And... I hear it makes you smarter...

...and better looking...

♫ You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O'Lord, I've popped a lot of pills ♫

Forty per cent of the 23,410 hospital stays for "harm caused by substance use" in 2017-18 were related to cannabis, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

That's 9,364 knucklehead dopers taking up valuable hospital beds. Thanks a bunch, bro.

Hey... let's ask an expert...

"Margaret Trudeau, who suffers from bipolar disorder, spoke openly with reporters about her experience with depression and the effect of her long-term marijuana use.

"Marijuana can trigger psychosis," said Trudeau.

"Every time I was hospitalized it was preceded by heavy use of marijuana."

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: AR15 victims in Canada - ZEROTry imagine the political hay Justin Trudeau's Liberals would make if 10,000 Canadians per year were hospitalised from gunshot wounds.

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POSTSCRIPT: You really, truly don't remember...

...the "Chainsaw Bayonet?"

In my defence, I have to say...

...I learned from the best...

"But at the time I felt it was the honourable and right thing to do and I admit fully that my judgement was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable but that's just the way it is."

Yeah... right.

There's a few more disillusioned...

...whisky swilling atheists in the world today...

"A statue of Jesus in India mysteriously began dripping water from its toes. Worshippers started collecting it and drinking it believing it was holy.

The source of the water was later found to be a clogged toilet near the statue."

Well, well, well...

...if it isn't the consequences of my own actions...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that Hoda Muthana, an American-born woman who joined the Islamic State in 2014 and says she now wants to return home to her family in Alabama, is not a U.S. citizen.

Muthana's father was a former Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth, and was therefore under the diplomatic protection of his home country.

For this reason, it said, Muthana did not obtain US citizenship by birth.

Got a craving for real Jerk Chicken?

...play it safe and do the cafeteria at IKEA instead...

Toronto police received several reports of gunshots being fired at 1:42 a.m. this morning in the area of Oakwood Avenue and Vaughan Road and located a victim screaming and suffering from serious injuries.

Paramedics were called and he died, but police are unsure if he died in the ambulance or at the hospital. No suspect information has been released.

“It was like a normal thing to us,” said Thamim Chowdhury.

Oakwood, Oakwood... that sounds so familiar.

UPDATE: The Usual, well... you know...

The victim has been identified as Craig Campbell, 42.

Homicide #64.

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AND SPEAKING OF MURDER: Bethelhem Geleta, 22

Homicide #59

On Saturday, October 26, 2019, at 12:32 p.m., police responded to a call for unknown trouble at 141 Davisville Avenue and located a woman without vital signs and a man suffering from obvious trauma. Both were taken to hospital and later pronounced deceased.

The woman has been identified as Bethelhem Geleta, 22, of Toronto. An autopsy revealed her cause of death to be strangulation.

The man has been identified as Aboma Daba, 30, of Toronto.

Who's Zoomin' Who?

From the folks who brought you melamine in baby food...

China's biggest dump is already full - 25 years early - after the massive amount of waste produced by the country's 1.4 billion people forced the garbage graveyard to accept four times as much trash per day as it was designed for.

Trash at the site allegedly is piled up 50 stories high in some spots.

Oh, don't you fret... the pollution will balance itself, right Justin?

Last year, China boosted its new coal power plant capacity by more than 50 per cent, and Beijing approved 155 new coal-fired power plants, and now China is building coal plants for export.

The floggings will continue...

...until morale improves...

The cost to run the Senate of Canada has increased by more than a third over the last five years as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's reform agenda has led, in part, to increased expenditures in the upper house.

It gets better... by which I mean worse...

That $25 billion ballooned to $70 billion. And Trudeau’s promise of a balanced budget has been replaced by a $93-billion deficit over the next four years.

Canada has seen that cliff before in the disastrous legacy of Justin Trudeau’s father.

Fairy Dust & Unicorn Farts

"The de-incarceration movement is at best naive, and if enacted, dangerous. It would result in tens of thousands of violent murderers, rapists and child molesters being let free."

The Gift of Fear

What happens when you ignore those nagging little voices inside your head?Short answer... nothing good...

“You’re not a serial killer, right?” she messaged him before leaving the house. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver was exactly that, prosecutors said on Thursday.

The 23-year-old is accused of murdering three women and attempting to kill a fourth, and authorities say that Butler was his final victim.

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

If only there was a law...

Bilal Deeb was a 19-year-old member of the Eglinton West Crips street gang, on STRICT house arrest at the time with a bail condition that he not possess any weapons.

Being on a TTC bus with a handgun and using it to shoot someone at point-blank range was not one of the exceptions for being out of his home.

Why can't Canadians be more like...

...sweet baby jebus...

"In an analysis article titled ‘Sweden’s 100 explosions this year: What’s going on?’, the BBC acknowledged the epidemic of gang crime, gun crime, and criminal use of explosives."

“Swedish police are dealing with unprecedented levels of attacks, targeting city centre locations as well as heavily migrant-populated suburbs.”

“This category of crime was not even logged prior to 2017. Then, in 2018, there were 162 explosions."

By Jiminy... who could have seen this com...

"Sweden is also remarkable for a shocking number of grenade attacks, with criminals using the military explosives at least 43 times in 2017."

De Villa: Junkies Good, Hunters Bad

De Villa’s hostility to hunters, farmers, ranchers, sport shooters, gun collectors and the firearm industry contrasts with her views on drug dealers and users.

Toronto’s top medical officer recommended decriminalizing all drugs for personal use last year, saying the “criminalization approach” … “is not working.”

De Villa earned more than $300,000 in 2018, making her one of the highest paid public officials in Ontario.

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RELATED: There oughta be a law...

Ali Showbeg is now the poster child for why Justin Trudeau’s proposed gun bans simply won’t work.

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RELATED2: Schrödinger's Gat

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LAST WORD: "Irregular Firearms Enthusiasts"...

On Wednesday, Toronto police said they have charged two youths with eight offences each, after a 14-year-old girl was shot in the leg in Toronto’s north end.

They cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The really sad thing is...

...I'm sure she actually believes it...

"On Tuesday, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told BBC Radio 5 Live she was under “enormous pressure” to consider a 2020 White House run."

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I'M WITH JOE ROGAN:

“Oh, we got so close! Oh! We almost had a woman! Oh, girls, relax..."

"If Hillary Clinton was my own mom, I’d be like, 'Mom! You can’t be president. You can’t stand up fast.'”

The 24/7 Prime Minstrel Media...

...sho' nuff doin' what it do best...

“I have just learned I’ve been fired by Sportsnet for comments made on Coach’s Corner Nov. 9,” Cherry told Joe Warmington in a phone interview.

“No problem.” said Cherry. “I know what I said and I meant it. Everybody in Canada should wear a poppy to honour our fallen soldiers.”

“I speak the truth and I walk the walk. I have visited the bases of the troops, been to Afghanistan with our brave soldiers at Christmas, been to cemeteries of our fallen around the world and honoured our fallen troops on Coach’s Corner.”

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RELATED: Cowards die a thousand times... right, Ron?Join the discussion here.

UPDATE: Not the Canada I grew up in...

"One day after Remembrance Day, Toronto Police are investigating an act of vandalism at the cenotaph at Old City Hall."

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LAST WORD: Cherry has been in their sights for a while

You get the government you deserve

Remember... this is the fair city that needs special units to steam clean human excrement from their sidewalks...

Boudin was endorsed by socialist Bernie Sanders, which somehow makes him seem less radical. But he isn't.

Just when you think it isn't possible, San Francisco gets a whole lot crazier.

Wait'll you read his Five Year Plan. Here's a taste... no more jails. I wonder if DA Boudin's planning on beefing up Frisco's "hurtful words" statutes...

"It is unclear how the new language might help the city with some of the highest crimes rates in the nation."

Or enhancing the city's Public Transit/Homeless Shelters...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Shocking video is calling attention to what’s going on in one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area: junkies blatantly shooting up out in the open as commuters walk by, others slumped along filthy corridors.

It gets better... by which I mean worse...

A California woman claims she was assaulted by a homeless man who pulled her out of her car, dragged her into the middle of the street and poured a bucket of hot feces on her head. Despite throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at the problem, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County has risen for the third time in four years.

Lest we forget

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

•• Search the WWI CEF database ••

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

•• Search the Commonwealth War Graves database ••

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones... two of my grandfather's older brothers (with four young children between them) were killed in Belgium and France, respectively.

Dear Supreme "Green" Leader...

...there's a reason 16 year-olds don't get to vote...

While it is unclear how many spray cans Iglesias has used, the mural spans four stories and at least one smaller project utilized 500 cans of the paint scientists say can generate asthma-inducing smog.

To create the mural of the teenage climate activist, the artist used a respirator that is said to protect painters subjected to noxious fumes.

Won't someone stop this Eco-Visigoth before she causes more harm?

"Climate crusader Greta Thunberg’s “principled” trip across the Atlantic in a carbon fibre and non recyclable plastic boat is going to require at least four crew members to fly across the Atlantic."

Her "stolen childhood?"

Somebody want to explain that argle-bargle?

Once Upon a Time...

...there was a proud country called Canada...**********

UPDATE: Cowardly corporate media rolls over...

Sportsnet issued a statement on Sunday apologizing for Don Cherry's disparaging remarks during his most recent 'Coach's Corner' segment on Hockey Night in Canada.

But, but, but...

"Sportsnet broadcast it multiple times, even though they could have pulled/changed it."

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LAST WORD: First they came for...

STONEWALL, MANITOBA - November 7, 2019 (LSN) 17-year-old Natalie Salisbury was suspended by Stonewall Collegiate Institute in Stonewall, Manitoba, after defending the traditional red and black poppy.

Driving cars, attending soccer games...

What's next for Muslim wom... sweet baby jebus...

“ISIS is demonstrating that jihadist fighting is not just for men.” Earlier this year, the UN warned that jihadi bride stereotypes are causing the group’s female members to be underestimated.

“The idea that women are passive in terms of their roles they play as brides and in recruitment is not valid."

You've come a wrong way, baby!

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RELATED: All about the "human rights"...

"Iran, the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism, debuted a five-day exhibit on its 'human rights achievements' at the United Nations this week."

Hang on a second... are we talking about the same Iran?

The New York Times' Terence Smith, writing about Iran in 1984, described the use of child soldiers by Iran to clear minefields.

Build a wall, top it with glass shards...

...dot it with gun towers and lay landmines...

More evil fuckery from the folks who brought you
a mineshaft full of human heads...

A 30-year-old Mexican police officer identified only as Eduardo N., who was involved in the botched operation to arrest one of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s sons last month was killed by a hail of more than 150 bullets.

The brazen daylight assassination is the latest incident of extreme cartel violence to blight the country.

Or, as it's known in Mexico... Tuesday. If only there was a law, right Justin?

Relax folks, el Presidente has things under control...

President Obrador’s stated approach to cartel violence is “abrazos, no balazos” “hugs, not bullets.”

Sounds like Toronto Mayor John Tory...

“I think that kind of talk about sort of, you know, where this all arises from, or sort of who’s to blame, is not very constructive,” Toronto Mayor John Tory told reporters in Nathan Phillips Square.

Diversity is our streng...

...sweet baby jebus...

Syrian and Afghan asylum seekers attacked a village disco in in the village of Trebbin in Brandeburg, Germany armed with machetes after two were kicked out by a bouncer. Similar incidents have taken place in Germany since 2015.

In the town of Plauen, asylum seekers were banned from a local disco after several violent incidents and sex attacks on young girls.

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RELATED: C'mon... how often does this hap...

...well, slap me with a shovel...

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LAST WORD: And Winston Churchill wept...

Run by charity Street Doctors, UK school children are taught how to deliver first aid to stabbing victims through role play, and learn how to stem blood loss, reports The Times.

Paging Dr Alzheimers

Blunts not shunts...

Canada saw a major jump — 14 per cent over the last five years — in the number of medical items left inside patients after procedures, according to a study released Thursday.

CIHI said 553 such objects were left inside patients over the last two years.

A foreign body — sponges, needles, clamps, scissors, etc. — is left inside a patient in Canada 9.8 times out of every 100,000 surgeries. That's three times the average.

Law-abiding Citizens, 1 - Criminals, 0

"Hey, Cujo... that locked door was there for YOUR protection"...

"Alberta is making changes to the law that will prevent property owners from being sued if they injure a criminal on their property. These amendments will be introduced imminently, making Alberta’s legislation on this matter retroactive to the start of 2018."

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RELATED: Schrödinger's Gat...

The logical paradox which posits that legal firearms, secured in a locked steel cabinet in my home, are simultaneously a danger to innocent civilians in an impoverished urban environment.

Smell the "professional" journalism

An ABC rep commented: “We take violations of company policy very seriously, and we’re pursuing all avenues to determine the source of the leak.”

So, will the corporate media networks stop dealing with Whitehouse leakers?

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RELATED: The real gold is in the comments...

I can remember when Scheer’s views were considered normal. Now you have to be a gay leftist who believes in killing babies to be a politician or even a Canadian.

The Usual, well... you know

TORONTO - Inside the trap door, investigators found numerous loaded guns, including a 9mm Sterling submachine gun capable of fully-automatic fire, revolvers, two silencers, a bulletproof vest, an assault-style carbine, a 50 round drum magazine for a semi-automatic handgun and a Taurus “Judge” revolver capable of carrying pistol and shotgun rounds at the same time.

Kadean Maragh, 28, and Imran Maragh, 31, are each facing more than 50 drug- and gun-related charges, including conspiracy to traffic firearms. The younger brother had $200,000 in cash on him when he was arrested.

BANGERS BE BANGIN': The ol' Jane Street Blues...

One male is dead and another person is in critical condition after a shooting at a bar in North York early Thursday morning. The incident occurred in the area of Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue at around 1:30 a.m.

Police have not provided any suspect descriptions.

UPDATE: Miganeh Idriss, 20, is Homicide #63.

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RELATED: They don't catch the smart ones...

Malik Mohamed, 21, of Toronto was originally arrested by Barrie police on Wednesday in connection with an unrelated matter. He was allegedly in possession of two loaded semi-automatic handguns at the time of his arrest. Andre Cunningham, 20, of Toronto, was charged earlier this week in connection with the shooting.

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LAST WORD: No farmers, hunters or skeet shooters

A well-known underworld enforcer, Antonio “Scratchy” Fiorda, 50, is the latest victim of the bitter southern Ontario gangland war purging bad blood that goes back decades.

You dance with the one...

...what brung ya...

"The Crown’s case is built on business relationships that SNC-Lavalin allegedly cultivated with Saadi and Muammar Gaddafi involving million-dollar bribes and kickbacks to maintain a pipeline of valuable contracts for the Québec-based engineering firm."

I'm so old, I remember when...

...Canada was a democracy...

QUEBEC CITY – Francois Legault has declared that, moving forward, the only people in Quebec who will be able to obtain government services in English will be ones who can prove they are a direct descendant of the angel faced Irish Orphans from the Heritage Minute.

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RELATED: Not the Onion...

Émilie Dubois had everything she needed to settle in Quebec long term. A French citizen, she applied to come to the province after completing a PhD at French-language Laval University in Quebec City.

But the provincial government refused Dubois's residency application because one chapter of her thesis was in English.

Forget about those silly medical guys...

...I say we fly in aboriginal shamans from Nunavut...

In a move that has provoked baffled and outraged responses, Cornwall city council last week agreed to provide $45,000 in public funding for a new private clinic run by an ND — a naturopathic “doctor.”

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RELATED: You want some really scary stuff?

"The practice of chiropractics is playing a bigger role in health care, but few people know it started with a message from a ghost. Daniel David Palmer was a spiritualist. He said the idea for chiropractic came to him from the “other world” during a séance."

Plastic straws not the problem

"Delhi air quality... improves to ‘very poor’"...

On Sunday, the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a meeting with states of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi via video-conference to discuss the measures to tackle air pollution.

Let's go after the real culprits...

The study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, said that by cutting plastic pollution in the Yangtze River in China — and the Ganges River in India, ocean pollution could be reduced by half.

Build a wall, top it with glass shards...

...dot it with gun towers and lay landmines...

"A group of cartel gunmen ambushed and murdered three women and six children near a rural Mormon community in Mexico, close to the New Mexico border. Relatives stated that all of the victims are dual U.S. and Mexican citizens."

It gets better... by which I mean worse...

A team of cartel gunmen torched at least 16 vehicles Tuesday, November 5, in Ciudad Juárez, resulting in the deaths of at least 10 victims.

Savages.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

"They leave out the fact that Oxon Hill is a dangerous ghetto and if this guy didn't get stabbed at Popeye's, chances are he'd get stabbed somewhere else."

A gang of Scientologists, Meteorologists...

...perhaps renegade nuns? It's anybody's guess...

A man in his 50s is dead after being shot multiple times at a strip mall at The Queensway and North Queen Street shortly before 1 p.m. Monday afternoon.

Police have not released a description of the suspects. Toronto’s 61st homicide of 2019.

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RELATED: Urban hunting season in full swing...

Toronto police are investigating after a man, believed to be in his early 20s, was shot to death in the stairwell of an apartment building near Danforth Avenue and Dawes Road early this morning. Police have not released any information on possible suspects.

UPDATE: Warren Pearson, 21, of Toronto...

Homicide #62.

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LAST WORD: Never a Fred or a Bob...

A man is facing nearly two dozen charges in connection with a human trafficking investigation in Peel Region, police say.

On Monday, members of the the Vice, Narcotics and Street Level Organized Crime Unit arrested and charged Jamar Ferguson, a 27-year-old Mississauga man, with 22 offences.

Those Violent Sociopathic Swedes

Across Sweden, bombings and explosions have seen a significant increase. A report released in August by newspaper Dagens Nyheter claiming that the number had increased by 45 per cent nationally from the same period in 2018.

And just down the road...

On Halloween night, mobs set fires to two schools in the French city of Béziers, causing significant damage. The perpetrators also attacked police and responding firefighters.

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RELATED: Ask a beer-swilling German

Seems there's never ever an AR15 in sight

Forget farmers, hunters & skeet shooters... look to batshit crazies & stone-cold gangbangers...

TORONTO • One person who was critically injured in a stabbing at a Halloween party in the Annex on Thursday has died in hospital, police say.

Two suspects, Jacob Alves, 19, of no fixed address and a 15-year-old girl from Richmond Hill became angry after being denied entry to the private Halloween party.

They forced their way in, slashing and stabbing people inside, and then outside as they were leaving.

UPDATE: Firdous Nabizada, 19, is Homicide #60.

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RELATED: There oughta be a law...

Ali Showbeg is now the poster child for why Justin Trudeau’s proposed gun bans simply won’t work.

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RELATED2: Bangers be bangin'

Police have identified 18-year-old Brampton man, Lorenzo Wright, as Peel's latest homicide victim. Police do not have any suspect information.

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LAST WORD: Ride the Rocket... if you dare

Police allege that two males followed people as they got off of a bus travelling along the Finch Avenue TTC bus route. Once they were in a residential neighbourhood, the suspects would rob the victims of their personal items and flee the scene. In one case, police say a victim was stabbed.

Two 16-year-old Toronto boys were subsequently arrested and a pistol was seized.

They don't call it "Scarlem" for nothing.

Apparently... zhe "won't be back"...

Arrogance, overreach... whatever you want to call it...

"All we heard about Dark Fate was how THE GRRRRLS ARE TAKING OVER, how it’s all about capital 'D' Diversity, how it condemns the cruelty of Trump’s border enforcement.

Who the hell wants to see that?"

Indeed.

QOTW: "Democracy Dies in Barkness"

Trump's "Medal Dog" retweet eclipses even the infamous "Two Scoops of Ice Cream" scandal...**********

RELATED: Loyalty and Duty repaid**********

LAST WORD: Shapiro ups the ante...

Michael Bryant's car...

...has still killed more people than my guns...

The Toronto Police Service would like to make the public aware of a stolen firearm investigation. On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at 10:04 p.m., officers began an investigation into the theft of an RCMP issue Smith & Wesson 9mm model 5946 pistol.

The pistol has a silhouette of a horse and rider with GRC and RCMP engraved on the right side. Also stolen were three magazines and a police radio at Sherway Gardens shopping mall.

Dudley Do-Right didn't need a nasty gun... right, Justin?

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UPDATE: Facts behind the myth...

A recent count prepared by the RCMP shows that police forces and other government agencies have lost 813 firearms since 2005.

Contacted Friday morning, the RCMP did not provide a response to The Globe and Mail’s questions concerning either Wednesday’s theft or the total number of such thefts.

Oh, it gets better... by which I mean worse...

"No, that's not a parody of the Twelve Days of Christmas."

"It's a list of Kanesatake Mohawk Police weapons that have (wait for it) 'disappeared'."

Our Modern World

You don't bring a costume to a knife fight...

At around 11:40 p.m. Thursday, Toronto Police were called to a "rowdy party" with at least 200 attendees in a fraternity house near the corner of Madison and Lowther Avenues.

According to police, a fight broke out after a man and woman were denied entry to the house. The man stabbed three people and two others were hurt during the confrontation.

Little more than an hour later, a male was fatally shot in the yard at Ridgeview Public School in Brampton. Then at about 1:30 a.m., a male was shot in the area of Don Mills Road and Gateway Avenue in Toronto.

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RELATED: The Usual, well... you know

"A man murdered in the Toronto area last week has been identified as 36-year-old Ryan Lorde, a popular Nova Scotia hip hop artist and music executive.

Lorde was known within the hip hop community as 'Littles the General.' He was a member of the rap group 'The Offense' in Toronto."

"I miss him so mu... is that more cake?"

No word yet, on how he feels about...

...living in a hand dug crawlspace for the rest of his life...

The Shura Council met immediately after confirming the martyrdom of Sheik Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In audio released by the ISIS central media arm, al-Furgan Foundation, the terrorist group confirmed Baghdadi’s death and named his successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayhi.

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RELATED: Cowardly consumate politician...

Former Vice President Joe Biden advised President Obama not to carry out the raid that killed Usama bin Laden.

It gets better... by which I mean worse...

"Joe Biden says, ‘I’m going to make sure that we rejoin the Paris Peace Accord on day one.’ The Paris Peace Accords was a treaty to end the Vietnam War that was signed in 1973, Biden’s first year in the Senate."

Somebody needs a nap.