BBC exonerates Israel.

As the MV Sun Sea approaches Canadian waters…

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A handful of Toronto lawyers were en route to Vancouver Wednesday night to assist the incoming migrants…

Read all about it.

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Then there’s Number One father, to knot up some very multicultural intellectual knickers:

“…I guess simple extra-judicial killing beats torture. What must Obamabesotted Candians think? ..”

“I guess in the end other countries really just did not care about us…”

The facts, people, just the facts (plus, er, some analysis):

The 2016 vote? It wasn’t even close
Here are the totals from Copenhagen:
First Round:
Madrid 28
Rio 26
Tokyo 22
Chicago 18
Second Round:
Rio 46
Madrid 29
Tokyo 20
Third Round:
Rio 66
Madrid 32
Analysis: Obviously Madrid, with a virtual deathbed plea from former IOC boss Juan Antonio Samaranch, had a bloc of about 30 votes throughout. In the first round, where a majority is rarely achieved by one city, voters often pick a city for political reasons, to say, ‘hey, we voted for you,’ saving their true choice for later rounds. But Chicago didn’t even get much of that charity. The Windy City’s 18 in the first round is a total face-slap. Not even close. They got outpolled by four votes by Tokyo, which no one gave a snowball’s chance in hell at winning this thing? Amazing.
You have to figure the Obamas and Oprah were worth at least a handful of votes. Without them, would Chicago have even broken into double digits?
In the end, almost all the Tokyo votes from the second round swung Rio’s way in the third.
Well, as they say in Seattle, that’s boat racin’…

…the curious case of the absent transcripts.

Related…

A Sentence Never Before Uttered In The History Of The English Language
“Pausing only to wonder idly whether the expressions “38-year-old student of international law” and “the guys who stole my tires off the balcony” have ever been used in the same paragraph in the entire history of the English language…”
Heh.
h/t Maz2

“…when Lawrence Welk was beating up his girlfriends”.