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12 Nov 2013, 10:10 am

He should get together with Marion Barry and hang out.

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12 Nov 2013, 10:27 pm

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As someone who considers Toronto my hometown and has been following Rob Ford's despicable antics since 2011/2012, I could see this coming. This is proof that if you post something on a computer: it's there forever. It doesn't matter if someone deletes a video: the police can always reassemble it.

Anyway, this so-called "mayor" has a wide and varied history of being incredibly egotistical, belligerent, incredibly disrespectful towards others, misusing his power and privilege and acting like he is above the law. He also is racist, a homophobe and clearly has problems with alcohol.

I feel that if someone is in a position of power, they need to set an example for others. Rob Ford clearly has not done that, and I am highly surprised that something has not been done about him already.

Here's a rundown of the guy's history, which began before any allegations of the crack tape.

http://jeromiewilliams.com/2013/11/03/u ... n-a-video/

As far as this crazy series of events is concerned, this guy is corrupt and either needs to resign or be somehow booted out.

Yikes! His history of indiscretions goes back to when I was born!

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15 Nov 2013, 2:02 pm

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013/11/ ... elevision/

http://storify.com/torontostar/argos-and-rob-ford

This just keeps getting weirder and weirder. As a CFL fan (an American CFL fan, and possibly the only one on this site [on both being American and a CFL fan, in case you were wondering]), this really shocks me!

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15 Nov 2013, 11:12 pm

He does seem to have a crack problem,and not just the kind you smoke.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/73513 ... conference

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16 Nov 2013, 11:02 am

I don't know much about this story, but I really feel for drug addicts. I feel like it's like my OCD, only theirs can be very deadly.

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16 Nov 2013, 11:15 am

bleh12345 wrote:

I don't know much about this story, but I really feel for drug addicts. I feel like it's like my OCD, only theirs can be very deadly.

I agree with you that nobody chooses to be a junkie. But they can choose to get clean. While I've never had those kinds of problems, I've known people who have, and Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs not only work wonders, but are free for the taking. For OCD's there is no such help.

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17 Nov 2013, 2:50 am

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I never said they can't get help. I just feel sympathy and empathy for them. I was never addicted to drugs, but I used to use pills sometimes and drink. The good thing about drug and alcohol addictions is you can avoid them. With OCD, depending on your compulsions, you might not be able to avoid going around the objects you use for compulsions. It really does suck. There is help for people with OCD, though. Anti-anxiety medications can also help take the edge off, which is nice.

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17 Nov 2013, 2:16 pm

DC reelected Marion Barry a couple years after the video of him smoking crack. He was mayor for like 8 more years and now serves on the City Council or something. That's kind of insane, but it is DC, so what can I say?

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18 Nov 2013, 9:56 am

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/cfl-55 ... 58926.html - And now, the Toronto Argonauts biggest rival, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are in the Grey Cup game thanks in part to him showing up at the Argos/Ti-Cats Eastern final game, even when he was asked not to show up at the game! Wow.........

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18 Nov 2013, 8:24 pm

Toronto city council voted by a wide margin on Monday to slash the budget of embattled Mayor Rob Ford — a dramatic move that followed a raucous day in the council chambers that left the mayor promising that next year’s municipal election will be "outright war."

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19 Nov 2013, 12:51 am

anneurysm wrote:

Don't be too quick to vilify the man. Most of the stuff on that list can be attributed to alcohol. I strongly suspect that he often has a "nip" of the "good stuff" before any public appearance. It's the only pattern that fits all his behavior. Even his weight. As for being a racist and homophobic (I will just us the catch-all phrase bigot) and well as corrupt. He is. But the question is is he a very vocal minority. Or is he the one dumb loud mouth in a normally silent majority? Everything i know about politics screams at me that it is the later. There are many politicians that share those beliefs but are too politically smart (IE: Sober) to voice them. The tiger out in the open is way less dangerous that the ones hidden in the jungle.

Still he has to go.

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19 Nov 2013, 12:59 am

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More like a outright massacre. He spent too much time last month committing political suicide. I don't think he will ever get re-elected again while this scandal is in the air. Maybe in a few year when this thing isn't so fresh in peoples mind. Next year is too soon.

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19 Nov 2013, 12:45 pm

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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/cfl-55-yard-line/did-rob-ford-curse-argonauts-loss-tiger-cats-221758926.html - And now, the Toronto Argonauts biggest rival, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are in the Grey Cup game thanks in part to him showing up at the Argos/Ti-Cats Eastern final game, even when he was asked not to show up at the game! Wow.........

Amendment to the above: It was the CFL commissioner (Mark Cohon) that told Rob not to attend the game.

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27 Nov 2013, 12:16 pm

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Regarding my joke in one of my previous posts: I give you- this.

That is so awful, it's bad.

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23 Jan 2014, 8:26 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpwflzSF4M[/youtube]

And the Rob Ford fiasco gets weirder........ it's a new year, and now here's video of him at a fast food place, speaking drunk Jamaican. If there's such a thing.

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24 Jan 2014, 1:45 pm

And I've been fat. Am still fat enough to grab a stomach roll and the back/side flab that wasn't there a year ago and pinch it. I don't know where I stand on the empathy scale--I seem to have an excess of emotion, most of it anxiety and rage, but I often have difficulty moving beyond sympathy for almost anyone who has not been weirdly wired and suffered as intensely as I have.

Which explains the drinking, the benzos and the street drugs, including R. Ford's favorite combo.

He appears to be a really sick guy. But--because of his relative wealth, I'm sure--I have little empathy and even less sympathy for him.

He is doing everything to death. He's sufficiently grandiose as to feel, or so it seems, that he's entitled to get away with this.

IMO, he should be fired, and head to a long-term rehab, the latter as part of his severance package. I'm imagining that high-ranking government officials would get such a thing in my neighbor to the north of the USA.

I don't know if this is too harsh. but I'm with Librarian about the voter IQ thing.

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