Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fears over possible child trafficking.
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“In this chaos the government is in right now, we were just trying to do the right thing,” the group’s spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, said at the judicial police headquarters in the capital, where the Americans were being held pending a hearing before a judge on Monday.
In which Charles Anthony of the Politic dons his Marie Antoinette ruffles and prescribes a cure for Inuit infant mortality.
The FBI says the so-called “Geezer Bandit“ has struck again in San Diego.
The FBI says a frail, elderly man gave a clerk a note demanding money and pulled a handgun Wednesday at San Diego National Bank. He left with an unspecified amount of cash.
Other than the fact than a whole bunch of people saw three of them in the sky, and took pictures, there is absolutely no indication of a rocket launch over Newfoundland.
The worst thing about Harper’s prorogation is the vacuum it creates in the blogosphere, where any number of unsightly boils have erupted in the absence of anything real to write about. Some loyal writers have contacted the Bunker Research Bureau for a digest of this week’s Kay-Zerbesias brouhaha that doesn’t require actually that they visit [...]
What a bunch of alarmists we have in Ottawa….. I bet it’s not a degree colder than -30 out there. My coffee didn’t even freeze over between the coffee shop and the office this morning and I was walking into the wind for Pete’s sake.
I’m gonna do something about infant mortality rates in developing countries and get into the newspapers – don’t look too closely at my back yard, there’s really nothing to see there.
Donations from the usual idiots are down, we need to rally more idiots…
An animal rights group wants organizers of Pennsylvania’s Groundhog Day festival to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robotic stand-in.
If you thought the notion of Lou Reed and Luciano Pavarotti teaming up onstage was weird, check THIS out.
Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The Bunker adds a corollary: any sufficiently primitive manifestation of religion is indistinguishable from sheer superstition.
In which we try to get to the bottom of it.
Family obligations kept me from attending the event on Parliament Hill this afternoon, but from the Twitter traffic and images that I saw it was a good day for CAPP folks.
I don’t think it’s any great secret that I spent most of my life living, working, and hunting in the Canadian Arctic, nor is it any great secret that I have less than fond thoughts towards the Euroweinies and animal rights activists peddling their idiotic anti-sealing message to the masses – todays installment of European Union hypocricy in banning the import of seal products because the seals are supposedly killed in inhumane ways comes to us courtesy of Paul Schneidereit at the Chronicle Herald.
B.C. cops sorry for injuring man in mistaken arrest
Vancouver Police are apologizing to a man who was injured in an arrest Thursday — in what ended up being a case of mistaken identity that was further complicated by language barriers.
Yao Wei Wu sustained cuts and bruises to his face, legs and torso in the incident. His left eye is swollen shut. On Thursday night when he spoke to CTV British Columbia, there was still blood spattered outside his front door.
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