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I'm guessing he's overstating how much he goes after others. They said they were going to do the same with that TV show but in the end it was just the usual stuff from them. The book's more about trying to position Doug for his next political move.
 
Mikey's voice - could just be nerves. Maybe they should have let him hide behind "Brownie" (that is the dog's name, right?)
 
Jimmi T said:

Real group of winners here. Hey, Renata's looking pretty good! WTF is up with Mikey's voice?
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NOW that was a motley crew.

I have a question, did the journalist dub Lil’Dougie “Douglas Ford III”, Lil’Dougie himself or the Ford family. Lil’Dougie can only be the “III” if he is the son of Dougie “II”. There could be something we don’t yet know about the brothers sitting around with the family in Robbie’s basement after a few “pops” and other refreshments.

“Landslide victory?”, methinks Cho could be suffering from some sort of mental illness, other than Dougie. Then again 100’s are 1000’s and “saved taxpayers one billion dollars” is “saved taxpayers from the burden of one billion dollars.” according to the D’Nation’s bible.

Mikey is either huffing helium, suffering weird effects of the family hyperbolic chamber, or the hormone treatments or not working. ;)

Renata looks better than at the book announcement, she looked rotoscoped.

What I do like is it seems that the kids are doing well.
 
Re: FF Motley Crew - what do you figure the median age of that Eh? List is? As for "the kids" doing well, Rob just used them as human shields between himself and the media; Doug uses them as foot soldiers. It gives me the creeps.

I wonder about the kids of the Fest attendees, presumably (young)
adults struggling with lack of affordable housing options, precarious employment, domestic stress, maybe with addiction issues of their own or their friends. Are they as hopeful of following in their parents footsteps as the FoFam?

I also wonder if Deco (Chicago) donated to the Trump campaign. And when is Doug going to bring out his own Melania and Ivanka Fords?
 
JWBF said:
NOW that was a motley crew.

I have a question, did the journalist dub Lil’Dougie “Douglas Ford III”, Lil’Dougie himself or the Ford family. Lil’Dougie can only be the “III” if he is the son of Dougie “II”. There could be something we don’t yet know about the brothers sitting around with the family in Robbie’s basement after a few “pops” and other refreshments.

“Landslide victory?”, methinks Cho could be suffering from some sort of mental illness, other than Dougie. Then again 100’s are 1000’s and “saved taxpayers one billion dollars” is “saved taxpayers from the burden of one billion dollars.” according to the D’Nation’s bible.

Mikey is either huffing helium, suffering weird effects of the family hyperbolic chamber, or the hormone treatments or not working. ;)

Renata looks better than at the book announcement, she looked rotoscoped.

What I do like is it seems that the kids are doing well.
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These nutjobs are probably regulars on Flagg's Facebook group too.
 
riffraff said:
I wonder about the kids of the Fest attendees, presumably (young)
adults struggling with lack of affordable housing options, precarious employment, domestic stress, maybe with addiction issues of their own or their friends. Are they as hopeful of following in their parents footsteps as the FoFam?
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In the "with parents like that..." category, don't forget cultural deprivation as a factor, too. Essentially, they grew up in bleak and entropically philistine households; so no wonder they'd presently exist in such circumstances, if they had such barrel-bottom-at-best household stimulation.

And given how old a lot of the interviewed attendees looked, I wouldn't presume their kids are *young* adults either; they could just as well be middle-aged parental-basement-dwellers a la the Bassos. (And as for the kids who *did* succeed, they could just as well have moved to Barrie or Orangeville because Toronto's a miserable, overtaxed dump, etc etc)

Oh, re Stephanie: apropos of nothing, she gives me a "Lena Dunham, Age Ten" vibe.
 
riffraff said:
I wonder about the kids of the Fest attendees, presumably (young)

adults struggling with lack of affordable housing options, precarious employment, domestic stress, maybe with addiction issues of their own or their friends. Are they as hopeful of following in their parents footsteps as the FoFam?
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adma said:
And given how old a lot of the interviewed attendees looked, I wouldn't presume their kids are *young* adults either; they could just as well be middle-aged parental-basement-dwellers a la the Bassos. (And as for the kids who *did* succeed, they could just as well have moved to Barrie or Orangeville because Toronto's a miserable, overtaxed dump, etc etc)
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“Give me your hired, poor and befuddled masses.” ;)
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I also wonder if Deco (Chicago) donated to the Trump campaign. And when is Doug going to bring out his own Melania and Ivanka Fords?
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I would check DECO’s foundation, they have a foundation right? All important companies/politicians have one.

Dougie tried with the “my family” thing so far, his mistake is it needed to be his third wife, and the whole daughter and no son thing... unless that’s what the “Douglas III” means. The theory of whose siring of the kid would gain traction as well.
adma said:
In the "with parents like that..." category, don't forget cultural deprivation as a factor, too. Essentially, they grew up in bleak and entropically philistine households; so no wonder they'd presently exist in such circumstances, if they had such barrel-bottom-at-best household stimulation.
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Very true. I wonder if Mikey is ahead of, or behind in the pecking order.

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Oh, re Stephanie: apropos of nothing, she gives me a "Lena Dunham, Age Ten" vibe.
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When Stephanie grows up maybe she will give SAL a run for the bitchy gay Judish shit-disturber title. :D
 
I decided this in this forum due to the Ford content, and of course the humour...

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Remember when Rob Ford and his clique said outsourcing city services will save cities money.

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According to new research Royer conducted for the Columbia Institute, released Tuesday, so-called “in-sourcing” is increasingly becoming a remedy for previous “out-sourcing” across Canada, including in New Westminster, Port Moody and Surrey.

The new study looked back at 13 case studies contained in a 1997 report for Canada’s Intergovernmental Committee on Urban and Regional Research, which concluded outsourcing services was a way “to respond to increased costs.”

Nineteen years later, in fact 40 per cent of those cities’ previously contracted-out services had been brought fully back “in-house,” Royer found.

“If a municipality wants to build a new community centre, there’s no way they should do that in-house — they shouldn’t have their own staff equipping themselves as a construction company,” he said. “But some things are not best done by the private sector.

“When you have to pick up the garbage every day year after year, there’s no way that should be done using contractors, or that they can do it more economically.”

According to the Columbia Institute’s executive director, Charley Beresford, the report should give pause to governments hoping to save a buck through privatization. Vancouver recently announced it was out-sourcing recycling collection to an industry-operated not-for-profit company, for example. While each contract is unique, that’s the opposite direction from the trend.

“The main reason services are coming back in-house is because it costs less, which is the opposite of what we’re told,” she told Metro in a phone interview. “There’s been this prevalent dialogue in the mainstream media about public services — there’s been a push toward efficiency in public services being greater if they’re not being delivered by public employees. That turns out to be wrong.”
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They forget that what the private companies really want is profit to their shareholders.
 
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