KNEEL AND TREMBLE BEFORE ME

Mighty Stoogeleft is gonna kick some oil company ass...

"The first time I see one of those gadgets on a pump I’m at will see me putting the nozzle back in its holder before one single drop of gasoline has fallen, walking into the office, and telling the owner/manager that until the propaganda machines disappear s/he has lost my business."

Well, that's bound to impress the part-time, minimum wage cash-register monkey at our local gas station... I can hear those corporate criminals pleading... "Oh, please, please Stooge... please buy our gas."

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UPDATE: Mission accomplished!

"Our boycott has succeeded before it even got started!"

The Mighty Libs.

(h/t reader rich)

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Yup Steffie....I say "bring on your plan"....to be followed by "bring out yer dead".

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"Well, we don't want nobody..."

"...that nobody sent."

So, who did “send” Obama?

The key I think is his ties not to well connected uber lawyer Newton Minow, as Kaufman suggests, but more likely to the family of (in)famous former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers – not just Bill Ayers, but also Bill’s father Tom Ayers and his brother John as well.

(via belmont club)

God in the Machine

The Roadrunner is based on a radical design that includes 12,960 chips that are an improved version of an I.B.M. Cell microprocessor, a parallel processing chip originally created for Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game machine. The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or turbochargers, for portions of calculations.

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Over in Russia...

They're already using the Sockpuppet Solution...

As Clifford Levy wrote in The Times last week, Russia’s national networks, the most powerful media in the country, are routinely deleting news or opinions critical of the Kremlin.

I'm guessing Elmo and the Socks would be just fine with this, admittedly less than elegant, solution.

In one notable case, Mikhail Delyagin, a well-known political analyst, criticized Vladimir Putin during the taping of a talk show. When the program aired, Mr. Delyagin was missing. Or, most of him was missing.

His disembodied legs remained in the picture.

The most intriguing part of this, is how the Russians themselves are reacting...

A troubling aspect of this slide toward those dark old days is that many Russians insist they are fine with government-controlled TV. In the Web commentary after Mr. Levy’s article appeared online, quite a few Russians said a free press is unnecessary.

One called the idea “American propaganda.”

But of course... that evil George Bush... again.

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RELATED: Hey, dumbstick... you just bring it

"And we have to tell them, you know what, if you're not going to allow us to do that, there will be consequences. You will be taken to the human rights commission, you will be taken to the press council, and you know what?"

"If you manage to get rid of the human rights code provisions [on hate speech], we will then take you to the civil courts system."

Oh please, please, please...

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LAST WORD: Speaking of self-censorship

"Why are mainstream news organizations in Canada shirking their duty to present the news fully and honestly?"

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Now that Super Dave...

Is going after target shooters in Toronto... obviously, this will never happen again...

Unbeknownst to Mrs. Russo, also in the restaurant was a notorious Sicilian Mafia figure and prolific drug trafficker who was living illegally in Canada.

Gangland rivals of the mobster drove through the restaurant parking lot in a stolen van and opened fire. A bullet severed Mrs. Russo's spine.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

An sordid tale was revealed when one of the perpetrators in the Russo killing was interviewed by police.

According to the accused, "We never would have thought to use firearms to take out the Don until our instructors at the local Toronto Country Club and Firing Range had told us about the lethality of these weapons."

"I guess until then we would have used the traditional Sicilian baseball bat method to kill him."

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The Leaning Tower of Moonbat

Just shifted a little bit more to the right...

“Over all, I believe the mayor has lost the confidence of the voters, and I feel compelled to do something about that.”

The 59-year-old father of four promised to beef up police resources to deal with “intolerable” gang violence across the city, promote knowledge-based businesses in Vancouver, work for affordable housing and end “petty bickering” at city hall.

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The times make the man

"Not only will my strategy of open international engagement help to save our over-extended military and cut down on White House piranha food bills, it will act as a deterrent to emerging enemies, such as Canada."

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What's a lefty to do?

According to the CBS poll, 22 percent of Clinton supporters say they prefer John McCain to Barack Obama. Additionally, 7 percent claim they're undecided, and 8 percent say they won't vote at all.

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That's where you're wrong, friend...

You're plenty different from just about everybody else these days...

"I got back in my pickup, grabbed a drink of water, got my thoughts straight. I noticed my shoulder was dislocated. I managed to pop it in myself and thought I'd better go and get some help."

He drove to the nearby community of Iskut for medical treatment.

Shorter escaped the attack with what he called minor injuries. He received 40 stitches, and suffered a broken hand and multiple puncture wounds.

"You know, if you're in that situation, all you can do is fight for all you got. I mean, I don't think I'm any different from anyone else."

Somebody has to introduce this guy to the "Sockpuppet 3."

Amazing.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Later at the hospital Shorter was charged with unlawful transportation of a firearm...

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RELATED: And speaking of something different

I've joined the Atheist Blogroll.

Not a week goes by here... that someone doesn't accuse me of being a fundamentalist Christian neo-conservative zealot.

Now anybody who actually follows the blog regularly, knows I'm a very ex-Roman Catholic.

I guess I think of myself as a non-religious social conservative. But I figured it was time to actually just use the word "atheist."

Now, I don't look down on people with religious beliefs... in truth, I suppose on some level, everybody really wants to be a believer. Life everlasting... who couldn't get with that? And those commandments... no killing, no stealing... hands off the other guy's wife... those are pretty good rules.

But, alas... I just can't quite make the big leap into that "faith thing."

So that's why I'm here.

I'm looking forward to some lively discussions.

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Unlike, you know...

"Soldiers... with guns... in our streets... I'M NOT KIDDING..."

"The campaign is just the latest media salvo from the cash-flush Tories 'to demonize' Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion. It's all about changing the channel."

You mean... like the mythical CADSCAM initiative, or the incessant fiberal sniffing of Maxime Bernier's jockstrap.

Karma... she's a cold-hearted bitch.

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"The world that we used to know"

"People tell me it don't turn no more"

-- BOSTON -- The openly gay U.S. Episcopal bishop at the center of the Anglican church's global battle over homosexuality, has entered into a civil union with his longtime partner at a private ceremony.

The 77 million-member Anglican Communion, a global federation of national churches, has been in upheaval since 2003 when the Episcopal Church consecrated Robinson as the first bishop known to be in an openly homosexual relationship in more than four centuries of church history.

Well... that oughta liven up the agenda...

Disputes over scriptural authority, the blessing of gay unions and other matters have become a worldwide issue and threaten turmoil this summer when Anglicans gather for their once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in Britain.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

They have adopted the 'flavour of the month' principle, if Oprah & MTV say it's good, it must be so.

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Canadian Cynic responds...

After yet another link from pottymouth pundit Canadian Cynic... I was curious to find out about his relationship to "sjwalter"... the person who apparently owned the blog "Canadian Cynic" back in 2005.

You do that, Neo. And perhaps when you track down "sjwalter" (who I have, in fact, exchanged an email with after a wildly coincidental registration of two blogs using that same catchphrase and, yes, I was first :-)

Now, CC claims to have been in touch with Mr./Ms. Walter... but decides not to share how our mystery blogger... who "wildly coincidentally" also registered the domain name "Canadian Cynic"... and "wildly coincidentally" happens to live in the Waterloo area... feels about their seemingly fated relationship.

I mean this whole thing just smacks of "kismet", huh?

Do these two Waterloo area cynics go out for coffee and to the movies? Do they share intimate moments at the local Starbucks?

If you guys/gals are in touch... I guess you could easily answer my question, huh?

C'mon, CC... care to share that email exchange with us? I'd love to know how Mr./Ms. Walter feels about having that sort of association with your colourful little enterprise.

C'mon CC...
...don't be shy.

I mean... aren't thinly veiled threats... just your sort of thing?

Hope I didn't disturb your beauty sleep.

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RELATED: Who says CC doesn't have...

...a wonderful sense of humour?

Not bad for 4 o'clock in the morning, huh?

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LAST WORD: The whole sad saga continues

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Unfortunately, the military...

Isn't immune to tragic accidents either...

A Canadian soldier died Saturday after tumbling into a deep well during a night foot patrol in the Zhari district, a restive area southwest of Kandahar.

Capt. Jonathan Sutherland Snyder, a member of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based in Edmonton, Alta., is the second officer to die while on duty in the war-ravaged country in less than a week.

He will be remembered.

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RELATED: And the leftosphere goes nuts again

So, we're ok with having an army, maybe even sending them places... just as long as nobody gets hurt. Got it.

And let's keep the French guys at the back, just in case things get ugly. It's not like anybody's gonna miss a kid from Toronto or St. John.

See, it's war... people die.

That's why it's not called "Circle of Friends."

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Obviously the Mayor of Tokyo...

Should take a page from the David Miller playbook... and immediately implement a "Plastic Cutlery" initiative in his fair city...

A man armed with a knife has killed seven people and injured 10 others in central Tokyo, Japanese media say.

A suspect, said to be 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, has been arrested. Police spokesman Jiro Akaogi told reporters: "The suspect said he came to Akihabara to kill people."

"He said he was tired of life".

The dead include six men, ranging in age from 19 to 74, and a 21-year-old woman, Kyodo News said.

Yes, your blondeness... if only there were no knives in the world.

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"Circumstances?"

Like maybe a plague of freakin' locusts is gonna descend from Heaven... and eat Obama?

"In deciding to suspend her campaign, Ms. Clinton kept some options open."

SOME options?

Kinda sounds like every possible option to me.

"It also means she could reopen her campaign "IF CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE" before the Denver convention, but gave no indication that was her intention."

That Hillary... such an optimist.

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RELATED: Oops, he did it again...

WELCOME READERS OF CANADIAN CYNIC

It's always a treat to be able to delve into one aspect or another... of CC's puerile, pottymouth web presence.

Tonight though, I'd just like to ask the Cynic how it is exactly... he came to be riding on the coat-tails of the person who apparently claimed ownership of the blog "Canadian Cynic" back in 2005.

I mean, isn't this person, who also apparently and co-incidentally, resides in the Waterloo, Ontario area... concerned about having his blog name pirated and used so cavalierly over on Blogger?

I know I would be.

It's getting a little late tonight, so maybe there's some sort of explanation that eludes weary old me... but perhaps tomorrow, with the help of Google cache, we can explore this puzzle a little more.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

One of CC's little cracklickers wants to have me charged with "improper research."

B.C. prosecutes evil Mark Steyn...

And lets this sociopath out to frolic with humanity...

A "butcher" who savagely mutilated a Toronto woman he met in a bar 20 years ago can go home to stay with his wife and daughter for four days a week in B.C., the National Parole Board has ruled.

Gary Joseph Yaeck, 50, formerly of Mississauga, was convicted of second-degree murder in the May 1988 slaying of Lily Gruicic, who was stabbed 56 times. He was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for at least 20 years.

I'm beginning to understand why British Columbia is "sockpuppet heaven."

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RELATED: Of course, normal people call it "insanity"

The woman charged in the abandonment of baby Angelica-Leslie was granted conditional bail yesterday in a decision her attorney called "a miracle."

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LAST WORD: More lead poisoning in Scarberia

Two men have been arrested and police are looking for a third after a shooting and brief chase in the city’s east end.

Around 10 p.m. yesterday, police received calls about a shooting at a highrise apartment building on Eglinton Ave. East near Kingston Rd.

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Think gas is expensive now?

Just wait'll Tehran is a greasy... black... smokin'... hole in the ground...

"If Iran continues with its programme for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it." Mr Mofaz, former chief of the army and defence minister told Yediot Ahronot.

"Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable."

Damn... that sounds so familiar.

Of course, there's also the "C'mon mom... just one more minute" school of international diplomacy...

"With unilateral military actions, countries are undermining international agreements, and we are at a historic turning point," ElBaradei told German newspaper Der Spiegel, referring both to Mofaz's statements and to Israel's strike on an alleged Syrian nuclear reactor in September.

Say, Mohamed... how's that been working for you?

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Just sayin', "Don't harsh my mellow"

Because, trust me, dude... the absolute last thing you want is a bunch of PISSED-OFF stoners driving 200 tons of subway train...

In a written statement yesterday, Bob Kinnear, president of Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, called the leak of the report's contents "shameful" and warned it would poison labour relations.

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I guess I'm not the only one...

With a persistent cockroach problem...

It ain't the scandal...

...that usually kills you... it's the cover-up...

"CHRC Transcript Irregularities"

-- "Explosive testimony by CHRC Investigator Dean Steacy on Richard Warman is missing from Transcript!" --

Smoking gun, anyone?

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RELATED: Hell... what do I know...

Let's ask a lawyer...

This is important for two reasons:

1. It confirms that the CHRC's word cannot be taken at face value on anything -- even official-looking documents, such as transcripts. It isn't the first time the CHRC has tried to brazen its way through a falsehood.

2. The deleted sentences are essential to proving that Richard Warman, the CHRC's former employee and currently its largest customer, lied under oath to the tribunal.

Don't take my word for it that this is critically important. The CHRC has gone to incredible lengths to keep the information at the March 25th hearing out of the public eye.

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"Like, wow. It hit her here, like, somewhere."

Yet another episode of Canuckistanian "hug-a-thug" justice... 'cos Gaia only knows... we really wanna see this lunatic back on the street...

"Boom. And there was a hole in her. Somewhere on her right side."

"Like, I didn't point the gun at her to kill her. I didn't intentionally go bang, you're dead. You know."

"Like … I slipped on the trigger and shot my girlfriend. Complete hundred-per-cent accident."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Somewhere out there a farmer with a rifle made him do it."

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It’s the stories we (used to) tell.

Many conservatives often seem to have given up on culture or not to care. There’s a strong strain of philistinism on the right.

When we talk about “culture wars,” we usually mean preventing the courts from redefining marriage or promoting abstinence instead of birth control: culture, in other words, as the behavioral branch of politics.

Culture, in the true sense, is more than that. It’s the whole engulfing narrative of our values.

Leftists know this. These kids get an earful from the Left every day. Their schools serve up black history in a way guaranteed to alienate them from the American enterprise.

Their sanctioned reading list denies boys the natural fantasies of battling villains and protecting women from harm. Any instinct the girls might have that their bodies and their self-respect are interrelated is negated by the ubiquitous parable of celebrity lives.

(h/t maggie's farm)

But... that's horrible... isn't it?

See... I'm thinkin'... 'who you stand beside'... is pretty indicative of 'what you stand for'...

-- COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up two passenger buses in Sri Lanka on Friday, killing 23 people and raising the specter of an escalating cycle of attacks on civilian targets.

Well... I guess some of us are more easily horrified than others...

Local Liberal MPs took the stage, beside a large image of Mr. Thamilselvan projected on to the side of a white tent, and called on the federal government to intervene in the conflict.

"I'm there not to take sides," John McKay, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood.

Also present were Jim Karygiannis, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Agincourt and Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the Liberal MP representing Etobicoke-Centre and MP Maria Minna.

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“We want to lose,” Mr. Steyn said Friday

Mark Steyn is obviously looking forward to the real fight...

“We want to lose so we can take it to a real court and if necessary up to the Supreme Court of Canada and we can get the ancient liberties of free-born Canadian citizens that have been taken away from them by tribunals like this.”

“We want those ancient civil liberties restored.”

Steyn also took a parting shot at sockpuppet shyster Faisal Joseph that will... no doubt... induce a fresh round of islamo-steria...

Mr. Steyn said he's “terrified” that the issue will be dismissed by the tribunal because the lawyer for the congress “put on such a staggeringly inept case.”

Ooooh... that's gonna leave a mark.

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Faisal for the prosecution...

If only Canada were more like Saudi Arabia...

Concedes some speech within a “shaded” area will be suppressed — but will only require authors who are “close to the line” to “think very carefully” about how they say it.

Hey... nothing a little "flogging" won't cure, huh?

Be careful what you wish for, my friend.

And then the rebuttal... showing pretty clearly why Julian Porter earns the big bucks...

"When we are reduced to having an expert on Bollywood, mulling and sifting through the work, prospecting for prejudice, this surely cries out to society, 'this is ridiculous'."

"Against the argument that you cannot cry fire in a crowded theatre: 'Oh yes you can — you must, if in your considered view there is a fire'."

"In that case there is a duty to cry fire."

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RELATED: More 'human rights' remedies...

"That's insane already. No-one was hurt."

"The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him."

"So a busybody with no standing spends time filing complaints -- and gets a tax-free reward for doing so. Oh -- and for his 'suffering'.

"Not suffering at the hands of Rev. Boission, but 'as a result of his [own] complaint'."

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In other lobotomy-related news...

Courtesy of longtime reader Mikey...

"You own a chia-wa-wa,,, and you let a tenant move in with a fri'k'n Pitbull."

"Hellloooooooo!!!!! Mcfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Pennies from Heaven

Canada truly is the Land of Opportunity.

-- TORONTO -- The RCMP says it's made the largest seizure of counterfeit money in 20 years after dismantling a plant north of Toronto and finding $4-million in phony cash.

Two men have been charged in connection with the May 30 raid in Markham, Ont.

Charged are 24-year-old Rehan Bawania of Toronto and 26-year-old Kusan Rasanayagam of Markham.

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Ooooh, me next, over here... yoohoo!!!

"So please, won't somebody try to censor me?"

"File complaints with every human rights commission from Toronto to Tuktoyaktuk. Go to the media and call me an Islamophobe. Or a homophobe. Maybe a Harperphobe. Homophone? Hermaphrodite?"

"Whatever. I've got a book to sell."

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That's how they do it...

On Planet CBC...

"Two tapes, two alleged bribes, two sets of audio experts, two standards."

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We don't seem to have...

Any violent, lawless gangbangers, out here in Hastings Cty... what's up with that?

-- TORONTO -- Four people linked to a street gang considered one of the most savage in the world were allegedly plotting to kill a law enforcement official before being foiled by police.

Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said the alleged target was a person within Toronto's criminal justice system but refused to give further details out of concerns for the target's safety.

So... targetted killings against law-enforcement and judicial officials? Sounds a lot like what's happening in Mexico right at the moment.

Police say the transnational gang, which has roots in Latin America and 50,000 members worldwide, has been trying for years to set up cells in Canada.

The probe by the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force is the first to uncover an organized and hierarchical MS-13 cell in Canada. U.S. magazine Newsweek recently called MS-13 "the most dangerous gang in North America."

And it looks like Toronto's regular bangers are gonna have to step it up a notch.

Asked to compare MS-13's use of violence to that of gangs like the Crips and the Bloods, Blair said it is "quite frankly over the top.

"That (violence and intimidation) is a characteristic they have clearly brought into our community," he said.

Nice. Makes me glad I fled the all-embracing metropolitan crucible 7 years ago.

Something the rest of you might wanna consider.

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RELATED: The Toronto 'Red' Star has more

A correctional services officer once honoured as a hero was the target of an alleged murder plot uncovered this week as Toronto police try to stop a notorious street gang in its tracks.

The Maplehurst Detention Centre employee, who did not want to give his name because he fears for the safety of his family, confirmed yesterday that he was at the heart of a deadly conspiracy concocted by four suspected members of a violent criminal organization known as Mara Salvatrucha-13.

Police refused to give further details on the case.

Nothing yet from Mayor 'Super Dave' Miller... I guess he's too busy shutting down Toronto's perfectly legal target ranges.

Damn you... Olympic pistol shooters.

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Diary of an Axe-Murderer

Hey, Gomer... you thought McNuggets came from test-tubes?

It doesn't take that long. There's never as much blood as I think there's going to be, either, which is vaguely disappointing.

If I'm going to kill what I love, I want as much as possible to show for it, including ruined clothing.

See also...

"I don’t want to grow up to be a helpless man."

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"Hold it right there, Nervous Nellie..."

...says Macleans... "You're stealing OUR argument."

We’re back, and the first item for business is Joseph demanding an apology for yesterday’s “scaredy-pants” outburst, which he says is causing his client “stress.”

Just curious... but if you're having a nervous breakdown because somebody called you “scaredy-pants”... how do you summon up the stones to leave your house and buy groceries, never mind Macleans magazine?

Perhaps Mark Steyn really isn't this guy's biggest problem after all.

No such thing as irony in the Muslim world, I guess.

Oh yeah, if you feel so inclined... you can email the Star Chamber... and share your "feelings."

At minimum, you need to email your MP.

Do it now.

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RELATED: More Coyne...

So we’re having long debates in the courtroom about whether or not Mark Steyn properly understands the relationship between the Koran and Islamic society; maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t. Maybe he got it wrong.

Usually these things lead to blog posts and TV and the usual things that happen when somebody write a controversial article. What they don’t see is the separation — between that and having a state body decide the matter.

This kind of thinking exists in a lot of places, that, "I cannot really abide by disagreeing with something; I have to bring in something to suppress it."

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LAST WORD: Famed washroom Nazi-Hunter weighs in

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Globe and Mail...

Momentarily loses track of half-crazed, pantyless Britney Spears... forced to go with "B roll" national news...

"Mother's breast milk thrown into garbage"

"The 31-year-old California mother said she was away from her child for 51 hours while at an academic conference, during which time she pumped breast milk every three hours. Having to throw out the milk she planned to bring home to her baby felt 'violating,' she said."

"Forcing me to throw out the milk represents more than an inconvenience: It devalues this connection between me and my baby."

I'm guessing Lloyd will be showcasing the "breasts in question" on tonight's CTV National News.

Now, this is exactly the kind of "man bites dog" nonsense that passes for journalism these days. The stupified sheeple have apparently set the bar so low, that just about any sort of argle-bargle can be passed off as "national news."

And it didn't even make any sort of sense. If Mommy-Dearest was truly worried about her baby's diet, she should have pumped extra breast milk before she left... so Junior's meals wouldn't have been disrupted in her absence. As it is, it seems she was planning on doubling up the little swine's daily intake when she returned home.

Maybe I'm missing something here.

By way of contrast, I also caught a little of the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS on my recent trip to Toronto (we're on 'peasantvision' here at the Halls). Say whatever you will about the idealogical slant, it was hard news, well presented.

I dunno... I guess it's a TMZ world.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"It's not like it's a non-renewable resource."

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Tarek Fatah... c'mon down

Here's the Muslim neighbour I want.

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It's more than just...

Bubble-wrapping the baby... over the course of a single generation we have turned a long-accepted family dynamic totally upside down...

In America we are currently living in a Kindergarchy, under rule by children. People who are raising, or have recently raised, or have even been around children a fair amount in recent years will, I think, immediately sense what I have in mind.

Children have gone from background to foreground figures in domestic life, with more and more attention centered on them, their upbringing, their small accomplishments, their right relationship with parents and grandparents.

It's a concept that people, these days, mostly make jokes about... which makes this hard-headed, no-nonsense article all the more interesting.

I don't for a moment mean to suggest that such an upbringing produced a superior generation of adults. What it produced was another group of people who later spent their lives going about the world's business, with no strong grudges against their parents or anger at such abstract enemies as The System.

All I would claim is that to be free from so much parental supervision seemed a nice way to grow up, and it surely resulted in a lot less wear and tear on everyone all round.

Well worth the read.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Much of my free time as a kid was spent with a group of little scuds who used their Saturdays exploring bush land and swamp. All had bikes so "quests" depended only on one's stamina; Sat. at 9:00 the band was on the way. The only thing my parents ever said was to be home for supper."

"Much was learned, nothing much untoward happened, we learned the simple law of cause and effect and we kept ourselves out of situations that were too risky.....well....for the most part anyway."

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RELATED: And while we're on family dynamics...

The Globe and Mail briefly drops the politically correct veil...

Ms. Steele finally swung around to her friend's point of view, saying, "All of, most of these boys are self-destructive. They have no sense. They don't stay in school long enough to graduate and go on to higher education where they can think ... they're robbing corner stores."

The two women then spoke of their daughters, and Ms. Steele snapped, "The boys are the trouble. Black boys refuse to take responsibility for their behaviour and for themselves. They don't like to work. They like to walk around at night and sleep during the day. They don't have any intention of being men, and being responsible men. You understand me."

A few minutes later, she said, "These black boys make my stomach sick. They make my stomach sick."

(Note to the usual hysterical leftbot race-hustlers... Valerie Steele, who is talking mainly about her own son here... is the former president of the Jamaican Canadian Association.)

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Whewww... that's a relief

Mayor David Miller and his influential executive committee turned down a bid by councillors yesterday to hold public meetings on giving the mayor more power.

Instead the committee voted to refer the issue to the mayor's office.

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RELATED: Putting Toronto on the map

Ms. Chao astutely observed. "Why don't they go after the gangs? Why don't they go after the illegal trafficking of firearms?"

Because it's easier, cheaper, quicker and more politically expedient to demagogue gun clubs and law-abiding citizens than address the myriad cultural issues that spawn gun violence.

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LAST WORD: Funnily enough, sometimes the mayor...

...is at a loss for words.

"It depresses me, man, `cause, like, all you have is a pistol," says the other accused.

Shshhhh... it's that "broad strata" thing again.

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"So glad that you're here again..."

"For one more time... let your madness run with mine..."

Okay here’s the deal. Maclean’s is definitely — as of this writing — not going to call Habib. The only question is whether the other side, ie Habib’s lawyers, do: apparently they may change their mind.

If they don’t, then we will have gone through an entire hearing about Muslims exposed to hatred in British Columbia without hearing from one single, solitary outraged British Columbian Muslim (though Habib, unlike Elmasry, at least had the decency to show up).

"The world that we used to know... people tell me it don't turn no more..."

We heard from an outraged Muslim — Joseph’s articling student, Kurrum Awan — but he’s from Ontario.

And we’ve heard from a British Columbian, the Islamic scholar Andrew Rippin, but he’s neither particularly outraged nor, it seems, Muslim.

Even the lawyers were from Ontario, except McConchie.

And if they do call him? Then Porter gets his wish.

See you tomorrow.

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RELATED: But they drink coffee...

Just like you and me...

After the arrests, much publicity surrounded a claim that the accused wanted to behead Canada's prime minister.

But an intercepted conversation aired in court suggests the discussion occurred amid laughter – and that the group spent twice as much time on the same intercept talking about a coffee run to Tim Hortons.

I say we don't turn 'em loose... unless they use maple syrup on their pancakes.

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Yeah... I'm shocked

-- OTTAWA -- The Conservatives re-opened the so-called Cadman affair Wednesday with a charge that an audiotape of Prime Minister Stephen Harper talking about the issue had been doctored – although they would not say whether edits of the tape altered the meaning of Mr. Harper's comments.

At a press conference, Conservative MP James Moore presented opinions from two audio experts who concluded that the 2005 tape of Mr. Harper, recorded by B.C. author Tom Zytaruk, had been altered.

“The tape has been doctored, including the insertion of a fabricated sound-bite,” Mr. Moore told reporters.

(h/t reader rich)

And Steffi... it's not like you weren't warned, this was gonna blow up in your face...

"The Liberals made fabricated accusations and very soon the Liberals will see how big of a legal problem they have created for themselves," he told reporters, referring to Harper's $2.5 million libel suit against the Liberal Party of Canada over its allegation that Harper knew of a bribery attempt on Cadman.

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LAST WORD: When the Moonbat mediaheads...

...start to climb aboard... you know there's really a fly in the socialist ointment.

The analysis of the Cadman tape is pretty damning. So much so that Tom Zytaruk himself is putting some distance between himself and the tape. He tries to draw a distinction between his original tape in his safe, and the digital copy on the Liberal website.

Zytaruk points out, rather reasonably, that he can't control what people do with digital recordings that they put on the website.

Note... "the people" Zytaruk is referring to... are the Liberal Party of Canada.

Go Steffi.

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The Blotto Way

Just another reason why...

A cellphone call to police from a scared passenger sparked the bust of a TTC driver who allegedly blew three times over the legal limit while behind the wheel of a Lawrence Ave. W. bus yesterday morning.

Satvinder Bisla 48, of Concord, faces a charge of impaired driving with a blood-alcohol content of more than 80 mg in 100 ml of blood.

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Many here know Og personally

"Others know Og by reputation and prowess with weighted thighbone. Some of you not know Og at all, but just attracted by big pile of viscera over at buffet."

"That O.K. too."

"If we not want to attract you, we not arrange for so much viscera."

Sadly, in the end... it all comes down to politics.

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A Tale of Two Cities

Guess which story didn't make it into the Globe and Mail.

-- KANADAHAR, Afghanistan -- "A Canadian soldier on foot patrol in Kandahar's volatile Panjwai district was shot and killed on Tuesday morning, marking the second combat death for Canadian Forces in the last month."

"It's the 10th death so far this year."

Or, was it...

-- TORONTO, Canada -- "A Jamaican-Canadian man in Toronto's volatile Scarborough district was shot and killed in his livingroom on Friday, marking the third shooting death for Afro-Canadian males in the last week."

"It's Toronto's 22nd murder so far this year."

Funny how that works, huh?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Will the PM issue a travel warning against going to Toronto, as it is dangerous and you might get killed."

So, just to recap... and please note, rabid Hogtown-lickers, that I'm actually rounding down here... as many Torontonians get murdered annually... as the total number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan in the last six years.

So, I ask you, which is the more horrible war here?

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Hillary-Kiri

She can only blame herself.

The exercise, which was billed as a free-flowing exchange between the candidate and voters in different Super Tuesday states, brought out the most stage-managed aspects of her campaign in an event that was billed as spontaneous.

Answering a single pre-screened question from each of the 22 states that were to hold primary elections three days later, Mrs Clinton handled a mix of flattering and softball inquiries.

Each questioner was introduced by a celebrity. “Oh there’s Chelsea,” said Mrs Clinton with apparent surprise when her daughter popped up on the screen in Connecticut. “Hi Mom,” said Chelsea. “I love you so much.”

The ensuing question was only slightly less saccharine.

That getting caught lying her ass off... was just the icing on the cake.

And, of course, every once in a while... the mask would slip.

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Yeah, you moron, we know...

He must've "disrespected you."

Last night, police arrested Tyrell Nathan Brown, 20 of Toronto, and charged him with second-degree murder.

Nonetheless, it seems Toronto Mayor "Super Dave" Miller is convinced we should go with the O.J. Defense... you know, forget about "small fry" like ol' Tyrell... let's go after "the real killers."

"Closing us down would do absolutely nothing to solve the crime problem," said Peter Krause, vice-president of the Scarborough Rifle Club.

"We shoot target rifles, single-shot target rifles. There's no handguns in that club whatsoever."

But that won't stop Super Dave... will it?

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RELATED: Farmers, hunters, target-shooters...

...totally off the hook... YET AGAIN.

Two men face 54 charges, including attempted murder, in a shooting last fall that caused a teenaged girl to lose her eye.

Police were called to an apartment building at 160 Chalkfarm Dr., near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue, at about 5 p.m. on Nov. 17.

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Just back from Toronto

Missed dropping in on Lee Valley Tools... (in my opinion, one of the city's few redeeming features) but I'll catch up next week when I return to wire up the father-in-law's new ceramic-top stove.

Getting rid of "Electrosaurus" is a huge victory for Mrs. Neo and myself. The elements were in various states of decay... and I'm sure lights dimmed all over North York every time her Dad turned it on. He was up here with us celebrating his 85th birthday... and we mounted a relentless (octagenarians and two year-old's being some of the least flexible people on the planet) campaign to force the big switch.

Mrs. N's father got the old behemoth from his own father as a wedding present some 54 years ago... so, of course, it's hardwired and weighs almost as much as a Volkswagen. Gotta conjure up some faded memories of highschool electrical shop... 'cos these babies pull the Big Juice... as opposed to that pissant "yip, flinch & spin" 110v.

Anyway... it's been a long day... but one thing I absolutely have to do is catch up the Sockpuppet Sleighride.

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RELATED: Andrew Coyne, once again, nails it...

-- 9:53 AM -- "I remain impressed with Steyn’s ability to influence opinion even in advance of publication. I admit this seems implausible."

"However, we must always remember, good people of Salem, that when when it comes to witches, all things are possible, natural and supernatural."

Ezra fills in some gaps.

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So, Premier...

Does this mean we get our 400 million taxpayer dollars back?

-- TORONTO -- General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) is shutting four North American plants making pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, including its pickup line in Oshawa, Ont., eliminating about 1,000 Canadian jobs.

Added to the assembly plant closures, GM "will consolidate the related stamping and powertrain capacity," with announcements to be made later on which plants will be hit.

We could use that money to pay down some of Dalton's other gambling debts.

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P.S.: Doing "stranger in a strange land"

Off to Toronto... have to return my father-in-law to the Devil's Armpit.

Note to self... keep a sharp lookout for Jeff Davidson dumping nails & screws off Scarborough overpass onto 401.

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Hey, Dalton...

Did you just feel a massive disturbance... in "the force"?

-- BRANTFORD -- A judge has granted an injunction to keep aboriginal protestors off three development sites in Brantford.

Superior Justice Gerald Taylor says the protests are doing "irreparable harm" to the city.

Hmmm... apparently the McSlippery Spykids have other pressing priorities...

Barbara... is that you?

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FROM THE COMMENTS: A day without Jeffy...

...is like a day without nerdy, adolescent phone sex.

"still compensating for your weazened prick with your site meter?"

Posted by Jeff Davidson to halls of macadamia at 10:08 AM, June 03, 2008

Say it like you mean it, babycakes.

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RECAPPING BCHRC V. STEYN

The absolute, bar none, highlight of DAY 1 -- Try to imagine a world... populated entirely by self-involved, over-agitated toddlers...

-- 3:50 PM -- "Back from a break, as the tribunal members wrestle with yet another ruling on admissibility in the absence of rules of evidence.

They’ve decided again to sort-of admit questioning about the “impact,” not of Steyn’s article, but of various, mostly obscure blogs who were allegedly “inspired” by Steyn’s piece."

"Understand: we’re now to be subjected to the state’s inquisition, not for anything that appeared in the magazine, but for whatever lunatic ramblings might appear anywhere in the blogosphere!"

I'm right there with ya, Khurrum...

Please don't go, no, no, no, no, no...
It hurts so bad
It makes me feel, it makes me feel so bad
Don't make me hurt so bad
I'm begging you, please

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UPDATE: See... that's the problem right there...

You keep expecting it to make sense.

"My biggest beef was as a BC TAXPAYER having to watch a trial conducted by three smirking losers about four Ontario students who were offended by what they read in a magazine published in Ontario with the primary lawyers being from Ontario."

"And then Khurrum Awan mentions Ontario's Five Feet of Fury and TVO as the blogs which caused his sensitive feelings to be hurt."

"I am having trouble finding a BC connection here."

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RELATED: And speaking of self-indulgent claptrap

“We already have a lot of safe consumption sites in the city of Toronto,” Councillor Gord Perks pointed out. “They're called bars.”

True enough. But last time I checked, alcohol was legal. Most people don't have to steal or sell sex to get it. In general, it enhances lives. Nor is it supplied by gangster cartels.

Perhaps Mr. Perks really does think a hit of crack is no worse than a nice glass of pinot, in which case I'd love to know what kinds of chats he has with his teenage kids.

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Gaiaspeed, Warman

"But I must warn you... we believe Levant may have joined forces with Snidely Steyn."

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A gift, huh?

I'm havin' a little trouble understanding how Steffi imagines he can characterise his latest headlong retreat as some sort of victory.

-- OTTAWA -- Despite a chorus of bad publicity over the Maxime Bernier affair, the Conservative government waltzed through a series of confidence votes Monday.

The Liberals were taunted and laughed at by their opponents as only a handful of their members showed up for a set of 114-83 votes that took the legislation one step closer to becoming law.

But, brace yourself so you don't fall outta your chair...

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion noted that the political gift of Bernier's resignation would never have happened if, several weeks ago, he'd brought down the government as some in his party urged him to do.

Gotta tell ya, Stef... there's a gift here... but it sure ain't the one you're thinking of.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I almost fell off the couch laughing as the MP's filed in to the House. The 11.. count 'em.. 11 Libs that showed up were filing in, and someone off-camera yelled.. "Bring out your dead!"

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RELATED: More taxpayer-funded jockstrap sniffin'?

Colour me... not impressed.

"Opposition MPs on the public safety committee, led by the Bloc Québécois, out-voted the Conservative minority on Monday to expedite an investigation into the political storm involving Bernier and ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard, who had ties to criminal biker gang members."

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Just for Laughs -- Tora Bora

Hey, good one, Abdulla... you really had us goin' for a moment...

A man accused of planning to bomb North America-bound airliners said Monday that he was planning a publicity stunt, not mass murder.

“We thought: If we make a documentary how are we going to get everyone to see it and know about it? That is when we thought we would do a publicity stunt.”

“If we are going to make threats there is no point doing it with a firecracker, you have got to do it with credibility,” he said.

You guys... and by that I mean you and Osama... just crack me up.

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RELATED: Toronto wants in... "we were just pretending, too."

The court is expected to hear wiretap evidence Tuesday which, combined with Shaikh's testimony, makes up the bulk of the Crown's case.

On Friday, Chernovsky suggested the alleged terror plot, outlined by police two years ago amid a blaze of national and international publicity, was little more than a "fantasy."

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Andrew in Wonderland

-- 1:34 PM PST -- "And we’re back, with more gripping testimony on what my friend objected to in my friend’s representation of my friend’s deposition..."

-- 1:36 PM -- "The chair is reading their “ruling” on the admissibility of Prof. John Miller’s testimony—though on what basis they propose to decide is a mystery, since THERE ARE NO RULES OF EVIDENCE.

They more or less have to make it up as they go along."

"Anyway, they are ruling it inadmissible, because it’s irrelevant. Or is it irrelevant because it’s inadmissible?"

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RELATED: Wait a minute... I'm so confused

Let's ask an actual lawyer...

"Forget the hearsay evidence that flows like a river through this kangaroo court -- Awan is telling us about some other lawyer's "shock" at the Maclean's article."

"Forget the jurisdictional issues -- what is a Toronto grievor doing here, other than forum-shopping, because the Ontario HRC couldn't hear his case, despite their lust to do so; forget his first-year-political science earnest Chomksy-isms."

"Forget all the law (the Tribunal certainly has.)"

"This isn't about law."

It sure isn't...

-- 3:00 PM -- "Glory glory — they’re ruling prior articles (i.e., prior to Steyn’s Oct. 23 2006 piece) out of bounds, but allowing subsequent articles."

"Solomonic, or incoherent? I report, you decide."

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The CBC...

Has apparently sent Casey and Finnegan to cover the B.C. Human Rights Inquisition...

"CBC journos asked me who I was with. Just an interested observer I replied."

"Who is this Steyn guy they asked. Is he a journalist? Who does he write for? He's right wing isn't he?"

Uh, huh... don't know about the rest of you... but that's near enough what I expected.

Screw free speech... the the CBC and the Fiberals are much too busy... sniffing Maxime Bernier's jockstrap.

Deborah Gyapong must be a hopeless romantic.

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Please God... just waterboard me

-- 10:26 AM -- "Oh God: they’re talking about who they’ll be calling on Friday. Five days in a windowless room."

"If that’s not a human rights violation..."

-- 11:16 AM -- "Incidentally, if you’re wondering why these dispatches are so (uncharacteristically) terse, I’m having to write on a Blackberry—there’s no wi-fi in here."

"Not to mention light, air, water..."

-- 12:11 PM -- "Breaking for lunch now. Also air conditioning, deodorant, elbow room, etc."

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FROM AC's COMMENTS:

"El-Misery cracks me up. I cannot believe he hired a Christian professor to demonstrate 'that Steyn has misunderstood the relationship between the Koran and Islamic society'."

"Why didn’t he call on his good pal Imam Ali Hindy (of polygamy fame) to make the case?"

"After all it is at Ali Hindy’s mosque that Elmasry gives his painful sermons."

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"All the dense legalese..."

" -- With twice the politically correct jargon! -- "

Don't miss Andrew Coyne live-blogging the demonization of Mark Steyn at 12:30 EST.

Hit refresh to get the latest.

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It makes as much sense...

As the rest of the murders... in the, uh... "community."

A family member who asked not to be named said after Dawnette left, Dockery got up, went upstairs and found one of his stepdaughters with a young man.

"O'Neil was talking to them, telling them to leave, so they left and they came back and O'Neil probably told them to go."

Then went the bullet into Dockery's forehead, "execution-style."

Of course, that doesn't mean anybody's handing over the shooter.

Culture-driven omerta... yet again.

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Save us, oh wonderful CBC...

A pox upon, er... within your house.

In Canada, 2002-06 figures compiled by the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) from 15 hospitals across the country show about 1,500 children were hurt in bunk-bed mishaps during that period.

And it's actually worse than you're thinking... says the safety-conscious CEEB.

The actual figure is likely higher, however, since most of the 15 reporting centres are pediatric hospitals, so injuries suffered by older teens and young adults aren't captured in the data.

Not surprisingly, the majority of those injuries were linked to the top bunk and a big proportion were ladder-related.

Good grief... time for a public enquiry.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"While you are correct that it is a CP piece, CBC selectively reposts CP articles... think of it as a really expensive lefty blog."

And...

Ban the CBC!

Also, all children should be placed in rubber rooms and fed soft food - we can't be too careful with the precious snowflakes!

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Don't read anything into it

They're only doing this... because they love you.

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You start with that 'rule of law' stuff...

And we'll kill you.

"If an injunction is issued in Brantford in these circumstances, I have grave doubts that the peace will hold."

Geez... that doesn't sound so good. What's that word... you know, dammit... tip-o-my tongue... the opposite of peace?

"Moreover, I think it is important for the court to understand that organized groups, institutions and leaders with aboriginal nations will not have the authority to control the actions of the individual members of their communities."

Out of control, huh? You mean, like crazy?

"An injunction employed to restrain the exercise and assertion of aboriginal rights not only threatens the public peace and safety but fundamentally undermines the rule of law."

Hang on a sec there fella... lemme see if I've got this right.

No public peace... no public safety... no rule of law?

You mean you're gonna turn Ontario into one giant native reservation?

Okay... now I'm scared.

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File this one under...

We don't know dick-all... but we've gotta say something...

"The initial examination of the scene suggests that two bodies may have been at the location for an as yet undetermined period of time."

Thank goodness for that explanation... I mean, you wouldn't wanna look stupid, huh?

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I've gotta say... I'm impressed

Talk about a journey of a thousand miles...

Meet Mr. Low Body Fat.

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And you, young Skywalker...

We shall watch your career with great interest.

We're gonna party...

Like it's 1559...

The wedding night party was still under way at the family’s home in Roubaix when the groom came down from the bedroom complaining that his bride was not a virgin. He could not display the blood-stained sheet that is traditionally exhibited as proof of the bride’s “purity.”

The husband went to court the following morning and was granted an annulment on the grounds that his bride had deceived him on “one of the essential elements” of the marriage.

Wow, where was this... Sudan... Saudi Arabia?

Not exactly.

No reports so far, on whether the ex-bride will face "stoning."

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Tube you, baby

No word yet on whether they're gonna keep the "safe-injection" car...

Six London Underground stations were closed as trouble flared when thousands of people marked the banning of alcohol on London transport with a party.

Four tube drivers, three other staff members, and two police officers were assaulted, and there were 17 arrests.

Several trains were damaged and withdrawn from service, which led to suspended services.

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The inevitable result...

Of not having a reputation to besmirch.

-- MONTREAL -- Confidence in the ability of Mohawk regulators to police lucrative online gambling operations on the Kahnawake reserve has been shaken following the second cheating scandal in less than a year.

UltimateBet.com, which is owned by a company controlled by former Kahnawake grand chief Joe Norton, acknowledged on Thursday that unnamed insiders had altered its poker software to allow them to see opponents' hidden cards.

UltimateBet officials declined to be interviewed yesterday.

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RELATED: Of course, maybe they're just...

...playing Quebec Rules...

Now, you might think this would qualify as a Big Deal. You might think it merited serious investigation, followed by ruthless prosecution, followed smartly by a few large cheeses being strung up by their thumbs, preferably in public and in prime time.

The message might have gotten through that Quebecers will not accept this sort of criminality.

Yet none of the institutions we depend on for truth and justice seem to give a damn. All have given it the big yawn.

Banana republics are, by comparison, models of diligence and integrity.

I'll be filing all this in a folder whose title sums up a memorable mess: VOTE THEFT. Just an incredible story, and one that has not done us proud.

(h/t reader rich)

The Full Moonbat

Just when I thought it was okay... to say something nice about MP Keith Martin... there he is on the CTV news, saying Conservatives should be charged with "manslaughter" if they shut down Insite.

Hey, Keith... time for another hit on the bong.

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RELATED: What... they can't read?

More teary-eyed argle-bargle in the Toronto 'Red' Star...

"They want to know why he died," he says. "They don't know if it's the Taser or not; they just want to know what happened."

Which, of course, totally ignores the previous graph in the article...

Knight, 29, a trained boxer on the verge of a comeback, attacked around 20 officers with fists and teeth, sending two to hospital, before he was finally brought under control...

Good grief.

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LAST WORD: Meanwhile, back at the Mothership...

"So what, said the BCHRT. Ka-ching -- $12,000 for Jones's hurt feelings."

"Mark Steyn is a goner."

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