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"Le sigh"

You see? You become a Canadian citizen, and voila! You are bilingue!

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And he was one of the top ten finalists in the Greatest Canadian thing back in 2004. FFS.

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I like where Ford is "striped nude and prostrate." What colour is prostrate?

just messin' with you- sounds like Breaking Bad, T.O. edition.

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Pity they couldn't have given you beer.

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I'm waiting for Marg the Warrior Princess to take her revenge.

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We do have a Speaker of the House, also, too, but yeah, the equivalent "job" in our Commons is the PM. Who is currently a shit-head of the highest order, and a fishing buddy of Rob's. and this isn't even <a href="http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/senate-scandal-mike-duffy-allegations-bring-rcmp-to-pmo-doorstep-1.2355634" target="_blank">Stephen Harper's biggest problem right now.</a>

It's a WONDERFUL time to be a Canadian Liberal!!

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Nah, just corruption there. Lost two mayors in the past year that way.

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And the mayor of London, Ontario is in court this week defending himself against charges that he committed fraud when he used a gov't of Canada check for $1,500 to put a down payment on a hall for his son's wedding reception (at the time he was a federal cabinet minister) He's refused to step down as mayor.

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they're pretty much interchangeable

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Probably Clapton, since Ford appears to be acquainted with the bottle and cork as well as cocaine.

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Rob Ford, Betty Ford on line two!

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Joke I read over at Charlie Pierce's Esquire blog a few days ago:

<i>Q: How do you get 10 Canadians out of a pool?

A: Say "Hey, can you guys get out of the pool?"</i>

Not sure if it applies here, but it is funny.

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Hmmm. Is Rob Ford related to Bob and Charley Ford, who laid poor Jesse in his grave?

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Welcome to the fold!

My Civics class has its final exam tomorrow, using questions from the Citizenship exam. I can confidently predict that after 9 weeks of having this stuff taught at them, most will still fail to qualify as citizens.

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Eventually. When they're about to be exposed publicly with incontrovertible evidence.

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That shit. I refuse to let it in the house.

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