It's not just Brian Knight

Some people are just wired that way... they have to do "the right thing"...

"I told them, 'You need to get somebody out here because if I catch them I'm going to kill them.'"

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RELATED: Less Mr. Rogers... more Marcus Luttrell

"Let's spend a little less time worrying about the rights of criminals... and more about the rights of law abiding citizens."

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Parliament Hill Festival Series 2009

Anybody know if there are any tickets left for 'Hamas on the Rideau'?

"Demonstrators banged on drums, waved flags and placards and chanted 'Tamil Tigers, freedom fighters.'"

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Scratch a "Wingnuterer"...

...find a lyin' sack-o-shite...
Well, Zorph... I can see you're feeling pretty pleased with yourself.

I just don't understand why, because...

One - creating a Blogger ID - solely for the purpose of partisan trolling is both incredibly obnoxious and blatantly dishonest.

Two - I never accused Scott Tribe of being "Liberal Supporter"... that'd be, well... you... just now.

Three - This proud declaration of deliberate duplicity isn't something to shout fom the rooftops. Where I come from, this is something to be ashamed of... .. it simply speaks to your obvious lack of integrity.

Think about it, Zee... why should anybody ever trust a single word you ever say again?

Oh, that's right... you're a proud Socialist. It's not about the means... just the end..

And Zorph... you're all about the name-calling aren't you?

You seem to be pretty fond of the term "nancy-boy". How do all your socialist buddies feel about your seemingly "homophobic" slurs?

Good grief.

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RELATED: You can tell a lot...

... about a person by the company he keeps...

"The other folks at 'Gidget goes Granola' included... Philip Qua of The Wingnuterer..."

Looks like the Wingnuterers are all "birds of a feather".

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UPDATE: The little pack of scavengers grows...
Go Balbully go...
At least, unlike Zorpheus... you're not pretending to be somebody else.

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Igor... get me a brain!

A week later... Conficker shudders and moans...

The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines.

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It all depends, I suppose...

...on your definition of "progressive"...

I’ve always thought the term “Progressive Conservative” was like apologizing with the first breath of your introduction.

The name also implies that you want to be all things to all people rather than standing firm on your principles.

“Conservative? Oh, don’t worry, we’re ‘progressive’ too!”

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Live and don't learn

The further capricious & unknowable "Will of Allah"...

A bomb has exploded in a mainly Shia Muslim part of Baghdad, killing seven people and injuring at least 20 others, Iraq police have said.

It exploded about 100m (100 yards) from the tomb of Imam Mousa al-Kazim, holy to Shia Muslims.

Last January, a man disguised as a woman blew himself up near the shrine, killing more than three dozen people and wounding more than 70.

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UPDATE: And, naturally, the Shia are enraged...

...just not at the guys setting off the bombs...

Tens of thousands of supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr have rallied against the US presence in Iraq, six years after Saddam Hussein's fall.

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LAST WORD: Dear President Peace Moonbeam...

That's nice that you've made up with the Islamic peoples of the world... I just hope you weren't expecting them to reciprocate...

Armed officers from the North West Counter-Terrorism Unit arrested 12 men under the Terrorism Act in Liverpool, Manchester and Clitheroe on 8 April.

Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you.

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Here's a thought...

How about... instead of chasing after skeet shooters, duck hunters and farmers... we try throwing a couple billion taxpayer dollars at running down actual criminals?

(via reader scott)

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UPDATE: Maybe "Farmer Bob's" coyote rifle...

...shouldn't be at the top of that list after all...

Nanaimo RCMP seized a high-powered arsenal yesterday morning, including a .50-calibre machine gun, two automatic assault rifles, grenades, explosives and other firearms - 41 weapons in total.

Police also seized at least $50,000 in cash, half a kilogram of cocaine, and an assortment of blasting caps and detonator cords. But they were particularly concerned about the .50-calibre machine gun, powerful enough to destroy vehicles and airplanes.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Its hard to police criminals because they don't follow the laws. Those nasty criminals don't care one bit about all the rules I have to follow to get my handguns to the range and back."

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It's baa-aaack...

Thought polio was a thing of the past? Think again...

Several years ago, northern Nigeria's reluctance to immunize its children against polio caused the wild virus to spread to neighboring countries.

Religious and political leaders suspended vaccinations claiming the polio vaccine was contaminated and could spread HIV/AIDS and sterilize girls.

In other, more hopeful, Nigerian medical news... the "child witch outbreak" appears to be well in hand.

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Dressing down the Puffin King

The Liberals... they're flexible...

“Mr. Ignatieff and the Liberal Party, when this matter first broke, were practically demanding that I throw Mr. Mulroney in prison without a trial,” Mr. Harper said.

“Now they're out there pretending that somehow they're his best friends and they don't agree with any of this.

I think what Canadians will see is when it comes to a very difficult issue of government conduct and government ethics, this government has behaved responsibly and the other party, the other leader, has absolutely no moral compass.”

Sounds like the Liberals would have been way better off hiding this particular piece of excrement...

The element of this that's too funny for words... is that the Fiberals have been branding Iggy as "the smart one".

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RELATED: This isn't really about Revenue Canada

It's about a longstanding, persistent culture of corruption in Quebec.

Canada's own little Chicago.

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Bold new 'stimulus package' initiative

Lamborghinis for law enforcement...

There is fierce competition for the world's fastest police car with the Italians and Germans vying for the title.

Up until now the police prix d'or has been held by a Lamborghini Gallardo which an Italian police patrol is using on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway.

It is capable of hitting a top speed of 192mph, which is probably ample to keep up with the most reckless of motorists.

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Hope, Change and...

...a little Obama pixie-dust... makes Pakistani sovereignty magically disappear...

The suspected strike indicates the Obama administration is unlikely to give up a Bush-era tactic American officials say has killed a string of al-Qaida operatives, even if it strains the relationship with Islamabad.

Funny how that works.

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RELATED: "Raindrops on roses & whiskers on kittens..."

The president quixotically says that a further U.S.-Russian nuclear drawdown will give the United States "greater moral authority to say to Iran, 'Don't develop a nuclear weapon,' to say to North Korea, 'Don't proliferate nuclear weapons.' "

This is a charming notion, but it displays shocking ignorance of the strategic rationale driving countries toward creating or expanding their nuclear arsenals.

In general, the smaller and less powerful the country, the more beneficial nuclear weapons are.

North Korea, the poster child for rogue countries with nuclear weapons, is a failed totalitarian state that has rendered itself immune from attack for fear of the consequences.

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Journalists...

...our moral and intellectual superiors...

A Toronto man has been slapped with gun and drug charges, including attempted murder, after a shooting in the city's north end, police said this morning.

Emergency crews responding to a call for a shooting at 11 Shoreham Court, near Jane St. and Steeles Ave. W., found a 20-year-old man shot in the left leg at 5 p.m. Sunday, Toronto Police said.

Kalvin Small, 28, was arrested on charges of attempted murder while using a firearm and six other gun charges.

Geez... why does that name sound so familiar?

-- TORONTO -- Multiple charges including attempted murder have been laid against the older brother of Jordan Manners, the 15-year-old Toronto high school student shot to death at C.W. Jefferys Collegiate almost two years ago.

Hoo-boy... it's a Small, Small world.

Necole Small, 25, is one of 21 women arrested and faces a charge of possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition.

I guess some folks are just really unlucky, huh?

Shaking slightly as she talked, Small said she could feel the neighbourhood talking about the shooting and was concerned that police issued warrants for two men when only one of them shot at her.

Thank goodness for those strong family values.

-- BRAMPTON -- A parolee released in June and described by police sources as a cousin of shooting victim Jordan Manners was yesterday charged in the gun murder of an East York man as a birthday party ended.

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RELATED: Apparently the case was re-asssigned...

...to Detective Dora the Explorer...

A detective working on the Kalvin Small case called the arrest "a sad thing for the family."

"It's an unfortunate event and I'm hoping that the family can cope with the news, in light of everything that's happened to them."

Not word one about the guy who got shot... or his family.

Funny how that works.

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Going, going... gone

To be honest... I'm kinda surprised to see the 41%.*

Who could have seen this one coming?

Well, for starters... the parents of just about any garden variety two year old.
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UPDATE: Kicking ass & taking names...

The US crew of a ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia has retaken control of the vessel, according to Pentagon sources.

One prisoner taken...

The status of the other pirates was unknown, but officials said they were "in the water".

Looks like "The One" just dodged another bullet.

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Computer-controlled, huh?

Giving "blue screen of death"... a whole other meaning...

The vehicles would automatically avoid obstacles such as pedestrians and other cars and therefore never crash, Mr. Burns said.

Yeah... where have I heard that before?

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Better late than never

Looks like another big city thug is gonna get his "just desserts" after all...

-- TORONTO -- Police in Toronto announced Tuesday the arrest of a man in London, England, on manslaughter charges stemming from the shooting death of Jane Creba in 2005.

Dorian Wallace, 27, is awaiting extradition to Canada over the shooting, which killed the 15-year-old and injured six others amid Boxing Day shoppers on a crowded downtown stretch of Yonge Street.

Seven other adults are scheduled to go trial later this year.

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Anybody else notice...

...how the media has chosen to characterise the recent spate of gangland killings in Vancouver?
They're not "murders" or "killings"... which would presuppose a murderer, or a killer... they are now "targeted shootings"... a clumsy and blatant attempt to place the blame solely on the evil gun. Think I'm making mountains out of molehills? When's the last time you heard of a "targeted knifing", or a "targeted arson"?

A gun is an inanimate object. It has no will, nor can it form intent. Without someone to pick it up, load it, point it and pull the trigger... it is merely a chunk of metal. A gun "shoots people"... in the same way that "cars crush pedestrians". It's intellectually lazy... and more to the point, it's dishonest.

In actual fact, legally registered firearms account for a statistically insignificant number of killings in Canada.

In 2003, there were 161 gun homicides in Canada. Assuming that each shooting involved a separate gun we can calculate what percentage of Canadian guns were involved in these murders. If we take the official figure of seven million guns we get (161/7,000,000 = 0.000023 or .0023%).

Only 23 ten thousandths of 1% of the Canadian gun stock was involved in a homicide.

It's time to put the spotlight back on the actual sociopaths who use a gun, or a knife, or a hammer, or their fists... to maim and kill.

Don't be a mindless socialist sheeple.

Wake up and smell the species.

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RELATED: Other "stuff we can't talk about"

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Yes Virginia, there is a...

...Saudi Human Rights Commission... in spirit anyway...

Even such a rigorously controlled event as the showing of the first Saudi feature film at two venues in Jeddah late last year has aroused the suspicions of Islamic conservatives.

They say cinemas fill people's minds with evil and pollute the purity of their souls.

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Sorry... I couldn't help myself

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How far would Michael Ignatieff go...

...to exploit a perceived political weakness?

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff offered unexpected praise for Brian Mulroney Monday and criticized Stephen Harper for failing to show the veteran Tory due respect – comments calculated to exploit unprecedented public bickering in Conservative government ranks over the former prime minister.

Mr. Ignatieff said he even sent the former prime minister 70th birthday congratulations, noting Mr. Mulroney achieved a magnitude of victory that's so far eluded Mr. Harper.

This one obviously speaks to the Puffin King's elastic principles.

You think Iggy will be out there offering moral support to Mr Mulroney... at Barnum, Bailey and Schreiber?

Let the games begin.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Puff piece (puffin piece?) on Iggy on CBC news last night about his courting the West. He was answering questions in a high school, the usual site when you can't draw a crowd elsewhere (no mention of that by the reporter)."

"Westerners were portrayed as irrational, visceral voters for the Conservatives. Iggy was given high marks for trying to talk to these strange people."

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LAST WORD: Known & loved worldwide

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Nominations are now open...

...for the 2009 Darwin Awards...

U.S. F-16 fighter jets are tracking a single-engine plane over Missouri that was stolen from Thunder Bay, Ont.

The plane was reported stolen at about 2:30 p.m. and was spotted flying erratically.

At about 5 p.m., the state capital building in Madison, Wis., was evacuated before the plane passed near the region.

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UPDATE: Looks like he went to Plan B...

CNN reported the pilot was a Canadian citizen in his 20s who left a suicide note in Thunder Bay.

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UPDATE2: We have a name...

CNN has identified the man arrested by troopers as Yavuz Berke, 31, a native of Turkey who became a Canadian citizen last year.

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UPDATE3: We have another name...

The man, identified as Yavuz Burke, formerly known as Adam Leon — a Canadian citizen from Turkey — was in custody within an hour, CNN reported.

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UPDATE4: All corrected now...

Adam Dylan Leon, 31, from Thunder Bay, Ont., was charged with one count of unlawfully entering the U.S. after he was interrogated by F.B.I. agents in Poplar Bluff, Mo., said Sgt. Dale Moreland, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Damn scofflaw Canadians.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I'm going to be watching this one as it continues to develop. Maybe the Liberals will be the first to the post to demand his immediate return."

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RELATED: More Canadians... in the news

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The trouble with Psychiatry

Apparently, it's based on laws from... some other universe...

-- TORONTO -- A Toronto court is hearing the first person convicted in the killing of 15-year-old Jane Creba has a "cavalier" attitude toward her death.

"How do they know she wouldn't have been hit by a car or something?"

A cavalier attitude?!? What... he's a little insensitive?

Now, call me a hard-ass, but the phrase that immediately comes to my, admittedly layman's mind is... "Never, ever... sees the light of day again."

I guess that's not how it works in the fairy-tale world of "Corrections"... 'cos they're all enthused about this unfortunate lad's progress...

Hughes said during the first two years of J.S.R.'s incarceration, which began on Dec. 26, 2005, there were 29 behavioural incidents and eight between February 2008 and January of this year.

Bassarath said that showed better behaviour and agreed that suggested he does well in a structured environment.

"He has improved over the last year. There were fewer incidents."

So... we're willing to coddle this poor lad... while we crack down on all these troublemakers.

Good gawd... the inmates ARE running the asylum.

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RELATED: If only there was a database...

... wait... whaddaya mean it wasn't registered?

THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!

-- VANCOUVER -- Vancouver police are dealing with what they say is the city’s latest targeted shooting.

A man was found dead outside a south Vancouver convenience store as police responded to several reports of shots fired at about 9:40 Monday night.

This is the 20th confirmed shooting death and the 21st targeted fatal in Metro Vancouver since mid-January.

[insert meaningless platitudes from local politicians here]

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Oh, c'mon... why not?

I mean... she's got impeccable fashion sense and those fabulous biceps...
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2 Billion dollars... and counting

Long live the Fiberals... "Farmer Bob Rifle Registry"...

Bill S-5, the Long-Gun Registry Repeal Act, introduced by the government in the Senate, would change nothing to the "laws" that now require the arrest of at least 185,925 peaceful Canadians.

Arrest 200,000 peaceful Canadians, then? Or selectively persecute some of them, as the police have (still timidly) started to do, in order to scare the others into submission?

The whole episode shows that it is impossible to enforce a liberticidal law with means that are consistent with a free society.

One has to yield: the liberticidal law — the whole liberticidal law — or the free society.

The jury is still out.

(via nicholls)

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RELATED: Do you have your ex-wife's permission?

19(f) During the past two years, have you experienced a divorce, a separation, a breakdown of a significant relationship, job loss or bankruptcy?"

Which is, of course, totally beside the point...

"This conclusion acknowledges that, in the absence of criminal records, substance abuse, and previous violence, domestic homicides rarely occur."

You wanna know... statistically... who kills their spouses in Canada? Here's a hint... it isn't skeet shooters, farmers or duck hunters.

It's one... previously convicted criminals, with two... substance abuse problems.

Who could have possibly figured that one out, huh?

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I wonder if Omar and Carolyn...

...ran this little policy gem past the "Canadian of Convenience-in-Chief"...

Huzzahs all round by the crowd when shout-outs were made to CAF and fellow travellers, Sid Ryan, CUPE and CUPW.

The crowd was also pointedly advised that the pendulum has swung and they should be sure to vote Liberal as most grit party members now favoured the Palestinian cause over Israel.

Well, spank me with a shovel... who could have seen that coming?

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RELATED: Speaking of the coming revolution...

"Are all the Mosques in Canada taking up a collection to pay her ransom?"

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The first thing we do...

...is hang all the lawyers...

For almost four years, the cost of Mr. Aziga's defence was borne by Legal Aid Ontario, the independent but publicly funded agency that administers the province's legal-aid program.

But in January last year, when Mr. Aziga fired yet another lawyer and caused another delay, the agency pulled the plug on any further funding.

The Attorney-General's department reluctantly stepped in and agreed, as Judge Lofchick ordered, to foot the bill for what's called a Rowbotham order.

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RELATED: Well, except for maybe this guy...

"As I said to The Tyee in my interview with them last week, in words that I shall surely regret for years, you need to draw on your 'inner asshole' to fight back against such a Kafkaesque system, knowing the other side has all the money and time in the world."

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Get used to it...

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Noble Pakistani Holy Warriors...

...apparently just a little unclear on the concept..

-- ISLAMABAD -- A man who goes by the name Umar Farooq and says he speaks for the shadowy militant organization Fedayeen Al-Islam told The Associated Press via telephone that the group had staged the attack on the mosque as part of a “campaign against infidels.”

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UPDATE: Bloody "War on Infidels"...

...takes strange detour through "Sadr City"...

Iraqi police say a series of six car bombings across Baghdad Monday killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 65.

The deadliest attack occurred in the capital's Sadr City neighborhood where officials say an explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded 28 others.

And they say our Deity 'works in mysterious ways'... sheesh.

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"Visualise" World Peace

You'll notice it doesn't say... "U.S. takes action"...
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And you thought...

...space debris was a problem... how about a thousand years of mis-directed prayers.

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I see from Sitemeter... it's that time again

WELCOME, YET AGAIN, READERS OF NOTED HUMANITARIAN CANADIAN CYNICYes, yes, CC... we all know how kind & compassionate you are. Say, while we're at it... let's revisit your pet theory about those dastardly, evil Jews.

And hey... we could always get a second opinion from your "fellow cynic"... the mysterious "sjwalter".

And, of course, there's CC's magnum opus...

Remember Canadian Cynic's message to Wanda Watkins, whose son Lane was killed in Afghanistan?

"With all due respect, Wanda, fuck you and your grief. It's not the job of the rest of Canada to continue to let its soldiers die just so you can sleep better at night."

Of course, CC's too intimidated to use his own moniker here, so he has created a bunch of alter egos to do his dirty work for him... bombarding my comment threads with dozens of stupid trolls...
Well, CC... we can see you're "alive"... but I do have to question the "well."

I'm thinkin'... you might wanna tweak those meds again.

BOO!!!

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A Canadian "legal first"

Common sense trumps political correctness.

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RELATED: No Alison... we don't...

“We need to figure out why these charges have escalated from criminal negligence to assault to aggravated sexual assault and now murder without there ever having been an informed public debate.”

He poisoned them... they died.

That's murder.

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Less talk... more Glock

Sorry, folks... this isn't a war you're gonna win with words... or more social workers.
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Pay me now... AND...

...pay me later...

-- WASHINGTON -- In the space of a few months, the United States of America has been transformed from the most entrepreneurial society on Earth to one so state-directed that even the Europeans are raising their eyebrows.

Cynics might once have said that the head of General Motors decides who will be president. Now the president decides who will be the head of GM.

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Kill Pill... now it's "a feature"

Here we go again...

LM Ericsson AB, the Swedish company that makes many of the modems that go into laptops, announced Tuesday that its new modem will deal with this issue by including "A FEATURE" that's virtually a wireless repo man.

If the carrier has the stomach to do so, it can send a signal that completely disables the computer, making it impossible to turn on.

“We call it a ‘kill pill',” said Mats Norin, Ericsson's vice-president of mobile broadband modules.

The module will work on AT&T Inc.'s U.S. third-generation network, and on many other 3G networks overseas.

Didn't Microsoft get their ass in a crack some years ago... for simply talking about this sort of thing?

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In Toronto itself...

"...impaired driving is concentrated in northern Etobicoke and eastern Scarborough."

"The highest incidence is in Downsview."

Interestingly... the "Red" Star proposes that the statistics are caused by a "lack of public transit"... not a "lack of common sense"... or a "lack of respect for the law."

Funny how that works.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Hey, hey, enough with this crazy 'personal responsibility' talk."

"You're scaring the children."

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LAST WORD: Yeah, yeah... let's just blame "society"

"He said he tried to find a job but nobody like him," Ms. Huynh said.

"He was a nice boy. He had bad luck."

Not as "bad" as 13 other folks I can think of.

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Kiss me, sweet prince

Just a little something... for everybody who thinks Dalton is "all suck" and "no tongue".

(via reader bob)

Two words... Jury... Nullification

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Then they come, write a report and what? Do we see an arrest? And, if there is an arrest, do we see a vigorous prosecution or does it become some chickenpoop file to get off someone's desk?

And, if there is a vigorous prosecution, will we see a conviction? And if there is a conviction, what sentence will the guilty receive?

Don't tell me. We all know the answer.

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Hope, Change...

...blood, hair, teeth and bone...

A suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan, the second drone attack in four days, has killed 13 people.

The latest incident comes only three days after a missile fired by a suspected US drone killed at least 14 people in Pakistan's Orakzai tribal area, near the Afghan border.

US President Barack Obama has pledged to make the war against the Taleban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan a foreign policy priority.

So when that warmonger George Bush was in charge, this was a crime against humanity, right?

And now... it's what... transformative change?

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RELATED: "He don' need no..."

"...steenkin' Constitution."

...'cos he's "The One."

Well... except when he doesn't have his teleprompter.

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With friends like this... well... uh...

...I got nuthin'...

-- CHATHAM -- A 19-year-old woman who held her friend down while the image of a penis was branded on her neck will spend a year on probation.

Krystalee Yvonne Mills of London, pleaded guilty yesterday to assault in connection with the March 5, 2008 incident.

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Don't do it, girl

"I was just so touched, when Bradley told me he wanted to be a part of things."

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Mayor's office strangely silent...

...on which gun club SHE belongs to...

Her past includes convictions for firearms trafficking and drug importing in the United States.

Now, Toronto police allege 29-year-old Lisa Parmanand is the main gun supplier to two Scarborough street gangs headed by a 42-year-old man alleged to be a firearms and narcotics kingpin known on the street as "Whoppy King."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Progressives should be turning cartwheels seeing this woman compete successfully in a male dominated business."

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"Racism" is a one-way street

The further wit and wisdom of Mohamed Elmasry...

The crisis demonstrates that the rich tend to get richer not only at the expense of the poor but at the expense of their own economic system."

"The president of Brazil Luiz Inacio put it this way--the current economic mess is the fault of 'white people with blue eyes'."

Sure, you dumbstick... it's about melanocytes... NOT GREED.

Hey, Elmo... does that mean... 'white people with brown eyes'... are off the hook?

Good grief.

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RELATED: Gee, Mo... I wonder how your old employer...

...feels about your latest theory...

"Dr. Mohamed Elmasry is Professor Emeritus of Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo."

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LAST WORD: A red-letter day for conspiracy theorists

CBC uncovers yet another racist plot...

"Obviously, there's a question of racism here," Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor, told the CBC in an interview. "He has the unfortunate problem of being the same colour as the president of the United States and the Governor-General."

Yes, yes Amir... and look at how tragically that turned out for both of them.

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Why Canada is in Afghanistan...

...Reason #44...

Relatives of the man involved in the incident told the BBC he had gone to the house of the girl in the village of Kala Kalay to do repairs as an electrician but was accused of the relationship by militants.

They dragged him from the house and flogged him before punishing the girl, the relatives said. The Taleban made her brother hold her down during the flogging, they said.

After the incident, the Taleban forced the couple to marry and instructed the man not to divorce his wife. His relatives say he has been left mentally scarred.

The incident happened weeks before the new Sharia courts approved by the provincial government were being introduced in Swat.

That's some Religion of Peace.

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RELATED: Hamid Karzai "on board" with Sharia?

-- Strasbourg, FRANCE -- President Hamid Karzai's move to enact new laws that would undermine women's rights in Afghanistan burst into the annual meeting of the NATO military alliance today, with Canada and other war allies expressing increasing alarm at the notion.

At a news conference upon arrival here, Canada's foreign minister, Lawrence Cannon, said he has spoken two allies involved with Canada in the Afghanistan action, both of whom are troubled by the move. He also called on Mr. Karzai to immediately explain the legislation.

Sorry, Lawrence... we shouldn't simply be "troubled" by this.

This one... like government involvement in the ongoing heroin trade... is a dealbreaker.

The Afghan government should agree to deal with this shit head on... or we walk.

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LAST WORD: Canada speaks up

“If I can be blunt here, I'm not sure that the Alliance is prepared to accept simply soothing reassurances,” said Mr. Harper.

“This is a serious matter that is going to be addressed.”

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Move over Scarborough...

...Pickering wants a shot at the title...

Police were tight-lipped yesterday about the wounding of a Pickering man who was shot in the head at his home on Wednesday.

Micah Anthony Kirby, 24, was in stable condition in a Toronto hospital following emergency surgery.

Earlier Wednesday, a man, 24, was shot in the forearm and abdomen while sitting in his car in the parking lot of the Knights of Columbus Fields on Farewell St., at 2:15 a.m.

Police believe there was one gunman in the that shooting and that the victim was targeted.

And let's not forget Ajax...

Toronto police say they have arrested a fourth suspect in the May 2007 murder of philanthropist Glen Davis.

On Thursday, 24-year-old Jesse Smith of Ajax, Ont., was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

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RELATED: Meanwhile, in T.O.'s other suburb...

-- MISSISSAUGA -- Three men have been arrested in connection with the death of a 29-year-old man last month following a bar fight in Mississauga.

On March 15, Jermaine Scott got into a dispute with a group of men and the fight spilled into a parking lot, where he was chased down and stabbed.

Reno Woods and Jerome Marshall, both of Hamilton, and Lani Valdes Harris of Woodbridge are scheduled to appear in court today.

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Breaking news from Cyberdyne Corp.

Now comes news of a bot that doesn't need to bother with any human thought at all, thank you very much. It's a "robot scientist" that researchers believe to be the first machine to independently come up with new scientific findings. Aptly, the bot is named Adam.

Hmmm... this all sounds terribly familiar...

Adam then devised experiments to test its prediction, ran the experiments using laboratory robotics, interpreted the results, and used those findings to revise its original hypothesis and test it out further.

Paging Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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It was only a matter of time

I guess it's only fair that everybody gets a turn.

Toronto City Councillor and former CityPulse television reporter brands local media outlets as... surprise, surprise... "racist"...

Five food businesses in Chinatown and Kensington Market were shut down in March because of rodent and insect infestation, but Councillor Adam Vaughan, who represents the ethnically diverse area, says media reports painting the area as an unsafe place to eat are unfair and even “racist”.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I lived in Kensington Market for five years in the eighties... and I can tell you without a word of a lie that I have never seen an area filled with people with less concern for cleanliness or concern for food safety."

"This, coming from a former soldier who spent a third of his 23 years in the military in some of the worst hell holes on the planet."

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Former Liberal Cabinet Minister...

...turned Judge... goes down in flames.

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Tonight's CTV Moonbat Moment

Just watched Lisa Laflamme reporting on the G20 summit... and for once I'm in total agreement with her. Ms. Laflamme posited that Barack Obama's greatest contribution to the event was bringing along his wonderful wife.

What economic crisis? What genocide in Darfur?

Apparently, Lisa was also thrilled to report that "Mrs The One" changed her outfit no fewer than 7 times in one day.

Oh yeah... Stephen Harper missed a photo-op. Apparently the sky is falling.

Good grief.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Seven changes of clothes in one day? Does she drool or something?"

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Yet another difference, between us...

...nasty, knuckle-dragging Neocons and the compassionate, intellectual left...

In the cryptically titled Join or Die, San Francisco-based artist Justine Lai depicts herself getting busy with America’s deceased presidents. The results suggest a collision of 1970s porn magazines and painting by numbers.

As the series of 18 x 24” canvases is being produced in chronological order, these necrophilic entanglements currently extend only to Ulysses S Grant and his hitherto unrecorded spanking fetish.

Sadly, those of you aroused by the prospect of seeing, say, George W Bush getting it on with Ms Lai – with all the profundity that entails - may have to wait a while.

Now... and I admit I'm only speculating here... I'm guessing Mr. & Mrs. Lai, wherever they might be... are wishing they'd sent precocious little Justine off to "Welding School"... instead of that wonderful liberal arts college.

As are we all.

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Apparently Oiljesus Bushhitler...

...didn't quite manage to kill science after all.

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Horse... Barn... Gone

C'mon folks... who's zoomin' who?

You're good with dudes marryin' other dudes... you pretty much tore the barn door right off the freakin' hinges.

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RELATED: The compassionate, intellectual left...
Hmmm... I'm beginning to see where all that repressed rage comes from.

Let it out, my friend... let it out.

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Toronto - One dead, cop injured...

...must be Thursday...

A woman has been killed, a man believed to be her husband was shot and a Toronto Police officer slashed after violence erupted in a Scarborough apartment building this morning.

The officer was responding to an unknown trouble call at the Eppleworth Rd. building, near Eglinton Ave. and Kennedy Rd., when the drama unfolded around 10:15 a.m.

A source said someone called 911 to report their mother was going to be killed by her husband.

Relax, Dawg... the good news is... apparently nobody used a taser.

I can't wait to see how the leftosphere decides to spin this one.

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RELATED: Welcome, once again... readers of Canadian Cesspool

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In other "Brave Holy Warrior" news...

A Palestinian attacker wielding an axe has killed an Israeli boy and wounded another in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, police say.

Doctors said the fatality was a 13-year-old, while a seven-year-old boy was being treated for serious wounds.

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RELATED: Liberal Party decides to "cherry pick"...

...that "respecting other cultures" thing...

-- OTTAWA -- A lower court in Saudi Arabia has reportedly upheld the death penalty against a Canadian, rejecting the recommendations of the country’s high court.

Liberal consular affairs critic Dan McTeague says it’s now time for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to speak personally with Saudi King Abdullah about the case.

Yeah, sure thing... because that worked out so well the last time.

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"Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce..."

"...special orders don't upset us..."

"Gimme a Double Bacon Sleaze... Buggered."

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Toronto's newest suburb...

...Durham Region...

This is the Region's second shooting of the day. The first happened about 2:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Knights of Columbus Fields on Farewell Street between Athol Street and Hoskin Avenue in Oshawa.

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Mild-mannered Toronto lawyer...

...sets historical legal precedent, with astonishing and innovative "Telepathic Super-Hero Powers" argument...

“I know in my heart it was one of those people from the hearing,” he said, though he admitted he has no evidence. “I'm positive, but how am I going to prove it?”

No word yet on whether the presiding Judge will allow lawyer Gordon Goldman to wear "Amazing X-Ray" spectacles to cross examine his evil arch-enemies.

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From the "Useful Idiots" file

On the bright side... he's gonna have plenty more "tree-huggin" time...

Following that, the provincial education minister, Kelly Lamrock, made singing the anthem mandatory in ALL New Brunswick schools.

"In the end I think the policy is right. I certainly wouldn't comment on personnel matters, except to say that I wish Erik Millett all the best."

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It ain't braggin', if you...

...can do it...

“Since the dawn of the nuclear age, we have not had a fanatic regime that might put its zealotry above its self-interest. People say that they’ll behave like any other nuclear power."

"Can you take the risk?"

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Scratch a Liberal...

...find a deluded social worker...

A former federal Liberal cabinet minister is one step away from becoming the first superior court judge ever removed from office by Parliament.

The Canadian Judicial Council recommended yesterday that Justice Paul Cosgrove lose his job because of his misconduct in a high-profile murder case.

Cosgrove's troubles began after he made 150 findings of misconduct by the Crown and police at the 1997 first-degree murder trial of Julia Elliott in Brockville.

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RELATED: Strike three...

...you're being warned... again...

A man facing assault charges after allegedly stabbing a stranger at the Museum subway station was already being investigated for previous incidents on the subway, The Sun has learned.

The TTC's criminal investigation branch identified the man from previous disturbances and set out to find him after a 57-year-old woman was stabbed yesterday. The victim suffered a six-inch gash on her head in what police today called an "unprovoked" attack.

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LAST WORD: More basketball courts...

Toronto police are investigating a shooting in Jamestown that left one man in hospital with a leg wound.

The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at around 5:30 p.m. in a housing complex near Jamestown Crescent and John Garland Boulevard.

The 23-year-old victim was walking in the area when he was approached by a group of up to six men. He was shot after getting into a brief confrontation with the group.

Mayor Miller's office is, once again, strangely silent... on which gun club the shooters belonged to.

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Sorry, bro... I love Mother Earth, but...

...the eco-war comes down to clean underwear, OR green rinse water... I'm takin' care of "the boys"...

-- SPOKANE, Wash. -- The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers.

They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don't work as well.

(h/t reader rich)

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RELATED: The further adventures of...

"The Peace Moonbeam Chronicles"

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Thought I'd stay up...

...and witness the non-carnage... and Yawn-ficker does not disappoint... wait...

"Conficker has activated," said Patrik Runald, chief security adviser at F-Secure, in a blog post on Tuesday. "So far nothing has actually happened."

Thanks to the rise of news aggregation services like Google News, once a nonevent reaches critical mass, every industry observer and media outlet is more or less obligated to weigh in.

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RELATED: Sometimes a cigar...

The folks at Telegraph.co.uk tell the story of Mike Taylor, who recently began having computer troubles related to his laptop's cooling fan. When Mike attempted to investigate the problem through an IT repairman, the two came across perhaps one of the most effective worms we've seen to date.

An actual worm had made its way through the cooling vents of the laptop, and up to the fan where it caused a complete cooling failure.

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Hope, Change and Peyote

Hooray... the "Global War on Terror" is no more...

"Noting that America had to calm down, he told Stewart that by "rebranding" events, Obama could allay Americans' fears."

"For example, he noted that the North Dakota floods will now be rebranded as 'semi-voluntary land baptism', and wildfires will be called 'enhanced wildlife oxidation'."

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RELATED: OMG! She’s PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!

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