The first ten days... you couldn't...

...get the big orange machine to take a breath between sentences... but suddenly, it's all darkness & crickets...

-- Charles Adler ,QMI Agency -- "Did the public not have a right to know? If you’re asking voters to sign up for four years, are you obliged to tell them you may very well be signing off much sooner than that?"

Let's face facts... the NDP (as a political entity) didn't make a breakthrough this election... it was all down to one man. Without Jack Layton, they would have ended up in the basement... yet again.

So, the question is... if Jack and his select inner-circle knew he was gonna be checking out very shortly after the votes were counted... should they have concealed that fact from the Canadian people?

"Memo to the NDP: Canadian taxpayers spent millions of dollars on a funeral your party turned into an infomercial. We can’t bill you for it. But you owe Canada honest answers about the final days of Saint Jack."

So, hey guys... what about it?

It's a really simple question. Olivia? Thomas? Libby?

Anyone?

I'm pitching it to CBC this afternoon...

...Canada's newest reality show... "Survivor: Millhaven SHU"...
See... it's about a bunch of really religious guys, who, even though they didn't behead a single Prime Minister... or detonate a single Timothy McVeigh-sized truck bomb... are unfairly singled out and sent to prison and, get this... don't even get to socialise, or go to sweat lodge, or head out on day passes with the rest of the wrongly convicted.

Challenges will include... fabricating the sharpest toothbrush handle... and seeing who can cram the most contraband up their rectum.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Rectum? It nearly Khalid 'em!"

Root causes? No thanks, I'll leave all that...

...to the NDP... those 76 criminal convictions tell me everything I need to know...

"A Jamaican-born fugitive already deported from Canada twice has been arrested in Toronto on multiple prostitution charges involving a 16-year-old girl."

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RELATED: Truly... I fear for my country

-- WINNIPEG -- Court heard Eaglestick had been drinking heavily at a Gilbert Ave. house party on Aug. 31, 2009, when she snatched 13-month-old Vanessa Houle, took her outside and repeatedly smashed her head into a sidewalk.

Nikita Eaglestick, 21, was originally charged with attempted murder, but pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm.

Eaglestick's "gross" intoxication made it impossible to prove she had the specific intent to kill, said Crown attorney Jennifer Mann.

Oh, Jenny...exactly what part of... "repeatedly smashed her head into a sidewalk"... is muddying the waters here?

Lock her up.. and weld the cell door shut.

PM reportedly shaking in his boots

Statistical tour de force reveals... people willing to shitcan dinner, to talk to perfect strangers about dead people they've never met... are overwhelmingly creatures of the left...
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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"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."

Deciphering the Codetalkers

Yeah, I'm guessing one of those damn laser thingies broke free... and got all Terminator on his ass...C'mon buddy, you can say it... Flemingdon Park.

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FROM THE TORONTO SUN COMMENTS:

"Ontario Science Centre, hey!? It must have been a heated argument about evolution and the origin of man."

Hmmm, lemme see... a bare-chested man walks up to a car on a busy Toronto street during evening rush hour... shoots a guy in the head... and all the reporters can yip about... is the "Science Centre"?

When you've finished connecting those dots... let me know, willya? 'Cos I'm obviously missing something here.

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RELATED: The hits just keep on coming

Toronto police said an 18-year-old man was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg in Etobicoke late Wednesday night.

The shooting happened on Windsor Road, near Dixon Road and Kipling Avenue, at around 11 p.m.

It is not clear whether the victim was the intended target and police say the man has not been co-operating with officers.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"For those that want a Reader's Digest version, the suit that Dr. Dawg / Ms. Mew brought against Mark and Connie was given summary judgement in favor of Mark and Connie and Mark and Connie were also awarded costs, so this little adventure in legal-land is going to end up costing Dawg some kibble."

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UPDATE: Multiple personality syndrome...

...it's how the left rolls...

From a commenter over at SDA...

"At the bottom of Page 3 and the top of Page 4 of the PDF it is revealed that Baglow started also posting as 'Ms. Mew' in an effort to support his primary alias, 'Dr. Dawg'."

I get this all the time here at the Halls... a nonsensical taunt from some anony-bot calling himself, say... "Liberal Supporter"... is immediately backstopped by a slew of equally ridiculous anonymous trolls.

I don't know why so many of these guys have to create "invisible friends" 'cos, I mean... through thick & thin... they'll always have that other "Libby".

Now... if only it'd spawn...

...a couple of witnesses...

Officers investigating Jermaine Smith’s murder in the Jane St.-Scarlett Rd. area have interviewed up to 20 children “who were within 15 to 20 feet of the shooting,” he said.

As many as 150 people attended at varying times during the event in the Toronto Community Housing complex.

Man... I guess David Miller didn't fix Toronto's gun violence problem after all, huh?

Redistributing the Wealth

All that extra cash keeps falling outta your pockets... we can help you with that...Seriously... what's $700,000,000.00 (a year) between friends? The NDP... the party of rainbows & unicorns... what they lack in "common sense"... they make up for in "timing."

And, hey... while we're on immigration... try imagine the field day the mainstream media would have if Stephen Harper had a few illegals in the family tree...

President Obama’s accused drunken-driving uncle — who was busted after a near collision with a Framingham cop — has had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya, the Herald has learned.

Mike Rogers, a spokesman for Cleveland immigration attorney Margaret Wong, who is representing Onyango, said he “wouldn’t know how” Onyango obtained a Social Security number. Wong is the same lawyer who represented the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, in her fight to win asylum last year.

Reached at her apartment in a South Boston public housing complex yesterday, Zeituni Onyango said of her brother’s arrest: “Why don’t you go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., and ask your president? Not me.” She then hung up on a reporter.

Yup... that'd be the aunt living on social assistance, who recently had her own deportation order overturned.

Rules? We don' need no stinkeen' rules.

Behold your socialist future.

Mission Accomplished...

...now it's time for the debrief...

"I see no reason to lionize him or anyone else on the basis of a groundswell of public sentiment fed by the need to worship something or someone tangible because it’s no longer cool to worship an abstract God."

Well... that's as good a place to start as any.

Continuing to make Jack proud

Call me a hick... but what exactly is it, with the lunatic left and getting naked?

-- "The group is part of the Raelian Movement, which was founded in 1974 by Rael, former French journalist Claude Vorilhon, who believes life on Earth was started by extra-terrestrial life."

Apparently Dalton McGuinty thinks...

...you're a moron...Is he right?

-- The provincial Liberals are promising to bring back house calls from doctors IF they win the Oct. 6 election.

No business like show business

All that love and hope and renewal... and yet, strangely... the bullets still continue to fly...I sure hope the gentleman in question here gets the full throttle, no stones unturned coverage that our professional journalist betters have shown us they can... when they're moved by the holy spirit... deliver.

Please, please, please... let's hear all about the "love of his life" and the kittens he saved... and let's not forget the obligatory photo essays.

Hey... one man's life is just as important as any other... right?

And yet, somehow... I don't think that's gonna happen here.

But don't you fret, digital sucklings... the beast must be fed. CTV's gonna satiate that never-ending hunger with a special retrospective love-fest for longtime CTV shill, Lloyd Robertson...

"Lloyd is an icon, we couldn't be more proud of him and to be able to create this tribute to him is a real privilege."

It's a privilege to "create this tribute?" Seriously?

Do we really need more media-minted "shake & bake" celebrity heroes? Are we so bereft of meaning in our daily lives that we suck up whatever pap the media conglomerates toss our way?

The phrase "nation of sheep" comes readily to mind.

Ask yourself a couple of questions. Do you worship at the altar of "reality tv?" Do you walk down the street humming, "JJ said it would?"

Do you call your car "Shelly?"

Wake up, folks... and smell the manipulation.

The Union makes us strong... Part XXXIV

No shift premiums, vacations or pension benefits... and don't you dare get me started on quality control...Where's the Brotherhood of Committed Socialists... when you really, really need them?

" -- OTTAWA -- Those who WORK AROUND THE CLOCK stealing and selling stolen goods to fund their habit, are beginning to complain about the diminishing and dangerous quality of street crack."

I ask you, folks... what's the point of all those shiny, new McGuinty-supplied crackpipes... if you can't get a quality product?

It's past time, my friends. If you can enshrine labour rights for back-alley blowjob artists in your policy book... you can do the same for degenerate junkies.

Remember... Jack is watching.

Mourning, Remembering, Honouring

Apparently... it can be a pretty selective thing.

-- NEW YORK -- First responders will not be invited to this year’s 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero. That’s the word from city officials who say there isn’t enough room for the tens of thousands of firefighters, police and other rescue workers.

Hells-bells... let's just blame Dick Cheney & MOSSAD... and move on.

(h/t reader Mike)

Oh, thank gawd... that was scary...

...there were a couple of anxious hours there, where I was totally in the dark...

Eight hour delays in Hospital ERs...

...shortage of cancer drugs... Justice System falling apart... I know, let's ask a Dipper...

-- CALGARY -- Lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people — especially in Alberta — should have a special federal minister to defend their rights, says one Quebec NDP MP.

No, c'mon... seriously...

...is there some sort of contest I don't know about?Still, the fact is... for servile, diabetes inducing ass-kissery... it's gonna be pretty hard to top...
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UPDATE: Okay, I admit it, I was wrong...

...CTV ain't goin' down without a fight...
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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Somehow I doubt the response will be so overwhelming when the time comes for Harper (when he dies in office, as PM, at the age of 80)."

And...

"Cancer kills roughly 560,000 people in North America every year, that's a city the size of Calgary, every year."

"Of those 560,000, by far the best and greatest was Jack Layton."

Yeah, of course... numb with grief

Sorry folks... I've been told I should be more Canadian... more nicey-nice. The fact of the matter is, though... behind all of the sombre media pageantry, it's just politics as usual... but hey, don't take my word for it...

The letter is full of such sophistry as “We can restore our good name in the world” – as though it is a given that Canada has somehow lost that – as well as bumper-sticker slogans of the “love is better than anger” ilk and ruthlessly partisan politicking.

Yeah, yeah... I know... I'm a soul-less troglodyte... but I'll gladly wear that label before I get danced around the room by seasoned political apparatchiks...

The letter was first presented as Layton’s last message to Canadians, as something written by him on his deathbed. Only later was it more fully described as having been “crafted” with party president Brian Topp, Layton’s chief of staff Anne McGrath and his wife and fellow NDP MP Olivia Chow.

It doesn't hurt any that they've got the full, grab your ankles co-operation of virtually all of the national media. You don't wanna squander that moment.

Wake up and smell the propaganda. This isn't about Jack Layton. It's about where this country is headed.

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UPDATE: Those nasty, neocon sonsabitches...

...wait a minute...

Meanwhile... in other big city...

..."crime is down" news...

Police have identified the woman who was fatally shot early Saturday morning in North York. Pamela Ariza, 25, of Toronto was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot once in the back.

Another woman was taken to hospital after being shot in the knee, Toronto police said.

By the end of today's news cycle...

...there will be no part of his anatomy left unkissed...
Going...
Going...
Gone... Day One's hands-down winner is the Toronto Sun website with 5 of 6 items above the fold Layton-centric...
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FROM THE COMMENTS: The medium is the mudpie...

"How utterly cruel you are... an inherently disrespectful nature... say a kind word or too(sic), or otherwise to shut up about the man... makes you a jerk... YOU...ARE...DISGUSTING... Unshackled by outdated, useless ideals of civility... I initially said 'douche' instead of 'jerk'... you're kind of being a jerk... Pretty subhuman... you just shit your pants."

Meanwhile... on the other side of the great divide...

"I see that Layton's 'love letter to Canada' is currently dominating the news cycle, and frankly, I'm dreading the fawning cliches that will be rebroadcast every fifteen minutes until the day after his funeral."

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DAY TWO: The Jackening continues...

...and continues......and, well... you get the picture...

...but... just in case you don't...

It's enough to make a fella...

...a little cynical...

A group of the biggest commercial banks last year asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep at least some Fed borrowings secret. Even as the firms asserted in news releases or earnings calls that they had ample cash, they drew Fed funding in secret, avoiding the stigma of weakness.

As the crisis deepened, the Fed relaxed its standards for acceptable collateral. Typically, the central bank accepts only bonds with the highest credit grades, such as U.S. Treasuries.

By late 2008, it was accepting “junk” bonds, those rated below investment grade. It even took stocks, which are first to get wiped out in a liquidation.

All those compassionate intellectuals...

...you know... the people who are constantly sneering at Stephen Harper's "tough on crime" agenda... somebody please tell me... what Mr Rogers world do they inhabit?

-- In 1987, at age 18, Jhatu pleaded guilty to the contract murder of Matsqui, B.C., resident Ranjit Toore. Jhatu beat Toore to death, doused her body in gasoline and set it ablaze after being hired to commit the murder by Toore's husband.

It gets better.

In 2004, Jhatu convinced the National Parole Board to release him from prison on the understanding he would voluntarily leave the country.

Oh my goodness... he lied? Who could've possibly seen that coming?

We're finally gonna chase down some of these monsters and catapult their asses outta the country?

Majority government... I'm lovin' it.

Ask almost any Roman Catholic

That "man of gawd" thing... it's pretty good cover...

"Everybody likes him in this community, when I heard about this it really shocked me. I'm shocked. He was a very good teacher, very good teacher. And he's a good imam."

We have the technology...

...we're just a little light on brains...

Chris Petrie, 23 and from the state of Queensland, bought the vehicle over the internet for $A600 ($630). While assembling it at a friend’s house the two sampled a few beers before Petrie decided to drive it home, according to a local television station.

“By the time we built it, it was quite late so we thought we’d go for a bit of a test run,” he told Network Ten.

He was caught by the police en route and found to be more than three times over Australia’s legal blood alcohol limit, and was charged with drink driving and driving without a license.

Whenever I get confused...

...I ask an Immigration Lawyer...

“Ottawa has to lower the bar so these people and others like them can pass.”

Dear Mr Lennon

The thing is... the more I "imagine all the people"... the scarier this whole ride gets...

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bergstrom told Peterson on Monday that "the reality is you love your children and had absolutely no intent to harm your child."

Seriously... that's the reality? That's the message the court wants to send here?

And, yeah... sounds like moms has some serious issues as well.

(link fixed)

CHARITY

It begins at home... but where exactly does it end up?

-- "Once upon a time, HCI's Canadian Regional Director in Pakistan was none other than Ahmed Said Khadr. He's the paterfamilias of Canada's first family of terrorism who was sprung from a Pakistan hoosegow due to the efforts of Canada's then-P.M. Jean Chretien." --

Geez, Khadr...Khadr... that sounds so familiar.

The CSIS agents wanted to know how the Khadrs managed to travel between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, Syria and Canada during the late 1990s, with no apparent means of support other than their work for Islamic charities.

Mr. Khadr replied his father lived off a Canadian disability pension.

Oh.

Apparently... the first lefty asskickin'...

...is deductible...

"The artist said he had not filed a police report following the attack in Copenhagen. 'I did not know any of the people or get a great look at them, so it seemed pointless'."

Oh c'mon, Peace Moonbeam... you know what they say... "No hope... no change."

Seems there's never a skinhead around... when you really, really need one.

C'mon folks... you oughta be grateful

You know how hard it is... to find new ways to piss away a billion taxpayer dollars... each and every year?
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RELATED: Relax folks... no worries here

The MSM will do all the "hard" thinking for you...
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UPDATE: Took his bat & ball...

...and went home...

Former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has pulled out of a weekly Radio-Canada talk show after the broadcaster refused to allow him to discuss politics.

Who you gonna believe, baby?

A bunch of slicksters who stand to profit both personally and professionally...
Or... your own... lyin' eyes?

Meanwhile... in other "crime is down" news...

-- MONTREAL -- One of three men shot Saturday night in the city's Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough died of his wounds Sunday night.

We've already had a taste of how ineffectual the police can be during the G20 fiasco.

What are you gonna do when the balloon really goes up?

Living beyond your means...

...there are consequences...

Ford has vowed to trim $380 million in spending to reduce the 2012 budget gap of $774 million, “and if we don’t do anything, we’re looking at 30-to-35% tax increases.” --

How did this situation get so desperate?

Here's a thought... maybe politicians should leave the "social work" to "social workers."

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RELATED: Time for triage

You get to choose, folks... fiscal responsibility... or rainbows & unicorns.

Daltonomics 101

Bribing you with your own money... it's a Liberal thing.

Let Dalton and friends rub up against...

...the great unwashed... panhandling will be outlawed in a week...

If Mammoliti has his way, begging would be deemed illegal in every part of the city. That is, however, except for one.

“My bylaw would see the practice banned everywhere but at Queen’s Park.”

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RELATED: More Liberal socialist paradise

I sure hope that "driving ban" thing works out as well as it did... the last three times...

On his fourth drunk driving incident, Amir Hekmati caused an horrific crash and inflicted “catastrophic brain injuries” to a loving father, ruining his life.

Hekmati was given four years credit for time already served.

Grand ol' lady of Canadian journalism...

...yet again... never afraid to ask the really, really hard questions...
Uh-huh... because gawd forbid anybody actually delve into an issue, for example, that is actually burning parts of London to the ground...

"Was any of this ever mentioned in their presentation? Of course not. Just like the news about the Tottenham riots doesn’t mention race either."

No, no, no... I don't wanna hear any of that.

More Pippa... pretty please.

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UPDATE: Body count rises

"A murder investigation has been launched after three people were killed in Birmingham while apparently trying to protect their homes from rioters."

And, once again, ...the Globe gets straight to the heart of the matter...
Yes... of course... that's the real problem... citizens defending their families & homes.

Or, as they're known in media circles... "vigilantes".

From those wonderful folks...

...who brought you the "me, me, me" generation...

The creators of the service — a sex educator and a public health doctor — realized that online encounters were leading to casual sex hookups which were, in turn, fuelling syphilis cases. So they created the email notification system.

Hey... maybe Facebook can come up with a special "poke" to cover this one as well. Whaddaya think that emoticon would look like?

Hmmm... if only there was another solution.

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RELATED: Sorry, Peace Moonbeam...

...we can't all be beautiful "no biggie" British Columbia...

An Alberta teen accused of having unprotected sex while not informing her partners she has HIV will be kept in custody for now.

The teen faces two counts of aggravated sexual assault and police say additional charges are pending.

What? No email?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"You remember Lydia?
She gave me chlamydia,
And I thought I should
share it with you!"

It's like the old hippie said...

...you don't have to be a Weatherman...

"More than 450 people were arrested and 60 police officers were hurt. A statement from Scotland Yard described the disturbances as 'unprecedented in recent history.'

Front-page headlines in the national press read 'Rule of the Mob,' 'The Battle for London,' and 'The Anarchy Spreads.'"

Or, as it's known in academic circles... a total breakdown of societal controls.

Cross your fingers, Toronto.

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RELATED: Who are these mysterious "youths"...

...you speak of?

“It’s us versus them, the police, the system,” said one youth at a grim housing estate in the London district of Hackney, the epicentre of Monday night’s rioting.

“They call it looting and criminality. It’s not that. There’s a real hatred against the system.” His friends, some covering their faces with hoods, nodded in agreement.

Okay then... as long as it's a REAL hatred. But still, I'm a little confused. Isn't it "the system" that bought these guys the Blackberries they're using to coordinate all the rioting?

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LAST WORD: Cash for Life?

Hmmm, call me wacky... but maybe inviting, entrenching and... more to the point, subsidising... a permanent underclass isn't really the best solution here.

"Like bank-issued debit cards, the cards will be PIN-protected and will not identify the user as a social assistance recipient."

Hang on a sec... you're a second or third generation welfare recipient... how easily embarrassed are you? Why are we making this process easier?

Instead of streamlining the whole "entitlement" thing... shouldn't we be looking to eliminate our horrendous welfare burden?

Actually... it kinda sorta fits

I mean... you can't be more of an "opposing force"... than to want to tear the country into separate pieces... right?

-- "The NDP run candidates in every riding in Quebec. Did Ms. Turmel judge the Bloc's social issues platform superior to the NDP's?"

And, Holy Clouseau's Minkey... it gets even better than that...

"My card is still in my pocket," Turmel said. "But they already know I will resign."

"They," of course, is the left-wing francophone cabal known as Quebec Solidaire, a hardcore collective of separatists, communists, feminists, socialists and any axe-to-grind radical lefty in need of a place to hang a tinfoil hat.

Special Rules for Special People

It's been 10 years this month that we pulled up stakes and left Toronto the Good... and frankly, there have been no regrets... not a single one... but it's stuff like this that really brings the "Big Picture" into focus...
When the very people who are supposed to be upholding the law of the land are instead continually handing out "free passes" to various special interest groups... you know it's past time to get the hell outta Dodge.

And, c'mon Peace Moonbeam... you don't think the cop did anything remarkable here?

Here's a little experiment. The next time you have occasion to interact with a police officer... try taking a swipe at his notebook... and "accidently" punch him in the head.

Yeah... that's what I thought.

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UPDATE: Story goes international

Looks like Muhammed Alia is gonna get her 15 minutes of fame...
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LAST WORD: Yeah... I'm shocked

Where there's smoke... there's, well... hypocrisy & cowardice.

Yes, it's true... you're paying the freight here

Just something to think about, Toronto... the next time you're writing out that obscenely excessive municipal tax cheque to the folks down at Nathan Phillips Square...

"While people in different contexts can experience prejudice or discrimination, racism, in a North American context, is based on an ideology of the superiority of the white race over other racial groups."

Hey, does that also apply to "Heather's Two Daddies?"... or just to heterosexual Anglo-Saxons?

No matter, just remember the point here... only people with pale skins can be haters.

Just another important message courtesy of the TDSB.

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RELATED: Never mind historical context...

...we'll just pretend it's all rainbows & unicorns...

Stop 4 on the tour is under the headline "Negro Murders Elderly Woman - Mrs. Peake of Stratford Victim of Brutal Lust."

Based on the map, the stop is at the Stratford Jail.

The description on the map reads "Convicted for a murder that shocked the province, Frank Roughmond was hung at Stratford Jail in 1909.

Sure, this is a nasty stereotype. It's also an actual portrayal of the way people thought... 102 years ago. And let's not forget there was an actual murder.

But let's just pretend none of this actually happened. Let's pretend the word "negro" never existed.

Moreover... let's label everybody who lives in Stratford racist.

That'll solve everything.

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LAST WORD: Hey, Poindexter, you can't say that...

-- (Reuters Health) -- Black men are half as likely to die at any given time if they're in prison than if they aren't, suggests a new study of North Carolina inmates.

"Ironically, prisons are often the only provider of medical care accessible by these underserved and vulnerable Americans," said Hung-En Sung of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

And, nonny... before you get your little monkies & unicorns panties in a knot... remember that this is your buddies at Reuters who are advancing this little bundle of knowledge.

I'm just the messenger.

From our voluminous...

..."the world still has too many professional journalists" file...

"I put pictures up on Facebook of the final total and was getting messages from people saying, 'I remember you collecting this stuff when in high school.'"

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I bought a $300 TV stand last month with CT money. The media missed this event entirely."

Bless his Noodley Goodness

An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".

Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons.

Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism.

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RELATED: Come visit the Church

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LAST WORD: In other Godly news

The picture is taken from the back of the cafeteria. In the distance are the boys. They’re male, so they get to sit up front at prayers. Behind them are the girls. They’re female, so they have to sit behind the boys because they’re second-class citizens – not in the whole of Canada, not formally, not yet, but in the cafeteria of a middle school run by the Toronto District School Board they most certainly are.

That arrogant, know-nothing George W...

...wait a minute...

Mr. Obama told Pelley "this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out."

Or not, huh Barry?

That's funny... there was all that money to bail out Wall Street & the car companies... but you're gonna put the squeeze on disabled vets?

I'm guessing that's not the hope and change people were looking for.

Too many Chiefs...

...not enough Kevlar...
Hobbema, Hobbema... that sounds so familiar.

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RELATED: Unlike all those other...

...acceptable, business-as-usual murders?

“We have reached out to the family and the leadership ... they really feel that this is the most horrific, terrible setback,” Mr. Atleo told hundreds of delegates gathered at a local arena.

No, Chief... it's not a "setback"... sadly... it's just business as usual.

You know what the real solution is here?

Try... "One people, one law."

No more Mr. Nice Guy

This is why I wanted to see a Harper majority... so the kid gloves could really come off...

-- OTTAWA -- Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is set to announce Monday that Canada is boycotting the United Nations Conference on Disarmament over North Korea’s involvement, a senior government source told Postmedia News.

“The fact that it gets a turn chairing a United Nations committee focused on disarmament is unacceptable,” Baird said in a statement last week.

“We call on North Korea to pass the chair on to a credible country that will advance the disarmament agenda within the UN.”

Quite a refreshing change from the "business as usual" crowd...

Baird’s Monday announcement comes in contrast to the warm words Canada’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva had for his North Korean counterpart after his appointment last week.

Drugs... the victimless crime

-- MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.

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THE COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"Do you enjoy all the bloodshed in Mexico knowing you are partly responsible for it?"

From the same folks who brought you...

...a billion dollars in hospital construction cost over-runs...

-- TORONTO -- Ontario taxpayers will shell out $20 million to compensate businesses and residents caught up in the Caledonia land claim crisis.

Attorney General Chris Bentley said the government was pleased to reach a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought in 2006 by residents and business owners who suffered losses as a result of the Douglas Creek Estates claim.

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RELATED: What are the real costs...

...of living in Dalton's "socialist paradise?"

In Zone 1, the government acknowledges, the “impacts experienced” were: “Delegation of policing to Six Nations [the very band some of whose members, after all, led the occupation] and subjected to frequent gunfire, loud noises, smoke, verbal assaults, personal property damage, ATVs, camouflaged protesters, high volume of traffic, checkpoints.”

A Tale of Two Torontos

“My concern is the Toronto District School Board is using tax money to tell girls that they are second-class citizens,” Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress said Thursday. He charged that proponents of the prayer sessions are allowing them to happen because of “white, liberal guilt."

“Deep inside is a racist view that Muslims are not considered equal human beings, and that they can treat women how they want, and it’s nobody else’s concern,” said Fatah.

That can't be true, can it? I mean, this isn't Khandahar, this is Canada...

TDSB spokesman Shari Schwartz-Maltz confirmed on Thursday that prayer sessions at Valley Park Middle School are “traditional,” where boys and girls are separated.

Oh, c'mon now... what sort of person would accept... oh... right...

-- TORONTO -- School boards MUST ACCOMMODATE faith needs and that may include full religious services, Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Barbara Hall says.

Hang on, now... "full religious services"... IN OUR SCHOOLS?

Is that what Canadians want? I don't think so.

More importantly, is Dalton McGuinty on the same page as Barbara Hall?

A little unclear on the concept...

...democracy, that is...

-- ISLAMABAD -- The allegation by the top U.S. military officer that Pakistan’s government sanctioned the killing of a journalist who wrote about the country’s powerful security establishment was “extremely irresponsible,” the Pakistani state-run news agency said.

You'll notice that this isn't... in any way, shape or form... an actual denial of the allegation.

Of course, that's what you get from state-run journalism...

The state-run Associated Press of Pakistan issued a statement hours later in which an unnamed government spokesman called Mullen’s allegations “extremely irresponsible” and said that it “will not help in investigating the issue.”

Sure... just like you'll be investigating why Osama Bin-Laden lived for years in a protected compound... just down the road from Pakistan's equivalent of West Point.

No wonder the war in Afghanistan has dragged on for a decade.

Shahzad’s tortured body was found in late May after he’d told friends he’d been threatened by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

It's all relative, I guess

So I open up my email this morning... and in with the usual nonsensical trolls... (seriously, your hobby is to heckle members of a small conservative blogroll?)... I find out a friend of ours has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

If there is a gawd... he's sure got a shitty sense of humour.

Yo... Tiny... Mad-Dog...

...I hav'ta spell it out for youse?

-- TORONTO -- "The Hells Angels adhere to a strict set of rules and guidelines. No rape is one. No shooting firearms at clubhouse functions is another."

Hey... you only have to be at one gun battle/mass sexual assault to appreciate those words of wisdom.

Another icon of the lunatic left... revealed

Sorry, bradass87... maybe, just maybe... you should have been considering the ramifications of treason... rather than your superfluous genitalia...

(1:13:10 PM) bradass87: i just... dont wish to be a part of it... at least not now... im not ready... i wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of having pictures of me... plastered all over the world press... as boy...

The trendy, intellectual Globe & Mail...

...never afraid to ask the really hard questions...
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POP QUIZ: When is shooting a baby...

...just "an incident"?

Meet the professional journalists at CTV.

Oh, c'mon... this guy could get acquitted...

...like the NDP could get elected to... oh my gawd...

-- QUEBEC -- A jury has found Guy Turcotte, the Quebec cardiologist who admitted he stabbed his two children to death, not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.

The judge had instructed jurors that acquittal was not an option, as Turcotte admitted he stabbed his children, Anne-Sophie, three, and Olivier, five, in February 2009.

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RELATED: The course of justice

"Hard-partying single mother fails to report her toddler missing for a month, then lies to police about a kidnapping by a non-existent nanny. Then there was the suspiciously foul smell in the trunk of the mother's car."

Who's Zoomin' Who?

You think the biggest threat to the western world was some middle-aged, blanket-wrapped, has-been jihadi sitting on the floor watching himself on tv?

-- Think again. --

“Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan’s journalist community and civil society,” said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the information.

A spokesman for the Pakistan intelligence agency said in Islamabad on Monday night that “I am not commenting on this.”

These guys aren't worried about the law... they are the law...

A Pakistani reporter, Waqar Kiani, who works for the British newspaper The Guardian, was beaten in the capital after Mr. Shahzad’s death with wooden batons and a rubber whip, by men who said: “You want to be a hero. We’ll make you a hero.”

Pakistan is hanging by a thread. Try imagine a nuclear-armed Islamic nation... ruled by fanatical fundamentalists.

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RELATED: Holy War... by the numbers

-- TORONTO -- Most of the major terrorist plots against the West since 2004 had links to Pakistan, including two that targeted Canada, says a study to be released today by a U.S. think tank.

"Land of the Brave..."

"...Home of the..." wait a minute...

In other words, the government could simply have cut a $100,000 check to everyone whose employment was allegedly made possible by the “stimulus,” and taxpayers would have come out $427 billion ahead.

Sheesh, there's just no pleasing some folks

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's stunning last minute reversal on Gay Pride Parade universally condemned as... "too little, too late"...

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RELATED: Running the numbers

"A woman police sergeant who worked the parade for three years told me that the number of sexual assault charges was incredibly high, perhaps higher than at any other time in the year, during the Gay Pride weekend."

"I asked her if she would go public, but she laughed and said she liked her job."

(via ffof)

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LAST WORD: Obviously, he hasn't been to...

...Toronto lately...

"Balint said he risks having a criminal record if he's found nude, which can make it difficult to travel or find a job."

Dalton spends half of all our tax dollars...

...on medical care...
I'm thinkin' we deserve better.

Ontario stock tip: Time to find a company...

...that makes caramel corn and buy big...

The mid-July deadline was recently extended when federal government lawyer Kevin Wilson successfully argued the need for the current pot laws and regulations to stay in place until Ontario’s highest court could hear the appeal, likely in November. In granting the deadline extension, Court of Appeal Justice Robert Blair noted:

“The practical effect of the decision if the suspension were permitted to expire on July 14 would be to legalize marijuana production in Ontario, if not across Canada.”

Of course... why wouldn't Mayor Ford...

...want to be a part of such a distinguished & enlightened event?

-- TORONTO -- A religious sect that believes the swastika was hijacked by the Nazis will try to "remove the negativity attached to it" at the Gay Pride parade Sunday.

Members of the Quebec-based International Raelian Movement will staff an information booth at the annual event in the hopes of raising awareness of "the true meaning of the swastika, which is more positive."

Well, heck... good to know it ain't all just about naked men, drag queens & squirt guns...

Claude Vorihon, the founder of the IRM, says he was hiking in the French woods in 1973 when a UFO landed, and an alien explained to him the true origins of mankind.

See folks... there's all kinds of knowledge out there.

Hey, it's just politics... right?

When Dalton McGuinty says something, you can take it right to the mosque, er... to the bank... I mean bank! --

The last Ontario General Election was Oct 10 2007. John Tory lost because of campaign plank supporting public funding to all religious school. In fact, Ontario voters overwhelmingly rejected this.

Even McGuinty on election night took a shot at Tory because of it: "We do not want to see our children divided," McGuinty told supporters gathered at Ottawa's Fairmont Chateau Laurier. "We want publicly funded schools, not public funds for private schools."

Posted by Ann - (6:16 PM)

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UPDATE: MSM catches up to BCF

“School administration take part preparing the cafeteria and making it into a mosque every Friday. Only Muslims can use the cafeteria during the Islamic prayers.”

“It is run by parents, voluntary and keeps the students safely at school instead of leaving to go to the mosque,” Gershon said. “It came about after discussions with parents , community leaders and the school administration.

She said there has been no complaint from anyone about the prayer services.

Meanwhile... in other...

..."putting out fires with gasoline" news...

On Tuesday, the United Nations again made itself an international laughing stock – except perhaps to the American taxpayers who continue to foot 22 percent of the bill – by appointing North Korea chair of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament.

Just another reason, my friends.

Libya commences...

..."Operation Kick Myself in the Balls"...

-- TRIPOLI, Libya -- A defiant Muammar al-Qaddafi threatened Friday to carry out attacks in Europe against "homes, offices, families," unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.

Yeah, Mo... that oughta do the trick.

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RELATED: Everything you need to know...

...about dysfunctional Africa...

-- MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) -- The African Union has called on its member states to disregard the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, a move that could weaken the court’s ability to hold him accountable for any crimes committed against his people.

In other "non-traditional medicine" news

It seems booking yourself into a recognised rehab facility... isn't the only way to deal with a substance abuse problem...And apparently, things were proceeding swimmingly...

“Until the cops showed up...the bastards,” he said, inciting laughter from the pews.

And this is funny... how?

Anybody?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"You forgot the other meme: 'She loved her kids. She would do anything for those kids.'

As long as 'anything' didn't involve stopping smoking crack/meth and stopping getting into the cars of strangers to perform sex acts for $20 to pay for the crack/meth."

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RELATED: Home for the holidays

-- TORONTO -- A Toronto man is dead after he was stabbed at a Canada Day basketball tournament in the city's northeast.

Shawn Charles, 39, was stabbed and later died in hospital.

Police say more than 50 people were at the celebration. They're asking anyone who saw the argument to come forward.

This is Toronto's 25th homicide of the year.

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LAST WORD: Oops... missed one

It's a soft, fluffy Oprah-fied world

As a friend of mine once famously said, "Put her in a Tim Horton's uniform... and nobody'd look twice"..."Everybody", huh? --

Seriously... anybody else miss actual news?

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RELATED: Well... it's a start

Under new legislation announced on Thursday, the Queen’s finances will be subjected to the same detailed audit and examination by MPs as Whitehall departments to ensure they provide “value for money”.