Fancy that! Minneapolis ordered to hire more cops

Ready for an I-told-ya-so story? In the wake of the death of Saint George Floyd (convicted felon and druggie) and the ensuing conviction of Derek Chavin and three other Minneapolis police officers, more than 200 other cops quit, retired, or took extended leave from the Minneapolis police department.

That wasn't enough for the BLM and SJWs, who demanded that the city cut – and even completely dismantle – its police department. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (Democrat) refused to cancel the copos entirely, but did OK a shift of about $8 million in funding to "violence prevention and mental health crisis response teams." He also proposed a further budget cut of $17 million for 2021.

Well, guess what? As of this past May, homicides in Minneapolis had doubled over the same time frame in 2020. Gun thefts from vehicles had risen by more than 100%, while illegal gun seizures had dropped. Surprise, surprise!  Residents from some minority communities [Hey, don't be afraid to call a spade a spade! Ed.] even began showing up at city council meetings demanding to know why police officers weren't responding to calls and helping stop the violent criminals rampaging through their neighbourhoods. 

All this was too much for eight denizens of the City of Lakes, who sued the city for not retaining enough officers on their payroll to meet local requirements. (According to a local ordinance, the city must employ at least 0.0017 sworn officers for every 1000 city residents.)

Hennepin County District Judge Jamie L. Anderson agreed, and ordered the city to employ at least 730 police officers by the end of next June. That number could be increased further, if the results of the 2020 census show an increase in the population of the metropolitan area.

Does anyone not see the irony in this? Newton's Third Law applies to more than physics! Told ya so!

VIDEO: Yet another stupid Canuck song

Yeah, I know. We kind of overdid it with the videos celebrating Canada Day and what it is to be Canadian (read: not American!). But with Blackie McBlackface, Prime Minister of Canuckistan, and other Canadian elites crying stinking fish in their own back yard, we thought it only fair to give real Canadians a platform. And the number of hits our Canada Day posts got tells us we were right to do so. 

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more! Agent 78 sent us the link to a brand new offering (published June 27th) by Jon Brett. This one's even better than those we already put up, except maybe for Joe's rant, which can't be beat. Of course this song will only make sense to Canadians!

 

Note from Ed. to our American readers... OK, OK, enough already. No more until next year. For those who have written to ask if Walt is a Canadian making fun of Americans, or an American making fun of Canadians, I will say only that Walt has dual citizenship. And he promises some pretty serious thoughts for Independence Day.

VIDEO: A Canuck sings about his home and native land

We'd no sooner put up two videos with some thoughts for Canada Day, than Agent 3 found another one which we decided to hold for Canada Day itself. Here's "Clark W." singing about what it's like "Up here in Canada".

   

Walt hastens to add that he does not endorse or even like some of the folks whose images flash before your eyes. It would be churlish to name those we dislike [Do the initials "JT" mean anything? Ed.], so let's just say that another good thing about Canada and Canadians is that they don't take politics and politcians... or themselves... very seriously. Canada is a nitwit country. Canucks know that and love it anyway.

PS - A big shoutout to Agent 6, who sent us this greeting: "Happy Canada Day, to Those of US Who Still Respect Canada!" And another to PostMedia's John Ivison, for his article yesterday headed "It would be nice to hear Trudeau express the gratitude so many feel about living in Canada". You said it, EH!

VIDEOS: Canucks explain why they celebrate Canada Day

Every year, about this time, Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.! Ed.] extend best wishes to the 1000s of Canucks who read WWW, for a Happy Canada Day! Occasionally... sometime later... we get a comment from a puzzled American reader along the lines of "Huh!? What was that all about? Huh?!" 

This year we're going to pre-empt such expressions of ignorance by posting a nice little video from Brittlestar, the Internet's favourite dad* (*unproven), in which a Canadian explains to his American neighbour exactly what it's all aboot.

So now you know... But this year there are a couple of distractions. First is the fact that, for the first time in history, Canada's team -- the Montréal Canadiens -- are questing, in the heat of summer, to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada for the first time in 28 years. That's why we're putting up this post a bit early. Go Habs go!

Then there's the controversy over the finding of 100s of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at since-closed residential schools in Canada's western provinces. In displays of virtue-signalling rare even for Canada, SJWs and the loonie left have torn down statues, petitioned to have the names of old lwhite guys removed from schools and other buildings, and even called for Canada Day to be cancelled. Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface has preached that Canada Day 2021 should be not a day of celebration, but of reflection. Hair shirts to be worn and Maple Leaf flags flown upside-down. 

Walt urges Canadians -- and the foreigners, particularly the Chinese, who have been quick to condemn Canada -- to get a grip, and remember all the good things that have been done by the "evil white colonialists" which have benefited Indigenous people, white people, and, yes, the millions of BIPOCs who have come to Canada in spite of the "systemic racism" and are queuing even as we write to bring still more of their kith and kin to this "bastion of white supremacy".

It's a rare country -- I defy you to name even one -- that doesn't have some shameful acts and episodes in its history. Even Americans, the most patriotic people on earth (except for those who hate the USA and everything it stands for) should know that. I don't know -- and don't care to know -- any Canadians who don't think that Canada, for all its faults, is still the best country on earth. Like this guy...

Poor Len Canayen has some advice for Habs' Luke Richardson

Ed. here. Game 2 of the National Hockey League (G. Betchman, Prop.) Stanley Cup finals, between Canada's team, the Montréal Canadiens, and the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning, is scheduled for 8 PM ET tonight.TB leads the series 1 game to 0 following a sub-par performance by the Habs on Monday night. Watch it on TVA Sports, SportsNet or NBC Sports. 

We hand over, now. to our National Sport Editor, Poor Len Canayen, who is taking time from his baking to give some advice to the Habs coaching staff.

Although three giveaways sealed the Habs' fate on Monday, the real problem was lack of offence. TB's goalie faced fewer than 20 shots, with only a handful being quality chances. My advice, therefore, is mostly related to the defence. [??? Walt.] 

Interim interim head coach Luke Richardson has been playing, as his third defence pairing, last-minute pickups Jim Merrill and Eric Gustafsson. The latter was billed as a "power play specialist" but against a team that doesn't take many penalties, so what! Both Merrill and Gustafsson are slow of foot, so are reluctant to join a rush for fear of getting caught pinching. 

So, Monsieur Luc, what you do is sit those two and put in, as your third D pair, Brett Kulak and Alexandre Romanov. The latter is just a kid, and makes the odd rookie mistake, but he's fast, aggressive, and not afraid to shoot. The chippy Kulak takes more than his share of penalties, but remember that our guys lead the league in short-handed goals!

Up front, if Joel Armia is not yet ready to take his place on the fourth line, consider putting Tomas Tatar in there. He's been in the château du chien since a  listless performance in the last part of the regular season, but he should be tired of the view from the stands, and might just turn out to be an unlikely hero.

Don't listen to dose other guys, Luke! Listen to me! Have I ever steered you wrong? Lifetime pct .988.

PS - The bagels are from St-Viateur Bagels in Montréal. Get `em while they're hot! Or, if you're not up for the drive, you can get `em delivered, to addresses on either side of the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM).

"Climate Barbie" quits to make room for Klima Ken

So, farewell then, Catherine McKenna, aka "Climate Barbie". You were one of Just In Trudeau's first diversity hires. To signal his virtue as a feminist by having as many women as men in his cabinet, Mr Socks appointed her in 2015 as Minister of the Environment.

Ms McKenna led the fight against global warming and, after the name change, climate change. She oversaw the introduction of the Canadian government’s "carbon pricing plan" (read: carbon tax), which was so appreciated by overtaxed Canucks that she was in danger of losing her Ottawa Centre seat in the 2019 election. During the campaign some unappreciative individual -- a right-wing white misogynist, no doubt -- had the gall to paint a graffito on the window of her Ottawa riding office.

I believe the miscreant meant to write "count", but made a spelling mistake. Obviously a product of Ontario education. No matter. Ottawa is a civil service town, and ya vote for the one who signs your paycheque, so Climate Barbie held onto her seat. However, in the ensuring cabinet shuffle, Blackie McBlackface promoted her downwards to the post of Infrastructure Minister -- a position in which she could be seen but, mercifully, seldom heard.

And now she is gone, or will be as of tomorrow. According to Canadian Press, Ms. McKenna wants to spend more time with her three children and "devote her professional energies to the fight against climate change." Wonder if Greta Thunberg knows about this?

Ms McKenna's departure opens the Ottawa Centre seat for Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada, who left the Great No-longer-white North some years ago to head up the Bank of England. Having proved to them that "Canadian competence" is an oxymoron, Mr Carney returned a few months ago and made a very public pronouncement of fealty to the Liberal Party of Canada at its policy snorefest last April.

Mr Carney didn't actually say he wanted to run. Oh my, no! According to M Trudeau, his appearance at the policy convention was simply a matter of Liberals tapping his expertise on economic policy and on climate change. "We're very pleased," he said, "to have someone of the stature of Mark Carney who has been working very, very hard on, among other things, the intersection between the global economy and the fight against climate change."

While he waits, Mark Carney is warming a chair (and drawing a considerable emolument) as... wait for it... United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. Note the order: "climate action" first, "finance" second.

Make no mistake. Mr Carney -- let's call him "Klima Ken" -- is another leftist climate zealot. He is more dangerous than Climate Barbie or her erstwhile boss because he actually has a good education and more than a handful of smarts. He know exactly how to manage a technocracy that will further erode the rights and liberties of the people, all in the name of saving the Earth. 

Will the Canadian sheeple recognize the danger and see to it that the Trudeau Liberals are turfed out in the general election expected this fall? If they do, it won't matter if Mr Carney wins Ottawa Centre. In fact, he'll look almost as pretty as Climate Barbie on the other side of the aisle. And no-one will ever call him a "count".

VIDEO: "Allahu akbar!" in Germany - Somali kills 3 wounds 6

Never a week goes by without an Islamic terrorist attack somewhere in Europe or North America. We don't see them all because such attacks are so commonplace now that the lickspittle media either don't report them, or downplay the ethnicity and religion of the perp. 

But an attack in Germany yesterday was too gross to be ignored. In the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, a 24-year-old Somali "refigee" -- one of a million or so welcomed by Angela Merkel  in 2015 -- armed with a long knife [a scimitar? Ed.] killed three people and wounded six others. Here's the video from the Germany's state broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.

   

Following the German government's standing orders not to provide any information which might stoke the fires of Islamophobia, DW declined to name the perpetrator ["Mohammed", perhaps? Ed.], although die Polizei had known all about him for some time.

We don't know his name, but we do have a picture, scraped from a video which circulated briefly on the Internet before German authorities censored it, "out of respect for the victims", one of whom can be seen lying on the ground to the left of the killer.

According to a Bavarian security official, the attacker had lived in Wuerzburg since 2015, most recently in a shelter for the homeless. He had been admitted to a psychiatric unit a few days earlier. 

Investigators say they are "looking into" the motivation for the attack. Without conceding that the perp is a follower of the Prophet, a police spokesthingy aid the suspect spokes is not known to the police for crimes that "lean in the direction of Islamic extremism... But naturally, we need to compile all the evidence that we can."

"In any case, there is circumstantial evidence that this could have been an Islamist attack," he continued, citing a witness who alleged that the attacker had shouted the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar!" which means "God is great!" You'd think that would be enough to establish the motive, but of course no politically correct German would want to jump to that conclusion.