October 2011
“It was hardly the first fishy shipment to pass through Gioia Tauro. Famously, just six weeks after 9/11, workers there heard noises coming from inside a container being transshipped to Nova Scotia via Rotterdam. Inside, police found an Egyptian-born Canadian carrying a Canadian passport, a satellite phone, a cell phone, a laptop, cameras, maps, and security passes to airports in Canada, Thailand, and Egypt. The container’s interior was outfitted with a bed, a water supply, a heater, and a toilet. Nicknamed Container Bob, the man posted bail in Italian court and was never seen again.”
—Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? | Magazine
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Cain said he believed that the protesters are driven by envy of the rich.
“I find the one thing [the protesters] have in common revolves around the human emotions of envy and entitlement,” he said. “What you have is more than what I have, and I’m not happy with my situation.”
Cain seems like a nice enough guy, but I nearly blew my stack when I heard this. When you take into consideration all the theft and fraud and market manipulation and other evil shit Wall Street bankers have been guilty of in the last ten-fifteen years, you have to have balls like church bells to trot out a propaganda line that says the protesters are just jealous of their hard-earned money.
” —Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
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“But really: the details of this whole thing are just angels on the head of a pin. What this, the whole ridiculous uproar over a comedy segment gone crazy proves is what we already knew: the Ford administration is a neverending shitshow in which any routine political moment can turn into a disgraceful, undignified mess.”
—The Grid TO | This whole Ford fucking 911 controversy
“Ford’s statement came after a report by CBC News that quoted sources who claimed Ford turned on the dispatcher who took one of the calls and said: “You … bitches! Don’t you f—king know? I’m Rob f—king Ford, the mayor of this city!”
—Rob Ford denies calling 911 dispatcher names - Toronto - CBC News
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“You wonder, ‘Could that really have been what it was like?’ I think when you reach the age of 16, you begin to realize that it was just petrifyingly dangerous. It should not have legally existed for as long as it did. Like, how long did it exist? Two decades? That makes literally no sense to me. I’m stunned nobody was killed. I’m stunned no one was sued.”
—The Grid TO | Down the rabbit hole
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“I used to drive an ac and kept a mac in the engine.”
—Urban Dictionary: mac
