Topic: News from the North (Read 64132 times)

Büge · « **Reply #600 on:** October 27, 2011, 07:25:27 AM »

Mongrel, seriously. What were you guys thinking when you elected that slug?

Mongrel · « **Reply #601 on:** October 27, 2011, 09:27:01 AM »

That a majority of the citizens of this city fell for a campaign that amounted to "I promise cake and pie and gravy and toy cars and barbie dolls and everything for everyone all the time! Everyone else is eeeeeeeevil! Also, I really believe this!" says a great deal about this town.

Seriously guys. Possibly the most diverse city on the continent elected white trash with an IQ of about 90.

Büge · « **Reply #602 on:** October 27, 2011, 11:09:34 AM »

I mean you go from electing a Jewish furniture salesman who actually did things for the city (losing the Olympics notwithstanding) to a guy who even looks like Hermann Göring if you squint a little in less than ten years.

What's next, Ed the Sock?

Mongrel · « **Reply #603 on:** October 27, 2011, 11:44:00 AM »

Well, I always did say that Ford's lasting legacy would be to make ole' Mel last man look good.

Ed the Sock would be an improvement.

Mongrel · « **Reply #604 on:** October 29, 2011, 10:35:44 PM »

So tonight, Olbermann called Rob Ford the "Worst Person In The World"

We're doin' good, I can tellya.

Büge · « **Reply #605 on:** November 08, 2011, 01:56:05 PM »

The conservatives can't balance the budget

François · « **Reply #606 on:** November 08, 2011, 03:25:55 PM »

Welp, this is who you have voted for and why you have voted for them, rest of Canada. Good work!

Mongrel · « **Reply #607 on:** December 01, 2011, 04:04:46 PM »

Latest Chapter in the McKay chopper kerfuffle

I am laughing so hard at those Col. Ploughman quotes right now. "Uhm, guys? Are you stupid?... Okay, well never mind than, I guess I'm just a lowly Colonel who doesn't know anything. ROLL EYES."

Mongrel · « **Reply #608 on:** December 10, 2011, 07:38:02 AM »

That picture of Peter Mansbridge may be the funniest thing I've seen all week

Büge · « **Reply #609 on:** December 14, 2011, 09:52:25 AM »

Remember how ~~Mayor Ford~~ Boss Hogg canceled the plans to build a Light Rail System in Toronto? Well the cancellation bill just came in: a fat sixty-five million dollars. This comes up just as TTC service is being cut and prices are being raised.

Remind me again how he got elected...? Because it seems like he's doing exactly what Bush did after Clinton: turn a budget surplus into a deficit.

Mongrel · « **Reply #610 on:** December 14, 2011, 04:02:11 PM »

Look at it this way.

At least he's making it as glaringly clear as possible, as fast as he can. Better that than hiding it for a while and giving people wiggle-room to rationalize his failures away.

Mongrel · « **Reply #611 on:** January 07, 2012, 08:40:23 AM »

New report indicates that the reason Canada wound up in Kandahar is largely because our military leadership wanted to be there so bad, you guys

Büge · « **Reply #612 on:** January 29, 2012, 05:14:34 PM »

So, the Shafias are going away for life.

(For those of you who don't know, this concerns the trial of a man, his second wife and his son for the murder of his two daughters and first wife. They're also Afghan.)

Can't help but wonder what SCD would say.

Mongrel · « **Reply #613 on:** February 15, 2012, 11:32:58 AM »

So, some of you may have heard that King Harpo and the Cons are trying to get a new bill passed that basically would require complete internet traffic monitoring AND allow partially-warrantless surveillence of internet traffic by the government. Herpaderp etc.

It got more ridiculous when the Justice Minister - Vic Toews, one of the worst ideologues the Cons have - literally responded to a question in parliament with "You're either with us or you're in favour of child pornagraphy", which just goes to show that there is simply no amount of blind cognitive dissonance that will dissuade a True Believer.

But some delicious - if incredibly mean-spirited - returns have been reaped as a result. Some wit got ahold of Toews divorce proceedings and started This Twitter feed, posting choice bits from the affadavits, under the tagline "Vic wants to know about us? Let's get to know Vic.". It's not quite Newt-worthy, but it's... ah... brisk reading.

Well now.

Thad · « **Reply #614 on:** February 15, 2012, 12:23:45 PM »

They've also renamed it the Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act.

Which I suspect is going to be the name of every bill in every country from now on. The budget? Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act. Tax cuts for the wealthy? Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act. The next iteration of SOPA? Oh right, you already covered that one.

Mongrel · « **Reply #615 on:** February 15, 2012, 02:02:31 PM »

I'm not as worried as I might be, since this legislation actually seems so blatantly egrigious that it probably doesn't have a ghost of a chance of passing a charter challenge.

But that doesn't mean I'm okay at all with it being passed, even breifly.

Mongrel · « **Reply #616 on:** February 15, 2012, 04:35:01 PM »

Posting this here mostly so the link will be handy when I get home from work, but some of you may also be interested: The Don Drummond report on Ontario spending reform

Mongrel · « **Reply #617 on:** February 29, 2012, 07:32:45 PM »

I keep seeing people I know changing their online screename in various games to "Pierre Poutine".

Mongrel · « **Reply #618 on:** March 02, 2012, 10:42:03 AM »

For the first time in 150 years, another country - in this case, Iceland - is thinking of adopting the Canadian dollar as its currency.

... wow.

Büge · « **Reply #619 on:** March 02, 2012, 11:10:08 AM »

neat.

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