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What does it mean technically when a topic is bulleted as hot on the index?

Within the Fordian murk of our civic life (please check out our sufferings in the Hockey thread and please, somebody out there, if there is any human compassion in your heart, please help us!) for me at least there is one small, shining beacon of hope. The former Judy's Flower Shop, right next door to me, is being transformed into a McGuigan's Scottish Pub. This corrects the one deficiency in my otherwise perfect downtown neighbourhood. There are no pubs in walking distance, except a dive inhabited by the local panhandlers that I cannot afford to go into. I have become friendly with the renovating crew and often drop in on them to encourage them to work faster. I predict a very happy Hogmonay for me.

Her husband is more to my taste however. His ideas are wrongheaded and destructive but his photo is cute-sexy.

I'm intrigued. Maybe you can recommend other videos/texts by her that show the Machiavellian side a bit more? :-) I have zero respect for Diana "Ethel" Mertz- Hsieh, she has built her weird career by betraying her betters and violating the sanctity of friendship. But I agree with George, there is an attractiveness there, which I am sure her Noodlebrained acolytes appreciate.

I'm intrigued. Maybe you can recommend other videos/texts by her that show the Machiavellian side a bit more? :-) WSS produced a great one but I think Michael asked him to take it down. I like the one where she is preening from the limbs of the tree because they provide lots of tying points for some intricate rope bondage, e.g., Shibari art. Adam Adam, I say this in deepest friendship, some of your posts might possibly lead a few unenlightened irrational readers to get the impression that you are an oversexed gutter-,minded kinkmeister. Not me of course....I'm just saying. Don't ever change. Karol

"This hour has 22 minutes" is a top political comedy show here.The actors routinely ambush politicians in various personae (you can see some fun clips on Canadian. Boring thread) led by Mary Walsh in her character Marg Delahunty, Warrior Princess. Last month they went to Ford's house.This was wrong, they should not have gone to his home but to City Hall, however they did it. Ford was getting into his car when Marg approached him. Naturally he was terrifed and called 911, three times. A gang of strangers led by a crazy lady was attacking him! Of course you could not expect a busy man like him to recognize Canada's top comedienne, or the significance of TV cameras or a big van logoed "CBC". And his daughter, inside the house, was screaming in terror... it was Halloween and an old warrior princess lady was attacking her defenceless little daddy! I cannot sanction this home invasion and I think they should all go to jail.

Thanks for the pic of Byfuglien. Poor Dusty Fats was arrested this summer for being too stoned to operate a motorboat. A welcome incident of normality in a crazy world.

Robert Ford 64th Mayor of Toronto Incumbent Assumed office December 1, 2010 Preceded by David Miller Toronto City Councillor for (Ward 2) Etobicoke North In office November 14, 2000 – October 25, 2010 Preceded by Elizabeth Brown Succeeded by Doug Ford, Jr. Personal details Born May 28, 1969 (age 42) Etobicoke, Ontario Political party Independent (2000 – present) Note: Municipal politicians in Toronto run on a Nonpartisan basis Other political affiliations Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario[1] Spouse(s) Renata Children 2 Residence Toronto Profession Businessman Robert Bruce "Rob" Ford (born May 28, 1969) is the 64th and current Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was first elected to city council ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford Isn't he cute? I remember his inauguration well.He got Don Cherry, yes, him, to give the speech. Don loudly, even for him, congratulated his bff Rob for "getting those pinkos out." The morale amongst us who aspire to satire around here is at an alltime low. What is the point of writing anything when the mere facts are outSwifting Jonathan? I just noticed that Shanahan is also from Etobicoke!!! Oh, God, Adam! Could DH be behind it all? You know Who I Mean. I think I better go to Evensong tonight, just in case.

Phil, have some further refreshment and meet the Mayor of Toronto, RobDoug Ford, a two-headed yet halfwitted specimen who has never watched the national TV network, had never heard of Canada's most famous author, and who campaigned on a the sound theory that a city exists to service its suburbs. In his austerity drive he has so far closed four museums and is trying to close the libraries, sell the zoo and bust the local unions (oh wait, most of the mayors try to do that). Needless to state, he is a football coach.

You are profiting from it. Exactly. So are the students.

Brendan Shanahan Born January 23, 1969 (age 42) Mimico, Etobicoke, ON, CAN Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Weight 225 lb (102 kg; 16 st 1 lb) Position Right/left wing Shot Right Played for New Jersey Devils St. Louis Blues Hartford Whalers Detroit Red Wings New York Rangers National team Canada NHL Draft 2nd overall, 1987 New Jersey Devils Playing career 1987–2009 Brendan Frederick "Shanny" Shanahan (born January 23, 1969) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger <<<<hopefully a right winger... He is now the Head of Discipline for the NHL, replacing the universally reviled Clarence Campbell. As top cop he is the frequent butt of disrespectful comment in the Alternate Universe. To Phil, come on, who could make up names like Byfuglien, Tootoo (yes, there were two of them) or the divinely apt Lecavalier?

I'm intrigued. Maybe you can recommend other videos/texts by her that show the Machiavellian side a bit more? :-) WSS produced a great one but I think Michael asked him to take it down.

Breaking news... the 1-3-1 defence Brendan Shanahan is reportedly considering disciplinary measures against players for playing chess, writing their autobiographies or hitting on their teammates' wives while on the ice.

Adam, I am pretty much in tears. i did not get to go home this summer. Every single shot has such meaning for me. Thank you.

Interesting thread.Rand gave a free pass for living in their own times to thinkers she admired.who fit in with her worldview. For those she disliked there was no anachronistic mercy. Slavery is still alive and thriving.

If you don't understand human rights your questions are understandable. --BrantWell, I understand and accept the idea of inalienable rights - like liberty. I just don't accept that sexual liberty should be excluded. I think the same logic (and perhaps even more forcefully from a natural/evolutionary perspective) applies to sexualy liberty - inalienable. I think to think otherwise is usually just a weak rationalization. Usually it's somebody trying to defend their immoral decisions. Bob The law is concerned with rights and there is simplicity. Morality overlaps rights completely but is a much bigger subject we can talk about until the cows come home but daddy with a paddle and shotgun enforces the balance whatever the fuck that might be in his mind. --Brant my intentions are honorable--I've got a Yaris http://youtu.be/LAMmDqtlR-Q If you don't understand human rights your questions are understandable. --BrantWell, I understand and accept the idea of inalienable rights - like liberty. I just don't accept that sexual liberty should be excluded. I think the same logic (and perhaps even more forcefully from a natural/evolutionary perspective) applies to sexualy liberty - inalienable. I think to think otherwise is usually just a weak rationalization. Usually it's somebody trying to defend their immoral decisions. Bob The law is concerned with rights and there is simplicity. Morality overlaps rights completely but is a much bigger subject we can talk about until the cows come home but daddy with a paddle and shotgun enforces the balance whatever the fuck that might be in his mind. --Brant my intentions are honorable--I've got a Yaris http://youtu.be/LAMmDqtlR-Q The cows come home though. Tiptoeing on their hooves up the back stairs, or arriving at the front door brazenly in a taxi, morally they come home. I don't know what Dr Mrs Dr originally said about selling her body, nor much care. But in society, the value-trade negotiation for violation of personal rights is dealt with currently by laws, imperfect and behindhand as they are. In an anarchist society it would be daddy with the shotgun., or wergild. The value of an individual body or a soul would be nobody else's business.

Apparently not. Thanks for the whose/who's issue, it's something that escapes the spellcheckers. They didn't want to teach anybody, they wanted to *appear* as if they do. That's why a suggestion like getting native speakers in is one they don't like: It's a threat to them. Makes sense. Yes , public education makes ultimate sense. Here's the first thing I tell my writing students: SPELLCHECK IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. Native speakers make ridiculous fools of themselves using it. Canadians are incredibly bad spellers anyway, appallingly bad, except for me.

Adam, it is. You are a wonder. Indulge me while I give you more Grampy. He was what in those days was called a "strong Anglican" and marched the family to church every Sunday, even in the summer when he would come in from the woods for the occasion, and to eat Sunday dinner. However in the 1970s he boarded up all the front windows of his house, although the panes were not broken. He said it was to keep the minister from visiting. He was the last person in the "Four Towns" to keep a horse and use said animal for transport. When it got too old to go anywhere, he became the worst driver in town, possibly in the whole province. He just put his foot on the gas pedal until he got where he wanted to go. When he got into an accident, which was frequently, he would just abandon the car and walk home and call one of his sons-in-law to go deal with the situation. It was usually my father because he worked night shifts and was available to be woken up. In his later years, except for the meals his daughters brought him, he subsisted entirely on stew, which always simmered on his old wood stove. He always begged the grandchildren to taste it. He said it contained squirrel, rat. cat and grass snake, and I believe that it did, to this day.

J, did you look up Milltown ?(my home until age 7 when we moved a whole mile to the vast metropolis of St Stephen, a culture shock which y mother never fully recovered from) I think it was the first worker-owned paper mill in Canada, of course it almost immediately closed. Before that my whole family worked there. Most of them hated it, most notably my grandfather, probably the least illustrious employee the mill ever had. Every summer he would get himself fired or just slope off to "work in the woods" ie do very little in blissful solitude/ But in the winter he had to go back to the mill again because he had five children. There is a memorial there now overlooking the mill site on the St Croix, with the names of the workers. Grampy's name is not on it because he refused to subscribe to it. He said he would not pay one cent to remember working in that cussed place. It's quite a beautiful site. I am a unionist indeed a socialist, but when I reflect on the reminiscences and characters of my relatives, I feel a strong sympathy for the management of that mill.

You loathe and fear the National Restaurant Association?!?! J Wellyeah, as the president of the Canadian Association of Cowards I fear pretty much everybody, but I do not loathe the National Restaurant Association and you got me good, J. I was thinking of rifles, my mistake. However I do disrespect the resteranteurs in the USA because they do not pay minimum wage and they fire employees without cause. I know it is legal but it is not right, P.s. I know whereof I speak here. I myself was fired from an American restaurant, because my mother told my uncle to fire me because I should be home studying and not traipsing across the bridge to flirt with those lowlife Calais boys. I forgave her eventually, because I am a good person. Did you remember to take the contents of your tip jar with you, thus earning more than minimum wage? Anyway, why should the NRA be feared and loathed because your mother told your uncle to fire you? I mean, if you had "worked" instead in the same capacity at a socialist, state-owned People's Cafeteria in the Canadian workers' paradise of Milltown or Union Mills, and your mother had convinced your uncle, the General Secretary of the local Food Laborers Collective, to dismiss you, how would you find a way to blame American economic freedom for your woes? J You loathe and fear the National Restaurant Association?!?! J Wellyeah, as the president of the Canadian Association of Cowards I fear pretty much everybody, but I do not loathe the National Restaurant Association and you got me good, J. I was thinking of rifles, my mistake. However I do disrespect the resteranteurs in the USA because they do not pay minimum wage and they fire employees without cause. I know it is legal but it is not right, P.s. I know whereof I speak here. I myself was fired from an American restaurant, because my mother told my uncle to fire me because I should be home studying and not traipsing across the bridge to flirt with those lowlife Calais boys. I forgave her eventually, because I am a good person. Did you remember to take the contents of your tip jar with you, thus earning more than minimum wage? Anyway, why should the NRA be feared and loathed because your mother told your uncle to fire you? I mean, if you had "worked" instead in the same capacity at a socialist, state-owned People's Cafeteria in the Canadian workers' paradise of Milltown or Union Mills, and your mother had convinced your uncle, the General Secretary of the local Food Laborers Collective, to dismiss you, how would you find a way to blame American economic freedom for your woes? J Trust me, I would find a way. Tip jar, you must be joking. Uncle had his hands full haggling with the regulars over the price of the hoagies.

Phil, I think your anger is well-judged. The failure of Objectivism as a movement, as a spark of new ideas spreading from mind to mind; seems to be a failure of talent on all levels. Being super-bright and congratulating each other about it, does not a revolution make. To take one area, writing, the movement has produced no writers of talent who had any impact on the larger world. Objectivist-influenced fiction writers produce competent revenge fantasies, nothing more. And as to the philosophical writers, who are talented and more than competent,what is the impetus for anybody to read them? There are no evangelists. Contrast the Jesus movement, where converts of charisma and intellectual power went out to restate the message, changing it and refining it in the crrucibles of their souls. Peikoff and Kelley have stayed home in their cozy dens...best place for them.

Uck, JONATHAN! I'm not going to tell you again!

My first English word to learn was "color", as that was a command in the C-16 basic when I started to teach myself programming at the age of 7. Most of what I learned was in part from the public school system, but also from video games and American television, together with diligence, the joy of self-improvement and the firm belief that it's the language of the better. Of my English lessons I vividly remember reading "Ecotopia", a novel about a "utopian" society ruled by a political caste of feminist women on the soil of California. All men had to built their own homes by hand, so that they know what's good for them. On the subject matter, he didn't know words like waning and waxing, so he was just as incompetent as I've come to expect teachers to be. I used to wonder why my suggestions of getting native speakers into schools to improve quality was met with hostility by both teachers and many other adults back then. Now I know: To teach children was not their goal. I congratulate you on the success of your autodidactatorship. Your English is excellent. I admit I had not read many of your posts when I made my snap judgment on this, but it was a compliment. I am sorry that your teachers did not want to teach children. Maybe they should instead have been teaching adults, as I do. Carol Public educator

Oh, I never doubted John was from Gerany. I thought maybe he had an English speaking parent or otherwise learned English young. Fascinating story about the dubbing. You have been around haven 't you? Ever think of writing a novel? Not a This is What I Learned and How I Learned It but a This is What I Did fictionalized. You mentioned people trying to start language schools. I know a lot of people who have worked abroad teaching English. Some of my friends went to China after retirement to teach English. Free everything, including maids, Christmas on Thai beaches, $30,ooo for the year pure profit. At low points in our family finances my son used to suggest that I take a year in China. I actually considered it, it would have cleared up everything. But two snags were insuperable. One, I would have to quit my job and lose all my seniority, and come home to no job or keep going back to China and work hard, which I do not do here. Two, I would leave my house in the tender care of my then-20 year old son and his many, many friends. Uh, no.