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9 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Her actual name is Dildo.

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4 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

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Oh my....

5 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

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Brilliant Twitter guy to follow. This Twitter post launched him into stardom:

I saw that one facebook in like 2019

NY Times review of Jared Kushner's new "memoir".

"Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/books/review-breaking-history-jared-kushner.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DFDm8diO4SBIubvF3Ae6tueJ45xTmSR95HP_ovReduyfVOek5kUQSk55iZg5QDLj9zqZ62Wil--aPxao0C0G2gaHileqA4zaejvhmCPX-8UfGJhXYrIRJgoJY1aV2o3XMXlf-VG_p_39R43q1wU8srR2sQdWLd6amTfhZ9OdqAaRnX4hBnGL0KHGGOwqPPru4IYw5QClnZTXJg4Wha6NNUONsfOamXPAd3MYOlwu1XUjo0Wd_vU54hRIHUlKFouarOrnGPwMm1x_YwE8ZErW_Zctk6MQM6JjS6XGzE91o&smid=url-share

2 hours ago, Wideleft said:

NY Times review of Jared Kushner's new "memoir".

Bono, Bob Geldoff, Billy Joel  😂🤣😩 

 

bono, hanging out with rupert, and jared on a yacht. 🤮

money corrupts.

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MANITOBA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES PLAN TO INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15 BY OCTOBER 2023

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

MANITOBA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES PLAN TO INCREASE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15 BY OCTOBER 2023

It's...it's almost like the provincial government is way down in the polls and there's an election coming.

A Shanghai court sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua to 13 years in jail and fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate $8.1 billion, a record in China. https://nbcnews.to/3pwRM4u

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month.

Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.

The charges stem from offenses at the annual Monster Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel on Aug. 12-14 in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, police said.

Busey, who lives in Malibu, California, was scheduled as a featured guest for all three days of the event.

Police did not immediately respond to a message seeking details. It also wasn’t clear whether Busey has an attorney to comment on the charges, and a representative didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Saturday.

Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film “The Buddy Holly Story.”

Sean Connery's Personal Aston Martin DB5 Auctioned For $2.4 Million

The James Bond actor's DB5, purchased two years before his death, fetched $1 million more than estimated.

 

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Marco Margaritoff

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Connery popularized the DB5 with his role in 1964's "Goldfinger."

MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES VIA GETTY IMAGES

When Sean Connery took the role of James Bond in 1962, he kickstarted a multibillion-dollar film franchise with a lifespan exceeding any other. His third outing in 1964’s “Goldfinger” made the Aston Martin DB5 a coveted luxury sports car.

The actor’s personal model — the only one he ever owned — just sold for $2.4 million at auction.

Last week’s Broad Arrow Auctions event in Monterey, California, attracted wealthy attendees with a slew of classic cars, according to the New York Post. None held as much sentimental value as Connery’s 1964 DB5, which he bought in 2018, two years before his death at age 90.

 

“Dad used to talk about owning his own DB5, for no other reason than he loved the car, and I think in hindsight it did represent something in his life that was unique and captured a moment in time,” his son Jason Connery said in an auction company statement.

                                              

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/cbsa-says-its-investigating-border-officer-spreading-covid-disinformation-conspiracies-online

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OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency is investigating one of its officers who regularly posts online videos in uniform spreading conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic and offering “advice” on how to skirt border measures.

Since last year, CBSA officer Patrick McNulty has been on a crusade on social media against COVID-19 public health measures, vaccine mandates and now his own employer’s COVID-19 border measures.

 

Wednesday, CBSA spokeswoman Karine Martel confirmed McNulty still works for the agency but is on leave. She also said he was “under investigation” for his social media posts.

Last year, he went mostly by the nickname “maddad” when posting online or attending anti-public health measures rallies and posting the videos online, though he also often flaunted that he worked for the border services agency.

But in recent weeks, “Officer McNulty” launched new social media pages in which he began regularly appearing in his CBSA border agent uniform all the while ranting about COVID-19 and the ArriveCan app and spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines.

CBSA’s own code of conduct requires employees to “remain nonpartisan, avoid expressing personal views on CBSA policy, on its employees, and on the government of Canada as a whole” and to “refrain from posting photos of uniformed employees.”

McNulty did not respond to a request for comment sent to his social media page.

In multiple videos posted on a new social media page within the past week, McNulty seemingly flouts most of those guidelines.

In one video, McNulty accuses the government and CBSA of committing “crimes against humanity” through various pandemic health measures.

He claims that the COVID-19 vaccines were a violation “left, right and centre” of the Nuremberg Code despite extensive clinical trials and reviews by Health Canada and other established health agencies around the world.

The Nuremberg Code consists of a series of principles established in 1947 guiding scientific experimentation after the discovery of horrific and deadly experiments carried out by Nazis on concentration camp prisoners without their consent.

“I can’t believe this has to be explained to people and why this government is still committing crimes against humanity against its own people,” he said.

In many of his most recent videos, McNulty has been advising people against using the much-maligned but mandatory ArriveCan app when returning to Canada, saying the whole process is “bullsh-t” and that travellers should ignore public health officials at airports.

He also says that people have the right to ignore requests to use the ArriveCan app by simply saying that they “do not agree to the terms and conditions” of the application, despite the federal government saying failing to use it can lead to fines of up to $5,000.

“All travellers, with limited exceptions, whether entering Canada by air, land, rail or marine vessel, must use ArriveCAN unless you’re exempt from this requirement due to an accessibility need,” reads CBSA’s website.

On his social media page and in online videos, McNulty claims he began working for CBSA in 2016.

But speaking to the host of a far-right YouTube video channel Monday, he said he “walked off the job” and went on “mental stress leave” in 2021 because of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic public health restrictions.

He confided to the host he’s been told multiple times by CBSA that he is “under investigation” and he fully expects to lose his job eventually.

“I have not been terminated from my position as a border services officer …  yet,” he told the channel’s host. “I believe the employer is in a bit of a pickle, not sure what to do with me. You can’t really just discipline someone who is on long-term disability.”

He did not explain why he is on long-term disability.

In a video he posted one week ago, he had choice words for a CBSA superior who contacted him following one of his videos denouncing the ArriveCan app earlier this year.

“He’s a f—ing loser … an absolute clown. He tried to fire me! Wonderful,” he said.

“Go ahead and fire me because I’m not going to shut the f— up ever. And if you do fire me, you bet your ass I’ll be seeing you in your office in person,” he shouted.

What an assclown. CBSA really needs to be better with its hiring practices.

6 hours ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/cbsa-says-its-investigating-border-officer-spreading-covid-disinformation-conspiracies-online

What an assclown. CBSA really needs to be better with its hiring practices.

So easy to go from McNulty to McNutty I don’t even have to try.

                                                

                                         

                                                      

sigh...the incident made CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/americas/saskatchewan-canada-stabbing/index.html

 

and they've been looking for one of them since May

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20 hours ago, iHeart said:

sigh...the incident made CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/americas/saskatchewan-canada-stabbing/index.html

 

and they've been looking for one of them since May

Apparently there were a lot more injured (some of them seriously) but these went directly to hospitals and have not spoken to police.

 

something tells me Myles probably killed Damien because they are saying that the wound was not self-inflicted

Edited September 5, 20223 yr by iHeart

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

 

something tells me Myles probably killed Damien because they are saying that the wound was not self-inflicted

RCMP say that they believe Damien was killed this morning but Myles was credibly seen since with a passenger in the vehicle. Abettor? Hostage? Sympathizer?

The RCMP has released info about the other incident https://www.mbcradio.com/2022/09/rcmp-search-for-several-suspects-after-shooting-on-witchekan-lake-first-nation

Yikes. It takes a seriously deranged idiot to fabricate something like this.

The interwebs is having a field day with this one.  Who knew the HA Canadian national president was also the lead singer of a German pop group?

 

 

 

I think they have him

 

wait...does this mean he never left?

 

also one of the punks responsible for the gunfire yesterday in Witchekan Lake has been caught, now who is responsible for the crap near Britannia?

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