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Jimmi T said:
I do want him back in fighting form too. Cancer blows and he makes the news more interesting.
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Much like Worms, Rob makes the news stupider. We've heard all of Rob's lines repeated so often we can predict what he's going to say. Worm's fluff piece made it sound like Rob's the last bastion of democracy at City Hall. Plus, we'll also have to groan thru Doug spouting his support for his little brother's attacks on the other Councilors. AND, remember, Rob was a little over-optimistic about his return to council the last time. Council's got buckets of serious stuff to deal with in the next few months that will be interesting enuf without RoFo comedy breaks.
 
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Maybe someone should tell Col. Flag and the FF Nation that Robbie came out, so to speak, after the council stripped him of the mayoral powers granted by council; consequences of Robbie abusing the title and position.

I Hate The War on Mayor Rob Ford
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We wish MP O'Regan the best as he learns to cope with his addiction in whatever way he and his loved ones find necessary. We expect that his political colleagues from all sides of the aisle will support him and give him the space and time he needs without demanding he resign, or stripping him of his democratically-earned ability to represent his constituents. We expect that the media will back off and stay away from his treatment facility, and that no one will be paid to spy ...on him. We expect no one to cyber-bully him with secretly-taped recordings of his private moments. We expect partisan lawyers to lay off and not try to harass him out of his job through lawfare attacks. We expect his colleagues to welcome him back to work when the time comes with open arms and the chance for a fresh start.

Unlike Rob Ford.

Liberalism has its privileges
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http://globalnews.ca/news/2430845/l...icle&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014
 
JWBF said:
Maybe someone should tell Col. Flag and the FF Nation that Robbie came out, so to speak, after the council stripped him of the mayoral powers granted by council; consequences of Robbie abusing the title and position.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2430845/l...icle&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014
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Ya conservatives are having a field day with this. They have a point. O'Regan was hypocritical, mocking Ford while he battled his own addictions. Media also went overboard at times. But it's hard to equate a guy voluntarily entering rehab for alcohol with a guy entering treatment only after two crack videos and a year of lying, scheming and threatening/extorting people. Also, O'Regan's a backbencher, whereas Ford was the leader of Canada's largest city.
 
The drunk driving Escalade owner may have heard that his Scarborough stubway may be facing some serious scrutiny and review at council, and he'll also want to propose some "efficiencies" to reduce TTC fare hikes, and increase $ for pothole repairs into the budget.

These issues are his reason for living. And maybe also getting Muzik's lease extended.
 
adma said:
Never mind that that's exactly how it operated *under* Ford. But to a Graeme, it's because "lefttards" wouldn't cooperate. And likewise with any of his own occupational failures: he'd swear that he *is* competent, it's all a set-up by hostile outsiders, etc.

Yeah, it must be painful for Graeme. He can't be serviced by Cachet girls anymore, nor does he have the Fords in power to pay Cachet off so Graeme could be kept off bad date lists. (Okay, I'm getting fanciful there. But fancy can be founded on a certain reality.)
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He's certainly angry about something and not terribly honest or forthright. He still hasn't explained what he did for Trump and there's something weirdly furtive about how he pops up on Twitter and then disappears (although he seems to have discovered how to lock his account rather than deleting it every time he logs out).

As for Cachet girls and girls generally, um, I thought he wasn't into them?
 
Jimmi T said:
Ya conservatives are having a field day with this. They have a point. O'Regan was hypocritical, mocking Ford while he battled his own addictions. Media also went overboard at times. But it's hard to equate a guy voluntarily entering rehab for alcohol with a guy entering treatment only after two crack videos and a year of lying, scheming and threatening/extorting people. Also, O'Regan's a backbencher, whereas Ford was the leader of Canada's largest city.
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Yep. O'Regan's point, AFAICT, was that Ford was appearing on TV over and over while avoiding the issue of crack use and the concomitant lying and not addressing his issues. When it was O'Regan's turn to acknowledge that he had a problem, he seemed to get straight to the point.
 
Jimmi T said:
Ya conservatives are having a field day with this. They have a point. O'Regan was hypocritical, mocking Ford while he battled his own addictions. Media also went overboard at times. But it's hard to equate a guy voluntarily entering rehab for alcohol with a guy entering treatment only after two crack videos and a year of lying, scheming and threatening/extorting people. Also, O'Regan's a backbencher, whereas Ford was the leader of Canada's largest city.
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Also, smoking crack is illegal, and hanging around with the gangsters that traffic it was by itself enough to that Ford was unfit to be mayor. The circumstances leading up to O'Regan's rehab announcement were—as far as I can tell—a private struggle, while Ford's was a grossly public and ongoing embarrassment to himself and the city he represented.
 
I wonder if Rob will be complaining about the very high salaries that CEO's get? See link. He'll rather complain about the overtime time that the workers get at the bottom of the totem pole in the public sector.

Canada’s best paid CEOs took home an average of $8.96 million in 2014, according to the annual report by the Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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Jimmi T said:
From that little weasel Ezra Levant: Conservatives won't hound Liberal MP Seamus O'Regan about his addictions the way leftists" -- including O'Regan himself -- "hounded Rob Ford
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Behold the entirety of Ezra's case against Seamus O'Regan.

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These tweets Ezra characterizes as part of a malicious and mocking attack, which O'Regan pursued mercilessly and jubilantly.

Perhaps most egregiously, he tries to shame O'Regan for having the effrontery of bringing Ford's wife into the fray, when of course we all remember it was Ford who literally dragged his wife through that particular press conference.

Effectively, he combines these five tweets with O'Regan's three to create four minutes of outrage over the way he predicts the media might cover this story of a backbench MP who drinks too much, wants to stop, and—being a former journalist—had the good sense to tell everyone he was checking into a clinic before one his political enemies figured it out.

If anything, O'Regan's greatest sin was that he misspelled the name of Robbie's wife.
 

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