I have to confess, I'm more worried...

...about the billions of dollars they piss away on purpose... but still...

TORONTO — The Ontario [Liberal] government says a glitch with social assistance transfers that queued up $20 million in overpayments has been fixed — though efforts are underway to retrieve $300,000 that did end up being received.

Amber Anderson says around 6,000 of the wrongful direct transfers and cheques did make it out the door but were either pulled back or cancelled — though 253 clients did receive a total of around $300,000 yet to be retrieved.

Will Liberal MPP's make up any shortfall to the taxpayers of Ontario from their obscene salaries?

I'm sure Ghenghis Khan had his reasons too

...but, c'mon Mr President, perhaps it's not the best time to be talking about "Justifiable Anger"...

The nation’s self-styled healer of souls was mum in response to black radical grievance-mongers’ calls to vengefully burn Ferguson to the ground – a seething sentiment echoed the next day by Brown’s stepfather.

Mr. Hope and Change stayed silent about the lynch-mob instigators calling for Wilson to be shot and his family murdered.

Obama's latest finger waving lecture directed at the folks who aren't burning and looting may just be one toke over the line... even with fellow Democrats...

Whether out of frustration or political necessity, some of President Obama’s closest lieutenants from his first term are distancing themselves from Mr. Obama as 2016 approaches.

Two classes of firearms in Canada

Guns that protect politicians... GOOD.

Guns that protect ordinary people... BAD.

Previously, only some House of Commons guards carried guns. NOW ALL WILL, though it is unclear when the training will be complete and the new policy fully in place.

Conscience and fortitude

What happens to "The Community" when there are no more Church ladies?

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DEAR "PROFESSIONAL" JOURNALISTS:

Stop embarrassing yourselves.

What happened in Ferguson was not a "protest." A protest is a lawful assembly of citizens who wish to raise public awareness. Looting and burning, shooting at First Responders and carjacking and robbing (two news crews at last count, btw) are acts of criminal mayhem.

Let's lose the "gentle giant" malarkey. Michael Brown (at 6'5" and 300lbs) was in the 99th percentile for size and strength. He was used to getting his way. Fifteen minutes before he was stopped by Officer Wilson, he had initiated a strongarm robbery and assaulted a convenience store owner. Had he lived, he would have faced numerous felony charges including assaulting a law officer. Ironically, his last words... "You're too pussy to shoot me," as he struggled to reach Officer Wilson's firearm have enshrined his arrogance and misplaced sense of superiority for all time.

Stick to reliable facts. How about quoting the people who gave sworn testimony to the grand jury... accounts that, surprise, surprise, back up Officer Wilson's narrative. Quoting Michael Brown's "homies"... (people who won't give testimony under oath) is ridiculous and inflammatory. Hyperbolic accounts of homicidal cops manufactured on the spot and stories that defy the physical evidence do not deserve to see the light of day.

Do not automatically beatify the families. Michael Brown's mother gave birth before she got out of primary school. What sort of upbringing do you imagine he actually had. Louis Head, Michael's stepfather, a twice convicted felon and gangbanger was seen hysterically screaming for the gathered masses to "Burn this bitch (the city of Ferguson) down."

If Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are indeed the poster boys for racial injustice in America, there is very little hope for any sort of reconciliation.

This is why we don't respect the MSM. This is why newpapers and television news are being superceded by internet media. Learn or die.

I guess this is some of the...

...constitutionally protected speech the President keeps talking about...Meet the Justice Seekers. It's a hard, lonely road, but somebody has to do it.

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UPDATE: Truth, Justice and...

...the Fergusonian way.

Never mind not guilty... Darren Wilson...

...is lucky to be alive...

Wilson also describes the moment he says he felt overpowered by 6 foot 5, Brown, who weighed upwards of 300 pounds.

‘When I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding Hulk Hogan.’

And then "gentle giant" Michael Brown started wrestling Officer Wilson for his gun.

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RELATED: Forget about President Hillary...

... did Rudy Giuliani just throw his hat in the ring?

“Ninety-three percent of blacks are killed by other blacks,” Giuliani said, triggering a heated argument on NBC's "Meet the Press." “I would like to see the attention paid to that that you are paying to this.”

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LAST WORD: Justice AND more free stuffNo freebies... no peace.

No, that's not the Grand High Poobah...

...of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan... that's Missouri Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadali" crying out... "YES WE CAN"... throw gasoline on an already incendiary racial brushfire...

"We didn't have a race war like other cities throughout the country. This is our race war... I know people in my own party, in my own government structure who disregard things that we say and how we feel, and we are not going to allow it anymore."

Well, Maria... you make a declaration of war, rest assured you have absolutely everybody's attention now.

10:50 EST - Looting appears to have gotten out-of-control on the ground in Ferguson. Breitbart News reporter Christian Hartsock observed several Ferguson-based stores, as well as a bank, being looted by large crowds. Additionally, he saw a Wallgreens being set on fire.

Perhaps Barack Obama should have had a talk with his own caucus... before clogging up media channels with the same old unicorns and pixie dust inanities.

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RELATED: We don' need no steenkin' evidence...

The witness added, “Dang if that kid didn’t start running right at the cop like a football player. Head down.”

The witness told of hearing “3 bangs,” but “the big kid wouldn’t stop.”

This was right after Brown had struggled to get hold of Officer Wilson's gun...

During his September 16 grand jury testimony, Wilson recounted how he tussled with Brown when the teenager grabbed for his gun while lunging into the squad car. As they fought over the weapon, Wilson testified, the teenager taunted him, yelling, “You’re too much of a pussy to shoot me.”

Famous last words.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Burn baby, burn

So where you gonna get a taco now dumbshite? I sit in awe at the savage stupidity of this inner city kulcher.

I can see the headline now...

...Ghomeshi found guilty... gets 20 to life managing Vancouver S & M club...

We are all Peshmerga

Ask Patrice Vincent or Nathan Cirillo...

Buying an election

Remember Dalton McGuinty's tough stand on teachers? Turns out, surprise, surprise, it was a very temporary political ploy to get his successor past the post. Let's pick up the story from there...

In February 2013, Wynne took over, repealed the bill, and re-opened negotiations with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. The two sides eventually achieved peace, for an undisclosed price.

We now know that price.

According to Lysyk, who was commissioned following a complaint from the Progressive Conservatives, it cost $355-million for changes to maternity leave, sick days, retirement benefits and professional development, as well as $113-million to eliminate wage differences between unions.

In total, the price tag was nearly a half-billion dollars; indeed, it’s enough to make an Education Minister dash down a hallway.

They look you right in the face and they lie.

Remember... you get the kind of government you deserve.

Less Justin Trudeau...

...more Dillon Hillier.

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THE JIHADIS ARE CALLING THE TUNE:

ISIS is claiming that last month’s attacks that killed two Canadian Forces members in Quebec and Ontario were “the direct result” of its call for violence in countries that had joined the international military campaign against the terrorist group.

So, let's dance. We can fight 'em over there... or over here.

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UPDATE: KURDS ARE MAKING HEADWAY

Kurdish fighters captured six buildings from Islamic State militants besieging the Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday and seized a large haul of their weapons and ammunition, a group monitoring the war said.

Kurdish forces appear to have made other gains in recent days of fighting. Last week they blocked a road Islamic State was using to resupply its forces, the first major gain against the jihadists after weeks of violence.

Barack Obama's "Yes We can" America

What do you think would happen if a howling mob showed up outside a police station and started demanding a black man be lynched?

“What do we want?”

“Darren Wilson!”

“How do we want him?”

“Dead!”

These are not "protesters." This is a bloodthirsty lynch mob and should be treated as such.

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ASK PRESIDENT BREAK O-BORDERS BUDDY

Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concerns about Gov. Jay Nixon’s decision this week to declare a state of emergency at a news conference and activate the National Guard.

In the video, Holder expresses sympathy with the protesters — although he did not use the word “Ferguson.”

Meanwhile Holder's underlings have a slightly different take on the situation...

Senior Justice officials also told U.S. attorneys around the country on Tuesday to be in close touch with local police to prepare for any possible violence in their cities, should the grand jury decision not result in an indictment of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

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LAST WORD: Eric Holder's protest buddies...

...decide to circumvent all that red tape...

As initially reported by CBS News, the men were suspected of acquiring explosives for pipe bombs that they planned to set off during protests in Ferguson, according to the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case.

The official said the two men are the same pair named in a newly unsealed federal indictment returned on Nov. 19 charging Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Davis with purchasing two pistols from a firearms dealer under false pretenses.

Another two of Barack's hypothetical sons?

That horrified "can't look away" feeling

...homegrown media & blogosphere hold their collective breath as Trudeau Liberals check gun is loaded... by looking down the barrel...Oh gawd, oh gawd... he's not gonna... I mean nobody's that... even a part-time drama teacher... please, please, please...

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FROM THE COMMENTS: If anybody can sum it up...

...it's Kathy... (nota bene: quote is from the always hilarious Skippy Stalin)

"Dear Jesus,
I know we haven’t talked lately, but you’re still my favorite nailed-up guy. Please let Warren Kinsella run for office. Have I ever mentioned that you have a swimmer’s body?"

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LAST WORD: Love/hate relationship?

“Bottom line is that Liberals just don’t get why we’d choose to stand next to a human shrapnel machine.”

FROM THE MAILBAG

Reader Dennis writes...

"While at Chapters today, I thought that I'd do a little book shuffling. I'm helpful that way. ;)"

Take two minutes...

If the CBC is gonna continue to suck billions of dollars out of taxpayers pockets... then we should, at minimum, hold them to account to report actual truth.

The CBC, like CNN, owes it to Canadians to fully explain how such a disgraceful and myopic headline got incorporated in their news coverage and disseminated wide and far.

Just like CNN did, CBC should apologize for its journalistic shortcomings and must explain in detail specific actions it will take to ensure that an incident like this will never happen again.

Please send a complaint to the CBC’s Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement, Jack Nagler at: jack.nagler@cbc.ca.

Rules are for little people

What exactly does this say to the millions of people who followed the rules and have been waiting for years to become citizens?

President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide many of them with work permits, according to administration officials who have direct knowledge of the plan.

Unhang 'Em High?

Two female NDP MPs who allege improper conduct by a duo of male Liberal MPs will not be formally laying a complaint to launch an investigation, says a senior New Democrat.

The decision could leave Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau with a political dilemma: Without an investigation, does he allow his two MPs back into caucus after suspending their membership because of the allegations?

Hey Justin... just ask yourself, "What would the PRC Politburo do?"

Oh, that's right... you already did.

OTTAWA - The House of Commons committee that was to create a sexual harassment policy to govern MPs has decided it doesn't have the mandate for it.

Following question period, a clearly agitated Trudeau told reporters that he was unable to take any action before hearing back from Scheer.

That leaves little chance of an investigation, and the fates of Andrews and Pacetti still unclear.

Unclear... apart from Justin having pronounced judgement and tossed them out of caucus, that is.

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COMPARE & CONTRAST: No unicorns...

...no magic fairy dust...

Both Harper and Putin were in Australia over the weekend for the G20 Summit. Our guy laid quite the smackdown to Vlad, one he’s not used to getting.

The prime minister’s spokesman Jason MacDonald confirmed Harper told the Russian leader: "I guess I’ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine."

Unequivocal. Clear. Direct. That’s how it’s done.

Note that Mr Putin, legendary for staying up all night and schmoozing, left the function early that night.

Ask a Palestinian President

Three Israeli-U.S. dual citizens and several others were killed or wounded in a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning.

Police said the assailants shot at people as they prayed, while also using meat cleavers and axes to assault those attending the morning service.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, but blamed Israeli “provocations.”

Think it couldn't happen here? Ask Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, or Corporal Nathan Cirillo.

Oh, that's right... you can't.

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UPDATE: In other Religion of Peace news

In the last few weeks, Israeli Arabs have killed six of their Jewish neighbours, including a three-month-old baby, in a spate of knife and car-ramming attacks.

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RELATED: Your National Broadcaster...

...making Mahmoud Abbas look like Mother Theresa.
(via SDA)

No "Weasel Words" here

We will attack you, destroy your homes and workplaces and steal whatever's left.

It's "burn baby, burn" in the land of gentle giants.

The Ferguson Mike Brown protesters are not ruling out violence or looting.

“Rioting and looting are the tools of those without a voice."

Funny how all those "folks without a voice" are making front page news on a daily basis.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the "discussion"... elected officials are still mumbling about a "Period of Unrest."

A "period of unrest, huh?" Sounds like pre-naptime protest at the Funnybunny Daycare.

Sorry folks, this is way past constitutionally-protected speech. It's time to jock up... or, more rationally, shoehorn the family into the Subaru and take that long-promised trip to Disneyland.

Either way, you may just wanna firm up a few details with your insurance agent first.

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UPDATE: Did I say Disneyworld?

I hear New Zealand is lovely this time of year...

In its new intelligence bulletin, obtained by ABC News, the FBI says “exploitation” of mass demonstrations “could occur both in the Ferguson area and nationwide.”

It's a brave new world sportsfans.

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UPDATE2: Looks like some folks...

...aren't just gonna lie back and let it happen...

Gun stores near the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have seen sales zoom as the area awaits a grand jury decision on whether to indict a police officer for shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown.

John Stephenson of Metro Shooting Supplies in nearby Bridgeton said he normally sells 10 to 15 guns a day. But for the last three weeks, he said he has been selling between 30 and 50 guns daily, a nearly 300 percent increase.

The biggest sellers have been "home defense shotguns" and "high capacity semi-automatic pistols," particularly the Smith & Wesson M&P9, Stephenson said. He's sold about 250 of the pistols in the last few weeks.

"As fast as we get them in, we sell them," he said.

Looks like some Ferguson homeowners are gonna "take back the night."

Meanwhile, back at Al Capone's Vault

No matter that there are no actual reported missing boys nor a single scrap of physical evidence that points to a crime or a location.

Hells bells, it's got CBC written all over it... sexual abuse, incest, recovered memories of multiple murders and an old racist white guy. Hey, they've even got a sacred fire.

Not too shabby for an outfit that can't seem to ever offer up a description of a shooter unless they're wearing a badge.

A dozen people gathered at the farm for a feast and ceremony — offering peace to the spirits of the boys and thanks to Breckenridge for carrying their story.

Yup... no physical remains, but apparently the force is with them.

“We saw a hawk come over the gathering and to us, we take that as affirmation that spiritual work we were doing was being acknowledged,” said Becky Big Canoe, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation and one of the organizers of the event.

An investigation by CBC, using state-of-the-art equipment, showed there may in fact be three bodies buried beneath the foundation of the barn, exactly where Breckenridge remembered them to be.

Whoa, it's nothing but state of the art gadgets at CSI Pefferlaw. At least we know what the CBC is doing with the billion plus taxpayer dollars they suck out of our pockets every year.

Oh... wait...

Police have found nothing after digging up a barn northeast of Toronto to determine whether three boys were murdered and buried there decades ago.

Oh... no bodies you say? That's okay... CBC did their in-depth investigation, that's what counts.

Altercation and Production

Followed by the cessation of life...

“There was an altercation with two or three suspects and two black males produced firearms,” said Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux.

Tariq Mohammed, of Mississauga is Toronto's 50th homicide victim this year.

You'd almost forget someone was murdered.

Never seems that restrained when there's an officer-involved shooting. Funny how that works.

Too many Shamans...

...not enough common sense...

"We know we can save this child’s life. We can’t give up on this child," hospital president Peter Fitzgerald told CBC Hamilton.

Wait for it...

The girl’s doctors said she has a 90-95 per cent chance of survival on chemotherapy, but that they didn’t know of anyone who had survived Acute Lyphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) without the treatment.

Whaddayamean... political pawn?

The decision was met with applause from many in the courtroom, including members of the girl’s family.

“It is dismissed. It is dismissed … aboriginal rights are upheld,” said a family friend, in tears, as she called the girl’s mother from inside the courtroom.

Yeah... "aboriginal rights"... that'll really perk up the eulogy.

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RELATED: Let's do the math

“We do have a disproportionate number of aboriginal children in the care of the state and many of them are in non-aboriginal homes,” said Milne. “Upholding the aboriginal rights in this kind of a context really also will speak to those kinds of cases too.”

The first part of that statement is, in fact, quite accurate.

"Almost half of all children living in foster care in 2011 were Aboriginal."

How this decision will speak to those cases completely eludes me. Again... let's look at the numbers...

"The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children than for other children in Canada."

Source: Government of Canada (2002) Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2002. Ottawa: Health Canada.

I'm not sure that "appalling" begins to address that horrific statistic. The fact is, treating leukemia with locally-sourced tubers and a sense of cultural superiority is just the topmost layer of this ethocentric fruitcake.

Equally important... how does this decision not set a legal precedent allowing Muslims to perform clitorectomies on their daughters? Will African immigrants with established tradition be allowed to kill persons they identify as witches?

Should we make changes to the criminal code to accommodate Papuan cannibalism, or enfranchise Japanese ritual suicide?

The mind boggles.

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LAST WORD: A massage parlour is good enough...

...for Jack Layton...

Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida is a licensed massage establishment. The family has paid $18,000 to the institute (as has another First Nations family whose daughter, Makayla, was “cured” of leukemia but is now said to be in critical condition.)

I got nuthin.

I'm from the Government...

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

Here are three crucial changes that the president clearly didn’t want you to know about:

1. HUGE DEFICITS AND NEW TAXES. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the latest projections for the net cost of ObamaCare over the next ten years are just over $1.4 trillion. Whereas President Obama promised in 2009 that it would cost less than $1 trillion over ten years. In order to partially pay for this, ObamaCare has added more than 20 new taxes totaling over $500 billion.

2. BUREAUCRACY. Speaking of Orwellian politics, ObamaCare includes 159 new boards and agencies to restrict and govern your health care choices.

3. STILL MORE BUREAUCRACY. Dysfunctional state exchanges with high deductible policies, narrow doctor networks, including federally-run exchanges in 36 states which may not be allowable under the law (SCOTUS currently considering this case).

Whoda thunk?

Pubic Service Announcement

File this one under... 'Stuff you might wanna consider before you chop off yer' old/ stitch on yer' shiny new dick.'

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RELATED: Dying for attention

The downside of the new interest is that women desperate for cheap options have risked their lives, going to phony doctors that inject silicone, and even bathroom caulk, into their buttocks. Deaths have been reported in Miami, New York, Las Vegas and Jackson, Mississippi.

I got nuthin'.

A Way to Remember

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

-- Search the WWI CEF database --

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

-- Search the Commonwealth War Graves database --

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones who got to come back and have a family and live out a long, productive and rewarding life. Two of my grandfather's brothers were killed, one in Belgium and one in France.

From the folks who brought you...

..."The Land of Gentle Giants"...

Shshhh... nobody tell P-Spawn

It comes to lame-ass dick jokes... less is definitely more.

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RELATED: Justin in three words...

,,,honour thy father...

"Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health. He traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nyere, and other Third World dictators."

Try, try again

What makes the Liberals think they can shove this thing down taxpayers deep throats?

This time, Wynne’s government says it will have 4,000 hand-picked parents chosen by school principals participate in an online survey on the sex education curriculum before it is introduced.

Most are expected to be the chairs of school councils. But their purpose, other than providing a rubber stamp of approval, seems unclear.

That because while selected parents will be asked their views about issues related to the new sex education curriculum, Education Minister Liz Sandals has already said that’s unlikely to lead to any changes.

Remember what happened the last time?

"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."

Those Redneck Tea Partying Westerners

The CBC solemnly reports...

"Both the the victim and suspect in the shooting are from Edmonton."

Papyrus... that's a trippy name for a cowboy bar. Oh well, as long as they have a mechanical bull.

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RELATED: Homicidal Hogtown

Apparently Torontonians are terrible too...

Toronto Police said the 33-year-old victim was shot in the head while walking along Eglinton Ave., near Keele St., around 7:15 p.m.

Details of the circumstances surrounding Toronto's 49th murder of the year remained scant Friday.

I had no idea Canadians were so prone to violence.

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UPDATE: Your CBC... editing your worldview

Police say a male wearing a black hoodie was seen fleeing the area but have not released a more detailed description.

Well... that's not exactly, uh... the truth.

From the Sun news artcle above...

"One man is sought in this case," Sidhu said. The suspect is described as a black man with a small build. He was wearing all black at the time of the murder.

Shshhhh... nobody tell Peter Mansbridge.

Hey, Waneek... just a heads-up...

They start building a big camp with watchtowers and tall barbwire fencing... I'd say it's past time to get outta Berlin, er... Dodge City...

The culprit is not some errant racist landlord trying to throw one tenant out of a building. It’s the Kahnawake Mohawk council, which has a law that bans all “mixed race” couples from living anywhere in its Montreal-area territory.

Well, technically, it bans mixed race couples married or living common-law after May 22, 1981... which conveniently immunises just who exactly? Well, statistically speaking, that'd be anyone mid-fifties and older.

Apparently racial purity can be "grandfathered."

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RELATED: Let's just blame Stephen Harper

Of course, Waneek saves her rage, not for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, (whom she is, coincidentally, currently suing) but for the wiley white man...

“I ask this to Kahnawa’kehró:non, ‘Is this who we have become? A people who will throw out families and seek to control others through fear and intimidation?’” Horn-Miller wrote.

“ I am not asking everyone to agree 100 percent with me or my views, but I just cannot believe this is who we are – a people doing the dirty work of the government and the Indian Act and fracturing our community from within.”

You mean the government with that pesky Charter of Rights, the document that clearly prohibits the notorious "Kahnawake Membership Law?"

It's like a hunger strike that packs on the pounds. I'm so confused.

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UPDATE: Grassroots group, huh?

I think we used to call them "Nightriders."

APTN National News
MONTREAL--A grassroots group mailed eviction notices to about 40 people living in Kahnawake as part of a campaign to drive out mixed-couples from homes in the community.

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LAST WORD: It's quiet at Tyendinaga

Letter from John Ferguson to William Claus, Deputy Superintendent General, Indian Affairs, 5 March 1819, concerning threats made by Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte to passers-by; the influence of white lumbermen over the Mohawks; lineage (in relation to a General Order on 2 November 1818 that presents should not be given to the descendants of Europeans):

“Will not a difficulty arise, as to who these people are?
In the Mohawk village here, a large proportion are the immediate (perhaps the second generation) descendants of Germans; there is also a family of immediate descendants of Africans: Are they to be considered as Indians? There are also some descendants of Americans, whose ancestors were Europeans. Will they come within the intention of the Order? In fact there are but few real Indians amongst them.”

Well, technically they are all descendants of Americans, forced out of the Mohawk Valley in New York by non-aboriginal countrymen and relocated by the British to reservations north of the 49th parallel.

There were all kinds of non-aboriginal folk already settled in Upper and Lower Canada before the reservations were established.

Lessons not learned

In a city of two and a half million people, the odds are pretty good you're not gonna get snuffed on any given day. So what are the chances one family hits the trifecta?

Call me provincial, but in my five plus decades on this planet, I don't even know one person who has been murdered.

As for the fatalistic takeaway about "invincibility"... that these murders were somehow inevitable, out of anyone's hands, that no-one could have done anything to prevent even one of them... that is, at minimum, willful ignorance.

You ever notice, if the shooter isn't a cop... it's a whole different narrative? No screaming accusations. No arson. No looting. Just business as usual.

Oh yeah, one small correction here. She didn't lose three kids to "GUNS"... she lost three kids to homicidal thugs who thrive in a subculture of predation, misogyny and arrogant lawlessness.

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UPDATE: Meanwhile, back in Ferguson, MO...

Looters are demanding a cop-free zone...

"After the verdict, no matter what it is, people are going to pour into the street - either in celebration or in rage," said Montague Simmons, chairman of the Organization for Black Struggle. "It's in the best interest of the public, the police and elected officials who control the actions of the police to work together to protect the rights of people to engage in civil disobedience and expression of their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly."

What about controlling the actions of the rioters? Hey Montague, here's a thought... how about you and the other "strugglers" not "pour into the streets" at all. That might avoid a little fuss.

It's not like you're looking for a fight... right?

From the folks who brought you...

...melamine fortified baby formula...Meanwhile, in other "never let a corpse go to waste" news...

The practice of burying “ghost brides” also remains very much in the headlines. The old ritual involves burying a deceased young female alongside a dead bachelor, so the male will not be without a companion in the afterlife.

In 2006, one man in northern Hebei province even killed six women to sell them as ghost brides.

I'm beginning to understand why Canada is such a popular destination for immigrants.

Geez, that's weird... I could've sworn...

...there was an election... not a coup d'etat...More "zippo journalism" from the folks who warmed up Ferguson, Missouri.

FROM THE COMMENTS

"Thanks for the info about Jian's degree in 'women's studies'. Why any male would 'study' this topic is now answered by his post-grad behaviour."

Oh... the Ursinity

"Grrr... damn ecotourists... I say, first we identify 'em... then we eat 'em."

There are no terrorists, right, Tom?

So who are you really afraid of... Rex Murphy... or Conrad Black?

The Right Stuff

But now it is clear that much of the Ford message resonated well with hundreds of thousands of perfectly respectable voters. They appreciated his responsiveness (the mayor always answered every phone message personally), avoidance of extravagance (even the Star conceded that he cut $638-million over four years from the City’s expenses), and a jovial, if sometimes laddish demeanor.

You wouldn't understand, it's...

...a Canadian thing...

The Security Service Employees Association requested last year that they be armed when working outside the Parliament buildings.

The association said there would be an expectation from parliamentarians, the RCMP and the public that guards would respond in the event of a security crisis, but without guns, guards would not be able to respond to any armed attack that put lives at risk.

And how did the bureaucracy respond?

In a letter to the association dated Oct. 28, 2013, however, Commons Clerk Audrey O’Brien denied the request. Security Constables were told instead to “retreat” and let the RCMP handle any threat.

Told to retreat. That seems to be an all-too-common refrain in Canada these days. Like telling our soldiers not to wear their uniforms in public.

When exactly did standing your ground... politically, culturally, emotionally... or simply protecting yourself and your family... become a bad thing?

Strike three for Obama & Holder

The trouble with playing the race card is that it's usually more emotional than evidentiary... from Skip Gates to Trayvon to "gentle giant" Michael Brown, the Whitehouse has been consistently misreading the table...

As the official autopsy report obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch demonstrates, Brown was shot in the hand at close range—with gunpowder residue in the wound. Both findings seem to buttress Wilson’s contention that there was a struggle over the officer’s pistol.

Additionally, a forensic pathologist interviewed by the paper noted that “the autopsy did not support witnesses who have claimed Brown was shot while running away from Wilson, or with his hands up.”

When the grand jury comes back "no-bill" on Officer Darren Wilson, the smart money anticipates it will result in yet another round of burning and looting and personal violence.

All the verifiable evidence will take a weak second place to the media-inspired fairy story that an innocent man was murdered by a racist police officer.

We are all to blame here because we tolerate this injustice. Not the perceived injustice of CNN and their media brethren... but the rigged table that refuses to accept the politically incorrect truth about the perjured witness testimony that framed an innocent police officer in such a terrible light.

The real monsters here are the race-hustlers who stirred up the violence after Michael Brown died... and who will no doubt, do it again when Officer Wilson is officially cleared. Their accomplices are the weak-minded "professional" journalists who bend with the mob instead of pursuing the facts.