Archive for: July 2007

Take a good look at this asshole (click on the image for a better look). His name is Jesse Norman Imeson, he’s wanted for the murder of Carlos Rivera in Windsor and, if the cops are right, he’s hiding someplace up in my old stompin’ grounds of Huron County. The search started out in Grand Bend after cops found Rivera’s car abandoned there. Rivera was last seen sometime around six in the morning last Wednesday and cops have pretty much been looking for Imeson ever since…

Investigators tracing Rivera’s movements went to the Tap, a gay strip club in Windsor where he tended bar. Rivera didn’t show up for his Wednesday night shift, which wasn’t like him, friends said.

Rivera was last seen in his silver two-door Honda Civic, which was being driven by Imeson, police said.

Police went to Imeson’s Erie Street apartment in Windsor Thursday night and found Rivera’s “decomposing” body, said Windsor police Staff Sgt. William Donnelly.

Police then found Rivera’s car in Grand Bend early Friday.

There, investigators obtained video of Imeson and another man at Gables, a Main Street bar.

The surveillance images were taken sometime between Wednesday and Friday, police said.

Police fear the man in the video with Imeson might be in danger, and searched the town for clues to their whereabouts.

“We’ve been doing door-to-door searches, going to businesses and asking them if they recognize anyone,” Lambton OPP Const. Todd Monaghan said yesterday.

“We’re hoping the public knows something, or perhaps Mr. Imeson can put an end to this and come speak to us.”

The man with Imeson has collar-length hair and was wearing a dark ball cap and white shirt, police said.

Imeson is six-foot-one, 200 pounds with short, almost shaved brown hair, brown eyes and numerous tattoos on his arms.

Windsor police said Imeson is known to police.

The problem with trying to stash your ass up in Huron County is that it’s only a matter of time before somebody notices that… “you ain’t from around here, are ya?” Trust me on this one. I grew up there; I know. So keep your eyes peeled for this prick, ladies and gents. And if you see him, don’t go trying to be a smartass. Leave ol’ Betsy in the closet, right where she is, and call the OPP (1-888-310-1122 or *OPP on your cellphone).

— UPDATE —

Commentor tw has pointed out that this son of a bitch is now the prime suspect in a double murder near Dashwood. The Freeps’ website has some on it:

Jesse Norman Imeson, 22, was described by both Windsor Police Service and Huron County OPP as “a person of interest” in the murder of two elderly county residents, believed to be a married couple.

“Imeson . . . should be considered armed and very dangerous,” Windsor police said in a press release in which they said “two elderly residents from Huron County were found murdered in their residence.”

The victims’ pickup truck, a 2006 GMC Sierra, silver-grey in colour, was stolen sometime after 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, police said.

The vehicle’s licence number is JK8 344, police said, asking the public to report any sightings of it.

Forget what I said before. Break out ol’ Betsy, load her up and shoot this bastard on sight, before he kills you or someone you care about.

Well now, doesn’t this just suck?  Years ago, I decided that I’d move to London rather than TO for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the lower crime rate. Now, you may think that I was just being a naive, small-town rube (and maybe I was) but I liked the idea of living in a place where your chances were relatively low of getting shot, stabbed, robbed, or just having some punks break into your house and steal your booze.

Well, it looks like all that happy horseshit is up and gone like a FIberal election promise after the buggers get a majority…

Crime in the London area increased more than anywhere else in Canada last year, just as the national crime rate dropped to record lows, new numbers show.

Statistics Canada reported yesterday the nation’s crime rate dipped by three per cent in 2006, mainly due to fewer non-violent offences such as break-ins and minor thefts.

But in the census area that includes London, St. Thomas, Strathroy and Middlesex County, the overall crime rate jumped by nine per cent — the highest climb in the country.

I swear to God, Alberta keeps looking better and better as time goes on…

No matter how you slice it, this is more good than bad. Yes, Avi Lewis is downright embarrassing in his blatant idiocy in comparing “fundamentalist Christianity” and the USA with countries that have the boot of Sharia law on their necks but hey, I got used to being embarrassed by the Ministry Of What You Should Think a looooong time ago…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is, in all probability, more qualified to speak on the topic of Islam and Islamofascism than any other woman in the Western world. It’s absolutely wonderful watching her occasionally rolling her eyes while Lewis gets more and more flustered as she methodically picks his idiocy to its bones with a calm and grace that is all too often lacking in public discourse on this subject (and yes, I know I’m guilty of going off half-cocked myself, every couple of minutes now and then).

I think the best probably has to be her blunt statement, “there is no Islamophobia, it’s a myth.” Check out the vid for yourself (you can download it here, if you have trouble viewing it in your browser)… (more…)

Sorry for being so quiet lately, folks, but being out of work again (damn place shut down just after they called me back from layoff…) means that I don’t have a hell of a lot of time to devote to the site lately. Every now and then, though, I do manage to stumble across something that isn’t just worth posting, it’s also a short enough post to type out that I can afford the time to do it.

I could go on more, but I’ll just let the Ottawa Sun’s Earl McRae tell it in his own words. Get your wallets out, kids, this is worth it…

Who’ll jump into the trenches for our noble vets?

Earl McRae
Wed, July 18, 2007

You are to be congratulated. Those of you who care and appreciate what our veterans of World War II did for the freedom and life you enjoy.

Those of you who realize that donating towards the cost of constructing a smoking room for them at the Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre is an absolutely infinitesimal reciprocation in comparison.

These aged, frail, Canadian patriots — once young and so brave — who fought in the most hellish conditions to preserve our way of life, and this new battle by us, for them, is the least we can do.

But just as they resolutely fought and didn’t give up, you, too, now need to show what Canadian stuff you are made of on their behalf by catapulting their drive to raise $70,000 over the top before the cold, harsh weather and, once again, they, the ones who smoke, are forced outside to indulge one of the few pleasures they have in the twilight of their years.

Men and women in their ’80s, even ’90s, who once proudly volunteered to wear the military uniform of their country for war against tyranny, and who now live at the Perley and Rideau, and who smoke, as is their choice, as is their right, as it was for the majority of their generation.

Only the brain-dead, self-righteous, fools among us would regard them as of lesser moral fibre, and to be socially shunned, because they partake in what is not illegal, and if that’s your feeling, I’d like to hear your smoking views on Albert Einstein, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Ravel, John Lennon: But a few of the greats in history who were inveterate smokers.

Last fall, because of Gord Bunke, a regular visitor at the Perley and Rideau who informed me of the situation, I began a campaign, through my column, of publicly raising the engineer-report-estimated $70,000 for the room that would be renovated to meet the stringent security and ventilation standards of the provincial government for facilities such as the Rideau and Perley.

The centre’s board of directors approved the project, but said it didn’t have the money, that the vets would have to fund it themselves. The vets — on small, fixed, pensions, not at all wealthy.

Hear me out, you who care, and have donated, you who should care, and haven’t donated.

Victory for our vets is close. The final push is on. Paul Finn, head of the Perley and Rideau Foundation, says $58,000 has been donated/pledged by individual donors, businesses and area Legion branches. Only $12,000 away from victory.

Says Finn: “There’ve been individual donations from $5 and $10, right up to $1,000 and more. Lorenzo’s Restaurant (on Arch St.) donated $3,000. It’s all saying to the vets ‘You did so much for us, we’ll do this for you’.”

Greg Fougere, executive director of the health centre, is hoping work on the room can begin in August to open in the early fall. “Before the bad weather comes.”

It has been a slow, tough, slog to win this war for our vets. Not unlike some of the battles they waged in World War II.

The emergence of a sugar daddy would be nice. Someone of heart willing to make a sizeable, vanquishing, donation, so that our precious vets are not again made to go outside to endure the elements.

Fougere says the word will go out to different contractors in the field, but reveals the job does not have to be tendered. “If a contractor came to us with an offer, we’d certainly be open to listening. This can be done for $70,000 to meet requirements, and we’re going to do it.”

And, I say, even better if a contractor dug into the goodness of his heart and offered to absorb or reduce normal costs in the interest of the great and noble cause.

Won’t you fall in behind the vets in the final assault? Please. You are needed.

Send your cheques, your money — and specify it’s for the vets’ smoking room — to Paul Finn, managing director, Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre Foundation, 1750 Russell Rd., Ottawa, ON K1G 526. Paul Finn’s phone number: 613-526-7173.

And these are the assholes that Jumpin’ Jack!off Layton wants us to negotiate with?? Thank God that ignoramus prick wasn’t alive in 1939… 🙄 Jerkweed Jack seems to be of the opinion that we can just have ourselves a nice little sit-down with a bunch of medeival skin-stogie-smokers (figure it out) and work out all our little differences over a couple o’ pints.

Bullshit.

These are the same gutless assholes that treated women worse than dogs and hide behind civilians like the gutless shits that they are. There’s a real simple reason why the Taliban and their ilk are relying so heavily on roadside bombs: every damned time that they try to come on out and actually face our boys, they get their asses handed to them.

So what do they do? They hide in their little caves, come out every now and then to plant bombs, and then run away. Oh, yeah… and they try to recruit kids to do the stuff that they don’t have the balls to do themselves…

KABUL — Fourteen-year-old Rafiqullah said the men at the Pakistani madrassa showed him and two classmates videos of suicide attackers. They taught the boys to drive a car and let them ride motorcycles. Then the militants gave Rafiqullah his mission: kill an Afghan governor.

The teenager walked eight hours over the porous border from Pakistan to the eastern Afghan city of Khost, where a man named Abdul Aziz tried to pump up his courage, Rafiqullah said. Aziz gave him an explosives-laden vest and the teen confessed his fears.

“I said I was afraid to carry out the suicide attack and Abdul Aziz pointed a gun at me and said, ‘I’ll kill you if you don’t,’ ” Rafiqullah said while in the custody of Afghan authorities over the weekend.

Oh, yeah; we can negotiate with these buggers, alright. Dickheads.

And it’s not like this is the first time that these gutless shitweasels have tried a stunt like this, is it? Anybody out there remember Juma Gul? Maybe you don’t, but I do. He was only SIX YEARS OLD when the Taliban tried to talk him into blowing himself to confetti around some ISAF soldiers. Luckily for him, Juma may have been born at night (I don’t know for sure) but he sure as hell wasn’t born last night…

FORWARD OPERATING BASE THUNDER, Afghanistan (AP) — The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.

The account from Juma Gul, a dirt-caked child who collects scrap metal for money, left American soldiers dumbfounded that a youngster could be sent on such a mission. Afghan troops crowded around the boy to call him a hero.

Though the Taliban dismissed the story as propaganda, at a time when U.S. and NATO forces are under increasing criticism over civilian casualties, both Afghan tribal elders and U.S. military officers said they were convinced by his dramatic account.

Juma said that sometime last month Taliban fighters forced him to wear a vest they said would spray out flowers when he touched a button. He said they told him that when he saw American soldiers, “throw your body at them.”

[…]

“When they first put the vest on my body I didn’t know what to think, but then I felt the bomb,” Juma told The Associated Press as he ate lamb and rice after being introduced to the elders at this joint U.S.-Afghan base in Ghazni. “After I figured out it was a bomb, I went to the Afghan soldiers for help.”

Here’s an idea for ya, Jack!:
You want to negotiate with the Taliban? Fine. Send your wife to do it. If she comes back alive, we’ll all be real interested in what she has to say.

Okay, I know that London’s getting to be more and more like the ArseholeOf The Universeâ„¢ as the days and months go on but this is just a little too creepy, even by my admittedly somewhat cynical standards.

It seems like the whole damned tactical squad got called out about 11 o’clock last night and weren’t in the mood to take any shit.  I haven’t been able to get any real details on just what the hell happened yet, but judging by what the Freeps had to say this morning, those boys were definitely in full move-your-ass-we’re-not-screwing-around-here mode.

If anybody has any details, I’d be interested…

A flurry of police, including heavily armed tactical officers, swooped down on a London highrise late last night, catching some residents by surprise.

Residents said police arrived just before 11 p.m. and sealed off the 14th floor of one of the twin CityPlace towers, at 405 Waterloo St., near Dundas, and ordered no one be allowed up to that floor.

One resident said police were seen racing to the nearby Holiday Inn Express, and from there were visible in a stairwell window staring over at the highrise.

It wasn’t immediately clear what had triggered the heavy police response, and no one was available to comment.

A woman staying at the Holiday Inn said she went up the stairwell to see what was happening and came across two officers on the 10th-floor landing, wearing what she described as “big goggles.”

“I walked in and said, ‘Is everything OK? And they said, ‘Go downstairs,’ ” said hotel guest Ashley Morrison.

An officer was seen out on one of the 14th-floor balconies at the apartment building.