You’re looking pretty good for someone 232 years old!

Good gawd, how long before Cynic does something like this?

A man has been charged with killing a former soldier allegedly attacked on a bus after telling thugs not to swear in front of a lady.

Stan Dixon, 60, had been fighting for life since the attack on Saturday but died in hospital yesterday, police revealed today.

A 23-year-old man initially arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent has now been charged with the murder.

Mr Dixon, renowned for his traditional values, was travelling home with his 41-year-old partner on Saturday evening when he heard the group’s bad language.

He asked them to refrain from swearing in front of a woman - but the couple were met with a torrent of abuse.

To avoid any further confrontation, they decided to get off at an earlier stop than they had planned.

But as they stood at the doors of the bus, which was nearing Mr Dixon’s home in Horden, County Durham, two of the gang allegedly pushed him in the back.

The father of three fell forwards off the bus, on to the road where he collapsed unconscious with major head injuries.

Admittedly, I swear like a sailor in conversation. I know I shouldn’t. But I’m not going to kill anyone over it.

The Americans have finally figured out that while not all Muslims are terrorists, all terrorist are Muslims. It only took seven years.

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do exactly what Congress demanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: root out terrorists before they strike.

Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new rules would allow the FBI to consider those factors among a number of traits that could trigger a national security investigation.

Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons - like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated - to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.

Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person’s race or ethnicity.

Somebody give these guys a smiley-face scratch’n’sniff sticker on their paper, and move them to the front of the class.

Transsexual freakazoid Thomas Beatie has given birth.

Despite the name and the media’s obsequious use of masculine pronouns, Beatie is like every other mother in the history of mammals in that she is a female. Nonetheless, Roto-Reuters reports that she “became a man 10 years ago.” From the MSM’s point of view, the birth must constitute a miracle — possibly even moonbattery’s depraved answer to the Virgin Birth.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Ten years ago, someone would have said “Tsk, think of the life that child will have.” But now, that child is living the new normal.

I think I’d rather be speaking German.

Lots of people must have been lined up for the opportunity to waterboard Hitchens. Or at least watch.

While I’m sure that it’s not really the greatest way to spend an afternoon, I can’t imagine it could be much worse than actually having to read Vanity Fair. In fact, I will be having this done to me (the waterboarding, not reading VF - that would be inhumane!) next summer. Next year, I will (most likely) have the chance to embed in Af’stan with the cool kids, and I wish to have certain things done for shits and giggles. I wish to be waterboarded. And tasered (though not at the same time, because holy crap! just think of the current!). Wet t-shirt contest in the desert!!

Why?

Because if a soft wussy Canadian chick can have it done and survive, then a blood-thirsty terrorist who trained in the barren mountains of Pakistan can bloody well handle it.

Like Hitch himself, I imagine there would be quite a lineup of people wanting to do this to me. If they’re willing to travel to a war zone to do, they are more than welcome.

Quebec City is 400 years old today. I am a Montrealer - Quebec (the province) is my home. When I was living in Western Canada, I used to think to myself, “Wow, my city is older than your country!” Though Quebec (the city) is not my hometown, they are still my people. Happy birthday, Quebec!

Oh, and I voted “yes”. I had my reasons.

The Religion of True Love™.

A 15-year-old Pakistani girl was hospitalised after reportedly jumping from a balcony in the northern Italian town of Alessandria.

She had refused an arranged marriage with a 16-year-old Pakistani.

She’s alive, no thanks to the cultish practices of her religion.

Didn’t we ban guns in Toronto? Surely these people heard about David Miller’s ban on guns!

At least six gunshots were fired into a ground-floor apartment in the city’s west end early this morning.

An 11-year-old boy, a 24-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were inside the unit at 3735 Dundas St. W., near Scarlett Rd., around 1 a.m. when the shots were fired, Toronto police Staff Sgt. Mark Tilley said.

Someone from the unit frantically called police and once they arrived, no suspects were found, but bullet holes were found inside the apartment.

No one was injured.

“This is still fresh and it’s being actively investigated by our detective office,” he said.

Police are still investigating a similar case that occurred May 25.

An unknown number of suspects stood outside a townhouse complex and fired into three homes on Orpington Cr., near Finch Ave. and Albion Rd.

No one was hurt in that case either.

Wow, these guys couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat! If only they had some place to practice…

But we’ll keep an eye on it. If anyone starts looting, we’ll let you know.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Federal Emergency Management Agency chief David Paulison visited Big Sur on Wednesday for a briefing on the status of the fire, one of many large blazes across California.

Schwarzenegger said more than 19,000 firefighters and other personnel have contained 85 percent of the hundreds of fires sparked two weeks ago, mostly by a wave of lightning strikes.

Ray Nagin could not be reached for comment.

A Canadian fiddler who is no stranger to controversy has put half his future music earnings up for sale on eBay, the auction website.

Ashley MacIsaac, who says he declared personal bankruptcy in 2000, is seeking a minimum bid of C$1.5 million (744 million pounds) from an investor who would in turn get half of what the Cape Breton musician earns during the rest of his career.

Isn’t he in jail for pissing on his underage fiddler-diddler?

Oh well, there’s a sucker born every minute - someone will buy this guy’s non-existent career.

An interesting article about immigration and assimilation. Can’t we all just get along? No, probably not.

Richwine praised Krikorian’s book, but said he disagreed with its opening lines “It’s not the immigrants, it’s us. What’s different about immigration today as opposed to a century ago is not the characteristics of the newcomers, but the characteristics of our society.”

He agreed that our society changed, but made the blunt point that a major difference between today’s immigrants and yesterday’s is that today’s are almost all non-white while the earlier groups were almost all white. He went on to say this is important because whether we like it or not, people are naturally tribal and—to the gasps of many of the audience members—there are serious racial differences in IQ and that having groups with vastly different achievement levels will create more racial strife.

He said that the fact that saying that all European immigrants once thought unassimilable were eventually included into the Melting Pot in no way means that non-white immigrants will also be assimilated.

He pointed to Native Americans, African Americans, and earlier Mexican immigrants as examples of groups that have not assimilated after hundreds of years. He echoed Peter Brimelow by suggesting that Krikorian is triangulating between the Open Borders crowd and himself.

He ended by making a thought experiment: What if the earlier waves of immigrants had been Pakistanis and Australian Aborigines instead of Italians, Germans, and Irish? Would they have assimilated? In the Q&A, I brought up Pat Buchanan’s comments about Englishmen assimilating more easily than Zulus and asked a corollary question: If our immigrants were coming from Europe, would we have the problems we are having today with Third World immigrants?

Agree or not (I do), it’s nice to see some debate. Differences between our cultures and their abilities to integrate based on tribalism and IQ levels are taboo subjects in a multicultural society, even if it means that silence leads to poverty, crime and death.

I had never heard of Richwine before this speech. It turns out that he is currently finishing his dissertation at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on the topic of immigration and IQ. He will then stay on as a research fellow at AEI focusing on “applying the science of mental ability to better inform public policy on a variety of issues, including immigration, race relations, education, and welfare.” Definitely someone we want to keep our eye on.

Indeed. H/t Kathy.

Denise O’Leary writes an open letter to comedian Guy Earle (enemy of thin-skinned lesbians across Canada).

Anyway, Guy, you add,

“The reader or the listener or whatever has no feeling for the environment of the comedy show that is triple-X, edgiest-show-in-town, controversial and offensive, so when you walk in there you’re making an agreement to be a party to this controversial show.”

No, but remember that human rights commissioners in BC are “experts” in publishing and in public health. In fact, they are experts in any field they waddle into. So why not experts in comedy too?

Now, here’s an interesting problem that these tribunals, the “human” face of fascism, create for someone like me (see my profile above and you will get the picture): If anyone had asked me a few years ago what I thought of your show (as per your YouTube account), I would have said, “It offends me.”

I would never say that today!

The tribunal fascists have hijacked words like “offend.” If I say your show offends me, all I mean is, I would choose something else for private entertainment - maybe March of the Penguins, for example.

Doesn’t it?

For two years, U.S. coward Corey Glass has been hiding out in Canada, whining about the “illegal war” he would have had to fight if he hadn’t let his bowels turn to water, and all this time… He wasn’t even in legal trouble for deserting! Basically, we’ve been harboring this coward for no reason at all!

But it turns out Glass has had little reason to be on the lam, ABCNews has learned.

Unknown to him and his legion of supporters, Glass, 25, was actually discharged from the U.S. Army shortly after he went AWOL in 2006.

“I had absolutely no idea that I had been discharged,” said Glass when ABC News informed him of his status. “This is insane. This is so weird. There are no warrants? No one is looking for me?”

Wow. He has no backbone, but he has quite an ego. No pal, no one is looking for you. You don’t matter. Get over yourself and go back home. You are not welcome here.

Thanks to Richard for the tip.

Reader Krista sends this, in honor of Canada Day yesterday.

I’d never seen that website before. A new one to add to my daily reads.

Palestinian kills 3 in Jerusalem bulldozer attack

And it isn’t even “Pancakes for Rachel Corrie Day”!

A Palestinian construction worker rampaged in a bulldozer along one of west Jerusalem’s busiest streets on Wednesday, killing three Israelis as he crushed cars and overturned a bus before being shot dead.

There was no claim of responsibility from militant groups and police said they were trying to establish if 30-year-old Hosam Dwayyat had acted alone. At his family home in the Arab east of the city, there was no sign of the crowds and banners that normally accompany the funerals of Palestinian guerrillas.

Hmmm… a little over a week after a cease-fire is called, and a “lone madman” goes on a rampage? I expect to see many more “lone madmen” before Hamas gives up the charade and officially calls off the ceasefire.

A man in civilian clothes leapt aboard and fired a pistol into the cab, followed by a helmeted policeman in body armor who fired an automatic rifle. The officer later said he fired twice at the wounded driver to ensure he was no further threat.

“The only way to stop him was with a bullet to the head,” witness Moshe Oren said afterwards. “We were relieved.”

It’s like Texas, but the men are way hotter. If someone is going batshit crazy and killing people, a bullet to the head is always a welcome relief from the danger.

Criminals may generally be less intelligent than the rest of us (barring some serial killers, who have frighteningly high IQs), but even they have figured out that when you ban guns, there is always something else that can be used to kill.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has vowed to step up police efforts in combating knife crime in the wake of the death of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella.

Speaking at City Hall, Sir Ian Blair said the community needed to reach out to teenagers and their parents.

Sir Ian expressed his “deep sadness” at the death of the teenager and said the death would see police “rededicate efforts to stop others dying”.

He re-emphasised his support for the London Mayor Boris Johnson’s overall approach, but said some factors went beyond policing.

Sir Ian said: “We need as the whole community of London to reach out to young people and their parents to get rid of the knives on our streets and provide them with alternatives to crime and gang membership.”

The folks at Henckels could not be reached for comment.

So, previous pantywaist governments in the UK have banned guns. There are still shootings. And now, the bulk of young criminals weild knives, which the current pantywaist government will try to ban.

Personal story: When I was living in Glasgow, I walked out to the shops one drizzly afternoon, only to be witness to one drunken thug being chased by another knife-wielding drunken thug (he actually stooped to put down his bottle of Buckfast) along Argyle Street. A little old lady standing near me clutched her throat and said something about should we call the police. I shook my head, and reminded her that this was a problem that was clearly taking care of itself. If one thug wants to kill another thug, then excellent! We will be less one thug! But when they start stabbing random classmates and mugging people on the street, it becomes everyone’s problem (and it shouldn’t just be because the dead kid is some soap opera star’s kid brother, either). And I just don’t think registering your steak knives will be the answer.

Operation Blunt 2 was introduced by Sir Ian Blair in response to the recent number of killings, particularly among teenagers, in London.

I have no idea what Operation Blunt 1 was, but I have this image of cops running around London with stones to dull the blades of criminals’ knives!

Brass Balls Radio Episode 4 featuring our interview with Mark Steyn was downloaded over ONE MILLION TIMES in the month of June. Thanks to all of you, I do believe we have arrived.

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