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Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Books are my comfort food!

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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Here are a few excerpts from a day in the life of Rob Ford, still Mayor of Toronto, who I’m sure David Brooks would call Canada’s Thought Leader. Open thread.

Update: Since Rob does love a good apology, I realize it might not be clear just what he’s apologizing for. Just to be clear: this is not his apology for calling a Toronto Star reporter a pedophile. That’s a different apology.

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  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Yes, Rob. You are sorry.

    Very sorry.

    Pathetic. Contemptible. Wretched.

    Yup, you are sorry.

    Now get the fuck off my lawn, asshole.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    It’s difficult to imagine that anyone in that room, for so much as a nanosecond, thinks that this asshat is sincerely apologizing.

    It’s not in his nature.

  9. 9.

    Botsplainer

    Canadian accents crack me up. “So soary”.

    I just want him to say “I went out and about in a boat”.

  10. 10.

    Botsplainer

    @Joel:

    Who is that lady that dances with him? That’s what I want to know.

    I’ll give him credit – the dude is seriously a good time.

  12. 12.

    MrSnrub

    Off-topic:

    My sister and her husband have been living in Puerto Penasco, Mexico for the past couple of years. My dad and step-mom are visiting them. I got an email from my dad stating that they woke up in the middle of the night to helicopters and shooting. Apparently a drug cartel has hostages in a complex down the block from my sister.

    I can’t find anything about it on the googlez. This is all quite surreal.

  14. 14.

    KG

    @Mark S.: ten years ago, Republicans probably would have gotten behind nuking Paris, intentionally or not, since those cheese eating surrender monkeys wouldn’t support their war in the sandbox.

  16. 16.

    KG

    @Mark S.: ten years ago, the Republicans would have supported nuking Paris, intentionally or not, since those cheese eating surrender monkeys wouldn’t support their little adventure in the sandbox

  17. 17.

    Jane2

    @Joel: That’s Frances Nunziata, the Speaker and Rob Ford supporter. Having said that, she does as good a job as anyone could at trying to keep the Ford bullies in check.

  18. 18.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @KG:

    Hey, give the French SOME credit. They didn’t declare war on us like they did to the last major power to launch an outright war of aggression.

  20. 20.

    MattF

    For the record, an actual apology has three parts. If you are apologizing for doing ‘X’, you say

    1. “I did ‘X’.”
    2. “‘X’ was wrong.”
    3. “In order to acknowledge damage I have done and to reduce the possibility of doing ‘X’ again, I have done ‘Y’ and ‘Z’.”

    Since it’s unheard of to insist on actual apologies, this stuff isn’t widely known, but just in case.

  21. 21.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Do they hand out hallucinogens on the way into Council chambers in Toronto? It would explain a great deal in that video if they do.

  22. 22.

    Redshift

    @Mark S.:

    Peggy Noonan is worried Obama might accidentally nuke Paris.

    Not only that, she believes that the nuclear launch codes don’t just give the president access to launch control, but actually control where the missiles go. And is stupid enough to put it in writing.

    BTW, did anyone else hear the story that for several decades, the nuclear launch code was “000000000”, because the Kennedy Administration wanted a code to restrict access, but the Pentagon didn’t want it because they thought it might slow down the response in a crisis? Suddenly the fact that Snowden was able to get NSA documents because they were keeping them in SharePoint doesn’t seem so surprising…

  23. 23.

    Mark S.

    Isn’t it a little early to be projecting the seeds for a tournament that doesn’t start until March? They did show a little restraint:

    SI.com’s weekly projection for the entire NCAA tournament field will debut on Jan. 6. Until then, we will take a look at the top four seeds in each region.

    Who’s going to be the 13th seed in the West? We’ll take a stab at it. We’re not insane at all.

  26. 26.

    KG

    @Mark S.: ESPN does it in September, so no. At least in January, you’ve gotten through the non-conference schedule and may have some idea of how good the teams in non-power conferences are.

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Redshift:

    “Please input password for TOP SECRET access to all NSA databases.”

    “password”

    “Thank you. Have a nice day!”

  38. 38.

    Origuy

    @Redshift: That was only one of the codes required. It was the code for the locks on the missiles themselves, and was not installed until 1962.

    However, amid the renewed hype over the easily cracked code, a crucial element has been largely overlooked: Though the physical code preventing an unauthorized missile launch may have been all zeroes, the process of arming the actual nuclear warhead was much more involved, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This is the seemingly made-for-Hollywood process involving the simultaneous turning of keys, “Emergency War Order” safes and verified launch codes, which presumably were not all zeros.

  40. 40.

    dmsilev

    @ranchandsyrup: My favorite bit is where he tried to iron the sleeve of a jacket….while wearing it.

    Apparently, the manipulator extensions of his chassis had a pretty good thermal tolerance band.

  42. 42.

    WereBear

    As it’s open thread, thought some might like my wild take on buying gifts:

    The Art of Gifts

    I use each chapter of Sun Tzu’s the Art of War to explain buying art gifts for your loved ones.

    Please share! Tip your server! Don’t order the veal!

  43. 43.

    jl

    The joke phrase ‘Worthwhile Canadian Initiative’ will never be the same again. Not sure whether the Rob Ford era will kill the joke, or make it hilarious.’

    At least they don’t have nukes.

    But then, Ford could have killed the incompetent crazy interpreter at the Mandela memorial simply by throwing himself on the guy. And there is never any questions at all about ‘ lines of traditionally assumed competence’ with Ford. Maybe Noonan would feel safer if Ford were U.S. President.

    Toronto is so close to the U.S., and with Cruz, I’m sure he could find an angle to qualify. GOP needs to draft this guy for 2016. I eagerly await the Noonan columns.

  44. 44.

    jl

    @ranchandsyrup:

    ” The new trailer for American Psycho III, Kill the 47% Mitt! is awesome. ”

    Sounds like a sad, but mean, only subliminally self-aware, clown reality show. Not in a mood to watch it.

  47. 47.

    PaulW

    I am so so sorry for not being able to vote for Rob Ford’s opponent in the mayoral election. Although I have a good excuse of not being Canadian…

  48. 48.

    cmorenc

    I can already see that “thought leader” is going to rapidly be established as among our favorite memes here at BJ.

  50. 50.

    Trollhattan

    Rob Ford: Canada’s gift to every North American politician who’s in trouble of any sort. Time for Vitter to round up some hookers and underalls.

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