The WTF News Files

[jollyjacktar]

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, as the display is close to a replication of the corporately-provided banner.

It's not like they had gummy-bears falling from the towers....

Agreed

 

[mariomike]

It's not like they had gummy-bears falling from the towers....

Never forget...Miracle Mattress is having a Twin Towers sale,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjYoBLXjF0

What better way to commemorate 9/11? < sarcasm

Something I found of interest,

MSNBC Should Not Replay Live Footage Each 9/11
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/09/msnbc_should_end_its_annual_tradition_of_replaying_hours_of_unedited_9_11.html
"An estimated 11 percent of Americans and 16.6 percent of New Yorkers suffered clinically significant psychological distress following 9/11, including an estimated 530,000 cases of PTSD."

 

[Lightguns]

Never forget...Miracle Mattress is having a Twin Towers sale,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjYoBLXjF0

What better way to commemorate 9/11? < sarcasm

Something I found of interest,

MSNBC Should Not Replay Live Footage Each 9/11
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/09/msnbc_should_end_its_annual_tradition_of_replaying_hours_of_unedited_9_11.html
"An estimated 11 percent of Americans and 16.6 percent of New Yorkers suffered clinically significant psychological distress following 9/11, including an estimated 530,000 cases of PTSD."

But it is the American way, Veterans Day sales anyone?

 

[mariomike]

But it is the American way, Veterans Day sales anyone?

Or, remember Pearl Harbor with a delicious meal of SpaghettiOs. < sarcasm

 

[mariomike]

Never forget...to bring your sex doll to the 9/11 Memorial for a selfie. FFS

 

[mariomike]

Update Reply #524

15 September, 2016.

Looks like the bride-to-be ( a former Miss Wales! ) will stand by her man,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3790464/Model-bride-31-left-gutted-tears-accountant-fianc-posed-sex-doll-Ground-Zero-days-9-11-anniversary-marry-weekend.html

I wonder if his employer will?

In other 9/11 news, that mattress store with the Twin Towers sale will re-open with new employees "who have undergone sensitivity training." Whatever.

The "indefinite closure" lasted less than one week.

 

[George Wallace]

It would seem that "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian" does NOT actually apply to ALL:

Reproduced under the Fair Dealings provisions of the Copyright Act.

’It was a complete shock’: Arcane law strips unwitting Canadians of citizenship
GEORDON OMAND, THE CANADIAN PRESS

FIRST POSTED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 02:38 PM EDT | UPDATED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 02:54 PM EDT

VANCOUVER — Byrdie Funk had what some would call a quintessential, small-town Canadian upbringing.

At two months old she moved from Mexico with her Canadian parents to a farming community in southern Manitoba. She learned to skate on a backyard pond and trudged between snowdrifts to school, where she would stand with fellow students to sing the national anthem before class.

She used her Canadian passport to travel to South Africa, toting a suitcase sporting the maple leaf, and was later married at a historic trading post on the banks of Winnipeg’s Red River.

But earlier this year the 36-year-old woman’s life was upended when she received a letter from Citizenship and Immigration Canada informing her she was no longer a Canadian citizen.

“It took my breath away,” Funk said in an interview from her home in Squamish, B.C.

“I had no idea that anything like this could even happen.”

She is one of an unknown number of people ensnared in an arcane law that automatically revokes the citizenship of certain Canadians who fail to officially apply to retain their nationality before the age of 28.

The little-known policy applies to anyone born abroad between Feb. 15, 1977, and April 16, 1981, to Canadian parents who were also born outside the country.

The rule was abolished by the Conservative government in 2009, but the change wasn’t retroactive, so it didn’t include anyone who had already turned 28 by then.

Funk said she only learned about the law this spring after trying to renew her passport.

The law was drafted in the 1970s out of concern that citizenship could be passed along indefinitely to generations abroad who were less and less connected to Canada, said Audrey Macklin, a law professor at the University of Toronto.

Macklin said it wasn’t necessarily unfair, at least in theory, to require someone twice removed from being born in Canada to prove a connection to the country.

The problem, though, was rooted in the government’s inability to identify and inform those people that their citizenship would “evaporate” if they didn’t take specific steps to retain it, she said.

Lindsay Wemp, a spokeswoman with Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said in an email that the immigration minister can offer discretionary citizenship in extraordinary circumstances on a case-by-case basis.

Funk said she contacted Minister John McCallum’s office in July and has yet to receive a response.

Donald Galloway, a University of Victoria law professor, said he didn’t think the government has taken the necessary steps to let people know “the narrow hinge” their status was hanging on.

“I think it’s quite shocking to live in a country where the government creates these byzantine rules and says ’Well, it’s up to you to know the details,”’ he said.

Funk isn’t alone. Eva Friesen of Steinbach, Man., became stateless after losing her citizenship at the age of 28. She had to officially immigrate to Canada after living as a Canadian since she was six.

The now-37-year-old woman heard about the rule by word of mouth when she was 27, but she said that didn’t give her enough time to arrange the necessary paperwork before the deadline.

“I think that’s totally unfair, especially if you grew up here and you know nothing else,” she said.

Another unrelated Manitoba resident, Monica Friesen, discovered at 30 that she had let her citizenship lapse decades after arriving to Canada.

“I don’t understand how the government can’t inform people,” she said. “I hope (my story) opens up the eyes of the government that maybe something should be done.”

She eventually received a discretionary grant.

Galloway estimates there are hundreds affected by the law, many of whom are likely unaware. An Immigration Canada spokeswoman said the exact figure is unknown, but small.

The policy is another chapter in the story of the “lost Canadians,” made up of residents whose citizenship was either revoked or never granted in the first place due to kinks in Canada’s laws.

Over the years, the government has legislated corrections for the oversights, normally by retroactively offering citizenship to affected groups, from war brides to the children of soldiers born overseas. But recourse was never offered to those affected by the 28-year rule.

Don Chapman, the self-styled leader of the lost Canadians, has been lobbying on behalf of these groups for years.

“The laws are a dog’s breakfast,” Chapman said in an email, adding that Canada’s reputation as being fair and compassionate is not always deserved.

While not caught by the 28-year rule, Jim McLellan of Wolfville, N.S., has experienced firsthand the sometimes tragic fallout of Canada’s idiosyncratic citizenship laws.

McLellan was born in the United States in 1945 to a Canadian mother and an American father. Prior to 1947, Canadian law denied citizenship to any child born abroad to a Canadian woman who was married to a foreigner.

He said he entered Canada in 2005 to care for his ailing mother and didn’t visit a hospital about his own deteriorating health in order to avoid the risk of deportation.

Legal changes in 2015 paved the long road to citizenship, after which McLellan learned he had terminal lung cancer, which had metastisized to his brain. Eight months ago, he was given four months to live.

“I’ll be dead in a few weeks,” McLellan said in a recent interview, his voice slurring slightly. “I had to live all of that time without health care.”

McLellan said he hopes his story inspires Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make good on his word that “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.”

“We’re ready to shout it from the rooftops,” McLellan said.

More on LINK. 

Many of the older members on this site will remember that this is/was a common problem of children born overseas whose parents were serving with the CF. 

What really makes this so upsetting with many is that the Liberal Government will allow a convicted foreign born Terrorist to keep their citizenship, yet has gone out of their way to take away or deny Canadian citizenship of law abiding, hard working contributors to Canada.  Just last week a former British soldier, Mark Lowe, now a Permanent Resident, was denied Citizenship.

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[jollyjacktar]

Yeah, the Lieberals seem to love the terrorist types over decent immigrants.  Bloody disgusting.

 

[CougarKing]

An entry for Darwin Awards 2016:  :facepalm:

Daily Dot

11-year-old accidentally hangs himself trying to mimic YouTube prank
The Daily Dot

Jaya Saxena
9 hrs ago


An 11-year-old boy hanged himself last weekend in East Point, Georgia, and according to his mother, it’s because he was trying to mimic a prank video he saw on YouTube.

Cantenecia Stokes told WSB-TV 2 in Atlanta that her son’s three younger siblings said he had gotten the idea from YouTube. They ran to tell Stokes what had happened and that their brother had stopped breathing. “He panicked and he was trying to take himself out, and he didn’t know if you pull, you're only worsening, it's tightening,” she said. He died four days later.

A search on YouTube for “hanging prank” brings up a few videos, including “Suicide by Hanging Prank on Mom!” which has been viewed over 224,000 times. In the video, YouTube user “Riceman” pretends to hang himself to freak out his mom, which, aside from being incredibly dangerous, is an unfunny, terrible thing to do to a mother. She faints upon seeing him “hanging” from the ceiling.

(...SNIPPED)

 

[ModlrMike]

Most Darwin Award winners have reproduced prior to their demise, so he may not qualify.  >

 

[cupper]

Most Darwin Award winners have reproduced prior to their demise, so he may not qualify.  >

I think that counts as a bonus, removing both yourself and any future offspring from the gene pool.

 

[PMedMoe]

Might not be admissible due to the maturity rule...

http://darwinawards.com/rules/

 

[mariomike]

Might not be admissible due to the maturity rule...

http://darwinawards.com/rules/

"Therefore children under sixteen are not eligible to win a Darwin Award. However, a few have been included as nominees, when their actions can be considered foolhardy by even their young peers."
http://darwinawards.com/rules/rules4.html

 

[George Wallace]

OK?  WTF is going on?

All PEI schools, colleges and universities evacuated.  In Nova Scotia, NSCC campuses in Halifax and Cape Breton were also evacuated Wednesday, due to bomb threats.

Reproduced under the Fair Dealings provisions of the Copyright Act.

P.E.I. schools under evacuation order due to a potential threat
RCMP say there are no reports of injuries
By Jesara Sinclair, CBC News Posted: Sep 21, 2016 10:43 AM AT Last Updated: Sep 21, 2016 11:31 AM AT

All schools in P.E.I. are under an evacuation order due to a potential threat, say police.

A police news release Wednesday says school staff are taking students to safe locations in the community, and buses will meet the children there.

Child-care centres in schools will follow the schools' evacuation procedures. Other child-care centres will operate as usual.

No reports of injuries

Parents and guardians can now pick up their children from the safe locations, which are identified in each school's evacuation plan. Parents can go to the school, where staff will direct them to the safe locations, said the province's Department of Education.

RCMP say there are no reports of injuries.

The University of Prince Edward Island and Holland College are also closed.

Police said they will hold a news conference at noon AT.

CBC will livestream that news conference.

Evacuation in Nova Scotia

In Nova Scotia, NSCC campuses in Halifax and Cape Breton were also evacuated Wednesday, due to bomb threats.

It's not clear if the evacuations are linked.

More to come.

More on LINK.

 

[Loachman]

American Legislator Wants Canadians Banned from Driving in USA

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2694901012/

He can't get anything right, including the invention of the automobile.

From the US' own Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html:

"If we had to give credit to one inventor, it would probably be Karl Benz from Germany. Many suggest that he created the first true automobile in 1885/1886."

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile:

"In 1769 the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.[1]:14

"In 1807 François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen.

"In 1864 Siegfried Marcus built the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart, building four progressively sophisticated combustion-engine cars over a 10-to-15-year span that influenced later cars. Marcus created the two-cycle combustion engine. The car's second incarnation in 1880 introduced a four-cycle, gasoline-powered engine, an ingenious carburetor design, and magneto ignition. He created an additional two models further refining his design with steering, a clutch, and brakes. His second car is on display at the Technical Museum in Vienna. During his lifetime, he was honored as the originator of the motorcar. But his place in history was all but erased by the Nazis during World War II. Because Marcus was of Jewish descent, the Nazi propaganda office ordered his work to be destroyed, his name expunged from future textbooks, and his public memorials removed, giving credit instead to Karl Benz.[2]

"In 1886, Karl Benz developed a petrol- or gasoline-powered automobile.[3] This is also considered to be the first "production" vehicle as Benz made several other identical copies."

 

[mariomike]

American Legislator Wants Canadians Banned from Driving in USA

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2694901012/

He can't get anything right, including the invention of the automobile.

From the US' own Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/auto.html:

"If we had to give credit to one inventor, it would probably be Karl Benz from Germany. Many suggest that he created the first true automobile in 1885/1886."

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile:

"In 1769 the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.[1]:14

"In 1807 François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first car powered by an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen.

"In 1864 Siegfried Marcus built the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart, building four progressively sophisticated combustion-engine cars over a 10-to-15-year span that influenced later cars. Marcus created the two-cycle combustion engine. The car's second incarnation in 1880 introduced a four-cycle, gasoline-powered engine, an ingenious carburetor design, and magneto ignition. He created an additional two models further refining his design with steering, a clutch, and brakes. His second car is on display at the Technical Museum in Vienna. During his lifetime, he was honored as the originator of the motorcar. But his place in history was all but erased by the Nazis during World War II. Because Marcus was of Jewish descent, the Nazi propaganda office ordered his work to be destroyed, his name expunged from future textbooks, and his public memorials removed, giving credit instead to Karl Benz.[2]

"In 1886, Karl Benz developed a petrol- or gasoline-powered automobile.[3] This is also considered to be the first "production" vehicle as Benz made several other identical copies."

American Lieways
http://www.snopes.com/ban-canadians-usa-highways/
A satirical article reporting that an American legislator wanted to ban Canadian drivers from U.S. roads was mistaken for real news by some readers.

Claim: American legislator John Grumpart wants to ban Canadians from driving on U.S. roads.

 

[PMedMoe]

American Legislator Wants Canadians Banned from Driving in USA

This Is That is a satire show...

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/about

 

[AbdullahD]

This Is That is a satire show...

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/about

Shhhh it is funnier when you don't tell them! Lol

 

[jollyjacktar]

This Is That is a satire show...

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/about

I absoufuckinglutely hate that show.  A root canal is funnier.

 

[Loachman]

Damn. They got me. I've never even heard of the programme before.