Well, here's the quote. I think Bob Rae was thinking more along these lines--you know, an Alpine perch being a high place from which one might look down upon the roiling mob and occasionally swoop low and destroy a few of them. Like this, for example.
I don't think Bob had this in mind at all.
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first link is the one about pensions from the later post.
ReplyDeleteThx. Changed it.
ReplyDeleteHigh indeed: at 1560 m above sea level, the municipality happens to be the highest in Europe, that is at the level of the actual town, not the mountains surrounding it.
ReplyDeleteEr...Dan was having us on. He'd just finished a series about "inappropriate" WWII comparisons, ending with a comparison of Mark Carney and...Dwight D. Eisenhower.
ReplyDeleteThat's my take, and I'm sticking to it.
Mmmmm, Alpine perch. Seasoned in flour, fried in butter..
ReplyDeleteDawg is right.
ReplyDeleteThis is just a minor tempest, which was started by somebody complaining when Rob Ford compared that someone to Stalin. (Don't bother looking up the backstory: it's pointlessly boring.)
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