Paging Taliban Jack

Hey, Jacko... you think you can negotiate with these guys... let's start with an easy one... our putative allies...

-- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A Saudi newspaper says religious police have arrested 21 allegedly homosexual men and confiscated large amounts of alcohol.

Al-Medina daily says the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which employs the religious police, was told Friday of a large gathering of young men at a rest house in Qatif, in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Homosexuality is seen as a sin in Islam and prohibited in Saudi Arabia and most other Muslim nations. In the conservative kingdom, the offence can be punished by flogging or prison.

You fix that one... AND THEN we'll talk about you negotiating with the people we're at war with, ok?

I'll be waiting for your report.

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It's not, as you might guess...

...an Elmore Leonard crime thriller...

Two men appeared in court in Windsor Thursday on attempted murder charges in connection with the weekend shooting of Lucky Suites.

Gytteau Nerestant, 29, and Yvenel Billy, 23, both of Toronto, were arraigned Thursday.

It's just another day in Dalton McSlippery's "no such thing as a bad boy" Ontario.

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From Deseronto to Beijing

I bet you never knew infamous spokes-native Shawn Brant had Olympic aspirations...

Brant jumped out of his car, grabbed a six-foot-long fishing spear from the rear seat and ran towards the altercation, Lalonde said.

"His eyes were crazy-looking ... he was in a rage," he said, adding Brant ran up to the scene yelling "'Is it on? Is it on?'" Brant, he said, held the spear only a few feet away from his face, "and at that point, I knew it was time for us to get out of there.

"There was no doubt in my mind he would have stabbed me with it ... he had a crazy look in his eye." As he retreated to his truck, Lalonde said other protesters from up the road were arriving at the scene. "I told Michael to get in his truck and leave, which we did ... we left pretty quickly, of course."

As the two trucks sped away, Brant threw the fishing spear at Lalonde's truck like a javelin thrower, he recalled.

The spear struck the rear tailgate of his vehicle, he added.

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C'mon, sheeple...

Just wake up... and smell the jihad...

You know what is the really sobering thing about that ongoing terror trial in Brampton?

It's not even the hate, chiefly for Jews and Americans, that one of the group leaders preached at the drop of a hat and the top of his lungs with almost magnificently ungrammatical, near-illiterate, Koran-ignorant hysteria.

It's that he felt so free to preach it.

It's that he felt comfortable enough to hand out jihadist CDs outside at least one Toronto mosque and to occasionally turn up in combat fatigues at another.

It's that he giddily talked to one of his alleged co-conspirators about the obligation to kill Jews whenever one finds them.

It's that the leadership of the group regularly met at a half-dozen mosques in the GTA, usually on Fridays, the day of communal prayer.

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Farmers, hunters...

And Olympic target shooters... totally off the hook... AGAIN.

"It came out of a gun shop in Chicago and it was all part of a shipment of 237. We had one and then, poof, we had another one."

From that trace was born Project Blackhawk, which ended Thursday with the arrests of 36 people -- the key members of the alleged ring -- facing a total of 443 charges, and the seizure of 83 firearms over the two-year investigation. The number of seized firearms was more than police initially reported.

Since the initial two guns appeared, others belonging to Yildiz began appearing on GTA streets, including four taken from members of the Point Blank Soldiers, a Regent Park based gang.

Another handgun from the Chicago collection was recovered during the recent Project Kryptic raids, which targeted a Crips gang in North York.

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The Gift of Fear

Speaking of weakness, how ‘bout those Liberals?

When the best news were byelection wins by Bob Rae and Martha Hall Findlay, both considered leadership contenders as soon as Stéphane Dion loses the next election, it's a grim scenario.

Having backed away from repeated government invitations to trigger an election -- the Throne Speech, budget, Afghan mission extension, crime bills, immigration amendments and even footdragging by the Senate -- the Liberals have opted to spend the summer campaigning for a carbon tax instead of their own mandate.

In doing so, they've surrendered the best scenario for gaining ground to hopes that an economic downturn in the fall will backlash against the government, a rather morbid plan.

Oh yeah... congratulations to Stephen Harper on achieving the longest minority reign since the election of 1921.

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Flat, black and glows in the dark

Israel has carried out an exercise that appears to have been a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, US officials have told the New York Times.

"They wanted us to know, they wanted the Europeans to know, and they wanted the Iranians to know," a Pentagon official is quoted as saying by the newspaper. "There's a lot of signalling going on at different levels."

The helicopters and refuelling tankers flew more than 1,400km (870 miles), roughly the distance between Israel and Iran's main uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.

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RELATED: In other "kicking jihadi ass" news

Afghan government officials took reporters to see piles of rotting corpses, some that were missing limbs. Officials said 56 Taliban died in the fighting, along with two Afghan soldiers and one civilian.

You guys might wanna practice that uprising thing a little bit.

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GOOG-411

Don't know where to find the closest pizza parlour? No access to a computer or a phone book?

Just call Google. Let them figure it out.

Today Google Inc. launched a Canadian version of its voice-recognition local search phone service GOOG-411. Canada becomes the first country outside the U.S. to gain access to the service.

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It's not really a tax

Just think of it as a "pollution premium"...

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is changing his tune about federal leader Stephane Dion’s carbon tax plan.

McGuinty, who had vetoed the idea of a carbon tax in Ontario, now says he “likes the sound” of Dion’s plan, which was unveiled Thursday.

Yeah... imagine my surprise.

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RELATED: Libs blast "hurtful language"

After previously labelling Mr. Dion's plan “insane” and “crazy,” Mr. Harper continued to firebomb the Liberal proposal with indelicate language.

“The carbon tax plan is like the national energy program in the sense that the national energy program was designed to screw the West and really damage the energy sector — and this will do those things,” Harper told a small crowd in Saskatoon.

“This is different in that this will actually screw everybody across the country.”

Indelicate language!!!

Quick... call the CHRC!!!

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Uptight straights...

...spoiling everybody's fun... yet again...

-- PROVINCETOWN -- It's a slow week in the northern territory of the Cape Cod National Seashore when a man with a yellow towel flashing passers-by is the sole complaint about public sex acts.

(h/t wonderwoman)

Quick, Mayor Super Dave...

...lets go raid the nearest gunclub...

Vimos, who works as a spray-painter, said he can't help but feel angry because his car is the last place he would have expected to have to dodge bullets.

"I just have to thank God, I've been given another chance," said Vimos, surrounded by his wife, their two grown children and two young grandkids -- loved ones who just as easily could have been planning his funeral yesterday.

It's the third time this year an innocent bystander has been struck by a stray bullet, but the other two men did not survive.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

It never ends.

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Parental Rorschach Test

So put yourself in this father's shoes and try figure out what you would do.

-- Nelson, Lancashire -- A teenager has been jailed for three years after his father told police he had found bullets in his son's bedroom.

His father discovered 11 bullets in the room and called the police - who also found a handgun under the bed.

Is it a hard decision... or is it easy?

What does that say about you?

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Or, my friend Amir...

...and I'm relying on Occam's Razor here... it could just be you're a really shitty driver...

Taxi driver Amir Ebrahimi said yesterday that cops harass cabbies because they speak English poorly and have no union.

"They don't care about us; they know we are landed immigrants," said the Iranian-born cabbie of 16 years.

"If we were Canadian, they would be nice to us. They don't like us."

Geez, buddy... that sounds pretty horrible...but if you really, really believe that... maybe you'd be better off grabbing the next flight to kindly, progressive, all-embracing Tehran.

Yeah... that's what I thought.

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RELATED: Here's a thought...

...maybe he can call a social worker.

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How much money would they save...

...if they just fired all these "analysts"?

The analysts had to also estimate how often people with disabilities play miniature golf and whether they would go more often if courses were more wheelchair-friendly.

Then they needed to determine how much time those golfers would save via the new requirements. (According to the DoJ, about 7.2 minutes per visit.)

Finally, they calculated how much the miniature-golfers would benefit—in total, about $485 million worth over 40 years. The same logic can be applied to figure the benefits of more accessible fishing piers, bowling alleys, and ATMs.

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Do they really not get it...

...or do they just not care?

"It is increasingly obvious these commissions were set up deliberately to lower the standard of proof and get around rules of natural justice, thereby ensuring people who would never be convicted in court are punished to the satisfaction of the activists and special interest groups that hover around the tribunals."

(via bcf)

Talk about chump change

I've got an idea... let's have a little debate about the two billion plus dollars the Fiberals pissed away on the "Farmer Bob Rifle Registry."

“We have been told that federal correctional officials estimate they will increase the sentenced population by 1,000 prisoners per year,” the judge said in an interview.

It costs about $80,000 a year to keep a penitentiary inmate, so the additional burden of those on mandatory minimum sentences multiplies out to $80-million.

Help me out here... what's the cost of letting a thousand extra criminals run around for a year?

You could ask the families of Dylan Ellis and Oliver Martin.

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RELATED: Or you could ask these folks...

Two suspects are in police custody after a home invasion in which an elderly Halton couple were beaten, bound and robbed at gunpoint.

The victims, both in their 80s, returned to their trailer home just west of Campbellville on Monday night to find two men inside.

The men, one of whom was armed with a .22-calibre rifle, assaulted the victims, tied them up with a rope and left them in the trailer before stealing their van and personal items including identification and credit cards, police said.

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The real reason...

Aboriginal land claims take years and years to hammer out...

Calling the federal government's policy "unacceptable to the Mohawk nation," the Chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte has halted negotiations into the Culbertson Tract land claim.

R. Donald Maracle told The Intelligencer Wednesday his band has arranged an emergency meeting with Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl next week to voice its displeasure over how the claim is unfolding.

Hot on the heels of the Mohawks pulling out of the Caledonia negotiations.

Oh, the wily white man.

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Speaking of "ludicrous"

So Chief... what you're saying is the first twenty-nine arrests are deductible?

-- VANCOUVER -- Saying his city is plagued by a "ludicrous" trend that sees career criminals released back onto the streets despite dozens of convictions, Vancouver's police chief is calling for a 30-strikes-and-you're-out policy for the worst chronic offenders.

Settle down there, Buford... you wanna take us back to the "dark ages"?

(h/t reader rich)

Well... at least we know...

...what side they're on.

-- HAMILTON -- Hamilton's gay pride festival says it banned the Canadian military this year over alleged human rights violations around the world.

Festival organizers say they banned the military this year because they received a complaint from a new Canadian who feared the military because of previous persecution by soldiers.

Uh, guys... wouldn't this sorta be like banning African immigrants... because you're afraid of Robert Mugabe?

Just askin'.

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RELATED: How come we're always playin' defense?

"A prime minister for our times would recognize that, while he’s saying sorry for residential schools, his entire country is being turned into a residential school."

"He’d notice the censorious state’s intrusions into contemporary life under the pretext of 'public hygiene' or 'human rights'."

"He’d apologize for the cultural arrogance of Canada’s hate - or health-police trying to tell editors what to put into their periodicals, clergymen into their sermons, or parents into their mouths."

(via shaidle)

Why is this a surprise...

...to so many folks?

Out in BC... the government helps junkies shoot heroin... and they're reportedly looking into state-subsidised whorehouses. In recent years, everything we thought we knew about the institution of marriage has been flushed down the toilet.

Why wouldn't Quebec try to take over raising your kids for you?

-- OTTAWA -- If you deny your children access to TV or withhold their allowance, can they take you to court? And win?

That implausible scenario emerged after a judge in Gatineau, Que., sided with a 12-year-old girl who challenged her father after he refused to let her go on a school trip for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet.

If we, the people, are willing to let them get away with stuff like this... we deserve whatever happens.

Fortunately, there are still people willing to fight this insanity.

Experts in family law and child welfare say they were dumbfounded by last Friday’s ruling by Superior Court Justice Suzanne Tessier.

The father, who is appealing the decision, was “devastated” by the ruling, Beaudoin said. He is refusing to take his daughter back “because he has no authority over her.”

We need that Conservative majority government now.

Let's turn back the madness.

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RELATED: Meanwhile, the Liberal-dominated senate...

...quietly puts the icing on the cake...

A proposed law that could see parents charged for spanking their children is heading to the House of Commons after clearing a major hurdle in the Senate.

The bill, supported by the Liberal majority, quietly passed third reading in the Senate on Tuesday night despite Conservative objections to the legislation.

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