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Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, insisted the deaths of innocent people "don't trump" his constitutional rights in an open letter to the families of victims in Friday's shooting rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara. Wurzelbacher's letter was...

The next Olympics to be awarded, a little more than a year from now, will be the 2022 Winter Games. Rather than going to the strongest bid, the games may end up going to the last city standing—a long list of potential hosts have given up on their Olympic dreams because the whole thing is one...

In a speech to business leaders in London, the Prince said that a “fundamental transformation of global capitalism” was necessary in order to halt “dangerously accelerating climate change” that would “bring us to our own destruction”. He called for companies to focus on “approaches...

Quote "What we’re told by pharmaceutical companies is that only 10 per cent of the cholesterol in our bloodstream is what we consume, and the rest is made by our liver. What they don’t tell us is that the Western diet causes the liver to over produce cholesterol — a pretty significant ‘oops we...

They won't get the money but get to stay in Canada......... The tree planters worked in a camp in Golden, in southeast B.C., in 2010, until it was shut down by the provincial Ministry of Forests, when the planters complained to ministry staff that they hadn't had anything to eat for two...

When two loan companies in New York state were recently found to have charged many customers more than the maximum allowable interest, the attorney general’s office took action. The companies were fined $1.5 million and had to cough up $20 million more, which is being returned to the people who...

Conchita Wurst is responsible for flooding that left over 50 people dead earlier this month, church leaders in the Balkans have claimed. The Austrian drag artist, whose real name is Thomas Neuwirth, seized international attention after winning Eurovision 2014 with his hit Rise Like a Phoenix...

Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett was arrested at a bar in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for refusing to cooperate with airport police who were called about an intoxicated man at the grill. Jarrett serves as co-anchor of Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ.“Last year, he covered the murder...

So if I understand the argument correctly, Restaurants Canadamembers employ 1.1 million workers of which TFWs only comprise 2% - a tiny fraction and certainly not enough to impact Canadian unemployment - but if restaurants can't have them they'll be forced to "scale back their business and even...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine's border to withdraw, the Kremlin says. BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Putin orders troops back from border

The developing feudalism in the United States has several distinct differences from traditional European feudalism, but it is built upon the same general skeleton. Wealthy individuals and corporate interests are the new feudal lords—with billionaires and multi-national corporations as the new...

Our predictions for Muslims, Christians and others, regarding the future : Most likely, the beginning of the End of Time, including the emergence of the Imam Mahdi (Mehdi), is in 2014, and Jesus Christ (p)'s return [or second (2nd ) coming] in 2022, in-sha-Allah (if God is willing)...

The images on this webpage showing all of these unsold cars are just a very small portion of those around the world. There are literally thousands of these "car parks" rammed full of unsold cars in practically every country on the planet. Many pics at the link.. Where the World's...

Amid calls for his resignation, curious robocalls in Vaughan fuel rumours that Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino may soon be leaving the Harper government. The calls were conducted by the Conservative-friendly Grassroots Public Affairs from a Toronto based number associated with the...

A man who bit off a chunk of a policeman’s ear during a drunken attack has been given an eight year sentence for his crime. pic at the link Rex Gardner: Man jailed for eight years for biting off policeman's ear | Metro News

Last week's Day Of Honour, we were told, was about Canada's veterans.The vets know better. The day was about Stephen Harper. If you want the quintessential Stephen Harper, look no further than last week’s National Day of Honour. Everyone knew it was the Governor General’s job to accept the...

Eavestroughs: A trough that runs along the eaves and catches rain/leaves. 90 percent Canadian. The most common alternative given by both Americans and people living in Commonwealth countries was “gutters.” I found the percentage to which Commonwealth respondents were unfamiliar with the word...

The news was grim, but not surprising. Yannick Lamonde, an official within Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), received word in January last year of an impending report by a prominent non-governmental organization. Its contents were explosive: Human Rights...

It was found that people who had reported frequent worries and demands from a partner of had a 50-100 per cent increased mortality risk, while those who experienced regular conflicts within any type of relationship had a two to three times increased mortality risk...