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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A list of Liberal scandals.

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