Lake of Fake

[sabotabby]

Okay, so they've killed countless women in impoverished countries by cutting abortion funding.

They've killed countless people in Afghanistan by dropping bombs on them.

They've spied on us.

They've shit all over the democratic process and the very concept of a free press.

They've claimed to be advocates of small government while racking up a debt that puts the Liberals to shame.

They've decided to fuck over the people of Toronto (all of us suspiciously gay, brown, terror-supporting, sushi-eating small-l-liberals who don't vote for Tories anyway) by shutting down our city to host a party for the top layer of global elite scum.

But for some reason, the $2 million dollar fake lake that they're building with my fucking tax money hits a nerve that I thought had been numbed by four years of living under this greedy, paranoid, degenerate excuse for a government.

Heh. The Star is running a contest to name the Lake of Fake.

Comments

[fengi.livejournal.com]

I've noticed the Candian folk I read seem to purposely restrain themselves themselves from ranting too often about the Harper administration - I suspect for reasons of mental health. But once I heard about this on the CBC News podcast, I could hear the last nerves being gotten upon from here.

Side note on a previous outrage: didn't they give the boot to a police inquiry specialist who was widely respected because he was doing too good a job with his reports on taser deaths and the like?

Sorry, that anonymous was me: you can delete it.

[sabotabby]

I rant a lot about it. Most Canadians are incredibly apathetic and do not give a shit about what sort of abuses are committed in their names, as long as it doesn't affect them personally. I suspect people outside of Toronto care less about Harper trashing our city for the G20 than we do, because most non-Hogtowners seem to hate and fear Toronto.

But this is such an incredibly huge waste of taxpayers' money—and federal taxpayers' money, no less—that I think the entire country might finally be a bit perturbed.

Side note on a previous outrage: didn't they give the boot to a police inquiry specialist who was widely respected because he was doing too good a job with his reports on taser deaths and the like?

This sounds familiar.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's apathy, but among those I read, like you, it also seems to be "if I start I won't be able to stop". Which is how I feel about the BP envirocrime: there's so much I want to say about it, but it would mostly be page after page of swearing and unhinged violent fantasies.

[sabotabby]

That's the outspoken blogular types, though.

The average taxpayer? "Fuck you, I got mine."

I feel the same way about BP. In general, I don't feel like I can write many in-depth posts about politics or news lately because I'm just that filled with rage.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

It would be a shame if something happened to that marketing prop, like an oil spill. Completely change its symbolism.

[sabotabby]

Hahaha. I like this idea. Though I think it may be a holographic lake or something.

Besides, no one is getting anywhere near the fake lake. They are shutting down the city, putting God knows how many people out of work, and making half the downtown a closed military zone.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

They are shutting down the city, putting God knows how many people out of work, and making half the downtown a closed military zone.

...What?

Man, I know nothing.

[sabotabby]

Oh yeah. We are both lucky that we live out east and don't drive.

Here's a map of all the places you can't go.

By the way, I don't know if you're taking classes during the summer, but they are definitely shutting down UofT.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

...Cockmonkeys!

Thankfully, no, I'm not taking summer classes.

The fuck is this bullshit? Why would you do that? If you need to put up a security perimeter that you don't want people to casually cross, how about NOT DROPPING IT IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY FUCKING CITY? They could've had this thing anyfuckingwhere, right? Like, I don't know, a chunk of land that doesn't have the CN fucking Tower in it?

[sabotabby]

Because Harper has insecurity issues about the size of his dick, and thus must show off that he has a really big one, a.k.a. the CN fucking Tower.

(I want a MEGA FUCK OFF CANNON.)

[lienne.livejournal.com]

here you go

[sabotabby]

Why thank you!

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Er... according to that map, U of T isn't anywhere near the security zone. It's just a smallish area around the convention centre and union station. Unless there are other closed-off areas away from the "yellow zone"?

BTW, I love some of the names people have come up with for that fake lake! I think my favourite thus far is "The Excesspool".

[curgoth]

U of T is closing down because it's near Queen's Park, the designated protest zone. So U of T is cancelling classes, closing Hart House, and shipping kids in residence off to Mississauga for the week.

Queen's Park (the buildings, provincial parliament etc.) itself is also, of course, completely closed to the public for the duration.

[sabotabby]

They'll have to rip the Tim Horton's cup out of my cold dead hands.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Right-wing Americans secretly want a King to rule them from on high with an iron fist, so it all comes full circle.

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

BLLLaurgghh!! Can't speak..angry.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they did the same in I, Claudius. They got gladiators to fight in ships on the fake lake and kill each other for their entertainment.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

You should enter the contest with names that mean fake: Lake Spurious or Lake Ersatz...

[loolica.livejournal.com]

I think someone should stage a fake oilspill in the lake. At least it would serve some kind of purpose other than raising people's ire. Well, clearly it would still raise some people's ire--just different people, people whose ire deserves to be raised.

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

Well you know there's probably going to be some sort of buffet table and coffee/tea stand in the vicinity of the fake lake. Imagine if all those present could conspire to dump in the lake anything oil-like or crude-oil-coloured.

E.g. salad oil, balsamic vinegar, gravy, coffee, tea, cola

[culpster.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much perfect. I always get hives when I link to the Star but Walkom really has his moments:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/820881--walkom-harper-s-fake-lake-and-the-virtual-reality-summit