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Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse for Toronto's appalling excuse for a mayor, a new video surfaces that ... well, speaks for itself. Definitely not chess related but maybe Toronto should consider a chess playing mayor the next election (that can't come soon enough).
Well if you lived in Windsor there have been quite a few stories recently about the Detroit mayor race and the legacy of Kilpatrick currently serving a very long prison term. Mayors tend to be naughty especially south of the border or north if you live in Windsor.
Jon Stewart has a couple great segments on Ford. I'd love to see him get re-elected just for the absurdity of having a hard-drug user conservative mayor. I don't even think it is that shocking, I wonder the actual percent of politicians who have tried illegal drugs? It's very likely that it is not close to 0%. Ford is just the one that got caught.
Jon Stewart has a couple great segments on Ford. I'd love to see him get re-elected just for the absurdity of having a hard-drug user conservative mayor. I don't even think it is that shocking, I wonder the actual percent of politicians who have tried illegal drugs? It's very likely that it is not close to 0%. Ford is just the one that got caught.
And caught.....and caught.......and caught......
Harper should appoint that buffoon to the Senate.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Nothing, however, about Ford's rather cruel austerity policies. But then, there is a sizable minority that agrees with those policies and may just forgive Ford for virtually anything ...
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Thursday, 7th November, 2013, 06:40 PM.
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Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Nothing, however, about Ford's rather cruel austerity policies. But then, there is a sizable minority that agrees with those policies and may just forgive Ford for virtually anything ...
This makes your opposition sound ideological. It's nice you gave us a list of critics who you assume wouldn't know how to roll a joint.
This makes your opposition sound ideological. It's nice you gave us a list of critics who you assume wouldn't know how to roll a joint.
Okay, I'll bite. What's Ford's ideology when he's in one of his drunken stupors? Or doesn't it matter ... as long as he's leaving the crack pipe in his basement?
I would still vote for Rob Ford if I lived in Toronto simply out of spite of all the complaining "do gooders". Austerity? Yes Please!
I don't live in Toronto. Probably a lot of the critics on council won't run for mayor. Not with losing putting them on the sidelines for 4 years.
I'd like to see the rules changed so the term for that level of government to be a maximum of 3 years.
I think the situation in Quebec is worse than that in Toronto. That proposed charter is, at the least, oppressive. I wonder why Mulcair isn't front and centre opposing that instead of worrying about the Toronto Mayor. Maybe the votes for him are in supporting that legislation.
You're the one who brought up the ideology. I can only wonder if your view would be different if he were a lefty.
For a number of years one of my work calls was Rochdale College. Maybe I don't shock as easily as you do.
The government made the term 4 years. He has one year to go. I know the talk is about what amounts to a coup by those who covet the mayors chair and we'll see what happens. Likely there will be more chapters to come.
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