Enough pussy-footin' around

It's time to go to Plan B. -- GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- South Korea and relatives of 21 kidnapped Koreans appealed for U.S. help Tuesday, but Afghanistan said for the first time it will not release insurgent prisoners — the Taliban's key demand to free the captives.Ok, Hamid... that's a good start, but here's the rest of the scenario.You take that list of prisoners the Taliban gave you... and after...

This is Canada

We don't punish the "children", we cherish them... even when they're making plans to blow us to pieces.Don't worry though... there are some pretty harsh "release restrictions" under their "peace bond"... you know, like... * No communication with other suspects in the case * They must report twice a month to police * They must surrender their Canadian passports * They must seek counseling...

House of Wax

I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to sleep tonight.The web site's "retouched" shots of children range from slightly eerie -- cartoon-like skin tones and glassy stares -- to OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT THING? A doll? A robot? A zombie? A zombie robot doll, designed to kill its parents in their sleep and send all their money to an offshore bank account?Ok... take a few deep breaths and CLI...

Talk about a failing grade

You've just gotta love Canada's own version of La-La land. -- VANCOUVER -- There are so many people in B.C. scamming Canada's foreign student-visa program - from bogus students to shady schools - that authorities can only investigate about five per cent of the cases, according to an internal government report obtained by CanWest News Service.Uh, guys... I think I've found the problem here.While...

Warm, cuddly panda...

Shite... the perfect metaphor for China's economic miracle. -- BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) -- A Chinese wildlife research centre has come up with a novel idea to profit from panda poo -- make Olympic souvenirs out of it.Researchers at the centre in Chengdu, capital of mountainous Sichuan province, had sculpted photo frames, bookmarks, fans and panda statues out of the 300 tonnes of the stuff produced...

Toronto Gangbanger murders...

Claim another innocent victim...Concerns about the "sinister uses" of guns in society have prompted University of Toronto officials to rid the campus of its 88-year-old sport shooting range, despite its continued popularity and spotless safety record."In today's world, even the perception of tolerance of guns and gun violence is seen as a negative," said Catherine Riggall, the university's vice-president...

Just the facts ma'am

Another piece of stellar reportage by Toronto's Red Star, entitled... "Driver dies after clash with police."The loaded headline imputes that police officers killed the woman... but that isn't what happened at all. Who, besides Toronto Mayor David Miller actually pays for a subscription to this leftbot rag?**********UPDATE: Let's try a real newspaperThe boyfriend called police shortly after 6 p.m....

Ontario Liberals ponder ban...

On birthday parties...Police have issued a Canada-wide-warrant for a 28-year-old who is wanted for second-degree murder after a man was stabbed Saturday morning.Police are looking for Vimalathas Mohanarajah after they found Ajiganth Mahalingam wounded in an apartment building shortly before 6:30 a.m. The 27-year-old was allegedly stabbed after a dispute erupted at a birthday party -- and police said...

There's bad news and there's...

Bad news.New Canadian research shows that the presence of trans fats in the blood system can also mess with the heart's rhythm, worsening the severity of a heart attack and jacking up the likelihood of death."It's like a double whammy," said Peter Light, a researcher at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in Edmonton and lead author of the study.The new study, published in the European Molecular...

An Islamic ruling...

I can live with...Singapore's Muslims should be treated as willing organ donors when they die, the country's Islamic authority says. The ruling will remove their exemption from a law allowing doctors to remove the heart, kidneys or liver of a body.As with all other Singaporeans, Muslims will be able to opt out of the donation scheme while they are alive.This is definitely something we need to be...

Better late than never

Even terrorist cells can't keep a secret forever...We went into the jungle (of British Columbia). There we joined a dynamite stick with a battery and triggered off a blast. Lakhbir and Inderjit, even at that time, had in their minds a plan to blast an aeroplane. I was not too keen on this plan but agreed to arrange for the dynamite sticks.Also interesting is the alleged targeted killing of Talwinder...

Same planet, different worlds

The last known surviving British soldier to have fought in the trenches of World War I has revisited the site where he fought 90 years ago.Harry Patch, 109, from Somerset, made the trip to Belgium to recall his part in the Battle of Passchendaele which claimed 250,000 British casualties.And don't be deceived... Harry's no one trick pony.Britain's last veteran of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch,...

Politically Correct Silence Kills

What will it take to stop the madness?"Why are we living like this, like animals, just shooting down one another?"Not everybody in the black community is afraid to say it... and that's a start.If no one is willing to admit what the problem is here... nothing will ever be done to fix things.UPDATE: ...

Taking aim at farmers and collectors

While these guys run amok.Across the street, the young woman who works in her father's gas station has been robbed at gunpoint more times than she can count. Her brother has been stabbed twice. Six years ago, a cop was shot next door.Let's just blame the guns... cos' going after actual criminals is such hard work.**********RELATED: Enough fiberal smoke and mirrorsIt's too late to play silly games...

Carnival of Pissed Off Pinkos...

Supports Shawn Brant's unrepentant thuggery and theft...Buzz Hargrove, Maude Barlow and an array of academics have signed their names to a declaration in support of Mohawk land claims and the occupation of a Deseronto quarry.Signatories include Ismail Zayid, president of the Canada Palestine Association; Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees; Amanda Aziz, national...

Dalton's friends playing hardball

Silly me... Ontario schools are making students flog candy bars to family and friends to raise money for school supplies... we haven't had a family doctor since we moved six years ago... and Dalton McGuinty is doling out unsolicited cash for new cricket pitches. -- TORONTO -- The head of the Ontario Cricket Association said it should not have to return any of the $1-million grant it received from...

You can trust me... I'm a journalist

-- "These pilots, they are very professional. They combine the skills of pilots and skills as journalists." -- See, if that were factually correct... even just the first part... these guys wouldn't be applesauce.Journalists, like politicians, care about ratings, not facts... and especially not about safe...

Screw academics & a work ethic

Just tell me a good story...Antoine, who is African-American, will begin his senior year in September at his large, predominantly black and low-income high school just outside Washington. He had come to Howard for an intense four-day workshop in the complex process he will have to master if he is to fulfill his aspirations of upward mobility: applying to college.The workshop is intended to help them...

Size does matter

Especially when this jumped-up tuna can french kisses a bridge abutment... or a gravel truck. -- TOKYO -- Tiny, cheap and super fuel-efficient, minicars are essentially motorcycle-sized engines on four wheels. But demand for these runty runabouts is anything but petite. Last year, minicars racked...

Calling Taliban Jack

If we cut and run in Afghanistan... dropping the shithammer on all this can be on your tiny vestige of a conscience.**********RELATED: Losing the propaganda warWhy is it NATO has to meticulously "investigate and prove" everything before catching the tiniest break... but the enemy simply has to hop around screaming "war crimes" and the media jumps in with both feet?NATO and Afghan troops clashed...

32 million dollars doesn't go as far...

As it used to... but Dalton McGuinty takes a page out of the "Ferdinand Marcos Guide to Savvy Political Spending"... to get maximum bang for OUR TAXPAYER bucks...Auditor-General Jim McCarter said in a report released today that the process used to hand out $32-million in grants in the past two years was "not open, transparent or accountable."“In essence, the decisions behind ‘who got what' were often...

No soup for you!!!

Reminiscent of a landmark episode of Seinfeld, here's a somewhat surrealistic moment in Canadian politics... wherein the Fiberals, Dippers and the Bloc-heads team up to piss all over our aboriginal brothers. -- OTTAWA -- The three opposition parties have formed a united front to block the Conservative government's quest to pass a law that would make the Indian Act subject to the federal human...

Gone, but not forgotten

While 11 year-old Ephraim Brown has been getting the lion's share of the ink & symapthy... Sean "Juice" James was also murdered last weekend... and his friends have come together to immortalise him...My personal favourite here is..."juice and denver brothers from another mother fo real"You get a...

Wanna see a liberal master strategist...

Try to make things better? -- M.C. -- Didn't Randy Hillier's organization threaten to kill/harm/maim (MPP) Leona Dombrowsky? So isn't any woman who stands on stage with him a self-hating misogynist?Hey Warren... keep digging.**********RELATED: Speaking of plans and mice and men...An eagerly anticipated auditor general's report into year-end government grants to ethnic groups with alleged Liberal...

Brave jihadis strike another blow...

For Allah...Two bomb attacks have killed at least 50 people and injured 135 in Baghdad as crowds celebrated a famous victory by the national football team.Thousands had gathered on the streets of Baghdad, dancing and chanting in a rare moment of national unity.Way to go guys. What's tomorrow's objective... a children's dance recit...

For anyone who has problems with...

Our horribly unfair, draconian Canadian society, you might want to take note here...Legislators in the Indonesian province of Papua are debating whether to approve a bill allowing microchips to be implanted in people with HIV.The measure has been put forward as a way of preventing the spread of HIV in the Indonesian province. About 2.4% of Papuans are known to be carrying the virus, and infection...

Wanna see blatant media bias?

The Globe leads with a story implying the Harper government is blackmailing their own staffers to contribute money to the party... with a huge emphasis on how everyone is enraged at the allegedly coerced tithing...Senior political staff in the Harper government say they have been asked to donate $1,000 to the Conservative Party, a move that has sparked resentment among some of the most stalwart supporters...

If the Liberals really want...

To do something about gun crime... why are they stalling this legislation in the Senate?Bill C-10, An Act to amend the Criminal Code to provide a five-year minimum sentence for crimes committed with a deadly weapon.Bill C-35, an Act to amend the Criminal Code to require reverse onus in bail hearings for firearm-related offences.**********UPDATE: No more liberal hypocrisy -- TORONTO -- The federal...

You mean, taking gopher rifles...

Away from farmers isn't gonna solve the problem?Does this mean we get our two billion dollars back?Ephraim Brown wasn't shot because someone didn't lock up his gun properly. Neither was Jordan Manners, or any other kid who's been shot lately.And yet, we've still got politicians pandering to white middle-class sensibilities with talk of tightening the gun registry. Better that than demonizing the people...

If Michael Bryant put as much energy...

Into doing his job properly... as he did trying to "ban", for instance, dogs and handguns... there'd be a few less bodies littering the streets...Witness the Ephraim Brown shooting...The two men, just out of their teens, have a history of criminal charges. In Mr. Eubank's case, those charges include weapons offences, allegations he assaulted a police officer and, on one occasion, eight counts of failing...

Root causes, my pampered Ph.D ass

Sometimes you just have to let the data run free... and follow it the best that you can...All in all, the research that professor Krueger gathers together suggests that if there is a link between poverty, education, and terrorism, it is the opposite of the one popularly assumed. Apparently, contrary to the popular perception of the downtrodden revolutionary of humble beginnings... there is a thriving...

Hold the presses...

I'm guessing Taliban Jack will be crawling out from under his rock momentarily. -- KABUL (AP) -- NATO said six of its soldiers were killed during combat operations in Afghanistan on Monday, including four by a roadside bomb in the east where U.S. troops are based.It's what he does best.**********UPDATE: Wanna see some more willfully blind?Here's the taxpayer funded propaganda ministry... the...

So let's call for a ban on cars...

Every time a drunk crushes a pedestrian...Akiel Eubank, 21, was arrested Sunday night and faces a charge of first degree murder, police said at a news conference Monday morning.He is "extremely well known to the Toronto police as an active gang member," said Sgt. Gary Giroux, who added he is "confident" more arrests will be made.You really think taking guns away from perfectly legal target shooters...

They call him "Steffi Stumbles"

Outremont, in Montreal, is considered a safe Liberal riding. Perfect for parachuting in a female or minority candidate.So who does Dion appoi...

Pandering yet again

There have been laws against possessing unregistered handguns since the 1930's... and I'm pretty sure nobody has recently repealed the laws regarding murder... so what exactly is this idiot yammering about now? -- TORONTO -- Toronto Mayor David Miller called Sunday for tougher gun laws after a spate...

What goes up...

I'm guessing physics isn't a big favourite in Iraqi schools...At least two people have been killed in Baghdad by gunshots fired to celebrate the Iraqi football team's quarter-final victory in the Asian Cup, police say.At least 15 people were wounded when football fans fired weapons in the air across the Iraqi capital after their team beat Vietnam 2-0 in Bangkok.Apparently in Iraq, simply cheering...

Cats are from Venus

Somebody's been eating out of the litterbox again...More screwball logic from the woman who brought you the Top Ten List of the Smartest Canadian Female Bloggers, for which, incidentally... she nominated herself.This time Libnip decided to get up on the porch at the Doggerel Party. Needless to say, Clive and the Corgis ate her lunch.Relativism is a necessary tool for any left-winger, because it's...

Reading, writing and...

Ripping people to pieces... Italian police have raided a mosque and disrupted a "school for terror."Police in central Italy say they have uncovered a bomb school for Islamist militants after raiding a mosque in Perugia and making three arrests. Evidence of training in explosives and poisons, and instructions on flying a Boeing 747 were reportedly found. They seized the imam and two other men, all...

Look out, it's Franken-tato!

If you're thinking of sending Igor out to find a brain anytime soon... you'd better not live in Europe.Only 1 percent of the world's genetically modified food is grown in Europe. There's a number that just stopped me in my tracks. Perhaps turning the world clock back to the middle ages is a more popular idea in some parts of the world than I imagined.In contrast, 55 percent of the world's acreage...

Evidence...

We don't need no steenkin' evee-dence.(via S...

Calling all CUPE dolls

No one is denying that the day to day situation in the Palestinian territories is an absolute and total mess...With 47 per cent of the potential Palestinian labour force unemployed and a per capita income 23 times less than that of Israel, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) has a difficult enough job.What I don't understand, is how all the loony leftbot Hamas cheerleaders in...

Unlike many of its neighbours...

India chooses to let the clock run forwards. -- NEW DELHI (AP) -- India elected Pratibha Patil as the country's first female president Saturday in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination.The election of a woman to the largely ceremonial post continues an Indian tradition using the presidency to bolster disadvantaged communities.Hindu-majority...

Taiwan...

And the 500 pound gorilla.Taiwan has submitted its first formal application to join the United Nations, a government spokesman has said.The Chinese foreign ministry immediately dismissed the move, saying it was "doomed to failure". Gotta love the chutzpah here.China, as always, never fails to rise to the occasion..."It is the sacred responsibility of the Chinese armed forces to stop the 'Taiwan independence'...

Shutting down the big city...

Or, how David Miller is saving Toronto...Transit commissioners will hold an emergency meeting today to look at shutting down the $1-billion Sheppard subway line and boosting the cost of a token by as much as a quarter.Mayor David Miller said the cash-strapped TTC has no choice but to look at taking extreme measures because city council this week voted to put off until Oct. 22 a decision on whether...

Kidnapping's such a harsh word

Let's just call it "mandatory hospitality". -- Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters have seized about 20 Koreans aboard a bus on the road from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan to capital Kabul. A Taliban spokesman said on Friday that 18 Koreans - 15 women and three men - were being held "as guests". Said Yousuf Ahmadi, speaking by phone, said: "They are safe with us, we are investigating them and our...