The photograph, posted by a famous journalist, isn’t just horrible. It is beyond words.

CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour tweeted it to her 325,000 Twitter followers. The photograph shows three dead children arrayed for burial. Two of the children appear to be young enough to still be in diapers. They’re babies. There’s blood on their tiny faces.

All three were murdered by militia loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last weekend. Forty-nine children were killed in Houla, in central Syria; in all, more than 100 civilians were butchered. The world’s response? Just more talk, but no action.

In Canada, the federal government’s response was equally a joke — many months after the Syrian genocide began, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird finally decided to merely expel some Syrian diplomats. That’s all. When I suggested online that the federal government’s reaction to the worsening Syrian tragedy was pathetic, no less than Maher Arar concurred.

“Too little too late,” agreed Arar, who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Syria in 2002-03, with the complicity of the RCMP. “This is no more than a face-saving tactic on the part of Canada.”

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Right here on wk.com!

Lotsa stories pinging around the MSM and blogosweird, in the past few weeks, here and here and here and here and here.

Anyone got baseless speculation and scurrilous innuendo they want to pass along?  It’s Friday, it’s rainy, and it’s fun!

Who’s in, who’s out, and who cares? Comment away!  Anonymity guaranteed!

 

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Roxy (Canada’s Best-Loved Political Dog) and Daisy. Daisy’s the smart one.

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Don’t open the links, like I did. But most of you will, I expect.

This and this [DELETED AT THE WISE SUGGESTION OF MS. KIRBIE AND MS. DALY] have reminded me that of my conviction that the world is, essentially, evil and beyond redemption.  That’s what I’ve written for the Sun papers this weekend, too.

Springsteen had it right, here, in that extraordinary final line.  Me, I’m going for a walk.

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And it’s because my friend John Tory didn’t run.  That’s it.

Per Alberta, I’m skeptical of all polls, these days.  But there’s a simple reality, here: if John had run – or runs – the Ford Family nightmare comes to an end.

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Why didn’t Toronto Police take this tip seriously? How could the video be online for days, and the authorities didn’t know, or care? How can web sites like “Best Gore” post such material with impunity, and without legal consequences?

Lots of questions. But one fact remains unchallenged: the Internet is where evil is preserved, and celebrated.

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As both a Catholic and an Ontario Liberal, I disagree with just about everything Adam has to say, here.  But I like the fact that he says with passion and, dare I say it, anger.

He should do so more often.

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Quote unquote:

“Questions are swirling as to why ORNGE officials sought to place a helicopter base at the Oshawa airport and if Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made an attempt to influence the decision.

…In June 2011, ORNGE was simply the air ambulance service for Ontario and not an issue of controversy, said Chisholm Pothier, Flaherty’s director of communications.

“Minister Flaherty — and other community leaders — were encouraging ORNGE to locate a hangar at the Oshawa airport, which is in the minister’s riding,” he said in an email to the Star…

Progressive Conservative MPP Christine Elliott (Whitby-Oshawa), who is married to Flaherty, said she [asked an Ornge employee] what the status was of the helicopter base and she did nothing wrong. “It was a conversation we had at a social event. I was just inquiring on the status,” she said.

Elliott also sent a letter to Health Minister Deb Matthews on May 16, 2011, to “encourage” the ministry to bring a “crucial” emergency service to Durham Region.“

What’s it mean? It means, once again, that Cons were in this thing up to their necks.  They cooked up the idea of Ornge, they managed it, and they profited from it.  Ontario Liberals, meanwhile, were the one who called in the cops, called in the forensic auditors, and then flushed the Conservative-friendly executives who ran the whole stinking mess.

At this point, I sort of hope the Cons get their wish, and get the Legislative Ornge committee to continue hearing witnesses.  Every week brings new information that ties Ornge directly back to them, or the odd Tory witness that provides comedic relief.

Oh, and there’s much more to come about Con-Ornge links (and the NDP, too).  Guaranteed.

Full disclosure section: And, yes, that is my friend named in the story.  Given the fact that I’m now regularly reprising my Gomery Pyle-era role, do you think that should give the Cons pause?  That, you know, we’re not acting like people who are nervous?

Don’t worry, they’re too stupid to stop doing what they’re doing.  They’ll keep at it.

 

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