And the Rest of It

It was never about a virus and we know it:

The Public Health Agency yesterday said it will fund new research on the effects of Covid on the nation’s children. It follows an earlier report that school closures and lockdowns were more disruptive than the coronavirus: “There is much we still need to know.”

 

 

Because the Liberals are contrary for the fun of it, this will be shot down: 

Conservative MPs want a clear plan to replace sentencing rules for multiple murders now that the Supreme Court has ruled multiple life sentences are unconstitutional.

Prior to a law former prime minister Stephen Harper’s government passed, the maximum sentence for first-degree murder, even when multiple victims were killed, was a life term with no chance of parole for 25 years. The Harper government law allowed for parole terms to be stacked on top of each other in cases involving multiple victims and several 75-year sentences have been imposed since.

The court ruled last week in the case of Alexandre Bissonnette, the Quebec City Mosque shooter. Bissonnette was initially sentenced to 40 years for the murder of six people, but that sentence was struck down on an appeal. The Supreme Court upheld that appeal and ruled that sentences of that length are cruel and unusual and violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

“This punishment is, by its very nature, intrinsically incompatible with human dignity. It is degrading in nature in that it presupposes at the time of its imposition that the offender is beyond redemption and lacks the moral autonomy needed for rehabilitation,” wrote the top court in a unanimous decision.

 

(Sidebar: dignity? Like, killing the elderly and the poor for fun?) 

Being a pro-abortionist is like being a part of a cult where one tries outdoing other cult members' violence:

Radical abortion activists who firebombed the office of a pro-life groups in Wisconsin and Oregon and who have vandalized over a dozen churches and pregnancy centers have struck again.

Early this morning police and fire departments in Buffalo, New York responded to smoke and fire at CompassCare, a pro-life medical office and pregnancy center that helps women and children. The building was firebombed and the windows in the reception room and nurses’ office were broken and fires lit.

Graffiti on the building left by the arsonists refers to the abortion terrorist group Jane’s Revenge reading, “Jane Was Here.” The group took responsibility for a firebombing of a pro-life organization in Madison, Wisconsin in May, and it could have been responsible for bombing the offices of Oregon Right to Life during the same month. It has also vandalized and destroyed multiple churches and pregnancy centers.

CompassCare’s CEO, Jim Harden told LifeNews, “This is the pro-abortion ‘Kristallnacht.’ Because of this act of violence, the needs of women facing unplanned pregnancy will go unmet and babies will die.”

 

 

Some people like to think that they are more special than others:

In the summer of 2019, the Bear's Den All Nations Traditional Medicine Sweat Lodge opened with great fanfare. Ontario's lieutenant-governor was on hand for the celebrations on the lawn outside Toronto's Michael Garron Hospital. So were the federal minister of Crown-Indigenous affairs, two local Liberal MPs, a representative from the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, and members of the Juno Award-winning rock band, The Arkells.

After the prayers, speeches and ribbon-cutting, they all gathered together for a photo with the eagle-feather-toting guest of honour, Ernest Matton, the Métis elder who also goes by the Mohawk name Atheshsa Niohkwa:rita:a — Little Brown Bear.

Almost three years later, all that's left of the sweat lodge are a sign with the words "Thank You" and some orange ribbons tied to a chain-link fence. The hospital has shut down its Aboriginal healing program.

And Matton, Michael Garron's director of Aboriginal education, programs and culture, has disappeared, too, having abruptly retired at the beginning of May — after members of Toronto's Indigenous community started raising questions about whether he is actually who he claims to be.

 

 

If this film was about Jesus, you couldn't make fun of Him fast enough:

A UK cinema chain has cancelled all screenings of a “blasphemous” film about the daughter of the prophet Muhammad after branches were picketed by Muslim activists.

Cineworld said it took the decision to cancel all showings of The Lady of Heaven to “ensure the safety of our staff and customers”.

 

Aren't they being Islamophobic for thinking that their customers might be in danger? 

Oh, wait ...

 

 

Are we in end times yet?:

Australia’s facing a lettuce shortage that’s led to soaring prices and even spurred fast food giant KFC to put cabbage in its burgers.

The company notified customers that it will use a blend of lettuce and cabbage throughout its restaurants, citing supply chain disruptions after heavy flooding across the east coast wiped out much of the lettuce crop earlier in the year.

Australian consumers have also been hit with exorbitant prices for the humble salad ingredient in the grocery aisles. Shoppers are venting on social media about paying around A$12 ($8.61) for a head of iceberg lettuce, as well as steeper prices for other produce, with costs upward of A$25 for a watermelon.

From lettuce to poultry, 2022 has seen no shortage of food supply hiccups. It’s at least the second time this year that KFC Australia has been left without ready supply of key components for some of its most popular offerings. It had to cut menu items in January amid shortages of chicken.