Comments on: Harper Doesn’t Eat Babies http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/ By Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: merylrunion http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-50 merylrunion Sun, 07 May 2006 03:29:12 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/#comment-50 Stacy, you may well be right about the comment beng intended as humor. And if you are right about that, I agree, it was clever. I am certain you are right about context making the difference between a PowerPhrase and a Poison Phrase. Thanks for your comment. And, Cheryl, I appreciate your observation about the emotional approach to winning an argument applying here.. I hadn't thought about the hacking being a protest...I thought it was simply a practical joke. Thanks for posting. Stacy, you may well be right about the comment beng intended as humor. And if you are right about that, I agree, it was clever. I am certain you are right about context making the difference between a PowerPhrase and a Poison Phrase. Thanks for your comment.

And, Cheryl, I appreciate your observation about the emotional approach to winning an argument applying here.. I hadn’t thought about the hacking being a protest…I thought it was simply a practical joke. Thanks for posting.

]]> By: Stacy http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Stacy Sun, 07 May 2006 01:44:39 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/#comment-49 My initial thought when reading the phrase was that you were going to give accolades to the colleague for having a sense of humor and defusing the situation by making light of it. Then I realized that I was in the Poison Phrase section. Readers often don't have the whole story and come to wrong conclusions ... I think that the colleague's response was witty and humorous; a good example of a power phrase, employed to show the ridiculousness of the accusation. My initial thought when reading the phrase was that you were going to give accolades to the colleague for having a sense of humor and defusing the situation by making light of it. Then I realized that I was in the Poison Phrase section. Readers often don’t have the whole story and come to wrong conclusions … I think that the colleague’s response was witty and humorous; a good example of a power phrase, employed to show the ridiculousness of the accusation.

]]> By: Cheryl Abbott http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Cheryl Abbott Thu, 04 May 2006 12:36:13 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2006/05/03/harper-doesnt-eat-babies/#comment-45 Dear Meryl, As a Canadian ex-pat living in Maryland I was amused when I read about Toronto Go-Train message boards being 'hacked'. My initial response was that this was related to the harp seal hunt in during which a small percentage of quota is for excessively cute seal pups. Animal rights protesters, in my opinion, similar to the right to drink beer advocates; are driven by emotion rather than logic. Prime Minister Harper and Newfoundland's Premier Danny Wells did an exemplary job of presenting the facts yet advocates like Heather Mills-McCartney were rude and boorish during a Larry King live debate refusing to even acknowledge scientific evidence. Scientists and the vast majority of Canadians support the seal hunt. Why is it that emotion grabs so much of the spotlight? Message boards were reproted to be unavailable until the breach was corrected, in Canada's largest city how many folks were inconvenienced by this? Thanks for attempting to increase sanity in our lives. Cheryl Abbott Dear Meryl,
As a Canadian ex-pat living in Maryland I was amused when I read about Toronto Go-Train message boards being ‘hacked’. My initial response was that this was related to the harp seal hunt in during which a small percentage of quota is for excessively cute seal pups. Animal rights protesters, in my opinion, similar to the right to drink beer advocates; are driven by emotion rather than logic. Prime Minister Harper and Newfoundland’s Premier Danny Wells did an exemplary job of presenting the facts yet advocates like Heather Mills-McCartney were rude and boorish during a Larry King live debate refusing to even acknowledge scientific evidence.
Scientists and the vast majority of Canadians support the seal hunt. Why is it that emotion grabs so much of the spotlight?
Message boards were reproted to be unavailable until the breach was corrected, in Canada’s largest city how many folks were inconvenienced by this?
Thanks for attempting to increase sanity in our lives.
Cheryl Abbott

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