And all it took was a pile...

...of dead bodies...

The decision by the guardian council follows the first known bloodshed of the crisis.

At least seven people were killed yesterday after a rally in Tehran when tens of thousands of protesters jammed the streets in a show of defiance against the Iranian regime.

You steal an election... and apparently, people get a little testy.

Imagine that.

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Hey, how about a non-fiction format?

You know... less social engineering and more actual news...

“They are shuffling people like mad, and they are reassigning people to Newsworld,” said Karen Wirsig, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Media Guild, the CBC's main union, which closely tracks these job shifts.

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The Puffin King gets it wrong

"Should Michael Ignatieff bring down the Harper government over its handling of the economy?"

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And the devoted Leftosphere...

...jumps to "Canadian Cesspool's" defense...Oh, Martin... by calling me hurtful names, you have pierced my very soul.

And casting aspersions on my ability to handle firearms? Woe is me. Your ability to deduce all these things, sight unseen... well.. it's astounding.

And who exactly is Martin?
Just another one of CC's anonymous little trolls. Honestly, guys... does this sort of thing work on anybody over 7 years old?

And lastly, Marty... how about you defend this?

I dare you.

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RELATED: And Dr Dawg starts up...

...where Canadian Cesspool left off... attacking women.

"I'm beginning to think, alas, that CC found exactly the right word to describe you, you Christian hypocrite."
Dr.Dawg | Homepage | 06.15.09 - 9:11 pm |

Hey Dawg... what word is that?

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"Don't let the screen door..."

"...hit you, on your way out..."

UPDATE: WELCOME YET AGAIN, FRIENDS & READERS...

...OF COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL CANADIAN CYNIC...

So, I'm guessing the question of the day will be... "Should anononymous or... more to the point... pseudonymous bloggers be outed?"

As someone who has been writing under a pseudonym for the better part of the last three years, I obviously have a dog in this fight.

The truth is, if I were outed tomorrow, it would likely only make me more popular in this particular neck of the woods. Sure, a few of the octogenarian church ladies... to the extent that they think about me at all, might be a little upset by my atheism, or my unwillingness to genuflect at the altar of political correctness.

The simple truth is though... folks out here aren't especially sympathetic to crime, or substance abuse... or the costly "social engineering" that these behaviours engender.

What I attempt to do here is take current events from media sources and hold them up to the light of day. I don't make stuff up. To the extent that I editorialise, I express my surprise... my utter disbelief... that so many folks are willing to bury their heads in the sand, er... their 52 inch high def wide screen theatre sytems... instead of taking notice of the world falling down around them.

On the other hand... what to make of... and I use the word loosely... a man who constantly refers to women as "the dumb cuntitude"... who speaks of the Prime Minister being "bought off by the Jooos"... and most egregiously, tells the mother of a slain Canadian soldier, "Fuck you and you grief."

I speak, of course, of the infamous Canadian Cynic... or, as he's known around here... "Canadian Cesspool."

It's funny, the Cynic tries to go for a "don't blame poor Neo, for he knows not what he does" effect here. Of course he also then calls me "a despicable racist."

Meanwhile... as many Blogging Tories are aware, the Cesspool has been running around Conservative websites forging comments under my name.

Suffice it to say... we all know what this guy is really about. Misogyny, anti-semitism... and the mouth of a sewer rat.

My sin here, apparently, was not to actually out his disgusting carcass... merely to point to those who did.

My final feeling on this... you say it, you dumbstick... you have to wear it.

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UPDATE: For better service, please take a number

"Not to mention Cynic's numerous allegations that I support the murder of abortion clinic doctors."

"I served him with libel notice today. He's going to have a busy few days, I think."

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Yup... more forged comments...

It's how the lefties roll...
You have learned well, Grasshopper... I'm sure CC and Zorpheus will be very proud of you.

And another round of forged comments.

Thank goodness CC and his little winged monkeys are taking the high road...
I'd hate to see what happened if they got down & dirty.

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Staunch advocate of free speech...

...strangely and uncharacteristically quiet this morning....

I guess there's always a first time.

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See, if Iggy does it... it's genius

And the tormented, disfigured wreck that once was Stephane Dion... continues to roam the dark, dank passages under Parliament Hill... relentlessly howling at the injustice of it all.

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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT-Q23.330.502.19%)...

...is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp. (SYMC-Q16.490.613.84%) and McAfee Inc (MFE-N40.430.230.57%) .

A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world's biggest software maker is testing an early version of the product with its own employees. Microsoft would “soon” make a trial version, or product beta, available via its website.

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Take a good look...

...into the face of unadulterated courage...

A military engineer was killed Sunday as he tried to defuse two roadside bombs hidden in a rural culvert.

Cpl. Dube, the 120th Canadian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan, served with the 5ieme Régiment du Génie de Combat, based inValcartier, Que.

He is survived by his mother Marie-Paule, his father Roger, his brother Vincent and his girlfriend Julie.

He will be remembered.

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Kim Jong Il, huh?

I'm thinkin' my money's gonna be on the Jet Vikings...

Autonomous killers?! Seriously?

So who exactly is the socialist brainiac who put that on the curriculum?

Frontenac, which keeps the number of armed officials to a minimum, is fitted with bedrooms instead of prison cells and lacks barbed-wire fences, something Knowles said encouraged autonomy.

Well, c'mon now, it's not like this guy... wait...

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Yet another fuzzy-bunny CBC poll...

...goes horribly wrong...

Mayor's office strangely silent...

...on rumoured ban on gardening implements... across the Greater Toronto Area...

Police in Scarborough started their day investigating pitch fork and machete attacks and ended it looking for a shooter after a bleeding man flagged down a cab for a ride to hospital.

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RELATED: Add sports equipment to that blacklist

Nothing like a little...

Seven people have been arrested after two rival Tamil groups beat each other with baseball bats in Scarborough.

The fight erupted between the groups around 7 p.m. Saturday in Bluffers Park, near Kingston and Midland Rds.

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Just ask yourself...

"What would Jesus, er... a Community Organiser do?"

A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.

Pressed on whether the US had told the British government, an unnamed state department official was quoted as saying: "We did talk to them before the Uighurs got on the plane."

Of course, the most important issue here is... "Isn't he dreamy?"

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The Obama administration's version of 'Don't ask; don't tell.'"

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UPDATE: Making Dan Quayle look smart...

"God only knows what he wants," Biden said of Kim. "There's all kinds of discussions. We can't guess his motives."

See, Joe... this isn't actually about humouring a violent sociopath who has starved millions of his own people to death.

Man-up... and do something... besides mindlessly speculating on his twisted motives.

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Oh my gawd... chest pains...

...having... trouble... breathing... CTV actually can do hard news...

Any guest who pulls such a stunt deserves to be exposed for it. But a censor like Lynch, claiming to respect free speech and claiming to want a debate? Well the Orwellian hypocrisy was just too delicious for CTV to ignore.

Clark opened with a powerful -- but professional -- timeline of Lynch's bad behaviour. And he ended his interview with Dufresne with a pretty basic question: would you ever debate Levant?

Dufresne pretended he didn't hear the question -- but tens of thousands of CTV viewers did.

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Just another reason...

"Friends don't let friends... vote Liberal."

Routinely derided as a troubled white elephant badly in need of a complete makeover, Smart Systems for Health Agency was making "substantial progress" and showing "marked improvement" just months before the government blew it up and tapped Dr. Alan Hudson and Sarah Kramer to put the pieces back together, a report says.

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Fresh air... lots of exercise

Mrs Neo is reading "House Calls and Hitching Posts"... about a country doctor who worked in a Mennonite an Amish (the doc is Mennonite) community in Wayne County, Ohio.

She has read me a few choice bits, but one in particular sticks out.

The story is, this doctor was to receive some sort of service award and decided to bring along his oldest living patient, who was 94 at the time.

He got in touch with the old guy's daughter... to ask if he was in good enough health to make the trip and she replied, "I suppose he is. He's out chopping down a tree."

I think today should be a fresh air and exercise kinda day.

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The inevitable end game of the...

...fuzzy-bunny big-city socialists... "We don' need no steenkin' citizenship"...
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RELATED: The lyin' left... who really cares?

Politicians often go back on earlier promises, and they often exaggerate (remember Obama’s “10,000” who died in a Kansas tornado [12 perished], or his belief that properly inflating tires saves as much energy as offshore drilling can produce?).

But the extent of Obama’s distortions suggests that he has complete confidence that observers in the media do not care — or at least do not care enough to inform the public.

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All stump... no thump

The Cowardly Lion of Canadian politics just isn't used to having his professorial cant questioned...

Wow, does Michael Ignatieff ever talk a lot when he has nothing to say.

There he is on the TV as I type, taking his tenth or 15th question in a scrum in Montreal, jousting with reporters, a strained smile on his face because they keep asking him the same thing and how many different ways can he say he hasn’t made a decision yet?

Not a lot of different ways, it turns out, and yet he won’t back away from the microphone. So he’s having to say them again and again. And it’s making him testy. But he won’t stop. So he repeats himself. And then the reporters do. And still he won’t walk away.

There. He finally stopped.

He’s gonna read the thing tonight and make a decision. Except all week I’ve been hearing from Liberals about their vacation plans. Those plans don’t involve door-knocking and debate prep.

So if this whole election thing is still a live option, somebody forgot to tell the party.

(h/t blue like you)

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RELATED: Scratch a Liberal... find an opportunist

The Liberals have not produced any substantial pushback outside of Parliament save a boring two minute Youtube lecture on the politics of nice from Dr. Ignatieff.

And on the economy? Grit girl Youtube ads?

Torytube it ain’t, Warren

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A watered-down justice is served...

...10 years later...

The Supreme Court of Canada has restored a B.C. woman's conviction in the swarming murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk, a case that horrified the country and led to a national debate about the scourge of youth bullying.

In an 8-1 ruling this morning, the court overturned a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that had invalidated Kelly Ellard's conviction following her third trial in the notorious case.

If only the Canadian "justice" system put the same sort of emphasis on victim's rights.

Kelly Ellard... like Karly Kurls... soon to be released on an unsuspecting public.

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RELATED: A one-size fits all solution

-- TORONTO -- A 19-year-old man, who was apparently trying to turn his life around to provide a better future for his girlfriend and their one-year-old daughter, is in critical condition after being jumped by up to five assailants and stabbed at a plaza in a violence-plagued Scarborough neighbourhood yesterday.

There have been five murders in less than four years near Markham and Eglinton, an area that has become increasingly troubled in recent years by drugs and gang violence.

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LAST WORD: One down... one to go

Toronto police have arrested one suspect and are looking for another after a man was shot Tuesday near Eglinton Ave. E and Don Mills Rd. Police received a call for a robbery and shooting on St. Dennis Dr.

Kurtis McLetchie, 22, of Toronto faces sixteen charges including robbery and attempted murder.

Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding Saeed Savalanpour, 21, of Toronto.

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