Toof Fixed!

Caught a break. I chipped a front tooth on the weekend, well actually it was more like the tooth decided it had enough of this world and was slowly offing itself.

A filling fell out late last year, a chunk at the back fell out last month and on Saturday a big chunk at the side decided to separate. The cosmetics were awful.

The tooth is very thin and that was the cause of my concern. Much had been excavated at the back. Felt real weird.

I spent the weekend researching possible fixes and given that my default setting is ‘catastrophic thinking’ I was easily able to convince myself that a tooth implant was the only possible solution or maybe if God smiled upon me I could get away with a veneer.

After a few phone calls it was off to the Emergency Dentist.

Thankfully the Doc said neither a veneer nor an implant would be required.

The bonding process used, assuming a reasonable standard of hygiene, should last many years.

Yay! And Yay also to having Toronto’s only 24 hour Emergency Dentist a couple of blocks away.

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Inside L.A.’s deadly street takeover scene: ‘A scene of lawlessness’

Cindy and Dora didn’t know where they were going on a recent Saturday night, but they knew they were headed to a “show.”

Around 11 p.m., Cindy texted a friend in Compton but didn’t immediately hear back. She and Dora grabbed some tacos from a stand and waited. About 40 minutes later, the women — who didn’t wish to be identified by their last names —had their answer: East Compton Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue.

A little after midnight, nearly 200 people blocked the streets in what has become a weekly ritual in the city. Two cars whipped around the intersection, burning tires and worn-down brake pads sending shrouds of thick smoke into the air.

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Wargaming a North Korean attack

Deep in a military bunker outside Seoul, two air force colonels sit shoulder-to-shoulder. One is American, the other South Korean.

Together, their eyes scour satellite pictures of North Korea, played out on giant screens at the front of the dark room. The images are one of many sources of intelligence fed into the classified vault.

“We have the ability to detect the instant a North Korean missile gets off the ground,” explains Col Anthony Kuczynski, who runs the operation centre for the US side.

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Iran Builds Its Own Online ISIS in America

The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie by a Lebanese Shiite Muslim from New Jersey may be the culmination of efforts by Iran to imitate Al Qaeda and ISIS by building its own online terror network to carry out attacks inside the United States of America. The latest reports indicate that Hadi Matar, Rushdie’s attacker, had been in touch with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The recent indictment of a member of the Iranian regime’s IRGC terror network for soliciting the assassination of former US National Security Advisor John Bolton provided a window into how Iran has targeted former Trump administration members.

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3 Arkansas officers suspended after video of violent arrest emerges

Three cops in Arkansas were suspended after a video emerged that showed them brutally beating a detainee.

In the TikTok video posted on Twitter, one officer holds the man down to the ground as another repeatedly and relentlessly punches the man’s head and a third forcibly nails him with his knee multiple times in a row.

At one point, the officer punching the man in the head lifts the man’s head up from the ground and slams it back down into the cement sidewalk as the man tries to protect his head with his hands, the video shows.

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Fox’s Gutfeld Shares Shocking Late Night Blacklisting Tales

Gutfeld! isn’t the place to see Brad Pitt, Michael B. Jordan or Florence Pugh promote their new movies.

The Fox News series doesn’t depend on A-listers like most late-night shows. It’s about offering an alternative to the landscape’s hard-Left agenda and spotlighting talent you won’t find on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

That approach made Gutfeld! the king of late night.

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Soros DA’s Deputy Predicts Race War

A prosecutor in the office of a Virginia district attorney boosted by George Soros has a history of race-baiting on her social media and has predicted a war between white, Christian, heterosexual men and “everyone else.”

“We are dangerously close to a civil war but it’s not North vs. South,” tweeted Kimberly Phillips, who works as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney for Loudoun County’s top prosecutor, Buta Biberaj (D.). “It’s White, Male, Christian, Heterosexual, and Wealthy vs. Everyone Else.” Phillips has also said the county where she works is “the embodiment of white flight and racism” and “has created an environment where white supremacy to the exclusion of non-whites is safe.”

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‘I thought I might die at home’: Canada’s health-care system is crumbling, experts say

For 36 hours, Liz LeClair suffered through excruciating abdominal pain and vomiting in her home in Dartmouth, N.S., with no ambulance coming to help.

Her ordeal is just one example of how Canada’s health care system, hugely overburdened and struggling amid worker shortages, needs desperate attention, experts say.

Speaking of which… am heading out to “Emergency Dentist” shortly. Managed to chip a tooth. not sure it can be saved.

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Trans prisoner who impregnated two inmates at women’s prison reveals she tried to remove her testicle with a RAZOR to ‘stop the pain’ after being mistreated and ‘misgendered’ at her new facility

“She”

The transgender prisoner who impregnated two of her fellow inmates at a women’s prison in New Jersey has revealed she tried to remove one of her testicles with a razor after being misgendered at her new men’s facility.

Demi Minor, 27, was moved from Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility (GSYCF) with male inmates in June after guards learned of the pregnancies.

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56% of Canadians say they can’t keep pace with high cost of living, according to survey

Over half of Canadians say they can’t keep pace with the current cost of living, according to a survey released Monday by the Angus Reid Institute.

The polling firm surveyed 2,279 Canadian adults who are members of the Angus Reid Forum from Aug. 8-10 and found that 56 per cent of them are struggling to keep up as high inflation and interest rates force them to tighten their belts.

Four in five respondents, or 80 per cent, said they have reduced some kind of spending in the last few months, with 57 per cent reporting they have trimmed discretionary expenses.

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The real motivation for the FBI raid

It wasn’t to collect classified documents

I write a day after the FBI, without warning, raided Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. According to Trump, agents even broke into his safe and made off with who-knows-what documents. They also rifled through Melania Trump’s wardrobe. Maybe they were looking for classified lingerie. Who knows?

As many commentators pointed out immediately, this assault on a former president of the United States by what amounts to the Democratic Party’s secret police was unprecedented. Never before in our history has a former president been subject to the mafia-busting, terrorist-crushing might of state police power directed by the opposing party.

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Woke Cops Dance the Macarena at Pride as Crime Wave Grips UK

A British police force under fire for showing off videos of its officers dancing to the Macarena at a Pride event in Lincoln, England, is unrepentant, insisting that policing “is not just about enforcement and patrol”.

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Jamie Sarkonak: The Liberals’ unserious, unfeasible fertilizer emissions plan

The federal plan to cut total fertilizer emissions to 30 per cent below 2020 levels by the end of the decade is really just a funding package for research and technology subsidies aimed at making agriculture more efficient on fertilizer — for now, at least. Behind the apparently-toothless target is a series of funding commitments: $631 million for carbon sequestration on properties including farmland, $98 million for an agricultural “climate solution” fund and $167 million for efficient technology research and subsidies. In 2022, another $550 million was added to the various initiatives.

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