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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe have a small window....can we figure out a way to
keep the orange shitstain from re-entering the U.S. after this stupid ass meeting in Singapore?
Or better yet, let's quickly find him guilty of treason and deter the plane directly to Guantanamo Bay.
A man can dream, right?
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We have a small window....can we figure out a way to (Original Post)
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2018
OP
As a bizarre aside-- do you know about Ghouliani's obsession with ferrets?
TreasonousBastard
Jun 2018
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bucolic_frolic
(43,570 posts)1. You're onto something - all these trade wars, dissing our best allies
is he going to close the borders?
dameatball
(7,411 posts)2. Maybe just tell him his Nobel prize is there waiting to be picked up.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,122 posts)3. LOL
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. As a bizarre aside-- do you know about Ghouliani's obsession with ferrets?
Major news in the city at the time. Better than his war on windshield washers.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2014/06/04/ferret_legalization_in_new_york_rudy_giuliani_s_anti_weasel_rant_video.html
In June 1999, prompted by the Giuliani administration, the New York City Board of Health voted to include ferrets on its comically elaborate list of banned creatures, where they joined polar bears, venomous centipedes, zebras, and all non-human primates. New York City had already disallowed ferrets in 1959, and Giulianis administration had fought off legal challenges to that ban, but that evidently wasnt enough. These weasels pose a special danger to children, the city reasoned, saying their attacks on infants and other people were notorious for their severity and capriciousness.
About a month later, a caller phoned in to Mayor Giulianis radio show on behalf of a pro-ferret organization that sought to legalize keeping the critters as pets. Giuliani hung up on the man, but that didnt stop him from launching into an unhinged, now-famous tirade, decrying the mans excessive concern with little weasels with characteristic deafness to irony. In 2007, Rob Donnelly charmingly animated the screed for Slate, and its glory has not faded:
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,122 posts)5. Yes, thank you for the reminder...
I loathe the man.