The distraught family of a dead 16 year old boy allege racism on the part of justice officials who have not yet charged the man who took his life.
“If he was a native man and he killed a white man it would be first-degree murder,”
The Calgary Sun quotes uncle, Rick Bear Hat;
“He has taken a kid’s life over jumper cables,”
(They were wrapped around his neck at the time.)
If you find yourself choosing unlikely letter combinations.
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To the casual observer, the difference between the white-tail and mule deer is assumed to lie in the comparative length, size and shape of the ears.
It doesn’t. The crucial difference between the two species lies somewhere between them.
| As a cross-country driver of some experience, I’ve always found the behavior of mule deer to be disconcertingly placid. The creatures gather in small groups to graze in the ditches and at the road edge, lifting heads to stare you in the eye with a mixture of bemusement and mild alarm, They’re almost bovine in their behavior, but don’t let that fool you – they enjoy the head game. |  |
Quite unlike white-tails.
The normal mood of the white-tail deer alternates between panic attack and severe clinical depression. To complicate matters, the species is particularly sensitive to “seasonal affected disorder”, the season that affects them most known as “hunting season”.
Which leads me to last Friday morning. I was cruising along the narrow secondary highway about two miles west of Souris, Manitoba when the early morning light was interrupted in a demonstration of just how suicidal this species can become when all three mental states converge.
The flash of movement was four white-tails, running hard in single file. The first deer crossed the shoulder about 75 feet in front of my 2000 Dodge Caravan – a vehicle with a front profile specially designed to scoop large game up from the pavement and deposit it in the driver’s lap.
At such moments, the thought processes that occur during normal decision making are replaced by the road-conditioned instinct that takes over when forced to select from a set of distressingly bad choices.
PRIORIZE.
One …SEMI ONCOMING stay in the damned lane and two BRAKEHARDNOW and get behind that lead s.o.b before he comes through the windshield now three – get outatheBAM!
As is typical of such situations, there was no time for a third priority.
Just as I lifted off the brake to jam down the gas, the second deer smashed into the passenger door, taking out the mirror before rolling down the length of the van.
I suspect three and four probably met their fate intersecting the space-time continuum of the tractor-trailer unit. I don’t know. I didn’t go back to survey the carnage. My van had suffered quite enough of that as it was.
But all things considered, the best outcome possible under the circumstances, with bonus points for coming out of it with a vehicle that’s still drivable. The only question remaining is whether the insurance adjuster decides to write it off, in which case, I may be a bit “SAD” myself. I’ve only had it 5 months.
It’s amazing what a curious mind can discover, if you know where to look.
The following is a submission by the Save the CWB Coalition that has been made publicly available. What was interesting was when I clicked on File then Properties then Summary, I discovered the document originated from the computer of a JNWhitley from the Canadian Wheat Board. I then clicked on Statistics and discover it was created Oct4.2006 and was last saved by Yvonne Rideout KAP’s general manager. So the CWB wrote the submission and sent it to KAP, who then turn around and present it to Minister Strahl as their own work. These people are beyond reprehensible.
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More – The Canadian Barley Growers have called on “the president and the chairman of the Canadian Wheat Board to resign for allegedly violating a government order banning advocacy for its monopoly.”
They just don’t make them like they used to.
Kris Robinson – “Chalk one up for the big girls!!!”
Around midnight they found a 69-year-old Huntington beach man naked and covered in oats.
The streets of New York are a dangerous place for a granny confined to a wheelchair.
Alone, vulnerable, and of course – there’s the problem of recoil…
At least 27 die as US occupation fails to ensure sufficient supply of flashlights;
“The looters seized the security vacuum yesterday as the police protecting the pipeline withdrew from their posts,” said Dr. Hussain al-Janabi, director of the Diwaniya hospital. He said he was told that the explosion took place when one of the looters “lit up his lighter to see if his jerry can was full or not.”
“…thanks so much for everything you’re doing to kill my business.”
For the private and public “get well” notes.
While I appreciate the helpful hints ” stick your nose in it and then swallow a few times, slowly drawing the salt water up into the nasal cavity” , and the advice “don’t try the hot bath and rum thing. Its a hoax. I tried it and couldnt drink an eighth of the the hot bath”, what I probably need most is to take it easy.
FYI, for all the references I’ve made to NeoCitron (or as one of you has suggested, “NeoCon Citron”) my symptoms have more resemblance to whooping cough than the sniffles. This has been going for on over a week, and it’s getting rather old. (To add injury to insult, I think I pulled/sprained my ribcage this evening. All in all, a helpful turn of events.).
“Take it easy” includes not having to monitor my comments section to curb runaway troll threads. I’d appreciate your co-operation in this.
And for anyone who decides to take advantage of the situation, I have a very good friend with the skill, the experience, but most importantly – the personality disorders – required to raise a mushroom cloud over your hard drive.
Now, as you were….
The United Nations is investigating a suspected child prostitution ring involving its peacekeepers and government soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. mission said on Thursday.
Among accusations being investigated is that pimps are using the presence of U.N. peacekeepers to lure vulnerable girls to go and work as prostitutes in areas of South Kivu where they are deployed, the mission said in a statement.
[…]
Last year, the U.N. barred peacekeepers in Congo from fraternizing with local people after investigations found some soldiers and civilian staff were guilty of rape and paedophilia including enticing hungry children with food or money in exchange for sex.
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In Communist societies, the fall of a dictator is often marked by a public statement about the dictator’s failing health that (a) doesn’t make sense, and (b) is not delivered by the dictator himself. That’s what we saw on Monday night, when Cuban dictator Fidel Castro issued a “letter to the people” in which he explains that he had suffered intestinal bleeding due to stress, needed an operation, and would be in bed for several weeks. The missive was coldly Orwellian in how little it said about Castro — and in how much detail it gave about those who were now “temporarily” assuming power.
The next day another Cuban official read a more entertaining letter in which Castro purports to explain (again in pure Newspeak) that because of the imminent threat from the United States, the details of his health are now a state secret. But there’s only one detail about Castro’s health that could possibly be a state secret: that he’s dead.
Doctors at the exclusive Cimeq hospital in western Havana are accustomed to handling the delicate health problems of Cuba’s communist elite.
It was here last weekend, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt, that they battled for several hours to save the life of the regime’s most important patient, Fidel Castro. Unable to stem intestinal bleeding with drugs, the country’s top surgeons performed an emergency operation on the veteran leader.
To all but a handful of trusted doctors and his closest lieutenants, President Castro’s medical condition has been shrouded in mystery, described as a “state secret” in words attributed to the dictator until, on Friday, the health minister, José Ramón Balaguer, said he was recovering and “will be back with us soon”.
The 79-year-old president is understood to have undergone surgery on Saturday at Cimeq before being wheeled back from the operating theatre to the floor reserved for him and his 75-year-old brother, Raúl. The facility is in the district of Siboney, home to Cuba’s most prestigious scientific research complex and near Gen Castro’s official residence in a tightly guarded military zone.
I’m not a doctor – I just play one on the internet. But if his treatment were in my hands, I’d be tempted to start him on this – because, you just never know when an embolism is about to strike.
NRO;
Fidel is in surgery for serious intestinal bleeding. He has handed power over temporarily to his brother Raul.
Here’s hoping!
ABC News. And always remember to check Babalu for the inside track on all things Cuba.
.Remember folks, in the event that the dictator has finally begun to sing El Manisero, the public will not be informed until all elements of the government are in place to keep the Cuban people under strict and total control.
Flashback – coincidence?
An Ontario judge is again demanding to know why his orders to police to end the aboriginal land dispute in Caledonia haven’t been carried out.
Justice David Marshall today called into court representatives from provincial police, the Ministry of the Attorney General, and the aboriginal occupiers. Marshall is hearing legal arguments about why the protesters remain at the housing development.
Six Nations members have occupied the land since the end of February, claiming it was wrongly taken from them by the Crown.
Lawyers for the Attorney General say Marshall’s orders have been carried out, noting police have laid 53 charges against 28 people.
But Marshall says his orders have been blatantly disregarded and the integrity of the court and rule of law are under attack.
“This is a matter at the very heart of the administration of justice,” Marshall said in court.
“If court orders can be disregarded the whole fabric of democracy falls to pieces.”
Never mind democracy – how about accountability? I believe this is the third time (I may be mistaken) that he’s summoned these pretenders in for an audience. Perhaps someone with a legal background can answer this question – why hasn’t Justice Marshall slapped the OPP and Ontario Attorney General with contempt of court charges?
Caledonia Wakeup Call is collecting reports (many from outside the mainstream) on continuing events on the ground. (To whom it may concern – the CWC website could really use a redesign. A little more New York Times, a little less Weekly World News and you’ll be surprised at how much more linkage you get.)
“The new Manitoba slogan cost $600,000 and took two years but they are not done yet. Making Manitoban’s aware that they have spirited energy is slated to cost an estimated additional $2 million.” –
DMB
On the ronery screwball;
July 9, 2006 — SEOUL, South Korea – A program of covert action against nuclear and missile traffic to North Korea and Iran is to be intensified after last week’s missile tests by the North Korean regime.
Intelligence agencies, navies and air forces from at least 13 nations are quietly co-operating in a “secret war” against the outlaw regime.
It has so far involved interceptions of North Korean ships at sea, multinational naval and air surveillance missions out of Singapore, investigators poring over the books of dubious banks in the former Portuguese colony of Macau and a fleet of planes and ships eavesdropping on the “hermit kingdom.”
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In a telling example of the program’s success, two Bush-administration officials indicated last year that it had blocked North Korea from obtaining equipment used to make missile propellant.
The Americans also persuaded China to stop the sale of chemicals for North Korea’s nuclear weapons scientists. And a shipload of “precursor chemicals” for weapons was seized in Taiwan before it could reach a North Korean port.
According to John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the man who originally devised the program, it has made a serious dent in North Korea’s revenues from ballistic missile sales.
Via The Corner