Defending the franchise

Geez, Dawg... if you can't stand the heat... maybe you should stay outta the cesspool.
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Alive

Cape Breton Regional Police are reporting that a missing seven-year-old autistic child has been found alive.

Police are saying that James Delorey has been found with a faint pulse and is being rushed to hospital.

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I don't get it... a continuing series

One of the stranger things I've seen advertised on television lately is an eyelash brush with... and I swear I'm not making this up... a built-in motor. Apparently the motor vibrates the brush and this purportedly results in, well... something extraordinary.

I'm thinking this must actually be some sort of ditz detector... which alerts the cosmo-bots at the face-spackle counter to the presence of borderline morons... who will buy into pretty much anything some cutting edge fashionista stoner might dream up.

And who exactly are the folks who can rhyme off the personal experiences and vital statistics of all the bimbos getting boinked by professional athletes? I mean... besides Lloyd Robertson?

Could we possibly dumb life down any more than this?

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UPDATE: So, the question was...

...what kind of a moron... and well, of course...
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So, that's the good news?

For what it’s worth, the notion of a coup d’etat to take out Iggy even before his first anniversary in power is a mighty hard swallow.

Every Liberal leader gets to lose an election before the knife penetrates their shoulder blades and Mr. Ignatieff is no exception to that bloody rule.

Of course... if your standards aren't all that high to begin with...

If he is acquitted, Mr. Lavigne will be able to end his leave of absence and return to the Senate.

If convicted, he could lose the annual pay and the office, but start receiving an indexed parliamentary pension.

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No good deed

Bright lights, big city... gonna squash you like a bug.

-- TORONTO -- A 33-year-old man facing second-degree murder charges was arrested last night following the brutal death of a young Toronto mother this weekend.

Police had issued a Canada-wide warrant Sunday for Levi Samuel Aggek after the body of Spring Phillips, 26, was found in her East End apartment the previous afternoon.

Ms. Phillips had offered Mr. Aggek a place to sleep Saturday night, police said. He has spent much of his time sleeping in shelters since arriving in the city two to three months ago from the East Coast.

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RELATED: Busy, busy, busy

A man is dead after an early morning shooting yesterday.

Police were called around 3:30 a.m. to the Islington-Steeles Aves. area where they found a man in his 20s suffering from a gunshot wound.

About 15 men in their 20s, who were gathered around the home of the man, said they didn't know what had happened.

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Saving the Planet...

...one stretch Hummer at a time.

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Putting a lovely new shine...

...on lawyers... and that whole "paid lobbyist" business...

"We also took into account that he's entitled to earn a living, and he can bring value, and for us when we took all these factors into account it was not a difficult decision at all."

"We're very excited about it," said West.

Funny how all these politically-connected fatcats... whatever the circumstances... always seem to land on their feet.

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Stumbling around in the dark

Globe & Mail trips over yesterday's news... breaks journalistic leg...

Said one scientist working at the institute: “It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this has set the climate-change debate back 20 years.”

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If only there was a law

A gunman who opened fire at a Toronto plainsclothes cop early today is being urged to surrender.

The 33 Division officer was headed back to his unmarked cruiser at 2:36 a.m. when he was confronted by three men at an apartment complex on the southeast corner of Finch and Victoria Park Aves.

Seconds after the exchange of words, one of the three pulled out a handgun and opened fire.

Mayor's office, yet again, curiously silent... on which gun club the shooters belonged to.

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