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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"What's that smokey, orange place in the picture and what does it have to do with Layton? It sure doesn't look like heaven."
"What's that smokey, orange place in the picture and what does it have to do with Layton? It sure doesn't look like heaven."
"Ontario Science Centre, hey!? It must have been a heated argument about evolution and the origin of man."Hmmm, lemme see... a bare-chested man walks up to a car on a busy Toronto street during evening rush hour... shoots a guy in the head... and all the reporters can yip about... is the "Science Centre"?
Toronto police said an 18-year-old man was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg in Etobicoke late Wednesday night.
The shooting happened on Windsor Road, near Dixon Road and Kipling Avenue, at around 11 p.m.
It is not clear whether the victim was the intended target and police say the man has not been co-operating with officers.
"For those that want a Reader's Digest version, the suit that Dr. Dawg / Ms. Mew brought against Mark and Connie was given summary judgement in favor of Mark and Connie and Mark and Connie were also awarded costs, so this little adventure in legal-land is going to end up costing Dawg some kibble."**********
"At the bottom of Page 3 and the top of Page 4 of the PDF it is revealed that Baglow started also posting as 'Ms. Mew' in an effort to support his primary alias, 'Dr. Dawg'."I get this all the time here at the Halls... a nonsensical taunt from some anony-bot calling himself, say... "Liberal Supporter"... is immediately backstopped by a slew of equally ridiculous anonymous trolls.
Officers investigating Jermaine Smith’s murder in the Jane St.-Scarlett Rd. area have interviewed up to 20 children “who were within 15 to 20 feet of the shooting,” he said.Man... I guess David Miller didn't fix Toronto's gun violence problem after all, huh?
As many as 150 people attended at varying times during the event in the Toronto Community Housing complex.
President Obama’s accused drunken-driving uncle — who was busted after a near collision with a Framingham cop — has had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya, the Herald has learned.Yup... that'd be the aunt living on social assistance, who recently had her own deportation order overturned.
Mike Rogers, a spokesman for Cleveland immigration attorney Margaret Wong, who is representing Onyango, said he “wouldn’t know how” Onyango obtained a Social Security number. Wong is the same lawyer who represented the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, in her fight to win asylum last year.
Reached at her apartment in a South Boston public housing complex yesterday, Zeituni Onyango said of her brother’s arrest: “Why don’t you go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., and ask your president? Not me.” She then hung up on a reporter.
-- "The group is part of the Raelian Movement, which was founded in 1974 by Rael, former French journalist Claude Vorilhon, who believes life on Earth was started by extra-terrestrial life."
"Lloyd is an icon, we couldn't be more proud of him and to be able to create this tribute to him is a real privilege."It's a privilege to "create this tribute?" Seriously?
" -- OTTAWA -- Those who WORK AROUND THE CLOCK stealing and selling stolen goods to fund their habit, are beginning to complain about the diminishing and dangerous quality of street crack."I ask you, folks... what's the point of all those shiny, new McGuinty-supplied crackpipes... if you can't get a quality product?
-- NEW YORK -- First responders will not be invited to this year’s 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero. That’s the word from city officials who say there isn’t enough room for the tens of thousands of firefighters, police and other rescue workers.Hells-bells... let's just blame Dick Cheney & MOSSAD... and move on.
"Somehow I doubt the response will be so overwhelming when the time comes for Harper (when he dies in office, as PM, at the age of 80)."And...
"Cancer kills roughly 560,000 people in North America every year, that's a city the size of Calgary, every year."
"Of those 560,000, by far the best and greatest was Jack Layton."
The letter is full of such sophistry as “We can restore our good name in the world” – as though it is a given that Canada has somehow lost that – as well as bumper-sticker slogans of the “love is better than anger” ilk and ruthlessly partisan politicking.Yeah, yeah... I know... I'm a soul-less troglodyte... but I'll gladly wear that label before I get danced around the room by seasoned political apparatchiks...
The letter was first presented as Layton’s last message to Canadians, as something written by him on his deathbed. Only later was it more fully described as having been “crafted” with party president Brian Topp, Layton’s chief of staff Anne McGrath and his wife and fellow NDP MP Olivia Chow.It doesn't hurt any that they've got the full, grab your ankles co-operation of virtually all of the national media. You don't wanna squander that moment.
Police have identified the woman who was fatally shot early Saturday morning in North York. Pamela Ariza, 25, of Toronto was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot once in the back.
Another woman was taken to hospital after being shot in the knee, Toronto police said.
"How utterly cruel you are... an inherently disrespectful nature... say a kind word or too(sic), or otherwise to shut up about the man... makes you a jerk... YOU...ARE...DISGUSTING... Unshackled by outdated, useless ideals of civility... I initially said 'douche' instead of 'jerk'... you're kind of being a jerk... Pretty subhuman... you just shit your pants."Meanwhile... on the other side of the great divide...
"I see that Layton's 'love letter to Canada' is currently dominating the news cycle, and frankly, I'm dreading the fawning cliches that will be rebroadcast every fifteen minutes until the day after his funeral."*********
A group of the biggest commercial banks last year asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep at least some Fed borrowings secret. Even as the firms asserted in news releases or earnings calls that they had ample cash, they drew Fed funding in secret, avoiding the stigma of weakness.
As the crisis deepened, the Fed relaxed its standards for acceptable collateral. Typically, the central bank accepts only bonds with the highest credit grades, such as U.S. Treasuries.
By late 2008, it was accepting “junk” bonds, those rated below investment grade. It even took stocks, which are first to get wiped out in a liquidation.
-- In 1987, at age 18, Jhatu pleaded guilty to the contract murder of Matsqui, B.C., resident Ranjit Toore. Jhatu beat Toore to death, doused her body in gasoline and set it ablaze after being hired to commit the murder by Toore's husband.It gets better.
In 2004, Jhatu convinced the National Parole Board to release him from prison on the understanding he would voluntarily leave the country.Oh my goodness... he lied? Who could've possibly seen that coming?
Chris Petrie, 23 and from the state of Queensland, bought the vehicle over the internet for $A600 ($630). While assembling it at a friend’s house the two sampled a few beers before Petrie decided to drive it home, according to a local television station.
“By the time we built it, it was quite late so we thought we’d go for a bit of a test run,” he told Network Ten.
He was caught by the police en route and found to be more than three times over Australia’s legal blood alcohol limit, and was charged with drink driving and driving without a license.
Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bergstrom told Peterson on Monday that "the reality is you love your children and had absolutely no intent to harm your child."Seriously... that's the reality? That's the message the court wants to send here?
-- "Once upon a time, HCI's Canadian Regional Director in Pakistan was none other than Ahmed Said Khadr. He's the paterfamilias of Canada's first family of terrorism who was sprung from a Pakistan hoosegow due to the efforts of Canada's then-P.M. Jean Chretien." --Geez, Khadr...Khadr... that sounds so familiar.
The CSIS agents wanted to know how the Khadrs managed to travel between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, Syria and Canada during the late 1990s, with no apparent means of support other than their work for Islamic charities.Oh.
Mr. Khadr replied his father lived off a Canadian disability pension.
"The artist said he had not filed a police report following the attack in Copenhagen. 'I did not know any of the people or get a great look at them, so it seemed pointless'."Oh c'mon, Peace Moonbeam... you know what they say... "No hope... no change."
Former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has pulled out of a weekly Radio-Canada talk show after the broadcaster refused to allow him to discuss politics.
-- MONTREAL -- One of three men shot Saturday night in the city's Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough died of his wounds Sunday night.We've already had a taste of how ineffectual the police can be during the G20 fiasco.
Ford has vowed to trim $380 million in spending to reduce the 2012 budget gap of $774 million, “and if we don’t do anything, we’re looking at 30-to-35% tax increases.” --How did this situation get so desperate?
If Mammoliti has his way, begging would be deemed illegal in every part of the city. That is, however, except for one.**********
“My bylaw would see the practice banned everywhere but at Queen’s Park.”
On his fourth drunk driving incident, Amir Hekmati caused an horrific crash and inflicted “catastrophic brain injuries” to a loving father, ruining his life.
Hekmati was given four years credit for time already served.
"Was any of this ever mentioned in their presentation? Of course not. Just like the news about the Tottenham riots doesn’t mention race either."No, no, no... I don't wanna hear any of that.
"A murder investigation has been launched after three people were killed in Birmingham while apparently trying to protect their homes from rioters."And, once again, ...the Globe gets straight to the heart of the matter...
The creators of the service — a sex educator and a public health doctor — realized that online encounters were leading to casual sex hookups which were, in turn, fuelling syphilis cases. So they created the email notification system.Hey... maybe Facebook can come up with a special "poke" to cover this one as well. Whaddaya think that emoticon would look like?
An Alberta teen accused of having unprotected sex while not informing her partners she has HIV will be kept in custody for now.What? No email?
The teen faces two counts of aggravated sexual assault and police say additional charges are pending.
"You remember Lydia?
She gave me chlamydia,
And I thought I should
share it with you!"
"More than 450 people were arrested and 60 police officers were hurt. A statement from Scotland Yard described the disturbances as 'unprecedented in recent history.'Or, as it's known in academic circles... a total breakdown of societal controls.
Front-page headlines in the national press read 'Rule of the Mob,' 'The Battle for London,' and 'The Anarchy Spreads.'"
“It’s us versus them, the police, the system,” said one youth at a grim housing estate in the London district of Hackney, the epicentre of Monday night’s rioting.Okay then... as long as it's a REAL hatred. But still, I'm a little confused. Isn't it "the system" that bought these guys the Blackberries they're using to coordinate all the rioting?
“They call it looting and criminality. It’s not that. There’s a real hatred against the system.” His friends, some covering their faces with hoods, nodded in agreement.
"Like bank-issued debit cards, the cards will be PIN-protected and will not identify the user as a social assistance recipient."Hang on a sec... you're a second or third generation welfare recipient... how easily embarrassed are you? Why are we making this process easier?
-- "The NDP run candidates in every riding in Quebec. Did Ms. Turmel judge the Bloc's social issues platform superior to the NDP's?"And, Holy Clouseau's Minkey... it gets even better than that...
"My card is still in my pocket," Turmel said. "But they already know I will resign."
"They," of course, is the left-wing francophone cabal known as Quebec Solidaire, a hardcore collective of separatists, communists, feminists, socialists and any axe-to-grind radical lefty in need of a place to hang a tinfoil hat.