Remember back when you were a kid...

...every New Year they used to pull out the ol' Geiger counters?-- Yeah... me neither. -- In other Islamophobia news... wait a minute...A bomb killed at least 21 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on New Year’s Day and the Interior Ministry said a foreign-backed suicide...

Fashion Crime

"This is not the first time he has hit a bank in Ottawa," Larouche said. "There is no way of saying for sure, but sometimes descriptions given by witnesses bear some similarity and a hijab is sort of out of the ordinar...

What people really mean when they say...

..."You can't fight City Hall."That hint of an answer is found in what happens when intransigent bureaucracy (the federal Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, or INAC) meets stubborn and hypersensitive first nation, in this instance the Pikangikum band.And what happens, as Ontario Superior Court Judge John dePencier Wright found, is … nothing.**********RELATED: I'm from the government......I'm here...

Vote Liberal... I dare you

I'm with Mark the Mouth... I say we give each & every prisoner in federal lockup as much heroin as they want... every freakin' day of the week...“We didn’t get into specifics,” said Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland when asked if his party would support needle exchanges or safe injection sites in prisons. “We’re simply saying to the government they have to do more.”Heck, let's thrown in...

I'm just waiting for grisly photographs...

...of firefighters cutting mangled bodies out of cars to appear at pedestrian crossings... or on cases of beer. How about we start putting pictures of horribly burned people on the side of woodstoves?Do they have dioramas of smelly, emaciated junkies at safe-injection sites? I mean, seriously... what...

Apparently... Barry knows better

-- WASHINGTON -- US President Barack Obama has bypassed the US Senate and directly appointed four new ambassadors, including Robert Ford, who will become the first US envoy to Syria since 2005.In the most high-profile case, that of the new envoy to Syria, a number of senators objected because they believed sending an ambassador to the country would reward it for bad behavior.The administration...

Or...

...we could simply legislate 50% of the existing male directors into having sex-change operations...A Liberal senator wants to use the power of Parliament to force women into the boardrooms of the nation.The bill would require all publicly traded companies, banks, insurance companies and trust companies to have 50% of their board of directors made up of women.Yup... let's just wave that magical left-bot...

Here's the thing, Dalton...

Running a couple million dollars worth of healthcare commercials... isn't the same thing as actually providing healthcare. It's not what you say... it's what you do that counts. Actually, let me be a little more specific than that. Today I took Mrs. Neo into Belleville so we could get the paperwork to apply for a SIN number for the boy. No big deal, right? Wrong.Now, how this works, in Belleville...

What sort of deluded madmen...

...consider mass murder an appropriate response... to a cartoon? -- Copenhagen -- During the arrests, Danish police found an assault rifle and silencer, ammunition, as well as plastic strips, which are often used by police as hand restraints. All four suspects have Middle-Eastern or North African backgrounds.Of course, to be fair... a lot of these folks come from unsophisticated medieval theocracies......

A little something to think about...

...while you're enjoying that really cheap third world vacation...Some ten unidentified gunmen on Thursday set Erika Gandara's home ablaze and torched two cars parked outside before abducting her, witnesses told the state of Chihuahua prosecutor's office.Gandara was the last police officer in Guadalupe, located on the US-Mexico border some 60 kilometres south-east of Ciudad Juarez, after her colleagues...

Somebody remind me...

...why exactly is it, we're all constantly sucking up to Quebec? -- MONTREAL -- Attachment to Canada has waned dramatically among young Quebecers: only 18 per cent of those age 18-24 report strong feelings of attachment to the country — a cause for concern for the future of national unity, Jedwab said. Seniors are the only age group where attachment to Canada is strong, with 49 per cent of those...

More Criminal Masterminds

"A Florida woman has given new meaning to the term 'internal medicine...

I'm sorry... a freak accident is when...

...a 747 drops out of the sky and flattens your entire family... and as tragic as this incident is... it was, unfortunately... entirely preventable, and more to the point, entirely predictable...In fact... just last month, the very same thing happened to a man entering an underground parking garage...

I'm from the Globe & Mail...

...I'm here to save you...

What's life without a dream, huh?

As comedian Chris Rock once famously said..."You're not supposed to go to jail, you low-expectation-havin' motherf@cker!" -- "Plenty of people got beat up, shot and stabbed in 2010 but there were no killings. The last year that was murder-free was 1963." -- **********RELATED: The wild, wild westRemember,...

Brits dodge Christmas bullet

Coming soon to a big city near you... -- LONDON -- A covert surveillance operation was carried out by police and MI5 which involved following suspects and recording conversations, the court heard.Prosecutor Piers Arnold said Trafalgar Square was visited and then Westminster, where a mobile phone was allegedly held up and pointed at Big Ben.Surveillance teams then followed their quarries to the...

In fifty years...

...we'll all be chicks.**********RELATED: Thank you comment moderation"Scratch a shrieking right whinger and find a douchebag praying for the big one so he can say 'I TOLD YOU SO'."Posted by Moo Moo to halls of macadamia at 8:14 PM, December 27, 2010Grow a pair and blog under your real name Nancy. Posted by Johnny Boy to halls of macadamia at 8:16 PM, December 27, 2010Of course, Nonny... you irony-deprived...

I'm thinkin', maybe there's a good reason...

...Canada has that stringent protocol for foreign trained medical doctors...Officials in Brazil have now launched an investigation into how medical chiefs failed to realise the woman was alive and not dead when they sent her body for burial.[....

You can say it with flowers...

...or, hey... wait a minute...The 7-foot-tall statue of 1st Lt. Neil Bucken holding an actual red rose arrived late Wednesday at his relatives' Staten Island home, a day before his 11-year-old sister's birthday, and in the nick of time for Christmas."Half the family was all bawling their eyes out," said his mom, Donna McBri...

Stand by for breaking news...

...on gravity holding shit down... -- MONTREAL -- Preteens dabbling in vandalism, bullying and truancy are more likely to be in trouble with the law as teenagers, according to a new study by Montreal researchers.The more troubled kids – the ones who regularly stole, destroyed property, bullied other kids and got into fights – were found to be six times more likely to sell drugs, eight times more...

When you absolutely, positively have to...

...say some damn thing or another...When he was asked Sunday if he is willing to bring down the Harper government if the budget does not reflect Liberal priorities, he replied: “Of course, yes.”But Mr. Ignatieff held open the possibility that he might also support the Conservative financial plan.Way'ta audible, Peyt...

Bright lights, big city...

...Merry Christmas to you...A Christmas killing at a west-end highrise brings the city’s murder count to an even 60 for the year.Gunshots rang out shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday at 200 Woolner Ave., off Jane St. a block north of St. Clair Ave. W.**********RELATED: Paging Inspector Clouseau -- TORONTO -- More than 100 firefighters were needed early Monday to tame a five-alarm blaze at a west end...

Peace on Earth...

...goodwill towards... wait a minute...Meanwhile... in other Christmas news... the professional journalists at the Globe & Mail are confronted with yet another mystery. Here's a hint, fellas... I'm guessin' it wasn't Colonel Mustard in the libra...

It's been a quiet week here at the Halls

This is, I believe... the first time in four years that I've taken a week away from the keyboard... and it has, apparently, done me no lasting harm. You can get too used to screaming into the whirlwind, I think.Anyway... the stockings are hung and we await the hopefully not-too-early appearance of...

Never a Taser around...

...when you really need o...

Another Canadian falls

Cpl. Steve Martin, 24, from 3rd Battalion Royal 22e Regiment, was killed by an improvised explosive device, or IED, while on foot patrol early Saturday afternoon, local time. The bombing that killed Cpl. Martin preceded a suicide attack Saturday on the vehicle of an Afghan district chief in the Canadian...

That ignorant, homicidal George W...

...wait a minute...Nearly 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks by US drones in the past 24 hours in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district, officials say.At least 50 died in three unmanned air strikes in the Tirah Valley, a day after seven others were killed nearby.**********FROM THE BREITBART COMMENTS:"I'm still sitting in front of the TV waiting for CSPAN to broadcast the health care debate....

Write your own headline

-- OTTAWA -- Daniel Maxheleau, the paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed his parents and sister to death five years ago, wants to keep information about his latest transgressions secret.The 35-year-old was supposed to appear before the review board Friday for a "restriction of liberty" hearing to determine whether he is fit to be living on his own. But Maxheleau was so anxious about appearing before...

Two words, Mikey... blue...crush...

And, seriously... "ride the wave"?!? You seem to be forgetting that you're herding the sharks that created it...“I don’t think it was an anti-government vote. It’s a vote that says, give me what I paid for,” Ignatieff said during the interview in Stornoway, his official Ottawa residence.Uh-huh... you...

Hey, Quebec... if you do ever separate...

...would you mind taking British Columbia with you? -- "A University of Victoria study recommends hiking alcohol prices in the province, while giving homeless people controlled access to free booze." -- **********SIDENOTE: Ever bought heroin?Sure you have... if you're a Canadian taxpayer.Three Vancouver heroin addicts have started getting their fix for free -- as the first participants in a government-sponsored...

I guess it's true... information just yearns...

...to be free...Julian Assange has his own embarrassing e-mails. The lovesick WikiLeaks founder sent a 19-year-old girl a series of gross-out messages for 10 days until he finally heeded her pleas to go away."You pulled a tiny petal off my world just when I thought you were to add one but all around is the meadow, where I shall again dance and skip and sing till some fool girl should brush my wing....

C'mon, you knew it was only a...

...matter of time...**********BREAKING: It's beginning to look a......lot like Christmas...Ontario's highest court has come down hard on convicted terrorists, dramatically hiking prison sentences for the first Canadians convicted of violent jihadist activities....

Iggy Pops

There it is... a ruler in one hand... the other on his zipper..."Barring a total climb-down by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on all of his major priorities, the Liberal Party will oppose the Conservative government’s budget." -- There you have it... no wiggle room here... the Puffin King demands "a...

Karma... she's a pitiless bitch

Yessirree, I do love a good... "If only I had a magical time machine" story... -- OTTAWA -- A former Ottawa gang member, deported to Somalia last week, says he would rather be serving a life sentence in a Canadian prison than suffering the trauma of his return.Geez, Ahmed... maybe that's something you should have considered before going down that glittery, violent, drug-dealing narcissist career...

How government really works

Just something to think about... the next time you're wading through your income tax forms... -- (CNSNews.com) -- Sen. Jeff Session (R.-Ala.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that there is “no way” someone could master the full 1,924-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill before Congress votes on it later this week.“There’s no way you can really thoroughly master that bill in two or three days...

Less safe injection... more introspection

Apparently... information age be damned... stuff like this still needs to be said..."If you're stupid, start smoking," he quips. Quintessential Ralph. He laughs. He wheezes.**********RELATED: I'm okay with "safe injection" sites......as long as they put them on Baffin Island.If the end-game here in Canada is to eliminate addiction to illegal drugs... how does a "safe injection" site make any sense...

Well, whaddaya know...

...a little humanity...Judge MacPherson deliberately scanned the small courtroom, his eyes seeking out the clutch of people – Stefanie’s parents and stepfather, grandparents, an aunt, her baby brother Ian – in the back row.“We know there are family members present,” Judge MacPherson said. “You sit here to listen to legal arguments and you have to …[but] we know there’s a personal side of this.“We...

Tales of beer, bus trips, bbqs & song

"Backed by a local band, Harper played keyboards and belted out tunes by The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Proclaimers, among others." -- Oh my gawd... he's not gonna... somebody stop him... too late..."Ignatieff kept his debut as a soloist short and sweet: one chorus of 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'...

Bend over & grab your ankles Canada...

...it's gonna be alright... because they say so...The Senate’s internal economy and budget committee however rebuffed the call for more oversight.“We still have to submit to a whole bunch of rules we established for ourselves.”Somebody help me out here.If we abolished the Canadian Senate... right now, right this minute... how, excepting these $130,000 babies... would it affect any of our liv...

That heartless, controlling Mike Harr...

...wait a minute... -- Dec. 15, 2010 -- Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said the austerity measures aimed at eliminating waste and finding savings are necessary to help the province manage through hard times and erase its record $18.7-billion deficit.Hard times, huh? -- Oct. 31, 2009 -- Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending an untendered, $81-million contract for an energy centre built to power...

Today's "listen to your mom" moment

If Jacko and Iggy really wanted to save lives... maybe they could start a national "Wash Your Filthy Hands" registry..."We found that they kill nearly 5,000 Ontarians every year, representing about six per cent of all deaths."Meanwhile, in other startling, "gravity holding shit down" news... unfortunately, no... they're not talking about the human brain..."Size is extremely important to the effectiveness....

Those darned Christian Crusaders...

...defiling everything in their wake...The remains of a Turkish diplomat buried in Canada were reportedly forcibly removed from a local cemetery after a prominent Christian family said they weren’t comfortable praying next to a Muslim grave.Arthur MacDonald, described by the paper as a businessman belonging to “one of Toronto’s leading families,” said he objected to the fact that Mr. Dayioglu had...

Accountability from Canadian institutions...

...who could possibly be against that? -- OTTAWA -- MPs will investigate the CBC and how the state broadcaster releases -- and sometimes refuses -- to reveal information to the public.Conservative, Bloc and New Democrat MPs all voted Tuesday in favour of having the Commons access to information committee study the CBC in the New Year.The CBC eats up a billion plus taxpayer dollars each and every...

It stalled? It broke down? Seriously?

'Cos if we're going with analogies... it kinda looks to me like Iggy & friends poured some sugar in the tank..."Bill C-23B would take away the ability of someone convicted of three indictable offences to get a pardon, or in the new government terminology, have their record suspended."Hang on......

Not that there's anything...

...wrong with that...King’s quest for a healthier eating option while behind bars ended with a county lawyer forced to research the origin of Festivus and its traditions and a Superior Court judge recognizing the holiday – which lodged its place in pop culture on an episode of Seinfeld – as a legitimate religion.Hell's bells, that's nothing... how about state-subsidised Festivus... in the nu...

In Praise of Serial Killers

"Abdulwahab, O beloved, I do not know him, yet when I saw his picture I adored him ... Get ready for punishment, woe to the debauched countries, from the curse of Taymour, and the anger of his companions who are brave as tigers."Hang on, that looks like fun... lemme give it a whirl..."There was a shaheed from Nantucket..."**********UPDATE: More capricious & unknowable......"Will of Allah"......

Sauce for the Goose?

Remember the (cough... cough) apparent difficulty the MSM had... finding pictures of Colonel Russell Williams... that didn't include Defense Minister Peter MacKay?It'll be interesting to see how diligent the CBC & CTV are about exploring this guys political connections... -- VANCOUVER -- A 42-year-old former political staffer with Vancouver's COPE party has been arrested and charged in connection...

C'mon now, Sven... don't take it personally...

...apparently these guys aren't too fond of Muslims either... -- BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber blew up his car Sunday outside government offices in a province west of the Iraqi capital, killing 17 people, including women and elderly people waiting to collect welfare checks, officials said.At least 23 people also were wounded in Sunday's blast, according to the officials.**********UPDATE: Maybe...

It ain't rocket science

You wanna discourage bad behaviour... you bring down the full weight of the law...A Thai official told the National Post that Thailand had arrested a Canadian citizen, who was then “handed over” to Canadian authorities. The official did not want to be named and said the case was considered classified and acti...

Beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia...

...where festive candles aren't the only things that get blown away...VANCOUVER — Deputy Chief Warren Lemcke said “no innocent people” were struck by bullets during the early Sunday morning shooting.**********UPDATE: Payback... it's a bitchVancouver police Chief Jim Chu said Monday this explosion of violence may have been triggered by several factors, but “started” with Gurmit Dhak.Dhak, a 32-year-old...

In other "big city crime is down" news...

-- TORONTO -- A woman is being treated in hospital after being stabbed in the face or neck in the Yonge-Eglinton neighbourhood during the Monday morning rush hour.The victim, in her late 50s, was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital.**********UPDATE: Stabber arrestedA dramatic and near-deadly scene outside a midtown Tim Hortons has ended with the arrest of the victim's husband. Adrian Tidd, 57, was...

Another Jane Taber tongue-bath...

...must be Monday..."Bob Rae thinks he’s figured out the Conservative’s strategy about a proposed North American perimeter arrangement with the United States." -- Yeah... I remember when ol' Boob thought he'd figured out what was ailing Ontario... never mind, for instance... Canada... or perhaps...

Toronto... a place to realise your dreams

“In all our lives, we’re trying to be in a place where we can have more comfort, and that takes a bit of financial stability,” he said. “So, I’ve been trying my best to get things up and runnin...

Teach your children well

"For years, I’ve been hearing tales of political correctness gone amok at OISE, including radical anti-Israeli events. But it took the Peto case to really get me probing around to see what else is going on at OISE."**********RELATED: And Marshall McLuhan wept...Lee came from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he spent nearly five years researching the lives of rappers in South Central...

Meet Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly

Stockholm bomber identified... but Swedish Prime Minister apparently not convinced..."We know that a man is dead. We know that a car exploded. We know that some threats has been given to the secret police and media," Reinfeldt said. "But we are not sure they are connected. And I think it's very important not to give final answers based on speculation."Well, you know Fredrik... he did have a bag of...

If only there was a Long Gun Registry

Interestingly... no word yet on how many of those involved were actually... farmers, duck hunters or skeet shooters... Ten people were injured and several others were taken into custody after what Vancouver police are calling “an outrageous display of gang violence”.Six men and three women were treated for gunshot wounds and two of the victims were in critical condition. A tenth victim refused treatment...

Buffalove

“It’s pretty amazing to see such a wild animal in this sort of an unusual setting, really,” he said, pointing at Bailey and Jim Sautner in the bar. “Bailey is a little frisky at times, but it’s amazing how tame he i...

So... are you listening now?

Two nearly simultaneous explosions rocked central Stockholm on Saturday evening, killing one person and injuring two others. Police believe the man who died may have blown himself up.The fatal blast occurred just minutes after a car exploded on another nearby street sending two people to hospital.Roughly ten minutes before the explosions, Swedish news agency TT received an email telling Muslims in...

Turn your back for just a second...

-- MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. -- Authorities say a 2-year-old girl spent 15 minutes stuck inside a toy crane vending machine in a Pittsburgh-area mall.Moon Run Fire Chief Paul Kashmer tells WPXI-TV that the girl didn't seem upset by the ordeal Wednesday night in the food court at the Mall of Robinson, in Robinson Township. Kashmer says firefighters arrived to find "the cutest little girl in a pink outfit...

Oh, c'mon... it's not like she's gonna be...

...working in a hostile environment with some of the most dangerous men in Canada... wait..."As a correctional officer, she will be permitted to wear gloves and long sleeves to avoid skin-to-skin contact with male offenders in accordance with her religious and cultural practices.""But she is fully aware that in an institutional environment, there may come a time when she does have to have skin-to-skin...

Tonight's CTV Moonbat moment

CTV's Gallery Talk & uber-analyst Bob Fife expounding on a poll that was favorable to the Conservatives..."I wouldn't read too much into it... the Prime Minister has a knack to screw it all up." -- And he doesn't stop there..."I don't know what he's been smoking... it's not the Stephen Harper we're used to." -- So Bob... is the Prime Minister a doper... or just incompetent?Bias... what media...

In other "crime is down" news...

...it looks like incoming Mayor Rob Ford has his work cut out for him...Serious crime spiked in the last three months on Toronto Community Housing property while arrears rose over $4 million and evictions dropped.And, apparently... "affordable housing" just doesn't begin to describe it...Meanwhile, compared to 2009, evictions from TCHC property are down 51% while the number of households in arrears...

Health care, the economy... crime?

Nope... obviously the Natural Governing Party has other pressing priorities...**********RELATED: Mirror, mirror, on the wallAnd hey... how about that Chinese guy, too?"One year ago, I was humbled to receive the Nobel Peace Prize -- an award that speaks to our highest aspirations, and that has been...

You don't tug on Superman's cape...

...and you don't mess around with, uhm... Alice...“I think I am a real nice person. If he had come and knocked on my door, I probably would have opened it. That’s the kind of person I am. I like to laugh. I like to joke. I am a soft-hearted person.”She dialed 911. Two days later the RCMP made an arrest.[via reader jo]FROM THE NATPO COMMENTS:"Call for a cop, call for an ambulance, call for a pizza...

And Marcus Welby wept

The gastroenterologist had told the man if he pursued this course of treatment, he would refuse to be his doctor anymore. "You'll be on your own," the man remembers the doctor telling him.Indeed, he was on his own, standing in the office of a Thai doctor, asking her to pick the worm eggs out of an 11-year-old girl's sto...

If you build it... they will come... and come...

...and come...This is what happens when government rings the dinner bell, and it's an indication of just how loose the rules are for vetting past injustices, real or not. Throw in the cult of victimology permeating modern liberalism and you have a cash cow ready to be milked. Victims will come out of the woodwork.**********RELATED: Somebody remind me again......why is it, we give the United Nations...

Hang on a sec... probation? Seriously?

In other "live & don't learn" news... -- WINNIPEG -- During an interview with his school guidance counsellor, the boy repeated references to the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres and threatened to kill a male classmate."The student involved was so scared he stopped going to school," Baragar said.Another classmate claimed the teen told him he wanted to "blow up the school," Baragar said....

Jumping the... well... you know

Seriously?**********RELATED: Yup... business as usualAn extensive search of the WikiLeaks database by the Guardian by date, name and keyword failed to locate any of the incendiary allegations. It suggests this is the first case of WikiLeaks being exploited for propaganda purpos...

And despite this decision...

...whaddaya wanna bet... he never gets deported?“I find that [Mohamed] Harkat has engaged in terrorism, that he is a danger to the security of Canada and that he is a member of the Bin Laden Network,” Justice Simon Noel writes in a decision released Thursday.**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"Remember when Mr. Harkat made a show of cutting off his GPS ankle monitor? The male part of his crowd of supporters...

Sure it's a modest start, but at least...

...the meter's spinnin' in the right direction...Mayor Rob Ford’s campaign to stop the “gravy train” scored a small but tasty $48,000 victory.Toronto city council voted Wednesday to scrap snacks and beverages for councillors during all meetings for the next four years.And, heck... let's put this "victory" in the context of what usually happens in the center of the universe...Three councillors tried...

By the Numbers

The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That’s great. There were over 600,000 hunters.Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world – more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined – deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay.But that...