-- "It is not the first time that Toronto has designed creative contraception. Officials previously released Toronto-themed condom wrappers that messages such as 'ride responsibly' and 'cover your lumber, Jack.'" --
-- "Secret Service agents fired five shots at the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump but failed to hit him and may have accidentally struck one of their own, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed." --It's just the latest incident for this clown car of a federal agency.
-- "Please note that, for the safety of employees and visitors, ALL PERSONS entering Toronto Police Service headquarters must go through security screening. You are not required to submit to screening. You may leave at any time but, if you do not consent to this screening, you will be denied entry. Thank you for your cooperation." --NOTA BENE... Meanwhile... back at the synagogue...
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree announces up to $10 million in funding will be given to eligible organizations with the aim of increasing security at Jewish gathering spaces.Let’s ask an Islamophobia Czar...
-- "This week, I met with the Prime Minister of Canada, to highlight how Islamophobia, and its intersections with anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism, continues to harm our social fabric." --BREAKING... Shooters coming out of the woodwork...
-- "A gunman is dead and two people are critically injured following a shooting Thursday morning at Old Dominion University. The university did not provide further details, and the gunman's identity has not been revealed." --
-- "In a press conference, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin also said the military has dropped more munitions on Iran in the current, four-day-old US-Israeli bombing campaign than in the entire 12 days of June’s Operation Rising Lion." --So much winning.
-- "A man has been arrested and a woman is in the hospital after arson at an office building at 4900 Yonge St., which serves as a Canadian Armed Forces recruitment centre as well as a passport services centre." --Naturally the Liberal lapdog media is not able to report who the arsonist is.
-- "Federal agents swarmed the Woodbridge, Va., home of 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. following the break in the case that has vexed and embarrassed the FBI for nearly five years. It was not immediately clear what charges Cole would face. " --Live presser here.
-- "The U.S. military carried out another strike on a suspected drug vessel, this time in the Eastern Pacific, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday. It is the eighth strike conducted by the Trump administration. The previous seven happened in the Carribean." --UPDATE: Hegseth 9 -- Narco-trafficantes 0
-- "The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local time at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant at the Hickman-Humphreys County line, west of Nashville. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis confirmed to reporters there were 'some' fatalities and that there are people still missing, but did not provide numbers." --Local news now says 19 missing.
-- "The IDF and the Shin Bet on Tuesday confirmed an attack on the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar. A statement said that the leaders targeted were responsible for the October 7, 2023, massacre of around 1,200 Israelis in the country's South, as well as managing the terror group's operations for years before that." --Never take an Israeli for granted...
-- "Plumes of black smoke were billowing from the city’s Legtifya petrol station. Right next door to the station is a small residential compound that has been guarded by Qatar’s emiri guard 24 hours a day since the beginning of the Gaza conflict." --
It is now unclear who would remain as Hamas's top negotiator.
UPDATE: It's happening...
-- "The IDF on Tuesday issued the first widespread evacuation order for Gaza City, saying all Palestinian civilians must leave the entire city immediately, ahead of a major military ground offensive against Hamas." --
-- "A crazed gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire inside a swanky Midtown skyscraper that houses the Blackstone and NFL Monday, leaving one cop in serious condition — before turning the gun on himself, sources said." --UPDATE: A police officer has been killed. CNN claimed the shooter was a white male.
-- "This story is crazy. Cops in LA found grenades in a storage locker owned by an ex-marine. Took them back to their base and determined that they were inert. So they decided to use them in a training exercise. Started cutting one in half and it exploded and killed 3 SENIOR EXPLOSIVES SPECIALISTS. Now they're looking for the ex-marine to charge him with murder." --NOTA BENE...
-- "Former EOD Tech here. We had a saying: 'Anyone can disarm a bomb... ONCE...'" --MOST IRONIC/ASTUTE OBSERVATION SO FAR...
-- "Well, they died doing what they loved." --
-- "Yuet Kiu Cheung, 76, was consumed by the flames when the device erupted inside Singas Famous Pizzeria on Kissena Boulevard near Cherry Avenue in Flushing around 3 p.m." --
-- "At least one person is dead and two others are injured following a massive explosion early Sunday in North Philadelphia that completely leveled three row houses and damaged multiple other homes in the surrounding blocks, officials said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was on scene assisting in the probe." --And there's this.
-- “'We would like to inform you that on Jan. 9, 2025, by the decision of the Minister of Defense, the Head of the Support Inspectorate, Maj. Gen. Artur Kępczynski, was dismissed from his post,' the Polish defense ministry shared in a post on X." --
-- "While damage to the clinic and surrounding buildings was extensive, there was apparently only one fatality: the bomber himself." --
-- "Iran is fortifying its underground nuclear complexes ahead of this weekend’s third round of nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. Iran insists it will not comply with the administration’s demand for it to suspend all uranium enrichment." --We're gonna trust these people with nukes?
-- "Hossein Zafari, a spokesperson for Iran’s crisis management organization, appeared to blame the explosion on poor storage of chemicals in containers at Shahid Rajaee." --
-- "Iran’s President visited the scene of a massive port blast that killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000, as a fire still blazed on Sunday more than 24 hours after the explosion." --
-- "'Waste that shit,' Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., declared to the Washington Free Beacon. 'You're never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities.'" --
-- "5 year old brand new bike with 597. Kms on it. I am selling it on behalf of my cuzin who tragically lost his testicles in a relationship. I mean he keeps them in his wife's purse. Nothing wrong with the bike whatsoever. Asking price is firm. I know he paid 19 for it. I will not answer back to 'is this available? '" --
-- "South Africa denied having any current nuclear arrangements with Iran, though the Iranian regime has been suspected for decades of having covert nuclear ties with South Africa, including the purchase of South African uranium." --
