Enough pussy-footin' around

It's time to go to Plan B.

-- GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- South Korea and relatives of 21 kidnapped Koreans appealed for U.S. help Tuesday, but Afghanistan said for the first time it will not release insurgent prisoners — the Taliban's key demand to free the captives.

Ok, Hamid... that's a good start, but here's the rest of the scenario.

You take that list of prisoners the Taliban gave you... and after drawing straws, or a round of one-potato - two potato... you, FIRST... hang two jihadis to get Timmy Terrorist's attention and, more importantly, balance out the scoreboard.

SECOND... tell Timmy to give up his hostages now... or you hang one of these terrorheads at the top of every hour until you empty out the hoosegow.

These guys don't understand Geneva Convention... they understand death... and until you start playing their game, they'll always be ahead of you.

Or you can just let the Koreans die.

It's that simple.

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RELATED: I've said it before

Personally... if my kid was in Afghanistan, and if it gave my child even a marginally better chance of survival - there isn't a raggedy-ass terrorist scrotum I'd hesitate to introduce to my good friend "Major Voltage".

So c'mon, let's be brutally honest. If right now, it was your kid pullin' security patrol out in the Panjwaii, what mother or father out there wouldn't be saying, "Red is negative, black is... "

Technorati Tags: Islamofascist, Afghanistan, Canadian Forces

This is Canada

We don't punish the "children", we cherish them... even when they're making plans to blow us to pieces.

Don't worry though... there are some pretty harsh "release restrictions" under their "peace bond"... you know, like...

* No communication with other suspects in the case
* They must report twice a month to police
* They must surrender their Canadian passports
* They must seek counseling from their respective imams

So what does it all really mean?

Although the charges will not proceed further, Crown attorneys have the option of re-activating the charges within the next year. After one year, the charges will be dropped.

Hey... kids will be kids, huh?

It's not like they were gonna kil... hey... hang on a sec...

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RELATED: You remember these guys, right?

The Toronto Star reports...

"In investigators’ offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall. And still, says a source, it is difficult to find a common denominator."

Yup... it's the stuff of television whodunnits...

-- We now cross live to the set of CSI Toronto, where filming is underway:

-- Sgt. Warren Bollard: (staring in bewilderment at an intricate graph) I just can’t find any common denominator!

It seems as though these 17 men and teens have absolutely no point of commonality at all!

Technorati Tags: Toronto, homegrown terror, suckass political correctness

House of Wax

I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to sleep tonight.

The web site's "retouched" shots of children range from slightly eerie -- cartoon-like skin tones and glassy stares -- to OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT THING? A doll? A robot? A zombie? A zombie robot doll, designed to kill its parents in their sleep and send all their money to an offshore bank account?

Ok... take a few deep breaths and CLICK.

Talk about a failing grade

You've just gotta love Canada's own version of La-La land.

-- VANCOUVER -- There are so many people in B.C. scamming Canada's foreign student-visa program - from bogus students to shady schools - that authorities can only investigate about five per cent of the cases, according to an internal government report obtained by CanWest News Service.

Uh, guys... I think I've found the problem here.

While immigration officers have the power to place conditions on foreign students to attend school, they often don't.

"The effect of this is that there is no requirement that a student actually attend school despite the fact that the individual is in Canada to study," the report stated.

Only in Canada.

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RELATED: Think of it as promoting diversity...

In the, uh... hooker community.

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LAST WORD: Where killers go free

It must be something in the water.

Technorati Tags: illegal immigrant, student-visa, self inflicted injury

Warm, cuddly panda...

Shite... the perfect metaphor for China's economic miracle.

-- BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) -- A Chinese wildlife research centre has come up with a novel idea to profit from panda poo -- make Olympic souvenirs out of it.

Researchers at the centre in Chengdu, capital of mountainous Sichuan province, had sculpted photo frames, bookmarks, fans and panda statues out of the 300 tonnes of the stuff produced by 60 giant pandas each year, state media said on Tuesday.

Toronto Gangbanger murders...

Claim another innocent victim...

Concerns about the "sinister uses" of guns in society have prompted University of Toronto officials to rid the campus of its 88-year-old sport shooting range, despite its continued popularity and spotless safety record.

"In today's world, even the perception of tolerance of guns and gun violence is seen as a negative," said Catherine Riggall, the university's vice-president of business affairs, who approved the decision recently.

I dunno Catherine... given the repeated unwillingness of the various "communities" out there to cooperate with the police... there actually seems to be a demonstrated never-ending tolerance for gun violence... but don't let that stop you from shutting down a legitimate activity that hasn't harmed a single person in almost a century of it's existence.

Ms. Riggall concludes...

"This is the last university in the country to have a gun range on campus ... it's just not seen as a priority activity."

Unlike the university's renowned "Sexual Diversity" program...

"Visiting lecturers will address technical aspects of flogging, restraint, and role-play."

Good grief.

Let Ms. Riggall know how you feel.

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UPDATE: But how could this happen again...

They already shut down the university gun range... the problem was supposed to be fixed.

There was no word on whether this latest execution-style shooting was related to any of the city's recent gun homicides, including Sunday's murder of aspiring rapper Michael George.

I guess they didn't get the word at "Banger Central."

Technorati Tags: Catherine Riggall, University of Toronto, suckass political correctness

Just the facts ma'am

Another piece of stellar reportage by Toronto's Red Star, entitled... "Driver dies after clash with police."

The loaded headline imputes that police officers killed the woman... but that isn't what happened at all. Who, besides Toronto Mayor David Miller actually pays for a subscription to this leftbot rag?

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UPDATE: Let's try a real newspaper

The boyfriend called police shortly after 6 p.m. on Sunday to report that his distraught girlfriend had left in a vehicle and was reportedly armed.

Two hours later, plainclothes officers found her in a car, stopped at a traffic light at Bloor Street and Prince Edward Drive.

She had shot herself in the head.

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RELATED: Check out the spinbots at CTV.

Technorati Tags: leftwing media bias, Toronto Star, propaganda

Ontario Liberals ponder ban...

On birthday parties...

Police have issued a Canada-wide-warrant for a 28-year-old who is wanted for second-degree murder after a man was stabbed Saturday morning.

Police are looking for Vimalathas Mohanarajah after they found Ajiganth Mahalingam wounded in an apartment building shortly before 6:30 a.m.

The 27-year-old was allegedly stabbed after a dispute erupted at a birthday party -- and police said the victim and the accused definitely weren't strangers.

The epidemic spreads... both Kimel Foster and Ephraim Brown were murdered at birthday parties in "Toronto the Good" last week.

At the very least we should be registering candles and party hats.

C'mon Dalton... let's stop the celebratory madness.

Technorati Tags: Toronto the Good, Vimalathas Mohanarajah, National Party Hat Registry

There's bad news and there's...

Bad news.

New Canadian research shows that the presence of trans fats in the blood system can also mess with the heart's rhythm, worsening the severity of a heart attack and jacking up the likelihood of death.

"It's like a double whammy," said Peter Light, a researcher at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in Edmonton and lead author of the study.

The new study, published in the European Molecular Biology Journal, helps elucidate how trans fats kill. Dr. Light said the heart is essentially an electric organ, and it uses fat as an energy source. A wave of electricity passes through the heart once per second, and each time calcium is pumped in and then out again.

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RELATED: I'll say it again...

The Conservatives blew this one.

-- OTTAWA -- Health Canada will delay regulation of trans fats in Canadian food products for at least two years, calling instead for industry to voluntarily limit use of the heart-clogging compounds.

Technorati Tags: health care, trans fats, Tony Clement

An Islamic ruling...

I can live with...

Singapore's Muslims should be treated as willing organ donors when they die, the country's Islamic authority says. The ruling will remove their exemption from a law allowing doctors to remove the heart, kidneys or liver of a body.

As with all other Singaporeans, Muslims will be able to opt out of the donation scheme while they are alive.

This is definitely something we need to be looking at here in Canada.

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RELATED: Who gives a shit... about those pesky people on dialysis?

Not Dalton McGuinty.

The Liberals are quickly passing a slew of government bills over the next few days before the house rises and doesn't return until after the October election.

But left to die quietly are 107 private member's bills ranging from declaring the "apple capital of Ontario" to a bill requiring people to fill out organ donation cards before renewing their driver's licences.

Technorati Tags: organ donor, Ontario, Dalton McGuinty

Better late than never

Even terrorist cells can't keep a secret forever...

We went into the jungle (of British Columbia). There we joined a dynamite stick with a battery and triggered off a blast.

Lakhbir and Inderjit, even at that time, had in their minds a plan to blast an aeroplane. I was not too keen on this plan but agreed to arrange for the dynamite sticks.

Also interesting is the alleged targeted killing of Talwinder Singh Parmar by Indian police... apparently to cover a link to a police informer.

Sarabjit said the PHRO’s probe has shown that Parmar was killed to hide the name of Lakhbir, who was an Indian agent.

The PHRO told Canadian authorities that conclusive evidence existed of Parmar being killed in police custody and not in the "encounter" shown in FIR No 105 registered at Phillaur police station on October 15, 1992.

The PHRO report, AI Flight 182 Case, states "On October 14, 1992, a high-level decision was conveyed to the police that Parmar had to be killed..."

Police in India are denying that Parmar was murdered and have attempted to portray this version of events as a further coverup by Canada's national law enforcement agency.

Then Jalandhar SSP and now IGP, Satish K Sharma, denied the charge. “It was a clean encounter.

The RCMP is bringing this up because they botched their investigations and failed to get convictions,” he said.

Technorati Tags: Flight 182, Talwinder Singh Parmar, RCMP

Same planet, different worlds

The last known surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of World War I has revisited the site where he fought 90 years ago.

Harry Patch, 109, from Somerset, made the trip to Belgium to recall his part in the Battle of Passchendaele which claimed 250,000 British casualties.

And don't be deceived... Harry's no one trick pony.

Britain's last veteran of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has embarked on a new career as a magazine agony uncle.

At the age of 109, he has been recruited by lads' mag FHM to guide and advise the younger generations.

Technorati Tags: Harry Patch, WWI, Battle of Passchendaele

Suckass political correctness

It's a killer...

"Why are we living like this, like animals, just shooting down one another?"

Not everybody in the black community is afraid to say it... and that's a start.

If no one is willing to admit what the problem is here... nothing will ever be done to fix things.

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UPDATE: You'll never guess what happened...

AGAIN.

Apparently rapper Michael "Trick" George of the group "Lowlife" gets to live, so to speak, his art.

Homicide investigators are looking for the public's help in piecing together the details of the city's forty-sixth homicide after a man was found dead in a car early this morning.

Upon arrival, they found the body of Michael George, 25, inside his Chevrolet Malibu in the driveway of his residence on Wilcox Creek Pathway.

Police say he had been shot several times.

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RELATED: Time out for an opposing viewpoint...

Marla emailed me to say she thinks there is some sort of equivalence between the fatal shooting of high school student Jane Creba and the murder of Marla's friend, 31 year-old Sean "Juice" James.

Creba was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but you do not allow the same room for Shawn.

Why, because he is black, was on a street known for late night drug deals - late at night - and dresses a certain way?

Marla... despite the fact that you seem to be accusing me of being an implacable, unreasoning racist... lemme take a second here, to point out a couple of obviously glaring inconsistencies in your thesis.

One... witnesses say a cab rolled up on Sean at two in the morning in an area of the city known for drug deals... and the occupants shot him dead.

In the Creba murder, two gangs of young, armed black men started blasting away at each other on one of the city's busiest streets during retail shopping hours.

It's simply not the same thing.

Two... neighbours identified him as a drug dealer.

Now Marla, perhaps the witnesses are, for whatever reason, lying about your friend. It doesn't seem like the simplest, or most obvious explanation... but it certainly is a possibility.

Will you, in turn... admit that it's also possible that the media coverage is correct?

As for your comments regarding the Ephraim Brown shooting...

With Ephraim's family, that is where they were celebrating a family birthday etc. It may not have been the most responsible thing in the world to do, in hindsight.

But at the time, they probably were trying to enjoy themselves and not anticipating a gang member to show up and destroy their nice evg. People the world over -and here in Toronto, live differently from you, party differently from you and exist differently from you.

All I can say here is that, cultural differences and "partying differences" (whatever that means) aside... letting an 11 year old child out at "Banger Central" at one in the morning is not only not, "the most responsible thing in the world to do"... it borders on sheer insanity.

And whoever decided to let Ephraim out at this hour, at this place... will have to live with the knowledge that they could... and indisputably should have... made another choice.

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LAST WORD: Toronto... the battleground

Two men wanted for first-degree murder in connection with a fatal daylight shooting in Rexdale earlier this month are believed to have fled to Jamaica, Toronto police said.

Technorati Tags: Sean "Juice" James, Ephraim Brown, Michael George

Taking aim at farmers and collectors

While these guys run amok.

Across the street, the young woman who works in her father's gas station has been robbed at gunpoint more times than she can count. Her brother has been stabbed twice.

Six years ago, a cop was shot next door.

Let's just blame the guns... cos' going after actual criminals is such hard work.

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RELATED: Enough fiberal smoke and mirrors

It's too late to play silly games any more. If handguns are the cause of all this we have to ask why there are so few shootings in, for example, the Dutch, Ukrainian, Irish, Portuguese, Korean, Hindu or African communities.

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LAST WORD: Ever wonder what Liberals do...

Instead of going after people who actually have broken the law?

Police in Canada's most populous province have the right to seize and destroy any car that has been modified for street racing, Ontario's top prosecutor claims.

“We don't need to wait until that car hits the road fully loaded,” he said, adding that modified cars are as dangerous as explosives, capable of causing catastrophic damage.

Technorati Tags: Ephraim Brown, Dalton McGuinty, suckass political correctness

Carnival of Pissed Off Pinkos...

Supports Shawn Brant's unrepentant thuggery and theft...

Buzz Hargrove, Maude Barlow and an array of academics have signed their names to a declaration in support of Mohawk land claims and the occupation of a Deseronto quarry.

Signatories include Ismail Zayid, president of the Canada Palestine Association; Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees; Amanda Aziz, national chairwoman of the Canadian Federation of Students and left-wing activist Judy Rebick.

The fact that a legitimate business owner has had his business stolen out from under him, hasn't caused too much mourning in "progressive" circles...

The CAW often puts its name behind these causes, said Raj Dhaliwal, the union's director of human rights.

The plight of the quarry owner, Terry Kimmett, is "unfortunate," Dhaliwal said. "I could sympathize with the person."

"Maybe there has to be compensation."

Thank goodness the union has a "director of human rights."

Too bad the sympathy here is so selective.

Technorati Tags: Deseronto, Buzz Hargrove, Shawn Brant

Dalton's friends playing hardball

Silly me... Ontario schools are making students flog candy bars to family and friends to raise money for school supplies... we haven't had a family doctor since we moved six years ago... and Dalton McGuinty is doling out unsolicited cash for new cricket pitches.

-- TORONTO -- The head of the Ontario Cricket Association said it should not have to return any of the $1-million grant it received from the Ontario government and, in fact, he plans to ask for more funding.

"This amount of money is barely scratching the surface of what's needed," he said. "Cricket is growing exponentially in Canada. As the sport grows we need to have infrastructure facilities in place."

Your money... their friends.

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RELATED: Relax... it's not what you think...

"This is the first time Yonge St. has been blocked off without a shooting for a long time," he said.

Technorati Tags: Dalton McGuinty, bribing the vote, Ontario Cricket Association

You can trust me... I'm a journalist

-- "These pilots, they are very professional. They combine the skills of pilots and skills as journalists." --

See, if that were factually correct... even just the first part... these guys wouldn't be applesauce.

Journalists, like politicians, care about ratings, not facts... and especially not about safety.

Screw academics & a work ethic

Just tell me a good story...

Antoine, who is African-American, will begin his senior year in September at his large, predominantly black and low-income high school just outside Washington.

He had come to Howard for an intense four-day workshop in the complex process he will have to master if he is to fulfill his aspirations of upward mobility: applying to college.

The workshop is intended to help them discover — and prove to college admissions officials — that their life stories can be as powerful as high SAT scores and stellar grades.

Forget all that horse-pucky about working hard to make something of your life.

It's about the entertainment value, stupid.

Technorati Tags: SAT scores, Howard University, suckass political correctness

Size does matter

Especially when this jumped-up tuna can french kisses a bridge abutment... or a gravel truck.

-- TOKYO -- Tiny, cheap and super fuel-efficient, minicars are essentially motorcycle-sized engines on four wheels. But demand for these runty runabouts is anything but petite.

Last year, minicars racked record sales in Japan and now account for more than a third of all new cars sold annually here.

But hell... who wants to live forever anyway?

Technorati Tags: mincars, Suzuki Wagon R, death wish

Calling Taliban Jack

If we cut and run in Afghanistan... dropping the shithammer on all this can be on your tiny vestige of a conscience.

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RELATED: Losing the propaganda war

Why is it NATO has to meticulously "investigate and prove" everything before catching the tiniest break... but the enemy simply has to hop around screaming "war crimes" and the media jumps in with both feet?

NATO and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban insurgents and called in air strikes, killing at least 50 suspected militants and dozens of civilians, including women and children, local officials and villagers said Friday.

Nobody ever seems to question why these "atrocities" always occur in remote Taliban controlled villages where you have to take illiterate, raggedy-assed Mullah Abdullah's word that all the village children were turned into crispy-critters.

Oh yeah... and don't worry about evidence... everybody's long since buried in our secret graveyard.

Wake up leftbots... it's called a propaganda war.

And you're aiding and abetting the enemy.

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LAST WORD: Remember Hezbollywood?

Technorati Tags: propaganda war, media bias, Afghanistan

32 million dollars doesn't go as far...

As it used to... but Dalton McGuinty takes a page out of the "Ferdinand Marcos Guide to Savvy Political Spending"... to get maximum bang for OUR TAXPAYER bucks...

Auditor-General Jim McCarter said in a report released today that the process used to hand out $32-million in grants in the past two years was "not open, transparent or accountable."

“In essence, the decisions behind ‘who got what' were often based on conversations, not applications,” Mr. McCarter said at a news conference today following the release of his 27-page report.

It can't possibly be that bad, I'm sure there was a careful vetting process...

In one example, the Ontario Cricket Assoc. applied for a grant of $150,000, but the very next day received a cheque for $1-million, Mr. McCarter said.

Surely though, there was careful thought given to ensuring maximum benefit for ALL Ontario taxpayers...

Mr. McGuinty apologized to all Ontarians and vowed on Thursday to put an end to the practice of using year-end money from the ministry to make grants to ethno-cultural groups.

A total of $32.4-million was rushed out at the end of the past two fiscal years to multicultural groups with ties to the Liberal Party.

Wow... how did that bastion of honesty and accountability, Honest Dalt, react to all this? He must have been some pissed, huh?

Mr. McGuinty called in the auditor in May following concerted efforts by his government to block attempts by opposition members for an investigation into the alleged multimillion-dollar slush fund.

Ok... I give up.

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RELATED: The old quid pro quo

The Epoch Times has learned that CPAC board members figured prominently in a fundraiser for Ontario Citizenship and Immigration Minister Mike Colle six weeks before Colle's office issued the first of two unadvertised grants to CPAC.

The grants totalled $275,000.

Workers with other immigrant service providers declined to be interviewed for this story, citing concerns that publicly criticizing the government over its relationship with CPAC might hurt their own efforts to win grants.

However, one said of CPAC: "To be honest, it is not that they have been doing this the longest or that they have the best track record. Somehow they have managed to get the most attention from the minister."

"That's the difference."

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LAST WORD: Same old, same old.

Technorati Tags: Dalton McGuinty, multicultural, buying the vote

No soup for you!!!

Reminiscent of a landmark episode of Seinfeld, here's a somewhat surrealistic moment in Canadian politics... wherein the Fiberals, Dippers and the Bloc-heads team up to piss all over our aboriginal brothers.

-- OTTAWA -- The three opposition parties have formed a united front to block the Conservative government's quest to pass a law that would make the Indian Act subject to the federal human rights code.

What's that scary Stephen Harper up to now?

Bill C-44 would remove a 30-year-old exemption of the Indian Act from the Canadian Human Rights Act and extend the reach of the Canadian Human Rights Commission over claims of discrimination that have been shielded because the Indian Act is outside the human rights code.

The Canadian Human Rights Act outlaws discrimination in employment and services on such grounds as sex, race, ethnic origin, and marital status. The exemption has been condemned time and again in Canada and at the United Nations.

Good grief... the scary neocons want to treat natives as equals. It's, well... outrageous.

Thank goodness for the enlightened left.

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RELATED: Ok, ok... don't rush me

An interesting point at the Broom

Reserves are largely excluded from human rights law because of a temporary 1977 exemption, designed to give First Nations time to prepare, that was never removed.

Technorati Tags: Bill C-44, Stephen Harper, Canadian Human Rights Act

Gone, but not forgotten

While 11 year-old Ephraim Brown has been getting the lion's share of the ink & symapthy... Sean "Juice" James was also murdered last weekend... and his friends have come together to immortalise him...

My personal favourite here is...

"juice and denver brothers from another mother fo real"

You get a nuance of his popularity from initial reports of the murder in the Red Star...

Shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a shooting at a Bleecker St. apartment called The Hamilton. They found a man who later died in hospital from gunshot wounds.

Police said a Beck cab had glided up beside the man outside the building. At least one of the cab's passengers fired shots.

Neighbours said the man sold drugs but was the "nicest person."

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UPDATE: Red Star slams on the brakes...

Throws their story into reverse.

Friends and family have set up a vigil to James, who worked in public relations.

He was a polite, well-mannered man who "had a beautiful soul," said his long-time girlfriend. "He touched so many people in so many different ways. He didn't have one enemy to my knowledge."

Well... maybe just one.

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LAST WORD: Bright lights, big city

More dead kids...

A 16-year-old boy has been shot dead after being chased by youths on bicycles, police have said.

Officers were called to reports of shots being heard on the Stockwell Gardens Estate in Stockwell, south London, just after midnight.

The teenager was found suffering gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Met's Operation Trident team, which investigates gun crime in London's black community, is investigating.

Just keepin' it real, huh?

Technorati Tags: Sean "Juice" James, Bleecker St., murder in Toronto

Wanna see a liberal master strategist...

Try to make things better?

-- M.C. -- Didn't Randy Hillier's organization threaten to kill/harm/maim (MPP) Leona Dombrowsky? So isn't any woman who stands on stage with him a self-hating misogynist?

Hey Warren... keep digging.

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RELATED: Speaking of plans and mice and men...

An eagerly anticipated auditor general's report into year-end government grants to ethnic groups with alleged Liberal party ties won't do anything to help the party's image when it's released Thursday, opposition critics say.

Despite the McGuinty governments best efforts to stonewall any investigation of their massive bribe-a-bloc initiative... this report is gonna surface at a very critical juncture.

The Liberals initially voted down an opposition motion to have the province's auditor examine how $32 million in grants were doled out to various multicultural organizations – some of which were said to have Liberal ties – at the end of the last fiscal year.

Instead, the Liberals passed a motion urging the grant beneficiaries to account for their spending and to report back within six months – a deadline that would have been after the Oct. 10 election – but later bowed to opposition pressure.

This is the sort of outright voter bribery that would have made Papa Doc Duvalier blush.

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

Shame on McGuinty and his shady henchmen.

Technorati Tags: Warren Kinsella, Dalton McGuinty, same old, same old

Brave jihadis strike another blow...

For Allah...

Two bomb attacks have killed at least 50 people and injured 135 in Baghdad as crowds celebrated a famous victory by the national football team.

Thousands had gathered on the streets of Baghdad, dancing and chanting in a rare moment of national unity.

Way to go guys.

What's tomorrow's objective... a children's dance recital?

For anyone who has problems with...

Our horribly unfair, draconian Canadian society, you might want to take note here...

Legislators in the Indonesian province of Papua are debating whether to approve a bill allowing microchips to be implanted in people with HIV.

The measure has been put forward as a way of preventing the spread of HIV in the Indonesian province. About 2.4% of Papuans are known to be carrying the virus, and infection rates in the province are estimated to be 15 times the national average.

And they're apparently not planning on stopping at microchips.

As well as calling for the introduction of microchips, the bill also suggests mandatory testing of every resident in Papua.

Parliamentarians are reported to have discussed tattooing those found to be carrying the virus.

It's certainly not an idea you'd hear anyone advancing around here.

A couple of years ago, after experiencing what paramedics euphemistically refer to as a "syncopal episode", I found myself in hospital for the biological equivalent of a 72 hour automobile diagnostic.

When machine science failed to turn up any foreign objects or obvious defects in the old brainbox... the neurology residents started spitballin... and one of their ideas was to test for sexually transmitted diseases, including of course, HIV/AIDS. I gather the request stirs up a good bit of resentment in these parts because of the rather tentative way they asked for my permission.

As a non-junkie and unashamedly monogamous, heterosexual husband & father, I hadn't expected this particular request... but as the recipient of a single tattoo acquired some ten years previous, from a less than surgical suite type operation, I agreed to their request.

Compared to the repeated, and less than pleasant extraction of spinal fluid... it seemed like a pretty insignificant procedure.

As it turns out, the tests came back negative and to this day, no one has the faintest idea what happened that fateful night... but the whole experience gave me an appreciation for the importance of personal health.

I'm guessing I'm also one of the few people around here who can actually prove they're not syphilitic, or HIV positive. Not that it'll ever come up in polite conversation.

No real lofty point to all this... I just figured I'd share.

I guess I'm also glad I don't live in Indonesia.

Technorati Tags: HIV/AIDS, microchip, Indonesia

Wanna see blatant media bias?

The Globe leads with a story implying the Harper government is blackmailing their own staffers to contribute money to the party... with a huge emphasis on how everyone is enraged at the allegedly coerced tithing...

Senior political staff in the Harper government say they have been asked to donate $1,000 to the Conservative Party, a move that has sparked resentment among some of the most stalwart supporters of the Prime Minister's Office.

You have to read to the end of the article to see what a non-story this piece of fluff really is...

When in government, the Liberals also encouraged their chiefs of staff to join the Laurier Club, a fundraising arm of the party that costs $1,000 to join for those over 30. Most agreed, said a former Liberal official, although some balked out of principle.

Slow news day in Ottawa, boys?

Technorati Tags: leftwing media bias, Laurier Club, liberal hypocrisy

If the Liberals really want...

To do something about gun crime... why are they stalling this legislation in the Senate?

Bill C-10, An Act to amend the Criminal Code to provide a five-year minimum sentence for crimes committed with a deadly weapon.

Bill C-35, an Act to amend the Criminal Code to require reverse onus in bail hearings for firearm-related offences.

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UPDATE: No more liberal hypocrisy

-- TORONTO -- The federal minority Conservative government's efforts to clamp down on the gun violence plaguing some of Canada's big-city streets are being thwarted by the Liberal-dominated Senate, the country's justice minister complained Tuesday.

"The Liberals talk out of both sides of their mouth," Nicholson told The Canadian Press from his riding in Niagara Falls, Ont.

"They say, when it's to their advantage during elections, that they're tough on crime, but where is the support when we're bringing forward these pieces of legislation?"

Email Stephane Dion and let him know how you feel.

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LAST WORD: What's with those Liberals...

And their scary, hidden agenda?

Best lefty post on the thread, bar none:

"To single out Jamaica is wrong. Quebec has a serious criminal problem originating in its Haitian community. Ottawa has a criminal problem originating in its Somali community."

"We must be careful with generalities..."

Technorati Tags: Bill C-10, Bill C-35, liberal lies

You mean, taking gopher rifles...

Away from farmers isn't gonna solve the problem?

Does this mean we get our two billion dollars back?

Ephraim Brown wasn't shot because someone didn't lock up his gun properly. Neither was Jordan Manners, or any other kid who's been shot lately.

And yet, we've still got politicians pandering to white middle-class sensibilities with talk of tightening the gun registry.

Better that than demonizing the people living in the afflicted neighbourhoods, I guess.

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THE NUMBERS: Who's capping who?

Of Canada's two million licensed gun owners... 0.00555%... used their firearm to murder someone.

On the other hand, in 2005, 64% of accused murderers had a prior criminal record, including 6% for homicide.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

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RELATED: Hey Dalton, when are we gonna get...

The Thinkright line... because it's way past time we actually let people use their own brains...

A new telephone number could prepare a family for a healthier meal.

The EatRight line, launched by the province, allows people to talk to a registered dietitian about what foods are good, what should be avoided, and the truth about trans fats, to name a few topics.

It's the eternal Liberal conundrum... how much "dumbing down" is enough?

Technorati Tags: Ephraim Brown, Jordan Manners, Farmer Bob Rifle Registry

If Michael Bryant put as much energy...

Into doing his job properly... as he did trying to "ban", for instance, dogs and handguns... there'd be a few less bodies littering the streets...

Witness the Ephraim Brown shooting...

The two men, just out of their teens, have a history of criminal charges. In Mr. Eubank's case, those charges include weapons offences, allegations he assaulted a police officer and, on one occasion, eight counts of failing to comply with bail conditions.

In March of last year, Mr. Eubank went to trial on multiple charges. After more than a week, the judge instructed the jury to return a not-guilty verdict.

As for the other man arrested in this case... apparently the first kid he shot was deductable.

In the summer of 2005, Mr. Sappleton was arrested and charged in connection with the notorious drive-by shooting that wounded four-year-old Shaquan Cadougan — charges that were withdrawn by prosecutors.

What law... what ban... does Michael Bryant imagine, in his wildest dreams, will stop these two predators from procuring and using guns?

So maybe before our esteemed Liberal Attorney General starts screaming about taking perfectly legal registered firearms away from law-abiding citizens... he should get his own house in order.

And get these assholes off the street for good.

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UPDATE: The Globe & Mail weighs in

But the underlying problem of large, poor, fatherless families, alienated teens and a gangster culture transplanted in part from Jamaica is sinking its roots into Toronto, and will not soon let go.

And the Red Star has a postscript...

This was not the first time gun violence has touched the family.

Four years ago, Ephraim's uncle, Matthew Osborne, was shot to death in Scarborough. "No one ever expected to go through this again," said Ingrid Osborne, as she sat beside her sister.

So, eleven year-old Ephraim gets to hang out at 1:00 am at Banger Central... despite this previous family tragedy?

Are these people insane?

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RELATED: A busy weekend in Toronto the Good

Let's not overlook the unfortunate demise of Sean "Juice" James, or Kimel Foster, or Amin Aafi as well.

It could happen to anyone, huh?

I don't think so.

Technorati Tags: Ephraim Brown, Akiel Eubank, Gregory Sappleton

Root causes, my pampered Ph.D ass

Sometimes you just have to let the data run free... and follow it the best that you can...

All in all, the research that professor Krueger gathers together suggests that if there is a link between poverty, education, and terrorism, it is the opposite of the one popularly assumed.

Apparently, contrary to the popular perception of the downtrodden revolutionary of humble beginnings... there is a thriving and diverse "Islamofascist freedom fighter" community out there.

Claude Berrebi and Harvard economist Efraim Benmelech studied—there's no nice way to put this—the human-resources policy of Palestinian terrorist groups.

They found that older, better-educated terrorists secured more important suicide missions and killed more people.

Now, on the face of it, that would seem to make perfect sense... but there are always exceptions to the rule.

Despite the fact that they were university educated and not "fresh off the goat" like so many of their middle-eastern brethren... the latest gang of UK terrorheads were also stunningly incompetent.

Allah certainly works in mysterious ways.

Technorati Tags: suicide bombers, Palestinian terrorist, Religion of Peace

Hold the presses...

I'm guessing Taliban Jack will be crawling out from under his rock momentarily.

-- KABUL (AP) -- NATO said six of its soldiers were killed during combat operations in Afghanistan on Monday, including four by a roadside bomb in the east where U.S. troops are based.

It's what he does best.

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UPDATE: Wanna see some more willfully blind?

Here's the taxpayer funded propaganda ministry... the CBC.

Four U.S. soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan and two other NATO troops have died in other parts of the country, NATO said Monday.

A total of 114 NATO soldiers have died in Afghanistan this year, including 22 Canadians.

Now here's a Canoe.ca story posted about the same time that also covers the NATO casualties... but throws in some context.

In Helmand province, the U.S.-led coalition and Afghan soldiers “routed” a large number of Taliban fighters in a two-day battle, killing more than 50 suspected militants, the coalition said.

Coalition aircraft dropped four bombs during the engagement, and Afghan forces counted “more than four dozen” insurgents killed, it said.

"CBC --when you only need half the story."

Technorati Tags: NATO casualties, CBC, leftwing media bias

So let's call for a ban on cars...

Every time a drunk crushes a pedestrian...

Akiel Eubank, 21, was arrested Sunday night and faces a charge of first degree murder, police said at a news conference Monday morning.

He is "extremely well known to the Toronto police as an active gang member," said Sgt. Gary Giroux, who added he is "confident" more arrests will be made.

You really think taking guns away from perfectly legal target shooters would have stopped this sociopath and his predatorial "gangsta"... uh... associates?

The actual problem here is that someone forget to raise this asshole with any sort of moral compass. Let's hear from his mom and uh, what's that word... father?

It doesn't matter what this stone cold killer had in his hand.

Why isn't anybody worried about what all these "disadvantaged" maniacs have in their heads.

It's the hard heart that kills.

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RELATED: See, here's one important difference...

When people in "my community" are invited to a birthday party, they bring presents... not firepower.

The victim, Kimel Foster, 21, suffered several gunshot wounds to his abdomen and was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later, police said.

There were as many as 50 people in the bar where there was a birthday party -- it's unknown if Foster and the other victim were guests -- and Browne appealed for witnesses to come forward.

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LAST WORD: Hey dumbass, "these people" are murderers.

It's not an episode of "Three's Company".

“They (meaning deceased 11 year olds) have nothing to do with the antics and problems these people get themselves into,” Ms. Taylor said.

Antics and problems, huh?

Is that what they call wholesale slaughter nowadays at Jane and Finch?

Technorati Tags: Ephraim Brown, Kimel Foster, Akiel Eubank

They call him "Steffi Stumbles"

Outremont, in Montreal, is considered a safe Liberal riding. Perfect for parachuting in a female or minority candidate.

So who does Dion appoint?

Pandering yet again

There have been laws against possessing unregistered handguns since the 1930's... and I'm pretty sure nobody has recently repealed the laws regarding murder... so what exactly is this idiot yammering about now?

-- TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor David Miller called Sunday for tougher gun laws after a spate of late-night shootings left an 11-year-old and two others dead in unrelated incidents.

“It's very clear that gun violence is connected to the ownership of guns,” Mr. Miller told the media.

Yeah... show me the connection here.

How exactly is going after legitimate owners of registered firearms gonna affect the overwhelmingly black-on-black gun violence that is plaguing Toronto-the-less-than-good?

If, in fact, police ever find the shooters, or the guns here... and with the less than spectacular cooperation from the "communities" involved, that's daily becoming less and less of a sure thing... they're gonna find that the guns in question were smuggled over our badly defended borders by one of Toronto's many criminal gangs.

Like the rest of Toronto's gun violence, these murders have nothing to do with legitimate owners and registered firearms.

Apparently though, no amount of factual evidence is gonna stop "Chicken Little" Miller and his progressive cheerleaders from trying to skew the responsibility here.

And where's Taliban Jack? If he really cared about saving lives maybe he could take a break from crapping on the military and hold a press conference demanding beefed up border security?

Yeah, right.

So what would actually do some good here?

How about more cops, less smoke and mirrors?

How about no more pretending the problem lies with law-abiding citizens?

Let's target the people pulling the triggers.

Don't be fooled... "Wake up and smell the socialists."

Technorati Tags: murder, smoke and mirrors, Mayor David Miller

What goes up...

I'm guessing physics isn't a big favourite in Iraqi schools...

At least two people have been killed in Baghdad by gunshots fired to celebrate the Iraqi football team's quarter-final victory in the Asian Cup, police say.

At least 15 people were wounded when football fans fired weapons in the air across the Iraqi capital after their team beat Vietnam 2-0 in Bangkok.

Apparently in Iraq, simply cheering for your team is somehow considered inadequate... true sportsmanship requires suppressive fire.

This goes a ways towards explaining why... in the middle east... strapping explosives to your kids is considered an act of patriotic and military genius.

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RELATED: So what story is CTV still milking?

You guessed it... the out of control police brutality in Toronto towards the visiting Chilean soccer team.

The cops prevent some sore-loser, third world soccer hooligans from beating up game referees... and it's another black eye for our repressive, racist system of government.

The confrontation between the Chilean soccer team and Toronto police rapidly escalated to become an international incident, with officials in Santiago laying the blame squarely on Canadian authorities.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet told local reporters she was dismayed with the use of "unjustified aggression" by Toronto police after a bloody brawl following a FIFA U-20 World Cup match late Thursday.

You get a whiff of what actually happened, near the bottom of the article...

When the final whistle blew and Chile had been shut out 3-0, the team started to go after the referees, egged on by an angry public audience. However, police ushered the refs away to the tunnels underneath the stands.

Of course, that's not how CTV chooses to spin this story.

Yup... no mindless, leftbot media bias here.

Technorati Tags: Asian Cup, media bias, FIFA U-20 World Cup

Cats are from Venus

Somebody's been eating out of the litterbox again...

More screwball logic from the woman who brought you the Top Ten List of the Smartest Canadian Female Bloggers, for which, incidentally... she nominated herself.

This time Libnip decided to get up on the porch at the Doggerel Party. Needless to say, Clive and the Corgis ate her lunch.

Relativism is a necessary tool for any left-winger, because it's the only way to avoid what psychologists call 'dissonance' - the holding of simultaneously contradictory ideas and viewpoints.

Give it up, Clive... you might as well try to reason with a, well...

Technorati Tags: moral relativism, Doggerel Party, Liberal Catnip

Reading, writing and...

Ripping people to pieces... Italian police have raided a mosque and disrupted a "school for terror."

Police in central Italy say they have uncovered a bomb school for Islamist militants after raiding a mosque in Perugia and making three arrests.

Evidence of training in explosives and poisons, and instructions on flying a Boeing 747 were reportedly found. They seized the imam and two other men, all Moroccans, and have a warrant for a fourth man believed to be abroad.

Anybody who thinks the islamofascist jihad couldn't possibly affect their lives, should pull their heads up outta the sand.

They're coming for us infidels... and sooner than you think.

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RELATED: Scenario for Aussie 9/11?

-- SYDNEY, July 22 (Reuters) -- Australian police were investigating whether an Indian doctor detained on terror charges may have been plotting to blow up a high-rise building on the Gold Coast, the Sunday Mail newspaper reported on Sunday.

Technorati Tags: Perugia, war on terror, Mohamed Haneef

Look out, it's Franken-tato!

If you're thinking of sending Igor out to find a brain anytime soon... you'd better not live in Europe.

Only 1 percent of the world's genetically modified food is grown in Europe.

There's a number that just stopped me in my tracks. Perhaps turning the world clock back to the middle ages is a more popular idea in some parts of the world than I imagined.

In contrast, 55 percent of the world's acreage in genetically modified crops is in the United States, where there is no distinction made between genetically modified and traditional varieties.

Read the article. Incredibly, the potato everybody's freaking out about, isn't even for human consumption.

It's been designed to make industrial starch.

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RELATED: Call me crazy, but...

Maybe you should worry about stuff that could actually affect your life.

Mexican cantaloupe irrigated with water from sewage-tainted rivers. Candy laced with lead.

Producers in other developing nations are notorious violators of basic food-safety standards, even as they woo consumers with a growing appetite for foods such as pickled mangoes from India and fruits and vegetables during winter from Mexico.

Most people are aware of the unbelievable messes originating in China, but the problem is much, much larger than that.

China, already under suspicion as the source of tainted toothpaste, contaminated fish and toxic medicine, logged the largest number of violations in the past 12 months, with the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration rejecting 1,901 shipments of food and cosmetics.

But India and Mexico weren't far behind, with inspectors rejecting 1,787 and 1,560 shipments, respectively. The biggest reasons? Foods that are unapproved or contain poisons and pesticides.

Some are simply dirty, with inspectors finding that the shipment "appears to consist in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or be otherwise unfit for food."

Or you can just learn to live with stuff like this... because there's only one way to be totally sure about food nowadays.

Grow your own.

Technorati Tags: genetically modified, poisons and pesticides, Mexico

Evidence...

We don't need no steenkin' evee-dence.
(via SDA)

Calling all CUPE dolls

No one is denying that the day to day situation in the Palestinian territories is an absolute and total mess...

With 47 per cent of the potential Palestinian labour force unemployed and a per capita income 23 times less than that of Israel, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) has a difficult enough job.

What I don't understand, is how all the loony leftbot Hamas cheerleaders in the western world can sleep at night.

In June, the PGFTU said Hamas seized their headquarters and ordered the union's staff to discuss how they were to operate under Hamas rule. According to Shaher Saed, general secretary of the PGFTU, the union refused to negotiate.

As a result, Saed said, three assassination attempts were made by Hamas on Rasem Al Bayari, the union's deputy general secretary, which included a rocket attack on his home in January and the bombing of his office in February.

Maybe what we need to do is send an enlightened progressive like Sid Ryan to Gaza... to straighten out this misunderstanding.

Hey Sid... don't forget your kevlar.

Technorati Tags: Sid Ryan, CUPE, Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions

Unlike many of its neighbours...

India chooses to let the clock run forwards.

-- NEW DELHI (AP) -- India elected Pratibha Patil as the country's first female president Saturday in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination.

The election of a woman to the largely ceremonial post continues an Indian tradition using the presidency to bolster disadvantaged communities.

Hindu-majority India has had three Muslim presidents, including incumbent A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, since winning independence from Britain in 1947. It has also had a president from the minority Sikh community, and Kalam's predecessor, K. R. Narayanan, came from the bottom of the society's complex social hierarchy.

I'm not sure people should be breaking out the champagne and party hats just yet... India obviously has a ways to go on the road to a just society.

While India has had several women in positions of power - most notably Indira Gandhi, who was elected to the more powerful position of prime minister in 1966, and her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi- many women still face rampant discrimination.

Many Indian families regard daughters as a liability due to a tradition requiring a bride's family to pay a groom's family a large dowry of cash and gifts. As a consequence their education is often neglected, and many don't get adequate medical treatment when ill.

It's obviously a long, tortured journey.

At least India isn't walking backwards.

Technorati Tags: Pratibha Patil, Sonia Gandhi, India

Taiwan...

And the 500 pound gorilla.

Taiwan has submitted its first formal application to join the United Nations, a government spokesman has said.

The Chinese foreign ministry immediately dismissed the move, saying it was "doomed to failure".

Gotta love the chutzpah here.

China, as always, never fails to rise to the occasion...

"It is the sacred responsibility of the Chinese armed forces to stop the 'Taiwan independence' forces from splitting the country," says the paper.

"Should the Taiwan authorities go so far as to make a reckless attempt that constitutes a major incident of 'Taiwan independence', the Chinese people and armed forces will resolutely and thoroughly crush it at any cost."

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UPDATE: David Frum has more

via (Mark from The Torch)

Technorati Tags: Taiwan, China, Tiananmen Square

Shutting down the big city...

Or, how David Miller is saving Toronto...

Transit commissioners will hold an emergency meeting today to look at shutting down the $1-billion Sheppard subway line and boosting the cost of a token by as much as a quarter.

Mayor David Miller said the cash-strapped TTC has no choice but to look at taking extreme measures because city council this week voted to put off until Oct. 22 a decision on whether to impose an unpopular land-transfer tax and a $60-a-year vehicle registration fee.

Uh, Mr Mayor... how about scrapping the limo service for city councillors to save some additional money and show solidarity with affected city commuters?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Councillor Michael Thompson, who is also a transit commissioner, contended the call for TTC cuts was a continuation of a fear-mongering campaign launched by Miller to gain support for the two taxes.

Geez... that doesn't sound very fair.

Technorati Tags: David Miller, TTC, Toronto

Kidnapping's such a harsh word

Let's just call it "mandatory hospitality".

-- Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters have seized about 20 Koreans aboard a bus on the road from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan to capital Kabul.

A Taliban spokesman said on Friday that 18 Koreans - 15 women and three men - were being held "as guests".

Said Yousuf Ahmadi, speaking by phone, said: "They are safe with us, we are investigating them and our demands and reaction will be announced later."

Still waiting to hear when exactly Taliban Jack will be having a press conference, to discuss his comrades latest humanitarian tactics.

Of course, maybe Jack and his progressive friends are too busy condemning big, bad Israel.

Gotta love the timing here.

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UPDATE: Honey, I beheaded "the guests"

Oh yeah, that guest thing... they were just kidding around.

-- KABUL -- Taliban militants threatened Friday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.

“They have got until tomorrow (Saturday) at noon to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, or otherwise we will kill the 18 Koreans,” Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban.

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RELATED: Speaking of cultural dissonance

-- LONDON -- The father and uncle of a woman who was brutally murdered for falling in love with the wrong man were sentenced to life in prison Friday.

The 2006 murder of 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod, 20, who was strangled after two hours of torture and sexual abuse, was the latest in an increasing trend of so-called "honor killings" in Britain, home to some 1.8 million Muslims.

Mahmod's family accused her of shaming them by ending an abusive arranged marriage, becoming too Westernized and falling in love with a man who did not come from their village.

Technorati Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, Said Yousuf Ahmadi

Lost World

It's exciting enough around here when we stumble across old steel farm implements buried along the fence line... so I can't imagine what these two guys felt like when they hit the motherlode...

The most important Viking treasures to be discovered in Britain for 150 years have been unearthed by a father and son while metal detecting in North Yorkshire.

One of the coins, which bears the Latin inscription, Rex Tiotius Britanniae, dating to 927, is the earliest indication of Britain being under one ruler, at a time when the country was split between Viking and Anglo-Saxon control.

A sense of unreality...

Doesn't seem like much of a defense strategy.

-- VANCOUVER -- The brother of Paul Cheema, husband of slain principal Shemina Hirji, spoke out in a radio interview Wednesday, saying it's “impossible” his brother is behind the killing.

I'm not exactly sure what brother Bob is basing his opinion on... because going by his past behaviour, Paul Cheema sure isn't looking like a knight in shining armour.

According to parole documents, in 1994, he kidnapped Ms. Singh at knifepoint, intending to take her back to B.C. However, Ms. Singh talked him into bringing her to a hotel in Winnipeg, where she fled from him.

In 1995, he attempted to kidnap her at her Winnipeg home, brandishing a silver handgun. Ms. Singh screamed, and her mother came to her rescue. The documents say he tried to shoot Ms. Singh's mother, but the gun did not discharge.

Now, while this sort of stuff is apparently not sufficiently alarming to raise a red flag at an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, I'm thinking I wouldn't want this guy marrying my sister, or daughter.

Of course, that's just me.

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UPDATE: Yeah, a gentle, thoughtful guy

He then returned to his hotel room and attempted suicide. Cheema was revived and further charges were laid.

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RELATED: Maybe it's not just me

Even though immigration officials ordered his deportation two years ago, Beckford, 41, remained in the country pending an appeal, and kept up his life of crime, committing another 17 offences.

Technorati Tags: Shemina Hirji, Paul Cheema, IRB

Whores R Us

Who says you can't buy... or sell... love?

"I a 20 year old nursin student. I love to have fun and be pampered. I love the outdoors and to travel although I don't get the oppotunity to do so very often."

Look, you want literacy AND love, try a library.

This is the most lucid and economical expression of where our hedonistic, instant gratification, anything goes, anything is for sale society is headed.

There are, of course, some self limiting factors at play here.

You know, like... anybody who truly wants to be either a sugar daddy, or a whore... may not exactly be a poster child for mental health.

Let's call it the Paul and Karla syndrome.

Another story you won't see...

On warm fuzzy bunny CTV...

US forces say they have arrested a senior member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group accused of being behind some of Iraq's deadliest violence.

The man was named as Khaled Mashhadani. He was captured earlier in July in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.

"He is considered a conduit between Masri, Bin Laden and Zawahiri," Gen Bergner said, referring to the Saudi- and Egyptian-born founders of al-Qaeda, who are thought to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

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RELATED: How's this for guerilla theatre?

The ploy was to invent Baghdadi, a figure whose very name establishes his Iraqi pedigree, install him as the head of a front organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and then arrange for Masri to swear allegiance to him.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, sought to reinforce the deception by referring to Baghdadi in his video and Internet statements.

Technorati Tags: Khaled Mashhadani, Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, Abu Ayub al-Masri

Some things to consider...

Before you break out the champagne...

Nationally, the homicide rate fell 10 per cent, ending two years of increases, but the number of young people accused of murder was the highest since data was first collected in 1961.

And some places were alarmingly worse than others.

There were 605 homicides reported to police in 2006, which translates to 1.85 homicides for every 100,000 people.

Saskatchewan again had the highest rate of all provinces, with 4.1 homicides for every 100,000 people.

Now that's one hell of a variation from the mean... what's up with the not-so-gentle folk of Saskatchewan?

Saskatchewan stands out for two reasons, he said: It consistently has the highest crime rate, and it has the highest percentage of native Canadians in its justice system.

Oh no... shsshhhh... stop, stop... you can't say that!!!

Not unless you blame it on our racist anglo-saxon society.

Technorati Tags: aboriginal crime, Saskatchewan, suckass political correctness

You actually have to kill someone...

Before you're considered a "dangerous person" in Canada.

-- VANCOUVER -- Murder suspect Paul Cheema was given a second chance to stay in Canada despite a violent criminal history and a deportation order because of "substantial family and community support here in Canada," according to an Immigration and Refugee Board ruling in October 1997.

Apparently, being convicted of forcible confinement, uttering threats and attempted kidnapping... TWICE... isn't sufficient cause for deportation.

Not especially surprising when you also have a Canadian judge releasing a drug smuggler caught dead-bang at the border... with 50 kilograms of cocaine.

"This is huge. I can't believe it. If this stands, we might just as well go out of business," Ron Moran, national president of the 10,000-member Custom Excise Union and a customs official for 27 years, said yesterday.

"Until this judgment, it would never even have crossed our minds to obtain a search warrant. It's just not part of what we're taught."

I know where my vote goes next time around.

Technorati Tags: Stephen Harper, Conservative Party, law and order

Cry havoc... and let slip...

The contemptuous curs of surrender...

The NDP has threatened to haul General Rick Hillier before a House of Commons committee unless the Department of National Defence explains within 10 days the “stonewalling and unreasonable delays in obtaining detainee records.”

Last week, Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre sent a letter to Information Commissioner Robert Marleau urging him to launch a formal investigation into the Defence Department's handling of the detainee documents.

Much like O.J. Simpson... Dawn Black and Denis Coderre just want a chance to go after "the real killers".

Of course, for the libs and dippers that'd be... you guessed it... Rick Hillier and the Canadian Forces.

RELATED: The troops deserve our support

Every time our troops go head to head with these guys, they kick ass.

-- KANDAHAR -- An early morning patrol by Canadian and Afghan forces led to a full-scale firefight yesterday, leaving an undetermined number of Taliban dead and wounded, the Canadian military said.

Just a thought, but while we're at war with these cowardly, backstabbing, religious freakazoids... maybe the opposition parties could find somebody else's kids to piss on.

Technorati Tags: Denis Coderre, Afghanistan, Dawn Black

David Miller faw' down, go boom...

But don't you worry, Daddy Dalton will kiss it better.

-- TORONTO -- In a stinging defeat for Toronto Mayor David Miller, council balked at approving two new taxes, for now, in hopes the delay will put the city's fiscal future front and centre in the provincial election this fall.

Which is a fancy way of saying the rest of us Ontarians will likely be on the hook for Miller's ongoing pinko revolution... courtesy of the provincial fiberal government.

A source inside the Liberal provincial government suggested the deferral will give Premier Dalton McGuinty the opportunity promise something more to help the city's finances as the party rolls out its election platform in the summer.

Yeah, I'm shocked.

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RELATED: Don't take any responsibility...

Just put a gun to their heads.

Lastman told the Sun yesterday he'd advise councillors to defer the issue and direct Mayor David Miller to seek help from the provincial and federal governments.

Lastman -- the former North York mayor who went on to run an amalgamated Toronto from 1997 to 2003 -- said if councillors followed his lead, it would've provided them the chance to "put a gun to their heads," noting a provincial election is Oct. 10.

Technorati Tags: David Miller, Dalton McGuinty, Toronto

You say toe-may-toe...

I say disgusting, disease-bearing rodent.

-- BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) -- Chinese officials have denied media reports that truckloads of live rats rounded up near a flooded lake in eastern China were ending up in local markets and on restaurant menus in the south.

Of course, the Chinese government, that bastion of consumer protection, advocacy and above all openness... is obviously deeply committed to protecting the interests of the citizenry.

Wang Fan, a Guangzhou food safety official, also denied the report and said an inspection of a local market had found no evidence of rats for sale.

"The city government of Guangzhou has not lifted the ban against the trading and eating of wild animals, including rats," the paper quoted Wang as saying.

Rats are considered a delicacy in Guangzhou, where people are reputed to eat anything that moves, but their sale was banned in 2003 as part of a general prohibition on wild animal consumption in the wake of the SARS epidemic.

In a show of socialist solidarity, the local population, environmentalists every one of them, were resolutely doing their part.

Farmers had bought black-market pesticides to complement government-issued poisons to kill rats on their plots, the paper said, which had alarmed local officials and experts who feared environmental pollution and the development of a "super rat race".

We obviously have a lot to learn from China.

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RELATED: Never mind the tasty snacks...

Let's do something about that devil barbarian beverage.

A Starbucks coffee shop operating on the historic site of Beijing's Forbidden City has closed down after huge protests.

An online campaign arguing that the shop was trampling on Chinese culture had drawn more than 500,000 signatures.

Technorati Tags: Guangzhou, super rat race, Chinese food

Safety Break!

Nobody works... nobody gets hurt!

-- OTTAWA -- Canada must press for more efforts to prevent friendly-fire incidents where U.S. troops have mistakenly killed their Canadian allies in Afghanistan, the opposition Liberals say.

Yeah... maybe we can start a government sponsored "Don't shoot us, we're Canadians" program, huh? How about we spring Chuck Guite and Jean LaFleur early, to run the whole thing.

Say Denis... how come you aren't shedding any tears for the 1200 Canadians who are killed every year working on the family farm? I guess there's no making political hay out out of those inconsequential farmers dying, is there?

Can you say, "crass opportunist"?

Much like his bumbling boss, Steffi... Dogpile Denis Coderre wants Canada to shop around for a "safer war"... a war where, presumably, everybody gets to go home and live happily ever after.

Denis... let me help you out here.

War is a dangerous business. People will inevitably be maimed and killed and in the "fog of war" accidents do happen. Canadian soldiers... all volunteers by the way... are acutely aware of this fact. You would be too, if you weren't such an unabashed, kneejerk surrender monkey.

That's why it's called war and not... "Circle of Friends."

Technorati Tags: Denis Coderre, Afghanistan, surrender monkey

Trust me, my friends...

The answer isn't blowing in the wind...

Neither really can comprehend the issues of the other.

Can youth crime be cured with a few more hallway monitors? A vegetarian breakfast? Maybe some plush toys with ethnic themes?

The gospel according to Fenris.

Always a treat.

Sovereign nation of Taliban

Declares war on Pakistan.

-- PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN -- Termination of the peace treaty, the hopeful handiwork of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, puts even greater pressure on the military leader as he struggles with both Islamic extremists and a gathering pro-democracy movement.

Say what you will about Pervez Musharraf, he's got some pretty big stones.

His so-called "treaty" with Islamic extremists in the "tribal lands" is part of a death-defying high wire act in this hotbed of islamo-trigue. Now the crazies have repudiated that agreement and are apparently bent on full out revolution.

Abdullah Farhad, a spokesman for the militants, said the ceasefire was terminated in North Waziristan, a remote area on the Afghan border where the United States worries that al-Qaeda has regrouped.

He said Taliban leaders made the decision after Pakistan failed to abide by their demand to withdraw troops from checkpoints by yesterday afternoon. "The peace agreement has ended," Mr. Farhad told reporters in Peshawar.

Perhaps this latest development will force Musharraf to sanction, or even support, greater US special forces activity in the troubled area.

The hard reality here is, if things suddenly go sideways for Musharraf, he isn't looking at impeachment hearings... he'll be lucky if he's actually dead... when the Islamo-screamers start sawing his head off his body.

They play for keeps over here.

Technorati Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Farhad, Waziristan

Running on empty

Another root causes myth bites the dust.

Guess what happens when you actually go out and use non-anecdotal methodology to see what's happening in that big, bad world?

People on low incomes have similar diets to the rest of the population, a government report has said.

The Food Standards Agency found that contrary to popular belief, nutrition, access to food and cooking skills are not much different in poorer families.

Of course, the leftbots would be happier if they could just skew the numbers a little...

Dr Alan Maryon Davis, president of the Faculty of Public Health said the results were surprising and experts had always thought the gap was bigger.

Although he added that if the results were compared with those in the most affluent sixth of the population there would probably be a greater difference.

I've got an idea... let's just compare the poor to Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel.

That'll make things so much clearer.

Technorati Tags: loony left, statistical reality, suckass political correctness

Mourning the untimely passing...

Of some local heroes...

A year ago at this time, there were flowers blooming in the pillar-like wooden baskets running along the sidewalk outside the Hells Angels' lowertown Toronto headquarters, decoratively disguising the reinforced concrete barriers that were keeping any intruders at bay.

While it's true that nobody actually died here... you wouldn't know that from Mark Bonokowski's outpouring of grief for a local motorcycle gang.

Don't worry though... Mark's little morality tale does have a bad guy.

The Hells clubhouse on Toronto's Eastern Ave., seized in the spring during joint-forces police raids on the biker gangs' clubhouses across the country, is unquestionably suffering from neglect.

In this case, it's Stephen Harper.

It has gone to seed -- weeds, peeling paint, and litter -- and the only place where blame can be placed is with the federal government.

I'm actually a little surprised Bono didn't go all in... and blame Harper and the feds for selling ecstasy to your sons and putting your daughters "on the pole."

Will somebody please tell me how this sort of unadulterated crap passes for serious journalism. I'm thinking anyone stupid enough to be paying for a subscription to this kind of claptrap probably isn't really able to read.

I guess that's what the Sunshine girl is for.

Technorati Tags: Hells Angels', Mark Bonokowski, unbelievable

Technical difficulties

When it rains, it pours.

On top of being blackballed from the Blogging Tories aggregator... (details to follow shortly), I lost the modem in my primary box the other day... to a nearby lightning strike.

Currently using the jurassic laptop for net access... hope to slap a new modem card in later today, or tomorrow.

Service, as they say, will resume shortly.

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UPDATE: Back in business

Managed to scare up a modem from my computer boneyard in the basement.

No sense spending big bucks on a new modem when the dialup around here maxes out at 28.8 kps. Gotta check on what's happening with hi-speed around here.

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UPDATE: Back in the fold

Still having some intermittent comms issues, which prevented me from addressing the BT matter in any detail. My modem may not have been the only bit of hardware smoked by the lightning strike.

Perhaps it's just as well... I received an email from Stephen Taylor at Blogging Tories early this morning, letting me know that I have been reinstated.

Being the "free speech" kind of guy that I am, I had planned on sharing our exchange over the post in question... but in deference to Stephen's reconsideration of the matter, I remain inside the tent... pissing resolutely politically incorrectly outwards.

Honestly officer...

It was so long ago, it just slipped my mind...

The husband of slain principal Shemina Hirji was convicted in Winnipeg 12 years ago of uttering threats and attempting to kidnap his fiance after she called off the wedding, court documents provided to The Vancouver Sun show.

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UPDATE: Shelter from the storm

"When Mr. Charming's true nature starts to show in private, the women are shocked because it seems so out of character for him... In public, abusers are friendly, funny, and even loving. In private they can suddenly become vicious and cruel for no reason."

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RELATED: This ain't your mother's Canada

In light of the fact that we have a fairly permissive society, why are we singling out that particular form of behaviour for criminalization?

Technorati Tags: stranger in a strange land, the man behind the curtain, polygamy

The Musharraf regime has to stop...

Talking out of both sides of its mouth.

Revealing the delicacy of the situation, government officials on Wednesday alternated between reassuring the public that they were not waging war against all madrasas and at the same time trying to ward off further challenges to the state’s authority.

The Musharraf government has been walking a political knife edge for some time now, but making mealy-mouthed announcements just pisses off people on both sides of the Islamo-fence.

“The government of Pakistan has nothing against madrasas,” Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told reporters Wednesday afternoon. “But any madrasa which violates the law or promotes militancy will clearly be dealt with under the law.”

And some compromises just fly in the face of reason.

Ijaz ul-Haq, the Pakistani religious affairs minister, broke down in tears on a television talk show. “God willing, we will continue to protect the madrasas the way we protect our homes.”

It's important to remember that Pakistan is a nuclear armed nation.

If the crazies get their finger on that particular button... we're all in for some endless summer nights.

Technorati Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz, Ijaz ul-Haq

What woman could possibly resist...

This Prince Charming...

A warehouse manager who seduced a man's wife before demanding £1.4m to let him have her back has been jailed for six years by a Taunton Crown Court judge.

I guess there truly is "someone for everyone" in this cold, cruel world.

Peter Blair QC told the court that in February 2007 the businessman discovered his wife had made a banker's draft payment of £50,000 from their account to Cromie's.

She told him she was leaving him as it quickly became apparent her affair was back on. A day later she filed a divorce petition, as Cromie prepared his blackmail plan.

Fortunately, sometimes that big karmic wheel sometimes slips and rolls back over the truly unworthy.

He arranged a meeting with her husband two days later and outlined his demands - for £1.4m "he could have her back".

It was then the police were called.

When they start hauling out...

The politically correct lexicography, the smart money heads for the private school system...

England's secondary curriculum is being overhauled to give teachers more flexibility in the classroom whilst focusing on the basics, ministers say.

A quarter of the school day is to be freed up so that teachers can focus more on individual students' needs.

But more subjects like personal finance and cookery are set to be included - plus languages like Mandarin and Urdu.

And when weasel words start tumbling around, like the center stage finale at Cirque de Soleil, it's time to duck and cover.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls pledged to enhance teaching of "the three Rs" and said there would be "no dumbing down".

And more topical issues relevant to youngsters' everyday lives would be introduced.

"It has always been the role of schools to respond to the needs of the time."

"Schools need the space to borrow great ideas from around the world".

Of course, I have to share my personal favourite

"This is not meddling, this is much greater freedom - but with certain clear things prescribed."

Because, unlike the middle-east and pretty much all of Africa and well... a big chunk of Asia and, uh... South America and the former Soviet Union... Britain has made such a hellish hash of things.

And we can't have that.

Technorati Tags: dumbing down, suckass political correctness, flexibility in the classroom

I wonder if Swiss politicians...

Will be calling for a ban on mountain climbing?

-- ZURICH, July 12 (Reuters) -- An avalanche killed six Swiss soldiers on Thursday as they were climbing the Jungfrau, one of the country's most well-known peaks, in a training exercise, Switzerland's defence department said.

The six, who were linked by ropes in groups of three, were swept several hundred meters (yards) to their deaths.

The Swiss army regularly uses mountain territory for specialist military training.

SAFETY BREAK!!! NOBODY WORKS...NOBODY GETS HURT!!!

That would be the "Layton solution."

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RELATED: Courage is... grace under pressure

"I have never felt prouder and more moved than seeing the thousands of Canadians saying their final farewells to our brave soldiers, while my son waves, saying, 'Go, daddy's boys,' " Dawe said, her voice catching in her throat.

She stopped speaking, and her father-in-law, Peter Dawe, handed her a glass of water. She sipped, then continued.

"My final message is to the boys in Afghanistan," she said. "I want to tell them and everyone how much I loved and supported Matt in his decisions and how much I love and support the boys overseas.

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LAST WORD: A mother speaks up

-- KINGSTON, Ont. -- She will never know who killed her youngest son, but the mother of Captain Matthew Dawe says she knows what killed him.

“I think it was hatred and intolerance,” Reine Dawe told reporters Wednesday in a news conference at CFB Kingston.

He will be remembered.

Technorati Tags: Captain Matthew Dawe, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Canadian Forces

Here's how us dumb country hicks...

Feel about irresponsibility and waste.

We're not like "Toronto the Wonderful & Inclusive" out here. When people screw up, there's still an element of disapproval and public shame...

Bob Dolan wants the government to stop handing out money in lump sums to people on social assistance whom, he said, might not spend it wisely.

The Belleville councillor aired his concern at Wednesday's Hastings County social services committee meeting, when he told the story of a man who received $6,500 all at once and "he's been drunk ever since."

And unlike David Miller and his leftbot army, people aren't afraid to get their hands dirty...

"I called his lawyer," Dolan said of the cited case, "and told him flatly I was pissed off...I'm very concerned about how this money is distributed."

Technorati Tags: Hastings County, Belleville, suckass political correctness

Cheque please

Well... maybe a barf bag too.

-- BEIJING (AP) -- In the Chinese television report, a hidden camera follows a man, whose face is not shown, into a ramshackle building where steamers are filled with the fluffy white buns.

The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground.

"What's in the recipe?" the reporter asks. "Six to four," the man says.

"You mean 60 per cent cardboard? What is the other 40 per cent?" asks the reporter. "Fatty meat," the man replies.

So there.

Don't be telling me they don't recycle in China.

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UPDATE: Hoax... or coverup?

Some analysts suggested the Chinese government, in an attempt to improve the country's reputation after a spate of product safety problems, may have ordered the television station to tell the public the story was fabricated.

"In general, Beijing's first line of defence has been denial in the face of such claims that paint a negative picture of the government,'' she said. "We don't know the truth in this case, but anything is possible.''

(via Natnews)

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RELATED: Did you hear the one about...

-- BEIJING -- For more than a decade, Nick Young has been defending China's Communist rulers, telling the world that China is not as repressive as portrayed by the Western media and human-rights groups.

"I have spent the past decade telling foreigners that China is not as repressive and totalitarian as Western media often portray it to be," Mr. Young said in his statement.

Ok, wait for it...

Now the Communist system has turned against him. Chinese police investigators and local officials have descended on his office, interrogated him and ordered him to shut down his electronic newsletter, a well-respected monthly publication on development and civil society in China.

The police have threatened to deport him and ban him from the country for five years. The authorities accuse him of conducting "unauthorized surveys" in violation of a law on gathering statistics.

Technorati Tags: made in China, merchant of death, reduce, reuse, recycle

Thorny legal issue

But the question of whether the First Amendment allows the government to ban depictions of illegal conduct, as opposed to the conduct itself, is a difficult one, legal experts said.

In the Florida suit, moreover, the company says it broadcasts cockfights from Puerto Rico, where they are legal.

Totally superfluous background information...

The law was enacted in response to so-called “crush videos,” in which, according its legislative history, women “talking to the animals in a kind of dominatrix patter” crushed them “with their bare feet or while wearing high-heeled shoes.”

There truly are things in this world I just don't need to know.

Must be a slow news day...

In the nation's capital...

A band of disgruntled conservatives plans to throw a new party into the mix for Ontario voters as they gear up for the provincial election in October.

Anthony Silvestro, the group's spokesman, described the Ontario Alternative party as the first step in what he hopes will become a national alternative to the federal Conservative party.

Hope, of course, doesn't cost anything... and that's good news for Mr. Silvestro... his last kick at the cat was less than a rousing success.

In the 1999 Ontario general election, running under the banner of the "Confederation of Regions Party" in Ottawa West—Nepean, Mr. Silvestro managed to finish 7th out of 8 candidates with a total of 79 votes... apparently sweeping his family and immediate circle of friends.

It wasn't a total disaster however... he did manage to trounce Yogic Flyer and Natural Law Party candidate Lester J. Newby, who scraped up a measly 70 votes.

But hey... let's not stop the media from calling this new conservative "alternative" a threat to the Conservative Party of Ontario.

Cos' it could happen, right?

Champagne corks are popping...

At the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute.

-- MOSCOW, July 11 (Reuters) -- The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.

She had been lying in the frozen ground for up to 40,000 years, said Tikhonov.

Here's one opposition politician...

Who's putting the good of the nation... over political opportunism.

-- BBC -- Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister long regarded as Gen. Musharraf's chief political rival, agreed that might happen, but said the president made the right decision in assailing the mosque.

“I'm glad there was no ceasefire with the militants in the mosque because ceasefires simply embolden the militants,” she told Sky TV from exile in Britain.

“There will be a backlash, but at some time we have to stop appeasing the militants. We can't afford to keep appeasing them.”

Hey Jack... are you listening?

Technorati Tags: Religion of indiscrimate slaughter, Red Mosque, Jack Layton

Just a little off...

The bottom.

-- BBC LONDON -- The Metropolitan Police is offering an unprecedented reward for information which would bring to justice anyone involved in female genital mutilation.

The long summer holiday is seen as the most likely time for parents to seek the procedure for their daughter as she has time to recover from what is usually a brutal ordeal before returning to school.

The procedure is in most cases carried out by older women who have no medical training. Anaesthetic is rarely used and the cuts are sometimes made with the most basic of tools such as razors or even pieces of glass.

I see stuff like this and I am struck dumb. It makes me want to cut pieces... say ears and noses.. off those responsible.

Thank goodness the police are not afraid to do the right thing here.

"This is child abuse. It is not an attack on anyone's culture, it is an attack on anyone who commits this horrendous abuse of children."

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RELATED: One woman speaks out

When Waris was five, her mother held her down on a rock while another woman cut off parts of her genitals with a razor blade.

What remained was sewn up with a coarse thread, with a tiny hole left through which to urinate.

No anaesthetic was used, and Waris' wound subsequently became infected.

Technorati Tags: Metropolitan Police, savagery, female genital mutilation

Toronto ain't got nothin'...

On metrosexual, sophisticated Trenton, Ontario.

Charged with keeping a common bawdy house under Section 210 of the Criminal Code was Zhu Zhen of Trenton.

In addition, Chen Mei Dentin of Trenton was charged with being an inmate in a common bawdy house, also under Section 210 of the Criminal code.

Both are due to make their first appearance in court July 17.

So watch out David Miller... we've apparently got seedy, urban fleshpots out this way too.

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RELATED: We've even got cottage country crime

A Markham couple was ordered to forfeit a Hastings Highlands property and make a $10,000 charitable donation as part of an elaborate plea bargain with federal drug prosecutors, Monday, for their role with a $225,000 marijuana distribution scheme in Hastings County and Toronto last year.

Now, you might think this guy would be in serious trouble... but in Dalton McGuinty's Ontario, this is worth about 60 days in the pokey.

As part of the pact, Yi Qing Lai, 49 - who spent two months and eight days in custody after his arrest - will also spend the next year on probation after he pleaded guilty to a lone count of production of a controlled substance before Judge Kent Kirkland of the Ontario Court of Justice.

It ain't all just "dumb as dogshit" hayseeds out here in the rural hinterland, like the CBC would have you believe.

We're gettin' that cosmopolitan "big city" veneer.

Next thing you know we'll have the "Hastings County Plowing Match & Gay Pride Parade."

Technorati Tags: Hastings County, Trenton, Ontario, Zhu Zhen

It's well past time...

To implement a surcharge on stupidity.

Jason Bedore pleaded guilty to charges including impaired driving and refusing to provide a breath sample during his appearance before Judge Geoff Griffin.

At the time, police said the truck, which was driven by Bedore, left the roadway and struck a hydro pole, "shearing it off at the base." The incident left a number of homes and nearby businesses without power for about an hour.

You've gotta love what happens next.

When asked by Griffin if Hydro One had been in contact since the incident, Bedore said officials had called him personally.

"They want 14 grand ($14,000) for the pole and everything," he said. Bedore was given a one-year driving suspension and was ordered to pay an $800 fine.

Which got me thinking.

Why shouldn't there be a surcharge on stupid, dangerous behaviour that damages other people's lives and property?

I mean... David Miller is on the verge of issuing a "get up in the morning" tax in Toronto.

How about we, (meaning civil society), in addition to the inconsequential penalties imposed by the criminal justice system, levy charges to specifically compensate victims of crime, or pay for the larger societal costs inflicted on us by these assholes?

It's worth considering.

Technorati Tags: impaired driving, Hydro One, surcharge on stupidity

Go big... or go home

A black man, an aboriginal... now someone with a disability... dammit, "WHERE'S MY LESBIAN?!!!"

-- TORONTO -- David Onley, a long-time reporter, anchor and host of CITY-TV in Toronto, will be the next lieutenant-governor of Ontario.

There's probably as much sense here... as giving it to a mega-wealthy businessman's, Irish-born, ex-super-model wife.

We're simply adding a huge dollop of fuzzy-bunny inclusive icing on top.

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LAST WORD: It's what we're famous for...

Bowing to the "Gods of Political Correctness."

With, you know... just a few noteable exceptions.

Not discriminatory when Israel is the lone exception? It isn't only a discriminatory policy, it's cowardly.

Technorati Tags: David Onley, lieutenant-governor, suckass political correctness

Give us your tired...

Your liars... your paralysed.

-- TORONTO -- A paralysed Sikh, who entered Canada with a fake passport four years ago, has ducked deportation to India and sought asylum in a gurdwara.

Laibar Singh, 48, was scheduled to be deported on Sunday. However, with the help of friends and community members, he took refuge in a gurdwara in Lower Midland.

"I don't want to go to India. Why should I go to India?" Singh told the media, with the help of a translator.

Because cost is no object.

Technorati Tags: fake passport, refugee claimant, suckass political correctness

Can somebody tell me...

Where Taliban Jack will be holding his press conference... or is that only when Canadian soldiers get killed?

Seventeen people, including 12 schoolchildren, have been killed in a suicide bombing in south Afghanistan, the country's interior ministry says.

Another 30 people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on a market place in Dehrawood in Uruzgan province, where Taleban militants are active.

The bomber blew himself up near a Nato-led convoy, police said.

I guess if you're trying to portray these homicidal sociopaths as beleaguered freedom fighters... it may be a little tricky to spin this one into political gold, huh Jack?

Say TJ, while we're at it... I'd be interested in how you rationalise this sort of thing, too.

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RELATED: Taliban allies ramp up campaign

TORONTO — NDP Leader Jack Layton wants Ottawa to demand a halt to U.S. and NATO air strikes in Afghanistan.

Layton tells the Toronto Star that he plans to take up the matter with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Tuesday.

The NDP chief says he’ll ask Harper to instruct Canadian representatives on the NATO council that oversees day-to-day operations to call for an end to aerial bombing.

Technorati Tags: Religion of indiscrimate slaughter, Afghanistan, Jack Layton

True North, stoned and free

WE'RE NUMBER 5!!! WE'RE NUMBER 5!!!

The 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006.

The world average is 3.8 per cent.

Happily for Canadian smokers the retail price per gram is half of that of the United States, and the purity is rated at least three times that of our southern neighbours, but can be as much as 10 times as potent.

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RELATED: I admit it... I inhaled

What I remember about smoking dope was that it made you loll around on that dusty old couch in somebody's partially finished basement... listening endlessly to the same Steppenwolf 8-track tape... on a stereo cranked up so high it would've sterilised a labrador retriever.

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LAST WORD: Pot busts way up

Cos' dumbass stoners don't take civics anymore.

-- OTTAWA (CP) -- The number of people arrested for smoking pot rose dramatically in several Canadian cities last year after the Conservatives took office and killed a bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

"You'd have a youth smoking a joint out on the street without any fear of being caught," said Toronto police Det. Doug McCutcheon.

"You go to any high school and do a quiz. Find out how many kids realize that it takes three readings (in the House of Commons), plus Senate approval, before something happens."

Technorati Tags: smoking dope, marijuana, UN Office on Drugs and Crime

If it happened over here...

We'd call it "suicide by cop."

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BREAKING: Ding, dong... Allah calling

A Pakistani cleric leading militants battling troops at a mosque in the capital, Islamabad, has been killed, Interior Ministry officials say.

“The government is using full force. This is naked aggression,” Mr. Ghazi said hours before his death. “My martyrdom is certain now.”

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Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder said Pakistani officials had been hoping for a peaceful end to the seven-day standoff at the Islamabad mosque after negotiators offered religious leaders inside a deal.

The deal was believed to have been arranged after Hussain met Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president.

Hyder said Hussain had gone back to the mosque with an offer of safe passage, one of the demands of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the mosque's deputy leader.

The Pakistani government has bent over backwards over the last week to try accommodate these hostage takers.

Obviously, these fanatics had no intention of giving it up. Just the other day they killed a Pakistani Special Forces Colonel who was supervising breaches in the wall to allow additional egress for hostages.

The fighting continues and two more soldiers are reported dead.

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BACKGROUND: Spoiling for a fight

Tensions at the mosque began several months ago when its students launched an anti-vice campaign in a quest to enforce Islamic law.

They also kidnapped several people, accused of involvement in prostitution, including seven Chinese, who were later freed.

Bitter street battles broke out on July 3 between police and the mosque's radical students, and it has been surrounded under a 24-hour shoot-on-sight curfew ever since.

No happy ending here.

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UPDATE: Do the math, dummies

The army is the biggest gang in town. They've got better weapons and they're specially trained to break stuff and kill people.

But that won't deter religious crazies.

Commandos stormed the sprawling mosque compound before dawn. Twelve hours later, the army said the complex was 80 per cent cleared of militants but it was still trying to root out well-armed defenders whom the government accuses of holding a number of hostages.

A local relief agency said the army asked for 400 white funeral shrouds.

More to the point, after taking a bunch of casualties, these guys are gonna be majorly pissed.

Don't look for too many survivors.

Technorati Tags: Religion of Peace, Lal Masjid, terrorism

I'm guessing this must be...

The official language of the NDP...

Over a midmorning breakfast of waffles with whipped cream and bananas, Sonja Elen Kisa provides a crash course on her invented language, Toki Pona - "the simple language of good."

"Toki Pona is meant to focus on the positive, so negative thought patterns and cognitions can be transferred and eliminated by simply using the language."

Well, I don't know about that... aren't these meek & gentle souls simply gonna be cancelled out... by all the unrepentant warriors who speak Klingon?

Ms. Kisa, a linguist who is fluent in five languages, devised Toki Pona as a coping mechanism during a bout of depression.

You certainly have to admire the spirit behind the neurological tornadoes here.

Some people would have simply doubled down the Zoloft and blamed Dick Cheney for their problems. This lady went out and developed "ebonics for moonbats."

"Oooga shaka, ooga shaka..."

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Special, my ass

It doesn't work, of course. People just learn to say the same things with different words.

Or as I overheard some high school kids say, "that's special with an R".

Technorati Tags: mental health day, Toki Pona, alternate reality

What will the NAACP do...

Now that they have eliminated racism?

-- DETROIT -- A leading civil rights group in the United States is putting to rest a long-standing expression of racism by symbolically burying a racist slur generally referred to as the "N-word."

Two Percheron horses pulled a pine box adorned with a bouquet of fake black roses.

In this particular case... the N-word should be nonsense.

Delegates from across the country gathered Monday morning during the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Detroit and marched about a quarter-mile for the ceremony and rally.

Maybe they should have buried rampant drug abuse, non-existent societal expectations and rap music while they were at it.

All the experts agree... "In the war against social injustice... you just can't have too many P.R. stunts."

Technorati Tags: NAACP, N-word, noise, not action

That warm fuzzy Dalton McGuinty...

Just crapped on Granny again.

An 11 cents increase in the daily food allowance for elderly residents of long-term care facilities falls woefully short of what's required from the Ontario government, advocates say.

The increase, which kicked in on Canada Day, brings the funding to $5.57 per person per day, an amount that's supposed to cover the cost of buying three squares, plus snacks, a day.

In all fairness though, you've gotta have priorities.

Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled yesterday a sweeping $17.5-billion transit vision for the GTA and Golden Horseshoe...

Hey Granny... suck it up!

Do you believe in magic?

"If you want to save the planet, I want you to start jumping up and down!”

If the reports are accurate...

This is a huge intelligence coup for NATO forces...

Afghan intelligence sources have told Al Jazeera that four senior members of the Taliban movement have been captured in Pakistan.

The men are believed to include two senior aides to Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, his chief of staff and the group's head of communications.

Pakistan's security services have refused to confirm the reports.

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UPDATE: Scratch 4 "mad mullahs"

Confirmation on the high-value targets. These guys will be lucky if they ever see daylight again.

The source said those arrested included two men responsible for Mullah Omar's letters and communications. They have been named as Mullah Jahangir and Mullah Mohid.

Others now in detention are said to be Mullah Nazir, who was Taleban commander in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, and Mullah Tahir, the former Taleban commander for the capital, Kabul.

Technorati Tags: Taliban, Mullah Omar, baggin' the bad guys

Scratch some of these greens...

And they bleed Liberal red.

-- OTTAWA (CP) -- Canada's high-profile environmentalists have set themselves up as the Earth's lobbyists but some critics accuse them of concealing less lofty sympathies.

Insiders from three federal parties told The Canadian Press they have concerns that some of the activists judging climate-change action have become too cosy with the Liberals.

"People like ... Louise Comeau need to be intellectually honest in that you can't validate extraordinarily backwards policy from the Liberals, and then the moment a Conservative party comes into office demand that Kyoto targets be met come hell or high water," said Heath.

Yeah... I'm shocked.

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RELATED: The big lie

Remind me again... who were the governing federal party between 1990 and 2004?

Technorati Tags: political baggage, Louise Comeau, same old, same old

Somebody should tell Stephane Dion...

He just got short-listed by radical Islam.

-- RIYADH, July 8 (Reuters) -- A religious edict by a prominent Saudi cleric suggesting liberals are not real Muslims has enflamed debate over reforms in the conservative Islamic state, with self-professed liberals fearing they will be attacked.

Responding to an online request for a religious edict, or fatwa, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan said last month: "Calling oneself a liberal Muslim is a contradiction in terms ... one should repent before God for such ideas in order to be a real Muslim."

That's what's so alarming about the Islamist juggernaut... they make no bones about what they're gonna do when they catch up to their infidel opponents.

They look you right in the eye... and tell you, you're next on the list.

"He who wants freedom with only the controls of man-made law has rebelled against the law of God," it said.

You mindless leftbots wanna talk scary conservatism?

These guys make Stephen Harper look like Cindy Sheehan.

Technorati Tags: fatwa, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan, Sheikh Saleh al-Fozan

Sarkozy steps up...

Ends long tradition of surrendering to loony left... leaves countrymen flabbergasted.

-- FRANCE -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has refused to pardon prisoners on Bastille Day - breaking with a traditional gesture on the 14 July holiday.

Of course... some citizens are more disturbed than others.

Prison officers said they were concerned that Mr Sarkozy's decision could lead to disturbances among inmates.

"The reduction of sentences are much anticipated and have a real psychological impact at the heart of the prison population," the SNP-FO prison staff union said in a statement.

Goodness gracious... we wouldn't want to upset the poor prisoners.

Last July, Mr Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, freed some 3,500 inmates in a Bastille Day amnesty.

Well then, I guess things are looking up.

Technorati Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Bastille Day, a step to the right

"Maybe they used to sell petrol"

These guys must just sit around, laughing at how oblivious we are to the growing Islamist threat.

It is an innocent looking semi-detached property in the university city of Cambridge from where an Islamic charity, dedicated to peace and interfaith friendship, operates.

The leaders of the Islamic Academy are so moderate that they were recently invited to share a platform with Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Yet there are growing suspicions that this suburban house is where the origins of the suspected London and Glasgow bomb plots may lie, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Funny... there seems to be an sudden outbreak of amnesia at the academy.

On Friday, those attending prayers at the academy, more than half of them in their twenties and many highly educated, insisted they could not remember any of the suspects.

Of course, that's not nearly as alarming as the... at minimum... willful ignorance down at the mosque.

Sejad Mekic, the imam at the Cambridge mosque which Abdullah also attended, gave a sermon on Friday condemning all acts of terror.

However, he later said he had doubts that the incident at Glasgow airport was a terrorist attack, saying it could have been a car accident.

"I still haven't made my conclusion," he said.

When it was pointed out that containers of petrol were reportedly found in the car, he said: "Maybe they used to sell petrol."

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RELATED: Allah must've sent the "B Team"

Four men have been found guilty of plotting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport network on 21 July 2005.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted of conspiracy to murder, at Woolwich Court.

So instead of 72 virgins, these donkeyheads get to be married to the scary, sociopathic weightlifter with the most cigarettes.

Frankly, it looks good on them.

"The failure of those bombs to explode owed nothing to the intention of these defendants, rather it was simply the good fortune of the travelling public that day that they were spared."

Funny how that "will of Allah" thing works out.

Technorati Tags: Islamic Academy, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Sejad Mekic

Everybody wants to save the whales...

But nobody wants to help mom do the dishes.

-- SYDNEY -- Australia warned on Sunday of possible imminent terrorist attacks in Indonesia, including on the resort island of Bali, and told its citizens to think twice before travelling there.

And Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday fast-tracked changes to immigration screening which match intelligence data with a person's travel and financial history to determine if they might be a security threat to Australia.

While Al Gore basks in the gazillion watt limelight of his power guzzling, carbon spewing, "celeb-fest", some people attempt to deal with a very real and imminent danger.

In 2002, bombs ripped through two nightclubs on Bali, a predominately Hindu island.

Members of the Southeast Asia militant group Jemaah Islamiah were convicted of the blasts, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australian holidaymakers.

Two years later the Australian embassy in Jakarta was bombed and in October 2005, 23 people, including four Australians, died in suicide attacks on Bali restaurants.

Big Al doesn't have to worry about stuff like that, with his "Secret Service for life" security detail and his million dollar mansions.

The rest of us just have to take our chances.

Technorati Tags: Al Gore, hypocritical whore, suckass political correctness

What your OHIP premiums...

Really pay for.

-- TORONTO -- Critics say the Liberals are turning a blind eye to health-care fraud by not quickly phasing out millions of old health cards following a recommendation from the province's auditor general months ago.

The old cards don't have photo identification or expiry dates, making them a target for fraud estimated at up to $22 million annually.

Auditor General Jim McCarter called for the government to "expedite'' the phase-out of the old cards in his December report because of suspected fraud.

Premier Dalton McGuinty said the government isn't being complacent about replacing the old cards. Although he still carries an old red-and-white card in his wallet, McGuinty said it's unacceptable that phasing them out has taken this long.

Despite the fact that there are 300,000 more OHIP cards in circulation... than there are people in Ontario... Dalton McGuinty isn't moving to shut off the taxpayer tap.

Can someone explain that one to me?

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RELATED: She gets by with a little help...

From her friends.

Former Liberal MP Jane Stewart has been appointed to a $700-a-day post on a panel to examine the horse racing and breeding industry in Ontario.

Stewart served as chief negotiator in the Caledonia land dispute. Her year-long stint paid $225,370 based on a $1,300 daily rate.

Technorati Tags: Liberal patronage, OHIP, Dalton McGuinty

The most distinguishing feature...

Of China's central food-safety regulatory system is that there isn't one.

Adding to the problem is rampant corruption. Officials can be bribed, and instead of shutting down illegal operations, many regulators just impose fines so they can collect more money in the future.

Economic dynamo, my ass.

China... poisoning themselves and the world.

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RELATED: From Thomas the Tank Engine...

To high-speed railways... they just don't seem to care.

-- BEIJING -- Fake construction material is jeopardizing the safety of China's newest high-speed railway, a Chinese newspaper says.

An investigation by the newspaper found that large quantities of bogus material had been used in several hundred kilometres of a $12-billion (U.S.) high-speed railway between the cities of Wuhan and Guangzhou.

The newspaper, China Economic Times, said the scam by unscrupulous suppliers could lead to cracking in the railway's concrete supports, creating a “great danger” to the railway.

All aboard!!!

Technorati Tags: China, rampant corruption, merchant of death

These guys are to freakish...

As particle physics is to... double-entry accounting.

Liberal AG wakes up from coma

Remember last month's... "Man gets house arrest for baby beatdown..."?

Looks like Liberal Attorney General Michael Bryant finally came to his senses...

The Attorney General is appealing the sentence - what one observer called "a slap on the wrist" - of a 23-year-old Madoc who man who attacked a four-week-old girl, crushing eight of the infant's ribs breaking an arm and a leg.

This decision shouldn't have taken 30 seconds... never mind almost 30 days.

It's time to do something serious about crime.

Friends don't let friends vote Liberal.

Technorati Tags: Darren Wadforth, Ontario, Attorney General Michael Bryant

With all due respect...

To the diverse and various communities blanketing the Scarborough area.. this is the part where you're supposed to mention something to the local gendarmes.

Residents of the Scarborough neighbourhood where two men were gunned down this week are upset after learning a home on their normally quiet street was a haven for crack addicts and people armed with guns.

Upset maybe... but they certainly can't claim to be surprised.

"I knew it was only a matter of time until something bad happened there," said one man, a father who lives in the neighbourhood near Port Union and Kingston Rds.

He and others on the street claim there were "shady characters" coming and going at all hours of the day and night from the house.

It's past time to stop excusing the hyphenated-Canadian communities from exercising their civic responsibility... which, in this case, also includes giving up teenage murderer ********** ***** *****.

(note: the 16 year old suspect has surrendered, his identity is now magically protected by the young offenders act)

I don't care how much you despised the cops in the corrupt, lawless, third-world backwater hellhole you fled to come to Canada. There's a new set of rules here in your presumably adopted homeland.

And if you're not gonna play by those rules... you deserve whatever you get.

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RELATED: Reclaiming Our Space BBQ...

Gets a new poster child.

Police yesterday launched a dragnet for the suspected killer of a 27-year-old Scarborough man knifed during an all-night birthday party.

Ajiganth "Aji" Mahalingam was pronounced dead on the 17th-floor hallway at 4301 Kingston Rd., shortly after the 6:18 a.m. emergency call.

Homicide squad Det.-Sgt. Terry Wark said it appears the party began Friday night in a nearby park, but police had been called to quell the loud noise and ordered revellers to leave at around 11 p.m.

While forensic experts tried to find evidence of who committed the murder, tenants and city recreation staff set up tables for an outdoor garage sale and a playground for children in an annual "Reclaiming Our Space" barbecue.

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UPDATE: No safety in numbers

Vimalathas Mohanarajah, 28, of no fixed address, is wanted for second-degree murder in Saturday morning's slaying of Ajiganth "Aji" Mahalingam, 27, a father of a young daughter and whose partner is pregnant with their second child.

Both men, who were friends, are long-time members of the Gilder Boys gang, a Scarborough-based street gang that has a historical link to the vicious Tamil gang, the VVT, Toronto Police said.

Mohanarajah is well known to police, including his roles in a kidnapping attempt in 2000 and a 2002 attempt murder in Markham.

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LAST WORD: Building a culture of silence

Is this Toronto's future?

Indeed, at least 20 people were within sight of the gunfight among well-known members of the Sex Money Murder subset of the Bloods gang 15 months ago, but the case remains unsolved because not a single one will testify or even describe what they saw to investigators.

Technorati Tags: Scarborough, mayhem and murder, cultural dissonance

No big deal... he said he was sorry

What we really need is for Stephen Harper to stop stalling... on that "National Sharp Objects Registry."

-- BARRIE -- A Wasaga Beach man apologized in court to his best friend and his lover's husband for bludgeoning the man's wife to death with an axe.

"I would do anything to turn back time," Adam Newman, 35, said at his sentencing hearing after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of Yvonne Marsh.

Court heard Newman was angry one night when his lover Marsh told him she was going back to her husband, Chad Marsh.

After she went to bed that March 2006 night, Newman struck her at least six times in the head with the blunt end of an axe, then left her to die, bleeding and in convulsions.

I know whenever someone mentions...

Millionaire rock stars... the first thought that runs through my mind is "guardians of mother earth."

Dr. Hickey, who penned 'Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy', believes this is "just another gig that will consume enough energy to power Arkansas for the next century and leave a carbon footprint that will validate the sasquatch."

It'd be like, well... being lectured on, say... meteorology... by, I dunno... a retired hippy geneticist. How crazy would that be?

Mass movements can work, but when they involve rock stars who use private jets, such as the self-proclaimed material girl Madonna, or Brit rockers Duran Duran (who are potentially in it to carbon neutralize all the hairspray they ripped through in the eighties), how exactly are people's consciences going to be affected?

I'll be back in a bit... I've gotta go google "bio-diesel lear jet."

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RELATED: Al gets gored

Why is Mr. Gore actually organizing them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect?" Mr. Geldof asked. "Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all fucking conscious of global warming."

Mr. Daltrey and several other musicians warned that the carbon emissions produced by hosting such a massive concert series -- ranging from electrical costs to the pricetag for ferrying superstars around in private jets -- would outweigh the benefits of increased awareness.

Matt Helders, drummer for the British band Arctic Monkeys, called the Live Earth concerts patronizing, "especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for stage lighting."

Maybe while he's at it... Al could execute some refugees to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur.

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LAST WORD: Comedian Chris Rock...

"I pray that this event ends global warming the same way that Live Aid ended world hunger."

Technorati Tags: Live Earth, dead air, suckass political correctness

The future's so bright...

He's gotta wear shades blinders...

A day after Liberal MP Stephen Owen announced he would be resigning from politics, he praised his party for being in one of its "strongest positions" in years.

Yup... he's a Liberal.

I think someone just noticed...

How well this legal stratagem is currently working out for Canadian aboriginal communities.

-- LOVINGTON, New Mexico -- A new state law against fighting roosters violates a treaty that ended the Mexican-American War, a cockfighting association claims in a lawsuit.

The New Mexico Gamefowl Breeders Association and six businessmen argued that the law infringes on rights protected under the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which made New Mexico a U.S. territory.

Of course, there are always a few hiccups along the way.

At issue was Treaty 8 Indian Gordon Benoit who claimed an oral promise made to his ancestors in 1899 exempted him and all Treaty 8 Indians from having to pay any tax, for all time, anywhere in Canada.

Your CTF intervened in this case to argue what politicians would not... If someone does not pay tax it should because they are poor, not because of their racial ancestry.

While the CTF first lost the case in 2002, we won on appeal in 2003 and the Supreme Court of Canada finally dismissed the matter in 2004 winning a big victory for the equality of Canadian taxpayers.

Technorati Tags: fighting roosters, treaty rights, suckass political correctness

I hope they take away...

Everything this dickhead owns... or ever hopes to...

Canadian National is slapping another lawsuit on Mohawk protester Shawn Brant for blocking its main Toronto-to-Montreal rail line.

CN is suing for financial damages incurred when rail traffic was cancelled June 29, Hallman said.

The amount has not been specified, although CN has said that $103 million worth of freight is carried on the line during an average 24-hour period.

Of course, that's probably just the clothes on his back... but he'd better not win the lottery, or inherit any of his mummy's money.

Have a nice life Shawn

Technorati Tags: Shawn Brant, Deseronto, Canadian National Railway

The epidemic starts to spread

We can work on nipping this thing in the bud, or wait for the shithammer to actually fall... I know which way I'd rather go.

-- LONDON -- Two of the people detained for the bungled car bombings in London and Glasgow sought work in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Friday as Britain said it was "getting to the bottom" of the cell behind the attacks.

Instead of supping and shmoozing the Tamil Tigers and their ilk, we could be assisting legitimate immigrants to assimilate into our "just society.".

And a crackdown on criminals in general wouldn't be a bad idea either.

An ounce of prevention...

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RELATED: Hey Jack... negotiate this

(via SDA)

Rural Crime Wave... the sequel

Staff Sgt. Tony MacKinnon vows to "crack" this whodunnit...

"It may take all the king's horses and all the king's men, but we will solve this case."

Anyone missing a four-foot-high Humpty Dumpty figure should contact Belleville police.

The statue turned up on the front lawn of a Tracey Street home earlier this week and has yet to be claimed by its owner.

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SOLVED: Humpty goes home

According to Staff Sgt. Wayne MacKinnon, the owner of the Quinte Bowl and miniputt centre on Highway 62 called after a friend read The Intelligencer story about the peculiar find.

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LAST WORD: A Liberal is a Conservative who ...

Hasn't been mugged yet.

So let me get this straight, Ms Shewchook advocates for prisoner rights, which includes reduced sentences and living conditions similar to Hilton Hotels and now is pissed that a young thug had the audacity to mug her and is only going serve 3 years.

(via SDA)

If only they were all...

This easy to get along with.

-- ISLAMABAD -- The top-ranking cleric of a radical mosque besieged by government forces in Pakistan's capital rejected calls for an unconditional surrender Friday, saying he and his die-hard followers were ready for martyrdom.

So... that'll be death for you and you and...

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RELATED: Cleric's cross-dressing brother...

Decides to go with Plan B.

Technorati Tags: Red Mosque, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Maulana Abdul Aziz

You wanna see spin?

Check out how CTV leads off with an apparent story of heroism in Scarborough...

The 16-year-old boy suspected in a double murder in Scarborough fought off and shot dead two home intruders, police say.

You may want to hold off on approaching Livingston Davis to congratulate him on his brave deed though... instead of protecting his family, it appears that he was "providing security" at a crack house.

A source close to the investigation told The Globe the homicides were drug related and that the residence was a crack house.

Maybe Mayor Miller can appoint another social activist lawyer to investigate this shooting as well.

Nice picture of our "young offender" hero... cops got a court order, so they could get the public's help nailing this champion of the downtrodden... before he performs any more extra-judicial good deeds.

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RELATED: CBC torques it down tighter

The circumstances around the killings remain unclear. Police were called to a house on Rylander Boulevard, in the Kingston Road and Sheppard Avenue East area, just before 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Move along folks... nothing to see here.

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RELATED: I've got it!!! More parades... more festivals!!!

Bring me the head of Conrad Black!!!

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LAST WORD: Another Pride Day event

We're here, there's beer... get used to it.

-- MINTO, ONT. -- Entering its second year, the "Canadian Redneck Games" is part of a larger trend toward the heralding of a new kind of redneck.

"This takes society's stereotype of the redneck and plays it up so much that it's a farce," said Justin Stevens, programming director at 94.5 FM The Bull, a sponsor of the games.

"We live in a time that everywhere you look every person is so afraid of being politically incorrect. We're poking fun at ourselves."

Technorati Tags: Scarborough, young offender, media bias

Ever wonder what happened...

To Hannibal Lecter's retarded little brother?

-- Verviers, Belgium -- A Belgian man has been arrested after a dinner guest helping to clear up after the meal opened a freezer and found the bodies of the host's wife and stepson.

I sure hope they weren't having liver.

Love, courage, a sense of duty

You either have it... or you don't.

-- Kingston, Ontario -- Dawe came from a military family. His father, Peter, was a professor at RMC and is a retired lieutenant-colonel. Two brothers are currently serving — Lt. Col. Pete Dawe and Captain Phil Dawe. Another brother, James, also served in the Canadian Forces.

“It is important to remember that Matt was one of six soldiers who lost their lives,” the family has said.

“Our hearts go out to the other families who may not have understood the dangers of this mission to the extent that we did.”

I stand in awe of their strength and courage.

Thank you Captain Matthew Dawe.

You will be remembered.

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LAST WORD: Why it's important to do "the right thing"

Compared to six years ago, 10 times as many Afghans have access to health care.

Six times as many are in school, more than 30 per cent of them female.

Technorati Tags: Captain Matthew Dawe, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Canadian Forces

Wanna make a good impression...

On the judge? Make sure you bring your mummy to court.

-- NAPANEE -- Brant’s mother Deanna, a retired teacher, took the stand at Brant’s bail hearing Thursday, offering a $50,000 surety that Brant would not plan, incite or participate in illegal protests between now and his court date.

I guess Shawn forgot he was already in violation of his previous bail conditions... which, for most of us mere mortals, tends to mess up any pipedream of being released on bail on a new set of charges.

Still, a crack "social justice lawyer" can't let incontrovertible facts affect his strategy...

Peter Rosenthal, a Toronto-based social justice lawyer representing Brant, argued that conditions now are different from when Brant agreed on May 3 not to plan or participate in illegal protests.

It didn't take long for the Crown to point out the holes in the defense case...

Crown attorney Bob Morrison also took Brant to task when he took the stand on his own behalf, bringing up how open Brant was about breaching his May 3 bail conditions.

“You had no intention of ever complying, did you?” Morrison asked.

“Well...” Brant said. “I actually...no.”

In the absence of any convincing evidence that Brant wasn't going to go out and blockade the courthouse parking lot that very afternoon... Judge D.K. Kirkland decided to lodge Mr. Brant at the local "Crowbar Motel" for the next 7 weeks.

“It would be dangerous for him to be released at this time because he’s said ‘there’s more to come,’” Kirkland said after a nearly three-hour session.

The preliminary hearing will be Aug. 27.

Technorati Tags: Shawn Brant, lunatic left, Deseronto

What do you get...

When you mix junk science and social advocacy?

-- Vancouver, BC -- “This misrepresentation stemmed from public-health researchers who ignored basic scientific principles in favour of advocacy."

"These activists drew conclusions that were not supported by their research studies and they compounded their errors by recommending legislative solutions that fell outside the boundaries of their research."

I'm not exactly sure what to call this bloated pig... but it just ate 2 billion dollars that could have gone into expanding health care, jump-starting new business, protecting the environment... or back into your pocket.

Technorati Tags: junk science, Liberal Party of Canada, Farmer Bob Rifle Registry

Seven thousand murdered women

Every year...

Although paying and accepting a dowry has been illegal in India for more than 40 years, it still goes on.

Official estimates show that every year almost 7,000 women are killed by their spouses and in-laws because of inadequate dowry payments.

Think about that number the next time somebody starts in on what a horrible, racist country Canada is.

Wag the Dog

I'm actually a little surprised the OPP didn't send a limo for him.

-- NAPANEE, Ont. -- Shawn Brant has turned himself in to the Ontario Provincial Police a week after he led Tyendinaga Mohawk demonstrators to blockade railways and roads in eastern Ontario for the National Day of Action.

Maybe we should be cutting Shawn some slack.

He's probably been working round the clock on his "made-for-tv movie" for CTV...

Brant said that despite his promise to appear for a bail hearing tomorrow, local OPP officers tried to arrest him yesterday morning.

"The OPP had blocked the road and, I believe, were attempting to try and do an intervention," he said, adding that he maintained a full force of men.

"They were telling me that I should get in the car and go with them and there was a warrant for me," Brant said.

THE OPP "BLOCKED THE ROAD!!!"... WHY, THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS... SOMEBODY OUGHTA CALL THE... uh... never mind...

Fortunately, our calm, sensitive, articulate hero was able to straighten out the "dumb as dogshit" racist cops...

"I told them that that was not the arrangement and I thought they should wait."

He said the officers abandoned their attempt, but that he was left frustrated with the situation.

Gee Shawn, you couldn't have been all that frustrated.... you didn't threaten to kill anybody this time.

Nevertheless, I think I speak for all Ontarians... indeed all Canadians, when I say... "I feel your pain."

Technorati Tags: Shawn Brant, domestic terrorism, suckass political correctness

Iraqi clerics insist on taking...

The long way around.

-- BAGHDAD, 5 July 2007 (IRIN) -- Fishing in the River Tigris is under threat after Imams [religious leaders], Shia as well as Sunni, issued fatwas [religious rulings] banning fishing in the river.

The fatwas were issued after government officials from the Ministry of the Environment said at end of May that the Tigris was contaminated and not fit either for drinking or personal use.

See, it isn't just Al Gore who has an environmental conscience.

Of course, if these "holy men" had issued a fatwa against running around killing innocent civilians... that would have prevented the problem in the first place... because apparently... wait for it... it's dead bodies that are contaminating the water.

In Adhamyia District, one of the main places for fishing, policeman Col Ayad Jamil said many bodies had been found in the past two months on the riverbank.

According to a Ministry of Environment survey of the river, various pollutants and bacteria were found in samples taken.

"So many bodies have been dumped in the river in recent months."

Another triumph for Iraq's "Religion of Peace."

Technorati Tags: fatwa, River Tigris, Religion of Peace

Domestic terror arms cache...

Or as it's called in Scarborough... Thursday...

Guns, drugs and even bombs were seized by police from a self-storage unit in north Scarborough yesterday after burglars stumbled on the weapons cache during a break and enter.

The bomb squad was called after police discovered the arsenal, which reportedly included dynamite.

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RELATED: How about a new slogan?

Toronto went with "As gay as it gets".

I'm thinkin'...

"You'll get a bang out of Scarborough"

Call it Pokey-net

The idea behind the technology is to create a network of constantly moving devices that record and store information, transmit data from one device to another and then relay all the saved information to a central location while running on self-charging batteries.

Missile defence, high finance or secret diplomatic communications?

Well... not exactly.

You mean cowardly, backstabbing...

Fundamentalist sociopaths, don't you?

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb has killed six Canadian soldiers along with their Afghan interpreter, as the Taliban continue to launch "bold attacks" in an area the military considers largely pacified.

Bold attacks, huh? You mean the booby traps that mostly kill and maim Afghan civilians and small children, right?

You wanna know the truth about these guys...

They're getting pretty good at sneak attacks that kill and dismember innocent bystanders, but every time these death-donkeys go head to head against actual soldiers... they get their asses handed to them.

Despite what the Globe and Taliban Jack are preaching.

What the media and bin-Layton rarely mention...

This year, 19 Canadian soldiers have been killed by IEDs, and only one has died under direct fire from insurgents.

There's your "BOLD ATTACKS", you snivelling socialist.

Technorati Tags: leftbot media bias, Taliban Jack, religion of peace

Dishonouring the dead

It's what Taliban Jack Layton does best...

Jack Layton didn’t waste any time in handing the Taliban a propaganda victory yesterday.

No sooner did news reach Canadians shores about the death of six of our soldiers than the NDP leader again urged an end to Canadian military operations in Afghanistan.

Try to imagine what would happen to this great country if Commie Jack ever got his slimy hands on the levers of power.

Mr. Layton symbolizes why the West may just lose the battle against militant Islam: As soon as our enemies draw blood, he reflexively raises the white flag higher, offering to withdraw from whatever part of the world the jihadis happen to be targeting.

Kay finishes off...

The battle for Afghanistan is not an isolated struggle that the West can take or leave — as Mr. Layton would have Canadians believe. Rather it is part of a critical fight that will determine whether a great swathe of Central Asia is to be ruled by men of the 21 Century — or the 7th.

I have one last thought for the lunatic left...

Go spit on someone else's grave.

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UPDATE: Layton even pisses off the pinkos

I know that journalists seek you out every time a Canadian is killed in Afghanistan and why not?

You give good clip.

But the constant sight of you scoring cheap political points with the deaths of our military personal?

It wears sir.

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RELATED: Todays's NDP press conference?

Hey Jack... you haven't surrendered to these guys yet, have you?

The three-year-old daughter of an expatriate worker said to be British has been kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police have said.

The girl is the third child to be kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria in the last couple of weeks.

The main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) said it had nothing to do with the attack.

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LAST WORD: Diogenes Borealis has a similar message...

For gay activists and feminists...

"Wake up and smell the cordite."

Technorati Tags: Taliban Jack Layton, dishonourable coward, Afghanistan

Not all Taliban prepared for...

A glorious martyrs death.

-- ISLAMABAD -- The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a bloody stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burka, officials said.

Television showed Mr. Aziz after his capture with the top of his burka pulled off. A balding heavy-set man with a grey bread, police bundled him into a car. Mr. Aziz's wife, Umm-e-Hassan, was also caught while trying to slip away.

Don't you worry Aziz... help is on the way.

Technorati Tags: Taliban Jack Layton, dishonourable coward, Afghanistan

How about electing this guy...

To Parliament.

Why is Tarek Fatah virtually the only Muslim spokesman in Canada, to come out and actually say this...

"Muslim organizations must come out and state clearly that the only laws that matter in Canada are the laws of this country, not medieval Shariah laws of the ninth century."

"If they do not reject the doctrine of jihad as an option for Muslims, they should be considered part of the problem, not the solution."

(via The Broom)

Technorati Tags: Tarek Fatah, jihad, domestic terrorism

Business as usual...

In David Miller's multi-culti, metrosexual mecca...

Two men died from gunshot wounds in a bizarre tragedy on a Scarborough street Wednesday morning.

One victim, believed to be in his mid-20s, reportedly stumbled into a house on Rylander Blvd. shortly after 3 a.m., bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest. It's not clear whether the man lived in the home or went inside seeking help.

Another man was found down the street, in the Meadowvale Rd.-Sheppard Ave. area just south of the Toronto Zoo, in a truck which had crashed into a tree. Early reports indicated he suffered multiple bullet wounds.

Quick, somebody call the "Fairness Monitor".

Technorati Tags: murder, Toronto: As homicidal as it gets, Mayor David Miller

All bark, no bill

Now it's true this bill wouldn't save lives, or put any money back in taxpayers pockets, but if parliamentarians can't even stop people from harassing you while you're eating dinner, what good are they?

Ottawa has exempted a series of telephone-reliant organizations from the ban and left open a loophole that many businesses can exploit.

To no one's surprise, they've also exempted themselves from the legislation.

Political parties, registered charities, pollsters and newspapers will still be able to make unsolicited calls to Canadians.

“I ended up dubbing this the do-not-hesitate-to-call list because once you've excluded all these groups, you start wondering who's left,” University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist said.

And they wonder why we're so cynical.

Here at "the halls" we don't even answer the phone anymore without letting the answering machine screen our calls.

I see telemarketing as an invasion of privacy.

Try calling up all your neighbours every day to invite them to your upcoming garage sale... and see how long it takes for the cops to show up and advise you to stop harassing people, or face arrest.

I'm tired of cowardly, hypocritical politicians.

Technorati Tags: do-not-call registry, spineless politicians, telemarketing

Attorney General Michael Bryant...

Should stick to banning dogs and Christmas trees... cause he sure hasn't done anything for the court system...

Members of Ontario's opposition parties were outraged by Tuesday's developments, saying taxpayers dollars are being wasted by the government's "disorganized justice."

"We're now at risk of having charges dropped and mark my words, this failure on the part of the attorney general to properly manage this process is going to result in plea bargains, reduced charges and charges being dropped and criminals being let out onto the street," said New Democrat justice critic Peter Kormos.

Progressive Conservative justice critic Christine Elliott said the ruling is a "real embarrassment" for the province.

"I would say it's totally inept from beginning to end in terms of the attorney general's handling of this. I mean this is something that had gone on for 11 months," she said.

A taxpayer funded gift for the Driftwood Crips... courtesy of the Ontario Liberal Party.

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I believe the expression is...

Hell in a handbasket...

A paramilitary trooper and up to eight students were killed when gunfire erupted during clashes at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad.

A cleric inside Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, said last night that eight students had been killed, and a loudspeaker in the compound broadcast a message calling for suicide attacks.

Yessir... that's some Religion of Peace.

Whaddaya figure they're gonna do for an encore... disembowel somebody?

Nobody can say Musharaff isn't cutting them some slack.

Paramilitary forces fired teargas to disperse hundreds of students outside the mosque, and came under fire from automatic weapons.

In the end, this one's gonna come to some serious martrydom.

Oh yeah... don't wanna be a spoiler here, but the guys with the tanks usually win.

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UPDATE: Down to the short strokes

On a positive note, the jihadis let some kids go

-- ISLAMABAD -- About 700 followers of a radical mosque surrendered Wednesday as government troops with armoured personnel carriers tightened their stranglehold on the building a day after clashes killed at least 16 people, officials said.

In the past six months, the clerics have challenged the government by sending students from the mosque to kidnap alleged prostitutes and police in an anti-vice campaign.

Everybody else is going on a little trip.

One of those who decided to give up, 15-year-old Maryam Qayyeum, said many were not leaving the seminary. "They are happy. They only want martyrdom. They don't want to go home," she said.

Ms. Qayyeum said mosque leaders were not trying to stop students from giving up. But her mother, who had come to take her home said, "They are making speeches. They want to incite them."

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The next time the media...

Try to wind you up about the 60 Canadian casualties over the last 6 years in Afghanistan, remember this...

-- ORILLIA, Ont. (CP) -- Six people died on roads patrolled by Ontario Provincial Police over the Canada Day weekend.

There have been 225 traffic deaths on Ontario roads so far in 2007, up from 186 at the same time last year despite the fact provincial police have issued almost 22,000 more speeding tickets this year than last.

So, to recap... deaths in Afghanistan average out at 10 per year.

People who die in car accidents, on Ontario roads alone... we're on track to hit 500 in 2007.

Think about it.

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Can somebody please tell me...

Why the media and the lunatic left are going apeshit over the Scooter Libby pardon... while "Slick Willy" gets a free ride?

Bill Clinton granted 395 pardons during his presidency, comparable in number to other recent presidents.

However, of that total 140 were issued on his final day in office. His final day pardon of financier Marc Rich, who had fled the country on tax evasion charges, immediately erupted in controversy.

There were charges that emissaries of Rich had used personal influence and campaign contributions to win the pardon.

What a bunch of happy hypocritical horseshit.

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UPDATE: Hillary Clinton starts digging

Her husband's pardons, issued in the closing hours of his presidency, were simply routine exercise in the use of the pardon power, and none were aimed at protecting the Clinton presidency or legacy, she said.

So, those "campaign contributions" were totally coincidental, right?

She's got bigger balls than Bill.

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THE SCOOP: Show me the money!!!

Marc Rich's socialite ex-wife has donated an estimated $1 million to Democratic causes, including $70,000 to Hillary Clinton's successful Senate campaign and $450,000 to the Clinton presidential library fund.

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And they wonder why...

Infant mortality is exponentially higher in the aboriginal population...

-- SECHELT, B.C. -- Members of the Sechelt First Nation, on the Sunshine Coast north of Vancouver, have held an emergency meeting following an ugly incident with RCMP.

Several members of the band, including a seven-month-old baby, were pepper-sprayed Monday as RCMP officers faced what they say was an unruly crowd.

I love how the media automatically tries to paint this as police brutality... completely ignoring the legal and safety issues. The driver refused to stop for a police car, then he ran a roadblock... which suggests, at minimum, some toxicological or intellectual impairment.

Members of the First Nation say a local soccer coach was using his pickup truck to drive several team members through the reserve to celebrate a tournament victory when police intervened.

Police said that 10 people were crowded into the back of the truck and that the driver refused orders to stop.

One question here.

Was the baby with one of the ten people standing up in the back of the truck... or did mom, unlike any sane parent... just wade into the melee looking to beat on a cop?

Yup... mom wanted to fight.

"The child's mother was the spouse of the person we were trying to arrest," Linteau said. "She also became very combative and was trying to push at the officers and trying to interfere. It's unfortunate that she would bring a baby into a situation like that."

That's one word. It's also crazy and a criminal offense.

Somebody please call Childrens Aid.

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UPDATE: Well, I guess he could've shot somebody

Instead of using pepper spray.

The RCMP today defended a police officer's decision to use pepper spray Monday to control a "confrontational" crowd in Sechelt that was celebrating a Vancouver soccer tournament victory by Sechelt band soccer teams.

There's just no keeping these folks happy.

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RELATED: It takes a village...

Full of idiots to let this happen again and again.

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"Sheik Google"

Unlike their illiterate, raggedy-ass compatriots in the Khandahar trenches...

Their indoctrination and expertise comes from "Sheik Google" and the world wide web.

"To a large extent, the internet has replaced actual training camps as a source of instruction and inspiration for militant Muslims," says the AFP analysis.

Everything they need can be found on the hundreds of extremist websites: how to make bombs, avoid surveillance, achieve physical fitness and justify violence on religious grounds.

What's another $62,500?

Of course, that's only one of the dream jobs in David Miller's Toronto-stan...

There are a lot of things Toronto does not have but we now have a "Fairness Monitor."

Wonder who got that job? Do they have a degree in fairness?

Should we allot more dollars to make sure the fairness monitor's hiring was a fair process?

In light of current events...

I have to ask,,, do Muslim physicians take the Hippocratic Oath?

-- BBC -- Eight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.

Seven are believed to be doctors or medical students, while one formerly worked as a laboratory technician.

In one positive sign from the Muslim community, there is some disavowal regarding this latest terror campaign.

Speaking at a Muslim Council of Britain press conference, Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari said those who sought to kill or maim innocent people were "enemies of all of Muslims and non-Muslims".

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UPDATE: Voice of reason

-- LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) -- Iraqi doctors working in Britain expressed anger on Tuesday that one of their number could be involved in the London and Glasgow bomb plots, saying they feared it could harm their reputation.

"A lot of people will just quickly point the finger at Middle Eastern doctors now, I know it and I guess to an extent I can't blame them," said Mudher al-Khairallah an Iraqi-British internist at Ninewells hospital in Dundee, Scotland.

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RELATED: It ain't over, til it's over

Heathrow Airport's Terminal 4 has been evacuated after suspect baggage sparked a security alert.

Passengers were advised to leave the building because of a "suspect bag", airport operator BAA said.

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Maybe that night, it just wasn't...

The will of Allah...

Only a technical fault stopped hundreds being injured and possibly dying. The bombs were rigged to go off when the mobile phones – the detonators – were called.

The bombers called the Tiger Tiger car twice and the other car four times but the bombs failed to detonate. Police were able to use information from the phones to trace the suspects.

D'ya figure you get any "virgin points" for a good try?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Al-Qaida is planning a large-scale terror attack on a US target this summer, a senior CIA official told ABC News.

"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official said.

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RELATED: Canada ramps up

The nightmarish scenario — detonation of a device containing a modest amount of americium-241, a silvery plutonium byproduct — is among several sobering projections quietly mapped out by federal officials to prepare for a terrorist attack in urban Canada.

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The Fog of War

No comfort here... but it's always better to know, than not to know.

-- MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Canadian Pte. Robert Costall and an American soldier were shot from behind by bursts from a machine-gun fired from a compound manned by U.S. special forces last year in Afghanistan during an insurgent attack, a U.S. army report says.

One account in the report says the gunner shot at two friendly positions in quick succession during the fierce battle early on March 29, 2006.

They will be remembered.

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Life of Shawn

Yessir... it's another action-packed week down in Deseronto... good thing nobody has a dirty, filthy J-O-B to interfere with all this questing after social justice...

And thank goodness for Shawn Brant...

Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Attendee: Brought peace?

Reg: Oh, peace - shut up! There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.

Dissenter: Uh, well, one.

Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid.

By the way... who is paying Shawn Brant's bills?

Hey... I just worry about his welfare.

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The six stages of e-mail

Email is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not.

What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it?

I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an Instant Message from someone I almost know.

Here's how overtaxed we are

Pity those poor deputy-ministers... because we all know... if you're a middle class working stiff with a mortgage and a couple of kids, making 40 thousand bucks a year... your life is just a bed of roses.

-- THUNDER BAY, ONT. -- The number of high-ranking federal civil servants receiving a special bonus when they retire from the "stresses" of running their government departments has more than tripled in the last decade.

The bonus puts an average of more than $23,000 a year into the pockets of those who qualify.

If $23,000 is the bonus, what obscene amount of money do these people get in salary and perks?

And the sheeple get sheared yet again.

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Second doctor arrested...

I guess taking lives is more exciting than saving them...

Police said one man arrested in Glasgow is Bilal Abdulla.

According to the British General Medical Council's register, a man named Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla was registered in 2004 and trained in Baghdad.

Staff at Royal Alexandra Hospital said one suspect was a doctor of Middle Eastern or Iraqi origin who worked there.

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UPDATE: Aussies bag third terror doc

A 27-YEAR-old Gold Coast doctor was arrested at Brisbane Airport last night in connection with Britain's foiled car bomb terror plot, authorities have confirmed.

The doctor, a registrar at Gold Coast Hospital, is the eighth person held over the foiled terror plot to detonate car bombs in London and the attack using a flaming 4WD on Glasgow Airport.

Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock said it was believed the man was seeking to leave Australia when he was arrested at the Brisbane International Airport, he did not have a return ticket.

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RELATED: Is this the next wave?

-- LONDON -— In Britain, where terrorist plots have become alarmingly familiar, this weekend's dramatic string of attempted car bombings demonstrated a new and disconcerting element: An enthusiastic, and often incompetent, amateurism.

But there is a fear that members of this gang could be so-called "clean skins," people who developed an affinity with al-Qaeda through Internet connections or personal beliefs, without making any actual contact.

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LAST WORD: So move to Iraq already

Younes Tsouli, 23, of west London, and Waseem Mughal, 24, of Chatham, Kent, changed their pleas two months into their trial at Woolwich Crown Court.

The pair had links to al-Qaeda in Iraq and spent a year encouraging people to follow the ideology of Osama Bin Laden.

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The yellow brick road...

Of warm, fuzzy liberalism.

Remember after 9/11, when all the leftbots insisted that arthritic 75 year old nuns with glaucoma... be treated exactly the same as 25 year old middle-eastern males in the departure lines at airports?

Here's the logical extension of that idea.

-- NASHVILLE, July 1 (AP) -- Tennesseeans on Sunday faced a new requirement to show identification before buying beer in stores, no matter how old they appear to be.

Tennessee is the first state to make universal carding mandatory, the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association said. The law does not apply to beer sales in bars and restaurants, and it does not cover wine and liquor.

“It’s the stupidest law I ever heard of,” said Comer Wilson, 66. “You can see I’m over 21.”

Let's stop this nonsense now.

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RELATED: You hurt my feelings!!!

Did Winston Churchill bellow, "We -- and by we I don't mean all of us, of course; the infirm through no fault of their own are naturally exempt -- will fight on the beaches..."?

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Tossing political correctness...

Out the window... unlike some