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.
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Rockwell was sentenced to serve five years probation after pleading guilty to felony possession of a weapon by a prior offender, the newspaper reported.
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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.
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 Currents statement are untrue. He added that the network didnt 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":
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...
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The WWF and their enablers need to cough up every dollar theyve 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.
Well 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 theyve 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.
Well 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.
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.
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NGO = should be MGO Marxist Government officials.
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
ISLAMABAD: A moderate intensity earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit the countrys 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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. 
ISLAMABAD: A moderate intensity earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit the countrys 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.
