Awaiting the massed protests

140 teachers and school girls poisoned, not the first time either.

Taliban issues death threats to teachers because of a ban on motorcycles.

The silence from the left and  the moderate Muslims is deafening. Unless of course you are talking about dead bodies and the US.

Meanwhile attempts to engage the Taliban in peace talks are not going so well.

Murder at the Grand

An exceptional good piece by R. G. Harvie at the "Searching for Liberty Blog" regarding the recent murder of Jonathon Bacon and the pointlessness of laws that we have such as the gun registry.


In the middle of the summer holiday in Tourist Mecca Kelowna, B.C., at the Delta Grand Hotel, armed men in hoods jump out of an S.U.V. and start spraying bullets out of assault weapons at what appears to be rival gang members, reportedly killing one of them.




I was in Kelowna last summer.



Stayed at the Delta Grand, in fact. Very, very busy place.




So - it was with some sadness and shock that I read this morning that less than a year after my last visit, there are armed gang members shooting assault weapons at other gang members in the middle of the resort.


Just a few thoughts today:


a) How did this happen in the face of the National Gun Registry?


Doesn't the registry prevent people from shooting guns at other people? That's what Michael Ignatieff said as he paraded the shooting victims of KimV** Gill before the press (ignoring the fact that KimV**'s weapon was actually registered when he started shooting up Dawson College).



I'm assuming that these gangsters, when they stepped out of their SUV to commit murder were aware that we have a national gun registry. I'm assuming they realized, as they squeezed the trigger to shoot another human being, that there are strict penalties for possessing an unregistered firearm.


Definitely read the rest here

More Deadly Than Iraq

When I was in Venezuela back in 1994 you had to be careful, but WOW it has really gotten bad if it is worse than Iraq or Mexico, both of which have been in a state of almost full blown war! In Venezuela the murder rate is 200 per 100,000 that just stunning. In Canada there was 594 murders in 2007 giving our rate at about 1.71 per 100,000 the US is around 10 per 100,000

More on Venezuela murders here.

I guess the Left wing love fest for Chavez is slowly being forgotten.