Category: Rants

Every time they catch a serial killer, all the same questions get asked: How did they get like this? What makes them like this? And my personal favourite: Why can’t we identify them early on so they can be locked up BEFORE they kill a bunch of innocent people?

So why is it that most of those same people who ask those questions are now, with an embryonic serial killer in the grasp of the system, making nothing but excuses? If there was ever any doubt that Jasmine Richardson is fucked up beyond retrieval, it was banished by the evidence presented today:

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. (CP) – A cartoon showing one person coating three others in gasoline and laughing as they’re burned alive was seized from a girl’s school locker just hours after her family was found stabbed to death, a jury heard Thursday.

Police and school staff discovered the cartoon during a frantic search for the girl after her parents and younger brother were found in their blood-soaked home in April 2006.

The drawing and testimony from the girl’s guidance counsellor came on the fourth day of the girl’s first-degree murder trial. The 13-year-old accused, who was 12 at the time of the deaths, can’t be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The 10-frame drawing starts off with four stick figures going for a walk as the sun shines. There are two clearly larger figures, a small third figure and a fourth labelled “Angry.”

The pencil-drawn narrative shows the fourth figure pouring gasoline into a sprinkler system, turning it on and drenching the others. The smallest figure is on a swing when it says, “Oh no, we’re covered in gasoline.”

The fourth figure then lights the gasoline and smiles as the others run around in flames and cry for help as their flesh is burned off.

The sequence ends with one stick figure lying on the ground. A caption reads “The Unimaginable Pain.” Two other smiling stick figures look on. A final frame depicts the fourth figure running off to a vehicle labelled as “Jeremy’s truck.”

The young girl’s co-accused and boyfriend at the time, 24-year-old Jeremy Steinke, faces the same three murder charges, but a date has yet to be set for his trial.

Well, there you have it. We finally caught a future Ted Bundy / Aileen Wuornos before she had the chance to rack up a double-digit body count and what are we told? Never mind who she is. Never mind that she’ll probably be out before she’s old enough to drink. It’s none of your business.

Like hell it isn’t. Ten years is it, and she won’t serve more than six. Then, she’ll be back on the same streets as my son. And she’s about the same age. My son has a right to be warned about this little psycho bitch.

Your kids have that right, too.

[PARENTAL ADVISORY: While I do try to do my best to tone myself down to make this site at least somewhat family-friendly, the following post contains the kind of language that you probably don’t want your kids to read. And lots of it.]

Well, as if we didn’t already have enough reasons to lose faith in our country’s balls-challenged “justice system” (there’s a fucking oxymoron for ya), the London courthouse’s Resident Retard®, “Jackoff” Jack Carrol has gone and fucked up again.

For those of you not familiar with this black-robed bag of shit, he’s the dickhead that gave Ahmed Moalin Mohamed the keys to the revolving jailhouse door after he shot four people last Thanksgiving weekend. Nobody knows where the fuck that asshole is now. Yeah, that shithead.

So, what did this overpaid, walking sack of maggot jism do this time?

Why, he did what he does best, of course: letting criminal shitbags stroll out of the courthouse for no fucking reason! This time it was some little 16-year-old shit with 17 previous criminal convictions — five for not following court orders and two drug-related offences — that got his little pat on the head from Carrol before he strolled off and promptly robbed a gas station with a knife. Naturally, we’re not allowed to know who this little fuck is; thank you ever so fucking much, Chretien.

Yup, that’s right. You’d think that having Moalin-Mohamed go bye-bye on him would have smartened this shitskulled waste of my hard-earned tax dollars up, but nnnnoooooooo….. He’s just as big a fucking idiot as he ever was. Even London’s top cop, Chief Murray Faulkner is pissed as shit at this jerkoff and is thinking about bitching to the Ontario Justices of the Peace Review Council.

What’s possibly the worst of all this bullshit is just why he decided to spring this little bastard on the rest of us. This little son of a bitch got his get out of jail free card because Carrol got himself into a snit because the Crown Attorney was running late.

Without a bail hearing, a surety or reasons, a 16-year-old was released from custody May 15, just hours after his arrest, because justice of the peace Jack Carroll was irritated the Crown was late for court. Only a week later, the teen became the main suspect in a knife-point robbery of a gas bar last weekend.

[…]

He was taken to court that day but when Carroll opened proceedings, there was no prosecutor to handle the case. Carroll asked that one be paged.

Shortly after that, he told the clerk to tell the Crown’s office he would be “releasing everybody . . . if the Crown does not show up.”

Why can I never be making this shit up? Just once? Our judicial system is fucked up enough without having some cocksucker like Carrol sitting on the bench, acting like a petulant little brat!

DO US ALL A FAVOUR AND GET THE FUCK OFF THE BENCH, YOU WORTHLESS BAG OF WEASEL SHIT!!!

Gee whiz, what are the odds of this? It seems that the unions are getting their collective nuts in a knot over the loss of manufacturing jobs, mostly in Ontario but also elsewhere in the country.

Well cry me a frickin’ river, arseholes.

Has it ever occurred to you dickheads that you are your own problem?? Yeah, you heard that right.

Carrie said workers are losing jobs that often pay more than $25 an hour with benefits and end up with low-paying service sector jobs.

The United Steelworkers union has led the charge this week, with provincewide demonstrations that briefly halted production at some plants while other plants were occupied for hours.

So, lemme see if I’ve got this shit straight: If the company that you work for doesn’t give in to your whining, bitching asses and keep paying you a shitload more than you’re worth, you’re gonna show them what’s what by… er… not working? I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, shithead, but these jobs are LEAVING. And idiots like you are holding the door.

News flash, numbnuts: I don’t get no 25 bucks an hour! I work for a hell of a lot less than that. You assholes, on the other hand, get paid more than twice what I do, probably for a job that a trained chimp could pull off!! So just excuuuussssse me all ta hell if I don’t have any sympathy for your spoiled-brat asses.

Your labour is worth whatever somebody else is willing to pay for it, and not one God damned cent more.

Gee, yer not makin’ 25 bucks an hour anymore? Boo-friggin’-hoo. Welcome to my world. Now shut the hell up and get to work.

… Where the Revolving Courthouse Doorâ„¢ stops, nobody knows. Wish I could say that I’m somehow surprised by any of this bullshit anymore, but I’m not. Are you? Is anybody?

Seriously folks, if the shitskulls that pass for judges in this country can’t even be expected to keep an asshole locked up for killing a cop, who in their right mind is going to expect them to keep somebody behind bars for just assaulting a couple of cops?  Just one more example of how yet another judge is dumber than the average bear:

London’s police chief says he’s “disappointed but not surprised” a man accused of roughing up two officers at a downtown strip club was released on bail yesterday.

“There’s something that’s got to get fixed here,” said Chief Murray Faulkner. “It’s not getting better.”

Marcus Cornelisse, 32, is charged with three counts of assaulting police.

He was released on $20,000 bail. Justice of the Peace Elaine Babcock placed a publication ban on evidence at the hearing.

But of course there’s a publication ban. After all, we can’t have the integtity of our judicial system brought into disrepute by exposing the idiocy of the Robed ‘Roos® exposed to the prying eyes of the unwashed masses now, can we?  Hell, no!  If that happened, somebody out there might get the silly notion into their heads that some of these idiots should actually start having to seriously account to someone for the asshattery that they so regularly perpetrate on the rest of society.

I’ve said it before and I’m gonna say it again now (just on the off chance that anybody somehow managed to miss it):

• Judges will get serious about theft when enough judges’ cars get stolen.
• Judges will get serious about violence when enough judges get beaten up.
• Judges will get serious about murder when enough judges’ brothers or sons get killed.
• Judges will get serious about rape when enough judges’ wives or daughters get raped.

That’s it; that’s all there is to it.  Judges don’t give two shits about what happens to you, your family, or anybody else, because to them crime is just something that a) happens to somebody else, and b) keeps them in a cushy, overly-influential job.

I don’t give a damn if it’s an “American idea” or not; we need to start electing these buggers, so that they can finally be forced to explain themselves to REAL PEOPLE who live in the REAL WORLD.

That’s right: REAL PEOPLE, not a closed clique of over-educated idiots with skulls packed full of utopian, pie-in-the-sky, hug-a-thug social worker bullshit ideas that, to paraphrase Orwell, are so wrong that only a very educated person could believe them.  Because the mountain of evidence is showing, beyond a reasonable doubt, that we are smarter than they are.

Are you listening, Mr Nicholson?

Out of Afghanistan by February of ’09.

That’s become the favourite bleat of the federal Liberal party of late and the “bring them home at any cost” crowd have seized upon it like a flock of seagulls fighting over a dead fish.

“Support our troops; bring them home!” they snivel, as they try to cloak their self-serving abhorrence of all things military in the colours of patriotism. And every flag-draped casket that returns to Canadian soil seems to make them worse and worse, as they sickeningly caterwaul the same old bullshit over and over again:

Our young men are dying for George Dubya Shrubâ„¢ and Big Oil®. It’s America’s war, not ours. The Afghans beat the Soviet Union so what chance do we have? They don’t want us there; the only ones who want us in Afghanistan are the “chickenhawks.” And perhaps the worst one: we’re the ones who are the oppressors and it’s the insurgents guerillas murdering sons of bitches that are the freedom fighters 😯 and our soldiers don’t want any part of that; they’re just following the orders of Stephen Dubya (for Warmonger) Harper and his Extreme Far Right Agenda.

I don’t have the time to pick these apart one by one and give them the full treatment that they deserve, so I’ll just summarize…

• Harper didn’t send us to Afghanistan, the Liberano$ did.
• It’s the UN‘s mission, NOT the US’s (You guys remember the UN, right? The international toothless tiger that you think should make all the decisions?).
• The Afghans didn’t beat the Soviets, the Americans did; Afghanistan was just another front in the Cold War, which was won by the West, NOT by Islamofascists.
• Have you ever asked an Afghani if they want us there? Get back to me after you’ve tried that. I already have.

And as far as the “chickenhawk” and “they don’t want to be there” arguments go, that’s utter bullshit. Have any of these idiots ever even talked to a soldier? A real one, that is; not some gutless Yank hiding out from his unit up here. The ones who are most dedicated to the mission are the ones who have to actually put their asses on the line for it, and who pay the real price. The price that is measured not in votes or sound bytes or how many potheads show up for the latest “peace” rally. Contrary to the cliche, it isn’t even measured in blood. It is a price measured in lives, snuffed out forever. It is paid in that horrible place where the world turns to fire and every sound is drowned out by the roaring fury of armageddon until it is finally driven away by the voice of your maker calling you home.

It is a price not paid by the likes of you and I; it is paid by our betters. Paid by women like the Capt. Nichola Goddard and men like Cpl. Brent Donald Poland:

Soldier: ‘If I die, that is my destiny’
Sat, April 21, 2007
By JOE MATYAS, SUN MEDIA

Pupils from Temple Christian Academy throw petals onto the road in Sarnia yesterday in front of the hearse carrying the body of Cpl. Brent Poland killed on Easter Sunday in Afghanistan, doing what he most wanted. (MORRIS LAMONT Sun Media)

SARNIA — He was an officer who gave up his higher rank and higher pay to serve in the Canadian Forces infantry.

And Cpl. Brent Donald Poland, 37, died in the service of his country, doing what he wanted to do, 1,400 mourners were told here yesterday.

“My brother loved this country, believed in Canadian values and believed in freedom,” Mark Poland, a Kitchener Crown prosecutor and major in the reserves, said in a testimonial during a funeral service at Temple Baptist Church.

Poland packed up his kit bag and boarded the military flight to Afghanistan “with eyes wide open,” said Mark, adding his brother, always independent of mind, was convinced he was doing something meaningful.

During his last meeting with his brother, when they were huddled on a porch smoking “big stinky guitars,” Brent asked Mark:

“How would you like to live in a place where women aren’t allowed to read and where children have no hope?”

Brent was both nervous and excited about going to a combat zone, said Mark.

He was prepared for anything and said: “If I die on the battlefields of Afghanistan, then that is my destiny.”

The complete article is here; read it. Not getting it yet? Here’s something from Poland’s hometown paper, the Sarnia Observer:

Cpl. Poland laid to rest
Mourners numbered about 1,200
By DAN McCAFFERY
Local News – Saturday, April 21, 2007

Cpl. Brent Poland was remembered Friday as a courageous soldier who loved his family, friends and country.

Poland, one of six Canadians killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Easter Sunday, was laid to rest following an emotional funeral service at Temple Baptist Church.

His younger brother, Mark Poland, told an estimated 1,200 mourners that Brent could easily have avoided combat, had he wanted to.

In fact, Brent had suffered a back injury in training that made it impossible for him to continue serving as a 2nd Lieutenant. At that point, he could have transferred out of the infantry, retained his rank and accepted a less demanding job in the Canadian Forces.

But “he would not hear of it,” Mark said. “He loved the infantry.”

Instead, although he was almost twice as old as the average foot soldier, he accepted a demotion of several ranks and remained in the infantry as a corporal.

Capt. David Ferris, who trained with Brent, confirmed the story. “Brent once said if he couldn’t lead soldiers, then he would be led, but either way he would be on that battlefield.”

Mark Poland said Brent went to war fully aware of the risks. Shortly before he went overseas he gathered old high school buddies for a reunion and made a point of visiting family and friends. “He was preparing those around him for the possibility this very day could come,” he said.Mark recalled discussing the Afghanistan mission with Brent the last time they met. When someone questioned the wisdom of the operation, Brent replied by asking whether they’d like to live in a country where women weren’t allowed to read, or where people had no future.

Mark noted the terrorists who murdered 3,000 civilians on Sept. 11, 2001 were trained in Afghanistan. “It was into the fierce winds of 9/11 that my brother stepped with his head held high,” he said.

Mark said Brent “went into the mission with his eyes wide open. That is the very essence of courage and the very definition of bravery.”

Brent wrote a letter for his family that was only to be opened in the event of his death. In it, he wrote, “Hi folks. If you are reading this, I bought the farm in Afghanistan.” The first point he wanted to make, he said, is that they should “stop blubbering.” He had, he continued, experienced more in his 37 years than most people had in three lifetimes.

He joined the army, he said, because he had been “miserable” while working as a project manager in the Toronto area.

During his life, Brent earned two university degrees, travelled through Europe and even spent time teaching English in a tiny Greek village.

Born in Sarnia, he was raised in Camlachie and spent many a summer day on his grandparents’ farm just outside Brigden.

Mark said his brother lived an idyllic childhood in which he loved to roam the woods, beaches and open fields.

When he enrolled at York University, Brent invited Mark and his friends to visit him, despite the fact they were still in high school. Some on campus may have thought it wasn’t a “cool” thing to do, Mark said. “But Brent could have cared less. Brent lived life independently minded and fiercely loyal to his family and friends.”

As Brent was borne to his grave, hundreds of people lined Quinn Drive. School children tossed flowers and waved flags.

The procession, which stretched for as far as the eye could see, wound its way through rural Lambton, finally ending up at Bear Creek Cemetery, a little country graveyard not far from his grandparents farm.

As the hearse turned down a dusty road leading to the cemetery, a lonely piper stood in the bright sunshine, playing ‘Going Home.’

Noni Seybrook of the Forest Legion Pipe Band said as a young lad Brent had undoubtedly roamed the fields he was now passing on his way to his grave. “Bear Creek ran behind the Poland property and you know how boys are with tadpoles,” she said. “I’m going to play ‘Going Home.’ It’s a nice tune, and it’s fitting. He’s coming home.”

Our soldiers aren’t dying for oil, they aren’t dying for Dubya or for Haliburton and they aren’t God damned stupid, so stop acting like they are!! They do what they do because they’re doing what’s right. The Cindy Sheehan-grade idiots may not be able to figure that out, but those who wear the uniform know it. They know it in their bones. They know it so well that they will go out of their way to risk their lives for it, and die for it if they have to.

So, to those “bring ’em home” types out there: the next time you open your piehole to say that you support the troops but not the mission, don’t bother. Lie to yourself, if you want but don’t expect me to eat up your bullshit like ice cream. Saying you support the troops but not the mission is like saying that you support freedom but think Hitler should have been left alone.

The troops support the mission.
They support it with their lives.
They aren’t stupid.
They know what they’re doing.
They’re doing the right thing.

Quit pretending that you support them.
You don’t.
And we all know it.

Well, the Ontario Fiberals put out their budget and I have to say that I sort of feel like I’m through the looking glass. Where Flaherty did one hell of a Santa act, Sorbara seems almost… how the hell am I going to put this?

Sensible… 😯

Sorbara says it’s not an election budget. He ain’t kidding there. There’s no new taxes in it (not even booze or smokes, always favourite targets), but there’s no tax cuts, either. All in all, I haven’t been able to find a hell of a lot wrong with it (and you just know that I’m the kind of guy that would look) so far, except for one rather nasty little thing: this talk about cranking up the minimum wage by over 28%. Now, I’m all for people being able to make a living wage. I work for a living myself and yes, if the minimum wage hops to $10.25 an hour, I’ll be making more money. And I still think it’s a bad idea. Now, why in God’s name would I think that?? Well, it’s simple, really: nobody seems to have thought about Bob.

NO, I don’t mean Bob Rae… Screw Bob Rae. I wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his tongue was on fire. So who the hell am I babbling about, anyway? Well, let me tell ya…

Bob’s a regular kind of guy. Has himself a house, mortgage, wife, couple o’ kids… all that middle class stuff. After a bunch of years working for other people, Bob went out and set up a business of his own. Sure, it doesn’t make a buttload of money, but it pays the bills with a little left over to sock away and to buy some nice stuff for the kids when Christmas and birthdays come around. All in all, Bob thinks he’s doing pretty okay for himself.

It doesn’t matter what Bob’s business does. Screw it; let’s say he makes Widgetsâ„¢ and sells ’em. Bob’s got 10 guys that work for him, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (Bob shuts the Widget mill down on weekends so people can have time with their families; he’s a nice guy that way) for the minimum wage, $8.00 per hour. So a little math tells us that right now, Bob’s forking out $640 a day in wages to his ten guys. This is all Bob can afford to pay, and I DO mean ALL. Like I said, Bob’s doing okay for himself but he’s not exactly swimming in it.

Now, imagine Bob’s payroll expense jumps up to $820. Bob ain’t got that kind of money, boys and girls. No way, no how. So what the hell’s Bob gonna do? Unlike some people, Bob doesn’t make his Widgetsâ„¢ for the government, he has to compete in the real world market, where people can take their money someplace else. If Bob jacks up the price of his Widgets by 25%, he’s going to lose business. A lot of folks are just going to say, “screw that, I’ll start buying Mexican Widgets; or maybe I’ll just drive out to the local Indian reserve and buy my Widgets there.”

So how the hell is Bob going to stay in business when he can’t realistically raise his prices and he can’t afford more than $640 a day in wages? It’s simple: two guys are getting laid off and another one is having his hours cut. Plain and simple.

All the warm, fuzzy socialist thinking in the world won’t stop the relentless grind of the simple laws of economics. Crank up wages by over 25%, like the Fiberals and Dippers are howling for, and some people are going to lose their jobs. End of discussion.

And that helps the working poor… how??