6261...And You Thought Rob Ford Was Bad

Hey ain't got nothin' on the current mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner.

This guy is such a dog that dogs are upset with him.  NPR and KPBS tell all that hizzoner is a sexual predator.  "At a press conference on Monday, attorneys Marco Gonzalez, Cory Briggs and former council member Donna Frye — all former Filner supporters — revealed the details of the allegations from three women who wish to remain anonymous.  According to statements from the women, one campaign volunteer said the mayor '[jammed] his tongue down her throat' and groped her; a constituent said that he kissed her and asked her on a date; a staffer said that he 'grabbed her ass and touched her chest.'"


In an Adam Giabrone esque twist his " former fiancee, Bronwyn Ingram, came forward with the reasoning for their split..'Bob's constant infidelities which are being flaunted in my face lately along with his abusiveness and disrespect has become absolutely intolerable'"

Props to the mayor.  He ain't denying anything.  He also, even though 59 per cent of San Diegoians want him to, ain't quitting.

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6260...Boys In Skirts

Great Britain is going thru a heat wave.

A heat wave in Great Britain btw means the temp is close to 20.



The management at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff, Wales, told the boys there that they canna wear shorts.  The Mirror reports that 17 grade 10 students at Gareth Bale's old school have outsmarted management by wearing skirts.

Yet another reason why we won the war.

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6259...Justin Trudeau Has A Plan

From my real world and Facebook friend Shane Mackenzie.



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6258...Forget About The Senate

Global reports that the NHL is going to send players to the 2014 Olympics.

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6257...Vive La Belle Province

Not the resto; the actual province.

I am sure that someway, somehow, Pauline Marois and the Parti Quebecois will blame this on the English but...

Here is the story, direct from the Sun papers via Fark.

MONTREAL - Quebec's education ministry admits it gave out 130,000 high school diplomas with one pretty obvious grammatical error on them.

Most of the diplomas were presented in last month's graduation ceremonies across the province, but the error has been there for the past nine months.

Twin sisters noticed the problem after graduating and informed QMI Agency, which called the education department.

The error lies with the fact that verbs in French must agree with either masculine or feminine subjects in a sentence.

The diplomas are signed as if the education minister and deputy minister are both women. That was the case until recently. But nine months ago, a man was appointed deputy minister.

Thus, the verb should have been changed to its masculine spelling since, in French, the male verb is predominant.

"It is so simple. We learn that in high school," said Andréanne Graton, who recently graduated from Collège Laval.

"If we had made an error like that at school, we would have looked ridiculous," said her sister Gaëlle.

It would cost $225,000 to redo all the diplomas, said a spokesman for the ministry. So they won't. But they will offer a corrected version to those students who ask for one.

The spokesman said they are sorry for the error, which was caused by not paying attention to detail.

Seriously this could happen anywhere but it did happen ther.

Oops.

There.

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6256...Next For Ottawa: Locusts

Yer capital is going thru a nasty heat wave.

Today there is a tornado warning.



One would presume that locusts are next.

Personally I blame Mike Duffy.

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6255...3 Storey Tall Mike Duffy In Ottawa

The Canadian Taxpayers Association, a group who unofficially shill for the Stephen Harpers, unveiled a 3 storey tall Senator Mike Duffy, Kanata-Prince Edward Island, earlier today in your capital.

The Ottawa Citizen reports that "The Canadian Taxpayers Federation unveiled its new mascot Thursday in a call for a referendum on the future of the Senate: a 10-metre-tall inflatable version of Sen. Mike Duffy. Well, the balloon is actually 'Duffy-esque,' said Scott Hennig, a spokesman for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation who helped co-ordinate the creation."  Lawyers and all that, eh?



The organization plans on taking the balloon on a tour of Canada.  When deflated the ersatz Senator weighs a mere 120 pounds, about a fifth of what the real Senator weighs.  They hope to force a referendum on the future of the Red Chamber.  

"A survey done by the federation in June showed that 82 per cent of Canadian Taxpayers Federation supporters were in favour a national referendum on the future of the Senate."

Senator Duffy was asked to comment but he no get back to the paper.

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