mrtinfoilsocket
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Haha True enough! I hadn't even thought about it that way.
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Rob Ford's Toronto
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Haha True enough! I hadn't even thought about it that way.
taal
Senior Member
Is this a joke ?
I've seen many of your other posts (outside this thread) and you seem like a very sensible / logical person !
Should I assume what you really mean to say is you agree with Ford's platform (many do, that is cut spending / cut funding to various groups [user fees should fund the majority of targeted services ..] / so on ...) ? If so that's completely understandable !
But I cannot fathom you are implying Ford is an inelegant person ? Something that should be a criteria for being the mayor of a city. Have you not seen the many videos of him in city council and the debates last election ? I should be very clear, I'm not referring to any of his extracurricular activities, rather debates about valid city issues ! He's clearly not a competent and more importantly not a logical person, he will approach a debate with one talking point, if you change the direction of the conversation / add a new tangent (i.e. relevant facts) all he's capable of doing is repeating whatever he said earlier over and over, even when it clearly makes no sense at all and is not relevant to the current discussion ...
I can say without a doubt I've never seen a councilor exhibit this much incompetence ... and again I'm referring to him on the job only. One example, I find his brother (though extremely arrogant) much more competent ! I actually believe he needs to stoop down to Rob Ford's level of intelligence to make it appear they agree on many issues, or to further a cause Rob (incompetently) started earlier ...
But again, feel free to agree with the idea of 'Rob Ford' that I completely understand ..
Parker
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that's my thought too. If some folks feel no SOE was necessary, how can they fault the Deputy Mayor for leaving town for one day?
Reminds me of one of those famous political trials where one politician was convicted of receiving a bribe that the other politician was acquitted of giving.
newearthling
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Exactly. You dont pay the utility bills on a crack house (and maybe even own it, as someone here suggested) and only smoke crack once.
Ford uses any and everything. He is well known for using crack, coke, oxy pot and alcohol. Who knows what else?
Anyone who was paying attention to municipal politics knew Ford himself was the gravy train wreck. So many votes consisted of only him being against everyone else on council....just because he is a contrary s.o.b.
He is not able to work with people, has no vision, and is not smart enough to deal with our complex city.
This crisis has shown that AGAIN, but I am sad that it took people freezing, and some even dying, for people to wake up.
EagleEye
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Where on earth is Doug? Not a peep from him in ages. He must be away, otherwise he'd be telling all of us what a great job Rob is doing.
FromTheHammer
Active Member
I agree, but at this point if the ice storm ends up being Ford's Hurricane Katrina moment, so be it.
West of Spadina
New Member
What if the SOE is a big hoax and it helped some people in Toronto for nothing?
The SOE debate makes me think of this climate cartoon:
The SOE debate makes me think of this climate cartoon:
FromTheHammer
Active Member
Flashback to "Rinse" on Toronto Mike's blog - all of which was corroborated when the crack video story broke and 15 Windsor was identified as the house in the infamous photo of Ford -
Are you sure you want to go with that "he only tried crack once" schtick?
newearthling
Senior Member
It is just so mind-boggling how delusional Rob Ford is.
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ChesterCopperpot
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He's been in Florida, hasn't he?
newearthling
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Here is another one for the state of emergency vote:
Toronto should call the ice storm what it is: an emergency
By failing to declare a state of emergency, Toronto is putting the lives of many of its most vulnerable at risk.
By: Cathy Crowe and Alison Kemper Published on Fri Dec 27 2013
The emergency in Toronto is not about the speed at which hydro workers have accomplished their tasks (they are truly heroic), it is the unknown distress of hundreds of thousands of Torontonians whose homes could no longer provide warmth, whose elevators weren’t working, whose kitchens could no longer provide food, whose telephones could no longer connect them to the outside world and whose medical conditions could no longer be managed.
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In December in Canada, a home that has lost power and heat is habitable for only a short time. By Christmas Eve, with temperatures plummeting to -12 C, many darkened homes were approaching temperatures of 0 C.
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What happened to the thousands of Torontonians who weren’t able to book a hotel, go to their in-laws’, eat in restaurants or leave town? How are they doing? We have no idea. We have been told that emergency calls have been five times their normal level, and we hear sirens screaming down our roads constantly.
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What will we find in a week — in our rooming houses, in our high rises, in the little wartime bungalows that are scattered across our city? Will we have escaped without increased deaths? Or will we regret our lack of action this week?
From Sunday onward, our political leaders debated the worth of declaring an emergency. Perhaps it was the shame we remembered after former Mayor Mel Lastman declared his own “snow emergency” and called in the Armed Forces to remove metres of snow. Perhaps it was Rob Ford’s desire to have a central and positive role in the drama rather than being sidelined after an emergency declaration. Likely, his misunderstanding of the difference between martial law and a state of emergency has prevented such a move. Perhaps it was the city management’s long-standing resistance to provincial interference that made staff reluctant to ask for help.
Sadly, Torontonians have been left out in the cold.
Cathy Crowe is a long-time street nurse and Distinguished Visiting Practitioner at Ryerson. Alison Kemper, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Ted Rogers School of Management.
Toronto should call the ice storm what it is: an emergency
By failing to declare a state of emergency, Toronto is putting the lives of many of its most vulnerable at risk.
By: Cathy Crowe and Alison Kemper Published on Fri Dec 27 2013
The emergency in Toronto is not about the speed at which hydro workers have accomplished their tasks (they are truly heroic), it is the unknown distress of hundreds of thousands of Torontonians whose homes could no longer provide warmth, whose elevators weren’t working, whose kitchens could no longer provide food, whose telephones could no longer connect them to the outside world and whose medical conditions could no longer be managed.
...
In December in Canada, a home that has lost power and heat is habitable for only a short time. By Christmas Eve, with temperatures plummeting to -12 C, many darkened homes were approaching temperatures of 0 C.
...
What happened to the thousands of Torontonians who weren’t able to book a hotel, go to their in-laws’, eat in restaurants or leave town? How are they doing? We have no idea. We have been told that emergency calls have been five times their normal level, and we hear sirens screaming down our roads constantly.
...
What will we find in a week — in our rooming houses, in our high rises, in the little wartime bungalows that are scattered across our city? Will we have escaped without increased deaths? Or will we regret our lack of action this week?
From Sunday onward, our political leaders debated the worth of declaring an emergency. Perhaps it was the shame we remembered after former Mayor Mel Lastman declared his own “snow emergency” and called in the Armed Forces to remove metres of snow. Perhaps it was Rob Ford’s desire to have a central and positive role in the drama rather than being sidelined after an emergency declaration. Likely, his misunderstanding of the difference between martial law and a state of emergency has prevented such a move. Perhaps it was the city management’s long-standing resistance to provincial interference that made staff reluctant to ask for help.
Sadly, Torontonians have been left out in the cold.
Cathy Crowe is a long-time street nurse and Distinguished Visiting Practitioner at Ryerson. Alison Kemper, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Ted Rogers School of Management.
adma
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Case in point (of sorts): Doug Ford.
Anyway, if this is Rob Ford's tipping-point moment, it all hinges upon that woman in the iced-out McCowan public housing who referred to him as a "crackhead"--it's all sinking in, now, even among those who might have been at the Thomson Park Ford Fest a few months ago...
newearthling
Senior Member
This is a good one from the Daily Beast!
Inside the Wild World of Crack-Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Facebook Defenders
Fans of the embattled Toronto mayor are rallying behind their man on Facebook. Meet “Ford Nation,” where 15-year-olds call the shots and the rest of us are just “Manhattanite hipsters.”
(Hmm, don't they know all the hipsters live in Brooklyn?)
Inside the Wild World of Crack-Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Facebook Defenders
Fans of the embattled Toronto mayor are rallying behind their man on Facebook. Meet “Ford Nation,” where 15-year-olds call the shots and the rest of us are just “Manhattanite hipsters.”
(Hmm, don't they know all the hipsters live in Brooklyn?)
Wha'?! What honesty?
SockPuppet
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What...
I don't even...
I've yet to see evidence of any maturity, let alone an increasing amount of it...
Especially when followed up with this tidbit...
OSS 117
Senior Member
Not just delusional, but even if it were true, who talks about themselves like that? The delusions of grandeur and the self-aggrandizement is out of this world with this guy.
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