"The only other question is..."

"...will it be a green... or an orange shaft?"A deal has been negotiated between NDP Leader Jack Layton and Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion that would see them form a coalition government for two and a half years, the CBC's Keith Boag reported, citing sources.The NDP would be invited into cabinet and get 25 per cent of seats, Boag said, adding that the party wouldn't get the position of the finance chair...

Curly, Larry and Jack

Apparently the Dippers... you know, the guys who imagine they're qualified to displace the elected government of this country... pulled an electronic boner of epic proportions... -- OTTAWA -- The NDP says it may pursue criminal charges after the Conservatives covertly listened in, taped and distributed audio of a closed-door NDP strategy session.NDP Leader Jack Layton can be heard on the tapes...

"Though this be madness..."

"...yet there is method in't."The New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois held talks to form a coalition party well before the opposition's uproar over the government's fiscal update, CTV News has learned. NDP Leader Jack Layton was in talks with Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe for a "considerable period of time,"...

Pakistan, huh?

I'm shocked, I tell you... -- MUMBAI, India -- The only gunman captured by police after a string of attacks on Mumbai told authorities he belonged to the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, a senior police officer said Sunday. The group has long been seen as a creation of the Pakistani intelligence service to help wage its clandestine war against India in disputed Kashmir.Police arrested...

Gimme less Mr Rogers...

...and way more cops...Two people are believed to be dead and four others injured, including a toddler who is fighting for his life and a police officer, after a man went on a rampage at a birthday party in Oshawa today.The assailant is believed to have been killed by a police officer who was forced to fire on the man after being stabbed.**********UPDATE: Crazy, violent people... lock them upA crazed...

INCOMING!!!

"Culture is not destiny, especially when that culture is frozen in time.""This is the argument of 'Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry', a newly-released book by two academics that is making waves within the academic world.""In the work, Frances Widdowson, a political scientist, and Albert Howard, a former government and aboriginal group consultant, suggest that indigenous peoples did not exist at the...

How is this any different...

...than putting a loaded gun to another person's head?"It's beyond sense," says Peter. His own doctor, after diagnosis, read him the riot act about disclosure. "These people are being given the easy way out, because the leaders are saying, 'Hey, we don't want you to be sad....

My gut feeling is to go with...

..."Coalition Of The Swilling"...UPDATE: Here's an interesting rumour..."I’m at the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner right now and a quiet rumour among a small number of of the gathered people here is that Prime Minister Stephen Harper may prorogue Parliament until the new year."**********FROM THE...

I think I'll just wait...

...for the other shoe to drop... -- Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today backtracked on a proposal to cut funding for political parties after the opposition sought to topple his minority government.“We wanted to lead by example and we’re disappointed they’re not following us,” Baird said in an interview on CTV television. "We thought it would be fairly slam-dunk.""It’s...

Maybe they're actually on to something

An eye for an eye... a face for a face...A court in Iran has ruled that a man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid. The court also ordered the attacker, 27-year-old Majid Movahedi, to pay compensation to the victim. Ms Bahrami also said that Movahedi had also threatened to kill her.Hey, here's a thought.. How about, in the spirit of...

Prove it, prove it!!!

Almost 200 confirmed dead... and compassionate, cooperative Pakistan continues to circle the wagons...Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said today the Indian government should provide evidence to support any claims the attacks were linked to groups in Pakistan.Pakistan’s government turned down India’s request to send the chief of the military intelligence agency to investigate the attacks.Hmmmm......

Remember when you were a kid...

...and newspapers just used to... you know... report the news..."Mr. Harper's determination to destroy the Liberals borders on the pathological."**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"I can't speak for Prime Minister Harper but my desire to destroy the liberals has been pathological since they stole all that...

That's one bloodthirsty deity

Mumbai police inspector Ashok Patil told Reuters at least 155 people had been killed and “we are still counting”.Newspapers said the toll was likely to rise as bodies were collected from the luxury Taj and nearby Trident-Oberoi hotels, scene of another siege.**********UPDATE: Second Canadian confirmed murder...

I have just one question

How quickly will newly appointed Defence Minister "Taliban Jack" Layton move... to open up negotiations with the jihadis in Afghanistan?"NDP Leader Jack Layton and Stephane Dion have discussed 'roles and responsibilities' in a new coalition, an NDP official confirmed. It is expected that Layton would...

NDP refusing to confirm rumours...

...that, as part of the deal... Gilles Duceppe will be crowned Lord High Emperor of Quebec...That rumour must have come from the camps of one of the Liberal leadership contenders, not from the NDP, the source said, adding that everything is on the table — including bringing in Liberal House Leader Ralph...

Reality Bites

"For me, real freedom means living life in each moment, as it unfolds, without concepts or conditions...

Roll-back, my ass...

...more like ROLL-OVER...A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped...

It's all over

Britain officially throws in the towel.**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"Why not throw in free cab fare to the next pub...

If only we could have had...

...more social workers..."I could be anybody. They don't know who I am."**********RELATED: In Dalton McSlippery's Ontario......there's no such thing as a bad boy...The family of murder victim Jordan Ormonde wants a public inquiry into why killer Benny Krasniqi was free on three peace bonds after earlier knifing incidents.A month before he killed Jordan Ormonde by slashing his throat, Krasniqi punched...

Caught between a rock...

...and a fractious, squabbling place...Their options are to fight another election mere weeks after the last one with a lame duck leader, or join forces with the New Democratic Party in an attempt to form a coalition government.Of course, as... cough, cough...appealing as that must sound... there may be a few small flies in the opposition ointment...However, sources say that NDP Leader Jack Layton...

"First they came..."

"...for the idiots...

"Entitled to their entitlements"

Liberal party wigs out... as Harper government announces proposal to end taxpayer subsidies to political parties...Opposition parties denounced the proposal to end per-vote subsidies in the name of economic restraint as a partisan power play.Liberal finance critic Scott Brison said his party was still...

TORONTO

...is for lovers...A man has been taken to hospital in critical condition after being shot in the city's east end. Toronto police say they were called to a highrise apartment at 1840 Victoria Park Ave., north of Lawrence Ave. E., just before midnight. Meanwhile, police in the city's Weston-area are also searching for suspects after a man was found shot in the abdomen outside a home on Lindy Lou Rd.,...

Islam Unplugged

Another in our series of little known Islamic facts... #17: Allah hates garbagemen..."'Prior to reaching the convoy, the bomber who was sitting in a small vehicle, detonated the bombs that were in the car and as a result of that unfortunately, a number of civilians were killed and a number were injured,' said Bashary.""One bystander said most of the victims were city sanitation workers...

The capricious and unknowable...

..."Will of Allah"...Among those held captive were said to be Americans, British, Canadians, Italians, Swedes, Yemenis, New Zealanders, a Singaporean and Israelis. CTV News, citing Indian media reports, said that 10 Canadians were among those held hostage.Contrary to what you're gonna hear from Dawg and company... there's only one way to deal with these psychotics... no dialogue, no concessions......

Rae jubilant...

...Ignatieff campaign in tatters... after receiving leftosphere's infamous "kiss of death"..."Personally, I think Michael Ignatieff is the person for the job, and I hope you do as well...

UPDATE MUMBAI: Very specific targets

Looks like this is all about going after foreigners rather than native-born Indians...Two British men working in Mumbai described how the gunmen burst into the Kandahar restaurant at another hotel, the Oberoi, and rounded up diners who appeared to be tourists.Alex Chamberlain, who is in Mumbai working for the Indian Premier League website said: "A guy burst into the Kandahar with a machine gun. He...

Getting "The Message."

"Thirty-nine hours later, the siege was over -- a reporter was dead and dozens of hostages had been stabbed, beaten or shot.""Now THAT would be a good movie."**********RELATED: In other non-movie developments... -- Mumbai, Nov 27 (IANS) -- Two top police officials were killed while the chief of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was grievously injured as security forces took on terrorists in Mumbai following...

Hey, Johnson...

...how's your johnson?...The jurors have heard from public-health officials and clinic nurses and doctors, Mr. Aziga's name then began popping up as a "contact" of newly diagnosed women. At one point, he had been named as a contact by as many as 20 women throughout Southern Ontario, and ultimately was arrested in August, 2003.We're here for a good time...Not a long time...So have a good time...The...

Like Rick Mercer says...

...they're flexibl...

Oh Dalton... if only we had...

...more social workers...The victim, 16, was robbed of his Apple iPhone and stabbed before being taken to hospital with what are considered non life-threatening injuries, Drummond said.Moise Bear, 18, was charged with forcible entry, assault with a weapon, weapons dangerous, robbery, aggravated assault and possession of property obtained by crime. A 16-year-old, who can't be named because of his age,...

Does this mean he's gonna...

...call off the Barack attack?**********LAST WORD: The Man from Hope & Crawford"Leaving the Bush tax cuts alone. Putting Iraq-war supporters in as Vice President and Secretary of State. And now keeping Bush’s Defense Secretary on.""I’m beginning to feel like I won this election...

Sometimes a cigar is just a...

...OH... MY... GAWD...Please tell me this is some kind of colossal hoa...

You have got to be...

...shittin' me...Does this mean "tay-sachs" and "sickle cell anemia" are off the list too?**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"What about breast cancer?"**********ASK AN ACTUAL DOCTOR: Our newest feature at "the halls""You know the more I think of this the angrier it makes me. I personally think that the Alumni...

Why we should disband the U.N.

...Reason #42...Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni cargo ship, reported to be the 39th successful hijacking by pirates off the Horn of Africa this year. Head of the East African Seafarers' Association Andrew Mwangura said the MV Amani was taken in the Gulf of Aden. Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday that the alliance was not considering any naval blockade.He said that...

In the 1980s and 1990s...

"...it became a familiar critique of government industrial strategy that the state couldn't tell who the winners were and the market didn't need to be told." "And the policy elite all learned to mouth the words that "picking winners and losers" was a bad idea. But evidently they never believed or understood it." "All these bailout plans seem to involve giving money to companies governments have identified...

Tonight's CTV Moonbat Moment

Just watched Lloyd Robertson almost pee himself... over Saint Barack's latest "swift and bold action"... reappointing a Clinton advisor as head of the White House National Economic Council. Ol' Lloyd was similarly excited about the President-elect telling the U.S. Congress what measures he expected them to have in place by his inauguration.He's finishing up with some argle-bargle about "bad bosses"...

Hey-diddle-diddle... political fiddle...

...the Commissar jumped over the Moon...Lynch has become a gross embarrassment to the government. Hand-picking Moon to do a very narrow and selective review – in the face of Parliament’s own reviews – was an act of insubordination, and an act of political usurpation. She’s a bureaucrat, not a lawmaker....

Yet another stunning triumph...

...in the ongoing glorification of the prophet...Iraqi police say at least a dozen employees of the Iraqi Trade Ministry were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a passenger bus transporting them to work.A second explosion took place less than an hour later, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a checkpoint leading into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Five people, including...

So, despite all the technology...

...the numbers continue to rise...The UK saw 749 Down's births in 2006, up from 717 in 1989 when tests came in. The Down's Syndrome Association surveyed 1,000 parents to find out why they had pressed ahead with a pregnancy despite a positive test result.Hmmm... I guess it's not just Sarah Palin, huh?A fifth said they had known somebody with Down's, a third cited religious or anti-abortion beliefs...

Unconfirmed sources report ...

...in three, two, one...**********RELATED: Ezra has a little more...Prof. Moon is an obscure professor specifically chosen by the CHRC for one reason: he is one of the few Canadian academics who has written in favour of government violation of freedom of the press. In other words, he’s the perfect man to whitewash the CHRC’s own violations of freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of...

So the bullets were flying...

...at Dundas and University over the weekend... and then there was... -- TORONTO -- Paramedics rushed the victim, about 18 years old, to Sunnybrook hospital after he was found bleeding by a school on Driftwood Ct. at 4:20 p.m., police said. Toronto medics treated the teen at the scene before taking him to hospital. Police said there appeared to be evidence that at least two people shot at each...

Yeah... it's unfair all right...

...to the taxpayers who have been paying to support this guy AND his family since the 1990's... when his refugee claim was denie...

Screw it...

...break out the bread and wate...

Suddenly...

...all the peaceniks have gone mute...The leadership change from President George W. Bush could present Karzai with new challenges in his relationship with the U.S. Obama has chided Karzai and his government in the past, saying it had "not gotten out of the bunker" and helped to organize the country or its political and security institutions.Fighting terrorism and the insurgency "in Afghanistan, the...

Never mind the wasted money...

When did we decide that children were a disposable commodity...A July 2008 letter from Ms. Turpel-Lafond to the ministry, obtained by Vancouver newspaper 24 Hours through a freedom of information request, cited four cases involving children left in homes that had been judged unsafe.After the letter became public in September, B.C. Child and Family minister Tom Christensen said those cases had been...

Okay... now I see how this works

First you give them a little "Hope"...Mr. Obama's radio address talked about the goal of job creation and said his economic plan “will mean 2.5 million "MORE" jobs by January of 2011.”Then... while everybody's celebrating... you throw in a little "Change"...The Obama website on Saturday said his plan will “SAVE OR CREATE” 2.5 million jobs. Mr. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs confirmed later Saturday...

Remember when you were a kid...

...and you used to settle arguments with guns, knives and pickaxes?Accused killer Marko Miljevic two-handed a pickaxe all the way into his teen victim's head, a witness told court yesterday.Nick Hodgson, a close friend of Matt McKay who was killed at a Queensland party Sept. 29, 2007, said he clearly saw Miljevic direct the large pickaxe into the 17-year-old's skull."Marko ... brought it over his...

I guess they won't be able...

...to blame this one on Mike Harri...

Now, if there was only some way...

...to call back the Inquisition..“The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a ‘boast' by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll,” Vatican daily Osservatore Romano sai...

We must be getting close to...

...Darwin Award Season... -- WOODSTOCK -- Drivers have heard it's dangerous to drive while using a cellphone. But now police are warning about the hazards of grabbing breakfast behind the wheel.Ontario Provincial Police responded yesterday to a single-vehicle crash and found a young woman covered in milk and cereal.Police say the 21-year-old woman was trying to eat cereal with a bowl and spoon...

The lesson of the black swan...

...is that the world is governed not by ordinary and predictable events but by extraordinary and unpredictable ones. The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is an example of a black swan. The Internet is a good black swan, the crash of '08 a bad one. Except for one or two eccentric cranks, no one saw it coming.Another lesson of the black swan is that expertise is useless. No one has a clue why the...

Asked if Tehran now had...

...sufficient material to build a bomb, he suggested that there were different opinions. “Some said it was enough; others said it was not enough, but close,” said Mr McCormack. “In any case, you don’t want Iran to get close.”**********RELATED: KARMA DEBT... paid in fullA fugitive British militant linked to an alleged UK plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic airliners has been killed in...

What's all the fuss about?

It's one of those universal truths... "Only a fool brings a bike to a car-fight...

Seriously?

-- WASILLA, Alaska -- Ms. Palin didn't comment about the slaughte...

No wonder it's being cancelled

Watched the Canwest/Global morning news show today... and boy, does that explain a few things. Today's episode featured a couple of firefighters who yammered on about resuscitating people's pets at fire scenes. At one point the valiant "smoke-eaters" fruitlessly tried to put a special oxygen mask on somebody's poor pooch... and all I can say is... I hope these guys are more proficient with ladders...

The "New Inclusive Racism"

Apparently, it's no longer just for "honkies"... -- TORONTO -- All but one board member -- Hamlin Grange -- voted in support of board chairman Dr. Alok Mukherjee's report, which recommended leaving Toronto Police's current "Don't Ask" policy as is.That was despite the pleas of countless legal groups and immigration advocates who earlier made their case for a change in policy. They were demanding...

Okay... I'll say it again

Once again, I'm gonna ask that anonymous commenters to the blog take on some sort of pseudonym... (for example, a gmail account)... to distinguish themselves from the increasingly mindless, race-baiting, one-trick pony herd. Like a lot of fellow conservative travellers... I've been getting all kinds...