Well, now we’ve learned who the mayor of Toronto is! One “Rob Ford,” a hated geezer conservative tyrant according to the all-knowing “brief Google Search” who flew into profanity-laced hysterics on the phone with 911 dispatchers after a teevee comedian lady from a Canadian political parody show turned up in his driveway with her cameraperson and tried to interview him as he was getting in his car. Ford ran and hid like a shivering goat and called police — twice — allegedly yelling at the operators, “You … bitches! Don’t you f—ing know? I’m Rob f—ing Ford, the mayor of this city!” Such hockey language! And here we thought Canada was just a kingdom of pleasant goofballs. There goes that Dream.
OH WELL, the important thing is that Toronto is now having a hearty chuckle at their idiot mayor, for being terrified of a middle-aged lady asking him funny questions.
From the Globe And Mail:
“I didn’t know who they were and obviously we’ve had death threats. There was a camera and a mike. It wasn’t any of you guys so I knew,” [Ford] said [to reporters].
The show had crossed a line by showing up at his house, he said.
“My kids and my wife are the closest things to me and I’ll do anything to protect them.”
Ah yes, the well-known “camera and mike” brutal murder weapons those comedians love so much. You can see the video of the exchange here. [Globe And Mail via Crooks and Liars]
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What's all this aboot?
Laughing at Canadians is fun because they think of we Americans as "upper Mexicans" anyway.
I calls 'em "snowbacks".
Frostbacks.
Hilarious!
I had a Canadian friend who stopped speaking to me because I teased him that they could only wear short shorts 4 weeks out of the year. It was SO worth it!
Them snowbacks always coming here and turning up their noses at our health care "system"…
I've heard US Americans calling us Canada City people, Snow Nearers.
Except up in the far north of Saskatchewan, where they're know as Snow Far, Snow Gooders….
Defend the Northern Border!!1!
All them people sneaking across to read our American magazines at bookstores…
"Upper Mexicans", … that's why I make my taco's with hot dogs.
We are also "skinny bacon lovers" and "Gretzky snatchers"
At least it means we can get decent Mexican cuisine, as opposed to a country where their greatest culinary masterpiece is putting gravy on french fries.
And the surprising thing is that they think American tourists should eat this when there, because it's good or something???
Two words, my friend: butter tarts and nanaimo bars. Look 'em up, then weep at their absence.
yeah but I LOVE how Canuckistanis get to laugh right in the faces of their douchebag politicians…too bad we can't get someone like this delightful Marg to get in the faces of the political whores in US Congress…of course they'd probably have Marg arrested/ shot as a *terrorist*…at least the Canuckistani politicians have a sense of humor (she really is god, check this out!)
22 Minutes: Marg Delahunty Montage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55aONsoIlw
We do have someone that laughs right in the faces of our douchebag politicians. His name is Stephen Colbert, and he was even formally invited to make fun of Congress during a congressional hearing in migrant workers. That's not even to mention when Jay, and Dave, and Jimmy and the rest send out their silly employees to harass politicians on the campaign trail.
"to harass politicians on the campaign trail"
Or, in Newt's case, on the tail trail.
Then Mr. Colbert really surprised 'em with thoughtful, accurate, detailed, compassionate testimony.
yeah well I've never seen any of them get to just walk around the halls of Congress with a mike and camera and literally grab the political douchebags and make fun of them DIRECTLY in their face like Marg does…Colbert is awesome but he doesn't get to do THAT!
Sureños del Norte o Norteños del Sur?
Eh?
Bitch better send my security.
“You … bitches! Don’t you f—ing know? I’m Rob f—ing Ford, the mayor of this city!” Pretty much sums up this gigantic douche.
Also, not hockey language. Hockey players say "frigging". (They are innocent of what it actually means.)
I found this amazing. While it's fairly common to hear (or read) references to other people along the lines of Ronald Fucking Reagan, or Jesus Fucking Christ, it's quite remarkable to see someone give his own name with the interlocutory f-word. Unless, I suppose, if it's actually his middle name.
Now that I think about it, I may have shortchanged my kids.
"Rob Fucking Ford" is going to now be my epithet of choice.
Ron Fucking Ford in a Chevy…that guy is an asshole!
"I'm Ron Fucking Swanson."
how do you blame canada for this?
Like this: Canada Nyah, nyah, nyah, Rob Fucking Ford, nyah, nyah, nyah.
Leave Lou Sarah alone!11!1!!
"You need me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside you secretly long for a cold hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals and rule you like a king! That's why I did this! To protect you from yourselves! Now if you don't mind, I have a city to run."
Does Wonkette have an international (dirty foreigners) desk now?
No, but it should.
Shit, I'll volunteer.
Didn't we both do that during the Stueff retard Wonkette crisis? Still waiting for my call-back.
Geez, doesn't anyone study our glorious past?
Kids today, I tells ya. Why, I bet some of 'em don't even know to whom all our base are belong.
Wait. What? Canada?
Fifty-four forty or fight.
No thanks, I think I prefer not having the state that gave us Sarah Palin connected to the rest of the country.
It's a town in Maine, if I'm not mistaken.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. The article specifically stated Toronto, which is a suburb of Detroit.
Buy a map! Toronto is a suburb of Buffalo.
Fun Fact: 90% of all Canadians live within 50 miles of the US border, because they love Americans so much!
I thought it was because the remainder of the country was an inhospitable, Hoth-like wasteland. I mean, if the farthest south you can go in your own country is the equivalent of Buffalo, wouldn't you be massing on the Southern border as well?
Vancouver is much nicer than Buffalo (but otherwise your surmise is correct).
And here I was under the delusion that all Canadians were polite.
Umm. No.
See Cherry, Don.
I'd rather not. His jackets make my eyes bleed.
Fuck you, you fucking fuck!!!
Um, sorry about that. I'm having a rough day.
C'mon Billy. Save it for the Hun.
“I didn’t know who they were and obviously we’ve had death threats."
OK, a mayor in Afghanistan I can understand. But a mayor in Canuckistan??
Don't you mean Canuck, Canuck, Canucky, stan-stan?
He obviously thought the video camera was a rocket launcher.
Bruce Cockburn libel!
"This Hour has 22 Minutes" is the funniest fucking show since the first year of SCTV. Canadian TeeVee is wonderful.
Odd how the funniest comedians are either Jews or Canadians.
Monty Python were Canadian Jewish lumberjacks (little known fact)
Oy v'eh!
Comedy has had a great relationship with the blacks, also, too.
Oh, w'eh'll done.
thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite MP bits! (I've been known to sing/ hum/ whistle this tune for days, LITERALLY
Monty Python- Lumberjack Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE
Don't forget Leonard Cohen. He's "funny" too.
Now you funny too.
Or both.
The dramas aren't anything to sneeze at either. DaVinci's Inquest was one of my favorite programs of recent years. Great writing, brilliant acting, and government subsidies, too!
Marg is AWESOME!
22 Minutes: Marg Delahunty Montage ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55aONsoIlw
Wow!!!!…
he's a bagger right?
i mean i think i knew that but – his girth, his white whiteness, the trailer trash house, the fear of actual constituents…
yeah, bagger.
At least he didn't freak-out with his obviously insecure inadequacies and tell her they should privatize their health care system. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8w4DE2CwM&fe…
I didn't know Toronto had any houses that were more horizontal than vertical………..
Oh, he's totally a bagger. Officially, he doesn't belong to a party, but he's a cut the waste-privatize everything-yea big business guy. And he's a total douche.
So, yeah.
Shouldn't that just be "right wing nut" or "oligarch/plutocrat"? "Bagger" would have no meaning up there.
How do you spell "Canada"?
C-Eh-N-Eh-D-Eh.
Ca-Nada.
Or to Herman Cain, it's Cainada. Or perhaps Canada-nada-nada-nada-istan-stan.
But it's pronounced "Canada"…
"…obviously we’ve had death threats…"
What a dick. You'd think he'd be used to them by now.
Canadian death threats are so polite.
"So, if you don't mind standing still at noon in front of the Tim Hortons, I'll be shooting you. What's that? Oh, forgot. I don't have a gun because Canada isn't insane. So … could you please go to Arizona? It would so much more convenient for me. Thank you. Have nice day."
It's the "obviously" that's so cute….I mean, just look at him….
Yeah, yeah. But how's his mullet?
I don't know who this clown is, but his city is far better than anything down here in Doritoland. It just goes to show how irrelevant politicians are.
He's only had a year to wreck the place – give the man time.
Dude is a total Canadian teabagger. How someone like that was elected the mayor of their nation's largest, most important city is beyond me. It's be like a slightly more accomplished Samuel-not-the-Plumber becoming mayor of New York City.
BTW, love the show the few times I've seen it online. She even ambushed Sarah Palin which is enough all by itself to make me a fan.
What happened was Mayor Fatty (notice most of our Cons are rotund?) was up against the John Kerry equivalent of Toronto. Fatty won the dummy vote. The end.
To be fair, everyone hates his fat ass now. He ran on let's cut spending everywhere under the mistaken impression that the city had nightly coke and hooker parties that could be cut. So he decided to cut libraries (and making little girls cry in the process) and public transit (which is already up shit creek anyway). And deciding to go to his cottage rather than the Gay Pride parade, because the queers didn't vote for him anyhow, didn't help either.
It's worth it to read the Toronto Star's daily headlines about how much everyone hates his guts. In fact, this little escapade is virtually the entire front page of the paper today – with an additional section inside.
Asshole.
What the hell was with Sarah's take anyway? Keep the faith? Common sense conservatism?
srsly, I just asked my good Pakistani/ Canuckistani friend in TO how the hell this guy got elected mayor, in one of the most progressive large cities I've ever had the pleasure of visiting (hell I was even thinking of MOVING there!)
His election was hilariously juxtaposed against Canada's redneck capital, Calgary, electing North America's first Muslim mayor (and worse, a tweedy academic) just a week previous.
Honestly, there are better and more progressive towns in this country – keep looking.
Really, in Calgary? Land of well-fed sexy cowgirls and Murdoch-esque daily organs? A Muslim mayor? And a douchebag mayor in Toronto? What has gotten into the water supply up there?
“You … bitches! Don’t you f—ing know? I’m Rob f—ing Ford, the mayor of this city!”
Wow! It sounds like a romance novel.
my good Pakistani friend in TO says the t-shirts are already selling like, well, hotcakes!
Brilliant, 'eh.
I used to have a "fucking Ford". It went with my "blowjob Buick". But now I drive an "Oldsmobile".
Canada. America's toupee.
What does that make Florida?
Florida has always been America's beloved wang.
“You … bitches! Don’t you f—ing know? I’m Rob f—ing Ford, the mayor of this city!”
Now that's what I'd call Fording a stream … of profanity.
Radio Tea Amerika crosses borders!
Actually, Teabaggism actually was imported to US America.
See Reform Party of Canada City. The GOP under Newty Toot took a lot of "his" ideas from them.
for some reason this reminds me of an ancient distant memory: shrieking at, climbing trees with, flirting with, some second cousin of mine in a park somewhere in ontario. (hamilton?? stratford??).
i have nothing but the fondest memories of canada.
I thought flirting with second cousins was an Appalachian thing. Though perhaps they do it in Newfoundland. They certainly do it in Tasmania, when they're not getting off looking at maps of their island.
i said SECOND cousin.
and 'flirting'.
That was your *second* cousin? :-O
Apropos of nothing, I just noticed that Scott Walker and Rick Santorum could have been separated at birth. Coincidence?
Not sure, but I wish they had been eviscerated at birth.
Needs moar Sharia law up there in Torontostan.
Isn't Toronto basically already under Sharia law?
LOL! This guy is fucking comedy gold. Who says "the 'bitch' word"? lol The whole point of qualifying it with using the word "word" is so you don't have to say the offending term. "effing" idiot, this one.
"Bitch-word" – it's like "bitch" is the acceptable stand-in for some uber-awful Canadian epithet.
"And I didn't use the 'Cunt' word, either."
Perhaps he really is using "the bitch word" as a euphemism. Which begs the question "What is the bitch word?" "Menses?" "Please?"
He is a fucking-word idiot.
Perfect.
Don't they have the miraculous invention of audio taping 911 calls up in Canuckistan? Roll the tape, bitches!
I think they do that everywhere. I, too, am eagerly awaiting the tapes.
A new meme is born.
Apparently, Ford himself has to approve the release of the tapes. The press, of course, wants this to happen so that truth wins out and there isn't any confusion over what happened.
Screw that. We want to hear it for the cry baby lolz.
Note that he does not deny using the fuck word.
also, that is a FINE fairy costume.
For baggers with still spines and convicted(tion) they sure run and hide on the bus when confronted with the unknown. Just the sort of leadership style we all look for in North America.
Sarah Palin did it as McCain's running mate rolling into new towns – she was afraid to get photo's and associate with unvetted Republicans (ironic right?)
Michele couldn't get off the bus or would flee from a restroom dialing 911.
Cantor won't show up unless it's a guaranteed friendly audience.
If I didn't know better, I'd think they had enough self-knowledge to realize that they can't function outside their echo chamber bubble, but of course they don't. They are all, every last one of them, cringingly terrified, gutless cowards.
After one year in power, Rob Ford has a popularity of 37% (after a high of 60%.) For some reason this won't help.
Hell, he could be governor of Florida with those numbers
So has he covered up all the bike lanes yet?
I'm assuming you mean Scott Fucking Walker and Rick Fucking Santorum.
Apparently you libtard bitches still don't have a clue who Rob FUCKING Ford is !!!1!!
I'm a fucking American, for fuck's sake! I don't have to give a flying fuck who the fuck Rob fucking Ford is!
Obviously, this sorry one-term fuck is your mum.
His mother might as well have named him Rob Fucking Ford because that's how he'll be known forever more. "Oh, you mean Rob Ford of the Fucking-Fords. Why didn't you say so?"
Our story begins in the arboretum of Fuckingford Manor….
The day Dame Noonington came to call?
Dear Readers,
What joy! Today, I saw a Canadian…
Any relation to the Backseat Fucking-Fords?
Ah, but it's pronounced Tertwilliger-Cuntlap.
Makes the reign of error of Daily Show favorite punching bag Mega (moron) Mel Lastman look dignified and rationale.
Sidebar headline on Globe n Mail page containing the Ford item: "Canada's Homicide Rate Hits 44-Year Low." Death threats, indeed.
the Canadians don't want to kill just anyone. they want to kill Rob Fucking Ford.
Death threats. The mayor of Toronto. Well, Ok, sure. I mean I guess it could happen.
Those zoning board meetings can get really heated at times.
You think that's funny, but it's not.
/tangentially involved in neighborhood zoning matters
And this is why you never try to get involved in the democratic process. No good deed goes unpunished, especially where "civic duty" is concerned.
"So, are we talking redistricting or reapportionment… BITCH???"
" I’ll do anything to protect them.”
Anything but face down a middle-aged woman with a camera crew. In that case, I'll cry like a baby for some real men to rescue me.
The lady in the pic has a case of 'meat shoulder'. Or is it back bacon? Maybe I'm just hungry.
would it be Canadian bacon? great. now i'm hungry.
Anyone who can rile Canadians up so much that they receive death threats, well, that's got to be one heroically venal prick.
Yes, he is a real life Fat Bastard.
This summer, Doofus Mayor Rob Ford and his even fatter brother (councilor) went to NFL commissioner to not ask, but DEMAND an NFL franchise for Torannah. After dealing with the likes of Jerry Jones and Zombie Al Davis, the NFL commish laughed the two dimwits out of town.
So they get the Bills – Redskins game this Sunday at the Rogers Center. The only place more sterile might be Calista's uterus.
Oh sweet Jesus I hope she's barren…
Yep, dried up like a ten-year-old Tootsie Roll in the desert.
C'mon, lets be fair, teevee comedian lady is pretty scary. But then again I'm terrified of Count Chocula.
Wow. Robben Ford has really gone downhill.
Recording equipment is the most lethal weapon allowed by Her Majesty's law, thanks to their lack of Jesus' own Second Amendment.
And at least he didn't tell the dispatchers to ignore any domestic violence calls from his wife.
It's not an import I'm proud of. US America gave us Koch and all those shitheels trying to tear apart our Universal Healthcare system.
I didn’t know who they were and obviously we’ve had death threats. There was a camera and a mike.
Well, yes, most assassins in history have disguised themselves as camera crews. I though everybody knew that.
There's always one asshole who taints an otherwise perfectly lovely bit of sass.
Huh. Apparently there were two of 'em.
I meant on the receiving end. Lot of damn nerve on that Massoud guy, getting hisself whacked just for to ruin your joke. Harumph!
A Shure SM-57 is a roadworthy and essentially indestructible weapon of audio reproduction. It also very effective in conjunction with a teleprompter.
(A a public service to the Wonkette, I'm the Neilist of microphone expertise.)
"You'll love it! It looks just like a Telefunken U-47"
You know who else was good at making quality audio weaponry?
This guy?
With leather?
I''ll see your SM-57 and raise you an Electrovoice EV-20
Absolutely. There's the killers of Ahmad Shah Massoud's, and, um, the ones who got that Northern Alliance guy, and then there's the guy in Afghanistan, and then there is the one who was assassinated just before 9-11. It's an epidemic!
Don't forget that scene from the documentary True Lies.
Nothing in this story or the comments above can convince me that curling is anything but a janitorial competition.
Aha. A janitorial FUCKING competition. Wait…
This Robert Ford is a dirty little coward.
Who shot Mr. Howard.
A Canadian take: http://www.thegridto.com/city/politics/this-whole… Just to make a point about Canadian civility, if nothing else.
Winning comment from that story:
"SchadenFord – gaining pleasure by watching Rob Ford make an ass of himself yet again."
I love Canadian Wonketters. So graphic and poignant in their use of adjectives to describing an asshat.
LOL! "Fuck" is such a cheap word…which is why I'm thankful and proud of being a bargain shopper.
Needs more fucking this and fucking that.
He had me at "obviously we’ve had death threats".
Wait, what state is Canada in again?
"Sorry," if this guy could get elected.
You know, it's that place south of Detroit. So, Canada is somewhere in Ohio.
Geography win.
My similar fav is, what ocean do you end up in if you go east to west through the panama canal?
A bit of subtext: This Hour has 22 minutes is the most popular comedy show in Canada, and has been for over 20 years. The "Marg Delahunty, Warrior Princess" character (played by Mary Walsh) has been a recurring character throughout that time. She's ambushed Chretien, Stockwell Day, Harper, Layton, Duceppe, and basically everyone else. Politicians have learned to take it with good humour. This is as familiar to Canadians as – say – Jay Leno's "talking to people on the street" bits or Letterman's top ten lists are to Americans. Mary Walsh herself is a known TV personality and author.
To measure this guy's cluelessness, imagine Jay Leno dropped by Bloomberg's residence, and Bloomberg called the dog squad in a desperate panic.
Whadda maroon.
She is fearless! Some good clips out there. She crams more into 30 seconds than almost anyone, with 5 times the snark. She gnawed into Chretien like he was corn on the cob. Marg has one volume, too. LOUDER.
I find her schtick pretty tired, actually. She seems to be using the form of an interview, but she rarely asks anything of her subjects/victims other than to stand there with an uncomfortable smile while she performs her monolouges about them. I much prefer Rick Mercer's less abusive funny little personal moments with various Canadian politicians.
That being said, it makes Rob "fat fuck" Ford look even more dim that he couldn't just stand there and play along, given how little was expected of him.
Meh. I think the point is that she's doing something people respond to. That tired schtick resonates with people and they like her. She's getting away with it.
But Bloomberg banned Larry David from NYC!
O/T, but WaPo is backpedalling on the Oakland OWS Kitty® pic, Richard Cohen should be proud.
What a bunch of fucking maroons.
Still and all, that is one cute cat.
In other news, Rob Ford has vaulted to the top of the Republican primary polls.
Where's the birf certificate???
He could have just said, "Take off, eh?"
"Hoser."
If you're going to be afraid of the people who elected you, you've got to think big, politicians. You'll note that Dick Cheney was never elected mayor of Toronto.
Dick Cheney isn't afraid of his electorate. He's afraid of sunlight.
What a wacky town!
Back when I lived there, the Bare Naked Ladies were denied a city gig because "their band name objectified women." (Yeah, if you're in the 1st grade!)
This is what we need: a random Canadian news bit to let us vent our passionate, irrational rage against the monarchy to the north.
Well, at least they understand what truly matters: Assfucking.
And, of course, amusing photographs of cute little kitty cats
Oh my. I ordered a case. A closet case. That is like a bakers dozen.
Robben Ford, the blues guitarist, was elected in Canada?
If you swim with the sharks, Rob Fucking Ford, sooner or later you're gonna get bitten.
How Tronna elected this bloated quivering toad does my head in. Fucking 905ers.
I don't know why fat boy was so scared of my mom.
Kirsten, comp Rob Ford two tickets to the Folger Theatre Othello production, the rollover ad does so much for the above the fold copy of his tale of woe.
He's gone full Bachmann on the media!
Lost in all the snark is the fact that this bloated gas bag has somehow acquired a child. For breakfast. Toronto The Good? I think not.
Get. in. ma. bell'eh!
The mayor's reaction is perfectly understandable after Samantha Bee's murderous rampage.
you'd think the camera crew had tried to kidnap him and send him to the psych ward near the Elsinore brewery, eh.
OT: Shit's getting real with Occupy Detroit. They along with a few other community groups blocked one of Detroit's international crossings to protest the billionaire owner of the bridge using his money to block the construction of a publically-owned crossing downriver from his that would produce tens-of-thousands of jobs during its construction and operations. It's both a very local and a very international issue given it's one of the busiest international crossings on the globe:
Get down with ya' bad self, Detroit. But, how much you want to bet the Department of Homeland Security is going to eventually try and crush the Detroit occupation. Can't be blocking no billionaire's bridge.
BTW, you guys should look out for state rep. Rashida Tlaib; I think you're going to be hearing a lot more of her in the not-to-distant future.
"protest the billionaire owner of the bridge using his money to block the construction of a publically-owned crossing "
Ugh, do you mean that Maroun guy? I am totally unfamiliar with, and live nowhere close to Michigan, but that guy's crimes against property-upkeep*, as chronically documented and circulated in the blogosphere, left a vivid impression on my psyche. Thoroughly haunting stuff.
*not sure what else to call it. Property stewardship? I don't believe he had anything to do with whatever led to the damage to the surplus materials, just that he's sitting on all of it rather than doing anything to clean up the mess. A sinister analogy for lots of what's wrong with our corporate
strangleholdsstructures.Blocking international trade and a rich dude's plan to further enrich himself? Why, that's TERRISM! Especially the second one.
I missed this one completely due largely with my inability to tolerate the hyper-democratic General Assembly meetings where it was decided. Old people like me know we are going to die a lot sooner than the young'uns who are the heart of the Occupy movement (and who take most the casualties) and aren't patient enough for meetings where everyone votes on everything.
The truck entrance to the bridge was a perfect target. Matty Maroun is a perfect example of entrenched privilege whose company have forcibly relocated hundreds of people, demolished their homes and disrupted their lives.
Also, there is not a single person in Michigan who doesn't think the new bridge is a fabulous and absolutely necessary idea, except: 1) Maroun, who makes tons of money with an essential monopoly on commercial traffic across his poorly maintained, frankly scary to cross bridge. [There is a tunnel, but a lot of commercial traffic can't use it.] 2) The state legislators he has bought (the sheer corruption of this is shocking. People aren't even trying to hide it.) 3) Hired Maroun hacks like the chair of the economics department of Hillsdale "College", who can't do any better than pablum like "Do you want the DMV to run your bridge? Haw Haw. [That's a new one.] And look at the big dig in Boston – way overbudget! [Yep, 'cause a bridge - of which tens of thousands have been built over centuries so the projections can be made confidently - is just like an unprecedentedly large project to tunnel under a huge body of water] and the Mackinac bridge too. [So you're saying we shouldn't have built the Mackinac bridge? We should still be connected to the UP by ferries? A bold position.]" Canada is willing to front most of the money, to be repaid from future tolls. It will mean jobs. It will mean more trade and commercial activity in Detroit, which desperately needs it. Much of the US share will be covered by the Feds. The *Republican* governor is energetically in favour of it. The person we are entrusting a major commercial artery to – Maroun – is a shameless scofflaw, who has opened illegal duty free shops, illegally rerouted traffic to pass it through his illegal duty-free gas pumps, has ignored subpoenas, and – well, I could go on and on. To repeat: It is genuinely unbelievable how obviously corruptly the legislature is acting. If OWW is tackling this, good for them. They have made a spectacularly wise PR choice. The more sunshine this gets the better.
Yep, you guys know the deal. Matty is the C. Montgomery Burns of Detroit. The OWS movement is almost tailored made to fit this guy's crimes. I mean, the guy is almost cartoonishly evil in his brazen boldness, ignoring court orders and the like. Usually, on guys like this there is some kind of nuance to the story, but this guy is almost singularly evil.
The guy is simuntaneously arguing that the two countries don't need another crossing at Detroit, and then building a approach for a second bridge next to his own…one that won't ever make it over the river because Canada will never allow him on their side of the river, again (good on you, Canada, for saying no). The guy is known as the troll under the bridge for a reason. How he's been able to block progress of nearly a decade on this is beyond me. The only body in the entire state with a say in this against the New International Trade Crossing/Detroit River International Crossing are the Republicans in the legislature, particularly in the Senate. They've been so brazenly bought-and-paid for it's not even funny.
For years we've tried to get the US Navy to move all their stuff to the Great Lakes. Being in fresh water would greatly reduce their maintenance bill. Plus you never know when Dudley Do-Right, and the rest of his thugnacious hyphenated last namers, might come marching south.
Not gonna happen. Can't water ski or scuba-dive year-round up there, like you can in the North Arabian Sea or the Persian Gulf. Plus, not enough browns to bomb.
" And here we thought Canada was just a kingdom of pleasant goofballs. There goes that Dream."
Hell to the Zed!
Maybe he thought she was a descendant of Jesse James, looking for revenge.
I don't think a Canada person would talk like that.
The death threats will likely stop now that everyone knows he can probably be given a heart attack by some kids' Jesusween costume.
Who is Rob Ford, and where is Canada?
He ran and hid to protect his wife and children? Makes sense.
I blame this on Dan Aykroyd.
Maybe he thouight it was a land shark.
They always claim to be just a dolphin.
"You bitches…!" Love it.
And I thought calling 911 was batshit crazy Bachmann's purview.
First Cantor cancels his speech, now this guy calls 911. Teabaggers are such pussies.
In a way, this is kinda a "Pussytober" story, innit?
OT: Liberal PBS News Hour decided to run a pro-income-inequality piece, presumably to correct all their miguided viewers on this subject. All these years, I foolishly thought people should not be starving and living in misery, but apparently I was wrong! Thanks, PBS!
I can't feed on the powerless when my cup's already overfilled.
The powerless will just have to wait their turn to be eaten. Priorities!
Needs more "I'm crushing your head"
Dear Mr. Fuckingford, When you say "obviously we get death threats" that indicates to me that you might have a greater problem than comedy.
Oh, that Marg Delahunty is a hoot.
I'm Rob F_king Ford, bitch. Now where the white women at?
Wow. How often do I get to post the same comment in consecutive threads?
K, here goes..*ahem*
"The obvious solution is to go out and buy cameras that are cleverly concealed as gunsights, then claim the GOP legislators ordered them. "
Peggy Noonan is pie-eyed again:
The Divider vs. the Thinker
While Obama readies an ugly campaign, Paul Ryan gives a serious account of what ails America. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203…
And unlike her usual columns this one isn't for paid readers only.
Nooner needs to be detonated with a remote controlled dildo, to straighten out her thinking.
Did she just really put "serious" and "Paul Ryan" in the same sentence?
Red Sonja has really let herself go. I don't think a man would WANT to defeat her in battle now.
"I’m Rob Fucking Ford, the mayor of this city – and I approved this message!”
He's in Canadian politics and he doesn't know of Marg Delahunty? Damn, talk about stupid and self-absorbed. "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" was (not sure if it still is) on nationwide teevee for years. My belle-soeur (who lives in Winterpeg) used to tape episodes for my ex so he could get his political sarcasm fix "in exile" fifteen years ago. I became a fan myself.
Somehow it's comforting to see that American voters aren't the only ones totally fucked in the head.
Tie this fucker to the 54-yard line and let the moose eat his face!
Awesome Dok, that guy is the 9/11 of the the 808.
Que'eh'?
To be fair, the US is really excellent comedic material.
Being Canadian is like living next door to the Simpsons. Here are all these patient, sensible, kind people (I swear, their real national motto is "Now, let's not get excited") living right next to "the States," where some hideously noisy psychodrama is always going on.
–Molly Ivins
(I always assumed she meant the neighbors on the right side of the street. No one would ever accuse Canada of being Ned Flanders, by golly.)
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