It used to be called "grooming"

Call me old-fashioned, but isn't teaching pre-teens the "right way" to give sexual consent still a violation of the Canadian criminal code? This seems like the sort of thing you'd find in the NAMBLA charter...
Never mind teenagers... apparently learning about consent starts in JK...

“Starting right in the primary and junior grades, kids will be learning listening skills and helping each other to pay attention to facial expressions and what they mean and whether somebody is positive or negative or happy or sad.”

Facial expressions? You go with the guy with the happiest face? That's the solution here?

Wynne also said children should “start to learn those signals from the time they enter school."

Hang on, isn't this gonna lower the age of consent to 5 years old?

Next up... Ontario Liberals hiring homeless rubbies to teach kids how to hold their liquor.

What could possibly go wrong?

Didn't Justin's daddy dearest increase the deficit tenfold over his illustrious reign?

Liberal finance critic Scott Brison hinted at the party’s thinking when he told Mr. Berthiaume much of the work could be done “off the government balance sheet” by tapping funds from pension plans, including the Canada Pension Plan, into which all working Canadians contribute.

Feelin' lucky, punk?

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Justin won't need CPP

With his his champagne tastes, it's a good thing Justin will have his 7 times better than private industry pension...

Before being elected a Liberal MP, Trudeau chaired the charitable youth group Katimavik, which was started by his late father's Liberal government.

The Harper government recently announced that it would stop funding Katimavik, citing high per-person costs for its youth-exchange program. Receipts for a Katimavik retreat at the posh 4 Diamond Loews Concorde hotel in Quebec City show that Trudeau billed double the rate of other Katimavik members.

The Crown Prince likes his creature comforts... fine brandies, sushi and premium Grey Goose vodka.

Even before being elected, Justin fed off the government teat.

Toronto Homicide Squad rounding up...

...local farmers, duck hunters & target shooters as we speak...

Toronto Police say they responded to a shooting call on Flemington Rd., northwest of Lawrence Ave. W. and Allen Rd., around 9 p.m.

Officers arrived on the residential street and found a male suffering from fatal gunshot wounds.

Not sure exactly how the "professional" journalist came to the conclusion that the decedent was "suffering", well... anything.

The shooting victim was pronounced dead at the scene. His name and age have not yet been released.

No further details were immediately available.

Is this actually news? The absolute absence of detail puts it more in the category of corner store gossip. No wonder the dead tree media is dying.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The only reason this guy is getting anywhere is... the fact that he has a famous father. Now, I like Keith Richards as much as the next guy, but we are talking about running a country here!"

Hmmm... all those weird soundbites about China and dope?

What does a paternity test cost?

Apparently, Baracko Bama's magic jet...

...runs on unicorn farts & magic fairy dust...

On Sunday, President Barack Obama released an anti-oil drilling environmental video shot aboard Air Force One–an aircraft that has a 53,611 gallon fuel capacity.

On Saturday, Obama flew Air Force One over 8,000+ miles to India to discuss global warming and other issues.

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RELATED: It's a four hour stopover...

...gotta choose your destination wisely...

The visit comes in the wake of the first state sanctioned beheading under the new King – a brutal practice that was carried out unabated under the reign of Abdullah, for crimes including ‘political dissent’.

While Obama and Kerry make nice with a regime which has a disgusting human rights record, they are skipping the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, to be attended by almost all European heads of state.

Yeah, dude... party like it's 1026.

Gotta have priorities... right?

Barack Obama ducked the Paris memorial and shunned the Israeli Prime Minister... but he'll always make time for a fellow traveller...And it's not just the President...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed Abdullah as “a man of wisdom and vision” and a “revered leader.”

Apparently, Kerry has never met an oligarch he didn't revere. A little digging reveals a harsher truth...Let's ask someone who ought to know.

Abdullah, like other Saudi royals, had numerous wives — at least seven, and perhaps as many as 30. One of these wives, Alanoud Al-Fayez, claims her four daughters’ supposed incarceration, which has gone on for some 13 years, was both a mark of Abdullah’s vindictive streak and intolerance of his daughters’ modern, independent upbringing. She says the four have been locked away for more than a decade, subject to abuse and deprivation.

Even that won't stop Barack Obama from rushing to the Muslim Holy Land to pay his respects.

Maybe he can share a prayer rug with Justin Trudeau.

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RELATED: Can Obama get anything right?

Yet another huge boner from the Lord Grantham of international relations.

Those racist homicidal Albertans...

...are at it again...Wait a minute...

"Sharif -- who was born in Iraq and moved to Canada in 1993 -- was arrested at a north Edmonton apartment Jan. 19, 2011."

The thing is, in my circle of friends, what makes anyone Canadian is a sense of "shared values"... as opposed to a piece of paper generated by a political agenda. Apparently, for our intrepid reporter, the man's mailing address is more significant than his cultural and religious affiliations.

As Kate at SDA would say... let me fix that headline for you...Dear MSM... this guy is about as Canadian as Gamil Gharbi. Obfuscation like this is why the dead tree media is dying.

Yet another aboriginal child...

...sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. The National Post, in it's journalistic wisdom, attempts to legitimise the fever dreams of a desperately ill 11 year-old child.

Tragically, the outcome... exactly as predicted by the wily white man's medical experts... well... she's dead.

So sad. So unnecessary.

"When Makayla ended her chemotherapy treatments last May, she said it was because Jesus visited her in hospital and told her she was already healed."

Coincidentally, Makayla's parents are evangelical Christian pastors. We should move on, though... obviously, this tragedy can't be laid at the door of religion or culture. That wouldn't be Canadian.

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CONSIDER THE LAW:

"It’s not such an ass as to provide a constitutional entitlement to the aromatherapy, wheatgrass enemas, acupuncture and naturopathic massage sessions offered to cancer sufferers at $18,000 a customer by the DIZZY WHITE PEOPLE at the notorious Hippocrates Health Institute of West Palm Beach, Florida."

Really, that's the culpable party here... the "dizzy white people" in Florida? Were these nefarious unstable caucasians relentlessly cold-calling random folk here in Brantford, Ontario? That seems unlikely. Could it be that Makayla's parents sought them out? Perish the thought.

What about the hundreds of members of the “Makayla Defence Force” who were prepared to "physically intervene" to prevent actual medical treatment? I thought assisting a suicide was a criminal offense in Canada.

A couple of questions... if Jesus had already zapped the cancer, why the wheatgrass enemas... (more to the point, is Canadian wheatgrass so sub-par that you wouldn't consider funnelling it up your nether parts?) I'm also curious whether the Canadian healthcare system ponied up for this cross border bowel cleansing. As for aboriginal rights, will there now be a Royal Commission on shaman based healthcare?

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LAST WORD: Not a new problem

"The average death rate on reserves for the decade ending in 2002 was more than seven times the national average."

And...

"The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than for other children in Canada."

Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2002. Ottawa: Health Canada.

I got nuthin'.

Debate? Debate?

Isn't that one of those "white privilige" deals where you actually have to answer questions? Count me out, baby.**********

POP QUIZ BONUS ROUND:

Which lushly self-described civil rights warrior was a paid FBI snitch in the 1980s?

Spoken like a part-time drama teacher

Hang on a second. Wasn't there some other Trudeau who did find a use for Canadian soldiers? I know... let's ask Quebec.**********

RELATED: What would a real leader do?

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper made it clear that if ISIS terrorists fire at Canadian troops, “we’re going to fire back and we’re going to kill them.”

I know who I'm voting for.

Where stereotypes come from

Although it's possible that being killed for your "bling" is more of a caricature...

TORONTO - Mohammed and a friend — a man wearing a “tremendous amount of expensive gold jewelry” — visited the restroom where they were attacked by three men who tried to snatch the friend’s chains, homicide Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux said about a week after the slaying. “A violent struggle ensued” and Mohammed helped his friend break free from his assailants, Giroux said.

The two pals headed to the front of the restaurant, which was filled with upwards of 60 patrons at the time. The attackers followed, gunfire erupted and Mohammed was killed.

Marcus Gibson, 22, and Ceyon Carrington, 28, both of Toronto, are now each charged with first-degree murder and other related offences, police said.

Which raises the question... is it racism... IF IT'S FACTUAL?

Blacks are about 14% of US population; but young black men are about 13% of the total black population. So, 13 X 14 = 1.82, less than 2% of our population commits more than half of all American gun murders.

If this math is correct it is truly mind-boggling.

THE SELF-INFLICTED INJURY FILES:

"Sure, Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t explicitly say he had a dream that one day your cousin Mooney could get crunk in any establishment regardless of color in his famous speech, but that’s still a part of being free. (…) Why not put on those red bottoms you worked so hard to get and drop it low in the name of progress?"

Free at last.

Close American ally, my infidel arse

It seems falling oil prices... are the least of their problems...

Saudi officials don’t like to talk about it, but experts who closely follow developments inside the kingdom say ISIS enjoys growing support among ordinary Saudis, who see the group as the true champion of embattled Sunnis in their sectarian struggles against the Shiite-led governments in Iran and elsewhere.

For many Saudis, ISIS also stands for a righteous, austere brand of Islam, while the royal family, they believe, is irredeemably corrupt.

It seems the Saudi Royal family... a major funder and exporter of Islamic fundamentalism is about to reap the whirlwind.

I guess he does inhale

Despite Justin Trudeau's much celebrated thumbs up for legal dope...

[Princess of Pot] Jodie Emery's attempt to seek the nomination in the riding of Vancouver East has gone up in smoke.

Liberal spokesman Olivier Duchesneau has confirmed that the party's so-called "Green Light Candidate Review Committee rejected her bid.

Duchesneau didn't provide specific reasons for why Emery's bid was turned down.

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RELATED: Let's ask the Prince himself

"I meant to reference that Justin Trudeau has smoked pot, I witnessed it in 2003, he enjoyed it, and then six years later as an MP he went to Parliament and voted for bad legislation that wanted to see pot people put in prison for mandatory minimum prison terms."

So, to recap... you say P-spawn smokes dope... but that he also voted to imprison people who do the same?

That's a little hypocritical, isn't it? Could Justin's interaction with Marc Emery have anything to do with Emery's wife being torpedoed as a Liberal candidate?

Of course not.

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LAST WORD: So Justin is pro-dope...

...but anti-Marc Emery...

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau says jailed pro-pot activist Marc Emery was "flat out lying" when he said he smoked a few joints with the now Liberal leader.

Ping... pong...

The hippopotamus before the cart

I know it's a brave new world and standards have been relaxed to accomodate, well... all sorts of things... but what sort of chucklehead, after 24 weeks of training, can't figure out radio protocol, or how to put on a bulletproof vest?

The answer, apparently... is lots.

“Sightings were being reported based on caller location (as opposed to suspect location), then broadcast out of order.

Many RCMP officers did not know that hard body armour was available in vehicles while others were not familiar with how to wear the equipment properly, the report said.

The review, which was led by Alphonse MacNeil, a retired RCMP assistant commissioner, after detailing these startling shortcomings, got down to brass tacks...Whoa, Alphonse, pump the brakes... if your people can't figure out the vests (we're talking velcro straps, right?) without attending special post academy training classes... should we really be handing them more powerful guns?

Maybe the "get a bigger hammer" school of policing isn't the only answer here.

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RELATED: And just this morning...

"One is in very grave condition, and the other is in serious but stable condition," RCMP assistant commissioner Marlin Degrand said at a news conference on Saturday.

Whatever happened here, I'm pretty sure bigger guns are not the solution.

Al Sharpton loses his mind...

...about the racist Academy Awards...

“The lack of diversity in today’s Oscar nominations is appalling ... With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history."

I dunno Al. Could there possibly be some other reason Selma didn't get the gold ring? Should this movie be allowed to "Tawana Brawley" its way to the top? If race hustler Al Sharpton is on one side of an issue, surely any reasonable person should be planted firmly on the other.

Is it just possible that members of the Academy objected to a fabricated fairy tale posing as an historical document?

There was no shortage of real white villains in the Selma controversy, but LBJ was not one of them. This portrayal depends upon a complete misrepresentation not only of the facts, but also of specific conversations that King and Johnson had during this period.

Selma shows LBJ in this period not only refusing to meet any of King’s demands, but also enlisting J. Edgar Hoover to try to discredit and destroy King. Hoover had in fact taken these steps months before, and LBJ had been appalled by them.

Like John and Robert Kennedy before him, he was terrified that Hoover would successfully discredit King and set back civil rights for years.

And what about actual facts?

"In fact, Selma was LBJ's idea, he considered the Voting Rights Act his greatest legislative achievement, he viewed King as an essential partner in getting it enacted - and he didn't use the FBI to disparage him," Califano writes in an opinion piece for The Washington Post.

He says the movie is so far off the mark that it should be "ruled out this Christmas and during the ensuring awards season".

Mark K Updegrove, an author, historian and the director of the LBJ Presidential Library, agrees.

Writing for Politico, Updegrove says films based on true events often massage the truth in order to create a better narrative, but historians should step in when that narrative doesn't represent the spirit of what actually happened.

Gotta git me sum'ah that "social justice"

This is what comes of getting really high and watching "Avatar" over and over again... you secure yourself a charter membership in "the dumbest generation."Now, before the usual suspects start to post their sympathies and excuses for poor little Abu Maguire, it pays to note...

From Syria and Iraq, he posted his violent, intolerant ideas on a Facebook page that used the ISIS logo as a banner and called on Christians and Jews to either convert to Islam or be killed.

This guy was considered so violent & dangerous that the Canadian government pulled his passport to prevent him sneaking back into the country. As it turns out, he wasn't the only one.If reports are true and Maguire is indeed lining up at that Great Virgin Dispensary in the Sky, I certainly won't be shedding any tears.

Abu Saman is the Twitter user who said Maguire had been killed alongside a notorious Dagestani jihadist who appeared this week in an ISIS video in which a child was shown executing two Russians.

Rest in Pieces, freak... you and all your bloodthirsty friends.

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RELATED: Belgium - Cops 3... Allah 0

The website of La Meuse newspaper quoted an unidentified police officer as saying: "We've averted a Belgian Charlie Hebdo."

A spokesman for the government says they are ready to call in the military.

Dear Citizen 0047166558b

Greetings...

You have violated the protective provisions of the Hope-N-Change Progeny Ordinances of 2015.

You will present yourself forthwith for judgement and re-education at your local police precinct.

Failure to comply will result in seizure of said children.

Law of Unintended Consequences

I'm guessing this is the exact reciprocal of what the homicidal Islamo-dummies hoped to accomplish... and that's good enough for me.

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UPDATE: From tens of thousands to millions

Charlie Hebdo’s typical print run was 60,000, which it couldn’t always sell.

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RELATED: Who could've possibly seen it coming?

Well, Glenn Reynolds, for one...

I'm sorry, but the lesson here is that if you want to be listened to, you should blow things up. That's a very bad incentive structure, but it's the one the allegedly responsible parties have created.

The Charlie Hebdo incident should surprise no one.

Giving back to the Community

To all the "Nonnies" who spend an inordinate amount of time conjuring up ever more threatening comments and emails...That oughta keep 'em busy for a while.

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UPDATE: Yup, no surprises

It's a little like having a parrot that says rude things every time you come in the door.

All too predictable... but I'll spare you the latest childish jibes.

Just another tone deaf political gaffe...

...or is the White House letting the figurative veil slip yet again?Either way, you get shown up by the likes of the Palestinian Authority... it's time to find a new playbook. Even the usual Obama cheerleaders are calling this a train wreck...

President Obama’s decision not to attend yesterday’s Unity Rally in Paris in response to the terrorist horrors of this past week may register as his most disturbing, and profoundly harmful, public relations mishap to date.

Republicans were equally outraged...

The absence is symbolic of the lack of American leadership on the world stage, and it is dangerous. The attack on Paris, just like previous assaults on Israel and other allies, is an attack on our shared values. And, we are stronger when we stand together, as French President François Hollande said, for “liberty, equality, and fraternity.”

It could have been worse... at least this time, Obama's handlers kept him off the golf course.

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ASK A FRENCH MUSLIM:

He also called the Paris terrorist attacks “un complot,” or conspiracy, and launched into a lengthy explanation of the “magical Jews” behind it. They were not ordinary Jews, he said, but a “hybrid race of shape shifters” who have extraordinary abilities.

Ignorant. Racist. Criminal.

Can France recover from this situation? It sure doesn't sound like it.

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UPDATE: Was it a deliberate snub?

From nearly the beginning of the president's term, the Whitehouse made clear it did not want to refer to Islamic jihad as either Islamic or jihad. As the world watched images of black-clad, AK-47-wielding terrorists killing Parisians, Obama proposed to meet the threat with social service providers.

Sounds like more of Obama's political sleight of hand to me.

I would pay good money...

...to see this.

The ugly rush to self-congratulation

"Where is this We of the Hash-tags when whole swathes of the press, and some political leaders, refuse to call acts that are plainly terroristic by their proper name?

Can those who refuse to say the word “terrorism” after a terrorist act now claim they are Charlie Hebdo?"

Dear "Queers against Israeli Apartheid"

Maybe you guys/gals (and various creative iterations of same) should get some new friends...

"What are the upsides of embracing a culture that murders gays, treats women as second-class citizens, puts children in harm’s way, and rejects the entire notion of fun?"

Or maybe just some new priorities?

P.S. - What's the only country in the Middle East that allows Gay Pride celebrations? C'mon... you know this.

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RELATED: Kill them all...

...let Allah sort 'em out...

PARIS — Bicycle patrolman Ahmed Merabet, whose point-blank murder by suspected Islamist extremists on a Paris street was caught on video was a Muslim, according to a colleague. Fellow officer Franck Brinsolaro was also killed, Paris police union spokesman Chris Crepin earlier told NBC News.

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LAST WORD: Be very afraid...

MI5 has a longstanding policy of not commenting publicly on specific events. This speech is, to say the least... anomalous.

“We know, for example, that a group of core al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West.”

Andrew Parker, Director General of MI5, also stated, "security services have thwarted three terrorist plots in recent months."

Canada, as we have recently seen, is very much "on the terrorist bubble."

A prudent person might just see fit to avoid large scale public gatherings, sports events, concerts and parades. Soft targets like subways and movie theatres also come to mind.

"Known Wolves" strike again

Live and don't learn... that's us...

A French terror cell linked to al Qaeda reportedly shot dead two people in a kosher supermarket and seized at least seven hostages in two locations around Paris this morning.

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RELATED: What's it gonna take, folks?

No, this was NOT in fact the “time to remember what Jack Layton said on his deathbed.”

Fuck “love.”

Fuck “understanding.”

I’m not “full of fear.”

If you don’t hate the Muslim scum who killed those people — if you don’t want to kill them back — you are NOT THE SANE, MORAL, NORMAL ONE in this “conversation.”

Yes, I AM going to violate Godwin’s Law:

The SS are banging on your door and you’re going, “Well, the Treaty of Versailles was pretty shitty…”

Shut.

Up.

The war started a while ago... and guess what?

WE'RE LOSING.

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UPDATE: Virgin shortage anticipated...

PARIS (AP) — Two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre came out of their hideaway with guns blazing Friday and were killed in a clash with security forces, French police said. Moments later, another hostage-taker in Paris was killed in a separate clash, along with three of his hostages.

To quote a famous Imam, "You love Pepsi Cola... we love death."

Satire... the newest capital crime

All those folks who opposed the death penalty for Paul Bernardo and his ilk... how much energy will they expend on today's bloody extra-legal executions in Paris?**********

THEY CAME FOR THE CARTOONISTS:

That's some "Religion of Peace" you've got going there.

At least four of France’s most celebrated cartoonists—Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, Jean “Cabu” Cabut, Georges Wolinski, and Bernard “Tignous” Verlhac—are dead after two gunmen attacked a satirical magazine in Paris on Wednesday, shouting “We have avenged the Prophet.”

You figure Bill Watterson and Scott Adams might be shopping for a "Panic Room?"

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RELATED: CTV's team of crack reporters...

"Of course she got raped... you could almost see her snatch in that miniskirt!"

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LAST WORD: A rose by any other...

Le Point reported French police were focusing on two suspects whom the magazine described as "French-Algerian." According to Le Point the two men, who were 32 and 34-years old, returned to France from Syria last summer.

Syria? Syria? That sounds so familiar.

It's Bowe Bergdahl all over again

A government official told me that keeping the names of the 53 quiet will give Cuba the opportunity to release them as a sovereign measure, rather than at the behest of the U.S., and that this could allow for additional releases.

In other words, the Castros are sensitive boys who throw despotic tantrums when their absolute power is questioned. Asking them to keep their word is apparently a trigger.

Don’t expect much outrage from Washington. Mr. Obama wouldn’t want to damage his newly reconciled relationship with the police state.

Need a Bergdahl refresher?

"EAT ME!!!"

"Township officials have said it's not an anti-zombie issue, but pro-zoning rules."

These guys aren't dummies... we've all seen what happens when you piss off the Zombie-American "Community."

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RELATED: As SDA would say...

"Let me fix that headline for you."Perhaps the "professional" journalists at the Canadian Press meant to use the word "INTERAC"... as in "making a withdrawal."

Note that there is no mention of the "alleged" robber using a gun in this "reported" robbery.

No wonder people lose their shit when they read about these things. This article makes it sound as though the police, upon hearing of a possible crime, raced over to the nearest welfare hellhole and shot a random bystander in this "may, or may not have happened" crime.

Could there possibly be any other explanation?Oh, look...

CP24 has learned that a bystander at Warden station called 911 to report that a man ARMED WITH A GUN was robbing a TTC collector.

Was there a gun? Sure sounds like police had reason to think so.

At least one news organisation is unafraid to call things by their proper names. Bravo CityPulse.

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UPDATE: If Justin had a son...

A neighbour of 33-year-old Daniel Clause, shot and killed by police after he allegedly robbed a Scarborough TTC station called the man “a loaded gun."

“I believe his addiction took hold,” he said of the robbery attempt, adding that Clause had been acting erratically lately. “He’d smash his apartment up, HE DID STUPID THINGS.”

If only Clause had been able to wait for Justin to legalise drugs. On the other hand, his epitaph is already written.

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UPDATE2: Taking panhandling to a new level

"My name is Daniel I am 3 3 I have been on my own since I was 11 years old it has taken me a long journey to get here many roads traveled alot of ups and downs many failure many vultures looking to prey an a young and impressionable kid with no guidance no family and no real support system I'm hoping I can avoid at least one kid from going threw that whatI have by opening doors and providing opportunity to eXpressMusic art and providing a safe environment 2 succeed and excel"

It's been two decades since he was a young and impressionable kid and it sounds as though he navigated the support system just fine.

And Winston Churchill wept

A 350-pound British woman claims it’s not her fault she’s morbidly obese — it’s because the government doesn’t give her enough money.

Why that's terrible... this poor woman is being victimised by the... wait a minute...

Briggs already receives almost $36,000 a year from the government.

Those damn Mennonites...

...are at it again...

Police said the victim of the brazen, 3:30 p.m. shooting -- also a young man -- is not being much help to investigators and refusing to provide much detail. In fact, he cursed at police in the back of the ambulance when they grilled him for information.

Police arrested two men, allegedly affiliated with the Crips street gang, at the scene on Friday afternoon. The men, believed to be in their 20s, were held for several hours, questioned and released without charge. Police said they are known to Guns and Gangs investigators.
The victim, who is expected to make a full recovery, is known to police.

It was the city's record-breaking 46th shooting of the year -- double the number from 2011 and 16 more than last year.

Sleep tight Ottawa.

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UPDATE: As Canadian as Gamil Gharbi

The accused, 26-year-old Yaqoub Ali, like many of the “persons of interest” (Abdulaziz & Nawaf Al-Enzi) and even victims (Adel Al-Enzi) in the 48 reported shootings in 2014, is well known to the police guns and gangs unit.

Adel and Abdulaziz are half-brothers of Nawaf Al-Enzi, who is awaiting a second trial for what’s alleged to be the gangland execution of Ledbury-Banff Crips member and drug dealer Mohamad Zalal.

Yup... Mennonites.

What's the mainstream equivalent...

...of Ferguson, Missouri...

An Ohio homeowner was ordered by town officials to remove a Nativity scene in front of his house that featured zombies instead of wise men and a baby Jesus.

"I wanted a Nativity and I worked with what I had," Jasen Dixon, who manages a nearby haunted house, told Fox 19."

So what could push docile, law abiding non-Fergusonites over the edge?

I think I've found it.Merry Christmas everyone.

Mayor Theodore Hoskins, Berkeley, Missouri...

Dear Sir...

Here at Acme Insurance and Loan we pride ourselves on our service and congeniality. Therefore, it is with no small regret that we inform you that we will no longer be able to conduct business with the city of Berkeley.

Our policies with your sister city of Ferguson have forced Acme Insurance into Chapter 11. It saddens us to have to close down after 121 years in business, but as you know, one cannot predict the future.

In closing, I would only point out that our latest business venture, Acme Body Armour Inc., has not been adversely affected by recent events.

You may wish to place orders early as we anticipate brisk holiday sales.

regards.

Irvine J. Fartbuckle
CEO ABA Inc.

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UPDATE: The Berkeley blowback

Remember... every single Police Officer is a despicable murderer and every Black man is an innocent bystander.

No exceptions.

“Do you have to treat EVERY SITUATION with lethal force? It’s not a racial issue, or black or white. It’s wrong or right,” said 36-year-old Orlando Brown, one of the protesters.

Well, Orlando... how about when someone points a loaded pistol at a cop? Is the officer allowed to shoot then?

Police released surveillance video from the parking lot outside the store. The nearly two-minute clip shows two young men leaving the store as a patrol car rolls up, and the officer gets out and speaks with them. About 90 seconds later, the video appears to show one of the men raising his arm, though what he is holding is difficult to see because they were several feet from the camera. Belmar said it was a 9mm handgun — loaded with one round in the chamber and five more in the magazine.

One other consideration might be the person's previous behavior. Was Antonio Martin an innocent bystander who made a single bad decision?

Martin had a criminal record that included three assault charges and others for armed robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.

That's a pretty impressive C.V. for an 18-year-old.

Remember, though... none of that matters. Not to the "Community" or the mainstream media.

So, Premier Wynne...

..., you'll pay for the coverup, but not the actual crime... I'm not sure that I follow the logic here...

Premier Kathleen Wynne's press secretary says in a statement that the Ontario Liberal Party executive council voted Monday to cover the payment so no tax dollars go toward work currently under police investigation.

I have a question, Premier. When you say "no tax dollars go toward work currently under police investigation"... does that include the hundreds of millions of dollars the Liberal party said they were shelling out as compensation for the gas plants THAT DIDN'T GET BUILT?"

I'm guessing, if so, you would have led with that. Sigh.

So, in actuality, this $10,000 is just one loogie in an ocean of larcenous Liberal spit.

Forgive my impertinence, but, as Premier of Ontario... you do get that ALL police work is funded with taxpayer dollars. Also, that any and all monies funneled to Liberal operatives (or their family members) for work that triggers subsequent criminal investigation is a horse of an entirely different colour?

So, just to be clear, what you're coughing up here, is under-the-table funds paid to the spouse of Dalton McGuinty's deputy chief of staff for a little nudge-nudge wink-wink say-no-more services, specifically deletion of emails and like documentation in an alleged criminal conspiracy. I mean, if it were simply required maintenance, that could simply have been performed by the extremely well-paid Queens Park IT department, right?

So, cards on the table, these same monies, despite your press secretary's vague and misleading statement, have not a smidge to do with monies compensating the police... past, present or future.

And now that the net is closing... you'll pay them back. Bravo Madam Premier.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

A list of Liberal scandals.

p.s. Not recommended for folks with cardiovascular issues.

The short answer is...

...people die...Oh, right... the question is... "What happens when you let sympathy cloud what should be the straightforward balancing of an equation?

The Eaton Centre shooter was released on bail... TWICE... before he went on to commit multiple murders and maimings. The legal system isn't just broken... it has been burned to the ground. Remember, people died here... and innocent bystanders were seriously injured.

So when will we learn our lesson?

It's coming to a head, I think, as evidenced by reaction in the comments to the statement, "Jail is a hard place, getting harder all the time."

And good gawd, let's not get started on the horrors of powdered milk. Or, maybe... let's do.

Ballbounces writes... "If drinking powdered milk is a cruelty, then I had a cruel upbringing. Who do I sue?"

To which Big Red replies... "I am with you. We need to start a class action suit. When I was a kid, times were so bad we used to eat our powdered milk dry, with a spoon. Couldn't afford the water to mix it up."

Earl Smith then weighs in... "A spoon. A SPOON??? Utter luxury. We dreamed and prayed for a spoon in our family, we were so poor."

I'm stunned that anyone could regard "powdered milk" for murderers as any sort of an issue. Didn't we just used to hang these guys?

I don't know if dead is a hard place, except maybe for all the folks you leave behind. I do know that it's more difficult to deal with than powdered milk.

Let's get our collective heads out of our asses. No more sympathy over cold, hard facts.

Dear Gays against Israeli Apartheid...

If this guy could do it all over again... (and he can't, because he's, well, uh... dead)... I'm guessing he would gladly make his home in Tel Aviv...

In a statement which accompanied the images, ISIS said "the Islamic court in Wilayet al-Furat decided that a man who has practised sodomy must be thrown off the highest point in the city."

It said the man would also be "stoned to death."

And, as the pictures from the scene graphically indicate, in what forensic examiners would label "extreme overkill"... he was.

For extra points, maybe someone out there can identify the only country in the Middle East that actually has Gay pride parades.

C'mon, ladies, gents (and others)... I can't hear you!

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RELATED: But that's Syria, right?

It's not like any of that could happen in a westernised... oh my gawd...

Islamic jihadists called for attacks on France, and suddenly mentally ill people unaccountably screaming “Allahu akbar” are coming out of the woodwork. This is the third jihad attack in France in as many days.

And the USA, and Australia and Canada and...

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UPDATE: Meanwhile, back in Canuckistan...

Canadian media still playing, "Who's the Real Victim?"

His lawyer, Julie Bernier, said after the court proceedings she thought Mr. Labelle looked “stressed.” “You have to understand that he has no prior convictions and this was the first time he was in front of a court,” Ms. Bernier said.

Oh that poor little dear... a few maps to police stations and he's in the soup.

If you want actual useful information, you have to dig a little deeper...

According to his grandmother, however, he was not dangerous. “He wasn’t that kind of boy,” Sylvie Labelle told TVA. “When he converted, he found inner peace. He wanted to take care of his mother and be the man of the house.”

Apart from the maps and notes, there was just one small fly in the Islamic ointment.

As Granny tells it... Mr. Labelle had taken to carrying around a machete... presumably, like any other unremarkable Canadian boy, to protect mummy dearest.

Lopping off heads? Good grief, no, Officer... I was only looking out for me ol' Mum.

I guess Montreal has taken a turn for the worse since I last visited.

I guess they think...

...it's what Trayvon would've wanted...

It’s not the only apparent link between the “dead cops” chant and the Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee. At the beginning of the video and before the call to kill police, you can hear what sounds like, “arms up, shoot back!” That slogan appears on TMOC’s Twitter account.

The bedrock of TMOC’s politics, judged by their social-media output, is hatred for police and endorsement of violence against them. The group seems to blend “black bloc” anarchist street violence with social-media campaigns.

It would be interesting to find out more about the radicals whose slogan is “shoot back.” What we know now is that, out of the people arrested on the bridge, one is a Harvard-educated poet and another was making more than $100,000 a year working for one of the most the most powerful unions in New York City.

Will you see a story linking the Trayvon Martin supporters with violence in Ferguson or the murder of police officers in New York?

You already know the answer to that, don't you?

More here.

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RELATED: Apparently, evil no longer exists...

We heard Michael Coren speak last night at the JDL Canada Chanuhah “do.” He recalled the bad old days when the IRA were much in the news.

“No one ever described these individuals as ‘mentally ill’ after they killed someone,” Coren recalled wryly. “We called them ‘IRA members'.”

Imagine that.

Less Justin Trudeau... more Dillon Hillier

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DEAR PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS:

This is why we don't take you seriously...

JTF2 "operators," as they prefer to be called, use a Macmillan TAC-50 rifle nicknamed "Big Mac." It's the longest-range weapon available to snipers, with a range of 2.3 km. The Big Mac has been standard issue for elite Canadian snipers since 2000.

QMI was unable to confirm if Canada provided TAC-50s to Iraqi and Kurdish snipers.

Confirm, you disingenuous hacks? I'm unable to confirm that Tom Mulcair is not having hot chimp sex with Olivia Chow on the steps of Parliament as we speak... but you don't see me passing it off as journalism. Your claiming to know about the "operator's" preferences strikes me as totally made-up as well. You guys are like, what... besties? You jock up with JTF-2 on the weekend? I don't think so.

Speaking of facts, the photo in your article is not a MacMillan TAC 50. That photo is of a rifle (manufactured by Colt Industries in Kitchener, Ontario) descended from the venerable M16... and is the battle rifle issued to all regular Canadian troops. It's not even made in the same country (Phoenix, Arizona) as the McMillan.

Copying & pasting a bunch of gun porn (along with a picture of a totally different rifle) is not journalism. It's like using a picture of a jumbo jet in a story about Amelia Earhart. Or pretending that Gamil Gharbi is just another French-Canadian dude named Marc.

What happened to the thesis here... that Canada has boots on the ground fighting ISIS? Nah, you just gloss over that and sprinkle the narrative with some gun stats you don't even understand yourself.

You don't care enough about the narrative to even source the correct photographs...Is the rest of the story just bullshit as well?

No wonder the dead tree media is defunct.

Hot peppers are commonly graded...

...in "Scoville" units... perhaps bloodthirsty mobs can henceforth be measured in "Sharptons."

Several thousand protesters marched in New York City on Saturday. The protesters were part of Al Sharpton’s “Million Marchers” protest against police violence. The protesters chanted “What do we want?… Dead cops!” as they marched in New York City.

Well, Al, you slippery, lying race hustler... I guess that's a big "mission accomplished."

Retired NYPD detective Harry Houck wasted no time in blaming those protests and the people behind them for what happened today. “We have two dead police officers, and I guess Al Sharpton got what he wanted.”

Who was Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley?Oh, look... he was a warrior for social justice...Oh yeah, one other small factoid.

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LAST WORD: Burn this bitch down... yet again.

Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. Assassinated to ostensibly balance the lopsided scales of social justice.

Sadly, this is Ferguson all over again... teaching the "honky oppressors" about morality at the point of a gun. Not exactly sure what slaughtering Hispanic and Chinese police officers accomplishes, but, no doubt, our brethren on the the leftish side of the political spectrum will have an explanation.

Sleep well Mr Sharpton.

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UPDATE: Trayvon would be so proud

Looks like someone has pinned the tail on the monsters who called for cops to be killed.

It's all truly relative, I guess

luftangrepp:

Since klingon sex is basically violent wrestling, I wonder if the klingons don’t have BDSM but like the opposite. Klingons gathering in secrecy in dark cellars to engage in sweet, gentle loving, to the scorn of fellow klingons.

"How can you do that?" the other klingons ask. "You don’t even draw blood? Not a single furniture breaking? It doesn’t seem… natural".

"What is this… cuddle, you speak of?"

Fifty Shades of QamuSHa’

If he had yet another imaginary son...

Another huge victory for the ordinary working... wait a minute...

Just one day before President Obama announced sweeping changes that would allow potential American investment in Cuba, the Cuban government apparently had begun preparing itself by announcing new measures that would allow Cubans who work for foreign companies to keep only 8%.

Of course, that's not gonna matter to some folks.

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RELATED: The first thing you do...

...is grovel...

Barack Obama apologized to Cuban president Raul Castro during their phone conversation after the American commander in chief's opening remarks.

"I apologized for taking such a long time," Obama said.

Don't wanna get those dictators mad at you.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I'm totally shocked, SHOCKED, I tell ya!" said absolutely nobody anywhere in Ontario ever.

Just another day in the Lieberal swamp.

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RELATED: Here we go again...

The latest debacle: Ms. Lysyk found — stop me if you’ve heard this one before — that a billion public dollars have been spent while failing to accomplish the goal.

It’s not ehealth records, or even cancelled power plants. This time, it’s smart meters — technology that had to be installed on all Ontario homes to monitor their electricity usage.

Those tyrannical uncaring Republi...

...wait a minute...

"The truth is, even with all the actions I've taken this year, I'm issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years."

Hmmm... let's just take a closer look at that claim...Should this matter to anyone? Only if you fell for all that hopey changey argle-bargle...

Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.

And now the United States is 18 trillion dollars in debt.

Thus goes the Imperial Presidency.

Phenomena that will henceforth...

...be known as DIE-versity...

The gunman, earlier named as Iranian cleric Man Haron Monis, took an as yet unknown number of people hostage shortly before 10:00am (AEDT) on Monday.

Monis, who was granted political asylum in Australia, was on bail for a string of violent offences, including being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife.

A beheading in Liverpool, two soldiers murdered in Canada... and now Sydney, Australia.

Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you?

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RELATED: Lunatic left weighs in...

"Look on the bright side."

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LAST WORD: I got nuthin'

“People actually took selfies in front of the #SydneySiege, so it’s officially give-up-on-humanity o’clock,” wrote Samantha Escobar

Third time unlucky?

It has happened before. It will happen again...

In the last 200 years, only the 1859 and 1921 solar superstorms are believed by experts to have exceeded the 4,000 nanoTesla/minute level over the U.S. If one of these storms were to occur today, many experts believe they would likely damage key elements of the power grid and could cause very long-term power outages over much of the United States.

Bear in mind that in 1859 and even 1921 there was much less infrastructure to be damaged. No integrated circuits, no computer chips, hardly any transformers.

Try an experiment. Go downstairs to your home's breaker panel. Shut off the main power. Do not use your cellphone or your laptop. Do not use your car. You are also not allowed to turn on water taps.

Remember... all the grocery stores will be in the same position. They will empty out over the next day or so as there will be no viable transportation network left. There will also be no 911... no police, fire or ambulance. That generator you bought and tucked away at the back of the garage? It's fried too.

Do you live in a community like Ferguson, Missouri? Your life could suddenly become much more, uh... dynamic.

Let me know how long you would be willing or able to live this way.

"So, Professor... do we get..."

"...extra credit for looting and burning?"

Student: But professor, now that my faith in the integrity of the law is so badly shaken, why should I continue to study law?

...

Prof: I make a great living teaching that the law is a tool of oppression designed to protect white privilege. It takes a while to learn all of the jargon, but it’s worth it. One day, all of this can be yours.

Emily Post for Jihadis

Whom can you enslave? What can you do with female slaves? Can you beat them and have sex with them? The militants of the self-styled Islamic State, never shy to parade their gruesome, atavistic interpretation of the Quran and its place as they see it in the modern world, have now answered those questions.

I'm speechless... I swear, I got nuthin'.

We're all gonna die... we're all gonna die

...just not from legally owned firearms...

When the federal Conservative government abolished the long-gun registry back in 2012, gun-control advocates predicted no end to the criminal chaos that would result.

If duck hunters, farmers and collectors were no longer required to register their rifles and shotguns, women would not be safe in their homes. They would be slaughtered by their murderous male partners.

Gun-control activists also forecast rampant crime in Canadian streets. And, of course, the murder rate would soar.

However the 2013 homicide figures were released by Statistics Canada on Monday. In the first full year without the registry, the murder rate in Canada went down significantly – 8%.

More specifically, “the rate of firearm-related homicide decreased 25%.”

So, the next time you hear Thomas Mulcair and the NDP want to cough up another 2 billion dollars to revive the long gun registry (remember, handguns have had their own registry for 85 years now and long gun owners already jump through expensive and extensive hoops to buy firearms of any stripe), just crunch the numbers and ask yourself if you actually have some extra cash to donate to the federal deficit.

To paraphrase Jeff Cooper... a complicated and expensive solution to a problem that doesn't even exist.

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BREAKING: Domestic dispute @Uncle Tom's Cabin...

"NDP NOT BRINGING BACK THE GUN REGISTRY -- PERIOD."

Dare I say it... did Mr Mulcair "shoot himself in the foot?"

Whitehouse takes steps to counter...

...President Obama's plunging popularity...

Less Justin Trudeau... more Dillon Hillier

Video posted online by the former professional soldier show him putting his training to good use by bandaging a Kurdish fighter who has been shot in the face during a clash with jihadis.

'I accomplished more good in those 20 hours than the previous 26 years of my life,' he said. 'I dragged a man who had been shot in the face to safety and patched him up, while many others stood around in shock.

'I am unsure if my actions saved his life but I truly hope so.'

Burying the lede?

How far will your average politically correct "professional journalist" go... not to mention the "M" word?

Pretty far, it seems... although there's apparently some compelling reason to bring real-estate agents into the blood-soaked, medieval mix.

The Crown prosecutor told court that although media reports at the time described the attacks as a family “honour crime”, nothing in the case file supports that theory.

Nothing you say? Seriously?

Okay, let's get it out there... this guy is, as Licia Corbella would say, "not one of us."

What's that you say... too harsh?

I'm afraid I'll have to disagree. Vehemently. Cutting bits off a family pet, never mind your daughter... puts you squarely on the sociopathological end of the parental discipline continuum. (Hmmm... cutting bits off women... that actually sounds kind of familiar, but for now let's get back to the matter at hand).

His wife and daughter had just returned from his daughter’s new apartment. The father had never agreed that his eldest daughter, 20, could move out. And when she said her father no longer controlled her life, he said that in fact he did and slapped her across the face.

You listen to folks like Justin Trudeau, Ottawa is Progressia Central. I get that modern parents may have moved past traditional western sanctions like spanking and grounding... but this guy seems to have picked up his parenting chops (pun intended) from, and I'm just guessing here, the 11th century.

He then grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and slashed his daughter in the shoulder. When she tried to grab it to stop the attack, her right pinky finger was severed and her ring finger partially severed.

Our "professional" scribe apparently can't quite bring himself to label this attempted murder... and instead shifts over to the passive tense.

His wife suffered severe defensive wounds to... to her skull.

Translation... this, uh... real-estate agent tried to stab his wife in the brain.

My favourite part in this rainbows and unicorn farts narrative is when the our intrepid reporter attempts to portray Samaurai Dad as the victim.

The father, who cries himself to sleep most nights at the Innes Road jail, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of aggravated assault in a plea bargain with the Crown that spared him prosecution on the more severe charges of attempted murder.

If I had anything to say about this guy's current living arrangements, I'd see him betrothed to the rabid maddog biker enforcer with the most cigarettes.

Remember, this all started with this allegedly typical Ottawa Dad seeing an online photograph of his 20 year-old daughter (not, as you might have imagined from his response, cavorting with meth-crazed S&M enthusiasts) posing with the university Glee club.

That's right, the licentious, libertine Glee Club. So, apologies to the Crown prosecuter, but given the context, I'd hazard a guess that this guy's background and religious beliefs have more to do with his behaviour than, say... his chosen occupation.

As the war-weary cop used to say in the old Dragnet series... "Just the facts, ma'am."

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RELATED: Not a Presbyterian... again

All three were found slain Saturday in their apartment on Thorncliffe Park Dr. by Toronto Police officers looking for next-of-kin of a man who fell to his death from the Millwood Bridge onto the DVP.

Traffic Services investigators confirmed that man is Yusuf Abdille, 50.

“Homicide investigators have identified him as the husband and father of the three people found murdered at 85 Thorncliffe Park Dr. that day,” Const. Clint Stibbe said Wednesday.

Are we seeing a pattern yet?

So Chief, what's the holdup here?

The video is drawing more traffic than a naked Miley Cyrus, so what exactly is the roadblock? You're thinking, what... sleepwalking, impersonation... CGI?

Fot those of you unfamiliar with this blog... just click on picture above to get to the story.

Never a President around...

...when you really, really need one.

Just another story you won't see on CBC night after night for the next ten days.

I guess if Barack Obama actually had that hypothetical son, he wouldn't look like Zemir Begic.

ST. LOUIS • A third male suspect in a deadly hammer attack over the weekend in the Bevo Mill neighborhood turned himself into city police headquarters late Sunday night, police say. The third suspect is 17. Two other males, 15 and 16, were in custody earlier Sunday.

“There is no indication that the gentleman last night was targeted because he was Bosnian,” said St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson.

Geez, Sam... can you think of any other reason Mr Begic might have been singled out? Or were your youthful suspects just beating random people to death with hammers that night?

[nb. click on Zemir Begic's picture to get the full story]

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RELATED: So where is the President?

After the 12 p.m. Oval Office meeting, Obama will gather with "young local and national civil rights leaders." The White House didn't say what will be discussed, but a spokeswoman for Sharpton, an ally of the Brown family, confirmed he would attend.

Will Zemir Begic's "allies" get a face to face meeting with the President of the United States?

Maybe someone should ask Peter Mansbridge.

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LAST WORD: Another call to race war?

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan went on a fiery tirade about Ferguson [at Morgan State University, a black college located in Baltimore, Md.] on Saturday — threatening that if the demands of protesters aren’t met, “we’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”

“We going to die anyway. Let’s die for something,” Farrakhan told the crowd to roaring applause.

And again, not a peep from President Hopey-Changey.

Remember back in the day...

...some young kid pissed you off... you'd rear back and smash his face with your forehead?

Yeah... me neither...

Two men have been arrested after police released video footage of a 14-year-old banquet hall employee being head butted at a wedding reception by a guest.

York Regional Police said the incident occurred after the boy, a coat-check clerk, asked a group of partygoers who were smoking outside the Vaughan banquet hall to bring their drinks inside on November 8.

In the video, one man is seen moving forward and head butting the employee, who stumbles backwards.

Sameen Fatah, 22, and Omaid Fatah, 19, both of Toronto, face charges related to the incident and were arrested Thursday.

And then the rest of the people at the event refused to identify the thug who did this. Sure doesn't sound like any wedding I've ever been to.