I don’t think I have ever seen rain like the rain I seen on Saturday past. It came down for nearly 24 straight hours and it came down hard. The upshot of it all was not only the cancellation of the Ulster Grand Prix in the hills above Belfast, but the flooding of the city. Ok so the entire city didn’t go underwater but one look at the shiny new West Link underpass under Broadway Roundabout would make you believe the people of Northern Ireland were only a step away from building an Arc and declaring this the second great flood. MORE »

A young person taking a bus from Edmonton to Winnipeg was suddenly attacked in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack by some nut case who not only killed him, but preceded to sever his head from his body. This comes as a massive shock because I have rode the Greyhound system in Canada many times. The attacker was apprehended by police but the savageness of the attack is hard to comprehend especially when it appears to have come completely out of the blue. In fact so unprovoked was the attack that reports suggest that the victim was sleeping when the attack took place.

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