Jonathan McLeod
Jonathan McLeod is a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario. (That means Canada.) He spends too much time following local politics and writing about zoning issues. Follow him on Twitter.
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on The Mandate That Wasn’tThis is not 3D, let alone 11th dimensional chess. It's basic negotiating. Strategic concession, anch…on The Mandate That Wasn’tDoesn't seem plausible. Trump doesn't play 11th-dimensional chess and Gaetz apparently pulled out on…
- on The Mandate That Wasn’tGaetz always seemed like a negotiating tactic to me. A ready-made concession to get other nominees l…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024It was an IRBM. Still nuclear capable, but not quite as scary if you're not in Eastern Europe.
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024I hope that there was a "by the way, this isn't a nuke" call on the red phone first.
- on The Mandate That Wasn’tOh, so you see what I did there.... Congratulations? But at last ... finally, something worth discus…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tI'm curious to see if he takes his seat in the next congress... I'd assume yes, but seeing some armc…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tGaetz may not be able to accept it but I think Trump just used him to see where the bar would be wit…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tLook for a soft landing at Heritage.
on The Mandate That Wasn’tVery interesting. If I had to guess someone figured out that there was no way in God(ess?)'s green e…
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Meh, another tempest in a teapot by folks that can’t or won’t use the English language correctly. Kind of like folks that object to the word niggardlyReport
So we can put you down for the pro-rape crowd? Why am I not surprised…Report
Being a republican, I certainly am.Report
I brought this up in a post a while back..over a year…and wasn’t believed…until I posted a Wash Post link to the story about a guy using niggardly in a meeting and being suspended/fired.Report
Please tell me this isn’t going to be one of those threads where folks point to a guy who called his white co-workers cheapskates but found an archaic synonym that sounds like an ethnic slur for his black co-worker, and say “this proves liberals are wrong”Report
Actually, he said it to a group of black people and one took offense. Demands were made. He was fired. He was offered his job back when the “full investigation” determined that he used the word “niggardly” not “the n word”. It’s a nice intersection of ignorance, racism, bloated outrage, and entitlement politics. Your nation’s capital.Report
Al Jourgensen could not be reached for comment.Report
There’s a reason the Knack named it “My Canola”.Report
@mike-schilling
Don’t plant the seeds of bad jokes.Report
Great. Now I’ve got Stigmata stuck in my head.Report
I remember when I learned this was the source of the album name.
“Can’t POSSIBLY be true”, I thought.Report
If the Washington NFL team were called the Rapists, not only would they not change it, they’d insist that most women didn’t find it offensive.Report
. . . and then the fans would come up with a “cheer” consisting of mimicking . . .Report
Mike
We could call them the washington strawmen in honor of your nonsensical post.Report
I believe the Washington Strawmen prefer to be called the Generals.Report
Funny thing is I can totally see a city naming it after real rape, cause you know, all those indigenous peoples getting raped a killed during the white migration and such…Report
Don’t you mean because they keep on raping the women now?
There are funny laws about Indian property, and there’s more than one small town thinks they got the right to rape women.
Oh, no, the bastards weren’t too happy when someone decided to set up a women’s shelter.
So unhappy they dared to burn the place down…Report
Ortega famously argues that the state originated out of rape and abduction.Report
I’m glad we kicked his ass out of Nicaragua.Report
We almost got Missouri Loves Company as a slogan.
It made it into the final round, it did.Report
Solution – give Salt-N-Peppa honorary citizenship and make the slogan “Land of Rappin’ Honeys”.Report
Also, from the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board c. 20 or 25 years ago.
http://www.funnysigns.net/files/pork-love-400×269.jpgReport
They should get together with these people.Report
They should change rape to rapeseed to clarify for all they poorly educated folks out there. It’s sad that folks have been dumbed down so much. It’s also sad that Canada isn’t immune from this growing phenomenon.Report
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As I noted last time, because of your past your leash is shorter than most when you try to push the envelope like that. Come back in three weeks.Report
And this is why it’s called canola now.Report
@katherinemw
Canola and rape are not the same. Canola is rape that has been bred so that its oil has different properties.Report
They’re very similar, though, and they did change the name for PR/sales reasons so that they wouldn’t be selling it as “rapeseed”.Report