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the time for Mayor Tommy Shanks fireside chats is over….
the era of ‘if you don’t grease you don’t slide” is bust…
the arts community collective reacharounds is finito….
the gay pride’s over exuberant law flaunting indecent annual parade has been effectively forced to fund it’s own funding…
and etc etc etc
yet i personally don’t feel any sense of loss…
Kathy is right again, there did appear to be a lot of immigrant votes for Ford. I once took the time to explain to a Chinese fellow the advantages of his voting Conservative, and I convinced him that, despite what liberals and Liberals and socialists told him, Conservatives and he had far more in common than he thought. To this day he is glad he did, and the sophistication among the immigrant population as regards politics in North America is beginning to take hold. Let the whining on the Left continue!
Rob Ford! At least he has a wife to beat!
(That’s in bad taste, isn’t it?)
Having been in a couple very enjoyable conversations with Toronto lefties today I can only say that I wish I had thought of that Black Mamba. I will be using it in the near future.
Excellent commentary Kathy Shaidle.
If the Leftists have lost TO, maybe they’ve lost Ontario too.
I hope so.
I love it when the political class experiences reality first hand. Interestingly the MSM polls predicted this election to be very close. So one wonders, is it the MSM fudging the numbers or are people giving one answer to the pollsters and then voting differently? Hopefully PMSH isn’t seen as a member of the political class at this time although he seems to be doing his best to join it.
The only concern I have is about all of the socialist parasites who are threatening to leave TO now that Ford is mayor. The only place in Canada that they would feel comfortable in is Vancouver and we’re way over our moonbat quota in that city. I suggest we try to get them to go south — run ads on TV extolling the benefits of hope and change and how illegal immigrants are welcome in the US. Maybe it would get some of the Vancouver moonbats to pack up and leave also.
It’s ok as long as you don’t leave a mark…
And too funny what Kathy had to say regarding those new to Canada voters… Perhaps they’ve not forgotten their values? I only wish we could oust the burka clad elephant in the room.
BCF had an excellent photo of the TorStar building…
CK, over at the artsy, hipster white boy’s Vanity Press blog says, “Right now, I fear for my parents, who both have limited mobility and what this does to them RE: winter; snow removal.”
What snow removal? I live and drive in downtown Toronto, and Moron Miller did a lousy job of having snow ploughed and removed.
I did once walk through his High Park ‘hood, however, and found that roads were closed with four Toronto City vehicles “in attendance” to close off the section of street the backhoe was ploughing and to put the ice and snow buildup in a dump truck. ‘Wonder what that cost the taxpayers? I’m sure Miller’s neighbours thought he was a swell guy and voted for his man this time.
‘Lots of myths around the Magnificence of Mayor Miller.
Pretty much 52% of Ford’s supporters were born outside of Canada – tons more than for Smitherman. I have a dyed in the wool socialist pal and am very much looking forward to using the “…and you thought multiculturalism just ment more pavillions at Folkfest” line on him lol.
Like I always say Kathy: ‘assimilation will be easy for me’.
And labren,
I’m always disheartened at how many “conservatives” vote over and over again for the Progressive parties based on identity politics. This is why I’m constantly harping on the fact that conservatives get hammered when it comes to message. That said, when Republicans spend like Democrats and Conservatives spend like Liberals, it’s hard to blame them for taking the identity side. Or not.
The province died under Rae, soared under Harris and died yet once again as soon as a socialist took control, McGuinty as premier, Miller as mayor, it all crashed again but the left never seem to equate that with their socialist policies.
The left simply never judge people on what they DO not what they SAY. Look at the track record of Smitherman and they want this “politician” to run Toronto further into the ground?
BTW, Warren Kinsella is trying to spin like hell that Ford’s win will be good news for McGinty and the federal liberals. A Baghdad Bob of our very own…
Does this mean that hockey ice will be equitably distributed and boys teams will get their fair share too?
LOL “I fear for my parents” oh dear won’t those those soldiers on every street will take care of Mom and Pop honey bunny? Gawd the left are so over emotive these days; I’m suprised they can crawl out of bed these days.
Gord Tulk! ROTFLMAO!!
CBC- horrified that Ford won- is going to do a report on him. The screen cap they had was of a middle-aged South Asian fellow placing a colourful plastic flower necklace around Ford.
Yes, the people have spoken.
Brava, Kathy Shaidle!
Vis a vis the Bible thing: God has always used the most creative ways of waking up a sleeping populace: you know? — the Amorites, the Hittites, the Jebusites, etc. who menaced the Israelites and caused them to turn again to their God for guidance and protection.
So, immigrants are biting the hand that has fed them, lo these many years? ‘Can’t say I’m crying any tears for the leftards whose only concern about immigrants to Canada has been that they vote for them in return for being put on the gravy train — only, many immigrants don’t want to be on the gravy train and have family values which the left-libbers consigned to the dust a long time ago.
Very interesting, Rob Ford’s victory: ‘not the greatest mayoral candidate that’s ever been, but he sure beats the alternatives.
Did someone cache the 2nd link?
It has been pulled by The Vanity Press…
The Leftocracy is in full bile today . . . dozens of latte shops on downtown Toronto are probably up for sale as the panic sets in.
The immigrants were seen as tools by the liberal elite, not as people.
So much for multiculturalism.
Gord, I just noticed that, too. hehehehehehe
They must have been getting hammered with SDAers with maybe more than a few choice comments.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
It is getting to be a sadly reoccurring theme; progressives find money in the government piggy bank and feel the need to spend it all and then some, folks wise up and put conservatives in to straighten things out only to elect hope & changey progressives again, and the cycle goes on.
Ever wonder what would happen if a conservative government didn’t have to clean up after progressives? It’s a shame sheeple have a short memory and fall for the progressive song, dance and chicken in every pot shtik.
Ever wonder what would happen if a conservative government didn’t have to clean up after progressives?
Yes, but I’ll never see it in my life time because the mess is that big.
I’ll just have to take pleasure in seeing “progressives” nashing their teeth and hearing them shriek as all their machinations are exposed, halted, and reversed at a steady uninterrupted pace.
@ Texas Canuck: “…chicken in every pot schtick”.
This is why the Americans invented Colonel Sanders and Canadians have Chubby Chicken!!
Let the wailing hysterics extol the magnanimity Government Motors (GM)
But in this contest FORD has beaten GM.
TO commuters start your engines, GM is now roadkill…this is what happens when voters turn over the poultry wagon!
Prosit!
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Not in bad taste it’s PC.
All cultures are equal;
Not in front of the kids and avoid shots to the face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp3Eam5FX58
Oh oh. There are 2 Gords. Does this protect me from any defamation lawsuits? Palimony suits perhaps. I knew when I started posting this day would come. Perhaps I should come up with a symbol and call my self formally Gord.
Here are a couple of updates:
-Vivian Schiller at NPR, this Bud’s for you … Fire Kelly McParland with his NP headline ‘Liberal Latte futures plummet’ for saying “Things were so bad at Queers Against Israeli Apartheid they couldn’t even summon the courage to blame the Jews.”
-Christie Blatchford sticks the knife in : The day I knew for sure there must be something good about Mr. Ford was the day Justin Trudeau, the son of the late prime minister and the MP for Papineau riding in Montreal, came flying in to give George Smitherman his stamp of approval and save Toronto “from the politics of fear and division,” as he put it. Thank you for that, Mr. Trudeau. You may resume tossing your locks.
We conservatives in Toronto haven’t had this much fun since listening to Premier-elect Mike Harris explain to outgoing Boob Rae; “gays like tax cuts too”.
Remember that old saw:
“Hoisted on his own petard.”
However except for the funny boys and the druggies….I rather like living in a decadent society…..
Too much candour??
If the Leafs win the Cup, I propose we rename it “Fordville”
Towns get what they deserve, in Toronto’s case, Ford and the Leafs. Ford will do better.
Yes, the “ethnics”, as good old-fashioned Torontonians used to call them, are social conservatives.
They come to Canada for family ties, to raise families, and to make money.
They are just like us in their desires and values, mostly.
All of this has nothing repeat nothing to do with the drug-loving homophile (perhaps pedophile) Left,
who wish to corrupt their sons and daughters and destroy their families.
It’s all an extension of the old old European phantasy that the Other are sexually immoral and
readily available – aka Kate’s “More Pavilions at Folkfest” meme.
A phantasy which should have disappeared 100 years ago, and which is only maintained by the arrogance and fecklessness of the Left.
With a little work, the Hindu, Chinese, Muslim, Sikh communities in Toronto and other large cities
should become “no-pass” zones for leftists, Liberals, etc.: they will be cold meat if they enter.
This IS hilarious! As Kathy Shaidle said, “you wanted ’em here,…………”
Here in Kelowna a few years back, our then Mayor refused to declare a “Gay Pride Day”. He was excoriated in the Press,and local Gay activists took him to the HRC. He was forced to take a course in “Sensitivity”.
He then decided there would be NO declared civic “days”.
Now,whose PC trumps whose?
btw,Fred, Toronto won’t win the Stanley Cup this year,relax.
I think the Tamil and Muslim communities should file a class-action lawsuit against Smitherman for diagnosing them all with “homophobia”.
Smitherman does not have a PhD in Psychiatry — he is not qualified to diagnose anyone, much less entire ethnic groups, with a psychiatric disorder called “homophobia”. It is medical malpractice and fraud. (Not to mention reminscent of Nazi and Soviet style pseudo-psychiatry where ethnic groups or political dissidents were often labelled with phony psychiatric disorders and incarcerated).
Morover, the Tamils and Muslims did not say anything threatening against homosexuals in their political advertising, or even mention homosexuals. They simply voiced their support for traditional marriage the same way that 99.9% of all religions and cultures around the world do.
I think stupidity is recognized in all cultures. Think these people don’t have useless relatives? They recognize unsustainable and they are citizens.
Fred – 6:47pm
Ford will long be out of office when the Laffs next win the cup.
Great to see Ford win. Maybe some sanity will will return to Hogtown.
As the angry faced, mirror loving “pundits” blood pressures go over the top I would like to congratulate Toronto on their partial evolution. Now if they can evolve enough to turn their collective backs, could be daring, on the Poopsie Twins, Iggy and WhacoJack, we could really see the start of Canada coming into its own under a Harper majority. Any country should be run as a business to reach its potential, and for far to long Canada has been run to the benefit of the Power corp automatons from Big Turdoh on through to Little Turdoh with Da proof is da proof, and Paulie, Brian, Dionskey and gaia lovin Mo stealing the treasury bare. Lets stop believing the Star and Globe/CBC and CTV there Toronto and carry on evolving, finally.
And the MSM is still up to mischief re: the election.
I watched the coverage for hours, and the MSM will still not publish Smitherman’s percentage of the vote! All I know is it was a “landslide” for Ford. I think they are not publishing the Slithery results because of the obvious: it will show serious bias in the MSM’s “scientific” pre-election polling results.
Anyone have a clue what Smither’s actual percentage of the vote was? I can’t find it anywhere…
“Oh oh. There are 2 Gords. Does this protect me from any defamation lawsuits? Palimony suits perhaps. I knew when I started posting this day would come. Perhaps I should come up with a symbol and call my self formally Gord.” (Posted by: gord at October 26, 2010 6:39 PM”
Better than Gored!
ricardo, National Post, front page today, under the headline, “A RIGHT TURN”:
Ford: 47%; Smitherman: 36%; Pantalone: 12%.
“at least Ford has a wife to beat”
it’s coming across stuff like this that keeps me coming back for more …
more to the point though is when does the race war all Western progressive ideology is sub rosa predicated upon preventing…
i know i know…the irony is excruciatingly painful to behold.
You know what, if Toronto has turned on political correctness, then it must now be contained to Vancouver. I will keep watch here beside Boundary Road and make sure it doesn’t try to make a run for it.
Ahhhhhh.
The liberals are chitting their pants in rage, the gays are finding out that what they do in their bedrooms doesn’t fly in the public offices, and a bastion of liberal bastidry falls to the derisive laughter of the rest of the country.
Yes, Tranna is filled to the brim with effing idiots, and they took a well deserved beating in the election.
There may be hope for Canada yet.
Relax Peter, It’ll never make it past the squeegee kids.
I suggest we try to get them to go south — run ads on TV extolling the benefits of hope and change and how illegal immigrants are welcome in the US. Maybe it would get some of the Vancouver moonbats to pack up and leave also.
No, no, no, Loki! I realize that quite a few of our dregs descended on your country like a plague of locusts during the Vietnam War.Some of them are still up there and I’ll bet their obnoxiousness has not waned with age. However, we have more than enough moonbats here, thank you. Well,…, OK, let’s see how the California midterms work out. If Golden Staters are dense enough to reelect Babs Boxer and put one of their crappiest governors ever back in control of the place, well, that’s French-striker level stupid. California will be finished then, so heck, a few brain-dead Canuck lefties won’t make any difference.
I hope the Toronto mayoral election is a portent of what will happen here in a week. The gnashing of teeth and wailing from the left will be lovely to hear.
Kathy’s commentary on the Ford victory is very good indeed.
On the local news this morning, Ford is said to want to immediately scrap the 2 miller taxes (Vehicle Registration and land transfer)…Next he “Wants to sit with the unions and talk”…
I can see Ford’s style right now: He will communicate directly with Torontonians through local media and explain in normal english, non career politician type, what is going on. He will do this quite often IMO, and beware the local media that dares distort or omit some of his message…He will move to another media if it happens and he will refuse to talk to the snakes like CBC. I can see the youngest, least biased, “A Channel” picking up most of it…Of course, SUN tv is on it’s way too.
Ford will speak to the common law abiding and productive Torontonian and will keep his popularity very high that way…Beware unions and special interest groups.
I would not be surprized the gay pride parade to be eventually dumpted too…With the “multiculturalist” folks strongly being it.
This deserves a big Simpsons “Ha ah!” to the caffee latte elites.
Will the “angry white” CBC move it’s headquarters to Vancouver?
(“Ha ah!”)
I remember on facebook the other night when a disgruntled Smitherman supporter remarked that today’s immigrants don’t stack to the immigrants of his parents’ day. Any more irony and he could’ve started up a steel mill.
I noticed the first letter to the editor in the National Post on the subject of the Toronto election of Ford vowed revenge and strikes. Good luck with that sitting down with the unions bit.