Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week fun-run ....



Failure implies that an attempt was made. Indifference implies that there is no concern or care. Justin's refusal to go after ISIS rapists who taunt their victims or who brag to journalists or online that no one can touch them - the same ISIS thugs Justin assures everyone can be a force for good, are small in incorrect number or just plain non-existent - is a deliberate act that no voter should tolerate by re-election of this @$$hole:

Justin Trudeau knows there is a problem with ISIS terrorists in Canada, just don’t ask him to do anything about it.

The governing Liberals tabled their response to a near unanimous motion passed in the House of Commons that called on the government to bring returning ISIS fighters to justice.

Brought forward by the Conservatives, the motion was passed 280-1 with only Green Party MP Elizabeth May voting against it.

The motion called for the government to, “…immediately bring to justice anyone who has fought as an ISIS terrorist or participated in any terrorist activity, including those who are in Canada or have Canadian citizenship.” ...

While the Conservatives said any dual national that took up arms against Canada or committed acts of terrorism could have their citizenship pulled, the Liberals reversed that. In fact, giving convicted terrorists their citizenship back was on of the first bills introduced by the Trudeau government.

So forgive me if I don’t think they take this issue seriously.

Despite this being a response to a call by Parliament to bring returning ISIS fighters to justice, much of the report explains why that can’t be done or focuses on preventing people from joining groups like ISIS and al Qaida.

“It is clear from today’s report that Justin Trudeau is still focused on reintegration of ISIS terrorists over prosecution,” said Conservative critic Michelle Rempel. ...

The government released their response to Parliament on the same day the 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada was released.

Much of the information contained in the response to Parliament was also in the annual report.

Former CSIS analyst Phil Gurski, now a private security consultant, says countries like Australia use a reverse onus clause for people traveling to certain areas, like ISIS controlled Syria or Iraq, and that is something Canada doesn’t have.

“A good defence lawyer would say tear this case to shreds and say my client didn’t do that, my client was going for other purposes and you have to prove otherwise,” Gurski said.

Canada needs to do something to deal with these fighters and their return, but so far this government has shown little interest.

Voting for an @$$hole like this is like voting against a measure that makes sense just to be contrary. That kind of emotional retardation should be beneath people who claim to be head and shoulders above their southern neighbours who have at least made some measure to punish individuals who went overseas to rape and kill.


Also:

Just over two years ago, in the summer of 2016, I met a delightful German lady who lives just across the border from Strasbourg and whose husband, in fact, was born and raised there. Along with her child, my friend, as I put it, "had found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers":

As a result, she no longer goes out after dark. She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.
'Why would you do that?' I asked.
'Because it's Christmas,' she said, 'and I'm worried Christmas will be a target.'

I have never forgotten those words - because they were at once both absurd and chilling. But four months later "a German citizen" attempted to blow up the Christmas market at Ludwigshafen, and a mere two years on it is now taken for granted that Christmas markets across Europe have to be held behind the ugly throttling barriers of "security" - which as we saw yesterday are, ultimately, never secure.

The same country that crushes its people - literally and figuratively - is the same country that neither Canada nor the United States can trust. If Meng Wanzhou broke the law, she deserves to be extradited to the US and tried accordingly. There is no point in freeing her so that North America can be flooded with cheap Chinese crap. It certainly won't free Michael Kovrig:

The International Crisis Group think-tank said on Wednesday it had received no information from Chinese officials about the detention of its employee, former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, and that it was seeking consular access to him.

The Chinese ministry spokesman, Lu, said he had nothing he could say on the details of the case, but said the ICG was not registered in China as a non-governmental organisation and Kovrig could have broken Chinese law.

The Canadian government said it saw no explicit link to the Huawei case.

However, Guy Saint-Jacques, Canada's former ambassador to China, asked by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp whether the Kovrig detention was a coincidence, said: "In China there are no coincidences ... If they want to send you a message they will send you a message."

It's just money:

The Parliamentary Budget Office is now saying that budget deficits are set to increase.
The PBO also says that the budget deficits are going to be larger than what the Trudeau government is saying:

“When put on a comparable basis, projected budgetary deficits in PBO’s October Economic and Fiscal Outlook are $8.0 billion (0.4 per cent of GDP) larger, on average, over 2018-19 to 2023-24 compared to the Fall Economic Statement. Incorporating the Government’s annual $3 billion risk adjustment narrows this difference to $5 billion. Key discrepancies are attributable to lower income tax revenues ($3.0 billion per year) and GST revenues ($1.0 billion per year), as well as higher operating expenses ($2.4 billion per year).”

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Tragically, Fawcett’s vehicle slid off the icy road into the median. She then took her nine month old son and headed for the ditch to get out of the way of oncoming vehicles. But while she was in the ditch, a truck hit a semi and careened into the ditch, hitting Fawcett and her son. Fawcett’s leg was severed, and baby Kieran was thrown under a semi-truck and killed.


Clearly, the circumstances of Fawcett and her husband being in the military were a key factor in what happened, and she was an active member of the Air Force, being willing to defend Canada and serve at a moments notice. Obviously, her injury should have been considered as being when she was on duty.

Yet, for a decade, the government has steadily refused to pay for her $34,000 prosthetic leg.

B@$#@rds.




From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

The Liberals are panicking because Ontario Proud was successful at criticizing the Ontario Liberals in the Ontario Provincial Election, and have now set their sights on Trudeau.

The group is by all accounts funded only by Canadians, and is presenting a point of view that is against what the Trudeau Liberals want people to hear.

As a result, Ontario Proud is being hauled in front of Parliamentary Committees, where the Liberals (and some NDP MPs) are demanding loads of info and subjecting the organization to intense scrutiny.

This woman's lawyer is really scraping the bottom of the moral barrel for this one:

The lawyer for a Winnipeg woman convicted of hiding the remains of six babies in a rented storage locker says she was keeping them so she could possibly visit them.

Greg Brodsky told the Manitoba Court of Appeal that the trial judge was wrong to find Andrea Giesbrecht guilty because she was not trying to dispose of the infants.

Giesbrecht was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for concealing the remains inside a U-haul storage locker that workers opened in 2014.

She never testified, the trial never heard a motive for her actions, and the remains were too decomposed to determine causes of death.

The trial was told the infants were at or near full term, were genetically linked to Giesbrecht, and had been carried at different times over several years.

Brodsky told the Appeal Court that Giesbrecht took steps to preserve what he called the "products of conception", and the Crown could not prove she was trying to conceal or dispose of them.

"We contend that her actions do not constitute disposal. Rather, the products of conception were stored, kept and saved," Brodsky said at Wednesday's hearing.

"Why would anyone want to store six bodies?" Justice Chris Mainella asked at one point.

"She may have had a facetious or a not realistic expectation. She may have wanted to visit. She may have wanted to preserve ... she doesn't have to explain," Brodsky said.

Yes, you @$$hole, she does have to explain why she killed her babies and stored them in a locker.




There is a Simpsons reference for this. There has to be:

A street in a western German town got a repaving worthy of fictional candy maker Willy Wonka when a ton of chocolate flowed out of a factory and solidified.

The German newspaper Soester Anzeiger reported Tuesday that a “small technical defect” involving a storage tank caused the sweet and sticky spill from the DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westoennen.

After hitting the chilly pavement, the milk chocolate quickly hardened. About 25 firefighters got the job of prying the coating off with shovels and using hot water and torches to remove remaining bits from cracks and holes.

Here it is: