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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Springfield, Lorton, Woodbridge, Alexandria youths charged in Human Trafficing
This is simply shocking!
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2012 11:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


CO man sentenced after shooting woman with mohawk he mistook for a bird
A Colorado man was sentenced to five years' probation after accidentally shooting a woman whose red mohawk he mistook for a fowl that had been harassing his cats.

Derrill Rockwell, 49, told police that he grabbed his .22-caliber rifle and set out from his home Oct. 5 to fire at the bird after spotting it at the top of a hill about 90 feet away, the Daily Sentinel reported Friday.

"His intent was to spook it away," Deputy District Attorney Jason Conley told District Judge Richard Gurley on Friday, according to the newspaper.

But after shooting at the bird, the man said he noticed it didn't fly away and he reported hearing a woman moaning in pain.

Rockwell soon discovered that he had shot a 23-year-old woman in the head, mistaking her red mohawk for the menacing bird.

Conley reportedly told the judge that the woman may have passed out from alcohol before being shot. Police officers also found a bag of suspected methamphetamine near where she was shot.
Didn't they test them, or did they forget to Mirandize the methamphetamines and had to release them?
The woman survived the shooting, but has since moved from Colorado and could not be reached by the newspaper Friday.
Maybe you could ask the local barber shop if they know her whereabouts.
Rockwell was sentenced to serve five years probation after pleading guilty to felony possession of a weapon by a prior offender, the newspaper reported.

"In 15 years in law enforcement, this was one of the more interesting cases I've worked," Grand Junction Police Department detective Sean Crocker told the judge, according to the newspaper.
Posted by: gorb || 04/01/2012 01:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "In 15 years in law enforcement, this was one of the more interesting cases I've worked,"

I'd say.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/01/2012 3:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Meanwhile, the bird claims that the man's cats were harassing him.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/01/2012 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Rockwell was sentenced to serve five years probation after pleading guilty to felony possession of a weapon by a prior offender, the newspaper reported.

Felinious activities?

Go Derrill!
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2012 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  I might have seen that woman in the airport recently. On second thought, must have just been somebody who looked like her, she looked older than 23.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/01/2012 8:29 Comments || Top||

#5  If she were a drunk on meth for any length of time, Glenmore, she would look older. A lot older.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/01/2012 10:57 Comments || Top||

#6  At least it was only a woman and not a bald eagle. Although if the guy was an Arapaho it would be OK. Eagle-shooting, I mean.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/01/2012 13:24 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
World's first nuke plant for home use





Based on technology originally developed for the exploration of Mars, the KUBE X-15 uses newer clean nuclear energy.

Of course, this amazing breakthrough will disrupt markets around the world. Especially in the Middle East. Thus the secrecy of this message.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/01/2012 19:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Queen plants tree in Tidal Basin
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2012 12:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Details About Olbermann’s Firing Emerge: Complained Car Drivers ‘Smelled’ and ‘Talked to Him’
Alleged details surrounding Keith Olbermann's Friday dismissal from Current TV are beginning to depict the man as quite a prima donna.

According to Mediaite, a source at Current TV said the former Countdown host went through eight different car services while working at the network, complaining that the drivers "smelled" and "talked to him."

Furthermore, though Olbermann's $250,000 studio was built to his exact specifications, he allegedly refused to use the set when there were lighting problems back in December.  Not only that, but he refused to let guest hosts use the elaborate studio.

Current TV is also claiming that Olbermann refused to publicize the network and the show when he wasn't hosting his program (and he took about half of January and February off).  They say he even barred his staff from sending out related Twitter updates, and prevented guest hosts from promoting the show. (Jealous that they would get better ratings, perhaps?)

Network co-founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt explained in a letter to viewers: “We created Current to give voice to those Americans who refuse to rely on corporate-controlled media and are seeking an authentic progressive outlet. We are more committed to those goals today than ever before...Current was also founded on the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers. Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it.”

Keith Olbermann responded: “The claims against me implied in Current’s statement are untrue.”  He added that the network didn’t keep its “promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program.”

Perhaps "quality" for Olbermann means eight different car services, but Mediaite notes that the network is "no worse off without him, and a good deal more flush."

Better days for Olbermann, when he was naming the "Worst Person in the World":
Posted by: Beavis || 04/01/2012 11:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Earth Hour observed all over the world
It just kinda sneaks up on ya every year, doesn't it?
What does it look like when the world turns out all the lights?
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm...dark?
It only makes sense that Sydney would be one of the first to celebrate the darkness, since Earth Hour began in the Australian capital in 2007, when the World Wildlife Fund inspired residents to show their commitment to the planet. As the organization's Web site states: "There's more to it than switching off lights for one hour once a year. It's about giving people a voice and working together to create a better future for our planet."
By living in the dark...
Earth Hour co-founder Todd Sampson, chief executive of advertising firm Leo Burnett Sydney told AFP, "We never would have predicted that it would be as big as it is now. And it is even bigger overseas than it is locally. It's not designed, and it would be foolhardy to believe, that switching a light switch is going to save the planet," he told reporters near the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Saturday. "It was originally done to raise awareness, to get people to think about it and then take action in many different ways. I think skepticism is part of the debate. It moves everything forward."
Unless, of course, you disagree with us...
In the United States, five states are participating — Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Montana and New Hampshire -- and almost 60 cities and towns not to mention many more landmarks, buildings, colleges, businesses, and organizations. Elsewhere, the Savoy hotel in London will use candlelight for an hour to light its front hall, bars and restaurants. In Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate will go dark, lit only by 5,000 blue and green candles in the form of a globe, courtesy of WWF members.
Awwwwwwwww...
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/01/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That pic of NK is funny but also a warning - the watermelons would be very happy to do that (or worse) to all of us.
Posted by: PBMcL || 04/01/2012 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Courtesy of What's Up With That?, a dissenting view many here will appreciate. A taste:

"Earth Hour: A Dissent
by Ross McKitrick

In 2009 I was asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour.

Here is my response.

I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

Giving women the freedom to work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing, as well as the ability to provide safe indoor lighting for reading."

There's lots more - RTWT at WUWT. (I don't have a link for the original source.)
Posted by: Barbara || 04/01/2012 2:27 Comments || Top||

#3  And it just happens to coincide with the Pagan festival of Oestara when various cults of dirt-worshipers traditionaly use candles and crystals to enhance their spring fornication activities. What are the odds?
Posted by: DepotGuy || 04/01/2012 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Anybody tell Todd that with only 5 states participating, that's what, something like 10%, unless you use Bambi's map???
that is not a real landslide of support there, buckwheat.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/01/2012 17:42 Comments || Top||

#5  These symbolic activities are just so much crap. You can do some serious lowering of electricity use without being candleheads. But it takes rational thinking with some technical background to put your effort where it will count. Those of us know it do it now without some goofy 1 hour bruhahahahahahaha.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/01/2012 19:42 Comments || Top||

#6  The WWF and their enablers need to cough up every dollar they’ve ever extorted from the US Treasury and then be scourged and flogged back to the Dark Ages with no 0bama-care/ DOJ getoutofjailfree commie-chits. And, no “Right of Return” to civilized modernity.
Last night at our home, we turned on anything and everything that uses electricity; including the stove burners, clothes dryer, hair dryers all the device chargers, etc., and let ‘em all cook for one guilt-free hour.
We’ll let the guilt-ridden progressives take on our non-existent eco-guilt (small “e”)… Enjoy!
This "One's for You..."

The WWF and their enablers need to cough up every dollar they’ve ever extorted from the US Treasury and then be scourged and flogged back to the Dark Ages with no 0bama-care/ DOJ getoutofjailfree commie-chits. And, no “Right of Return” to civilized modernity.
Last night at our home, we turned on anything and everything that uses electricity; including the stove burners, clothes dryer, hair dryers all the device chargers, etc., and let ‘em all cook for one guilt-free hour.
We’ll let the guilt-ridden progressives take on our non-existent eco-guilt (small “e”)… Enjoy!
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"In A Yugo" By: Paul Shanklin c/o El Rushbo

(Parody of In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley)


As the snow flies...

At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride

'cause if there's one thing that this world needs
It's environmental friends who'll take the lead
In a Yugo

They say, "People don't you understand?
Those Suburbans are ruining the land!"
But they'll wish they had a full-size van one day

They're pointing fingers at you and me
They say we're too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose a better way
As those small wheels turn

Fifty miles to the gallon and their knees on their chests
We're gonna save enough gas for all the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
And are squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride

And as the crowds drive past the little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas but they didn't get far
In a Yugo
And as they're trapped inside

At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride...(tsk-tsk. Sniff.

Posted by: canalzone || 04/01/2012 22:19 Comments || Top||

#7  My Bad. Here's the Oscar Award nominee (Read Loser)for Best Musical Score for A Spoofed/Punked Lyrical Parody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2eCFoafXk
Posted by: canalzone || 04/01/2012 22:36 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Pro-democracy group office shut in Dubai
Apparently Egypt isn't the only country suspicious of a bunch of NGO Nosy Parkers tooling around town in white Land Cruisers...
WASHINGTON: The United Arab Emirates has closed the Dubai office of the National Democratic Institute, a US-funded pro-democracy group that was the subject of a crackdown in Egypt, the US State Department said Friday.

"We understand that the UAE government has closed the NDI office in Dubai," said State Department spokesman Noel Clay, offering no further details but defending the group's work. "NDI is a respected organization that has been working across the region and beyond to promote civil society, development and democratic values. The State Department is a firm supporter of NDI's activities," he said.

The UAE, one of the world's top five oil exporters, has escaped the upheaval that has shaken the Arab world, but the case of five activists convicted late last year of insulting the country's rulers suggests it is not immune to calls for reform.

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan in December pardoned the activists a day after they were sentenced to prison terms of two to three years. That case had been seen as a gauge of how the Gulf Arab state, which allows no political parties, responds to hints of dissent after the uprisings that have toppled four Arab heads of state, including former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

A US official said the United States had been in contact with the UAE authorities about the closure of the NDI office and argued in favor of allowing such groups to operate.

"We made clear that allowing NGOs to operate openly and freely is important to support political and economic development," said the official, who asked not to be named.
If you want the people to be protected, bring them back into the embassy and have them accredited as diplomats. They'll have to behave as diplomats, of course. But until then they're little more than tourists with agendas.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/01/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NGO = should be MGO Marxist Government officials.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/01/2012 15:07 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Ex Mexican president Miguel de la Madrid dies at 77

Link is in Spanish.

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Ex Mexican president Miguel de la Madrid died Sunday morning at a Mexico city hospital after a long battle with emphesyma, according to Mexican news accounts.

De la Madrid served as president of the republic from 1982 to 1988. His term was tainted by his response to the 1985 earthquake in Mexico, seen as too slow. The Dirty War was also ended on his watch.

De la Madrid presided over some of the worst inflation and unemployment in modern Mexican history. His policies helped reduced the number of state owned enterprises and encouraged foreign investment in Mexico.

He is survived by his wife, Paloma Cordero Tapia.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
Posted by: badanov || 04/01/2012 12:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  in his defense, the Mexico City quake was quite a bit more than they could handle at the time
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2012 14:13 Comments || Top||


Oogo Returning To Cuba For Treatment
This cannot possibly be enjoyable for him.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, there's always the whiskey/revolver option...
Posted by: PBMcL || 04/01/2012 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Again?
The Cubans must have flubbed it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/01/2012 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey, Hoogo, why don't you just nationalize your cancer? It's always worked before.
Posted by: gorb || 04/01/2012 2:14 Comments || Top||

#4  He did. It's called Bolivarianism.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/01/2012 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe he's trying to cash in his frequent flier miles before HE cashes in......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/01/2012 17:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
5.3 magnitude quake jolts northern areas
ISLAMABAD: A moderate intensity earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit the country’s northern areas on Saturday. The tremors were felt in the northern parts, including Swat, Lower Dir, Mansehra, Abbottabad and surrounding areas, the Met Office said. However, no causality or damage had been reported, a private news channel reported.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/01/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Aung San Suu Kyi said to have won parliamentary seat
Posted by: || 04/01/2012 06:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is a good sign.
Posted by: newc || 04/01/2012 14:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Anti-Muslim discrimination claims spike in York County
Paraphrase: "Some blame 9-11, others blame the Republican presidential primary."
*eyeroll*
I guess "reporters" these days don't even have to pretend to know the difference between an editorial and a news article.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/01/2012 07:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about we post guards of a sect that doesn't like any of them in their neighborhood and arm them with their much loved Sharia law. Fence in the whole place also.
Posted by: Lonzo Ebbusons7548 || 04/01/2012 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  York, PA, not York, England, in case I was not the only one who wondered.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2012 9:11 Comments || Top||

#3  I was hoping for a little excitement in York, VA.
Posted by: Glaitch Bucket5471 || 04/01/2012 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  An article that says that one guy claims 12 people wanted to make complaints but didn't make them for fear? So basically no complaints were made so we have no idea if the one guy is lying or if not if the complaints are legitimate or not. This story is constructed out of nothing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/01/2012 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  "Dr. Ramy Nasr, a York surgeon and a practicing Muslim, was appalled by Cain's comments. But he was more dismayed at the general reaction to them by the media and the general public.
"The fact that such comments are allowed and not sharply rebuked (by the media) shows you the hostile climate we are in today toward Islam and Muslims," he said via email."

Yeah Doctor, the world feels that way about Islam. Foul words every Friday are never rebuked (by the media or people). And don't get me started by the lackluster and almost zero condemnation of terrorism by the same community.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/01/2012 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Please don't let the door hit you in the ass as you head for more friendly climes jacka**. Look up ingrate in Webster's some day.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/01/2012 12:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Herman Cain said he would make Muslims take a loyalty oath before hiring them for his cabinet.

There are some fundamental conflicts between Western values as embodied in the US Constitution and Sharia law. You don't get to choose both.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/01/2012 12:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Herman Cain displays his ignorance. no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/01/2012 13:48 Comments || Top||

#9  no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States

IMHO, one of the best things the Founder Fathers did was the whole 'no official religion' thing. However, people from Presidents to soldiers take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/01/2012 14:23 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2012-04-01
  Paris: Scientist accused of plotting to blow up 'city size of London'
Sat 2012-03-31
  Us Drone Strike Kills Four In Miranshah
Fri 2012-03-30
  France nabs at least 17 Islamists in raids across the country
Thu 2012-03-29
  Gunmen kidnap Saudi diplomat in Yemen
Wed 2012-03-28
  Syrian Troops Kill 57 amid Clashes near Lebanese Border
Tue 2012-03-27
  Terror plot uncovered when 11 suicide vests found at Afghan military HQ
Mon 2012-03-26
  Toulouse killings: Mohamed Merah brother charged
Sun 2012-03-25
  Syrian Rebel Chiefs Form Military Council to Unify Ranks
Sat 2012-03-24
  At Least 26 Dead as Tens of Thousands Rally in Syria
Fri 2012-03-23
  German court gives online terror recruiter five year sentence
Thu 2012-03-22
  Gunman dead as French siege ends
Wed 2012-03-21
  French police in standoff with Jewish school killing suspect
Tue 2012-03-20
  Turkish Diplomat Says Two More Syrian Generals Defect
Mon 2012-03-19
  Heavy Shelling Kills 16 'Qaida' Fighters in Yemen
Sun 2012-03-18
  Five Killed In Bali Terror Raids

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