Archive for August, 2006


From the "It’s About Bloody Time" file

Canadian border guards will be armed Canadian border guards will be armed starting in September 2007 but it will take 10 years to fully implement the plan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. Harper announced at a border crossing south of Vancouver that the federal government will have at least 150 officers with sidearms deployed [...]

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Nothing more violent than a peacenik

H/t Beth for this story: The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department is searching for five people who allegedly attacked a uniformed National Guardsmen walking along 138th Street in Parkland Tuesday afternoon. The soldier was walking to a convenience store when a sport utility vehicle pulled up alongside him and the driver asked if he was in [...]

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Sounds more like Bush Derangement Syndrome to me

You know, usually when I want to be entertained by the Valkyrie-like shrieking of the Moonbats, I head over to Rabble. But lately I’m finding far more amusement reading the Letters Section of the Toronto Star. From Peter Buzza Smith: With the recent escape of Natascha Kampusch in Austria, the “Stockholm Syndrome” has become etched [...]

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Like a fistfight in a shit-kicker bar

Jeff has once more used our language to take the simple act of overhearing a conversation and turn it into a lovely piece of prose. This time, the subject is the Arabic language, something I am still struggling with.

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My bison is still digesting

Looks like Frosh has returned to Toronto once more. I’ve started to see groups of kids in matching t-shirts with unusual slogans on them, marching through the streets, chanting odd phrases. Either a cult has descended on the city, or it’s Frosh. I have a feeling that come Thursday and Friday night, the city center [...]

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