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Real Mayors Don’t Read The Manual
“Ducks,” Mayor Rob Ford, under cross-examination by Clayton Ruby, responded when asked whom he thought Toronto’s conflict of interest laws applied to. When pressed, he added: “I don’t know. Geese could be included, maybe even pigeons. I’m not a lawyer. Or a bird-watcher!”
“Is it far-fetched? I don’t think so,” stated Ford’s lawyer, Alan Lenczner, in the defense’s summation. “He may be wrong, and cases allow for that…because that’s what an error of judgment is.”
SOURCE: Toronto Stunned
[http://www.canoodle.com/NewsStand/TorontoStunned/News/2012/09/02/509727.html]
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What Can Republican Operatives Do Other Than Slap Their Foreheads And Gaze In Dumbfounded Wonder At The Train Wreck?
From Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech at the Republican Presidential nomination convention:
“I know things are hard for people. Ordinary people. People like you. You have to choose between paying for your aunt Bertha’s hip operation, food for your family or rent for the pathetically small hovel in which you live. But, believe it or not, we all face difficult choices in this life, my friend. I, for instance, have to choose between driving the BMW, the Porsche and one of the other BMWs. However, there are ways of making those difficult choices. I, for instance, am building a car elevator in my garage to make my choice of what to drive easier. What the average American needs is a bill elevator to help them decide how to prioritize their expenses!”
SOURCE: Drew’s Transcript-o-rama
[http://www.transcript-o-rama.com/mittwit.shtml]
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The End Is Nye
Christian evangelicals are angry at Bill Nye for arguing that Creationism is not a science, and that teaching it as a science would be akin to teaching children that the Earth was flat. Not only have they attacked him personally, but somebody who objected to his views may have initiated a Twitter hoax that he had died.
Really? Bill Nye? The Science Guy? Attacking him is like gut kicking a puppy. It’s like demanding your mother make you dinner the day after your father has died. It’s like wearing a mullet.
It’s just not cool, okay?
SOURCE: Scientific Canadian
[http://www.scican.com/article.cfm?chanID=sc003&articleID=1108G3EC-2C145-22K5-ABA1582614B177777]
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Because, You Know, If The Atheist Bastard Wasn’t Bent On Destroying All That Was Good In The World, We’d Kind Of Admire Him
Russian President Vladimir Putin singlehandedly rescued a cat from a Chechnyan terrorist group. Then, he swam across the Neva with a 200 pound weight tied to each shoulder. Then, he wrestled crocodiles in the courtroom where one of his rival oligarchs was being tried for…some bad thing or other. Then, he had breakfast.
Watching all of his feats of masculine bravado, we have to wonder: when does he have time to, you know, run his country?
SOURCE: The National Whipping Post
[http://www.canada.com/national/nationalwhippingpost/news/story.html?ia=0ec0ecda-b6e6-4c18-fu1b-07b666cc13ec]
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DETENTION DIARY: Shrink To Fit
WEEK THIRTY-SEVEN
“Tell me about your mother.”
“She wasn’t in the cell with me.”
“The cell you claim you were forced to stay in.”
“There’s no claiming about it, pal. I was forced to stay in a cell for most of the time I was kidnapped.”
“Phil, do you know what paranoid delusion is?”
“Sure. I’ve seen 24.”
“What do you think it is?”
“The unreasonable belief that people are out to get you.”
“Good.”
“But, people were out to get me!”
“Phil, be reasonable. You work in an advertising agency. You have a wife and two children. You are not a spy. You were never a spy. This is not Total Recall. Why would anybody be out to get you?”
“It was a mistake.”
“A mistake?”
“They mixed me up with somebody else.”
“So, now this is Brazil?”
“Do they kidnap and torture people in Brazil?”
“In Brazil? Actually, they do.”
“Wow. I’m never vacationing in Rio again!”
“I – what?”
“What?”
“Phil. You claim that you were kidnapped by the government, tortured for six months and then anonymously dropped in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Can you hear how ridiculous that sounds?”
“But, it’s true!”
“I believe you believe it’s true.”
“Why is it so hard for you to believe that it’s true?”
Phil glared at Doctor Shrink. He was really getting sick of hearing that the American government didn’t do to him what he knew the American government had done to him.
“Now,” Doctor Shrink continued, “if we’ve finally dealt with that issue, tell me about your mother…”
SOURCE: Harpo’s
[http://harpos.org/archive/2012/09/16/dd-9000036]
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Netanyahu Do They Think They’re Kidding?
Iran is “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today.”
– Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, 2012
“The dictator of Iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the security of free nations.”
– American President George W. Bush, 2003
“In recent years, regional nations have realized that the United States and the Zionist regime are their main enemies…”
– Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2011
SOURCE: No Comment Quotes
[http://thesepeopleareinsane.psy/update.toshtml]
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Shutting The Barn Door After The Horse Has Been Flogged To Death
Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak blamed union bosses for his party losing two recent by-elections, including one in a riding that it had held for many years. Those crafty, all-powerful union bosses have a lot to answer for. Frozen wages. Rolled back benefits. Offshoring of private sector union jobs to low wage countries and privatization of government services, both of which result in declining membership and dues.
Oh, sure, it may seem like their power is diminishing, but cornered feral bunnies are most dangerous when…umm…cornered so…so there!
SOURCE: Vancouver Stunned
[http://www.canoodle.com/NewsStand/VancouverStunned/News/2012/09/09/509729.html]
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Isn’t That The Way With democracy?
You Vote For Steve King, You Get Something Out Of A Novel By Stephen King
They say that the essence of crazy is to say the same thing over and over again and expect a different response from the audience. I may be paraphrasing a little, but still… When the thing you’re repeating was crazy to begin with, do you get crazy squared, or is crazy times crazy still just crazy?
I leave the answer to that question to political mathematicians. Republican Representative Steve King, in an attempt to defend the indefensible (Todd Akin), came up with this gem. Do Republicans not know any women? This seems unlikely, given that most are married to one. Do they bring down a cone of silence whenever a woman around them starts talking? This seems unlikely, given that the technology, which first appeared in a television series in the 1960s, doesn’t exist. Do they have some kind of switch in their brain that translates anything a woman says to them into masculinist gibberish? This is…eerily plausible.
Ultimately, I must leave this question to political psychologists. Because, frankly, it hurts my head to think about.
SOURCE: Karl’s Big Red Web Page of Unreconstructed Marxism
[http://www.bigred.commie/articles/218^.htm]
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