Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

US Marine Corps has admitted Wednesday that for 74 years, it had misidentified 1 of the 6 fighting men who appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the US flag being raised over Iwo Jima.

Jury orders conspiracy theorist to pay $450,000 to the father of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

https://nbcnews.to/33HczFw

Edited October 17, 20196 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

Cool.

 

 

Edited October 21, 20196 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/shaw-park-sam-katz-lease-goldeyes-winnipeg-city-1.5330485?fbclid=IwAR2UtKF15TM8WFJpL6ZbA30-TgXsEFAd32RuvS31-i0r94Ntucyqrr7njgI

 

Edited October 23, 20196 yr by iHeart

A Winnipeg man has lost a court challenge to keep a Star Trek-inspired vanity licence plate Manitoba Public Insurance had deemed offensive to Indigenous people. In a 35-page decision that quoted from Star Trek, Marshall McLuhan and the online Urban Dictionary, Queen’s Bench Justice Sheldon Lanchberry ruled MPI was within its rights when it ordered Nicholas Troller to turn in a previously approved personalized licence plate (PLP) that read: "ASIMIL8."

 

The NDN CAR can get back on the road in Winnipeg.

Manitoba Public Insurance is returning Bruce Spence's personalized licence plates following an out-of-court settlement, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyer James Kitchen told the Free Press Thursday.

The Cree man had his plates — issued by MPI in 2012 — revoked by MPI earlier this year; the Crown corporation said NDN was identified it a “phrase or innuendo that may be considered offensive.”

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teenage-uber-passenger-accidentally-shot-driver-florida-police-say-n1070371

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/514-wellington-heritage-conservation-city-winnipeg-demolition-lawsuit-1.5332879

Anyone been watching this? I drive by this home every damn day on my way back from work. And it annoys the hell out of me that a small group of people where able to dictate what the owners could or could not do, AFTER they got a permit to do the work.

Of course no one in the group protesting this is willing to cough up the money to fix it or even purchase it themselves. And now tax payers are going to be paying for this in the courts. I've heard a few reasons, main one being a multiple family place would devalue the area...unlike a completely empty building that's slowly deteriorating....that's what people want!!  

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Hong Kong student living in Toronto strikes a nerve on Twitter with eerie observations about Canadian life

'I urge all Canadians to read this and to feel real fear,' one journalist wrote about Shoji Ushiyama’s deadpan tweets on the unsettling horrors of living in Canada

 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/hong-kong-student-living-in-toronto-strikes-a-nerve-on-twitter-with-eerie-observations-about-canadian-life

 

 

 

 

 

Why would you want to be cured???

 

City of Crime

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/three-homicides-in-one-night-police-investigate-the-death-of-a-teen-and-two-adults-1.4657652

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/migrating-russian-eagles-rack-up-massive-roaming-charges-1.4657295

I like the Nationals more now...

 

 

Today, October 31, 2019 - is the 502nd anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the castle door at Wittenberg.  

Whether you are religious or not, his actions changed the world profoundly.  It was the beginning of the end of the corrupt connection between church and state, and probably paved the way for a freer society.  It is a pillar of Western Civilization.  

5 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

Today, October 31, 2019 - is the 502nd anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the castle door at Wittenberg.  

Whether you are religious or not, his actions changed the world profoundly.  It was the beginning of the end of the corrupt connection between church and state, and probably paved the way for a freer society.  It is a pillar of Western Civilization.  

Free at last! Free at last!

 

11 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Free at last! Free at last!

 

When he published his thoughts on freedom ‘Von der freiheit eines Christen Menschen’ he got a little more than he bargained for - it led to the 1525 Peasants’ Revolt. 

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Free at last! Free at last!

 

Edited November 1, 20196 yr by Throw Long Bannatyne

Absolutely vile 

 

20 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Absolutely vile 

 

Just when you think this world can't get any worse somebody proves you wrong.

8 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Absolutely vile 

 

What is worse is that he will get special treatment in jail because of how terrible the crime he committed.   

It would be only justice if they didn't put him in protected areas and let him hang around the rest of the convicts.   With that kind of crime he wouldn't last a week before getting stabbed in the neck himself. 

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/11/man-sues-twitter-for-1-billion-claiming-his-accounts-suspension-violated-his-right-to-worship-president-trump-as-a-demigod/

https://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/9673248-iron-scow-in-niagara-river-shifts-significantly-from-wind-storm/

Curb damaged by city truck 26 years ago scheduled for repair — by 2037