THE JUSTIN PARTY: Required Reading

From "Party of One," the scary, post apocalyptic Michael Harris fairy story about evil Stephen Harper's "sabre-rattling"...

"The White House, the Pentagon, American and Israeli intelligence, and the IAEA had all come to the same conclusion based on the evidence: Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, is not building one, and has not decided to build one."

Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Lausanne, Switzerland, March 30, 2015 3:55 pm - Iran rejected on Monday ongoing demands by Western powers that it export to Russia its stockpiles of enriched uranium, the key component in a nuclear bomb. “The export of stocks of enriched uranium is not in our program, and we do not intend sending them abroad,” Abbas Araqchi, an Iranian negotiator and diplomat, was quoted as telling the country’s state-run press. “There is no question of sending the stocks abroad.”

Oh, yeah... that enriched uranium.

Need another example?

"Since dismantling the Long Gun Registry, the Harper government has four times delayed rules that would assign serial numbers to guns."

That's funny, EVERY GUN I've ever owned, EVERY GUN I've ever seen, including an octagonal barrelled muzzle loading rifle from the 1800's has had a serial number.

Perhaps Mr Harris is referring to tattooing serial numbers on gun owners themselves? I do know that when I go to Canadian Tire to buy .22 ammunition for my tin can plinker, I have to present my state-issued photo-id Firearms Licence which duly records my every crime against humanity.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Any serial number can be filed off, including a Liberal one."

As articulated elsewhere... "Increasingly complex gun control legislation is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars."

Apparently Quebec knows a guy...

...who knows a guy...

Based on “conservative” estimates, a provincial registry will cost at least $30 million to set up, but Thériault acknowledged that the number could fluctuate. “You have to take the time to draw up the legislation, table the legislation, adopt the legislation, all of that. You have to understand that it can’t be done overnight.”

So, no actual tenders and no actual completion date... but Quebec will pay a fraction of the $2,000,000,000 the Federal Liberals pissed away on their not quite functional post-Ghamil Gharbi public relations exercise?

Whaddaya wanna bet that number doesn't "fluctuate" down?

If your biggest problem with this stuff...

...is the purportedly sexist lingo... you're a Liberal...

"I’d rather be uncool than a rape apologist. Women are not as strong as men.

They can’t even hold their booze as well as men.

Stop telling them slut walks are cool and they’re all total badasses."

Andrea Dworkin me. I dare you.
(Via Shaidle)

Well, c'mon now folks...

...you can't discriminate against the poor dear because he had demons in his dome...

The forensic find comes hours after it emerged that Lubitz was forced to postpone his pilot training in 2008 because of mental health problems, with a friend saying he was 'in depression'.

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RELATED: It has happened before...

Many things happened in quick succession in the cockpit. Batouti reached over and shut off the fuel, killing both engines. Habashi screamed, "What is this? What is this? Did you shut the engines?"

Next up... the age-old bias against visually impaired pilots.

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LAST WORD: Closing the barn door

The federal government has issued an emergency order requiring Canadian airlines to have two crew members in the cockpit at all times.

Better late than never I guess.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

I must rise to defend the honor of dogs. My malamutes are my hench-beasts and are completely loyal. Having a cat is like inviting Vidkun Quisling into your home. Take the wife out for a nice dinner and the next thing you know, the cat has sold off your Amex card number to someone in Vladivostok.

No, thank you.

(VIA SDA)

That secretive, tyrannical George W....

...wait just a freakin' minute...

"For the second consecutive year, the Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act."

The government took longer to turn over files when it provided any, said more regularly that it couldn’t find documents, and refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy.

It also acknowledged in nearly 1 in 3 cases that its initial decisions to withhold or censor records were improper under the law — but only when it was challenged.

Its backlog of unanswered requests at year’s end grew remarkably by 55 per cent to more than 200,000.

Listen up sheeple. You truly do get the kind of government you deserve.

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RELATED: Obamite Janet "Big Sis" Napolitano

As the protests began, the cameras stayed on the regents. That’s when Napolitano leans over to Varner and said, “Let’s just break. Let’s go, let’s go. We don’t have to listen to this crap.” Her hot mic caught the comment.

The comment was a different tone from Napolitano at the very same meeting. “They want to be sure that their voices are being heard and I want to commit to them that their voices are being heard.”

Wake up folks... Barack and friends ARE the One Percent.

The Yellow Brick Road...

... of Inter-Species Marriage...Dating that cute German Shepherd down the road just got a little more interesting. Woof.

Forget Obama's mythical sons...

...what he really needs is a statistician...Why isn't Barack's BFF & Attorney General losing his sh!t over racism in the "People’s Republic of Santa Monica."

Geez, what's the big deal?

It's not like anybody got kil... wait a minute...

The House Committee on Benghazi has given Hillary Clinton an additional two weeks to respond to a subpoena asking for her private emails on Libya and the 2012 terrorist attacks.

Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) subpoenaed the former secretary of state after it was reported that she used a personal email that stored her communications on an off-site server at her home.

“Chairman Gowdy still believes the best option for Secretary Clinton is to turn over her server to a neutral arbiter to independently determine what should be in the public domain. The Committee has no interest in her personal emails.”

Looks like Slick Willie's missus isn't as smart as she thinks she is.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

White Man's Burden, 2015 Liberal style. The soft racism of low expectations, the insidious corruption of Special Deal law enforcement.

Every enforcement officer in this case should be fired, as should the judge. It's obscene.

Unbelievable.

Queen Lisa's Magical Pixie Dust Kingdom...

...where there is no such thing as death...Perish the thinking, er... thought!

Stone age surgical procedures...

...the pros and... what the freakin' frack!!!???

"There is a greater need in South Africa for this type of procedure than elsewhere in the world, as many young men lose their penises every year due to complications from traditional circumcision."

Why exactly do people look up to...

...Hollywood celebrities?

Los Angeles also had the highest number of primary and secondary cases of syphilis of any county in the U.S. in 2013, the CDC reported.

And yes... it can make you go blind.

Where there's smoke, there's...

...well, you know... Sharpton.

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RELATED: Barack's BFF bad at biz?

After you click on Al's picture above and get the main course, here's a little dessert...

So far, EVERY for-profit enterprise started by Al Sharpton has been shut down in at least one jurisdiction for failure to pay taxes, a review of public records in New York and Delaware reveals.

Maybe he's just bad at ethics.

From the folks who brought you...

...Trudeau & Trudeau-lite...Welcome to the land of beta-male inadequacy...

"They weren’t at capacity, it’s that having military personnel there is bad for business... the men buying drinks would get intimidated."

Montreal, Quebec, home of the sensitive, new age guy...

I began by explaining that I, like my feminist sisters, blame “men” for the Montreal Massacre, too—it’s just that I blame not only Gamil Gharbi, but also the “prophet” Muhammad, Pierre Trudeau, and the fifty or so male students who meekly left their classmates to their fate.

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LAST WORD: Iron, er... Plastic Men...

...and Wooden Ships...

And, when it was over and Gharbi walked out of the room and past them, they still did nothing. Whatever its other defects, Canadian manhood does not suffer from an excess of testosterone.”

That's what we aspire to... right?

Don't blame the Golf-Pro in Chief

He's been so damn busy throwing open the gates and waging faux-war on terror... he wouldn't know email from she-male.

"The administration previously has said the president learned of the email scandal via news reports."

Oops.

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UPDATE: Never mind the deception...

...any country worth it's salt has an NSA equivalent.

An email system such as the one described is considered "easy pickings." After seeing the details in the press, my first conclusion is this: The Russians and the Chinese were reading her emails. In real time. I'm not saying maybe or perhaps. They were.

Did Putin know what our reaction would be before he invaded the Ukraine?

Did Al Quaida know our intentions in Benghazi before the attack?

Did Iran know our proposals before we started negotiating this latest agreement?

Oops on steroids.

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UPDATE2: Leave it to Hillary...

...to make Monica Lewinsky look like a genius...

Hillary said during her press conference that her email server "contains personal communications from my husband and me."

Wait for it...

"The former president, who does regularly use Twitter, has sent a grand total of two emails during his entire life, both as president, says Matt McKenna, his spokesman."

Hillary Rodham Clinton... the Maxwell Smart of American politics.

FROM THE COMMENTS

Kill a Commie for Mommy...

Want children? You need families, with a place for women AND MEN.

How to fix this?

1. Go back in time.
2. Murder Simone de Beauvoir

Too bad, too late.

Never a Time Lord around when you really need one.

Of Sinners and Superheroes

So, for two years now, young Elton McDonald, a longtime resident of the nearby Driftwood "community" has been digging a recreational tunnel (storeroom, cave, dungeon?) on property he doesn't own using "borrowed" construction materials and tools (a long term loan, it appears). He has also, in the spirit of entrepreneurship and modern romance, been doing this work under cover of night.

Forgive my suspicious nature, but there seems to be what lawyers would call a strong "consciousness of guilt" here.

In addition to the facts above, when young Elton showed up at Sun News to get his 15 minutes of fame he lied about his identity. Additionally, despite claiming the mantle of responsibility, he deflects any and all possible criminal activity to associates he refuses to identify. He might be lead architect... or just a digger. It depends.

Despite all these apparent red flags, the MSM and, more surprisingly, the Toronto Police service, have chosen to ignore any criminality and re-make Elton into some sort of dashing Robin Hood cum Robinson Crusoe-like symbol.

The media seems to be focussed on Elton's construction expertise. I'm thinking it's a mercy someone caught up to this Frank Lloyd Wrong before his underground barbequing caused multiple deaths by carbon monoxide. Let's not even think about what happens when you put a pick through a natural gas line or a buried high tension electrical feeder cable.

PS... I'm thinking I need a challenge. Anybody know where I can "borrow" a hundred two by eights and a couple dozen sheets of plywood? Oh, yeah... I'll need a generator too. I'll get it all back to you in a couple of years.

Honest.

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UPDATE: So, it's Driftwood, shit happens

So your buddies show up and stash a high powered rifle in your crib when you're not looking. Don't you hate when that happens?

On Sept. 1, 2013, police found a Browning Arms A-bolt .300-calibre rifle stashed in the home. McDonald was charged with possession of firearm without a licence and three other weapons offences.

Charges were eventually stayed. It was all a misunderstanding.

Fifty Shades of Inevitable

Now that we've gotten past that silly numbers game, stand by for the happily married bowling team...

'Some people may not agree and are probably amazed by our decision, but we believe many people do understand and accept our choice. Love is love, after all.'

Well said. Hey, isn't it time we got past that last remaining silly taboo... interspecies marriage? Who doesn't know someone who loves their dog more than they can say. Why shouldn't you be able to make an honest bird out of that flirty cockatiel down at Pets R Us?

We've got a groovy kind of love.

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RELATED: Dear Queers against Israeli apartheid

Have you knuckleheads ever considered rearranging your priorities?

You might just wanna consider who you're, pun intended, jumping into bed with. Seriously.

Worshipping the Earth Mother

It ain't what it used to be...

"The trade in eagle parts has been controversial for years, given their demand by aboriginals."

Bling, bling.

Zipper descending in, three, two...

Just waiting for Justin Trudeau to whip out all his objections to this bill...

The warmist, nanny-state left

You look hard enough... you'll see, without exception, they all have a crumpled, stained blue dress in their closet.

Just one more loogie in an ocean of larcenous Liberal spit.

Nearer my dawg, er... gawd to thee

"Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, an Indian pop-star and telepreacher with a reported wealth of more than $50 million, is being investigated after he allegedly manipulated around 400 men to get their testicles removed.

Talk about the gift of bag, whoops... I mean gab."

As per usual, the real story takes place...

...in the comments...

"The overview reveals a virtually identical homicide solving rate for Aboriginal women (88%) and non-Aboriginal women (89%). The study reveals that the rate of stranger perpetrated homicide against Aboriginal women is 8%, virtually the same as for non-Aboriginal women (7%).

As tragic as this situation is is (and gawd knows there is tragedy aplenty in aboriginal circles) the evidence clearly indicates that there is no coverup here. No evidence supports that aboriginal women are being targeted by race or that the murders of aboriginal women are being ignored by law enforcement agencies. In fact, some folks would argue that cops focus entirely too much on that demographic...

The incarceration rate of aboriginal men is 11 times that of non-native men; of women, it is 250 times the rate for non-native women.

So what is actually going on here?

It's not exactly going out on a limb to surmise that a significant portion of these murders are domestic violence. 93% are murdered by people they know. 63% were drunk or on drugs. The facts speak for themselves.

Wishing doesn't make it otherwise.

Random musings

I'm with President Obama... I blame the Crusades...

BREAKING: Toronto Police Advisory...

Don't let anyone get behind you...

Toronto police are warning the public to be cautious after a shooting in the area of Morecambe Gate and Victoria Park Avenue north of Finch Ave. The man was shot in the back, paramedics said.

The report seems to indicate this guy was waiting in a bus shelter and some random sociopath lit him up from behind.

Keep your head on a swivel... just like Iraq. Who exactly is it we're looking for? Sure thing, officer.

This oughta be interesting. Remember, though... crime is way down.

Apple's new emoji palette...

..for all you Iphone users who have been struggling with race-friendly Kwanzaa text messages...Trust me, it doesn't stop there...

The new emoji feature a range of skin tone options and a new “neutral” default of yellow, which is required by the Unicode specification to be “non-realistic.”

Yes, there's something for everyone...

There’s a ton of new family emojis to cover off different family composition.

Well, maybe not everyone. Strangely, there's not a hijab to be seen... an obvious oversight given current geopolitical realities.

Take that, white privilege.

Remember all those people...

...who claimed to be Mi’kmaq?

Here's chapter 2...Of course, there's just one small hitch...

APTN also says the twins’ father, Anthony Larmond, claims his sons get their aboriginal heritage through his side of the family, although, as the report notes, he could not recall a First Nation community to which his family might be associated.

The twins’ lawyer Joseph Addelman declined to comment on Wednesday on his client’s bid to be recognized as First Nations members.

C'mon, now... isn't this like all those guys in jail who adopt "aboriginal identities" to get into special programs? Doesn't wishing make it so?

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UPDATE: I blame Stephen Harper

The twins father, Anthony Larmond said he blames the arrests on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “crusade against ISIS and turning our country into a prison state.

“It’s a sad day for freedom when our citizens can be jailed for a belief.”

Or anything else, right? One small detail the Ottawa Citizen neglected to mention...

Larmond is currently at a Toronto halfway house finishing a six-year sentence for armed robbery.

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FROM THE APTN COMMENTS:

"I live on a reservation, my whole family does, my mother is a Councillor here, half of the community has my family name, but my grandfather who is only half aboriginal married a beautiful white women (My grandmother) and they had my mother who is only one quarter aboriginal. Since my Father is also white, I’m only one eighth. I live, work, and am even in a common law relationship here and get no Indian status. All my records can be traced back to where I live no problem, it still doesn’t matter I guess. If these twins get status, I’m going to freak the fuck out. and we will have a fight on our hands."

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RELATED: A noble sentiment indeed...

“Ending the violence in our communities is the bottom line,” he said Wednesday. Indigenous women “have a right to live free in an environment that is healthy, loving and caring.”

Unfortunately, it may be a little more complicated than issuing yet another statement...

The incarceration rate of aboriginal men is 11 times that of non-native men; of women, it is 250 times the rate for non-native women.

Hmmm... nobody seems to mention those numbers when they talk about missing or murdered women. Strange.

"Sweet dreams and flying machines..."

"...in pieces on the ground..."

Meet Skynet's grumpy ol' grandad...

"Over the course of that training, the computer built up progressively more abstract representations of the data in ways similar to human neural networks, according to the study."

If you really think Canada is...

...becoming too repressive... you could move to Saudi Arabia...

The Angus Reid poll indicates just what a political juggernaut the security bill is – widely popular in every province, every age group, and across party lines. More than four in five Canadians – 82 per cent – back the new legislation... Far from seeing it as too sweeping, they tend to want more: 36 per cent say it does not go far enough.

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

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RELATED: Th Golf-Pro-in-Chief...

...blames the NRA for American deaths... but Islam gets a pass?

Despite a world rocked by attacks carried out by Muslims, President Obama dismissed religion’s role in global terrorism. “No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for terrorism.”

Meanwhile, back at home, he just can't bring himself to say "criminals are responsible for murder."

Funny how that works.

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LAST WORD: He's so dreamy

Meanwhile, Barack Obama went golfing today for the third day in a row.

Unbelievable.

12 Billion dollars yearly on Aboriginal affairs

More money isn't the solution... it's where existing monies disappear to...

“It all boils down to lack of services," Band councillor Dean Mitsuing said. "We don't get the same funding as everyone else -- maybe that could have stopped this, we don't have any services on the reserve.”

Wait a minute... apparently, Dean... you do.

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada lists Makwa Sahgaiehcan as having a fire hall. An access-to-information request by The Canadian Press shows the band was given just over $11,000 for fire protection in each of the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal years.

(h/t SDA)

That $11,000 was more than double the retainer the band were supposed to be paying to the nearby Loon Lake fire department.

Perhaps if the money shows up under somebody's mattress, they can use it for funeral expenses.

Let's remember, Justin Trudeau has said he'll dismantle legislation that puts everyday audit controls (that every other Canadian has to live with) on the billions of dollars in aboriginal subsidies.

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RELATED: It's a mystery

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LAST WORD: Who needs audit controls

We can trust what the community tells us, right?

No, that's not a parody of the Twelve Days of Christmas. It's a list of Kanesatake Mohawk Police weapons that have disappeared.

That's the cops... whaddaya think the "not cops" are up to?

Coming soon:

...to a public debate, movie premiere or subway station near you...

Filmmaker Finn Nørgaard: He went to a debate on freedom of expression, and Islam's contribution to the debate was to kill him.

The one trick pony of the world's religious institutions joins the conversation.

The lunatic Left in 10 short words

"Doesn't have to be true, just has to be funny."

College students, of course, are both little acquainted with realities of adult existence and walled off from conservative views, so they’re the perfect audience for Stewart’s shtick, which depends on assumptions that are as unquestioned as they are false.

The world according to Yuk-Yuks.

Yet another use for Twitter...

...murdering random strangers...

The suspects used a chat stream and were apparently obsessed with death and had many photos of mass killings. Justice Minister Peter MacKay said the plot was not related to terrorism.

“This appeared to be a group of murderous misfits.”

I got nuthin'.

What's the big rush?

In Barack Obama's pipe-dreamy vision of a moderate Islam... there's always a happy ending...Except when there isn't.

In early June, London had a “positive identification and that information was shared with Washington,” said a British source. The delay of nearly a month before the rescue bid was mounted remains a source of bewilderment for British officials. The following month, ISIS began beheading its American and British prisoners in a series of grisly Internet videos.

Another Whitehouse misstep that resulted in three civilian deaths? Benghazi much?

Another question that has arisen... was the U.S. trying to distract the media by offering up the "jihadi bride" narrative?

On Wednesday, reports surfaced that Mueller may have been given as a bride to an ISIS fighter. But British sources questioned the claim, saying it was the first they had heard of it and it didn’t crop up in any “chatter they were monitoring” or in communications between London and Washington.

Yes, Mr President... I blame the Crusades, too.

In 2006, when Mark Steyn wrote

..."America Alone", he was vilified by the left. Turns out, he was spot on...

And you don't have to travel to some distant backwater to confirm his arithmetic...

The number of children growing up as Muslims in the UK has almost doubled in a decade in what experts have described as an “unprecedented” shift in Britain’s social make-up. At a time when the wider population is ageing rapidly, half of British Muslims are under the age of 25 and a third are under 15.

The big picture...

Overall 2.7 million people... described themselves as Muslim. That is up from just under 1.6 million in 2001 – a 75 per cent jump.

The times they are a changin'. Need an example?

Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, could be dragged into a messy legal battle after a Muslim family demanded that a “non-believer” who was buried next to their relation be exhumed for religious reasons.

The unnamed Muslim family raised objections after an 89-year-old Roman Catholic man was buried in a plot adjacent to their relation.

Uh-huh.

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RELATED: Belgium, a moderate, modern country

According to the result of a study of the “Social Science Center Berlin,” 70% of Belgian Muslims consider religious rules as more important than the law.

When Muslims achieve critical political mass in any country, is it so hard to believe that the Koran will supercede the law of the land?

Trust me, polygamy will be the least of it.

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RELATED: Italy is on the bubble

Italy’s birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since the foundation of the modern state in 1861, prompting fresh alarm in a society that has been steadily ageing for decades.

Beatrice Lorenzin, the minister of health, said: “We are at the threshold where people who die are not being replaced by newborns. That means we are a dying country.

"This situation has enormous implications for every sector: the economy, society, health, pensions, just to give a few examples."

Not to worry, though... the New Caliphate is well on its way.

So close... yet so far

Once again, the dead tree media sets about winding up the lunatic left... this time it's Islamophobic hate crimes perpetrated by the Christian far right...Only problem is... turns out the shooter is an atheist and a hard core leftie...

A review of the Facebook page of the man charged in these murders, Craig Hicks, shows consistent themes of anti-religion and progressive causes.

Oh, yeah, one more small detail... it had nothing to do with Islam either...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — An ongoing parking dispute between neighbours sparked the shooting deaths of three family members at a quiet condominium complex near the University of North Carolina campus, police said Wednesday.

A tragedy... yes. A "hate crime" involving even a single Christian (terrorist or otherwise)... no.

Despite acknowledging the police statement about this being a dispute over parking, a CBC headline posted at 1:47pm Wednesday claims police are still looking for a motive.

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UPDATE: Not Obama's children this time

Ripley Rand, the U.S. prosecutor for the Middle District, which includes Chapel Hill and Durham, said federal authorities had not launched a separate investigation of the crime. Rand said that from the early details of the Chapel Hill investigation, the killings did not appear to be part of a targeted campaign against Muslims.

“This appears at this time to be an isolated incident.”

Translation... obvious whackjob kills a bunch of people for no good reason. Not religion. Not [insert group here]-phobia.

Sorry to disappoint.

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LAST WORD: Nonny from the comments is right

We have to consider ALL the evidence...Support for terrorism? Anti-semitic? A 9/11 truther?

Funny... the mainstream media reported none of that.
(h/t BCF)

Sure, she's no nine year old, but...

The inexplicable and capricious "Will of [insert random deity here]"...Meanwhile, in other "random" news...

You can fool some of the people...

...some of the time...

“Does Justin Trudeau's process for selecting candidates involve, by any chance, a jug of hooch and a wheelbarrow?

That'd be selecting the Conservative Party's discards...

“After Ms. Adams' request of just a couple weeks ago to seek the Conservative Party nomination in a new seat, I informed her in writing on Jan. 29 that she would not be permitted to run for our Party in the next election due to the misconduct from the Oakville North-Burlington nomination race.”

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RELATED: Who is Eve Adams?

Her municipal career was also punctuated with embarrassing incidents. During the 2003 race, her husband, Peter, and brother Jim were found with a carload of purloined election signs belonging to her opponents. Charges of possession of stolen property were later dropped in exchange for a charitable donation.

So much for the vetting process.

While we're highlighting Justin's political acumen...

An Abacus poll last week suggested Harper is the major-party leader most respondents would trust to run a large company, counsel an investor, or negotiate a contract. Respondents imagined Trudeau would be the best leader to sing a song, babysit a pet or survive in the wilderness.

That "surviving the wilderness" thing... I'm not so sure.

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UPDATE: The Libranos get a new recruit

New Liberal MP Eve Adams has confirmed she'll attempt a run for the Liberal nomination to take on Finance Minister Joe Oliver in Toronto's Eglinton-Lawrence riding.

Yay Justin.

Remember Toronto...

...you get the kind of government you deserve...

Former premier Dalton McGuinty’s chief of staff and his deputy together compiled a list of senior Liberal staffers whose computer records would be purged – all of whom were involved in discussions surrounding the controversial cancellation of two power plants, police say.

No wonder Dalton fled the country.

Even the cat won't go outside

Gimme my freakin' global warming right now!!!

U.S. temperature data: ‘In the business and trading world, people go to jail for such manipulations of data’

We've been routinely hitting -30 degrees here at the Halls at night. The Hotpocalypse can't come soon enough for me.

If only it wasn't such a scam.

And then, after neutering the military...

...he can start disarming the police...

“I’ve never been against Canada engaging robustly against ISIS,” Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said, but insisted it should be confined to “military missions that are non-combat.”

Yeah, you give JTF2 a duffel bag full of aerosol spray cans... and they can sneak into terrorist held enclaves and tag enemy tanks.

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RELATED: Meet Justin's newest Liberal

Eve Adams... professional albatross...

But the new seat next door, which was created through redistribution, is safe. That makes the nomination a prize worth having. If she gets it, her $163,700 salary will be secure for a long, long time.

But she won’t get it. The party will veto her. She and Mr. Soudas have been sentenced to the outer darkness reserved for people who make the Prime Minister look bad.

Yessirree... yet another coup for the natural governing party.

Public service is fleeting...

...$122,000 is forever...

A private member’s bill that’s expected to be up for a final vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday has been watered down to remove retroactivity, allowing Fontana, a former London mayor, Liberal MP and cabinet minister, to keep his pension.

Yeah... I'm shocked.

Okay, I'll say it. If the NDP manages to restore the retroactivity clause in this bill... THEY WILL GET MY VOTE.

That's how fed up I am with political corruption.

Never mind Winter

Skynet is coming...
Dr. Paul Saffo, Stanford University

Meet a man who can call the Whitehouse...

...and advise his buddy, the president, anytime, day or night...

So far, EVERY for-profit enterprise started by Al Sharpton and known to National Review Online has been shut down in at least one jurisdiction for failure to pay taxes, a review of public records in New York and Delaware reveals.

Their financial records are copious, confusing, and sometimes outright bizarre, and together, they depict persistent financial woes for Sharpton, who also personally owes New York State nearly $596,000, according to active tax warrants.

Does Al Sharpton have some sort of transactional immunity? Would anyone be surprised if Sharpton fesses up shortly before Barack Obama leaves office... and is then granted a presidential pardon?

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RELATED: All in the Family

Celebrities lined up to support Tawana, including Bill Cosby, who posted a $25,000 reward for information on the case; Don King, who promised $100,000 for Brawley’s education; and Spike Lee, who in his 1989 film, “Do the Right Thing,” included a shot of a graffiti message reading, “Tawana told the truth.”

Sadly, the truth was that Brawley, under Sharpton's tutelage, tried to ruin a man's life and they were both held to account by a civil court. Guess who paid off Al Sharpton's civil judgement?

In 1998, Pagones won his defamation lawsuit. Maddox was found liable for $97,000, Mason for $188,000, and Sharpton for $66,000 — money that was paid by celebrity lawyer Johnnie Cochran and other benefactors.

Other benefactors? Like the celebs cited above?

Now Al Sharpton, race hustler extraordinaire is a Whitehouse advisor. That explains the Trayvon debacle. And Ferguson.

It's past time the Whitehouse severs connections with Al Sharpton. But it won't.

The Paris Hilton...

...of Canadian politics...

“Please finish the following sentence: If elected, my first full day as prime minster I would…”

The transcript on the paper’s website writes “Pause” before Trudeau’s response. That was exceedingly generous. I would have put “Epic pause.”

It lasts around nine seconds. Which on video – as anyone with media training knows – feels like pretty much an hour. In that time Trudeau widens his eyes. Shrugs. Gives a coy smile. Exhales.

The Crown Prince did his best, but was, as usual, less than impressive.

A couple of problems here. Can anyone discern any actual content in this answer? Aside from the fact that he intends to do something like phone up the mayor of Kingston and promise he won’t swear at him or something like that.

Gomer city... again.

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?