19 March 2009

Sauce for the Goosesteppers

  3/19/2009 10:45:00 am      
You wanna get their attention.... you've gotta speak jihadi...
Israel has detained 10 senior Hamas leaders in the West Bank two days after indirect talks between the two sides on a possible prisoner swap collapsed.
As always, in this part of the world, everything is relative.
An Israeli military spokeswomen described them as "terror operatives"; Hamas said they included four MPs, a former deputy PM and an academic.
I dunno... maybe they're gonna have to call in Clark "Hussein" Kent... "Faster than a speeding teleprompter..."

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18 March 2009

Despite all the cheering...

  3/18/2009 07:15:00 pm      
...from the leftosphere, the situation in Afghanistan is hardly as dark as you might think...
The idea that Kabul is under siege is a figment of the news media's imagination based on hyped reporting of a few isolated attacks.

ISAF officers suggested to us that the recent insurgent raids on three government buildings, which generated so much negative publicity, were actually good news, because Afghan security forces, who have assumed lead responsibility for operations in much of the capital, were able to handle the crisis on their own.
That, of course, is the real measure of progress in what so recently was a medieval theocracy.
Commandos from the Afghan National Police Crisis Response Team stormed into the Justice Ministry within hours and killed all the attackers, who had hoped to carry out a protracted Mumbai-style siege.

Other would-be suicide bombers were rounded up before they could set off their explosives.
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Mayor Miller's office strangely silent...

  3/18/2009 01:30:00 pm      
...on which gun, er... fencing club they belong to...
Toronto police are looking for as many as a dozen youths involved in a series of gang swarming attacks in and around the city's Annex neighbourhood, including one stabbing that sent a man to hospital for emergency surgery.

Police said in all of the cases, a group of six to 12 young males surrounded a person and demanded cash or items such as iPods.
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RELATED: One for the good guys
Three Toronto men, Kush Walker-King, 20, Christopher Abbott, 33, and Lanri Watson, 25, face a laundry list of charges including attempted murder, robbery and unauthorized firearm possession.
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The war on law-abiding citizens

  3/18/2009 10:30:00 am      
"But, but, but... going after actual criminals is soooooo hard."

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RELATED: Well, as long as it's...

...a fair fight.
During their investigation into the shooting, officers also arrested a man in the area who was wearing a bulletproof vest. He was released from custody and no charges have been laid.

It is not illegal to wear body armour, but Toronto police Det. Derek Young told CBC News that the people officers encounter who are wearing bulletproof vests are usually involved in illegal activities such as drug dealing.
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Perhaps "the answer"...

  3/18/2009 09:30:00 am      
...isn't "blowing in the wind" after all...
-- TORONTO -- A 20-year-old man was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital with serious injuries after being shot in the stomach last night.

Police arrived to an apartment complex at 35 St. Dennis Dr. around 10:30 p.m. to find the victim suffering from a single gunshot wound to the lower abdomen.
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UPDATE: COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Unlike their fawning coverage of, say... Caribana...

...CTV lays this one squarely at the feet of the bogtrotting, alcoholic Irish
Funny how that works.

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When it's being touted as actual...

  3/18/2009 09:00:00 am      
..."foreign policy"... I'm not sure you can go with the old "sticks and stones" defense...
Asked whether he approved of Ahmadinejad saying he wants to wipe a UN member state - Israel - off the map, d'Escoto said "if he said that, it's lamentable," but he quickly added that "words as such don't kill" and it's the actions that have to be watched.
So what we're waiting for... is the actual "wiping out" to take place?

Like Rwanda? Or the Sudan?

FIRE... THEM... ALL.

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Hope, Change and...

  3/18/2009 07:00:00 am      
GOING, GOING...
President Obama was informed about the $165 million in bonuses due to employees of the American Insurance Group the day before they were paid out last week, the White House disclosed late Tuesday.
GONE...
During late-night, closed-door talks last month, negotiators for the House, Senate and White House stripped out a measure to the stimulus bill that could have restricted the AIG bonuses.
Yeah... shocked AND surprised.

Hey, buddy... there's a little tarnish on that halo.

About $101,332 worth.

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RELATED: Okay... everybody settle down

"The One" has it covered.

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LAST WORD: Are they nuts?
The U.S. Census Bureau is working with several national organizations to help recruit 1.4 million workers to produce the country's 2010 census, including one with a history of voter fraud charges.

ACORN, which claims to be a non-partisan grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people, came under fire in 2007 when Washington State filed felony charges against several paid ACORN employees and supervisors for more than 1,700 fraudulent voter registrations.
(h/t reader rich)

17 March 2009

Where's my taxpayer-funded public enquiry?

  3/17/2009 02:00:00 pm      
Just add it to the list of stuff that's way more dangerous than tasers. And don't play coy, Dawg... you know what list.

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RELATED: Over 300 incidents... no deaths
In his report to the Toronto Police Services Board, Chief Bill Blair said none of the 329 people had any lasting injuries from use of the "conducted energy weapons."

Police are criticized for using the devices, but although linked to 20 people's deaths in Canada, coroners concluded all had other medical conditions.
That's funny... those 20 deaths? Sun reporter Ian Robertson fails to mention what period of time is involved here... or the fact that this number is also country-wide.

So Ian... five years... ten tears? C'mon pal, pony up.

Journalists... our moral & intellectual superiors.

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LAST WORD: Sure thing, genius... no more tasers

Let's just shoot 'em.

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The H.O.M. time machine

  3/17/2009 01:00:00 pm      
Ah, yes... time, once more, for the world's most expensive condiment...
"Just remember: you are doing it for LOVE... forget the fact that when you add in your costs for the energy to boil the sap, the time spent, etc., you are creating a $200 bottle of syrup!"
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FROM THE COMMENTS: Finish this sentence...
"If 'Meat is Murder' then 'Sap is... '"
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2009 Political Chutzpah Awards

  3/17/2009 10:45:00 am      
"And this year, ironically... the much coveted 'Wilbur' statuette goes to 'Peak Pork'."
And in the ever popular "Political Correctness" category...
"Thought experiment: Try to come up with a terrorist group the Dawg wouldn’t have time for."
Comment by Black Mamba — March 16, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
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LAST WORD: Burning down the Dawghouse...
"Yeah, and we should have handed over the Pickton investigation to Davie Street hookers."

"Or, speaking of Gacy, put off digging up the dude's basement until cops could consult with the Runaway Teenage Boy Community(tm)."
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So, really, we can just blame this one...

  3/17/2009 06:30:00 am      
...on Stephen Harper...
-- BRAMPTON -- A 59-year-old woman was found slain in her home this afternoon and hours later her son was arrested east of the Toronto for her murder.

One man, who went to high school with the accused and didn't give his name, said Justin recently lost his job at an auto parts company.

He wonders if the loss of his job led to some sort of breakdown.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"This smacks of Mike Harris."

"Or global warming."
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16 March 2009

Dear Leader

  3/16/2009 04:00:00 pm      
Mr. Alinsky would be proud. And rightly so. For this is simply the continuation of Mr. Obama’s perpetual campaign.

A campaign, as we noted at the time, that was modeled on Saul Alinsky’s organizing principles.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"I support Obama's bold plan* to dramatically increase the size of useless government and to do so by using my children and their children as economic vampire meat so I can live beyond my means."

"I support it even though there is no economic evidence it will work and there is a lot of evidence that plans like this haven't worked in the past."
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