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Great White North
Lifelong activist feared dead (Must.....resist.......gloating.....)
2004-03-06
Tooker Gomberg -- an environmental activist, failed Toronto mayoral candidate and hardly noticable high-profile thorn in the side of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein -- was missing and presumed dead yesterday. Police said it appears Gomberg jumped off the middle of the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge just after midnight in the early hours of Thursday morning.
(cue DU conspiracy theories in: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, lift off)
Was Tooker's alias "Billy Joe McAllister"?
"All indications are he jumped off the bridge but we’ve not found a body so we have to treat it as a missing person at this time."
"It's a very high bridge. He may still be falling."
She said Gomberg had moved to Halifax from the Toronto area in September when Bischoff was hired by a local group to improve the bicycle transportation system.
(Bicycles, why do they hate us?)
Gomberg volunteered at the Ecology Action Centre but became more and more despondent. "He said he lost his chutzpah," O’Brien said.
Happens to all of us, eventually. V1@gra woulda helped...
Gomberg, an avid cyclist, founded one of Canada’s first curbside recycling programs in Montreal and headed Edmonton’s EcoCity Society. He was also elected to and served on Edmonton city council and cut a colourful
(Read: Media-whore)
figure as executive director of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters.
"Who's the guy in the clown suit?"
"That's the executive director!"
Gomberg became famous for his loudmouthed vociferous and idiotic unconventional sense of political theatre. Last spring, he was arrested at a rally protesting the war in Iraq when he was anoying people with used a megaphone without a permit. In 2002, he was dragged out by police from Toronto’s tony Empire Club after shouting: No other politicall opinions then the ones that we hold are valid!!!! down Klein during the premier’s speech on why Alberta doesn’t like the Kyoto accord. In that year’s Ontario municipal election, he ran for mayor of Toronto -- and ended up as Mel Lastman’s closest challenger,
(I googled this and the guy came to 9% of the votes, close challenger my as*)
although the incumbent won 80 per cent of the vote.
Anobody heard the splash yet?... Oh. It's a railroad bridge, is it?
Posted by:Evert Visser

#16  Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

I think you're confusing hatred with old-fashioned mockery. I don't think anybody here hates poor old Tooker. I certainly don't. Matter of fact, I could care less about old Tooker, except to have a laugh at the acne-scar impression his presence here in this vale of tears actually left.

Has he landed yet?
Posted by: Fred   2004-3-6 11:20:58 PM  

#15  BTW, I am a Democrat and have twice held public office as such. I won't be supporting the Kerry/ANSWER/Soros coalition however.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-3-6 8:38:21 PM  

#14  Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

Authoritarian Strawman, demonizing generalization and pretense of clairvoyance.
Since it's not likely that your education includes these terms, Anonymous, a strawman is a deliberate misrepresentation of another's viewpoint ("hatred of anyone different from them"). Have you established this as a fact? How? That's where authoritarianism comes in. You presume to tell others not only what they should think, but what they do think, in the form of a clairvoyant characterization of motive that you ludicrously generalize to a group of millions.

You compound this laughably arrogant pretense by claiming that another poster sounds like a maniac, as though this statement of self-serving demonization somehow constitutes a fact. This can only be based on the presumption that you are the sole arbiter and interpreter of how a statement sounds.

Yet you and your fellow LLL conformists deny that you are power-crazed authoritarians.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-3-6 8:31:40 PM  

#13  Gawd, it's thick with trolls in here. Must.hold.breath.while.punching.IP-Kill.button.
Posted by: Rivrdog   2004-3-6 7:49:00 PM  

#12  I'd like you thank you, Old Patriot, for providing such a perfect example of the point made in item #8.

(Surely, you must be joking. Your comments sound like a maniac's.)
Posted by: Anonymous   2004-3-6 6:45:05 PM  

#11  thanks for the courageous wisdom and critique "anonymous". Troll fever - catch it!
Posted by: Frank G   2004-3-6 6:43:33 PM  

#10  Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.

Ya know, that's the problem with the looney halfwits on the left. They think a bit of levity at the expense of a self-appointed moron is "evil". Those of us who have stared REAL evil in the face, whether we've been strong or shit or pants, know what we're talking about. The rest of you are buffoons clouding the environment with your ridiculous twiddle. The man proved by his life that he was a fool. There's a damned good chance he woke up, saw what kind of a fool he was, and couldn't face himself any more (or couldn't face the rest of the world, who KNEW he was a fool).

It might do you a bit of good to get out of your self-imposed exile and see a bit of the real world before declaring that one group "hates" because they don't genuflect to the god of Political Correctness and Leftwing Moonbatism. There's a broad, six-lane avenue between "hating" someone and having total disdain for his moonbat attitude and lifestyle, which is being lampooned here.

YOU are the one who hates, Anonymous. BTW, if I had your intellectual capacities, I'd hide my identity, too.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-3-6 6:17:19 PM  

#9  cause repubs are bong killas
Posted by: HalfEmpty   2004-3-6 5:54:56 PM  

#8  Why are republicans so eager to express their hatred of anyone different from them? If this article isn't evil, I don't know what is.
Posted by: Anonymous   2004-3-6 5:44:09 PM  

#7  I ride a recumbent, I don't ride it because I care about the planet (Gaia is a cool biatch, she can take a few punches)I ride it because I can go realy, realy fast without relying on anything else then my own physical strength.

And I like that.
Posted by: Evert Visser   2004-3-6 2:30:49 PM  

#6  This is a most inappropriate time for a laugh at poor Mr. Gomberg's expense.So,here goes:"Spacemoose meets Tooker Gomberg".Read here (scroll down) for the explanation.
Posted by: El Id   2004-3-6 1:05:44 PM  

#5  My goldie points at recumbents. I've been tempted.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-3-6 1:01:04 PM  

#4  I bet this guy used to ride a recumbent, surest sign of a leftist.
Posted by: Raj   2004-3-6 12:57:40 PM  

#3  Bridges--Why do they hate us?
Posted by: Dar   2004-3-6 9:32:59 AM  

#2  Edmonton is seriously cold for at least 6 months of the year. Only a moron would advocate cycling in a place where it would gaurantee frostbite inside 6o seconds. Halifax is positively balmy by comparison.
Posted by: phil_b   2004-3-6 9:07:46 AM  

#1  Why is everyone assumiing he committed suicide? He could have just... seen a bottle in the river and jumped in after it.
Posted by: Charles   2004-3-6 8:15:29 AM  

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