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Morning Brew: Ford compares colleagues to Stalin, should Toronto look to LA for transit help?, and Ontario Place revitalization stuck in limbo
Responding to a question as to whether he lost the support of councillor Josh Matlow and other so-called "middle" councillors given last week's 2012 budget vote, Rob Ford told AM 640 that those councillors were "two steps left of Joe Stalin." Yes, the murderous dictator. The councillors in question? Matlow, Gord Perks, Adam Vaughan, Paula Fletcher and Janet Davis. I can see disagreeing with someone's politics, but drawing comparisons to a terrorizing fascist? That's a bit much.
Should Toronto look to Los Angeles for its transit vision? Spacing's John Lorinc's argues that the car-addicted city, infamously known for its brutal gridlock, has "found religion on transit" over the past three years, thanks to a half-cent on the dollar sales tax hike, championed by the city's mayor. The tax increase iwill raise an estimated $40 billion to pay for new transit vehicles, road improvements, and cycling infrastructure over a mandated 30-year duration, as well as create thousands of jobs.
Speaking of transit, TTC Karen Stintz and a group of other councillors are proposing that the eastern section of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT be run above ground in order to divert funds to the Sheppard subway extension and a busway on Finch. No one's calling it Transit City — because it'd be idiotic to do so — but this proposal might be the type of compromise the city needs.
Remember Ontario Place's grand plan for revitalization back in 2010? So what happened? Basically, they're waiting for the Ministry of Tourism, which operates Ontario Place, to make some kind of announcement. Apparently the Ministry is still considering options for the future of Ontario Place and can't confirm time table now.
Two Toronto teens released a Lego man into space and he returned with an amazing story to tell. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad released a balloon containing a Lego man and four cameras into the sky, just for something to do (they're 17). Ninety-seven minutes later, it fell back to Earth with amazing footage, including the Lego spinning at an altitude three time higher than the peak of Mount Everest.
IN BRIEF:
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I like the photo, though I'm kinda curious about what the quickie clone-tool job by the CN Tower was intended to cover up.
A half cent doesn't seem that bad. Though it's gotta be spent on stuff in the city only. If they want better regional transit to get people in and out of the GTA and downtown then the province has to kick in the money.
Do you even know who Stalin was? He was a Communist, not a fascist. He was a murderer who killed far more than even Hitler and is revered by many on the left. At least we finally have on record the CBC and Star admitting that Joseph Stalin was bad. It's a start.
LOL
Thanks for the laugh. Is your last name Ford, Mark?
Yeah you guys! It was Rob Ford, the dazzling linguist and noted public speaker, simply making a play on words to note that some people try to play both sides (you know, like Stalin).
I think Ford's history of thoughtful, not-at-all offensive wordplay clearly shows that he was just making a witty point, not at all being an oafish moron with no filter.
So stop crying. You soapbox cry baby lefties.
I'm sure Blob's equally tiny brain never registered the irony that if he had been living in Stalinist Russia he would have been passed around to be used like a girl by tough as nails Russian soldiers. Your corpulent mayor is beyond embarrasing...he's a poster boy for ignorance and gluttony.Those that voted for him are the same idiots who think Harper is actually an Economist when, in reality, he has an untested MA in economics. Only Phd's are allowed to call themselves Economists but we all know how little intellectual integrity Harper and his bootlickers have.
The level ignorance shown by right wingers on virtually any topic is astounding. I blame mass media for that. The dumbing down project is working well beyond the wildest expectations.
20 years ago and prior, someone like Blob Ford would have had trouble getting any kind of job (hand, blow or otherwise)...never mind mayor.
Here's an analogy to tell right from left for ya. When they were kids and got into a disagreement a right leaning kid would say let's go outside and settle this like adults. The left leaning kids will go crying to teacher and tell on the other kid.
Cue the left to spin my comment as advocating violence in 3 .. 2 ..
It's not an analogy to say someone is two steps to the left of Stalin. That's an insinuation that someone is even more extreme than a genocidal dictator and a complete exaggeration and fabrication.
And since when is that how 'adults' settle things? That kind of thinking gets both sides of the political spectrum into a lot of trouble - something that appealing to a supposedly neutral third party rarely does.
It's a trick question. Don't say I never gave a right wing sucker an even break. Happy now? You can take your even break and trade it for a Blob Ford brain fart.
Its funny that you analogize "taking it outside" as the more "adult" behaviour of the right. Personally, I've always found that to be the go-to tactic for bullies or simpletons who don't have the mental capacity to explain their point of view with their words, so they opt to simply use brute force and "beat" the agreement out of the other party. If anything, its the tactic of the weak-minded, not the strong.
You both realize you just added weight to my post and helped me prove my point, right?
and the posts you been posting have been nothing but hateful and very bias attacks from the get go. Nothing about any issues in any of them at all. All you been doing is beating your chest trying to make yourself be the alpha male, when everyone else has been laughing at you.
I think I understand. You're Blob Ford's fart catcher and the excessive and relentless clouds of rancid fatboygas are destroying whatever brain cells you have left that haven't already been scorched by all the cheap booze, pills and chemical laden junk food you scarf down at the mayor's trough.
In other words...you're a credit to your ilk.
@ Boris moron - that is hypocrisy at its most obvious. And like I said, the whining lefties are hypocrites. It's proven in this entire thread. This is why you're losing support for your ideology. The left is so quick to attack anyone with an opposing view and lather themselves up into a frenzy. Yet they cannot see they are doing the exact same thing they are accusing the right of doing.
This site is basic the Fox News of the left. You just try to shout down and shout louder than everyone else. Some how that makes you feel your view is the correct one.
Like I said, the reason so many are getting in a tizzy is I've pointed out a truth about themselves they want to ignore.
I think that certain unnamed councillors were finally shook out of their trances by public tales of murder and heroin in the Blob Family tree. That tableau is nicely framed by the memory of public lies about criminality by Blob Ford himself and....voila....the whole shitty picture becomes crystal clear. Toronto went on a bender and woke up with an immature, clownish, morbidly obese liar in the mayor's office.
My posts have all been calm and written with humour. If you weren't so personally invested in catching farts for the mayor you could sense that.
You're the one who needs to get new material to go with all that heart medication you assume everybody else is on. I'm guessing your complection closely mirrors that of the fatboys in the Mayor's office. Beet red and ready to erupt in geysers of pus, saturated fat, chlorestrol and essence of cheap booze.