The amount of money donated...

By local Wiccans, Sun Worshippers and various stripes of "activist" were not available at press time...

The largest endowment in its history - $100,000 - has been given to the Belleville General Hospital Foundation by the Women's Christian Association.

That the WCA should show such largesse to the foundation should come as no surprise - it was the organization that founded Belleville hospital in 1886.

Besides the $100,000, the WCA also gave $50,000 to the Tri-County Foundation Imagine campaign to help purchase state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging equipment for the hospital.

Damn Christian showoffs.

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Hey Dawg... it's all good

Yeah... let's just trash all those stoo-pid, outdated "socially conservative values", huh?

-- LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- A Florida teenager is facing a charge of elder abuse after he allegedly made his senile grandmother wear a black mask and hold a handgun for a video.

Police in Lake Worth, Fla., say the 85-year-old woman is seen and heard on the video threatening to shoot "all the pigs."

Yessirree... out with the old... in with the new.

Authorities say 18-year-old Michael Alfinez was arrested Monday and charged with abusing an elderly person, discharging a firearm in public and improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon.

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Shaazaam!!!

"Section 3(2) is legal pixie dust, declaring that if any freedom of expression is infringed, the law will just "deem" that it never happened."

"Keep moving, nothing to see here."

"After all, who are you going to believe -- section 3(2), or your lying eyes?"

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Immaculate Perception

Yeah... who could have possibly seen this coming?

-- SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Rescuers scoured the waters off Brazil's southern Atlantic Coast yesterday looking for a Roman Catholic priest who disappeared after floating into the sky strapped to hundreds of helium-filled party balloons.

Rev. Adelir Antonio di Carli lifted off from the port city of Paranagua Sunday wearing a helmet, aluminum thermal flight suit, waterproof coveralls and parachute in a bid to break a record for the longest time in flight with party balloons.

Hey... screw that "ministering to the poor" thing... I'm gonna be famous.

A cluster of balloons was found last night, floating in the sea off Brazil's Santa Catarina state.

And now... I guess he is.

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Fantastic Voyage...

Coming soon to a computer near you...

The original Kodachrome slides, carefully preserved, still provide images of tremendous clarity.

Blood vessels cluster in a cobwebby tangle along a spinal column, and pelvic bones stand out like butterflies against a stark black field.

The back of a man's head, its layers of flesh and bone sliced away, shows the excavation from the scalp down to the brain as if looking at a stratified canyon wall.

Everything old is new again.

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The public gets wise...

To the propaganda machines... it's not just print media that's taking the hit...

"On Tuesday CBS received ratings results that put an exclamation point on its troubles: the “CBS Evening News” recorded the worst five-night run in its history last week."

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RELATED: Oh gawd... we're all gonna die...

...again.

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Setting the Islamic record straight

"That was OUR MASS MURDER"... screams al-Qaeda...

In response to a question about persistent rumours in the Middle East that Israel was involved in the 9/11 attacks, Zawahiri said the rumour had begun on the Hezbollah television station, Al-Manar.

"The purpose of this lie is clear - to suggest that there are no heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt America as no-one else did in history," he said.

"Iranian media snapped up this lie and repeated it."

Settle down now, Ayman... we all know you're a bloodthirsty savage.

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C'mon, it was a nice day...

The sun was shining, the birds were birding... I mean, it's not like they drove all the way to Winnipeg.

That makes sense... right?

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Farmers, hunters and target shooters...

Totally off the hook... yet again...

A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old face a total of 18 charges in robbery of two city restaurants at gunpoint. Last Wednesday, a restaurant on Overlea Blvd. was robbed by a masked gunman who walked behind the counter and demanded cash.

Then, on Saturday, a restaurant on Danforth Ave. near Coxwell Ave. was also robbed at gunpoint by a young suspect while another young suspect kept watch outside.

And again...

A 25-year-old man is in hospital after being shot several times in the leg downtown, then taken to Newmarket and dumped.

The victim, who was found by police around 3 a.m. Tuesday near the top of Hwy. 404 in Newmarket, claims he was abducted by the suspects near Queen and Lansdowne and then dumped in York Region.

If only there was a law.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Oh those poor children! FORCED by Conservatives to steal guns and shoot people! Where are the social workers? Where are the basketball courts?"

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LAST WORD: That's some "Justice" System

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Whistle while you work

Jay Currie gets busy...

And, Lying Jackal and Bernie Farber: let’s get cracking. This is a real live Holocaust Denier. Where is the CJC when you need them?

You must remember "Hero Administrator Rehmat."

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Yeah, yeah, we get it...

You guys are even bigger jerkoffs than we suspected...

-- DESERONTO -- Native protesters who seized a major portion of this small Hastings County town pledged yesterday to maintain the disruption for a week to send a message to any would-be developers of disputed native lands.

Fresh from their victory over the folks who were gonna renovate a local senior citizens complex... the Mohawk Warriors are declaring another war on the long-suffering residents of Deseronto.

Does this silly shit ever end? And where are the local cops?

Oh yeah... this wily Culbertson dude who supposedly perpetrated the horrendous fraud on the poor aboriginals... was the grandson of John Desorontyon - the Mohawk chief to whom the entire eastern land grant to Mohawks was made.

Funny how nobody ever mentions that in their manifesto.

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RELATED: Ask a resident...

"What gives them the authority to block that road? This is bullshit as far as I'm concerned. This doesn't do any good," Webb said.

Webb said he does not understand why the natives can block a road and prevent traffic from passing and not be arrested.

He said if he were the one to do it, the police would immediately lock him up.

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LAST WORD: McSlippery finally finds his balls

DESERONTO, ON, April 22 /CNW/ - On April 22, 2008 at approximately 9:45 am, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Public Order Unit, in support of Napanee OPP detachment members, attended the protest/road closure site on County Road 2 and Deseronto Road.

OPP officers trained in the safe, orderly removal of protesters advised those present at the road closure site to leave or be subject to arrest and criminal charges. Upon police intervention, the protestors dispersed without any physical altercation.

See Dalt... was that so hard?

Now clean up Caledonia.

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Who's zoomin' who?

It's nice to be noticed... I think...
Trifecta.

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Why use scientific instruments...

That actually measure sound... when you have all these under-utilised "motion picture electricians?"

Davidson Tate, another neighbour who lives about 1,500 metres from the range, said he knows from his own work as a motion picture electrician that the sound of handguns and semi-automatic weapons will be considerably louder than OPG has claimed.

He estimated the shooting range could affect the lives of about 100 residents and said he and his neighbours believe OPG could find a better location.

Well, if that's his "estimate"... we'll just have to start shutting things down.

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Before teeing off on democracy...

Try imagine living without it...

Mr Putin spent the eight years since he was first elected president building up the powers of the office. He neutered the once-combative legislature and appointed prime ministers distinguished only by their loyalty: Mikhail Fradkov and, since last year, the even duller Viktor Zubkov.

Now Mr Putin is reversing the process, robbing the presidency of its omnipotence.

As prime minister and party leader, he will have a tight grip on the country's finances and its regional elites.

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They stab it with their steely knives...

But they just can't kill the beast...

"I want to eat better, feel better, and help offset the damage that Al Gore is doing to the environment by eating meat."

"By signing my name, I pledge to explore a vegetarian diet for at least 30 days, which will prevent more than 270 pounds of carbon dioxide from being emitted into the Earth's atmosphere."

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UPDATE: An Inconvenient Fraud

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of "The Day After Tomorrow."

KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR)

Yeah, that's, that's our shot. That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there.

Yeah... no kidding.

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A budget shortfall, you say?

If only this facility had been adequately staffed...

The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre says 326 cancer patients received a lower dose of radiation treatment than prescribed to them over a three year period due to a calculation error.

The cancer centre says patients who received radiation treatment between November 2004 and November 2007 got a dose of radiation up to 17 per cent less than the dose prescribed to them.

The head of the Ottawa Hospital says a staff shortage was likely one of the factors that led to the mistake.

Hey... would 32 million bucks have helped?

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I never went to law school...

But doesn't this sort of thing usually qualify as... what's that technical term the lawyers use..?

And I'm not the only person who's wondering...

"First, he explicitly denied, under oath, that he'd ever signed up at the Freedom Site message board, on the grounds that, "I could access everything I needed to as a guest".

Two minutes later, when his secret identity of "Lucy" the hate-message poster was revealed in court, he revised his answer: "Sorry. I stand corrected.""

Hmmm.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Question - "What's that technical term the lawyers use..?"

Answer - "Business as usual"

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Remember when you were a kid...

And people just used to fly out of cars in a rage... and beat other people with metal bars?

Yeah... me neither.

And what about all those kidnappings in broad daylight?

Uh, no... that never happened either.

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RELATED: It's a unique culture alright

Constable Gingras said police has the situation under control. The burned-out shells of at least five Montreal police cars littered the city's downtown early Tuesday morning.

Montreal recently had a spate of so-called anarchist violence, including the torching of six police cars in a station parking lot in March.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"If Boston had won would it be an angry riot instead of a 'happy' riot? Hope they've arrested enough 'joyful fans' to pay for the cop cars."

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More McSlippery slope

Sweet charity... unhorsed... again...

The Sikh group was one of the multiculti outfits that got money -- a quarter of a million dollars to be exact -- from the McGuinty government, as part of the $32-million ethnic slush fund that was run out of the province's ministry of citizenship and immigration until the media got wind of it in 2007.

(via the broom)

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RELATED: Speaking of fiberal-friendly charities

Remember the Iranian Animal Shelter?

"The opposition parties have questioned a $200,000 grant a year ago to the Iranian-Canadian Community Centre, a group that is yet to build a community centre and has raised just $15,000 in other funds."

"The centre was first listed with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency as a charitable organization in the category "protection of animals," but later was changed to the category "recreation, playgrounds and vacation camps."

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Will Oba-mania be enough?

Hey, it worked for Saint Pierre...

The crowd of a couple thousand in the Reading High School gymnasium probably didn't take note of Obama's little slip about the GOP nominee. They seemed incapable of seeing any flaws in the man. Even by Obama standards, they were frenzied.

Sometimes a passage of the speech that might not seem that exciting would cause a member of the crowd to stand up and wave and flap his arms like he'd been called to be a contestant on The Price Is Right.

That comparing yourself to JFK thing... that might be gettin' a little stale...

The Obama pitch has been remarkably consistent over the months. Without notes, he can now produce it with very little deviation from stop to stop.

Depending on how he does in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, he may finally get a chance to write a new speech.

Go Barry.

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