About Olaf

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on October 1, 2008 at 3:35 pm Backseat Blogger

hey olaf. good to see you back.

for what it’s worth, i just wanted to say how much i hate snapshots. there’s nothing worse than have those miserable little popups show up when your mouse accidentally wanders across a link. it’s irritating!
on October 1, 2008 at 4:26 pm Olaf

Drives me nuts too buddy, do you by chance know how to get rid of them???
on October 2, 2008 at 6:17 pm Olaf

Ha. Figured it out. I’m a genius, that’s why.
on October 5, 2008 at 4:54 pm Backseat Blogger

much better!
on October 7, 2008 at 9:23 pm Werner Patels

You can change the About text on this page, you know that, don’t you?
on October 7, 2008 at 9:29 pm Olaf

Thanks tips! What do you want to know?
on October 13, 2008 at 7:29 pm Werner Patels

Your SIN, DOB, bank account numbers (including transit codes), shoe size, mother’s maiden name ….
on October 15, 2008 at 6:26 pm Olaf

Creepy…
on November 9, 2008 at 2:49 pm dcardno

I need your bank account information, including passwords, SIN, and address to assist in your good offices to be transferring the sum of $15,015,868 in US Dollars of American Currency (Fifteen Million, Fifteen Thousand, Eight Hundred and Sixty-Eight) in US Dollars of American Currency, held in State Oil Repatriation Profits Fund of Republic of Nigeria deposited by Dr Herman Obuongo, and remaining from credits due to him on his untimely death. For your assistance and good faith I am prepared to offer you 10% (ten percentum) of the monies in transit. My assurances of discretion are entirely yours.
on November 18, 2008 at 4:44 pm rene bol

Bonjour Olaf! Now how can the Prairiewrangler be resurrected in the midst of this financial crisis? I would think your whole belief system has been shattered…..failed deregulation….corrupt big business……capitalism begging for bailouts and nationalization…..unaccountable ceo’s.

Waxman: In other words you found that your view of the world, your ideology was not right. It was not working.

Greenspan: Precisely. It’s precisely the reason I was shocked because I’ve been going for 40 years or more very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.

Welcome back! Rene
on November 18, 2008 at 9:37 pm Olaf

Rene,

I would think your whole belief system has been shattered…..failed deregulation….corrupt big business……capitalism begging for bailouts and nationalization…..unaccountable ceo’s

If you can remember a time when I advocated Clinton era deregulation, corrupt big businesses, bailouts, nationalization, or unaccountable ceo’s, I’d be happy to eat crow.

I would have thought that by now, you’d have come to the conclusion that I haven neither the principles nor the temperamental consistency to be terribly ideological.

In any case, your contrarian (COMMUNIST!) voice is always welcome here, please do comment often if the spirits move you.
on November 19, 2008 at 10:19 am rene bol

My mistake Olaf, I thought I recalled a time when you believed in unfettered capitalism and that all those “uber-riche” had secured their wealth honorably. Before you blame this mess (rooted in credit default swaps) on Clinton-era deregulation, you might want to check the history of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. I’m loving how so many conservatives are relying on redaction history to somehow make themselves feel better as they abandon their previously entrenched principles. My Communist Voice? I don’t have Chairman Mao on my blog banner! Have a good one.
on November 19, 2008 at 10:49 am Olaf

I don’t have Chairman Mao on my blog banner! Have a good one.

You don’t have a blog, otherwise I’m quite sure you would. Likely displayed more prominently than here.
on November 19, 2008 at 11:30 am rene bol

Is that guy in the bottom left corner of the banner your cousin Ernie?
on November 19, 2008 at 11:35 am Olaf

No, you were right, it’s the Mao-zer.

Also, for the record, no one does propaganda posters like the North Koreans. They have it down to a fine science.
on December 21, 2008 at 8:24 am liberal 4evr

On red tory’s attack site about liberal 4, you defended the right to free speech, for this I commend you, and may I add that in no way, did this site ever, posted anything about rayners marriage problems, this issue is a fabrication on rayners part to excuse the useless full page crap he wrote about some poor smo who wrote on our blog. True his english was not up to par for Rayners elitist attitude, but to attack someone just because he is french, was unforgivable, the best way to handle this type of situation is if one does not approve of this type of writing, then let it go, it is not worth the mess it has caused. We are waiting and hoping he even dares to sue anyone, which we both know he will not, he was offered a peace if he would delete this attack site which he did not, never the less we have learned a lesson from liblogs, no views other than the loonie left is allowed, if one dares to be centrist or center right of the liberal party, then one is attacked and blocked from that site, thanks to tory, cherniak and company. I wonder if the liberal party approves.
on February 22, 2009 at 2:15 am REB

Well, yes, St. FX is quite obscure …
on June 18, 2009 at 9:46 pm Ashley Wilkes-Booth

Hi Olaf,

I dig your blog, plus you have a great eye for the best political cartoons I ever see. You have a great attitude towards life and towards thinking and ideas, man — it’s always fun to read you, man!

Keep on rockin’ in the free world!

AWB
on September 12, 2009 at 10:47 am Saskboy

What’s up with the blank blog again? this deletey thing is annoying after the rest of us spend time linking to things, and now our links mean nothing such is the Internet.
on September 15, 2009 at 7:54 pm Catelli

Ahh geez! Not again!

I miss my daily Olaf! *pout*

Hope you come back (again) but good luck to you wherever you are!
on September 21, 2009 at 1:35 pm Mike

I don’t blame you Olaf, I don’t blame you at all. What once was good fun has become a cesspool of nonsense.
on January 25, 2010 at 8:19 pm Ti-Guy

It’s not that solemn, Mike. He plans to publish a lot of what was written here. But enough time will have to pass before everyone forgets its the work of “Olaf Raskolnikov, ” the Prairie Wrangler.
on July 20, 2010 at 3:50 pm Scott Tribe

Olaf:

Give Kelly John Rose an email. (His email is iam@kjro.se) He’d like to inquire if you’d be interested doing something on one of the websites he maintains. Just mention I had talked to you.