FROM THE COMMENTS:

Kathy Griffin troubles me; WHO are her associates? WHO are her sponsors?

Has she ever traveled to RUSSIA? Has she ever HAD CONTACT with a RUSSIAN?

Hmmm... shouldn't there be a "trigger warning" attached to this photo shoot?

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RELATED: A decapitation too far?**********

UPDATE: As Sean Penn knows...

..."You never go 'full retard'"...

“CNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year’s Eve program,” the network’s communications department tweeted Wednesday morning.

ADT — the largest home security company in North America — announced it would pull its advertising from CNN over the photo, while the Route 66 Casino in Albuquerque, New Mexico announced it had cancelled Griffin’s upcoming performance, which had been scheduled for June 16.

Thus endeth the lesson.

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LAST WORD: Let's ask Dilbert

Persuasion-wise, Griffin’s photo was so over-the-line that I assume it ruined the movie for a lot of people following the anti-Trump script. The audience in Griffin’s movie just had a mirror held up to them. If they liked what they saw, they will stay in their seats. If they don’t like being the villains in their own movie, they might change the channel.

RamanDamnYou!!!

If middle-eastern Muslims weren't so busy slaughtering each other, us infidels would really be in trouble...

A powerful bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the centre of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, police said, killing at least 80 people, wounding hundreds and damaging embassy buildings, including Canada's.

Wednesday’s attack provided another clear demonstration that Ramadan, which began at the weekend, would provide little respite from the violence across Afghanistan.

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RELATED: Sunni Ways

Two blasts ripped through the Iraqi capital of Baghdad just days into the holy month of Ramadan, killing at least 27 people and wounding more than 100. ISIL claimed the first and deadliest suicide car bomb attack, which took place shortly after midnight at a busy ice cream parlour in Karrada, killing at least 16 people and injuring at least 75 - with children among the victims.

Scenes of panic and carnage followed the explosion in the Shia district, where last July ISIL bombed close to 300 people to death in the worst attack in 13 years of war.

ISIL considers members of Iraq's Shia Muslim majority to be heretics and frequently carries out attacks against them.

Holy, holy, holy.

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LAST WORD: The way the bomb bounces...

The Palestinian Authority has paid out some NIS 4 billion — or $1.12 billion — over the past four years to terrorists and their families.

AKA Taxpayer dollars

Just one more thing to think about while you're sitting waiting for a doctor for 6 hours in that crowded hospital emergency room...

The whole giant rubber replica duck tour of Ontario is expected to cost about $200,000, Parrell says, 90 per cent of which will be covered by grants, most of them from the Ontario ministry of tourism, culture and sport.

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UPDATE: Is Ontario stealing artist's I.P.?

“I was shocked. They don’t have permission to show my duck again. And they are charging money for tickets. I want this rubber duck for the whole world to see. It is sad. They make it into this joke, but the rubber duck is not a joke. It is serious artwork which connects all people in the world.”

(via reader Rich)

So why the cultural appropriation?

Prof. Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet has a unique theory: Canadians can’t claim poutine as their own because at one point in their history, they initially made fun of the Quebecois who ate it.

That, in turn, lead, Fabien-Ouellet, says, to widespread “poutine stigma,” which, in turn, is responsible for the mass oppression of the French-identifying Canadian minority.

Who you gonna believe?

...the Canadian Medical Association... or the know-nothing celebutard spawn of a career politician who is looking to buy the vote of every college age kid in the country?

"Simply put, cannabis should not be used by young people. It is toxic to their cortical neuronal networks, with both functional and structural changes seen in the brains of youth who use cannabis regularly."

"The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has stated unequivocally that 'cannabis is not a benign substance and its health harms increase with intensity of use'."

Justin Trudeau lied about his projected multi-billion dollar deficits. He lied about switching to a "proportional representation" electoral system.

I could go on, but you get my drift... right?

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RELATED: The Liberal vote buying continues...

More remarkably, Liberal Health Minister Jane Philpott launched a consultation on raising the smoking age to 21 while at the same time arguing the legal age for marijuana should be 18.

Brought to you by the same folks...

...who just authorised another 70 million dollars for IVF for the "socially disenfranchised"...

Ontario Attorney General and Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi plans to propose legislation that would create “safe zones” around abortion clinics where protests and demonstrations would be banned.

Making babies... killing babies... what's the difference, huh, Kathleen?

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RELATED: Next up...

...Liberals pass new law prohibiting cancer...

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 29, 2017) - Working people from across Ontario have shared their lived experiences of insecurity, intimidation, precarity and poverty with the "Special" Advisors and with their MPPs.

While their struggle is reflected in some of the recommendations in the Changing Workplaces Review, legislation must go further to improve the lives of working Ontarians.

You've come a wrong way, Baby!

And all the black women will be sitting at the back of the theatre...

"Congratulations Alamo Drafthouse!!! You're fighting sexism with sexism!" stated another man to the New York theatre. "Way to make women look equal to men and vice versa by separating them."

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RELATED: Race crimes gone wrong...

...a continuing series...

"Protesters also put up signs that included language such as 'I’m sick of white tears' and 'Fuck your white complacency'.”

Perhaps, at some point, one of these incidents won't be a hoax.

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LAST WORD: Hunter College - The Final Solution

As of press time, “Abolition of Whiteness” does not appear to have been added to the list of courses that satisfy the “Pluralism and Diversity requirement,” though at least 30 other Women and Gender Studies courses are included, including one course on “Feminist Political Theory” and a special topics course on “body politics.”

I'm from the government...

...I'm here to save you...

Security service sources this week revealed that five terror plots were foiled between the Westminster attack in March, where Islamist Khalid Masood ran down a number of pedestrians and stabbed a police constable to death outside the Palace of Westminster, killing five, and the Manchester bombing.

And sources in government confessed there are at least 23,000 jihadists in Britain, after the public had been previously led to believe there were around 3,000 known jihadists, with 500 subject to active investigations led by MI5.

If guns really cause crime...

...mine must be defective...

The Crime Prevention Research Center has found that, in the United States, police are convicted of gun crime at a higher rate than concealed carry permit holders.

More stuff you'll never see...

...on Canada's national broadcaster...

“I was telling Steve Doocy on the way in here, if he knew what I knew about terrorism, he’d never leave the house in the morning,” Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Fox Television Friday. "It’s everywhere. It’s constant. It’s nonstop."

Coming soon...

...to a concert venue near you...

The arithmetic is not difficult: Poland and Hungary and Slovakia do not have Islamic terrorism because they have very little Islam.

France and Germany and Belgium admit more and more Islam, and thus more and more terrorism.

Yet the subject of immigration has been all but entirely absent from the current UK election campaign.

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RELATED: Justin decides to kiss up

Robbing Peter, then robbing Paul...

...then robbing...

TORONTO - Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to cut hydro bills by 25% comes with an electrifying price tag. A review by Ontario Financial Accountability Officer Stephen LeClair says the minimum cost is $45 billion, but that number could soar to anywhere between $69 billion and $93 billion if the Fair Hydro Plan is financed with borrowed money.

Killing free speech in Canada

“I’m not trying to win the argument; I’m trying to have the argument...”

Frances Widdowson, an associate professor in the department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary and co-author Albert Howard published a book entitled “Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation.”

The title gives you the drift of her position. Some members called her talk “hate speech” worthy of a Criminal Code investigation. One colleague asked if she’d “like to take it outside.”

Then and Now

They were aspiring adults and given as many responsibilities as they could handle within their range of competence, which was always shifting in the direction of more and more.

As opposed to that piddley-ass...

...no big deal "terrorist alert"...

I can't wait for the usual media suspects to start screaming about "Islamophobia"...

The UK is on a "critical terror alert" with military troops set to bolster police forces after the Prime Minster raised the threat level to its highest possible rating. Theresa May made the sombre announcement in a live television statement from Downing Street on Tuesday evening.

It means a terrorist attack is considered imminent. This is the first time in a decade that the assessment has been placed at the highest level. It has only been at critical twice in nearly 11 years - once in August 2006 and again in June 2007.

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RELATED: What is "Operation Temperer?"

Theresa May’s unprecedented decision to deploy up to 5,000 armed troops at key strategic sites makes her the first Prime Minister to use the new plan for a show of force in the face of major terrorist threats.

Mrs May announced that the police had asked for military support, and the Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon approved the request, meaning Operation Temperer is now in force for the first time.

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UPDATE: From the comments...

The father and younger brother of the Manchester Arena bomber have been arrested in Libya. The Telegraph understands Hashem Abedi, 20, the brother of suspected attacker Salman Abedi, was arrested last night in the capital Tripoli by counterterrorism forces on suspicion of links to the Islamic State group.

Three armed vehicles arrived to take away their father, Ramadan Abedi, an administrative manager of the Central Security Force in Tripoli, late Wednesday afternoon.

I'm guessing the Libyan security apparatus is layin' down a marker with the Donald.

When will they ever learn...

...when will they ever learn?

"The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for 23-year-old Salman Abedi's suicide bomb attack, which left 22 people dead, including children."

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UPDATE: The capricious and unknowable...

..."Will of Allah"...

Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos was killed in last night's devastating terror attack in Manchester, it has been confirmed.

I'll say it again... the "Will of Allah."

Hey, don't take my word for it...

A chilling message from an ISIS supporting group Yaqeen Media, said vehicle attacks will take place in the UK. It stated: “Today we fight you on our land, and tomorrow on your land, by Allah’s permission. “Soon, the vehicle attacks will be witnessed on your streets, by Allah’s permission.”

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IRONY ALERT: Ariana Grande... the awakening

"Even if you voted for Trump and are now quietly horrified at his broken promises and dangerous rhetoric, you are welcome here, and this is your march too."

I know what I'm horrified at... and it isn't the guy who has declared he will... ‘obliterate this evil ideology’.

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LAST WORD: Ask an educated, "moderate" Muslim...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan previously claimed terror attacks are “part and parcel” of living in a modern city such as London.

There's somebody you want in a position of responsibility.

Another double murder in Hogtown...

...must be Tuesday...

Toronto police are investigating a double homicide in the city’s east end. Officers were flagged down in the area of Logan Avenue and Gerrard Street East at around 11:50 p.m. and directed to a vehicle with a gravely injured man inside.

Investigators, with the assistance of the emergency task force, entered the home on Cavell Avenue and located the body of a female inside.

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UPDATE: Save one, forget the other...

...but don't call 911...

The first of the two deaths unfolded as the driver of a white Acura was attempting to drive his relative — a man in his 20s — to hospital. The investigation into the man’s shooting led police to the woman’s body in a Toronto Community Housing Corp. apartment at 96 Cavelle Ave., near Pape and Danforth Aves.

Surely, not the same "community housing" that city council is once again vowing to clean up.

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UPDATE2: Surprise, surprise

TORONTO - A man found mortally shot in a car in Leslieville late Monday has been identified as Abdiqani Abshir, 24.

The Dumbest Generation

In their never-ending pursuit of social justice, know-nothing college students burn the wrong witch yet again...

“'Lou Reed was a difficult and sometimes unpleasant person, but transphobic he was not,' Sounes said. 'Reed was a bisexual who had close friendships, and conducted love affairs with transgender men'.”

“They literally found a pro-trans song to be transphobic because it implied being trans is uncommon/unusual. Look at when the song was written for a little perspective.”

"In the mid-1970s, Reed was in what was essentially a marriage with a transgender person who went by both Ricky and Rachel."

Just another long weekend in...

...the center of the universe...

Armed with a double-barrelled sawed-off shotgun and a .40 calibre handgun, the shooters opened fire on a group of people nearby, Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said in a statement released Saturday.

“The man who was armed with the shotgun attempted to conceal it, at which point he discharged a round, striking himself in the leg,” Douglas-Cook alleged.

Police declined to say which Jane & Finch gun club these two geniuses belonged to.

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RELATED: Decidedly not Cirque de Soleil

She was minding her own business, walking next to the Eaton Centre.

Then from out of nowhere, a man ran up behind her, jumped into the air and drop-kicked her.

And the hits just keep on coming...

A Toronto man missing since December who was found dead last week near Peterborough was murdered, police say. Bayram Abolhassani-Larki, 19, was last seen near Front St. W. and John St. in Toronto on Dec. 12 at about 11 p.m.

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LAST WORD: Cultural Relativity

"Black Lives Matter might more accurately be named White Killers Matter, because it only seems to care about black lives that are ended by white people. And that, of course, is because Black Lives Matter isn’t about justice, but about racial agitation."

And...

"The number of concealed carry permits in the United States has topped 15 million over the last year, according to data collected by the Crime Prevention Research Center."

"That’s the largest one-year increase ever in the number of permits issued."

KEEP THAT MONEY TRAIN ROLLING

MURDERED, MISSING ABORIGINAL WOMEN IS A SCAM...

The chief commissioner of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls has admitted to a “poor communication strategy” in the wake of intense criticism about the inquiry’s progress.

The commission is also planning to ask for an extension, now that only one hearing is scheduled to take place before the fall.

RELATED: Catfished by the bureaucracy

Crucially for a prevailing stereotype related to the issue, nearly 90 per cent of murders of aboriginal women were solved, a rate that barely differed from that of non-aboriginal women (88 versus 89 per cent).

Of the 2,500 murdered aboriginal Canadians, murdered in Canada between 1982 and 2011, fully 71 per cent — 1,750 — were male, and 745 were female

Let face it... this is simply another government exercise in publicity...

The overall risk to Aboriginal women is about what you would infer from just combining the very high general Aboriginal exposure to lethal violence with the much reduced general female exposure to it.

No third, additional element of risk is apparent in the numbers: over the 1980-2012 period covered in the RCMP report, for example, StatsCan estimates that 14 per cent of all female murder victims were Aboriginal, but 17 per cent of male murder victims were.

The lack of a statistical smoking gun makes an emotional debate more complicated.

LAST WORD: Not a race thing at all

“The consolidated data from the nearly 300 contributing police agencies has confirmed that 70 per cent of the offenders were of aboriginal origin, 25 per cent were non-aboriginal, and five per cent were of unknown ethnicity.”

Note: In 62 per cent of the cases, aboriginal females who were victims of homicide were killed by a spouse, family member or intimate relation.