QOTW

"There isn’t enough money on the planet that could make me confess to being beaten up by Liza Minnelli."

I'm so confused

Didn't Toronto's last Mayor say he was gonna stop all the violence by closing down all the shooting ranges?

"The victim, believed to be 19 years old, was shot in the back while in the Lawrence Avenue East and Galloway Road area, a spokesperson with Toronto EMS says."

Galloway, Galloway... that sounds so familiar.

No wonder Dalton picked up and ran away...

...to the United States...

"At the end of August, physiotherapy services provided to frail elderly in retirement and long-term care homes and in the community — simply to keep them mobile and active — were delisted from OHIP to save $67 million a year."

And this is where Premier Wynne thinks she should start chopping?

I thought the Liberals were supposed to be the "healthcare" party.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Where does it say in the Constitution that the government can steal from me and give it to somebody else? It doesn’t, which mean MY rights are now being trampled."

AND...

"This is a bit more 'compassionate' than my position. If they can’t work, help them. If they won’t work, f&ck them."

(via SDA)

Taking a page from the...

...First Nations playbook...

"When organizers thanked the OPP for their understanding and patience at their act of civil disobedience, the crowd responded with warm applause."

Is taking advantage of the erosion of lawful civil authority a good thing?

It'll be interesting to see where this sort of thing takes us.

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RELATED: Of course, there's one difference...

...the silly farmers didn't bring high-powered weapons...

This isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s the explicit strategy outlined in the Rockefeller Brothers Fund “Tar Sands Campaign” planning document, written in 2008. It’s white foreign money. With a splash of Canadian Indians for colour.

That’s not a new tactic. But adding in violent Oka-style warriors from Idle No More is new. It’s not just adding Indian bona fides; it’s adding Indian machine guns. That’s why the eco-terrorists in New Brunswick were Indian.

Every environmentalist in Canada should be condemning the rioters.

It's so weird... they can reject the oil & gas industry, but I don't see anyone trading in their ATVs or F150s for ponies and travois.

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LAST WORD: Meet the protestors

Ever wonder why these folks can show up to riot any time of day or night?
It gets better...

"For instance, where a family of four in the rest of New Brunswick receives $908 a month, a family of similar size on a reserve receives $1,262, or about $300 more."

Hey... guns & ammo... never mind explosives... they don't just grow on trees.

Talking in code is so tiring

C'mon, go ahead & say it... St Jamestown.

Police say the victim was found with three gunshot wounds outside a highrise apartment building (at Wellesley and Parliament Street) around 10 p.m.

Geez, I thought Mayor Moonbeam had solved that problem before he moved on to greener pastures...

"Nobody can deny that hobby directly results in people being shot and killed on the streets of our city," Miller said of sport shooting yesterday, amid debate on a possible gun bylaw.

But, but, but... he shut down all those gun ranges years ago. Where are all those nasty bullets coming from?

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UPDATE: Vicscious immigrant thug Angus McTartan...

...wait a minute, correction just arriving...

Kimani Clarke, 18, is wanted for two counts of attempted murder and one count each of discharging a firearm to endanger life, aggravated assault, unauthorized possession of a firearm, knowingly possessing an unauthorized firearm and careless use of a firearm.

He is described as black, 6-foot-2, 180 pounds and with short black hair.

Don't you worry, Angus... your day will come.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"By the time the campaign rolls around she'll be swearing she flew one of the helicopters."

Ask a Journo-Canadian

It's just like OJ Simpson told us. Somebody simply has to be brave enough to get out there... and chase down the real murderers.

A breath of fresh air. Less cheerleading...

...more actual reporting...

"In this case, the [Canadian] government – one that Mr. Greyson and Mr. Loubani viscerally despise – applied the heat at the highest level. Foreign Minister John Baird even met with his Egyptian counterpart. These two should kiss Mr. Baird’s feet. But I wouldn’t hold my breath."

Here's a newsflash for John Greyson.

Come the new Caliphate, I can simply grow my beard a little longer and learn a smidge of Arabic. Unfortunately for you, sir... a 60 second Google search by our new fundamentalist overlords and you will very likely find yourself left dangling from the nearest streetlight. No amount of marching & sloganeering will override the Will of Allah.

You get that, right?

POST CARDS FROM THE PINK EDGE:

"anonymouse squeaks... You do realize that Baird is gay."

And you, my shallow troll buddy, do realise that I give not a feather what Mr. Baird or anyone else does with their genitalia in private with another consenting adult?

The real problem with the radical gay movement is their insistence in shoving their too often old, wrinkley genitalia into the forefront of any public activity. You define yourself primarily by your genitalia... inevitably, you end up just being a big tiresome dick.

Rules are for the little people

It seems David Suzuki has expensive tastes for someone who wants to shut down the carbon economy within a generation. His primary residence is valued at around $8,200,000.00.

Suzuki owns four properties in some very exclusive areas. One of his properties includes part of an island he shares with an oil company, among others.

And yet Suzuki still manages to present himself as a humble little eco-David battling deep-pocketed Corporate Goliath. The one time advocate of zero population growth... who left his first family and started another.

How does he get away with it. I call it "Velvet Touch" syndrome.

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RELATED: Little help from his friends

-- OTTAWA -- CBC used taxpayers' money to gain access to a movie premier for a film they co-produced and owned the rights to, documents show.

The offer presented to CBC required an investment ranging from $10,000 for two tickets to $100,000 to sponsor the head table. CBC refused to release the amount they paid to the foundation but the contract shows they purchased a table of 10 plus two single tickets.

The agreement, costing taxpayers somewhere between the quoted prices of $35,000 and $110,000, also called for Suzuki to be granted interviews on CBC shows to profile his life and his film.

I guess that's show-biz.

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LAST WORD: Still not convinced?

Watch the video.

I blame Mike Harris

Yet again, wasteful, eco-terrorist neocon greedheads... wait a minute...

Miller’s annual report also slammed the Liberals for gutting the ministry through budget cuts and regulatory changes that weaken important safeguards for provincial parks, species at risk and hunting.

Cuts to regulations, staff and programs at the ministry are “short-sighted and regressive” and pose significant ecological risks, he said. It could have “disastrous results” for Ontario’s natural heritage and disrupt the way of life in the north.

“We’re talking about handing over this land to third parties over which we have no control,” Miller said. “So it’s profound change on the highest level.”

But, but, but... they're the ecology party... I saw it in all their commercials. Dalton promised.

Well, I'm betting somebody got rich

Robbing banks is for dimbulb, troglodyte thugs... meet the American cousin of Canada's "Long Gun Registry."

Remember, there's gold in them thar hills.

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UPDATE: Hope, change and... OMG!!!

On Oct. 4, the debt held by the public — not including Social Security and Medicare — had risen 89.3 percent since Mr. Obama took office, according to FactCheck.org, a nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

“At that rate, the debt owed to the public will more than double during the Obama presidency,” FactCheck said in its quarterly statistical report on Mr. Obama’s tenure in office.

Mr. Obama said he won’t talk about long-term budget issues until Republicans agree to reopen the government and raise the debt limit without conditions.

Move over Greece.

Dalton McGuinty will be remembered as...

...the Green premier... you know, the guy who gave all that taxpayer green to his friends.
Why all the sad faces?

The good news here is that somebody walks away with a billion dollar windfall.

"When Mr. McGuinty pulled the plug on the Oakville plant in the fall of 2010, Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk found, the Liberals did not take advantage of contract provisions that protected the province from having to compensate TransCanada Corp., the energy giant given the job of building it. Instead, Mr. McGuinty’s aides assured TransCanada it would receive the entire value of the contract."

"Under the contract, the government had no legal obligation to compensate TransCanada for lost profits in the event that the company could not complete the project."

“'It may well have been possible for the OPA to wait it out, with no penalty and at no cost,' Ms. Lysyk says in her report."

Couldn't have that, could we.

What, you think it's coincidental that three-time Premier McSlippery packed his bags and ran off to a teaching job south of the border... not at the end of his elected term... but just before this story started gaining media traction?

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FROM THE GLOBE COMMENTS:

"I would like to NOT BUILD some powerplants for the Ontario government too - being inexperienced I will start with a couple small ones, say $10 million each, and work my way up."

Count me in.

Where, oh where would we be...

...without "community organisers" and "society columnists"...

"Lobbying for the release of extremist activists may be noble. It may even be just. But it’s not reporting. It’s cheerleading."

"And 99% of Canada’s media did that. And they told the one guy who wasn’t to fuck off."

Go Ezra.

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RELATED: Wisdom of the East

Not sure what particular scientific discipline the Kuwaitis will be pursuing, but... dollar for dollar, you can't beat the old "throw 'em in the river and see if they float" test.

Splish-splash.

Students will, instead, be issued a...

...daily allotment of medical marijuana and encouraged to assemble in small, easily managed groups to embroider flowery handkerchiefs and sing heartwarming show tunes.

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RELATED: And Winston Churchill wept

We will fight them on the, uh... beachwear...
Click on picture above for the story.

More at jesusandmo.net

As McSlippery as the last guy

In Liberal-run Ontario... everybody is a "Wynner"...

The large salaries and bonuses drawn down by 2015 Pan Am Games executives were necessary to win the major sporting event, Premier Kathleen Wynne says.

How large, you ask?

Games CEO Ian Troop pulls a $390,000 base salary but could see that figure topped by a $780,000 bonus if he completes his term and meets budget and timeline targets.

Yes, that's right... the already obscene salaries get tripled by the bonus.

Just something to consider as tax time rolls around once again.

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UPDATE: Here comes the other shoe

"That little shmoozefest will cost Ontario/Toronto taxpayers at least $500,000, if not much more, I learned Monday."

Don't blame me, I didn't vote for them.

If you looked in Justin Trudeau's closet...

...how many Che Guevara t-shirts you think you'd find...
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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Brings to mind the Occupy idiocy where all those basement-dwellers were running around wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Guy Fawkes... The loser who couldn't carry out his assignment and ended up offing himself before he was publically executed. A failure. Actually, when you think of it, he's a perfect fit."

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RELATED: Scratch a lefty...

...find a sad little poseur...
You've gotta love the irony... turning a devout Marxist into a capitalist commodity... "the face that launched a thousand T-shirts."

Buy two and save!!!

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P.S. -- Speaking of commie ass-kissers

"If Joe Strummer makes Ray Charles look like Tim Tebow, then Bob Geldolf makes Joe Strummer look like Jonas Salk."

Bravo.

Idiots, explosives and falling anvils

"The clip would be hilarious if it wasn’t a tragic reflection of how dumbed down and ignorant of basic facts Americans have become in the modern era. Given that a substantial percentage of them don’t even know that Obama is a Democrat, how could they possibly hope to understand things like Obamacare or the government shut down?"

The scary, scary truth about the great unwashed.

I dunno... maybe something in the water?

Canada's national broadcaster nails it yet again... just what exactly is it about compassionate, intellectual Toron... wait a minute...

"Prosecutor Matt Miazga said George was shot five times in ten seconds with a .22 calibre Smith and Wesson handgun. He managed to make it across the street before collapsing. He died later in hospital."

And what about that Hogtown hell-raiser?

"Defense lawyer Nick Stooshinoff said that Noor, 24, is originally from Somalia and moved to Toronto as a youth. He says that Noor was out that night partying and did not intend to kill Macdonald George.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: CBC misses the real story

Whaddaya have to do in the Great White North to actually be charged with murder?

"shot FIVE times...yet that is manslaughter???"

Apparently those Torontonians are a passionate people.

Once again, not surprisingly ...

...the real story is in the comments...

Charles Schumer, "We must do more to keep these violent CARS out of the hands of criminals."

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RELATED: MSM to the rescue...

...if only we had listened to the President...

"Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak uses her piece today to implicitly make the case that Obamacare and gun control might have been able to prevent yesterday's police shooting and last month's Navy Yard shooting."

Yes... of course it would have.

The Pablo Escobar of broken promises

From the folks who brought you... "Never let a crisis go to waste"...

"Honor Flights, which bring WWII veterans to the nation’s memorials, are planned a year in advance and cost anywhere between $80,000 to $100,000."

"How low can you get with playing politics over our nation’s veterans?"

(via SDA)

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Hope, change & obfuscation

"If only a government shutdown led to Obama’s mouth being wired shut."

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LAST WORD: Just stop AND THINK

Federal government breathes sigh of relief...

...as native peoples offer to contribute corporate expertise...

The head of the Assembly of First Nations signalled a renewed willingness to work with the feds on major resource development projects.

I'm just happy that Canada's aboriginal communities have solved all those other pesky little problems that were stopping their communities from assuming these larger responsibilities.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Aboriginal corruption...

...it's pretty much a cliche...

"It is alleged the grand chief used $10,000 of the group’s money on a Minnesota gambling excursion and a trip to an amusement park in August and September. That scandal tainted the lobby group and the more it spread, the worse it got."

Yup... I'm shocked...

-- WINNIPEG -- A Manitoba native group misspent more than $6 million in federal health-care funds on exotic trips and unjustified payments to the organization's CEO, a federal audit has revealed.

Of course, if you audit aboriginal peoples... it just means you're a racist.

Murder, she wrote

In other "broad strata of society" news...

Aiman “Bigz” Khiar, 24, Jerome “Germz” Bent, 22, Dellan “Young” McMorris,” 23, Shakeil Wheatle, 19; Dwayne “Mafia” Willis, 20; Amanda “White Millie” Rumbolt, 29, Jathursan “Yadi” Rajarubakumar, 22, Bershon “Bread” Roach-Ferguson, 20.

Here's a parenting tip... if your kid has a way cool street name, maybe you're not gonna need that RESP.

NOTE:

Just noticed the original article mentioned three of the names twice... so I've erased the dupes. Not sure why ol' Shakeil doesn't have a nickname... maybe he helped an old lady cross the street and had his cool name rescinded.

A cautionary tale from the guy...

...who brought you My Lai & Abu Ghraib... let's face it, this guy is a liberal's wet dream come true...

It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".

Of course, he's less celebrated when he turns his critical eye a little to the left...

"The Obama administration lies systematically," he claims, "Yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him."

"It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama]," he declares in an interview with the Guardian.

He's not afraid to get into specifics...

On the subject of the Navy Seal raid that supposedly resulted in the death of the Al-Qaeda terror leader, Hersh remarked, “Nothing’s been done about that story, it’s one big lie, not one word of it is true.”

Hersh added that the Obama administration habitually lies but they continue to do so because the press allows them to get away with it.

I miss real journalism.

Hang on... does this mean you don't...

...get to cook and eat it?

Actually, scrub that... my first question is, "What sort of new-age hippie throwback would... oh, wait..."

Umbilical cord non-severance, popular with early western European settlers in America, was revived in the 1980s by yoga practitioners exploring natural birth.

Ah, yes... the wisdom of the east. Another progressive practice from the poster-continent for appalling rates of infant mortality.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I would suggest keeping the child attached through the teen years. Parents would have no problem knowing where their kids are. It would also stem the tide of rising teen pregnancy. This in turn would save the tax paying public a great deal of money supporting unwed mothers on the dole."

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RELATED: Speaking of yoga...

Forget about lying on the resume...

...I just wanna hear him belt out a little ditty about Mohammed...

Until recently, Rolf Dinsdale was a member of the punk rock band Shit From Hell, along with longtime Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella. The band's songs include “Horny Single Mom” and “Jesus Got Wood.” The video for the latter features a writhing woman and the lyrics, “Baby you're going to get impaled.”

Now, don't you read anything scurrilous into this, folks... ol' Rolf has an explanation for all that as well...

Dinsdale says the songs show his sense of humour and he considers his material pro-Christian. Jesus Got Wood is a Christian anthem."

Rolf, Rolf, settle down... this is Canada, you can piss all over Christianity til the cows come home. The question you should be asking is... "Honey, does this hat make my head look stupid?"

I look forward to seeing Justin Trudeau signing your nomination papers. Maybe JT can join you in a few verses of Jesus Got Wood.
(via BCF)

Go ahead... release Omar Khadr...

...I double-dawg dare you...

A member of the Toronto 18 terror group that planned attacks on Canadian targets nearly a decade ago has died while fighting in Syria, CTV News has confirmed.

Ali Mohamed Dirie served two years in prison for his role in the plot to blow up the Parliament buildings and other landmarks, assassinate the prime minister and kidnap politicians.

What... 2 whole years and he was out there beheading again?

C'mon Ali... you promised.

When he appeared before a parole hearing in 2010, Dirie said he was a changed man, and no longer advocated violence to achieve political goals.

Well, heck... maybe he was just on vacation.

Or maybe the National Parole Board needs a kick in the ass.

OK, America... your turn in the barrel

First, he organised Chicago...
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LAST WORD: Promises, promises

In the 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama often told voters that he would lower premiums by $2,500 a year per family “by the end of my first term as president.”

That has not happened, although the White House says the law has slowed the growth of premiums.

Hmmm... try clicking on the picture above for an actual case of "slow growth."

Something tells me the guest list...

...for his Great Greenie Gitmo just got a little longer...

So You Think You Can Think

No wonder Al-Shabaab thinks we're ripe for the picking...

In a body-popping bid for wider understanding, scientists from Australia to the Netherlands are making interpretive dance videos based on their Ph.D. dissertations. To make an esoteric thesis come alive, they leap, swoon, spin and krump.

The performances -- all captured on video and posted online -- belong to an annual international competition called "Dance Your Ph.D," which for five years has been turning scientific obsessions into performance art. To qualify, the author of the Ph.D. dissertation must perform in the dance. Typically, the scientists submit the videos after being awarded their Ph.D.s.

And like any contemporary kindergarten class... everybody is a winner.

"It makes you think in a different way," said Matt Kent who is among the contest judges. "Even if I hate the performance, I love the idea that they are trying."

Of course it's a fake...

...everybody knows that Obama rides sidesaddle...

You know what they say... worth a thousand words...
He prayed at a mosque... now he's schmoozing the military.

The Liberal Party of Canada... as flexible as they need to be.

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LAST WORD: Speaking of Justin's pals

The Redistribution (for some) Cometh

Isn't a man who will have 24/7 bodyguards for the rest of his life, a man who will be taken directly to the front of every conceivable waiting line... isn't such a man the very definition of the despicable 1 percent?

$621 billion is a pretty eye-glazing number. Most readers will find it easier to think about how this number translates to a typical American family—the very family candidate Obama promised would see $2,500 in annual savings as far as the eye could see.

Between 2014 and 2022, the increase in national health spending (which the Medicare actuaries specifically attribute to the law) amounts to $7,450 per family of 4.

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RELATED: Obamanomics... the tally

The Federal Reserve also released its latest weekly accounting sheet indicating that it had already accumulated more Treasuries and MBSs than the total value of the publicly held U.S. government debt amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington though Bill Clinton.

Since the beginning of September 2008, in fact, the Fed's ownership of Treasury securities and MBSs has increased seven fold.

Because that's what socialists do...

"In 1968, when Trudeau went from rich, socialist professor who had never held a real job in his life to prime minister, Canada’s national debt was a modest $11.3 billion; the federal deficit was zero."

"When Trudeau left office in 1984, the debt had mushroomed to $128 billion; the deficit to $25 billion annually."

Are you ready for the second coming?

Nairobi ain't the only place where...

...Canadians can get shot at...
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RELATED: Oops, there goes another...

Toronto police are investigating after two people were wounded in a shooting early Monday morning.

The shooting occurred near Lawrence and Morningside avenues in Scarborough, and officers are working to narrow down the exact location, police said.

And again...

A man in his 30s has died of his injuries after being shot in the chest in the Queen and Parliament streets area Monday evening, Toronto police say.

Police say the 31-year-old man was ambushed as he waited for an elevator on the fourth floor of an apartment complex at 285 Shuter Street.

Det. Sgt. Dean Burks said the victim – whom he wouldn’t immediately identify – was known to police.

No pithy commentary from Premier Wynne and no announcement of when OCAP will be parading for this man's unfortunate death.

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

C'mon now... how hard can it be...

...to wow a former part-time Summer Camp Counsellor?

Watching Freeland talk, it’s easy to see why Trudeau finds her impressive. She has all the latest buzzwords and jargon. In a 60-second interview last week, she used the phrase “tipping point” four times. She loves talking about “millennials.”

She’s not a policy adviser. She’s a pundit. She doesn’t know a lot about economics, or about Canada.

But to Trudeau, she’s got something more important: The unwavering loyalty of her former Media Party colleagues.

Rumour has it, there is already fierce jockeying among Trudeau disciples for the coveted post of "Minister of Marijuana."
(via BCF)

The compassionate, intellectual left...

...reaches for a new low...Man, I thought conservatives were supposed to be the angry, foaming at the mouth knuckle draggers...
I guess I was wrong.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Well, I see nothing wrong here that couldn't be fixed with a few drums of tar and a half ton of feathers."

In other "crime is down" news...

Looks like Hogtown has their own "Son of Sam" wannabe...

Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate the shooting this week of a 25-year-old man who remains in "critical and grave condition" in hospital.

A police report said the victim was shot through the closed front passenger window. The man was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

And never mind robbing banks and going toe to toe with the holdup squad... you gotta use your head and not your gun...

Toronto-area police have responded to three late-night, smash-and-grab thefts at retail stores in a 24-hour period, with vehicles used as a battering ram in two of the thefts.

Move along folks... nothing to see here.

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RELATED: The Obama Effect

Never a community organiser around when you really need one...

The city of Chicago registered more homicides than any city in the nation in 2012, surpassing even New York — despite the fact that the Second City has only one third as many residents as the Big Apple.

Hope, change and... oh, never mind.

PC Party of Ontario officially dead

And, of course, no more astrophysics, as the term "black hole" has now been officially erased from the lexicon...

-- TORONTO -- Ontario Progressive Conservatives have issued an apology for calling the Liberal Scarborough subway plan a “train wreck” on the same day that at least six people died in a bus-train crash in Ottawa.

It's official... when you start to fall over yourselves about politically correct silliness like this, it's time to disband the whole effete organisation.

I just about threw up when I heard Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson sombrely announcing that the whole city was in mourning for these people... even before bodies had been pulled from the wreckage. It ranks right up there with politicians pulling on various articles of religious apparel to suck up to whatever religious institution they are visiting that day.

It doesn't actually fool anyone, does it?

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UPDATE: It can't actually be grief...

...I guess it's just a way to advertise your moral superiority...

Lining both sides of the tracks, the derailed Via train serving as a backdrop, supporters lit candles, hugged each other and prayed for the six killed and more than 30 injured when the double-decker OC Transpo bus struck the train.

Most of those in attendance didn't know anyone on the ill-fated bus, but were in shock that something so tragic could happen so close to home.

And you get to see yourself on TV.

He's clarified his position on drugs...

...is this Justin Trudeau's next policy triumph?

The Södertörn District Court has now acquitted the 65-year old in a judgement which stated that it "may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion".

However, the court added that no offence had been committed as the masturbating man was not pleasuring himself towards a specific person.

When asked if it was now acceptable to masturbate in public if you don't direct it towards a specific individual the prosecutor said it was "okay."

You think I'm kidding here? Think again.

Meanwhile, the workshops where Liberals were meant to hammer out 135 or so policy resolutions were all but deserted. The 18 resolutions before the international affairs workshop were summarily dealt with in 30 minutes, with minimal debate. Along the corridor in the social justice workshop, delegates voted to lower the age of consent for anal sex and legalize marijuana.

As one pundit put it...

"Umm . . . is discussing allowing teenagers to bugger each other really the business of the Liberal Party?"

You'd be surprised what those frisky Liberals do behind closed doors.

Apparently, Justin Trudeau thinks mummy...

...is full of prunes...

-- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau declined to make a connection between his marijuana policy and his mother's relationship with the drug, heavy use of which she has said contributed to her own experiences with mental illness.

"Marijuana can trigger psychosis," she said. "Every time I was hospitalized it was preceded by heavy use of marijuana."

Every time, Maggie?

Live and don't learn... the Liberal mantra.

Sammy Yatim... Nabil Huruy...

...what a difference one cop makes...

-- TORONTO -- A Markham firefighter has died after he was viciously stabbed in the head at a Toronto cafe over the weekend.

Dominic Parker, 45, was stabbed several times while he was at the Rotana Cafe in the Danforth-Coxwell Aves. area around 2 a.m. Saturday.

Nabil Huruy was initially charged with attempted murder, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon and one count of carrying a dangerous weapon. Charges were upgraded on Monday to first-degree murder.

Funnily enough, I haven't posted the last couple of days because I had to be down in the Devil's Armpit, er... Toronto.

Thank goodness I didn't hit the Danforth for a cup of tea.

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RELATED: Toronto the Good... my arse

Just to recap -- the incident took place July 30, just before 10 p.m. @community housing building w/ tenants with history of mental illness.

No need to worry... it's just an "incident."

Conservative government in Australia...

...sends academics madly fleeing for emergency shelters...

In Dr Shachar’s mind, these budgetary changes are an “attack” on Australia’s higher brain functions, of which the arts and humanities are its highest measure and most glittering jewel.

Such as... you might ask...

The boldly titled research project Queering Disasters in the Antipodes, which hopes to probe the “experiences of LGBTI people in natural disasters” and ultimately provide “improved disaster response” to gay people, whose needs in such circumstances are apparently quite different from those of everyone else. The princely sum of $325,183 has been spent on this endeavour.

And why should anyone listen to Dr Shachar?

Unlike you, Dr Shachar holds a PhD in English and Cultural Studies. Her contribution to intellectual life and the “business of thinking” is to occasionally teach classes in Popular Culture and of course Gender Studies, two subjects long admired for their profundity and intellectual rigour.

Airbrushing the Politburo

All that carefully crafted spin... surely you don't think any part of that is a happy accident...

Why would anyone enamored enough with an Obama administration they want to go work for do anything that might make a potential employer uncomfortable -- you know, like actually report on ObamaCare and the economy honestly, or dig into Benghazi and the IRS?

The media is left-wing and crusading enough without the potential of a cushy government job being held out as a carrot.

And don't think the Obama administration isn't doling out these jobs for a reason. What a wonderful message to send to the world of media: Don't go too far, don't burn a bridge, don't upset us too much and there just might be a lifeline off the sinking MSM ship.

Despite employing all the "media guerillas" to shape the message... Americans are starting to wise up...

"Americans' trust and confidence in the federal government's ability to solve problems internationally as well as domestically has fallen to historic lows this year."

Unfortunately, it's too late to do anything about the horrendous economic damage the Obamacrats have already wreaked on the land. You can only move forward... hopefully in a more responsible manner.

There is a message in here for Canadians. Will short memories and a craving for celebrity allow us to elect the son of the man who, over the course of his reign, increased the deficit by a factor of ten?

Sex, Lies and alleged Videotape

Okay, so there's no sex. You'll have to settle for a murder.

-- TORONTO -- A 62-year-old man was found slain in front of a home in a middle class North York neighbourhood Thursday [excerpting twaddle about locking down local high school].

Officers responded to 37 Francine Dr., near Leslie St. and McNicoll Ave., around 9 a.m. and located the mortally wounded victim on the front porch.

“He appeared to be suffering from stab wounds,” Const. Wendy Drummond said. Police immediately suspected the man had been murdered [striking more yip-yap about the school lockdown, including a hastily dispatched rent-a-cop].

Homicide detectives stopped by the scene for a brief look around and soon after officially deemed the man’s death a murder, the city’s 41st killing of the year.

The victim’s name was not released.

You want useful information, maybe he had a Facebook page. Alright, alright, there's a process here... we need to protect people's privacy.

Unless, of course, it's notorious drug lord Pablo Ford.

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UPDATE: Traffic court is for pussies

Police say an accident is what led to the murder of 62-year-old Anthony Koko Chang. 24-year-old Kimnarine Keshan Maharaj has been charged with second-degree-murder.

Det Kate Beveridge says the two got into an accident on Mount Pleasant Rd, near Roehampton Ave, last Tuesday.

Just another example of third world jurisprudence.

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ORWELL WAS RIGHT: CBC is a special animal

So says the CBC. Let me paraphrase...

"It is certainly not ideal to have been speculating about a drug empire that no one had actually seen," she wrote. "But given the high profile of the people involved, and how the rumours went viral, the decision to pound away on this speculative & destructive path for weeks on end made perfect business sense."

Sure, he's big and loud and nobody's idea of a leading man... a perfect reason to suspend due process and simple decency.

P.S. -- If you have any complaints about anything you read here at the Halls... let me know and I will forward that concern to the HoM Ombudsman and I... I mean he... will get back to you as soon as possible.

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RELATED: Oops, there goes another...

-- TORONTO -- A teenager is fighting for his life after an overnight shooting in Lawrence Heights.

Toronto Police say the victim was shot in the area of Ranee Ave. and Allan Rd., north of Lawrence Ave. W., around 12:30 a.m. Friday.

What is it the residents call this little patch of heaven? Oh yeah... The Jungle.

What's a little racial profiling among friends?

Hmmm, unless I'm sadly mistaken, this headline very precisely describes the Board of Directors of the Toronto Star...
Somebody get me my guillotine.

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RELATED: Don't you worry...

...the party of Justin is all over this one.

A Liberal senator wants to use the power of Parliament to force women into the boardrooms of the nation.

The bill would require all publicly traded companies, banks, insurance companies and trust companies to have 50% of their board of directors made up of women.

I'm just waiting to hear about mandatory marijuana breaks... you know... to mellow out the stresses of the workplace.

Fumbling towards ecstasy

Who needs smarts or coherent policy when you have a slavishly compliant media willing to regurgitate whatever storyline you toss out there? Remember when Margaret Trudeau got popped for DUI? Who among us cynical conservatives was truly surprised when... not only did Canada's once-favourite flower child beat the rap... she ended up an uber-celebrated spokespatient for the burgeoning mental health industry?

I can't decide whether this latest media circus is a tiny car-o-clowns, or simply a doddering old billionairess' boy toy on a flying trapeze...

Maybe Kerry's actual role in all this is to make Hillary look good for 2016.

"So we have it from Kerry himself, from a State spokesman by email, from Deputy National Security Adviser Blinken, from State's spokeswoman and from CNN's unnamed source that this was not a proposal. Kerry was making a rhetorical point, i.e. an off-the-cuff remark, about something which could not happen."

The professional leftosphere... they're flexible... when it suits their purpose.

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RELATED: Hope, change and...

...they look you right in the face and lie...

"The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-ed piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about having a Ph.D."

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LAST WORD: Wake up and smell...

...the professional journalism. Much like the "wanna grow breasts and cut off my penis" syndrome raging through the general population...

And why is it, that only liberals are prepared to confront the larger issues in society today...
Yikes.

ASK A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST

You can almost hear them start to salivate...
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UPDATE: Not kidnapped after all

On Wednesday, Peloso’s parents Reno and Mary Ann told the Star their son "had some stresses in his life in the past, but we thought things had settled down."

"The first thing I thought was he needed a break, he needed to get away for a bit," said Peloso’s mother, Mary Ann.

Funny how these stories always have some dark undercurrent that only comes out after some sort of tragic event.

Remember how the media celebrated Furious George and his spouse at the time...

A Toronto Life profile published before the 2010 municipal election described Peloso as calm and affable, and "not much given to drama."

Not at all like that alleged substance abusing crack lord Pablo Ford.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I find it interesting he was found very close to 1011 Lansdowne Avenue. If it was Ford, this would be all over the news. Media is tiptoeing all around this."

Whether or not there is any connect here... you're right... if Ford even took a walk in this neighbourhood, it'd be front page news with all sorts of insinuations.

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UPDATE2: Let's hold all the details...

...but, hey... gimme an extra helping of rainbows and unicorns...

Smitherman told reporters that "the path forward isn’t firmly clear, except that we know that it’s long and that it will be hard, and that he and me, and our family, and our kids especially, will be surrounded by an outpouring of love that would restore anybody’s faith and confidence."

Does that mean the news crew from the Star won't be camping out in Smitherman's front yard?

All those shameful, masculine, anglo images...

...like, you know... the Stanley Cup...

And what would little MS Malice pull out of her multicultural bag-o-tricks?

"Oh, we have so many images that sing out “Canada:” the Toronto skyline, the ROM, Sarah Polley in Avonlea, Alice Munro, Louis Riel, a Lawren Harris iceberg, a Joyce Wieland, the CBC logo, Vancouver’s harbour lights, Mount Royal, a Canada Goose parka, Banting, Gretzky, Roots boots, a backyard ice rink/perfectly shovelled driveway, a flock of glass condo towers, a wild snowboarder, Alligator Pie, a traffic jam, a Bloody Caesar, a lacerated refugee getting a flu shot."

It's a cliche Canada, like the Disney-fication of the RCMP... or the huge, inflateable cartoon beavers at the Vancouver Olympics.

It must be done, she says... because mad dictator Stephen Harper is apparently the reincarnation of Pol Pot...

"Shameful things like Ottawa trying to avoid taking in refugees who have been tortured, because they require extra medical care. Foreigners who wake up weeping, with bone chips floating around their spinal cords, I hear you, Stephen Harper, these people are costly."

A dash of Margaret Atwood, a spoonful of uber sweet Justin T... and, "bone chips floating around spinal cords" notwithstanding, all our beastly problems will be solved.

You've gotta love a dreamer.
(via BCF)

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RELATED: I guess Heather Mallick's Canada...

...would be the second happiest place in the world...

Now, if President Obama had a...

...wait... scratch that...

"Analyses of Google News, LexisNexis, and closed-caption transcripts found absolutely no national reporting of Jeffrey Babbitt, the 62-year-old retired train conductor now in a coma at Bellevue Hospital."

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UPDATE: Mr Babbitt died Monday...

...never waking from the beating induced coma.

I can't wait to see if Babbitt's assailant pleads self-defense...

62-year-old Jeffrey Babbitt reportedly lived with his 94-year-old mother Lucille, and was described by those who knew him as being ‘obsessed’ with trains and comic books.

Lashawn Marten, a man half Babbitt's age, remains in custody while police try to determine if this was a hate crime.

If Ontario Liberal government holds course...

...it will expropriate the land, erect a permanent building and hand it over to squatters...

An illegal hamburger stand squatting at a rural intersection south of Hamilton, Ont., is refusing to close. And the area’s health unit is in a pickle over what to do next.

The burger hut has no running water, no permanent source of electricity, and no freezers or refrigerators for meat and condiments.

Oh, c'mon... what's the holdup here? They're the government for gawds... oh, I get it...

Stevens said the health unit is discussing the situation with its legal team, but there are also political complications — it’s run by Natives squatting on contentious provincial government land.

Orwell was right... some folks are more special than others.

Really Big Game

Forget about those Wascally Wabbits...

Exhaustive report by national broadcaster...

...leaves no stoner unturned... "When Farmers Break Bad"...
I caution you, dear reader, the CBC pulls no punches, laying out every gristly detail...

"Clandestine drug labs can be found anywhere, both urban and rural areas are not immune,” said Chief Supt. Mike Armstrong of the OPP’s organized crime enforcement bureau.

Five people face multiple charges, including drug trafficking and possession of a controlled substance. The five accused are due to appear in court in Oshawa, Ont., on Monday.

Wait a minute, that's it? No names?

Well, no matter, who needs names? No doubt these rural scoundrels are being shunned by fellow members of the small agricultural community as we speak.

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UPDATE: In a surprising development...

...the Globe & Mail has managed to uncover the details that your CBC couldn't seem to find...

Jimmy Sut Jhing Ng, 55, and Sui Yuan Zhao, 39, both of Campbellford, Kok King Chao, 49, and Joey Sui Hung Mo, 45, both of Aurora, and Chun Kit Wong, 28, of Markham, all face charges related to drug production and trafficking.

Professional journalism... it's for sensitive souls.

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LAST WORD: The crime AND the perp...

...that kinda covers it...
A hint for so-called professional journalists... more news, less social engineering.

Say... who was the education minister...

...under Premier Dalton McSlippery?

If the latest dismal math test results for Grades 3 and 6 Ontario students prove anything, it is indeed that throwing more money at education has not added up to student success.

Doretta Wilson, executive director of the Society for Quality Education, says the latest math results were achieved, or should I say not achieved, even as students are allowed to use calculators in class and during the standardized tests.

It can't be that the education system is being financially deprived...

Under the watch of the former so-called education premier — Dalton McGuinty — funding for the education portfolio increased by a whopping $5.1 billion over the last five years.

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RELATED: Remember Dalton's other initiatives?

"Within days, if not hours, Liberal MPPs had constituents calling their offices to complain that the province wanted to explain anal sex to eight-year-olds."

It was also the Libs who put the seal of approval on race-based schools... prompting yet more anger...

"I just never thought I would see the day when the KKK and the Left would agree on segregation."

And...

"Why stop at race-based schools? Perhaps we should have separate buses, water fountains, washrooms and restaurants for blacks?"

And remember this doozy?

-- Wednesday November 17 -- Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky is steering clear of the debate and repeatedly refused Wednesday to say what she thought about the proposal.

It's up to the board to make a decision about whether it wants to pay kids for good grades, she said.

Your Liberal Party in action. No wonder the cupboard is bare.

I just wanna know where you keep it...

...in between uses...

"The invention came in the wake of a new law known as the Shenzhen City Public Toilet Management Act, which allows sanitation managers and other officials to slap a $15 fine on those caught making a mess of municipal toilets while relieving themselves."

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Hit me with your journo-stick!!!

"I can imagine that some genes make it harder for me to resist doing something harmful, and some make it easier. So what? I still don't get to torture kittens, no matter what my genetic makeup is. Maybe the problem is the idea that we should never be expected to do anything that isn't easy? Because that would explain a lot."

Just something to consider the next time some bloviating media moron trots out St Al Gore and the Church of Global Warming.

Mile Wide, Inch Deep

Apparently, the heir-transparent is not much of a student of history...

In the 1993 election, Kim Campbell was that year’s Justin Trudeau, just 46 years old (Trudeau will be 44 in the next election). Campbell was a lawyer, a former justice minister, a woman of some accomplishment. But she pulled a Trudeau. “An election is no time to discuss serious issues,” she said. It was a turning point for the campaign. She was mocked as a lightweight. She lost.

If only Campbell was more like Trudeau — just a touch prettier, just a touch richer, with a father just a touch more famous — she might have won.

Of course, you're not going to discourage a true believer... witness a couple of the love letters, I've been receiving on an almost hourly basis...

Squirm CPC squirm Shiny Pony is going to kick your donkey with the unhealthy gut and sweater vest.
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 4:13 pm, September 03, 2013

Ketchup little CPC tomato's the electorate is coming the electorate is coming! Justin in 2015 (the important poll day)
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 3:18 pm, September 03, 2013

There's always an insult in these missives (Nonny invariably refers to me as Neo-Cunt)... as if my anonymous fanboy thinks I'm gonna roll over and cry. He simply misses the fact that his commentary reveals much more about his own personality than anything else.

If legalising pot is the extent of Justin's policy depths... he may be in for a rougher ride than he thinks.

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RELATED: The political genius of JT

Yup... some murders are way more...

...important than others...

•• TORONTO •• A 16-year-old boy is dead after he was shot in the neck in an apartment on Weston Road near Lawrence Avenue West late Sunday.

The shooting is the latest in a spate of recent gun violence. In the last six months, at least six teens have been shot and five have died from their injuries.

Wait a minute, where's Alok Mukherjee? Where's Andre Marin?

Where's the garish, manipulative OCAP death parade? Why isn't this shooting dominating the nationwide news cycle?

Oh, right... no cops... no vultures.

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RELATED: OCAP has other fish to fry

"It’s all eerily familiar to the last big protest he led when he helped co-opt the Sammy Yatim march. Is Hussan simply on auto-pilot, or is this an intentional provocation?"

Orwell was right.

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ASK A COMMUNITY ORGANISER:

All those dead teenagers... I think I better write a poem.

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UPDATE: Murder victim id'd

In a release issued Monday afternoon, police identified the victim as Yusuf Tifow.

Senseless.

FLIP... wait, I mean FLOP

Following in Hillary Clinton's illustrious footsteps...

“President Assad has been very generous with me in terms of the discussions we have had,” Mr. Kerry, as a senator from Massachusetts, told an audience at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2011. He predicted that Mr. Assad would change for the better.

That was then.

This is now...

Today, Mr. Kerry is a leading advocate for attacking Mr. Assad’s regime. On Friday, he called the man he once befriended a “thug and murderer.”

That's how the hopey-changey lunatic left does it.

Little less pot... little more paperwork?

So what's up with the party of... "Dave's not here, man"...

"Justin Trudeau's successful and popular visit last week there indicates that there is a lot of support to work with and we look forward to waging a strong campaign there as we will across the country," Andree-Lyne Halle told QMI Agency.

Hey, full speed ahead, huh? Nuthin' gonna stop this political juggernau... wait a minute...

It turns out the Federal Liberal Association for Central Nova - the riding in which Antigonish is located - had been put on notice only a week before, the result of failing to comply with various financial submissions requirements of the Canada Elections Act.

Oh, oh... might be a "non-voluntary deregistration" comin' down the pike.

Hey, Justin... maybe scope out the office for the giggley dude with the cheezie dust paws. Victimless crime, my sweet patootie.

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RELATED: Sins of the father...

...it almost bankrupted the country...

"In other words, the only reason there was a large deficit, was because of the huge interest payments (33 cents on every tax dollar) Canada had to pay to service the enormous debt Trudeau built up."

His father's charisma... his mother's intellect.

ASK A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST

"Once upon a, well... uh... wait... ten years and another country ago..."

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Just think, this kind of 'leadership' is coming our way when Shiny Pony becomes Prime Minister of this country. There'll be some international crisis brewing, and Pony will be busy tweeting pictures of himself high-fiving Justin Bieber to his throngs of adoring fans and swooning women."

"Makes you wonder if western civilization is even worth saving at this point."

Oh, c'mon... you haven't even given Finance Minister Theresa Spence a chance.

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RELATED: Fixing Canada's terrible refugee shortage

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AN OPPOSING VIEW:
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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Once again, the purportedly compassionate, intellectual left reveal their true selves...

"And I will be here to read you bitch aboot(sic) it you winy(sic) fat unhealthy neo-cunt."
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 10:56 pm, August 30, 2013

Crude and barely literate... the hallmark of contemporary liberalism. Say, nonny... can I put you down for a couple or three Syrian refugees?

Dateline 2038

"CFN, the Celebrity Funeral Network, is reported to have won the bidding rights to the Obama funeral, and plans are underway to hold a three day funeral, to be broadcast from the spot where Chicago once stood. And corporate sponsors have already lined up to cover ad buys for the flowers, vehicles for the funeral train and logos for the coffin itself."

Amen.

In other "dope makes you smarter" news...

...Justin plays the Mandingo card...

At an event this week, Trudeau used the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech to lambaste the Charter of Quebec Values, suggesting a link with segregation.

“Oh, my god,” said Bernard Drainville, the PQ government minister responsible for the charter, when asked for a reaction Thursday.

“I think he should make a little bit of an effort to elevate the debate — instead of lowering it."

I still believe the Conservatives should hire a tour bus for Justin... and set up a country wide speaking tour.

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UPDATE: Angel dust in his weed?

"Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau isn't ruling out compensation for Omar Khadr for the time the convicted terrorist served in Guantanamo Bay."

Maybe Prime Minister Shiny Pony could appoint Omar head of the armed forces as he reshapes Canada's role in international relations.

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LAST WORD: They have a dream, too

"Anti-police violence" protesters in Toronto attack innocent drivers and smash car windshields.

(via BCF)

"Shaykh, Rattle and Roll"

ROCK ON!!!

Did he pull out his penis before or after...

...he started waving that knife around? The point is, I don't think cops were dealing with a man who was gonna respond to "pretty, pretty please"...

Alok Mukherjee, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, took a similar view. “I always worry about the possibility that if we give more hardware, whether police officers will still make every possible effort to use their skills and communication and de-escalation before they use the hardware.”

If Sammy Yatim's father (and let's give him the benefit of the doubt) couldn't live with, never mind reason with his own son... why does Alok Mukherjee assume the cops (faced by a screaming man with a knife) would be able to "use their words" to soothe Sammy's inner demons?

There are a whole lot of other people involved in this situation, who knew and apparently cared enough about this guy, that they could have gotten him the help he so obviously needed.

I guess it's easier just to put it all on the cops.

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RELATED: Guilty until proven innocent

Heck, isn't that how they do it in Syria?

As of Tuesday evening, Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin said he didn't see the need at the time for an apology to the wrongly accused officer, but after police officials met Wednesday with members of the ombudsman's staff and gave them "concrete information" exonerating Dennis, Marin said he was sorry.

Remember Barack Obama vilifying the Boston cop in the Louis Gates boondoggle? Just standard operating procedure for the lunatic left.

Perhaps Mr Clouseau, er... Marin should stick to arbitrating rent disputes. Investigating doesn't appear to be his strongest suit.

That hateful, racist George W...

...wait a minute...

The West Wing has thus far brushed off suggestions Obama make a symbolic trip to the predominantly black, bankrupt city of Detroit — because “there’s not a goddam we can do right now to help them,” according to one Obama hand.

Just another story you won't see on the CBC.

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COMPARE & CONTRAST:

Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," written in 1962, hit No. 2 on the Billboard charts just before the crowd gathered in Washington. When the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary sang the song for the 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial that day, it became an interracial anthem for change. The song itself drew inspiration from two others: The lyrics brought to mind Woody Guthrie's "Bound for Glory," which included an allegory about newspapers blowing down city streets, and its melody came from a slave protest song called "No More Auction Block."

Sam Cooke, the black gospel and rhythm-and-blues singer began performing the Dylan song immediately after the march. He had been working on a song about the hurt he felt as a black man living with racism yet also with hope for better times. In December 1963, Cooke recorded "A Change Is Gonna Come." The song became a hit on black radio, another anthem of yearning for a nation without racial rancor.

Now, half a century after the lyrical promise of that inspiring music and poetry, there is the inescapable and heartbreaking contrast with the malignant, self-aggrandizing rap songs that define today's most popular music.

In Jay-Z's current hit, "Holy Grail," he sings about "psycho bitches" and uses the n-word seven times while bragging that he is "Living the life . . . Illest [n-word] alive." Another top rapper, Lil Wayne, released a song in the spring with an obscenity in the title, using the n-word repeatedly and depicting himself as abusing "hoes" and "bitches."

Similar examples abound in the rap-music world and have persisted for years with scarcely any complaint from today's civil-rights leaders. Their failure to denounce these lyrics for the damage they do to poor and minority families—words celebrating tattooed thugs and sexually indiscriminate women as icons of "keeping it real"—is a sad reminder of how long it has been since the world heard the sweet music of the March on Washington.

Progress? Methinks not.

Justice in Junkieville

Of course, a society that resorts to vigilante tactics, however successful, is a society in decline...

"The incident prompted Vancouver police to caution residents against taking matters into their own hands, even though Ms. Smith’s bike might have been lost if not for her sleuthing."

The police can't help out... what'cha gonna do?

In other "crime is down" news

Saturday afternoon, one of the busiest intersections in the city, just down the street from the largest police station in the city...

Toronto Police are searching for video footage to help identify a suspect in the brazen daylight attack of a woman whose nose was severed. The 76-year-old woman was transferring from the streetcar to the subway at Dundas station on her way home shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturday.

As she rode an elevator down from Dundas Square, the man assaulted her, cutting off her nose, then fled.

Call me an alarmist, but when thugs start cutting bits off old ladies in broad daylight, I'd say you've reached some sort of a tipping point.

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RELATED: Not your parents Toronto

Police in Toronto are investigating a pair of robberies from people after they were injured in collisions.

Investigators say a man was robbed on Wednesday after being struck by a car in Toronto’s east end (at the Lawrence and Birchmount area). Witnesses say that as the victim lay bleeding on the street waiting for paramedics, a woman walked by and stole the rolls of coins he had been carrying.

Last Saturday, a cyclist was struck by a car (at Oxford Street and Spadina Avenue) and police say a man grabbed her bag and rummaged through it while she was semi-conscious.

Hospitable Hogtown.

Senator Mac Harb... unlike Duffy or Wallin...

...he's the scumbag you don't see every night on the CBC...

Liberal Senator Mac Harb could no longer realistically count on keeping his generous pension if he was charged and convicted of any wrongdoing related to the Senate expense scandal.

So he quit and that means even if he is found guilty in a court of law his pension is safe.

Mr Harb also wrote a letter of resignation to the Governor General... mostly praising the accomplishments & work ethic of, wait for it... Liberal Senator Mac Harb...

"Reflecting on my 28 year career devoted to public service and to improving the lives of Canadians and those living in the least developed countries, I am proud of what was accomplished. As a parliamentarian, I was fortunate to have several of my private members’ bills – primarily those focused on human rights and the rights of children – incorporated into legislation including National Child Day."

Of course, there was just one pesky little financial fly in the self-indulgent ointment...

Today, notice was filed with the Ontario Divisional Court and Senator Harb delivered a cheque to the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Internal Economy for $180,166.17, resulting in a total reimbursement of $231,649.07.

So, realistically... he just earns back the stolen money in two years via his gold-plated pension.

Abolish the Senate. Do it now.

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UPDATE: Candy from a bunch of babies...

OTTAWA - Disgraced senator Mac Harb is taking a 10% pay cut by retiring as he awaits the outcome of a criminal investigation into spending irregularities.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) said Tuesday that the Liberal appointee is entitled to begin immediately collecting a pension of $123,000 — about $12,000 less than the $135,200 senators earn annually, plus other perks.

It's like the cops surround a fleeing bank robber... and after he pushes the bags of money out the window... they allow him to go free.

Well, that... plus he was given his robber job by the Prime Minister.