…when the Grits are working themselves into a lather, doing everything that they can to try to nail the closet door shut before their little osteological embarrassments have the chance to form a chorus line and come kicking on out for all the world to see like a regiment of revenant rockettes. 🙄
That’s right; the McSquinty Lieberal$ are once again raiding the public piggy bank in a mad rush to keep the rest from us from knowing… well, how they abused the piggy bank before…
TORONTO — The Ontario government spent another day in court yesterday arguing why its legal bill for fighting an autism treatment lawsuit should stay secret, which means even more money has been wasted on lawyers rather than helping kids, the opposition said.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard arguments about a request under the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to reveal how much the government spent defending against a lawsuit filed by parents of autistic children.
Yeppers, boys & girls. The grits are blowing a buttload of your tax dollars on lawyers to keep you from knowing how much they spend on lawyers.
Whaddaya call a hundred lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start. (rimshot here)
Same old, same old, same old … Grits make promise. Grits break promise. Grits waste more money breaking promise than they would have spent keeping it. Grits then blow even more money covering their asses. And every cent of it is, of course, your money and not theirs. Meanwhile, the Grits of McSquinty — who loves to cry poor to Ottawa — show off their lack of common sense by using the annual surplus to buy votes instead of paying down the debt.
Ontario’s Liberal government has “institutionalized” the habit of spending surplus funds at the end of the fiscal year instead of applying the extra cash to the provincial debt or deficit, Auditor General Jim McCarter said yesterday.
In his first pre-election review of the Liberal government’s fiscal plans for the next three years, McCarter said the government has been creating lists of candidates who could receive year-end grants long before the end of the fiscal year.
[…]
“The combination of such revenue surpluses (and) the tight timelines involved in these year-end spending decisions . . . has resulted in a significant reduction of the normal accountability controls over these transfers.”
Pay down the debt? Are you nuts? That’s the kind of thing Mike Harris would do! When the hell are people in this province going to get it through their heads that Liberal$ (of any stripe) just plain can’t be trusted with the public purse??
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait until October.
Holy bejabbers, Batman; you’d think that even the Grits would learn sooner or later. Booted from office for being frequent frolickers in financial fiddlyfriggery, you’d think that these boneheads would have figured out by now to keep their hands the hell out of the cookie jar.
But nooooo, not this bunch. For all their talk about scary conservatives, hidden agendas, a new Liberal party direction with a new leader and practically doing everything short of giving themselves a snot rubdown to look greener than thou, they’re still the same old, same old, same old (etc, ad nauseum) Librano$ that they ever were…
About $16,000 has vanished from a London federal Liberal riding association, triggering a police investigation.
The probe comes amid indications an official with the party’s Ontario wing offered a way to keep a lid on the issue.
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“I’ve never encountered anything like this and I’ve been in politics since I was 13,” said Lois Jackson, a St. Thomas party member. [guess ya musta slept through Adscam, eh, Lois? -D]
Jackson is upset the riding executive has said nothing about the matter publicly, despite conducting a nomination meeting in April for which nearly 800 party memberships were sold.
St. Thomas police confirm they’re investigating a complaint about the missing funds.
“Quite a number of people have been interviewed,” said Const. Anders Nielsen. “The allegations are, in excess of $15,000 (has) gone missing.”
The Free Press has learned a high-ranking party official tried to solve the problem by offering to cut cheques for the missing money provided local officials agreed to take no further action and considered the matter closed.
A letter from David J. Pretlove, then interim executive director of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario), offered to cover the missing funds.
That letter was given to the board in January by Suzanne van Bommel, then a member of the board and now also the party’s candidate in the riding for the next federal election.
Van Bommel said she presented the offer “on behalf of Mr. Pretlove.”
Pretlove is now director of finance and administration for the party’s Ontario wing.
Van Bommel is a former chief of staff for Steve Peters, the Ontario Labour Minister who holds the same riding provincially. Peters nominated van Bommel and sold memberships on her behalf.
Hey, relax, folks. I’ll just slide a little cash over in that direction and this can all just go away. Youse diddn’ see nuthin’. Hey, Dave; any chance I can get that in a nice plain brown envelope?
♪ A little ditty, ’bout Dave ‘n’ Su-zanne
Two Canadian Grits scammin’ folks the best they can…
♫
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.
…that doing the right thing would ever be easy. London top cop Murray Faulkner has likely had that on his mind quite a bit lately.
To the surprise of no one, the parents of David Lucio have begun demanding a full inquest into how the case was handled (not that I blame them — if my son were killed, I’d want every damned detail gone over with an electron microscope) and Faulkner has likely spent some very self-critical time in front of the mirror lately. Now there’s a guy that I don’t envy…
The outraged parents of a former London police officer killed by another in a murder-suicide want an inquest into how police handled the case.
But while police Chief Murray Faulkner rejects that, yesterday — for the first time — he said he will ask an outside party to assess what happened and how police missed any signs of trouble brewing.
Just how formal such an outside examination would be, Faulkner couldn’t say. “I am not sure of the process yet.”
Now, before we all hop on the bullshit bandwagon and start pillorying Faulkner for “not knowing what to do,” let’s just pull the hell off the sanctimony superhighway, shall we? I don’t think there is any police chief anywhere on this continent, let alone in Canada, with any experience in a matter like this. The most senior female officer on the entire force — often referred to even now as a “rising star” — murders a former police superintendent, in what is looking more and more like a fit of jealousy, and then takes her own life, eliminating the possibility of a trial.
Contrary to what some arseholes will tell you, there’s one hell of a lot more to cops than going through life blindly following procedure and shining their badges in their off hours. These people have lives; wives, husbands, kids, bills, mortgages, hopes, dreams… you name it. Just like you. And when they lose one of their own, it’s like a cold slap in the face that reminds them that every time they put on that uniform and walk out the door, they might not come back. Their wives or husbands might have to carry on alone. Their kids might have to grow up without a mom or dad. Their parents might be left to endure the frustrations that torment David Lucio’s parents…
An angry Doug Lucio, father of the slain retired officer, contacted The Free Press to vent his frustrations. “She killed him. She murdered him — premeditated. Nobody’s saying that,” the father, 80, said.
Angry about the handling of the case, including what the public was told and when, the father insists discussion about the tragedy has been stifled.
“Out of discussion comes action plans. And out of action plans comes results,” he said.
“I will not tolerate this. (An inquest could) let people stop it from happening again.”
No, Doug, it wouldn’t. I don’t blame you for being pissed; God knows you’re entitled (never thought I’d use that phrase). But as much as we may wish otherwise, there are still some things in this life that we just can’t see coming, no matter how hard we try. You’re absolutely right about one thing, though. People aren’t being direct about what happened, so here it is:
That bitch murdered your son in cold blood. Period. She wasn’t any kind of a victim; she had no excuse. There was a victim here but it sure as hell wasn’t her. She was just as bad as some asshole that kills his wife because she’s leaving him. In fact, she was worse. Worse because she was in a position of authority and trust.
There you have it, for whatever it’s worth. Getting back to Faulkner, though, the senior Lucio also has some other damned good questions that deserve to be answered:
Among other things, Lucio wants to know why Faulkner met with the family of Johnson — the shooter — but didn’t call he and his wife, the parents of her victim and a fellow although retired officer.
He also wants to know why police didn’t erase any public doubts about which of the two was the shooter — thus clearing Lucio’s name — when the truth was clear long before autopsy results were released five days after the shootings.
“They knew. So how come it just came out the day of his funeral (June 11)?” he asked.
Lucio described a dramatic confrontation with Faulkner at his son’s funeral Monday.
“I said to him, ‘You got a hold of (Johnson’s former) husband and you got a hold of her father.’ Then I said to him, ‘Why didn’t you call his mother and I?”
Face it, Murray. No matter how you slice it, you owe that man some answers.
Okay, I can admit it. Maybe I did blow the call. Maybe I did go entirely too easy on her because she’s a girl and would have had an entirely different view of the whole mess if she had been a boy. Maybe, as commentor Debbie on the previous post put it, “You wimped out. You know good and well that if this were a 13 year old boy…”
And now, I’m pretty damned sure that I blew it. Richardson is currently on trial in Medicine Hat, Alberta; charged with the murders of her parents and her 8 year-old brother. Originally, I was reluctant to mention her by name. At the very least, I had decided to keep it to myself until she gets convicted (if). But after what I’ve learned today, I just can’t do that anymore…
Members of the five-woman, seven-man jury listened intently to the evidence of forensic unit Const. Gerald Sadlemyer.
They then sombrely reviewed his booklet of nearly 50 macabre scene photographs, including the bloodied bodies of the three victims.
Among the most gruesome viewed by jurors was a photograph of the accused’s younger brother, lying in his underwear on his side on his blood-stained bed.
The boy’s throat can be seen slashed, his eyes open, mouth agape.
Under the questioning of Crown prosecutor Stephanie Cleary, Sadlemyer detailed his examination of the family home — including the eight-year-old victim’s room.
“There was a lot of blood all over the walls and all over the boy,” said Sadlemyer, of the young victim who can’t be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
With eyes wide open and surrounded by blood-soaked toys, an eight-year-old boy was found dead in his own bed in April 2006, an Alberta jury learned yesterday.
The body was two floors up from where the boy’s mother and father died in the basement of their home.
And the Chronicle Hearald tells how the parents didn’t go down easy:
Sadlemyer said the mother’s right hand had long hairs in it that were a light sandy colour: “It was as if she was grasping or holding onto it.”
She was clad only in a light nightgown that had been ripped and stained with blood.
In addition to 12 stabbing punctures, the woman also had numerous “defensive wounds” that included cuts to her hands and the tips of her fingers.
Sadlemyer also testified that police found the body of her husband nearby, with stab wounds to nearly every part of his body, indicating signs of a violent struggle.
Blood stains and splatter covered almost everything in the basement, including the roof, the television, an exercise ball and the fireplace.
By all accounts, Jasmine Richardson was a good kid who never got into any trouble before she fell in with Jeremy Steinke. Clean cut, good grades and all that. Not hard to imagine from her picture at the top of this post. It’s from Wikipedia and was originally released to the media on April 23, 2006 (when the police were looking for her, but she was not an official suspect) but was suppressed on April 24 when she became a suspect (and was arrested). The other pics are from her myspace profile. Some progression, huh?
I tried to show restraint; I did. But now, I don’t give a shit how good this kid used to be. I don’t give a shit how old she was at the time. Her name and face were spread across the whole country last year. You can’t put that genie back in the bottle. You don’t get to slaughter an entire family — especially your OWN family — and then hide!
I guess this just goes to show you that sometimes, a thing really is just what it looks like. Police have now confirmed what just about everybody had already suspected ever since last Thursday: the deaths of Acting Insp. Kelly Johnson and retired superintendent David Lucio were in fact a murder-suicide.
Johnson first shot Lucio and then turned the gun on herself. At this point, no one knows why.
The truth of it is that we may never know…
LONDON, Ont. (CP) — Police in London, Ont., have determined that the deaths of a high-ranking female police officer and a retired officer last week were a murder-suicide.
Investigators have concluded that Acting Insp. Kelly Johnson, 40, shot and killed retired superintendent David Lucio, 57, then turned the gun on herself inside the vehicle Lucio was driving.
The regional coroner has determined that Lucio and Johnson both died from single gunshot wounds.
Police were called to the scene early Thursday morning by witnesses who saw a van crash into a building, and officers found the two bodies inside, along with Johnson’s service pistol.
Johnson and Lucio were ex-lovers, but the nature of their relationship was unclear at the time of their deaths.
Lucio’s funeral takes place today in London.
UPDATE
For all of those of you that have been wondering, speculating, and other things ending with “ing,” the answer may have come out:
London police officer Kelly Johnson learned two days before she killed David Lucio and herself that he was leaving her for his wife, Lucio’s best friend said yesterday.
Lucio, a retired superintendent, told acting inspector Johnson he was moving back home, retired RCMP officer Gord Brodie said yesterday.
…when the Grits are working themselves into a lather, doing everything that they can to try to nail the closet door shut before their little osteological embarrassments have the chance to form a chorus line and come kicking on out for all the world to see like a regiment of revenant rockettes. 🙄TORONTO — The Ontario government spent another day in court yesterday arguing why its legal bill for fighting an autism treatment lawsuit should stay secret, which means even more money has been wasted on lawyers rather than helping kids, the opposition said.
Yeppers, boys & girls. The grits are blowing a buttload of your tax dollars on lawyers to keep you from knowing how much they spend on lawyers.
Well, there you have it. We finally caught a future 
Now, before we all hop on the bullshit bandwagon and start pillorying Faulkner for “not knowing what to do,” let’s just pull the hell off the sanctimony superhighway, shall we? I don’t think there is any police chief anywhere on this continent, let alone in Canada, with any experience in a matter like this. The most senior female officer on the entire force — often referred to even now as a “rising star” — murders a former police superintendent, in what is looking more and more like a fit of jealousy, and then takes her own life, eliminating the possibility of a trial.
The boy’s throat can be seen slashed, his eyes open, mouth agape.
I guess 
The regional coroner has determined that Lucio and Johnson both died from single gunshot wounds.
