Category: WTF
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The Canadian justice system hard at work. Or not.
Until a couple days ago, I had no idea if you were a member of the RCMP, you were entitled to use stress as a defense against an assault charge–even if the assault charge was because you pounded on an innmate. Apparently, if you’re an RCMP officer in Alberta, that’s … Read the rest
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I’m about to complain about the TSA. Somebody call the FBI.
This entry is about to get me added to the Transport Security Administration’s suspicious character list. Along with everyone else who’s ever had a small problem with the way they do things. From the “reasons I won’t fly” department, the absolute best justification for ever having had to grope a … Read the rest
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The US has pot insurance? And health insurance is a problem?
I didn’t even know there were companies out there who’d insure a property used for growing marijuana. Or, for that matter, who’d insure the actual operation for growing marijuana. Apparently, not only are there companies that do these things, but there’s actually people who want them up here–they’re currently … Read the rest
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ODSP decides they don’t like me after all, threatens to have the police meet me.
Seems them what run the disability support system around here haven’t gotten done having fun with me yet. At the eleventh hour, escentially, with an hour left in the actual business day and therefore not a whole lot of time to actually work around their latest curve, ODSP decides they’d … Read the rest
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Sexual assault is a crime, unless you’re with the TSA.
That’s the message being broadcast by the Transport Security Administration, at least, in the very latest, erm, episode. A woman at Laguardia Airport had been cleared through the scanners, and was well on her way to catch her flight. She was stopped by a TSA agent, and informed she was … Read the rest
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Glen Beck just needs to retire. Now Google’s a government conspiracy.
Until recently, I always thought Glen Beck was just old and loopy. More loopy than old. Now, I’m convinced the man’s old, loopy and maybe a little senile. He’s decided, according to Slashdot, that while research is perfectly okay, research on Google is all kinds of evil. According to the … Read the rest
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Senator Joe Lieberman gets flipped off by the Canadian government. Again.
The US department of homeland security must really think us canucks are some bunch of evil. Every so often, somebody from that wing of the US government will float the several times over debunked myth that the Canada/US border is actually a weak point re: US security–hence why the 9/11 … Read the rest
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Dungeons and Dragons: just another recruitment platform for gangs.
Sometimes, I see something that just kinda makes me go “Bwuh?”. Usually it comes out of the US, and usually it’s legal. This one, though, I think is trying to set some kind of all-time record. Kevin Singer likes his D and D. Apparently, he got together a bit of … Read the rest
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Meet the cousin of lying through your teeth, spying through your teeth.
I haven’t mocked anything from whackjob central, A.K.A. Iran, in a while. I’m due. From the land that brought you bans on valentine’s day, comes a conspiracy theory that’d make your typical overly paranoid North American cringe just a tiny bit. A citizen of the US has been arrested for, … Read the rest
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No love lost in Iran. Valentine’s day’s now illegal.
I’ll be the first to admit you shouldn’t need a special day to set aside for the sole purpose of doing something with/for the person you love. And I’d even question that particular day’s actual validity to anyone who isn’t Christian–kinda like me, which is probably why I don’t see … Read the rest