Saturday, August 2, 2008
Bus cowards
I don’t know what I’d do if I was a fellow passenger on the bus, but Debbie thinks that they’re all cowards, including the police who came to the scene later.
Most troubling to me is that, instead of pouncing on the beheader and stopping him from murdering an innocent person, the passengers on the bus all fled like cowards.
Have to agree with her on this one. The whole thing is sick and sad at the same time.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Amazing wrongful conviction
Howard had a great story about Michael Pardue, who was apparently wrongfully convicted, released, and is now struggling to survive (and get some sort of compensation).
In 1973, just a few short years after Dylan’s beat generation anthem was a national hit, Pardue was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison. In 1997, all charges against him were dropped. This story should have a happy ending by now but on the Richter scale of justice, this one is off the charts. In a logic-defying decision, Pardue remains behind bars for another crime: escape.
Remind me not to get wrongfully convicted in Alabama.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Demise of Michigan
The low level drug industry is replacing the auto industry, not to mention the burgeoning prison industry.
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On 16 hectares once used by Chrysler to house automobiles sits Ryan Road’s best-kept property, more than a dozen buildings bordered by four-metre fences topped with coils of razor wire and five gun towers.
A new approach is needed. Watching the show DEA/Detroit is one of the most depressing, yet boring shows. Same old huge DEA officers busting low level black men drug users/distributors in abandoned houses around the city. I guess they go away for 10-20 years unless they turn state evidence. There must be a better way, but stopping the police/prison industry once it gets rolling is probably very hard to stop.
Let this be a warning to Canadians - Michigan and NY State treat drug offenses VERY seriously. Don’t even think of crossing the border with even a whiff of a controlled substance.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Dhimmi Watch: Iranian woman, 31, to be hanged after 18 years in jail
Even those of us that are pro-DP can hardly stomach this story.
False accusations and injustices happen everywhere, but the fact that her accuser was a full-grown man and she was a little girl meant, in Iran—given the general Islamic devaluation of women—that the court was more likely to accept the absurd proposition that she would have been able to kill an eight-year-old boy by slamming him against the wall than it was to accept the much more plausible story recounted below.
It’s important to know what Iran is capable of, since it looks like they make be next in the new MidEast War.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Boy in tank
This is why it’s so hard to let your kids be “free range kids”.
A Quebec man in his 50s has been arrested by police after a bizarre kidnapping involving a young boy who was found alive inside an old heating oil tank.
A cattle prod to the testicles for the pedophile is all I can think of...I hope to G*d he wasn’t molested.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Black and white and the Star
J Kay notes that the Star never gives the most important part of a suspect’s description - the skin color.
So why does the Toronto Star refuse to publish the most detailed physical descriptions of the attacker as possible?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Laptop stolen on Air Canada flight
I see that I am not the only one who’s laptop was stolen. A friend was bringing my laptop back from Mexico, and it was stolen out of his checked in luggage. It was an older laptop (4 years is ancient), and it was missing the battery, but it still sucks.
For those who don’t know, Casey’s laptop, a $3300 Macbook Pro, was stolen out of her luggage after our return from Las Vegas this weekend.
Clearly the moral is never leave anything of value in checked luggage.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Meet the devil
More info on one of the most sadistic pieces of trash the modern world has ever known.
Elisabeth Fritzl was forced to help build the dungeon where she was kept by her sadistic father Josef, it emerged yesterday.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Tasermania
Put me in the camp that says there should be a moratorium on taser use. Here’s an article that will make you think twice.
The latest taser incident to be captured on film again highlights how fast our society is sleepwalking into a brutal police state
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
War on Drugs Raging
Wow, I’m all for stiff sentences, but here’s a wake up call for anyone carrying more than an aspirin into the US.
The minimum sentence for that quantity of drugs in Illinois is 30 years. The maximum is 120 years.
I don’t think anyone in a Canadian jail has served a sentence like that in 100 years.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Lawlessness prevails
Once again, Ontarians and their police force bend over for the Indians. The following quote is particularly laughable: the Indians are doing us all a favor by not closing the 401 all day, and only for a few hours. Isn’t this like a mugger saying he’s only going to take $40 of your $50, as a gesture of goodwill? Ridiculous.
Brant said he did not want to aggravate travellers more than necessary and that he hoped his gesture of goodwill would be reciprocated by Canadians in their attitude toward natives.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
‘I am a lonely soul’
I’d never heard of using charcoal grills for suicide before my brother in law’s death, and now we have a famous singer using the method.
The note was paper-clipped to the neck of Delp’s shirt when police found his body at his Atkinson home, on the bathroom floor, his head on a pillow. He had sealed himself inside with two charcoal grills; toxicology tests showed he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Abducted by father
It’s always amazing to me that a father, whose biggest risk to his child appears to be depression - can be the subject of an amber alert.
A 3-year-old girl who was apparently abducted by her father last night has been located by Toronto police in the Brampton area.
Gotta wonder what the mother said to the cops about him.
It’s no wonder he’s depressed. He probably doesn’t get access to his kid.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Fight back
This guy in Halton region fought back, and may be charged.
“I got him on the ground,” the Burlington man recounted yesterday. “We stopped fighting for a second and I was standing overtop of him and I said: ‘Don’t move. The police are on their way. I’ve got two kids in the house. If you move, I’ll kill you.’ ”
This guy didn’t.
An elderly Oakville man who discovered two thieves inside his home was tied up and beaten by the suspects before they fled.
Let’s hope he didn’t hear about his neighbor and chose not to fight back.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Shoot to kill
It’s unclear whether the cops killed the gunman, but even if they didn’t, their policy not to wait around until everyone is dead is a good one.
“Before, our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team,” he said. “Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives.”
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me:
“Most of the people in our society are sheep.
...that has certain relevance in light of this shooting.
At least four people were reported dead following a shooting spree Wednesday afternoon at a Montreal college.
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Killing his son ‘an act of love’
This is one story I don’t understand at all.
A Toronto man who killed his son in a London hotel room has broken a two-year silence in the hope he can help families afflicted by mental illness to avoid similar tragedies.
Mental illness is either a great cover or a never-to-be-understood sickness. How can anyone get inside a brain and prove otherwise?
Monday, July 31, 2006
How can this happen?
As long as there are trusting and (stupid) parents out there, I suppose children will always be at risk.
Police in Western Canada are frantically searching Monday for two missing boys and for a 35-year-old B.C. man who had become notorious in Ontario for abducting and molesting children.
I can only imagine what the parents are going through.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Above the law
More evidence that there are two tiers of laws in Ontario: none for Indians, all for the rest of us.
Two news cameramen were assaulted by protesters today, prompting Premier Dalton McGuinty to condemn the latest violence at the site of an aboriginal occupation in Caledonia, Ont.
Monday, June 5, 2006
Size does matter
There is a reason why we used to discriminate against small and light cops, and here it is.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Price of life
In the ongoing declining auction of a life in Canada, we find the new price is 15 years.
If there were any justice for Cecilia Zhang, her murderer would never see daylight again.
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Dogs before people
Amazing how some idiots put their pets before their children.
A married couple who got a dog sitter for their puppies but left the man’s young children home alone while they vacationed in Las Vegas were arrested Wednesday, police said.
The kid seems pretty smart, though.
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
A moon is a moon
JWalk has an amusing entry.
Good new for Marylanders: Mooning deemed ‘disgusting’ but legal in Maryland.
Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland.
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Tell it like it is
Wente explains that the PC white elite don’t want to call a spade a spade: the gun crime problem is a black, Jamaican problem. Just talk to any Jamaican in Toronto.
The violent culture of Jamaica sheds far more light on Toronto’s gun-and-gang problem than Mr. Harris’s cruel decision to shut down the Anti-Racism Secretariat.
One day I’ll post some of the info a Jamaican told me about how things work in Kingston, Jamaica.
Perhaps our whiny elite in charge of crime should check that out before begging for more money.
BTW: when does that statue of limitations run out on blaming Harris?
Here is Hebert’s column.
The enthusiastic turnout at Tookie Williams’s funeral tells you much of what you need to know about the current state of black leadership in the U.S.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Not that bad yet
Things may be getting worse here in hogtown,
Less than 24 hours earlier, the stretch of Yonge between Gould and Gerrard Sts. was a scene of chaos as a
shootout claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl and left six other people wounded.
but at least they’re not as bad as in Milwaukee.
A motorist who was kicked, punched and left alone in the street after honking at a group of people suffered severe head trauma and may not survive, police said.