Muggy-ish day.  Busy streets downtown - the homeless have already stripped to the waist.
Walked to work through the alleys.
That’s Harbour Centre in the centre of the page - I work across from it.

That’s a fire escape from an alley.
 

 
Ok - I must have been in a cave or something for the last couple days - I didn’t see this pic. That’s Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter dressed as a? I geuss she’s going for US soldier, but it doesn’t quite work. The bullets? Is that what she thinks soldiers are like?  She [...]

Looking good for that business idea.  Didn’t realize there was such a market out there.  I’ve taken 2 orders from Saudi Arabia - though as always there needs to be some haggling on payment terms.  I’ve also got a huge order from Vietnam - something on the order of 30 workers - but at a [...]

This is the street where I work - almost. The actual street where I work has been excavated for a new Skytrain line and so you can’t stand on it.

A lot of people think of Vancouver as all mountains and ocean and green. That’s true for about 25% of the city. The [...]

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Finally somebody is ‘thinking about the children’…
More than 1,700 people have complained to Hong Kong regulators that the Bible is overly sexual and violent, apparently to mock a recent ruling condemning a sex survey in a student newspaper.
The Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority said Thursday it had received 1,766 complaints since the launch of an [...]

The BBC on why 90%+ of the Afghan people support our pressence there:
A group of girls returning home from school in Afghanistan’s Logar province recently did not for a moment expect what lay ahead.
As they walked down a dirt track, insurgents sprang out of the parched farms and began firing on them.
Some of them [...]

That is a poor, outgunned Hamas “Freedom Fighter”. Below is part of a communique from Hamas. Notice the phrases in bold and see what Arabs mean when they say ’settlement’ and ‘occupied territory’. We’re not talking about kiryat alba, were talking about Tel Aviv - Arabs consider that city to be a [...]

From Australia’s “The Age“
The newspaper reported that Mr Sayyed belonged to a Sunni Muslim sect. It quoted Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces as saying the militants had killed a policeman in the apartment block, the policeman’s father-in-law and his two daughters during the siege. “Armed men stormed the apartment and used (the policeman) and his family [...]

The Danes have belatedly torched an efigy of Mohammed. I have no doubt the EU will be pressing charges for hate this or that, but to hell with it. For now, as they say: “It’s on”.
This is their manifesto:
Now a new evil has arrived in Europe, an evil that lies and kills in [...]

Gilead Shalit is impressive.  It took nearly a full year of imprisonment by Hamas to break him.  God only knows the months of torture it took to make him say what he did.

More at the JPost. 

A correction to those on the left who talk about how Iran is a democracy.

From the New York Times by way of Michelle Malkin.com
Young men wearing T-shirts deemed too tight or haircuts seen as too Western have been paraded bleeding through Tehran’s streets by uniformed police officers who force them to suck on plastic jerrycans, [...]