Halloween Week: The Startling

 

The left is shocked - SHOCKED! - that a sitting president would have a terrorist leader taken out in a covert operation:

The Washington Post changed the headline of its obituary of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from "terrorist-in-chief" to describe him as an “austere religious scholar.”

U.S. forces killed Baghdadi Saturday after a successful raid on a compound in northern Syria.

While many celebrated the death of the serial rapist and murderer, the Washington Post left many confused by giving him the title of “austere religious scholar at the helm of the Islamic State.”

The Post acknowledged Baghdadi led ISIS with “shocking brutality” but focused much of its obituary on his academic career. “The man who would become the founding leader of the world’s most brutal terrorist group spent his early adult years as an obscure academic, aiming for a quiet life as a professor of Islamic law,” the Post wrote.

Al-Baghdadi's victims do not feel as the Washington Post does:

Al-Baghdadi was responsible for directing and inspiring terror attacks across continents and in the heart of Europe. His killing by U.S. forces, which was announced Sunday, leaves the Islamic State without an obvious leader, a major setback for an organization that in March was forced by American troops and Kurdish forces out of the last part of its self-declared “caliphate,” which once spanned a swath of Iraq and Syria.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks on Paris cafes, the national stadium and the Bataclan concert hall that left 130 people dead.

Georges Salines, whose daughter Lola died at the Bataclan, told The Associated Press he welcomed the announcement of the IS leader’s death with a “sense of satisfaction.”

I guess people just experience things differently.


A reminder:

The 1st thing you did after you were elected in 2015, before you were even sworn in, was withdraw our CF-18s from the war on ISIS. The 2nd thing you did was reinstate terrorists’ citizenship. The 3rd thing you did was pay $10.5 million to an Al Qaida terrorist named Omar Khadr. https://t.co/VtFzrjLsh4

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) October 28, 2019

Don't think about it. Do it:

Peter Navarro, a top Trump adviser who has spent much of his career calling for an aggressive crackdown on trade with China, has looked at blacklisting Chinese companies that steal American IP from doing business in the United States, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

We can conclude the following: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is fundamentally flawed because it was written by a communist and does not serve the greater interests of the Canadian people, that judges are merely extensions of an unaccountable plutocracy and that Canadians don't care one way or another but are happy to complain about it when it personally affects them:

A group of lawyers opposed to consecutive life sentences has been granted intervener status in an appeal of the sentence handed down to Quebec City mosque killer Alexandre Bissonnette.

The Montreal Defence Lawyers Association is arguing that the Criminal Code contravenes the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by allowing judges to stack life sentences for multiple murders instead imposing them concurrently.

Bissonnette, 29, pleaded guilty last year to six counts of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder after he walked into the mosque at the Islamic Cultural Centre during evening prayers on Jan. 29, 2017, and opened fire.

The Crown had requested a sentence of six consecutive 25-year terms with no chance of parole — 150 years in total — but Quebec Superior Court Justice Francois Huot opted for life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 40 years, saying that a sentence beyond life expectancy would have been “absurd” and a charter violation.

The law, however, would have allowed the judge to impose a 150-year jail sentence, which is what the association is now challenging.

The lawyers argue that “a sentence exceeding life expectancy without review mechanism” would be “inconsistent with human dignity” and a violation of Section 12 of the charter, which grants protection from cruel and unusual punishment.

If Scheer had any scruples, he would resign because bribed press or not, he should be prime minister right now. His opponent was, after all, a very stupid man:

In an interview with the West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, Scheer confirmed he has heard from his former mentor and party leader following his return to Official Opposition status in Monday’s election, and said he is focused on figuring out what went wrong with the Conservative campaign.

“I’ve reached out to many different Conservatives. I won’t go into all who I have and haven’t been speaking with. My priority is to talk to candidates and members who ran in the last campaign because I really do want to hear from them,” Scheer said when asked if he had spoken with Harper.

“We had great people running for us in every part of this country and many of them were not elected. That’s disappointing to me and I want to make sure going forward we have a stronger campaign that connects with voters all across the country.”

All you had to do was not be Trudeau, Andy, and you messed up.

Just walk away.


Also - if you still think Canada can survive with public policies based on junk science and giving Quebec welfare, you aren't just mistaken; you are mad:

Is such a deal possible?

If its elements do not require constitutional changes, at least in the short term, and if the feds are earnest in a desire for reconciliation and re-engagement, then yes, it is.

It could look something like this.

• Federal equivalency granted for the current climate-change plans of Alberta and Saskatchewan, both of which include a price on carbon … for heavy emitters. (Imagine that.) And a corresponding commitment by all three partners to strengthen the focus in each of the plans and in Canada’s approach on technologies that can help our country truly contribute to the global climate fight.
• Equalization rebates to provinces whose taxpayers continue to pay into the federal program even while they face the fifth consecutive year of low commodity prices. Such a rebate can be sunsetted, tied to commodity price recovery and roughly on the per capita contribution to the program from each province’s tax base. It could be a payment separate from the program itself keeping all current recipient provinces whole. Such a payment could take the form of a large-scale abandoned oil well cleanup program. That would put a lot of front line oil workers back to work and have an obvious attendant environmental upside.
• TMX completion and then privatization with a significant portion going to First Nations-controlled interests on commercial terms.
• Amendments to Bills C-69 and C-48 that remove uncertainty for pipeline construction and oil exports from the West Coast.

The deal might also include a longer-term commitment to put Senate reform and equalization on the table in terms of constitutional discussions but shouldn’t be predicated on the pursuit of unachievable constitutional change.

But ... but ... they're our future!:

More than two dozen young Canadians are facing a month-long ban from Parliament Hill after staging a climate-change protest inside the House of Commons this morning.

The group Our Time wants to deliver 338 mandate letters to MPs elected last week asking them to prioritize a “green new deal” when Parliament resumes. ...

When the tour took them into the House of Commons, they sat down on the floor, unfurled protest signs printed on yellow cloths and refused to move.

Security removed them within 15 minutes, issued each a trespassing ticket along with a 30-day ban.

And now, for your scary listening pleasure: