A Public Service message...

For any Vancouverite... who isn't too busy spikin' a little smack... to speak up for free speech...

The Covenant Zone bloggers will be demonstrating in support of Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine, and against the ludicrous operation of "human rights" law in this country, when Mark's hearing in front of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal kicks off, next Monday, June 2.

Nice to know there's a few sane people left in B.C.

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RELATED: And from the man himself...

Even if there were no battles in Iraq and Afghanistan, even if no one was flying planes into tall buildings in New York, even if no one were blowing up trains and buses and nightclubs in Madrid and London and Bali, even without all that, we would still be in danger of losing this thing – without a shot being fired.

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There's a reason...

They call it dope.

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"Mixed Review", huh?

So... what sort of grade would you get... if you didn't immolate your neighbours in broad daylight?

But, let's not use 'harsh words' to criticise those 'developing nations'... we wouldn't want to hurt anybody's feelings...

"And, once again the 2007 human rights report card for the continent is disappointing."

Yeah... "disappointing"... that's the word I was looking for.

Of course, Amnesty has no qualms about pointing fingers at the real culprit... the "so-called war on terror."

Good grief.

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RELATED: In other "politically correct" nonsense news...

Dipshit 'activist' unwilling to admit he was wrong.

"This is the first I have ever heard that police can park in a disabled spot during an emergency."

Oh yeah... one small explanatory note.

This dumbstick became an "activist" after amputating his own legs trying to hop a freight train to go to a rock concert.

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From the H.o.M. mailbag...

Got an email from reader Rich this morning... regarding the disingenuous yappy lapdog tactics of the ever-loony leftosphere...

"MP wants Mulroney back before ethics committee".

Well, much like all the Bernier argle-bargle... no real surprise there. It was the next paragraph that really put things in perspective.

I ran across a site run by a guy called Big City Lib....part way down the first page next to a Komodo dragon picture is this... "My advice to the opposition parties? Follow the ways of the noble Komodo Dragon, which bites its prey once, and then may pursue it for days while it slowly weakens and bleeds to death."

"Patience, brothers and sisters, patience!"

Hmmm... Big City Lib... that sounds so familiar.

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Well, Mr. Mayor...

That gun ban sleight-of-hand isn't working out quite like you planned... you ready to trot out Plan B?

An east-end school has been put into lockdown after an apparent shooting in front of the building.

A man, who appears to be in his 20s, was found suffering from several gunshot wounds near Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School on Sewells Rd., near Neilson Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E., around 10:40 a.m., Toronto Police Const. Wendy Drummond said.

The victim was rushed to Rouge Valley Centenary Hospital, with life-threatening injuries.

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UPDATE: Yup... he's dead.

The victim has been identified as 19 year-old Shammal Ramsey.

And guess what... target shooters at registered gun clubs had nothing... absolutely nothing... to do with it.

And most people aren't stupid... they get that.

I've got a crazy idea... how about we go after the sociopaths who are actually pointing the guns and pulling the triggers?

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RELATED: Even City Councillors are kicking back

Councillor Michael Thompson called Miller's actions "political junkfood."

"It's all cosmetic," Thompson said. "He's not willing to deal with the major issues; he deals with all things around gun violence which are very minor in nature."

Minor? How about not even on the table?

'Cos, I'm pretty sure... but please, correct me if I'm wrong... farmers, hunters and target shooters... are totally off the hook here... YET AGAIN.

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LAST WORD: Not your mom's Scarberia...

I walked the better part of a mile alone, every day, to grade one in Scarborough. I bet that doesn't happen much anymore these days...

"Stuff like this isn’t overly surprising," said Moe Patel, 18, a Pearson student who had left the school before the lockdown.

"You hear about stabbings every day, every other day," Patel said.

Theo Obeng, 43, and Agnes Ansah, 40, came to check on their 18 year-old son and 14 year-old daughter, who were locked down at Mother Teresa. They said they try to keep their children inside their home as much as possible.

"It’s a bad area," said Obeng.

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I can see your confusion...

But no... it's not Steffi and Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition... this time...

"Parliament will not allow that such deceptions are made," Mr Larijani said. "If they continue along this path, the new parliament will intervene in the case and set a new line for co-operation with the IAEA."

The comments drew chants of "God is great" and "Death to America" from the audience of MPs.

You think these guys are scary now?

Try to imagine if they got their sweaty hands on an actual nuclear device.

Actually, that problem might take care of itself, too.

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A couple thousand G-strings...

Show up on my doorstop, I know I'd be impressed...

Canadian women are being asked to send their panties to the Burmese Embassy in Ottawa to protest the actions of the country's military regime.

The call for the underwear is part of the Panties for Peace! campaign, launched by rights activists in Montreal.

Hey... it makes at least as much sense as the rest of that crazy leftbot shit.

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Tonight's CTV Spy-thriller Moment

Just watched leftwing propagandist Bob Fife outdo himself speculating on whether Maxime Bernier... "SHARED ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS"... with ex-girlfriend Couillard.

Yeah, Bob... that's obviously what Bernier was interested in... her geo-political acumen.

Good grief.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Until I hear the self-centered hypocritical media asking for a cross the board investigation of ALL partners, I don't want to hear anymore about this guy's large breasted ex-girlfriend.

Because this is simply a witch hunt looking to rake muck on one specific political party, and the only thing it is missing is the Dark Ages.

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Insite now a "health-care" service

So, apparently... being a junkie... is now protected under Saint Pierre's sacred "Charter of Rights."

-- VANCOUVER -- The B.C. Supreme Court says it would be unconstitutional for the federal government to shut down Vancouver's controversial safe-injection site.

Now that there's a precedent... I can't wait for designated "free-fire" zones for gun-totin' gangbangers.

Fortunately, not everybody's comin' off another hit on the judicial bong...

Federal lawyers argued before the court that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms doesn't protect the right of drug addicts to shoot up.

I'm afraid for my country.

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RELATED: And in perfectly timed, ironic counterpoint

Shocked Vancouver police have arrested and released a couple who allegedly offered to sell a seven-day-old baby girl on the Craigslist website for $10,000.

You won't see it in the online article... but the television report showed a cop talking about the parent's "drug issues."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Most of the science regarding the Insite program are based upon self reporting by drug users (reliable?).

This is of course not mentioned in the media.

Nor is the recent British Medical Journal study in 2006 that showed no reduction in drug use due to these sites.

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LAST WORD: Elizabeth thinks I'm "ranting incoherently"

Well, Lizzy... I'm just not sure I'd be wanna be so reliant on "The Wisdom of Whores."

I mean, do you think they ever really ever get that taste... never mind the potentially life-threatening infectious stuff... outta their mouths?

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So, you know how the CBC...

Is always screaming about those secretive, controlling Conservatives... turns out they're not so forthcoming themselves...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is behind an unprecedented flood of complaints to Canada's information watchdog. The latest annual report from Information Commissioner Robert Marleau says his office received 536 complaints about the public broadcaster in 2007-2008, more than any other department or agency of government.

And more than 90 per cent of the CBC complaints that Mr. Marleau has finished investigating were found to be valid.

Most of those complaints were about delays in responding to requests under the Access to Information Act, which for a $5 fee allows ordinary Canadians to ask for government documents and files.

Gotta love the taxpayer-funded hypocrisy.

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Paging David Miller

Looks like farmers, deer hunters and target shooters... are off the hook, yet again...

Raids carried out across York Region and Toronto this morning are connected to a shooting in East Gwillimbury last month, police have confirmed.

Chanh Duc (Hector) Ho, 21, of Toronto is charged with kidnapping, attempted murder while using a firearm, three counts of possession of an unregistered restricted firearm, possession of proceeds of crime, possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine, possession for the purpose of trafficking cannabis, two counts of failing to comply with release conditions and failing to stop for police.

Funny how that works, huh?

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RELATED: A message for "His Blondeness"

He can work against lawful gun owners if he chooses but the millions of safe, legal, responsible people who happen to own firearms have a choice too.

But we can vote with our wallets.

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Trust me... I'm from the government

I'm here to save you... and I won't raise your taxes either.

-- TORONTO -- A drunk driver who killed four people and was banned from driving for life managed to get his licence back in an apparent bureaucratic foul-up, the Ontario government said Tuesday.

He had been given a seven-year sentence and a lifetime driving ban in 1999 after pleading guilty to causing a crash while driving drunk in a stolen vehicle. Four people were killed in the crash and two others were injured.

Mr. Scott was released on parole in 2004 and promptly reapplied for, and was granted, a new driving permit.

So... a la Maxime Bernier... will Premier McSlippery's Minister of Transportation, or Minister of Corrections be tendering his resignation?

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

Now this is totally unconfirmed, but I heard his request for vanity plates reading "kild4adem" was promptly rejected by the ministry.

Good job guys.

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WELCOME READERS OF DUMBSTICK STOOGELEFT

Stooge takes exception to my crack about the over-hyped Bernier tempest.

Well, at least... this time... Stoogie's not trying to stir up sympathy for a rapist.

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From the folks who brought you...

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...

In 2003, northern Nigeria stopped immunizing its children against polio. Hard-line Nigerian clerics called for the boycott. They accused Western countries, led by the United States, of contaminating the polio vaccine to render Muslims infertile or infect them with the AIDS virus.

As a consequence, the polio virus spread from Nigeria and reinfected 23 polio-free countries around the world, including nations as far away as Indonesia and Yemen, causing nearly 1500 children to be paralyzed for life.

The capricious and unknowable "Will of Allah."

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RELATED: Meanwhile... back at the ranch

"I mean, sorry, he's an idiot."

"And he can't arrest me for saying that because, first of all, it's true, and, second of all, even if it's just my opinion, well, welcome to Canada, buddy."

"We allow freedom of speech."

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Everybody stand back... I'm goin' in

Well, once again... it's "home repair day" here at the Halls.

Our current bathroom taps... which would not have looked out of place in the home of my distant childhood... will be replaced with a Star-Trekkish Delta faucet from the clearance table mountain at Home Depot.

The shutoffs to the sink appear to be gummed up with mineral deposits (previous owner cheaped out and didn't have a softener), so it'll be an H2O-free zone around here until I'm finished.

If past experience is any indication, I will have at least one equipment, or infrastructure related crisis before I'm through.

Unlike my youngest brother, who, in a display of insane fearlessness... once pulled the the rad and water pump out of his truck in the middle of his driveway in mid-February, I confess to a little trepidation every time I start to "fix" something around here.

Unless Mrs. Neo feels the need to acquire more colourful idiom from my less-civilised bachelor days, she will no doubt head for the hills... or maybe the local library.

Blogging may be light for the rest of the day.

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UPDATE: Okay, halfway there...

So, the old fixture, which, of course, had been welded to the underside of the sink by Oxidato, the god of rust... is finally off. Even the supply lines were calcified into their fittings... (note to self... never, ever cheap out on a water softener).

I am also, surprisingly, for once... for all my contorted wrenching on sharpish metal objects... not covered in blood.

There, of course, has to be at least one glitch.

I discover that I have no silicone to bed the faucet and drain ring, so I have to disassemble, CLR & scrub and reassemble the shutoffs... so that we can turn the water back on while the tap is out. An actual plumber would just torch them off and sweat on a new set... but I get a perverse sort of satisfaction out of salvaging stuff... and if you don't count the labour, I'm saving here too.

Once the fittings have been demineralised, I can see they're pristine... I doubt they've ever been turned to the stops. Now, just gotta go get some goop and put 'er back together.

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"I'm from Warner Brothers..."

"I'm here to save you."

A TOP-SECRET DEAL being ironed out by G8 nations will give the Music and film industry a state-paid force of copyright cops with the same powers of customs officials.

When you arrive in the country the copyright police would be given the job of checking laptops, Ipods, phones and other personal devices for content that 'infringes' copyright laws.

And it doesn't stop there.

"It would be the death of blogging, digg, fark and all sorts of other sites that have sprung up over the years."

(h/t reader bob)

Hey, Joe... where are you?

"My real problem with Stephen Harper is I don't know where he really is... and that troubles me."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Joe has spent his entire political career defining who he WASN'T: first, he wasn't PET. Then he wasn't Brian Mulroney. Finally, he wasn't Stockwell Day...."

"This is pathetic even for him."

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Technical difficulties

Sorry, folks... for anybody who comes here via Blogging Tories... it appears as though my posts haven't made it to the BT aggregator since Sunday morning. I've just emailed Stephen Taylor.

I'm still crankin' 'em out... feel free to bookmark or link here directly.

Or just click on the orange button in the sidebar... to subscribe to the feed.

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Everybody wants...

To save the whales... but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.
That can't be right... Steffi tells us Canadians are willing to pay extra to save the planet.

Let's check again this morning.

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UPDATE: Maybe we tattoo a scarlet "C"...

On the foreheads of people who use too much energy...

Every adult should be forced to use a 'carbon ration card' when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.

Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven't used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company.

(h/t reader rich)

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RELATED: In other news from the leftosphere...

-- OHSWEKEN -- Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant offered an olive branch to Six Nations yesterday with $1.6 million to launch a kidney dialysis treatment centre on the reserve.

Might as well cut out the middleman, huh?

And the community was quick to express their appreciation...

"ONTARIO DECLARES WAR ON SIX NATIONS."

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Which begs the question...

What exactly... are these people worshipping?

"It's not a crime to ban underwear at work. If staff don't like it, they can get a job at a pro-underwear temple."

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The fairy-tale world of David Miller

"And nobody can deny that that hobby directly results in people being shot and killed on the streets of our city. Those are the facts."

"And they're provable again and again and again."

Well actually, your blondeness... they're not.

Of Canada's two million licensed gun owners, 111, or 0.00555%, used their firearm to murder someone.

On the other hand, in 2005, 64% of accused murderers had a prior criminal record, including 6% for homicide.

So... when the gangbangers have another running gunbattle... Mayor Miller calls for more social workers... but now, he's gonna shut down target ranges?

Let's see... who would that affect?

Toronto shooting coach Patrick Haynes said Canadians who compete in international shooting competitions will be at a loss if the two gun clubs lose their city permits.

Mr. Haynes is coaching his fiancée, Avianna Chao, set to compete at two events at the Beijing Olympics.

He said she qualified for the Olympics after training at the Don Montgomery centre shooting range and now trains at the Union Station range.

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RELATED: Toronto "Red" Star asks...

Why can't evil target shooters... be more like this paragon of virtue?

Outlaw biker Francesco (Frank, Cisco) Lenti has been calm, polite and tidy in jail after being arrested for fatally shooting a Hells Angel, and his good behavior has rubbed off on other maximum security prisoners, Lenti's manslaughter trial heard today.

"He is basically a model inmate," Mike Grimson, deputy chief superintendent of the Eastern Ontario Correctional Centre in Lindsay, told Newmarket court today.

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LAST WORD: Once upon a taxpayer

Councillors, following an often heated debate, voted 31-5 Monday to spend an additional $2.6 million this year and $4.9 million in 2009 to get panhandlers into housing and social programs through the existing Streets to Homes program.

“They want some choice in their food and they want to deal with their addictions."

Of course they do... that's why they eat out of dumpsters and would cheerfully strangle granny for their next spike fulla' smack.

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