Suck it up terrorhead...

You got a problem with the "will of Allah"?

-- Washington -- Canadian terrorism suspect Omar Khadr lost his last bid Monday to have the U.S. Supreme Court review his murder case before he faces trial at Guantanamo Bay.

Ya just gotta believe, baby!

RELATED: Allah works in mysterious ways...

The interior ministry in Iraq says it has received intelligence that the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed.

Officials said Masri was killed in an "internal battle" between militants.

Is anybody else getting tired of...

This seemingly endless, manufactured Fiberal outrage?

As Joël-Denis Bellavance reported in La Presse on Saturday, documents obtained from Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department show that the Liberal government was warned in 2003, 2004 and 2005 that torture was an ongoing practice in Afghan prisons.

Yet Paul Martin nonetheless signed a 2005 agreement by which our soldiers would transfer detainees to Afghan custody.

How can anyone who reads about the countless episodes of fiberal serial chicanery regarding Afghanistan... not be insane with rage?

These people are just rotten to the core.

RELATED: Not that the jihadis are any better.

From a training manual recovered at a Manchester safe-house...

At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by State Security [investigators] before the judge.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, knaves and liars, Afghanistan

Virginia Tech "massacre"...

Could have been much worse...

Maybe not for the families and friends of those killed... but take a step back and look at "the Big Picture."

In short, every six and a half years, give or take a couple of months, Americans get massacred. The difference this time is that the body count is so much lower.

Why? Because the weapons were just guns.

But maybe next time we won't be so lucky. Maybe the killer won't use a weapon that requires him to walk across campus to get from the first two victims to the next 30.

Maybe he'll do what killers already do in Iraq: take out scores of people in one blast.

So for anyone sitting there, who just mentally celebrated the convictions and life sentences handed to the would-be British jihadi-bombers... just remember... their friends and fellow madmen are inevitably bringing this sort of insanity to your doorstep.

One mentally-ill loner is the least of your problems.

RELATED: I mean, look at Canada...

Software developer Mohammed Momin Khawaja was employed at Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs when he was arrested.

In 2003 he had travelled to Pakistan and attended a training camp with some of the UK suspects.

According to evidence heard in court, his alleged role was to build a detonator. He is facing trial in Canada.

Technorati Tags: Virginia Tech, gun control, mental illness

Another aboriginal tantrum...

144 years after the fact...

"It belongs to us," James Bryant, a spokesman for the hereditary chiefs of the Allied Tsimshian Tribes of Lax Kw'alaams and Metlakatla, defiantly declared as the collection's new owners shifted uncomfortably in the audience.

The collection's history dates back to its acquisition in 1863, at Old Metlakatla, near present-day Prince Rupert, where it was given up - or stolen, depending on your point of view - as part of the natives' conversion to Christianity.

See also... "Gimme that, or I'll kill you."

Technorati Tags: aboriginal, culture of victimhood, pleading and threatening

If martyrdom is the goal...

Then the so-called "Spring Offensive" is a whopping success...

Nato-led forces and Afghan troops have killed scores of Taleban fighters in the western province of Herat, a coalition statement says.

It said 87 had been killed in a 14-hour battle on Sunday, 49 died two days earlier and one US soldier died.

Despite the dervish-like spinning of CTV and the CBC, the only way to interpret this latest conflict is overwhelming victory for NATO forces.

And they're just getting started...

In the south, Operation Silicon aims to drive Taleban fighters from their stronghold in the Sangin valley in Helmand province - the biggest poppy-producing area in the world for opium.

As I said earlier...

"Every time these death-donkeys go head to head against actual soldiers... they get their asses handed to them."

Remember that when you watch the news tonight.

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RELATED: Where cowardly jihadis really shine...

-- BAGHDAD, April 30 (Reuters) -- A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 32 people when he blew himself up among mourners at a Shi'ite funeral north of Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi police said.

The attack took place inside a crowded mourning tent in the town of Khalis in volatile Diyala province, police said.

More than 52 people had been wounded, police said.

Allah must be so proud.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, NATO, kicking Talibutt

Anybody got their Koran handy?

I'm just dying to know which hadith covers this situation.

-- PARIS (Reuters) -- Sitting in a cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any other Parisian.

But two months ago, she did something none of her friends have done. She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again.

This 30-minute outpatient procedure, called "hymenoplasty" and costing between 1,500 and 3,000 euros ($2,000-$4,000), is increasingly popular among young women of North African descent in France.

Who says you can't have your virginity and, um... eat it too?

Technorati Tags: France, hymenoplasty, modern Islam

"What you were part of...

... 40 years ago changed Canada forever,” cried Justin Trudeau as he won the nomination for the riding of Papineau.

Yup, no argument there... and the country hasn't fully recovered to this day.

"In 1968, when Trudeau went from rich, socialist professor who had never held a real job in his life to prime minister, Canada’s national debt was a modest $11.3 billion; the federal deficit was zero."

"When Trudeau left office in 1984, the debt had mushroomed to $128 billion; the deficit to $25 billion annually."

Anyone who doesn't get all their current events from the CBC, knows that Pierre Trudeau was the worst thing to happen to this country since the war of 1812.

And no one in their right mind wants to hand the tiller of the ship of state to his goofy, semi-celebrity, Fidel-sucking progeny.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, tax and spend, Justin Trudeau

The next logical step...

For any self-respecting Mullahocracy... is rounding up all the sissies...

Iranian police have warned barbers not to give men western hair styles or use make up on them.

Iranian television has said the crackdown on un-Islamic clothing has entered its second phase now where mobile police units will patrol Tehran to look for those who are not observing Islamic dress properly.

And while we're at, say the faithful, let's round up all the whores too...

According to the local media, Tehran's public prosecutor has suggested women who violate dress rules should be exiled from the capital to remote areas of the country.

Alright... now we've really got a party!!!

Technorati Tags: Iran, flat, black, glows in the dark

Australia steps up

Tells celebrity criminal to piss off...

Rapper Snoop Dogg has been banned from entering Australia after failing a character test, according to officials.

"He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told Sydney's Macquarie Radio.

I've never understood the "bad boy" thing... how anyone can profess to admire these obscenely wealthy, narcissistic, substance abusing cretins.

Good on ya, Australia.

"Accepted wisdom..."

Can kill you.

-- From Saturday's Globe and Mail -- Those studying the vitamin say the hide-from-sunlight advice has amounted to the health equivalent of a foolish poker trade.

Anyone practicing sun avoidance has traded the benefit of a reduced risk of skin cancer — which is easy to detect and treat and seldom fatal — for an increased risk of the scary, high-body-count cancers, such as breast, prostate and colon, that appear linked to vitamin D shortages.

"Fifteen hundred Americans die every year from skin cancers."

"Fifteen hundred Americans die every day from the serious cancers."

Just something to consider the next time you hear Al Gore, or Saint David Suzuki spouting apocalyptic warnings... without providing a shred of scientific evidence to back it up.

RELATED: Didn't expect this either, huh?

The researchers are quick to stress their report doesn't advocate ripping out carpets of trees.

What it does suggest, said study supporter and University of Toronto professor Danny Harvey, is that a "loophole" in the Kyoto Protocol which allows countries to use reforestation to offset their carbon emissions is seriously flawed.

"I would say to every politician, protect forestry, but don't try to claim credit," said the professor of climatology. "I am absolutely strongly in favour of planting forests for ecological reasons, biodiversity and for its beauty."

"But don't claim climate credit for it."

Technorati Tags: Al Gore, David Suzuki, State of Fear

More business sense...

And hopefully... less bolshevism, bestiality and bowel movements...

Look out... there's a new Czar at the Communistic Broadcasting Corporation.

-- CanWest News Service -- Since 1997, Casgrain has served as chairman of Skyservice Investments Inc., a Canadian aviation company. He was also the executive vice-president of Brascan Financial Corp. between 1976 and 2002, and he worked at NBS Technologies as president and chief executive officer between 1988 and 1995.

However, the new chairman’s business credentials did little to win over NDP culture critic Charlie Angus.

“I’d really like to know why him and why not someone who comes out of broadcast,” Angus said.

Really Charlie... you think we need another Guy Fournier?

Casgrain will replace Guy Fournier, who resigned suddenly from the CBC board of directors in September after stirring up controversy over comments he made about bestiality and bowel movements.

Not making that up... swear to God.

-- MONTREAL -- CBC chairman Guy Fournier has become the target of anger and derision in his home province after falsely claiming that Lebanon permits bestiality and for granting a lengthy interview on the joys of bowel movements.

h/t -- Flaggman --

Technorati Tags: CBC, Timothy Casgrain, new sheriff in town

Fiberal high-flier...

Goes down in flames.

27 Apr 23:30 - Just watched CTV news do a complete puff piece on Lafleur.

Sandie Rinaldo gravely intoned that, "Lafleur took money, for work of little or no value", somehow forgetting to mention that Lafleur was actually handed contracts worth tens of millions of dollars by his Liberal government friends... the only expectation being, that he kick back money to the Fiberals themselves.

No word on Lafleur making any sort of restitution.

Some hard-hitting reporting there, Sandie.

UPDATE: How much time at Club Fed...

Could you do for 12 million dollars?

Lafleur's company made some $65 million from government business from 1995 to 2003. During that time, he and several family members collected nearly $12 million in salaries and bonuses.

Justice John Gomery's report into the sponsorship scandal found Lafleur cultivated contacts in the federal Liberal party that "contributed to what may be described as a financial bonanza for Jean Lafleur and his family."

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, Adscam, Gomery Report

The wheels on the taxpayer...

Go round and round...

The Necessary Angel Theatre Company received a gift of $50,925 of our money!

Was that necessary for the well being of Torontonians? Probably no more so than the $2,000 for the Toronto Vegetarian Association, the $3,500 we gave Solo Chicken Productions, the $10,000 that went to the Toronto Fashion Incubator, the $4,000 to the Toronto Free Gallery (not free for us), the $4,500 to the Troubled Souls (troubled taxpayers) or the $29,389 to the Vermont Square Parent-Child Mother Goose Program. The Storytellers School of Toronto got $18,850. Stranger Theatre got $3,500, the Hardworkin' Homosexuals were awarded $4,000, Friends of Fort York $15,000, The Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network was in for more than $108,000, the YYZ Artists Outlet got $65,000, $27,000 was earmarked for Toronto's First Post Office and the Parent Action on Drugs got $27,950.

Pony up Toronto... because David Miller says so!!!

Technorati Tags: Mayor David Miller, tax and spend, politics as usual

If I had a billion dollars

Lemme see... if I had a billion dollars in my hot little hands and I was truly interested in preventing suffering and saving human life, would I...

(a)... blow it all on a huge database and associated computer infrastructure to track rifles owned by farmers, deer hunters and gun collectors

(b)... hire more cops, or...

(C)... drop it all into cancer research

Well, right at the moment, this one seems like a bit of a no-brainer.

-- OTTAWA -- A new report predicts the number of deaths attributable to cancer may soon surpass those caused by cardiovascular diseases.

Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for 47 per cent of deaths in Canada in 1979; by 2004, this percentage had declined to 32.

The opposite has occurred with cancer, Canada's second main cause of death: Cancer was responsible for 23 per cent of deaths in 1979; by 2004, this share had increased to 30 per cent.

Oh yeah, just for interests sake... the actual figure, carefully buried by successive Fiberal Prime Ministers... is probably a lot closer to two billion.

Think about that.

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27 Apr 23:30 - CTV managed to crank out this same article tonight, without mentioning the two billion dollars the Fiberals flushed down the toilet.

Funny, I can still hear echoes of Lib cabinet ministers when they were caught with their financial pants down, back when they first got this stinker rolling... "Well, if it saves only one life..."

Guess what, you arrogant sons-of-bitches... it didn't.

And the 3 in 10 Canadians who will die of some type of cancer, from this point onward... should spit in your smug, self-serving collective faces.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, tax and spend, politics as usual

With apologies to Jeopardy...

What well-known public figure pursued an agenda of...

"exclusiveness, racial superiority, injustice and arrogance while trying to destabilize Poland".

Well, according to Farhan Mujahid Chak, the federal Liberals' candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont... the answer is not, as one might expect, Adolph Hitler... but Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

And exactly who is Farhan Mujahid Chak?

Surprise, surprise... turns out he was Edmonton campaign manager for Stephane Dion's Liberal leadership bid.

Is there any divisive, outrageous fear-monger the Fiberals won't cosy up to these days? Chak is apparently a very popular person in the Muslim community these days, as he runs around spreading his poison.

Asked about his charge the Tories' have a philosophy of "racial superiority," he says, "Believe it or not, the Conservatives I've met in Edmonton are very racist."

Strangely though, Mr. Chak may not be as wildly enthusiastic about gun control as the rest of his fellow fiberals...

And there are questions around a 1993 shooting incident at a local club in which an Edmonton man named Farhan Mujahid Chak, then 19-- which would make him the same age as the Liberal candidate -- was charged with use of a firearm during commission of an offence and possession of an illegal weapon. (The candidate did not respond to requests for clarification on the charges.)

Yet another stellar choice by Steffi and friends.

UPDATE: Where's Steffi on racist gun-nut Lib?

"Erratic behavior and extremism have no place in Canadian politics, and yet the Liberals have nominated an individual who appears to be guilty of both," said Kenney.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Farhan Mujahid Chak, no whore like an old whore

Genealogy Friday 4

To anyone interested in genealogy, a cemetery is not a drab, depressing reminder of ones mortality. Indeed it is often a place of celebration.

Finding a well used family plot can add generations to your research in one fell swoop... and being able to search often far off cemeteries online is a huge timesaver.

And that's what you can do at the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid.

It's pretty much self explanatory. Happy hunting.

Technorati Tags: Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, dust to dust, Genealogy

You just know with Darcey...

It's all about the wood...

Algerian Islamofascist...

Gets on board the "soul train"...

Samir Saioud, also known as Samir Moussaab, was killed in fighting in Si Mustapha, east of the capital Algiers, security sources told APS news agency.

Saioud was believed to be the number-two of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).

Earlier this month, the group claimed responsibility for a series of car bombings in the capital, Algiers, including one near the prime minister's office.

Hey... this approach gets around Stephane Dion's concern about prisoners... maybe we can use it in Afghanistan.

RELATED: Bad day for al-Qaeda

The US says it has arrested a senior al-Qaeda operative on his way to Iraq to plan future attacks.

A Pentagon spokesman said Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi was heading to Iraq to take over al-Qaeda operations and plot attacks against targets in the West, the Pentagon said.

Reports said he was also accused of involvement in plots to assassinate Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.

The bigger story is that Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi is apparently the mastermind behind the July 7 suicide bombings in London and assorted terrorist plots against Britain.

And somebody's gonna be getting a special Saudi manicure... with linemans pliers.

Foreign nationals were among 172 terror suspects held in a series of raids, the interior ministry said on state TV.

Large amounts of weapons and $32.4m (£16.21m) in cash were also seized.

Technorati Tags: in the crosshairs, Religion of Peace, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat

Where's Mark Holland...

When you really need him?

The grants were given to some groups with apparent Liberal ties and without a formal application process.

Critics also questioned how an animal welfare and baseball group qualified for funds aimed at helping new immigrants settle into the province.

Funny... Mark Holland tries to portray himself as a corruption-fighter... someone who will sniff out wrongdoing.

Well, if this program doling out taxpayer money without any oversight to Liberal friendly groups doesn't stink to high heaven... I don't know what does.

Not only that... Dalton's gang is using their majority to stop the Ontario auditor general from investigating.

Again... it's our money... their friends.

Technorati Tags: corruption, Liberal Party, same old, same old

In between praying...

Five times a day...

Up to 70% of files exchanged between Saudi teenagers' mobile phones contain pornography, according to a study in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.

I'm thinkin' that hijab thing may be backfiring bigtime.

The study quoted in Arab News focussed on the phones of teenagers detained by religious police for harassing girls.

The really telling number here is this startling statistic...

The same researcher also found that 88% of girls say they have been victims of harassment using Bluetooth technology.

So... from stone-age Afghanistan to high tech Saudi Arabia... another shared cultural tradition.

Who wants to pass this one on to Jack Layton?

RELATED: Real reform on back burner

Two years ago, largely at the urging of the Bush administration, the first elections in Saudi history were held for municipal councils in a small number of cities, including Jidda, Riyadh and Mecca.

Only men could vote and only half the members were elected, but still the elections were hailed as emblems of change.

“The curse of the oil money is that it has stopped all reforms,” said Sulaiman al-Hattlan, editor in chief of Forbes Arabia, based in Dubai, and a Saudi advocate.

“The more money you have, the more arrogant you become, because you think you can implement anything your way.”

Technorati Tags: Religion of dirty pictures, Saudi Arabia, Georgia on my mind

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Before heading to Toronto...

Make sure you check your "homicide map".

Everything you need to know...

About China.

*** "China denies poisoning pets...
promises not to do it again" ***

RECIPROCITY UPDATE: Plenty of "homegrown idiocy" too...

No mention of any of this last night, naturally. Just cliched guilt tripping and feel-good feel-badness. An embarrassing waste of everyone's time, which will accomplish precisely nothing.

Waiting for the explosion

In Deseronto.

-- Local News - Thursday, April 26, 2007 @ 10:00 -- "My personal feeling is that we're sitting on a ticking time bomb."

So says Deseronto Mayor Norm Clark. At a public meeting where residents aired concerns about personal safety and plummetting property values, Clark was doing his best to calm peoples fears.

The biggest problem is those fears are entirely reasonable. Look at who they're dealing with.

He also had a cautionary message for the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte...

Clark told the public Tuesday evening that Deseronto council has encouraged the MBQ band council to come out more strongly against incidents such as the railway blockade.

Unfortunately, Chief R. Donald Maracle apparently subscribes to "the dog ate my homework" school of governance.

The chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ) is worried about losing public support, but says he has no control over the protesters.

Maracle was referring to a public meeting in Deseronto Tuesday evening, where Mayor Norm Clark and town council updated residents on the ongoing negotiations between the MBQ and the federal government.

And the residents of Deseronto hunker down and wait.

Technorati Tags: Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, homegrown terrorism, Deseronto

Brit Islamobombers give it up

Think it could never happen in Canada?

Four men have admitted being involved in a conspiracy to cause explosions on dates in 2001 and 2004 during a hearing at Woolwich Crown Court.

Junade Feroze, 31, Zia Ul Haq, 28, Abdul Aziz Jalil, 34, and Omar Rehman, 23, all pleaded guilty to an offence under the explosives substances act.

RELATED: Same planet, different worlds

Don't worry Canada, our magical "diversity" will save us.

Just not from this guy and his friends.

"If there is any homegrown terror, it is the RCMP."

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UPDATE: Back in warm, fuzzy Canada

The Khawaja affair is in virgin legal territory as the courts attempt to clarify fundamental issues of law raised by a hastily enacted piece of terrorism legislation that is still in its infancy.

That has resulted in the trial being postponed four times - it originally was to start Jan. 2 - as lawyers for Khawaja and the federal Justice Department have launched various constitutional challenges, leaves to appeal, cross appeals and other actions, including up to the Supreme Court of Canada.

At least the lawyers won't go hungry.

Technorati Tags: in the crosshairs, Religion of Peace, homegrown terror

While we're at it...

Let's burn all the copies of Huckleberry Finn too...

Murals in the rotunda of the British Columbia Legislature depicting native women as bare breasted and native men as subservient will be taken down more than 70 years after they were painted.

Brought to you by the Liberal and New Democratic parties of British Columbia.

RELATED: Pretending stuff never happened...

Is good too.

Well, look who's boss.

After some 60 years of loyal service, Uncle Ben is being elevated from fictional cook to fictional CEO of the fictional Uncle Ben's Inc.

Mars, which owns the brand, is about to spend $20 million on a campaign to spread the news.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, NDP, revisionism

The pain I feel...

For Richard Steele...

As judge Ian Nordheimer issued his ruling dismissing Mr. Steele's application Tuesday afternoon, the 20-year-old launched into a profanity-ridden tirade, telling the judge “You just opened up my family to danger you don't understand... you just helped them kill me.”

Mr. Steele then turned to the crown lawyers, calling them a “piece of shit,” before being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

I'll trade you a hundred Richard Steeles' for one Jane Creba.

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UPDATE: Of course, Richard Steele is the "real victim"

Nine days later, in another intercepted call, Mr. Steele complained that his life had been hell since Boxing Day, when "that fucking white girl dies."

"Fuck … I knew what was going on. I don't look back – I don't look back for shit. Took off."

"Took the fuck off."

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LAST WORD: Multiculturalism, R.I.P. (1982-2007)

The reason multiculturalism now seems like such a fraud is that experience has taught us that old-school racism has nothing on the sort of hatreds brought into this country by the immigrants themselves: hatred toward homosexuals, toward heretics, toward "loose" women and, most importantly, toward each other.

Technorati Tags: Jane Creba, murder, family values

The sound of assholes...

Snapping shut in the CBC Control Room...

Mansbridge looks "like he swallowed a nail."

Bubble-wrapping the baby...

May not be such a great idea after all.

Recent high-profile studies have found that children exposed to unqualified praise are less likely to push themselves academically, and that children who are coddled and overprotected are growing up anxious and irresponsible.

This makes perfect sense to me.

My son has been a huge football fan since he was six years old. He's been, despite their record, a faithful Raiders booster and we watch NFL ball religiously during the season.

It just seemed inevitable that he would one day play full-contact, balls to the wall, don't scrimp on the mouthpiece tackle football.

Unlike soccer... another very popular game in the area... where parents rush onto the field every time little Timmy trips over his own feet... my son is learning how to block and tackle, how to push the envelope... and just as importantly, how to take a "good hit" without falling to pieces.

He's also learning that you can be "larger than yourself"... about being part of a finely tuned, well oiled machine.

He's come to the point where he has a real sense of satisfaction when he gets through a two hour practice... all the more, from knowing it wasn't a walk in the park.

It was tough enough... that he didn't really want to go back after the first practice. I ended up making a deal with him, that after showing up and doing half of the second round... he could tell the coach he wanted out.

It was a gamble, but when we went to leave that night and the coach said to him, "We'll see you next time", he said, "Yup, I'll be there."

And that's the point. If it was easy, anyone could do it.

It's the sort of thing we did without a second thought when I was a kid.

We climbed trees... hell... we jumped out of trees... while holding the ends of springy branches. We rode our bikes twenty miles round-trip to the local conservation area. We made zip-guns out of wood and elastic and we had "wars." We took our air rifles out on safari.

There was no physically neutered, politically correct, ego-boosting pap like "Circle of Friends." We played "ball tag"... where instead of tagging someone with your hand, you used a rubber ball... which, skillfully and mercilessly flung, had the potential to knock your target clean out of his "PF Flyers."

And I'm sure my mother's blood pressure soared every time she saw her seven year-old son climb over the the second floor balcony rail, to head out to the playground... but, to her credit, she never once tried to stop me.

And I think... I'm a better person for it.

Technorati Tags: politically correct, nanny-state mentality, sensitive new-age idiocy

Guess who's coming to dinner?

I'll give you a hint... it isn't Sidney Poitier.

-- OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper rejected a Liberal suggestion yesterday that Canadian troops should transfer Taliban prisoners to Canada to save them from being handed over to Afghan authorities.

Fresh off his bizarro side deals with Eco-Lizard May and Danny Millions, it seems that Steffi is now sussing out the latest sorely needed block of potential liberal voters.

It's a cagey two-pronged plan... by wrapping up the raggedy-ass fanatical fundamentalist demographic, he also stands to bleed off support from the granola-snorting, sandal-clad wing of the NDP.

Fortunately, the Prime Minister was there to bring the leftbot castles in the sky back in for a safe landing.

Mr. Harper promised the "serious allegations" would be examined by officials and followed up with Afghan authorities, "but what we will not do is bring the Taliban prisoners to Canada."

Now that pricks a hole in Dion's latest trial balloon... but hey Steffi, don't give up just yet.

Maybe the Fiberals could make a special deal with Doug Henning and the Natural Law Party.... so that we can all levitate to work, thus really reducing Canada's carbon emissions.

C'mon... it's at least as jaw-dropping, amazingly idiotic as his latest "Give Terrorism a Chance" brainwave.

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RELATED: Suckass Steffi rides again

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, party of decriminalisation, no whore like an old whore

Someone at the EU...

Was riffling through a world atlas... and suddenly the excrement hits the air-conditioning.

I can imagine the mindless, scurrying panic... "Yumpin' yimminy Olaf, they're right over there!!!"

EU foreign ministers have agreed to implement sanctions against Iran after its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. The sanctions go further than those already agreed by the United Nations.

The EU has agreed to a total arms embargo, and added further people to the travel ban list - they are banned from the EU and their assets are frozen.

It's way past time these nanny-state peace-suckers realised that Madman Ahmadinejad, currently mesmerised by both the return of the "Hidden Imam" and his pounding nuclear erection... ain't necessarily gonna be playing by their rules.

That's right you goddamn Euroweenies... black rain.

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UPDATE: We'll just rewrite the rules says EU

It's a perfect Euroweenie soulution. If Iran won't comply, we'll just rewrite the rules until they're in "full compliance."

One of the diplomats said recognition by the United States and its allies that Iran would never accept their earlier demand of a full freeze dictated a decision to contemplate “a new definition of enrichment” that would allow Tehran to keep some of its program intact without actually turning out enriched material.

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RELATED: Nourishing Obscurity asks the question...

"What about the North American Union?"

Technorati Tags: Iran, flat, black, glows in the dark

Uh, guys... just one other thing

Deseronto Mayor Norm Clark reminds Mohawk thugs of a pretty basic principle...

"You don't shit where you eat."

"There is a black cloud hanging over Deseronto," he said Sunday.

Developers have already said they are going to invest their money elsewhere, Clark added, and that affects businesses and could lead to a drop in housing values.

Clark said he understood and agreed with the native need to settle the land claim, but innocent people were paying the price for the blockade.

That includes, I should add, the native residents.

RELATED: Rounding up...

The usual suspects.

No Mohawks were on hand at Queen's Park Monday to join a protest over the land claim dispute in Deseronto.

But a young man with a mohawk haircut was among the 30 supporters of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, who want the provincial government to revoke the licence of a gravel quarry operating on the disputed land.

All together now... "We are the world..."

Technorati Tags: fouling the well, homegrown terrorism, Deseronto

Blowing the doors off...

The Fiberal Yugo...

If a provincial election were held today, which party would you support?

3958 votes so far... and Dalton must be feelin' the luv.

Drop on in and let him know how you really feel.

Who doesn't love a good...

"I was awake during surgery" story?

As the cancer patient lay on the operating room table, she felt the surgeon remove her intestines and splay them over her abdomen.

Terrified, she was awake but unable to provide a signal — a wiggle of a toe, the bat of an eyelash — to communicate the excruciating pain she was suffering.

Ok, ok... that wasn't fair... let me administer the antidote.

Technorati Tags: anesthetic awareness, posttraumatic stress disorder, medical error

David Miller's Toronto...

Can be a pretty cold place these days...

Investigators allege that as Richards turned his car around to drive south two men approached. One suspect struck up a conversation with Richards while the second allegedly walked up to the car and fired one shot.

The first suspect, who first approached Richards' car is described as:

* Being in his early to mid-20s;
* Black; and
* Wearing black jeans, a black leather jacket, and a red-and-white baseball cap.

The second suspect is described as being in his mid-20s, black with braided hair and wearing a black shirt or sweater.

Of course, it could be much worse.

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RELATED: Cutting up at Kennedy Station

The man arrested in the fatal stabbing of an apprentice plumber in a TTC subway car was quiet and a bit of a mystery to his father.

John Paul Vallon, 26, was not one to chit-chat, Jesse Vallon said yesterday. "He was a one-question, one-answer type of guy," said the 50-year-old engineer and former civilian employee of the Toronto police force.

He also said there was no hint of violence in the skinny, 5-foot-5 man that he sponsored to bring here from the Philippines nine years ago.

As Ron Popeil used to say... "but wait, there's more."

A second stabbing incident linked to Scarborough's trouble-prone Kennedy subway station within the past week has pushed Toronto transit authorities into a review of security.

The assailants are believed to be in their early 20s and of Tamil origin, while the group who was attacked is white, Det. Sgt. Searl said, but there was no immediate indication of whether the incident had any racial overtones.

Hey Dave... maybe building more basketball courts isn't the answer after all, huh?

Technorati Tags: Toronto the Good, homicide, bright lights, big city

Wouldn't it be ironic...

If noted Surrender-Monkey Jacques Chirac turned out to have bigger balls than Tony Blair?

Taleban insurgents holding two French aid workers hostage in southern Afghanistan have issued an ultimatum.

In an internet statement, they called for French Nato troops to withdraw and for imprisoned rebels to be freed in exchange for the captives.

"In case of refusal, action will be taken against them promptly."

Ok Jacques... let's see 'em.

Technorati Tags: France, cheese eating, surrender monkeys

Here's where the two billion dollars...

The Fiberals flushed down the toilet on the Farmer Bob Rifle Registry should have gone... cancer research.

-- HONG KONG -- Scientists in China have identified a gene variant which appears to protect Chinese people from various types of cancer.

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. It accounted for 7.6 million, or 13 per cent, of a total of 58 million deaths worldwide in 2005, according to the World Health Organization.

Where it would have actually done some good.

Technorati Tags: Liberal Party, cancer research, politics as usual

The myth of the cab-driving...

Foreign-born Neurosurgeon...

"Some of them are driving cabs because they don't pass the level of standard in Canada... just because we need more doctors doesn't mean we should lower our standards."

"Nobody ever talks about them being underqualified... the problem is not that we're not getting them into the system; the problem is they're flopping out."

I've always had my doubts about this latter day urban myth. Now someone in the know is finally, despite the politically correct paralysis gripping the nation, speaking up...

The failure rate for first-time IMGs between 2000 and 2005 was another 40 per cent.

What does that leave? "Not a lot," Lee said. "The number's not huge."

When pressed, Lee refuses to divulge the final number of foreign-trained doctors who actually make it through the funnelling system which weeds out those who can't hack it.

"I don't publish that mother of all stats," he said.

By contrast, Canadian students pass the exams at about a 97-per-cent rate, Lee said.

Something to think about, the next time your "progressive" friends start jawing about Canada's "racist" ways.

h/t -- Matt --

Technorati Tags: Oh Canada, urban mythology, political correctness

My beads... are holier than...

Your beads.

-- BAGHDAD -- Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, police said, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.

Police said the execution-style killings of the Yazidis — a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims and Christians — appeared to be in response to the stoning death of a Yazidi woman who had recently converted to Islam.

And the beat goes on.

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RELATED: No leftbot crybabies here...

Canadian troopers suck it up in Af'stan...

Sun-baked and coated with dust, they slumped into the cool shade of an underground bunker complete with electric lighting, bunk beds and even a freezer — luxury compared with the flea-ridden swatch of desert in southern Helmand province where many have slept under the stars since late February.

“Where we were, in Helmand, it's quite a bit more austere,” said Capt. James Leslie. “My soldiers haven't seen drinking water colder than the shade since February . . . there's even water frozen stiff; it's a nice touch.”

Technorati Tags: Iraq, Religion of Peace, wholesale slaughter

Democracy... in the Middle East

Pop quiz... when is a dictatorship actually "a democracy"?

Answer... When Baath Party leader and President Bashar Assad says it is...

Unlike the polls in Nigeria or France, there is almost no contest and voters are not showing much interest.

But in Syria, in effect ruled by one party, there is no room for real politics, says the BBC's Kim Ghattas, a situation reflected in widespread apathy among the electorate.

But they have a parliament... it must be a free and democratic land.

Adding to voter apathy is the mostly nominal role of the parliament - it cannot give or withdraw confidence to the government; it cannot draft laws, only debate those sent to it by the government; and it has no say in foreign policy.

Its first task will be to approve the Baath Party nomination of the president, Bashar Assad, for a second seven-year term.

Mr Assad will be the only candidate in a July referendum.

Okay... I get it. It's one of those "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" democracies the lefties are always holding up as modern day political miracles.

The ones, curiously enough, nobody... including Maher Arar... wants to live in.

Technorati Tags: dictatorship, secret police, Syria

And on the seventh day...

He had a schizoid break...

"First of all, let's stop listening to the goddamn economists. Twenty per cent of the economy will disappear."

"It will cost more than World War I and World War II put together."

"We'll go into a kind of depression we've never, ever had in all of history."

Yup, we all saw it coming... as his apocalyptic pronouncements grew ever more paranoid and delusional.

Not listening to the good doctor would be...

"... a crime against future generations."

As well as his meeting with Baird, Suzuki was to meet with Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion and NDP Leader Jack Layton.

Saint David is now convinced he is God.

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UPDATE: I must confess I lost my faith...

When he smashed the stone tablets.

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LAST WORD: Annointed from on high...

The Almighty Zooker has decided for his devoted sheeple...

Suzuki told CTV's Question Period on Sunday... "I'm telling you, they want carbon taxes."

Technorati Tags: David Suzuki, global warming, hellfire and damnation

If you're a copper...

And some guy tells you he's gonna rob a bank... aren't you under some sort of obligation to keep an eye on him and maybe try to prevent it?

If you've been following the aboriginal rail blockade in Deseronto, in Eastern Ontario this week, you might not necessarily come to that conclusion.

Shawn Brant, fresh off a major disruption of Canada's busiest rail corridor, is promising more of what he likes to call, "economic disruptions" to Canadian citizenry and infrastructure alike... in the near future.

"Believe it or not, it was the first soft step of the campaign," said Shawn Brant around 8 a.m., two hours after the group removed a school bus blocking the tracks. "We have identified three different targets, and we will escalate the degree of severity as is necessary."

Bear in mind this is the very same Shawn Brant who had a spot of trouble with the local constabulary just a little while ago...

-- DESERONTO -- Charged with three counts of uttering death threats are Shawn Michael Brant, 42, of Tyendinaga.

But, you might ask, "Don't the police have to have pretty specific cause before they start keeping tabs on private citizens"?

Well, the enthusiastic, but apparently not especially bright Mr. Brant has obligingly and very publicly announced his criminal intent to the mainstream media...

Those targets are the railway, provincial highways and the town of Deseronto, Brant said as he puffed on cigarettes at the gravel quarry that is the heart of the dispute

The next target has been selected already and plans for the action are being finalized, he said.

I suspect Mr. Brant is feeling quite pleased with himself for the moment... after shutting down, occupying and looting a private gravel pit operation and then, in short order, facing down one of the largest corporate entities in Canada... with absolutely no legal consequences to himself, or his band of criminal brothers.

Not too surprisingly, the aboriginal police force seems to have taken Mr. Brant's side of things... going as far as to join him for refreshments at his illegal siege.

Although I have heard from a reliable source, that local OPP line officers are not very happy about having to stand by and watch these miscreants flouting the law, apparently those higher up the chain of command have no such issues...

"No arrests have been made at this point", said Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kristine Rae.

"We’re pleased that it was a peaceful resolution."

Peaceful, of course, until the day it isn't.

LAST WORD: I have a theory...

... about danger and risk-taking... it goes something like this...

Doing something stupid, or dangerous is like playing the lottery... the more tickets you buy, the better your chances of "winning the jackpot".

Right now, Shawn Brant is on a hysterical spending spree. He's won a few small prizes and now he has gambling fever...

With all the tickets he's been buying lately, I'm guessin' Mr. Brant is due for a big win. And as soon as he oversteps and engages the OPP, or another similar body in his much touted "violent confrontation"... he may find he has hit the jackpot.

Just my two cents.

Technorati Tags: OPP, homegrown terrorism, Deseronto

Everyday Feminine Protection...#2

Lock and load, ladies...

Tough isn't a word necessarily associated with Miss America, but three thieves arrested after their truck tires were shot out by 82-year-old Venus Ramey might beg to differ.

Ramey, who won the elite beauty crown in 1944, confronted one of the three robbers on her farm in Waynesburg, Ky., about 140 miles south of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

"He was probably wetting his pants," said Ramey, who balanced on her walking stick as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.

h/t - SDA -

RELATED: It makes me wonder... if anyone ever took Frank up on his offer.

Technorati Tags: .38-caliber, self-defense, whatever it takes

Thank you, Ontario taxpayers...

For handing the world’s largest producer of cereal products millions of taxpayer dollars.

Jeff Chow, Kellogg plant manager in Belleville, said his company has received “great support“ from the province of Ontario, the Quinte region and the City of Belleville. Chow said he can’t wait to start producing Kellogg products at the new plant.

“Construction is well under way and we should be under operation by the fourth quarter of this year.“

When asked whether Kellogg will open with 100 employees as previously stated, Chow replied, “That is still being developed.“

Well, actually you should thank the provincial Liberal government.

Of course, if you have to bribe a manufacturer of anything to entice them to your city, it's only a matter of time before they find someone who can top your bid... or provide lots of amigos who'll work for peanuts.

Look what happened with Hershey in Smith Falls.

At least the community gets something back this time... unlike Dalton McGuinty's other recent payoff.

Technorati Tags: Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Party, same old, same old

Shssssh... it's a secret

Go to CTV.ca and you'll see the title for an article that reads, "Demonstrators block Ontario rail crossing"... but wait a minute... something's not quite right.


Oh shoot... looks like they forgot to mention it wasn't seniors supporting "leash laws" or something like that... it was another illegal "aboriginal blockade"... of the most heavily travelled rail corridor in Canada.

Boy... are they ever gonna be embarrassed.

UPDATE: Native blockaders blink...

But Shawn Brant promises more criminal activity will follow.

“I don't think they should expect an apology,” said Mr. Brant, who suggested the blockade was prompted by government inaction on the Mohawk's land claim.

Mr. Brant vowed that the occupation of the quarry would continue and that the group would mount further protests. “The disruption on the CN line was a first in a series of economic disruptions, the first in a campaign,” he said.

“We've been occupying the quarry and we have said we will never relinquish it... we will use it as a staging ground for further action.”

And why wouldn't he be willing to do it again and again... if he gets to walk away scot-free here.

Sgt. Kristine Rae, a spokeswoman for the Ontario Provincial Police, said the tracks are being inspected before rail traffic is allowed to resume.

Although the injunction ordered the protesters off the rail tracks and stated anyone who didn't comply would be arrested, Sgt. Rae said no arrests were made.

It's a dynamic a toddler would understand.

Technorati Tags: native blockade, homegrown terrorists, Deseronto

Never mind Empire...

Should Brits worry about the country itself flying apart?

Following hard on the heels of a reported shift to the right in French politics, the United Kingdom is apparently coming to a fork in the road on its immigration policy...

Immigration could lead to the political break-up of Britain, according to think-tank Civitas.

Shadow home secretary David Davis said: "We know that unchecked immigration is putting pressure on housing and local services. "Now this report shows that its effects are potentially even more serious."

"Given the limited number of schools, hospitals and houses, the government must apply a limit on the amount of people entering the country," he concluded.

Ministers had also announced a new tough Australian-style points system for immigrants, he added.

The report warns of a "tipping point", beyond which it conjures up a very chaotic situation...

"Once such a point is reached, political disintegration may be predicted to be not long in following," the report said.

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RELATED: 22 Apr - Sarkozy blows the doors off socialist Ségolène Royal

Mr. Sarkozy appeared to hold a clear advantage. Preliminary results from the Interior Ministry, based on a count of 21 million votes — or more than 50 per cent — had him leading with 30 per cent, followed by Royal with 24 per cent.

Once Sarkozy picks up Le Pen's 11 percent hard right support, this one should be a lock.

Au revoir Commie Mommie.

Technorati Tags: United Kingdom, immigration, immigrant

Preem admits, "I'm no leader"

"Please save my bacon, Oh Wise Federal Leader", cries Dalton McGuinty.

-- Deseronto, Ont. -- Aboriginal protesters vowed Friday to maintain their planned 48-hour blockade of eastern Ontario's main rail corridor despite a court injunction ordering them off the railway crossing.

The tense situation prompted Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to urge the federal government to intervene at the “earliest possible opportunity” to help resolve the issues behind the blockade.

Having made a major-league mess of the year old, as-yet-unresolved aboriginal standoff in Caledonia, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty is apparently now at his wits end... over a similar situation developing in Deseronto.

See, here's the question Dalton... if I go down the road and commandeer the local lumber yard and threaten to take over the neighbouring town, how long do you think it would take an OPP SWAT team to stand me down... one way or another?

These terrorists are shutting down country-wide commerce.

What's your problem here? Dalton..? Dalton?

Technorati Tags: native blockade, homegrown terrorists, Deseronto

Is it still racist...

If a black man says it?

"The Beckles shooting was a defining moment for us," recalled Staff Inspector Dave McLeod, who, less than 72 hours later, took the helm of what was dubbed the black intelligence unit.

Its focus: the black-on-black shootings that were fuelling the worst wave of gun crimes the city has ever seen.

So what happens a black police officer from Toronto takes an assignment on a "crime-washed island that has long produced one of the world's highest homicide tallies?

Staff Insp. McLeod went to Jamaica, where a Globe and Mail reporter conducted a series of exclusive interviews during the officer's last days on the job in Kingston — the crime-ravaged capital city where pockets are ruled by fearsome gangs whose reach extends clear to the streets of Toronto.

There's an interesting comparison to be made between the city of Toronto and the country of Jamaica itself...

High as its homicide total was in 2004, it was higher still in 2005, reaching a record 1,674 among a population of 2.7 million people, surpassing the rates of both Colombia and South Africa.

By comparison, Toronto, with almost the same population, witnessed 80 homicides that year, 52 of them gun deaths.

Of those shootings, more than half involved first- or second-generation Jamaican Canadians, most in their late teens or 20s.

A compelling read.

RELATED: Who is Cleveland Downer?

More importantly, why is he still in Canada?

Technorati Tags: Toronto the Good, black-on-black homicide, Jamaica

Justice - Aboriginal style - again...

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LATEST GESTURE: Oh yeah, that'll solve things...

"CN has obtained an injunction from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that has been served on the protesters by the sheriff's department requiring them to dismantle the blockade forthwith," said CN Rail spokesman Mark Hallman.

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Hey, big surprise... another aboriginal terrorist action.

The train tracks at Deseronto Road, west of Kingston, have once again been blocked by a group of people who police said are affiliated with the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.

Just listening on the local radio station to professional spokes-native Shawn Brant trying to justify closing down the CN tracks at Deseronto.

Brant was spouting the usual "we are victims" argle-bargle about the racist Canadian regime... while his band of merry men was shutting down all rail traffic between Toronto and points east.

A spokesman for CN came on and was very careful not to offend native sensibilities by mentioning the effect on commuters, or the cost to businesses waiting for just-in-time shipments. Wouldn't want to hurt anybody's feelings, would we.

Funny... no one available to comment from the OPP.

Again.

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UPDATE: Speak OPP, speak...

Just heard a Napanee OPP constable on radio station CJBQ say that the CN rail lands are, "the jurisdiction of the CN police".

Whew, that was a close one guys... see you back at the Tims.

Here's the party line from the OPP...

"Currently the situation is peaceful," police said in a news release around 8 a.m. "The O.P.P. and the C.N. Police are working closely together.

The O.P.P. are at the scene rerouting traffic around the blockade."

So much for "law enforcement". Well, I guess we'll have to settle for traffic cops.

No problem here... move along folks.

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RELATED: Occupation and thievery...

First they shut down and occupy a private business... then they start stealing the inventory.

Mohawk demonstrators make no apologies about trucking gravel out of the Thurlow Aggregates site for use on driveways and potholes on the Tyendinaga reserve, says one protester.

Demonstrators have been using their own equipment to truck some of the existing gravel to benefit people on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, said Jason Maracle, who has been on the scene since the occupation began March 22.

So where are the OPP and Tyendinaga police on this?

The protest blockade at Deseronto is a decidedly laid-back affair, as shown in this photo from Loyalist Pioneer's Christopher Clarke.

Here, Tyendinaga Mohawk Police Senior Const. Marcel Maracle, left, relaxes with protest organizer Shawn Brant as the pair waited for a pot of corn soup to heat over the campfire.

I guess we know why nobody's getting arrested.

Technorati Tags: native blockade, homegrown terrorists, Deseronto

Like federal like provincial...

It's the same old Fiberal story... your money - their friends...

An Iranian community group, whose members include Ontario Liberals, received a $200,000 immigrant aid grant from the provincial government only three weeks after it was registered as a charity.

The centre was first listed with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency as a charitable organization in the category "protection of animals," but later was changed to the category "recreation, playgrounds and vacation camps."

Its directors include the Liberal candidate for the new riding of Richmond Hill in the Oct. 10 provincial election and the riding association president, whose North York law office is listed as the charity's mailing address.

Thank you Dalton McGuinty.

UPDATE: 21 Apr - McGuinty lets bribe to Iranians slide...

"I think we can do a better job and I think that we have to do a better job," Mr. McGuinty told reporters yesterday. "We're going to have to look at it."

The government says the unnamed spending program is designed to enhance diversity and settlement projects for new immigrants.

While the Fiberals "look at it", Conservatives call for an investigation...

Conservative opposition leader John Tory called for an investigation by the auditor general into the matter and said he planned to introduce a motion compelling officials to testify before a committee on the matter.

Technorati Tags: corruption, Liberal Party, same old, same old

Genealogy Friday 3

For anyone searching for ancestors in the province of Ontario, you should check out the searchable marriage records at the Ontario Vital Statistics Project.

It is by no means a complete record, but it is a good place to start a search, especially if you aren't familiar with searching through microfilm at libraries or the local archives.

All the trancriptions are done by volunteers, out of their own pocket, on their own time. Also, even though as of July 1, 1869, all births, marriages and deaths were required to be registered, compliance was nowhere near 100%

A goldmine of easily accessible data.

Technorati Tags: Ontario Vital Statistics Project, marriage registrations, Genealogy

Legal footnote regarding...

Sharia Law.

-- TEHRAN -- The Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the murder convictions of six members of a prestigious state militia who killed five people they considered “morally corrupt.”

The last victims, for example, were a young couple engaged to be married who the killers claimed were walking together in public.

Iran’s Islamic penal code, which is a parallel system to its civic code, says murder charges can be dropped if the accused can prove the killing was carried out because the victim was morally corrupt.

This is true even if the killer identified the victim mistakenly as corrupt. In that case, the law requires “blood money” to be paid to the family.

Are these people insane?

Of course, that may just be my "reluctance to accept the Islamic perspective" speaking.

Technorati Tags: sharia law, media bias, International Zionist Conspiracy

Klepto-dipper Svend to France...

If only we could get Peru to take Buzz Hargrove...

Peru's striking coca farmers have given the government a 24-hour ultimatum to negotiate with them, threatening to continue their roadblocks indefinitely.

The protesters refuse to accept the government's toughened eradication programme and their leaders say any attempt to enforce it will result in violence.

Cause it sure sounds like the inmates have taken over the asylum.

Technorati Tags: Peru, cocaine, Buzz Hargrove

Too many victims...

Not enough chiefs...

This might explain the soft ride the Deseronto native occupation has been getting.

-- BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP) Canada - Thursday, April 19, 2007 Updated @ 3:04:52 PM --

The chief of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Police Service in eastern Ontario has been suspended over allegations he made of police racism.

Larry Hay reportedly told a college newspaper on the weekend that the RCMP is a racist organization, and that the Ontario provincial police service is no different.

The Loyalist College newspaper, The Pioneer, quotes Hay as saying the racism is “deep-seated” but the RCMP “will do all kinds of things to show that it isn’t so.”

Unbelievably...

"Hay was a Mountie for 20 years."

Not a word online in the Belleville papers.

Thanks to Mike at Rideau Reflections for the email alert.

Technorati Tags: Tyendinaga Mohawk Police Service, homegrown terrorists, Deseronto

The Angry Reporter is back...

And that takes courage after the beatdown she took lately... so I'm willing to give her a chance.

From the latest comments at the "halls"...

I'm a woman who earns a living as a journalist, and I don't have a loyalty to anyone except my profession. And I don't like how some of it plays out, which is why I feel that an anonymous blog is the perfect safety valve to express the daily irritants of my job.

Don't look for a conspiracy, there isn't one. Read what I wrote my my blog in the last couple of days, and you'll understand where I'm going.

UPDATE: That said, we're still not buddies...

It will also give ammos to Neo-conservatives who already despise the media for not giving Israel a systematic free ride in their coverage.

Hmmm... nothing like a blatant fallacy, following on the heels of a sweeping generalisation. I guess you can take the reporter out of the CBC, but...

Sigh.

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RELATED: Say Angry... got a minute?

Or does the Muslim community "get a free ride"?

In a horrible incident in Mississauga, Ontario, a journalist for a Canadian-Pakistani paper was savagely beaten by two Muslim men who demanded that he "stop writing against Islam."

I guess the jackboot is on the other foot now.

Technorati Tags: CBC, media bias, can take a punch

If we pass the hat around...

Will he take Jack Layton with him?

-- VANCOUVER -- Former Burnaby Member of Parliament and confessed ring thief Svend Robinson is leaving Canada for France.

In an e-mail passed on to The Canadian Press, Mr. Robinson says he is both sad and excited to take on a new job with Public Services International, based in France.

Technorati Tags: NDP, Svend Robinson, Jack Layton

Cooking out... Islamic style

Only that ain't burgs and dogs they're tossin' on the barbie.

Nearly 200 people have been killed in a string of attacks in Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

One witness told the Reuters news agency that many of the victims were women and children.

"I saw dozens of dead bodies," the man said. "Some people were burned alive inside minibuses. Nobody could reach them after the explosion.

"Religion of Peace..?"

I'm speechless... I got nothin'.

Technorati Tags: Religion of Peace, sunni side of life, up shi'ite creek

Dion and Fiberals calling for...

A National 'Meat Cleaver' Registry.

-- MONTREAL -- Montreal police are sorting through body parts after arresting a man found carrying them in bags. Police spokesman Constable Laurent Gingras says a 44-year-old man is being questioned.

There will, of course, be no 'Cleaver Registry'... but just as nonsensically, this week's tragedy at Virginia Tech has Steffi and the Wild Bunch renewing their cries for reinstating the two billion dollar Farmer Bob Rifle Registry.

Which overlooks a few small details...

A gun didn't drop out of the sky and start blasting away on its own. This was the act of a madman.

The killer used two perfectly legal handguns, not a rifle.

In Canada, handguns have been classified as 'restricted firearms' and have required registration since the 1930's.

People knew this guy had major issues and still didn't stop him.

The fact is, if this nutjob, like Gamil Gharbi and Kimveer Gill before him, hadn't been able to get a gun, he would have run these people down with a car, or beaten them to death with an ashtray... because he was mentally ill.

The salient fact here is that people knew (and I despise the prissy politically correct terminology) he 'had issues', yet no one at the university thought to wall him off from these innocent victims.

Amid the cries echoed in the recent Dawson College shootings in Montreal of, "who could have seen this coming?"... it turns out, the answer was, well... plenty of people.

Plenty of people had also seen Kimveer Gill's demented death wishes and even pictures of Gill with guns on the internet. No one said a word, or alerted the police.

Not so, in the case of the Virginia Tech shootings. There were plenty of warnings and it turns out, plenty of people were concerned enough about the shooter's mental stability to voice their concerns.

Lucinda Roy said that in October of 2005 she was contacted as head of the English Department by a professor who was disturbed by a piece of his writing.

Ms. Roy, rebuffed by Mr. Cho, contacted the campus police, counseling services, student affairs and officials in her department.

Who exactly... claims they didn't see this coming? It couldn't have been the cops, they took him to the "Mouse Factory" on at least one occasion.

-- BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The gunman blamed for the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history had previously been accused of stalking two female students at Virginia Tech and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005 after an acquaintance worried he might be suicidal, police said Wednesday.

But again, nothing was done to head off this tragedy.

And those responsible for ignoring those warnings should take a minute to examine the "liberal sensibilities" that stopped them from taking appropriate action.

I hope they're having some sleepless nights.

Because this very sad day should have been averted.

RELATED: More Liberal lies...

"We have requested of all political parties on Parliament Hill that they adopt tougher sentencing provisions for gun-related crimes, and that's something they can act on immediately."

Dalton McGuinty can't even deal with the aboriginal terrorists who have been holding Caledonia hostage for over a year.

And why is Mr. Law and Order taking mentally ill rapists "out to the ball game"?

I don't remember voting for that.

Police are searching for a mentally ill man who wandered away during a group outing to a Blue Jays game last night.

Mylvaganam Vaasuhan, 31, was found not criminally responsible in 2001 for sexual assaults on two girls.

Amazing.

And his Liberal cronies in the Senate have vowed to reject the Conservative's "Tough on Crime" legislation. These guys have more nerve than Madman Ahmadinejad.

Don't let yourself be fooled again.

Technorati Tags: Virginia Tech, Liberal Party, Gamil Gharbi

A "culture of impunity"

Allows a young girl to be kidnapped, tortured and murdered... and then lets the killer skate away on a fabric of lies...

Representing the family of Rebecca Middleton, Ms. Booth, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the fact that the courts believed one of the accused when he testified that the Belleville, Ont., virgin had consented to have sex with him only 30 minutes after they had met, highlights the country's lenient stand on sexual-assault cases.

"She is assaulted, she is threatened with a knife, she is restrained, she is sodomized and she is raped."

"All of that and we're asked to believe it was consensual," she told Chief Justice Richard Ground.

The accused in this case made a deal that absolved himself and pinned the blame on another man. He claims his sperm, identified by DNA testing and found all over the victim... was from consensual sex.

And the courts in Bermuda bought it hook, line and sinker.

“This case is so fundamental, not only for Becky but for Bermudian women,” she said.

Statistics from the Bermuda Women's Resource Centre show that of the 204 sexual assaults reported to Bermudian police from 2000 to 2004, only 16 (or 8 per cent) have resulted in a conviction in Supreme Court.

And the flip side of the story...

“The pulse of public opinion in this country already has my client convicted of murder,” he said. Mr. Mundy has served his five-year sentence for being an accessory in Ms. Middleton's case.

He is serving the remainder of a 16-year sentence for robbery, after which he will likely be deported to his native Jamaica.

A lovely man... who wouldn't believe him?

Another place I'll never be vacationing.

Technorati Tags: Bermuda, homicide, corruption

Surrender Monkeys no more?

Christopher Hitchens on France...

There is a reason why the French Communist Party, which used to dominate the working class, the unions, and much of the lumpen intelligentsia, is now a spent force that represents perhaps 3 percent of the electorate.

And that reason, uncomfortable as it may be, is that most of the Communist electorate defected straight to the National Front.

UPDATE: Playing the "gender card"

-- PARIS, April 18 -- At an outdoor rally just days before the French are to cast their ballots for president, Ségolène Royal, the Socialist candidate, came with a special message.

“I want to address myself to the women,” Ms. Royal declared in the town of Achicourt in northern France on Sunday. “I need the women’s vote.”

Technorati Tags: France, National Front, Communist Party

"Classic Hits" Ensemble...

Kicks off their "Bullets, Bombs and Burkas Tour 2007" -- in Nigeria...

Armed members of a Nigerian Islamist group known as the Taleban have stormed a police station in the northern city of Kano, killing at least 13 people.

A police source told the BBC there were between 300 and 500 people, some of whom were heavily armed.

Technorati Tags: Nigeria, Spring Offensive, Taleban

I used to walk to grade one...

When we lived in Scarborough.

Now I'd be afraid to drive down the street.

A man being hunted for a Scarborough murder was already being sought on warrants for assault and a weapon charge.

Granzille Tucker, 22, also known as Rickey, is now wanted for second-degree murder in the shooting death last Thursday of Bradley Frank.

But in David Miller's "Oh, so politically correct" world... the solution isn't to fight crime, it's to hide crime.

Technorati Tags: Scarborough, homicide, politically correct

What's really frightening is...

You know it's gotta be even worse than they're admitting...

Large parts of China's longest river, the Yangtze, have been irreversibly polluted, state media quotes a report as saying.

A huge reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam - the world's largest hydro-power project - had also been seriously polluted with pesticides, fertilisers and sewage from passenger boats.

Where's an eco-freak when you need one?

Technorati Tags: China, Kyoto accord, Yangtze River

Because you can't legislate sanity

Hey Globe and Mail... way to not exploit a tragedy...

In light of the horrific shootings at a university in Virginia, which claimed dozens of lives, does Canada need to enact stricter gun controls to prevent similar incidents here?

Apparently though... readers weren't biting.

Still, not even near as crass and blatant as Lloyd Robertson's bogus-reverential prologue to the CTV News program's photo-montage finale... that featured police officers unceremoniously carting an apparently lifeless body away from some buildings.

Top that... oh ye exploitative merchants of grief.

Technorati Tags: Virginia Tech, Farmer Bob Rifle Registry, nanny state

Pondering the eternal question...

"To what extent do you go to alleviate stress for a millipede or a toad?"

New CBC "Blogger/Reporter" in town...

And she wants to know if I'm part of the International Zionist Conspiracy.

The Angry Reporter/Reporter en Colère said... You seem to take the Israeli issue to heart. Are you Israeli? It could explain your reluctance to accept the Arab perspective, no matter how much you think it's fraudulent.

Am I Israeli?

I guess that's "reporter code" for, "are you one of them"..."are you a Jew?"

Because, apparently, in her world... only a racist Jew would be reluctant "to accept the Arab perspective".

I do have to confess, my best friend of twenty odd years was born Jewish, but alas... he's even less religious than I... and oh yeah, Ms. Cranky Pants, his family have been Canadians since the late 1800's.

Who is the Angry Reporter anyway?

From the single post she has made at her own blog thus far, you get a few hints...

I've been a news reporter for some 20 years for several news outlets, but mostly for a large Canadian public broadcaster whom I won't mention (duh!). I'm quite proud of what I do for a living.

I also hate conspiracy theorists and people who accuses us of having hidden agendas and systematic liberal biases.

You get a further whiff of her "character/agenda" from the dozen, that's right, twelve comments she has left so far at my post on the Media Vultures circling the bodies of dead Canadian soldiers at CFB Trenton.

Oh yeah, one last thing. If the Angry Reporter had taken a few moments to actually look at my previous blog entries... what is known in industry as "due diligence"... she would have seen that I am Scots/Irish and a failed Catholic.

She wouldn't have had to ask if I was "one of them", you know... "a Jew".

One of those "filthy conspiracy theorists" that she has to do battle with.

Which explains quite a few things about the CBC.

(note: all pronouns changed to "the feminine" as "Angry" has now felt compelled for some reason to bring my alleged gender bias into the exchange)

UPDATE: "Let the speculation begin"

From the comments...

Brian Lemon said...

Let the speculation begin . . .
Former CBC reporter - perhaps Radio Canada - as is bilingual.
No indication that it is a man, could be a woman.
Recent departure from CBC / RCI as a political reporter.
Quick Google search??

The Angry Reporter replies...

"PS, you say you're Scottish-Irish."

"Can I assume you're already drunk?"

Oh please, please, please Cranky... keep digging.

Technorati Tags: CBC, media bias, International Zionist Conspiracy

"No worries" about political correctness...

In Australian government circles...

Aids charities have reacted angrily to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's opposition to HIV-positive immigrants moving to Australia.

Howard was obviously reacting to...

Infection rates rose by 41% between 2000 and 2005.

Technorati Tags: Prime Minister John Howard, HIV-positive, Australia

Green Party MP wannabe...

Confuses uncouth with tough mindedness.

-- Ottawa -- Green Party Leader Elizabeth May lashed out yesterday at NDP counterpart Jack Layton for refusing to co-operate with her party in the next election...

"What the hell is wrong with Jack Layton that he can't answer a phone call?" asked Ms. May on CTV's Question Period.

Perhaps this outburst was meant to demonstrate that Lizzie can go a round or two with the big dogs... but she ended up coming off more like a bitter, alcohol-soaked ex-lover than the leader of a national political party.

I sure hope that's not her A-game.

RELATED: She loves me... she loves me not

"I spoke with Kevin and realize this has been difficult for him. He is a community leader, a father and an engaged citizen. He plays a very helpful role in his community.

"However, his views are antithetical to Green Party values. We have irreconcilable differences. I will not sign his nomination papers and he will not be a Green Party candidate."

I wonder if she learned that from Steffi.

Technorati Tags: Elizabeth May, Green Party, Liberal Party

I just don't understand...

Why Muslims, of all people, can't appreciate that "the rules are the rules."

-- Longueuil, Que. -- A Tae Kwon Do team of mainly Muslim girls withdrew from a tournament after they were barred from taking part with their hijabs, another example of the ongoing debate in Quebec about accommodating religious minorities.

“The equipment that is allowed under the world Tae Kwon Do federation rules doesn't include the hijab,” international referee Stephane Menard said Sunday.

That seems fairly clearcut to me. There is, of course, another larger consideration...

Quebec, a French minority within North America, considers itself a secular society that encourages immigrants to integrate into its francophone culture.

I appreciate that Muslims are supposed to live by a strict set of rules laid out in the Koran. What I don't understand is, why it's so hard for Muslim immigrants to appreciate that their new home might also have rules that have to be obeyed?

I mean, if everything is so peachy-keen and perfect in Muslim countries, why would anyone want to come to horrible, racist Canada anyway?

It's a mystery to me.

Technorati Tags: Quebec, Muslim, hijab

Talking Turkey

Fresh off the Turkish military's threats to move against Kurds in Iraq... a large, very public protest, shows that not everyone in Turkey is completely bonkers.

-- ANKARA, Turkey -- Some 300,000 Turks protested against their pro-Islamic prime minister Saturday, draping themselves in flags and pouring into streets and squares in a demonstration of the intense secular opposition he will face if he runs for president.

Protesters called on the government to resign and chanted: “We don't want an imam as president!”

A hopeful sign in a troubled part of the world.

Technorati Tags: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkey

Brave Jihadis shred women & children

What was Allah thinking... when he willed this?

At least 36 people have been killed and more than 160 hurt in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, officials say.

The attacker detonated explosives at a crowded bus station in the city close to a shrine holy to Shia Muslims, at around 0915 local time (0515 GMT).

Many of the casualties were said to be women or children.

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UPDATE: Iran curiously quick off the mark

The Iranian government "news agency" has already pronounced this to be the work of a Sudanese national, apparently way ahead of any similar statement by an Iraqi investigatory body.

I'm smelling grassy knoll here...

"There is no doubt that such a crime has been masterminded by mercenaries and aliens who are involved in making rifts among Iraqi people by targeting their unity and Islamic sanctities," he said.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, will of Allah, are you insane?

No "War on Anything" here

For anyone who has any doubts left whatsoever, about the Liberal neutered Justice system in Canada, I give you Madame Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson... appointed to the Federal Court of Canada in, note the date, January 2002.

An Egyptian terrorism suspect has been released from years of jail, but the Federal Court judge yesterday expressed strong security concerns and a lack of confidence in the man's main bail surety, his wife.

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that Mr. Jaballah was a senior member of Egyptian al-Jihad who acted as a communicator among terrorist cells of the AJ and al-Qaeda” during the time of the deadly 1998 al-Qaeda bombings in Africa.

So why, in this case, you have to ask yourself... did the judge then put Jaballah's wife in charge of securing his movement and communications.

Now released, Mr. Jaballah will find that his wife is effectively his warden. Yet the court has serious reservations about Husnah Al-Mashtouli.

She “previously lied to the court” about her husband's associations and travels, according to Judge Layden-Stevenson. “My confidence is lacking in relation to Ms. Al-Mashtouli,” she noted.

Defying any reasonable notion of common-sense, or showing the least regard for the security of ordinary citizens, Justice Layden-Stevenson has now set a wolf among the sheeple.

Move along folks... no War on Terror here.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Liberal Party, are you insane?

This might actually work...

With town council and your local "poop and scoop" bylaw.

You wanna negotiate with serial-murdering sociopaths... I suspect you're gonna have to dig a little bit deeper.

An online petition calling for the release of the BBC's Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnston, has now gathered more than 30,000 signatures.

The reporter is presumed to have been abducted when he disappeared on 12 March after leaving his Gaza office.

You have to marvel sometimes at the delusional Peter Pan worldview of the looney left.

This reporter didn't get lost on his way to the corner-souk for a box of cous-cous... he was snatched off the street by terrorists.

You think if you ask nicely... they'll let him go?

Someone please tell me these freaks can't reproduce.

UPDATE: 15 Apr - Couldn't have seen this coming...

Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigades say Alan Johnston has been executed, blame British, Palestinian governments. (h/t... SDA)

Maybe we didn't "make nice" enough.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, progressive, are you insane?

That sounds vaguely familiar...

"I do not have a choice... I have to collaborate.”

This brilliant political gambit is already paying huge dividends... for Stephen Harper.

"Is the deal between the Liberals and Green Party a bad thing for Canadian voters?"

And another...

What do you think about Stephane Dion and Elizabeth May working together to unseat Peter MacKay?

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UPDATE: Dion facing Palace revolt?

A Liberal strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there is widespread anger at the deal in caucus, which Liberals feel could be used against them in a federal election.

The strategist said the decision was another strike against Dion, whose leadership has come into question in recent months.

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LAST WORD: Could May be Dion's "Judas Goat"?

It's the only way this thing even remotely makes sense.

On the face of it, that makes it hard to jibe May's endorsement of Dion as her preferred choice for prime minister with the fact that her party will be running candidates against nearly 100 Liberal incumbents in the next campaign.

If that endorsement is as heartfelt at is sounded yesterday, she has now turned them into needless sacrificial lambs.

At the end of the day, the common interest of the Green and the Liberal parties in bringing down the NDP is as least as strong as their common concern for the environment.

Which might explain why Taliban Jack's kaffiyeh was in such a knot... at a very public "presser".

The article also got me thinking that, if this type of "deal" had occurred between May and the Prime Minister, the press would have been all over "Evil Puppetmaster" Harper and his diabolical master plan.

Interestingly, everyone, except perhaps Chantal Hebert, just assumes Dion is a lightweight who doesn't have the chops to get a couple moves ahead of the opposition.

Which sounds ominously like his death-knell to me.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Green Party, Liberal Party

Lisa LaFlamme can kiss my ass

I don't know if anyone else caught CTV's Lloyd Robertsons' over-the-top mugging for the camera, as reporter Lisa LaFlamme sneered at the Canadian Forces for not acknowledging what was, in her vast military experience... the start of the Spring Offensive.

What Ms. Flamer was referring to was just another cowardly booby trap that took the lives of two Canadian soldiers.

Back in the real world, this is what actually happens when NATO soldiers knock boots with the Islamotards...

-- KABUL (AP) -- U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops backed by aircraft clashed with suspected Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan, leaving more than 35 rebels dead, the coalition said Friday.

To paraphrase WWII General George Patton...

"Our goal isn't to have our soldiers die for their country... it's to make those other sad bastards die for theirs."

And Lisa you dumb bunny... it's working.

UPDATE: Lisa, think of it this way

The Taliban are basically opportunistic cavemen, who, in between terrorising unarmed civilians... sneak up on an enemy and try to crush the back of their head with a big rock. Then they run away.

A British soldier in Afghanistan has died after coming under small arms fire, the Ministry of Defence has said. The MoD said the attack happened after troops challenged a five-man Taleban team attempting to set-up an ambush.

The MoD said the initial confrontation gave way to a firefight involving a larger Taleban force equipped with mortars, rockets, and heavy machine guns.

Note the constant theme here.

After each and every contact with real soldiers, one of two things happens to the Taliban... one, they get zipped into body bags, or two, as I said earlier, "They run away."

Those tactics serve a limited purpose, but they won't win a war.

Not under a Stephen Harper government anyway.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, Spring Offensive, search and destroy

You play with fire...

There's a pretty good chance you're gonna get scorched.

-- ATLANTA -- U.S. health officials are recommending wider use of a new drug to treat gonorrhea because the sexually transmitted disease is steadily becoming resistant to the long-time standard antibiotic.

The CDC estimates that more than 700,000 people in the United States acquire gonorrhea each year through sexual contact. It is the second most commonly reported infectious disease in the United States, the infectious disease society says.

The highest rates of infection are among sexually active teens, young adults and African Americans.

It would be pointless to simply put up a prohibition against people, especially people I have fathered, being interested in sex, but with all due respect to the CDC... I'm gonna recommend an alternative remedy here.

"Don't sleep around like an ownerless mutt."

That oughta take care of 95% of new cases right there.

Technorati Tags: drug-resistant gonorrhea, common sense, man on fire

Genealogy Friday 2

Anyone doing genealogy online knows about Rootsweb.com.

For those just starting their family research, I'd like to point to their searchable "WorldConnect Project" database.

Worldconnect is an ongoing compilation of over 400,000 user-submitted genealogy projects... encompassing a mind-boggling 487,539,113 surnames, which allows you to actually talk to the person who put up the data.

You can also submit your own research, which lets relatives worldwide get in touch with you. I recommend it highly, but as always... this is the internet, so "trust but verify" all information.

Best of all it's free. Happy hunting.

Technorati Tags: WorldConnect Project, Rootsweb, Genealogy

Evil Stephen Harper refuses...

To protect Canadians from themselves.

Despite outraged pleas from Liberal Party cognoscenti, Prime Minister Stephen Harper today refused demands to set up a "National Nail Gun Registry".

-- TORONTO -- The number of nail-gun injuries among consumers has spiked dramatically as more and more do-it-yourselfers arm themselves with the powerful tools for home renovation projects.

A report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that about 37,000 people sought treatment in U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 2005 after getting shot or shooting themselves in the hands, arms, legs, head or eyes with nail-guns.

Reached at a speaking engagement in Moosefart, Northwest Territories, Opposition Leader Stephane Dion was quick to attack the Harper decision...

"Dis is so unfair... dere is so many heartbreakings, wen dese guns is shooting de peoples."

A spokesman for the Conservative Party replied to Dion's accusations by commenting...

"Our position on home use of power tools remains clear and steadfast... any dufus who nails his hand to a roof truss is probably too stupid to cope in today's increasingly complex world."

"To this end, the Prime Minister has said he would be willing to look into the possibility of creating a network of sheltered workshops for anyone like Mr. Dion... who feels he cannot cope with this sort of esoteric technology."

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Farmer Bob Rifle Registry, nanny state

No sense... no pain

He's polling neck and neck with Taliban Jack..., but Steffi just sees clear sailing ahead...

“Liberals all over are mobilizing and working very hard,” he said after a speech in Montreal, telling reporters he wasn't worried about the future.

“I do not feel the fears that you are referring to.”

As the chairs slide off the deck of the Titanic.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Liberal Party, Stephane Dion

Half cooked Turkey...

Looking to torch the unscorched half of Iraq...

The head of Turkey's powerful military has said Ankara should launch a military operation in northern Iraq to target Kurdish guerrillas based there.

Gen Yasar Buyukanit, chief of Turkey's general staff, urged the government to approve a cross-border incursion.

The United States has repeatedly warned against any such move against the PKK, arguing it would destabilise the only relatively calm region in Iraq.

Not so surprising behaviour from a country whose last military "stroke of genius" was to side with the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914.

This last brainwave is, at least, on a par with Turkey's apparent recent willingness to tear Pope Benedict, that's right -- THE POPE -- limb from limb...

Never mind the usual assortment of nutbag religious extremists... Pope Benedict had pretty much already pissed off every Tom, Dick and Kemal by telling the whole country they weren't good enough to come to; and here's the good part... somebody else's party.

UPDATE: Talking Turkey...

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said yesterday that Turkey can not remain silent unless Iraq responses to the diplomatic nota of Turkey in a way that corresponds with Turkey's expectations.

Underlining that Turkey advocates Iraq's integrity, unity and tranquillity, Gul said, "We want stability in our region. But if neighboring countries attempt to cause damage to Turkey, we do whatever is necessary to prevent it.

LAST WORD: Of course, if the military is busy...

Staging an internal police action against Turks themselves...

Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit will organize a press briefing today, said the General Staff authorities yesterday.

It is expected that he will make comments on military take over allegations and memorandum that was leaked to press. General staff announced that Gen. Buyukanit will make comments on the issues that directly related to the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).

It may have to put an Iraq invasion on hold.

Technorati Tags: Pope Benedict XVI, Iraq, Turkey

Never mind firearms...

When are the Leftbots gonna get workin' on a "Soup Registry"?

The maker of Pot Noodle is recalling some types of the snack, after discovering cracks may have developed in the product's plastic containers.

That one issue, unfortunately, is the least of the problem.

This soup is also racist.

Last year the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 81 complaints about a Pot Noodle advert featuring Welsh miners, accusing it of racism.

"Save me, oh wise nanny state, from the demon soup!!!"

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Farmer Bob Rifle Registry, nanny state

Shakespeare and Sharia

"First we kill all the lawyers... in Bangladesh."

-- DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 11 -- Matiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, a religious party, and nine other leaders of the group were among those charged with killing activists during street campaigning on Oct. 28.

In another development on Wednesday, a lawyer who prosecuted seven Islamist militants, six of whom have since been hanged, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in a southern Bangladesh town, the police said.

The lawyer, Haider Hossain, was killed near a mosque in Jhalakati where Islamists killed two judges in late 2005.

The Islamists are trying to introduce Shariah, the Muslim legal code based on the Koran, into Bangladeshi law.

Let the beheadings for Allah begin.

Technorati Tags: sharia law, Bangladesh, up shi'ite creek

And Tralfamador wept

Kurt Vonnegut 1922 - 2007...

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”

Buhlinda bails...

Just watched CTV uber-spinner Craig Oliver reading Belinda Stronach's political obituary.

On the exalted altar of "progressive" political history, Craig places her right between Joan of Arc & Marie Curie.

Most other commentators were less effusive... somewhere along the lines of, "Put her in a Tim Horton's uniform... you'd never look twice."

In a statement, Stronach said that after assessing the best role she can play in public life, and, "after being encouraged by members of the corporate leadership at Magna to return, I have decided that the timing of my return to the business should not be delayed."

As far as... "being encouraged by members of the corporate leadership at Magna" goes... that means Daddy Warbu... I mean Daddy Stronach... has once again arranged a multi-million dollar soft-landing at the family conglomerate for his pampered princess.

Hey Steffi... you could always run Lisa LaFlamme.

RELATED: The National Post weighs in...

The irony is that by so calculatingly defecting to become the minister responsible for democratic renewal, Ms. Stronach may have sealed the Liberals’ fate in the ultimate act of “democratic renewal,” the January, 2006, election that bounced her new party from power after 13 years.

LAST WORD: Magna shares...

Fell 55 cents to $89.44 on the TSE.

Technorati Tags: nepotism, Magna International, Belinda Stronach

Here's another reason...

Why you don't trust shitheel junkies... EVER...

Anyone who is a regular reader here, already knows how I feel about so-called "safe injection" sites.

This is just another brick in the wall...

A mother whose baby son died from an overdose of the heroin substitute methadone has pleaded guilty to causing his manslaughter by gross negligence.

In October, the court was told that Mitchell, whose parents were both said to be heroin addicts, was given methadone to keep him quiet.

Where is the justice for this murdered child?

Granting Fennelly bail, the Recorder of Middlesbrough Judge Peter Fox said: "You should understand my giving you bail now is no indication whatsoever of your sentence on 3 May."

Obviously not anywhere around here.

Technorati Tags: methadone, safe injection site, murder

Aboriginal entrepreneurial spirit...

Is alive and well.

I wish I could truthfully say the same for their customer base...

Cheap native-made cigarettes can contain dirt, metal filings and other unsavoury ingredients mixed in with the chemical stew of 4,200 chemicals found in all smokes, according to an analysis done by the federal Ministry of Revenue.

"They are pretty dangerous already," said Emily Hall of the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit, adding the cheap smokes are often made with tobacco swept from the floor of cigarette manufacturing plants and sold illegally at clandestine auctions.

Hall said the revenue ministry analysed the cheap smokes and found metal filings, along with dirt and wooden-like pieces of tobacco plant stems.

Funny, the "poisoned pet food" scandal has been getting screaming headlines for weeks... but the first I hear of this is from our small local paper. What's up with that?

Any idea how much federal funding, aka "taxpayer dollars", have been funnelled into this elaborate "bait and switch" scheme ? Me neither.

Will Health Canada be suing these sub-standard manufacturers, to recoup the cost of treating the people who have been poisoned?

All good questions, but don't hold your breath.

RELATED: In the comments, stopthedrugwar said...

And when you said "who else would have thought of it" makes you racist.

You know what, STDW?

Here's a far better example of splitting people up, on the basis of... say -- race...

-- DALHOUSIE, N.B. -- Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre is calling on the federal government to build a Canadian Forces base for native soldiers.

"I think that we have to show sensitivity since Canada is also composed of first nations," Mr. Coderre said yesterday.

Stand by for Dummy Coderre's latest strokes of genius... the first completely segregated Tamil, Paraplegic and Gay, Lesbian & Transgendered Bases in the Canadian military establishment.

Because it's all about showing sensitivity.

Technorati Tags: aboriginal capitalism, Assembly of First Nations, bait and switch

Two Billion Dollar...

Farmer Bob Rifle Registry on ice... for another year.

Britannia Waives the Rules

Turning Pippie into Popeye, isn't the only thing that's changed in the UK... over the last two or three decades.

-- The Office for National Statistics said children in Great Britain are three times more likely to live in one-parent households than they were in 1972.

-- Second marriages made up two-fifths of all marriages in 2005.

-- In the same year, the average age at first marriage in England and Wales was 32 for men and 29 for women - up from 25 and 23 respectively in 1971.

They're not getting older, they're getting sadder.

DNA - the double-edged sword

The almost magical science of DNA testing... can cut your heart out.

I posted something just a little while ago, about the use of "DNA testing" in genealogy. The same science that's being applied so successfully to "criminal forensics", is now also being used to re-establish distant family relationships that have become hazy over the passage of time.

It has also become a tool to verify familial relationships for immigration purposes.

Sometimes though, you don't get the results you're looking for.

-- When the DNA results landed on Isaac Owusu’s dinner table here last year, they showed that only one of the four boys — the oldest — was his biological child.

Federal officials are increasingly turning to genetic testing to verify the biological bonds between new citizens and the overseas relatives they hope to bring here, particularly those from war-torn or developing countries where identity documents can be scarce or doctored.

Which got my "science in genealogy" wheels spinning...

Six years ago now, I left Toronto and moved to a small rural community... where oft-times the name on the family farm hasn't changed for close to 200 years. It's been a thoroughly positive experience, but there have been a few minor adjustments... like how inter-connected most people are out here.

Obviously, back in pioneer days, there were less, shall we say -- matrimonial options -- out in the sticks, which led to a somewhat initially restricted gene pool. This social circumstance lasted well into the 20th century.

Human nature being what it is... and now that home "DNA test kits" are out there... I've always thought it would be interesting for all the longterm residents of the community to "get typed". I think the results would be fascinating.

That said, there would probably be some fallout, from the... uh, unexpected connections and more significantly... the lack of any connection at all.

Science may have changed, but human nature itself is immutable.

So, what is the bigger picture here?

Mary K. Mount, a DNA testing expert for the A.A.B.B. — formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks — estimates that about 75,000 of the 390,000 DNA cases that involved families in 2004 were immigration cases.

Of those, she estimates, 15 percent to 20 percent do not produce a match.

Hmmm... maybe we'll put that one on the back burner.

Technorati Tags: DNA, immigration, the ties that bind

Supporting the Troops...

In Hastings County, Ontario...

To get things started, Dominion Command has donated $6,000 to buy the first round of coffee and doughnut certificates and, with the help of legion branches across Canada, they are hoping to be able to do this on a weekly basis.

It is not so much the coffee and doughnut, but the message behind it to the troops, to show them we care.

Please help make this program a success by coming in and making your donation at Branch 99.

You don't have to be a legion member to donate, everyone's money is appreciated.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, Canadian Forces, Royal Canadian Legion

Media vultures barred from...

Feeding on soldiers' families' grief...

Media will not be allowed into CFB Trenton to cover this week's repatriation of six Canadian soldiers killed Sunday in Afghanistan, The Intelligencer has learned.

"Some of the family members of the fallen soldiers have requested that no media be allowed on the tarmac and we are accommodating that request," Second Lt. Jennifer Jones of the base's public affairs office told The Intelligencer Tuesday morning.

Thank goodness for this.

If I lost a child, under any circumstances, the last thing I would welcome is someone looking to make a buck off my misery.

I'm sure the media can report this sad event without having to wrench a ten second sound-bite out of some grieving mother's soul.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, honouring the dead, fallen soldiers

You'll know it's true...

When you see the big smokin' hole in the ground.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says his country has no evidence Iran has made the advances needed to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.

On Monday, Iran said it could produce nuclear fuel on such a scale.

Of course, Madman Ahmadinejad has also claimed the apocalypse is just around the corner.

"O mighty Lord," Mr. Ahmadinejad intoned to his surprised audience, "I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace."

You know, when all the infidels are swept away.

Technorati Tags: Iran, flat, black, glows in the dark

$40 million in new federal funding...

"Not enough", says Assembly of First Nations...

-- OTTAWA (CP) -- Angus Toulouse, Ontario vice-chief for the national Assembly of First Nations, is cautiously optimistic that the $40 million may help take the edge off some of Pikangikum's most pressing infrastructure needs.

But he said it won't be enough to keep pace with long neglected repairs, maintenance and the burgeoning demands of a growing population.

That works out to almost $20,000.00 over and above existing taxpayer subsidies for every man, woman and child... and it still just scratches the surface?

Oh yeah, that's in addition to the $5,400,000.00 they already got for fiscal 2006-2007.

This place is apparently a near iron age ghetto, with one of the world's highest suicide rates. The people who live here have just stopped caring.

This isn't a problem you can solve by throwing up some infrastructure, but the tap just flows regardless...

Former Indian Affairs Minister Bob Nault announced $7 million in funding for the power grid project seven years ago, but the project fell apart about a year later.

The band was forced into third party management in 2001, as social problems mounted.

Even though there is a water treatment plant, none of the community’s 387 homes are hooked up to the system, the health unit study noted.

Prentice announced $12.8 million in financing for water treatment plant upgrades in Treaty 9 communities this morning.

It's subsidising a culture of defeat.

RELATED: It's about getting off your ass...

And doing something.

I hope that we are no longer considered a social problem that costs all governments an extra $3.5 billion, and costs the economy $5 billion in lost productivity.

I hope my children do not go cap in hand to another government for clean water, safe roads and good schools.

Instead of constantly begging for more money.

UPDATE: The Aboriginal Healthcare System?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised... there's already a separate Aboriginal Justice System.

-- VANCOUVER -- British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell said the province is giving $9.5 million to the First Nations leadership council to improve First Nations health.

Technorati Tags: Pikangikum, Assembly of First Nations, culture of defeat

Please check your detonators...

At the door.

Apparently modeling themselves on American gangsters from the "Dirty Thirties", forty prominent Iraqi Sunni religious scholars... have organised a Baghdad branch of Murder Incorporated.

And there's gonna be a strict code of conduct...

"Our scholars will meet and issue fatwas and I am full of hope the proper resistance that does not kill fellow Iraqis will heed the views of these scholars," he told Reuters.

"The authentic resistance considers the blood of Iraqis as sacrosanct. But those who masquerade as resistance and for whom the lives of Iraqis are cheap -- this is not resistance against the occupier, this is terror...," he added.

I can't wait for the first meeting of this Iraqi Pseudo-Rotary Club.

Their motto... "Death to Everyone else."

Technorati Tags: sunni, Iraq, up shi'ite creek

Racial Profiling

*** It pisses people off... because it works ***

Never mind that more black men in the USA are currently behind bars than enrolled in college or university... the New York Civil Rights Coalition wants to kill a special mentoring program that directly addresses the issue.

“I think this is a form of racial profiling in the public school system,” said the coalition’s executive director, Michael Meyers.

“What they’re doing here, under the guise of helping more boys, is they’re singling them out and making them feel inferior or different simply because of their race and gender.”

Well, actually... it's improving grades and aiming to keep a generation of "high risk" individuals out of jail. Just as importantly, it's giving them a shot at a college education... but don't let that stop you from trying to kill it, you politically correct naysayer.

I am not a fan of quotas, or so-called "affirmative action", but this issue is threatening to become an epidemic that will swamp civil society in North America.

An important difference here is that the target demographic, young black men, is not simply being handed jobs despite lack of qualification... they are being given the means to achieve those qualifications themselves.

Note to the leftbot alliance -- before calling me a racist... try actually reading the article.

It's past time to find a solution. This works.

Technorati Tags: New York Civil Rights Coalition, Ossining, racial profiling

Selling out. Again.

Leading Seaman Faye Turney has told how she "felt like a traitor" when she was forced to write "confession" letters shown on Iranian television.

The only woman among the 15-strong Royal Navy crew has also defended her decision to sell her story to ITV1's Trevor Macdonald and the Sun newspaper.

I'm guessing the £100,000 she's reportedly taking for her story, eases the sting somewhat. Who is going to be genuinely surprised if Ms. Turney is also invalided out of the Navy on grounds of some kind of pensionable disability?

By doing this, "Topsy Turney" dishonours the memory of someone else's daughter.

Sally Veck, whose 19-year-old daughter Eleanor Dlugosz was killed in Iraq, criticised the MoD for letting the sailors and marines profit from their ordeal.

She told the Times: "If you are a member of the military, it is your duty to serve your country.

"You should do your duty and not expect to make money by selling stories."

RELATED: The price of appeasement

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Taliban on Monday threatened to kill four Afghan medical personnel and their driver unless the government releases two Taliban commanders, seeking a deal similar to the prisoner swap that won an Italian journalist's freedom last month.

We're teaching them how to win.

LAST WORD: ICEBERG! DEAD AHEAD!!!

Could this media spectacle possibly get any more embarrassing? The British Naval establishment was already being regarded as the "Romper Room" of international military forces...

Military personnel have been banned from selling their stories to the media amid a growing row over the returned captives from Iran.

The government made the move after captured sailor Faye Turney and her fellow hostages were accused of "behaving like reality TV stars" after being given permission to cash in on their ordeal.

Technorati Tags: Eleanor Dlugosz, Faye Turney, selling out

That's it, I'm officially vegetarian

The dish in front of me is grey and shiny. "Russian dog," says my waitress Nancy. "Big dog," I reply.

"Yes," she says. "Big dog's penis..."

No Manimal today

So I guess a dishwashing, lawn-mowing chimp is out of the question?

Government plans to ban the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos could potentially harm UK science, say MPs.

The science and technology select committee called for regulation of such work instead of an "unnecessary" ban.

I have to confess I hesitated a little, before posting once again on the taboo topic of "genetic manipulation".

It seems to bring out the worst in people.

Technorati Tags: human-animal hybrid, gene therapy, god of science

Harper on casualties...

In France and in Afghanistan.

“Sadly, today has been a difficult day in Afghanistan. We have learned that an incident has claimed the lives of six Canadian soldiers and injured a number of others,” Mr. Harper said on Sunday.

“Our hearts ache for them and their families. I know that as we gather here on Easter Sunday our hearts and prayers are with them.”

“We still live in a dangerous world and as Prime Minister, my thoughts these days are never far from Afghanistan where a new generation of Canadian soldiers” carry the torch of Colonel John McCrae, the Canadian officer who penned the poem In Flanders Field.

They will be remembered.

RELATED: Cowardly backstabbing thugs

They're getting pretty good at setting booby traps and running away, but every time these death-donkeys go head to head against actual soldiers... they get their asses handed to them.

LAST WORD: Killing free speech

Killing women, children and unarmed civilians is their speciality.

The Taleban in Afghanistan have killed an Afghan reporter abducted last month with an Italian journalist.

The group said it had killed Ajmal Naqshbandi as the government had refused to meet its demands to release senior figures from prison.

Allah must be so proud.

Technorati Tags: Afghanistan, cowardly backstabbing thugs, Taliban

Do the Math

"If you think that $90 is a lot to spend for the fuel required to move three tons of pickup truck down the highway for 300 miles - try mailing the sonofabitch sometime."

Hey Mookie...

Don't be lockin' in that "long term" mortgage...

BBC world affairs correspondent Jonathan Charles in Baghdad says the US now believes Moqtada al-Sadr is a bigger threat to the stability of Iraq than Sunni insurgents.

Our correspondent says Moqtada al-Sadr's men are accused of terrorising residents in Diwaniya, killing many, including women who are said to have offended their interpretation of Islamic morality.

You might be taking an "all-expenses paid" Cuban vacation.

UPDATE: Mookie's Million Muslim March

Thousands of Iraqis have begun converging in the southern city of Najaf to protest against the United States on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

Muqtada al-Sadr, an influential Shia cleric and head of the al-Mahdi Army, urged Iraqis to come out in full force on Monday to mark the day US forces took Baghdad in 2003.

Apparently things aren't dangerous enough in Iraq as it is. But don't worry, ole Muqtada's gonna fix that... it's like having some friends over for a barbeque.

Except, over here, people aren't on the menu.

Technorati Tags: Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraq, up shit creek

You can have his pornography...

When you pry it from his cold dead laptop...

Because "Canadian Cynic" is smarter than your average perv...

"I can encrypt them. Or misname them. Or put them in hidden folders. Or just not bring them at all, and get them later via e-mail or from a web site. I mean, Jesus Christ, the possibilities are endless. Really, you'd have to pretty stupid to get caught smuggling porn on your computer."

I thought I was finished with little CC for a while... but he just keeps on comin' back and linking to me, like a yappy little dog.

I have to say, boasting about how easy it is to get pornography past Customs has confirmed my opinion of this putz.

I shouldn't be surprised... CC has previously posted such gems as...

"If you Google on "pay to fuck," what do you get coming up as the very first hit? Just curious."

How old is this guy... fifteen?

Instead of obsessing about variants of online pornography, CC might be better off trying to get a date with a an actual flesh-and-blood (whatever his gender preference) human being.

One thing's for sure... I'm never gonna shake his slimy, sticky hand.

Technorati Tags: slimy little wanker, pornography, myblahg 101

I say, "Let 'em keep digging"

Just back from visiting Peter Loewen over at "A Shrewdness of Apes", where he's speculating about another Liberal mis-step...

Now, the Liberals think this is unfair. Gerard Kennedy is calling it the subsidy of private schools or something like that. And Ted over at Cerberus, who in my mind is the best Liberal blogger, is also all over this.

Is this really a battle the Liberals want to fight?

They want to stand for taking more money from parents who want the best education for their kids and are willing to pay for it in addition to paying taxes for schools they don't use?

Peter's a really nice guy and an infuriatingly logical thinker, but I'm not happy about pointing out all these Fiberal screwups... they might just start thinking twice about some of this dreck.

Yeah, on second thought, you're right.

It'd probably be easier to change their DNA.

Technorati Tags: bag of hammers, Liberal Party, more taxes

Pop Quiz: What city in Colorado...

Has apparently been infiltrated by the Taliban?

-- LITTLETON, Colo. -- A planned statue depicting a local hero, a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan, has drawn opposition from some parents, who say the image and location are inappropriate for children.

A group of parents wants the city to recast the statue or place it elsewhere, arguing that the site, near three elementary schools and two parks, is a hub for young children who could find the weapon disturbing.

I have to laugh at these mindless leftbots.

They'll let their pre-teen daughters overdose on... or worse yet, emulate... pantyless, substance abusing sybarite Britney Spears... but are convinced the mere depiction of a firearm will instantly transform their sons into some doppleganger Charlie Manson.

So far the town has been able to push back the mindless forces of political correctness.

Littleton spokesman Chris Harguth said there were no plans to modify the statue or location. "The statue is at the foundry now, so it's basically done," he said.

"Our plans are to unveil the statue on July 4."

Thank God someone's pushing back.

GUN TRIVIA: Courtesy of SDA

What do you think is more dangerous, a house with a pool or a house with a gun? When, for "20/20," I asked some kids, all said the house with the gun is more dangerous. I'm sure their parents would agree.

Yet a child is 100 times more likely to die in a swimming pool than in a gun accident.

Parents don't know that partly because the media hate guns and gun accidents make bigger headlines. Ask yourself which incident would be more likely to be covered on TV.

Technorati Tags: political correctness, Navy SEAL, Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz Jr

Of course, it seems so obvious...

"British values" fuel racism...

The first ethnic minority president of the National Union of Teachers has said ministers fuel racism by ordering schools to teach "British values".

London assistant head teacher Baljeet Ghale told the union's annual conference Britain did not have a monopoly on free speech and tolerance.

Well, actually... in a stunning display of ignorance about the current state of world affairs, old Baljeet went a whole lot further than that...

At the NUT conference, in Harrogate, Ms Ghale said Education Secretary Alan Johnson had described the "values we hold very dear in Britain" as "free speech, tolerance, respect for the rule of law".

"Well, in what way, I'd like to know, are these values that are not held by the peoples of other countries?" she said.

Oh please, you silly socialist ostrich... let me count the countries and tot up the innumerable ways... starting with virtually every thieving, bloodthirsty, ethnocentric dictatorship on your birth continent of Africa.

We could move on to the Middle-East, where the only country with a history of democracy is, wait for it... Israel.

This latest outburst is just another instance of the creeping political correctness besetting countries like Britain and sadly, Canada.

The "NUT conference", indeed.

Fresh off its abject humiliation at the hands of Iran and in a rare display of not knuckling under to mindless leftbot idealogy...

A government spokesman dismissed her claims as "nonsense".

Technorati Tags: political correctness, Great Britain, up shit creek

Genealogy Friday

The Battle of Vimy Ridge has been popping up in the news lately... encouraging Canadians to remember the huge contribution their grandfathers made to winning the "Great War."

If you have a relative who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force to fight in WWI, you can search online for their "Attestation Papers" here.

Follow the links to get to the actual GIF images which can be saved, or printed. You can also obtain copies of your relatives WWI records.

They will be remembered.

Technorati Tags: Battle of Vimy Ridge, Canadian Expeditionary Force, genealogy

One of the concessions...

Tony Blair swears he didn't give the Iranians...

Iran's state news agency says an envoy is being given access to five Iranians detained by US forces in Iraq.

Tehran maintains the five, seized from the consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq, are diplomats, but the US accused them of providing support to insurgents.

You know... just like the "Iranian diplomat" suddenly freed by a mysterious group in Iraq.

No wonder people don't trust politicians.

Not that journalists are much better.

UPDATE: When the going gets tough...

Watching Tottenham Hotspur fans taking on the Spanish constabulary at a European soccer match the other night, I found myself idly speculating on what might have happened had those Iranian kidnappers made the mistake of seizing 15 hard-boiled football yobs who hadn't got the Blair memo about not escalating the situation.

LAST WORD: Sleeping with the enemy

Hey Tony, where's your diplomacy now?

In the deep south of the country, the Basra police commander said the type of roadside bomb used in an attack that killed four British soldiers on Thursday had not been seen in the region previously.

Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Moussawi's description of the deadly weapon indicated it was a feared Iranian-designed explosively formed penetrator.

Weeks earlier, the American military had claimed Iran was supplying Shiite militia fighters in Iraq with the powerful weapons, known as EFPs. The bombs hurl a molten, fist-sized copper slug capable of piercing armored vehicles.

Technorati Tags: Iran, flat, black, glows in the dark

Mephistopheles rides again...

-- In Texas --

“Everybody kind of went, ‘Oh my God, what’s the A.C.L.U. doing here with the gun people?’ ”

We're talkin' major irony alert here...

In a report issued in February, the Texas affiliate of the National Rifle Association joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition “to spotlight unlawful, unnecessary governmental encroachment on average law-abiding citizens.”

Whoa... hang on a second!!! That can't be right.

But it goes even further than that...

Will Harrell, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said that even before the current dispute, his group and the N.R.A. had been collaborating on racial profiling issues, particularly on what he called a “Bubba profile” that made certain white men the focus of gun checks by the police.

Sweet Carlos Hathcock in heaven... I may just have to join the ACLU.

RELATED: Reach out and touch somebody

Mentioning Carlos got me thinking about snipers.

The round pictured above is the .50 calibre Browning Machine Gun, the "Valentine of Choice" of professional distance shooters.

Using this round, Canadian Sniper Corporal Rob Furlong made a 2,430 meter (2657 yards/1.51 miles) confirmed kill in Afghanistan using a McMillan "Big Mac" TAC-50 rifle.

It is the world's longest confirmed killshot.

These guys were heroes...

"These guys -- regardless of what country they were from, what flag they fought under -- they were just excellent military professionals," says Capt. Justin Overbaugh, the commander of a U.S. scout platoon that worked alongside one of the sniper teams.

"We didn't want to give them up. I would have brought them home with me if I could."

So why did a Liberal government allow them to be chewed up and spit out?

Technorati Tags: NRA, ACLU, Texas

Got too much money?

Don't worry... Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Liberal Party have got that covered.

-- TORONTO -- The Ontario government has agreed to pay 44 per cent above market rates to buy electricity from idled nuclear reactors on Lake Huron that will be refurbished, the provincial auditor says in a report unveiled today.

At the time, then-Energy Minister Donna Cansfield pledged that Bruce Power would bear the entire $4.25 billion capital cost of upgrading the reactors.

Promise made... promise broken.

She made no mention of the fact that electricity consumers will be responsible for a portion of any cost overruns, raising questions from Day One about the extent to which consumers could be on the hook.

Hell... it's only money.

What's another 4.25 billion... to a Fiberal.

RELATED: Hmmm... that sounds awfully familiar.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Liberal Party, Ontario Hydro

First... you need some cops

Who are willing to arrest people... who break the law.

-- The Intelligencer -- Deseronto's mayor and deputy mayor headed to Caledonia this week, where they met four members of Haldimand County council to discuss what went right and what went wrong with the municipal handling of Caledonia.

The local politicians were looking for general knowledge of "what could happen and what did happen," said Deseronto Mayor Norm Clark. "Some of the things they experienced in the beginning are things we're experiencing now," he said of Monday's meeting.

"We wanted to know if there were any pitfalls we could avoid."

Pitfalls... you mean like turning a blind eye to criminal trespass and extortion?

UPDATE: Another eloquent aboriginal proposal

In Deseronto...

“We wanted them to see this,” Brant said. "It was today or it was nothing."

"I think it is clear enough and they should just revoke the licence and fuck off."

Technorati Tags: Caledonia, homegrown terrorists, Deseronto

Iran: Balancing the equation

Much like the Iranian supplied missile used in the Lebanese conflict to kill Israeli sailors, it's an open secret that Iran is providing money, equipment, personnel and expertise to Iraqi insurgents.

So it is sadly ironic that, as British hostages return to their families, there is news of 4 more British casualties.

Four British soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb near Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

Prime Minister Tony Blair contrasted the safe return of 15 British sailors and marines held captive in Iran with the soldiers' deaths.

He said: "Just as we rejoice at the return of our 15 personnel, so today we also grieve and mourn for the loss of our soldiers in Basra who were killed as a result of a terrorist act."

Prime Minister Tony Blair's shameful knuckling-under to Iranian perfidy, has only encouraged Iran to redouble its back-door participation in the Iraqi insurrection.

Sleep well, Mr. Blair.

Technorati Tags: Iran, flat, black, glows in the dark

ADSCAM

The Liberal gift that keeps on giving...

Mr. Lafleur and his family earned $13-million from federal contracts during that period, a substantial part of it through dubious invoicing, hearings of the Gomery inquiry showed in 2005.

The inquiry also showed that Mr. Lafleur had contacts with key confidants of former prime minister Jean Chrétien, such as his former chief of staff Jean Pelletier and director of operations Jean Carle and former Canada Post president André Ouellet.

I'm actually surprised this fugitive came back to face the music.

Mr. Lafleur had not been seen in Montreal in recent years and only made headlines after people living near his new home in San José, Costa Rica, complained about his noisy behaviour.

My suggestion for a new Liberal campaign slogan...

Take the money and run.

UPDATE: 7 Apr 2007 - Another Fiberal behind bars

Mr. Lafleur will be adjusting to prison food for a while. On Friday, the executive who grew rich during the federal sponsorship program learned he would be spending at least a week behind bars.

Technorati Tags: ADSCAM, Liberal Party, Jean Lafleur

How corrupt is China?

As much as I complain about CTV spin-twins Lloyd Robertson and Craig Oliver, I suppose things could be worse.

How much worse, you ask?

China's national press regulator has banned journalists and newspapers from accepting and extorting money in return for favourable news coverage.

"In China, it is not uncommon for journalists to openly accept envelopes stuffed with cash at press conferences from companies seeking positive or prominent coverage," Reuters news agency reported from Beijing.

And it's not just the mainstream newsies you have to worry about. There appears to be an organised subculture of extortionists who use journalism as a cover.

"Fake" journalism by people who pretend to be reporters for the purpose of extorting money from corrupt officials and businessmen has been a feature of China's media scene for many years.

It's just one more brick in the massive wall that separates life in China from life as we know it in North America.

And it's a barrier that may never be surmounted.

Technorati Tags: China, corruption, politics

The Liberal Shell Game

In the aftermath of digging himself a mammoth hole with another of his childish rants, you'd think Jason Cherniak might be feeling a little sheepish.

Instead, he's back in full flight, flogging Dion's tired old talking points like it was the coming of the Hidden Imam. A prime example would be his rhapsodic praise of Steffi's attack on the Conservative budget.

Dion then got into the budget. Never before has a Canadian government done so little for so much. A government has a responsibility to prepare a long-term plan and Harper has failed to do that.

Which was particularly amusing because the budget was so enthusiastically received by the general populace.

The poll, conducted exclusively by Ipsos-Reid for CanWest News Service and Global Television after the Harper government delivered its new budget, shows the Tories have opened up an 11-point lead nationally over Stéphane Dion's Liberals.

I guess I just don't understand that sort of willful self-deception.

Maybe if you're so eager to practice this type of trickery in a public forum, it's only a matter of time before you start to believe what you're selling.

It almost makes you feel sorry for him.

RELATED: Q & A at TDPC

Q: What do you think about Stephen Harper's announcement of a Bill of Rights for Canada's veterans, and an ombudsman to ensure they are fairly treated?

A: He's an asshole, mean, a bully and unfair. This is just another example.

Technorati Tags: willful self-deception, Liberal Party, Jason Cherniak

Cherniak steps on own dick...

-- Yet AGAIN --

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RANDOM MUSING: Remember how Cherniak just about wet himself, when he posted about the NDP officially disavowing any connection with "Myblahg McClelland".

Wouldn't it be especially ironic if the Fiberals now decide to throw old Jason under the bus?

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Fresh off his post calling the Prime Minister of Canada "an asshole", Liberal spokes-blogger Jason Cherniak has now suggested that Stephen Harper wants to harm Canadian soldiers.

Cherniak Suggests Harper Wants Troops To Suffer Casualties?

Perhaps I went a too far with this one. With no training in media, I didn't realize how strong an emotional reaction I was creating...

Geez Jason, that's not what your website says...

Jason Cherniak is a 27-year old lawyer and new media consultant working in Toronto.

In case you're wondering, this is the same Liberal blogger who, without any evidence, also accused NDP member Olivia Chow of election fraud.

Yup... another bullseye for Jason "J'accuse" Cherniak.

UPDATE: Cherniak deletes latest Harper libel


(Screen capture courtesy National Newswatch)

2nd LAST WORD: As usual, SDA was ahead of the pitch

LAST WORD: Post reworked and reposted

Now, it's the fault of National Newswatch whom Cherniak accuses of being a partisan Conservative stooge.

I would also argue that this is beginning to prove my theory that anonymous people who claim to be "non-partisan", like National Newswatch, should not be given the benefit of the doubt.

Technorati Tags: Mount Cherniak blows again, Liberal Party, silly little boy

WORK, WORK, WORK...

Where's your Union steward when you really need one...

But the blood-covered, machete-wielding Hutu militiamen who stopped them at a roadblock were exhausted from slaying people all night and sent them away.

You might wonder why this horrendous story is back in the Canadian news.

All too predictably, it's because Desire Munyaneza, another of the world's "scum of the earth" has chosen Canada as his new base of operations.

One Rwandan woman testified to the horrific events...

Hour after hour, she spoke of mass rapes, of people clubbed or hacked to death, of desperate refugees driven to suicide.

Known as C-15, she was the first of two witnesses who have spoken at the trial of Rwanda-born Toronto resident Désiré Munyaneza.

Mr. Munyaneza had a small smile when the witness identified him in court. His relatives snickered when she described him as a killer.

Another legacy of the Liberal dominated leftbot justice system. What are we gonna do with this guy... send him to Club Fed for two years less a day?

Put this murdering piece on shit on a plane back home.

Do it now.

RELATED: Swept up by the Broom

A RADICAL Muslim cleric has been refused entry to Australia, and another has been asked to show cause why he should not also be banned, just days before they were due to attend an Islamic conference in Melbourne.

Sheik Bilal Philips, a Canadian citizen who lives in Qatar, was banned at the last minute by Department of Immigration officials, believed to have been acting on national security agency advice, the Herald Sun reported today.

Technorati Tags: Rwanda, Desire Munyaneza, immigration insanity

British bulldog neutered

Iranian President Madman Ahmadinejad couldn't resist taking that very last shot at British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as he claimed he would finally free the 15 British hostages.

"I'm asking Mr Blair to not put these 15 personnel on trial because they admitted they came to Iranian territorial water," he said, referring to taped "confessions" made by the British sailors and marines.

"I ask Mr Blair: Instead of occupying the other countries, I ask Mr Blair to think about the justice, to think about the truth and work for the British people not for himself."

In return, a spokeman for Mr. Blair meekly replyed...

"We welcome what the president has said about the release of our 15 personnel. We are now establishing exactly what this means in terms of the method and timing of their release."

Game, set and match... Iran.

RELATED: The Captain concurs...

Ahmadinejad makes the most out of the reversal. Facing the threat of a blockade if Iran pressed this any further, he gets to look magnanimous while still maintaining the notion that he could have tried the sailors for espionage, even while dressed in uniform.

It's a net win, allowing the Iranians to feel as though they won a tactical victory while avoiding having to back up their rhetoric with action.

LAST WORD: I never thought... I'd see this

The ass-kissing is now complete...

An unidentified crew member said: "I'd like to say that myself and my whole team are very grateful for your forgiveness.

I'd like to thank yourself and the Iranian people... Thank you very much, sir."

Mr Ahmadinejad responded in Farsi: "You are welcome."

Technorati Tags: Iran, flat, black, glows in the dark

Speaking of aboriginal rights...

There are two people in this story... Darnell Pratt and Grant DePatie, but before you read any further, I want you to think of a number. It's not a magic trick, so don't be worried that I'm gonna give you the number right up front.

The number is seven. Remember that... number seven.

So here we go...

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The family of Grant DePatie is outraged that the 17 year old convicted of dragging DePatie to his death may now be released from jail as early as next year.

Pratt killed DePatie by dragging the gas station attendant under a stolen car after a gas and dash, worth just $12.30, in Maple Ridge two years ago.

Darnell Pratt already caught a break by falling under Canada's laughably lax Young Offenders Act. Now he gets his cake iced by having his sentence reduced again. I don't know about you, but in my world that makes no sense.

It's absurd. It's beyond absurd.

So what the hell is going on here?

Turns out it's the usual politically correct leftbot jibber-jabber. And until someone decides to apply some common-sense to the backed up, left-leaning "criminals are the real victims" judicial system, we will see it happen time and time again. Ask Karla Homolka... she's the reigning poster-child for homicidal criminals.

So here's the punch-line to this sick joke...

The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled the judge at Darnell Pratt's trial didn't properly take into account his young age and his aboriginal background.

Oh that.

And that number I asked you to remember?

Oh yeah.

That's the number of kilometres that 24 year old Grant DePatie's torn, naked body was dragged that night before it was spit out lifeless... from underneath Darnell Pratt's car.

Lucky number seven.

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RELATED: Young Offender, my ass

Need another example? Don't worry, there are plenty more where that came from.

In Feb. 2003, Laurel Price, 17, was beaten to death after she broke off a relationship with the inmate. In Dec. 2004, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to an additional three years in jail.

For the last two years he has lived in a dorm-style facility equipped with a television and Sony Playstation.

He is scheduled for release in December but was trying to get out now so that he could work this summer and go to college in the fall.

Hey... maybe he'll be taking college classes with your teenage daughter later this year.

Technorati Tags: Grant DePatie, Darnell Pratt, mockery of justice

Another unfortunate youth

The Jane-Finch killing field claims another victim.

It's unclear if the young man was shot, stabbed or suffered both types of wounds, Sgt. Peter Stehouwer said last night.

"I couldn't say" whether there was any gang involvement in the murder, he said.

The victim was wearing a red ball cap and the Grassway is known as Bloods turf.

Fiberals fiddle while civil society burns.

Just keep on stalling those crime bills guys.

RELATED: Got a cottage up north?

To be fair, there's crime out in "the sticks" as well. You might wanna tread carefully around Bancroft, Ontario these days.

Charged with production of a controlled substance, trafficking a controlled substance, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and a number of other charges are: Xu Heng Cai, 44; Yu Xuan Cai, 40; Yee Wai Ma, 36; Niwen Cai, 48; You Zi Chen, 44; Yi Qing Lai, 49; Shu Zhen Ma, 66 and Shu Fang Zhang, 65 all of the Markham area.

Technorati Tags: Jane-Finch, Liberal Party, tough on crime

No brainer here...

Unless you're some kinda freak for plastic surgery.

UPDATE: Domi drops the gloves

Tie Domi served notice yesterday on his son's coach that he will seek damages for slandering and libelling the ex-Maple Leafs enforcer with accusations of rink rage.

UPDATE 2: Going to the replay

The Greater Toronto Hockey League has done a flip-flop on the Tie Domi controversy.

“The issue is closed as far as the league is concerned,” Gardner had said earlier yesterday. “No disrespect but it is turning into a (media) circus and they are waiting for the league to ban him for a year. It just isn’t going to happen.

So where are we now?

“The league has taken ownership of the whole thing now,” Marlboro president Jim Nicoletti said late last night. “The next (communication) will come from the league.”

While we're on Domi related media feeding frenzies, I got to talking with the baby brother about M.I.A. pseudo-celeb, cum one-hit political wonder "Buhlinda"... which prompted him to say...

I read this somewhere,,,,,, "put her in a Tim Horton's uniform,,,,,you'd never look twice".......

Hmmmmmmm...

Technorati Tags: Tie Domi, rink rage, intimidation

Mount Cherniak blows again

And it ain't pretty... or coherent.

Why would a 27-year old "lawyer and new media consultant" who, oh my goodness, "graduated from Dalhousie Law School" and wow... look at that, "studied Ethics, Society and Law and History..." want to come off like a spoiled, dopey four year old who just got his ass kicked by the little girl next door...

It's a shoddily reasoned, badly written hissy fit.

"Did I call Stephen Harper an "asshole"? Yes I did."

"I cannot describe how absolutely outraged I am. This is more than a low blow. This is like skipping a fight to beat up the opposing boxer's mother."

Jeeezus, Jason... to be effective - simile, analogy or metaphor require a rapier touch, not a clumsy glancing blow with the nearest heavy object. Oh yeah, it also helps if it makes some kind of sense.

Perhaps you could also explain how the ad in question, which ran back in February, is any more topical or offensive than your own own recent baseless accusations that a sitting Member of Parliament used a voter fraud scheme to win an election?

C'mon Jason, you remember...

The rumour around TO (Let me be very clear; I am not suggesting that the rumour is true. I am only stating that it is out there.) is that Olivia Chow won because NDP supporters from across the city voted early and often at different polling stations in Trinity-Spadina.

And what's with this last bit?

If you don't think it is proper to call the Prime Minister an "asshole" out of respect for the office, then surely you also agree that an asshole shouldn't be in the office in the first place.

Good Lord... is that meant to be an argument?

I sure hope your court pleadings are more coherent than your blogging.

If not... somebody's sure goin' to jail.

Technorati Tags: Mount Cherniak blows again, Liberal Party, silly little boy

Aboriginal Anarchy: The Poll

To cut to the chase, we're against it...

Federal Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice has written leaders warning of forensic audits of native organizations involved in "blockade & civil obedience to ensure monies intended for children were not used to plan these activities".

I'd call 93 percent a resounding mandate.

On to the next problem.

Technorati Tags: Caledonia, homegrown terrorists, Oka

The most cost-effective way...

To break stuff and kill people...

It's probably not what you think.

Today, the United States has just 183 bombers in its entire arsenal, versus more than 75,000 at the peak of World War II.

The heavy bomber is obviously being phased out of the United States military menu... but not because it can't do the job.

Some 80 percent of the bombs dropped during the U.S. seizure of Afghanistan fell from bombers; the share dropped on Iraq since March 2003 is nearly as high.

Pork-barrel politics spell the end of a not-so-gentle giant.

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Think of it as a probe

When a military scenario hits an impasse, one side or the other will often send a small unit out to probe the other guys defenses... not to win ground, mind you, but simply to see how the adversary will react.

If your enemy panics, or starts to retreat, it strengthens your position. You know that if you come at them again in strength, they are likely to turn tail or surrender.

It does wonders for morale.

Omar Fadhil from Baghdad thinks that's what's happening with the British sailors being held hostage in Iran.

Think the current Iranian crisis has to do with the 1979 American Embassy take-over? Think again. In 1990 Saddam Hussein, to mollify the Iraqi people arrested, tried and hung Farzad Bazoft, an innocent reporter for The Observer.

PJM Baghdad editor Omar Fadhil looks at that incident and sees how the capture of the British sailors may just be the mullahs stealing from Hussein’s playbook.

The Iranian regime wants to tell the Iranian people that ‘See, we arrested their sailors and there’s nothing they can do about it. The west is too scared to attack Iran and that’s why all they can do is to negotiate the problem.’

And it looks like they've got Tony Blair's number.

UPDATE: Argentina smells blood in the water

Awwwwww... Tony, now look what you've started.

Argentina has renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands on the 25th anniversary of invading them - and losing a subsequent war with Britain.

"The Malvinas are Argentine, they always were, they always will be," said Argentine Vice-President Daniel Scioli, using the Spanish name for the islands.

LAST WORD: Rewarding bad behaviour

"We're against it", says US.

Asked about reports that Iraq was pushing for the United States to release the five Iranians in Baghdad in the hope of encouraging Iran to free the 15 British sailors and Marines held by Iran, McCormack said the cases were not linked.

"We reject out of hand any attempt to link the two," he said. "To do so only creates a set of incentives that would encourage more such behavior either by the Iranian government or others in unjustly seizing individuals."

Technorati Tags: Iran, Tony Blair, folds like a cheap suit

Pestering the living...

To dig up the dead.

As someone who has a hobby interest in genealogy, the potential of this type of research fascinates me.

After testing his own DNA at the request of a distant cousin, Mr. Grieve was shaken to discover that he did not match any of his extended family, including his first cousin, the son of his father’s brother.

That could only mean an occurrence of what genetic genealogists call a “nonpaternal event.”

Either his father was not his father, or his grandfather was not his father’s father. But the elder Mr. Grieve has refused to surrender to the swab.

As anyone interested in genealogy knows, too often the "paper record" is sketchy, or downright inaccurate.

Right into the latter part of the last century, an illegitimate birth was a scandal, to be officially obfuscated whenever possible. Marriage dates or birth dates were adjusted to cover such events.

In census records, women often lied about their ages. If it was Dad who answered the door when the enumerator came around... children's ages were often wildly inaccurate. If ole' Dad had been drinking... it was worse.

If the person being enumerated had any sort of foreign accent, they could be listed as "Irish" because in the 1800's, the epithet "bogtrotting Irish" could encompass all foreigners and persons of low birth.

No one -- the O.J Simpson jury excepted -- questions the validity of DNA.

Which raises the issue... do you really want to know?

Technorati Tags: DNA, genealogy, where's poppa

Pte. Herbert Peterson - 808723

Rest in peace.

One of the discovered bodies was identified as Private Herbert Peterson, a soldier from Alberta born in 1895.

On his attestation papers, Herbert Peterson lists his place of birth as Kansas, but notes that he has lived in Canada for five years.

On Saturday, Pte. Peterson will be laid to rest in La Chaudiere Military Cemetery, during ceremonies to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

He will be laid to rest by soldiers from the Loyal Edmonton Regiment; Pte. Peterson's Canadian 49th Battalion was the unit's predecessor.

A timely reminder that war is serious business.

He will be remembered.

UPDATE: 7 Apr 2007 - Buried with military honours

-- PAS-DE-CALAIS, France -- Private Herbert Peterson, his remains in a flag-draped coffin, was carried in solemn procession by Canadian soldiers through a large crowd gathered at La Chaudière military cemetery.

Technorati Tags: World War I, Canadian Forces, duty, honour, country

Fiberals "Cry Havoc"

And let loose the "squirrels of war."

"Do you think it is easy... to make priorities"?

GRRRRR UPDATE: The Nerf Ads

The Liberal Party is preparing to unleash attack ads aimed at Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.

Call them Nerf ads, because it's hard to see just how they will hurt.

2nd LAST WORD: Speaking of Ad(s)cam)

Is it another Fiberal Felon?

An arrest warrant is out for former advertising executive Jean Lafleur after he was charged Monday with fraud in relation to his involvement in the sponsorship program in the 1990s.

"What we do know is that Jean Lafleur billed the federal government for incredible amounts of money -- about $60 million in government business between 1994 and 2001," CTV's Jed Kahane reported Monday, counting 35 charges against Lafleur.

"During that period, his own salary went from about $100,000 a year to $2.5 million a year."

Kahane said Lafleur's wife, daughter and son were also on the payroll -- wages that added up to about $3 million a year.

LAST WORD: On the run

-- MONTREAL -- Canadian and international police forces are scouring the globe for adman Jean Lafleur, who is facing 35 charges of fraud in relation to $1.58-million in sponsorship contracts.

The Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police, sought the assistance of Interpol when it obtained an international arrest warrant last Friday for Mr. Lafleur, who is believed to be in Latin America.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Liberal Party, up shit creek

Who cares what happened...

We'll just let the diplomats weave their magic tapestry...

This is what drives ordinary people crazy about "diplomacy."

It's just like the ever weaselly-words that constantly emanate from the UN.

-- LONDON, March 31 -- After more than a week of mounting confrontation over its 15 captured sailors and marines held in Iran, Britain sounded a more conciliatory tone on Saturday, saying it had responded to a diplomatic message from Tehran and was ready to peacefully resolve the issue.

Craig Murray, a former British diplomat and Foreign Office specialist on maritime affairs, said, "There is no agreed maritime boundary between Iraq and Iran in the Persian Gulf.

Until the current mad propaganda exercise of the last week, nobody would have found that in the least a controversial statement."

So, in effect, both parties are looking for a plateau that gives each of them the semblance of a diplomatic "reach-around", while each party also seems to, but actually doesn't, climb down from the impasse.

It's a solution that satisfies no one but the diplomats themselves.

As I commented previously elsewhere...

Maggie Thatcher would have rounded up some Iranian spies and personally shoved bamboo shards up their dicks and sent the video to Tehran... all in the first 48 hours of this charade.

Kidnapping British citizens is certainly grounds for going to war and the Israelis are at hair trigger alert... and would no doubt level Natanz and the other nuclear facilities they have targeted in the first blush of British retaliation.

Two words baby... Falkland Islands.

Whatever happened to bold deeds and straight talk?

UPDATE: Mesowest comes up with one...

It now turns out Iran tried to capture and abduct a group of American soldiers before succeeding with the 15 Britons. A report in Time magazine says the attempt was made last September 7 on the border between Iraq and Iran.

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