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I Hate The War on Mayor Rob Ford

14 hours ago

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. These are the rules for the new Mayor of Toronto, as established over the past four years in this city. Please print this out and stick it to your fridge, Mr. Rogers, and let the fun begin. We did not choose the rules, but we will respect and enforce them for J-Lib, as they were enforced on Rob Ford.

1) You must attend every parade, and if you miss one without a valid excuse, you are a homophobe, racist, sexist, antisemite, intolerant, bigot, and/or bully.

2) You are only one vote of 45. You may not pass gas without the permission of council.

3) You get no credit for any positive accomplishments that take place in Toronto during your term in office.

4) The media must be allowed to follow you out the front door of your penthouse condo every morning, and train cameras on your windows every night.

5) All substances ingested - legal, prescribed, or illegal - must be reported to the media immediately upon consumption. The Toronto Police reserve the right to place you under 24/7 aerial and telecom surveillance, under the pretense of building a possession case against your errand-boy.

6) Politically-charged hospital staffers must illegally access your medical records and leak them to the press immediately.

7) We reserve the right to paint your every word with the most negative brush possible.

8) Even though we know this would never happen in a WASP golf club, we demand to know every time you have joked around using racial stereotypes with friends over a round of Grasshoppers.

9) If you try to raise money for underprivileged children, we will sue you.

10) When the looney left strips away your office and your powers, we will not shed a tear, nor lift a finger. In fact, we may even go on the radio and egg them on.
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the lemur said:
Not sure why that's his gambit, but I don't think Doug's definition of 'progressive' (which to much of Ford Nation is supposedly a code word for 'socialist' and so on) means much. Remember when he tried to talk up Rob to the US media by calling him a 'huge social liberal' who 'loves Obama'? Which Rob promptly denied.
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He basically says whatever rolls of his tongue and what he thinks someone wants to hear at that very moment.

I remember during the 2010 election Doug was asked by local media if Rob's rise in the polls could have anything to do with the Tea Party's rise in the US? Doug replied that he hoped so and that Tea Party politics was welcome in Canada.
 
casita said:
Our tax dollars in action.
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More like Deco dollars. Since only net revenues are going to the hospital (citation needed) the whole point of this exercise is to recover the wholesale cost of all the unsold dolls.

Looks like the bulk cost of a packaged and shipped bobblehead is somewhere in the $8-10 range. Assuming that they have 500 or so dolls left in the closet that's $5,000 in sunk costs to recover. Now it's entirely possible that the campaign is actually buying them under commercial terms from DECO, who has tacked, say, a 100% markup on the items. Add on some extra costs like website management and storage and you're at <$10 proceeds per doll. Clear out those 500 and you'll net $5,000 for the hospital... but make it a personal donation and Rob or Doug can claw back $2,000.
So, now instead of sending $5k of unsold inventory to landfill you've recovered the $5,000 in sunk costs, generated $5,000 in profit for DECO and dumped $2,000 into Rob's pocket. Plus, he pulled in a $700 salary for today so not bad for about two hours of work.
 
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animatronic said:
Since only net revenues are going to the hospital (citation needed) the whole point of this exercise is to recover the wholesale cost of all the unsold dolls.
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Citation:

"Net proceeds from the sale of these bobbleheads will benefit Mount Sinai Hospital and Humber River Hospital in Toronto."
http://robfordbobblehead.ca/about

I didn't study Economics in high school, so I had to look it up.

DEFINITION of 'Net Proceeds'

The amount received by the seller after all costs and expenses are deducted from the gross proceeds arising from the sale of an asset. Depending on the asset sold, such costs may either account for a marginal percentage of the gross proceeds, or a substantial percentage of it. Capital gains taxes are generally paid only on the net proceeds of a sale, rather than the gross proceeds.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netproceeds.asp
 
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