Freeloading backpackers are forced to cut journey short, after being mistaken for freeloading backpackers.

Out of line;

Seriously ill patients are being kept in ambulances outside hospitals for hours so NHS trusts do not miss Government targets.
Thousands of people a year are having to wait outside accident and emergency departments because trusts will not let them in until they can treat them within four hours, in line with a Labour pledge.
The hold-ups mean ambulances are not available to answer fresh 999 calls.
Figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show that last year 43,576 patients waited longer than one hour before being let into emergency units.
Only seven out of 11 ambulance trusts responded to the survey, so the true figure could be far higher.

A British twist on the Canadian model, where the official “wait time” for surgery doesn’t begin counting down until after the patient has seen a specialist – a period that can extend into months.

Zimbabwe lite;

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an effort to deal with food shortages nationwide, threatened today to expropriate farms and raised the price rice producers are permitted to charge.
Fallow farmland “can’t be allowed,” Chavez said on his weekly television and radio broadcast, calling for the National Guard to take over farms with nonproductive lands. He also announced a price boost of 44 percent for rice growers.
It was at least the fourth time this year that Chavez’s government has threatened to use expropriation to deal with shortages of milk, rice, cooking oil and other price-controlled basic foods. The decision on rice prices was another in a series of increases this year, following boosts in the prices of beans, cheese and ultra-pasteurized milk.

Jail politicians who ignore science: Suzuki “He urged today’s youth to speak out against politicians complicit in climate change, even suggesting they look for a legal way to throw our current political leaders in jail for ignoring science – drawing rounds of cheering and applause. Suzuki said that politicians, who never see beyond the next election, are committing a criminal act by ignoring science.”

And you accuse us of hyperbole when we warn you about this nutjob?
Flashback – “A polar-bear killer on wheels.”
Another flashback – a long history of asshatness.

“Why does the western liberal left openly advance the interests of murderous fundamentalist Islam?”
It’s the eugenics, stupid!
h/t

“My youngest brother at the tender age of three days old was tossed out of the window of a trappers cabin in the middle of winter up by Nelson House, Manitoba. His parents were drunk and decided they didn’t want him anymore. Some merciful soul picked him up and saved his life and he was adopted into my family. “

CBC

Today’s feature exerpt from the Richard Warman Chronicles.
Related: The noose tightens – “Out of 32 million people in Canada we know that 1 out of a possible 341 wrote that message.”

A Canadian Wheat Board Director explains;

I hear all the time here on angryville the time people like Saskfarmer bitching about the CWB because he can’t get $17.00 for his durum and he blames this on the CWB.
In the case of a few rich farmers who can sit on all of their grain while the raging masses sell out early perhaps Saskfarmer has a legitimate argument. Perhaps we did cost him $5.00 per bushel on his durum. Perhaps it ran 50 bushels per acre and perhaps he had a thousand acres. And perhaps he could have earned an additional quarter of a million dollars.
[…]
So yes the downside is that we kept Saskfarmer from buying another section of land where he might next year make enough extra money to buy out another suffering neighbor who had to sell a section to Saskfarmer.
The upside is that the Ag industry in Canada made an extra almost quarter of a BILLION DOLLARS.
And that is just on Durum.
Wait till you see my analysis on Spring Wheat and Malt Barley.
Rod Flaman
CWB Director – District 8
306-771-2823
rodflaman@imagewireless.ca

You can “feel the love” in the replies.

If the point of HMD seems a little fuzzy or remote, the following episode of the outstanding World at War series may serve as a reminder. I should point out that some of the material is graphic and distressing.

View it at the link.
The United Nations is marking the day with a “buy one, get one free” offer on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[x] hyper-inflation [x] price controls [x] currency revaluation [x] food shortages [x] nationalize banks [x] nationalize industry [x] land seizures and “redistribution” [x] silencing opposition media [x] live ammo [x] food seizures

Previous.

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “if you are a black, vegetarian, Muslim, asylum-seeking, one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you”.
h/t Wretchard (from a post on a different topic that’s also worth your time.)

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “we’ve come for your liver”;

Mr Bloke: Look, I can’t give it to you now. It says ‘In The Event of Death’…
First Man: No-one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived…

*

More.
Update: It’s like an IQ test for the HRC-cheering section of the Canadian leftosphere, really. When even Glen Greenwald gets it, it speaks volumes about those who don’t;

Here are the noxious fruits of hate speech laws: a citizen being forced to appear before the Government in order to be interrogated by an agent of the State — a banal, clerical bureaucrat — about what opinions he expressed and why he expressed them, upon pain of being punished under the law. This is nothing short of stomach-turning…

And you’ll find an anti-Semite;

‘The situation we have now in Venezuela is that for the first time in modern history we have government-sponsored anti-Semitism in a Western country,” said Sammy Eppel. “That is why this is very dangerous, not just for the Jewish community in Venezuela but for the Jewish community as a whole.”
Among the examples offered by Eppel:
Venezuelan government intelligence services twice have raided the country’s most important Jewish center in a vague, ultimately unsuccessful search for weapons. Publications of the government’s cultural ministry run articles entitled ”the Jewish Question,” along with a Jewish star superimposed over a swastika.

I’ve noticed that my comments about bulldozers don’t draw nearly the level of outrage they used to.

Just kidding.

Breaking …. Mike Harris fingered in shooting death of Jordan Manners.
More ass-covering at 11.

California utilities…

…would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards.
Customers could not override the thermostats during “emergency events,” according to the proposal, part of a 236-page revision to building standards. The document is scheduled to be considered by the California Energy Commission, a state agency, on Jan. 30.
The description does not provide any exception for health or safety concerns. It also does not define what are “emergency events.”

Your farm is their farm;

An environmental report warns farming, fertilizer and diets are responsible for a large chunk of the pollution blamed for global warming. The Greenpeace report, Cool Farming, estimates direct and indirect agriculture industry activities are contributing 17% to 32% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Overuse of fertilizer is believed to be one of the leading culprits, releasing an estimated two billion tonnes of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas estimated to be 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide — into the atmosphere.
While Greenpeace Canada is urging the Harper government to implement a new tax on fertilizers, converting the new revenues into assistance for greener farming practices, the report’s author, Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University of Aberdeen, also suggests consumers have a role to play.
“This is not [about] having a go at farmers,” said Mr. Smith, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report.

“This is just trying to look forward to the future and see how we can move forward in a sustainable way that’s both climate-friendly and allows us to feed the people that we need to.” pdf

Meth addict sues dealer and wins;

She suffered a heart attack from an overdose of crystal meth. She says the man who supplied the drugs wasn’t held responsible so Bergen filed a lawsuit.

Because he didn’t provide the

Heart Healthy meth she ordered, one presumes.