Isn't it good, Norwegian wood ...

It's all been said. Nothing to add.

How about we just ignore that hateful bald fuckhead?

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Friday night | h/t @impolitical and @pogge411

See what you've started?



Wish I'd been around for this gig.

@cityslikr on Team Ford's bullshit, and our complicity therein | #TOpoli

Which Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

– Winston Churchill

So over at his place, @cityslikr's on about the fact that politicians have an uneasy relationship with the truth, and the cynicism and disengagement that breeds.

Critics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y | Ford Focus | torontolife.com

Critics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y | Ford Focus | torontolife.com

Writing in Toronto Life, John Michael McGrath draws the comparison but then appears to soften it:

... but given that 96 per cent of Toronto’s services are impossible to cut, as those KPMG audits keep finding, Ford really isn’t going to be able to change people’s lives the way, say, a Latin American junta might. So it’s a mild shock, if it’s anything.

That may be, but the broader picture includes a looming provincial election which could see the return of the Harrisite slash-burn-and-pillage approach in the form of a Hudak government. When we consider that the municipal government is a creature of the province in that light, there's no telling what kind of services will continue to be mandated, and what kind of latitude Mayor Stupid is going to have to wield the axe.

Just something to keep in mind.

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• Some late-night thoughts on Mayor Stupid with @thekeenanwire and @UnionSt | #TOpoli
• Team Ford's malignancy: It's not just the Jarvis bike lanes | #TOpoli #bikeTO
• Core Services Review: Rob Ford is a hazard to Toronto's public health / #TOpoli

SIU Concludes Reopened #G20 Nobody Investigation | #policebrutality

SIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation

... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else.

Who could have foreseen such a thing?

Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually come forward and out the other members of Team Curbstomp. Otherwise, the whining they do when witnesses don't step up and their nice words about acting to regain our trust might look ... hypocritical or something.

(Why, yes – as a matter of fact, that was a monkey flying out of my ass. What's your point?)

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• SIU re-opens another G20 investigation. Stop me if you've heard this before

An Eye-Opener from @fernhilldammit | #onpoli

DAMMIT JANET!: Eye-Opener

Nice reproductive freedom you got there. Be a shame if something was to happen to it.

Go read.

@cityslikr on Team Ford's Soprano wannabes. They wish | #TOpoli

An Addendum « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke

Over at AFUITBS, @cityslikr describes the subtle art of politics as practiced by Team Ford.

Not.

Go read.