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Terrorists 53, Police 1
In an effort to win a berth on Britain’s team for the 2008 Police Brutality Summer Olympics, the London police have killed their first innocent man. After a chase through the subway, four officers held down Jean Charles de Menezes while a fifth shot him in the head five…no, wait, make that eight times. The London team is obviously trying to qualify for the 500 Yard Chase, Tackle and Shoot event.
de Menezes first came under suspicion because he lived in an apartment block that was already under surveillance, making him guilty of living in the wrong area. He attracted further attention because he was wearing a padded jacket in the summer, making him guilty of having a bad fashion sense. In addition, he jumped a turnstile; in order to boost their bid to get into the Police Brutality Olympics, the London officers have now made cheapness a de facto killing offense.
While a single shooting death is perhaps not as impressive when compared with the statistics for Team Guatemala or Team China, and the London officers get points taken off for not being in uniform, the war on international terror has given the plucky British team incentive to bring their game up a notch. “Somebody else could be shot,” said Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair. Although perhaps a longshot for 2008, we shouldn’t count Team London out just yet.
SOURCE: The Schwartz Sports Report
http://www.schwartzsportsreport.com/ssr-news.shtml#56238134665
Faith Based Silliness
Q: Why is the Conservative Party languishing at only 27% in the polls?
A: Stephen Harper has shown poor leadership skills.
Q: So, it doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that the Conservatives are against same sex marriage when a majority of Canadians are for it?
A: No. Stephen Harper looks goofy in a cowboy suit.
Q: Are you sure it has nothing to do with the Conservative Party’s close ties to the United States, it’s support for the Iraq war and its aggressive position on national security?
A: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stephen Harper is stiff and unfriendly in public.
Q: Mmmmmmaybe. Still, don’t you think that the Conservatives’ willingness to flirt with two tier health care when a majority of Canadians wants the current system strengthened might have something to do with –
A: Oh, for goodness’ sake, get the cotton out of your ears! The Conservative Party is faring poorly because Stephen Harper is a stiff! A public disaster! He’s horrible on television and only marginally better in person! How many different ways do we have to say it? Stephen Harper! Stephen Harper! Stephen Harper!
Other than that, we have total faith in our leader.
SOURCE: Conservative Party of Canada
http://www.conservative.ca/EN/issues/leadership/
True: Many Nations Would Give Them Medals
Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay are “well fed. They’ve got everything they could possibly want. There isn’t any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we’re treating these people.”
– US Vice President Dick Cheney
SOURCE: No Comment Quotes
http://thesepeopleareinsane.psy/update.toshtml
Must Spew TV
7:30 pm. ABC. Wheel of Torture. Shifty-eyed swarthy people compete to see who will be deported to their home countries, as required by international law, who will be deported to countries that employ torture, in contravention of international law, and who will be deported to Tierra del Fuego, in contravention of common sense.
SOURCE: Ukrainian TV Guide
Baby Steps Lead To…More Baby Steps
Bowing to international (read: American) pressure, China has announced that it will be reevaluating its currency against a basket of international currencies. Although the country hasn’t made a final decision about which currencies it will use, speculation is that Canadian Tire money and the pine cones used by Polynesian tribes are high on the list.
SOURCE: The Financial Riposte
By and For Tony
The London subway is on fire
As the terrorist threat becomes more dire
The Prime Minister’s dance on the high wire
Does not confidence inspire
While the rhetorical juices flow ever higher
He continues to be a history denier
A rationale so thin it’s bony
Is all that’s needed by Tony
“We fight them there so we won’t have to fight them here.”
Is the Bush government’s latest way to manipulate fear
Yet, in this summer increasingly drear
It seems British lives are not held so dear
That must be the greatest irony
For Tony
SOURCE: Poetry, Cornered
http://www.cibc.com/ca/personal/poetrycorner/19.html
Another Sign Of The Apocalypse
Patrick Buchanan wrote an article that argued that terrorists have political reasons for killing innocent people, and that denying this reality has made the world less – not more – safe. You know America is in trouble when Pat Buchanan emerges as a voice of reason.
SOURCE: USA Whenever
http://www.usawhenever.com/opinion/column/2005-07-25-we-are-in-deep-trouble.htm
Exotic Locales Like…Cleveland
Are you part of a species whose numbers are dwindling, a species which may, in fact, soon be extinct? Wish you would fall under the Endangered Species Act, but, according to a decision by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, you don’t because your entire population only lives in a single state? Maybe you’ve just wanted to get away for a few days?
Well, now you can!
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So, the next time you’re facing a decimated population or just want to get away for a weekend, think Endangered Species Travel for all your travel needs, and have a safe trip (and future).
SOURCE: Endangered Species Travel