Knuckle-dragging, racist, neocon...

...Stephen Harper... refuses comment on advanced Haitian strike-fighter being left off Canadian shortlist...
Cue Willie Sutton.

Just something to think about...

...if you can spare a few moments from weeping for poor, little Omar Khadr...

Taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying - and hanging him.

Nor is this the first time the Taliban has killed kids. Three years ago, they strung up a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district on trumped up spying charges, Ahmadi said.

That's some "Religion of Peace".

CBC reconsidering...

...previous hasty stance on "don't ask, don't tell"...

Would you watch a Fox News-like channel?

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RELATED: Fox News doesn't "hire" people...

...it traps them like wild animals...
Just ask a rabid dipper...

Outspoken NDP MP Pat Martin, however, said he thinks Fox News is a bad model for news. “God help us if the neo-cons get their own network to bombard Canadians with their outdated ideology,” he said. “Can you imagine Ezra Levant ranting at you around the clock?”

Mr. Teneycke laughed off Mr. Martin’s criticism, retorting: “Ranting, done right, can be quite entertaining. Pat Martin is living proof of that.”

Indeed.

Muslim businessman forced to close...

...down restaurant after refusing to cook pork & beans for hungry infidels...
Sorry pal... that's just the way the religious cookie crumbles.

"The world that we used to know..."

"People tell me it don't turn no more"...

“You can’t take my picture,” the blonde woman yelled at me, once she’d finished her business. “I’m an aspiring model.”

She might once have been. But her eyes are sunken and her face is covered with scabs, which she tries to hide with a heavy application of makeup. She looks ill.

She is poisoning herself.

Introducing Vancouver's $400-million dollar shooting gallery.

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RELATED: Insite, my arse

Not to harsh anybody's mellow, but...

...you can't even put together a half-coherent analogy... maybe actual public policy IS out of reach...

"Rae is just testing the limits of what he can get away with," said a Liberal source. "There's blood in the water and the best way to stop it is to shoot one of the sharks."

Now I'm no Steve Irwin, but... you've got a crazed feeding frenzy... won't shooting just one actually amp up this blood-splattered mess?

You wanna stop this thing... don't you have to shoot ALL the sharks?

Legendary "peace activist" Ellsberg...

...publicly repudiates Obama...

"His actions are totally uncoupled from his public statements. I don't even listen anymore. He has turned 180 degrees. I don't think what Obama is doing is the best way to get votes. But it's the best way to get campaign contributions."

Just another brick in the wall, folks.

A Wedding... Forty Funerals

Once again, the capricious & unknowable "Will of Allah"...

-- NADAHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with ties to police in the Taliban's heartland in Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Thursday.

And so it goes.

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UPDATE: Let's check with Al-Reuters...

...'cos maybe it was the Mossad.

It's obvious somebody's not...

...telling the truth... the question now is... who'll be the last man standing?

Two Liberal Party advisers have sworn affidavits saying the federal party's president spoke to them about high-level discussions with NDP officials about the creation of a new party.

But Alfred Apps is denying he was involved in any serious merger talks.

Remember the last time these boneheads had to try put out this fire?

"The liberals are so screwed up, they're stabbing each other in the front."

You go, girls.

Take a "Fake Lake" break...

...and ask yourself... what would Barry do?

" -- Washington DC -- This has the makings to be the greatest ongoing concert series ever to be seen on this Earth just to entertain one man - all paid for by the American taxpayer."

Just another little story you're never gonna see on CBC.

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RELATED: Did you hear the one...

...about the "Hope & Change" oil fairy?

U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.

At that rate, how much more oil could have been removed from the Gulf during the past month?

Oh yeah... here's the not-so-funny punchline...

Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.

It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.

The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'”

Oh... my... gawd.

Meanwhile... Prime Minister Jack Layton...

...has just announced that he is disbanding the Canadian military...

The new party would possibly be named the Liberal Democrats and there has been tentative talk about what a shared platform would look like and an understanding that a race would be required to choose a new leader.

"Serious people are involved in discussions at a serious level," Warren Kinsella, a former adviser to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, told CBC News.

Hmmm... has anybody mentioned this little development to Count Ignatieff?

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RELATED: What good is it, having an angel...

...on your shoulder, if it's not toilet-trained?
C'mon, Michael... who's really driving the little red clown car?

In an exclusive interview with The Canadian Press, Ignatieff dismissed talk of a merger or any sort of election non-compete agreement with the NDP as "absurd."

"Liberals will campaign to form a Liberal government. We aren't interested in coalitions."

Hooo-ah!!!

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Damn... there's my real post title.

"Any chance the new party could be called 'Shit From Hell'? It's a natural."

Oh my gawd... it's like Fonzie meets the Flintstones.

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UPDATE: Ignatieff, Layton run for cover...

...as commenters at Globe & Mail get frisky...

"I wish Iggy would merge with a spine."

Yeee...ouch!

The cold, brutal face of Canadian justice

C'mon folks, let's all just settle down... it's not like she murdered... wait a minute...
But, hey... she doesn't get to twitter, right?

It depends on how you look at it

I mean, is the morgue half full... or, well... overflowing into the nearby alley?

-- Johannesburg SA -- It's a complicated picture, says Johan Burger, senior researcher in the crime and justice programme at South Africa's Institute for Security Studies.

The first thing is that the South African murder rate is going down and not up. "Contrary to what many people think, the murder rate, while still extremely high, is down by about 44% since 1995.

Geez, Johan... it doesn't seem all that, what's the word... "complicated"... to me...
Oh yeah...

"In addition to these 18,000 murders each year, there are another 18,000 attempted murders."

Enjoy the game(s).

Okay, Peace Moonbeam... try to keep up

Spending 2 billion hard-earned taxpayer dollars to make farmers, duck hunters and weekend skeet shooters jump through bureaucratic hoops... has about as much effect on violent crime... as tossing screaming virgins into fiery volcanoes.

I can give you the solution in one short sentence... "Use a gun -- you're done."

And it looks like some folks are starting to feel the same way...

A Toronto judge has handed out a 7 1/2-year prison term for illegal gun possession, one of the toughest such sentences in Canada and part of a growing trend.

On top of this, Ontario Superior Court Justice Frank Marrocco gave Patrick Johnson 1 1/2 years for breaches of weapons prohibition orders — a total of nine years.

Now the way this actually works under existing Canadian law, we'll be lucky if this waste of carbon actually does half this time... but it's a start.

The fact is... Canada doesn't have a "gun problem"... it has a viral epidemic of "sociopathic thugs."

And, despite all the pious daily malarkey from Peter & Lloyd... you're sure as shit not gonna solve that by harassing my neighbours about the tool they use to keep the coyotes off their livestock.

You put these assholes on a concrete-walled island... give them sledgehammers and have them turn big rocks into little rocks for a significant portion of their lives. No television, no computers, no recreation.

And when they fuck up again, and yes, a significant number of them undoubtedly will... you double up the weight and do it again.

That's where I want my share of THE NEXT 2 BILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to go... protecting the larger field of folk.

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RELATED: You mean "honesty", right?

Government insiders and critics said reimbursements for per diems, rent and mileage are made with few questions asked on Parliament Hill as part of a system that values efficiency ahead of probity.

No wonder the fiberals are screaming hysterically about a fake lake.

Contrary to what you may have heard...

...none of Judy Sgro's kids are actually working as strippers...

Buy a condo for $138,000 in 2001. Transfer it five years later to your kids. Then start claiming an extra $11,000 from taxpayers.

How many of these cozy little deals are there lurking on MPs’ books?

Oh, c'mon now Lorne... the leader of the Liberal Party says Canadians aren't interested in these tedious little details...

Michael Ignatieff, who finds a new way to bewilder the Canadian public every passing day, has offered the perplexing comment that the voters are not interested in the "dinner receipts" of MPs.

Hey, Iggy... I'll give you "dinner receipts"... but what say we take a look at these little sweetheart deals your guys are making with their kids.

Drugs... the victimless crime

-- TAXCO, Mexico -- At least 55 bodies have been recovered from an abandoned silver mine that became a dumping ground for apparent victims of Mexico's drug violence, authorities said Monday.

But, but, but... that doesn't happen near the resort areas, right?

The bodies of six people were found near Cancun, Mexico - the hearts cut out from at least three of them, in what appears to be another gruesome execution in the area's escalating drug war.

Narco-wars... it's not a bug... it's a feature.

"Let them eat pepper spray"

Just something to think about while you're sitting around in Emerg... waiting for someone to check out Grampa's chest pains...

“We have planned for various scenarios including the use of tear gas,” Saccone said. “We have had mock emergency exercises.”

Seriously?

As anyone who has ever experienced the surreal Toronto emergency room lottery knows... it's not like there is ever a shortage of actual emergencies.

I'm just sayin'... how about a little triage... and we treat all the people who haven't gotten into pitched battles with the police force first?

Another Canadian falls

An improvised explosive device, most commonly known as an IED, has claimed the life of Martin "Marty" Goudreault in Afghanistan. He was 35.

According to media reports, Goudreault was originally from Sudbury. He was based in Edmonton, Alta., and served in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group.

He will be remembered.

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RELATED: In other Krazy Karzai news...

In a country where the courts are notoriously opaque, where judges are bribed and justice is bought, the prospect of a prisoner release is fraught with complication.

Ya think?

Goodbye G-Dad

So many things I could say... but I think, for right now, I'll just leave it at... "a life well lived."

"A bad poem on an old French statue..."

"...is not an immigration policy."

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RELATED: It's a wonderful day...

...in the neighbourhood...

The White House website has nothing posted today on the 66th Anniversary of the D-Day landing.

The president had other things on his mind.

I got nuthin'.