Dear Iranian slash Canadians...

First... a bit of bad news...Despite the lamentations and strident choreographed demands of Canada's Prime Minstrel, none of the rest of us unslashed Canucks are actually in mourning with, or for you. In fact, it would be a little bit weird if we were... like when Michael Jackson spent a long, dark lonely night at the funeral home with the corpse of James Brown.

The truth is, most of us can't wrap our heads around why you might return to the land of demented mullahs and the acknowledged home of world terrorism. Let's face facts here... your homeboy Khomeini was just totally off the chain. All that "Death to the Great Satan America" shit has only served to isolate & impoverish a once flourishing country.

In a way, the people on that plane brought this disaster upon themselves by venturing back into the surreal land of the bearded weirdies who cut hands off shoplifters and sanction the beating of disobedient wives.

It's time to actually pick a side. You could leave all that bloodthirsty medieval theocracy bullshit behind... and start thinking of yourself as a citizen of the civilised world.

Just a thought.

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RELATED: Who mourns for Zahra Kazemi?

OTTAWA • Iran has had no ambassador in Canada since Iranian security forces raped and murdered Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi in 2003.

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LAST WORD: Justin al-Trudeau doubles down...

“I’ve talked about the tremendous grief and loss that Canadians are feeling and the need for clear answers on how this happened and how we’re going to make sure it never happens again,” Trudeau said.

With his "magical Hogwarts powers," I'm guessing. Remember, this isn't Justin's first rodeo...

"Trudeau Liberals announce someone will be held accountable for something in Syria in some way."

Time for another mosque tour in Papineau.

Your money... his friends

According to the CBC, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) did not comment on the claims that Trudeau had greenlit the £500,000 ($847,777 CAD).

NOT GOING QUIETLY ANYMORE

Not me... not mine... not today...

Gun permit applications surged nearly 1,000 percent in New York’s Jewish community since the December 28, 2019, attack on Hasidic Jews in a rabbi’s home.

Meanwhile...

The man charged in a machete attack on a suburban Hanukkah could face the death penalty if a comatose victim dies from his wounds, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

TORONTO • Ethan Lee, 20, of Toronto, Kedar Guerra, 38, of Sarnia, and Atneil Nelson, 33, of Toronto, were charged with first-degree murder.

Gimme my "Global Warming" now, dammit!

Severe winter weather combined with a harsh cold snap has left dozens dead across Afghanistan and Pakistan as officials work to reopen highways and evacuate people cut off by heavy snowfall and flash flooding.

Parole Board gets one right

For once, it's not about the murderer...

Now 50, cop killer Clinton Gayle wanted to be deported back to his native Jamaica where he would have been virtually free of any supervision. Gayle was a convicted crack dealer under a deportation order.

In denying his release, they found that while Gayle said the “right things” he showed no emotion, even while listening to the family’s heartbreaking victim impact statements.

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RELATED: Weed... the victimless crime

Two Georgia teens are being charged in connection with killing a man on New Year’s Eve over $70 worth of marijuana.

Mad Mullahs double down...

...on their own populace...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Online videos appeared to show Iranian security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests as popular anger swelled Monday over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner and Iran’s failed attempt to conceal its role in the tragedy.

I just want to know how often they...

...drug test those Nuclear Control Room Operators...

“There is no danger to the public, there was no radiological event and what I can tell you is that we are working with the province to investigate what happened,” said OPG spokesperson O’Neal Kelly.

He said that OPG knew immediately that there was no incident taking place at the Pickering Generating Station when they saw the alert on their own phones.

Or... and I'm just spitballin' here... maybe they could check the panel with all the flashing lights to be sure?

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RELATED: Much more "bang for your bucks"...

TORONTO • The CEO of Ontario Power Generation was the highest paid public sector employee in the province last year, topping a growing list of those earning $100,000 or more.

The so-called “Sunshine List” released Wednesday shows Jeff Lyash made more than $1.7 million in 2018.

Premier Doug Ford made $112,770.47.

Dear Liberal Party of Canada...

...what law or prohibition is gonna stop Anoshirvan & Friends from shooting up the town?

Anoshirvan Shirizadeh opened fire on an officer at a gas station near Major Mackenzie Dr. and Bayview Ave during a traffic stop around 10:30 a.m. that day.

He is charged with attempted murder, assault, dangerous driving and a number of weapons offences.

Oh, yeah... he has two previous weapons convictions.

And there's this...

A 25-year-old Toronto man, David Leonard Abraham, was charged with 22 firearm, ammunition and weapons related charges and one charge for breaching a previous bail condition.

Taking rifles off farmers & hunters just isn't gonna do it.

How about putting gangsters in jail... and not letting them out?

How Justin Trudeau got elected twice

Well, there's these uber-woke and discriminating folk......and then there's, well...

"The candle, provocatively named “This Smells Like My Vagina,” will run customers a cool $75 and boasts a fragrance packed with geranium, citrusy bergamot and cedar."

The candle is currently sold out on both Goop’s and Heretic’s websites.

Two things to point out here... one • $75.00 candle...
and two • smells like vagina.

It's like a tax on stupidity.

Well, he died... so there's that

Smell the "professional" journalism...

TORONTO • Investigators say the man was struck by multiple bullets and suffered serious injuries in the shooting.

How serious? Well... he stopped living.

Not a sausage about the shooter(s) or shootee. It's almost as if they don't want you to know anything specific.

Homicide #3.

UPDATE: Id'd as Paul Anthony Desouza, 25, of Toronto.

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RELATED: Everybody needs a hobby...

"Finding comfort in gangs, guns and drugs".

I'm so old, I remember reading books, playing chess, building models, etc, etc.

"Who you gonna believe..."

"...me, or your lyin' infidel eyes?"...BREAKING: "Our profound regrets"

Iran state TV says Ukrainian jet was 'unintentionally' shot down.

But, but, but...

Earlier Friday, the head of Iran’s national aviation department, Ali Abedzadeh, told a news conference that “what is obvious for us, and what we can say with certainty, is that no missile hit the plane.”

I'm sure they'll be much more careful with nuclear weapons.

Meet Aaron Trejo...

...high school jock and self-imagined "problem solver"...

Hey, brah... know what fucks up your life more than a dumbass teenage pregnancy?

65 years in federal lockup with rabid, sex-starved, weightlifting sociopaths.

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

The suspect, 21-year-old Reeaz Khan, accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 92-year-old woman in Queens claimed to cops that he’d been trying to help the old woman — but then he lost his balance, his belt broke, his pants fell down and his genitals accidentally came in contact with hers, it was revealed in court Friday.

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

TORONTO • One man has been rushed to hospital in critical condition after a shooting in Scarborough’s Morningside neighbourhood near Military Trail and Neilson Road at around 2 a.m.

Police have not provided any information on possible suspects.

Answering the questions that CBC won't

Because they're irredeemable stone-age assholes?See, Justin... mystery solved...

"The families of the victims and all Canadians want answers. I want answers," Justin Trudeau said during his second press conference in as many days. "That means closure, transparency, accountability and justice. And this government will not rest until we get that."

Yeah... just like with SNC/Lavalin.

If only he was actually this upset when Canadian soldiers are killed or wounded.

Who are the “Biden Five?”

A forthcoming bombshell book from publishing giant HarperCollins will reveal how five members of Joe Biden’s family • the “Biden Five” • siphoned tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer cash and guaranteed loans.

And the recent scandals involving Joe and Hunter Biden, Ukraine, and Burisma are just “the tip of the iceberg,” say sources close to the publisher.

The author, Peter Schweizer, described the book as “a sweeping, detailed look at how the leading figures of progressivism have leveraged the power of their positions.”

In commie-pinko Canada, you can order here.

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WHY OBAMA WON'T ENDORSE HIS OWN VP:

Biden, Biden... that sounds so familiar.

UPDATE: Gonna be a blockbuster

On Thursday, the book rocketed from #822,128 to #3 on Amazon. The book doesn’t hit bookstores until January 21.

UPDATE2: Democrats don't care about corruption

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LAST WORD: Sometime the witches burn themselves...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already topped the fundraising charts in her short time in Congress, but the liberal darling won’t donate a cent of her millions to Democrats' House campaign organization -- a position that has rankled some of her colleagues.

Instead, Ocasio-Cortez is building her own fundraising operation for fellow progressive candidates to bypass the official Democratic Party infrastructure. Already, she's actively funding primary challengers to oust certain Democratic colleagues.

CSI Tehran

Where are the "80 dead American terrorists" Iran said it killed in the missile attacks?More to the point... why is Tehran "tidying up" the crash site with heavy machinery?

If this was a shoot-down event, you don’t want to disturb the crash site [with bulldozers] before a thorough investigation can be conducted. It follows Iranian claims the two black boxes – which contain data and cockpit communications from the plane and are meant to be indestructible – had been damaged.

Seems kinda obvious in retrospect

"People off the streets?"

He can't even keep poopers out of grocery store aisles...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A billion-dollar investment last year has yet to curtail California’s growing homeless crisis, and with the state awash in revenue, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend a billion more on programs aimed at getting people off the streets.

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RELATED: It worked for Al Gore...

I’m still awaiting a media story that discloses the massive and organized PR operation behind St. Greta. You don’t really think she emerged spontaneously?

Who pays for the travel of her retinue, for her hotel rooms and meals, and organizing the public events and other moveable feasts where she appears?

And lefthanded redheads, I don't...

...like them either...

Ted McCoy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, has tweeted out that the rumours about him are true: any student who cites Dr. Jordan Peterson in his class will fail.

He lists himself as anti-fascist, and his pronouns he/him.

McCoy has since deleted the tweet, but the internet never forgets.

You can write Professor McCoy here.

There are reasons we don't want...

...third world nations to have nuclear weapons... let's call it "The Three Stooges Precept"...

KYIV, Ukraine • American officials said Thursday the intelligence community had a “high level of confidence” that an Iranian missile accidentally brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane over Tehran this week.

No wonder the Iranians don't want to give up the "black boxes" for examination.

UPDATE: Give a coin to your Mullah

Iran's head of civil aviation was quoted by the ISNA News Agency as saying Thursday that "scientifically, it is impossible that a missile hit the Ukrainian plane, and such rumors are illogical."

The Prime Minstrel adds to the confusion...

“The majority of victims on that plane were Iranians,” Trudeau said. “That is something that binds us together in our grief.”

C'est what?

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

An 18-year-old Ottawa man, Manyok Akol is dead and three other people remain in hospital in serious condition after a shooting at an Airbnb short-term rental in downtown Ottawa Wednesday morning.

The three other people who were injured are a 15-year-old boy and two young men, 19 & 20.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Dead guy was a rapper...

"I know we thugging but I swear that we was better raised.”

Apparently not.

"Boneyard" gets an updated definition

"Yeah, I'm looking for a 'fluid' pump for a 57 Caucasian"...There's a "slippery slope" aspect to all this, but fwiw, as a responsible motorcycle enthusiast of a certain age, I've signed my donor card.

CBC running distant third in race...

...for "fake news" supremacy...

"They're obviously amateurs over there at The Bee," said Brian Stelter. "A lot of times, their reporting comes true. If you're gonna do fake news, do it right -- 100% fake, guaranteed, 24/7. They really should learn from the pros over here at CNN."

"Stay out of our territory," he growled.

It gets better...

"Trump was briefed on the issue this morning, but it is unclear whether or not he was paying attention. He did, however, offer a thumbs up in between bites of chocolate ice cream, according to CNN."

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RELATED: Fake News can be a costly game...

COVINGTON, Ky. (FOX19) - CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann.

Bad Actor gets "Bad News"

Hey... he wanted an investigation...

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ordered Google to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a special prosecutor who is looking into why prosecutors abruptly dismissed criminal charges against the actor.

It remains unclear if Google has turned over the information.

Sounding awfully Presidential

Sorry, Nancy... looks like it's not the end of the world after all, but that won't stop the sniping from the sidelines.

A couple of takeaways from the CBC Radio coverage...

1. Despite launching missiles at U.S. bases in Iraq, CBC correspondents were quick to praise Iran's "restraint."

2. They also said, and I'm quoting verbatim here, any statements by the USA under President Trump are "essentially meaningless."

Smell that federally-funded "Professional" Journalism.

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RELATED: Nothing up my sleeve...

On Wednesday morning, Iran’s civil aviation authority refused to give the black boxes to Boeing, which would normally analyze the data, or to any American agency.

Iran’s conduct is fueling theories that Iranian forces either deliberately or inadvertently shot down the aircraft.

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LAST WORD: Not me, not mine, not today...

Blowing the guy up was a no-brainer. Qassem Soleimani was a merciless bloodstained fanatic who’d been slaughtering Americans, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians and anyone else he could reach for decades.

JUSTIN WAS RIGHT!!!

Bloodthirsty Ottawa farmers & hunters drop four bodies as AR-15 gun battle erupts on downtown street!Nah, I'm kidding... just the usual gangbangers...

Police and paramedics responded at about 7:30 a.m. to reports of several people shot behind a home at 490 Gilmour St. One man was without vital signs and three others who were injured were taken to hospital.

“This is not considered an active shooter situation, but the suspect remains at large and is not in custody.”

"We don' need no steenkin' descriptions!"

Perhaps, someday... someone will...

...come up with a less cumbersome solution...

♫ "Makin' a list... checkin' it twice" ♫

♫"...Gonna find out"♫... whose horoscope gets changed...

President Donald Trump reacted to a series of missile strikes on American targets in Iraq on Tuesday. “All is well!” he wrote, noting that the United States was still assessing casualties and damages at the two military bases attacked in Iraq.

The President stated that he would address the attacks on Wednesday morning.

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UPDATE: The "I" Word...

What's flat, black & glows in the dark?

Here's a hint, it's not Indiana...

"The Federal Aviation Administration issued Notices to Airmen (NOTAMS) tonight outlining flight restrictions that prohibit U.S. civil aviation operators from operating in the airspace over Iraq, Iran, and the waters of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman."

The FAA cited a potential for miscalculation or misidentification for the restrictions on U.S. civil aviation operators.

Hmmm... here's an odd coincidence.

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UPDATE2: The usual Middle East Muslim propaganda...

Iranian state television said at least 80 "American terrorists" were killed in attacks involving 15 missiles adding that none of the missiles were intercepted.

Earlier, a US official speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press news agency there were "few, if any" casualties.

The Lunatic Left

Funny what the pinkos find offensive...

Gervais tweeted Monday that people have been calling his Golden Globes jokes “right wing” despite the populist angle of his routine.

“How the fuck can teasing huge corporations, and the richest, most privileged people in the world be considered right wing?”

Speaking of huge corporations...

Like mother, like daughter.

Chelsea Clinton has hauled in $9 million in compensation since 2011 as a board member of an internet investment company, according to Barron’s, the financial publication.

She has amassed a huge fortune and now lives in a $10 million “luxury fortress” in Manhattan. The pad is New York’s longest apartment – stretching an entire block from 26th Street to 27th Street off Madison Avenue.

Apparently... Allah is a Capitalist

...Buying your way out of murder... there's some un-karmic "Religion of Peace"...

Under Pakistani law, victims or their families have the right to forgive suspects in a number of serious crimes, including most instances of murder.

All they have to do is state in court that they forgive a suspect "in the name of God."

In reality, legal observers agree that the primary motive for that "forgiveness" is normally financial, and the informal payment of money to victims is not illegal.

In other "not a sparrow falls" news...

Iranian state media reported that as many as 40 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the crush.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:

TORONTO - "I was cornered in the bathroom and he was holding me against the wall and I was screaming but he wouldn’t let me go and he bit off my nose.”

Allyson Danylko says police dogs were unsuccessful in trying to find her missing nose. “He either ate it or flushed it down the toilet,” she alleged.

Nick Grewal, 30, of Oakville, will be in Milton court on Jan. 28 to face charges of aggravated assault, forcible confinement and failing to comply with probation.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO!!!

Next up... "Tim's Slapshot" vaping accessories...

Last summer, the chain jumped on the plant-based eating bandwagon with various Beyond Meat-based sandwiches, before quietly cancelling many of them within months.

In other "Third World Shithole" news...

Why did a quarter of the world’s pigs die in one year?

Reg ••• "All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

From the folks who brought you...

"...Let's sterilise ALL the tards & perverts"...

I asked Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath for comment but her office declined instead directing me to a statement from the party office.

“This photo was taken at an event organized as a rally in support of peace.”

You know... peace groups like the Taliban, Lebanese Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.

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TOMMY DOUGLAS, TOMMY DOUGLAS...

...that sounds so familiar

Biographies and other accounts of Mr. Douglas’s life have either ignored or down-played his striking embrace in the mid-1930s of forced sterilization and segregation for people of “sub-normal” intelligence and morality, says Dr. Michael Shevell in a newly published academic paper.

"Back in 1988, when the Sun's Paul Jackson was at the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, he broke a startling story that showed the NDP's Tommy Douglas, now revered by the CBC as 'the greatest Canadian of all time,' eagerly recommending the CASTRATION OF HOMOSEXUALS and chronic criminals."

Douglas had expressed these views in his master's thesis at McMaster University.

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LAST WORD: I'm judging Andrea Horwath...

...by the company she keeps...

Gervais crushes Hollywood hypocrites

“Let’s go out with a bang — let’s have a laugh at your expense, shall we?”

"Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China."

"You say you’re woke but the companies you work for, unbelievable, Apple, Amazon, Disney."

"If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you."

BONUS RICKY:

"From now on, you call me Bobo. I’m gonna have species realignment. I’ll be legally a chimp. I’ll be able to use chimp toilets!"

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LAST WORD: Do what I say... not what I do

"Actors and actresses in anti-gun Hollywood will be surrounded by armed security on Sunday as they attend the 77th annual Golden Globes."

When will Colin Kaepernick be...

...moving to that luxury condo in downtown Tehran?

With a pair of tweets, Kaepernick attacked the U.S. as perpetrating terror against “black and brown bodies,” adding that U.S. troops are forces of “imperialism” that are responsible for plundering the “non-white world.”

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Tehranto?

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JOE BIDEN AND OSAMA BIN POPCORN

Eight years ago, Biden told a group of congressional Democrats he was against the bin Laden raid, saying: "Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go."

Biden began to change his account in 2013, telling the New York Times he told Obama to "follow your instincts." He repeated this changed account in 2015, claiming that he privately told Obama to go ahead.

Soleimani hit is certainly not the...

...biggest problem the Iranian regime is facing...

By November, the bloodiest protests since the 1979 revolution plunged the country into a state of heightened security as authorities, unable to contain the unrest, switched-off access to the internet and launched a crackdown on dissent that killed some 304 people within several days, according to the London-based Amnesty International.

ASK AN ACTUAL SOLDIER:

“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this particular action. It is more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden or even the death of [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi,” former General David Petraeus said in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine.

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RELATED: And Winston Churchill wept...

The Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale, Kilburn, London, has held a mass memorial for slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Qasem Soleimani.

Soleimani was described as an “honourable Islamic commander” by Islamic Centre of England director Seyed Hashem Moosavi.

Of course, not everyone is on board...

In response to escalating tensions after the death of Soleimani, the United Kingdom has deployed the Royal Navy to the Strait of Hormuz, to protect British shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf from retaliatory strikes from Iran.

At Canada's National Broadcaster...

...we're all sadz...Who knew that all their kids were "finding comfort in gangs, guns and drugs." Sounds pretty darned "uncomfortable" to my white privileged ass...

"Now a community is deep in mourning at the beginning of 2020," Coun. Kristyn-Wong Tam said. "We're tired of losing young people in the community," community advocate Sureya Ibrahim said. "We are tired of going to funerals."

Just not tired enough to point out murderers to the police...

Investigators believe a number of witnesses have not yet come forward and are reminding the public that tips can be left anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers.

I don't know why police have to act out this charade. None of the people in these communities are ever willing to "snitch"... no matter the crime.

Everyone makes excuses. So, so tired... you know... like the other guy in the car with poor dead Ahmed's brains soaking into his clothes.

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RELATED: No gun... no problem... Homicide #2 of 2020

Police say the victim, identified as 31-year-old Toronto resident Muhammad Waqar Alam, died in hospital on Jan. 2.

The accused, who has been identified as Sahand Norouz Zadeh, 19, is now facing one count of second-degree murder.

"...by the company you keep..."

So... who's on Team Occasional-Cortex?

President Trump engaged in an “act of war” by issuing the airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Friday.

And don't you forget it, babycakes.

Maybe she should stick to chasing cow farts.

SECOND OPINION PLEASE:

Phillip Smyth, an expert at the Washington Institute on Iran-controlled Shia militias and the Middle East, recently called Soleimani’s death a “major blow” to the Iranian regime.

“It’s an incredible two-fer,” he commented. “This is another one of those old hands. These guys don’t grow on trees. It takes time.”

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LAST WORD: Well, we know which side AOC is on

What exactly is the Iranian Quds Force?

In May 2011, discussions began secretly in Mexico between a known Los Zetas associate and Quds Force operative Manssor Arbabsiar. The discussion would lead to planning a C-4 detonation at a Washington, D.C. restaurant.

Over the course of a few months, several clandestine meetings in Mexico planned strikes against the Israeli Embassy in Washington, plus the Saudi and Israeli Embassies in Argentina.

New opium trafficking lanes between the Middle East and Mexico were also charted.

Those crazy, homicidal Parisians

Another vacation destination off the list...

One man was killed and two other people seriously injured in a knife attack by an unidentified assailant in the Paris suburb of Villejuif on Friday.

The man who died was an elderly local man who tried to defend his wife, who was stabbed in the neck and is described as being in critical condition in hospital.

Police shot dead the assailant, who has not been identified. The motive is still unknown. The attacker apparently stabbed people at random in the Hautes-Bruyères park.

So, what's the deal here?

Loïc Travers, a police union spokesman, said: “No one can be sure at this stage whether this was a terrorist act.”

Witnesses told Le Parisien newspaper that the attacker shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as he lunged at passers-by.

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UPDATE: "Elements linked to religion"...

Terrorist knifeman, 22, wearing a fake explosive vest and 'shouting Allahu Akbar' is shot dead in Paris after stabbing three people and 'killing a 56-year-old man who was trying to protect his wife.'

He was not being tracked as a religious zealot, although 'elements linked to religion' that 'suggested he had converted to Islam' were found among his personal effects,

Two other victims have been rushed to Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital and remain in a 'critical condition.'

Yup... it's a mystery.

Reaped As Ye Have Sown

Just another bug on the windshield...

The US military’s ability to kill Qassem Soliemani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Qods Force, was the result of his complacency and carelessness while traveling to and from Iraq.

That’s because Soleimani became a public figure inside Iraq and acted as if he did not fear US action.

Among the ten dead were two Islamic Revolutionary Guard generals - Brigadier General Hussein Jafari Nia and Major-General Hadi Taremi - along with Colonel of the Guards Shahroud Mozaffari Nia.

An image which circulated on Iranian media in the aftermath purporting to show Quds commander Qassem Soleimani's hand after the strike in the early hours of Friday.

I'm guessing that's gonna get everybody's attention... I'm lookin' at you, Iranian General Staff...

A senior leader of this week's attacks on the US embassy, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was also among the dead - vaporized after being struck by one of four American guided missiles fired by a Reaper drone.

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RELATED: Will the Prime Minstrel be giving the eulogy?

He did such a bang-up job with Fidel Castro...

Shuvaloy Majumdar, former director of policy for foreign affairs under the Harper government ... said Ottawa’s response lacked a “full-throated” support for the U.S. that could be viewed as downplaying Iranian aggressions.

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LAST WORD: Let's get a second opinion...

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday evening that President Donald Trump had even more legal authority to eliminate Qassem Soleimani than former President Barack Obama had to take out Osama bin Laden in 2011.

Or, you could ask an Iranian.

Obviously what we need in Toronto...

...are fewer basketball courts and more city-funded irregular firearms shooting ranges...

Re: City Sees Record Number Of Shootings In 2019: Toronto’s current and past police chiefs and mayors like to point out that Toronto is a “safe city,” because the overall murder tally places us behind major U.S. cities, and that the per capita rate is less than that of Winnipeg or Saskatoon.

But with a record 490 shootings last year, only a bit more shooting accuracy would put Toronto in the big leagues of dangerous cities.

Oh look... a shoutout for the return of "Carding" & TAVIS...

At-risk youth should have well-supported schools, after-school programs and jobs. They should have options and opportunities. Potential offenders should see a police presence and know there will be consequences if they pull out a gun.

John Campbell former city councillor (2014-2018), Toronto

Well at least they've eliminated...

...all the women in the city as suspects...

Toronto police have identified the 43-year-old man shot and killed in a Scarborough underground parking lot as Clinton Phil Williams.

The suspect is described as male with a slim build, wearing black pants that were worn low on the hips, a black jacket with a hood or hoodie underneath, and dark-coloured running shoes.

Smell the "professional" reporting.

Homicide #77 and final victim of 2019.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Let's talk "good guy with a gun"...

On September 7, 1876 the James–Younger gang attempted a raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota.

The robbery quickly went wrong when ALL the citizens of the the town fired on and killed most of the gang. After that Northfield was known as a bank robber free town!

Sounds like the "Draw the Prophet" contest in Garland Texas...

Two dudes showed up, started shooting at the building. They were killed almost instantly. How obvious does a trap have to be before you start getting suspicious? You ever go to Texas?

That’s not Santa Monica, bitch. That’s a totally different kind of white people.

BONUS ROGAN: "Gonna need some real warrior genes"

"One guy got a tiger, and his neighbor’s like, 'Shit, I didn’t know we could get tigers.' And he got two tigers. And the first guy was like, 'I ain’t about to let this faggot out-tiger me.'"

Catholics demand federal government...

...enhance their very special status within Canadian society... wait a minute...

Smell the "Professional" Journalism

You can't trust anything you read in the papers...

"Marilyn Lastman, the “loyal and fierce” family matriarch of the Lastman family of Bad Boy furniture and appliance fame, died on New Year’s Day in Toronto General Hospital at the age of 84. Son Blayne Lastman said his dad 'has lost his best friend'. The love that the two of them had for each other was greater than the day they got married."

That's funny... Mel couldn't keep his dick in his pants... and then refused to acknowledge his two illegitimate sons from a longstanding affair. He really was a "Bad Boy."

"The megacity sex scandal broke two days ago when Mr. Lastman made a bombshell announcement that he had had a lengthy relationship with the then-married Ms. Louie, which he called a 'terrible mistake.'"

Once again, Canada's bought & paid for media comes up short.

It's hard to imagine a less regal...

...or parklike place to live, or to die...

Officers discovered two men wounded and a black car riddled with bullets on Oak St., in the Dundas and River Sts. area, around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. The pair were rushed to hospital, where one of them — reportedly aged 21 • died.

A suspect description was not yet available.

Of course it isn't. And we don't want to hear your sketchy, unwoke citizen opinions either...

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Homicide #1 of 2020.

UPDATE: So who gets to be Number One?

On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Ahmed Yakot, 21, of Toronto, died in hospital as a result of his injuries.

His injuries? Let's just say, they weren't kidding around.

REGENT PARK, REGENT PARK...

...that sounds so familiar.

John "Head in the Sand" Tory

What is Toronto's Mayor terrified to talk about? Go on... take a guess... I'll wait.

Reminds me of a story I heard from my Toronto ALS Medic buddy. He's at Sunnybrook Hospital Trauma Unit after serving up yet another bullet-riddled gangbanger and a young nurse, obviously not long in the trenches, asks him, "Where do you take all the white people who get shot?"

Truly a pivotal moment. Not sure where it went from there.

Anyway, let's do the math...

With 292 people shot, 2019 comes to a close as Toronto’s bloodiest year on record for overall gun violence. Forty-three men and one woman have been killed in shootings in Toronto this year.

In an emailed statement, Courtney Glen, a spokesperson for Mayor John Tory, said the mayor continues to work closely with Toronto police to address gun and gang violence in the city.

Does he really? Is John Tory being upfront & honest about gun violence in Toronto?

“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.

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UPDATE: A commenter over at SDA suggests...

...that the figures quoted here are low because it does not include the GTA, or Greater Toronto Area. He is not wrong as outlying cities like Oshawa & Brampton are coming into their own, like gangbanger burbs, if you will.

These days, even sleepy Ajax Ontario, where I grew up... has numerous shootings & even "jackings." It is the price we pay for welcoming in the larger world. It is delusional to deny this.

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LETS RING IN THE NEW YEAR:

TORONTO • Two people have been critically injured in a shooting near Regent Park in the area of River Street and Dundas Street East just after 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.

As per usual, no information whatsoever about victims or shooters. Let's not give people ideas.

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MEANWHILE AROUND THE GTA: Peel Region resident...

...discovered living solitary decades-long life in cave...

“Wow, I mean, I don’t see Brampton being that type of town. It’s pretty surprising.”

UPDATE: Shooter of 17y/o identified...

Peel Regional Police arrested Zakaria Hassan, 22, from Hamilton, on Thursday and charged him with first-degree murder.

BRAMPTON BONUS ROUND:

Police are investigating after a driver was shot at while travelling along Highway 50 in Brampton late Wednesday night.

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LAST WORD: Getting a Gun license in Canada

And no, you still don't get to carry on your person.

From the folks who brought us...

...the butchery at Benghazi...

The Obama bigfoots have good reason to lay low. The U.S. embassy in Iraq was attacked by one of the people they'd tried to coddle earlier, back in 2011, Hadi Farhan al-Amiri • a guy so bad even a former FBI director, Louis Freeh, spoke out against letting the guy in at the time.

It's not like this guy pretended to be a friend and then went bad on them. They knew. And they let him in, giving him lots of clout back home from which he was able to draw new terrorist resources, since terrorism was what he did.

Don't get me started on the New York Times...

"Hundreds of 'Iraqi mourners' tried to storm the United States Embassy in Baghdad, shouting “Down, down USA!,” in response to deadly American airstrikes this week that killed 25 'fighters'."

Well, they were actually chanting 'Death to America!'... but I guess I'm just being picky.

Happy New Year

Who knows what 2020 might bring?

As for New Years Eve itself... let's take a little trip...

FRANCE • Authorities have previously refrained from reporting on the number of torched cars on New Year's Eve after it was discovered that a district-by-district breakdown was fuelling destructive competition between rival gangs.

Extra police are regularly deployed in "sensitive areas" in the the city's "poorer neighbourhoods" on specific nights of the year to try to prevent the blazes.

So many ways to avoid saying "the M word."

Over in the Fatherland...

GERMANY - The Berlin police department had an additional 2000 officers on duty, on top of the regular number of officers. Two hours into the new year, by 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Police had already responded to 543 emergencies.

At Brandenburg Gate, four individuals were arrested for sexually assaulting women.

The fire brigade was called 1523 times by 6:00 a.m. A total of fifteen badly injured individuals had to be treated. In one case, a person lost an entire hand.

Why can't they be more like Swe... sweet baby jebus!!!

Sweden saw a large rise in the number of explosions and bombings last year, with the Crime Prevention Council (BRÅ) estimating at least 236 incidents in the first 11 months of 2019.

The BRÅ figures are a stark rise from the previous year, where 162 incidents were recorded for all 12 months of 2018, broadcaster SVT reports.

And in peaceful, weed wonderland Holland...

Last year an estimated €15m to €20m worth of damage was caused to private homes and cars during the traditional Dutch New Year firework frenzy and 396 people were taken to hospital with injuries.

Two people died.