What bothers me most about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, is not whom was right, or wrong in his latest confrontation with a TTC streetcar driver, but that he called the head of TTC to complain. To put it plainly, Rob Ford is a rat. He routinely calls 911. In my entire life I have never called the police. Ford has called the cops at least a dozen times. When I was in the Navy, the most hated person was the rat. The guy that called the authorities every time they felt wronged. Ford is a pussy, unable to resolve problems like a man.
The fact that Ford constantly finds himself in confrontations like this, is a mark of his character. The right-wingers will tell you that he is being harassed by lefties, but at least half the time, including the latest, the other party was unaware he was the mayor. Recall the incident at a Leaf game, when he was a city councillor and harassed nearby seat holders. He lied about that incident until the couple pulled out a business card that he gave them.
Ford is an entitled, gutless, buffoon. He should stop putting himself in constant conflict with others and if he does have a rare confrontation he should act like man. No one likes a rat!
Saturday, 30 June 2012
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Mate Departs
My Aussie co-worker and friend of 18-years, Mark "The Mate" Goodall, has resigned from the company after 11-years. We worked 4-years together at a previous workplace and he returned to OZ for a couple of years. As I like to tell the ladies in the office, he was a lot better looking 18-years ago. He is taking his Caesar haircut to a new job.
Over the years I learned a lot of Aussie speak for various size beer glasses, the term skimpies, "only Sheila's order a pony, Mate". I could go on and on. We went through many office battles together. We are the same age, though I look much younger. The women liked his mid-Pacific accent, which caused much tension between us. We had pints all across Canada and even a few US cities. We complained about the Doors, relied on each other for technical advice countless times.
The departure of The Mate will be a huge loss to our company and a personal loss to me. There was a time that I thought we might take the proverbial "gold watch" at the same time, but it wasn't meant to be. I wish him well and I'm sure we will meet for many a pint in the future, but no ponies. Only Sheila's drink ponies.
Over the years I learned a lot of Aussie speak for various size beer glasses, the term skimpies, "only Sheila's order a pony, Mate". I could go on and on. We went through many office battles together. We are the same age, though I look much younger. The women liked his mid-Pacific accent, which caused much tension between us. We had pints all across Canada and even a few US cities. We complained about the Doors, relied on each other for technical advice countless times.
The departure of The Mate will be a huge loss to our company and a personal loss to me. There was a time that I thought we might take the proverbial "gold watch" at the same time, but it wasn't meant to be. I wish him well and I'm sure we will meet for many a pint in the future, but no ponies. Only Sheila's drink ponies.
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
What the......
Stephen Harper has a "secret" meeting with the walking Ego that is Brian Mulroney and it its splashed on the front page of every paper in the country. Mulroney rarely speaks himself, but has has a handful of advocates that worship the most despised PM in Canadian history. They are obsessed with rehabilitating his image. They plant stories in newspapers on how misunderstood their great leader is.
They want us to forget that their hero took a paper bag full of money in a bribe shortly after leaving office.
Harper's staggeringly weak cabinet is badly in need of an overhaul. Bev Oda has to be shown the door. Peter Kent, in Environment, has shed every last piece of credibility, along with his personal dignity. Tony "Milhouse"Clement embarrassed himself and his nation in the lead up to the G20 summit. They all have to go!
I know that Harper signed a deal with Peter "Little Boy" Mackay to merge the PC and Reform/Alliance parties. Part of that deal was giving Petey a cabinet post. It begs the question, is that a cabinet post for life? I have never witnessed a more bungling fool in any cabinet. We know Harper does not personally like MacKay. It is time to shuffle this guy right out of politics.
I was not a big fan of Karen Stintz in Toronto city politics, but the right-wing politician and former Ford Brother's ally, has turned out to be a visionary TTC Chair. First she stood up to the Ford Twins idiotic, unfunded Sheppard subway fiasco and reinstated the Transit City Plan. Her latest idea is to increase property taxes to finance a major subway expansion. It may result in a an average of $200 a year more in property taxes. It is a price I am willing to pay. I hope she succeeds.
It is interesting too see that the most effective critic of the McGuinty government in Ontario, is the Toronto Star. Canada's only major left-wing paper broke the Ornge helicopter scandal, as well as Toronto District School Board union's gross mismanagement of public funds. This is in sharp contrast to the National Post and Sun newspaper's fawning support of the Conservatives.
Read a great piece in the Globe outlining Harper's foreign policy as embracing the Anglo sphere and Israel at all costs. Ignoring Africa, the Far East and mainland Europe. It is costing Canada a once revered place in the world. You get the impression Harper would like to turn back the clock to an all white Protestant horse buggy days in a simpler time. His embracing of all things Olde Blighty, including an increasingly distant Queen, is far from the reality of modern day, multicultural Canada. He is a throwback to time, few of us want to return to.
They want us to forget that their hero took a paper bag full of money in a bribe shortly after leaving office.
Harper's staggeringly weak cabinet is badly in need of an overhaul. Bev Oda has to be shown the door. Peter Kent, in Environment, has shed every last piece of credibility, along with his personal dignity. Tony "Milhouse"Clement embarrassed himself and his nation in the lead up to the G20 summit. They all have to go!
I know that Harper signed a deal with Peter "Little Boy" Mackay to merge the PC and Reform/Alliance parties. Part of that deal was giving Petey a cabinet post. It begs the question, is that a cabinet post for life? I have never witnessed a more bungling fool in any cabinet. We know Harper does not personally like MacKay. It is time to shuffle this guy right out of politics.
I was not a big fan of Karen Stintz in Toronto city politics, but the right-wing politician and former Ford Brother's ally, has turned out to be a visionary TTC Chair. First she stood up to the Ford Twins idiotic, unfunded Sheppard subway fiasco and reinstated the Transit City Plan. Her latest idea is to increase property taxes to finance a major subway expansion. It may result in a an average of $200 a year more in property taxes. It is a price I am willing to pay. I hope she succeeds.
It is interesting too see that the most effective critic of the McGuinty government in Ontario, is the Toronto Star. Canada's only major left-wing paper broke the Ornge helicopter scandal, as well as Toronto District School Board union's gross mismanagement of public funds. This is in sharp contrast to the National Post and Sun newspaper's fawning support of the Conservatives.
Read a great piece in the Globe outlining Harper's foreign policy as embracing the Anglo sphere and Israel at all costs. Ignoring Africa, the Far East and mainland Europe. It is costing Canada a once revered place in the world. You get the impression Harper would like to turn back the clock to an all white Protestant horse buggy days in a simpler time. His embracing of all things Olde Blighty, including an increasingly distant Queen, is far from the reality of modern day, multicultural Canada. He is a throwback to time, few of us want to return to.
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