Regina Police have announced that they have cracked a longstanding case of serial arson — in the past several months, over 150 fires (most in garbage bins) have been set in north central Regina. (via local radio – I’ll provide a link if one becomes available)
Except – the case wasn’t exactly “cracked” . The police… uh…. knew all along who was responsible. They just couldn’t do anything about it until the suspects outgrew their judicial immunity under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. In other words, authorities could do little more than run around putting out fires, until the arsonists turned 12.
Typical of our Trudeapian justice system, check out this chart from a government of Canada website.

The figures produce a total of 74%. There are no statistics provided on violent crime.

The recent rush of world leaders to India is remarkable. Starting from Russian President Putin to major Senators from America have visited or are planning to visit India. [inc. Paul Martin – ed]. European Union is in deep discussion with India on cooperation. All sanctions against India’s nuclear programs and Indian Space Research Organization are in the process of being lifted. India is cooperating with Europeans and the Americans in space explorations and technology research program. India is also part of World Trade Organization. India is receiving major outsourcing contracts in IT and call-center service work from America and Europe. India’s Forex reserve is at a level never imagined before because of international direct investments from Western nations, Japan, Korea and others. Interestingly, China the arc rival of India changed its posture in the last few years to make India’s friendship and trade a priority. India is slowly getting to the point when it is accepted as a permanent member of the Security Council. All the five Security Council members China, America, Russia, France and UK support India’s inclusion.

All that and an obsolete nuclear program!
Hat tip – James Bow

I have not found an argument to support the extension of legal marriage to include same-sex couples that I could not use in equal measure to demand the right to marry my sister.
Being of the same gender, society’s interest in the health of potential offspring is nullified – though it can also be argued that removing the ability to procreate as a defining property of marriage opens the door pretty wide. I don’t know how you can arbitrarily set aside something as fundamental as procreation to broaden the definition of marriage to include homosexual relationships, but stick it back in to narrow that same definition to exclude incestuous ones.
If it is discriminatory to deny persons the right to legally marry on the basis of same-sex orientation (be it choice or chance), is it not equally discriminatory to deny persons the right to marry on the basis of sexual ambivilance? Being homosexual or heterosexual is not a product of having sex with a person of the same or opposite gender, or having sex at all! Celibacy, whether voluntary or involuntary, does not affect orientation.
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This is not a frivolous suggestion. It’s not uncommon for siblings to live their entire adult lives together, to share incomes, property, to support, comfort, care for, love and commit to each other. Why should such a couple be denied the societal benefits afforded to other such couples – pension benefits, spousal deductions. That they may or may not be having sex is no one’s business but their own.

Today, Colby Cosh points out that Alberta is proposing new legislation that accomplishes just that.

Alberta: enemy of “traditional marriage”? In today’s National Post I assess an odd claim made earlier this week by Premier Ralph Klein that Canada’s stubborn right-wing province has “probably the most advanced and forward-thinking legislation in the country as it affects gays and lesbians”. Hey, even I can only be so contrarian–the statement is a clear exaggeration if you take “advanced and forward-thinking” in its typical formal meaning (“liberals like it”). But there’s a little-known fact here, squatting in the background of the national gay-marriage debate: Alberta’s mysteriously obscure new law creating civil- union-type arrangements is, in one important respect, more radical than proposed federal law–it extends access to “spousal” benefits to non-conjugal life partners, including unmarried relatives living together. Same-sex activists actually dislike this because it’s too inclusive–its effect is to lump them in with single people in platonic cohabitation. In that sense, they’re serving as defenders of “traditional marriage”, amended so as to cover them, against the country’s broadest regime of practical access to spousal privileges. You can find the details on page A21 of today’s paper.

Good on Ralphie. Serve up the “inclusiveness” they’ve been clamouring for and then stand back and watch the demands for exclusivity roll out.
Nobody does hypocrisy like the left.

If instead of chanelling Martha Stewart and overhearing conversations inside Fallujah bunkers, Jeff Goldstein was an agent provocateur coding websites for the environmental movement on a unix-based text editor;
jeff@cellulose:~/www/seac.org/public_html/tampons/$ pico nothing.html
(added to the Beltway traffic jam)

If only I’d known, I could have observed the day by enlisting several small children to solicit door to door donations for the food bank my palace fund.
Before selling them into the sex trade industry, of course.
hat tip – Charles MacDonald

A reader sent along this item some weeks ago, and I didn’t use it at the time because I couldn’t think of an angle to approach it from . I still can’t. But it’s interesting, nonetheless.

Everything about Amir appears masculine: his broad chest, muscled arms, dark full beard and deep voice. But, in fact, Amir was a woman until four years ago, when, at the age of 25, he underwent the first of a series of operations that would change his life.
Since then he has had 20 operations and expects four more. And Amir, who as a woman was married twice to men – his second husband helped with the transition and remains a good friend – is now engaged to marry a woman.
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After decades of repression, Iran’s Islamic government is recognizing people with sexual-identity disorders and allowing them to have sex-change operations and obtain new birth certificates.
Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, there was no particular policy regarding transsexuals. Iranians with the inclination, means and connections could obtain the necessary medical treatment and new identity documents. The new religious government, however, classed transsexuals and transvestites with gays and lesbians, who were condemned by Islam and faced the punishment of lashing under Iran’s penal code.
But these days, Iran’s Muslim clerics, who dominate the judiciary, are considerably better informed about transsexuality. Some clerics now even recommend sex- change operations to those who are troubled about their sex. The issue was discussed at a conference in Tehran in June that drew officials from other Gulf countries.
One cleric, Muhammad Mehdi Kariminia, is writing his thesis at the religious seminary of Qom on transsexuality.
“All the clerics and researchers at the seminary encouraged me to work on the subject,” he said in an interview. “They said that my research can help change the social stigma attached to these people and clarify religious decrees on the matter.”

One part of me hopes that this may be a sign of more liberal attitudes towards women in this most repressive of Islamic societies… but another wonders if it isn’t just a clever ploy to confuse the living hell out of everyone.

Via a reader tip, this American Thinker portrait of sex “researcher” Alfred Kinsey – and the long term societal consequences of his fraud.

While Kinsey made no effort to correct for incidentally skewed data, he purposely skewed data and made every effort to make it appear correct. Amazingly, outrageously, unbelievably, fourteen-hundred of Kinsey’s male subjects were prison inmates and sexual offenders whom he classified as normal. Why? Kinsey’s rationalization was that the only difference between these reprobates and average men was that the former got caught.

After that, it was only logical to consult prostitutes to obtain data on female sexuality.

As shameful as the scientific fraud is, it pales in comparison to Kinsey’s blatantly immoral and criminal behavior with respect to children. Kinsey conducted research that supposedly demonstrated that young boys – as young as two months of age – could experience multiple orgasms. He claimed that the maximum number observed in a twenty-four hour period was 26 climaxes . . . in a thirteen-year-old and a four-year-old. Now, to again quote the Intercollegiate Review, “So mesmerized were Americans by the authority of science, with a capital S, that it took forty years for anyone to wonder how data is collected on the sexual responses of children as young as five.”

There’s more.

Plus, lots of light for reading the sports section.

A magnetic screwdriver is an invaluable tool when draining carbs on your bike. It will prevent the necessity of using your fingers to dig about gasoline soaked surfaces in the gloom of an unlit garage in December, trying for the 4th time to find the tiny bolt that has again fallen into the bowels of your engine, while trying to replace it blind, from a virtually impossible angle.
Urgh.