11 January 2009

Meet Martin

  1/11/2009 10:00:00 pm      
We get a lot of angry people here at "the Halls."

Some of them take exception to my politics... others to what they see as my "lack of compassion."

The truth is... you never know what's gonna set somebody off.

The thing most of these folks have in common... is that they're actually able to articulate what it was that put a knot in their knickers.

And then... there's Martin.Now, I'm not sure what Martin's major malfunction is... but I'm guessing he's not gonna win "Miss Congeniality" any time in the near future...Oh, hey... I've seen this before... it's the the rigorous and ever-popular "you're a poopyhead" school of debate.
Anyway... if you happen to encounter Martin in any of the comment threads... be gentle.
"psst..Know what Neo honey, I'm actually a woman. Know what else? I think you're creepy."
Posted by Martin to halls of macadamia at 2:04 PM, April 17, 2009"
He's obviously got a few more balls in the air than he can actually handle.

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UPDATE: Oops... Martin reacts
...actually makes up a profile.
Hmmm... isn't it funny how ol' Marty started to ramp up his little clown car... just after this noted dumbstick got outed.

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LAST WORD: What's the big, hairy-ball deal...

...with the compassionate, intellectual left... and the Jews?
Two words, Marty... Rorschach Test.

You just failed.

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His Master's Voice

  1/11/2009 06:45:00 pm      
You've gotta ask yourself... who's actually waggin' the HAMAS dog?
Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday.

The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials who visited Damascus recently warned Hamas leaders against accepting the proposal.

"The Iranians threatened to stop weapons supplies and funding to the Palestinian factions if they agreed to a cease-fire with Israel. The Iranians want to fight Israel and the US indirectly. They are doing this through Hamas in Palestine and Hizbullah in Lebanon."
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Honestly... the cheque is in the mail

  1/11/2009 03:45:00 pm      
"Hope, Change and... boy, did he see you morons coming..."
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama says he does not expect to fulfill his campaign pledge to close the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within his first 100 days in office.

But he stressed that his administration eventually will shut it down.
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Riding the "not so Red" Rocket

  1/11/2009 02:00:00 pm      
"I've got bad news for you punks," he declared, loudly. "I am not a liberal."

Upon being told this, they left the car peacefully.

Though I should add that, this being Toronto, the passengers looked more astounded by the driver's declaration than by the punks' behaviour.
And yes... this is a morality tale.

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More pavilions at Folkfest

  1/11/2009 11:00:00 am      
The Canadian Dream... not always all it's cracked up to be...
Amandeep Kaur Dhillon had won the lottery for them all -- or so her Indian family believed as they wed her to an Indo-Canadian man she'd met only three days before.

As they sang and celebrated as they delivered their frightened-looking daughter to a veritable stranger they knew little about, they hoped that she would save them from their difficult life in the Punjab and one day bring them all to the promised land of Canada as well.

But what a deal with the devil it would prove to be. Amandeep was used by both sides in this barbaric bargain, a sacrificial lamb who lived a life of misery in Mississauga -- separated from her child, isolated from the world -- until the 22-year-old was finally found murdered New Year's Day in what may have been a "dowry death," her father-in-law now charged with the crime.
But, this is Canada... that sort of thing can't happen here... can it?
According to India's National Crime Bureau, an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 women die annually in dowry deaths. Few of the perpetrators are ever brought to justice, and the grooms' families go on to secure new dowries as the sons marry again.

"One of the most worrying aspects of this problem," writes University of London lecturer Werner Menski in South Asians and the Dowry Problem, "has been that such murders and other dowry-related violence have been on the increase and now occur no longer only in Delhi or somewhere far away in South Asia, but also in London, other British cities and in the urban centres of North America."
Hmmmm... 6,000 to 7,000 women... there's a number to keep in mind... the next time people start freakin' out about tasers.

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"That's not a knife...

  1/11/2009 09:45:00 am      
"...this is a knife."
-- JERUSALEM -- According to Israeli intelligence estimates, the time remaining before Iran is capable of producing a nuclear bomb may now be measured in months, not years.

A nuclear Iran would end hopes for the eventual emergence of a sane Middle East. And if economic sanctions and diplomatic efforts fail to dissuade the mullahs from abandoning their nuclear program, Israel is likely to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

And some Arab leaders may well be hoping that Israel will do precisely that.
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RELATED: Only a matter of time...
-- WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush rejected a plea from Israel last year to help it raid Iran's main nuclear complex, opting instead to authorize a new U.S. covert action aimed at sabotaging Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, The New York Times reported.
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10 January 2009

Tonight's CTV Moonbat moment

  1/10/2009 11:45:00 pm      
Just watched Craig Oliver wet himself over the announcement of Barack Obama's impending visit to Canada. Apparently... according to Owly Oliver anyway... this should reassure all of us that we are still important in the eyes of our southern neighbour.

Not sure what happened to Canada being a simple-minded puppet of "the Great Satan"... but I guess that's all behind us now.

Funny how that works.

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"What is the biggest threat..."

  1/10/2009 02:45:00 pm      
"...to peace in the Middle East?"
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RELATED: This is Toronto, 2009
When the cops told us it was too dangerous for us to stay, I grabbed the flag from the barricade, not wanting to leave it to the tender mercies of the city's furious cab drivers, terrorist supporters and welfare cheats (the Khadr family was there) assembled only a few feet away.

As we left, a gang of very young masked dudes with foreign accents screamed at us second- and third- generation Canadian taxpayers, "Go home! Go home!"

One of them was holding up a Hezbollah flag and the other, a Canadian flag.
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As P.J. O'Rourke once said...

  1/10/2009 01:15:00 pm      
It's like "giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"...
“We face significant risk in terms of losses for taxpayers,” said Mr. Robertson, whose news conference followed a one-hour briefing for reporters by a senior city hall manager on the details of the Olympic village deal.

“The exposure for the city is significant.”
C'mon now... what's $875,000,000.00 between fuzzy-bunny friends?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"It's just peanuts compared to what Canadian and American taxpayers are going to have to pony up to cover the money being thrown down a rathole in these so-called stimulus packages."
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LAST WORD: I swear on a stack of... wait...
-- VANCOUVER -- Vancouver City Council knew as far back as the summer of 2007 that the Olympic athletes village was in jeopardy and that the city's own financial investment in the project was at risk, The Globe and Mail has learned.
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Do the "right thing" - Part II

  1/10/2009 12:00:00 pm      
Remember Pasqualino Cornelio?

Looks like there actually was the possibility of legal remedy/relief in this case...
Once he discovered that he was not the biological father, there was a possible legal remedy for him - if the identity of the real dad was known.

"Family law provides for that kind of situation," says Harold Niman, a lawyer at Niman Zemans Gelgoot in Toronto and one of Canada's leading family law experts. "The husband could have sought some contribution from the natural father. He could have added him as a party to the proceeding to effectively have that person pay support or at least contribute to that support."
Of course... it all depended on having a reasonable judge... which apparently, wasn't the case here...
That Ms. Cornelio, perhaps conveniently, couldn't recall who impregnated her - she was on some meds at the time, she says - denied Mr. Cornelio that remedy.

But come on, Ms. Cornelio couldn't remember her lover? Please.

Sounds to me like she was just out to get her ex.
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RELATED: Special laws for "special people"

(via sda)

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That's his story...

  1/10/2009 08:30:00 am      
...and he's stickin' to it...
"This isn't the death of newspapers. We're being affected by what's going on in the global economy," Crawley said.

The Globe has about 800 employees in various departments, while CTVglobemedia employs about 6,500 workers across all of its divisions, which also include the CTV network and CHUM Radio, one of Canada's largest radio broadcasters.

The Canadian publisher's announcement comes as other North American newspapers announce major cutbacks.
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"We do not negotiate with..."

  1/10/2009 06:30:00 am      
"...wait a minute..."
The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush's doctrine of isolating Hamas by initiating contact with the terror organization, The Guardian quoted sources close to the transition team as saying.

"This is going to be an administration that is committed to negotiating with critical parties on critical issues," one source reportedly said.
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Murdered grannies

  1/10/2009 12:01:00 am      
Yeah... that's a place I wanna live...
An 81-year-old woman's death has been ruled a homicide after officers found the deceased woman with obvious signs of trauma. On Jan. 8, around 11 p.m., police responded to a call at an apartment building on Shady Golfway in the area of Eglinton Ave. E. and the Don Valley Parkway.

This is Toronto's third homicide of the year.
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RELATED: Just another reason...
In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell "You are the brothers of pigs!," and a protester complains to his interviewer that "Hitler didn't do a good job."
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09 January 2009

The screamers over at Liblogs...

  1/09/2009 11:00:00 pm      
...must be peein' their pants with glee...
Consider this: the CAF is calling on the Conservative government to dismiss Peter Kent, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, because Mr. Kent stated Hamas is to blame for the conflict and that the terrorist group uses the civilian population in Gaza as human shields.

A CAF representative has said this is "beyond ridiculous."
Yeah, let's talk ridiculous... not to mention insanely partisan and delusional...
Yet the CAF is not protesting in any way the position staked out by the leader of the Liberal party, Michael Ignatieff.

Is Mr. Ignatieff's position any different from Mr. Kent's? Consider these final comments Mr. Ignatieff left with reporters when asked about the Gaza conflict:

"Hamas is a terrorist organization and Canada can't touch Hamas with a 10-foot pole."

"Hamas is to blame for organizing and instigating these rocket attacks and then for sheltering among civilian populations."
Funny how that works.

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Let me count the ways

  1/09/2009 11:45:00 am      
You really need further explanation of why this was the absolute worst decision possible?For starters... try asking any mother of absolutely any two year-old child.

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COSMIC UPDATE: Some days... the bear eats you
Saudi Gazette quotes Abukar Haji, the uncle of one of the dead men, as saying that the boat they were in in "capsized because it was running at high speed because the pirates were afraid of an attack from the warships patrolling around."

He said that four bodies were still missing and one washed up on the shore.
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An Irshad Manji - Sid Ryan debate...

  1/09/2009 10:30:00 am      
I'd pay good money for a ringside seat at that one...
As we left, I asked his translator why Dr. al-Hindi would give me an on-camera interview, knowing that he could not find a single verse to prove his claim that the Koran justifies suicide operations.

The translator replied: "He assumed you were just another dumb Western journalist."

Reporters from the West had never asked this veteran terrorist the most basic of questions: "Where is the evidence for what you do in God's name?"
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I think I speak for all Canadians...

  1/09/2009 07:00:00 am      
...when I say, "When do we get our hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars back?"
-- OTTAWA -- The CBC's French-language broadcaster says it "got the message loud and clear" after more than 1,300 people complained about a New Year's Eve show that told racial jokes about Barack Obama and labelled Stephen Harper a "lobotomy on legs."
Sylvain Lafrance, executive vice-president of CBC/Radio Canada French Services seems to think folks are just too darn sensitive...
"On the one hand, you have the creators' inspiration, on the other, the unwritten boundaries that vary from one person or social group to the next."
Well, Sylvain... let's pick that one apart.

Here's a little of that "inspiration"...
In one sketch, comedian Jean-Francois Mercier says having a black person in the White House "will make it much easier to shoot him" thanks to the colour contrast.

The skit also features a mock interviewer saying all blacks look alike and asking an actor who plays Obama whether black men have large genitalia.
I think I'm starting to understand all that argle-bargle about "unique culture."

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08 January 2009

Sounds like it's time...

  1/08/2009 10:30:00 pm      
... to lance a festering boil.

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RELATED: Never thought I'd hear myself say...

... "Way to go, Jason Cherniak."
"Liblogs appears to have cleaned out the worst of the hate messages. But it has to be worrying to a party that is accustomed to viewing itself as the voice of middle-of-the-road reason, and which makes a habit of portraying Conservatives as extremists and cranks, to discover so thoroughly healthy a nest of fringe-dwellers infesting its ranks."
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FROM THE NP COMMENTS:
"So when is Stephen Harper going to address the vileness spewing from the Blogging Tories?"

by Robert McClelland
Jan 07 2009
6:01 PM
Oh, Robert... not again.

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"You want a piece of this?!?!"

  1/08/2009 10:45:00 am      
SERIOUSLY?
At least three Katyusha rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into the northern Israeli area of Nahariya early on Thursday.

One of the rockets hit a nursing home where some 25 elderly residents were eating breakfast in a nearby dining hall, the Jerusalem Post reports.
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Damn... I guess this means...

  1/08/2009 09:00:00 am      
...the media's not gonna be able to blame this one on Dick Cheney after all...
The documents, obtained by the Indian newspaper The Hindu, provides a cold, calculating, and chilling look at the masterminds behind the late November military-style assault on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. More than 170 people were killed and hundreds wounded during the 60 hour terror spree that shut down the city.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terror group allied with al Qaeda and supported by powerful elements within Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency and the military, carried out the attack.
What's amazing to me is they actually have a line on the perpetrators...
Six Pakistani handlers monitored the news coverage from Mumbai and kept in constant touch with the terrorists holed up in Nariman House and the Taj Mahal and Trident hotels during the three day siege. The handlers are identified as Zarar, Kafa, Wassi, Jundal, Bururg, and “Major General.”
This oughta be interesting.

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The Law is an Ass... Part 4,642

  1/08/2009 06:30:00 am      
Hey, here's a crazy idea... how about we find the guy "who actually did the deed"... and make HIM pay...
A Toronto man is on the hook to pay child support, notwithstanding a DNA test that proved he is not the biological father of his ex-wife's twins, an Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled.

Madam Justice Katherine van Rensburg ordered Pasqualino Cornelio to continue paying child support to the 16-year-old twins – regardless of whether he was bamboozled by a philandering wife.
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07 January 2009

Freedom isn't free

  1/07/2009 02:30:00 pm      
Another brave Canadian pays the ultimate price...
Trooper Brian Richard Good, 42, of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, was killed this morning when a bomb exploded near his armoured vehicle in the Shah Wali Kowt District, about 35 kilometres north of Kandahar City.

Trooper Good, the father of two young daughters, is the 10th Canadian soldier in Afghanistan to die in the past five weeks; all of them felled by roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which insurgents have planted in culverts and ditches along the main highways west and north of Kandahar City.
And like their counterparts in Gaza and the West Bank... these guys don't really care who gets that one way ticket to the afterlife.
For insurgents, the use of IEDs is effective because the roadside bombs exact maximum damage for minimal cost and manpower. Col. Cade predicted that the use of roadside bombs will eventually backfire against the Taliban.

“They are not winning any friends with the locals through the use of IEDS, because it's not just coalition forces that are threatened by IEDs,” he said. “It's the people themselves. And innocent people are being killed by IEDs throughout Afghanistan. It is not a form of warfare that is going to win for them.”
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RELATED: Sure... let's play by "HAMAS rules"
The Israeli Defense Forces said that their troops had fired several mortar shells near the school in response to mortar fire from the school compound.

“They shot back to save their own lives,” said Ilan Tal, an Israeli military spokesman and a brigadier general in the reserves. Among the dead, the military said in a statement, were “Hamas terrorist operatives and a mortar battery cell.”

The military identified two Hamas operatives, Imad Abu Asker and Hassan Abu Asker, as having been killed.

A young witness from Jabaliya, Ibrahim Amen, 16, said that he had seen one of the militants, whom he identified as Abu Khaled Abu Asker, in the area of the school right before the attack.

Ibrahim said he saw the militant after he answered calls for volunteers to pile sand around the camp “to help protect the resistance fighters.” Ibrahim went to pile sand near the school with his brother, Iyad, 20, who was then injured by the Israeli mortar fire.
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I wonder if anybody in France...

  1/07/2009 08:00:00 am      
...has made the connection between "grab your ankles" appeasement... and their annual New Years Day CAR-B-Q.

Thank goodness I live in Canada.
Canada's junior foreign minister, Peter Kent, said that despite sketchy details on the school strike, it is clear that Hamas “bears the full responsibility for the deepening humanitarian tragedy.

“We really don't have complete details yet, other than the fact that we know that Hamas has made a habit of using civilians and civilian infrastructure as shields for their terrorist activities, and that would seem to be the case again today,” he said in an interview.'
This sort of thing will continue to happen as HAMAS sets up and fires their mortars and rockets in civilian venues... hoping to draw deadly retaliation.

Fortunately, the only people in this country dumb enough buy into this vile ploy are folks like uber-socialist Sid Ryan.

The government is made of sterner stuff...
“Canada believes there should be an immediate ceasefire, but only if it's a permanent ceasefire, if it's a durable ceasefire, and if Hamas is prevented or is willing not to rearm and resume its terrorist rocketing at some point down the road.”
Time to take a stand folks.

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06 January 2009

Let's see what he thinks...

  1/06/2009 03:00:00 pm      
...after LAX goes up in a gigantic fireball...
In choosing Leon E. Panetta to be the next CIA director, President-elect Barack Obama appears to have concluded that a spy chief who understands politics may be better equipped to carry out the incoming administration's national security agenda than one who understands espionage.
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RELATED: HAMAS tactics kill another 30 civilians
-- GAZA, Gaza Strip -- The Israeli army said its soldiers came under fire from militants hiding in the school and responded. It accused Gaza's Hamas rulers of “cynically” using civilians as human shields.

Residents confirmed the account, saying militants were seen staging attacks from the area.
And not just seen, my friends... they're on candid camera.

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LAST WORD: Not your father's war
Israel has agreed to set up a "humanitarian corridor" in the Gaza Strip, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said.

Israel's military will open up "areas for limited periods of time, during which the population will be able to receive the aid."
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Where there's a will...

  1/06/2009 10:30:00 am      
...there's a brain injury...
Motorcyclists in Nigeria have been wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads to dodge new laws forcing them to wear helmets, authorities have said.

Officials in the northern city of Kano said they had stopped several people with "improvised helmets" following this month's introduction of the law.

Road safety officials said calabash-wearers would be prosecuted.
Of course, folks are fighting back using the lesser known... in first world countries, anyway... "bad juju" defense.

The thing is, there's a larger, "socio-political engineering" issue here...
Local government authorities often give motorbikes to jobless young men, saying it gives them a way to make a living.

But the BBC's Andrew Walker in Abuja says handing out the vehicles does not address the underlying cause of Nigeria's economic problems. It is often an attempt to buy support for elections, our correspondent says.

Often untrained and illiterate, the drivers are considered a menace by many motorists. Fatal accidents are common. Road safety authorities say almost every collision in Nigeria's cities involves an okada.
Good grief... who could've possibly seen that coming?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Instead of Motorcycles the government should give them each a Helicopter!"
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You get a pass 'cos it's a game?

  1/06/2009 09:30:00 am      
Just try to imagine the hysteria and outrage from the lunatic left... if this guy had died during a struggle after being pulled over by a cop during a traffic stop.

This one is easy... involuntary manslaughter... period.

And... as unfortunate as this incident is... let's stop devaluing the word "hero"
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05 January 2009

Why bother electing...

  1/05/2009 11:00:00 pm      
...Members of Parliament... when you've got CUPE and Sid Ryan?
The Ontario arm of the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced yesterday it would propose, in a meeting next month, “a ban on Israeli academics doing speaking, teaching or research work at Ontario universities,” if they do not explicitly condemn Israeli action in Gaza.

“Attacking an institution of learning is just beyond the pale,” CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan said last night. “They deliberately targeted an institution of learning."

"That's what the Nazis did.”
So how exactly does this work, Sid? You're trying to tell us that HAMAS... the guys with the masks & machineguns... and the rocket launchers... those are the good guys?
As usual when Israel fights back at terrorists, Canadian leftists are lining up behind the men in the masks and suicide vests. On this file, Mr. Ryan and his fellow CUPE leaders care about demonizing only one country: the Jewish state.

There’s a name for that kind of bigotry, isn’t there? Remember to speak its name plainly next time you meet a CUPE Ontario employee.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Outing Jews in academia, banning them from teaching: that is what the Nazi's did, and they did it early."
And...
"Meanwhile, York University students face losing their entire year as a strike by CUPE moves into its third month."
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RELATED: Great minds think alike

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LAST WORD: Hey Sid... another score for your side

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So when Stephen Harper does it...

  1/05/2009 04:00:00 pm      
...it's evil and unsustainable...
Obama aides have said the package Mr. Obama has dubbed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan could cost as much as $775 billion. The president-elect has refused to put a price tag to the plan.
No need to worry though... "he's a magic man."

And with supporters like this... who needs zombie acolytes?
Oops... spoke too soon... he's baaaa-aaack.
And is it as erudite as the rest of his commentary?

Of course it is...
The Barack Obama constituency personified.

Good grief.

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Remember back 20 years ago...

  1/05/2009 03:15:00 pm      
...when everybody had an emergency "firefight contingency plan?"
"In the event of a shooting near your business, do your employees know what to do?," she asks, whilenot mentioning such an incident occurred in downtown Toronto three years ago. "Are they going to run and take a look? That could endanger their lives."

Ms. Wyganowski helps businesses to assess risk based on geographic location and operations, and develop a response that will be executed properly.
Yeah... me neither.

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RELATED: Say hello again to my own personal troll

What he lacks in brainpower... he makes up for in stubborn...
No wonder Chretien got elected.

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There is, apparently...

  1/05/2009 10:45:00 am      
...no Palestinian equivalent... for the concept of irony...
On Monday, the mastermind of Hamas' takeover of Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar, exhorted Palestinians to “crush” Israeli forces and to target Israeli civilians.

“The Zionists have legitimized the killing of their children by killing our children. They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people,” Mr. Zahar said in a grainy video broadcast on Hamas TV.

“Crush your enemy,” he urged.
Geez Mahmoud... with what... random rocket attacks and suicide bombers?

Wait a minute...

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RELATED: Modern, secular Turkey feels "dissed"...

...calls for divine retribution...
Overnight Sunday meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan used exceptionally harsh words to describe Israel's offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

"Allah will sooner or later punish those who transgress the rights of innocents," Erdogan said.
Sooner or later? I've gotta confess I'm a little confused here... Allah is what... on vacation?
In addition, he said the operation, which began four days after a visit to Ankara by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was a sign of disrespect to Turkey.
C'mon, that's your biggest beef here? You got "dissed?"

And your God is gonna do some kind of "cosmic drive-by?"

No wonder nobody takes these guys seriously.

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LAST WORD: These guys wouldn't know truth...

...if it bit them on their dirty, raggedy asses...
The Taliban said last week on their website that they killed 5,220 American and NATO troops in 2008 - an exaggerated figure nearly 20 times the official death toll.
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"Well I don't know..."

  1/05/2009 09:45:00 am      
Why I came here tonight...
I got the feeling...
That something ain't right...
"Clowns to the left of me..."
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev confirmed again yesterday that Israel is not looking to oust Hamas. “We have no love for Hamas, but the goal of this operation is purely defensive,” he said. “We have not articulated regime change as an objective. On the contrary, the minute we can be sure the civilian population in the south of Israel is not going to be on the incoming end of Hamas rockets from Gaza, this operation can be over.”
"Jokers to the right..."
Samir Abdullah, the Palestinian Authority's minister of planning, said he is wary of Israel's motives in leaving Hamas in power in Gaza. “They want to perpetuate the split between Gaza and the West Bank,” he said. “They don't want us [the Palestinian Authority under president Mahmoud Abbas] to be back in Gaza. Not at all.”
"Here I am... stuck in the middle with you."

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04 January 2009

Strangely enough...

  1/04/2009 06:15:00 pm      
...the comments on this "big breaking story" are now closed...
"Anthony B from Maritimes, Canada writes: 'Hello, Ontario.'"

"Try not to panic over this strange, unknown phenomenon. It happens several times each winter in other parts of Canada and we manage to cope with it. Oh, and FYI, the Army is kinda busy right now, so just stock up on salt and sand and take it easy."

"You will survive it."

* Posted 04/01/09 at 3:57 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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And the nominees...

  1/04/2009 03:30:00 pm      
...for "most realistic" footage of Israeli war crimes...
"When he came back to life in the middle of the crowd (at approximately 1:35 in the clip), the crowd breaks up because they didn't know that it wasn't really a corpse."

Israel Radio reported that many reporters laughed at the point in the tape that the "corpse" seemed to "rise from the dead," causing the people around him to flee in terror."
And for best supporting-actor...

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RELATED: CBC bucking for a "Gazzie Award" too...

...implies Israeli soldiers are primarily targeting civilians...
"Doctors in Gaza say 24 Palestinians have been killed since the ground offensive began after nightfall Saturday. Four of the dead are said to be Hamas fighters, and the others are civilians."
Funny how that works, huh?

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There's a reason...

  1/04/2009 01:30:00 pm      
...nobody ever refers to Taliban Jack as a "political chessmaster"...
It was Layton who suffered most.

First, he had a chance to do the Liberals in and replace them as the default selection on the left had he gone along with the Tories' plan to end public funding to parties.

Next to the Tories, the NDP have the best chance of replacing public handouts with private donations. Layton could have crippled the Liberals, instead he tried to vault himself into cabinet by riding into power as the Liberals' shotgun.

With the revealing of the coalition, Layton was also exposed as a self-serving opportunist with no compunction about making a deal with separatists, even weeks before the Tories lit the match on the crisis.
(via blue like you)

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RELATED: The self-trumpeted genius of Jacko
“This whole thing would not have happened if the moves hadn’t been made with the Bloc a long time ago and locked them in early.”
Those six seats in a Stephane Dion cabinet were so close he could taste them.

So sad.

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LAST WORD: Poor Jacko has early-onset Alzheimers
"Not one word of the coalition. Not one mention of Stephane Dion and the Liberals, or of working with Michael Ignatieff."

"Jack Layton says that NDP supporters ought to "think about what we'd like to see in the year ahead", and yet it doesn't appear that Jack Layton is thinking about the coalition."
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"And if you can't be..."

  1/04/2009 11:30:00 am      
"...with the one you hate, honey... bomb the one you're with..."
Up to 40 Shia pilgrims have been killed by a female suicide bomber at a shrine in Baghdad, Iraqi officials have said.

As many as 72 people were injured in the blast, in the Kadhimiya area of the Iraqi capital, where pilgrims were gathering for a religious ceremony.
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Toronto's first murder of 2009

  1/04/2009 08:00:00 am      
The victim, whose friend last night said was 36, died after several shots were fired at him in the parking lot of a two-storey strip plaza on Milvan Dr., north of Finch Ave., shortly after 3 a.m.

Only willing to identify him as Johnnie, his friend of two months said he lived in Mississauga and was an auto mechanic. His family, who she said live in Iraq, “don’t know this has happened.

A friend of the victim suffered minor injuries after being hit with a gun, following an argument in which the leader of the suspect group insulted Johnnie with a homosexual slur, a witness said.

Grinton described the three men wanted in the shooting as black of West Indian descent, South Asian of West Indian descent and Asian. He said surveillance cameras were being checked to determine if the shooting was filmed.
And it's not the first time this particular venue has been in the news...
A widowed Brampton mother of four was shot dead at a nightclub which was at the same mall in April 2005. Livvette Olivea Miller, 26, also known as Livvette Moore, was killed in the Prestige Palace club while six others were wounded in an apparent gang gun battle.
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RELATED: They're off to a very good start
(image via reader r&r)
"Toronto police maintain a web page that shows year-to-date shootings. As of Dec. 15, there have been 236 shooting incidents in the city, an increase of 18 percent over 2007. The number of victims is up to 336, about a 42 percent increase over 2007."
Gotta get cracking to beat last year.

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LAST WORD: The sad roll-call of 2008

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03 January 2009

Yup, I'm kind of...

  1/03/2009 08:30:00 pm      
...an all or nothin' guy myself...
Vice Premier Haim Ramon and Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Eli Yishai were the only two cabinet members to abstain from voting in favor of a ground incursion in Gaza in Friday's special cabinet meetings.

The two reportedly refrained from casting a yea vote, after their demand to include toppling Hamas' regime in the Strip in the operational goals of the incursion was denied.
The thing is, if you're gonna go... you wanna go hard...
“The objective of this phase of the operation is to intensify the heavy blow already dealt to Hamas and to take control of area from where most of the rocket attacks against Israel originate,” Israel Army spokesman Brigadier-General Avi Benayahu said in an e-mailed statement.

Palestinian gunmen clashed with Israeli troops inside Gaza and more than 30 Hamas militants were killed in the battle, Channel Two television said, citing the army. An army spokeswoman declined to comment.
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RELATED: Is it worth it?
In 2008 alone, Hamas fired more than 3,200 rockets and mortars into Israel. When you consider that six months of 2008 was officially considered a ceasefire, it's an astonishing number.
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02 January 2009

Another bright, shining moment...

  1/02/2009 05:30:00 pm      
...in the annals of Canadian justice...
National Parole Board spokeswoman Arti Jolly says the parole was authorized on Dec. 23 but she is not sure whether he has actually been released from his Montreal-area prison.

Mr. Guite has served about one-sixth of his 42-month prison term.

Mr. Guite was in charge of the federal sponsorship program where friends of the federal Liberals were paid for little or no work. A jury convicted him in 2006 on all five charges he faced.
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Live and Don't Learn

  1/02/2009 11:15:00 am      
Israel is tightening security ahead of demonstrations called by Palestinian militant group Hamas in protest at Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Demonstrations huh? Is that what the MSM is calling them these days?

You mean the "demonstrations" that involve masked men festooned with grenades & AK47s?

Meanwhile, over at "Thumb-Butt Central"...
A draft UN resolution put forward by Egypt and Libya failed after the US and UK complained that it made no mention of Hamas rocket attacks against Israel.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"What is Iggy's position on the UN resolution?"
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Last night's CTV Moonbat Moment

  1/02/2009 08:00:00 am      
Never let it be said the compassionate, progressive crew at CTV isn't prepared to go that extra mile for the cause.

In an amazing coincidence, truly worthy of an episode of "The Trouble with Tracey"... reporter Paul Bliss caught up with Premier McSlippery... wait for it... at a local food bank.

Wow... talk about generosity.

The most interesting part of the schmooze-fest... for me anyway... was when Dalton did a little song & dance about how important it was to him to go out and chop down his own Christmas tree. He was very adamant he just wouldn't buy one off a lot anymore.

Yeah, buddy... you're one regular guy.

Mrs Neo did however, have one question... "Does this mean he's gonna go out and shoot his own Thanksgiving turkey?"

Gotta tell ya, I'd pay money to see that.

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RELATED: The question CTV forgot to ask...
A 36-year-old leukemia patient who fought the Ontario government to have a stem-cell transplant funded in the United States won her case - but died before she was able to obtain the treatment, prompting calls for an investigation.

Valerie Niles's last few hours of life were spent in an Ottawa hospital bed with her mother's hand on her heart until its final beat on the clear, cold morning of Dec. 22.

Her death marked the end of an 11-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia, but also with government. Ms. Niles and her oncologists garnered a coveted spot for a special stem-cell transplant treatment in Seattle; she was accepted, but the Ontario Health Insurance Plan refused to fund it in August.
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01 January 2009

See Nizar, fate is a funny monkey

  1/01/2009 08:00:00 pm      
He is survived... by his delusions...
The day before a missile flattened his apartment in Gaza, he appeared on Hamas-run al-Aqsa television promising to hit Israel "even deeper" than before.
"We will never recognise Israel," he told Reuters news agency in early 2007.
"There is nothing called Israel, neither in reality nor in the imagination."
Funny though... this bit doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of media play...
"According to Palestinian sources, his family was warned before the attack but did not leave the building."

Mirror, mirror...

  1/01/2009 05:00:00 pm      
"While Canada has a good-sized immigrant population," he said, "it is not nearly as vast as people like to let the CBC delude them into thinking ... I think the military is a fairly solid representation of the actual multicultural Canada.

"It's sort of like the difference between the French Resistance of romantic memory and the actual, substantially smaller French Resistance."

Our vision of our country's makeup is skewed, no doubt bolstered by years of ethnically unbalanced government propaganda and advertising posters. It turns out our fallen sons, and one daughter, reflect Canada as, outside the major cities, she remains.
[Read it all]

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RELATED: More pavilions at folkfest
"Diversity is no organizing principle; it’s a fact of existence. It’s part of the human condition. It’s neither to be swept under the carpet nor to be run up the flagpole."

"It’s neither the solvent of nationhood nor its glue."
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Well, that sure didn't take long

  1/01/2009 01:00:00 pm      
So, c'mon now... tell me again how crime stats are plummeting and Toronto is an urban paradise... I DARE YOU...
Two men believed to be in their 20s are in hospital after an early morning shooting at a Danforth Ave. bar.

Shots were fired at Paradise Bar and Billiards, east of Jones Ave., around 3:40 a.m., Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. Brian Redick said.

One man, shot in the head, was taken to hospital in critical condition, while another was treated for a non life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg, Redick said.
So just how many shootings were there in 2008?

You need numbers?

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UPDATE: Oops... looks like I missed one
The first shooting of 2009 came early this Thursday morning in Toronto's west end.

Toronto police Staff Sergeant Dave Gillis told 680News that the event occurred at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning in the parking lot at the Ramada Renaissance on Dixon road.

An 18 year old male victim was shot once in the leg.
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Situational Ethics

  1/01/2009 11:30:00 am      
So, lemme get this straight... if they're running around threatening people and talking to God... that's no biggie... but let the mercury drop and we can round 'em up like sheep?
“Not all homeless people are mentally ill and so simply using the Mental Health Act won't cover all the homeless people,” he said Wednesday.

Instead, he said temperature should be used as a factor for taking action.

When the temperature was sufficiently cold, it should be the basis for apprehending people and putting them in shelters, he suggested.
You've gotta love the demented left. They oppose measures like detaining "mentally ill" people who refuse to take their meds... but they're willing to suspend civil liberties to protect them from the weather.

Apparently, it's okay to wander around in a psychotic funk... as long as you won't freeze your tootsies.

What about protecting the rest of us? Why don't our lives matter?

I don't get it.

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RELATED: "Save us... oh wonderful Dalton"

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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Madness in the Streets" is a book I really suggest you read. It is a few years old now and would do with an update (1992), however the authors describe the useless ideas of the left perfectly.
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A Bright, Shining New Year

  1/01/2009 09:45:00 am      
Hope, Change & the whole damn thing...
So all that will change for now will be the sudden absence of shrill complaints that we live in an America without a Constitution.

Static, same-old, same-old government policy will, of course, be said to have altered radically ("hoped and changed"), but it will also be refashioned in the media as "sober" and "judicious", as the administration moves "in circumspect fashion" to probe and explore "complex" and often "paradoxical" matters of national security that "indeed at the end of the day have no easy answers".
Yup... I can't wait.

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So wind 'er up and let's go

  1/01/2009 12:01:00 am      
We don't stand much on ceremony here at "the halls."

I would like, however... to say "thank you" to the folks who bother to drop by and participate in my little endeavor.

With a few notable exceptions it's been engaging and thought-provoking. I look forward, in 2009, to more of the same.

THANKS AGAIN AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

neo

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