Vanishingly few elite climbers make careers out of free-soloing, and plenty call it irresponsible and deplorable, but in their heart of hearts they all recognize it as the final word in bad-assery.Favorite literary flourish... "when Alex was a baby his mother must have stepped on his amygdala."
A brutal Toronto lawyer-pimp was awarded a lucrative federal government contract providing pharmaceutical and medical supplies to remote northern Manitoba communities.Makes you wonder how many similar cases go totally undetected.
Patterson, now 53, was convicted in Toronto of kidnapping and threatening to mutilate a terrified teen prostitute and sentenced to seven years in June 2000.
And he kept the contract while serving a penitentiary sentence for his crimes. Taxpayers were paying Grand Medicine $9 million to $10 million annually in the final years of the contract.
"'Brutal Toronto lawyer-pimp'? I want that on my business cards!"
The practice can include narrowing the vaginal opening and sewing it virtually closed, removing the clitoris or labia, or cutting, piercing, burning or scraping the clitoral hood.The word "mutilation" is actually right freakin' there in the title of your article. In what non-stone age society is this actually being "debated?"
Justifications for it vary, including to curb sexual promiscuity, preserve tradition or, said Ms. Raja, “take a bad bug or a germ out of you.”
"The more Muslims grow, the more their enemies will fear them... Muslims should go for more and more children," he said.**********
Denied their husbands' permission to speak, none of the three men's wives could give their views on family planning in Islam.
I found it interesting that almost half of patients who were prescribed physician-assisted death never used it. That means to me that many just want to have some control over their fate, over pain, etc. Makes good sense to me.**********
Nobody wants a lengthy death consisting of weeks of gasping for air, writhing in pain, and pooping in bed.
Two days after Christmas 2016, a family friend, who had found out last October that she had a particularly virulent type of ALS, resolutely & unflinchingly ended her own life.Going out on your own terms is important to some of us.
• By 1994, AIDS had become the No. 1 killer of all African-Americans ages 25 to 44. The virus was 16 times as common in black women as in their white counterparts — and the gap would widen over the next few years.
• Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using the first comprehensive national estimates of lifetime risk of H.I.V. for several key populations, predicted that if current rates continue, one in two African-American gay and bisexual men will be infected with the virus.
• That compares with a lifetime risk of one in 99 for all Americans and one in 11 for white gay and bisexual men.
The Michigan state house passed a new bill this week which, if signed into law by Governor Rick Snyder, would make it legal for residents to carry their handguns concealed without needing any special permit to do so.And then, there's La-La Land...
At least 11 states have passed laws allowing the concealed carry of guns without a permit, and 16 states have introduced legislation this year to do the same.
"Now the California’s Russia-connected secession movement is stalled, China is stepping in to deepen the rift between the Golden State and the rest of the Union."**********
Canadian fugitive: Toronto man wanted for inciting genocide living freely in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Yup... as Canadian as Yasir Arafat.
"Researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health claim in a new article that the 2016 election of Donald Trump could cause an increased risk of disease, premature childbirth and premature death, particularly among “marginalized groups.”**********
"Comey Took Notes of Every Trump Meeting But Did Not Record Hillary’s 3 Hour Interrogation."**********
"Kathy Griffin mistakenly beheads Alec Baldwin in Trump costume; nobody cares."
Shaked Elsayed, an Imam at the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, has reportedly stated that he believes Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) prevents “hyper-sexuality” in women and endorsed the cutting of a woman’s clitoris in order to prevent her from experiencing the urge to engage and act upon her sexual desires.I'm gonna file this one under "Imam-splaining."
The video has since “been removed,” according to YouTube.
"A Virginia imam has been placed on leave after advocating for the controversial practice of female genital mutilation."**********
If convicted, Nagarwala and Dr. Attar face up to life in prison; Attar's wife faces up to 20 years. The two physicians face the most serious charge in the case, transportation of an individual with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.**********
"They put on the hijab, they bought the hatchet job on the booty as well."**********
Deering High School in Portland, Maine, is providing sport hijabs with the goal of making Muslim girls comfortable - and boosting their participation in sports.
The New York Times published an op-ed by Barghouti and massively covered the strike. Numerous other marquee media organizations similarly provided sympathetic coverage of the event. Hidden beneath mountains of column inches was the basic fact that the terrorists’ demands made clear that their strike was ridiculous.**********
They weren’t demanding food. They weren’t demanding fair trials or the right to speak to their attorneys. They were demanding that Israel add 20 new channels to their standard, free cable television access. They demanded that Israel let them have telephones in their rooms. They demanded that Israel buy them air conditioning units.
In other words, they were demanding that Israel treat them better than it treats its own soldiers.
Wilson was arrested on scene and Ottawa police found large quantities of drugs in his apartment — including cocaine, GHB and ketamine. In an authorized search of Wilson’s apartment, police also seized his electronic devices and found sexually explicit photos and videos of his alleged victims.Note that this thug was arrested because he beat his pregnant girlfriend until she miscarried.
The bar-staff drug rapes are alleged to have happened in 2014 and 2015.
"President Donald Trump does not share his predecessor's view on transgender rights."
"It's unclear how Defense Secretary Jim Mattis eventually will rule on the matter, though in the past he has cast doubt on whether such moves ultimately advance the military's principal national security objectives."
"Putin also didn't deny that Megyn raped him before the show. We'll never know for sure."Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
A Toronto woman has been charged after a suspect masked with an ISIS bandana allegedly swung a golf club at Canadian Tire store employees while screaming threats and Islamic chants on Saturday afternoon at the same time that a terrorist rampage occurred in London.**********
Rehab Dughmosh, 32, is facing seven charges including two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of possession of a weapon, threaten death or bodily harm, and carrying a concealed weapon.
French police have shot a man outside Notre Dame cathedral in Paris after he tried to attack them with a hammer and shouted "this is for Syria."**********
A five-year-old child was stabbed to death over the weekend at an asylum home in Bavaria by a 41-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was later shot by police.
In 2009, the 41-year-old was convicted of arson and served six years in prison. He had tried to kill his then-wife and cousin by burning them to death.
"Judging people of the past by the moral standards of today is grotesque intellectual arrogance, what you expect from 19-year-old sophomores demanding trigger warnings."Instead of tearing down Civil war monuments and turning Confederate flags into the Devil's own toilet paper... perhaps the smelly hippies should address some real societal problems...
"The people of the past lived in a different moral universe, just as the people of the future will."
Or you could just blame Donald Trump, I guess.
Pretty lofty sentiments from a woman who lives in a fortress and travels with a pack of bodyguards.Katy Perry can finally buy $14.5 million Los Feliz convent - Court battle pitted Perry against elderly nunsLet's just take a moment to consider the other side of this argument...
Former Navy Seal Carl Higbie to Katy Perry.... "Hold one of your concerts in Syria and see how it goes."I'd pay good money to see that.
Those who would erase the past usually have no stake in the future.**********
Consider these 'non-futurists'.
One noteworthy reality about Europe's current political leadership is summarised here by Phil Lawler:
• Macron, the newly elected French president, has no children.
• German chancellor Angela Merkel has no children.
• British prime minister Theresa May has no children.
• Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children.
• Holland's Mark Rutte,
• Sweden's Stefan Löfven,
• Luxembourg's Xavier Bettel,
• Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon — all have no children.
• Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has no children.
"So a grossly disproportionate number of the people making decisions about Europe's future have no direct personal stake in that future."
Christine “Chrissy” Archibald, a British Columbia native who went to university in Calgary before moving to Europe to be with her fiancé was identified Sunday as the lone Canadian victim in a terrorist attack in London.Dear Allah... feeling better now?
In what looked like a turning point in terror policy, the PM said “enough is enough” after the killers left seven dead by driving a van into crowds on London Bridge and going on a stabbing spree as they shouted “this is for Allah”.Hmmm... good news or bad news?
"British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday that police had recently foiled five other plots."**********
"As I recall the actual British response to the 'Blitz' was not Keep Calm and Carry On - but building as many aircraft as they could and bombing German cities with them."**********
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a Canadian was among those killed in Saturday night’s terror attack in London.That's funny... you couldn't get him to shut up after the Quebec mosque shooting.
In a written statement released Sunday, Trudeau says the government will not be commenting further out of respect for the family.
"I have the extraordinary privilege of representing the community of Montreal, the riding of Papineau, that is one of the two most lucky ridings of Quebec, because we have the highest number of Muslim Canadians living in the riding."The Paris Hilton of Canadian politics yet again.
“Thanks to Allah, thank you, thanks to Allah, Allah is great, thanks to Allah from faith that he will make his promise reality and give victory to the faithful. Allah will bless the lions. Allah will bless the lone wolves. Allah will reward you as long as you run over and stab these infidels in the depths of their countries. Put fear into their eyes, increase your hits, increase your attacks, don’t let them feel secure in their countries.”
London Bridge attack: Terror incident leaves up to seven feared dead after van ploughs into pedestrians ‘before three men with hunting knives jump out and start stabbing people.’It now looks like two confirmed attacks...
Up to seven people were feared dead and 20 hurt in the 10pm attack – amid a second incident at nearby Borough Market which armed police are responding to.
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed a third incident in the Vauxhall area.
The force initially said they were also responding to a reported third incident, in the Vauxhall area of London. But they said later that turned out to be an unrelated stabbing.**********
A Borough Market witness identified only as Ben told the BBC: "We saw people running away and then I saw a man in red with a large blade, at a guess 10 inches long, stabbing a man, about three times.**********
A Borough Market witness identified only as Ben told the BBC: "We saw people running away and then I saw a man in red with a large blade, at a guess 10 inches long, stabbing a man, about three times.
One woman said she saw three people with what appeared to be their throats cut on London Bridge amid reports that at least seven people have been stabbed, leaving bodies ‘strewn’ on the road in central London. One of the casualties is reportedly a police officer.Six people now confirmed dead. Courtesy of armed response police officers, all three terrorists are off to nirvana to claim their 72 virgins. Dozens of other people have been injured. That's one bloodthirsty deity.
02:00 BST – London Mayor Sadiq Khan releases statement... "Khan, who said last September that the threat of terror attacks is just “part and parcel of living in a big city,” just released a statement acknowledging Saturday’s attacks were acts of terror."**********
No Justin..."awful news" is crumpling a fender on your car. Awful news is not noticing you poured curdled milk in your morning coffee.
This week, Arizona man Sean Corbett won an important victory for his proud, storied religion. The member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster successfully attained a state driver’s license while wearing a colander on his head.**********
Last month, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it will officially recognize a large host of small religions, including Humanism, Heathen, and even the Church of the Spiral Tree.
Employees at Warren Food Market on 10 Mile Road near Ryan Road said they saw the man loading the beef in the cart, and the $800 worth of beef is in their freezer. Sources told Local 4 the meat hadn’t been inspected by the USDA and came from a facility that isn’t federally licensed.Yeah, I'm sure the floor of that van gets mopped out on a regular basis.
“I don’t think it is a big deal,” said Nazem Saad of Nazem Saad Halal Meat.
WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) - When 7 Action News asked meat distributor Nazem Saad where he disposed of $800 worth of raw meat, he told us it was none of our business.Naz seems to have more than one problem here...
One witness who works near the Warren market says this is the second time in three weeks that he's seen raw meat dumped into shopping carts to take into the store.
When asked if he often transports meats in vehicles that are not refrigerated, Saad became upset and said if the delivery is close, it should not be an issue.
The Ontario Ministry of Finance report projects the new minimum wage hike will kill an estimated 80,000 to 155,000 jobs just among young workers aged 15 to 24, without even counting the number of jobs lost to older workers.Bribing voters with their grandkids money... a time-tested Liberal strategy.
The federal budget watchdog says the government’s multibillion-dollar effort to replace the navy’s warship fleet is now on track to cost taxpayers 2.4 times more than first expected.Maybe Justin can use all the money he's saving by messing up the new fighter jet program.
Ottawa launched a competition last fall asking some of the world’s largest defence and shipbuilding companies to design a potential replacement for the navy’s 12 frigates and three destroyers.
Manila hotel shooting – ‘ISIS’ gunmen storm hotel in Philippines capital leaving several people injured amid fears Brits are caught up in attack**********
MANILA — Thirty-six bodies were found at the biggest hotel-casino in the Philippines after a gunman carrying a container of gasoline set fires and touched off a mass panic — hours after the authorities said that only the assailant had died.Don't wanna frighten away all those tourist dollars.
MONTREAL - Parents at the private Montreal Christian academy attended by Karla Homolka’s children say school officials brushed off concerns about the schoolgirl killer interacting with their children. Homolka has been sending her own three children to the private, Seventh-day Adventist Greaves Academy since September.But this isn't really about people's feelings... it's supposed to be about the law...
The now 47-year-old convicted serial killer has been volunteering at the school – and reportedly supervised kindergarten children during a field trip in March.
I thought it was a hoax,” Andy Maraj, whose daughter attends Grade 3 with one of Homolka’s children, told the Montreal Gazette. Maraj said he started discussing Homolka’s presence with other parents in April, and on May 2, he received a letter that he would not be welcomed back in September.
Stéphanie Deligne, whose daughter attends Grade 4 at the school and is in a class with one of Homolka’s children, said she would have liked to have been informed about the situation. Deligne was told that she too would have to find another school in September. “The administration told me I am being too critical,” she said.
Under Quebec law, volunteers at elementary schools are supposed to undergo criminal background checks before interacting with students.So what is the deal here?
As reported by the Canadian Press, Mulcair feels Homolka has “paid her debt” and suggests it’s time to leave her alone.I guess in Dipperland, the first three teenage girls murdered are deductible.
MONTREAL — A private Montreal elementary school is moving to quell public fears following media reports about Karla Homolka doing some volunteer work there. The school, which is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, says it won’t allow anyone with a criminal record to volunteer in any capacity on school grounds.Well, there's a concession... they won't allow serial killers to volunteer at their school anymore.
Tim Danson, a lawyer who represents the French and Mahaffy families, said Wednesday it was a “kick in the gut” for the families to hear reports of Homolka seemingly living a normal life with her husband and children.
