A year on, official MH17 report adds nothing to the speculation of the first 12 hours

In July of 2014, all major media in the West were speculating that MH17 was brought down by a Russian missile. More than a year later, we have the so-called "official report" into the incident, and guess what?

Every "conclusion" remains speculative.

Since both sides in the Eastern Ukraine conflict use Russian missiles, inveighing that a Russian missile took down MH17 tells us absolutely nothing.

But what the report does tell us is this; that were the highest echelons of the US/NATO intelligence apparatus in possession of any scintilla of evidence whatsoever that Russian forces were behind this tragedy, such a fact would be trumpeted all over the headlines of every media platform in the West.

In fact, if such evidence existed it would have been trumpeted all over those news platforms a year ago.

The only thing this report proves is that NATO has no such evidence.

Israeli Jew stabs fellow Jew in failed revenge attack

Here's a sure sign that Mr. Netanyahu's perpetual policy of ramping up the tension may have been more successful than even he intended; a Jewish Israeli mistakes a fellow Jew for an Arab and attacks him in a revenge attack.

Hysteria has taken hold...

And what to make of Netanyahu's latest promises to "get tough on terror?"

When you're already pursuing a policy of using live ammunition on teen stone-throwers, what could "getting tough" possibly look like?

Latest polls show Grey-Bruce could toss Harper minion in election

With six days to go before the vote, the latest polls show the Liberal Party only one point behind the Harper Gang.

That's close enough that the cynics and the woebegone and the pot-heads might find it worth their while to get off the couch on the 19th...

As in, hey, wake up, we might actually pull this off!

A couple of months ago I would have considered that an impossibility.

Larry's always been golden in this rural riding, where your street cred depends largely on how many times you've pulled a calf out of her mommy's hind end with nothing but your bare hands and a neck-tie.

The times they are a changing...

Vote Kimberly Love on October 19!

In major journalistic faux pas, Washington Post accidentally leaves Putin off "hate" list

So where's Putin, I asked myself whilst reading the official list of stuff normal people are supposed to hate.

Brussel sprouts?

No way!

Liver?

Preposterous!

Brussel sprouts and liver (with a generous side of mashed potatoes and lots of fried onions) are darned near as American as apple pie!

Yet these symbols of Americana are on the hate list, but Putin is not?

In yet another clear sign that things are going down the toilet since Bezos bought the venerable WaPo, the other day I saw where Krauthammer all but endorsed Trump!

What next?!

Harper strategically avoids Rob Ford photo-ops at Etobicoke campaign event

Have a gander at the pics of this morning's event; not a single photo-journalist managed to get Big Steve and rec-room Rob in the same frame.

Oh for the good old days;

Facts fit to ignore

Haaretz has a pithy piece on view about yet another routine violation of Syrian sovereignty by the IDF. Note especially the thundering denouncement of  "any attempt to undermine the sovereignty of the State of Israel..."

Occupied Golan is now officially recognized, at least by Israel, as part of sovereign Israel, whereas it remains legally a part of Syria. Recognizing Golan as part of sovereign Israel is a topic that will assume a fresh urgency with the recent discovery of oil and gas, another factoid not mentioned in the story.

Ah, but what is a little border dispute while the crazed kafirs are running amok in Jerusalem?

Aunt Carole's brussel sprouts are a much anticipated staple at family gatherings

See?!


 

So I don't know what those elitists at the Washington Post are on about. They don't like liver either... get a life, food snobs!