Just like the “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” but sexier.
29 Replies to “The League of Unemployable Bloggers”
Well said, it explains a certain perspective very well.
No one likes working the corporate position, some hide it better than others, and some handle it better than others, nothing more. One thing is for certain, it’s better to have a little money than none at all.
Ass kissing is not really a requirement everywhere, hard and reliable productivity wins every time, anywhere. Everything is a matter of perspective including holding yourself hostage to a slavish existence with only one option in mind.
Not to be picky nor take away from your post, but Kate is also an exceptional artist of various mediums. Too good actually to not mention.
Good synopsis
Big companies are govt compliant, awash in political correctness,barren of personal responsibility and ethics.
Safety loons run rampant and workers comp imposes more rule and cost every year.
But this lunacy gets tax incentives to continue.Businesses have little choice, than to appear to comply.
Getting along, flattery and sucking up pay dividends, in corporate workforce and when dealing with regulators.
Same as dealing with cops when getting a ticket.
There is no real shortage of tradespeople in Canada, there is an over abundance of experts preventing us from performing our trades.
Being a non-conformist myself I really get the ‘not normal’ description.
As the ‘possum said to Leo: “What’s normal”?
Hey…if you were ’employed’, we’d have to get our info from MSM…no way!
cappy, funny U posted that today, as I had a conversation on that very topic with a friend today, who like me, couldn’t handle a 9-5 job. I moved away from that drill at about age 30, because I was always telling “boss” to stuff it, I had to change how I conducted my personal life. I have been called a renigade and a missfit many times, as I refuse to fit in. There is nothing worst than having some dimwitt or power hungery jerk barking orders at you:-))))
Brett Kimberline is still causing problems?
I have a Sher-wood hockey stick that would solve that problem.
Might get a penalty. Small price to pay, just saying.
dwright (Ps good to see you posting here, Captain)
knacker74, you took the words right out of my mouth. Kate is a very impressive artist.
“Just like the “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” but sexier.”
I can see it now – a nude calendar…proceeds to a charity of course. The Ronald Reagan Resurrection and Re-election Foundation, perhaps?
Our civilization was constructed by individuals who, at critical times in history, rose above the crowd. It has been defended by those who raised a flag, rallied the people and persevered, regardless of the price to be paid.
This is such a time.
Currently, the best of the blogosphere is what Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Association were meant to be.
That is why it’s a threat to the self-appointed elite of the MSM, and why they are losing audience share and revenue.
Now many of their stories nor originate on the blogosphere?
Creative discontent is the spark that lights the torches that illuminate the paths ahead. If leadership wasn’t for the few, it wouldn’t be leadership.
Tommy Robinson lanquishes in a U.K. jail as the government attempts to stamp out British Liberty defended by the EDL. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is a refugee from two continents and lives under 24/7 armed guard protection. The list is long and growing.
The blogosphere carries the tales of their battles far and wide.
The “League of Unemployable Bloggers” are a citizen free press, are now another line of defense in an undeclared war on our way of life.
In it’s earliest days, the pamphleteers carted their printing presses each night to stay ahead of those who would silence them with arrest, jail or a hanging. Be glad for their sacrifice, in whose grace you write and live.
Exodus, the struggle for freedom, is an ongoing theme of our civilization, and it always will be as long as it survives.
Jamie – Don’t get your hopes up too high. Being a lady, Kate would have the option of submitting a shot of her blog namesake. After all, fur is animals’ clothing. I wouldn’t look forwards to explaining to my friends at work why I have a calendar with shaved gopher roadkill on it.
Also, would the tire tracks count as clothing, or would they have to come off too?
Only thing I’m hoping for is the return of guts and sanity.
C_Miner, I believe that is a richardson ground squirrel.
Just saying, no point but to be pedantic.
How is the mining going? Thinking about mine work or oilpatch for the spring, getting my H2S in Feb or March.
dwright
Very well put captain thank you as well thank you Kate and all who stand up and do what is right. Not what is right for you just doing what is right.
In conjunction with this I went to a few of the blogs Cappy listed and one caught my eye and I would like to share an article with you all it is very important to me and I think you will appreciate it as well
It is about women’s rights ..well equal right’s for women an Idea started by one Adolf Hitler
Please read it is not long but very important!!
The article I read via http://unmaskingfeminism.wordpress.com/
The actual read is here http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/04/she-survived-hitler-and-wants-to-warn-america.html#ixzz2FzEWKLTP
My favourite blogger is Pamela Geller who really sticks her neck out. I believe she recently had on her site a link so one can help out financially or write to support Tommy Robinson, a real political prisoner. Does anyone know how do this as I believe it was a bit complicated (you want to be sure the money gets to him).
My reasons for (so far) not doing a blog are number one I am not computer savvy; number two I was very disillusioned with politics when the N.D.P. took our riding federally even though the N.D.P. hardly campaigned at all; number three I moved more than a year ago out of Quebec so feel less versed in Quebec politics which was one of the main raisons d’être for blogging.
Nicola Timmerman
Slow down and lurk more, is always a good start.(you have two “ears” and one “mouth” listen twice as much as you speak)
Personal agendas don’t fly unless you have been around for a while.
Don’t comment heavy until you can comment with a light heart.
dwright (good luck and welcome to SDA)
dwright – sorry, I’m not up on my vermin identification. 🙂
The mining industry is cyclic, as always, and currently in a slump. Less hiring than during the booms, but the more skills you have the better. I guess it depends upon where you’re looking to work: Fort Mac isn’t for everyone but is always short of folks who are willing to work. The camp jobs are usually crying for workers, but very hard on relationships (gone for extended periods and in vacation mode when you’re home). I guess it depends on what you’re looking to do and what other skills you have. If you’re a mechanic (light or heavy duty) or a welder you’ll have no trouble. If you’re looking to be an equipment operator or technician of several stripes then being close and available would be key things that are looked for. As with all other fields, the right skills and a bit of luck on the timing are the key things that will get you in. Best of luck!
C_Miner, there is no tire track on that gopher. Just a bullet wound.
C_Miner
Thanks for the advice, I am high skilled, low on certification, showing up is half the battle, I am a very good light duty mechanic, good welder (1/2 C-ticket , long story)
Heavy duty serviceman, mechanic in a pinch (know diesel theory, not much experience)
I’ll do fine, I think, just get my basic safety tickets (the annoying common sense ones) and I’m good to go.
A positive attitude and a willingness to learn have always served me well.
Cheers.
dwright
One of the reasons I don’t blog under my own name is that all my patients would read what I’ve written and insist on discussing the material when they see me. It’s already hard enough running a practice without throwing that additional complication.
One of the nice things about being a doctor is that it’s quite difficult to become unemployable if one is competent. I’ve gotten into speaking my mind enough now that I’m probably unemployable in a large city where political correctness is valued over competency. By moving to a small center with a perennial shortage of physicians, I get to do what I want and am my own boss even when working in a hospital.
The last thing I want to do is to be stuck in an office every day so I have a very varied practice which involves a bit of office work, some specialty clinics and hospital work – the latter is the most fun since I’ve never been pushed closer to the limits of my knowledge since I left Vancouver for an “underserviced area”. Haven’t had much luck in recruiting other doctors to come out as they’re just too comfortable in big city life and happy with their predictable lives. For me the rush is not knowing what I’m going to face during the day and I’d go insane if I knew exactly what my day would be like every day of the year.
When I get tired of meatware hacking, I can get into hardware hacking but have an expensive habit of ordering microprocessor development systems on the internet during the wee hours of the morning. In short, I’m doing exactly what I want to do and getting paid well for it at the same time.
I’ve toyed with the idea of starting my own political blog as I only post a fraction of my rants (writing seems to be my way of venting about things that piss me off). For the moment, I’ll stay anonymous as it’s not yet the time to come out. SDA, Captain Capitalism and other members of the League of Gentlemen Bloggers are just the tip of the iceberg and there are many advantages to anonymity when the leftist Titanic finally hits the Conservative iceberg.
Loki I was the little boy under the truck with his Dad, saying “what does that do?”
Now I say “how fast can I run the rally stage?”
Never gets old for me. But racing eats cars and $$$,and no sponsors without making a name… so a few seasons doing what I can (and am good at) to finance something that I love?
Absolutely.
dwright (never liked Biology, unless I was eating it.)
C_Miner, there is no tire track on that gopher. Just a bullet wound.
Posted by: Kate on January 13, 2013 11:23 PM | Reply
Varmints beware!
Warning shots are for those who don’t know how to aim and shoot.
I’m looking forward to the day that Remington, Winchester or Federal place an advertisement for ammunition on this blog, perhaps some firearms ads, too.
No one else on the Canadian blogosphere is so dedicated to the only logical meaning of the term “gun control” … being able to hit your target 🙂
“C_Miner, there is no tire track on that gopher. Just a bullet wound.”
Kate- I would have thought it was a result of a well-placed barb.
Thanks for the correction Kate, but if there were an entire calendar of nude SmallDeadAnimals then I had thought that there would be a showcase of the number of ways that said animals went to meet their makers. Rifle and being tyred were the two that jumped to mind, I don’t know if there would be enough left after a thresher to be able to ID the critter.
I did some gopher potting with cousins as a young teen, and still remember one of them doing a backwards 2 1/2 summersault from a .22 hollow-point. I still don’t know how my cousin timed the shot that well, it was a thing of beauty.
I’ll take the nude calendar suggestion into account when the day comes that I wish to drive off readers for good.
Loki >
I post anonymously because I travel and post from a variety of Muslim and communist countries.
I am in the process of repatriating full time back into Canada this 2013, but now will have to travel far more often into the Obamba Regime than I did in the past.
Experience proves that airports flow much easier, and less intrusively in the Third World dictatorships than Obamba’s police state. Since 2009 I’ve cancelled all but essential business travel to the US.
Loki, I grant you that an iceberg is a non-sentient object from the nether reaches, with about ninety percent of what it really means conveniently hidden from view, and which gets progressively smaller as it comes into contact with that part of the world where most people actually live.
As far as hitting one, I think we have technology today to detect all that, and allow us to make appropriate course adjustments along the way that will allow us to, you know, sail safely into our destined port of call — provided, of course, that we also have a non-bombastic captain, who has taken the safe boating course of global leadership, after a fashion and in accordance with his own experience, and who understands that it’s more about the safety and comfort of the passengers than about “everybody goes down with the ship”.
And the two most unemployable people in the history of the Royal Navy, as a matter of historical record, while we’re on the nautical theme, as both Adam Nicolson and his grandfather, Harold, would acknowledge, would be Horatio Viscount Caine — er, sorry, Nelson, and, of course, Winston S. Churchill.
On the other hand, The Captain’s comments are entirely true.
All that independence crap sounds suspiciously like an excuse to be less
productive. Words don’t produce anything. Neither does being a parasite for e-bay.
Anyway, right in line with the leftist agenda, less production, more babbling and
arguing.
David, in the case of physical real-world icebergs we have the technology. In the case of the metaphorical “iceberg” that I referred to, the only thing that would give any indication of the hidden portions of the “iceberg” would be if mind-reading technology was available. Good thing it isn’t considering what I’m fantasizing about doing to TSA goons if I were to run into them alone in an isolated dark alley while I’m being subjected to unreasonable search at airports.
One just has to look at Paul Fromm’s postings about what happens every time he crosses the border. That’s why I’m still staying anonymous, but when the time comes I’ll be very public in my views
You know, Loki, I just re-read your original post, and I apologize — I had it backward; must have misread it — you actually say the socialist Titanic and the Conservative iceberg. For some reason, I thought it was the other way around, what with the similarity between socialist blockheads and icebergs.
Oh well, I guess in the context of the analogy you offered, my nautical theme qualifies as #NARRATIVE FAIL on my part (although, pointing out the differences between Stephen Harper and the captain of the Titanic, even in the correct context of your post, stands on its own).
Well said, it explains a certain perspective very well.
No one likes working the corporate position, some hide it better than others, and some handle it better than others, nothing more. One thing is for certain, it’s better to have a little money than none at all.
Ass kissing is not really a requirement everywhere, hard and reliable productivity wins every time, anywhere. Everything is a matter of perspective including holding yourself hostage to a slavish existence with only one option in mind.
Not to be picky nor take away from your post, but Kate is also an exceptional artist of various mediums. Too good actually to not mention.
Good synopsis
Big companies are govt compliant, awash in political correctness,barren of personal responsibility and ethics.
Safety loons run rampant and workers comp imposes more rule and cost every year.
But this lunacy gets tax incentives to continue.Businesses have little choice, than to appear to comply.
Getting along, flattery and sucking up pay dividends, in corporate workforce and when dealing with regulators.
Same as dealing with cops when getting a ticket.
There is no real shortage of tradespeople in Canada, there is an over abundance of experts preventing us from performing our trades.
Being a non-conformist myself I really get the ‘not normal’ description.
As the ‘possum said to Leo: “What’s normal”?
Hey…if you were ’employed’, we’d have to get our info from MSM…no way!
cappy, funny U posted that today, as I had a conversation on that very topic with a friend today, who like me, couldn’t handle a 9-5 job. I moved away from that drill at about age 30, because I was always telling “boss” to stuff it, I had to change how I conducted my personal life. I have been called a renigade and a missfit many times, as I refuse to fit in. There is nothing worst than having some dimwitt or power hungery jerk barking orders at you:-))))
Brett Kimberline is still causing problems?
I have a Sher-wood hockey stick that would solve that problem.
Might get a penalty. Small price to pay, just saying.
dwright (Ps good to see you posting here, Captain)
knacker74, you took the words right out of my mouth. Kate is a very impressive artist.
“Just like the “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” but sexier.”
I can see it now – a nude calendar…proceeds to a charity of course. The Ronald Reagan Resurrection and Re-election Foundation, perhaps?
Our civilization was constructed by individuals who, at critical times in history, rose above the crowd. It has been defended by those who raised a flag, rallied the people and persevered, regardless of the price to be paid.
This is such a time.
Currently, the best of the blogosphere is what Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Association were meant to be.
That is why it’s a threat to the self-appointed elite of the MSM, and why they are losing audience share and revenue.
Now many of their stories nor originate on the blogosphere?
Creative discontent is the spark that lights the torches that illuminate the paths ahead. If leadership wasn’t for the few, it wouldn’t be leadership.
Tommy Robinson lanquishes in a U.K. jail as the government attempts to stamp out British Liberty defended by the EDL. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is a refugee from two continents and lives under 24/7 armed guard protection. The list is long and growing.
The blogosphere carries the tales of their battles far and wide.
The “League of Unemployable Bloggers” are a citizen free press, are now another line of defense in an undeclared war on our way of life.
In it’s earliest days, the pamphleteers carted their printing presses each night to stay ahead of those who would silence them with arrest, jail or a hanging. Be glad for their sacrifice, in whose grace you write and live.
Exodus, the struggle for freedom, is an ongoing theme of our civilization, and it always will be as long as it survives.
Jamie – Don’t get your hopes up too high. Being a lady, Kate would have the option of submitting a shot of her blog namesake. After all, fur is animals’ clothing. I wouldn’t look forwards to explaining to my friends at work why I have a calendar with shaved gopher roadkill on it.
Also, would the tire tracks count as clothing, or would they have to come off too?
Only thing I’m hoping for is the return of guts and sanity.
C_Miner, I believe that is a richardson ground squirrel.
Just saying, no point but to be pedantic.
How is the mining going? Thinking about mine work or oilpatch for the spring, getting my H2S in Feb or March.
dwright
Very well put captain thank you as well thank you Kate and all who stand up and do what is right. Not what is right for you just doing what is right.
In conjunction with this I went to a few of the blogs Cappy listed and one caught my eye and I would like to share an article with you all it is very important to me and I think you will appreciate it as well
It is about women’s rights ..well equal right’s for women an Idea started by one Adolf Hitler
Please read it is not long but very important!!
The article I read via
http://unmaskingfeminism.wordpress.com/
The actual read is here
http://blog.beliefnet.com/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars/2011/04/she-survived-hitler-and-wants-to-warn-america.html#ixzz2FzEWKLTP
My favourite blogger is Pamela Geller who really sticks her neck out. I believe she recently had on her site a link so one can help out financially or write to support Tommy Robinson, a real political prisoner. Does anyone know how do this as I believe it was a bit complicated (you want to be sure the money gets to him).
My reasons for (so far) not doing a blog are number one I am not computer savvy; number two I was very disillusioned with politics when the N.D.P. took our riding federally even though the N.D.P. hardly campaigned at all; number three I moved more than a year ago out of Quebec so feel less versed in Quebec politics which was one of the main raisons d’être for blogging.
Nicola Timmerman
Slow down and lurk more, is always a good start.(you have two “ears” and one “mouth” listen twice as much as you speak)
Personal agendas don’t fly unless you have been around for a while.
Don’t comment heavy until you can comment with a light heart.
dwright (good luck and welcome to SDA)
dwright – sorry, I’m not up on my vermin identification. 🙂
The mining industry is cyclic, as always, and currently in a slump. Less hiring than during the booms, but the more skills you have the better. I guess it depends upon where you’re looking to work: Fort Mac isn’t for everyone but is always short of folks who are willing to work. The camp jobs are usually crying for workers, but very hard on relationships (gone for extended periods and in vacation mode when you’re home). I guess it depends on what you’re looking to do and what other skills you have. If you’re a mechanic (light or heavy duty) or a welder you’ll have no trouble. If you’re looking to be an equipment operator or technician of several stripes then being close and available would be key things that are looked for. As with all other fields, the right skills and a bit of luck on the timing are the key things that will get you in. Best of luck!
C_Miner, there is no tire track on that gopher. Just a bullet wound.
C_Miner
Thanks for the advice, I am high skilled, low on certification, showing up is half the battle, I am a very good light duty mechanic, good welder (1/2 C-ticket , long story)
Heavy duty serviceman, mechanic in a pinch (know diesel theory, not much experience)
I’ll do fine, I think, just get my basic safety tickets (the annoying common sense ones) and I’m good to go.
A positive attitude and a willingness to learn have always served me well.
Cheers.
dwright
One of the reasons I don’t blog under my own name is that all my patients would read what I’ve written and insist on discussing the material when they see me. It’s already hard enough running a practice without throwing that additional complication.
One of the nice things about being a doctor is that it’s quite difficult to become unemployable if one is competent. I’ve gotten into speaking my mind enough now that I’m probably unemployable in a large city where political correctness is valued over competency. By moving to a small center with a perennial shortage of physicians, I get to do what I want and am my own boss even when working in a hospital.
The last thing I want to do is to be stuck in an office every day so I have a very varied practice which involves a bit of office work, some specialty clinics and hospital work – the latter is the most fun since I’ve never been pushed closer to the limits of my knowledge since I left Vancouver for an “underserviced area”. Haven’t had much luck in recruiting other doctors to come out as they’re just too comfortable in big city life and happy with their predictable lives. For me the rush is not knowing what I’m going to face during the day and I’d go insane if I knew exactly what my day would be like every day of the year.
When I get tired of meatware hacking, I can get into hardware hacking but have an expensive habit of ordering microprocessor development systems on the internet during the wee hours of the morning. In short, I’m doing exactly what I want to do and getting paid well for it at the same time.
I’ve toyed with the idea of starting my own political blog as I only post a fraction of my rants (writing seems to be my way of venting about things that piss me off). For the moment, I’ll stay anonymous as it’s not yet the time to come out. SDA, Captain Capitalism and other members of the League of Gentlemen Bloggers are just the tip of the iceberg and there are many advantages to anonymity when the leftist Titanic finally hits the Conservative iceberg.
Loki I was the little boy under the truck with his Dad, saying “what does that do?”
Now I say “how fast can I run the rally stage?”
Never gets old for me. But racing eats cars and $$$,and no sponsors without making a name… so a few seasons doing what I can (and am good at) to finance something that I love?
Absolutely.
dwright (never liked Biology, unless I was eating it.)
C_Miner, there is no tire track on that gopher. Just a bullet wound.
Posted by: Kate on January 13, 2013 11:23 PM | Reply
Varmints beware!
Warning shots are for those who don’t know how to aim and shoot.
I’m looking forward to the day that Remington, Winchester or Federal place an advertisement for ammunition on this blog, perhaps some firearms ads, too.
No one else on the Canadian blogosphere is so dedicated to the only logical meaning of the term “gun control” … being able to hit your target 🙂
“C_Miner, there is no tire track on that gopher. Just a bullet wound.”
Kate- I would have thought it was a result of a well-placed barb.
Thanks for the correction Kate, but if there were an entire calendar of nude SmallDeadAnimals then I had thought that there would be a showcase of the number of ways that said animals went to meet their makers. Rifle and being tyred were the two that jumped to mind, I don’t know if there would be enough left after a thresher to be able to ID the critter.
I did some gopher potting with cousins as a young teen, and still remember one of them doing a backwards 2 1/2 summersault from a .22 hollow-point. I still don’t know how my cousin timed the shot that well, it was a thing of beauty.
I’ll take the nude calendar suggestion into account when the day comes that I wish to drive off readers for good.
Loki >
I post anonymously because I travel and post from a variety of Muslim and communist countries.
I am in the process of repatriating full time back into Canada this 2013, but now will have to travel far more often into the Obamba Regime than I did in the past.
Experience proves that airports flow much easier, and less intrusively in the Third World dictatorships than Obamba’s police state. Since 2009 I’ve cancelled all but essential business travel to the US.
Loki, I grant you that an iceberg is a non-sentient object from the nether reaches, with about ninety percent of what it really means conveniently hidden from view, and which gets progressively smaller as it comes into contact with that part of the world where most people actually live.
As far as hitting one, I think we have technology today to detect all that, and allow us to make appropriate course adjustments along the way that will allow us to, you know, sail safely into our destined port of call — provided, of course, that we also have a non-bombastic captain, who has taken the safe boating course of global leadership, after a fashion and in accordance with his own experience, and who understands that it’s more about the safety and comfort of the passengers than about “everybody goes down with the ship”.
And the two most unemployable people in the history of the Royal Navy, as a matter of historical record, while we’re on the nautical theme, as both Adam Nicolson and his grandfather, Harold, would acknowledge, would be Horatio Viscount Caine — er, sorry, Nelson, and, of course, Winston S. Churchill.
On the other hand, The Captain’s comments are entirely true.
All that independence crap sounds suspiciously like an excuse to be less
productive. Words don’t produce anything. Neither does being a parasite for e-bay.
Anyway, right in line with the leftist agenda, less production, more babbling and
arguing.
David, in the case of physical real-world icebergs we have the technology. In the case of the metaphorical “iceberg” that I referred to, the only thing that would give any indication of the hidden portions of the “iceberg” would be if mind-reading technology was available. Good thing it isn’t considering what I’m fantasizing about doing to TSA goons if I were to run into them alone in an isolated dark alley while I’m being subjected to unreasonable search at airports.
One just has to look at Paul Fromm’s postings about what happens every time he crosses the border. That’s why I’m still staying anonymous, but when the time comes I’ll be very public in my views
You know, Loki, I just re-read your original post, and I apologize — I had it backward; must have misread it — you actually say the socialist Titanic and the Conservative iceberg. For some reason, I thought it was the other way around, what with the similarity between socialist blockheads and icebergs.
Oh well, I guess in the context of the analogy you offered, my nautical theme qualifies as #NARRATIVE FAIL on my part (although, pointing out the differences between Stephen Harper and the captain of the Titanic, even in the correct context of your post, stands on its own).