F16's 1 - Wagon Train 0

"Rollin', rollin', rollin'... Though the streams are swollen... Keep them dogies rollin'... Rawhide!"

-- Paktia, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say NATO-led forces killed at least 65 Taliban rebels Saturday night in airstrikes near the country's eastern border with Pakistan.

The Afghan interior ministry said Sunday that the Taliban rebels were smuggling weapons on horses and two cars in the province of Paktia, when NATO and Afghan forces engaged them and called in air support.

Of course, there's a bit of a difference between television mythology... and the brutal reality of the modern battlefield.

Hence the timeless military adage... "Peace through Superior Firepower."

I'm bettin' they run out of illiterate zealots... before we run out of JDAM's.

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RELATED: Samarra smackdown

-- BAGHDAD -- U.S. troops killed 10 suspected Sunni militants and captured eight during an operation against al-Qaida fighters north of Samarra, the U.S. military said Sunday.

Hey, Timmy... where is your god now?

A nuke plant in Syria...

Would have been pretty scary stuff... but what if it was worse than that?

On the basis of an analysis of the same satellite photos, which have been published in the media and on Web sites and are accessible to everyone, he believes that the structure that was attacked and destroyed was not a nuclear reactor.

"In my estimation this was something very nasty and vicious, and even more dangerous than a reactor," says Even.

(via SDA)

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RELATED: You say you missed that one?

"Syria gets caught with its nuclear pants down around its ankles."

Left still cherrypicking their martyrs

While the usual suspects mount an anti-cop protest at Queens Park... this man's death just slips under the leftbot radar...

An autopsy has determined that an elderly Edmonton man was beaten to death in what police are calling a cowardly attack.

William Kapach, 65, was found lying on an inner-city sidewalk Saturday morning in a pool of blood. He was taken off life-support on Thursday.

I guess actual victims of crime just aren't sexy enough for the lunatic left.

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UPDATE: Celebrating voyeurism and apathy

"More than 1,000 people chanted 'Thank you, Paul,' as Paul Pritchard spoke to the rally yesterday, about how he came to record the last moments of Dziekanski's life."

You notice, of course, ol' Paul didn't actually step in and help this guy... he merely filmed his death throes.

And the left acquires yet another hero.

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RELATED: Just a cattle-car moment

"All sorts of demands for action are floating around, but most of them seem to have sluiced down the easiest channel, which is to blame the tasers, and talk endlessly about voltage and amps and scientific studies."

(via FFOF)

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"On the way to their favorite Elgin Street Bistro three parliamentarians witness a brutal murder..."

and...

"I think the real reason the left doesn't like Tazers is that it identifies with criminal behaviour. They are afraid THEY will get Tazered in some anti-globalization, pro-Palestinian, Pro-Hezbollah, anti-Capitalism, pro-Chavez, anti-war, pro-environmental riot."

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LAST WORD: Once again, a very special welcome...

To readers of infantile, foul mouthed, proggie brown-noser "Canadian Cecilia"

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

Technorati Tags: William Kapach, Robert Dziekanski, Paul Pritchard

Tag, you're it... I mean... dead

I just love how everybody and their uncle is freaking out about tasers... but just ignoring the ongoing war in their own backyard.

Toronto homicide detectives are investigating three murders that took place around the city within hours of each other Friday, each with outstanding suspects.

And the first two murders are connected, police said Saturday.

Kennado Walker, 25, died barely seven hours after and less than three kilometres away from where police say he shot dead Ryan Hyde, 19, on Friday afternoon.

Uh huh... sure... the police... that's who you should be worried about.

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UPDATE: Bad boys, bad boys... whatcha gonna do...

Two men immersed in “criminal, high-risk lifestyles” are dead in tit-for-tat slayings and cops are urging their friends to leave the body count where it stands.

Police say Ryan Hyde, 19, was waiting in the front seat of his car for a slice of pizza when Kennado Walker, 25, sneaked up and shot him from behind on Friday afternoon.

Before the evening was through, someone bent on revenge caught Walker unaware after he parked his car underground at 5600 Sheppard Ave. E. and shot him in the head.

Both men were known to cops and dealt in drugs and guns, Gallant said. Like Hyde, Walker wasn’t working or attending school when he died.

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RELATED: Herding the sheeple

Technorati Tags: Kennado Walker, Ryan Hyde, get a grip, people

What... no more murder?

Hamas stupefied by suggestion... of non-violent solution.

-- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Hamas said Saturday it was shocked by the Arab states' decision to attend a Mideast peace conference in the U.S. on Monday and it underlined its opposition to talks by warning that it could soon launch a more lethal type of rocket into Israel than seen previously.

Who are these people... and exactly what planet did they come from?

"The announcement of the Arabs that they would participate in the Annapolis conference was a great shock for the Palestinian people," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, said in a statement.

"Participation opens doors for normalization of relations with the Israeli occupiers."

Yeah, Sami... we sure wouldn't want any of that.

Technorati Tags: HAMAS, Annapolis conference, Sami Abu Zuhri

Calling Taliban Jack

Say Jack... about that Afghan prisoner abuse thing... we could always try the Taliban solution.

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants beheaded seven policemen yesterday after overrunning their checkpoints in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

An Australian soldier and three civilians were killed in a separate clash.

And people say I'm not flexible.

Of course, Jack still hasn't got back to me from last time.

I guess he's just shy.

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RELATED: NDP fights for Canuck prisoners too

-- OTTAWA -- Some opposition MPs whose parties agreed unanimously three weeks ago to rush the government's omnibus crime bill through a Commons committee are now trying to delete a major provision that requires offenders to prove they are not dangerous to society following a third conviction for designated crimes.

Less talk, more rock

You can jet around the global lecture circuit... earning big bucks for spewing tons of hot, sainted gases... or you can get your hands dirty actually making a difference...

About a year ago, Mr. Mosley started BuyMyBrokeniPod.com and began purchasing, refurbishing and reselling used or broken iPods. Mr. Mosley, who is apparently comfortable around a soldering iron, started the company by posting an iPods-wanted ad on Craigslist.

He has since launched a Web site, hired two employees and fixed over a thousand iPods. He recently renamed his company BuyMyTronics.com as he expanded into iPhones and video game consoles.

Now there's a win-win solution... expand the economy and shrink the toxic waste.

He says his company is profitable but that the venture is not solely about that kind of green. “There’s definitely a market here, but I am keeping leads and toxic wastes out of the ground. They work hand in hand,” he said.

“I figure I’ve probably kept thousands of pounds of waste out of landfills.”

Gangbangers for God

It just seems there's no appeasing Afghanistan's bloodthirsty deity...

-- KABUL -- A suicide bomb on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed six schoolchildren and wounded three Italians working on an aid project building a bridge, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

"It was a suicide bomber ... six schoolchildren coming out from school were killed," said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary.

Thank you... Religion of Peace.

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UPDATE: The Allah Channel

All death, all the time

Twin suicide car bombings have killed at least 30 people and injured many others in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, officials have said.

Pakistan has recently seen a number of suicide bombings, including an attack in Karachi that killed at least 135 people.

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LAST WORD: Subsidising Islam in Canada

Hey, Sana... keep that stuff off my tax bill.

Upon evicting them, the university advised the Muslim students to seek an outside location for prayer.

According to Sana Saeed, a student at McGill and a member of the MSA, finding an outside location would have been costly and unnecessary.

“As Muslims, all we desired was an adequately-sized room, which would allow us to pray during the times we’d be on campus,” she said.

Remember lead water pipes?

It's looking more and more like fluoridation may be another man-made disaster...

Nearly a half-century after water fluoridation became widespread, a small but growing number of medical officials and environmentalists are again raising concerns over the practice.

Recent research is suggesting that fluoride may be connected to a number of serious conditions, including the development in teenage boys of osteosarcoma, the rare bone cancer that killed Canadian icon Terry Fox, reduced intelligence levels in children, and impaired thyroid function.

We've been on well water out here in the sticks since 2001, when my son turned five... and that turns out, statistically, to have been a pretty good thing.

Researchers found that boys aged 6 to 8 who were exposed to more fluoridated water were about four times more likely to develop the cancer than those exposed to lower levels. The researchers called their results "remarkably robust."

Fluoridation is based on research from the 1940s, and Mr. Wiles contends that it wouldn't be able to pass a modern risk assessment used for drugs or pesticides.

"We took a look at the science and it was really apparent to us that the current levels of fluoride exposure were unsafe," he said.

Funny though... it looks as though some people have been aware of this for some time.

Toronto's drinking water, after several reductions, now contains half the fluoride it did before 1999, while the province of Quebec cut the recommended amount by 42 per cent in 2004.

Karl's calculating can of worms...

Don't say you weren't warned, boys... this snake knows every trick in the book.

-- OTTAWA -- Karlheinz Schreiber appears to be negotiating some time out of the slammer to prepare for a grilling before a Commons committee next week.

But Mr. Schreiber shouldn't be allowed to “negotiate the terms under which he will testify,” says New Democrat MP Pat Martin, who sits on the Commons ethics committee.

“He's been called here and we expect the authorities to compel him to attend,” he said.

Well, Pat... you snapped up the bait... don't expect the master-angler to just let you off the hook.

This should be interesting.

Technorati Tags: Karlheinz Schreiber, Irwin Cotler, fiberal smoke and mirrors

David Miller's Dodge City

Oops, they did it again... the bullets are flyin' in Toronto the Good.

A man has died from his injuries after an east-end shootout that may have involved as many as six people.

Witnesses told police two groups of people opened fire on each other on the street near Birchmount Road and Sheppard Avenue at about 1:20 p.m. on Friday.

Latest reports are not identifying the victim... but say it was a 19 year-old male.

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RELATED: Apparently, that code of silence thing...

Makes for a pretty good defence.

A teenager accused of gunning down Jason Huxtable stood stunned and speechless while the victim’s mother wept as a jury acquitted him yesterday of second-degree murder.

The now 17-year-old - who testified he was an innocent witness - wouldn’t identify the culprit who fatally shot the 18-year-old Huxtable outside a Jane St. and Sheppard Ave. W. townhouse complex on Aug. 30, 2005.

The teen testified that he feared reprisals against his friends and family so he refused to divulge the identities of Huxtable’s killers. The teen’s best friend and his father were shot in the months after Huxtable’s death, court heard.

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UPDATE: I have to apologise here...

It was three murders... not one.

Toronto homicide detectives are investigating three murders that took place around the city within hours of each other Friday, each with outstanding suspects.

The most recent came with the stabbing death of a man found in an O'Connor Dr. apartment building around 10 p.m., Toronto police Staff-Sgt. Chuck Konkel said Saturday morning.

A 25-year-old man was found shot to death in an east-end underground parking garage around 8:15 p.m.

Latest breathtaking Liberal brainwave

We've got to stop that scary, hidden Stephen Harper... before he cuts everybody's taxes... yet again...

"We're going to go before the budget," one Quebec Liberal said.

"The budget will be full of candy for everybody. He's going to have money for seniors, for youth, for everybody."

"If you [wait and] go on the budget, then it means you're opposing tax cuts, money for all those people, and the campaign will be on that."

Once again, the Liberal Party of Canada illustrates the potential pitfalls of creating economic policy with a "ouija board."

I'm just pondering... if they have to defibrillate John McCallum every time some fiberal wunderkind comes up with one of these oinkers.

"CLEAR!!!"

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RELATED: Denis Khadr comes over to the dark side

As the Conservatives blow a "no brainer".

Since June 2000, almost half of Canada's soldiers have been receiving a bump in their monthly salary -- the posting's living differential -- for living and working in cities with a high cost of living.

However, the Tory government will put a halt to the payments for soldiers in places such as Toronto and Ottawa.

"It might have an impact on their morale," added Liberal defence critic Denis Coderre.

Sorta like those 13 years of total Liberal neglect, huh Denis?

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Liberal party, fiberal smoke and mirrors

Potty training the loony left

After nine days of crippling national transportation strikes France appeared to be returning to normal Friday amid negotiations between labor unions and government officials.

From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports that while the walkout has snarled traffic, angered commuters and cost the country millions of dollars there appears to be one winner: French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Just a heads up here, Mark...

A self-proclaimed socially progressive person... might not actually want to base his "life philosophy" on the musings of Groucho Marx...

Mr. Warner said he hasn't ripped up his Conservative membership, but hinted that it's not likely he will be staying. "My philosophy in life is not to want to belong to any club that wouldn't have me as a member."

"It's just the way I approach life."

Well Mark, you deep thinker... the actual quote is, "would have me as a member"... but that's what happens when you pull a life philosophy out of the pop culture ether.

Cute mis-quotation... but remember, Marx also famously recounted...

I did a bond tour during the Second World War. We were raising money, and we played Boston and Philadelphia and most of the big cities. And we got to Minneapolis.

There wasn't any big theater to play there, so we did our show in a railroad station. Then I told the audience, that I knew a girl in Minneapolis. She was also known in St. Paul, she used to come over to visit me.

She was known as "The Tail Of Two Cities."

Try that one out at your next Fiberal or NDP fundraiser and... I daresay... Libby Davies will happily rip off your balls.

Technorati Tags: Mark Warner, Bob Rae, dumbing down

The double-edged sword

Privacy and personal freedoms are essential entitlements... for law abiding, non-sociopathic citizens.

-- WIESBADEN, Germany -- German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on Thursday.

Let's get real, folks... you really wanna give Osama and company a free (in more ways than one) ride?

What's the solution here?

C'mon... let's have another rumble.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I'm not sure what wrestling has to do with anything. It sounds like you're trying to bait me into something."

Technorati Tags: Skype, right to privacy, kaboom

Law-Law Land

"Willie" Pickton gets the full court press...

“Have the strength of knowing that you are in the best position of anyone in the world to make the determination on the evidence that you have here,” Adrian Brooks said, wrapping up a three-and-a-half-day final summation.

“You have the strength of the evidence, the evidence that tells you clearly, loudly there is a reasonable doubt.”

Well... except for the eyewitness account, the DNA evidence and the testimony from the cop in his cell.

And, get this... he kept severed heads, hands and feet around... for what... to make soup?

Don't worry, Adrian... you can probably get Stephane Dion to put in a good word for your client at sentencing.

It's a Liberal thing.

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RELATED: Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth

The prosecution launched its closing arguments in Pickton's murder case, attacking defense claims that other suspects were ignored and that the forensic evidence on the property where he lived -- including skulls and victims' clothing -- were no proof that he was the killer.

"Could you accept that someone else snuck on that farm with a bunch of body parts, bones ... all without him knowing it?" Michael Petrie asked the jury.

"That was Willie Pickton's domain. That was his territory."

Technorati Tags: Robert Pickton, Adrian Brooks, poor little lamb

If this is a priority for the Dion liberals...

I'd hate to see the stuff at the bottom of their list.

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has written to the governor of Montana asking him to commute the death sentence of a convicted murderer from Canada.

Ronald Allen Smith was convicted of killing two Montana Indians in 1982.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson replies...

“Individuals who commit multiple murders and mass-murders abroad . . . cannot count on the Canadian government to claim clemency and repatriation back to this country.”

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"we do not as Canadians support the death penalty..."

Funny...That's not what the poll says.

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LAST WORD: Speaking of polls...

Another CTV propaganda piece goes awry...

Technorati Tags: Ronald Allen Smith, Harvey Mad Man, Thomas Running Rabbit

Just one more reason...

To yank all taxpayer funding... from the Roman Catholic school system...

Halton's Catholic board has pulled The Golden Compass fantasy book – soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman – off school library shelves because of a complaint.

"(The complaint) came out of interviews that Philip Pullman had done, where he stated that he is an atheist and that he supports that," said Scott Millard, the board's manager of library services.

So what's the scoop on this blasphemous tome?

The award-winning tome was voted the best children's book in the past 70 years by readers across the globe.

No word yet on dates or locations for the big "book burning" parties... but we'll keep you posted.

Sponsored by the Government of Ontario.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The Golden Compass is a book about the quest to kill GOD."

Which begs the question, "What kind of puny-ass deity are you people worshipping anyway?"

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UPDATE: The Censorship Inquisition widens

Two other Toronto-area Catholic boards of education are studying copies of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy after the Halton District Catholic School Board removed the children's books from its library shelves.

Both the Durham and Dufferin-Peel Catholic boards have said they will also review the popular children's fantasy series.

But, it seems, not quite everybody is on board...

In the U.K., the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams reviewed Pullman's trilogy for the Guardian newspaper in 2004.

Williams praised the books and recommended them to young readers.

"This extraordinary theatrical adventure sets a creative religious agenda in a way hard to parallel in recent literature and performance," he wrote.

Heretic!

Technorati Tags: The Golden Compass, Halton Catholic District School Board, book burning

China takes pity...

On the United States Navy...

The Chinese government has given no explanation for why it suddenly refused and then later allowed a United States naval carrier group to dock in Hong Kong as scheduled.

China made an abrupt about-face, Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Beijing would allow the ships into Hong Kong after all.

"We have already decided to allow the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier group to stay in Hong Kong for rest and reorganization during Thanksgiving."

"It is based completely on humanitarianism."

China... sweetie-pie to the world.

One toke over the line

-- Q -- What's flat, black and glows in the dark?

-- A -- Well, if nobody puts the brakes on Madman Ahmadinejad... that'd be Tehran...

And, it seems, Iranians in high places are starting to get it.

The attack would be difficult to imagine without at least tacit support from Ayatollah Khamenei.

In a hard-hitting editorial on Wednesday, the Tehran paper said the president's treatment of his critics was immoral, illogical and illegal.

In an autocratic theocracy like Iran, where every piece of news is filtered through the ruling elite... that's a very public slap in the face.

Such a direct personal attack against President Ahmadinejad is indeed rare in official media in Iran.

It shows that the Iranian president is not only losing support among ordinary people because of economic hardship, he is also angering part of the establishment for using the nuclear issue to bolster his personal power.

This one is worth watching.

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RELATED: The dogpile gets larger

Iran's former chief nuclear negotiator sharply criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, denouncing the prosecution of a former member of his negotiating team and accusing the hard-line leader of trying to eliminate rivals.

The comments by Hasan Rowhani, published Thursday, were the latest in the blow in the mounting rivalry between Ahmadinejad and former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful figure in Iran's clerical leadership.

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LAST WORD: That's gonna leave a mark

-- WASHINGTON -- Massive, devastating air strikes, a full dose of "shock and awe" with hundreds of bunker-busting bombs slicing through concrete at more than a dozen nuclear sites across Iran is no longer just the idle musing of military planners and uber-hawks.