We find out tomorrow if Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, still has a job. Well, as mayor at least. He’ll always have a job as a football coach, which has been his full time gig even before he accepted the part time position of mayor. Ahem. And he could always go back to the family firm, where I’m sure he has an office with all the sharp things removed. But tomorrow, a court will decide if he wins his appeal to get back into office. It’s so far past a joke in this city, I’m not sure that it even matters any more.
But enough about Ford. Today’s blog is brought to you by Councillor George Mammoliti. Once part of Ford’s ‘inner circle’ (jeesuz; the mayor’s office is like a little cadre of mean girls, no?), he stopped sitting at their lunch table a few months back. Because nothing the man does has ever made a lick of sense, nobody gave a damn then, nor do they now. But today’s Star brings you this fabulous quote from Mammoliti: (please start humming that scary theme music here, like, dum, dum, dummmmmmmmmmmm)
“There is an investigation going on in my office and it seems there are some people in this city that have targeted certain individuals and have planned to do a number of things over the next little while.”
Here. You hold my cloak while I go get my dagger. I loooooooooove this quote. I do. I love that the leaders of the biggest city in Canada, you know, the centre of the universe, are this bunch.
Heh, heh – that replaces my previous favourite political quote of all time:
“I don’t know. What happened? If you don’t know, the cameras were there. Someone came in my way, it might have been… I had to go, so if you are in my way, I am walking. So I don’t know what happened. Something happened to someone who should not have been there. “
I had actually planned to do a number of things over the next little while…. Oh my God – maybe I’ve been brainwashed, like Laurence Harvey in the Manchurian Candidate. Is there no end to their diabolical machinations? And I live in DUNNVILLE, for the love of God! How far-reaching is this master plan?
Osama bin Laden could have been hiding out at the Queen’s for 5 years and nobody would have noticed….
Oh, we would have noticed, but if he was a good bowler and could hold his liquor, he would have fit right in. Hell, he could have been Mayor.
I am laughing so hard right now….
Isn’t bowling against his religion?
Who said this, Zena? And were they heavily medicated at the time?
The Shawinigan Strangler…
Ah, yes…..
It strikes me, also as I read this: we may laugh, but at least someone in this city *is* actually planning to do something over the next little while…
So we can’t say nothing’s getting done…
Or something…
Stop making fun of my mayor! He (and his dumb-ass henchman) can’t help it if they are “challenged.”
I’m more of a picture person (although I can look up a good word with the best of them).
This looks like Ford is trying to give birth to an intelligent idea and Mammoliti is (as usual) clueless.
Rob Ford looks like Chris Farley (RIP) trying to fart.
I think someone told him if he held his hands that way it would straighten out the birth canal, making for a much smoother delivery.
Maybe he’s trying to do the releasing gas Yoga pose at his desk ?
Not gas – just one out of the copious stockpile of horse shoes he’s got wedged up there.
Did anybody else see (on Global) that car Clayton Ruby drives? It looks like a Maserati, though could be Jaguar XKR or a sporty Bentley.
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/25/left-determined-to-keep-knocking-at-rob-ford
Successful professionals aren’t supposed to drive nice cars? I’m so confused.
Y’all really need to read this.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/25/kelly-mcparland-rob-fords-victory-deals-second-bitter-blow-to-ford-hating-elite/
The comments are more telling than the article.