...against free speech...Comedian Danny Polishchuk worries about the doublethink of opposing free speech under the guise of combatting fascism — especially since he personally has since been targeted and called a neo-Nazi — an assertion he finds especially odious since he’s in fact Jewish.**********
UNRELATED: From the comments...Ezra proves that you can't spell "schadenfreude" without F and...
31 August 2017
29 August 2017
I think I'd settle for having...
...a family physician...Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins says the government is allocating more than $222-million over three years for harm-reduction services and treatment to combat the province's opioid crisis.As we slouch toward our retirement years, Mrs Neo and I are once again without a family physician. It took six years to get a doctor when we moved here... during that time we were dependent...
While there’s no debating...
...the horrific nature of his scalp bounty, or how it conflicts with current Canadian sensibilities, scalping for profit was once common practice throughout this country. And unlike slavery, it was embraced by ALL parties.
Many Indigenous peoples were “lifting the hairs” of their enemies for centuries before that. If scalping is Canada’s original sin, then everyone’s a sinner.Amen, brother.
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FROM...
Stand by for another episode of...
...Those Darned Canadians...
Meet Luis Enrique Karim-Altamarano, Mauricio Antonio Medina-Gatica and Iban Orozco-Lome...
28 August 2017
Dear Toronto Star... make sure you...
...don't dig too deep...Franc Gabriel Paisley, 29, was found in his home with obvious signs of trauma and was pronounced dead. Police are saying this is an isolated incident.Note that an "isolated incident" is policespeak for a targeted murder of a person with a history of violence. In other words, nobody in law enforcement fell off their chair when they heard somebody lit ol' Franc up.
Turning...
27 August 2017
FROM THE COMMENTS:
Let's carry this free needle thing just a bit further. Let's think outside the box.
What is really needed is a direct injection pump, like those insulin pumps that some diabetics use. A measured dose is delivered automatically so that the user never need to come down. Add a feeding tube and waste plumbing and stack the addicts in bunks in warehouses until they die. Costs could be controlled through...
Residential school abuse process...
...has tripled in costs to $3.1B...The cost, originally estimated at $960 million, is so far more than triple that amount, with an added $700 million in administration fees alone – including payments to lawyers who have been allowed to charge both the government and the victims they represent.A billion here... a billion there... pretty soon you're talkin' real mon...
26 August 2017
Don't blame me...

...I didn't vote for him...The real chuckle though was when he said, earlier on, that the government’s method were “yielding positive results”. If laying cots out in the Montreal Olympic stadium is success, I sure hope we never see what failure looks like.**********
RELATED: "Sunny ways"... cloudy...
25 August 2017
JUST STOP FOR A MINUTE... AND THINK

"You pose a threat to your own damn rights by chipping away at ours. Rights are equal amongst citizens of this country. When you start pretending you can limit ours, you’re really limiting your own as well. Some great compromising you’ve done."It gets better..."Concealed-carry permit holders are...
You know nothing, Jon Snow
So... what if... I'm a 16 year old trapped in the body of a senior citizen?And... sweet baby jebus...A first grader at a California charter school was sent to the principal’s office this week after she accidentally “misgendered” a classmate in what’s being called a “pronoun mishap.”You people do know you're insane, right?
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RELATED: All those suspicions about the French...President Emmanuel...
24 August 2017
What's the deal...

...with state-subsidised "grooming?"
••• FROM THE COMMENTS •••"My nine year old granddaughter who lives with me said she was 'transgender' I asked her what she thought it meant and she said it's when some girls like to do things boys like to do. Thank you Americ...
Those violent, gun-totin' "Canadians"
WINNIPEG — A man whose brother was beaten and killed earlier this month has been charged with trying to bring a semi-automatic handgun onboard a flight from Winnipeg to Toronto.
Mohammad Peyawary, a 35-year-old from Toronto, faces several charges including unlawful transport of an unsecured restricted firearm and carrying a concealed weapon.**********
RELATED: "Canadians" for ISISA Toronto man...
23 August 2017
Erasing history is not "Social Justice"

"I’m categorically against destroying any piece of art, any statue. We’re not the Taliban. We’re not Stalin. We don’t go around just destroying statues we disagree with. Some of the people who are trying to destroy statues are trying to destroy America."RELATED: Airbrushing the PolitburoRyerson...
It's time to end the madness
Sorry might not cut it for the Missouri lawmaker who called for President Trump’s assassination. Missouri Senate leaders announced Tuesday that Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal has been stripped of her committee assignments, just two days after she tried to calm the controversy with a public apology.
Meanwhile, the state’s Republican lieutenant governor, Mike Parson, on Tuesday called...
22 August 2017
Let me count the ways...
...again...“We do know that black Canadians have been disproportionately charged with and are imprisoned for possession of small amounts of cannabis,” Greg Fergus, a Quebec MP who chairs the Liberal black caucus, said Tuesday.
“I don’t think that’s because there is a greater propensity in the black community to consume marijuana,” he said.
“We have to look at the questions of systemic racism.”The...
No doubt heads will roll...
...Toronto Sun writer forgets to use perennial codewords "northwest end of the city"...A 41-year-old man is in custody after a fatal stabbing, (or, as it is commonly referred to outside journalism circles... "murder") in the Jane St. and Finch Ave. area Tuesday morning.
The age and identity of the victim have not been released, pending notification of next of kin.**********
BONUS GEOGRAPHY ROUND:...
21 August 2017
The rocky road to...

...Allen's Snackbar...The last known member of the Barcelona terror cell has been shot dead after he was cornered by armed police. Police said Younes Abouyaaqoub shouted “Allahu Akbar” just before he was gunned down outside Subirats.
Abouyaaqoub, 22, had fled Las Ramblas on foot and is thought to...
Remember, back in the day...

...when you were a kid, your friends & siblings were being cut down left and right..?
Yeah, me neither.It's not the first time the Zero Gun Violence Movement has taken to the streets to call for stronger action on the problem. And many of the family members present on Saturday say they know the...
20 August 2017
Problem solved... no more Nazis

Went to Kingston, Ontario yesterday to do some shopping... they have a Lee Valley Tools... and ran smack into an... wait for it... anti-nazi demonstration. They were taking up half the street and the imbeciles at the front with the banner kept pushing over into the other lane to totally stop traffic.
The...
When Glenn is right, he’s right...

...And MAN, is he ever RIGHT about this o...
19 August 2017
Snowflake U

I had to explain the news to a young gal at work today. Selling emotional "news" to get people talking is a desperately-competitive big business. It's not about keeping you "informed."
She confessed that she had never thought about it that way, that the media makes the news so people will watch it...
If I only had a brain
"The terrorist cell which killed 14 people in Catalonia on Thursday was planning to mount a bombing attack in Barcelona that was only abandoned when they accidentally blew up the house where they were stockpiling explosives."**********
FROM THE COMMENTS:"They gotta stop with that whole marryin' people they meet at family reunions thing."**********
UPDATE: Another casualty of the R.O.P.Ian Moore...
17 August 2017
Muhammed take the wheel...
A terror attack in Barcelona has left 13 people dead and 32 injured, 10 seriously, after a van ploughed into pedestrians on the famous Las Ramblas street.
The van used in the attack was rented by Driss Oukabir.Live and don't learn Euroweenies.
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RELATED: Ask a Canadian media outlet...
...this one is on General Motors, er... Fiat & friends...BARCELONA, Spain -- A white van jumped...
16 August 2017
Get out your decoder rings...

Meanwhile... out in the west e...
15 August 2017
The capricious and unknowable...
..."Will of Buddha, er... Shiva, wait... Odin, no... uh, Jesus... oh, yeah... that guy, AGAIN..."Communication Minister Remi Dandjinou told journalists that at least 17 people were dead and eight others wounded, according to a provisional toll. The victims came from several different nationalities, he said.
Security forces arrived at the scene with armoured vehicles after reports of shots fired...
14 August 2017
Erasing history...
...is never the answer...For the next week or two • assuming we're not at war with North Korea • we will hear non-stop geschreiing from our media about what a racist nation we are, how we have to come together, rend our shirts, investigate this and that and endlessly discuss how bad we are until we're finally forgiven at some undetermined point in an ever vanishing future that seems never to arrive.**********
RELATED:...
12 August 2017
Darwin was right
An Iowa man was arrested after police allegedly found him carrying meth as he tried to deposit a million-dollar bill into his bank account.
Dennis Strickland, 33, attempted to deposit the bill, which he said was worth $1 million, into his bank account in Sioux City on Thursday.In other "room temperature IQ" news...ATHENS, Ala. — Authorities say an Alabama man whacked his twin brother with an aluminum...
10 August 2017
Names will not be published...
...to protect the narrative AND the guilty...A man has been rushed to a trauma centre with serious injuries after he was shot during a street robbery in the city's downtown core. Police say three suspects, armed with handguns, fled the area in a white Chevy Cruz and headed westbound on King Street.
All three suspects were arrested and three handguns were seized.**********
UPDATE: CTV glosses over...
Canada ties for eighth overall...

...while PM Selfie's refugee flavours of the week are Syria in 24th and Haiti in 39th place..."These numbers came from a work carried out from 2002 to 2006 by Richard Lynn, a British Professor of Psychology, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science, who conducted IQ studies in more...
09 August 2017
It isn't Donald Trump they should...

...be scared of..."While our State Department is making every effort to resolve this global threat through diplomatic means, it must be noted that the combined allied militaries now possess the most precise, rehearsed and robust defensive and offensive capabilities on Earth. The DPRK regime's actions...
It sounds worse in writing...
...than it did in my head...EDIT 2: To clarify a couple big points. The drugs and sex didn't fix me. They were like CPR for a man with a stopped heart. Dangerous, risky, and unlikely to work, but if you can keep the guy alive long enough to get the defibrillator to him, even if it means breaking some ribs, it's worth the risk.
I was going to die that night. I don't suggest if you're feeling...
If only there was a law
Activist Erricka Bridgeford promoted the campaign as a "Baltimore ceasefire" and "Nobody kill anybody" weekend that began on Friday and ends Sunday night, garnering the support of thousands on social media since May.
The city made it through Friday with no shootings reported, drawing hope from participants the campaign might see some success. But by Saturday, two men were shot and killed in separate...
08 August 2017
A rose by any other name...

...still isn't a vagina...When Jeffrey Tambor puts on a dress and a wig, I don’t go, “Who cares?” I laugh and say, “That guy looks ridiculous.”
I do this because I have eyeballs and they’re still connected to my bra...
07 August 2017
Killing Ontario...

...one Liberal budget at a a time...The Liberals accumulated debt for this year is projected at $311.9 billion, almost 125% higher than the $138.8 billion debt the Liberals inherited from the Progressive Conservatives when they came to power in 2003.
Interest still has to be paid on that $311.9 billion...
06 August 2017
Those darned hosers...
...Toronto's beer-swillin', toque-wearin', Maple Leaf lovin' goofballs strike again...Two Toronto men face two dozen charges in a shooting investigation that left a car riddled with bullet holes in the city’s Alexandra Park area last week. Kevin Pacheco, 18, faces 15 firearms-related charges, including discharging a firearm with intent to wound, reckless discharge of firearm and carrying a concealed...
05 August 2017
No biggie, say Justin's Liberal minions
In an interview with CBC Radio's The House, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the flow of migrants crossing illegally into Canada has not reached a crisis level that would demand significant policy change. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau echoed Hussen's reassurances during a scrum with reporters at an event near Ottawa on Friday
In the month of January, the RCMP intercepted 245 asylum claimants...
03 August 2017
That terrible, awful Donald Tru...
...wait a minute...Half of the eight mayoral hopefuls on Detroit’s primary ballot next week have been convicted of felony crimes involving drugs, assault or weapons, a Detroit News analysis shows.Meanwhile, down in Lotusland...In 2014 the voters of California went to the polls and approved a proposition that would ease the overpopulation in jails and prisons by loosening law enforcement standards...
02 August 2017
My guns have still killed...

...fewer people than Michael Bryant's car...Toronto Police say Adrian Milligan, 23, is the city's 30th murder victim of the year. After the shooting, two men described as black, between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9, one wearing a blue hoodie and shorts and the other sporting a grey sweater and shorts were...
01 August 2017
Homicide Squad rounding up local...

...farmers, hunters and Olympic target shooters...A “very callous” and brazen shooting at a Moss Park bar killed a 32-year-old man and injured four others late Monday, one of two fatal shootings in the city overnight, Toronto Police say.
In the second shooting, at 12:45 a.m. on Bathurst St. north of...
The struggle to modernise...

...a medieval theocracy...'Historic day' as Jordanian parliament repeals rape law. Provision that allows rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims has been abolished by the (lower house only) parliament.
Such rape-marriage provisions continue to exist in Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait,...
With apologies to Elmer Fudd...
...those wascally, wascal "Canadians"..."A virtual kidnapping scam targeting female Chinese students has hit Vancouver. According to the RCMP, the cyber extortion scheme tricks victims into believing their loved ones have been kidnapped."
"There have been six incidents reported in the Lower Mainland."Well, that's pretty much everything I need to know about China.
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