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Perhaps that is the key piece of evidence the police are waiting for. If this guy would just stop singing and start talking they'll have their man.
 
[video=youtube;keelyCzPS2o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keelyCzPS2o[/video]
I'd like to assume this is the first person Lisi thought to call after the story broke. Would make this whole thing even more bizarre...
 
Huge Seagull said:
Not only did he repeatedly deny the incident, he did so using very sanctimonious language, bemoaning the lengths to which political opponents will go nowadays to smear an innocent man, claiming he's the victim of a witch hunt, etc. Always the victim. So tiresome.
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Kind of like when he called the Star reporters who saw the video "pathological liars"? Were they included in his blanket sorry sorry sorry so so so sincerely sincerely sorry? It really is pathetic and the idea anyone would support such a shallow, dangerous, pathological personality to save a few bucks on their tax bill is unforgiveable. I know only a couple of people who voted for Ford and they regret it. If I had a friend who seriously still defended him, I don't know that I could stomach it. We're way past the point where fiscal conservatism is even worth mentioning in the discussion.

It's only because, by his own admission, that he's prone to regular alcoholic blackouts that I find it even remotely plausible someone might "Forget" about the time a trooper pulled them over and they barely avoided getting charged with possession of pot. That seems like the sort of thing that would stick with you.

the patterns are far too established at this point to believe anything he says and it's almost redundant to restate:
-Deny deny deny
-Blame blame blame
-confess and apologize apologize apologize
-say it's the past, it won't happen again, let he who is a better man cast the first stone etc.
-do something else horrible
-deny deny deny etc. etc. etc.

But, luckily he's dealing with that problem. The weight problem.

My solution: Reporters should agree to one question each week they will ask non-stop since so many remain unanswered.
This week it can be, "How did you know Anthony Smith?"
Next week, "What was in the envelope Lisi gave you at the Esso station?"

Specific, obvious questions he has yet to answer that perhaps through repetition will get drilled into the public consciousness. Don't let him blather on about the gravy train or how something was in the past. It won't matter, but you can ask. And if he gets on his own pointless message, just throw "Anything else?" at him.
 
TJ O'Pootertoot said:
My solution: Reporters should agree to one question each week they will ask non-stop since so many remain unanswered.
This week it can be, "How did you know Anthony Smith?"
Next week, "What was in the envelope Lisi gave you at the Esso station?"

Specific, obvious questions he has yet to answer that perhaps through repetition will get drilled into the public consciousness. Don't let him blather on about the gravy train or how something was in the past. It won't matter, but you can ask. And if he gets on his own pointless message, just throw "Anything else?" at him.
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Good idea but, unfortunately, reporters in this city don't have balls.
 
I think city media should just declare that unless the Fords agree to answer reporters' questions (and there are many) they will no longer cover this endless charade of idiotic campaign sloganeering.
 
zang said:
No, you can't "enhance" a low resolution image to suss out new information..
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Not sure if you know, but there is some fascinating stuff going on the field of heuristics. I won't pretend to understand the maths, but in short some researchers are having some really encouraging results when re-creating images (or information sets) which have been degraded, either in terms of noise or in terms of resolution.

On the other hand, the point you're trying to make re: "enhance! enhance! enhance!" in the movies is absolutely accurate.
 
'This isn't Toronto,' Bradford sheriff says after Hampton mayor's arrest

Now we are starting to see the fall out from having a mayor become a pop culture icon, and synonymous with debauchery.

http://jacksonville.com/breaking-ne...ford-sheriff-says-after-hampton-mayors-arrest


'This isn't Toronto,' Bradford sheriff says after Hampton mayor's arrest
Posted: November 25, 2013 - 7:07pm | Updated: November 26, 2013 - 7:07am
By Derek Gilliam

Few would confuse Bradford County’s Hampton with Toronto. However, there is one similarity. Both have mayors embroiled in a narcotics scandal.

Hampton Mayor Barry Layne Moore, 51, was arrested about 4:50 p.m. Monday in Polk County after Bradford County deputies obtained a warrant on charges of possession of drugs and selling drugs....
 
jje1000 said:
I'm still holding my chances. If anything these last few months have shown, it's that things that should be straightforward usually aren't. Remember how months ago people were completely sure that the Star article would nuke Ford?
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Those rational minded souls asking Ford to step down would have seen themselves as "nuked" and left after such truthful media exposure.

Rob Ford is like a corpse that doesn't know its dead - or more like a chicken with its literal head cut off - dancing and jerking in a wildly unpredictable fashion while people keep turning their heads in cringe-worthy fashion.
 
themarc said:
Those rational minded souls asking Ford to step down would have seen themselves as "nuked" and left after such truthful media exposure.

Rob Ford is like a corpse that doesn't know its dead - or more like a chicken with its literal head cut off - dancing and jerking in a wildly unpredictable fashion while people keep turning their heads in cringe-worthy fashion.
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I see him more as a really awful superhero. He has the twin powers of shamelessness & bullshitting, and he's here to save your $60 from the evil VRT.
 
Admiral Beez said:
UT has always had a large representation from this demographic. You see it in this thread where many with no legal expertise believed with strong conviction that Ford was going to jail. I think much of the "ignorant but sure" crowd can be attributed to the younger folks on UT, plus the man-childs in their 20s and 30s still living in their parents' house. Once you live a little, you begin to see that there is a difference between opinion, desire and fact.
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You're really here to make friends, aren't you?
 
tiffer24 said:
I think city media should just declare that unless the Fords agree to answer reporters' questions (and there are many) they will no longer cover this endless charade of idiotic campaign sloganeering.
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Exactly! Why is the media reporting Ford's theatrical opposition to the budget increase? They are just helping him in spreading his lies and manipulating public opinion.
 
According to porn actress Brandy Aniston, Rob Ford will be interviewed on porn radio station Vivid Radio later today.

It's official. Our mayor is Charlie Sheen.
 
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