white males.

I think I am going to be sick. Positively sick. I have to compete for jobs, compete for places in school. The girls are not fawning anymore over white boys, white boys.

Once all I had to be was a white boy and I had it made.

I want to vote for Archie Bunker for president, I really do, but all I see is Obama, Barak Obama, and Hillary, Hillary.... ugh.... what happened to the good ole days? When white boys ruled, white boys!!

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 2:06 a.m.

of.

To Lit 200;

Bang on Lit

"No tragedy there, it happens every day. Innocent folks are put away for long periods of time at the behest of an over-reaching "special investigator." Black did nothing wrong, the shareholders were not "jobbed" by him (under Black's management they got fat dividend payments) but by a crook by the name of Richard Breeden, who gutted the company and is now fleecing other unsuspecting investors with his (two and twenty) hedge fund."

Free Conrad Black!

Breeden charged Hollinger $800us an hour to destroy the company, all aided and abetted by Paris and the anti-Black directors who put tens of millions in their pockets. And what about Tweedy Brown whose zillion shares were trading at $18 or so when his sidekick, Jurassic did her Nurse Ratchet routine. Now, Tweedy's shares are almost worthless.

Is Conrad to blame? Yep. A few years ago when it looked as if it would get ugly, I thought that Conrad should do whatever what was required to ameliorate the problem and concentrate on The Telegraph and saving England. But I didn't bother because I didn't think he'd listen and would wish to be the captain of his own fate.

Who said; "The only one capable of destroying Conrad, is Conrad"?

You are sure right about the quality of many of our fellow posters. They're a bunch of vindictive, humourless, closed minded, drive-by-media dweebs. They are the modern day version of a slimely London rabble awaiting an execution in 1750.

Roger35 February 26, 2008 at 2:10 a.m.

Roger34, ha-ha-ha!

Good send up of Amielticket!

Ken February 26, 2008 at 2:23 a.m.

Does anyone know what the "F" stands for in F. David Radler?

I'm trying to look up Radler's prisoner number on the Inmate Locator service at
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.js...

Ken

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 2:32 a.m.

Ken,

The "F" is for "Faulker". As in; "Thst faulker is a Radler"!

RogerXXX February 26, 2008 at 2:36 a.m.

AMIEL WILL REMAIN FAITHFUL TO BLACK. Dozens of men are eager to date a 66 year old woman whose vileness precedes her and whose skin is in a reptilian shed.

RogerXXX February 26, 2008 at 2:39 a.m.

Why is Amiel such a miserable obnoxious person? In her entire life, she has never had an orgasm, not once. Wouldn't you be obnoxious too if that happened to you?

Roger36 February 26, 2008 at 2:40 a.m.

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 2:06 a.m. = total mindless drivel and wasted blog space. Your post reminds me of the junk that gets spewed on a weekly basis by another loser and societal parasite - Mark Steyn. Even HE finally realized that it was time to shut up and get lost. Whoever siad earlier that 1 in 10 support Black, even via the backdoor like you, got the numbers right. The only thing standing between you and rot is that you can type - kind of.

Pulchritudiless February 26, 2008 at 2:48 a.m.

Ken, Radler's prisoner no. is 18189-424

See here:

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/...

Roger XXX, the vile crone Amielticket is actually 67, but I agree she doesn't look a day over 66 is you view her from a fair distance.

Relaxed White Male February 26, 2008 at 2:56 a.m.

Here's a comment about white males:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/cath...

Roger 37 February 26, 2008 at 2:59 a.m.

Roger34 is a bored, vicious malingering outcast whose insults hurled at those who oppose Black and are convinced of his guilt really reflect the loser, Roger34, himself - let's see YOU explain the reasons for YOUR mindless and insufferable and constant posting to this blog. What's YOUR excuse?

Ken February 26, 2008 at 3:02 a.m.

Thanks Pulchritudiless.

Interesting that the Bureau of Prisons requires the first name of a prisoner but lists him as F David Radler. Also, it says he's not in custody.

Here's the link:

http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...

Avid Reader February 26, 2008 at 3:50 a.m.

I wonder will Lord North of Mudchute get another column published in the Nazional Post before he checks into the Crowbar Hotel? He has only six days left now in which to give us all the benefit of his wisdom and divert the world away from its present course towards perdition.

I keep looking at Mark Swine's columns to see if his fiery admiration of everything to do with his former mentor and patron has reignited. But not the faintest spark. It's almost a case of "Conrad who?", as the Swine concentrates on 101 ways to bash Muslims, scaremonger and bash Muslims again. He seems to think Muslims are outbreeding the rest of us. So why doesn't he give Mrs. Swine (or should that be Sow?) a good rogering more often and sire a dozen good clean white Aryan kids rather than whining?

Today he's moaning about something I never heard of before, "hymen replacement surgery". http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/... there's something for Amielticket to consider!

Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 7:27 a.m.

Was a bit tipsy last night. In vino veritas. Lost my sense of humour. Found it again this morning.

Ken A. Biss February 26, 2008 at 7:32 a.m.

Not even the Daily Mail, that right-wing rag so beloved of the hangers, floggers and "get tough with working-class criminals" brigade has much sympathy for the Bride of Blackula:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...

"With just days to go before her husband, former Telegraph boss Lord Black, begins his six-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud, Barbara Amiel is steeling herself for life on her own.

"A woman of 67 living by herself in a community where it is not 'comme il faut' to drop by for coffee has to plan," she declares from their mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.

"Can we do something normal and go to Starbucks?" she e-mailed a chum.

"Love to see you," her friend replied. "But Starbucks is too normal for me."

Lady Black adds: "As we face the next round of tribulations, there are distinct signs that I am turning slightly batty."

Slightly?

Who gives a flying? February 26, 2008 at 7:36 a.m.

Clit 200: "Was a bit tipsy last night. In vino veritas. Lost my sense of humour. Found it again this morning."

Did you lose leaf, too?

RENE'S COUSIN February 26, 2008 at 8:47 a.m.

SPLIT 200:

"IN VINO VERITAS"

Tipsy? You lightweight.

You should have got totally hammered then, 'in vino veritas', you would have abandoned your own denial and your own forked tongue, admitted to what a total jackass you have been, and also to MUDCHUTE's culpability!

So, you soft piece of equivocating ooze, next time try overproof Tequila?

observent observer February 26, 2008 at 9:06 a.m.

Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 7:27 a.m.

Was a bit tipsy last night. In vino veritas. Lost my sense of humour. Found it again this morning.

One question - how can you find something you never had?

Pissed as a newt February 26, 2008 at 9:13 a.m.

Clit 200, I bet you're going to get really sh1tfaced on Monday after the cell door has closed behind your Lord and master and one of the biggest pains in the arse (or should that be pain in the arses?) on the planet gets a lot closer to feeling pain in his own.

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 10:20 a.m.

To Lit 200,

Yup Lit, we sure have a lot of low level losers here on this blog. Read Roger, Roger35, Roger36 and Roger37. They sure are at the right place to catapult their collictive IQs into the double digits.

Yours truly,

Roger34

Roger69 February 26, 2008 at 10:24 a.m.

You're wasting your time Roger34. Clit is so depressed about her master's fate. You ain't goin' to get none no matter how much you flatter her.

Roger's fan February 26, 2008 at 11:29 a.m.

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 10:20 a.m.

They sure are at the right place to catapult their collictive IQs into the double digits.
what you tryin to say there smarty pants?

Haywood Jablowme February 26, 2008 at 11:32 a.m.

March 3rd is just around the corner......

Clang the door goes shut February 26, 2008 at 11:48 a.m.

Somewhere in Palm Beach, the palms are swaying, Barb is tipsying, Conrad is cowering, and the magical mystical tour guide offers them a puff of the magic dragon, which Barbara sucks deep and holds. Connie comes out of his fetal position and partakes and he sees himself now, soaring through the air on his white charger, in full flight, rabbit fur robe billowing in the warm Florida wind, his sword pointed at the enemy prosecution team, his face scrunched up in a snarl, he leads the light brigade into battle, the flight of the valkeyries in his ears, our hero damns the torpedoes, Barbara orgasms, Steyn sees harem orgies in every muslim bedroom, Blatchford can't get enough of those soldier boys, Mulroney's wet dream of brown paper bags of cash comes true, Harper gets hard just thinking of the words "free market discipline" and John Baird cops a feel of Listerine Pesky Harper, while Worthington, Ezra and Jonas lament erectile dysfunction, taking vicarious pleasure in the exploits of our hero, the sword brandishing leader of the light brigade. Puff the magic dragon on the magical mystical tour.

Lit is already hitting the bottle February 26, 2008 at 11:51 a.m.

All Black supporters are seeking therapy. Lit 200 is hitting the bottle, seeking therapy and truth in the grape. Sour wine makes for unpleasant truths. The long Hangover of Black's excess is now upon him and his supporters.

Last chance February 26, 2008 at 11:53 a.m.

Baron North of Mudchute has less than six days to make a break for it. I hope the Feds are watching his mansion in Palm Beach very carefully. If he doesn't make a successful escape, it's CLANK on Monday and, given that his chances in the appeal court are very slim indeed and the arse he's been licking probably won't get elected President of the USA, five years and some months in the hoosegow are a long time for anyone, much less someone of his age. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Schloss Blackula South right now and listening in to what he and his Worse Half are discussing.

Has the knock on the door come yet? February 26, 2008 at 11:55 a.m.

leaf is either very worried or should be.

Administrator February 26, 2008 at 1 p.m.

Has the knock on the door come yet? February 26, 2008 at 11:55 a.m.
leaf is either very worried or should be.

We have no doubt that " leaf " is worried and should be. " Leaf's " ip address and internet service provider have been verified.

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 1:21 p.m.

Dear Lit 200,

Please add "Roger's Fan" to the list. The bloke is struggling in vain to produce a coherent thought.

Yours,

Roger34

where have all the smart ones gone? February 26, 2008 at 1:31 p.m.

Roger34 February 26, 2008 at 1:21 p.m.

Dear Lit 200,

Please add "Roger's Fan" to the list. The bloke is struggling in vain to produce a coherent thought.

You mean like you're struggling to state anything remotely coherent too? Must be a painful exercise trying to make sense of all that mumbo / jumbo / baloney / drivel swirling around that pea sized brain of yours. Oh well........you're trying....

where have all the smart ones gone 2? February 26, 2008 at 1:38 p.m.

Oh and another thing, Roger34, try getting a life apart from this blog or the internet for that matter - your brain needs exercise. Your posts are just mindnumbing and mindless tripe.

Still Time February 26, 2008 at 1:56 p.m.

Still time to send e-mail to Baron North of Mudchute and tell him how much you admire him (Lit), how delighted you are that he's off to the Crowbar Hotel (dozens) and not to drop the soap. The addy is cbletters@gmail.com

a great post is hard to come by February 26, 2008 at 2:09 p.m.

Avid Reader February 26, 2008 at 3:50 a.m.

Good post....lol. Keep 'em coming! This blog needs more of your wit....:-).

Black pleads with the President February 26, 2008 at 2:11 p.m.

"I supported Iraq, I am your most loyal supporter. I am worthy of your intervention. Please please, I'll never steal from rich people again! I didn't know they were Republicans! I am more important than Scooter Libby! It is a liberal conspiracy to get me in jail!"

FREE MUMIA, PELLETIER AND BLACK!

Bonnie & Clyde in Palm Beach Mansion February 26, 2008 at 2:16 p.m.

"They're closing in on us."

"Better get the Chicago piano ready."

"Is there still time for one more shopping spree?"

Barbara February 26, 2008 at 2:24 p.m.

Conrad dear, trust me!

The last night and the facade cracks February 26, 2008 at 2:46 p.m.

He: Y'know, love, I tried to give you everything, but not even two jets were enough. You still nagged me to get a helicopter.

She: Don't be such a cheapskate. Do you think you can have an outstanding beauty like me on a slender budget?

He: But love, you told me my love fulfilled you completely. And what orgasms you had.

She: Schlemiel, I faked every one.

NHS February 26, 2008 at 3:54 p.m.

Mark Swine should be travelling less and doing his missus more, so that the Muslims don't outbreed us members of a superior race, as he is sure will happen. http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/...

Both Swine and the Bride of Blackula have, naturally, considered things like Britain's National Health Service utter anathema. A total waste of money, and they eagerly point to examples of odd spending, such as hymen replacement surgery. This surgery costs nearly as much in a year as one of the £60,000 missiles the British Army regularly uses to destroy a Taliban command and control post - a £5 carpet, a £2 hookah and £1 worth of pots and pans.

Yet, the Bride of Blackula may change her mind once she examines her new realities and her options. She might be well advised to get out of the jurisdiction before the US authorities start looking too closely at her financial past.

A British citizen and old-age pensioner, she is entitled to all the benefits of the welfare state she opposed. Who knows, she might even meet an elderly, conservative and rich Arab - and then she has the option of asking the NHS for hymen replacement surgery. Well, a girl can at least ask!

Being Catty February 26, 2008 at 3:55 p.m.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/25...

Being Catty February 26, 2008 at 3:57 p.m.

The previous picture represents Conrad Black as he realizes how his clever business strategy was working.

Being really catty February 26, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.

LOL, Being Catty, and Black would have tried using his claws on the balloon that was keeping him afloat!

But, if he's looking in, let's hope he enjoys the pussy, because he sure as hell isn't going to be seeing any for five years or so starting next Monday.

Purrrrrrrr!

lol February 26, 2008 at 4:04 p.m.

The last night and the facade cracks February 26, 2008 at 2:46 p.m.

He: Y'know, love, I tried to give you everything, but not even two jets were enough. You still nagged me to get a helicopter.

She: Don't be such a cheapskate. Do you think you can have an outstanding beauty like me on a slender budget?

He: But love, you told me my love fulfilled you completely. And what orgasms you had.

She: Schlemiel, I faked every one.

Too funny! lol

jab3 February 26, 2008 at 5:02 p.m.

Let's hope that Mark S. has taken to berating B. Amiel, C. Blatchford and A. Coulter for failing in their central duty as conservative, but non-Muslim, women: oh the sadness! to think of all the non-Muslim kids that trio never bore!

Of course when those ladies were in their child-bearing prime, Western conservatives' big enemy was the commies, who tended towards schemes of population control. But even then, most true-blue conservatives thought women should be (married) baby bearers. Amiel at least managed the married part.

Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 5:09 p.m.

Lit 200 wrote on the last thread--"Gothe was a pedophile". Really? You mean Goethe? Please elucidate....

Yes, I meant Goethe:

"Almost any time period or culture one picks, there are numerous incidents of sexual relationships between adults and prepubescent or pubescent youths. The German genius and poet, Johan Wolfgang von Goethe wrote:

I like boys a lot, but the girls are even nicer... If I tire of her as a girl, she'll play the boy for me as well (Goethe, 1884)."

Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 5:21 p.m.

That's from

"Problems of Research into Adult/Child Sexual Interaction
Eric Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough*"

Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 5:31 p.m.

Also

"Eroticism

Many of Goethe's works, especially Faust, the Roman Elegies, and the Venetian Epigrams, depict hetero- and homosexual erotic passions and acts. In Faust, having signed (the Devil insists on his signature in an actual contract) his deal with the devil, the very first use of his new power thus gained sees Faust ravishing a young teenage girl. In fact, some of the Venetian Epigrams were held back from publication due to their sexual content. However, Karl Hugo Pruys caused national controversy in Germany when his 1999 book The Tiger's Tender Touch: The Erotic Life of Goethe tentatively deduced from Goethe's writings the possibility of Goethe's homosexuality.[15] The sexual portraitures and allusions in his work may stem from one of the many effects of Goethe's eye-opening sojourn in Italy, where men, who shunned the prevalence of women's venereal diseases and unconscionable conditions, embraced homosexuality as a solution that was not widely imitated outside of Italy.[16] Whatever the case, Goethe clearly saw sexuality in general as a topic that merited poetic and artistic depiction. This went against the thought of his time, when the very private nature of sexuality was rigorously normative, and makes him appear more modern than he is typically thought to be.[17]

[edit] Religion

Born into a Protestant (Lutheran) family, Goethe's early faith was shaken by news of such events as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Seven Years' War. His later spiritual perspective evolved among pantheism, humanism, and various elements of Western esotericism, as seen most vividly in Part II of Faust.

A year before his death he expressed an identification with the Hypsistarians, an ancient Jewish-pagan sect of the Black Sea region. After describing his difficulties with mainstream religion, Goethe laments:

...I have found no confession of faith to which I could ally myself without reservation. Now in my old age, however, I have learned of a sect, the Hypsistarians, who, hemmed in between heathens, Jews and Christians, declared that they would treasure, admire, and honour the best, the most perfect that might come to their knowledge, and inasmuch as it must have a close connection to the Godhead, pay it reverence. A joyous light thus beamed at me suddenly out of a dark age, for I had the feeling that all my life I had been aspiring to qualify as a Hypsistarian. That, however, is no small task, for how does one, in the limitations of one's individuality, come to know what is most excellent?

– from a letter to Sulpiz Boisserée dated 22 March 1831"

this blog needs some posters with working brains February 26, 2008 at 6 p.m.

Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 5:21 p.m.
Lit 200 February 26, 2008 at 5:31 p.m.

Have you so little going on in your life that you have the time to waste typing all your drivel? Who gives a FLYING about Goethe. You sound suspiciously like leaf....your homopadaphilia or somesuch phobia is nauseating.....

From Goiter to Rainer Maria Rilke February 26, 2008 at 7:03 p.m.

Lit sees gays everywhere. I bet Lit does not realize that Goethe never once mentions the French Revolution! Why not? It was one of the most important events to occur in his lifetime, yet it does not rate a mention.

Observer February 26, 2008 at 7:16 p.m.

A couple of quotes to console Conrad Black on his imprisonment:

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
Goethe

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
Lily Tomlin

St Pauli--Reeperbahn HH February 26, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

ON THE NEW BLOG MR D. BELL HAS CREATED, ONE HAS TO SIGN IN. One wonders what impact that will have on those who choose to continue? No doubt, Lit will have multiple identies, like Leaf, Wave99, and genders, and sexual orientations, so she can have conversations with herself.

I do hope Lit does not intend reprinting the entire text of each book she reads. Lit will discover German literature is full of expressions that are shocking to the ears of English speakers. Even works by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther are full of discussions of belching and other instances of passing wind too delicate to mention. I remember my shock hearing a conservative old woman say "toten hosen" and realized that German is just full of earthy expressions, such as this one, meaning dead trousers, nothing happening--there is a crudeness in the language that German speakers do not hear, because it is a part of literature and everyday speech. After 5 major bloodletting wars on German soil, sex, whether gay, hetero or even bestiality, is not of much concern to most Germans. Politics and war is. What Goethe had to say about boys and girls might shock Lit, but it is what had to say about politics, war and the state that is of greater concern to most Germans. Of course, sex is big business in Germany. Beate Uhse has built herself an empire and the live sex shows of Hamburg would make most N Americans blush. Of course Lit would not be allowed to walk through Herbertstrasse at night in the Reeperbahn! Lit will scream about reverse discrimination!

Lit 200 February 27, 2008 at 9:03 a.m.

Not uncharacteristically, St P misunderstands the situation completely; I am not shocked to learn about pedophilia among the literati. Why should they be exempt from any of the foibles that afflict other groups of people? Despite his towering talent, Dostoyevski was an obsessive gambler, Dickens frequented whores in Paris, Faulkner was a souse, Balzac, Byron, Shelley, Socrates... but why go on? My point was a completely different one that related, strangely enough in this blog, to the distinguished businessman and noted historian, Conrad Black. In the first instance I was accusing the anti-Black crowd of allowing their hatred of a man because of his philosophical bent to blind them to his accomplishments and attainments, which are considerable. My reference to Goethe was merely an example of an incandescently talented person with a low and disgusting proclivity.

In other words, stay with the program.

Goethe February 27, 2008 at 9:22 a.m.

Seems to me that the legend of Faust might apply more to Conrad Black than you think:

“The most enduring and pervasive myth of the post-classical world is that of Faust, the tragical doctor who sold his soul to the Devil in return for power and knowledge.”

Lit 200 February 27, 2008 at 9:23 a.m.

And I will refer again to the infantile effort to make me out to be a woman. Whence, I wonder, does this come from. Kelly, herself a woman, is one of those who delight in this means of "insulting" me (I do not take it as an insult but obviously they who hurl the "accusation" do).

The only thing I can think of is that Kelly, despite her sex, believes women to be feckless creatures, beset by silly ideas, poor judgment and worthless intelligence. It must be so, else why refer to a man as a woman?

I can understand this attitude from Roger, who is from an Islamic background. This upbringing explains many things about the man: his braggadocio, his endless criticism of "western" tradition and constant reference to the superiority of nations ruled by non-secular, Islamic governments, not to mention the extremes of Sharia law, which I suspect he wants to see supplant the common law and the rights to individual freedoms in his adopted country of Canada.

Him I can understand and I expect no better. Women are inferior creatures in his tradition. And his opinions are sharply defined and absolute, black and white. When he hates Black because of his philosophy, for example, he can see no good in the man whatsoever, although everyone knows that noone is all evil or all good. This is the politics and the propaganda of hate, that has been used time and time again throughout history to deal with troublesome individuals and groups of individuals.

Lit 200 February 27, 2008 at 9:29 a.m.

... because the first step to eliminating such individuals and groups is to demonize them, make them despicable so that ordinary people have no remorse at crushing them and removing them. So with Black, so with the Albanians, so with the Jews, so with Native peoples...

Schopenhauer February 27, 2008 at 10:45 a.m.

Don't forget women!

Taken as a whole, women are, and remain, thorough-going Philistines, and quite incurable. Hence, with that absurd arrangement which allows them to share the rank and title of their husbands they are a constant stimulus to his ignoble ambitions. And, further, it is just because they are Philistines that modern society, where they take the lead and set the tone, is in such a bad way. Napoleon's saying--that women have no rank--should be adopted as the right standpoint in determining their position in society; and as regards their other qualities Chamfort[5] makes the very true remark: They are made to trade with our own weaknesses and our follies, but not with our reason. The sympathies that exist between them and men are skin-deep only, and do not touch the mind or the feelings or the character. They form the sexus sequior--the second sex, inferior in every respect to the first; their infirmities should be treated with consideration; but to show them great reverence is extremely ridiculous, and lowers us in their eyes.

Accordingly, it would be a very desirable thing if this Number-Two of the human race were in Europe also relegated to her natural place, and an end put to that lady nuisance, which not only moves all Asia to laughter, but would have been ridiculed by Greece and Rome as well. It is impossible to calculate the good effects which such a change would bring about in our social, civil and political arrangements. In Europe the lady, strictly so-called, is a being who should not exist at all; she should be either a housewife or a girl who hopes to become one; and she should be brought up, not to be arrogant, but to be thrifty and submissive. It is just because there are such people as ladies in Europe that the women of the lower classes, that is to say, the great majority of the sex, are much more unhappy than they are in the East. They ought to mind home--and be well fed and clothed--but not mixed in society. Well educated, too, in religion--but to read neither poetry nor politics-- nothing but books of piety and cookery.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Women

RENE'S COUSIN February 27, 2008 at 2:57 p.m.

SPLIT 200:

>>...distinguished businessman and noted historian, Conrad Black. In the first instance I was accusing the anti-Black crowd of allowing their hatred of a man because of his philosophical bent to blind them to his accomplishments and attainments, which are considerable. My reference to Goethe was merely an example of an incandescently talented person with a low and disgusting proclivity.<<

Black will be forever remembered as a poor businessman and without distinction, save that of being a lowly felon who sought first to enrich himself to his own pocket book and sense of entitlement, as opposed to his fiduciary responsibilities to his shareholders and to the legacy of the company.

Noted historian? Hardly. Black's books are not wholly researched by himself for some new insight or discovery nor do they even present a fresh viewpoint.

You want to put him up there with Edmund Gibbon or someone who was truly remarkable just because the pompous idiot Black can recite the Prime Ministers of England backward?

What a bore!

And as for proclivities, Black's proclivities, since the time he was a school boy, were thievery and lying.