39 Replies to “Be It Ever So Humble, There’s No Place Like Toronto”

  1. “They have no case and no just cause beyond their own ideological delirium — these fantasy rock throwers, the usual collection of leftists and waffly centrists, cringing sophisticates, downtown Liberals, Toronto Star columnists, CBC reporters, Ryerson academics and would-be mayoral candidates who would like to maintain the old quasi-corrupt ways that have long dominated Toronto city government.”
    That paragraph of Terence Corcorans’ pretty well sums it up. Change the names and the same can be said of most left-wing activists and activism.They live to be “against” whatever anybody who isn’t THEM is “for”.

  2. It ain’t over yet. They will attack again and soon. This episode, along with other notable abuses down south, should remind people that the left is not playing by the rules anymore. They now simply seek to obtain — and enforce — absolute power at any cost. People foolish enough to elect them will find themselves saddled with them forever. It used to be that the left would accept the will of the people through the ballot box, but those days are long gone. Elect them at your peril.

  4. A recent Ford quote regarding these lefties: “They’re like piranhas!”. An apt descriptions of these kooks I think. Seriously, it’s exhausting to take these guys on, they just keep coming, like the living dead or something. Still, I’m glad that common sense had a victory today.

  5. How much Toronto taxpayer money did Clayton Ruby benefit from arguing this case on behalf of the left side of council against the mayor, and now considering a supreme court appeal? When you hate so much that it blinds your resolve, it confirms madness.

  6. My head swims just seeing the words “Toronto,” “humbled,” and “humiliated” in juxtaposition.
    And as to notable abuses down south, just wait until Obama the Constitutional Law Professor and Smartest Man Evah abuses the three justices who unanimously issued this ruling today.

  7. Further to Mr. Corcoran’s column, I posted this on November 27, 2012:
    “I don’t know about any of this business: Rob Ford is not, well, my kind of public figure, for various reasons which aren’t really germane to the discussion.
    But I do feel that the Toronto Star, CBC and others (including the Clayton Ruby set) are picking on him in the same sort of way that they were completely slanted toward George Smitherman during the election campaign — and that worked rather well for Mr. Ford.
    Their attitude is sort of the same as Michael Ignatieff’s in the last federal election campaign: “Rise up, you stupid people: don’t you understand that Stephen Harper is raiding the federal treasury to build outhouses in Muskoka?”
    If he’s that bad, why do you need to build your case against him around such minutiae, when in another attitude, you might actually agree that outhouses in Muskoka could be a good thing (after all, people gotta…) and that athletics, of one form or another, could also be good?
    Also, there’ll be a question about whether justice has really been served here (and whether a double-standard isn’t really at work) — generally, I have the impression that the legal community tends to find that the “spirit of the law” tends to be good enough when the culprit is from the “progressive” end of things, but that the “letter of the law” needs to apply when the culprit is further to the right.
    So, overall, I think this whole thing helps Rob Ford, in a way that I would not have expected when it first broke, or even as late as last week.”
    The only thing that’s changed for me is that I’m for him now!
    And Ruby seeking leave to appeal to SCOC, after the trial judge said it was a poorly written law? I dunno, Clayton, can you say, Uncle Kracker?

  9. I’m all in favour of Ford. He has effectively taken back the city and its taxpayers from the grip of the public service unions, which have been allowed and enabled, by Miller in particular, to morph into an enormous gigantic parasite on City Hall.
    The city unions had taken over control of the budget; it was theirs to use as they deemed, and the growth in costs, the development of an elite set of tenured public service workers, with salaries, benefits and pensions all twice and more that of the private sector – was an outrage.
    Ford has stopped this. But the loathing, the blind hatred of the leftist councillors, is quite something to watch in Council Meetings. It’s incredible, the hatred, the insults, the constant, endless attacks against him by these Fat Cat Leftist Councillors. Why?
    Their sense of superiority, their sense of themselves as being Philosopher-Kings ruling over the unwashed masses is boundless.
    Ford? He’s not going to change. He’s a simple basic ‘street guy’. He doesn’t ‘do lattes and arugula salads and read the book reviews of the NYT’. He coaches football. He watches the budget. He doesn’t get into backroom deals. So, the calls for him to ‘collaborate’ with those on the left in Council is meaningless. Hey, do they collaborate with him? Or do they get their friends to launch lawsuits?
    If it’s a good deal for the city and the citizens, then Ford goes with it. If it’s one of those ‘It makes me feel kindly and generous to those hapless’ – then, he’s more interested in the citizens than in the emotional needs of a Councillor.

  10. It proves nothing to me, but the simple truth that National Post is a commie rug staffed by sheep in wolf clothes. Except a few maybe. Haven’t made up my mind on Lorne yet, there are questions about him.
    Tasha – collectivist dhimmi
    Barbara – pitbull hating turncoat
    Matt – comprehension challenged gun-rights wannabie
    Jonathan – dhimmi lord, hoplophobe and agent provocateur
    Puke on them!

  11. I had to laugh when some twit said Ford is ‘an embarassment to the city’. That liberal cesspool of a city is an embarassment to the human race in general, and Canada in particular.
    I’m apologize to the nice people that have to live in that hole (you two know who you are) – but when a city considers a gay parade complete with shrieking transvestites in fetish gear a healthy showing of civic community – and considers raising funds for kids’ sport a crime – you know you have problems.
    The good news is that there is nothing wrong with Tranna that couldn’t be fixed with one good neutronium bomb!

  12. big bad jim, I agree with you about the gay pride parade which is indeed, all on its own, a travesty, but there are plenty of them in other cities.
    And I admit to being constantly surprised by the ah, simple or is it simplistic ‘solution’ to bothersome people or ideas of: ‘nuke them all’.

  13. Time squandered over this $3,200 (non) issue is time that could have been used focusing on the cost of cancelling 2 gas fired power plants in Ontario. The left sure knows how to put important issues on the backburner while turning molehills into mountains.
    From the Toronto (Krasnaya Zvedza) Red Star:
    Oakville gas plant cancellation costs ballooning, says analyst
    “However, one provincial source, who did not want to be named, concedes that the cost of moving the plant from Oakville to the site of the Lennox generating station near Bath, 210 kilometres east of Toronto, is $220 million more than the $40-million cost acknowledged by the province to date.
    “Energy consultant Bruce Sharp, who pegs the cost of the move at $700 million, says earlier estimates haven’t taken into account several huge items.”
    http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1269299–oakville-gas-plant-cancellation-costs-ballooning-says-analyst

  14. I love the juxtaposition and the headlines; the “right” needs to counter the lefties with competitive levels of hyperbole, because logical argument isn’t going to work with the left’s closed minds.

  15. Oh the skyline of Toronto
    Is somethin’ you’ll get onto
    But they say you’ve got to live there for a while
    And if you got the money
    You can get yourself a honey
    A written guarantee ta make you smile. . .

    Everyone should live in Toronto for a while. As a redneck farm boy from Alberta, I drove down the road with everything I owned in my car and arrived there in January 1965 and promptly got lost on the Don Valley Parkway. Went there to go to school and further my career in electronic technology. Anyway, I did find myself a honey, even though I had no money. Nine months later I got hired by a major mainframe computer vendor and they sent me off on a 6 month paid training session on their product.
    After a few years, we bought our first little house, and then later upgraded to a bigger house. In 1974 I was offered a transfer back to Alberta. So, in 1974 we moved the kids, cats, and car back to Alberta. I have made many visits back there over the years, but I always hum this song on the way home.
    Alberta bound, Alberta bound
    It’s good to be Alberta bound

  16. OMG you could hear heads at the Toronto Star and the CBC exploding all the way to Ottawa where I live. It is a most pleasant sound.

  17. Gore effect, kinda.
    Snowing pretty good right now and has been doing so for about 2 hours.
    I feel better knowing all the Rob Ford cry babies have to carry their bikes home tonight.
    AHHHHHHHH hahahahahahahahaha!

  18. Trawna. I’d like to visit it sometime.
    Make it midnight…at 30,000 feet… at 480 mph.

  19. From the classic “Wear Sunscreen”:
    Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
    Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

    To which I’ll add: Live in Toronto once, but leave before it makes you insane.

  20. Good for Rob Ford!
    As has been evident for a while, the push is ON by U.N. supporters to unseat straight-talking fiscal conservatives in positions of influence. I love it when their plan doesn’t come together:)

  22. This is all George Bushes fault, and Mike Harris to. When we heard the name Clayton Ruby, the only Canadian more detestable than Kinsella and Merchant, we knew Ford would win. Ford is a good man, that is just what the left hate so much because of their instinctive self loathing gene, right next to the philandering gene, next to the theiving gene, beside the cheaters gene, one down from the lemming gene, and two over from the Lizzy Mae/Rebbick/ Mallick icky ugly gene, right there on the leftie helix of liberalism. These kind of people are everything decent people despise, dragging a good man like Ford through the courts over this paltry amount of money while loving and condoning the Cretin 40 million stolen adscammer and idolizing Chief 100 million, unreal.

  23. Pal of mine is a rabid Ford hater (i’ve known him 45 years, since grade 4 – so we take each other in stride, me being the basic conservative) I am so going to laugh in his face about this. This will really torment him. He’ll fulminate and nash his teeth and i’ll laugh the harder – i can hardly wait.

  24. What would be priceless, is to get a wino, to stand around outside the Star building holding a sign that says… ‘ Hefty beats Lefty’.

  25. If it were not for the leftards that populate T.O. the province would be a bastion of conservative influence.
    I’d rather see Ford as the PC leader there than Hudak anyday.

  26. Holy crap bartinsky, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an accurate analysis of the make-up of the typical leftard dickwad- It’s in their DNA!
    Now it’s all makes sense.

  29. Until “Tranna” figures out to remove its collective head from its collective arsehole and spend some real quality time debating what “world class” means (and how nobody respects us)…wel…U know the rest !!

  33. Regarding the rabid left,
    dmorris wrote:
    >They live to be “against” whatever anybody who isn’t THEM is “for”.
    TrueNorthist wrote:
    >the left is not playing by the rules anymore. They now simply seek to obtain — and enforce — absolute power at any cost.
    Very well put, I’ve long thought the same mentality underlies behavior of rabid athletes/fans who lose all perspective. They can see nothing good in ANYTHING their foe does, and many would happily do physical or other forms of harm to them.
    Very dangerous, especially when they get in power.

  34. Interesting…
    “Magder, a businessman, was the Average Joe face of the lawsuit that brought Ford down. Celebrated lawyer Clayton Ruby tried the case pro bono. But it was Chaleff-Freudenthaler — labour relations professional, Ryerson student, near-lifelong left-leaning activist, canny observer of City Hall procedure, 28 years old on Wednesday — who set the wheels in motion from the shadows.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1293535–adam-chaleff-freudenthaler-the-27-year-old-who-triggered-rob-ford-s-downfall

  35. All the more reason for everyone with sanity to leave Toronto and fence the damn city off from everyone else. The left will STILL go after him. Forget about the chief with missing government funds; go after the football coach. That he is reviled because he would rather spend Canada Day with his family than watch a bunch of sexual deviants writhe around should give one a very distinct clue about the kind of political filth Toronto is capable of inflicting on its population.

  36. Torontonians will know of the November altercation between Rob Ford and Adam Vaughn. It seems there is a lot of extorting the developers to get goodies for pet causes in the counsellor’s riding (sometimes called buying votes). Counsellors dole out money to their own pet causes with little accountability. This is so much worse than anything Ford did. I was not aware of how politics in TO works: http://tinyurl.com/a8ksv37
    Scroll down to the third comment where Ed_Main gives a wonderful capsule description of how it all works. What amazes me that extortionists like Vaughn have the nerve to haul Ford into court for his token fund raising on the wrong letterhead. Clearly Ford is disliked because he refuses to play these cynical games. Presumably Vaughn is now calling the Ford decision a National crisis. Unbelievable.

  37. On top of everything, Adam Vaughan is a nepotism-politician. His father, Colin, was a Toronto City Councillor and so wee Adam also became a City Councillor (‘same for Jack Layton’s bairn, Mike). The yuck factor continues: Vaughan Jr. worked at the CBC and Ryerson U. before entering politics.
    He’s definitely got his Leftard bona fides in order. Gag.

  38. I won’t be paying a dime to read G&M.
    Is there another way to read about the info in those Globe links?

  39. bluetech….if you have Internet Explorer 9, you can start up an “InPrivate Browsing” session and you can read the G&M. That is, if you have the stomach for it.

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