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Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 04:43 PM Jun 2018

We 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
You're onto something - all these trade wars, dissing our best allies bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #1
Maybe just tell him his Nobel prize is there waiting to be picked up. dameatball Jun 2018 #2
LOL Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #3
As a bizarre aside-- do you know about Ghouliani's obsession with ferrets? TreasonousBastard Jun 2018 #4
Yes, thank you for the reminder... Ferrets are Cool Jun 2018 #5

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. As a bizarre aside-- do you know about Ghouliani's obsession with ferrets?
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 05:59 PM
Jun 2018

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 Giuliani’s administration had fought off legal challenges to that ban, but that evidently wasn’t 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 Giuliani’s 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 didn’t stop him from launching into an unhinged, now-famous tirade, decrying the man’s “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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