i had a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to this nonsense:
“I don’t know what to do with my hands.”
Rob Ford, the criminal former Mayor of Toronto (who was, mystifyingly, never charged for his crimes), has missed all that attention now that he’s been out of the limelight and under the chemotherapy heat lamp (i don’t know how chemotherapy works). Presumably in a bid to get back in the news (i make puns), he’s auctioning off some articles of clothing, including the tacky football tie he wore when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine on live television (after denying it earlier using Clintonian weasel words and playing around with verb tenses).
What initially struck me as idiotic (and later, disgusting – who actually wants a fat man’s pajama pants that he wore to Wal Mart?) eventually struck me as tragic. The problem with mental illnesses, like the narcissism Rob Ford suffers, is that people need to recognize they have a problem and then seek help. But the problem that needs treating is the very thing that prevents them from seeking that help.
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It reminds me of Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams, in which a doomed spaceship tries to determine what’s gone wrong. It has a hole in its hull, but it doesn’t know it, because the damaged piece of the spaceship is the part that would warn the spaceship that there was a hole in its hull. And so it goes.
So if Rob Ford was selling the tie he wore when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine, I thought it would be apropos to start my own auction to sell off the tie i wore when i watched Rob Ford admit to smoking crack cocaine.
Initially Ford, a very wealthy man, had only pledged to donate 10% of his auction proceeds to charity. I read later that he would donate the entire amount, and that he had only specifically earmarked 10% for the hospital treating his cancer, while the other 90% was undecided.
Whatever, Rob. You’re a well-documented liar, and i don’t know why we’re even bothering to discuss it. Proceeds from the sale of my tie will all go to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, which is where you should have gone to spare Toronto from your addiction-addled buffoonery. My hope is that some day, camh will solve the problem of what to do when everyone around you knows you need treatment for your problem, but your problem keeps you from seeking that treatment.
You can place a bid on my tie here.
Can u explain how u came to the conclusion Rob Ford is a criminal? Also, explain why u are shocked he wasn’t arrested for so called crimes?
1. You obviously didn’t read the police documents – if u did u would know the police did a full investigation costing 6 figures – Hearsay 3 person stories are the most daming evidence –
2. If u think using drugs or admitin it is a crime – well u would have to arrest a ton of people KGB style –
3. Jack Layton was caught naked in a rub n tug parlour by undercovers -who let him go – did u scream outrage at this criminal too?
> Can u explain how u came to the conclusion Rob Ford is a criminal? Also, explain why u are shocked he wasn’t arrested for so called crimes?
It’s extremely difficult to put a rich white man in prison – particularly one who influences your payroll.
> If u think using drugs or admitin it is a crime – well u would have to arrest a ton of people KGB style –
Possession of drugs is a crime, and you have to possess them before you can use them. i’m not interested in arresting a “ton of people,” because i don’t hold the general population up to the same standards of conduct as i do my leaders.
> Jack Layton was caught naked in a rub n tug parlour
As far as crime and its effects on other people go, one Filipino lady stroking a guy off in a room somewhere is orders of magnitude less impactful than the drug trade, which brings with it guns and violent crime that can (and does) affect innocents. And if Jack Layton had launched vociferous campaigns against rub n’ tug parlours before being caught in one, i’m sure there would have been a stronger reaction, as with Ford’s opposition to “hug-a-thug” social welfare programs.