It turns out that I’ve been...

...training to fight ISIS my entire life...More here.

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RELATED: The world is upside down

"I went to France right after the Bataclan attack and spoke to Parisians on the street. Virtually everyone I spoke to was totally oblivious to the threat of Islam and treated the whole thing like it was some random train crash. They’ve gone from tolerance and multiculturalism to self-hatred, and today they would literally rather die than offend anyone, especially Muslims."

Wake up and smell the slaughter.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"A man followed a young girl into a Target bathroom in Texas saying he self identified as a woman. The man's teeth were knocked out by the girl's father who said he self identified as the tooth fairy

RELATED: While others cower...

...Kathy Shaidle gives both barrels...

"This is the part where I’m supposed to cuck out and put in that transsexuals are clearly mentally ill and deserve our compassion. That they’re being exploited as exotic human pets and fashion accessories by everyone from teenage weirdos on Tumblr (forgivable) to powerful media gatekeepers, greedy surgeons, and political power-grabbers (not)."

"Yeah, fuck that. I don’t care."

Strength of conviction on steroids.

TO's P.C. Press does a screeching 180

••• Why is it suddenly acceptable to headline a murder suspect's place of birth? ••• Apparently, it's no big deal... as long as it's a white guy who comes from a privileged background.

"The scion of a wealthy Toronto family was arrested in Los Angeles this week on suspicion of murder."

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RELATED: Cake and eat it, too...Wait a minute... shocker headline notwithstanding, it seems this isn't the resurgent KKK after all...

Abdikadir (Abdi) Abdow, 24, was earlier convicted of first-degree murder for the April 26, 2009, slaying of Mohamed (Malik) Khalif, 20, at the city's Hermitage Park.

From the comments...

"Face it -- "Somali man killed by Somali man" -- isn't really news."

The Elder Statesman Chronicles

All the poise and maturity of a nursery school recess...

"Bob Rae was caught on video sticking two fingers in his mouth, pretending to gag. The former interim Liberal leader later refused to comment on his gesture, which was caught on video by a reporter for The Canadian Press."

Remember, Bob Rae isn't the guy who was caught naked in a Chinatown whorehouse... that makes him the classy one.

PMO contemplates new federal...

...statutory holiday...Sources say the proposal carries the personal endorsement of the buff & shiny Canadian Prime Minister.

C,mon, can you tell me you can't imagine Pspawn tearing off his clothes and streaking through the Byward Market?It's embedded in his genes.

Liberals channel Cheech & Chong...

...hilarity ensues...

Toronto police executed a series of search warrants at storefront cannabis distributors in the city Thursday. The raids are part of an investigation dubbed 'Project Claudia,' police said.

As of May 25, the Municipal Licensing and Standards office said it had issued 78 notices to property owners out of a known 83 medical marijuana dispensaries.

"Justin's not here, man."

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UPDATE: PM's got your back, dude!

186 charges were laid and 90 people were arrested.

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RELATED: Summer of the Gun II

The shooting happened along Lawrence Avenue West at 11:53 p.m., police said. Witnesses told police up to 10 gunshots were heard. Police say people may have been firing at each other from two different vehicles. The vehicles, which at one point, collided with each other, were described as a black Lexus SUV and a white Toyota Camry.

Obviously not enough access to drugs I say.

Once again... the soft bigotry...

...of low expectations...

Brandon Rolle of Nova Scotia Legal Aid, who devised the legal strategy, said he believes cultural assessments are the way of the future for sentencing African-Nova Scotians.

Will Afri-Scotian Police Officers also be afforded this "cultural" protection?

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UPDATE: By the numbers

While African-Canadians make up 3 per cent of the general population, they account for 10 per cent of the federal prison population. Overall during his tenure, federal prison watchdog Howard Sapers has watched the number of Black inmates grow by 69 per cent.

Of course, it's not about crime, it's about racism.

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RELATED: The epitome of popular contemporary...

...black culture in North America is "murder music"...

UNION SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) --
Rapper Troy Ave was one of four people shot in a third-floor green room at the venue Irving Plaza Wednesday night, before a T.I. performance.

One man died from his injuries.

You can find items like this any day of the week.

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LAST WORD: White guys get all the credit, right?

The gist of such hifalutin jibber-jabber is that in our white supremacist society, only white men are considered capable of the organizational skills and intelligence to pull off a string of murders before being caught.

WTF?

Perhaps, just to be safe...

...folk with a family history of mental illness should steer clear of marijuana... medical or otherwise...

"The spectacle actually revealed far more about the PM’s diva-like, DNA-level sense of entitlement."

Amen.

Kathleen Wynne's Ontario

$6,000 in legal bills... and that's after the charges were dropped...

Investigator log books revealed in court detailed how the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources launched a five-day stakeout as part of their investigation of Tijssen.

That included one investigator who hid in a tree house with night-vision binoculars and a camera.

Turns out, according to the Ontario government... Major Mark Tijssen just worships the wrong Gawd.

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RELATED: Big Brother sics cops on mom

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LAST WORD: All those billions from the Feds...

...apparently they don't count...

TORONTO -- Ontario has pledged to spend $222 million over three years to improve health care for First Nations, especially in the north where aboriginal leaders declared a state of emergency because of a growing number of suicides.

Just something to think about as you're sitting there in the Emergency Room for six hours.

Every once in a long while...

...the New York Times screws up and lets one through...

Michael Nutter, a former Philadelphia mayor, who is black, said that society would not be so complacent if whites were dying from gun violence at the same rate as blacks.

Mr. Nutter, now an urban policy professor at Columbia University, spoke out repeatedly about the disparity during his eight years as Philadelphia’s mayor — and was accused of casting African-Americans in a bad light. “Some people got upset,” he said. “I said, ‘I’ll stop talking about it when you stop killing each other.’”

That whole "gangbanger" thing might not be exactly as you imagined it to be...

Investigators describe fluid, sometimes tiny bands of teenagers and young adults bound by illegal activity. “They are groups of friends who rob and shoot each other,” Detective Greg Gehring said. “That’s just what they do.”

(via ffof)

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RELATED: Toronto Homicide Squad...

...rounding up local farmers, hunters and target shooters...

A man in his 20’s is expected to recover after being shot early Sunday morning. Toronto police say the incident occurred at Parliament Street and Cherry Street shortly after 2:30 a.m.

The suspect is black, 20 to 25 years old and 5’10” to six-feet tall. He wore a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants and fled the area in a silver Toyota sedan.

Summer of the Gun II.

Where will it all end?

I'm just waiting for the inevitable "French Poodle in a Ballerina's body" to surface...

"I'm definitely small and I tell myself, What's happened to you? You're small, what's wrong with you? Look at yourself, what have you done?"

Yeah... not crazy at all.

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RELATED: The gold standard of critical reasoning...

In a defense of President Obama’s order compelling schools to allow access to restrooms on the basis of gender identity, the Charlotte Observer editorial board compared the discomfort of school-aged girls seeing male genitalia in locker rooms to the discomfort of white people being around black people in post-segregation America.

Man, those penis-phobic ninth grade teens... that's what's really wrong with the USA.

Not female, not pregnant...

...no word on ethnicity... I'm surprised it even made the paper...

He is the city's 30th murder victim of the year. Last year at this time there were 15 homicides in Toronto.

Whaddaya wanna bet this guy doesn't get a special press conference from the Chief of Police?

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UPDATE: Murder Victim Id'd

And it sounds as though he was living on borrowed time...

Ramsey Whitefish, the city’s 30th murder victim of the year, was found lifeless in a pool of blood on Gloucester St. just after midnight Wednesday. Back on April 1, 2004, he was among a small group of friends partying in a Sherbourne St. apartment — a booze-fueled night that ended with the vicious killing of Mariana Ivancicevic.

Live and don't learn... and don't live.

Hey, Canada...

How do you like your immaculately coiffed feminist manchild now?

“I have never seen any member of the House act towards another member or members as he just did,” Julian said. “Physical force in this House is never permitted, it is never welcome, and it is entirely inappropriate.”

No, you dumbstick... it's not inappropriate... IT'S CRIMINAL.

NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau said, “I was elbowed in the chest by the prime minister, and then I had to leave. It was very overwhelming. I missed the vote because of this."

Trudeau refused to speak with reporters as he left Parliament and simply said he would “talk about it later.”

Hey, the first rule of "fight club" is that you don't talk about "fight club." Waiting for all kinds of excuses from the mainstream media in three, two...

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RELATED: Just not ready...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of "manhandling" Opposition Whip Gord Brown and elbowing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau in the House of Commons as MPs gathered for a vote on the government's assisted-dying bill Wednesday afternoon.

The prime minister later said he felt Brown was talking too slowly ahead of the vote.

Don't upset the God-King, ye lesser mortals.

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LAST WORD: Be careful what you wish for...

Tom Mulcair, the New Democratic Party leader, also sounded the alarm, saying the Tories “on their worst day” didn’t try to stifle democracy in the way the Grits are now attempting.

Missing bad ol' Stephen Harper yet?

Who deserves more scrutiny here?

Kathleen Wynne for offering the bribes... or the Teacher's Union for taking it?

TORONTO - Ontario gave teachers' unions approximately $80.5 million since 2000, including $22 million with "no strings attached," the province's auditor general said in a report released Wednesday.

Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk also says she found no evidence of governments anywhere else in Canada doing the same thing.

So what do the Liberals do when they get caught?

In response to the report, the Ministry of Education has told the AG it does not play to pay union bargaining costs in the future.

You get the government you deserve, Ontario.

Justin Trudeau's legacy...

...it starts right here...

"Almost half of weed-smoking Canadian drivers say that they can safely operate a vehicle while stoned. Teenagers who drove under the influence of the drug said it either improved their performance behind the wheel or was no hindrance."

Who am I to argue with the average Canadian teenage stoner?

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RELATED: Everyone a Wynner

"How deep does the corruption of this Liberal government go? How great is their arrogance for making sure that their family and buddies make a fortune off the backs of Ontario taxpayers?"

(via sda)

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LAST WORD: The greening of Toronto

"Kensington Market, in particular, is reportedly reaching levels of marijuana saturation that are concerning even to its famously liberal population."

Cheech & Chonging their way to nirvana.

Enough is Enough!!!

Toronto Homicide Squad starts rounding up local farmers, hunters and target shooters...These folks just seem to have the worst luck in the world...

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RELATED: Same old, same old

One man has been transported to hospital after being shot in the head in the city’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood Thursday night.

It happened in the Driftwood Avenue and Yorkwoods Gate area at around 10 p.m.

The hits just keep on comin'.

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LAST WORD: Like the old joke about...

...the importance of knowing who the bride is at an Irish wedding... (spoiler - she's the one you don't wanna punch in the face)... Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders has a special press conference to remind urban gangbangers that they should only be murdering non-pregnant women.

Call me old-fashioned, but doesn't EVERY LIFE matter?

Health Canada proposes Justin's Liberals...

...provide free Islay single malt to homeless urban rubbies...

“A significant body of scientific evidence supports the medical use of alcohol, also known as distillery-grade scotch, for the treatment of chronic relapsing alcohol dependence,” the department said in a news release issued Friday.

I guess methadone is the Coors-Lite of the intravenous drug abuser menu.

That's a whole new reality TV series

Based on his research, New York Times best-selling author, award-winning journalist and Jenner biographer Ian Halperin believes that Jenner will de-transition in the next couple of years, telling the public how difficult the transition was, but noting that she was happy to help raise awareness about transgender rights.

So that's why Bruce has been hanging on to that pesky penis. It's the best of both worlds... he gets to be a Kardashian sister (at least for a bit) without actually lopping off his junk.

Heck, as long as we're here... let's ask a Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School...

Based on the photographic evidence one might guess Bruce Jenner falls into the group of men who come to their disordered assumption through being sexually aroused by the image of themselves as women.

He could have been treated for this misaligned arousal with psychotherapy and medication. Instead, he found his way to surgeons who worked him over as he wished.

Afterglowmeshi...

..the nagging feeling that your "victory" might not be all that it could be...

When I went to the CBC for help, what I received in return was a directive that yes, he could do this, and yes, it was my job to let him. The relentless message to me, from my celebrity boss and from the national institution we worked for was that his whims were more important than my humanity or my dignity. So I came to accept this. I came to believe it was his right.

But when I spoke to the police at the end of 2014, and detailed my experiences with Mr. Ghomeshi, they confirmed that what he did to me was, in fact, sexual assault.

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RELATED: Airbrushing the Politburo

It's what Canada's national broadcaster does best.

If only they could team up...

...with Justin Trudeau's "most admired" government...

"At Apple, we are deeply committed to making sure everyone in our supply chain is treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. Our team works hard to raise the bar every year to improve working conditions, provide educational opportunities, push for higher standards of living, and protect human rights."

Well... it's a step up from mixing melamine into baby formula... right?

Say goodbye...

...to separation of Church and State...

Public transport has been chosen for the Islamic re-branding in London, Manchester, Leicester, Birmingham, and Bradford – all UK locations with high and growing Muslim populations, reports the Sunday Times.

That the announcement of the new campaign came the day after London crowned its first Muslim leader, Mayor Sadiq Khan. Islamic Relief called it a “nice irony” that the two events coincided.

I can't wait to see what happens when Sharia Law collides with that whole "man trapped in a woman's body" dealio.

I wonder if any of those "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid" are perhaps feeling the least bit uneasy...

What is to be done? Nothing much, I’m afraid, except move to Poland or Hungary.

Brave New Medieval Theocracy.

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RELATED: And Winston Churchill wept...

Last year’s violence had a devastating impact on the delivery of fresh food with “intensive migrant activity” forcing the suspension of Eurotunnel services and closure of the ferry terminal.

This battle is already lost.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"This technology sounds awesome. Let’s protect the president with it immediately."

Bonus Round:

"When an obviously mentally disturbed person identifies themselves as Napoleon you do not help them by treating them like an emperor of France."

Done and done.

Urban Mysteries Episode 43

Why is there never a #Black Lives Matter spokesvictim around when you really, really need one?

"Investigators believe the kidnapping was precipitated by a shootout involving the Young Buck Killas and the Queens Drive Crips that unfolded April 19 in the 25th-floor hallway of 300 Front St. W."

It's a mystery.

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RELATED: #Only White Privilege Matters

"We fought for this and we won, and in that way it is a victory, but it's a victory in a backhanded way," said Janaya Khan of Black Lives Matter Toronto.

Say, Janaya... why don't we ever hear from BLM Toronto founder Yusra Ali anymore?

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RELATED2: Oops, there goes another...

One man has been transported to a trauma centre with serious injuries after being shot in north Etobicoke.

It happened in the Turnvale Road and Alicewood Court area shortly before 8:30 p.m.

Do not confuse this event with the teen shot the previous Saturday...

Toronto police say they are trying to figure out what led to a 15-year-old boy sustaining a gunshot wound to the leg in north Etobicoke on Saturday evening.

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LAST WORD: Life in Scaryborough

Not from a close Italian family...

Cynthia Mullapudi, 24, and Joseph Anzolona, 26, were shot to death inside a parked vehicle after making a brief stop at an LCBO near Ellesmere Road and Victoria Park Avenue last Friday night.

The suspected gunman, 24-year-old Toronto resident Harris Nnanem, was arrested last Sunday night and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

If only there was a point of commonality between all these murderous events.

"If we're lucky, they'll treat us..."

"...as pets... if we're very unlucky, they'll treat us as food."

To accomplish such a complex task, the robot has seven degrees of freedom and an articulated suturing tool, as well as a sensor that can gauge suture tension. This combines with the vision system to accurately place sutures.

What they hope to see is a future, not where humans are eradicated, but where humans assist robots rather than the other way around.

If it scares big brains like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking... maybe, just maybe you wanna pump the brakes a little.

Remember Prime Minister Care Bear's...

...promise to vet all those Syrian refugees?

OTTAWA -- People with serious criminal records and others using potentially phoney addresses are among those who managed to secure Canadian citizenship, thanks to a system that doesn't do enough to root out fraud, the auditor general has found.

In one instance, it took seven years for officials to cotton on to the fact a single address had been used by at least 50 different applicants during overlapping time periods. Of the 50, seven became Canadian citizens.

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RELATED: Just not ready...

To the Canadian government, I’m told to tell you to meet the demand. I don’t know what you’re doing, but you’re not doing anything for us. John has been sacrificed, his family has been decimated, and I’m not sure why or what you’re waiting for.

Don't worry though... Justin'll save the Demarais family.

Heads they Wynne...

...tails we bend over and grab our ankles...

The scale of the waste is so large as to be almost incomprehensible, which may explain why Ontario’s Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk’s report was a one-day news wonder when it landed last December. Once the count gets into the hundreds of billions, the mind goes numb. If the province announced construction of the Burning Money Biomass Plant, fuelled by bales of five and 10-dollar bills, it probably wouldn’t be capable of destroying $170-billion.

Nearly a decade later, this week’s leaked document on its upcoming greenhouse-gas strategy suggests Kathleen Wynne’s government has not learned from her predecessor Dalton McGuinty’s mistakes. Glen Murray, a minister with more enthusiasm than knowledge, is in charge of the environmental file; last time around, George Smitherman was the designated enthusiast. Ontarians should be worried.

If you voted Liberal since the turn of the century... you lost your right to bitch about the cost of electricity.

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LAST WORD: Have Ontarians given up?

Ontarians are to believe, therefore, that it’s just a coincidence that the Liberal party’s biggest donors also happen to be the government’s greatest beneficiaries: that the Liberals are somehow impervious to influence from wealthy stakeholders and capable of receiving partisan donations with one hand, and impartially signing off on corporate subsides and contracts with the other.

I got nuthin'.