At least 18 people were killed in five bomb blasts in New Delhi last Saturday night. A Muslim group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen sent e-mails to the media outlets saying: "In the name of Allah, Indian Mujahideen strikes back once more." The Indian Mujahideen has also claimed responsibility for bombings in Jaipur in May and blasts in Gujarat in July. The Islamic bombings is due to a dispute between Hindu's in India and Pakistan Muslims over the issue of Kashmir. There have been repeated attacks upon Hindu's which are blamed on Islamic militants. Nearly 600 Hindu people have been killed by Muslim bombings in the past three years. I can not help wonder why the people of the world are tolerating these fundamentalist Muslims and their religion of Islam. These people have perpetuated massive murders throughout the world, oppressed people, had made many death threats upon none-Muslims, whom Muslims consider them to be infidels, and most of their Imam, (priests or religious leaders), have blood on their hands. Speaking on the subject of toleration.....

According to the London Sunday Express , I read that Muslim Sheikh Omar Bakri has threatened singer Paul McCartney, whom Muslims view as an infidel, will be targeted to be killed by suicide bombers if he carries out his plans to perform in Israel later this month. Recently, Arab terrorist had burnt down the home of a Jewish family, and tried to murder the family next-door, and stabbed a nine-year-old Jewish boy. A relatively unknown terrorist group calling itself Ahrar Al-Jalil (Freedom for the Galilee) Brigades claimed responsibility for the arson and attack on the boy. The same group claimed it was behind the two bulldozer and backhoe attacks in Jerusalem earlier this year in which three people were killed and several were wounded. Elsewhere in Judea and Samaria, Arab stone throwers hurled rocks at Jewish motorists in the eastern Gush Etzion town of Tekoa, hitting at least one tour bus and lightly injuring two passengers. Given the situation in Israel, I wonder when will the Jewish people say they are totally fed up tolerating these attacks by Arabs who are living in Israel. When will the Jewish people say, "Enough is enough", and begin to oust all Muslim Arabs who hate Jews, from the nation of Israel? Frankly, if the Jewish people in Israel are stupid enough to tolerate the attacks from Muslims, then they dam well can expect more of the same, and do not deserve to have their own nation. Only those people who will fight to protect their nation, deserve to have a nation.

According to news reports, the Roman Catholic Pope arrived in France on Friday for a four-day visit, his first visit to France since his election in 2005. Pope Benedict XVI, was speaking yesterday at an open-air mass to about 260,000 people who had gathered on the lawns of the Esplanade des Invalides to hear him speak. The Roman Catholic Pope said that people in our modern society seem to be worshipping wealth, knowledge and power and ignoring spiritual values. The pontiff quoted the writings of Paul, in the New Testament saying that "money is the root of all evil" and added in his own words: "Have not money, the thirst for possessions, for power and even for knowledge, diverted man from his true destiny?" He is a good one to be talking about wanting possessions, wealth, knowledge and power. The whole history of the Catholic and Protestant churches was, and still is, all about the persuite of wealth, possessions, knowledge and power. France, like many other European nations, has seen a steady decline in the number of churchgoers and priests. According to recent polls, while two-thirds of French citizens consider themselves to be Catholic, only about 10 per cent attend church services and that number is declining year by year. It seems that a lot of people in France have wisen-up to the true facts, on the deceptive nature of these Christian churches and its religion and what they really represent. Their own history of France gives people enough reason to reflect upon the Christian religion and its devastating effect it had upon their people and nation.

Sept. 15, 2008; Today it is quite cool, but at least the rain has stopped. Well, looks like another bank has bit the dust. U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy today as nervous investors sent the Dow and TSX plummeting by more than 500 points. But Stephen Harper said Canadians should not expect a recession by this latest bank bankruptcy despite that Canadian and U.S. stocks fell sharply amid cascading fears about the stability of major financial institutions.

I see that oil prices closed below $100 US a barrel for the first time in six months. What a difference from the record levels above $147 a barrel. This turn-around comes from early signs that Hurricane Ike had delivered less damage than was feared to the Gulf Coast energy oil and gas infrastructure. Light, sweet crude for October delivery fell $5.47 to settle at $95.71 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange — oil's first settlement under $100 since March 4. The latest sell-off in oil has more to do with traders who recieved news on the dramatic upheaval on Wall Street: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., a 158-year-old investment bank, filed for bankruptcy after failing to find a buyer and Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to be bought out by Bank of America Corp, which had nothing to do with Hurricane Ike.

In the next few weeks, physicists at the Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN (Center European de Recherche Nucleaire) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland will be directing protons through the 18-mile tunnel to collide with each other at close to the speed of light in a bid to understand the origins of the universe. The test consisted of fiering a proton in one direction through the 18-mile tunnel. The first beam completed its maiden journey through the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) without incident. The flashing white dot on a computer screen indicated that the proton had reached the end point of the world's largest particle accelerator. Scientists then fired up another beam of proton through the accelerator, only this time in the opposite direction to the first beam, which also went off without a hitch. This is what prompted the scientists to cheer and pop champagne corks. This test was in preparation to capture an image of the conditions that existed a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Those who are involved in this project have discovered that their complex computer systems has been infiltrated by malevolent hackers. While the hackers did not disrupt the safe tests by shooting the protons around the Hadron Collider 18-mile track during that historic project, experts warn that its computer systems are very vulnerable. Shortly after the physicists had activated the Collider on Wednesday, hackers had identified themselves as Group 2600. They had accessed the Hadron Collider computers which are connected to the Compact Muon Solenoid detector, one of four key subsystems responsible for monitoring the collisions of protons speeding around the 18-mile track. Now a few scientists are worried that if something goes wrong with the experiment, due to the manipulation by hackers, it could inadvertently create some kind of disaster, like creating a "Black Hole" that would start a chain reaction that would cause the 18-mile track to collapse on itself and eventually swallow up the research center and eventually the entire planet Earth into this black hole. Most physicists think this is impossible, or at least extraordinarily unlikely. Personally, I do not think that these experiments will or can create a "Black Hole" in this chamber. But then, I am not a physicists. Here is an artical; Gauging a Collider’s Odds of Creating a Black Hole which poses the risk of creating a "Black Hole" which was published by the New York Times on April 15, 2008 by Dennis Overbye. But the hackers raises a different sort of worst-case scenario. That the largest and most complicated science experiment in history, intended to reveal basic information about the composition of matter, could be derailed by intruders who hack its computer systems. The LHC experiments has a very complex computer system for data recording and analysis and even more sensitive systems for experiment control, trigger and data acquisition. "You can imagine that penetrating this complex computer system could have catastrophic consequences", MIT physicist and Collider collaborator Frank Taylor had stated recently when it was discovered that their computer systems had been hacked. While Group 2600 seem to be malevolent intruders, who's to say that there are not malicious hackers out there who can and would deliberately cause a catastrophe of some kind?

While Liberal leader Stephane Dion was spewing out anti-Tory sentiments in St. John's Nfld, I could hardly believe my ears when I heard on a news network that Dion was stupid enough to have blamed Stephen Harper for the current economic downturn here in Canada, when we all know that the economic downturn stem from south of the border. I see the Liberals are slowly bleeding away in the polls in this election. Dion's leadership has been shaky at the best of times, that I think this time around, we will end up with a Conservative majority government.

Sept. 17th, 2008; Today it is still quite cool, but sunny with a very stiff breeze and cloudy sky. There is a frost warning for our area where temperatures will drop to -3°C overnight. Tomorrow afternoon we can expect temperatures at around 11°C. I read in the news that Stephen Harper will allow the release of a report which will reveal the true cost to Canadians on that Afghanistan war. Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page has tallied the full cost of the Canadian Afghan mission. Harper's minority Conservative government has estimated that the cost of the six-year Afghanistan mission had cost Canadian taxpayers somewhere under $8 billion. Do that include all the military hardware, like ammo, tanks, ships, subs, planes and helicopters? If the new figures are much higher, it could be bad news for Harper and could dash his hopes for a majority government. Given that the Polls have repeatedly shown Canadians are lukewarm or totally against Canada's involvement in Afghanistan. If these figures suggest a huge cost to the Afghan mission, taxpayers will be looking for some heads to roll. Those figures could well erase the government's shrinking surplus and put the country into a deficit, especially at a time when we are in an economic slowdown. I too wonder what the Canadian Afghan mission has cost Canadians, not only in the death of our soldiers, but also in the pocketbook.

Three men were rescued Saturday afternoon when their canoe overturned on Ramsey Lake. A young lad, Zack Poitras, 15, had dove into the frigid waters of Ramsey Lake and helped rescue one of the canoeist. On shore, another couple who had heard screams for help, called 911 on their cell phone. Police, paramedics and fire officials arrived to the scene just after 11:30 a. m., said Platoon Chief George Lalonde. Fire department's water rescue unit launched their boat and picked up the two remaining men who were with the overturned canoe 300 metres from shore. It took a total of seven minutes to pick up the victims and return to the boat launch, where paramedics were waiting. All three men were taken to hospital by EMS for hypothermia. Police are not releasing the names of the victims, but they were all from Sudbury. None of the paddlers had been wearing lifejackets, police said. Here is another example how stupid people can be, not wearing life jackets while in a canoe, especially this time of the year! Did they not realize that the waters on our Northern lakes are quite frigid this time of the year? We had a lot of cool weather during the past few days to lower the tempature of the lake. Throughout the boating season police officers have been reminding people to wear life jackets when boating. Seems like these people that had been pulled out of Ramsey Lake were too stupid to heed that advice. It is people like that, who are so irresponsible that give boating a bad reputation and give cause to rev-up boating laws and restrictions. The same can be said about our Canadian gun laws which tend to greatly penalize people who are responsible citizens, who do not commit crimes, and obey hunting regulations.

Looks like Maple Leaf Foods are not the only ones who are having problems with tainted food. It seems like China have their own problems with tainted food, in this case, with tainted powder milk formulas for babies. Three more Chinese dairies, including the country's biggest, have recalled products after authorities announced a third baby had died in connection with the tainted milk baby formula. it is now estimated that 6,200 babies have become ill after drinking the baby formula. 158 babies are suffering from acute kidney failure. About one in five of the dairy companies tested nationwide had sold products tainted with melamine, officials said. Suppliers to the companies are thought to have added the banned chemical, normally used in plastics, to water-down milk to make it appear higher in protein. Speaking about Maple Leaf Foods, it has reopened the Toronto processing plant, but it won't start shipping the meat processed there for a week. Maple Leaf CEO Michael McCain said his company and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are satisfied the plant, which closed Aug. 20, when it was found out that its ready to eat cooked meats and cokd cuts had been infected with the deadly listeria bacteria, can safely resume production. McCain said new, strict safety protocols have been introduced, but Maple Leaf won't start distributing meat until it is confident that all the measures are working effectively. That will likely take another week. After this deadly listeria outbreak, you can be sure that when Maple Leaf Foods goes back into full production, their meat products will now be the safest to eat in Canada. After all, they had gone through a very difficult time and a massive clean-up, not to mention that food inspectors are all over the place, checking things out. Hopefully the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will beef up their surveillance on all processing plants for the protection of Canadians.

Sept. 19th, 2008; Today we had pretty good weather with cloudy periods and strong winds from the south. Tempatures was around the 18°C mark. We expect to get some rain tonight and thunder showers for tomorrow. I could not help notice when watching CTV's late-night News last night, that those Anti-Smoking Morons are at it again, spewing out their lies and second-hand smoke rhetoric. Because of these people, government regulations, be it Federal, Provincial or Municipal have restricted people who like to smoke cigarettes, cigars or a pipe from smoking in restaurants, bars, shopping malls, in the workplace, in public places and even in one's own privet vehicle and home. These Anti-Smoking Morons hide the fact that the vast majority of lung cancer here in Canada, do not come from smoking tobacco products, but from other factors which causes the growth of cancerous tumours in people. We now know, despite all of the propaganda and lies that have been coming out from those Anti-Smoking Morons groups, the vast majority of people who have lung cancer, are none-smokers. People like the well known Ron Lancaster, a well known sports figure, a none-smoker, had died from lung cancer. Lancaster, one of Canadian Football League's icons, went into cardiac arrest and died early Thursday morning. It is believed he was admitted to a hospital in Grimsby, Ont., on Wednesday night after he had difficulty breathing. He was only 69 years of age. It was only in August, that he had announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Lancaster won a battle with bladder cancer four years ago, and had been working as an advisor and as a radio analyst for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. We are now finding out that the none-smoking population have developed cancerous tumours stemming from mutations in the lungs by other factors, other than from smoking tobacco products. Asia, like in China, has a high proportion of lung cancer patients who are none-smokers, a significant proportion of whom develop a form of cancer known as adenocarcinoma. A team of researchers have validated a blood test for the early detection of lung cancer. The test, which relies on immune-system signals, much like an HIV test, can detect the presence of lung cancer a year prior to diagnosis, long before symptoms appear.

An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has come out and slammed the federal government for undermining public health safeguards. The editorial, which was signed by several doctors, states that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has reversed much of the progress previous governments had made in relation to public health. That is strange, I recall previous Canadian governments have had their hands in degrading our public health systems. I also recall how previous governments have unloading their responsibility to the private sector when it was their responsibility. Canadians expect that their government will protect Canadian citizens from incidents like tainted meats and other food products. Canadians have the right to expect the food they eat to be safe. Personally, I have not forgotten the Gomery report which has nothing to do with health care, but had documented the abuse of tens of millions of taxpayers dollars by those people within the Liberal Party and Government. As for the NDP, I have been greatly disappointed with their performance every time they get elected to be a Provincial Government. So how would a Federal NDP government be any different? As for the Green Party, they are not even on my radar screen to even give them any consideration. Given what is out there among the candidates to form the next government, I think Stephen Harper is still our best bet, even though I do not belong to, nor am I a member of the Conservative party.

Speaking about elections, I see that Tzipi Livni won the primary election within the Kadima party, which is the present government of Israel. Livni intents to pursue and intensify outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's policies of peace talks with the Syrians and Palestinians, and show that she means to establish a "leftist" government. She beat Shaul Mofaz by a small margin of votes. But not everything is going well for Tzipi Livni and the Kadima party. Right after the election, Mofaz had quit the Kadima party and has given Tzipi Livni a major problem to form a new government. Mofaz refused Livni's request to meet with her and did not attend the meeting, which was also boycotted by Mofaz supporter MK Ze'ev Elkin. According to Israel News, Infolive TV, when Shaul Mofaz was asked about Tzipi Livni and Roni Bar-On's threats on the eve of the primary to quit Kadima if he won, he replied that even if he lost, he would stay and help the elected leader. But during the elections, Mofaz people blame Ashkenazi leadership and the press for their loss of the election. According to Mofaz people, the press, along with the Ashkenazi establishment and the "whites" had joined forces to prevent Mofaz from wining the election. Mofaz people claimed that the 400 votes should have gone to Mofaz. On Thursday, after Livni won the Kadima primary, Mofaz did not hold true to his word, and decided to quit the Kadima party and take a break from political life. Other people who do not keep their word within the Kadima collation government are Orthodox Jews. Orthodox Jews who belong to religious/political parties intend to stay with the Kadima party despite that they had claimed they would leave the collation if Jerusalem was being divided, negotiated away. Negotiated away to the Fatah and Hamas Arab terrorists. It seems that even Orthodox Jews tend to lie and do not hold true to their words. In fact, according to news sources in Israel, Orthodox religious/political parties have on many occasions lied to the Jewish people. It seems that those within the Orthodox political parties would sooner sell their souls for a handful of shekels. Other Orthodox Jews who are involved in political parties tend to be feeble because they have not the guts, nor the vision to do what must be done to save the nation from the madness that has infected the nation of Israel.

Stock markets in Canada and the United States soared today with the news that US President George W. Bush plans to bail out those failing financial institutions on Wall Street with American taxpayers money, which could cost them more than half a trillion dollars. For a country who prides itself of being Capitalists, a free enterprise country who are totally against any form of socialism, they seem to be quite willing to do a little socialism of their own and bail out these failing corporations and financial institutions and pawn their debt off onto American taxpayers. Normally, Capitalists and the free enterprise system would just let these corporations and financial institutions go belly-up at their own expence. But now with this bail-out, it will enable these corporations and financial high rollers to get off the hook from their greedy, bad investments. Americans will probably not notice that extra debt load. After all, Americans are already on the hoof for a huge amount on their national debt. So what is another half trillion dollars, added on to the already over $9.7 trillion debt load that American taxpayers will be trying to pay off. Not to mention that most taxpayers have their own home or business mortgage and credit card debts to deal with. Frankly, I would not want to be an American right now, given the tax burden they have to carry and pay off. According to Statistics Canada; as of March 31, 2007, Canada's National debt (deficit) is $508.1 billion, and the debt-to-GDP ratio is currently at around 32%. Canada has far less of a tax base compared to that of the USA. As of January 1, 2008, Canada's population was estimated at 33,143,600 people, compared to the 304,768,777 population of the USA.

Sept. 22nd, 2008; Today we have a very nice, mild, sunny fall day with light winds from the south. Tempatures are around the 16°C mark. Tomorrow I will be getting back to volenteer at NeoNet, an organization that help people, mostly the elderly, to use a computer, surf the web and how to access e-mails. Most of these people had never used a computer. It is a good way for these people to remain in touch with what is going on around the world. Knowing how to acess a computer opens the world at a flick of a finger. A computer is very helpful to their hobby projects or whatever interests they may have. It is also a great tool to keep their mind active. It is really a good feeling to help people in this way. Knowing that you had helped someone. I see in the news that Stephane Dion, leader for the Liberals and NDP Leader Jack Layton seem to be ineffective in this election, given that the Conservatives are still leading in the polls. According to the latest polls, the Conservatives have 38 per cent of the voters, compared with the Liberals who are at 23 per cent. The NDP are at 17 per cent, with the Green party at 12 per cent, and the Bloc Québécois at eight per cent.

I have no doubt that there are many baby boomers who are starting to worry about their retirement nest-egg. Some are worrying if their investments in stocks and bonds are going to hold up or vanish or depreciate to the point that they will become useless. Anyone who has investments should know not to have 100 per cent of their retirement savings in any one type of asset, be it in stocks or bonds.

I see in the news that a small electrical meltdown has occurred in one of the connectors on that new Hadron particle collider that made a big splash on the news last week. It could delay its groundbreaking research until next year according to what is being said. The Large Hadron Collider operates at near absolute zero. The damaged connector is located i an area where it must be warmed-up to a temperature where humans can work and replace the connector. That takes about a month. Then it has to be re-chilled for another month before the Hadron particle collider can continue its work. As a result, the equipment may not be running again before the planned shutdown of the equipment during the winter months in order to reduce electricity costs. That means Friday's meltdown could end up putting off any high-energy collisions of particles, the machine's ultimate objective, until 2009. This shut-down should also be used to beef-up protection to its computer systems so that hackers can not mess around with their collider experiments.

There has been another knife stabbing aboard a Greyhound bus yesterday. The bus had originated from the Toronto terminal and was heading towards its destination at Winnipeg, Man. The young man, who was stabbed by another passenger, is believed to be in his 20s. He has been taken to the local hospital with minor injuries. The stabbing incident occurred around 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of White River. Shortly after the stabbing, the bus driver had let the stabber get off at the side of the highway, where the police eventually had arrested the 28-year-old man near the town of White River. What was this idiot thinking when he decided to stab a sleeping passenger? This stabbing incident comes less than two months after another Greyhound passenger, Tim McLean was stabbed and beheaded by a crazed 22-year-old Asian man from Winnipeg. No doubt this latest incident is going to spark questions about tighter security on buses and trains, like those at airport terminals. I wonder if our governments are going to request people to register all of their knives from now on, or place a total ban on them altogether? Mabe the only type of knives we will be allowed to possess and use are those little plastic knives one usually get with take-out foods.

It is high time that someone has done something about violent crimes committed by youths and youth gangs. Stephen Harper had announced new measures today to make young criminals more accountable and therefore help deter them from a life of crime. Harpers new tough-on-crime measures mean that violent youths who commit crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape or aggravated assault should not only be named, but given much harsher jail sentences than what is presently given under the Youth Criminal Justice Act . Harper said offenders 14 and older who are convicted of murder, manslaughter, rape or other severe violent crimes could be named. Which means that upon conviction, a young offenders name will be made public and the news media will not face a publication ban. The proposed new changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act would give juges the athority to give harsher sentences. Also, it gives judges the power to decide whether repeat young offenders who have been convicted of less serious crimes, could also be named. Under current law, young offenders under 18 cannot be named. In general, the new law will provide for stiffer youth sentences taking into account the severity of the crime and the offender's level of responsibility. It will also make it easier when necessary to detain an offender before trial. The changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act would also make communities safer because residents would know who the young offenders are in their midst.

On Monday night a Palestinian terrorist, Qassem Mughrabi, 19, had left his east Jerusalem home and went on a killing rampage. The Palestinian terrorist rammed his BMW into a group of soldiers and civilians in Jerusalem's Kikar Tzahal on Monday night. He was going at top speed and might have reversed and hurt more people had he not been killed, Lt. Elad, the officer who shot and killed the attacker later said of the incident. Qassem Mughrabi is from Jebl Mukaber in east Jerusalem, and was a member of Hamas, according to the Palestinian Ma'an news agency. Mughrabi came from the same village of another Palestinian terrorist, Ala Abu Dhaim, who had murdered eight yeshiva students, and wounded fifteen people in the Mercaz Harav attack in March of this year. This attack came after two bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem in July by Palestinian terrorist who were members of Hamas, which left three Israelis dead and dozens wounded. Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said that there was no intelligence information ahead of the attack, but noted that Jerusalem was under heavy security alert due to the Muslim Ramadan. These are the kind of people Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is representing. I hope that Stephen Harper and his Foreign Affairs Minister got this little bit of news. Last July, Canada had given $8 million in financial aid to that Palestinian terrorist government, on top of the $30 million (which come from Canadian taxpayers) Canada had already given to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during the last fiscal year. Harper and his government, as well as the Liberals and NDP wants to see an independent state for Palestinians, with internationally recognized borders. I wonder if Harper would like it if Canada was living next door to a Palestinian terrorist state, given what we see is happening in Israel?

Sept. 24th, 2008; Today we have another a very nice, mild, sunny fall day with light winds from the south. Temperatures are around the 18°C mark. I am not surprised to see in the news that consumer prices had gone up by 3.5 per cent in August from a year earlier, which was the largest annualized increase in more than five years. I notice that on food prices mostly, since gasoline prices increased during the month of August. Energy prices had rose by 26.3 per cent from last year. According to those in energy production, the price of fuel is expected to rise during the next month which will rise the cost for everything else we buy as consumers. All this while the average workers is working more hours than they did 10 years ago. I recall that when computerization got started, it was claimed that it would give people more free time. The truth is that all computerization has done, was give less free time and longer working hours.

I see from the latest 2008 GPI (Global Peace Index) report, that the USA is one of the world's most violent nation. The USA is blamed to endanger global stability, world peace and the planet's survival, according to the 2008 GPI report. It alone wages permanent war, targets peaceful nations, and claims a unilateral right to use first strike nuclear weapons preemptively. It also has over 1000 or more military bases, those known and ones that are secret, in 130 or more countries. The US has more troops than any other countries deployed throughout the world. It further spends more on its military than all other nations combined. It uses its military aggressively, supports Palestinian repression against Israel by wanting to devide Israel with their phony "Peace" talks, assassinates foreign leaders, installs more "friendly" ones, and backs despots like Colombia's Uribe, Egypt's Mubarak, the Saudi royal family, Mexico's Calderon, and various installed stooges like Afghanistan's Karzai and Iraq's al-Maliki. America ranks 97 on the peace index. Canada ranks 11, mostly because of our involvement in Afghanistan, which ranks 137 on the peace index. Israel ranks at 136 on the same index. Israel is listed that low because of the violence coming from those Arab "Palestinian" terrorist. You can see the 2008 GPI Report here which give the ranking of various countries around the world.

I see in the news that there was a tense standoff between a gunman and the school principal, Mark Anderson, of a Regina Christian school yesterday. While the principal talked to the gunman, he had noticed that the gun was a pellet pistol and managed to wrestled it from the gunman's hands. At that point, the SWAT team came in and took control over the situation. Frightened students had rushed out of the building when the suspect threatened the pastor of Luther College and demanded he read aloud a letter, while the suspect was waving the gun and yelling profanities while pointing the gun at students and staff. There were no injuries to anyone. The police were called around 10:20 a.m. and reported that a male youth with a firearm was at the school. Heavily-armed officers entered the building and began a room-by-room search. Students, many in tears, ran outside where a crowd of anxious parents had gathered. The gunman, who was a male youth, was a former student who had been kicked out of the school. The incident happened on the same day that a gunman in Finland killed 10 people before shooting himself in the head. The 22-year-old, Matti Juhani Saari, had left threatening handwritten notes saying he hated humankind, and that he had been planning the attack since 2002. The gunman was a trainee chef at the vocational institute in Kauhajoki, about 300 kilometres northwest of Helsinki. The gunman had left notes at the school's dormitory saying that he despised the human race and the only solution was a "Walther 22," a .22-calibre automatic pistol he used in the shooting spree. Saari had also left violent YouTube postings, which police had questioned him about the videos just one day before the attack. Police say that Saari, who was dressed in black, had entered the school around 11 a.m. and opened fire on a class of students who were writing an exam. People claim that the proliferation of violent video games and movies have no effect on peoples mind. Yeah Right! Is it any wonder why we have so many violent crimes that are being committed during the past twenty years? What with all the stresses modern people are subjected to in their daily lives, we see a proliferation of road rage by unstable people who tend to have very short fuses who will resort to this type of violence? I greatly suspect that all those violent video games and movies people tend to watch on a steady diet will eventually effect people's mind, sooner or later. I have no doubt that those seemingly innocent paint ball shooting games contribute to that type of mind set. I am no expert in this field, but my common sense suggest to me this has a lot to do with the violence we see today.

I find it hard to believe that our Canadian Immigration Board is that stupid to have granted Mohammed Bassale Wanli, refugee status and allowed him to stay in Canada. Mohammed Bassale Wanli, a self-described businessman, had been charged and convicted of numerous crimes and misdemeanours in the USA. Mohammed B. Wanli, 49, a Syrian who had emigrated to the United States in the 1980s and had promptly embarked on a life of crime. By 1993, he had racked up six criminal convictions in Minnesota and was jailed multiple times for credit card fraud, false representation, auto theft and theft by swindle. He had five outstanding warrants for his arrest. US authorities ordered him to put up a $10,000 bond pending a deportation hearing, which he did, but instead of appearing at the hearing, he skipped off to Canada. Upon entering Canada in 1999, he claimed refugee status and, despite his extensive criminal record, was granted emigrant status and was allowed to stay in Canada. He then set himself up as providing bogus services and defrauding Canadians in his various business enterprises. Wanli was arrested on nine counts of fraud. What the heck were our Canadian Immigration Board thinking when they had granted that crook, Mohammed Bassale Wanli, refugee status and allowed him to stay in Canada? I had always assumed that those people who are responsible to ensure that we get decent people coming into Canada, are supposed to be run by intelligent people. Given what I see here, guess I can no longer assume anything nowadays. What a letdown that is.