All Purpose Politics and News Thread

[Lynn49]

This ,dear people, is why you need a Penguin OverLady..


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/victoria...birthday-cops/

NSFW/C...

Sometimes we just need to shoot people dead without a trial for something like this.
Or drug, stab and kill them.
THAT would be justice.
But instead? They'll probably get life, and be out on good behavior in a few years.

[seylz_gurl]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada...YWs?li=AAggNb9

Trudeau looking into Canada joining China-led bank. This will not be good for Canada. Just to get business for our country it is being sold out.

[Natalka]

^ That is def not good news.

However, it's good that the canola deal has gone through!

[lecale]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada...YWs?li=AAggNb9

Trudeau looking into Canada joining China-led bank. This will not be good for Canada. Just to get business for our country it is being sold out.

Said China-led bank is as powerful as the IMF. Should Canada not exert power itself?

^ That is def not good news.

However, it's good that the canola deal has gone through!

Nope, no deal, just an extension of current regulations past Sept. 1 until....?

[Natalka]

Yes, I miswrote - still and all, I sure hope they can come to a deal, means a lot for SK canola growers.

[gryphon]

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/s...75914180550661

An illustration of how the labour party in the UK has embraced antisemitism because of Jeremy Corbyn that ugly troll

[Darth Penguin]

Uzbekistan plunged into uncertainty by death of dictator Islam Karimov

Uzbekistan’s veteran dictator, Islam Karimov, has died, leaving central Asia’s most populous country in a state of turmoil and political uncertainty.
Turkey’s prime minister, Binali Yıldırım, announced the news in a televised meeting with his cabinet, declaring: “May God’s mercy be upon him.” The announcement confirmed speculation that Karimov had suffered a fatal stroke earlier this week.
he Uzbek government did not confirm the reports at first but played funeral music on state channels. Later on Friday the government eventually released a statement saying the 78-year-old president had died.
According to the government Karimov’s funeral would take place on Saturday in his home town of Samarkand, where his mother and two brothers are buried. Photos showed frantic preparations at the city’s cemetery, with workers and diggers brought in to clear up the historic site.
Ambassadors in the capital, Tashkent, were told to turn up on Saturday morning at the railway station. Samarkand’s airport was shut to non-official traffic.

[Lynn49]

Keep his job??! They've GOT to be kidding!!
Where can I sign up to get this imbicile, this pompous self-absorbed idiot thrown off the bench??!!!

CALGARY -- A Federal Court judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn't keep her knees together wants to keep serving on the bench and plans to apologize for his remarks at a public hearing.
A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry scheduled for September is to determine whether Justice Robin Camp, who made the comments in 2014 as a provincial court judge in Calgary, should be removed from his job.....Camp acquitted a man of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old girl after deciding that the man's version of events was more credible............He asked her: "Why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" and said "pain and sex sometimes go together."
The verdict was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/judge-t...rial-1.2972466

[thriftygranny]

^^^^^
YUp, quite the arse, I almost fell over when I read this in the paper this morning.

[Darth Penguin]

Keep his job??! They've GOT to be kidding!!
Where can I sign up to get this imbicile, this pompous self-absorbed idiot thrown off the bench??!!!

CALGARY -- A Federal Court judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn't keep her knees together wants to keep serving on the bench and plans to apologize for his remarks at a public hearing.
A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry scheduled for September is to determine whether Justice Robin Camp, who made the comments in 2014 as a provincial court judge in Calgary, should be removed from his job.....Camp acquitted a man of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old girl after deciding that the man's version of events was more credible............He asked her: "Why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" and said "pain and sex sometimes go together."
The verdict was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/judge-t...rial-1.2972466

[lecale]

The world's first face transplant recipient, Isabelle Dinoire, has died. She had complications from the transplant and two incidences of cancer from the rejection drugs. Thankful for 11 years of a good life for her. Very sad to hear - may the others fare better.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/woman-...dies-1.3749651

[lecale]

There you go...it gets better

The "keep your legs shut" judge's own daughter has been raped, and that "proves" how sensitive he is

Robin Camp's daughter says his support after her own rape shows he is no 'sexist brute'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...port-1.3750550

[Lynn49]

There you go...it gets better

The "keep your legs shut" judge's own daughter has been raped, and that "proves" how sensitive he is

Robin Camp's daughter says his support after her own rape shows he is no 'sexist brute'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...port-1.3750550

WHAT BS!! But, that's the politics of powerful families: they stick together through all the crap they walk through or contribute to.

[Darth Penguin]

There you go...it gets better

The "keep your legs shut" judge's own daughter has been raped, and that "proves" how sensitive he is

Robin Camp's daughter says his support after her own rape shows he is no 'sexist brute'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...port-1.3750550

I guess she was a victim of "Legitimate Rape" and not one of these flighty flibbertigibbets who repent the next day../sarcasm off...

[Lynn49]

I guess she was a victim of "Legitimate Rape" and not one of these flighty flibbertigibbets who repent the next day../sarcasm off...

@dart hPenguin, I wonder if he had the same admonishments to give to his daughter?
Did anyone hear what happened if anything?
Did some kid in grade 3 lift her skirt or some such thing?
IF she was really raped, I bet dear old daddy had the guy in the klink pretty fast and for a good long time.
I need to know more about what exactly transpired.
This reeks...