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sidenote: I hope that more and more videos of police behaviour end up on youtube. In fact, I think police should have to wear a large visible ID number on their uniforms so that they are easily identified in videos and easily identified form a distance by citizens who encounter them for whatever reason. I license plate for cops if you will. Police seem to be very timid when it comes to having videos or photos taken while they work. As far as I'm concerned, their work as public servants should be subject to public scrutiny, and the more transparent the "reporting" the better. A good officer should be 100% supportive of being 100% accountable. A good officer would also be so confident in his behaviour that he should be able to laugh when he sees someone taping him because he knows that in the end, everyone else will look like a buffoon when compared to him. If he is worried about "how it will look on tape" then he needs to change his act off tape. In the end, police are the only people who are given a "license" to harm another human. There needs to be a lot more accountability associated with this privilege.

You can draw a gun and fire it at a person's leg to "subdue them" as well, so maybe that shoul dbe allowed too! Occasionally someone might bleed to death but that's the cost of doing business I guess. Tasering should be treated exactly the same way as pulling a gun. Clearly it is not unlikely that the subject might be seriously harmed or killed depending on officer skill and blind luck. Regarding the video, I was reluctant to watch it based on the sensationalist nature of its "promotion" but I highly recommend everyone see it. You do see him fall to the ground and hear him screaming but it's not a close up of someone dying. 95% of the video is the lead up to the tasering. If you wdon't want to see him fall, you can stop it as soon as the cop pulls the taser. If you don't see the video you have no right to back up either the cops or the victim. I fully understand that being a cop can be BS work a lot of the time, dealing with morons, criminals and even killers. But it's pretty clear from this guy's body language that he was not targeting his anger toward any particular individual, so the likelihood of a single cop or bystander getting hurt by him would be dictated more by chance than anything else. (i.e. you happened to be in the path of a chair that he kicked out of frustration). If the reports of his being confined for "up to 10 hours without food or water" are true, then I can easily understand his frustration. Watch the video and you will see what an absurd and sickening situation this is. This video made me embarrassed to be Canadian.

did anyone watch the show just like mom where the kids had to cook fpr their mom at the very end.. peanut butter and mayonnaise and shit

an awesome car to get stuck in traffic in. what a waste of time, money and energy

this game is too funny..so pointless

i hate how the smarties box harmonica doesnt work anymore

whats the london taphouse going to be like? i have a feeling that come weekends, it will be very clubby... and it's going to be physically huge (thats what she said). should be interesting to see what that does to the surrounding areas...

Yeah, such a system would be the "make" as opposed to "break" of this city! Well until one of us becomes a m(b)illionaire we don't really have a say in the matter unfortunately... :-( Jeez man, why don't you just move to toronto. What is your proposal? Don't build it? Do you have an alternative plan? Fuck, let the guy try, it's his money! No offence to them but the promotion and management of a venue has a lot more to do with its success than the physical building.. just sayin'... how many interesting shows have they put on in the last month? 3 months? 6 months? year? That's not the building's fault! So what do you propose? More parking lots? I'd appreciate your negativity a bit more if you offered up some intelligent alternatives. In my opinion this venue could be one of many things that combine to completely change the Hamilton core. Embrace it man... or move to massey hall if you prefer ;-)

Is this what you are talking about? Seems to me it's an entirely different issue regarding social services, road repairs and other operational expenses. The provincial transit plan is a whole different beast: one time capital funding with no operational expense aid. Since a light rail system requires on average half of the operational budget of an equivalent bus system, it makes sense that we take the province's capital expenditure funds and put them toward a system that lowers the long term operational costs (which the higher levels of government consistently refuse to help municipalities with). Unless you are talking about a different story, I see nothing in that article that says the previously announced provincial transit spending is being scrapped...

Not federal.. provincial: http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/news/Product.asp?ProductID=1383

I do. Seriously. We need to take the province's transit funding and BUILD A LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM. High speed rail from eastgate to mcmaster for starters, then waterfront to escarpment and on upper james. This one single move (using someone else's money no less) could, and definitely would change the entire city for the better. We would appear as a beacon of light to all out of town developers as one of the most forward thinking cities in the country. This is our chance to finally get things moving... put the R back in HSR! ANyway, enough lip flapping. If you haven't seen it, check out http://www.hamiltonlightrail.com/ for tonnes of info about why light rail will change the city and what it's done for other places in north america. imagine the entire stretch of main street from stoney creek to mcmaster being developed into retail similar to what locke looks like... that's the kind of result we'd see within 10 years of building a light rail line.

I think there is. Right now we have a few venues that kind of come close to providing the mid-size concert experience... but none of them really get it right. Think of bands the size of say, Big Sugar or SLoan or The Trews or (soon to be) Plaskett (since he seems to be on the rise). These may not be the kinds of bands that most of us are intersted in, but the city currrently doesn't have a very good place to house this kind of act, and this kind of act wil draw audiences, so lets give them a place to play! Yes but unfortunately this is a guy (a whole family actually) with a bunch of money who is willing to invest it in downtown Hamilton. So put the guy in prison, castrate him or whatever, but I'll still take his money if it means an improvement to Downtown. This isn't just some guy who owns some bars in Hess. This guy (and his family) are building condos and hotels up the wad in Hamilton. This is probably one of the smaller projects on the plate for them right now... Unfortunately, there are only a handful of developers that can fund or otherwise handle large projects such as this, and it seems like half of them are somehow related to this guy. What he did is clearly fucked up but unfortunately I can't see a way to just turn our backs on this kind of development because the guy is a sleaze. I'm not defending him, but I am defending his development projects because they could play a major role in turning the downtown around and attracting even more developers.

Agreed. I'll celebrate when they RAISE the taxes for the fatcats. not the band.

anyone have any pictures?

need a costume idea for saturday? i'm looking for a meatwad and a frylock. get in touch.

haha browns line like poo

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love the cow skiing over the texas gate

this will be fun

yup this is just one "service" in a Lonnnnnnnng line of others... funny, they just keep getting better and better after each shutdown. they shoulda just left napster alone, we'd all still be using that and getting shitty rips, broken tracks and blippy mp3's... each shutdown just results in more motive for the next rogue to make an even better one these industry people should read up some lefsetz and get their shit together

i hope no passers-by were using oink from my unsecured wireless network

i believe you can get me through the nigh - ighhhht

"give us money or else your number will get forwarded to voicemail when you call 911"

i don't like the united way because of this. i don't mean to sound like a jerk, but they need to chill out. what makes them so superior to all other non profit fundraising groups that they get a foot in the door of like... every company i've ever worked for? LAY OFF ME!

why would you want a replica of yourself to play at your own birthday party