If you build it...

They will come.

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RELATED: Polar Bear Extinction - the real story

The Right Stuff

The Dutch government extends Afghanistan commitment until 2010.

-- THE HAGUE -- The Netherlands is extending its military mission in the Afghan province of Uruzgan to August 2010. After that, the mission will be wound down, with the last man to leave by 1 December 2010.

Much like Steffi and Taliban Jack, the Dutch opposition has decided to have it's own little tea party.

The Socialist Party (SP), leftwing Greens (GroenLinks) and centre-left (D66) will likely be the only parties to vote against an extension. They are holding separate hearings on 6 December with opponents of the military presence in Afghanistan.

Christian democratic (CDA) MP Karien van Gennip termed the alternative hearings "unfortunate." Conservative (VVD) MP Hans van Baalen found them "childish."

Do as I say... not as I do

Adventures in terraforming with the former head of the Y2Kyoto Party.

-- MONTREAL -- Paul Martin's attempt to turn his countryside retreat into a six-hole golf course has landed the former prime minister in an environmental sand trap.

Mr. Martin, who envisions teeing off with friends on his estate's own fairways, has run afoul of municipal authorities in the town of Lac Brome for improperly cutting down trees on his property.

Say it isn't so... I remember all the Fiberal "torque and spin" about what a regular guy ol' Paul was... you know... how he didn't even drive a flashy new car.

The former PM, who once called safeguarding the environment "a fundamental value," also had the work done before obtaining the blessing of Quebec's farmland protection authorities.

And Quebec's agricultural protection agency is chilly to the project. In a preliminary opinion in September, commissioners turned down the change in designation because they fear it could set a precedent.

The commissioners cited concerns about the impact on forests.

Maybe he could rename his dog... "Seedling"?

We interrupt today's Taser hysteria...

For a word from Ontario's deputy chief coroner...

"I am absolutely convinced tasers will save lives instead of taking lives. And I hope some day, if I am in the position, please taser me before you shoot me."

Now back to our regularly scheduled, overwhelmingly leftwing media feeding frenzy...

Repeat after me: Schreiber. Taser. Taser. Schreiber.

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RELATED: Enough with the Taser horseshit

Bring me a real tragedy.

Across India, as many as 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted over the past 20 years, according to a study published in the British medical journal, the Lancet, last year.

"We have found female fetuses by the sackful, floating down drains."

Pretty much a moot point

Sorry, Doc... there's just no putting the tech genie back in the bottle...

Donald L. Shifrin, a pediatrician based in Seattle and the spokesman for the academy, said tech toys cannot replace imaginative play, where children create rich narratives and interact with peers or parents.

“Are we creating media use as a default for play?” Dr. Shifrin asked. “When kids want to play, will they ask, ‘Where’s the screen?’”

My 11 year old son has been using computers since grade one. It's simply a part of his life. His latest big thing is a game called "Wildlife Zoo" and you'd best not try to get in between him and his growing colony of animal charges.

You have to wonder, though... how will a generation of tech-savvy kids differ from their parents.

Eric Jorgensen, a programmer at Microsoft, has invented PixelWhimsy, a computer program that allows toddlers to sit at a regular computer and bang away on the keys to create sounds and colors and shapes, but without damaging the computer.

Asmin Jalis, who also works at Microsoft and whose 2-year-old boy, Ibrahim, has been using PixelWhimsy, said his son liked it better than his toy computer. “We have a toy laptop for him, and he knows it’s a fake,” he said.

Big wheels keep on turnin'.

Branding gone bad

Yet another demonstration of the "Law of Unintended Consequences"...

Seriously, just look at this thing -- It looks like it should have a Honda Civic in one hand and a dozen screaming children in the other.

Every time I look at that picture, this is what I see -- He likes the heads best because they're crunchy.

Just a minute...

Let me check my notes...

In 1993, Bear Head Industries Ltd., a Schreiber company, made a $10,000 donation to which political party?

Sarkozy says "NO" to thugocracy

"I reject any form of other-worldly naivety that wants to see a victim of society in anyone who breaks the law, a social problem in any riot."

"The response to the riots isn't yet more money on the backs of the taxpayers."

"The response to the riots is to arrest the rioters."

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RELATED: Here's a thought...

"Maybe the response to the murders isn't to build more basketball courts. The response to the riots is to arrest the murderers."

The seventh floor of a troubled highrise in Scarborough's northeast end remained under guard yesterday as Toronto Police announced an arrest in the city's latest murder, the fifth such killing in six days.

However, homicide investigators have yet to release any details of the slaying -- Toronto's 79th of the year.

Kwabena Sarfo Duah, 19, surrendered to detectives with his lawyer yesterday, police said. He's charged with second-degree murder in the death of Shaun Williams, 27.

SCHREIBER SHOCKER

Steffi and the Fiberals, to absolutely no one's surprise, get played... yet again.

Karlheinz Schreiber says he will not testify before a parliamentary committee until after his extradition matter is dealt with.

In an opening statement before the Commons ethics committee, Mr. Schreiber said he is “unwilling at this time to testify” until he knows how long the stay on his extradition will be.

Yessirree, folks... it's yet another gripping episode of "Wag the Dog... Dion."

Not that it was a total waste of time... ol' Karl did get to share some heart-rending stories of jailhouse injustice...

"Yesterday I was taken from Toronto West Detention Centre in a van by two officers from the Ottawa Detention Centre. I was handcuffed, I was in leg irons. I wore an orange jump suit."

Maybe Steffi can rename his dog... "Gullible."

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UPDATE: C'mon Karl... pretty please?

Herr Schreiber coughs up a last-minute furball... to try to keep the game going.

Karlheinz Schreiber says his financial agreement with former prime minister Brian Mulroney was supposed to be worth $500,000, but he tried to dodge questions on what the money was for.

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LAST WORD: Hey Karl... it could be worse

-- KHARTOUM -- A British teacher in Sudan was convicted Thursday of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammed, and she was sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation to Britain, one of her lawyers said.

Gillian Gibbons could have received 40 lashes and six months in prison in the case.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Stephane Dion, Airbust

Saudi Arabia my ass

The U.S. Energy Department said Thursday it was prepared to make oil supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve available to refineries to help offset the disruption in Canadian oil imports caused by an explosion and fire at a vital Enbridge Inc. pipeline in Minnesota.

Canada is the biggest supplier of foreign crude to the United States, accounting for almost one-fifth of its over 10 million bpd of imports, government data show.

Nearly all of that is delivered via the Enbridge system.

We've all heard him moaning...

About having trouble "setting priorities"... so you should ask yourself... while Steffi and the mainstream media lose their minds over 5 taser deaths in a year... what's getting lost in all that noise?

Three years ago a major national study found prescription errors, surgical complications, infections and other medical mistakes were killing as many as 24,000 Canadians annually.

Lead the country?

I wouldn't let Stephane Dion wash my car.

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RELATED: Time for a little subtext

-- VANCOUVER -- Canadian police, eager to sketch a portrait of Robert Dziekanski before his fatal confrontation with taser-equipped officers at Vancouver airport last month, will head to Poland to investigate his last "hours and days."

Asked about topics of interest, Cpl. Carr cited, "the history of the individual, of Mr. Dziekanski, his medical history and any other information that may be important to the various investigations."

Let's get all the cards on the table.

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LAST WORD: Welcome... one more time... readers of Canadian Cecilia

Today... CC tastefully uses the tragic accidental deaths of a high school basketball team... to further his profane, obscure agenda.

Of course... it's what he does best.

Remember Canadian Cecilia's message to Wanda Watkins, whose son Lane was killed in Afghanistan?

"With all due respect, Wanda, fuck you and your grief. It's not the job of the rest of Canada to continue to let its soldiers die just so you can sleep better at night."

And, as you know... CC has always been a real lady's man.

Technorati Tags: Canadian Adverse Events Study Team., Dr. Ross Baker, Canadian Institute for Health Information

Ok, Karl... let's see what you've got

Let the games begin...

“Canadian justice,” Mr. Schreiber called out, holding his shackled hands into the air, as police officers escorted him from an unmarked police car.

Well... we're off to a promising start.

And what of the man who would be Court Jester?

Mr. Schreiber could be found in contempt of Parliament if he refuses to speak at the committee. However, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion said that the penalty for contempt - going to jail - will not likely affect Mr. Schreiber's testimony.

"He is already in prison, we can't worsen his situation. But we still ask for his full co-operation," Mr. Dion said.

Uh, Stef... you can try to reason with a cat... for all the good that will do.

Let's just see... "who's zoomin' who."

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UPDATE: Call it "CBC Syndrome"

"The mere fact that Schreiber sent Harper a letter has the news people going wild... But Thibault has 2 meetings with the guy, and one has to read it on a Blog."

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RELATED: Speaking of stupidass political theatrics

For the first time in Canadian history, the PM was grilled in Chinese in the House of Commons during the daily question period yesterday.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Brian Mulroney, Airbust

Help me out here, Doc

Are you really saying Stephen Harper is responsible for the recent explosive rise in HIV-AIDS infections?

-- CP -- Dr. Julio Montaner, president-elect of the International AIDS Society and director of the B.C. Centre of Excellence for HIV/AIDS... suggested the problem persists because of a failing of political leadership — a shortcoming he believes is also responsible for a lack of effective HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns.

Apparently, personal responsibility isn't a very big part of the equation anymore.

"The problem is that the safer-sex message wears out," he said from Vancouver.

"Coca-Cola sells because every six months they reinvent themselves," Montaner noted. "What about our safer sex campaigns? Hello! First, they are not there. Second, they are boring."

Silly me.

I thought the problem was having unprotected, promiscuous sex with people who already had the disease... but apparently all we really need to beat this thing... are amusing 60 second television jingles delivered by exquisitely dressed spokes-models.

I'm thinkin' we need a second opinion.

Technorati Tags: Dr. Julio Montaner, HIV/AIDS, suckass political correctness

Yammer all you want...

About the "futility" of mandatory minimum sentences... but the fact is... the longer these sociopaths are locked away... the less time they have, to put a bullet in somebody's brain.

"In 2006 alone, more than 70% of all people charged with murder were on some sort of judicial release."

"There's a gun culture in which young people have to prove themselves and gang members feel they have to prove themselves by shooting somebody," Toronto Police homicide Det. Ian Briggs said.

"It's hard to fight that culture."

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RELATED: Court of sober, second thought

I'm actually on the side of Gomery in this argument. We don't need mandatory minimum sentences.

We simply need to relocate every halfway house in the country to inside the security gated confines of luxury housing developments and high-end apartment buildings - and let the problem of lax sentences solve itself.

Technorati Tags: mandatory minimum sentences, recidivism, Gomery

No guts... no glory

Sometimes you just gotta have faith... and a strong stomach...

"It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner," said Dana Shires, one of the researchers. "I guzzled it and I vomited," Cade said.

Eventually, however, the use of the sports beverage spread to the Gators, who enjoyed a winning record and were known as a "second-half team" by outlasting opponents.

The 'Punch Yourself in the Face'...

School of Politics...

Gotta love the irony here... as the Fiberals and Dippers are forced to go with Plan B...

Mr. Walsh said there are two ways that Mr. Schreiber can be in Ottawa on Thursday. The first possibility is to get the co-operation of Mr. Nicholson, who can amend the “surrender order” that was signed in 2004 by former justice minister Irwin Cotler.

Secondly, Mr. Walsh said the House can use its subpoena-like powers and obtain a House order (sometimes called a Speaker's warrant) to get Mr. Schreiber out of the Toronto West Detention Centre.

If only the former Liberal Justice Minister hadn't been so anxious to extradite ol' Karl back to Germany. Or was it the eight wasted days... the Opposition parties have pissed away on cheap, hysterical "political theatre."

I'm lovin' it.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

A sure fire way of keeping Schrieber in Canada is to charge him with offering a bribe. Then a full fledged trial will happen and all those involved with him will be exposed...

But that won't happen... will it.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Irwin Cotler, fiberal smoke and mirrors

A little counter-sniper fire...

Wouldn't be amiss here either.

VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France — Police will step up security in north Paris suburbs to prevent a third night of unrest, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Tuesday, promising a firm line against rioters who attack police.

"Those who fire on the police and who beat a police officer nearly to death, are criminals and must be treated like criminals," said Mr. Fillon.

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UPDATE: As long as there's no tasers, huh?

Patrick Ribeiro, the head of Synergie union, put the number of police casualties higher than the official figures. He said 77 officers were injured last night and that most rioters are under 18.

"It's much more violent than in 2005," Ribeiro said in a telephone interview. "They've shot at us with handguns and hunting rifles.

If our officers have to protect their lives, they may have to shoot and that's not what we want."

Technorati Tags: Villiers-le-Bel, Paris riots, CAR-B-Q season

Despite all the politically correct...

Hippie rhetoric... dumbing down... will never, ever be the right answer...

Initially city officials considered basing the whole grade on a peer-group comparison. But Kati Haycock, director of the Education Trust, a Washington research group, warned them off, saying that would send the message that there were different standards for children of different backgrounds.

“We argued as strongly as we could that that’s a terrible idea,” Ms. Haycock said. “In the real world, once kids grow up, they are not just compared to kids that just graduated from the barrio.”

An interesting article, especially when considered in light of the Toronto District Board's recent initiative to explore "race based" schooling.

There are, however, still a few bugs in the system.

The decision to reward schools for advancing the neediest students produced some counterintuitive results. South Bronx Academy for Applied Media, listed by the state as one of its most violent schools, is rated by the city as an A.

It fared well on the report card because while just 17 percent of its students met grade level standards on the state reading test, more than 63 percent had improved from last year.

An old song comes to mind, "When will they ever learn..."

And while we're on...

Live and don't learn...

Not often does a politician get to fix a mistake. Stephane Dion has been given a singularly unique opportunity. Seven months ago, Dion was uncomfortable with May's comments, and said that he thought the comment should have been withdrawn.

C'mon, Steffi... how often does someone float a big, lumbering softball like this, right across the plate...

Now Stephane Dion can state that he is shocked by Elizabeth May's comments, and demand that the comment be withdrawn.

Yes, Stephane Dion is a very lucky politician. Such a rare opportunity. The question is whether he will take advantage of this opportunity.

Because if he doesn't, then he's guilty of failing the same key leadership test not once, but twice.

Technorati Tags: Elizabeth May, Stephane Dion, Godwin's Law

A Tale of Two Cities

"Today, Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie offered her condolences to the young woman’s relatives and friends. The latter have not gone on a rampage."

"They have not torched train carriages nor have they arsoned train stations."

"The French authorities do not fear they will turn to violence in the coming nights, either. One wonders why."

"Is there no 'anger that needs to be expressed'?"

Technorati Tags: Villiers-le-Bel, Paris riots, CAR-B-Q season

Here's why...

We need to start cracking down on crime in Canada...

Richard Steele, who served jail time after cops tapped his phone in the Jane Creba murder probe, was arrested early yesterday in Hamilton after police allegedly found a gun in the car he was travelling in.

Lawyer Selwyn Pieters last night confirmed his client Steele, 20, is in custody and facing numerous gun-related charges.

In 2006, Steele was charged with unrelated drugs and gun charges from evidence based largely on the phone taps. He served four months of a six-month sentence after pleading guilty in February 2007.

Sure... it's not like he was involved in a murder, huh?

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RELATED: And before the mindless screaming starts...

"It's not about race, you dopes... it's about culture."

Technorati Tags: Jane Creba, Richard Steele, tough on crime bill

At least they didn't try to say...

That Rusty and Jerome were transsexuals...

Monday, in an internal memo, the CBC communications group invited staff to “say goodbye to Rusty and Jerome in style,” at a midafternoon ceremony at the Graham Spry Theatre, where milk and cookies were served while classic episodes of Friendly Giant ran on a continuous loop.

“While you may have bid farewell to Friendly when you left your childhood behind, this afternoon, you'll have an opportunity to say goodbye to the real Rusty and Jerome,” the memo said.

“After a lengthy stay with us here in the Broadcasting Centre, these iconic creations and other Friendly artifacts, which have been on loan to the CBC museum for many years, will be going home – at the request of the family of the man who made them famous,” the memo said.

None of Mr. Homme's family attended.

In other CBC news, Casey and Finnegan have been spotted visiting a prominent Bay St. law firm.

Technorati Tags: Rusty and Jerome, Friendly Giant, CBC

Number 1... with a bullet

Following a weekend of bloodshed, with four, possibly five homicides in just three days, Toronto's murder count is nearly on par with that of the entire Year of the Gun.

The most recent blood was shed from 18-year-old Delane Daley, shot dead just before 8 p.m. yesterday on Driftwood Ave. near Jane and Finch.

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UPDATE: Live and don't learn

It was just three months ago that Delane Daley was riddled with gunfire and somehow managed to survive.

But the 18-year-old's refusal to stay away from the Jane and Finch neighbourhood where he grew up, despite the urgings of his mother and others who cared about him, finally caught up with him Sunday night with a bullet to the head.

He said it was too soon to know if the murder of the young man, known as "Spooks" or "Spooky" to his friends, was connected to the attempt on his life in August.

Technorati Tags: Delane Daley, Spooks, Jane and Finch

Sammy, long time bro... wassup?

“Soon, if God allows, the lion sheik Osama bin Laden, may God protect him, will give a message to the European nations.”

I'm feeling a little left out.

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RELATED: Another night of rioting

Sammy... France says they're kinda busy... could you maybe call back next week?

A crowd of youths set police barricades on fire and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at officers, who retaliated with tear gas and rubber bullets.

In Villiers-le-Bel and surrounding areas, youths set fire to 36 vehicles, the area's prefecture said.

It looks as though these "poor youth" were awfully well prepared...

Youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters.

A police union official said 38 officers were wounded, including three seriously — one of whom had a shoulder wound after a shot from a hunting rifle pierced his bullet-proof vest. One reporter also was injured.

Technorati Tags: Osama bin Laden, Paris riots, CAR-B-Q season

I post about a McGuinty Cabinet Minister

And guess who comes sniffin' round my door?

Hey Dalton... you wanna call off the dogs?

Actually, Big D, on second thought... I've seen your minions in action... no worries, we're cool.

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RELATED: You wanna see chutzpah?

Take a look at the brazen torque on the Liberal press release...

"New Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gains Deeper Understanding of Community"

I almost peed myself.

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LAST WORD: In that same bold spirit...

China also issues a press release...

"China issues glowing report on Three Gorges dam, denies geological problems"

Birds of a feather.

Technorati Tags: Michael Bryant, Caledonia, fiberal smoke and mirrors

No sense, no pain

Fresh off his disastrous "No gun, No Funeral" debacle... newly demoted ex-Attorney General Michael "Sisyphus" Bryant has now been condemned by the Emperor McSlippery, to ceaselessly roll the insurmountable rock of aboriginal demands to the top of the Caledonian mountain.

And you don't have to be a student of the classics to know that, so far... this particular boulder just keeps on rolling back down the consultant-littered hill.

"I want to hear from people," the minister told The Spectator in an exclusive interview. " I certainly don't think that the local problems are going to be solved from Queen's Park."

Yeah, no kidding, huh Mikey? I think your predecessor David Ramsay, over the last couple of years, has proved that thesis pretty thoroughly.

So what do the citizens of Caledonia have to say?

Nolda Hoekert, 52, and her son J.J., 24, were surprised when the minister joined them at their table in the Tim Hortons.

They told him the government has to resolve the dispute, and they also want him to do something about "two-tier justice" -- the belief natives and non-natives are being treated differently by the OPP.

This has been the biggest hurdle in the process to date... so we're not exactly talking startling revelation here.

The less-than-elegant McGuinty brokered solution, thus far, has consisted mostly of Liberal politicians... bending over and grabbing their ankles.

But, to his credit, Bryant at least has the balls to show up and take some of the fiberal-generated heat.

Premier Dalton McGuinty had been under fire for not visiting Caledonia. Bryant's predecessor David Ramsay also did not visit, although Conservative leader John Tory made more than half a dozen visits.

Let's see if the Liberals will actually start to do something here.

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RELATED: A small town being slowly strangled

Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer has said town residents living with the ongoing occupation won't feel safe until Six Nations protesters leave the disputed land.

Although Caledonia was one of the fastest growing towns in Ontario, Ms. Trainer said virtually no building permits have been issued in the last two years.

And Dalton McGuinty just stood and watched.

Technorati Tags: Michael Bryant, Caledonia, fiberal smoke and mirrors

Too many rules says Chretien

And what's up, with that... "making people accountable"... for their actions?

"I know some cabinet ministers are complaining today that they are not getting the type of people in their office because of these restricting rules.

You know, we should have the best people we can get to do these jobs and these rules are keeping a lot of good people away from the Hill," said Mr. Chretien in an interview with CanWest News Service.

I guess Teflon Jean wants a return to the good old days of "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" that inflicted boondoggles like ADSCAM and the 2 billion dollar Farmer Bob Rifle Registry on an unsuspecting public.

Under prime ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, Liberal-friendly firms were repeatedly accused of trading on their connections to the government to win lucrative consulting work.

Well, Jean... how can I explain this? A government job isn't supposed to be on the job training for greedy, uber-ambitious would-be lobbyists and political power brokers.

It's supposed to be about public service.

But try telling that to a Liberal.

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RELATED: A very public servant

The Liberal leader started wildly waving to the aboriginal delegation, pointing to his own chest with both hands and arguing that Baird was trying to take credit for something he himself had done when he was environment minister.

"It was me," he shouted upward to the aboriginal leaders, who looked a bit perplexed by all the gesturing.

Sounds like a nasty outbreak of "Garth Fever."

Technorati Tags: Jean Chretien, Accountability Act, fiberal smoke and mirrors

Break out the old grievances...

And top up the molotov cocktails... it's the official start of CAR-B-Q season.

-- VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France -- Groups of youths assaulted a police station, torched cars and vandalized stores in a weekend rampage that injured 21 police officers in this rundown Paris suburb.

Sunday's night's clashes came hours after the motorcycle crashed into the patrol car. A 15-year-old and 16-year-old were killed in the accident.

Apparently though... in this neck of the woods... there's no such thing as an accident.

Police officials said the motorbike ignored traffic rules and ran into the police vehicle, and that the bike was unregistered and neither teen was wearing a helmet.

Latest reports say the motorbike wasn't just unregistered, but actually stolen... regardless, it's time to run amuck.

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RELATED: Well, ok... we're fine with that

A brother of one of the dead teenagers, Omar Sehhouli, said the rioting "was not violence but an expression of rage".

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The left never learns from history, its like Ancient Rome all over again. Take away a person's responsibility to try and feed and house themselves, give them free food, and what do you get: The mob."

Technorati Tags: Villiers-le-Bel, Paris riots, CAR-B-Q season

End User License Agreement

Who knows if this stuff is enforceable? The case law is all over the place.

What if you’re under-age? Drunk? Using someone else’s computer — do you agree on your parents’ behalf when you install software at their place over the holidays?

Frankly, it’s all bullshit.

The way the system should work is, you buy something, you own it.

A trip to the zoo

My prediction here, is that Steffi will grow to rue the day he first uttered the name... Karlheinz Schreiber...

Author William Kaplan, an expert on the Brian Mulroney-Karlheinz Schreiber affair, predicts upcoming hearings by a parliamentary committee will be a "gong show."

"He's not going to tell anybody anything until the minister of justice informs the government of Germany that Karlheinz Schreiber, Canadian citizen, will not be returned to Germany", the lawyer and author of two books on the controversy told CTV's Question Period on Sunday.

Most people seem to be overlooking the fact that Schreiber has no alliances or loyalties here... only people, on both sides of the political bus... that he tried to suborn.

That fact appears to be slowly sinking in... even with the previously enthusiastic fiberal cheerleading squad.

Liberal MP Robert Thibault said his party supports a public inquiry, wants Schreiber available for it and wants it to review the Schreiber-Mulroney relationship back to 1980 plus the actions of the current Conservative government.

On "the committee", Thibault said he actually agreed with Kaplan's assessment that "the committee" might not be the best forum.

I can't wait.

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RELATED: Dippers don't trust Lib chairman

The committee voted to give its chairman, Liberal MP Paul Szabo, the power he needs to subpoena Mr. Schreiber.

But the NDP's Mr. Martin said he has no faith that Mr. Szabo will use that power effectively. So he is starting his own parallel process of asking for Speaker's warrants, he told CTV's Question Period

"We need to get him here prior to his deportation on the first of December. And I can tell you there are a lot of powerful people in Canada who would rather see the hind end of Mr. Schreiber," Mr. Martin said.

"His list is something like the Hollywood madam - there are a lot of people that are on that list who would rather that list is never exposed."

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, William Kaplan, Robert Thibault

More Catholic than the Pope

Finally... a simple voice of reason emerges from the screechy fanatical storm.

"For example, if I show up at a hospital emergency room with my wife, what should be my behaviour?"

"Well, the answer is simple."

If I want a female doctor to tend to my wife, I'll ask for that with a smile. If the answer is yes, I'll keep my smile. And if the answer is no, I will still keep my smile," he said.

"Why? Because the only effort the Koran asks me to make is to ask the question. That's all."

"You can't be more Catholic than the Pope."

(via DMB)

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Attending a party with one of my muslim friends, he inquired of the hosts if the food had pork or chicken in it..."

F16's 1 - Wagon Train 0

"Rollin', rollin', rollin'... Though the streams are swollen... Keep them dogies rollin'... Rawhide!"

-- Paktia, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say NATO-led forces killed at least 65 Taliban rebels Saturday night in airstrikes near the country's eastern border with Pakistan.

The Afghan interior ministry said Sunday that the Taliban rebels were smuggling weapons on horses and two cars in the province of Paktia, when NATO and Afghan forces engaged them and called in air support.

Of course, there's a bit of a difference between television mythology... and the brutal reality of the modern battlefield.

Hence the timeless military adage... "Peace through Superior Firepower."

I'm bettin' they run out of illiterate zealots... before we run out of JDAM's.

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RELATED: Samarra smackdown

-- BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops killed 10 suspected Sunni militants and captured eight during an operation against al-Qaida fighters north of Samarra, the U.S. military said Sunday.

Hey, Timmy... where is your god now?

A nuke plant in Syria...

Would have been pretty scary stuff... but what if it was worse than that?

On the basis of an analysis of the same satellite photos, which have been published in the media and on Web sites and are accessible to everyone, he believes that the structure that was attacked and destroyed was not a nuclear reactor.

"In my estimation this was something very nasty and vicious, and even more dangerous than a reactor," says Even.

(via SDA)

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RELATED: You say you missed that one?

"Syria gets caught with its nuclear pants down around its ankles."

Left still cherrypicking their martyrs

While the usual suspects mount an anti-cop protest at Queens Park... this man's death just slips under the leftbot radar...

An autopsy has determined that an elderly Edmonton man was beaten to death in what police are calling a cowardly attack.

William Kapach, 65, was found lying on an inner-city sidewalk Saturday morning in a pool of blood. He was taken off life-support on Thursday.

I guess actual victims of crime just aren't sexy enough for the lunatic left.

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UPDATE: Celebrating voyeurism and apathy

"More than 1,000 people chanted 'Thank you, Paul,' as Paul Pritchard spoke to the rally yesterday, about how he came to record the last moments of Dziekanski's life."

You notice, of course, ol' Paul didn't actually step in and help this guy... he merely filmed his death throes.

And the left acquires yet another hero.

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RELATED: Just a cattle-car moment

"All sorts of demands for action are floating around, but most of them seem to have sluiced down the easiest channel, which is to blame the tasers, and talk endlessly about voltage and amps and scientific studies."

(via FFOF)

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"On the way to their favorite Elgin Street Bistro three parliamentarians witness a brutal murder..."

and...

"I think the real reason the left doesn't like Tazers is that it identifies with criminal behaviour. They are afraid THEY will get Tazered in some anti-globalization, pro-Palestinian, Pro-Hezbollah, anti-Capitalism, pro-Chavez, anti-war, pro-environmental riot."

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LAST WORD: Once again, a very special welcome...

To readers of infantile, foul mouthed, proggie brown-noser "Canadian Cecilia"

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

Technorati Tags: William Kapach, Robert Dziekanski, Paul Pritchard

Tag, you're it... I mean... dead

I just love how everybody and their uncle is freaking out about tasers... but just ignoring the ongoing war in their own backyard.

Toronto homicide detectives are investigating three murders that took place around the city within hours of each other Friday, each with outstanding suspects.

And the first two murders are connected, police said Saturday.

Kennado Walker, 25, died barely seven hours after and less than three kilometres away from where police say he shot dead Ryan Hyde, 19, on Friday afternoon.

Uh huh... sure... the police... that's who you should be worried about.

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UPDATE: Bad boys, bad boys... whatcha gonna do...

Two men immersed in “criminal, high-risk lifestyles” are dead in tit-for-tat slayings and cops are urging their friends to leave the body count where it stands.

Police say Ryan Hyde, 19, was waiting in the front seat of his car for a slice of pizza when Kennado Walker, 25, sneaked up and shot him from behind on Friday afternoon.

Before the evening was through, someone bent on revenge caught Walker unaware after he parked his car underground at 5600 Sheppard Ave. E. and shot him in the head.

Both men were known to cops and dealt in drugs and guns, Gallant said. Like Hyde, Walker wasn’t working or attending school when he died.

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RELATED: Herding the sheeple

Technorati Tags: Kennado Walker, Ryan Hyde, get a grip, people

What... no more murder?

Hamas stupefied by suggestion... of non-violent solution.

-- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Hamas said Saturday it was shocked by the Arab states' decision to attend a Mideast peace conference in the U.S. on Monday and it underlined its opposition to talks by warning that it could soon launch a more lethal type of rocket into Israel than seen previously.

Who are these people... and exactly what planet did they come from?

"The announcement of the Arabs that they would participate in the Annapolis conference was a great shock for the Palestinian people," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, said in a statement.

"Participation opens doors for normalization of relations with the Israeli occupiers."

Yeah, Sami... we sure wouldn't want any of that.

Technorati Tags: HAMAS, Annapolis conference, Sami Abu Zuhri

Calling Taliban Jack

Say Jack... about that Afghan prisoner abuse thing... we could always try the Taliban solution.

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants beheaded seven policemen yesterday after overrunning their checkpoints in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

An Australian soldier and three civilians were killed in a separate clash.

And people say I'm not flexible.

Of course, Jack still hasn't got back to me from last time.

I guess he's just shy.

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RELATED: NDP fights for Canuck prisoners too

-- OTTAWA -- Some opposition MPs whose parties agreed unanimously three weeks ago to rush the government's omnibus crime bill through a Commons committee are now trying to delete a major provision that requires offenders to prove they are not dangerous to society following a third conviction for designated crimes.

Less talk, more rock

You can jet around the global lecture circuit... earning big bucks for spewing tons of hot, sainted gases... or you can get your hands dirty actually making a difference...

About a year ago, Mr. Mosley started BuyMyBrokeniPod.com and began purchasing, refurbishing and reselling used or broken iPods. Mr. Mosley, who is apparently comfortable around a soldering iron, started the company by posting an iPods-wanted ad on Craigslist.

He has since launched a Web site, hired two employees and fixed over a thousand iPods. He recently renamed his company BuyMyTronics.com as he expanded into iPhones and video game consoles.

Now there's a win-win solution... expand the economy and shrink the toxic waste.

He says his company is profitable but that the venture is not solely about that kind of green. “There’s definitely a market here, but I am keeping leads and toxic wastes out of the ground. They work hand in hand,” he said.

“I figure I’ve probably kept thousands of pounds of waste out of landfills.”

Gangbangers for God

It just seems there's no appeasing Afghanistan's bloodthirsty deity...

-- KABUL -- A suicide bomb on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed six schoolchildren and wounded three Italians working on an aid project building a bridge, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

"It was a suicide bomber ... six schoolchildren coming out from school were killed," said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary.

Thank you... Religion of Peace.

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UPDATE: The Allah Channel

All death, all the time

Twin suicide car bombings have killed at least 30 people and injured many others in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, officials have said.

Pakistan has recently seen a number of suicide bombings, including an attack in Karachi that killed at least 135 people.

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LAST WORD: Subsidising Islam in Canada

Hey, Sana... keep that stuff off my tax bill.

Upon evicting them, the university advised the Muslim students to seek an outside location for prayer.

According to Sana Saeed, a student at McGill and a member of the MSA, finding an outside location would have been costly and unnecessary.

“As Muslims, all we desired was an adequately-sized room, which would allow us to pray during the times we’d be on campus,” she said.

Remember lead water pipes?

It's looking more and more like fluoridation may be another man-made disaster...

Nearly a half-century after water fluoridation became widespread, a small but growing number of medical officials and environmentalists are again raising concerns over the practice.

Recent research is suggesting that fluoride may be connected to a number of serious conditions, including the development in teenage boys of osteosarcoma, the rare bone cancer that killed Canadian icon Terry Fox, reduced intelligence levels in children, and impaired thyroid function.

We've been on well water out here in the sticks since 2001, when my son turned five... and that turns out, statistically, to have been a pretty good thing.

Researchers found that boys aged 6 to 8 who were exposed to more fluoridated water were about four times more likely to develop the cancer than those exposed to lower levels. The researchers called their results "remarkably robust."

Fluoridation is based on research from the 1940s, and Mr. Wiles contends that it wouldn't be able to pass a modern risk assessment used for drugs or pesticides.

"We took a look at the science and it was really apparent to us that the current levels of fluoride exposure were unsafe," he said.

Funny though... it looks as though some people have been aware of this for some time.

Toronto's drinking water, after several reductions, now contains half the fluoride it did before 1999, while the province of Quebec cut the recommended amount by 42 per cent in 2004.

Karl's calculating can of worms...

Don't say you weren't warned, boys... this snake knows every trick in the book.

-- OTTAWA -- Karlheinz Schreiber appears to be negotiating some time out of the slammer to prepare for a grilling before a Commons committee next week.

But Mr. Schreiber shouldn't be allowed to “negotiate the terms under which he will testify,” says New Democrat MP Pat Martin, who sits on the Commons ethics committee.

“He's been called here and we expect the authorities to compel him to attend,” he said.

Well, Pat... you snapped up the bait... don't expect the master-angler to just let you off the hook.

This should be interesting.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Irwin Cotler, fiberal smoke and mirrors

David Miller's Dodge City

Oops, they did it again... the bullets are flyin' in Toronto the Good.

A man has died from his injuries after an east-end shootout that may have involved as many as six people.

Witnesses told police two groups of people opened fire on each other on the street near Birchmount Road and Sheppard Avenue at about 1:20 p.m. on Friday.

Latest reports are not identifying the victim... but say it was a 19 year-old male.

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RELATED: Apparently, that code of silence thing...

Makes for a pretty good defence.

A teenager accused of gunning down Jason Huxtable stood stunned and speechless while the victim’s mother wept as a jury acquitted him yesterday of second-degree murder.

The now 17-year-old - who testified he was an innocent witness - wouldn’t identify the culprit who fatally shot the 18-year-old Huxtable outside a Jane St. and Sheppard Ave. W. townhouse complex on Aug. 30, 2005.

The teen testified that he feared reprisals against his friends and family so he refused to divulge the identities of Huxtable’s killers. The teen’s best friend and his father were shot in the months after Huxtable’s death, court heard.

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UPDATE: I have to apologise here...

It was three murders... not one.

Toronto homicide detectives are investigating three murders that took place around the city within hours of each other Friday, each with outstanding suspects.

The most recent came with the stabbing death of a man found in an O'Connor Dr. apartment building around 10 p.m., Toronto police Staff-Sgt. Chuck Konkel said Saturday morning.

A 25-year-old man was found shot to death in an east-end underground parking garage around 8:15 p.m.

Latest breathtaking Liberal brainwave

We've got to stop that scary, hidden Stephen Harper... before he cuts everybody's taxes... yet again...

"We're going to go before the budget," one Quebec Liberal said.

"The budget will be full of candy for everybody. He's going to have money for seniors, for youth, for everybody."

"If you [wait and] go on the budget, then it means you're opposing tax cuts, money for all those people, and the campaign will be on that."

Once again, the Liberal Party of Canada illustrates the potential pitfalls of creating economic policy with a "ouija board."

I'm just pondering... if they have to defibrillate John McCallum every time some fiberal wunderkind comes up with one of these oinkers.

"CLEAR!!!"

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RELATED: Denis Khadr comes over to the dark side

As the Conservatives blow a "no brainer".

Since June 2000, almost half of Canada's soldiers have been receiving a bump in their monthly salary -- the posting's living differential -- for living and working in cities with a high cost of living.

However, the Tory government will put a halt to the payments for soldiers in places such as Toronto and Ottawa.

"It might have an impact on their morale," added Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre.

Sorta like those 13 years of total Liberal neglect, huh Denis?

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Liberal party, fiberal smoke and mirrors

Potty training the loony left

After nine days of crippling national transportation strikes France appeared to be returning to normal Friday amid negotiations between labor unions and government officials.

From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports that while the walkout has snarled traffic, angered commuters and cost the country millions of dollars there appears to be one winner: French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Just a heads up here, Mark...

A self-proclaimed socially progressive person... might not actually want to base his "life philosophy" on the musings of Groucho Marx...

Mr. Warner said he hasn't ripped up his Conservative membership, but hinted that it's not likely he will be staying. "My philosophy in life is not to want to belong to any club that wouldn't have me as a member."

"It's just the way I approach life."

Well Mark, you deep thinker... the actual quote is, "would have me as a member"... but that's what happens when you pull a life philosophy out of the pop culture ether.

Cute mis-quotation... but remember, Marx also famously recounted...

I did a bond tour during the Second World War. We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. And we got to Minneapolis.

There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. Then I told the audience, that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. She was also known in St. Paul, she used to come over to visit me.

She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities."

Try that one out at your next Fiberal or NDP fundraiser and... I daresay... Libby Davies will happily rip off your balls.

Technorati Tags: Mark Warner, Bob Rae, dumbing down

The double-edged sword

Privacy and personal freedoms are essential entitlements... for law abiding, non-sociopathic citizens.

-- WIESBADEN, Germany -- German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on Thursday.

Let's get real, folks... you really wanna give Osama and company a free (in more ways than one) ride?

What's the solution here?

C'mon... let's have another rumble.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I'm not sure what wrestling has to do with anything. It sounds like you're trying to bait me into something."

Technorati Tags: Skype, right to privacy, kaboom

Law-Law Land

"Willie" Pickton gets the full court press...

“Have the strength of knowing that you are in the best position of anyone in the world to make the determination on the evidence that you have here,” Adrian Brooks said, wrapping up a three-and-a-half-day final summation.

“You have the strength of the evidence, the evidence that tells you clearly, loudly there is a reasonable doubt.”

Well... except for the eyewitness account, the DNA evidence and the testimony from the cop in his cell.

And, get this... he kept severed heads, hands and feet around... for what... to make soup?

Don't worry, Adrian... you can probably get Stephane Dion to put in a good word for your client at sentencing.

It's a Liberal thing.

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RELATED: Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth

The prosecution launched its closing arguments in Pickton's murder case, attacking defense claims that other suspects were ignored and that the forensic evidence on the property where he lived -- including skulls and victims' clothing -- were no proof that he was the killer.

"Could you accept that someone else snuck on that farm with a bunch of body parts, bones ... all without him knowing it?" Michael Petrie asked the jury.

"That was Willie Pickton's domain. That was his territory."

Technorati Tags: Robert Pickton, Adrian Brooks, poor little lamb

If this is a priority for the Dion liberals...

I'd hate to see the stuff at the bottom of their list.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has written to the governor of Montana asking him to commute the death sentence of a convicted murderer from Canada.

Ronald Allen Smith was convicted of killing two Montana Indians in 1982.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson replies...

“Individuals who commit multiple murders and mass-murders abroad . . . cannot count on the Canadian government to claim clemency and repatriation back to this country.”

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"we do not as Canadians support the death penalty..."

Funny...That's not what the poll says.

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LAST WORD: Speaking of polls...

Another CTV propaganda piece goes awry...

Technorati Tags: Ronald Allen Smith, Harvey Mad Man, Thomas Running Rabbit

Just one more reason...

To yank all taxpayer funding... from the Roman Catholic school system...

Halton's Catholic board has pulled The Golden Compass fantasy book – soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman – off school library shelves because of a complaint.

"(The complaint) came out of interviews that Philip Pullman had done, where he stated that he is an atheist and that he supports that," said Scott Millard, the board's manager of library services.

So what's the scoop on this blasphemous tome?

The award-winning tome was voted the best children's book in the past 70 years by readers across the globe.

No word yet on dates or locations for the big "book burning" parties... but we'll keep you posted.

Sponsored by the Government of Ontario.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The Golden Compass is a book about the quest to kill GOD."

Which begs the question, "What kind of puny-ass deity are you people worshipping anyway?"

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UPDATE: The Censorship Inquisition widens

Two other Toronto-area Catholic boards of education are studying copies of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy after the Halton District Catholic School Board removed the children's books from its library shelves.

Both the Durham and Dufferin-Peel Catholic boards have said they will also review the popular children's fantasy series.

But, it seems, not quite everybody is on board...

In the U.K., the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams reviewed Pullman's trilogy for the Guardian newspaper in 2004.

Williams praised the books and recommended them to young readers.

"This extraordinary theatrical adventure sets a creative religious agenda in a way hard to parallel in recent literature and performance," he wrote.

Heretic!

Technorati Tags: The Golden Compass, Halton Catholic District School Board, book burning

China takes pity...

On the United States Navy...

The Chinese government has given no explanation for why it suddenly refused and then later allowed a United States naval carrier group to dock in Hong Kong as scheduled.

China made an abrupt about-face, Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Beijing would allow the ships into Hong Kong after all.

"We have already decided to allow the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier group to stay in Hong Kong for rest and reorganization during Thanksgiving."

"It is based completely on humanitarianism."

China... sweetie-pie to the world.

One toke over the line

-- Q -- What's flat, black and glows in the dark?

-- A -- Well, if nobody puts the brakes on Madman Ahmadinejad... that'd be Tehran...

And, it seems, Iranians in high places are starting to get it.

The attack would be difficult to imagine without at least tacit support from Ayatollah Khamenei.

In a hard-hitting editorial on Wednesday, the Tehran paper said the president's treatment of his critics was immoral, illogical and illegal.

In an autocratic theocracy like Iran, where every piece of news is filtered through the ruling elite... that's a very public slap in the face.

Such a direct personal attack against President Ahmadinejad is indeed rare in official media in Iran.

It shows that the Iranian president is not only losing support among ordinary people because of economic hardship, he is also angering part of the establishment for using the nuclear issue to bolster his personal power.

This one is worth watching.

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RELATED: The dogpile gets larger

Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator sharply criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, denouncing the prosecution of a former member of his negotiating team and accusing the hard-line leader of trying to eliminate rivals.

The comments by Hasan Rowhani, published Thursday, were the latest in the blow in the mounting rivalry between Ahmadinejad and former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful figure in Iran's clerical leadership.

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LAST WORD: That's gonna leave a mark

-- WASHINGTON -- Massive, devastating air strikes, a full dose of "shock and awe" with hundreds of bunker-busting bombs slicing through concrete at more than a dozen nuclear sites across Iran is no longer just the idle musing of military planners and uber-hawks.

Thank goodness for the CTV...

If it wasn't for Lloyd and Bobblehead at CTV... that scary Stephen Harper would have slipped another one past us.

The Conservative government has announced the creation of a 10-million hectare national park and wildlife sanctuary -- an area roughly twice as large as Nova Scotia.

"Truly, a gigantic conservation initiative, not just in Canadian history but indeed around the world," said Environment Minister John Baird, who made the announcement during a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday.

The designation would protect the massive swath of the boreal forest from diamond and uranium mining in the region that threatens to encroach on the area, would ban sales and leases of property and put new limits on hunting in the area.

Native leaders and environmentalists have applauded the news.

It's curiously absent from their on-line article... but it seems not everyone saw this as a good news story.

On the 11:00 pm television segment on the CTV News... uber-correspondent Bob Fife let us in on the dark side of this development... apparently Prime Minister Harper only did this to cover up his failure to implement Y2Kyoto.

I just about fell outta my chair.

Technorati Tags: Lloyd Robertson, Bob Fife, leftwing media bias

Less than Honourable Members

The same old fiberal smoke and mirrors...

Ever since recent revelations by The Globe and Mail and the CBC made the public aware of new facts and allegations about the relationship between Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Schreiber, opposition politicians have rushed to judgment.

You've gotta love the irony... of the party who perpetrated Adscam on the Canadian taxpayer... screaming about thievery and misbehaviour.

Recklessly, they have used innuendo, loaded language and guilt by association to blacken the reputation of people against whom there is not the slightest evidence of wrongdoing.

The accusation of a "cover-up" presumes a crime. But what crime was committed and covered up?

Nothing is offered but cowardly innuendo and guilt by association.

Misdirection... it's what they do best.

Baby Boom

How long you figure all the "holy warriors" had to sit around brainstormin' at the mosque, before somebody cried out... the Islamic equivalent of eureka...

Meanwhile, horrifying new details emerged last night of the attempt by suicide bombers to kill Ms Bhutto on her return home from exile last month.

Investigators from Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said yesterday they believed the bomb, which killed 170 people and left hundreds more wounded, was strapped to a one-year-old child carried by its jihadist father.

Well... I guess if this was truly the "Will of Allah", this guy didn't really have a choice, huh?

They said the suicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Ms Bhutto's vehicle as she drove in a late-night cavalcade through the streets of Karachi.

Congratulations, once again, religion of peace.

Thank goodness for the CBC...

I almost missed out on... "National Transgender Remembrance Day."

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I was also relieved to hear about the CEEB's further, ongoing, close cooperation with the Chinese government...

"The notion that CBC would pay any attention to Chinese concerns is evidence they've lost all perspective," said Mr. Matas, who represented Mr. Zhung.

"The CBC becoming a vehicle of Chinese government propaganda -- even under the notion that it's balanced coverage -- is not responsible journalism."

Root causes, my ass

Even babies know the difference betwen right and wrong...

Babies as young as 6 to 10 months old showed crucial social judging skills before they could talk, according to a study by researchers at Yale University's Infant Cognition Center published in Thursday's journal Nature.

The infants watched a googly-eyed wooden toy trying to climb roller-coaster hills and then another googly-eyed toy come by and either help it over the mountain or push it backward. They then were presented with the toys to see which they would play with.

Nearly every baby picked the helpful toy over the bad one.

I just don't get it

There's never any of those nasty, little gits from PETA around... when you need one.

-- BARRIE -- Three aboriginal hunters are now on trial facing more than 50 offences including the commercial sale of moose, bear and deer meat, as well as black bear gall bladders.

Canada has the largest remaining black bear habitat in the world and their gall bladders are sought after for use in traditional Asian medicine.

Yup... nothing says "respect for Mother Earth" quite like procuring mythical "stiffy meds" for gullible people on other continents.

You think this is draconian?

Just wait until Osama's merry band of pranksters lets the other shoe drop... that's when the excrement will truly hit the air-conditioning.

-- NARITA, JAPAN -- Japan began fingerprinting foreigners entering the country on Tuesday in an anti-terrorism policy that has sparked complaints from human right activists, business travellers and long-term residents.

“At a time when terrorism is occurring throughout the world, we want foreigners entering Japan to co-operate, and to understand that it is better for them as well that Japan be safe,” said Hisashi Toshioka, head of the Immigration Bureau at Narita airport.

Security experts worldwide agree that it's not a question of if... simply a matter of when... we have another incident on the magnitude of 9/11.

You're gonna be screaming for maximally torqued-up security the day after that happens... trust me.

Of course, by then it'll be too late.

And guess what... it ain't just the Japanese who are battening down the hatches.

Britain this month began requiring people applying for British visas to have their fingerprints scanned and photographs taken digitally.

And, closer to home...

-- Washington -- The Bush administration said yesterday it will install 10 new fingerprint scanners at all Canada-U.S. border crossings -- including pre-clearance facilities at Canadian airports -- by the end of 2008.

Most Canadians are exempt from being fingerprinted under the expanding US-VISIT program. Paul Morris, who runs Homeland Security's admissibility programs, said "very few Canadians" will be affected the changes.

It's the future folks... get used to it.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"stoogeleft fantasizes... their government approved rubber glove, your national RFID tube, and a jar of KY jelly"

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RELATED: While we're at it...

Fingerprint these terrorists too.

France's high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a "concerted campaign of sabotage", the SNCF state-owned rail operator has said.

It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge delays to TGV services already hit by a long transport union strike over reforms.

Mr Sarkozy said reforms were overdue and that they were necessary "to confront the challenges set by the world".

"We will not surrender and we will not retreat," he said.

Even people from other countries...

Are trying to figure out what Steffi's pullin' here...

A top German justice official says he expects his country will find a way for Karlheinz Schreiber to testify at a public inquiry in Canada — even if he is extradited to Germany before then.

Reinhard Nemetz, who heads the regional court where Mr. Schreiber faces criminal charges, says it's up to the federal justice departments in both countries to work something out, but he doesn't think there would be any problems.

See... the Germans know all about Schreiber's very calculated stalling tactics... they've been trying to get their mitts on him since the last millenium. So when Dion and company get on the "save poor Karl" bandwagon... they don't know what to make of it.

Mr. Nemetz said Mr. Schreiber's latest argument is just another example of his “salami tactics.” “He always ends up slicing off another thin excuse when he needs it, so the salami never runs out, and it's another whole debate as to whether there's any truthful taste to it.”

Mr. Nemetz says German authorities are frustrated that Canada's justice system has allowed Mr. Schreiber to avoid extradition for more than eight years. “I just can't understand why this is taking so long,” he said.

Well, Mr. Nemetz... you could just come out and ask Steffi and his fiberal friends what they're trying to accomplish here.

Of course... trying to stick a thumb in Stephen Harper's eye... isn't going to be a very satisfying answer.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Karlheinz Schreiber, fiberal smoke and mirrors

Exquisitely tutored, undeniably neutered

Oh, Steffi... why don't you just go off and lick your, uh... well... place where your balls used to be.

"What I can say is that when the Leader of the Opposition alleges vast conspiracies and then votes by abstaining to keep the government in office, nobody takes his allegations seriously."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Harper is like a cat playing with a mouse. Iggy is the vulture waiting for the carcass."

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RELATED: Bad news for 'Bangers'

“Drug producers and dealers who threaten the safety of our communities must face tougher penalties,” Mr. Nicholson said in a release.

“This is why our government is moving to impose mandatory jail time for serious drug offences that involve organized crime, violence or youth.”

Who'da thunk it?

"It’s almost as though humans have some sort of capacity to adapt."

Raccoon-o-gram

When you care enough to send the very best...

"I ... thought, God, that looks like a raccoon with a spear in it, and a sign on it," he said.

"So I tiptoed out there and, sure enough, that's exactly what it is."

I'm thinkin' the cops should be checking local video stores... for angry guys who recently rented "Godfather Part I".

Back in style

Apparently fur is no longer ecologically, or politically incorrect... funny how that works.

“Now, you see the young women in their 20s coming in. They want the short jackets. You can wear them over cocktail dresses. Or you can wear them with jeans. And they come in fun colours.”

Which raises another surprising factor in the fur resurgence: Unlike all the disposable fashion out there, fur is a surprisingly green product.

Well, who knew... fur even redresses "root causes" inequities as it greens the planet.

According to the Fur Council, 60,000 aboriginal and traditional trappers in Canada practise sustainable harvesting. Few, often safe (such as alum), chemicals are used to dress hides, and any dyes are monitored closely to cut effluents. And fur lasts a long time.

This means it can be reused. “Remodelling is a big part of the business,” Papaevangelidis says. “Young girls are dying to wear their grandmother's furs. And grandmothers are dying to see the treasures they once prized so highly worn again.”

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RELATED: It's all green... these days

Suspicious of marketing claims that a product is "eco-friendly" or "kind to the earth?"

A study released by a Toronto firm yesterday suggests you're right to be. A survey of environmental claims involving more than 1,000 products found all were false or misleading.

Another one bites the dust

Just like all the recent hysteria over Taser related deaths... it turns out the supposed rising tide of hate crimes in North America... is a myth.

Less than 10,000 total hate crimes of any kind in an entire year, in a country of over 300 million people? Only 7,330 known hate crime offenders?

That means that hate crimes are a drop in the bucket. They are the least of our problems.

The two-thousandths of one percent (.002%) of Americans who committed hate crimes against anyone in 2006, including Protestants (35 complete losers) clearly need help.

While we're playing around with numbers I have one final factoid for the Taser Death Squad Hysterical Society.

There have been 16 taser related deaths in Canada over the last four years.

That works out to 4 instances per year... which, my paranoid friends, is statistically insignificant.

In 2002 alone, twenty-nine Canadians were killed in avalanches.

I'm betting more than 4 Canadians per year, manage to run over and kill themselves with their own cars... and nobody's setting up a public enquiry into that totally predictable and avoidable stupidity.

You're being taken for a ride, folks... which sells a shitload of newspapers and commercial airtime.

Think about it.

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UPDATE: The RCMP speaks up

Many comments we have received seem to suggest that the use of a TASER is never justified based on the likelihood of inflicting serious injury or death.

In fact, our experience and that of other police services over the course of many years and thousands of incidents, as well as existing research, have shown that deploying a TASER is often the fastest and safest way to gain control of an individual.

We and other police services teach our officers that it is less likely to cause serious injury than other tactics.

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LAST WORD: A very special welcome...

To readers of noted humanitarian and progressive brown-noser "Canadian Cynic"

Little CC is the piece of dreck who told Wanda Watkins... the mother of a slain Canadian soldier... to "fuck off." Now he tries to wipe some of that shit off on yours truly.

Just another disgusting performance.

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

Note to Canadian Cesspool... back to tasers yet again, huh?.

Are you sure you're feeling okay?

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Because he's all about the women...

Neo, since there is obviously no hope of reasoned discussion with a fuckwad like you, congratulations for demonstrating what a fucking wanker you are. Now you and your posse go out there and beat up some teenage girls so that you can feel like real men.

Hey... I recognise that lilting prose.

Technorati Tags: hate crimes, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski

AP reporting grave injustice...

Against star AP photographer.

-- NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented.

An AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a "sham of due process." The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned without charges for more than 19 months.

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RELATED: Who is Bilal Hussein?

Hussein’s photos have raised serious, persistent questions about his relationship with terrorists in Iraq and whether his photos were/are staged in collusion with the enemy.

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UPDATE: Blogger helps bag Bilal

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LAST WORD: Back here at home...

The Canadian media is turning tragedy into a parlour game.

Technorati Tags: Bilal Hussein, Associated Press, leftwing media bias

Remember the good old days...

When Mom used to fly out the door with a Louisville slugger... to beat on the ladies down the block???

Yeah, me neither...

Four people suffered cuts and bruises when a group of women got into a fight outside a west-end housing complex last night.

"We don't know what they were fighting about, but it sounds like they're at it again at the hospital," said one officer as police headed to the Humber River Regional Hospital's Church St. site following the melee in the area of Humber Blvd. and Alliance Ave. about 6 p.m.

A baseball bat and frying pan – both of which may have been used as weapons – were also found at the scene.

Yup... those west-end bangers don't get it from anywhere strange.

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RELATED: I guess the rules...

Didn't say anything about a 14 year-old having a car...

The victims... were on a strict 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. schedule that included prayers five times a day and memorizing the Koran, in addition to their Grade 10 classes and chores, school administrator Atif Din said.

Hey, Bobo...

Let me explain something here... if they've got guns... we can just shoot them...

"The Canadian Press earlier reported that three out of four suspects stun-gunned by the RCMP were unarmed."

Stand by for a four-part CP series on why burning witches hardly ever works out.

No chakras or healing crystals here

Guess what, progressive dipshits... sometimes the answer isn't "blowin' in the wind."

-- Sangisar, Afghanistan -- The gunfire started at sunrise Saturday and continued until noon. It was a bitter fight on both sides.

As insensitive as this may sound to Steffi, Gilles and Taliban Jack... sometimes you gotta call in tough, courageous warriors... to break stuff and kill people.

The Taliban resorted to using children as human shields, according to soldiers who witnessed the tactic, and the encircled Canadians called in artillery and air strikes so close to their own positions that a soldier suffered shrapnel wounds from friendly fire.

“Why Sangisar?” Major Moffet said. “It was a node for the Taliban."

"Now it's ours.”

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UPDATE: Meanwhile, back at home...

Jacko and Steffi go to bat for the troops... uh, wait a minute... the Taliban?

"Opposition parties hammered the Conservative government over allegations of detainee abuse Tuesday, accusing the Conservatives of doing nothing for months while being fully aware that torture was taking place in Afghan prisons."

So, unless I'm missing something here... Frick and Frack are defending the guys who are shooting at our soldiers... and using children as human shields?

The inmates are truly running the asylum.

Technorati Tags: Sangisar, Mullah Omar, religion of peace

The times, they are a changin'...

Sitting in sight of her father and grandfather, both Lutheran ministers, Jen Rude on Saturday became the first ordained lesbian pastor since the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America urged bishops to not penalize congregations who violate the celibacy requirement for gay clergy.

Steffi better bring his raincoat...

Seems there's a hard rain comin'.

-- OTTAWA -- The federal Conservatives will launch a flurry of law-and-order anti-crime legislation next week to crack down on illegal drug use, identity theft and young offenders.

The Tories are also expected to introduce a bill to toughen penalties for youth crime and give police greater powers to detain alleged young offenders.

I'm lovin' this... use a gun -- you're done.

Critics expect the legislation would see youths accused of serious or violent offences, as well as repeat offenders, automatically transferred to adult court.

The minister also indicated the legislation will make it more difficult for youths accused of crimes to get out on bail and toughen sentences for youth gun crimes and auto thefts.

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RELATED: Yessir... there's new Sheriff in town

One of the changes Mr. Nicholson plans is to reduce the credit given to convicted criminals for time spent in custody awaiting trial. Many judges now give them double credit, which often means they serve significantly less than their original sentence.

He also agreed to propose changes to the Criminal Code to make every gang-related homicide qualify for a first-degree murder charge, not second-degree murder or manslaughter - a measure requested by British Columbia and other provinces.

Imagine...

If Stephane Dion drove a motorcycle...

Welcome Back Khadr

Poor defenseless little Omar Khadr is back in the news...

CBS News has broadcast shocking new footage of a Canadian terrorism suspect allegedly building bomb timers and planting land mines while he was a 15-year-old militant hoping to take on American soldiers in Afghanistan.

Beyond the new footage, the 12-minute 60 Minutes piece contained few surprises for Canadians who have been following the case for years.

There are more remarks from fundamentalist Islamist Khadr family, whose televised statements will once again do little to build public support for the groups and politicians who are arguing that Canada should adopt a principled stance and lobby to repatriate Mr. Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.

And hey... there's Omar's baby brother, Humpty... you know, the one the Canadian taxpayers paid to put back together again.

Omar's younger brother Karim was also shown in the piece. The footage was shot in 2004, just weeks after he returned to Canada from Pakistan. He survived, but was paralyzed by the deadly battle that killed his father.

In that footage, a 14-year-old Karim Khadr talks about how he wanted to become a martyr so he could be doted on in the afterlife by dozens of fragrant-smelling virgins.

He adds that he expected that Omar would want to resume battles against Americans when he gets out of Guantanamo Bay. “When he's all right again he'll find them again … and take his revenge.”

Isn't that special.

I sure hope Steffi and the Fiberals can bring Omar back to Toronto real soon... it's the least we can do for him.

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UPDATE: Khadr lawyer pitches hissy fit

-- TORONTO -- The lawyer of detained Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr says it's outrageous that CBS News has broadcast a tape of his client allegedly building explosives.

Yeah... having video of his terrorist client building bombs is really gonna slash those billable hours.

It's just not fair.

Technorati Tags: Omar Khadr, Karim Khadr, suckass political correctness

This woman dodged a bullet

She ran over my foot... I wouldn't be reaching for the Taser.

-- OTTAWA -- A Taser was used to subdue a woman who side-swiped a taxi and crashed into a police cruiser after running over an Ottawa police officer's foot while trying to flee a traffic stop early Saturday morning.

Ottawa police said the officer had attempted to pull over the suspected impaired driver just after 2:30 a.m. when she sped away, running over the officer's foot.

According to police, the driver then crashed into the taxi and a cruiser before being stopped again.

Saint Pierre's tarnished halo

"I met Trudeau back around 1970 at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. I was a cub scout attending a jamboree and PET was the guest speaker."

"Afterwards a group of us were chosen to go backstage and meet the PM. We were waiting behind a curtain. He didn't know we were there."

"He called the crowd of cubs and scouts, "the Hitler youth of tomorrow", and spit on the ground."

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RELATED: Maybe he meant it...

As a compliment?

In the years before the end of the Second World War, the rumours were shouting, the father of our constitution was a proto-fascist, an anti-Semitic separatist busily plotting ways to take Quebec out of Canada and out of the anti-Fascist alliance fighting Nazi Germany.

Canadian troopers...

Shake off a hard punch... and proceed to kick some serious Talibutt.

-- Reuters -- Canadian and Afghan troops pushed into a Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan, fought off fierce counter-attacks and fortified an outpost on Sunday to stay in the area.

If the Islamotards thought their cowardly boobytrap that killed two Canadian soldiers was gonna slow things up... they obviously learned differently right here.

An Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman said at least 12 Taliban fighters were killed and another 15 wounded in the fighting for control of the Sangisar district, where fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar once lived and preached at a local mosque.

So, Timmy... where is your god now?

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RELATED: Hey Jack... negotiate this

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Five policemen were tortured then executed by Taliban militants in a warning to others not to work with Afghanistan's central government, officials said.

The officers had been abducted two months ago from their checkpoint in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, said Juma Gul Himat, the provincial police chief. The Taliban slashed their hands and legs and hung the bodies on trees Saturday in Gazak village of Derawud district, he said.

"The Taliban told the people that whoever works with the government will suffer the same fate as these policemen," Himat said.

Let's be "PALS"

Here's a "big bang" theory... that nobody really ever, ever wants to test.

-- WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million on a highly classified program to help Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, secure his country’s nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials.

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RELATED: What's a little fissionable material...

Between friends.

Snowboarders Guide

To the galaxy... he thinks...

Garrett Lisi is widely recognized as a thoughtful physicist. But unlike most, he has no longstanding university or research affiliation. He surfs. Snowboards in the winter. Scrapes together cash, and in between, has published a paper that outlines a new universal theory of everything.

This kind of stuff just blows me away... I tried to follow the argument laid out here and gave myself a headache. These guys lose me when they start naming a gazillion different particles and theorising about bending gravity in 8 dimensions.

He's convinced he has found what amounts to the field's Holy Grail: a way to explain all physical forces, including gravity, as different manifestations of the same underlying principle.

So stay tuned – if the surfer's theory turn out to be even partially descriptive of the world, a story to rival Einstein's will enter physics history.

I have to go rest my puny brain.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Once again, neo goes off without doing any real research, and as usual he tries to subtely(sic) shoehorn his particular ideology in with his factoids - in this case, we get another heaping serving of the typical right-wing anti-university/anti-intellectual slop."

Good news for...

Wheelchair-bound, Tongan, lesbian immigrants with an interest in politics...

The plan, drafted by a party committee over two years, says:

-Thirty per cent of constituencies not held by New Democrats will be designated for female candidates.

-Ten per cent of such constituencies will be designated for candidates from “under-represented groups,” notably youth, persons of colour, the disabled, aboriginal people and those who are either gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

-When an incumbent New Democrat does not seek re-election, the constituency will be designated automatically for women candidates to ensure woman are running in seats where New Democrats have been previously elected.

Your New Democratic Autocratic Party has spoken.

Technorati Tags: affirmative action, New Democratic Party, suckass political correctness

Bringing back the Death Penalty

No, guess again... it's not that scary Stephen Harper.

-- KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaican lawmakers are considering resuming hangings in response to rising violent crime, almost two decades since the last person was executed by the noose in this Caribbean nation.

Jamaicans have pushed for the measure, Karl Samuda, general secretary of Prime Minister Bruce Golding's ruling party, said Saturday.

Ah, yes, Jamaica... a veritable rightwing bastion of law and order.

"Based on our observation, there is a strong sentiment in the country for hanging to resume," Samuda said. "We want to make sure the people get their wish."

About 45 inmates are on death row in Jamaica, which reported a record 1,671 homicides in 2005 and is considered one of the most violent countries in the world.

I'm speechless... just like the lunatic left.

Technorati Tags: death penalty, Jamaica, Karl Samuda

What's in a name?

The U.S. Census Bureau is charting the changing face of American Society...

Step aside Moore and Taylor. Welcome Garcia and Rodriguez.

While the historical record is sketchy, several demographers said it was probably the first time that any non-Anglo name was among the 10 most common in the nation.

“It shows we’re getting stronger,” Mr. Padilla said. “If there’s that many of us to outnumber the Anglo names, it’s a great thing.”

In Canada... except apparently... when we're holding education, or law enforcement feet to the fire... we can't even acknowledge the existence of statistics by culture or ethnicity.

The Census Bureau’s analysis found that some surnames were especially associated with race and ethnicity.

More than 96 percent of Yoders, Kruegers, Muellers, Kochs, Schwartzes, Schmitts and Novaks were white.

Nearly 90 percent of the Washingtons were black, as were 75 percent of the Jeffersons, 66 percent of the Bookers, 54 percent of the Banks and 53 percent of the Mosleys.

There you go... I said it out loud and society didn't collapse.

Really... how wise is it, that anything to do with cultural differences, except in the context of annual street festivals, is off-limits?

Remember, folks... if you're not measuring... you're not managing.

So when do we get to expand the discussion to poverty and crime?

Well, you know... unless you're not really interested in finding solutions.

Harder, faster...

You've gotta love the spin... that Gloria Hallelujeh of the Grope & Flail... puts on this non-story.

Key members of Progressive Canadians to join federal Liberals

-- OTTAWA -- The entire executive and many senior members of the small political party formed by Progressive Conservatives who rejected the merger with the Canadian Alliance have decided to join the Liberals.

The Progressive Canadian Party, which expropriated the PC logo and adhered to the ideals of the old Tory party, will likely continue, said Tracy Parsons, who quit as party leader two weeks ago.

I've never even heard of this party... never mind Tracy Parsons. Maybe that's because they're dead even with the Rhinos with... how many... oh yeah, zero seats in Parliament.

According to our intrepid gal reporter though... this changes everything.

But Ms. Parsons will be taking out a Liberal membership, as will party president Jim Love, the four other members of the executive, several members of the national council, all of the CPC's Quebec organizers and many riding presidents.

Yeah, Gloria... I bet the power-brokers in Ottawa will be up all night worrying about this one.

Tracy who?

I can't wait for your next fake-scary headline.

Technorati Tags: Tracy Parsons, Progressive Canadian Party, leftwing media bias

Of course, it's sad...

When anyone dies...but enough already...

"A big, gentle man who saw his main social connection and closest friend as his mother. The last two years, he had been unemployed, collecting state benefits."

Gentle, my ass.

And don't give me any argle-bargle about police death squads.
Maybe if you don't go apeshit in a public venue and start throwing furniture around... you won't have a run-in with the police in the first place.

Oh yeah... if it's not asking too much... maybe the media and the loony left could save a little grief for actual Canadian citizens, who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country.

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Canadian death toll in Afghanistan has risen by two.

Corp. Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp of the 5th Field Ambulance in Valcartier and Pte. Michel Levesque of the Royal 22nd died early this morning.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Saw the whole video yesterday for the first time and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about, the guy (Robert Dziekanski) was freaking out throwing furniture around."

"Did he deserve to die? No, but he deserved to be restrained and that's exactly what the police did."

And...

"How on God's green earth does his 71 year old mother, with a whole 11 years in Canada, get to sponsor him as an immigrant at all, let alone a refugee?

If she has the financial resource, certainly let her sponsor him as a regular immigrant, and guarantee that her son will not immediately be a burden on the welfare state."

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LAST WORD: A note from Taser International

"Cardiac arrest caused by electrical current is immediate. The video of the incident at the Vancouver airport indicates that the subject was continuing to fight well after the TASER application."

"This continuing struggle could not be possible if the subject died as a result of the TASER device electrical current causing cardiac arrest."

Technorati Tags: Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp, Michel Levesque, suckass political correctness

Swat gets hot

If Musharraf gets his ass handed to him in the Swat Valley... it's truly the beginning of the end.

-- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The army said Saturday that it has massed 15,000 troops for a major assault on Islamic militants in a scenic northern valley, whose fall has raised concern about Pakistan's ability to withstand rising extremism.

This won't be an easy go... the "tribal areas" are the Pakistani equivalent of the wild, wild, west of 150 years ago... with automatic weapons.

Foreign fighters have allegedly joined the armed followers of Maulana Fazlullah, a pro-Taliban cleric in the valley, amplifying Western fears that swaths of Pakistan near the Afghan border offer an increasingly safe haven for al-Qaida.

I'm guessing there will be a little unofficial support from American assets stationed along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Make no mistake, this is a big one.

I got suckered by the title...

I just figured this was an article about all the Fiberal ridings in Toronto.

Shaken, not stirred...

And quite possibly spanked... Jason Cherniak visits the "Land of the Giants."

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RELATED: I dunno, Jason...

Have you ever considered dating a real conservative girl?

"Her dislikes include feed tray stoppages, tracer flareout of her NVGs and premature fixed wing strikes scattering her high-value targets."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Wait ... no ... could it be ... is it? ... yes indeedy!"

"A trifecta of boobs. With identical I.Q's."

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Ok, that's part one

Now... when will the Fiberal Party start to pay us back our two billion dollars?

-- OTTAWA -- The Harper government has reintroduced a bill to kill the controversial registry for rifles and shotguns.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says the bill means that retailers will still have to record sales of long guns, but individuals won't have to register them.

I can't wait for all the moonbats to start caterwauling about the sky falling in on Canadians... but you know what you're gonna see as a result here?

Absolutely nothing... because farmer, hunters and target shooters aren't the ones doing the killing.

In any case...

People will still need a firearms licence to buy rifles and shotguns.

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RELATED: Now... here's what the Toronto Star...

Says is going to happen

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LAST WORD: And furthermore, you can keep...

Your wine-sniffin', limousine liberal, red-meat slurrin' vegan hypocrisy all to yourself.

Or try sellin' it to the dopes who lined up all week... for a chance at a million dollar condo at Yonge & Bloor.

Golden opportunity for Dion

I know how Steffi can lock up that big-city metrosexual moonbat vote...

All he has to do is promise, if he gets to be Prime Minister... he'll replace all those nasty machine guns in Afghanistan with Tasers... confiscated from Canadian police forces.

An investigation is underway after an Afghan man died, and another was injured in a shooting involving a Canadian convoy just outside Kandahar city on Thursday.

Military officials said a taxi had approached an International Security Assistance Force convoy and ignored visual warnings to stop.

It seems the Canadian Armed Forces are having a problem with the prevailing leftbot "wait until the actual explosion to shoot back" philosophy.

For all anyone knows, these guys were simply probing to see how close an actual bomber can get. Anybody who ignores the warnings and breaches a safety perimeter... they're dogmeat... and rightly so.

In war... innocents, not-so-innocents and idiots... sometimes get hurt or killed.

The forces probably even had an estimate six years ago going into this thing... of how many of their own people would get killed by "friendly fire."

In war... people die.

"ISAF reserves the right to self defence, but every effort is made to avoid risk to civilian life while also dealing with the potential insurgent threat posed by vehicle born suicide bombers. Afghan citizens are urged to comply with the warning signs in order to prevent these incidents."

That's why they call it war and not "circle of friends" you dumb bunnies.

Suck it up.

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RELATED: Guess what?

If you're a living, breathing human being... shit happens.

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LAST WORD: If they can spare a minute...

From all their stupid yipyap about those poor Taliban prisoners... maybe the Libs and the Dippers could get behind supplying some helicopters to OUR TROOPS.

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Canadian death toll in Afghanistan has risen by two.

Col. Christian Juneau said Corp. Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp of the 5th Field Ambulance in Valcartier and Pte. Michel Levesque of the Royal 22nd died early this morning.

They were riding in a Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) that hit an IED (improvised explosive device) on a road north of a Canadian forward operating base near Bazar-e Panjwaii.

They will be remembered.

Geez... that sounds so familiar

Think any of these guys are gonna get out on bail?

-- PARIS -- French authorities have detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly trained to fight in Iraq by firing weapons in the woods of eastern France, police officials said Friday.

Six of the men are French nationals of Bosnian origin, while the seventh is Algerian, said the officials. The men ranged in age from their early 20s to mid 40s. At least one was a student; another is a teacher.

Let's ask Steffi... he's a French citizen, right?

Because Duty, Honour and Country...

Are supposed to mean something.

-- CALVERTON, N.Y. -- Mr. Picerno said the cemetery would leave empty the plot where William Hayes was exhumed, and would never bury anyone else there.

His headstone will be crushed and buried on the property. “We’ve never seen anything like this happen before, and hope it never happens again,” he said.

Attention all felons...

You call the tune, bubba... don't start whinin' if you don't like the dance...

The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill.

Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner."

You can lead a horse to water...

After that... he decides whether or not he's thirsty...

Local Iraqi forces have been celebrating what they say is a significant victory against al-Qaeda in the province of Diyala, north of Baghdad.

The men - aligned to local Sunni leaders and once anti-government fighters themselves - claim to have captured up to 60 members of al-Qaeda, including some of the group's regional leaders.

Is the Schreiber story changing?

CTV is now saying...

Meanwhile, recent court documents filed by Schreiber here in Canada alleged that he paid former prime minister Brian Mulroney $300,000 in cash payments shortly after Mulroney left office.

I thought the big bang in this sordid tale was that money allegedly changed hands before Mulroney left office.

Is Schreiber OR CTV now climbing down from that aspect of the story?

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UPDATE: WAG THE DOG

Here's the deal Karl... the only thing you're currently in charge of... is your bowel movements.

You're just the dumbass in the orange jumpsuit on the monkey side of the bars.

-- OTTAWA, TORONTO -- The man at the centre of allegations against former prime minister Brian Mulroney, Karlheinz Schreiber, served notice yesterday he would not co-operate with a public inquiry if he were extradited to Germany.

"Not one fucking word would I say," Mr. Schreiber said from the Toronto West Detention Centre. "Not one word," he repeated.

"Why would I care about the country any more? ... Why would I care any longer?"

The only thing thing this master manipulator cares about, is avoiding extradition to Germany... but I think he just overplayed his hand.

This probably would have worked on Steffi... but Stephen Harper is made of sterner stuff.

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LAST WORD: A very special welcome...

To readers of infantile, foul mouthed, proggie brown-noser "Canadian Cynic"

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Brian Mulroney, Airbust

CFB Mahatma Ghandi...

Kinda has a nice ring to it.

Dion suffers severe whiplash...

Pulling 180 degree turn on veiled voters.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberals have lost their enthusiasm for forcing veiled Muslim women to show their faces if they want to vote in federal elections.

Some Grit MPs now admit the party was wrong to jump on the bandwagon two months ago, joining the three other federal parties in demanding that Elections Canada insist all voters uncover their faces.

At the time, the parties were contesting three crucial by-elections in Quebec, where the issue of veiled voters was part of a heated debate over how far the province should go in accommodating immigrants.

You've gotta love the elasticity of conscience here... turns out Steffi is more flexible than Paris Hilton on girls night out.

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion was among those who initially urged Elections Canada to revisit its decision not to compel byelection voters to show their faces.

"It's important to identify the person. It may be done in a very respectful way but it must be done," he said at the time.

But now that the Tory government has introduced legislation to require precisely that, Dion is hinting that Liberals won't support it.

In a brief interview Thursday, Dion said cryptically that his party "thinks that the bill misses its target."

Geez, Stef... do you actually believe in anything?

Technorati Tags: Stéphane Dion, veiled voters, suckass political correctness

Ok, hang on a second...

The newspaper must have screwed something up here... it says they're punishing the victim.

-- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A Saudi court sentenced a 19-year-old woman victim of gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes — more than double the number from her initial verdict, a Saudi newspaper reported Thursday.

Holy crap... there's no typo. Apparently, here in the peaceable kingdom... everybody involved feels the weight of Allah's benevolent justice.

What the hell could this poor girl have done to deserve this kind of treatment?

Three judges from the Qatif court had initially sentenced the teenager to 90 lashes for being in the car of a man who was not her relative at the time of the rape.

Apparently though, the judges decided to spread the justice... even further.

The court also banned the woman's lawyer from defending her, confiscated his license to practice law and summoned him to a disciplinary hearing later this month.

That's some "Religion of Peace."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"So where are the outraged cries of "TORTURE" from the opposition on this? Or are they satisfied that due process was done here, as opposed to the way Taliban detainees are treated."

Ask a Prosecutor...

How he feels about chasing uber-manipulative sleazebagman Karlheinz Schreiber...

"It is my duty to bring him to trial in Germany," Mr. Nemetz said. "I can't say if the recent statements by Schreiber will delay his extradition. I am not an expert on Canadian law."

"But the sooner he comes back to Germany, the better."

Nemetz was also dismissive of Liberal Party claims that extraditing Schreiber would stall a public enquiry into his murky Canadian dealings.

"We wouldn't have any problem with co-operating with the Canadian authorities. The delaying tactics Schreiber has been using since 1999 are remarkable. It's remarkable that it obviously still works today."

Let his countrymen go his food and board for a couple of years.

According to German authorities... we can reel this bottomfeeder in anytime we need him.

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LAST WORD: Here's an even better idea...

Ask an ex-Justice Minister.

Schreiber was first arrested by the RCMP in 1999 after Germany sought to have him returned to the country to face trial.

Since then, his legal team has fought for him to stay in Canada using a series of complex court motions, which included an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of the extradition law.

Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show German officials have complained about lengthy delays in Schreiber's extradition, but Schreiber continued his legal battle.

In 2004, Irwin Cotler, who was then [Liberal] justice minister, ordered Schreiber's deportation.

But three years later, Schreiber is still in the country. In total, Schreiber has sought six judicial reviews, requested three justice ministers intervene and filed an injunction to stop his deportation.

I was wondering why Mr. Cotler wasn't offering any rabid 30 second soundbites to his gibbering, leftwing, media monkey friends.

How many "loveletters"... over the years... did Irwin get from his buddy, Karl?

Let's really get to the bottom of this thing.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Brian Mulroney, Airbust

SCOC 1 -- Aging Flower Children 0

Sorry boys... the playpen's overflowing as it is.

-- OTTAWA -- Two U.S. Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on the grounds of their opposition to the war in Iraq have lost their bids to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their cases.

The court refused Thursday to hear the appeals of Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, who were rejected by the Immigration and Refugee Board in 2005.

Ellie May proclaims... "We have to save the poor critters."

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said Canada should not “facilitate the persecution of American war objectors by deporting them to the United States.”

Canada should be a sanctuary for war resisters and their families, she said.

Because you can never have too many leftwing crybabies.

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RELATED: Still, it's an uphill battle...

When the taxpayer subsidised national broadcasting network is apparently permanently mired on some page in Mao's "Little Red Book."

Now, consider this recent news story concerning the popular children's toy "Aqua Dots" published on the CBC website.

A critical piece of information is missing from this article.

There is no mention of China being the source of these chemically infused children's toys. Why?

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LAST WORD: Oh, CC... surely not again?

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Good news for illegals...

And the otherwise plumbed.

-- SAN FRANCISCO -- The city of San Francisco has tentatively approved a program to provide identification cards to illegal immigrants, transgender people and other residents who may be unable or unwilling to get a state-issued driver's license.

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RELATED: Is this really about altruism...

Or who's gonna clean the toilets?

The city already has a "sanctuary" policy forbidding local law enforcement or other officials to assist with immigration enforcement.

"I think it’s admitting the reality of the situation that we depend on, our tourist and hotel industry depends on, a labor force that’s supplied by, for lack of a better term, undocumented residents."

Technorati Tags: San Francisco, sanctuary policy, undocumented residents

Let's not offend anybody...

By using the "T" word.

-- Rawalpindi, November 15 -- Yesterday night Pak Army Artillery guns retaliatory fire killed 40 miscreants north of Kuza Banda.

The retaliatory action was taken against miscreants mortar fire on Saidu Sharif Airport in which 2 soldiers of Frontier Constabulary met Shahadat and 8 soldiers got injured.

Reportedly miscreant’s Commander Mati Ullah was also killed during Artillery fire and his Second-in-Command Muhammad Ali is missing feared dead.

Those darn miscreants.

What exactly do you have to do...

To be kept locked up... in Dalton McGuinty's socialist paradise?

A Scarborough dad facing three counts of attempted murder for allegedly using his minivan to run down his daughter, her boyfriend and his son-in-law was ordered released on $110,000 bail yesterday.

Oh yeah, he's not a sociopath... he's a gentleman.

"This gentleman is really not a threat to anybody at all," said defence lawyer Mike Engle after his client, Selvanayagam Selladurai, 43, was freed by Superior Court Justice Faye McWatt.

I've gotta confess... I don't have any errant teenage daughters... but running them over with an automobile, for whatever reason, seems a little over-the-top.

In June, the father was driving around looking for his daughter who had not come home for a couple of days. He spotted her across the street from her high school, Stephen Leacock Collegiate, and apparently became enraged, Toronto Police alleged.

Cue music... "Everybody's beautiful..."

I was a teenager in the seventies...

And never in my wildest stoner moments, could I have imagined doing anything like this...

The veterinary drug Euthansol, used to euthanise animals, was later found in Mr. Allen's bloodstream.

When he was convicted in August, the judge agreed with the Crown, who contended Mr. Allen knowingly injected the drug.

The only problem was... he didn't take enough.

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UPDATE: Give me the Taser...

I'll do this guy myself.

Burned or buried?

Was talking with some friends tonight, about someone who had just recently died and been memorialised by friends... and this article just jumped out at me...

In theory, death care should be immune from short-term economic swings. Death is one of only two sure things in life, and the U.S. population is aging.

It seems the funeral biz is currently experiencing a bit of a downturn, due mostly to the rising popularity of cremation.

And what's not to like here... cheaper and eco-friendly.

Compared with full-on casket burials, cremation is less expensive, requires less labor and fewer materials, and doesn't involve purchasing a plot. As such, it's perfect for an era in which consumers are trading down.

Easier, cheaper... no draining out the dead guy and filling him with chemicals... man, this one's hard to argue.

I actually believe that after you die... what's left is just a slab of "soon to be spoiled meat" that should be cleaned up in fairly short order. Anybody who's ever lost a Swedish meatball down the back of the stove knows exactly what I mean.

Mrs. Neo's mom was cremated... so I have a sneaking suspicion I'm gonna end up in a crafty wooden box on a shelf in the basement... it's where all the junk we're not using inevitably ends up.

Funerals are for the living... and that's just fine with me.

Death is really such a funny sort of thing. Lots of people are seemingly too freaked out by the mere idea of not existing, to even joke about it. But somehow everybody is drawn to the flame. They're repelled and still somehow fascinated at the same time.

My wife's cousin is married to a guy, a successful businessman, who wants to give up manufacturing to put out a magazine about death. I think it'd probably be a huge success.

What I have come to realise personally... is that I am mostly pleasantly surprised to have reached solid middle age. I've always been a bit on the "glass half empty" side of things. I spent a horrendous summer the year I turned nine, making bargains with God... because I was convinced I was going to die.

Funny how remote and silly that seems right now.

Anyway, fwiw... just thought I'd throw that out there.

Technorati Tags: death, cremation, casket burials

Inspector Clouseau strikes again

From the "How not to conduct an Investigation" handbook.

-- OTTAWA -- The public inquiry into the Air India bombing heard a dramatic story Wednesday from a key former Canadian spy, who criticized the RCMP for the way in which he was forced to give up his most promising source in the Sikh community.

Sounds like this whole thing was doomed from day one.

But Mr. Eshleman told a public inquiry that the promising relationship ended abruptly through the actions of the RCMP.

The police force demanded that CSIS sever ties with the man. Then two officers showed up at the man's doorstep, flashing their badges, demanding answers on the spot.

Documents from the two RCMP officers who surprised Mr. A at his home, where he was living with others, acknowledge: “We got off on wrong foot.”

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RELATED: Take a read through the book

Salim Jiwa's first book, Death Of Air India Flight 182, was written just eight months after the disaster.

Now you can read it online for free.

Technorati Tags: Air India Flight 182, RCMP, Inspector Clouseau

Oh waiter, there's a testicle...

In my soup...

Oh, it could have been worse all right - we could be making Dog Stew or Sheep Testicles or Tongue of the Judge or one of the other recipes contained in her new book, The Axis of Evil Cookbook.

Of course... there is the obligatory, new age, politically correct catch here...

She's only tested the vegetarian recipes, so if you make the sheep's testicles and they taste slightly off, feel free to drop her a line.

So with meat off the menu and fish clearly a touchy subject, we're forced into the world of legumes. A good thing that most of America's enemies eat a bean- and grain-rich diet, then.

And what's a morality tale without a moral.

They'd surely outlive their Denny's-scarfing rivals, if not for the diseases and suicide bombings and food shortages and such.

Rolling the Dice

Here's another interesting consequence of our contemporary "anything goes" society.

Four transplant recipients in Chicago have contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade in which the virus was spread by organ transplants.

The organs also gave all four patients hepatitis C, in what health officials said was the first reported instance in which the two viruses were spread simultaneously by a transplant.

Couldn't happen to you, or anyone you know, right?

About 9 percent of organ donors qualify as high-risk based on behaviors like prostitution or drug use with needle-sharing. Transplant experts say the percentage would probably be higher if they had full information on all donors.

Party on, dude.

I'm not much on religion myself...

But this sounds about right...

"Even a few second's (mature) thought leads to the conclusion that, nice as the concept sounds initially, an all-inclusive heaven is an unjust heaven, because the evil and the good receive the same reward."

"Which, come to think of it, is basically the Democratic Party platform."

Idiots, explosives & falling anvils

Anybody else see Steffi and the Stooges embarrassing themselves on the news tonight?

I guess Stef was so pumped about his moment in the sun... he didn't realise that the Prime Minister had just announced a full public enquiry into the Mulroney allegations... so his angry posturing a moment later... demanding that self-same enquiry... came off looking like a demented senior's moment.

You've also gotta love the manufactured outrage over the Conservative's failure to immediately jump on the so-called "smoking gun" Schreiber evidence.

-- OTTAWA -- Karlheinz Schreiber sent copies of red-hot documents to the Liberals and NDP two weeks ago detailing correspondence with Prime Minister Stephen Harper but neither party reacted to the provocative contents.

Still... you never wanna let the facts get in the way of disingenuous leftbot theatre.

Still, the opposition hammered away at Harper today over his insistence that he never saw any letters sent to him by the controversial German businessman in 2006 and 2007.

These guys just have no shame.

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RELATED: Why Irish Eyes are still smiling

And then there's the strange circumstance of former Trudeau cabinet minister Marc LaLonde ponying up bail for Karlheinz Schreiber.

Curiouser and curiouser.

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LAST WORD: Oh, Steffi... always a bridesmaid

-- OTTAWA -- Canadians say the Conservative government deserves the benefit of the doubt over the Brian Mulroney controversy, while rejecting the notion of giving a similar break to the former prime minister.

A new Strategic Counsel poll for The Globe and Mail/CTV News finds that 66 per cent of those surveyed believe the allegations about Mr. Mulroney are totally unrelated to the current Conservative government, while only 19 per cent think they are related.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Brian Mulroney, Airbust

The bride wore orange...

And ran around sniffing everybody's butt.

We're Number One... we're Number...

These statistics are actually from the United States... but I can't imagine Canada is too far behind.

-- ATLANTA -- More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year — the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.

"A new U.S. record," said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Good work people! Let's keep that mindless, unprotected promiscuity ball rolling.

Remember, the single most important thing to consider here is your personal pleasure.

Responsibility is for all those old, uptight conservatives.

More bad news: Gonorrhea rates are jumping again after hitting a record low, and an increasing number of cases are caused by a "superbug" version resistant to common antibiotics, federal officials said Tuesday.

Syphilis is rising, too. The rate of congenital syphilis — which can deform or kill babies — rose for the first time in 15 years.

Gimme, gimme, gimme... the mantra of the loony left.

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RELATED: How exactly does this work?

Do you drop your, uh... goods off at the recycling center?

-- BEIJING (AFP) -- Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday.

(via DMB)

Technorati Tags: chlamydia, superbug, Centers for Disease Control

Logical Reduction

Gotta love that rectal floss.Peruse the growing collection.

First it was the New York Times

Now it's the Wall Street Journal.

-- ADELAIDE, Australia -- News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue.

“We are studying it and we expect to make that free, and instead of having one million (subscribers), having at least 10 million-15 million in every corner of the earth,” Murdoch said.

If at first you don't succeed...

Try kicking that whiny little Steffi creature... yet again.

-- OTTAWA -- The federal Conservative government is reintroducing two Senate reform bills Tuesday that went nowhere during the last session of Parliament.

The Senate elections bill was not enthusiastically received by opposition parties and was essentially allowed to languish on the order paper.

Reform it, or better yet... burn it to the ground.

I guess he'd rather have...

A little girl on girl action...

Ok, folks... settle down... feminist and all-around shining ethical model "Slick Willie" is just being chivalrous.

It’s a Southern thing, not a gender thing.

That was the explanation from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign for a new remark by former President Bill Clinton, who had this to say yesterday about his wife’s (all-male) presidential rivals: “Those boys have been getting tough on her lately.”

Yeah... take it easy, guys... she's just a girl.

Operatives in all three camps argued that the Clintons were keeping a “boys vs. girl” story line alive to try to stoke sympathy for Mrs. Clinton — something Clinton advisers emphatically deny.

An Edwards spokesman, Chris Kofinis, said, “With all due respect, there’s nothing really tough about answering questions — John Edwards does it every day.”

I'm just waiting...

For some bottom-feeding leftbot lawyer... to start yammering about the Charter of Rights and free speech.

-- BELLEVILLE -- Veterans say they're "very disgusted" with the actions of a 24-year-old man who allegedly spat on a Belleville war memorial on Remembrance Day.

Moments before vets were set to march off to a service to remember their fallen comrades Sunday morning, the man wandered up a path at Belleville Armouries to the cenotaph and spat on the stone memorial. A Belleville police officer witnessed the act and arrested the man. The man was brought to police headquarters on criminal charges.

Government sponsored whorehouses, medical facilities where junkies can shoot up in comfort... and a condescending, delusional "everyone is beautiful, in their own way" ethic... continues to lead us down this dark, overgrown garden path.

"I'm very disgusted about the whole thing," said World War II veteran and the regiment's honourary lieutenant-colonel, Bob Wigmore.

Charged with mischief and breach of probation is Ryan Kish, a Belleville resident with no fixed address.

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RELATED: The other side of the coin

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LAST WORD: Duty, honour, country

"Now I keep thinking of the old man with whom I waited 63 years ago. Wherever he is now, in 1987 he was still sitting an arm's length away from me at Sunnybrook Hospital.

It took him 50 days to make the 10-mile trip from the beaches to Caen, and I can write this column only because he got there in time."

Technorati Tags: Remembrance Day, Ryan Kish, Belleville, Ontario

Absolutely everybody...

Regardless of cost, logistics or its effect on anyone else... must have absolutely anything their little hearts desire.

-- MONTPELIER, Vermont -- Patty Cooper's landlord normally welcomes tenants who use animals to help them get around, such as guide dogs for the blind.

Well, that sounds pretty reasonable. So what's the problem here?

So after the disabled woman bought a 32-inch (81-centimeter) tall miniature horse to pull her wheelchair, she asked to keep the animal in her home. When her landlord rejected the request, she filed a human rights complaint.

Wow... talk about hard-hearted... I mean, what's a little horseshit among friends?

Cooper, 50, paid $1,000 for the 1-year-old gelding named Earl, expecting to use it for trips to the bus stop and into town. The agency that owns the apartment complex in Waitsfield denied her proposal, citing concern about horse droppings, hay storage and lack of grazing space.

Cooper insists the 100-pound (45-kilo) tobiano pinto can be house-trained and said it "just makes me so happy whenever I'm around him. I'm not lonely anymore."

Talk about unreasonable.

It's not like she wanted a water-buffalo.

TIME MACHINE

In 1977, I was 20 years old...

"If you look at that picture quickly, it looks like Mr. Bob "No-pants" Saget has his hand in the other guy's pocket."

"In this case, he doesn't, although you can tell just by looking at them that it's happened - or if it hasn't happened it will. Oh yes. It will."

"As soon as he puts down his color-coordinated coffee cup."

(via SDA)

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I remember the 70s well and I would characterize it as the 'do it' decade."

"Nothing was done then for any practical reasons, it was all about what you could do just for the sake of doing it."

It's all relative I guess...

Maybe hookers aren't so bad after all... I'm just glad we don't have monkeys.

After all, it's just free enterprise...

Yeah, sure... once you get past the images of your daughter blowin' unwashed serial freakazoids in a government-owned trailer park... it's all about the freedom...

When there is a demand there will always be someone to fill that demand. The only thing that we are doing is creating an unsafe and often unclean environment for both the customer and the sex provider.

Help me out here... first you take taxpayer monies and set up a medically supervised spa for our kids to fill their veins with poison.

Now you wanna set up whorehouses on the public dime?

I gotta say... that Harper majority government can't come soon enough for me.

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RELATED: Speaking of majority government

-- OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is soaring up as the top pick of most Canadians to lead the country, while Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has plummeted to third spot behind the NDP’s Jack Layton, a new poll has found.

SES pollster Nik Nanos said the results are big news for Harper, who has cracked opened a 20-point lead from his nearest rival in the leadership popularity contest. The results deliver the worst news for Dion, who has fallen 10 points in the last 90 days.

Harper’s popularity is growing in vote-rich Quebec, which is expected to be a key battleground in the next federal election. In that province, 41% said they think he would make the best prime minister, up from 24% three months ago.

Technorati Tags: government-owned whorehouses, safe-injection site, majority government

Why blame the triggerman...

When you can simply point fingers at the cops...

Pieters said yesterday the province failed to protect a Crown witness who testified against his accused killer after intervening in a swarming and saving a friend's life.

He said Latchana, also known as O.G., was not a Crips member and challenges Peel investigators to prove their claims.

So Selwyn... everybody in "the community" knew this guy was gonna be killed... but the cops hung him out to dry?

How do you know that?

Pieters said the threats to kill Latchana were publicly made in two songs accusing the victim of being a snitch.

One song said, "don't let me catch you 'cause those guns will spark ... I will find you after dark, I don't give a fuck man, 'cause the time is soft."

"I'll murder everybody in your family tree."

Ah yes... the healing power of hip-hop.

Now, call me wacky... but if I'm the acknowledged target of "a gang vendetta"... which Selwyn claims everybody and their dog knew about... I'm thinkin' spending all night gettin' wasted at the local boozecan might be a pretty dumb idea.

Of course, if Selwyn is suggesting that police should arrest ANY rapper who uses violent or abusive lyrics in their work... we've got a whole new ball game here.

Selwyn?

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UPDATE: Peel Police respond to accusations

Peel Police insisted today that investigators never knew that David Lachana, who was shot dead Nov. 3, was marked for death.

The force is also standing by its claims that Lachana's death was gang-related and that the young man was involved with the notorious Crips gang.

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LAST WORD: Toronto Star eulogises O'Neil Grant

-- KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Nothing was stolen. Police say the killing looks like a targeted hit.

"He was wanted and they came and got him," says Det. Robert Thompson, who is investigating the case, adding he has no idea who wanted Grant dead or why.

Most puzzling to Thompson was the Toronto Star's interest in the killing. This, after all, is a country where this year some 1,200 people have so far been killed – 80 per cent of them with guns.

Strangely enough... there's a "blame the cops, not the killer" theme here as well.

Det. Thompson says "it's only a matter of time" before Grant's murderer is arrested. Grant's friends dismiss that as fodder for foreign consumption. They fear police are more interested in keeping Grant's belongings than solving the crime.

Yeah... that makes sense.

Technorati Tags: David Latchana, Selwyn Pieters, O'Neil Grant

It's a mystery...

But don't worry... Stephane Dion has renamed his dog... "Nancy Drew".

-- OTTAWA -- “There is a cover-up somewhere,” Mr. Dion said. “The Prime Minister has a lot to explain. What did he know? When did he know it?”

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UPDATE: The Truth is out there

DMB discovers "secret" Dion cloning initiative

Nobody, except maybe Garth himself...

Ever said Garth Turnip was a genius... but really, Big G... "You just can't figure out what's goin' on here?"

-- OTTAWA -- Several MPs are concerned about a new security measures in Parliament, including the previously unarmed House of Commons security service being issued with batons and the possibility that they may one day carry sidearms.

The shift, including the presence of armed security constables in civilian clothing at all public entrances to buildings housing MPs within the parliamentary precinct, has been gradual under new Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers.

It's true... I don't think any of those guys they arrested in Toronto last year, said anything about beheading Garth specifically.

Let's face it, though... any reasonable person who's ever heard him prattling on... has surely thought about locking him in a dark, damp basement for the rest of his life.

"I don't know what the threat is," said Mr. Turner. "I don't understand, as a guy who works in these buildings all day like you, why we need people to protect us with sticks and guns."

Is this guy for real?

Maybe if there is an incident on Parliament Hill... the smarter, faster members can use Garth as a shield.

It sure sounds like he's dense enough to stop bullets.

(h/t reader richard)

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FLASHBACK: He's a smooth operator...

You remember that drunken voice inside your head that seductively whispered, "Sure it looks like a really long way... from the roof to the swimming pool... but you know can do it."

Well... that's Garth Turner.

Technorati Tags: Garth Turner, Parliament Hill, falling off the turnip truck

If their army were as warlike...

As their football fans... Italy wouldn't be the Peewee Herman of the military world.

-- BBC News, Rome -- Fans fought running battles with police and a 38-year-old officer was killed. A total of 29 people were arrested, several of them under the age of 18.

Apparently, in present day Italy... this sort of insanity is just regarded as part of the game.

To those who follow Italian football, the violence, while appalling, was not surprising. It is now endemic at Italian stadiums. There is a growing core of fans for whom the game is incidental - they come to the stadium to fight and many of them come armed.

Investigators say they discovered the remains of crude bombs, weapons and drugs after Friday night's Catania game.

Funny... Italy's troops in Afghanistan probably have it easier than the police back home right now. In fact, Canadian casualties are currently running at seven times what the Italian contingent has suffered... and I don't think it's because Canadians are clumsier.

Maybe Italy should think about shipping some sports fans to Kabul.

They could kill two birds with one stone.

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UPDATE: Hot-blooded... or just crazy

Sunday's violence erupted after the shooting of Gabriele Sandri, 26, at a motorway service station.

Around 40 police were injured in the nationwide disorder.

The Lazio fan, from Rome, was hit by a bullet in the neck as he sat in a car while police tried to stop fighting between followers of his team and Juventus supporters.

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LAST WORD: Sign of the times

Quaint Italian hill towns. Who would have thought they would have CCTV? Apparently not the prime suspects involved in the Meredith Kercher murder.

Technorati Tags: Eurotrash, soccer hooligans, mandatory enlistment

The Ontario Hunger Report...

"To be released Thursday... found almost 320,000 Ontario residents depend on food banks every month... said the study by the Ontario Association of Food Banks."

So, if I'm reading this right... the food bank lobby group has identified an incredible need for massive, emergency funding... for food banks?

Well... you've gotta love the chutzpah.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I don't owe anyone dinner."

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LAST WORD: Hey, Mr Wizard... do the math

But I still live in Toronto, and it's Thanksgiving, which means I have to listen to constant b.s. from the poverty industry, telling me I need to donate tins of tuna to the local food bank because "900,000 Torontonians" rely on the food banks.

In a city of 3,000,000, tops.

Journalists and social workers both suck at math. No one I know uses food banks. No one THEY know uses food banks.

Technorati Tags: food bank, Ontario Association of Food Banks, suckass political correctness

Reprise - We Remember

They stood up and fought for us. Today we honour the memory and the sacrifice of our brave veterans.

After the Great War, Canada was never the same. More than 600,000 of a population of barely eight million served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Of those, 60,000 were killed and another 154,000 wounded.

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I?

Search the WWI CEF database

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

Search Commonwealth War Graves database

My wife's grandfather (in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones... who got to come back and have a family and live out a long, productive life.

It's important to remember... "Freedom isn't Free."

Technorati Tags: Remembrance Day, Canada, Canadian Armed Forces

The Toronto Red Star

In its relentless pinko zeal... to yet again shit on the Prime Minister of Canada... outdoes itself for Remembrance Day...

(via SDA)

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RELATED: Dishonouring a grieving mother

When the mother of Lane Watkins, a young Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan, commented on her terrible loss -- "They deserve your respect. In supporting them, you'll make our loss much easier to bear" -- guess which Canadian Blogger had to go out of his way to spit in her face.

"With all due respect, Wanda, fuck you and your grief. It's not the job of the rest of Canada to continue to let its soldiers die just so you can sleep better at night.

At this point, I don't give a rat's ass about making you feel better for your loss now that I know that the price is other peoples' lives.

Fuck you and the politically-motivated, neo-con propaganda train you rode in on.

Rise up lefties... and celebrate your shining Prophet.

Technorati Tags: Remembrance Day, Wanda Watkins, Lane Watkins

I'll bet you didn't know...

About the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice... at Arlington National Cemetery.

It was in this spirit of friendship that in 1925 Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King first proposed a memorial to the large number of United States citizens who enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces, and lost their lives during World War I.

Because the Canadians entered the war long before the United States, many Americans enlisted in Canada to join the fighting in Europe.

Technorati Tags: Canadian Cross of Sacrifice, Arlington National Cemetery, Remembrance Day

Suck it up...

All you professional victims and perpetual whiners... and have the courage to address the real issues... that are feeding this culture of acceptable failure.

-- TORONTO -- Canadian public schools offer a good, fair and colour-blind education to every child in this country.

Teachers are not racist and if anything the trend of teaching and teaching theory is acutely liberal and leads people to bend over backwards, or leftwards, to accommodate all minorities and reject the host culture.

You can sit there in your welfare hellhole and blame it on "The Man"... or you can take some responsibility for the choices you have made and bust your ass to make things better.

Choose.

Choose wisely.

Technorati Tags: Africentric, ebonics, Michael Coren

Further indisputable proof...

That there are way too many lawyers in North America.

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RELATED: More inmates running the asylum

The Canadian owner of an "urban, funky, punky" hair salon is being sued for religious discrimination for refusing to hire a Muslim woman in a headscarf as a stylist.

The owner of the establishment responds...

"If an employee were wearing a baseball cap or cowboy hat I would ask them to remove it at work."

Yup... let's accommodate every last freakin' whiner... "for better or diverse."

Trying to make a difference

I hope Taliban Jack has the decency to keep his trash-talkin' pinko piehole firmly shut... at least for the next 36 hours...

Blake Williamson did not die in a blaze of glory. He did not single-handedly mount an attack, or take swaths of territory from unsuspecting Taliban. He fell as most soldiers killed in battle do.

Suddenly, without warning.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Is it just me or does anybody else find it ironic that Jack would have us negotiate with the Taliban yet he sees no possibility for the feds and the provinces to negotiate senate reform?"

Given their position...

On championing the rights of death-row detritus... I'm surprised Steffi and the Fiberals didn't try to intervene here.

-- WOODSTOCK, N.B. -- A convicted murderer who escaped custody by mailing himself out of a U.S. prison is back in the hands of U.S. authorities.

A handcuffed Richard Lee McNair was driven to a border checkpoint in Woodstock, N.B., with an escort from the Mounties, the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed yesterday.

"He was escorted to the New Brunswick-Maine border by the Canada Border Services Agency officers and was handed over to the U.S. Marshals Office."

McNair was serving 3 life sentences in the United States, which means, in Canada... with good behaviour and the backing of the loony left... he could have been panhandling on Yonge St. before Christmas.

"It's just not fair."

Hey China...

Like a wise man once sang... "You can't always get what you want."

CBC plans to air a slightly reworked documentary on the Falun Gong on Nov. 20, ending a rift that forced the film's prime-time English debut to be abruptly cancelled this past week.

Beyond the Red Wall will explore allegations of torture, labour camps and executions of Falun Gong members in China, but clarify sources it uses to delve into allegations that China harvests organs from dead prisoners.

The documentary will also fine tune the way it portrays protesters who burned themselves alive in Tiananmen Square, self-immolations that Beijing and the Falun Gong accuse each other of perpetrating.

The fact is, by intervening and creating a media shitstorm, the Chinese government actually ensured that the audience for this film will be significantly larger.

The film's director said that, in the end, everything worked out for the best. “Of course, I'm pleased the attention paid will mean far more Canadians will learn about the persecution of the Falun Gong,” Mr. Rowe said.

Make sure you tune in.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"It would take an intervention by the Chinese government to get someone to watch the CBC."

Technorati Tags: CBC, leftwing media bias, Falun Gong

Don't stand under any windows...

At the Toronto Star building tonight.

-- OTTAWA -- Fuelled by unprecedented support in Quebec, the federal Conservative party has zoomed to 42 per cent support among decided voters, a high water mark that puts Prime Minister Stephen Harper closer to his goal of winning a majority government, a new national Ipsos-Reid poll says.

(via NATNEWS aggregator)

Technorati Tags: majority government, Ipsos-Reid, Conservative Party

It is...

The Greatest Scam in history.

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RELATED: And while we're on science

"There isn't an experienced domestic animal breeder on the planet who doesn't acknowledge the profound influence of genetics on intelligence and behavior.

Traits such as trainability, aggression, prey drive, docility, bite inhibition are highly heritable and difficult to modify."

Meet Rompin' Ronnie Smith...

The multiple murderer and death row dumbass... that Steffi and the Liberals want to bring back to Canada.

"The whole idea in Canada has been to try and rehabilitate prisoners if possible," Smith said in a prison meeting room.

"Why shouldn't I have the opportunity, just because I came down to the United States and killed somebody?"

"I was kind of dumbstruck," Smith said. "I mean, you go from one day - 'Oh yeah, we're supporting clemency, we're going to try to get you home' - to 'You're on your own, dude.'"

"What the hell's going on?"

Geez, Ronnie... funny you should mention hell.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"everyone in the country, apart from the rednecks at the blogging tories, have been shocked at harper's govt's decision to abandon clemency appeals on behalf of expat canadians."

Posted by Jeff Davidson to halls of macadamia at 10:11 PM, November 09, 2007

Well, Jeffy... not according to tonights poll at Global National.


Is that what your adoring public is is telling you?

I kinda' doubt it.

Technorati Tags: Ronald Allen Smith, Harvey Mad Man, Thomas Running Rabbit

You wanna see leftwing media bias?

Here's how those "scary, hidden" fables get started.

News aggregator National Newswatch tries to outpinko the Toronto Star.

Oh yeah... the actual quote here...

"It would be fair to say that he is not particularly receptive to that approach."

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UPDATE: Let's get a second opinion

"McGuinty pitched the need for more money to start work on the proposed Move Ontario 2020 transit expansion. He also said he'd made a pitch for more money for a job creation fund.

He wouldn't reveal what promises he'd received from Harper. "He listened intently," McGuinty said."

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LAST WORD: NATNEWS replies to my email

Apparently Paul at National Newswatch got caught when the Star "disappeared" the original headline. Oh yeah, I also found a picture of the Red Star's print edition.
Over to Paul from NATNEWS...

"Wow... how quick people turn on the messenger. That headline was taken directly from the source!!!"

"The TO Star obviously took heat over it and changed it. Since when did NNW start torquing headlines? I have posted a screen shot of the original headline as it appeared in the TO Star when it first went up this AM. The screenshot is from Google News' cache of the story."

"I thought you had more sense than that!"

Sorry, Paul... I only know what I see when I hit the links myself.

Here's a thought... perhaps your original post should have been about the Red Star torquing the story to fit their bias... instead of passing the "obvious cant" along as fact?

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LAST WORD: A very special welcome...

To readers of foul mouthed, proggie brown-noser "Canadian Cynic"

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

-- PS -- The silly, self-misnamed Red Tory... (yeah, I'm a Blue Liberal)... also weighs in and once again... showing off his best chops... laps up the Cynic's sour vomit.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

The cc character opines the comments here are "stupid" and "classless" and then one reads the boy's "greatest hits"...yup, that cynic boy is chock full of class and a boy genius...yeeeesh.

Well... he sure seems to have some issues with women.

Technorati Tags: Toronto Star, National Newswatch, leftwing media bias

Let's just...

Drive a stake through its heart and bury this monster...

The Bloc Québécois and Liberals said Thursday that by cutting the contract short, the Tory government has spent money without any purpose and is only attempting to further its plan to kill the gun registry altogether.

Here's something nobody seems to be talking about... once you stop harassing farmers, deer hunters and target shooters and go back to registering handguns... which, by the way, we've been doing since the 1930's... you just don't need an ever-expanding 2 billion dollar infrastructure and bureaucracy.

"The minister and the government are comfortable with the decision to cancel the contract. It's a good management decision to prevent wasting more money," said Jacques Gagnon, press secretary for Public Works Minister Michael Fortier.

If the Opposition truly believes this is such a dealbreaker... then let them bring down the Conservative government.

It's their call.

Technorati Tags: Michael Fortier, fiberal smoke and mirrors, Farmer Bob Rifle Registry

Well, since the Liberals are promising...

To raise taxes and go to bat for convicted death row killers... these guys don't really sound all that outrageous.

-- OTTAWA -- The Rhinos are back and they're hoping to lure voters with the tantalizing promise of weekly orgasms - and marijuana in every pot.

Among its other campaign planks: Replace soldiers' weapons with paintball guns; create a national gas-barbecue registry; and replace the Defence Department with a Ministry of Laughter.

Sounds like the Rhinos may just split that loony leftbot vote.

Architect of Doom

Despite all the yipyap about David Latchana wanting to be an architect... it turns out this guy wasn't headed anywhere... but up in smoke.

-- MALTON -- A young man mourned at his funeral yesterday for close family ties was a member of the Crips street gang, Peel Regional police told reporters later.

Homicide officers said two men accused in the Saturday execution-style death of David Latchana, 23, were also members of the same gang.

Apparently though, even being a murdered gangbanger... isn't enough to turn off the delusional hero-worship tap.

But at Humberlea Church of God memorial, relatives who closed the service to the media, spoke only of his love for his relatives and as a Pied Piper role model for little nieces and nephews.

"He was like a hero," David Latchana's aunt Allison said before the 90-minute funeral in the Steeles Ave. W. and Hwy 27 area church.

"I have a little girl who wants to be just like him ... there are over 20 kids in the family and they'd follow him everywhere," said the aunt whose nephew used her middle name and called her "Auntie Ann" but she did not want to give her last name.

Holy crap, lady... your little girl wants to be "a gangbanger"?

Everybody's always talking about a lack of role models, in the various "ethnic communities."

It sure sounds like it's more a case, of choosing them "less than wisely."

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RELATED: The gang's all here

Peel Police homicide inspector Norm English said today that David Latchana, 23, was "executed" over a dispute among fellow members of the Crips gang when he was shot to death about 3:45 a.m. on Nov. 3.

Jason Hay, 19, and Demar Nigil Duntin, 22, have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the killing.

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LAST WORD: Fighting back in Vancouver

Technorati Tags: David Latchana, Jason Hay, Crips