today is the day

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:34 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Thomas Milne <tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org>
>
> | I am honestly mystified by the hatred of Miller in this city. No one
> | can ever tell me _why_ they hate him, I just get this 'well he's
> | really left wing'.
>
> Me too.  (The garbage strike did look like a bad failure.)
>
> But then I didn't see anything that wrong with Dion.  "Greenshift" was
> mostly a good market-oriented approach.
>
> |  Of
> | course everything a right wing retard who barely made it through high
> | school says is _much_ more trustworthy.
>
> Now that is over the top.
>
> Why would you call Ford a retard?  I imagine that you have no evidence
> for that.

In my opinion, anyone who uses the phrase 'war on cars' is indeed a
retard. Obviously I'm not using the word in the literal sense, but to
describe someone who is so deliberately ignorant that they fall off
the bottom of the scale of intelligence. If it seems unfair, Ford has
more than asked for it by deliberately creating an atmosphere of
mistrust and animosity toward public service in general, and using
that as a cynical launchpad to the mayor's office.

He is truly a disgusting human being. He is a liar and a bigot. For
that there is _plenty_ of evidence.

> | I just don't understand why people see investment and development as
> | some kind of great evil. To me, Pantalone was the obvious choice. The
> | only one who wasn't repeating this myth that lower taxes are the
> | salvation of people everywhere.
>
> I have to say that I never got a feeling of vision from any candidate.
> Maybe the visions could not fit through keyholes through which they
> talk to me (TV news & newspapers).  The one debate I watched (there
> were a lot) was rhetoric, at best.

Those debates are a joke. No one can present a 'vision' in the time
they allow for speaking. People's attention spans have been so eroded
that they are only able to digest slogans and buzzwords. Hence 'stop
the gravy train' will always beat our 'lets build a subway!'.

The fact that all people rely on is TV and newspapers to make their
choice is a very sad indictment of our democracy in general.
Absolutely nothing seen on TV should ever be used for such a serious
purpose as choosing a representative. There needs to be a much more
direct involvement for it to work. Unfortunately, most people don't
have the time because they spend almost all of their time earning
money to survive.

> Ammend that.  Ford's vision appeared to be so small to fit through the
> keyhole.
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