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♫ "Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?" ♫

Activist Len Goldberg, who attended the protest on Friday, told CBC Toronto earlier this week that his fellow activists felt sadness and outrage over the leg being "desecrated and defiled."

"There's a mix of emotions when you see the leg of an innocent being being carved up in front of you to taunt you," Goldberg said.

The money quote...

"We can't protest McDonald's — they would laugh."

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LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES:

"The restaurant saw a steady stream of patrons by reservation only on Saturday night. A dozen people without reservations were turned away as the roughly 30-something dining spots were full."

You just can't buy this kind of publicity.

Poor little Sheikh al-Doofus...

...I so feel your pain...

The revocation exposes them to “rendition and torture,” Elsheikh said. “When you have these two guys who don’t even have any citizenship …if we just disappear one day, where is my mom going to go and say where is my son.”

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RELATED: A little closer to home...

London's murder rate has overtaken New York City's for the first time ever as the twelfth person has been killed in just 19 days. New York City's murder statistics have decreased by 87 per cent since the 1990s, while London's rate has grown by nearly 40 per cent in just three years, not including deaths caused by terrorist attacks.

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LAST WORD: Diversity is our streng...

...sweet baby jebus...

Needles were "not consistently changed between clients" during the free tests at the March 25 health fair in Toronto organized by the Vision Infinite Foundation, a Bangladeshi-Canadian community group.

And there's this...

Starting Tuesday, all lead caretakers at the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) will spend one day learning how to be more diverse and inclusive when they clean their schools.

"The 'justice' will balance itself"

“Because of the result of a single case, the Liberals are turning their backs on 200 or 300 years of criminal justice,” said prominent Toronto defence lawyer John Struthers. They are going in exactly the wrong direction at breakneck speed.”

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RELATED: Climate Barbie swings for the fence

“What do you mean you have no time? You’ve gotta have time. Your job is to have time for folks who care about this issue and want to understand.”

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LAST WORD: Wrong is wrong

This is not McKay’s first clash with his party since Justin Trudeau became leader. In 2014, after Trudeau stated that new Liberal MPs must be pro-choice, McKay was caught on tape musing that the edict may have been a “bozo eruption” and hadn’t been fully thought through.

I worked with a Palestinian...

...back in the seventies... He was the angriest man I ever met.

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UPDATE: The cost of insurrection

"At least 16 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers over several hours."

"Be Careful What You Wish For"

I'm saying this as someone who has violently parted company with a motorcycle at speed and racked up more than a few rupees worth of "dental remediation" expenses...

"On the Facebook page of the Sikh Motorcycle Club of Edmonton, Gurpreet Pandher described Thursday as a 'milestone and memorable day' in Alberta’s history."

I'd certainly be interested in knowing what not wearing a helmet does to your vehicle and health insurance. Not that that's gonna matter a whole lot to the comatose, quadraplegic rutabaga in the chronic care facility.

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JOIN THE CONVERSATION AT SDA:

"Where do you buy a turban?"

Diversity is our streng...

...sweet baby jebus...

TORONTO - Mauro “Cruz” Granados-Arana, sent a chilling text to his girlfriend Lori Crook the night before Fawell was brutally beaten and butchered by either a meat cleaver or axe: “Bring George. I’m gonna mincemeat him.”

And...

Mayor John Tory “promised” Nnamdi Ogba’s mother the authorities would not rest until they brought her son’s killers to justice.

Police have arrested two Toronto men — Trevaughan Miller, 19, and Abdullahi Mohamed, 22 — who both face first-degree murder charges.

And...

Abderrahmane Bettahar, wanted in the death of 22-year-old Nadia El-Dib, was shot and killed Thursday in a traffic stop following what Mounties described as a pursuit on a stretch of Highway 16 west of Edmonton.

And finally... this is just too sad for words.

Green Eggs & Ham

Forget that boring old cancer research... it's drippy dick disease time... again...

A man in the UK has caught the world's "worst-ever" case of super-gonorrhoea. The main antibiotic treatment - a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone - has failed to treat the disease.

He had a regular partner in the UK, but picked up the superbug after a sexual encounter with a woman in South East Asia.

No such thing as shame anymore I guess.

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RELATED: Defeating the Patriarchy

Expressed as a ratio of cheating spouses, Ernst & Young said wives topped husbands, 1:13 to 1.

Jagmeet Singh... fails first test...

...as NDP poobah and Liberal flower girl...

“Nobody knows procedure and rules better than Hamilton MP David Christopherson. He is a fearsome force for good when it comes to respect for parliamentary rules and this is essential when you’re the opposition.”

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RELATED: His Master's Voice

"If you want to know how the Liberals managed to turn a 20-point lead in the polls into a five-point deficit in little more than a year, a good place to start is their apparently sincere belief that they could blackmail the country’s churches into dropping their opposition to abortion."

"No big deal, you understand: you can continue to hold whatever beliefs you like about abortion, the government told faith groups. You just have to sign a document pretending you don’t.

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LAST WORD: Your NDP... it's all about the details

I guess irony "ain't no thang"...

...way down in the land of cotton...

Reverend Al Sharpton's half brother, Kenneth Glasgow, 52, was arrested and charged with capital murder after a 23-year-old woman was shot dead in Alabama in a dispute over a car, authorities said Monday.

Breunia Jennings' shooting came just a day after Glasgow's homeless and community ministry, Ordinary People Society, participated in the nationwide March For Our Lives.

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RELATED: Make America Funny Again

You know... like cooking & eating...

...your enemy's heart to acquire his valour...

The ministers stressed that “Quebec recognizes Aboriginal traditional knowledge” and invited Picard to meet to discuss collaboration on “new ways of doing things.”

What... you think I'm kidding?

Think again.

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RELATED: In other "Carnivore" news...

Vegan protesters were shocked after a #Toronto chef responded to their protest by carving up an animal right in front of them.

Criminals? What criminals?

The “173 deaths since 2007” number is also highly misleading out of context. Roughly four times that number died by gunfire in Chicago in a single year.

Saying you want an end to gun violence is not a plan. If people insist on seeing guns as some sort of self-animating weapon, casting people who own them as murderers, no solution to violence is at hand.

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RELATED: Why no "Thuggery" protests?

“He’s going for the gun!” Officer Blane Salamoni can be heard saying loudly before firing three rounds into Sterling’s chest.

A loaded .38 caliber handgun was later found in Alton Sterling's right front pocket.

nb - Mr Sterling was a felon... thus disqualified from owning firearms. It didn't stop "the community" from going batshit after his unfortunate demise. I won't bore you with dozens of similar narratives.

Guns don't kill people... criminals kill people.

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LAST WORD: The usual suspects...

"Police have released surveillance camera images of a total of seven suspects after a male victim was swarmed and robbed outside a store in the College and Spadina area last month."

Or how about... these fine young men?

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Barktender"...

“Sir... nobody has to get hurt here... just put the gun on the counter... and walk away.”

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UNRELATED: And Trekdom Wept

Cigarette smoke... EVIL...

...Marijuana smoke... MEDICAL MIRACLE...

"Matthew Springer, a biologist and professor in the division of cardiology at the University of California-San Francisco, demonstrated that, at least in rats, the same physiological effect occurs after inhaling secondhand smoke from marijuana."

"And, the arteries take 90 minutes to recover compared with the 30 minutes with cigarette smoke."

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RELATED: Better living through chemistry...

"Liberals removing barriers to prescription heroin in response to opioid epidemic."

TTC or KKK?

Toronto "Red" Star unearths yet another alleged societal pogrom...

Marie Critchlow, who owns Just Incredible Hair and Beauty Products, believes there’s "A DELIBERATE EFFORT FROM THOSE IN POWER" to push out Little Jamaica’s businesses. There’s little direct evidence for the charge, but the sentiment is echoed by others in the neighbourhood.

“The concept of the community, Little Jamaica, is no longer going to be in existence.”

Note that the $5.3-billion transit line is being paid for and built by the provincial government. Which begs the question... "What does Kathleen Wynne have against black people?"

Or is the Toronto Star straying into UFO territory again?

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RELATED: In other Transit/Black People news...

Where is the Star now?

It's only murder...

...when white guys do it...

“One-hundred-fifty-four years ago and I still feel their spirit. I still hear those songs. I still speak their language.”

On Monday, Trudeau will absolve the Tsilhqot’in of guilt “in any way, shape or form” related to the killing of 14 construction workers in 1864...

Can absolution for the Iroquois be far behind?

Not to be a part-pooper... but didn't Confederation occur in 1867?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I suppose we have to wait for Monday to discover how much tax money he'll be paying the descendants of the Tsilhqot'in to compensate them for their ancestors having to kill the 14 construction workers."

And...

"Is he going to apologize for Spain's treatment of the Basques?"

So, following PM Socks logic here, if the families of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French were to travel to Quebec and kill Karla Homolka... Justin would be prepared to offer them legal amnesty?

Good to know.

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COURTESY OF A READER: The Chilcotin Uprising of 1864

"The massacres on the Homathko, the attack on the pack train, and the killing of William Manning had now revealed the main pattern of the Chilcotin Uprising."

“We need bullies... "

"...pressure makes diamonds..."

Noting that the kids were told, “You can be anything you want to be,” he thought, "Why are you lying to these children? Maybe four of them can be anything they want to be."

"But the other 2,000 better learn how to weld."

Be careful what you wish for

"People sometimes forget that liberty and chaos are cousins, and that sometimes the two get together. The results can be wonderful. Sometimes they’re tragic."

And there's always, at least two sides to a story...

While there are doubtless more incidents than that in a nation this big, still it is important to note how small that number is next to the hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of firearms annually.

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RELATED: Diversity is our strength

Seven different officers assigned to mentor and evaluate Diafwila had concerns about improper search techniques, lack of geographic awareness and poor investigative and interviewing skills, according to the decision.

“Dismissal is harsh but it’s the only viable option,” wrote retired superintendent Robert J. Fitches.

I wonder if Anderson Cooper...

...would like to get off his "not a shithole" high horse...

The men said they were subjected to forced anal examination by security personnel and a public hospital in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa to determine if they had engaged in anal sex and were homosexual.

"The violating examinations, which include being made to lie with legs up in a humiliating position and having instruments forced into your rectum, are widely accepted to have no medical merit."

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RELATED: The Eco-left and feelin' groovy...

♫ "Wash away my troubles...
wash away my pain...
With the rain in Shambala
Wash away my sorrow...
wash away my shame...
With the rain in Shambala" ♫

Christians and Jews...

...the other white meat... 3 dead, 16 injured...

"The man, Redouane Lakdim, entered the shop screaming "Allahu Akbar, I'll kill you all." He then shot a store worker in the head.

Here's a shocker...

"Moroccan national... flagged as a potential extremist and known to the authorities."

So much for springtime in Paris.

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UPDATE: CBC out on a limb... "likely" terrorist actFrom the folks who condemn "hurtful words"...

"One police officer was shot in the shoulder, but the injury was not serious."

Nothing to do with Islam, of course...

"Petty criminal and small-time drug dealer."

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RELATED: Meanwhile, a short hop across the Channel...

...the "community" is restless...

"An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and grievous bodily harm as police said two killings and an assault in north London were being treated as linked and provided more details of the incidents."

Say goodbye to Abdikarim Hassan, 17 & Sadiq Aadam Mohamed, 20.

Time to, uh... "bite the bullet"...

...and embrace full-blown high school nudity...

Students at the high school—where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz allegedly killed 17 people last month—will now be required to wear clear backpacks, a step administrators hope will ward off the threat of firearms and illegal weapons on campus.

"Ward off"... you mean like garlic necklaces for vampires?

Better yet... let's go proactive...

"The superintendent of Blue Mountain School District testified to a state committee in Harrisburg last week that each classroom in the school has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone, according to WNEP."

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE FARM:

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale declined repeated requests for an interview...

The government will not say why Al-Yamani is still in Canada. The Immigration and Refugee Board ordered his deportation in 2005 for having been a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The decision was upheld by the court and a 2014 Canada Border Services Agency report alleged he was a “danger to the security of Canada” who formerly led a terrorist cell that conducted a bombing.

But he’s still here.