evvabeing
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gotta love a web site that makes you register your name and address and so on, just to let you see somethingInfographic – The 4 Stages of the Rob Ford Crisis
http://blog.ca.cision.com/resources/cisionpoint-strategy/the-4-stages-of-the-rob-ford-crisis-2/
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I'm sick of the idea floating out there, especially among the anti-Ford camp, that despite all the crackin' and boozin' there had been a successful strategy executed.. The media especially, even in the end of Crazy Town, seems to hold this idea that the Ford's have had an intelligent strategy behind all of this.
The way this has been handled had been atrocious from all angles and is already as we speak being taught in school and business as ways NOT to handle crises. The logic behind Ford not having a 0% approval rating lies in a segment of the population that would have supported Ford if he had apologized from a crack house while high.
If it weren't for a technicality and a loophole that will surely be closed on October 28th, his "strategy" would have had him booted from office months ago, and too hell bent on substance driven oblivion to ever sniff it again.
Bouvet Island is popular with those who want to maintain their anonymity.gotta love a web site that makes you register your name and address and so on, just to let you see something
dumb as a bag of hammers (apologies to any hammers I might have offended)
hilariously, they allowed me to indicate Bouvet Island as my country...
(hint: Bouvet Island is uninhabited)
Rob Ford's body/suit is shaped oddly in that photo. Reminds me of David Byrne's big suit:
Doug's forced smiling makes him look slightly insane.
In the end though, the thing that is going to do him in, is that the people who hate Ford and want him gone are EXTREMELY highly motivated voters, possibly the most highly motivated in Toronto's history. Whereas the number of people who are highly motivated to fight to re-elect him is likely to be no greater than 15%, if that.
Surely you mean Rob riding an ass (I know, it makes its own humour) while the Ford Cult throw palm leaves down in front of him as he rides around city hall. ;pDoug: Well folks, since we had great success with a past-his-prime American magician last week, we will be bringing in a pony show later this week. We are getting approvals from the OSPCA for Rob to ride around city hall on one of the ponies (we need a very, very study pony for this task). There will be clowns and we'll also throw out a few racist remarks later in the week and of course we will continue to attack the homosexual agenda. Ice cream will be provided to all the kids who show up for family day (definitely no ice cream for kids who have two mommies/daddies, of course).
Most of the weirdness is lens distortion. It's a lousy photo, probably taken with a point and shoot. A fixed-length pancake lens would be better suited for this type of operation, but I'm guessing guys who walk around clubs being paid to take photos probably aren't all that discerning about equipment or take all that much care in their craft. I mean come on, cutting people off at the knees?
Yes, but unless the Ford haters vote for the same one or two candidates, much of their anger will be wasted in a massive vote split.In the end though, the thing that is going to do him in, is that the people who hate Ford and want him gone are EXTREMELY highly motivated voters, possibly the most highly motivated in Toronto's history. Whereas the number of people who are highly motivated to fight to re-elect him is likely to be no greater than 15%, if that.
Early in Ford's term I thought a positive spinoff of having such an appalling representative in the Mayor's seat might be a grassroots engagement that would not only oppose Ford in the next election but take on useless/devious councilors like Mammolitti, Shiner, Minnan-Wong, Nunziata. There was a group of younger people, connected and busy on social media, like Goldsbie, Matt Elliot and I think Metroman, who were always at City Hall, providing a new outlook on the happenings there. Think back then some people had taken to calling them the Scoobies, new amateur investigative reporters. Then there was the Code Blue response to the Portlands' ferris wheel proposal, and the support of the Eglinton LRT, in which older, more established people like Paul Bedford and Ken Greenberg helped organize and promote. But I haven't seen much energy from any of that heading into this election. Opposition to Ford hasn't developed any potential candidates to Ford, even as he has imploded. They seem resigned to waiting on Olivia Chow, untested in a city-wide campaign against the likes of Ford and unlikely to appeal to many of the moderate suburban voters who backed Ford last election. Little of the grassroots response has reached beyond old Toronto or its concerns. No new personalities have risen through civic engagement. As bad as this past council has shown itself to be on multiple occasions, almost any incumbent councilor who choses to run (even Georgio) will probably be reelected, just like before.In the end though, the thing that is going to do him in, is that the people who hate Ford and want him gone are EXTREMELY highly motivated voters, possibly the most highly motivated in Toronto's history. Whereas the number of people who are highly motivated to fight to re-elect him is likely to be no greater than 15%, if that.
Doug: Well folks, since we had great success with a past-his-prime American magician last week, we will be bringing in a pony show later this week. We are getting approvals from the OSPCA for Rob to ride around city hall on one of the ponies (we need a very, very study pony for this task). There will be clowns and we'll also throw out a few racist remarks later in the week and of course we will continue to attack the homosexual agenda. Ice cream will be provided to all the kids who show up for family day (definitely no ice cream for kids who have two mommies/daddies, of course).