-- "A crowd surge at Swamy Venkateswara Temple in southern India where devotees had gathered to mark one of Hinduism’s sacred days, left at least nine people dead and dozens injured, local authorities said Saturday. Of the deceased, eight are women and one is a child." --
Reporters Robin Pogebrin and Kate Kelly quietly admit that Christine Blasey Ford’s lifelong friend Leland Keyser did not believe her friend’s tale of a sexual assault at a party they both supposedly attended.And now, there's this...
We spoke multiple times to Keyser, who also said that she didn’t recall that get-together or any others like it. In fact, she challenged Ford’s accuracy. “I don’t have any confidence in the story.”
The far-left New York Times has been shamed into adding a humiliating “correction” to its latest and now-debunked smear of Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
There’s a tendency right now to make every single thing about Donald Trump, but if you don’t see the dotted line connecting the president to a wave of men who feel thwarted and besieged and sentenced to an endless apology tour, then you’re not paying attention.
In 2019, men feeling thwarted and besieged is a bipartisan experience.
Google said Wednesday it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in its Nest Secure home alarm system, the latest privacy flub by one of the tech industry's leading collectors of personal information.**********
The company said in a statement that the omission was a mistake. "The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret."
Microsoft’s Edge browser reportedly allowed Facebook to “run Adobe Flash code behind users’ backs.”**********
Facebook’s Onavo VPN app has been dying a slow death since it was exposed as a clandestine data collection monster last year.
The coronation of Sarah Jeong didn't go quite as expected...
**********"Sarah Jeong is one of the biggest hypocrites in America if she thinks she opposes the social media mob now targeting her. On occasion after occasion, she has come out in favor of social media mobbing, including the destruction of lives and careers."
"If you think your Gmail inbox is safe from prying eyes, think again. The popular Google email client—used by more than 1.4 billion users—is reportedly letting hundreds of software developers scan inboxes and, in some cases, even read conversations."
"The least persuasive thing a person can do to fight such attacks, according to Adams, is to protest that he's not crazy and stupid -- because the only words people will remember are 'crazy and stupid.'"Via SDA
After John Legend denied he was reportedly looking for white, overweight Americans to play Trump supporters for an upcoming music video, he now claimed the casting was for a different project involving his music.Sounds pretty "deplorable" to me.
"Stay focused, stay rich."Please do not apply if you oversleep, have court often, do not have a babysitter everyday, have to get rides to work later than our work day begins, experience flat tires every week, have to hold onto a cell phone all day, or will become an expert at your job with no need to learn or take advice after the first day."
"Must be able to talk and work at the same time. Must also remember to come back to work after lunch.
"Our job is to defend democracy, not practice it".
" -- "'He was my baby. I know this will turn out like Sammy Yatim," the mother told VICE, making note that Alex was a good friend of police shooting victim Sammy Yatim, who was killed on a Toronto streetcar back in 2013." --Listening to the family... and apparently that's where 99% of the current media narrative originates... it seems that Alex Wetlaufer was a model citizen...
-- "Since graduating high school, Alex had focused on working out, had recently completed the army’s required aptitude tests and was 'just waiting for the call', [brother] Michael said, adding that his brother was in peak physical condition.Well, that certainly sounds impressive... working out for 3 years to realise a career ambition... inspired by your dead father, no less.
-- "'Wendy Wettlaufer, Alex’s mother, told CP24 that someone from the family was on the phone with him moments before he was shot. 'He was crying, saying that he’s being surrounded.'" --Wait a minute... you're on the run from an 'armed to the teeth' SWAT Team... (why run and make yourself a target if you're an innocent bystander?) and then you stop and make a hysterical phone call to your mom... AND THEN she hears you being murdered? That sounds like the plot of a really bad movie.
-- "The sister of the 21-year-old man shot and killed by police officers in North York says she believes he was unarmed at the time of the incident." --She 'believes' he was unarmed? Sweet Baby Jebus. Is this what they teach in J-School, or is it yet another example of CBC's "just phone it in" activism?
The family (Alex was one of ten children) has lived in the Toronto Community Housing neighbourhood for more than 30 years.Of course, if Justin has his way, our military will all be turned into unarmed social justice advocates anyway.
The civilian agency released new information Wednesday, confirming that three officers discharged their firearms during the incident, though it’s not clear how many times Wettlaufer was shot or which of the officers’ bullets hit him.Unfortunately, unlike Alex's family, the officers are not permitted to speak about the incident...
The civilian watchdog says it cannot reveal whether Wettlaufer was armed because the investigation is ongoing. The vital piece of information may not be provided until the probe is completed, a process that typically takes several months, or up to a year.UPDATE: Here's a crazy thought... let's talk to somebody who isn't related to the deceased...
-- "Sources have told CP24 that the man was armed with a handgun when he was shot. He was rushed to hospital, where he was later pronounced dead." --UPDATE2: The other side of the story
-- "Toronto police officers from the force’s tactical unit negotiated with Alex Wettlaufer for at least 15 minutes before firing their weapons, killing the young man who a police source says was armed with either a real or replica gun.And it appears as though he may not have been eligible to enlist in the military after all...
Court documents show Wettlaufer was facing three criminal charges at the time of his death, dating back to an October 2014 incident. Alongside three other accused, Wettlaufer faced one of robbery for allegedly stealing a cellphone and one count of assault causing bodily harm, for allegedly attacking two people..Wonder how the family feels about being manipulated by the media now?
Wettlaufer alone was charged with the unauthorized possession of a knife that opens through the use of centrifugal force — a weapon that requires a licence.
All of the charges against Wettlaufer were before the court at the time of his death." --
Loku said to the officers: “What you gonna do, come on, shoot me.”Sew... reap... case closed.
President Obama “regrets” filibustering the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, his top spokesman said Wednesday, though he maintains that the Republican opposition to his effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia is unprecedented.Remember, it's only a bad thing when a conservative does it.
As a senator from Illinois, Obama and 23 other senators attempted to stage a filibuster to block a confirmation vote on Alito, one of former President George W. Bush’s picks to serve on the bench.
Pope Francis made an indirect but biting criticism at Donald Trump Thursday, suggesting those who build walls “aren’t Christian.”Hey, at least this Pope isn't a card-carrying Hitlerite.
Ironically, the pope’s home of Vatican City is surrounded by enormous medieval walls.
“We represent people who have committed heinous acts — acts of violence, acts of depravity, acts of cruelty,” she quipped. “Or as Jian Ghomeshi likes to call it, foreplay.”Ms Marie Henein, Jian Ghomeshi's own defense lawyer, speaking at the Ontario Criminal Lawyers’ Association Gala.
At 50, she looks a decade younger, a vision in black chic perched on $1,500 leopard-patterned Louis Vuitton pumps. They turn out to be just one pair from a collection so notorious that Ontario’s former chief justice Warren Winkler once ribbed her, “So are you going to buy a car or a new pair of shoes?”As one might expect, she's no shrinking violet...
“The whole point,” says Henein’s former associate Margaret Bojanowska, “is to annihilate the witness, really.”And she doesn't trouble herself over what anyone else might think...
“I am not conflicted about being a strong feminist and what I do in court,” Henein bristles. “I just don’t feel a need to justify what I do or explain myself.”Here's a thought. Officer James Forcillo was convicted of attempted murder because he shot and killed an unstable, drug-fueled man brandishing a knife.
Lemme see... lemme see..."He was transitioning from living with his mother to living with a girlfriend..."Transitioning, huh? That sounds way more impressive than filling a garbage bag with clothes and grabbing a bus to Rexdale.
David Eminess, 26, and Quinn Taylor, 29, were out front of the New Ho King restaurant on Spadina Ave., south of College St., along with a third man when the gunfire erupted around 3:15 a.m.It's actually way closer to breakfast than dinner time here. How long, exactly, are you gonna just sit around waiting for your hypothetical take out?
Christian Promesse, Eminess's brother-in-law said Eminess had gone to the area to watch a game and get a drink. He said the police told him that there was a crowd of people and a fight broke out, and that Eminess got caught in the crossfire.Well, wait a minute, Christian... that's not what CTV & insideToronto news is saying...
"Speaking to media on Tuesday, Feb. 2, Toronto police Staff Insp. Greg McLane said it appeared the two murdered men, 26-year-old David Eminess and 29-year-old Quinn Taylor were targeted by their attacker."Additionally, Mr Eminess is described variously by different media outlets as a student and also as someone supporting his young family with odd jobs.
Toronto police say a 19-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he was shot in the eastern part of downtown Toronto on Tuesday afternoon. The man was walking somewhere in the area of Queen and Victoria streets after 3 p.m. when a vehicle drove past him at a high rate of speed and someone in the vehicle shot at him.And there's this...
A male is dead following a violent assault in Etobicoke, a representative with Toronto Paramedic Services says. It happened in The West Mall and Rathburn Road area at around 7 p.m.Deputy Police Chief Peter Sloly says he wants to trim the fat to the tune of a couple hundred less line officers. Lemme know how that works out.
The victim is believed to be in his 20s, paramedics said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Tuesday, Behruzi was arrested alongside Mohamed Hamad Mohamed, 26, and Abad Abdi Shire, 21 — friends of Marwan.**********
Saed Kaylie, 17, died of stab wounds outside an apartment building located near the West Mall and Rathburn Road.**********
“I misunderstood the question and therefore provided you with an incorrect answer”.Yup.
No, you just thought I was stupid.
"Minutes later, the teen exposed himself to women on board and drew a knife..."That's curious... they left out the bit where Sammy Yatim tried... TWICE... to stab two women passengers on the streetcar.
"She held up her purse in front of her as Yatim came at her with his knife and she says she recalled feeling the thud of the knife against her purse."And how about...
“I need you to know that Yatim was dangerous,” she told the jury after she broke down crying on the stand."
"Another school friend, who asked not to be identified, said Yatim carried a knife everywhere and even bragged about owning a gun."Read the all too familiar canned cliches about how Yatim was trying to "get his life back on track."
I guess I'll just google "Tilt Cove, Newfoundland" and go see one of the other 102,000 results."Where ordinary suspected criminals correctly have the right to refuse to assist the state in building a case against them, gun owners are denied that critical freedom." --I'm tired of being a second-class citizen.
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"What's that smokey, orange place in the picture and what does it have to do with Layton? It sure doesn't look like heaven."
Oh look... now they're actually going to provide an option to disagree...
**********Will you vote for Michael Ignatieff because...
a) He's a hunka, hunka burnin' love
b) Can't resist a man with the common touch
c) Stephen Harper is a serial killer
"However, the two sides still have to work out issues involving borders, waters, oil revenue, and the fate of the oil-producing Abyei region."Meanwhile... in other "man's inhumanity to men" news...
An explosion occurred this afternoon at Moscow's international Domodedovo Airport, with reports of at least 35 dead and some 130 injured. Of the injured, 20 are said to be in serious condition.I blame Sarah Palin.
Witnesses say that in the international arrivals baggage area two suicide bombers set off the explosion. Afterwards there was heavy smoke in the airport. The head of an Arabic man was found in the blast area.
The blast is said to have been equivalent to 7 kilograms of TNT.
