21 November 2011

If you took every wind turbine...

...on the face of this earth... and used that money to prop up health care... how many lives you figure you could save?
When an honest history of this period in the United States is written, it will not be kind to the corporate cronyism that preyed upon public ignorance of earth science to create a crisis — global warming — to exploit and loot the Treasury.

In the best wind spots on earth, over 14,000 turbines were simply abandoned. Spinning, post-industrial junk which generates nothing but bird kills.

19 November 2011

CASE CLOSED

Hey, c'mon now... he jiggled the damn rope...
Hamed was urging them to make a U-turn so they could return to the motel, when all of a sudden the car went into the water, he said. So he sounded the horn of the Lexus, then got a rope.

"I put the rope a few times in the water ... nothing happened," Hamed said. "I moved it a little bit to see if they take it."
Well, you certainly can't ask for a more heroic effort than that.
After receiving no response to the jiggling rope, Hamed got in his car and left, driving through the night to Montreal, about three hours away.

He didn't call police or tell his parents because he thought he would get in trouble for allowing Zainab to drive.
I can only hope the systemically racist Canadian justice system is getting poor Hamed counselling for his traumatic experience here.

18 November 2011

17 November 2011

FROM THE COMMENTS:

That's funny... most folks just don't seem to be as enthusiastic about segregation as the TDSB...more suckass political correctness**********

RELATED: And Martin Luther King wept...
-- NEW PALTZ -- A sign reading "Colored only" was found posted over a drinking fountain in the Humanities Building Nov. 8. The sign was removed and posted on Facebook by outraged students.
Hang on a second, apparently... in compassionate, intellectual Toronto... they would have brought out the champagne & party hats.

What's up with the troglodytes in New York state?

So, the Liberals spend 2 billion dollars...

...on the "Farmer Bob Rifle Registry"... turns out what we really need are more frontline peace officers...
-- TORONTO -- The finely-honed skills of a Canadian border guard in Vancouver have helped keep hundreds of potentially-lethal weapons from reaching the streets of Toronto.

Toronto Police on Wednesday unveiled over 200 illegal weapons that were seized from a Danforth Ave.-Dawes Rd. area apartment last Thursday.

A woman, Muna El Badri, 23, of Toronto, faces 185 weapons-related charges. Police are on the hunt for a second suspect — Keri Ellias McKnight, 30, who has past robbery, weapons and drug-related convictions.
Just something to think about... the next time you hear Bob Rae crapping on "tough on crime" legislation.

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THANK YOU COMMENT MODERATION:

Still getting bombarded by uber-troll nonny... his latest round of self-perceived wisdom concerns a mythical "machinegun registry".

I'll spare you the dreary details, save to say it's the same dunce who prattled...
"new harris decima poll puts support for registry at 48%, 35% against. do the math."

"ps. we don't need a coaltion(sic) to take down harpo."
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 3:04 PM, September 07, 2010
That "take down" thing you were yippin' about, nonny... how's that workin' out for ya?

Whaddaya wanna bet...

...they skip right over that embarrassing little "shiatsu" thing?
taking ass-kissing to a new level
-- TORONTO -- Chow says her husband of 22 years, who died Aug. 22 of an undisclosed cancer, was a tireless crusader who proved one person can make a difference.

“And he always went about it in Jack’s own way, which in some ways is a fascinating story.

16 November 2011

Hope, Change and...

...can you help a brutha out?
-- WASHINGTON DC -- The Obama administration, which gave the solar company Solyndra a half-billion-dollar loan to help create jobs, asked the company to delay announcing it would lay off workers until after the hotly contested November 2010 midterm elections that imperiled Democratic control of Congress, newly released e-mails show.
But, but, but... isn't he McDreamy?

15 November 2011

14 November 2011

That secretive, controlling Stephen Harp...

...wait a minute...
take the money and runThey take a billion dollar taxpayer handout every year... just something to remember... the next time you hear Peter Mansworth ranting about the Prime Minister not providing full disclosure to the Canadian people.

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UPDATE: Look who blinked
blink
-- OTTAWA -- The CBC has relinquished Access to Information documents to the House of Commons ethics committee. One envelope is open while the other is sealed and the CBC hopes MPs won't open the sealed one.

The CBC is fighting the information commissioner in court.
Kill this thing... and use the annual billion dollar subsidy to prop up health care.

Do it now.

I hear the Toronto Homicide Squad...

...is rounding up farmers, deer hunters and skeet shooters as we speak...
Police are searching for two suspects after a man was shot in the neck outside a west-end grocery store Saturday afternoon. The shots rang out around 4:45 p.m. in front of the FreshCo on Eglinton Avenue West, near Caledonia.

The victim is said to be between 25 and 30 years old. He was rushed to hospital and remains in critical condition.

The suspects are described as white, about five feet, five inches tall with slim builds. They were last seen running west on Venn Crescent.

13 November 2011

That flowering of democracy...

...everybody was crowing about... democracy, huh?I'm thinkin' there may still be a few bugs in the system...
Pelland, 34, a school teacher and a soccer coach, was shot in the chest after his driver refused to stop at an illegal roadblock set up by a tribe in the village of Al-Samata.

Pelland was employed by the British Columbia Canadian International School, which according to its website teaches primary education "to the citizens and guests of Egypt."
Maybe democracy is in the eye of the beholder...
sticks & stoning

12 November 2011

11 November 2011

What's a little contagion, homicide...

...or narcotic syncopy among friends?
goodbye dirty smelly hippies
-- HALIFAX NS -- Mayor Peter Kelly issued a statement saying the demonstrators' occupation of the parks simply isn't fair to other residents.

"Council and the public have respected the right to peaceful protest and free assembly, but the time has come for the encampment to end," Kelly said in a statement released Friday.

"Our parks are for all of the public, not an unregulated campground for some."
Simple yet eloquent.

My question is... where's Mayor Rob Ford on the miscreants holding Hogtown hostage?

Not any "99 percent" I'm familiar with

Oh my gawd... violent, disease-ridden Tea party demonstra... wait a minute...
The city closed half of City Hall Park and put a halt to all camping at the Occupy Burlington site Thursday night while police investigate a shooting in a tent that cost a 35-year-old man his life.
Meanwhile, down in Atlanta, contagion continues to spread...
A homeless shelter that has been housing more than 100 "Occupy Atlanta" protesters has tested positive for tuberculosis, WGCL-TV reported Thursday.

At least two people at the Atlanta shelter have contracted the air-borne disease, a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the lungs and other organs.

"One of these persons was confirmed to have a strain of TB that is resistant to a single, standard medication."
And over in sunny Lotus Land...
The Oakland killing is further straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters.
Yup... apparently the pestilence & death is also spreading north of the border.

An interesting contrast to solemn crowds of veterans in their late eighties standing at attention for hours in zero degree weather to pay tribute to their fallen comrades.

I know who my 99% are.

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UPDATE: Darwin was right

I'm beginning to rethink shutting down these protests...
-- SALT LAKE CITY -- A dead body was found in a tent at Pioneer Park Friday morning.

The body was identified as a male member of the Occupy SLC group, but Salt Lake City police officers are saying it is not suspicious, but the cause is unknown.
We just leave 'em alone over the winter... Mother Nature & Mother Malthus will thin out the herd.

Remembrance and gratitude

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

Search the WWI CEF 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.

He was one of the lucky ones... who got to come back and have a family and live out a long, productive and rewarding life.

His son, my late father-in-law, enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school and was being streamed to Bomber Command when WWII ended.

Others, of course, weren't so fortunate. Do you know a Canadian soldier killed while serving overseas?

Search the Commonwealth War Graves