Whiny Conservatives: The National Post

Our beloved newspaper The Toronto National Post is upset that other media outlets covered their possible closing due to bankruptcy.

Whether it is because they dislike our founder or our owners, or because of our longstanding editorial support for Israel or our small-c conservative voice, or our irreverence, a lot of people -- particularly in the media--appear to relish the thought of the Post's voice being silenced. Fortunately, many people disagree, including our many print and Web readers, our advertisers and employees, and those who simply understand the importance of diversity of opinion across the media landscape and in the national conversation.

The possibility they may just be a crappy newspaper never enters their heads.

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Larry Johnson: Idiot of the Day

Yeah, we believe you Larry, sure we do.

Larry Johnson's agent claims he's appealing the KC Chiefs decision to suspend the running back for dropping a gay slur this week -- but the real story is that the agent claims he "didn't realize" the F-word was offensive in the first place.

TMZ spoke with Peter Schafer -- who is also Johnson's lawyer -- who explained:

"We know the N-word is unacceptable, that's not disputable -- but f*g? I'm learning that there's a segment of our society that finds it offensive and that it should not be used. I didn't realize that, but I do know now..."

FYI -- Johnson was suspended for conduct deemed "detrimental to the team."

Of course, something like this brings out that segment of "society" that is delighted when some group is called names, and claims surprise this might be hurtful...

"NO word is offensive just because some thin-skinned super-sensitive moron somewhere doesn't like the word and claims to be offended. Everytime I hear someone bitch and moan about a word they don't like to hear, I get the urge to knock their friggin teeth out to give them a REAL reason to cry!"

The braindead live.

9000 year old burial items unearthed in Sweden

Swedish archaeologists are marveling over a collection of 9,000 year old artifacts recently uncovered at an excavation site central Sweden.

Parts of a bow, a paddle, and the wooden shaft of an axe are among the discoveries recently unearthed from the Stone Age settlement Kanaljorden outside of Motala, according to local media reports.

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Stockton Utah council votes to kick mayor's ass

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Newsday makes itself irrelevant

As promised, Newsday launched its new pay wall site today, which only allows full access for print subscribers of the newspaper and customers of its Cablevision sibling, Optimum Online.

The site is clearly doing its best to make sure online readers know what they are missing. As revealed last week, all stories, photos and video are accessible only to subscribers. Others get a headline and brief summary. But any further information requires a log-in and password. Non-subscribers to Optimum Online or the print edition can pay $5 per week.

Read more here.

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Mayor of Stockton Utah: Idiot of the Day

Good work Mayor Rydalch, now the whole world knows you're a moron.

A traffic stop involving a young officer and the son of a small-town mayor has the whole town talking. The mayor of Stockton tried to fire the officer for issuing his son a ticket.

Cpl. Joshua Rowell told KSL News he was just doing his job. He said he acted professionally when he wrote the driver a ticket and was shocked when he was suddenly asked to hand over his badge.

Read more here.

Don't you wish you could attend this meeting?

Special Town Board Meeting shall start at 7:30 pm at the Fire Station:

1. Request from Officer Josh Rowell to speak at the Special public meeting.
2. Status report on the investigation of Officer Rowell – Mayor Rydalch
3. Public comments and discussion.
4. Discussion and possible vote for reinstatement of Officer Josh Rowell with back wages.
5. Adjourn

Coffee and pie will be served as they run the Mayor out of town on a rail.

MTV: Nasty foreigners can come in, but you won't like it

This happy little message awaits you if visit the U.S. MTV site, but don't happen to live in the U.S.

The MTV USA website (www.mtv.com) is optimized for users within USA. While Users outside of USA are welcome to visit, many features of the site (including most videos) will not work for users outside of USA. We strongly encourage you to visit your local site instead.

Translation: We aren't actually a "web" site, but an internal U.S. intranet site, so piss off.

The Watford Borough Council: Idiots of the Day

Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford [U.K.] while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.

The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labelled as potential pedophiles.

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Brain dead British politician thinks this will make us buy bad CDs

Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, warned internet users today that the days of "consequence-free" illegal filesharing are over as he unveiled the government's plan for cracking down on online piracy.

Mandelson, speaking at the government's digital creative industries conference, C&binet, confirmed that the internet connections of persistent offenders could be blocked – but only as a last resort – from the summer of 2011.

He added that a "legislate and enforce" strategy was the only way to protect the intellectual property rights of content producers.

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Hopper invasion

A Universe from Nothing

Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing.

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Gordon Ramsay: Blind leading the blind

TV chef Gordon Ramsay has admitted to undergoing a cosmetic procedure on his chin after taking advice from music mogul Simon Cowell...

..."Simon Cowell suggested now I'm a success in America, I should do something, so I had a filler put under the deep crevices. It hurt," he said.

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Iceland just got 100% healthier

McDonald's is to close its business in Iceland because the country's financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate its franchise.

The fast food giant said its three outlets in the country would shut - and that it had no plans to return.

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Idiot Italian politician sues 4609 Youtube commenters

Guess how Italian politicians take care of comments on YouTube against them? On 22 October, Cuffaro laid charges with regard to the first 4609 comments on a video clip on You Tube, entitled 'Costanzo Show: Totò Cuffaro aggredisce Giovanni Falcone' (video clip posted on You Tube on 14 January 2007).

[Salvatore] Cuffaro against YouTube, in fact Cuffaro against 4,609 comments of that number of users, in fact that’s now become 4,667 while I have been writing, and tomorrow, probably 10,000 or who knows how many will be added in the next few hours out of solidarity with the first 4,609.

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Those Northwest pilots were surfing porn!

None of their stories really hold water, now do they....

The pilots of the commercial jetliner that last week overshot its destination by about 150 miles have said they were using their laptops and lost track of time and location, federal safety officials said Monday.

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Rogers renaming frenzy continues

From the "You have to be fucking kidding" files...

[Toronto] city council has approved naming a portion of Jarvis St. to Ted Rogers Way to honour the former President and CEO of Rogers' Communications Inc.

It is the block of Jarvis St., between Bloor Ave. and Charles St., which runs right beside the Rogers' headquarters.

How can it be called "Ted Rogers Way"? It's a two way street...but I digress.

Toronto councillor Kyle Rae was first approached about the idea.

He said, "It's the least we could do in recognizing a man who gave so much, built so much, employed so many and transformed an industry."

Company executives have said Rogers' philanthropy is evident across Toronto and this is a fitting was to immortalize him.

Their goddamn logo is certainly evident across the city. Only "company executives" think he needs more honouring, the rest of us have had quite enough of Rogers and their branding.

A statue to their arrogance would endanger air traffic. Guess the Skydome wasn't enough for them.

The reactions have begun on Twitter: @dominionpundit If you drive Ted Rogers Way,do you get charged per second,have shitty service and have neg option billing?

@jeffpeter Jarvis St to be renamed Ted Rogers Way. Parking is to be rounded up to the nearest hour, cars subject to a $6.95 Spot Access Fee.

Isn't there a new dump or landfill that could use a name?

Jon Landau: Pretentious Statement of the Day

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"When we started it was a little like the people at NASA who first went to the moon," he said.

"When John Kennedy said they were going to put someone on the moon, they didn't really know how they were going to do it and when we started we had an idea but we had no idea how we were going to do it either."

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