31 May 2007

Rewarding criminal behaviour...

With 125 million taxpayer dollars... and it's still not enough.

-- CALEDONIA, Ont. -- “The only positive thing about it is it was an offer,” Mohawk Chief Allen MacNaughton said in rejecting the offer. “It being an initial offer, we realize initial offers are never accepted anyway.

I guess it's a starting point to talk about things, and I guess the only positive is it's obviously a recognition they owe us something.”
RELATED: Another illegal occupation

Another snivelling, politically correct apology...
“I want to now say publicly what I said to him privately: On behalf of the people of Ontario, we apologize for the events that led to the loss of life.

We deeply regret the death of Dudley George,” he said.
No more apologies to people who choose to defy the law of the land.

Dudley George chose to play with fire.
No word on what might have happened at Ipperwash in 1995 if the natives didn’t set up blockades, occupy a provincial park, firebomb buildings, assault people, drive a native school bus into the Canadian military’s drill hall, then take possession of the base after defence staff fled, then later drive a speeding bus toward police, followed by a speeding car which actually rams right over four police officers, and generally stage militant mayhem in the community...
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LAST WORD: Speaking of the dead
How come there's no closure for the family of Marcel Lemay?

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That explains a few things...

Hmmmm... the symptoms of chronic lead poisoning "include neurological problems, such as reduced IQ..."

Warning signs are being posted in the bathrooms of Ontario's Legislature warning staff and visitors the tap water isn't fit to drink.

Testing ordered by Speaker Mike Brown during the past couple of days has revealed tap water in the historic Legislative building is contaminated with lead.
Bravo for life's little ironies.

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RELATED: Please save us... Saint Suzuki!!!
But when Suzuki awakens Bob to the savings potential -- and the prospect of more beer money -- not only does Bob unplug the fridge -- he races through his house, pushes past his family members and proceeds to unplug every energy using device, even those in use.
No wonder they treat us like sheeple.

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Whitewashing murder

Like Toronto's "Summer of the Gun" in 2005, the murder of Jordan Manners is all about young black men killing young black men.... but nobody wants to acknowledge that.

There's the usual media beatification of everyone involved in this sad, sordid affair... who was gifted, who was sociable, blah, blah, blah.

And good grief, let's not assign any blame...

Lawyer Courtney Betty, acting for the family, said a coroner's inquest would get answers without laying blame and could help kickstart the changes needed in troubled neighbourhoods.
Well, lemme tell you Courtney, "root causes" didn't shoot a teenage kid in the chest that day.

Of course, that's not the emphasis here so far. Politicians demonise the gun... not the shooter.

Oh woe is us... if only we had security cameras... or basketball courts, or a hot lunch program, or...

To top it off, we're supposed to believe that a kid in Rosedale, or Bowmanville, or Cobourg is similarly at risk...
Greg Stokes, Jordan's uncle, said people in Toronto have to understand that every murder in the city affects everyone.

"It's not a black community, it's not a white community. Canada is a community as a whole," Stokes said.
Well... that's awfully nice sounding "politically correct pablum", but it's just not true.

It's a whitewash.

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RELATED: Taken to its logical conclusion
"An Illinois gun-rights group says it plans to complain to the Catholic Church after a Chicago priest at the weekend appeared to call for the murder of a suburban gun shop owner."

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Readin, writin' and...

Assume the position...

Schools in England have been given the legal right to search pupils who are suspected of carrying knives.

The Department for Education and Skills will also give heads guidance on how to use airport-style metal detectors to screen young people.

The guidelines state that a pupil can be refused entry to a school if he or she refuses to be screened.
Little bit different here in Canada, huh?
On March 2, 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled, first, that a total ban on wearing a kirpan to school violated an individual’s freedom of religion protected by section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and, second, that this ban on religious expression was not reasonable or justifiable, as is required under section 1.

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Step 2: Send his spammin' ass...

To federal prison...

-- SEATTLE -- A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.

“He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world,” said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs.

“He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day.”
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RELATED:
See also... the Spamhaus Project

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30 May 2007

Be afraid

Be very afraid...

I've never been a "benefit of the doubt" sort of guy... when my spidey sense starts to tingle, I go with it.

That said, you sure don't need supernatural powers to see which way the wind was blowin' here...

A newly released inspector general report backs eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight in 2004 and reveals several missteps by government officials...
There was a whole comedy of errors here that should scare the bejeezus out of anybody who travels regularly by air.

I've detailed only two of them... there are plenty more in the full report.
The report also says that a background check in the FBI's National Crime Information Center database, which was performed June 18 as part of a visa-extension application, produced "positive hits" for past criminal records or suspicious behavior for eight of the 12 Syrians, who were traveling in the U.S. as a musical group.

In addition, the band's promoter was listed in a separate FBI database on case investigations for acting suspiciously aboard a flight months earlier.

According to the Homeland Security report, the "suspicious passengers," 12 Syrians and their Lebanese-born promoter, were traveling on Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on expired visas.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services extended the visas one week after the June 29, 2004, incident.
PDF file of the full report here.

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Musharraf in deep dung denial

As if he didn't have enough problems already, Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has yet another fight on his hands...

-- ISLAMABAD -- They started by taking on Islamabad's music and video shops, shutting them down and destroying CDs and DVDs they found objectionable.

They went on to abduct a suspected brothel owner to put her out of business and force a Pakistani cabinet minister to offer her resignation for conduct deemed un-Islamic.

Now, the brothers behind a rogue mosque in Pakistan's capital are challenging the country's President, using the 10,000 students in their religious school to provoke General Pervez Musharraf.
This situation is potentially even more serious than the war in Iraq, or Afghanistan.

Pakistan has a significant nuclear capability and if the fundamentalists get their finger on that trigger, we will truly be in deep water.

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An idea whose time has come

I am, I confess... a huge suckhole at the dentist. It isn't the pain, because my dentist, who I've been going to for thirty years, is the Nijinsky of Nitrous and Novocaine.

It's simply some bug in the primitive lizard part of my brain that screams, "This is bad... get up and run... NOW!!!"

This may be a possible solution.

Ace Reporter at DMB...

All over latest aboriginal threat...

"I assume they can speed up negotiations by erecting electromagnetic barricades."

Once again, Microsoft dives into...

Those murky hardware waters...

-- SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off “Surface,” a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.

Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a shiny black table base, topped with a 30-inch touch screen in a clear acrylic frame.
Tag this a "social networking" device.

I'm from the government...

I'm here to help you...

Homes, apartments, schools, nurseries, hospitals and public buildings across the province built during the 1930s and 1940s commonly used cheap, flexible and what was thought to be, at the time, safe lead pipes.

If we send the rest of the family...

Can we get a group rate?

Canadian Omar Khadr faces the possibility of indefinite imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even if he is acquitted of murder and terrorism charges at his war crimes trial later this year...
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UPDATE: Omar Khadr... cannon fodder

Proving yet again, he's not the sharpest tool in the drawer, Khadr has dismissed his lawyers right before his big court date...
Khadr’s decision may also force a halt to legal proceedings launched on his behalf in U.S. civilian courts.

His American civilian lawyers had petitioned a federal court in Washington this week to stay all proceedings against Khadr, arguing he did not qualify as an “unlawful enemy combatant” under U.S. law.

“This dismissal is applicable to all military commissions, habeas corpus proceedings, other federal court proceedings and any other proceeding,” Vokey said in a separate email to Canwest News Service.
I guess Allah works in mysterious ways.

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29 May 2007

Why all the fuss about XDR-TB now?

The talking heads at CTV are absolutely breathless and panicky tonight, but nobody gave a rats ass... when I was talking about it last year.

The crazy, old man of Europe

Here's another reason why all the European countries run away and hide... when Turkey shows up at the EU playground...

Turkey's prime minister has said the US and Iraq should destroy bases of separatist Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, said in a television interview: "We expect the United States and Iraq to destroy, scatter bases of terrorists there."

Turkey has recently debated the possibility of cross-border operations by its military in pursuit of Kurdish fighters.
Good thinkin' Recep... that'd sure calm things down.

Hey Turkey... get back in your cage... bad country!!!

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Officers later flipped a coin...

To see who got to tell the unlucky recipient about her, uh... goodtime-ous interruptus...

Bomb squad officers called in to blow up a suspicious package found it contained a packet of chocolate buttons and a vibrator.

Post Office staff in Hasland, Chesterfield called in police when they heard the package making a noise.

Time to rethink Injustice system

House arrest AND community service!!!

Why, that's barbaric...

-- TORONTO -- Two Toronto men have both been handed two-year conditional sentences and two years of probation for a high-speed collision that killed a taxi driver.
Not so surprising though, for a judicial system that gives a 12 year sentence to someone who kidnaps, tortures, rapes and murders three Ontario children.

Next time it could be you, or your family.

Friends don't let friends vote Liberal.

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RELATED: Getting away with murder

Thank you Jean Chretien.
Under the YCJA, adult sentences, even for murder, are to be applied "sparingly" according to the feds' own explanation of their legislation when it was passed.

Conceivably, then, a youth can be convicted of murder and remain anonymous because he doesn't receive an "adult" sentence.

The YCJA was sold to Canadians as being tougher on serious youth crime than the YOA.

This is nonsense. In many ways, it's worse.

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The Punch & Judy School of Politics

This is absolutely everything you need to know about politics in the Middle East...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has overwhelmingly won another seven-year term of office, in a ballot in which he was the only candidate.

The interior ministry said he won the backing of more than 97% of Syria's 12 million voters in Sunday's referendum.

"This great consensus shows the political maturity of Syria and the brilliance of our democracy
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Good grief.

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AFTERTHOUGHT:
This, of course, begs the question... what does your average Syrian immigrant and their ilk... actually do in the voting booth... when confronted by the veritable smorgasbord of candidates here in Canada?

Is there a moment when, he or she, suspecting trickery, looks around for hidden cameras, or the "secret police?"

Just wondering.

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A little bit off the top

Of course... this is exactly what Hastings County has been missing...

Mystery and speculation surround an upcoming Front Street business that some say could be a topless hair salon.

Located at 384 Front St., Lil Off the Top has been advertising for hairstylists with open minds and "a sense of adventure," and little experience is required.

Belleville Police have heard the topless salon rumour and are investigating further. If the business includes nudity, it falls under the city's adult entertainment bylaw, which is administered by police, said city clerk Julie Oram.
One minor suggestion though... if they set up shop at the Belleville General Emergency Room, it'd give you something to do during the four hour wait to see a doctor.

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Well... that's a relief

No need to fret about whether there's any sort of racist element to the fraudulent, toxic Chinese products being exported to places like Panama and India... turns out the Chinese industrial juggernaut isn't just poisoning foreigners...

-- BEIJING, May 29 Reuters -- Families of Chinese patients killed by a fake medical ingredient maker linked to widespread deaths in Panama have sued the southern Chinese hospital that gave toxic injections, local media said on Tuesday.

The Qiqihar company used a fake syrup supplied by a manufacturer in the eastern province of Jiangsu -- the same supplier whose toxic ingredients killed at least 100 people and possibly many more in Panama, according to the New York Times.
I can't wait to see what other surprises these folks might have in store for us.

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28 May 2007

Speak up Canada

A couple of sociopathic thugs from a welfare hellhole murder the kid down the street. Should we alter the law of the land to penalise law abiding Canadians?

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FINAL TALLY: Seventy percent of respondents think David Miller and Dalton McGuinty are total dickheads.

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It bears repeating...

David Miller can't count to 10 without removing his mittens...

Did Stephen Harper shoot Jordan Manners?

According to his Commie-Pinkness the Mayor... Harper might as well have pulled the trigger himself.

If we follow Mayor Miller's logic, the only reason Jordan Manners is dead is the federal Conservatives' unwillingness to ban handguns.

Well, while, we're at it, why don't we get those nasty Tories to ban drugs, bank robberies and car thefts, too. And murder. Let's get them to ban murder, because murder is bad.

The cause of gun crimes such as the Manners murder and Britain's recent rash of similar shootings is a changing culture. And that's the one "root cause" David Miller and his ilk refuse even to talk about.
The two 17 year old thugs who have been arrested... showed up at the dead kids bbq funeral fundraiser!!! How cold is that?

David Miller would probably say, "Maybe they just really like ribs."

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The leftbots trot out Barbara Coloroso...

You know there's a tide of warm, fuzzy bullshit comin' down the pipe.

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Chillin'

This, dare I say it, is a pretty cool development...

Turning science fiction into science fact, American doctors are preparing to chill volunteers into a state of suspended animation that could keep them asleep for months.

Medical teams in Los Angeles, Boston and Pittsburgh are racing to become the first to test out new theories of “induced hibernation” which could save lives and also help to send man towards the stars.

“You start with 20 minutes and then find the limits – days, weeks, months, we do not yet know,” said a UCLA medical school researcher.
This puts me in mind of one of the most persistent themes in science fiction... the wealthy, terminally ill entrepreneur/adventurer who has himself frozen... until, some time in the future, he can be thawed out and cured.

I'm gettin' goosebumps thinkin' about it.

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27 May 2007

Second suspect in custody...

Suddenly, all pictures and references to the alleged shooter's name -- which have been all over the msm websites today -- must disappear...

Two 17-year-olds are charged with murder in a shooting at a north-end school that left a boy dead and prompted calls for tighter gun controls and better security at city schools.

The teens, who can't be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, were charged Sunday with first-degree murder in last Wednesday's slaying of Jordan Manners, 15, at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute.
RELATED: Pompous ass McGuinty...

Uses murder of teenager as a political stunt...
"We have seen too many shootings result in too many funerals for our young people," Premier Dalton McGuinty wrote in an open letter to federal party leaders, urging them to push through proposed criminal justice legislation and implement a "real ban" on handguns.
Hey Dalton, you're a real class act.

Please tell me how "a real ban" would have prevented a couple of 17 year olds... who aren't legally allowed to possess, never mind register a handgun... from murdering one of their neighbours.

One other small point...

Speaking for "my community", I should tell you that "our young people" don't travel in wolf packs and kill each other with smuggled handguns.

Could you possibly explain which "young people" you're referring to here?

More nonsense from the party of "smoke and mirrors."

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If this kid's a Young Offender...

Then I'm a Hottentot...

One arrested, one on the run...

******* **** ****, 17, is wanted for first-degree murder by police and is described as 5-foot-9, 200 pounds and has short black hair.
That's some poor, little defenceless kid... thank goodness for the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

p.s. - Take a good look now, because as soon as young ******* is apprehended... his name and picture, under Canadian law... have to disappear off the face of the earth.

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BREAKING: 10:48 PM EDT - Too late... they've got him.

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UPDATE: Community response...

Was about what cops expected.
Residents shouted at police and reporters, saying the wrong people were being apprehended.

Police had warned residents in the victim's Jane-Finch neighbourhood not to hide the shooter, and called for anyone with information to contact police.
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LAST WORD: With friends like this...

Who needs enemies?
The two suspects even attended a barbecue Saturday night at Jordan's house to show support for his grieving family.

According to Ms. Campbell, the teenager arrested in the raid was at Jordan's side after he was shot and he held Jordan's hand as they waited for the ambulance.
Incredibly, instead of being angry at the suspects who were arrested, the residents of the neighbourhood are crying "police conspiracy..."
“I’m very disappointed that this happened today,” she said, tears streaming down her face. “I don’t know where somebody gets their misinformation from, but apparently they came in to take out the youth.”

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It's the criminals, stupid

Ask yourself... which Canadian political party is holding up "get tough on crime" legislation in the Senate, which mandated "mandatory minimum" sentences for use of firearms in a crime?

Canada has also had a handgun registry for more than 60 years.

All of these restrictions existed before Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government was elected in January 2006.

Since then the Tories have introduced a number of crime bills, including one that provides minimum sentences which get higher for repeat offenders for a number of firearms crimes.

It’s still before the House of Commons.
Friends don't let friends vote Liberal.

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26 May 2007

I've stumbled across...

The very heart and soul of liberalism...

School boards, colleges and corporations make a public show of summoning grief counsellors to reassure the public rather than to comfort the grief-stricken, say Dr. Ogrodniczuk and other critics.

"It's become a social phenomenon," he says. "They're showing to the public that they care, that they're here to help - even if what they're offering is not really useful."
All style, no substance, 24 hours a day.

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You want politically correct...

Go talk to Jack & Olivia and swan-necked Steffi... and not the actual "ass in the grass"... like Jack Hooper.

How does the Canadian spy service deal with countries that have a record of human rights abuses?

"Here's the deal. Everybody would like to believe that we have an array of choices that are good choices and bad choices. But we're going to a dance where every girl is ugly, okay," he said this week.

"They're all ugly. And all we can do is get the least ugly girl to dance with.
(Via Natnews)

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UPDATE: Taliban Jack has a plan

He's calling it, "An Army of None."
Layton said his party is concerned about what he calls an "aggressive" counter-insurgency campaign being waged by Canadian forces.
So, if Taliban Jack Layton has his way... we'll just drop "aggressive" from our military bag of tricks? I guess we could save an awful lot of money... if we didn't buy any more of those "nasty" guns.

There's just one hitch here...

I'm not entirely convinced a "two out of three Scrabble match" is gonna get the job done.

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Cops identify shooter...

Refuse to talk about possible gang connection...

Toronto police have the name of a young man who they believe shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Manners in the stairwell of his high school, CTV reported Friday, but they don't know his whereabouts.

Police would not comment on whether the shooting was connected with a spat between rival gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, that has taken hold of the area.
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UPDATE: David Miller talking out his ass... again.
"The one piece we haven't been able to get at is getting the guns off the street," Miller said.
Whaddaya mean we, dickhead? You ever saw a gun, never mind a gangbanger... you'd curl up in a ball and crap yourself.
"And that requires federal action, requires them to close the loopholes that allow some people to own handguns, and it requires action to prevent guns coming across the border from the U.S."
Loopholes?!? You think banning legal ownership of a product will solve these black on black homicides?

Handguns have been restricted and required registration since the 1930's. To get a simple possession certificate for a .22 rifle to shoot coyotes on your farm, you now need written approval from your ex-wife on the application form!!!

The process to get a handgun is separate from that and requires a training period and approval from a gun club.
Miller said current laws make handgun ownership illegal, but provide loopholes for target shooters and gun collectors to legally own the firearms.
Again... total misinformation. Handguns are legal for anyone who can jump through the increasingly numerous and stringent hoops the government places in the way of ownership.

It's legal, provided you aren't a criminal, or a crazy. Gun owners and collectors are some of the most conservative, law and order oriented people on the planet.

Jordan Manners, or any of the other young black men killed in Toronto's "Summer of the Gun" were not killed by a legitimate gun owner.


You want to stop these murders, try profiling the shooters and increase the police presence in areas like the Jane-Finch corridor... because that works.

And stop lying to the public.

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25 May 2007

The real reason is revealed...

The latest megalomaniacal pronouncement by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, clearly illustrates the accepted wisdom that putting crazy people in charge of stuff is a really bad idea...

"If Iran's right to nuclear technology is confirmed, all nations of the world will gather under Iran's political banner.
Yeah, Mahmoud... I guess ya got us.

Let's hope this nutjob strokes out pretty soon.

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Canada should grow a pair...

And do the same with the terrorist Khadr gang...

Race hate preacher Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, who influenced one of the 7 July bombers, has been deported from Britain, the home secretary said.

He left Gatwick for Jamaica at 1200 BST, accompanied by two police escorts and an immigration officer.

He was jailed in 2003 for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus. London bomber Germaine Lindsay was "strongly influenced" by him, John Reid said.

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And that's a Fatwa...

On you, and you, and you...

Council voted 9-5 Thursday to ignore a letter from Secular Ontario, an organization striving to eliminate the Lord’s Prayer from municipal procedural bylaws.

“We have 151 years of tradition and we’re going to throw it out the window,” said Dan McCaw, reeve of Wollaston Township. “This county was put together by church people.”

The Belleville law firm O’Flynn Weese advised the county in a letter that switching to a non-secular prayer will ward off the threat of lawsuit.

The correspondence cited Allen versus the County of Renfrew and Freitag versus Penetanguishene, wherein courts ruled that saying the prayer infringes on the rights and freedoms of non-Christians.
Read the letter here
We are sure you will agree that it is totally unacceptable in a democratic society for any official government body to act illegally, and we expect that you will, therefore, want to put an end to the offending practice immediately.
I've gotta wonder why they were so sure...

A lot of the rural residents around here take their religion and their independence pretty seriously. My guess here is that O’Flynn Weese is gonna start seeing a sharp drop-off in walk-in business.

But there were some stalwart souls who were standing up to the incipient jihad...
Bancroft mayor Lloyd Churchill said Ontario is turning into a province where the minority is louder than the majority.

David Golem, reeve of Limerick, suggested changing the Lord’s prayer to a moment of silent prayer, which was defeated.
And let's not forget the secular humanists, on the other side of the theological fence...
Voting in favour of examining alternatives were Panabaker, Faraday Reeve Carol Tinney, Golem, Tyendinaga Reeve Margaret Walsh and Stirling-Rawdon Deputy Mayor Michael Regan, who filled in for Mayor Peter Kooistra.
Interesting times in Hastings County, Ontario.

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UPDATE: Who's behind Secular Ontario?
Registrant:
Peter C Lee

First Registered:
June 13, 2005
Let Secular Ontario know how you feel.

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LAST WORD:
Another legal lightning bolt...
Canada's highest court ruled Friday that citizens don't have a constitutional right to a lawyer in every legal case they are involved in.
In a strange turn of events, the lawyer bringing the suit was killed during a stunt to publicise this particular matter.
Christie was killed by a minivan during a cross-country cycle to deliver a petition to the Harper government on the high cost of justice last year.

He argued that the tax, which the B.C. government imposed in 1993, inhibited people from retaining his services.

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Fighting for change

For anyone questioning whether our troops should be in Afghanistan, this is part of the crazy-quilt of stone-age injustice, that Canadians and other NATO soldiers are trying to make right.

The story is slightly fuzzy but the attacks started four or five months ago and stopped two months ago.

They were likely in reprisal for some slight from 50 years ago and the people living in this remote area, on the edge of the vast Registan desert about 120 kilometres south of Kandahar city, seemed to accept the inevitability of what happened.
Over to you... Mr. Layton.

Third World corruption...

Is destroying whatever miniscule amount of credibility the United Nations has left.

On Wednesday, the BBC's Martin Plaut said he had found that the UN had begun an internal investigation in early 2006 into allegations that Pakistani peacekeeping troops had traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm.

Witnesses said Pakistani officers had also supplied weapons to notorious militia commanders in return for gold.

However, a UN official connected with the inquiry told the BBC there seemed to have been a plan to bury its results, in order to avoid alienating Pakistan - the largest contributor of troops to the UN.

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Yup... there's a Spring Offensive...

It's just a little different than the Taliban imagined.

-- MA'SUM GHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- Canadian troops have launched their most ambitious assault on the Taliban in nearly two months.

Shortly after dawn on Friday, a multi-national force including Canadians, Afghans, Portuguese and British, began an operation designed to flush out Taliban believed to be in the area near the Arghandab River.
I sure hope Olivia is around to soothe Taliban Jack's fevered brow... it sounds like a big operation.
Col. Mike Cessford, deputy commander of the Canadian task force in Afghanistan, described the operation as a “hammer and anvil.”

The battle, fought under the codename Operation Hoover, is taking place only a few kilometres from where Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited on Wednesday.
I can't wait to hear all the pissin' and moanin' up on Pussyville Hill tomorrow.

UPDATE: Canadian soldier killed

I'm sure we're gonna hear the wailing and moaning from Taliban Jack and his brother-in-surrender, Steffi... but let's all remember... that's why it's called "War" and not "Circle of Friends."
"As this soldier was moving forward, with other Canadians and other Afghan soldiers, an IED was triggered and he was killed," Colonel Mike Cessford, deputy commander of the Canadian task force in Afghanistan, told reporters.

HE WILL BE REMEMBERED: Corporal Matthew McCully
The soldier was identified as signals operator Corporal Matthew McCully from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron based at Petawawa, outside Ottawa.
"It's a pretty sad day. But he was doing what he needed to do, what he wanted to do."

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24 May 2007

Phil Fontaine...

Is off his meds again.

-- OTTAWA -- The violent 1990 standoff at the Oka native reserve near Montreal triggered a spike in public support for aboriginal issues, Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said Wednesday.

"The highest level of support for our position was during (the Oka) crisis," he recalled, in reference to the dispute between the Mohawk residents and the Quebec police.

The standoff, which led to the shooting death of an officer, became a rallying cry for native anger and frustration.
Cause there's nothing like a good cop-killing... to rally the citizens of Canada to your cause.

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Can I do this from my phone too?

If identity theft is the huge problem the media says it is... maybe the phone company shouldn't be allowing corporations to spoof other people's phone numbers.

A recent telemarketing-style poll, asking people how Daryl Kramp has performed as the area MP, caused major concerns for the local Conservative member.

It was not the results of the poll which caused Kramp to cringe but, instead, the fact that recipients of the phone calls were led to believe the call was coming directly from his constituency office on Millennium Parkway.

The calls were in fact originating from an Ottawa company hired by the Prince Edward-Hastings MP, but a clerical error resulted in Kramp's office number showing on telephones equipped with call display.

A spokesperson for Protus, who refused to give her name, said there was an error made when the phone calls were made and the number displayed "defaulted to (Kramp's) account phone number, which was his office number."
This seems like a huge hole for scammers and e-hackers to exploit. A boiler room scam that appears to be originating from your bank, or the local police station would have instant credibility to anyone with call display on their phone.

Anybody out there have any contacts at Ma Bell?

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UPDATE: Let's see what Protus says

I contacted Protus via the form on their website. Let's see if they choose to answer questions about this... or just duck and cover.
Thank you for taking the time to fill out our Form. One of our Account Executives will be contacting you within 48 hours.
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PROTUS REPLIES: And yes, they spoof clients numbers...

Apparently, it's standard operating procedure...
In response to your query, like all service providers, Protus makes calls on behalf of our clients.

To help the call recipients identify and reach the originator of the message (our client), valid caller-id information needs to be provided by each of our clients.

Our operating processes and controls are designed to ensure that all of our calls are accurate and comply with regulations.

Regards,

Sue Rutherford

Director Marketing Communications
Protus IP Solutions Inc.
2379 Holly Lane, Suite 210
Ottawa, Ontario
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I will be following this up with Ms. Rutherford.

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The propaganda war begins...

Black activist and school board trustee Stephanie Payne, best known for her fight to keep the musical Showboat out of Toronto, has jumped into the latest shooting incident in northwest Toronto to defend the indefensible...

Payne said C.W. Jefferys is one of the safest schools in Toronto and parents realize it is a "very safe, compassionate school."
Geez, Steph, not to be a party-pooper or anything... but I've got the dead body of a 15 year old kid that says different.

It also raises the question of what has to happen at a Toronto school... for it to make Ms. Payne's "not so safe school" list... are we talkng grenades, flamethrowers... or what?

She continues to babble...
Ms. Payne told CBC there were still no leads or clues as to how the assailant got into the school with a gun.
Now, I realise I'm goin' out out a limb here, but I'm gonna guess he came in through the unlocked, unguarded front door... because despite the horrible statistics for gun violence in the immediate area and the pleas of parents for more security at the school... nothing was done.

Now remember... Stephanie Payne says this is a safe school... in a safe area... so just get off that black kids and gangs thing.


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UPDATE: Curtain of silence

Once again, the black community closes ranks...
"It's quite common in these investigations that people do not come forward initially. That's why we feel it's necessary to ... ask people to do the right thing.

Be courageous, come forward and do the positive thing for your community."
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UPDATE: More politically correct pablum

Apparently the McGuinty government thinks a hot lunch programme will make the Bloods and the Crips throw down their guns...

It sounds a lot like their "aboriginal surrender initiative."
Ontario's education minister suggested this generation of children lack a sense of belonging and direction.

"We have to make sure there are programs in our communities so kids have things to do and have opportunities," said Kathleen Wynne.
Things to do?

You mean besides shooting each other?


Well, Kathleen, call me a kneejerk neo-conservative... but I'm thinkin' maybe we don't disband the police forces just yet.

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LAST WORD: McGuinty's fiberal flip-flop
Frankly, yesterday's open letter was a shocking piece of political opportunism.

To use the death of a child in a school to posture politically, when the Liberals' track record on gun violence has been to tell those of us who've worried about it that we're scare-mongering is appalling.

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Whatever you do...

Don't use the "R" word...

Another young black man is shot to death -- just east of the notorious Jane-Finch corridor -- but magically, the mainstream media goes out of its way to whitewash the reporting.

"But how is race relevant?"
, cry the loony leftbots.

Apart from this being just the latest in an epidemic of murders of young black men in Toronto? Well, let me tell you.

The Globe & Mail makes reference to the location of C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, one paragraph referring to the proximity of the infamous Jane-Finch killing fields... but god forbid you directly connect any young black men with this self-destructive, too-often homicidal gang culture.

It is located a few blocks west of the Jane-Finch neighbourhood, where residents have long endured violent outbreaks of street crime.

Bloods are associated with the area south of Finch, known as down-bottom, and the housing complexes at Firgrove and Driftwood Lane. Crips are associated with Shoreham Court, Driftwood Court and other areas north of Finch.
I guess we're supposed to nudge, nudge, wink, wink... read between the lines.

The absolutely undeniable fact here, is that it isn't roving gangs of Jewish boys, or offspring of Anglo-Saxon immigrants, or even the admittedly macho sons of Italy who have declared war on each other in Toronto the formerly Good.

It is overwhelmingly a problem in Toronto's black community.

And even if the shooter in this case turned out to be whitebread John Doe -- until the black community admits they have a horrendously serious issue with this sub-culture of warlord offspring -- it is these very same children that remain in the cross-hairs.

And, of course, innocent bystanders like Jane Creba.

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RELATED: David Miller's latest lie
“We absolutely have to get the guns off the streets. It’s going to require some changes to our laws but it has to be done.”
See, David... that's just it.

Under Canadian law, handguns have been restricted weapons that required registration since the 1930's.

You've had the law all along... what's lacking here is moral courage and the political will to enforce it.

But for goodness sake, don't say anything about the statistically mind-boggling percentage of shooters and victims from the black community.

SHSSSSSSHHHHHH...

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UPDATE: Miller story above disappears

I guess David Miller realised that calling for guns to be "more illegal" today than they were yesterday... was a pretty stupid move.

He has now decided that he can solve the epidemic of gun violence in "certain communities" in Toronto by announcing that Toronto should be a gun-free zone.

Yeah, that'll fix it... let's announce that drug abuse, poverty, promiscuity and parental neglect will be banned too.


John Tory comes closest to actually saying anything about the racial element to the majority of the Toronto shootings...
"Like many people, I grew up in a time where the notion of a school lockdown was a foreign one. Now it seems like they're almost common place."
Well, John... maybe in Scarborough and the Jane-Finch warzone.

No murdered teenagers in my neighbourhood
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23 May 2007

Please let this one be true

Word has it that Karla Homolka, her husband and new baby boy are looking to move to Jamaica and escape the media spotlight.
Not as satisfying as watching her swinging from the gallows, but...

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RELATED: Happy Mothers Day
-- TORONTO, May 24 /CNW/ -- It's not clear how Karla Homolka spent her first Mother's Day. Falling as it did just nine days after her 37th birthday, it would have been the perfect occasion for a family celebration.

An exit strategy for Iraq

"Ok, listen up men... the first rally point will be Tehran."

-- DUBAI -- Ships packed with 17,000 sailors and Marines moved into the Persian Gulf on Wednesday as the U.S. Navy staged another show of military force off Iran's coast just days before direct U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad.

Give em an inch...

They'll take the box the tape measure came in...

-- TORONTO -- Federal and provincial negotiators have walked away from negotiations to end an aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, Ont., to protest another occupation in nearby Hagersville.

The Six Nations say the land was awarded to them in 1784 in recognition of their help to the British Crown during the American Revolution.
I just wish someone could tell me why laws and agreements in force before the late 1800's are sacred... but anything since then is the white mans racist oppression.

All aboard that love train...

The best part is... you can let somebody else pay for your ticket...

Controversial immigration rules aimed at stopping sham marriages are unlawful, says the Court of Appeal. The rules applied to all such individuals, irrespective of the status of their partner.
So, what's at issue here?
Nobody knows the scale of sham marriages, although senior registrars suggested that before the new legislation there could have been at least 10,000 a year.

Registrars at Brent Council in north London, one of the most diverse areas of Britain, suggested in 2005 that a fifth of all marriages there were bogus, with officials able to spot couples who barely knew each other.
Good grief.

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Here's a Heritage Moment...

You won't see on TV anytime soon...

He is a pretty damn interesting character notably because of that great magical symbol of the Metis - The Bell of Batoche, which incidently showed up at a drinking party at his house back in 1995.

It has since disappeared from public view and rumours abound to its whereabouts but everybody knows who has it.

Billy Jo thinks it contains the spirit of Louis Riel and it talks to him.

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If these guys get it wrong...

Will they resign?

WASHINGTON — U.S. weather forecasters warned Tuesday of a busier-than-normal hurricane season.
Cos' I know our local weather guy/meteorologist could be starring on "Who's smarter than a Fifth Grader?"

Canadian Research points to...

Fountain of Youth...

Resistance, it seems, is not futile after all.

A new study conducted at McMaster University shows that lifting weights -- or resistance training -- can reverse the effects of aging on muscle cells, opening up possibilities for future medical developments that could change the overall process of human aging.
Read the study here.

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Mass murder

The price of Canadian political correctness...

-- Ottawa -- Government officials delayed the process for obtaining a wiretap warrant against the key figure in the Air India bomb plot because of religious concerns, a former intelligence officer told a commission of inquiry Tuesday.

It took five months from the time CSIS initiated the process for a Federal Court to approve the wiretap warrant on Mr. Parmar, a frustrating delay, Mr. Gartshore said.

By comparison, an emergency warrant to intercept communications of another target from Western Europe in a separate case took only two days.
And it's a double shot of "progressive PC goodness" because the Germans let him slide too...
Mr. Parmar, who was wanted on murder charges in India, had been detained by German authorities during European travels in early 1984, but was released because the Germans feared he would be subjected to human-rights abuses if deported to India, Mr. Gartshore said.
It's called the "war on terror" for a reason.

Let's get serious.

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22 May 2007

Are Palestinians forking crazy?

My father used to tell a story... I was a toddler and he was watching me amble across the living room with a piece of stainless steel cutlery in my mitt... not realising that I was steering for an electrical outlet.

He figured it out just a little too late... and despite leaping off the couch, had to settle for watching me get blown ass backwards across the dining room floor. No real damage, apart from a blown fuse and a scorched wall... but it could have been much worse.

That's what I thought of... when I read about those chuckleheads from Hamas launching missiles non-stop into Israel this week. They're a lot like totally clueless toddlers... and it makes you wanna grab them and smack their hands til they get the message.

I think that's how the Israeli government must feel right now...

We hope that a political process will prevail, because we don't want to be dragged into what Hamas wants us to be dragged into. But events will dictate.

If a Qassam rocket lands on an Israeli kindergarten, all bets are off."
The difference here is, unlike a small child... they must know they're playing with fire.

But they're gonna do it anyway... aren't they?

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RELATED:
Let's ask American Muslims
The first nationwide survey of Muslim Americans revealed that more than a quarter of those younger than 30 say suicide bombings to defend Islam are justified...

"But the survey also found that only 40 percent of the overall American Muslim population would even admit that Arabs were behind 9/11.
Yup, feelin' much better now.

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Maybe testing for virginity...

Shouldn't be their first priority here...

Having her virginity regularly tested makes South African Nsomawethu Tshobeni feel good. "At 31 I'm very proud to be a virgin, and when I attend the test regularly it gives me self-esteem as a woman," said the nurse who works in the coastal city of Durban.

A revival in the traditional practice among young Zulu women in South Africa is portrayed by supporters as the best way to stop unwanted pregnancies and the spread of HIV/Aids.

But opponents say the practice is sexist and outdated and can even increase the chances of Aids - given the widely held misconception that unprotected sex with a virgin is safe or can cure Aids.
How is it that you wouldn't know -- and more importantly, would have to "test regularly" to determine -- if you were still a virgin?

It's also notable that this woman is not some poor, illiterate soul in a shanty town, but a nurse in the city of Durban.

I'm thinkin' anyone who feels the need to do this... has already fallen short of a much more important benchmark.

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Anarchy bites aboriginal arse?

No one really seems to be saying... but is this why a man was shot in Caledonia last week?

-- CALEDONIA -- A smoke shop that was the site of a shooting Thursday afternoon was set up without Six Nations band council or Confederacy approval.
Is Jeffrey Henhawk -- the man who set up the smoke shop -- also the man who was shot?
The council rents the land to a Six Nations farmer, but Henhawk is a supporter of the traditional Confederacy and believes he does not need permission from the council to set up his cigarette hut.
As well as his disregard for even aboriginal law, Mr. Henhawk, like many of his native compatriots, apparently has some anger-management issues...
One of the most vocal protesters, Jeff Henhawk of Caledonia, was released on $2,000 bail on charges of creating a disturbance, intimidation and assault with a weapon in relation to an incident near a Canadian Tire store in Caledonia.
And the karmic wheel goes round and round.

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21 May 2007

Mark Steyn for President

When it comes to cutting through the bullshit... nobody does it better...

"This is what the legislative process is all about" -- and in the sense that it's a sloppily drafted bottomless pit of unintended consequences on a potentially cosmic scale whose sweeping "reforms" will inevitably require even more sweeping reforms of the reforms in a year or two's time, he's quite right.
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NOTE: Before the puppy-pile of leftwing chuckleheads descends to point out that Mr. Steyn was born in Toronto and is thus ineligible to run for the U.S. presidency... I should say... yeah, I know, it's a literary "wish-list" type of thing.

At the feet of "The Master"

Dylan Avery wanted to be famous... and let's face it, playing fast and loose with the facts, like his hero Michael Moore... is one way to get an audience.

He sat down and started writing a FICTIONAL SCREENPLAY about he and his buddies finding out 9/11 was a government conspiracy.

Fictional. Sort of an The X-Files episode. Avery mentions this in every interview he does.
Of course, part way through the project, young Dylan realises he can present this as a documentary and really make a killing.
So he does the whole video like that.

He cuts sound bites in half, saving the part where a flight instructor says something like, "I met the hijacker and he was a bad pilot," and deleting the part where the same guy says, "but you don't exactly have to be fucking Chuck Yeager to crash a plane into a building."

Without that second part, it sounds like the guy is saying the hijacker couldn't have done the flying.

He has literally edited the words to make the guy say the opposite of what he said.
Another graduate of the Michael Moore School of Journalism.

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RELATED:
The dumbing down of humankind...
Or... "Why they don't test automobile safety by crashing toy cars."

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Who says Arabs are humourless?

Aljazeera's knee-slappin' cartoons.

Splash one

Precisely targeted attacks continue to pay dividends...

US forces in Iraq have killed the alleged mastermind of a guerrilla attack in which five US troops died, military officials have said.

Azhar al-Dulaimi was believed to be behind a raid in which guerrillas posing as US troops attacked a military base in Karbala. One US soldier was killed and four others abducted and later gunned down.

"We found him finally Friday morning," Maj Gen Caldwell told CNN. "We went in on a precision operation to capture him and in the pursuing engagement that occurred, he was killed."
Of course, it's not as productive as Islamic warfare.

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Death dealing kids...

Now just part of the big city landscape...

-- Toronto -- A wild shootout on the streets of Kensington Market early yesterday sprayed bullets down a residential street, tore holes through several cars and left a teenager near death.

"It's possible there was some kind of a gun battle that had taken place," Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. Tom Sharkey said.
Gee Sarge... ya really think so?

You've only got, what... handfuls of brass bullet casings and a kid with a sucking-chest wound... you sure you don't wanna wait for the forensics?

People who live in the area were quick to react...
"Not cool," said one area resident, who had strolled through the area just minutes before the gunfire broke out.
I guess firefights and dead bodies are the new normal in Toronto.

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RELATED: Same story out in Lotus-land...
-- Vancouver -- A 13-year-old boy is dead and a 14-year-old boy has been arrested for manslaughter after a late-afternoon brawl in an open lot at a busy intersection just outside downtown Vancouver.

The brawl late Saturday afternoon involved several teenagers of Asian descent from several schools in Vancouver and one in Surrey.
Hmmm... never had this sort of stuff going on when I was a kid in Scarborough and Don Mills.

What could possibly have changed since then?


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20 May 2007

Is it really a long weekend...

Without a big chunk of hash and the all-time definitive report on UFO sightings..?

The Project Blue Book Archive (PBBA) will contain all of the available documents of the Air Force investigations from the early AMC period through the end of PBB.

In addition to these nearly 15,000 individual UFO reports, PBB administrative files are included, providing an overview of and insight into, PBB operations.

For anybody who pissed away...

Their adolescence actually studying, obeying their parents and not ingesting all sorts of weird chemicals... it's not too late to get it on.

You too, can go back in time... just like Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

Here is your chance to be my neighbour but just remember, when I’m playing Buddy Guy at 800 watts and that sweet bass is infiltrating your home and caressing your couch laden ass you must not complain.

A good neighbour will tell me to turn it up.
Darcey... I may be a little long in the tooth... but I'll always be with you in spirit.

There's no whore...

Like overfed, disingenuous Michael Moore...

Michael Moore has launched his latest controversial documentary in Cannes, saying he feared it would be seized by US authorities before it was seen.

Sicko, in which the director attacks the US health system, has had its first screening at the French film festival.

"The point was not to go to Cuba, it was to go to American soil, to Guantanamo Bay, to take the 9/11 rescue workers there to receive the same healthcare that they are giving the al-Qaeda detainees," Moore said.
It's not about the "tens of millions of dollars"... it's all about helping others.

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RELATED:
Moore's slick, finely tuned dishonesty
Some students are showing FahrenHYPE 9/11 on their college campuses as an antidote to presentations of Fahrenheit 9/11.
See also here and here.
If anyone is still wondering whether the Left is actually rooting for our enemies, namely Islamic Fascists and their terrorist comrades, let me quote Michael Moore: "We cannot win this war! We can't.

We SHOULDN'T win this war...I mean, who the hell are we!!!! The ARROGANCE!!!!

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19 May 2007

GO ALLAH GO

I'm sure the families of the 7 dead and 13 horribly maimed Afghani bystanders are with you all the way.

-- KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding 16, officials said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted decisively to the deaths of the 3 German soldiers...
“These perfidious murders fill us all with disgust and horror,” Merkel said in a statement. “The German military is carrying out an important mission for the reconstruction and stabilization of Afghanistan.

It is the goal of the attackers to destroy the established successes of this rebuilding process.”
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RELATED: Some Spring Offensive, huh?

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LAST WORD:
Give a little, get a lot...
Nearly 70 Taliban fighters are believed to have died in an ambush by US-led forces and Afghan soldiers in eastern Afghanistan while some 20 others were killed in a battle northeast of Kabul.

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Merchant of Death

First cough syrup... now toothpaste.

I don't know about you, but from now on, I'm checking labels for country of origin, every time I go shopping...

Diethylene glycol, a poisonous ingredient in some antifreeze, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs officials there said yesterday that the product appeared to have originated in China.

“Our preliminary information is that it came from China, but we don’t know that with certainty yet,” said Daniel Delgado Diamante, Panama’s director of customs. “We are still checking all the possible imports to see if there could be other shipments.”
Hmmm... why does this sound so familiar?
Diethylene glycol is the same poison that the Panamanian government inadvertently mixed into cold medicine last year, killing at least 100 people.

Records show that in that episode the poison, falsely labeled as glycerin, a harmless syrup, also originated in China.

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War is Peace

The mainstream media just keep on announcing these serial cease-fire agreements... but the Pals are havin' way too much fun to comply.

It is the fifth such truce since violence broke out last Sunday. Since then about 50 people have died.
Maybe somebody should sit down with Curly, Larry and Mohammed and explain what cease-fire actually means.

Of course, you'd have to approach them with overwhelming armoured force to stand a chance of surviving the encounter...
After the ceasefire was announced, but before it came into effect, a convoy carrying a senior Fatah member came under fire.

Security sources said Mohammad al-Masri, President Mahmoud Abbas's intelligence chief in the Gaza Strip, was unhurt in the attack.
I give up... you might as well try to reason with a cat.

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UPDATE: One man's cease-fire...

Is another man's pathological cruelty
In another sign of the shaky nature of the truce, several hostages from both factions were released only after their captors shot them in the legs, both sides said.
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RELATED:
Bringing sunshine, wherever they go...
-- NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon -- Lebanese troops battled al Qaeda-linked militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday and 38 people were killed in Lebanon's bloodiest internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war.

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A poor little lamb...

Who has lost his way... let's roll out the Leftbot Welcome Wagon.

-- Bad choices, bad consequences. But they could have been worse -- he might have emerged from his self-inflicted drunken stupor long enough to load the gun. --

18 May 2007

Apparently Evil Stephen Harper...

Is having trouble destroying Canada.

The Canadian dollar hit its highest intraday level in almost three decades Friday, and many strategists believe the currency has further to go.
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RELATED:
Yikers... Steffi gets another brainwave
Stephane Dion, the Liberal leader, has made it clear he would not proceed with the second percentage point cut to the GST promised by the Conservatives in the last election.

But Mr. McCallum's comments are the first to hint at reversing the cut made by the Tory government last year.
Now, I'm no economist, but on a purely political level, this has to rank up there... with starting up a Zeppelin company to compete with Westjet.
John Williamson, national director of the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation, said he would welcome income tax cuts. But he said the idea of linking those cuts to an increase in the GST would be "electoral suicide."

"The Conservatives would have a field day. The Liberal caucus has got to give its head a shake if it is contemplating increasing the most hated tax in Canada," he said.

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Natives lay siege...

To Caledonia Church...

Next strategic ojective... Tiny Tots Daycare Centre?

-- Caledonia -- At least half a dozen natives have blocked construction vehicles today to protest and halt work on a driveway at Caledonia Baptist Church today.

At one point a truck driver dumped a load of stone on the site, an action that one eye witness said made native protesters "livid," prompting them to surround and block the truck from moving.
As far as I can tell from local coverage... OPP apparently have the day off.

There's a killer lurking among us...

More feeble attempts at fearmongering... it must be a slow news day.

This bit of pseudo-news comes to us, courtesy of Dr. Craig Newgard, who has apparently devoted years of his life to studying this automotive assassin.

Much like the fiberal panic over mounting casualties in Afghanistan... which, averaged out over a year, almost equal the vehicular carnage of one Ontario 'Victoria Day long weekend', the Globe and Mail offers up the startling screed that demonic airbags are, wait for it... killing about one Canadian per year.

According to Transport Canada, 15 people have died - eight adults and seven children - over the past 14 years as a result of airbag deployment.
I'm absolutely certain this doesn't come close to the number of people who die from a fall in the shower, or even self-inflicted power tool injuries, but I guess Dr. Newgard is a "pure science" type of guy.

This statistic certainly pales in comparison to the 1200 yearly fatalities on the Canadian family farm... but hey, they're just dumb as dirt rural rednecks... right, Warren?

C'mon people... don't let yourself be manipulated.

Wake up and smell the species.


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Oh my god...

Somebody actually said it out loud.

Yup... let's profile the product, because we all know that works so much better than profiling the shooters.
Apparently toddlers, businessmen and everybody's loveable old granny are being decimated by Canadian gun crime.

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RELATED: Facts be damned -- is it still racist...
If a black man says it?

Some animals are more equal...

Than others...

-- EDMONTON -- A Hutterite community in Alberta that believes willfully being photographed is a sin has won the legal right to have a provincial driver's licence without a picture.

Madam Justice Carole Conrad wrote in yesterday's 37-page decision that driving is important to the Hutterites' communal way of life, and the lack of photo-free licences violated their Charter rights.
Where would we be without the sacred Charter of Rights... I mean, besides having one set of law that applied equally to each and every one of us?

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Voting with your feet...

In David Miller's Toronto-stan...

I have only two years remaining on my business lease here at xxxxxxxxxx, and I promise you, I will move my business North of Steeles in 2009 if any of these “revenue tools” are imposed.

17 May 2007

Caledonia shooting

Not related to the ongoing siege, say coppers... just a normal "no respect for the law" type of event...

A section of Highway 6 near Caledonia, has been re-opened after a shooting. OPP say the incident is not related to the ongoing Douglas Creek Estates land dispute.

Six Nations police arrested a suspect - he is now in the custody of Haldimand OPP.
UPDATE: Caledonia website says OPP negligent...

The website Caledoniawakeupcall.com is reporting that OPP officers refused to step in and deal with the armed man, who was allegedly spotted on the disputed property, before the actual shooting.
Eye witness states that the gun man was on DCE before the shooting at the smoke shop. He reports the following, "I went to see what was going on and heard a native cursing and swearing at a couple of native people.

Then I saw a shorter, heavy set guy come around the corner of a vehicle, he was was holding a rifle in his hands and yelling, "I will fucking kill you right here".

I took off on the run up the street towards the OPP to tell them."

The OPP did what the OPP always do in Caledonia when a Native person is committing a crime, they called for Six Nations Police to deal with the problem.
If this is, in fact, true... it's a pretty serious breach of anyone's idea of "serving and protecting."

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OPP UPDATE:
The story gets massaged a little...
Donald Leslie Vanevery, 47 of Ohsweken, is facing charges of attempted murder, use of a firearm while committing an offence, possession of a firearm, uttering a threat to cause death and pointing a firearm.

In a statement, the OPP said "the suspect may have been observed at the Douglas Creek Estates, but the suspect's actions were in relation to an issue not related to the ongoing land claim dispute."

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The slings and arrows...

Of statistically anomalous events...

A window cleaner drowned in his bucket of water after suddenly collapsing while he worked, an inquest heard.

Mark Fairhurst, 35, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, was found with his head submerged in water by his customer, Elizabeth Bebe, in June 2006.
Don't tell me that planes can't drop out of the sky and obliterate everything and everyone you love.

Somebody always wins the lottery.

Warren Kinsella is lower than...

Whaleshit

Screw the leftbot spinmeisters...

Let's hear from someone who's actually been in the trenches...

Well over a decade ago, I spent a year and a half in this less-than-savory profession.

The club where I worked was an up-scale, fairly classy place (at least as far as strip clubs go), and the treatment afforded the women who worked there was better than most places I had been.

This particular club also had one other defining characteristic -- an overwhelming reliance on "imported talent".

Every Canadian girl was out numbered by Romanians, 10 to 1.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
I've been trying to figure out why the Liberals et al. think that opposition to this legislature is a winner for them. I'm not getting it - who's the constituency they're trying to win over here?

David McGuinty pees himself...

In public...

Royal Galipeau, 60 years old, is one scary-ass parliamentarian.

Run, McGuinty! Run!
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RELATED: "The eternally discrediting consequences"
Good Lord... apparently Garth Turner has sold his soul to the devil's retarded little brother.

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Running for President...

Is a rich man's game...

The candidates have amassed their fortunes in a variety of fashions. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) wrote his way to millionaire status with a best-selling memoir.

Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) raked in $11 million by trotting the globe giving speeches last year.
I suppose being President can be seen as the ultimate American ambition...
Presidential historians note that, from Theodore Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, there is a long record of exceedingly wealthy commanders in chief.

"Celebrity, name recognition, fame, money" -- they all play into the success of campaigns, said historian Robert Dallek.

Economic boom in India...

Is only half the story...

Police stations across the Indian city of Calcutta have been equipped with oxygen devices to enable police to offset the effects of pollution.

The move follows a recent report which said that some 70% of people in the city suffer from respiratory disorders.

The worst offenders are around 50,000 auto rickshaws - half of them unregistered - who use "kantatel".

This is a fuel made out of a deadly concoction of kerosene and petrol.

And you thought Jehovah's Witnesses...

Were a problem...

Christians in north-west Pakistan are demanding government protection following threats of bomb attacks if they do not become Muslims.

Militants have been carrying out a sustained campaign to prevent "anti-Islamic" activities in North West Frontier Province.
You know... like practicing the religion you were born into.

And they aren't taking no for an answer.
The town has recently been hit by violence - it was this year the scene of a suicide bomb attack on Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, which killed more than 38 people.
That Allah... he's one seriously bloodthirsty deity.

CTV bends over so far...

You can actually see the bullshit...

Critics say a proposed Tory law that will stop immigrants from coming in on a stripper's visa solves a problem that largely no longer exists and may make things worse.
Good Lord, do you hear that... it isn't strip club owners exploiting women... it's that damn Stephen Harper.

After soliciting the totally unbiased opinions of one Fiberal and one Dipper member of Parliament, the crack CTV news team then brought out their big guns...
However, immigration lawyer Peter Rekai said: "I don't think it has anything to do, frankly, with the problem, but unfortunately it may create a problem."

Tim Lambrinos of the Adult Entertainment Association of Canada (that's newstalk for a shill for strip club owners) said: "All it's going to do is drive the demand to perhaps illegal enterprises and actually make it worse for the women are potentially here."
Now, if anyone can tell me what that actually means... I'd appreciate it.

Media-whore David Akin made sure to put in his two cents regarding the "perfectly legal" strip club business... thus making it unanimous that Stephen Harper is somehow actually exploiting foreign strippers in some as yet undefined way... by not allowing them into the country.

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RELATED: Of course CTV has already contradicted itself.
A W-FIVE special investigation found it's business as usual for strip club owners and the women they bring into Canada.

Even more disturbing are the working conditions these women continue to face.

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16 May 2007

No more spanking kids...

In New Zealand...

A private bill sponsored by a Green Party lawmaker which removed an existing legal defence of “reasonable force” to correct a child was passed by an overwhelming majority.
Stand by for Green Party sponsored, government enforced standards... for mandatory parental attendance at forthcoming state-run "breast feeding" and "potty training" initiatives.

Apparently, it does take a village... idiot.

One big, happy family

Ordered up especially for you...

Citizenship and Immigration Canada officials have discovered 42 wedding albums submitted with 42 different citizenship applications in which the guests in the photos were all the same.
Of course, the only real surprise here, is that the immigration people actually caught on to this.

Oh Canada.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"A wedding album is considered official documentation in citizenship consideration?"

"Can I submit my baby pictures when I apply for a passport?"
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RELATED: CTV'S Fife in a funk...

As that evil Stephen Harper cracks down on importing foreign strippers into Canada.
The new law will take the restriction one step further, and is based on the government's concern that foreign dancers are in some cases forced into the illegal sex trade.

"This is actually going to make it illegal for them to be able to do that. In other words there's not even going to be an opportunity to persuade the government that you need those foreign workers... that's out," Fife told CTV Newsnet.
Oh, the horror... those poor strip club owners!!!

So, what's really the matter here, Bob... no more expense account lap-dances?

How can anyone not support this initiative?
The Tories have been touting the move as a response to the so-called Strippergate scandal when former Liberal immigration minister Judy Sgro resigned amid accusations that she fast-tracked the immigration papers of a Romanian stripper who worked on her campaign.

"The Liberals gave blanket exemptions to foreign strippers to work in Canada," a senior government source told The Canadian Press.

"We're putting an end to the Liberal Strippergate in order to prevent the exploitation of women."

The former Liberal government issued temporary work permits for 600 foreign dancers before the practice was ended in 2004.
Of course, the bill will still have to get through the liberal dominated Senate, huh?

Can you say "conflict of interest"?

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Too many thieves...

Not enough Indians...

-- Deseronto -- This year's Landing of the Mohawks ceremony, an event that typically happens every Victoria Day weekend, has been cancelled.

Modifications were planned for the annual celebration, but could not be approved by band council in time to move forward, said Chief R. Donald Maracle of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.

It is only the second time since 1929 that the event has not happened, Maracle said.
Hmmm... guess everybody's having too much fun down at the private business the Mohawks have seized.

Maybe crime does pay.

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UK coppers to get more Tasers

Call it "the hard sell".

-- UNITED KINGDOM -- Like any good businessman, Peter Boatman believes he needs to personally sample his own product. Unfortunately for the 54-year-old, this means being regularly paralysed with a high-tech stun gun.

Former police inspector Mr Boatman is operations director for Pro-tect Systems, which is licensed to sell Tasers to police forces and the military in the UK.

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Let's call it an "ammo break"

C'mon guys... if it doesn't last as long as say, dinner... it's not really a ceasefire.

-- GAZA -- The renewed violence quickly undermined Tuesday night's attempt to broker a ceasefire, the third such truce brokered since the violence first flared at the weekend.

Both previous agreements, which have been brokered with Egyptian assistance, lasted little more than a few hours.

The latest accord floundered almost immediately. An Egyptian diplomat was shot in the hand, reportedly as he walked along a Gaza street to test whether gunmen were sticking to the deal.
I just love the last paragraph here.

Gotta wonder if Egyptians use a similar technique for testing driver compliance with traffic lights.

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UPDATE: Allah apparently has a sense of humour
Hamas gunmen ambushed a jeep and mistakenly killed five fighters from their own side detained by Fatah men.
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LAST WORD: Hamas: Everyone’s making us kill each other

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Homicide or hijacking

"There are only two ways of dealing with the white man.

One, either you pick up a gun, or you stand between the white man and his money," Terry Nelson of the Roseau River First Nation told CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live on Tuesday.
Might be time to circle the wagons, Zeke.

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UPDATE: So who exactly, is Chief Terry Nelson?

Turns out he's an anti-semitic buddy of David Ahenakew...
Not long after, Ahenakew’s spurious, hateful remarks were supported and defended by Terry Nelson, a chief from Roseau River in southern Manitoba.

When pressured to apologize for his racist remarks, he placed the blame “on the fact that I (he) had written his controversial letter at 1 a.m. and did not spend enough time reviewing it properly.”
Which explains why he's CTV's go-to guy on aboriginal affairs... it's not like they want someone who might consider both sides of an argument.

15 May 2007

Dear Muammar

It's sorta "Dear Abby" with an edge...

The Libyan leader will be taking part in a Have Your Say special to be recorded at the Oxford University Union on Wednesday 16 May.

Send us your questions for Colonel Gaddafi. The programme will be broadcast on Sunday 20 May at 1406 GMT on BBC World, World Service Radio and Online.

Mexico vacation checklist

Bring suntan lotion AND kevlar...

-- MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen fatally shot a high-ranking intelligence official as he was on his way to work at the Attorney General's Office on Monday, officials said.

Drug gangs have increased their attacks in recent weeks, opening fire on police and soldiers in response to President Felipe Calderon's nationwide crackdown on organized crime.

Calderon's government has sent more than 24,000 soldiers to areas plagued by drug violence.
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UPDATE:
More dead Mexican cops...
Four police officers have been killed and several other people abducted in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.

A group of about 40 armed men entered the town of Cananea near the US border and kidnapped the policemen from their patrol cars, reports said.

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What is flat, black...

And glows in the dark?

I'll give you a hint... it ain't gonna be Israel.

International efforts to halt Iran's uranium enrichment programme have been "overtaken by events", the head of the UN's nuclear agency has said.

"From now on, it is simply a question of perfecting that knowledge. People will not like to hear it, but that's a fact," Mr ElBaradei said.

Mr ElBaradei has previously said that Iran would not be able to produce the highly enriched uranium needed for a nuclear bomb as long as it remained under the supervision of IAEA inspectors.
But, you say, given what we now know... who would be crazy enough to actually start a nuclear war?

Well, since you're asking... meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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When a pre-nuptial agreement...

Just isn't enough...

A "change of heart" can also be protected in a special option from the U.S. company Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., which added the clause this month for a cost of about $25 on top of its standard wedding policy.

It's for those who pay for a wedding only to have the groom or bride back out, said insurance broker Rob Nuccio of RV Nuccio and Associates, who wrote the option.
So give the gift that fairly cries out, "I'll love you for the rest of your life... I'm pretty sure."

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14 May 2007

Calling Stephane Dion...

How's that defending Taliban prisoners rights thing going?

You'll be glad to hear there's good news about Guantanamo...

-- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Defense Department said three of those released from the prison for suspected militants resurfaced as senior Islamist fighters in Afghanistan while a fourth was later identified as having been a Taliban deputy defense minister.

The six were among 30 former detainees who the Pentagon said have rejoined the fight against U.S. and coalition forces since their release from Guantanamo. All told, about 390 detainees have been released or transferred from the prison.
Because it's all about doing the right thing... for the Taliban, mind you... just not our fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters who are serving in the military.
Pentagon officials said the detainees lied about their past by claiming to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-scale merchants or low-level combatants -- assertions that were sometimes backed up by fellow inmates.
Hey, wait a minute... wasn't it a former serving Liberal Prime Minister who intervened with a foreign government to spring Papa Khadr from prison?

Yes, I believe it was.

So, just to be clear... Steffi isn't really a Taliban supporter, he's just extending a longstanding Liberal tradition.

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Sort of like the Freemasons...

With decapitations and machine guns...

Once you were selected, you'd have to swear an oath of loyalty (called bayaat) to the organization. In 2002, authorities found a document at an Islamic charity in Bosnia that gave an exact wording for this oath.

The document also laid out several "requirements to enter al-Qaida": New inductees had to provide a trusted reference and pledge an open-ended commitment, and they had to be obedient and well-mannered people.
Hey... where do I sign up?

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If AIDS drug regimes are covered...

Why are cancer patients left out in the cold?

-- TORONTO -- A group of cancer patients angry over the massive out-of-pocket expenses they pay for unfunded treatments stood up and turned their backs on Health Minister George Smitherman on Saturday as he spoke about his government's commitment to medicare.

The protesters wore shirts bearing the slogans “Cancer patients need a credit card” and “Where did medicare go?” at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new home for patients with terminal illnesses at Toronto's Trillium Health Centre.

Protest organizer Roman Gawur said Ontario ranks ninth out of ten provinces for the amount of funding it puts toward cancer drugs.
Or is that not a fair question to ask a homosexual Health Minister?

RELATED:
Talkin' outta his ass yet again.

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Get yer programs here...

Ya can't tell the players without a program...

France
Total population: 62.3 million
Muslim population: Five to six million (8-9.6%)

Background: The French Muslim population is the largest in western Europe. About 70% have their heritage in former north African colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. France favours integration and many Muslims are citizens.

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Selling out Deseronto

Wanna buy a house really, really cheap?

-- Local News - Monday, May 14, 2007 @ 10:00 -- Deseronto council is getting a hard lesson in how much say it has in land claim negotiations that impact more than half their town - the answer is not much.

Negotiations between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ) and the federal government are ongoing and impact future ownership of about 60 per cent of the town.

But council has no spot at the negotiating table, even as an observer, and there are still holes in the information it receives, said Coun. Edgar Tumak.
So what is actually happening to their town?

Neither town council or non-aboriginal residents have any access to that information. Many residents are worried that their largest lifetime investment, their homes... will be handed over in the deal.
Among the documents requested was a copy of the federal government's research and findings that authorized the land claim negotiations to commence.

If the claim is valid, he said, the analysis should be a public document.


To date, council has also never seen the policy or procedure that shows it cannot be represented at the negotiating table, Tumak said.

"It's nice for the government to say we represent all Canadians, but do they really represent all Canadians if the elected government of a group of people cannot participate?" he asked.

Council should get used to feeling out of the loop, said Craig Grice, a Haldimand County councillor who represents the Caledonia ward.
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RELATED: White guy blockade planned
Our blockade will start at 8 a.m. If readers are interested in reading the literature we are preparing to hand out that day, please be advised to come as early as possible, as I suspect that not being aboriginals, we will all be arrested by the RCMP by about 8:10 a.m.

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Where no man has gone before...

Say... whatever happened to Mr. Spock?

13 May 2007

Meanwhile... back at the ranch

The never ending internecine slaughter continues...

-- Jerusalem -- The violence, punctuated by more than a dozen kidnappings throughout the day, highlighted the powerlessness of the Palestinian unity government to quell enduring hostilities.

Sunday's clashes came just days after Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas implemented a security plan aimed at restoring peace on the streets.
The Palestinians truly defy any sort of rhyme or reason.

If they're not busy threatening the lives of any available infidel, they're quite content to butcher each other.

In any contemporary Hell on Earth contest, the Pals will always be short-listed.

Think of it as the Sirhan Syndrome.


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RELATED: And these guys over here have nukes
-- Karachi, Pakistan -- Rival ethnic groups fought gun battles in this hub of economic growth Sunday, an ominous turn in a political crisis that started with the ouster of Pakistan's top judge. The death toll from a weekend of fighting rose to 41.

Funeral processions were accompanied by gunfights between ethnic Pashtuns and Urdu-speaking supporters of a pro-government party. Gunmen fired on ambulances, killing at least one driver, and the bullet-ridden bodies of some victims were found tied and blindfolded.
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LAST WORD:
Knock it down and start over
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat described the violence, together with the abduction of BBC journalist Alan Johnston nine weeks ago, as "despicable scenes".

"I am ashamed as a Palestinian this morning to see the continuation of such chaos. If the government cannot deliver on this one authority, one gun, the rule of law, I believe there is no purpose to have a government," he told the BBC.

Since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the strip has seen a wave of infighting, armed robberies, deadly family feuds and kidnappings.

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Mullah Dadullah has gone...

To see Allah.

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A U.S.-led coalition operation supported by NATO troops killed the Taliban's most prominent military commander, dealing the insurgency a “serious blow,” a NATO statement said Sunday, confirming Afghan reports of Mullah Dadullah's death.

An Associated Press reporter said the body, which was lying on a bed and dressed in a traditional Afghan robe, had no left leg and bore three bullet wounds: one to the back of the head and two to the stomach.
Rest in pieces sweet prince.

PS: Favorite media moment...
CTV news-ditz Sandi Rinaldo referring to the deceased as "Mullah Abdullah."

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11 May 2007

A busy weekend...

Here at the halls... be back in a couple of days.

10 May 2007

Those Liberal Health Clinics...

Aren't much use if you don't have doctors to staff them...

A deal that was made to help heal the city's chronic doctor shortage has produced little in the way of help and has left the city almost half a million dollars in debt on the scheme.

Three-and-a-half years later, the city has received no payment.
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RELATED:
A pox on George Smitherman
As for George Smitherman's famous "announcements", the people of Belleville are just asking if he could simply answer the damn phone.

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Hey Shawn...

You still wanna play Cowboys and Indians?

-- Local News - Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - Updated @ 6:06:03 PM --

CN Rail is suing Shawn Brant, two other protesters, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ) band council and other “unnamed parties” for blockades of its main eastern Ontario rail line.

Brant already faces criminal charges related to ignoring a court order to clear the tracks. He is charged with mischief, disobeying a court order and breach of recognizance. He is currently out on bail.
These charges are, of course, totally separate from his other offense of "uttering death threats."

It's still a farce mind you.

If a non-native tried publicly breaking the law like this... the local SWAT guys would have dropped him like a wet sack of shit.

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09 May 2007

No comparable word for irony...

In the Palestinian territory...

A major Palestinian security operation has begun in Gaza, in a joint effort by rival political parties to crack down on violence and lawlessness.
Those two unshakeable forces for law and order would be... wait for it... Hamas and Fatah.

Boy... do I love a good middle eastern "morality play."

Percy Dwight Wilson

So gung-ho he enlisted twice... and contrary to the sloppy research in the Globe... it took all of 30 seconds to find both sets of attestment papers online.

He was sent home in January 1917, more than a year before the Armistice was declared in Nov. 1918. He apparently signed up again and was sent to Camp Petawawa for training, but the war ended before he could go back overseas.

While there are no records of his re-enlistment, there are pictures, dated 1918, of Mr. Wilson as a young man in uniform holding his trumpet at Petawawa.
There is first... 11 Jul 1916 and second, 23 Apr 1917.

He will be remembered.

PS... one further note to Globe fact checkers... Percy's father's name is Courtland, not Courtlan... as evidenced by his birth and marriage registrations and the 1901 Elgin County census.

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To birth, or not to birth...

If there's a more controversial issue for prospective parents than the fallout from in-utero genetic testing, I'd love to hear it.

The last time I raised a similar hot-button topic... the excrement really hit the air-conditioning.

Fool that I am, I've decided to do it again...

-- DETROIT -- Until this year, only pregnant women 35 and older were routinely tested to see if their fetuses had the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome.

Under a new recommendation from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors have begun to offer a new, safer screening procedure to all pregnant women, regardless of age.

About 90 percent of pregnant women who are given a Down syndrome diagnosis have chosen to have an abortion.
Now, I should mention here, that as parents having a first child in our late thirties, my wife and I opted for amniocentesis... which screens for the most common genetic disorders.

Fortunately, the tests all came back normal and we weren't forced to make that terrible choice.

My personal feeling at the time, was that bringing a disabled child into the world would have been a mistake. Even if you get past the medical, emotional and financial issues... you're still faced, at some point, with the reality that, after you are gone, your child will be left alone in the world and very possibly institutionalised.

Of course, not everyone sees it that way.
Convinced that more couples would choose to continue their pregnancies if they better appreciated what it meant to raise a child with Down syndrome, a growing group of parents is seeking to insert their own positive perspectives into a decision often dominated by daunting medical statistics and doctors who feel obligated to describe the difficulties of life with a disabled child.

They are pressing obstetricians to send them couples who have been given a prenatal diagnosis and inviting prospective parents into their homes to meet their children.
I guess I'm curious where people, particularly people with strong religious convictions, which I should reiterate, I do not have... fall on this issue.

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UPDATE: The Pope weighs in
Even before Benedict got off his plane in Brazil, he stoked a debate among Catholics who have been arguing whether politicians who approve abortion legislation as well as doctors and nurses who take part in the procedure subject themselves to automatic excommunication under church doctrine.

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If it's our money...

The Liberals are spending... why don't we get to see the receipts?

"We're just asking Auditor General Jim McCarter to embolden himself and take this on."

For the past few weeks, opposition New Democrats and Conservatives have trained a laser-like focus on an unnamed program that handed out about $32 million over the past two years without formal application processes or oversight.
When Howard Hampton decides to stand shoulder to shoulder with John Tory, you know there's gotta be a real problem in there somewhere.
"That is the classic definition of a slush fund, where a minister gets to dole something out, no questions asked," said Tory.

"It would appear a significant amount of money went to groups that have a limited history in the community but are very closely tied to the McGuinty Liberal party," he told reporters.

"And we think the public deserves a full accounting."

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Another infestation of Roach

"The place is a dump, and there's no free stuff!"

Lemme count the ways...

The elections are rigged, the judiciary is incompetent, bribes are a way of life and the higher ups recently disarmed a whole police force... and you still want to go there?

This is the latest in a string of incidents involving Canadians who have been killed or injured while vacationing in Mexico, several in similarly mysterious circumstances.
You can probably get cheap beer in Khandahar too... but the smart money tries to steer clear of war zones.

Need a quickie rule on acceptable vacation spots?

Try this one for starters... if the cop on the corner is for sale... scratch that place off your "A list."

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You can tell it's a dumbed down...

Piece of crap... when it passes the smell test for viewing in France...

The French will soon be watching some homespun Canadiana – the quirky CBC-TV comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie.
I watched the first episode of this oinker solely on the basis of the massive media buzz.

God help us all, if this is how other countries come to see Canada.

Another politically correct fairy tale by the CBC

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UPDATE: Here's a plot line you'll never see
In a "disturbing" attack caught on surveillance video, a man attacked another man with a kitchen knife on the doorstep of a downtown Toronto mosque Tuesday evening before turning the knife on himself, police say.
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LAST WORD:
Before anyone gets on "my racist ass"...

You know... about how this crime could have been committed by some totally unconnected infidel passers-by...
Mafas Hashem has been charged with: Attempted murder; Assault with a weapon; Weapons dangerous; and Carrying a concealed weapon.

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08 May 2007

McGuinty Liberals obviously believe...

The immigrant vote is for sale...

A former aide to Health Minister George Smitherman is on the board of an Iranian Canadian group that got a government grant for $200,000 in what opposition parties dub a "slush fund" scandal, the Star has learned.

One-time Smitherman policy adviser Ali Samiian, who left the government in 2005, is a director of the Iranian-Canadian Community Centre that got a cheque from Citizenship and Immigration Minister Mike Colle the following year.
So another Liberal apparatchik with direct ties to the McGuinty cabinet secures another couple hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for his particular group.
Samiian maintained there was no political favouritism in the grant despite growing opposition concerns over how Colle doled out $32 million to 110 groups – including several others with Liberal ties – over the past two years.

The payout to the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada fuelled opposition anger over how money was distributed under Colle's program without formal application forms or criteria.

Other money went to Bengali and Sikh groups with Liberal ties.
But remember... it's all a sort of happy coincidence.

Who, besides gullible ole' Warren, is gonna buy that load of horsefeathers?

Sorta reminds me of, "I won't cut your taxes, but I promise I won't raise them either."

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RELATED: Dalton "You can't get there from here" McGuinty

Hey, Dalton... you were elected Premier of Ontario because you claimed you could fix problems... not run away from them.

See... if it was easy, the janitor could do it.
-- TORONTO -- The federal government is in a conflict of interest when it comes to settling aboriginal land claims and must create an independent body to clear the backlog of some 800 claims across the country, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday.

“Right now the federal government finds itself in an untenable position — it has to decide whether or not it's going to give up some of its own land. I think that puts them in a very difficult position.”
Boy, Dalt... I sure wish you'd have said something about your problem here... before pissing away a hundred million taxpayer dollars over the last fifteen months, with no tangible results.

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A nation of Automatons

Call her wacky... but when our son was a baby, my wife used to actually do stuff with him. She took him to the park, to libraries, to museums. He got to root around in the flowerpots and find out what dirt really tasted like.

It didn't always work out - like the time he tried painting his own tongue... instead of the paper - but he was always engaged and in this particular case, hopefully learned a valuable lesson.

But parental involvement is so, well... old school.

Three-month-old babies are too little for solid food. They can't sit up by themselves and many can't sleep through the night. But 40 per cent of them are already watching television, according to a study published today.

Canadian babies will soon have more television choices — and at all hours of day and night. A U.S. company plans to launch a 24-hour cable channel for babies, BabyFirstTV, in Canada by the end of June.
Thank goodness for technology, huh?

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RELATED: Don't overlook the educational benefits
Hamas - the terrorist group with a majority in the Palestinian Authority - is using a Mickey-Mouse-like character on its television channel to indoctrinate small Arab children into hating Israel and the United States.
I can see it now... Buffy the Global Warming (polar) Bear.

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Asian Crime syndicates...

Laughing their asses off...

The federal Crown sidestepped a battle over racial profiling in a major marijuana-trafficking case, striking an 11th-hour plea-bargain yesterday with two men charged with producing 40,000 plants.

Under the unusually generous deal, two Toronto men of Chinese descent were granted conditional sentences in return for pleading guilty to producing marijuana plants at two Northern Ontario farms.
Celebrating the O.J. defense... in Canada.

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Why are lefties in the USA...

Suddenly losing their minds over Second Amendment rights?

In March, for the first time in the nation’s history, a federal appeals court struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. Only a few decades ago, the decision would have been unimaginable.

There used to be an almost complete scholarly and judicial consensus that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias.
Could it be that the dishonest, left-biased groupthink mentality... is collapsing under the weight of sober second thought?

Just as surprising, look who's doing the thinking.
That consensus no longer exists — thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.

Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, said he had come to believe that the Second Amendment protected an individual right.

“My conclusion came as something of a surprise to me, and an unwelcome surprise,” Professor Tribe said. “I have always supported as a matter of policy very comprehensive gun control.”
It's not just Professor Tribe, either. And it goes back almost twenty years.
In 1989, in what most authorities say was the beginning of the modern era of mainstream Second Amendment scholarship, Professor Levinson published an article in The Yale Law Journal called “The Embarrassing Second Amendment.”

“The Levinson piece was very much a turning point,” said Mr. Henigan of the Brady Center. “He was a well-respected scholar, and he was associated with a liberal point of view politically.”

In an interview, Professor Levinson described himself as “an A.C.L.U.-type who has not ever even thought of owning a gun.”

If the full United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit does not step in and reverse the 2-to-1 panel decision striking down a law that forbids residents to keep handguns in their homes, the question of the meaning of the Second Amendment is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has not decided a Second Amendment case since 1939.
Chew on that one for a while, you nanny state butt-wipers.

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07 May 2007

Kinsella gets spammed...

Freaks out... demands Witness Protection.
Now, targeted for ridicule, that I can believe...

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RELATED: Another nefarious plot?
"Hey... if the government can put a man on the moon... why can't they do something about those poor people on 'Gilligan's Island'"?

Happy Birthday Kathy Shaidle

And hey, look... there's gonna be a party...

Well, it's actually a "Marxist Gala", and unfortunately... Kathy had to tender her regrets.

You're invited to attend if you're "against imperialism, war, corporate greed and the destruction of the environment."

Naturally, I'm in favour of all those things, and besides, that gritty dust from that ash heap of history makes me sneeze.

So I think I'll pass.
I dunno Kath... it sounds like a rockin' good time.

Betcha Warren's dustin' off his Ramones sunglasses as we speak.

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RELATED: Programs!!! Get your programs here.
You can't tell your traitors without a program.

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Your money, their friends - Part XXII

Angry in the Great White North has the scoop on former Liberal MP David Smith and his cousin Frank Brazeau... who handed Smith the lucrative government contracts in his capacity as project manager at Consulting and Audit Canada.

Many of the contracts involved retired public servants who fell under the one-year cooling off period and couldn't work for the government.

Instead, CAC would direct the contract to Abotech as a middleman, which would collect a fee and turn it over to the contractor doing the work.
No wonder all Steffi wants to yak about... is the environment.

RELATED: Dalton Gang no slouches...

When it comes to dishing out pork...
-- TORONTO -- The province is replacing its veteran aboriginal affairs negotiator Jane Stewart in the talks to end the 15-month-long Six Nations occupation in a southern Ontario town.

The former Liberal Indian affairs minister is being replaced by a bureaucrat, which worries many in Caledonia who say the change will delay the negotiations further.

Ms. Stewart was being paid $1,300 a day by the province to help negotiate an end to the occupation.
I guess after fifteen months of that... Baby Jane's got a new pair of shoes.

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Who voted for...

That scary Nicolas Sarkozy...

Most strikingly, perhaps, he tallied nearly 44 per cent of the vote in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of Paris, where a three-week wave of rioting, car burnings and clashes between youths and police erupted in late 2005 while he was interior minister.

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No pork or alcohol...

But apparently heroin is just dandy...

Sharia-compliant products must meet three criteria: no explicit interest is paid; the transactions can't be in such areas such as gambling, alcohol, pork or pornography; and the transaction can't be deemed as a gambling contract, or one that assumes a high level of risk.
Most people in the western world are aware by now, that the underground economy of Afghanistan, indeed the financial basis for resisting the "infidel invaders", floats on a sea of obscene profit generated almost exclusively by the worldwide sale of heroin.

And let me tell you, heroin has killed far more people on this continent than the Taliban could ever imagine in their wildest religious ecstasy.

If you have any doubt about the evil, iron-fisted grip heroin has on its disciples, you need only take a drive through the seediest sections of Toronto or Vancouver for confirmation.

Yet no one questions why Islam doesn't have a problem with that. We just gear up to accommodate, nay... enthusiastically embrace, sharia law.

Mark Steyn nailed this hot, new trend a while back in his book, "America Alone".

It's called "creeping sharia" and apparently... we're ok with that.

And so are our financial institutions.

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RELATED: "An equal-opportunity killer"

Who's using heroin? Well, you might be surprised...
Iran has the highest proportion of heroin addicts in the world and a growing Aids problem. Cheap opium and increasingly refined heroin flood over the border from Afghanistan.

Some estimates put the number of users as high as three million - one in 20 of the population.

In such a rigid society in which public dancing and music were - until recently - illegal, drugs have become a common form of recreation.

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06 May 2007

Even the French...

Can see it...

Conservative front-runner Mr. Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, was urging the French to work more while Ms. Royal pledged to "safeguard welfare protections".
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UPDATE: Is Paris burning?
In Toulouse, police charged at demonstrators and fired tear gas after they had apparently attempted to climb the town hall in order to take down its tricolore flag.

One anti-Sarkozy protestor said: “They wanted to take down the flag from the town hall to show that France was in mourning.”

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What now Lizzie May?

-- COLDBROOK -- Federal Green Leader Elizabeth May says her party is prepared to do the right thing despite the political con­sequences.
Apparently, I'm not the only one who's a little worried about Lizzie-poo...
"What if we compared Harper to King James II?" some guy asked. I asked him to explain a little further.

"James the Second," he said. "Stood idly by while William the Orange massed his forces. In 1688. The Glorious Revolution? Anyone?"

Man, these staffers. They're earnest, but dorky.
This is one wigged-out tree-hugger... if she so much as whispers NĂĽrnberg, I'm calling the RCMP.

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RELATED: "Nearing the edge of the life force."
So it’s all about media attention, for the Greens and especially for the attention-loving Ms. May. It might make a political statement, but it won’t put her in Parliament.

There’s already grumbling among the party faithful in Central Nova. One long-time Liberal tells me he’ll vote NDP next time because his party has abandoned him. Another local Liberal suggested the move just hands the seat back to Mr. MacKay.

As to what else the deal implies, Ms. May has been speculating out loud – her preferred way of doing everything – about potential Red-Green alliances in other ridings. That won’t be well received by rank-and-file Liberals.

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Some people feel that China's...

Massive counterfeiting operations are a victimless crime... but don't tell that to the families of these folks.

Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined.

But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit drugs.
This is pretty serious business. You can't read the label on a bottle of cough syrup and see where individual ingredients are manufactured.
Panama is the most recent victim. Last year, government officials there unwittingly mixed diethylene glycol into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine — with devastating results.

Families have reported 365 deaths from the poison, 100 of which have been confirmed so far. With the onset of the rainy season, investigators are racing to exhume as many potential victims as possible before bodies decompose even more.
Most people are familiar with China's massive illegal trade in Hollywood DVD knock-offs, but what about replacement parts for passenger airlines, or in this case, chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals...
Panama’s death toll leads directly to Chinese companies that made and exported the poison as 99.5 percent pure glycerin.

Beyond Panama and China, toxic syrup has caused mass poisonings in Haiti, Bangladesh, Argentina, Nigeria and twice in India
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When we lived in the city, my wife used to buy bottled made-in-China soy-sauce right down in Chinatown. Until, that is, I read an article about heavy-metal contamination in that particular product.

Looks like being aware and hyper-vigilant may not be enough.

FROM COMMENTS:
"Holy Economic Surrender Batman!!!"
Last year, the US ran up a $818 billion trade deficit. Around a third of that deficit was due to trade with China. Overall, the bilateral US-China trade deficit is running at about 2 percent of GDP a year.

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Who would you complain to?

After all, this is Sicily...

Residents of the city of Palermo in Sicily are trying to fathom how it came to employ more than 100 bus drivers none of whom held a driving licence.

The disclosure revealed nepotism across the political divide - with jobs for friends and family as well as for dozens of unskilled workers given such tasks as counting the number of drains in the road.

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05 May 2007

It could have been worse...

It's not like anyone was beheaded...

-- Norway -- A friendship-building football match between Muslim and Christian clergy in Norway was called off after a row over the participation of women players.

Muslim Imams had refused to play against women because it went against their beliefs about close physical contact with the opposite sex.
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RELATED: You've come a wrong way, baby.
A new university for women is opening in Riyadh - yet Saudi Arabia remains a country where women cannot vote, drive, dress as they like or go where they please.
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LAST WORD: "Smack a Liberal Day"
That's what I was hoping you'd say and again, you're proving my point.

Your comment: "There is no single dominant better culture than another," is relativistic nonsense.

If you really believe that then you would have to agree that suttee -- the Hindu practice of throwing widows on their husband's funeral pyre -- is OK.

After all, according to you, that's neither worse nor better, just "different."

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Maybe this is why...

Those English Universities are so popular...

Criminal gangs have obtained millions of pounds in student loans by enrolling "ghost students" in universities, a BBC investigation has found.

The University admissions body, Ucas, has recorded a large increase in suspected fraud to 1,500 cases in 2006.

One fraudster enrolled himself on five different degree courses at the same university and had 17 fake identities. He collected student loans worth £65,595.

His conviction has highlighted flaws in the loans system.
Ya think?

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Lemme see that smokin' gun

Toronto and Ottawa — A mystery lingers after Ontario Lieutenant-Governor James Bartleman's shocking testimony at the Air-India inquiry: Where is the document that he says warned that the bombing would happen within days?

Behind the traditional secrecy that surrounds national security is polite bafflement.

Several former government officials involved in the case two decades ago said Friday that they could recall nothing of Mr. Bartleman's warning. His lawyer, Paul Cavalluzzo, said Mr. Bartleman cannot recall if he told his superiors about the warning.
If this was indeed the extremely significant foreshadowing of this terrible chapter in Canadian history... how is it that Mr. Bartleman cannot remember whether he passed this critical "intell" up his own "chain of command?"

I'm not saying it didn't happen... but so far, we're still a couple rounds shy of a full mag.

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UPDATE: "Bartleman firing blanks," says boss.
-- OTTAWA -- James Bartleman, Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor, would have been obligated 22 years ago to pass on to his superiors details of the specific threat against Air India Flight 182 that he says he saw days before the plane went down, his former boss said yesterday.
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LAST WORD: "Put up, or shut up" time...
If his recollection fits the facts, key players in the federal security apparatus were at best negligent and at worst complicit in a cover-up of conspiracy theory proportions.

If he's wrong, a public figure nearing the end of a rags-to-renown career will be horribly embarrassed and perhaps worse.

It's a conundrum demanding resolution.

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Speaking of the world's oldest...

Profession...

The $250,000 is part of $32 million Colle awarded to 110 groups – including several with Liberal ties – in the last two years for immigrant aid and other programs without a formal application process, a loophole the government has since closed amid opposition charges the money is a "slush fund."

But this is the first time it has been revealed money went to a group with such close links to someone in Colle's office. Huang works in the minister's office on the sixth floor of a University Ave. office building.
Now that sure doesn't seem right to me.

Huang is described as both a "lifetime member" and on the "board of directors" of this association.

What does Michael Huang have to say about this?
"I'm not involved in those grant things," Huang said in a brief telephone interview, acknowledging he was involved with the Chinese association for "several years" before quitting its board late last year.

He said he could not remember the date of his resignation, but a story in Toronto Chinese-language daily newspaper Sing Tao pictured him last Oct. 16 after being re-elected for another term on the board.
Sounds like Michael Huang isn't offering up "the truth and nothing but the truth."

But that's not the whole story here, by any means...

Whatever happened to that Iranian Animal Shelter?
The opposition parties have questioned a $200,000 grant a year ago to the Iranian-Canadian Community Centre, a group that is yet to build a community centre and has raised just $15,000 in other funds.

The president of the Richmond Hill provincial Liberal riding association was a director until recently, as was nuclear safety expert Reza Moridi, who is seeking the Liberal nomination for the riding in the October election.

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."
Just another thing to remember, come elections this fall.

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04 May 2007

Finally, a competent copy-editor...

At the National Post.

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I remain a humble acolyte of Warren 'Out' Kinsella.

And he's not just, by the way, a political hack...

He's a raconteur, bon vivant and a keen judge of horsefl... er, womanflesh... ah, brains, that's it... brains... in women!!!

"It seems that "Big K" has graciously agreed to the request of Liberal Catnip, to be the Supreme Arbiter of the 'Ten Smartest Female Canadian Bloggers' extant."
Warren obviously sees himself as a tres-hip trendspotter... hell, maybe even a bleeding edge hard-rockin' trendsetter... and he's more than willing to share it all with an adoring public.

This is Kinsella at his apogee... more purple-y and prosy-er than ever.

I mean, when's the last time you saw a newspaper columnist use the expression, "one hot little stud muffin"?

Myself... I'd have stuck with, "the heir transparent."

But hey, that's just me.

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Napanee OPP detachment...

Welcomes Inspector Clouseau...

An arrest warrant for the area's most notorious protester was issued by police on April 25, but it wasn't until Thursday that they got their man - and that's only because Shawn Brant turned himself in.

Asked why police couldn't locate Brant - he has been camped out at an occupied quarry near Deseronto on an almost daily basis - OPP Sgt. Kristine Rae paused.

"Funny, I asked that question ... and they (the officers) said they had been trying to locate him," she said Thursday. "They had been making efforts to try and find him to service the warrant, but it wasn't until he came here today that they were able to do it."
"Making "efforts to try" and find him???"

What does that even mean? Were these guys having trouble getting up from their chairs?

Aha! I've got it!!!

Maybe officers were just too busy answering the "feuhn", or looking for that darn "minkee."

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The sound of sadness

Via Flaggman...

But still, all my friends who are childless mourn for their lost children.

It is a subject so painful, few can discuss it. They drop hints, and at high holidays and summers, the sound of the children they didn’t have, at play is the saddest sound we hear.

Remember, "If you vote for...

Scary Stephen Harper, we're all gonna die..?

Now there's a classic "Chicken Little" moment.

Ya just gotta love the lunatic left. Remember the fiberal commercials that featured the aircraft carrier Stephen Harper was gonna buy, presumably right from George Bush, if the Conservatives got elected?

How about the handgun, right at the tail end of that same montage, that shot you in the face, right in your own living room? The only thing missing were long lines of filthy, ragged lesbians having numbers tattooed on their arms, before being exiled to Baffin Island.

Well, it looks as though French lefties are on that very same page...

"I think that choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice. I do not want France to shift towards a system of brutality," Ms. Royal told RTL radio.
Again, much like the liberals here in Canada, Royal doesn't hesitate to try brand her opponent with the "mark of the devil"... George Bush.
"Sarkozy carries the same neo-conservative ideology. He doesn't hesitate to envisage dismantling public services, when we badly need nurses and teachers."
It's the kind of thing you do when you're desperate.

And they are. Very.

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RELATED: Speaking of the land of stinky cheese...
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Surrender" and "Collaborate."

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But Saint Suzuki promised me...

A final solution, if I sent him my money.

A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.

Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very small expenditure and in some cases for clean-ups that they would have made anyway.

Some companies are benefiting by asking “green” consumers to pay them for cleaning up their own pollution.

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Genealogy Friday 5

This free searchable online database is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints... that's right, the Mormons.

Among other things, it's a conglomeration of census data, births, deaths and marriages and user-submitted records.

It's a good place to begin a general exploration of your ancestors, but try getting a second source here... some data here is known to be a little less than precise.

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03 May 2007

OPP says, "Pretty please, Shawn...

"Will you come down to the station, so we can arrest you?"

-- Thursday, May 03, 2007 @ 10:00 -- Shawn Brant will turn himself in this morning at the Napanee OPP detachment to accept charges related to blocking the CN railway near Deseronto last month.

The OPP issued a warrant for Brant's arrest in relation to the April 21 closure, which blocked the main line for 30 hours, said Sgt. Kristine Rae.

"There is an arrest warrant out for Shawn Brant," she said. "I am aware of that message going out, but he is not in custody at this time."
Notice that the illegal blockade is simply called "a closure"... you know, scheduled maintenance for aboriginal media stunts, as it were.

Mr. Brant has retained the services of lawyer Peter Rosenthal who represented the family of Dudley George at the Ipperwash proceedings. I breathlessly await the ghosts of martyred native warriors at Mr. Brant's court appearance.

A spokeman for the group that is occupying the gravel operation near Deseronto said Brant's arrest will change none of their plans...
Brant's surrender does not impact the occupation, he said. The group also feels Brant is taking heat because he has been the most visible.

"Targeting one of our speakers is an old tactic," Maracle said. "If one person goes down, another takes their place. If someone goes down on the battlefield, no one should expect the battle to stop."
You see, it's not about "criminal activity"... it's about "freedom fighters."

I can't wait for the made-for-tv movie.

RELATED: It's not like the courts will do anything anyway.

What exactly do you have to do in this country... to be sent to prison?
In sentencing the Scarborough father of two to 16 months with probation and community service instead of 8-to-10 years in prison -- which prosecutors sought -- Stinson warned Tuesday of no leniency if Bryan returned to his court.

Stinson said Bryan's conviction record for 31 offences, plus the risk to police and the community were weighed against Bryan's age, apparent remorse, support from relatives and established sentencing standards for gunmen.

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Charter of Wrongs

The best-known goat in Sudan has died months after being "married" to a man in the South Sudan capital, Juba, the BBC has learned.

Local elders ordered a man found having sex with the goat, called Rose, to pay a dowry and "marry" her last February. After the hearing, Mr Tombe was ordered to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars.
Call me a close-minded conservative, but I remain a firm supporter of same-species marriage.

Farhan Chak is not a liar

He just has a really, really good imagination...

Farhan Mujahid Chak has some problems on his hands. I'm going to add a new one to this list.

His doctorate from the University of Durham?

No such thing.
Even if former Professor Dion can somehow overlook Chak's firearms arrest, this man has apparently also violated the sacred academic tenet of fictionalising his credentials.

How about it, Steffi... no big deal here either?

We've all seen how Liberals in the House of Commons have played "fast and loose" with the truth about Taliban detainees in Afghanistan.

Who also knew it was a pre-requisite for Liberal candidacy?

Steve Janke did.

UPDATE: Plenty of time to complete PhD now...

Farhan Chak has flunked out.
But what appears to have been the last straw for the Liberal party came Thursday when a blogger revealed that Mr. Chak never earned a PhD from the University of Durham in England, as claimed on his website.

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Muharib does martyred

Gen. Caldwell told a news conference that Mr. al-Jubouri was killed north of Baghdad on Tuesday, as part of an offensive against al-Qaeda called "Operation Rat Trap".

Apparently he didn't dither...

All the time.

Gotta love the blatant, premeditated hypocrisy here... former Liberal Prime Minister Dithers wallowing in the very mud his successors have been throwing at Prime Minister Harper and General Hillier all week.

-- OTTAWA -- Former prime minister Paul Martin gave approval almost two years ago for then defence minister Bill Graham to negotiate a detainee transfer agreement with the Afghanistan government, say documents obtained by CanWest News Service.

The documents show that Mr. Martin, who has yet to speak publicly on the controversy, was briefed on the agreement more than six months before it was signed.
This, of course, isn't really news... except to the spin-twins at CTV and the CBC politburo. The previous Liberal governments took exactly the same position on Taliban detainees as the Conservatives did later.

Lest anyone doubt that this was official and longstanding Liberal policy, the audit trail shows the smoking fingerprints of the Prince of Darkness himself, all over this missive...
The May, 2005, letter states that Canada's new detainee policy "proceeds from the same premise" as strategic objectives approved by former prime minister Jean Chretien in November, 2001.

Mr. Chretien was the first prime minister to commit warships and special forces commandos to the U.S.-led war on terrorism, one month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Ironically... the Liberals likely did it to keep those poor Taliban terrorists out of the hands of the "evil Americans."

Let's hear one Liberal with a shred of decency admit that.

That's what I thought.

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Ecofraud.ca -- the sequel

After all the fuss yesterday over my post about the Ecofraud website, I ended up emailing back and forth with Marc Gendron... the man behind the music.

To my surprise, I discovered that Marc wasn't a cookie-cutter example of the self-defined progressive activist you usually encounter in this neck of the blogosphere. He's a smart, articulate guy, who enjoys occasionally poking a stick through the bars... a kindred spirit, of a sort.

It took a while, but I also recognised that what he had done here was not unlike some of the positions I had taken in the past... making fun of something that I particularly disagreed with.

And yes, I believe him when he says Ecofraud.ca was his child... and not the spawn of some backroom firebreathing leftbot cabal.

Lastly, unlike a lot of the ratpack I usually encounter, he's no crybaby... which carries a lot of weight around here.

So with his agreement, I give you a snippet of our discourse...

You and I are smart enough to recognize that some attacks are valid and some are not. I can say that about both parties.

Sometimes, the Liberal bloggers exaggerate. Some other times, the Conservatives do too. It is part of the political game we're in. But I certainly dislike the whining -- on both sides -- as much as you do.

As an example, I did not mind your post. It is only fair that people know that this web site was built by an involved Liberal member.

However, I think that we can objectively say that people writing about a 'scandal' are being a little over-sensitive. The site is a parody; it is just meant to be fun and raise awareness about the plan.
He was also very good about telling me about the massive traffic I apparently drove to the site... courtesy, I'm sure, of the bumps afforded the post by SDA, Natnews and Bourque... which stung a little, I must admit.

I get the feeling from our exchange, that after meeting Marc... you couldn't help but like the guy. If he's ever in this part of the country, I would buy him a beer.

And while I disagree with the gist of the commentary on the website, I have to admit that, yes... it was funny.

And if that's going over to the dark side... so be it.

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02 May 2007

Compassionate Islamic Republic...

Craps all over fellow Muslims...

More than 36,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran in the past 10 days, the UN refugee agency says.

The move has virtually cleared the south-eastern Iranian border town of Zabol of its Afghan population.
Of course, it was probably just the "Will of Allah".

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Families of accused killers...

Play the race card...

"Oh look, the white people are going through now," one man said.

"We’re family. You’re not feeling the pain. You’re not crying."
Wow... that victimhood schtick is apparently more flexible than Buh-linda Strumpet...

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RELATED: The black community's "code of silence"

It happens time and time again...
A chilling silence protects the man who killed Kirk Richards -- leaving two small boys fatherless -- as the people who could help police find the gunman also remain quiet.

"I said a week ago I vary between disappointed and disgusted and I remain that way," Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Gary Grinton said.

"To this point in time no one has come forward to assist us."
The irony here is, the refusal to talk to police is only pouring fuel on the epidemic of black-on-black mayhem and murder in the Greater Toronto Area.

Whatever happened to civic responsibility?

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LAST WORD: Root causes? How about root places?
High levels of violence and crime are undermining growth in the Caribbean, a World Bank report says.

Drugs, gun crime and youth violence pose a major threat to welfare and deter investment, it added.

Youth crime and violence must be tackled as youngsters were "disproportionately represented" in the ranks of both victims and perpetrators, with youth homicide rates in several countries of the region "significantly above the world average".
Vacation here... I dare you.
Ms. Middleton was found dying in the middle of an isolated road in 1996. Police arrested two men soon after.

The Crown struck a deal with one of the suspects, Kirk Mundy. Under that agreement — in exchange for his testimony against the other accused, Justis Smith — Mr. Mundy would be charged as an accessory after the fact.

But the murder case fell apart when the prosecution decided that Mr. Mundy would not prove a credible witness. By then, forensic evidence had linked him directly to the sex assault. There was no similar evidence to implicate Mr. Smith.

The court also accepted testimony that Ms. Middleton had had consensual sex with one of the accused even though she had met him just 30 minutes earlier and was a virgin.

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01 May 2007

More Liberal Dirty Tricks?

Saw a comment on another website referring to this url... and I got curious.

Now, when I go to checkdomain.com to see who has registered this site... what pops up?

Administrative Contact:
Marc Gendron (sz5-58tzyvus@namesproprivacy.ca)
Namespro.ca Private WHOIS, 130-8191 Westminster Highway, Box 276
Richmond BC V6X1A7 Canada
Phone: 16046828059
Fax: 16046828059
If you then google Marc Gendron and Liberal party, what do you find?
Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff

Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff’s (Etobicoke Lakeshore, Ont.) campaign is chaired by Ian Davey, son of veteran well know Liberal strategist Keith Davey.

Some of the other senior campaign advisers and organizers in the campaign include Sachin Aggarwal, director of operation; Mark Sakamoto, director of organization; Brad Davis, director of policy; Marc Gendron, policy and communications adviser; Leslie Church, national director of campaign communications, Alicia Johnston, press secretary; Marc Chalifoux, executive assistant; Kyle Harrietha, OttawaValley campaign manager; Mario Poirier; Quebec campaign director; Tom Allison, Ontario campaign director; David Hurford, Western Canada campaign director and Bill Cheema, B.C.campaign manager
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Coincidence? A different Marc Gendron?

Funny though... isn't this the same sort of "dirty tricks" mudslinging we saw during the Liberal Leadership race?

Hmmmm....maybe someone should ask Marc.

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UPDATE: Maybe the "real Marc" should 'man up'...
To ensure that other innocent Marcs' don't get blamed for this.
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LAST WORD: 2 May 21:50

To my surprise, Marc Gendron did reply to my email and we've had some online back and forth.

He is, much like Akaash Maharaj, I regretfully report, a funny, smart, articulate guy... who unfortunately swings with the opposition.

I hope to post an update to our conversation later tonight, or tomorrow morning, so I'd ask people on both sides of the fence to wipe the foam from their mouths and be patient.

Yeah Ted... that includes you.

And me.

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Caledonia residents get...

Liberal sympathy... which, in case anybody's wondering, is about as useful and comforting as a bucket of warm spit.

-- Canadian Press -- Residents living with a year-long volatile aboriginal occupation in their southern Ontario town say their plight is being ignored by the provincial government after a government minister refused to meet with a group planning a slow convoy to the legislature Wednesday.

"We know what's happening on the ground," said Liberal Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Ramsay. "We know how people's lives are being disrupted."

"We have great sympathy for that."
You know about it!?! Hell, you bought them the land and you're paying for the hydro!!! You're a co-conspirator!!!

Is anybody listening to the residents of the beleagured town?
Dan Roberts, who helped organize Wednesday's convoy and rally, said few politicians with the exception of Conservative Leader John Tory have bothered to visit the town that has been cut in half by barricades and seen violent clashes between residents and Six Nations protesters.
One more reason, friends don't let friends vote liberal.

RELATED: A lasting "cultural legacy."

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UPDATE: Taking it to Queens Park
"Caledonia will no longer be silenced," resident Dan Roberts told a crowd of about 100 people who ended their convoy on the lawn of the legislature.

"We're not going to tolerate this. This is an election year and our community will have a voice.

Premier McGuinty, you can run. You can duck."

"But you're not going to hide from the people of Caledonia."

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The eternal question...

"I have no idea if there is any such thing as homosexuality in tortoises," Dr. Powell says.

File this one under...

Are you shittin' me?

A Canadian contractor is suing Ottawa and the Ontario government for trying to force him to repay thousands of dollars in social assistance collected by his ex-fiancée, a Yugoslav woman he sponsored to come to Canada.

The lawsuit, one of eight similar ones filed Friday, is the first legal challenge to the provincial government's right to recoup welfare costs from delinquent sponsors.
Does this sort of thing happen often?
In 2005, Canada accepted about 63,000 family-class immigrants; half settled in Ontario.

That same year, there were about 6,500 sponsored immigrants on social assistance in Ontario at a cost of $65-million.
Often enough apparently.

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Genes

The final frontier.

A team at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital has made the world's first attempt to treat a sight disorder using gene therapy. The operation involves injecting working copies of the defective gene into the back of the eye.

Saving British Columbians...

From themselves...

"There was a political agenda," Mr. Fox says. He says that while he did not uncover any direct correspondence or political directives between the censor of the day and politicians, it is easy to infer the issues and news the censor was expected to eradicate.
Not so surprisingly, this is the same bastion of nanny-state goodness that, instead of trying to stop a plague of people injecting poison into their veins... sets up a taxpayer funded, medically supervised shooting gallery.

Don't worry BC, Big Brother will take care of you.

RELATED:
After they take care of themselves...
-- VICTORIA -- British Columbia lawmakers have been handed a report recommending dramatic increases to their basic MLA pay and a return to a pension plan that was scrapped in 1996.

An independent panel set up by the B.C. Liberal government has recommended a 29-per-cent increase in basic salary to $98,000, up from the current $76,100. The premier would get a 54-per-cent salary hike to $186,200 annually.

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