A Utah man who was trying to kill a mouse ended up shooting one roommate and getting another arrested for child rape, while a fourth roommate slept through the whole thing. Who shoots a mouse?
Taylorsville Police Sgt. Tracy Wyant told Deseret News that the first roommate, 27, had been trying to kill a rodent when he missed and the round went through the kitchen wall and struck a second roommate, 28. If you're going to shoot a mouse in an apartment, idiot, don't use bullets that will go through walls. Just in case - on the off chance, y' know - YOU MISS.
Officers responding to the scene early Tuesday morning found a 13-year-old girl hiding in a basement closet. She told police she had been having an affair with the third roommate, 34-year-old Paul Daniel Kunzler. Pic of the perv at link. Eeeeewwwww.
The roommate who was shot in the chest was taken to a local hospital, and was later upgraded from serious to stable condition, according to KSL. The roommate who fired the gun was not arrested. Charges could be possible after prosecutors review the case.
Police said they suspected alcohol was involved. No, really? I'm just shocked. Hooda thunk it?
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An infuriated Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese President Abdoulaye Wade has ordered the country's armed forces to pursue the fleeing separatist rebels "everywhere even inside Gambia". ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea) was ruled by Britannia... President Wade gave the orders yesterday in Dakar in the aftermath of a deadly separatist rebel attack on Tuesday that killed about ten soldiers in the troubled southern Casamance region.
"They could be hiding in the forests and across the border to the Gambia, but pursue them wherever they may be found and let them face the law", President Wade told the army.
Analysts say the president's orders were to move the public attention from the political crisis rocking the country as he moves to contest a controversial third mandate.
It is also believed that the order could be inimical to the already tense relationship between the two neighbouring countries that was heightened by last year's Iranian arm shipment alleged destined for the Gambia.
The shipment which was aborted and confiscated in Nigeria, led Senegal and Gambia to break diplomatic ties with Iran with Senegal arguing that the arms were intended for the rebels.
Like many Senegalese, President Wade is of the firm conviction that the Movement des Forces Democratique de Casamance (or Mfdc) which are fighting to obtain independence of the region are backed by neighbouring Gambia and Guinea Bissau.
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A review:
The French seized the Senegal River Valley because it is the first navigable river south of the Sahara. The river became their gateway to the interior. The climate of the Senegal River Valley is Sahel, desert scrub. Agriculture depends on peanuts as a cash crop, plus whatever vegetables (onions, mostly) and grain people can grow by irrigation. Goats and sheep can subsist on the scrubby natural vegetation.
The British seized the Gambia River Valley, which has good agricultural land, where people can raise rice and a good variety of produce. They created a British zone about 50 miles wide and 150 miles long, surrounded by the French Senegal territory. Of course, the borders have no relation whatever to the ethnic character of the area. People who find themselves on opposite sides of the border from relatives, markets, and even the other half of the village, simply ignore the border.
The Casamance River is the next big river south of the Gambia. The Casamance Valley feeds the rest of Senegal. Even then, the government has to import a lot of rice.
The Sahel region of Senegal is Muslim, with a heavy dose of animism thrown in. I read a very interesting article recently in which 11 people threw themselves out of a second floor window because they thought the Devil had come into the room. The Casamance region is animist, with a veneer of Catholicism.
At the time of Independence, the leadership in Dakar gave vague promises to the Casamance that they'd be given their own autonomy. Of course, once the leadership realized that they'd be letting go of the best agricultural land, they changed their minds.
Wade is 86 and has been cozying up to the North Koreans lately. They helped him finance his ludicrous $50 million dollar statue honoring African Culture. This in a country where the teachers and college professors don't get paid regularly.
Senegal has 22 Ethnic groups and at least as many languages and dialects.
As I noted earlier on the Burg, among the many refugees it absorbs are people of various Bantu ethnic groups escaping slavery in Mauretania.
Those who control the printing presses control the news. We knew that, of course. Kirchner, remember, is in a two-way admiration society with Bambi.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The paper used to produce newspapers came under government control in Argentina on Thursday, in a long-sought victory for President Cristina Fernandez in her dispute with the country's opposition media.
Argentina's senate, which is controlled by Fernandez's allies, voted 41-26 to control newsprint's manufacture, sale and distribution to media friends and foes alike.
Newsprint has been a key issue in the never-ending battles between the government and opposition newspapers. Since the early days of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, Argentina's only newsprint provider is Papel Prensa, a joint venture majority-owned by its dominant newspapers, Clarin and La Nacion. The government has been a minority shareholder.
Vice President Amadou Boudou said the law "will improve the quality of information and the plurality of opinions in Argentina."
By eliminating a lot of the plurality...
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Might be a good idea to organize a few excellent internet servers abroad.
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Those who control the printing presses control the news.
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She's Hillary and Evita combined. Why do Argentinians love them some dictators?
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G - you assume ISPs won't be controlled? a BIG assumption
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When I was growing up in Soviet Union, my father routinely listened to Voice of America, and Israel National Radio broadcasting in Russian. And that was 40 years ago. Frank.
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Funny, our press here surrendered control to thier ruling party long ago, as demonstrated by their failure to investigate and report scandals like Fast & Furious and the AG's personnel comitting perjury, the criminal behavior and ethical breaches by Dem members of Congress, (etc - list is far too long) -- and can't say that without mentioning the continued Pravda-like cherry-picking of coverage and outright spin on any negative news.
Argentine government "won" control, whereas our printed press surrendered it without a fight for the most part. And the nation is much worse off because of that.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Angry public sector workers protesting pension reforms shut down Belgium's schools, post offices and almost its entire transport grid Thursday in the latest anti-austerity protest to grip Europe.
Called the day parliament debated the controversial reform, the 24-hour stoppage was the first political test faced by the fledging centre-left government in just barely two weeks in office.
Alternatively they could just have a lottery and actively enslave 50ish% of the nations under 40s to keep the boomers in the manner to which they feel accustomed to.
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They've had a new parliament for over 500 days, as I recall -- but nobody was able to cobble togethern a majority to choose a prime minister, etc. Our first-past-the-post set-up delivers much cleaner transfers of power.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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