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When we were young, we were advised that we should choose our fights wisely. Clearly Premier Ford has given it a lot of thought and has chosen his fights.
All of them.
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Head In The Sand/Head Full Of Sand
It’s A Fine Line…
In the first week of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s fraud and money laundering trial, the prosecution made much of his lavish lifestyle, including multiple references to a $15,000 ostrich jacket. Fashionistas were not impressed.
“Only 15,000?” Parisienne couturier (and part-time potato) Alfred de la Bastienne scoffed. “Please! What rack did Manafort get it off of? The one at the Fifteen Thousand Dollar Store? Maybe he bought it used on EhBay? Listen, sweetie, ostrich coats aren’t worth shit unless the feathers have just been plucked from the body of the living, breathing, bird! Do you know how many people it takes to do that before the ostrich dies of hypothermia? $15,000? It is to laugh! That wouldn’t buy you the pocket of a real ostrich coat!”
What about the implication that Manafort lived a lifestyle that was beyond the means he conveyed to the IRS?
de la Bastienne sniffed and retorted, “Do I look like somebody who gives a good g-d about…politics?”
SOURCE: Fashion Crimes TV
[http://www.fctv.com/home/default.asp]
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PCs Parroting Their Worsers
During the provincial election campaign, the Conservative Party claimed that it wouldn’t be ending the Basic Income Pilot project. After it was elected, one of the first things the Conservative Party did was end the Basic Income Pilot project. Does this constitute a broken promise?
“Scraw! Fake news! Fake news!” Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said, bobbing her head up and down. “Arrr, Billy! Fake news! Fake news! Fake news!” Then, she took a sip of water from the tube on the side of her wire mesh podium.
This response sounded familiar. Very familiar. Where had we – of course! [IMAGINE SOUND OF FINGER SNAP HERE] Fake news is the term Donald Trump uses to describe…pretty much anything he disagrees with. Are the provincial Conservatives mimicking the rhetoric of the American President?
“Scree!” Minister MacLeod hotly retorted. “Run away! Fake news! Fake news! Fake news! Caw caw! Run away! Run away! Run away fake news!”
SOURCE: Toronto Stunned
[http://www.canoodle.com/NewsStand/TorontoStunned/News/2005/08/02/509727.html]
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8. It Becomes The Subject Of A Snarky List
How Canada deals with the US in seven simple steps.
1. It begs.
2. It fawns.
3. It flatters.
4. It implores.
5. It meekly suggests mild reforms.
6. It apologizes.
7. It grovels.
SOURCE: The Web Page of Lists
[http://www.ListsPage.argh/2018/July/Proudly_Supine.asp]
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Sandwich Lovers Will Suffer When The Brexit Hits The Fan
Jim Winship, director of the British Sandwich & Food To Go Association warned that the ingredients of a bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich – such as lettuce and tomatoes – might be expensive – if they are available at all – after Brexit because they come from mainland Europe.
“Oh, tish and tosh,” said major Brexit dis(as)sembler Boris Johnson. “During the war, shortages of lettuce were countered by substituting the shredded works of Somerset Maugham! No tomatoes? No problem! They used horseshoes covered in horseradish instead! Have you never wondered why the teeth of the people of that generation were so bad? Stiff upper lip, John Bull! If they were willing to sacrifice their teeth to stop Hitler, surely we should be willing to sacrifice our breakfasts to stop Eurocrats!”
SOURCE: Demi-TASS
[http://en.demi-tass.com/russia/744276]
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How Are We Supposed To Understand This?
1. Collusion Is Not A Crime
2. We Did Not Collude
3. Hillary Clinton Did Collude
4. As I’ve Been Saying All Along, Hillary Clinton Should Be Locked Up For Her Crimes
So Much Meaning In Just 21 Words – President Trump Is The James Joyce Of Twitter!
“Collusion is not a crime, but that doesn’t matter because there was NO Collusion (except by Crooked Hillary and the Democrats)!”
– tweet by President Trump
SOURCE: Ending Trending Web Site
[http://endingtrending.blurgh/more-ideas-than-a-semiotics-book-all-of-them-wrong/]
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Promise Made, Promise Wept
Making good on an issue he campaigned upon, Doug Ford announced that the minimum price of a can or bottle of beer in Ontario would be dropped to one dollar in time for the Labour Day weekend.
Of course, having axed the Basic Income Pilot project, Ontario Works (for people who are able and willing to work) and the Ontario Disability Support Programme (for those whose disabilities substantially restrict their ability to work), the people who are most likely to want to take advantage of buck a beer pricing are those who will no longer be able to afford to.
SOURCE: This 22 Minutes Feels Like An Hour
[http://www.mothercorp.ca/hour22minutes/]
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Sarah Huckabee-Sanders Better Be Looking Over Her Shoulder At Her Computer Screen
Sources inside Google claim it has teams of engineers working on a search app that restricts content that has been banned in China, including news about: protests in Beijing; the religious group Falun Gong; and, for some inscrutable reason, the Girls With Eyepatches Web site. This may be the company’s way of entering the lucrative Chinese market.
At the same time, Google has three people working on ways to minimize Russian interference in American elections. The three share a desk and are not allowed to take drinks from the office coffee-maker. Their immediate superior has begun to wonder who they are and what they’re working on; there are, after all, a lot of productive people at the company who really could use their own desk.
Could the company’s priorities be a little askew? “Hmm, let’s think this through,” said Alphabet, Inc., Google’s parent company, spokesAI, displaying an emoji of two hands, palms up, weighing evidence. “On the one side, a market of 1.379 billion people. On the other side, three or four old farts who, for some unfathomable reason, still believe in corporate responsibility. Sounds to me like Google’s priorities are exactly what they should be!”
SOURCE: Geekly News & World Report
[http://www.geeklynews.com/geeklynews/issue/110711/geeklynews/01beergoogleshahaha.htm]
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