Look, mummy look... I'm a journalist!

Ceaseless pursuit of those larger life-changing epiphanies ••• I'm with Kathy Shaidle... skip the story, read the comments.
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RELATED: Ask a "Journo-Canadian"

Ask Adam Vaughan

“If I’m doing something, target me. Punish me. But why are you punishing every farmer, hunter & skeet shooter, er... taxi driver? We are not the same, so why are they treating us the same?”

But, but, but... he's so McDreamy

I have never been a big fan of Barack Obama... but I had to admit he surprised the crap outta me, making a pretty gutsy call to unilaterally invade Pakistan and execute Osama Bin-Laden...

Osama bin Laden steered the global operations of the al-Qaida terror network until his death last year at the hands of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six. The president and his surrogates have made the terrorist leader’s death a focal point in Obama’s re-election campaign, painting Obama as a decisive leader who took down America’s greatest mortal enemy.

Turns out, though... the car-salesman in chief isn't the broad-shouldered, larger than life, get it done hero the mainstream media gushily made him out to be. In fact, it's beginning to look like the CIA and the U.S. military were the actual foot on the gas pedal here....

In ”Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him,“ Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March. Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time, according to the book.

Yeah, that sounds more like Mr. "Buy the world a coke"... you know... the guy who's gonna level out all the world's inequities...

President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior.

The board’s decision requires that “the state’s 24 school systems track data to ensure that minority and special education students are not unduly affected by suspensions, expulsions and other disciplinary measures,” said a July 25 Washington Post report.

“Disparities would have to be reduced within a year and eliminated within three years,” according to the Post.

Looks like Barack is taking a page out of Dalton McGuinty's "Imagine All the People" playbook...

"The Liberal government’s Bill 212 was in response to a complaint launched by the Ontario Human Rights Commission regarding the extent to which 'racialized students' and 'students with disabilities' were unfairly treated through the zero tolerance approach to student discipline."

Yet again... the price of political correctness.

More rainbows & unicorns at the G&M

I seem to vaguely recall a distant era when "professional" media organisations were content to simply report the news... instead of routinely inserting their particular bias...
Wow... looks like that unrepentant, tea-baggin' neo-con Romney is ready to jump off (or speak harshly, anyway) to our Muslim broth... wait a minute...I guess it's true... you can't fool all of the people... all of the time.

But that doesn't stop them from trying...
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RELATED: You want actual shocking news?

How about Canada actually moving to deport a man who murdered a child?

"'Beyan Dunoh Clarke points out that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Liberia, whereas he has only killed one Canadian. Therefore, on balance, he should be allowed to stay in Canada,' Justice James O'Reilly said in summarizing one of Clarke's main arguments."

What Elmo hath joyfully blessed...

...let no mere mortal rip asunder...

"Alderman Moreno does not allege that Chick-fil-A discriminates in its hiring practices or in its customer service. Nor does he argue that business owners should not be entitled to hold opinions. Did you know that the Muppet Corporation has a position on gay marriage? Well, they do."

"But Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef would be permitted to open a business in the First Ward of Chicago because their opinion on gay marriage happens to coincide with Alderman Moreno's."

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RELATED: Playing by "Chicago Rules"

"It’s ironic because both Farrakhan and the Koran have said things about homosexuals that make the utterances of Chick-fil-A’s CEO, um, pale by comparison."

I'm gonna go out on a limb here...

...and guess that Michael Schmidt's little agricultural enterprise has harmed fewer people than, well... read on...

-- TORONTO -- Schmidt was sentenced to one year of probation and fined $9,150 for operating an illegal cow-share business.

Schmidt's conviction came after a lower court had acquitted him of the same charges in January 2010.

In 1994, he was sentenced on similar charges, fined $3,500 and placed on two years probation.

I wonder how many bureaucrats or hospital administrators the McSlippery government has arrested and dragged into court...

"State-of-the-art handwashing sinks installed in the intensive care unit and some patient rooms in Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital actually became the reservoir of a pesky drug-resistant bug that infected or colonized 66 patients from the fall of 2006 to the spring of 2011."

Pic of the Week

Solving the terrible scourge of inner-city homicide & mayhem...

"After a public shooting that left two dead and 23 injured, the City of Toronto is offering Danzig Street residents free media training."

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RELATED: Some of you were asking why I started moderating comments...
Some nights my biggest fan drops by simply to call me "faggot"... very often accompanied by lurid descriptions of sexual acts. Other times it's an incomprehensible religious screed.

Yet I'm sure in his heart of hearts, Libby considers himself a compassionate, intellectual human being. It's actually quite sad.

I don't get it

Why be all "Big Brother" and bend people over... when, instead... Councillor Adam Vaughan can simply announce a ban on guns & bullets?

-- TORONTO -- “The search is going to be by the organizers, not the police,” Dr. Dhun Noria, acting chair of the Toronto Police Services Board said, adding organizers are entitled” to take “a precautionary action so that unsavoury people don’t get in.”

About 600 “Caribbean-friendly” security staffers with reggae and concert event experience are being hired, but their ranks will vary based on crowd size.

Just curious... but does anybody remember any "Mick-friendly" security staffers at the Toronto St Patrick's Day parade?

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RELATED: I see. When Alvin Curling...

...says it... it's not racist profiling...
Try imagine the shitstorm if Mayor Ford had said this...

“The evidence is showing, basically, that these shootings are at gatherings like this,” said Alvin Curling, a former provincial politician who co-authored a task force on the roots of youth violence. “If one has to single out a group where certain things like this are happening, I don’t think that’s wrong.”

TEH CHILDRUN IS R FUTUR

Thank goodness we have the Young Offenders Act...

Three teens admitted Tuesday to killing their aspiring rapper buddy by shooting him four times, stabbing him in the neck and dumping his bullet-riddled body into the Humber River. The trio, BA and DG, both now 19, and JA, now 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Neither the murderers nor the deceased can be legally identified as they were all minors at the time.

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:
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LAST WORD:  The Toronto Star said so...

"Everyone interviewed for this story said they did not see the gunmen."

So the political whores...

...at Toronto City Hall & Queens Park get their 30 second soundbites in yet another meaningless news cycle... but who actually pays the price here?

Chris Baldwin is the Overall National Sporting Rifle 3-position champion three years in a row, National Junior prone champion, and second place grand aggregate. He competed in the 2008 and 2010 Ontario Summer Games and won triple gold medals and Provincial Junior Champion in several events. He was a gold and silver air rifle medallist at the 2011 Canada Winter Games and won first place in 2009 at a Youth Olympic Games match held in Colorado Springs against youth from North and South America. When he isn't training to perfect his aim, he can be found outdoors fishing, hiking, and mountain biking.

Sabrina Sergeant began shooting sporting rifle five years ago and won gold and bronze at the 2010 Ontario Summer Games and she enjoys air rifle competition. She and Baldwin are looking forward to competing in this year's events held in St. Catharines on August 17-19, yet they remain confused at having their ambassadorship suddenly withdrawn.

And what exactly is the lesson that is being passed on to our children? You wanna talk about innocent bystanders?

“Sports should be about fairness, the spirit of friendship, and the pursuit of excellence,” explains John Evers. “What are these kids learning from having their special distinction taken away by a bunch of anti-gun organizers? They're being taught that life isn't fair and it's okay to tar everyone with the same brush, however disconnected they might be. The Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto should be deeply ashamed.

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RELATED: But never mind those two...

...dumb as dawgshit, gun-totin', feral hillbilly kids...
Watch as the media fawns over the person charged in the Danzig St firefight...

"This is somebody I've worked with for multiple years of his life, not to tell you he's the perfect kid," she said. "But as far as I'm concerned... he's somebody who was very intelligent, very sophisticated... always laughing, always talking to people."

Well, that's obviously got light sentence and early release written all over it.

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LAST WORD: Facts be damned

Despite Stephen Harper's best efforts...

...the Canadian economy has not collapsed...

The controversial stripper visa dates back to 1998 and allowed hundreds of foreign dancers into the country each year. There were 660 dancers admitted in its heyday in 2001. Most were from Eastern Europe. All they had to do was provide a Canadian job offer from a strip club and prove they were qualified to dance.

They had to prove they were strippers? No wonder the "natural ruling party" was on board here... they do so love a party.

Of course, along comes killjoy Stephen Harper and the tap slows to a dribble...

Only about 100 of these visas have been renewed each year since 2006.

Yup... you sure can tell a Conservative from a Liberal...

Support for the program plummeted ever since former Liberal immigration minister Judy Sgro resigned in 2000 after facing accusations that she fast-tracked a stripper who worked on her election campaign. It turned out the dancer was issued a special residency permit in a scandal called “Strippergate.”

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UPDATE: Take heart, Liberal Party of Canada

The Titty-Bar Empire Strikes Back...

Recruiters of teenage strippers may soon be scouring Toronto high schools in search of female students who can be groomed into disrobing part-time as exotic dancers to earn college tuition.

Adult Entertainment Association of Canada director Tim Lambrinos says overcrowded Toronto high schools can become a prime recruiting ground for potential dancers.

“We are already doing some outreach work in some areas,” Lambrinos said. “We will be taking a strippers’ dance pole with us to the schools.”

In what is obviously a well-planned and organised campaign... the association already has a Plan B...

There are up to 800 foreign strippers in Canada and most vow to go underground and work in the sex trade if they can’t dance legally.

High school strippers cum hookers? Is that what Toronto has come to?

I dunno... in the decade since I left sophisticated, metrosexual Toronto and put down roots out here in the sticks, I've yet to come across a single Dad bragging about "my daughter the stripper."

I guess we're just a bunch of hicks.

Google Gets Gawd

"We hold these truths to be self evident, er... a racist construct of the ruling infidel oligarchy."

And, hey... maybe we could say...

...they died of lead poisoning...

TORONTO - Councillor Norm Kelly urged the media Friday not to use the word “Scarborough” when describing Monday’s mass shooting.

Kelly sent out a press release to news outlets Friday asking them to call the fatal shooting the “Danzig shooting” rather than the “Scarborough shooting”.

Two people died and 23 others were injured in Monday’s shooting at a block party on Danzig St. in Scarborough.

The world is getting to be too slippery a place for yours truly. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

Does anybody else remember a time when people went on welfare? Now apparently, they've morphed into "clients"... who accept (the implication being that it has been foisted upon them) "social assistance."

There are no more prisons. They've been replaced with "correctional facilities." How long you figure it'll take to "correct" what's wrong with Paul Bernardo?

Even the Toronto police chief is getting in on the act...

"Blair said, 'an altercation broke out among some individuals and there was an exchange of gunfire'."

Yeah, a little altercation & exchange that put 23 people in the emergency room and two others on the slab at the morgue.

What's with all the make-believe? Does anybody actually believe that they're making anything better by obfuscating the facts?

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RELATED: A homicide? Heaven forfend...

...this was an unfortunate cutlery incident...

A Toronto man was charged with second-degree murder after an alleged assault turned deadly in Scarborough early Sunday morning.

Toronto Police initially responded to a call for an ongoing assault near McCowan Rd. and Hwy. 401 around 2 a.m.

But once on scene, police discovered the body of a man in his 20s with stab wounds to his chest.

Zishan Malikm 20, of Toronto, is charged with second-degree murder.

Just something else to think about...

...as you're signing that rather opulent municipal tax cheque...

"In Toronto, nobody gets kicked out of social housing for bad behaviour – not even for criminal activity, or owning a gun. With 164,000 tenants, Toronto Community Housing is the second-largest housing provider in North America."

Obviously though, according to yet another man with his hand in your pocket... it's just not enough...

“I think we need to take a pause and ask ourselves what more we might do,” Premier Dalton McGuinty said during a news conference Thursday.

Hey, don't look at me... I didn't vote for him.

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RELATED: In other Hogtown news

Shortly before midnight, one victim suffered a gunshot in the upper part of the body, and another in the lower extremities while in a car near Black Creek Drive and Weston Road, paramedics say. They were found near Jane and Bloor streets and were transported to a local hospital.

Earlier in the evening, a man believed to be in his late 20s was shot in a separate shooting in the Jane and Finch area.

At around 9:45 p.m. Friday, police received a call about a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the head on Driftwood Court, near Jane Street and Finch Avenue West. The victim was taken to a hospital in life-threatening condition, and the area has been cordoned off for the investigation.

The Friday shootings were the fifth ones this week.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Another suggestion I would have, if a youth is caught with an illegal gun, then try him in adult court with adult laws."

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UPDATE: Arrest made in Danzig shooting

Police have arrested Archibald MacDougall of Forest Hill, er... Nahom Tsegazab, 19... of Toronto.

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LAST WORD: Hang on a second...

...is this the same "community" whose most strident motto is apparently "stitches for snitches?"

"Leaders of Toronto’s African-Canadian community criticized all levels of government for what they say is a failure to include them in discussions of gun violence prevention."

And what brainstorm would the community be bringing to the table?

"Ms. Parsons said her legal clinic supports Mr. Vaughan’s proposed city-wide ammunition ban. The proposed law would ban the sale of ammunition within city limits."

Why, yes... I was in a Scarborough Canadian Tire Store just the other day when one of the Galloway Boys walked up to the sporting goods counter, plunked down his Firearms Acquisition certificate and asked for a thousand rounds of 9mm ammo.

What's that hoary old Liberal mantra?

Oh yeah... "if it only saves one life"...The more information you have about ANY situation... never mind it involves idealogy, religion AND explosives... that's a good thing, right?

"Welner interviewed Khadr over two days at Guanatamo Bay and determined he remained 'highly dangerous.' He described Khadr as a 'rock star' among his terrorist peers and a 'hero' to his radical family. He called him manipulative, angry and noted it would be tough for him to reintegrate."

"He was sentenced to 40 years in jail but, under a plea deal, he only had to serve eight."

Apparently, though... even serving only one fifth of his sentence is a travesty of justice for many in the "Journo-Canadian" community...
And...Heck, what's all the fuss about... the Liberals & NDP have been telling us all along that poor little Omar... wait a minute....

"The video recordings were sealed by a U.S. court, meaning they are currently unreleasable, but they include interviews between Mr. Khadr and a New York forensic psychiatrist who has painted a grim portrait of Mr. Khadr as an unrepentant, dangerous, Islamic extremist who has been “marinated in the radical jihadism” during his imprisonment."

Hey Torontonians, here's a question you might wanna ask yourself... "Would I let my children ride on the Yonge St subway beside self-confessed terrorist & murderer Omar Khadr?"

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Like Ezra, I wouldn’t want to sit next to Khadr on an Air Canada flight, and I suspect most Canadians wouldn’t either."

Hell no, but lets bring the son of a bitch back anyway!!

That secretive, controlling Stephen Harp...

...wait a minute...

"Our reporter wanted to ask McGuinty one question at the barbecue, and that was about the security breach — Did McGuinty still feel confident that Elections Ontario could run the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection with integrity?"

"But the question did not get asked. The Record reporter and photographer were told to leave. The reporter was advised to use more generic comments on the topic that McGuinty had made in Guelph earlier that day."

Let's gather up all those social workers...

...and perennial do-gooders and ask 'em to live in those "priority" neighbourhoods...

"I am not suggesting that the desire to own a gun is simply a form of penis anxiety. However, in a society where some men experience status anxiety because of social exclusion – perhaps due to racism or lack of economic opportunity – and where the culture has been significantly shaped by pistolization, then the gun becomes a vehicle for acting out."

Hang on a second... you shoot somebody... you're "acting out"?

Enough with the psychiatric argle-bargle. Could it be that these sociopaths, who've been brought up in a culture that devalues family & women... a culture that glorifies machismo at the expense of human life... are simply irreparably damaged and not fit to live in the larger field of folk? The madmen who commit these crimes are invariably hardened veteranos of the criminal justice system... who have repeatedly been through the court system and recycled back into society.

They are not innocent bystanders. They shoot innocent bystanders.

That doesn't seem to be how the lunatic left and the mainstream media see things. There is apparently no length to which they will not go... to rationalise this homicidal behaviour...

"If something goes wrong in a drug deal, if somebody steals your merchandise or poaches your customers, there is no formal legal recourse. You cannot call the cops. You cannot take somebody to court."

"So in order to participate in the illicit drug economy, the capacity to use violence is very important. Violence enforces market share. It ensures that informal contracts are honoured."

The "capacity to use violence", huh?

Yup, it's not a crime... just another entrepreneurial skill.

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RELATED: Sun Media's Peter Worthington...

...about to get excommunicated from Journo-Canadian community...

"'Profiling' is a taboo word for many, especially human rights zealots who equate 'profiling' with bullying or unfairly picking on a portion of the community. The last cop who identified a crime-prone group got reprimanded and demoted."

"A reality is that the groups for whom handguns are a factor of daily life are adept at profiling, and making targets of their enemies."

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:
Yet another gem from my biggest fan, Liberal Supporter.

Hey, pal... you used two g's this time. I guess that's an improvement. As for your other little troll, I believe it's spelled "Heil" not "Hiel".

Just a suggestion, but I'm thinkin' you might wanna get somebody to proofread all your comments AND... while they're at it... all your tattoos as well. Baggie full of dope notwithstanding, those OCAP protest bunnies are lookin' to meet philosophers & intellectuals, right?

Think of all the lives saved...

...if only Toronto City Councillor Adam Vaughan had been allowed to ban bullets within city limits...I mean, everybody knows how terrified homicidal maniacs are of draconian municipal bylaws...

Toronto police are investigating a shooting death in the city for the third night in a row.

A man in his 20s was found dead after police were called to the city’s north end just after 1 a.m. near the intersection of Flemington Road and Varna Drive.

It was the fourth deadly shooting in three nights in the city.

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UPDATE: Maybe we should be banning...

...those really cool "street names"...

RIP Daniel Davis... aka "Snoop".

The man slain early Thursday was at the party on Danzig when gunfire erupted killing two people and wounding 23 others, a reliable source says.

“The retaliation has started,” crime victim advocate Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo said with conviction just hours after the city’s 30th homicide of the year.

When it rains...

...well, you know...
C'mon, folks... safest city in the world... the Police Chief said so...

A 42-year-old man is dead following a shooting near a soccer field in Toronto late Tuesday.

Police responded to a call about gunshots in the parking lot of the Jane-Eglinton area field at 9:40 p.m. They found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The victim has been identified as Clayton Wright, of Mississauga. He is Toronto's 29th murder victim of the year.

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RELATED: Playing with numbers

Lousy shooters, great paramedics... don't mean you're safer...

However much crime in general may have dipped, shootings have not.

So far this year, the number of occurrences is up by 33 per cent compared to the same date in 2011; the number of people killed or injured has risen by 42 per cent; and – perhaps most striking – the number of reported instances in which guns were fired without anyone being hit has increased by 67 per cent.

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FROM THE GLOBE COMMENTS:

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"Heil Harper!"
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 2:13 AM, July 19, 2012

Oh, nonny... having trouble sleeping? How's that work anyway... a little "heiling" is good for the soul?

No, Margaret... it's not about broken...

...it's about "nonexistent"... because, let's face it... turning impregnating as many barely adolescent girls as you can into some sort of jousting contest is about as anti-family an activity as I can imagine...You do, however... make one pretty important point...

"Meantime, there is one other thing we can do. We can do a better job of keeping vicious young offenders off the streets."

"We can reform the system so that the Youth Criminal Justice Act no longer stands for You Can’t Jail Anyone. That is a far more promising strategy than toughening gun laws (which are already plenty tough) or banning bullets – even if it doesn’t make us feel half as good."

It's too late for the two bodies that got dropped on Danzig St., but bear in mind going forward... the child you save might just be your own.