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[Mongrel]

Something interesting this morning.

It's little more than pure idle speculation, but it's more insight than we've had into our Prime Minister's character pretty much since he he showed up on the national stage.

[SCD]

Good frakkin' riddance.

this man has been a waste of our taxpayer dollars for a third-rate testimony. 

[Mongrel]

Oh look, the federal government loses ANOTHER court case over its handing of a Muslim-Canadian stuck abroad

Other than Maher Arar (the granddaddy case of them all), this is the next biggest one.

For those not aware of the backstory, Omar Khadr was born into a family with a history of supporting terrorism and terrorist organizations. He was 15 when apprehended by the US (legally a child soldier by just about every statute of international law I've ever heard of). He is also the only remaning citizen of a western country in Guantanamo - all other nations agreed to repatriate their ter'rist scum (many of whom were much more clearly guilty of serious crimes).

Murder's no light thing, neither is terrorism. But I've always held that this kid has been fucked in every possible way from the day he was born. At this point I'd be hard-pressed to blame him if he found himself free and decided the best thing to do with his time was to suicide-bomb Parliment Hill.

[Mongrel]

Update regarding my previous post ITT: The government has chosen to appeal the Khadr order. Since we don't look stupid enough. Also, the last remaning other Guantanamo prisoner who was taken as an underage minor has been released last month.

But I mostly wanted to post this:

Ontario's most recent Attorney General arrested in bizarre hit and run.

This one is the kind of story that crime-blotter reporters dream of at night.

[SCD]

[Mongrel]

And still with not a single jackass worth voting for!

[SCD]

So I'm now back at home and talking to some of the Ontario Firearms community. 

They're snickering over the Attorney General hits and drags cyclist bit as Bryant made life miserable for legally abiding firearms owners and private rifle and pistol ranges (ie gun clubs) in the province. 

There was a poster I saw the other day:

Deaths caused by legally obtained firearms in Ontario in 2009:  0
Deaths caused by Mike Bryant's Saab:  1

[Mongrel]

Yeah, they're going to be talking about this Bryant thing for yeeaaarrss.

They had to outsource the prosecutor from BC. Probably the Judge too, unless it's tried by a federal Judge.

[Mongrel]

Because we can call use a laugh at some else's expense once in a while.

[Mongrel]

Maybe they should have sent blankets instead.

It might've been less *ahem* mortifying at least.

[Brentai]

To be fair, if you don't want to come off as a hotspot for deadly viruses, don't name your area "Red Sucker Lake".

[Büge]

No Canadian city names compare to Dildo, Newfoundland.

[Mongrel]

My love for Terry Mosher is undying.

[Mongrel]

Police break up Manitoba Flight Club.

I mainly posted this because I was tickled by the law the cops found to charge folks under.

[SCD]

Another fantastic use of an unconstitutional tribunal over an important case and now, potentially on my tuition's dime!

There's a good reason that lot can't get the funding on their own..

[Mongrel]

Oh lord... there's fighting the good fight and there's knowing when the hell to pick your damn battles.

[SCD]

Maybe they should have sent blankets instead.

It might've been less *ahem* mortifying at least.

Sorry to backtrack here, but I really am pissed off that there are people out there who are more offended based on the most offensive assumption of why the health department gave them bodybags, as opposed to the more practical ones. 

Right now, North America is playing the vaccine game, not to mention the other games as if the WHO called this little flu a level six pandemic..

Oh wait one second here. 

Anyways, so if it turns out that the WHO is right and we don't get fooled again, body bags will be in short supply.  It's a stage sixer, after all and there will be people dropping like flies. 

Dropping like flies = lack of bodybag supply
shelf life of body bags = ?
lack of body back supply = increased value of bodybag per unit. 


I still see this as due diligence on the health department front.  distribute them while they're inexpensive.  If it's not a serious pandemic, oh well then.  At least the reservation clinics have what they need for the long haul in case of disaster, attrition, or whatnot.. or even the next pandemic!

You'll have to excuse me here, I'm drawing from my scouting roots here..

[Mongrel]

I think that preparedness is all well and good, but that it's also important to take some rather raw nerves into account. 

Many of these folks were all but left to die last winter and spring. Even if the ass-backwards sterotyped view of natives is correct (remember, I'm originally from Manitoba...), it still doesn't justify what happened. I can't really fault someone for getting pissed after that.

I don't think there would've been a problem sending these if someone had simply been told beforehand. But that seems a bit too foresighted for our federal government.

P.S. the expiration dates for bodybags is roughly 3-5 years, from what I've learned. For whatever that's worth.

[Mongrel]

I've been saying this for years now.

Thank God for Rick Mercer.

 

[SCD]

Here he goes again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2r5gxQhcfI&feature=player_embedded