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Mike Nelson here.
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here's a brief video about the 'crack baby' scare:



also, in toronto the mayor rob ford has refused to directly answer questions about whether he uses crack cocaine. there is a video that some guys are trying to sell for $200,000 of ford allegedly using crack cocaine, and it seems like it'll get bought by gawker through reader funds.

question: is the hysteria surrounding rob ford racist?
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yes
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duh
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Mike Nelson here.
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okay, that answers that question. thread closed.
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ROB FORB! ROB FORB!
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maybe if he hadnt shot jesse james he wouldnt need to self-medicate his guilt away w/ crack cocaine
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it's also sexist because he groped a woman without consequences
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Mike Nelson here.
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rob ford has been a total creep his whole career and makes all sorts of racist and ignorant comments but he promised to cut car taxes and "end the gravy train" so everyone in the suburbs with a car voted for him.

then when he was elected it became apparent that the city was already devastated by cuts in services and transfers over the past few decades and had no way to cut taxes. so he ordered a study that suggested everything that could be cut without breaking provincial laws. like say there was no specific law saying they had to have an arts council, the report said it was okay to get rid of it. then ford made pretty clear he was going to take major steps towards implementing this basically right-wing nonsense plan and people started flipping out.

anti-cuts campaigners smartly focused on libraries because basically every liberal thinks libraries are awesome and that picking on librarians is like stealing the purse of an old lady. plus arts grants are popular with rich middle-brow types so people got mad in real life. there was also a lot of dumb stuff going on with the housing stock and shit. there was also a move to fuck over a long-standing transit plan that was popular with green types.

anyway ford did such a bad job making his case that he had a bunch of councilors defect and pull some significant cuts out of his budget. and at that moment everyone knew the ford agenda was basically dead. so the council started figuring out ways to undo parts of his agenda. it was basically a clear case of popular pressure derailing a right-wing scheme, so that's cool.

in a related move, at the provincial level the government hired a prominent economist to come up with ways of reducing the deficit, basically giving him (drummond) carte blanche to say we needed to gut whatever, while prohibiting him from considering revenue increases. this was basically in liberal response to the ford agenda, trying to find ways to build consensus over social cuts so the liberals could stay in power without scaring creditors too much.

but interestingly drummond couldn't find much fat at all. like he said that the basic public health and education system were fairly well-run. his report recommended a lot of cuts, but he recommended politically impossible things with respect to cutting certain education programs, so that was ignored. the only piece that got through was public sector wage restraint. so the government picked a fight with teachers, and it's generally believed they completely lost. teachers fought back and positioned themselves to destroy the liberals and the liberals backed down, the premier resigned, and a new premier was selected that quickly mended the rift with teachers and reached out to the social-democrats.

anyway, basically, there was an attempt to impose broad and deep austerity on toronto and it mostly fell apart due to resistance. obviously they'll keep trying and things aren't exactly peachy, but it's cool to see.
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ty for your post getfiscal
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daddyholes posted:

it's also sexist because he groped a woman without consequences

why would the woman have consequences for being groped by totoro mayor rod forp

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Woman Without Consequences . . . or Without Consequence? Rod Ford Grope In Hip Slap Flap
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roseweird posted:

rob ford should keep his body pure so that it can provide a healthy environment for a developing baby


sounds like rob ford is the developing baby

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roseweird posted:

rob ford should keep his body pure so that it can provide a healthy environment for a developing baby



So you're the little bitch that keeps downvoting all my posts. How would you like a fucking fight? And I punch you right in the head. And its lights out.

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apparently ford fired his chief of staff because the latter told him to go into rehab.
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the fat mayor of canada smokes crack
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fat. gay. cyclist. crack smoker. mayor of canada. any questions?
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when's the next orgy?
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The rhizzone orgy or the National Canadian Orgy?
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thats a cool way to make 200 grand. hopefully it will enable rob fords drug dealers to retire and no longer be forced to hang out with fat politicians for a living.
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There was some 60 minutes story about this woman who was kidnapped by warlords in Somalia and was rescued by Navy Seals. She nicknamed one of the child soldiers "Crack Baby"
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U down vote skylark and u get a free crash course in mma.... emphasis on the crash. Last warning.
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equal emphasis on the COURSE! he hasnt shaved in days and loves 2 smooch
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african american doll figure hahahahaha
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The mayor’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, said “Rob has taken thousands of pictures with young black men, with their hats on, with their little funny signs and everything else.”
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rob forb is apparently having people murdered now
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CDN politics own right now
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lol 0:45
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bump
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Free Rob Ford. innocent until proven guilty
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that video is so real, exactly what I saw when i visited toronto
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I love this guy...fighting for his job; a job he has done well apparently and he is being made out to be the devil in front of the whole world. So what he was in a drunken stupor and made a stupid decision, who hasn't? There are priests out there still preaching who have done far worse i'm sure. Stick to your guns Rob Ford, cuz Toronto needs you. Hell America needs you; Rob Ford for President!

http://pensacoladiscussion.forumotion.com/t11231-ford-for-president
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mayor of canada to president of america in 5 easy steps
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it continues

this shit owns lmao this is ACTUALLY a news story lol


"I have to take legal action against the waiter that said I was doing lines at the Bier Markt, that is outright lies. That is not true," he said. The documents include descriptions by former staff and others of Ford's alleged behaviour.

Ford also denied that the blond woman described in the court documents is a prostitute.

"She’s a friend and it makes me sick how people are saying this," he said. "I can’t put up with it anymore."

Ford then shocked reporters when he went on to refute the allegation that he had made an inappropriate sexual advance to a woman who was on his staff at the time.

The woman "said I wanted to eat her p—y," Ford said before cameras.

"I’ve never said that in my life to her. I would never do that. I'm happily married. I've got more than enough to eat at home."

Ford is also alleged to have driven while drunk, which he addressed, upon emerging from his office a few minutes later, saying: "I might have had some drinks and driven."

He went on to remark he is "not perfect" and disappeared into an elevator.
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TG posted:

mayor of canada to president of america in 5 easy steps



probably 12