It is somehow reassuring to see that something like this can still happen:

The quick-thinking of several Tim Hortons customers stopped a knife-wielding man in Gatineau Sunday evening. Police said a 42-year-old white male from Gatineau entered the Tim Horton’s at 327 Maloney Blvd. just after 8:30 p.m. His face was covered by a scarf and he was brandishing a knife. As he approached the counter, four customers jumped on the man, taking him down and detaining him until police arrived.

Even more surprising, the customers don’t appear to have been charged with assault or unlawful confinement — yet.

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Swine? you say?

… you’ve got a spill in aisle five.

From the “we told you so time and again department”, Canadian weather data is a mess. It took an FOIA to get the “fess up” out in the open. Anybody got a copy of the EC report? So far all we have is press reports

Leave the thinking to progressives:

For the families of the victims of 9/11, whatever emotions they want to have, I respect and I honor. But somebody needs to lead them through a discussion

It comes to my mind, that no family of a victim “wants to have” the emotions associated with having a loved one crushed to death under tons of debris … as if they have, or had, a choice.
… and my favorite:

But I cannot help feeling that if we block this mosque we will not only be doing what Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh want, we will also be doing exactly what Osama Bin Laden wants.

“… has a main message of peace and friendship.”

The confetti on the wings must be designed to give the Ambassador stealth characteristics while flying over Gay Pride or Caribana parades … rumour has it there is also a confetti pattern that will make the bomber virtually invisible while over-flying Ukrainian Shumka Dancer performances.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday unveiled the country’s first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an “ambassador of death” to Iran’s enemies.
The 4-meter-long drone aircraft can carry up to four cruise missiles and will have a range of 1,000 kilometres, according to a state TV report – not far enough to reach archenemy Israel.
“The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship,” said Ahmadinejad at the inauguration ceremony, which fell on the country’s national day for its defense industries.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer known for his Connections and The Day the Universe Changed documentary television series, which focused on the history of science & technology, leavened with a sense of humour. The various series traced paths of invention & discovery through their interrelationships in history, and explored the philosophical aspects of scientific change on Western culture. This week, for your delectation, here are links to those shows now available at YouTube.

Glavin:

“First, a massacre campaign will start. The human cost in this country will easily be up to two million people killed, at least. It will not be big news for Afghanistan. We are used to tragedies, throughout our history. But the cost for you will be bigger.”

It’s not their fault … it’s genetic:

Speaking in Washington at a noon briefing for congressmen, Professor William Garfield of the University of Minnesota said, “Despite what you hear, nobody has ever proven a single gene causes a single human behaviorial trait. Some of my colleagues believe such associations may eventually be found. Others don’t think it will ever happen, that the interaction of genes and the environment is just too complex. But, in any case, we see reports of new genes for this or that in the papers every day, and none of them has ever proven true in the end.”