CBC unleashes inner Jihadi...

...with screaming headline... "Afghan father wants revenge for children's deaths.""If I ever get the chance, I will kill the Canadians," Mohammed said.Well, revenge... and a pile of cash...Mohammed described himself as a poor man who only had enough money to pay for the taxi ride to Kandahar and said Canadians should help him out.No word yet from the CEEB... on whether a payout will preclude ol' Mo...

We're gonna have a party

Steffi must be so pleased... what with all his recent bravado about bringing down the government...Mr. Harper says the Tories will be pushing ahead with their legislative agenda – and, he says, “you can bet some of these will be confidence motions.”**********RELATED: And while we're on "vote of confidence"Stephen Taylor gets mail..."It should be troubling for Dion to learn that there are members...

Remember...

...friends don't let friends... vote Liberal... -- MONTREAL -- Chuck Guite has failed in his bid to get the Quebec Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction on fraud charges related to the sponsorship scandal.Mr. Guite, a former bureaucrat, was in charge of the federal sponsorship program where friends of the federal Liberals were paid in the 1990s for little or no wor...

Apparently, it's Chinese for...

"Screw you and your dangerous, irresponsible democracies."Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee spokesman Sun Weide says journalists will have what he called "sufficient and convenient" Internet access.Sun told reporters Chinese authorities will - with the exception of websites the Chinese deem illegal - provide full access to the Internet to facilitate their reporting during the Olympic game...

It's a start...

...as Fiberals try to firm up their non-existent "tough on crime" credentials...Kicking trouble-making tenants out of public housing could get a lot easier if the province embraces landmark private member's legislation coming this fall, but whether Toronto Community Housing will embrace the measure isn't clear.Under the proposed legislation, tenants tired of neighbours dealing crack, hiding guns or...

Sure, I was just thinking...

...the crime rate drops any lower... we'll have to start laying off cops..."I was just reading a book and all of a sudden I heard a guy screaming. I turned around and the guy sitting right beside me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife." "Right in the throat. Repeatedly."And then it got worse.**********RELATED: The horror doesn't stop there“There are signs of violence on...

Has anybody else...

...heard about "demographic inversion"?In the past three decades, Chicago has undergone changes that are routinely described as gentrification, but are in fact more complicated and more profound than the process that term suggests. A better description would be "demographic inversion." Chicago is gradually coming to resemble a traditional European city--Vienna or Paris in the nineteenth century, or,...

Carbon-credit...

...where credit is due... -- EARTH -- "They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold." "Fools! Why didn't they heed me before it was too late?"Al Gore—or, as he is known...

I'm guessin' he'll just have to fish...

...'cos there's no way his handlers are lettin' him anywhere near... any kind of sharp objects...“Mr. Dion must decide to fish or cut bait. He must either let the current Parliament work and let us go on with our mandate, or the voters themselves will decide.”**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"Funny how the 33 comments at the Globe don't exist anymore...

Okay... so I was wrong

The sorta thriving metropolis of Belleville, Ontario... does have a hooker problem...Less than a block away, another well-known prostitute trolled up Front Street wearing a black miniskirt, red suede cowboy boots and hair pulled back in pigtails. As she slowly made her way up the Front Street sidewalk, the woman worked theatrically to make flirting eye contact with any men who came across her path.Of...

As Kate is wont to say...

"I'm praying for an asteroid...

More international arse-kissing

Somebody explain it to me again... why does the international community quietly put up with this sort of assault on personal freedoms? -- BEIJING -- Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive Web sites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted today.And the most galling thing is... they look you right in the face and lie.China...

"Lucy... joo got some 'splaining..."

I've also looked at Warman's reputation and said, essentially: "You're suing me because I reported that you wrote an anti-Black comment on a website, using a false name?""But you've already admitted, under oath, to writing hundreds of anti-Black, anti-Semitic and anti-gay comments on neo-Nazi websites under false names...

Land of Billionaires

-- HARARE, Zimbabwe -- On Wednesday, central bank governor Gideon Gono announced he was dropping 10 zeros from the currency, to turn 10 billion dollars into one, effective Friday. That comes a week after he introduced a 100 billion-dollar note that was not enough to buy a loaf of bread.But, hey......

Not the 'angle of the dangle'

Organizers of the Beijing Olympics have set up a sex-determination laboratory to evaluate “suspect” female athletes, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Sunday.Although only athletes whose gender has been questioned will be tested in Beijing, the lab is a relic of an earlier Olympic era, when every female athlete was required to submit to a sex-verification test before competing in the...

Respected Community Leader?

Looks like that's about to change. -- TORONTO -- "The police are liars Dudley. You think they're nice? They're wicked," she said. "That's why some of them will die a bad death you know.""People are going to put bullets in their heads."Steele was once in serious consideration for appointment to the Toronto Police Services Board.People, Valerie? Not anyone you know, surel...

So who's watching the CBC?

If we actually have a similar oversight authority here in Canada... I sure haven't seen any evidence of it...The BBC has been fined £400,000 by media watchdog Ofcom for misleading its audiences by "faking" phone-ins. The Comic Relief, Children in Need and Sport Relief TV shows were caught up in the scandal, along with Liz Kershaw on 6 Music and Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show. In July 2007, Ofcom fined...

The good news, I suppose, is...

...it could always be worse....ONE of Hugo Chávez’s lesser-known feats since taking over as Venezuela’s leader in 1999 is to have presided over a tripling of the annual homicide rate—and that’s according to the official statistics. Last year more than 13,000 people were killed in a country of 27m, producing a murder rate of 48 per 100,000, the second highest in the world (after El Salvador). In neighbouring...

More Gangs and Guns

The bodies just keep on piling up. -- VANCOUVER -- Hung Van Bui survived the hail of bullets that killed two and wounded six a year ago at the Fortune Happiness Restaurant, described as one of the worst shootings in city history.But he did not survive what police called a targeted hit in South Vancouver on Monday night.Mr. Bui was known to police, and was believed to be involved in the drug trade,...

Just you wait...

...until Mayor Miller shuts down all the target ranges... and sends those nasty Olympic hopefuls packing...Toronto Police appear to have yet another gun murder on their hands, after the victim of a weekend shooting succumbed to his wounds in hospital Tuesday.Twenty-year-old Dominic Shearer-Hanomansingh...

Talk about delicious irony...

...everybody's favourite pottymouth screwball, the loudly self-celebrated Canadian Cynic... once again confusing clumsy sarcasm for wit... calls for Stephen Taylor to start censoring the Blogging Tories..."But I'm sure I'm overreacting here, Stephen. I'm sure there's nothing to be concerned over."Well...

Yeah... the bloodthirsty military

Which hasn't used the death penalty in almost fifty years... -- WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Monday approved the first execution by the military since 1961, upholding the death penalty of an Army private convicted of a series of rapes and murders more than two decades ago.Although the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty in the military in 1996, no one has been executed...

Just another reason...

...the French get so little respect...The French couple said it was because they had children but no jobs and no cash that they turned to the Internet to sell pictures and videos of their sexual hijinks at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in northern France.Apparently, they had enough welfare money from the socialist nanny-state for digital cameras and computers to set up "Exhibitionists-R-Us."Funny...

That's it... I'm buying a doberman

Apparently, nowadays... all the kids are doin' it...Breaking into locks once reeked of criminality; if you dared to try it, you did so in secret, because if you were spotted, folks would assume you were up to no good. Now, picking locks has gone legit.Recreational lock pickers meet regularly in community...

Searing Toronto Star article...

...reveals the sorry state of child-rearing in Canada...Children in some poorer areas of Mexico are farther ahead in kindergarten than the average Canadian kid, says new research led by renowned expert Dr. Fraser Mustard.Well, that would certainly explain the thousands of refugees from Canada trying to sneak across the Mexican border.Need a further testimonial?“It’s a lot of good experiences in the...

The Leftosphere loses it's mind...

...but what this comes down to, in a mere matter of seconds, is... "Would you bet your life?"The incident illustrates the predicament facing soldiers confronted by an erratic driver on the chaotic roads of Kandahar -- either they open fire and risk killing an innocent Afghan or hold their fire and risk being killed by a suicide bomber.And actually... it's even more complex than that.Would you bet...

The Loony Leftbot Challenge

Offer made...And accepted...

From your lips...

...to my severed ear...Link at Jagwire has mor...

Please, Mayor Miller...

...you have to hurry up... and shut down all those evil target ranges. -- TORONTO -- A 20-year-old man was fighting for his life last night after he was shot in the head in front of hundreds of people while handing out flyers at Jamaica Day celebrations.Jamaica Day organizer Karen Jenkins said the 18-year-old festival can't be responsible for what happens outside the park."This happened outside...

First, we kill all the pilgrims

There must be some sort of... however twisted... logic here -- but I've gotta say, I sure don't get it...Reuters television showed police, firemen and other workers washing blood and clearing debris from the street at the scene of one of blasts. A Reuters witness saw workers collecting pieces of flesh and body parts.The blasts occurred near the Karrada district in central Baghdad, an area many pilgrims...

They Shoot Babies... Don't They?

I don't understand it... violent criminal gangs usually respond so well to community initiatives. -- HOBBEMA, Alta. -- A 16-year-old boy is dead following a pair of gun complaints at an aboriginal reserve south of Edmonton that has been plagued by gang violence.Investigators said they believe both incidents were gang related, and that they’ve detained two men for questioning.In April, 23-month-old...

A Few Good Moment...

...is all he have ask for...When reminded that he said last week that more and more Canadians want an election, Mr. Dion said that was because of a number of recent provincial votes. “It's a responsibility on my shoulders that I feel, and I will choose the good moment.”BLINK.**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"That would actually be damn funny, if Dion finally did grow a spine and introduce a no-confidence...

10,000 chimps, 10,000 typewriters

I think I've discovered the geniuses... behind Britain's latest enigmatic wave of social engineering...British prisoners have two ways to earn video game privileges: they can either earn credit for good behavior or, barring that, they can be suicidal. Only inmates on the highest level of Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) and those at risk of suicide will be allowed to play computer game...

Cold-blooded bombers...

...kill 15 in Turkey. -- ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Two bombs exploded minutes apart in a packed Istanbul square Sunday night, killing 15 and injuring more than 150 in what the city governor said was a terror attack."We know it is a terrorist attack, but which organization is responsible — we don't yet have that information," Deputy Prime Minister Hayati Yazici told journalists at the scene of the...

That's the problem...

...with tryin' to steal home... you gotta watch out for the squeeze play...Israeli commandos killed 25-year-old Shihab al-Natsheh, a top commander of the Islamic militant group Hamas, in the West Bank town of Hebron. There was a shootout, and when he refused to surrender, troops bulldozed the house he was hiding in."We are forcing the terrorists to play defense and preventing them, crippling their...

You're hitting close to 90%...

...I'd say the people have spoken...That "protest" at the US Embassy on Sussex Drive to free poor Omar from the evil Americans... the Ottawa Citizen estimates attendance at about 30 peopl...

Going for the Gold

It ain't just athletes who are looking for Olympic glory...A MILITANT Islamic group has threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics with suicide bombers and biological weapons and has claimed responsibility for a string of fatal bombings and explosions in China over recent weeks. “Commander Seyfullah” said the group was responsible for three bombs last week on buses in the city of Kunming, which killed...

Room and boardio...

...for poor old Cordio...Police reported Saturday that 25-year-old Cordio Williams has been charged with first degree murder in the violent act, which occurred on July 17th and was Toronto's 31st homicide of 2008. It was the 16th death by gunfire.Alas... if only we'd listened to Mayor Miller and hired...

Now, that's odd

The CBC webpost appears to have left out the part where the girl admits... (I saw the television interview)... she jumped onto the cop's back when she attacked him.Now, I know it's a little churlish to point this out, but she leaps onto this cop's back... doesn't that, you know... put her arms around his windpipe?Hey... just askin'.**********RELATED: Well, statistically speaking......we should actually...

Mayor Miller's office strangely silent...

...on which city of Toronto shooting range is responsible...A man was shot to death and two others injured in a shooting at a church in the northwest end of the city early this morning.Police said roughly 500 people were in attendance at the late-night bash at a hall owned by the Disciples Revival Church...

In homegrown terrorist news...

Yeah... I'm shocked. -- KANESATAKE, Que. -- Kanesatake Mohawks barricaded a Quebec highway early Saturday following an intervention by the Quebec provincial police.Police say 12 to 15 individuals blocked Highway 344 near the town of Oka by dragging trees into the road and setting them on fire. Funnily enough, on the very same spot some noble mohawk warrior shot Corporal Marcel Lemay in the face......

The China card

So much for engaging the "sleeping giant"...When the last gold medal has been awarded and the athletes have left, this network of informers – along with an estimated 300,000 surveillance cameras and a strengthened security apparatus – will remain as perhaps the biggest legacy of the historic Beijing Olympics.So far, it seems clear that the Beijing Olympics have led to a deterioration of human rights...

Or maybe... you guys are just nuts

"We have information that some elements are planning to carry out bombings against the interests and leaders of Hamas in order to sow anarchy."**********RELATED: Iran, meanwhile, pumps up "the crazy"A total of 3,000 centrifuges is the commonly accepted figure for a nuclear enrichment program that is past the experimental stage and can be used as a platform for a full industrial-scale program that...

They can run...

...but they can't hide. -- OTTAWA -- A Superior Court judge has ordered a court-supervised analysis of a controversial audio tape at the centre of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's $3.5-million defamation suit against the Liberal party.Zytaruk will have to give Clemens the original tape and the recorder he used to interview Harper. And he will be examined under oath by Clemens about the process...

Nah, we don't need...

...to actually say the "inflammatory" word... you can just fill in the blanks..."What do you think Burny's press release would have said if the violent thug had been a neo-Nazi skinhead? Do you think that fact would have been omitted by the CJC?" "Of course not -- because that would fit nicely with the CJC's bold strategy of avenging the last Holocaust, instead of preventing the next one."After all,...

A little bit of Toronto...

...comes to the sleepy burg of Belleville...A case involving a violent home invasion and shooting at a social housing complex more than two years ago continued its sluggish journey through the criminal justice system, Friday.Since early spring 2006, Christopher Chevers has faced charges of attempted...

"post-algia"

"A time when you had to go out of your way -- say, to the carnival -- to see a 300lb woman with a tattoo...

Toronto "Red" Star...

...to no ones surprise... discovers massive and ongoing racist police conspiracy...Larry Hay, 51, was fired earlier this year from the band's eight-member force after telling Belleville's Loyalist College student newspaper the OPP, RCMP and Sûreté du Québec are racist organizations.**********RELATED: The Star's continuing series......celebrating Aboriginal heroes.**********LAST WORD: Meanwhile......

It's way past time...

...someone taught those evil Olympians a lesson...It was quite a blow for Chao to get the email with the bad news after an upbeat news conference Wednesday, when the Canadian Olympic Committee presented her as part of the Beijing team."We were all very happy from the COC launch and then we get home and, bam, this thing just slaps you in the face," said Chao yesterday."I really didn't know how to take...

That's why it's called war...

...and not "circle of friends". -- KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO says a NATO soldier was killed and two were wounded during a clash with militants in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province. The nation's Interior Ministry, meanwhile, said three Taliban militants died in a fight on Friday with police in a separate district of the same province.The NATO statement did not release the name or nationalities...

Nevertheless...

...even without the participation of the mainstream media... it looks like we may have a contender...It's hard to top Jackson for hypocrisy. In late 1998, while Karin Stanford was carrying the reverend's child, the two visited President Bill Clinton in the White House. Bill was "recovering" from the Lewinsky scandal, and Jesse was there to "counsel" hi...

For all the pretty press he's getting...

...you'd think he'd be way further ahead... -- PRINCETON, NJ -- U.S. registered voters are closely divided in their presidential preferences, with 45% favoring Barack Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from July 19-21, and 42% backing John McCai...

Is CTV a Canadian company?

I just listened to parts of Barack Obama's speech in Germany... and was especially incensed when Obama urged the Germans to step up and do more in Afghanistan."We can't do it alone," he thunders... completely ignoring Canada's contribution to the war.Strangely enough... that seems to be the one part CTV doesn't include in their report on the speech.I guess it didn't exactly fit in with their canonisation...

Now you see it... now you don't

It's a Liberal thing... -- OTTAWA -- When disgraced ad man Jean Lafleur sold his home for $1.5-million in 2005, he gave the money to his lawyer, who shipped it to a financial institution in the tax haven of Liechtenstein.Mr. Lafleur said he then invested a portion of the funds in China, Costa Rica...

France bears to the right...

To avoid the approaching iceberg...France's parliament has passed a law which effectively ends the country's compulsory 35-hour working week. The new law will allow companies to strike individual deals with unions on working hours and overtime.Since coming into office last year, President Nicolas Sarkozy has blamed the 35-hour week for damaging France's economic competitiveness.Of course, it isn't...

Another sterling endorsement

-- (CNN) -- Support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama extended to death row Wednesday.According to The Jackson Clarion Ledger, a Mississippi newspaper, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop's final words before being executed Wednesday night included an appeal to Americans to vote for the Illinois senator."For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end, our best bet...

I'm not crazy...

And so am I. -- VIENNA, Austria -- Iran will no longer co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency in its investigation of allegations that its government has tried to make nuclear arms, Iran's vice-president said Thursday.Investigating such allegations “is outside the domain of the agency,” Vice-President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh told reporters.But wait a minute, he's not quite finished.What's...

One for the Good Guys

An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled the Criminal Code emergency provision allowing police wiretapping without a judge's authorization, while not perfect, is constitutionally valid in relation to a major case underway in a Toronto court.**********RELATED: Does this mean......we don't have to listen...

Geez, Steffi...

You mind if we get a second opinion? -- OTTAWA -- Trade expert Michael Hart of Carleton University's Centre for Trade Policy and Law dismissed Mr. Dion's carbon tariff comments as “bafflegab.” He predicted other nations would be furious with Canada.“They'd quickly come to Ottawa and say ‘What the hell are you doing? Who came up with this crazy scheme?'” Prof. Hart said. “The environmentalists...

You mean the complacency...

...that got you elected... after you lied to us about not raising taxes? -- LONDON, ONT. -- The rallying call to all Ontarians to shed their complacency is a new tactic in a campaign that began three years ago for Mr. McGuinty and comes as oil prices threaten to transform the province into one of the poor cousins of Confederation.***********RELATED: Yeah, Dalton... thanks for the t...

What's not to like?

"Either we will have a private industry whose profits depend on creating and maintaining addicts, or we will have a public bureaucracy whose revenues depend on creating and maintaining addicts."**********RELATED: The emerging entrepreneurial cla...

Well, okay...

...that's a whole different kettle of fish... I had no freakin' idea they were using the cluster-bomb model...Thank you... oh wonderful, unbiased CB...

What's flat, black...

...and glows in the dark? -- Tehran -- "The Iranian people are steadfast," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.They "will not retreat one iota in the face of oppressing powers," he said in the televised speech made to thousands of supporters in the southern town of Yasou...

In other...

..."you know, statistically, crime is down" news...A 22-year-old man has been charged in the slaying of a developmentally-delayed Mississauga woman. Homicide investigators quickly took over the investigation into Peel Region's 16th murder victim of the year.Jason Osborne of Mississauga was charged with first-degree murder. He was scheduled for a brief court appearance today where he was expected to...

Jane-Finch etiquette

Shaking slightly as she talked, Small said she could feel the neighbourhood talking about the shooting and was concerned that police issued warrants for two men when only one of them shot at her.Nearby residents cautioned Small not to speak to the media and she soon left, saying she was going to meet with her lawyer.**********UPDATE: One down, one to goOne of the men wanted in connection with the...

So it looks like it's "go time"

-- OTTAWA -- Three federal by-elections in early September promise to stir up Canada's stagnant political waters, serving as a litmus test for a possible general election this autumn.Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to call the by-elections this week in the Montreal-area ridings of Westmount-Ville Marie and St. Lambert and the southwestern Ontario riding of Guelph.“They are all opposition-held...

What percentage of Ontarians...

...have actually read the Fantino/Brant transcripts... as opposed to all the deadheads who settle for a 30 second soundbite... from someone like talking head Lisa LaFlamme?Do yourself a favour... and just plow through this one article... and try tell me Julian Fantino did anything wrong...In quotes taken from OPP transcripts (posted on The Intelligencer's website at www.intelligencer.ca), Fantino...