C'MON NOW, HAVE A LITTLE SYMPATHY... AFTER ALL, THE MAN IS AN ORPHAN...

-- "Accused murderer Nick Reiner, 32, now claims the trustee, lawyer Paul Kanin, has refused to hand over the funds, alleging 'unsubstantiated ‘concerns’ about Nick’s so-called competence to ‘manage a trust.’ Reiner says he has no other way to pay his legal bills." --

Relax, he'll be out in a year or two...

-- "Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, the man accused of killing a young woman on a North Carolina light-rail train has been deemed incompetent to stand trial in his federal case following a mental evaluation." --

NOBODY'S LAUGHING AT PREPPERS ANYMORE...

-- "'Russia is already escalating its covert campaign against our societies,' Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte said in a speech in Germany In one of his starkest statements to date. 'We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.'" --

Hmmm... that doesn't sound like a good thing...

-- "Russian television has shown a simulation of a nuclear strike on central London with more than 850,000 deaths." --

And the threat isn't entirely external.

FUNNY HOW HE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT YOU WERE EXPECTING...

-- "Ryan Maeder, 38, is wanted for indignity to a body after a woman was found dead in a parking lot behind a building in downtown Niagara Falls earlier this month." --

YOU CAN RATIONALISE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, I GUESS...

-- "Lorenz Kraus, 53,  confessed in a TV interview on Thursday that he killed his parents and buried their bodies in their backyard nearly a decade ago, authorities said. Kraus described deaths as 'mercy killings for aging parents' because their health was declining. Kraus said his parents did not ask to be killed but 'they knew they were going downhill.'" -- "

And...

The suit, filed in May, claimed the Generations Church was behind a 'civil conspiracy masterminded by the LGBTQ community and white supremacist pedophiles to kill Edge because he’s 'a straight man.'”  --

IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF PRIOR INDICATION...

-- "Sabharwal, who had more than 15,000 flying hours under his belt at the time of the tragedy, had taken medical leave in recent years due to apparent mental health woes, the Telegraph reported." --

Nota bene...

-- "Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was months from retirement at the time of the crash." --

UPDATE2: TORONTO HOMICIDES #44-45/2022... LOVE PHILIPINO STYLE

-- "Berdoussis is one of nearly a dozen civilian witnesses who have testified at the trial for 48-year-old Godfrey Sig-Od, charged with two counts of first-degree murder in relation to his ex-wife Elvie Sig-Od, 44, and his daughter Angelica Sig-Od, 20." --

Oh, Hamilton... don't ever change. 

What's the deal with Kitchener? 

Could be worse, I suppose...

Jamaica has one of the world’s highest homicide rates, and many worry Lobban's killing will lead to more violence. The country also has one of the highest rates of killings by police officers in the Americas, according to Amnesty International, which has criticized the fatal shootings as 'extrajudicial executions.'" --

FOR BETTER OR DIVERSE...

-- "Mohamed Lidow, 35, found guilty of orally penetrating 37-year-old hospital administrator and mother-of-three Natalie Shotter until she died has been given what is called in the United Kingdom a 'life' sentence , with a minimum term of ten years and eight months." --

The first thing we do is 'hang the lawyers'...

-- "Lidow’s lawyers later turned the story around in a bid to avoid a conviction for manslaughter, claiming Shotter was already dead before Lidow found her, and he was in fact raping her corpse." --

Britain needs to be more like Texas.

I SAY WE PUT IT SMACK DAB CENTER OF ROSEDALE...

-- "Toronto City Councillor Parthi Kandavel says the plan to convert a Scarborough building at at 2535 Gerrard Street East to an eighty-bed men’s shelter makes no sense. The property in question is currently an empty commercial building beside mostly single family home and across the street from a daycare." --

FROM OUR OVERFLOWING 'ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL' FILE

THE SHOW MUST GO ON...

-- "Even as the family mourned the death of Hetal, relatives proposed an alternative plan to ensure the wedding celebrations continued. They suggested the bride’s younger sister take her place and marry Vishal. Hetal’s body was reportedly kept in cold storage until the ceremony was over." --

OR NOT...

HONG KONG -- "The ex-husband and former in-laws of slain Hong Kong model Abby Choi were put in custody without bail Monday on a joint murder charge, after police found parts of her body in a refrigerator. Authorities discovered a young woman’s skull believed to be Choi’s in a cooking pot that was seized from the house." --

AND WINSTON CHURCHILL LAUGHED

-- "Britain’s national broadcaster has reportedly been crafting secret scripts to be read out to the public in the event that the energy crisis results in blackouts during the winter months." --

AND WHAT'S UP ACROSS THE CHANNEL?

-- "Macron now plans to usher in a period of austerity." --

Canadian Tire Goon Squad

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE: Even for Burnaby, BC 

 I have, over the years, like so many Canadians, spent thousands of dollars in their ubiquitous stores.   I confess, I was there yesterday.  

But handcuffs, chokeholds... I will never set foot in Canadian Tire again..

All that's missing here are the "brown shirts."  You can see the victim being choked out as his face turns progressively redder.  He tells the five man goon squad that he can't breathe... listen to their smug reply.

Obviously there's a huge lawsuit in the making here.

Here's my questions... what would have happened next, if, say... they had choked out a Black guy?  What about a woman?

Oh, yeah... 30 years ago, Ontario banned the use of chokeholds for police in the province.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"

DOES THIS GRIND YOUR GEARS?

Let the folks at the Corporate Offices know how you feel.

h/t Blazingcatfur

UPDATE:  Dudley DoRight does wrong... 

Store security told police they were going to escort the man off the premises, but you can see they had handcuffs out in the video.

"Mounties arrested the man, and Burnaby RCMP is now investigating the incident."

UPDATE2: Twitter hides video behind 'view' button

"The following media includes potentially sensitive content."

Hmmm... has Twitter hidden those millions of George Floyd videos? 

IN OTHER REASSURING SECURITY GUARD NEWS:

A security guard hired by the Public Health Agency of Canada as a designated screening officer has been accused of attempting to extort and then sexually assaulting a woman at a residence in Oakville during a COVID-19 travel quarantine compliance check.

The 27-year-old suspect, whose full legal name according to police is Hemant, was arrested on Feb. 23 and charged with sexual assault and extortion.

Gimme that Global Warming...

...please, please, please...

"ICE-RAVAGED Britain is set for another 10 inches of snow today as temperatures drop to -18C."

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

"The arctic high-pressure system will again bring wind chill temperatures of as low as -50 degrees to the Upper Plains and Upper Midwest."

At some not-too-distant point...

...in the future... that societal rubber band is gonna snap back...

In addition to setting a single month record, the surge in background checks makes January 2021 record setting for the number of NICS checks witnessed during any month, period.

January 2021 comes on the heels of a record-setting 2020, wherein each month proved to be a record month for background checks.

Of course, they would have

And... it's not okay to put your thumb on the scale...Well, it's not as if the CDC's budget is related in any way, shape or form to the growing threat of contagious dis...
wait a minute...

Remember... the prime function of any bureaucrat is to grow the bureacracy.

OJ Simpson... the gift that...

...keeps on giving...

“Seen that video you posted about me. You think I’m playing? Tired of all your bullshit. I WILL FIND YOUR ASS AND CUT YOU — Don’t believe me? Just watch and see bitch,” another message from Simpson’s account says.

Remember this one?

"He means nobody's ever SURVIVED him pulling a weapon on them."

Speaking of Murder

Teddy Kennedy's car has still killed more people than my guns...

“She didn’t drown,” the diver who retrieved Kopechne’s body noted. “She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car in 25 minutes after I got the call. But he didn’t call.”

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RELATED: NY Times trips over it's agenda

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RELATED2: It was an open secret...

A former mid-level Kennedy staffer, bitterly disillusioned, recalls with disgust one (now ex-) high-ranking aide as "a pimp…whose real position was to procure women for Kennedy."

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LAST WORD: Teddy's BFF... Yuri Andropov...

As set forth in the letter, “Kennedy believes that, given the state of current affairs, and in the interest of peace, it would be prudent and timely to undertake the following steps to counter the militaristic politics of Reagan.”

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Barktender"...

“Sir... nobody has to get hurt here... just put the gun on the counter... and walk away.”

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UNRELATED: And Trekdom Wept

Hollywood... one tough town

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"At least they still get to vote."

Dr Hillary and Mr Hyde

I'm starting to get where Bill Clinton's "bimbo eruptions" must've come from...

"I witnessed her obscenity-laced tirades, her shifting of blame, how she berated Vince Foster until he could stand no more, how minor incidents involving blue gloves and botched invitations sent her into a tizzy.

It was like watching Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny obsessing about a quart of missing strawberries – and losing sight of the world war raging about him.

Byrne says he was “shocked” when President Clinton arrived for work at 9am sporting a shiner. Byrne writes, “this was a shiner, a real, live, put-a-steak-on-it black eye.” When he asked the office staff about it the president’s scheduler claimed it was a coffee allergy.

Will firsthand evidence that Hillary Clinton is an angry, even violent, person add to her existing credibility problem or will the media ignore this as old news?

Forget about Benghazi, the Nixonian duplicity and the 30,000 missing emails... Hillary Clinton is an unrepentant puppy-strangling sociopath.

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RELATED: A true one percenter

Hillary Clinton wore a Giorgio Armani jacket worth more than $12,000 during a speech in April about inequality.

Is anybody really surprised?

Maybe she should consider...

...molesting an intern with a cigar...

"They better worked this shit out fast because who ever the Republicans pick is going to be 29 times tougher than Bernie."

I mean... it's not like it hurt Bill in the long run.

As for Hillary's so-called "socialist" opponent... apparently, he's flexible...

The socialist trumpets his antiwar record. But he doesn’t mind expensive war machines—if they’re based in his home state. Most notably, he’s supported a $1.2 trillion stealth fighter that’s considered by many to be one of the bigger boondoggles in Pentagon history.

Principles, my arse.

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UPDATE: The results are in

Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among nearly every demographic group in the Democratic New Hampshire primary, according to exit polls. And, though Mrs. Clinton lost nearly every income group, she did carry voters in families earning over $200,000 per year.

So, Hillary supporters are mostly wealthy, elderly white folk. Where are the "social justice warriors" when you really need 'em?

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UPDATE2: Dems now eating their young?

The Nation’s Joan Walsh, a frequent MSNBC contributor and high-profile Hillary supporter is suggesting that white working class Democrats have moved away from Hillary because she served in the cabinet of a black president. This is a bizarre strategy from Team Hillary, especially after the catastrophic results from New Hampshire Tuesday night, where Hillary lost the woman vote to 195 year-old socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

To their face, Hillary asks for their votes and pledges to make their lives better. Behind their back, Team Clinton is smearing working class Democrats as racist.

Yet again... snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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LAST WORD: As warm as Hillary herself...

Cameras caught top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin apparently shoving away a woman who tried to hug her after Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate.

The mask slips yet again.