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Man accidentally shoots woman's red mohawk he mistook for 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. (image via  UK Daily Mail)

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.  (continue reading at Fox News, hat tip Drudge)

I can see it, can't you?

Climage change skeptics are racists, or sick and need treatment ...

According to Professor Kari Norgaard.  Paul Joseph Watson at InfoWars.com reports:

Comparing skepticism of man-made global warming to racist beliefs, an Oregon-based professor of sociology and environmental studies has labeled doubts about anthropogenic climate change a “sickness” for which individuals need to be “treated”.

Professor Kari Norgaard, who is currently appearing at the ‘Planet Under Pressure’ conference in London, has presented a paper in which she argues that “cultural resistance” to accepting the premise that humans are responsible for climate change “must be recognized and treated” as an aberrant sociological behavior.

Norgaard equates skepticism of climate change alarmists – whose data is continually proven to be politicized, agenda driven and downright inaccurate – with racism, noting that overcoming such viewpoints poses a similar challenge “to racism or slavery in the U.S. South.”

“Professor Norgaard considers that fuzzy-studies academics such as herself must stand shoulder to shoulder with the actual real climate scientists who know some maths in an effort to change society and individuals for their own good. It’s not a new idea: trick-cyclists in Blighty and the US have lately called for a “science of communicating science” rather reminiscent of Isaac Asimov’s science-fictional “Psychohistory” discipline, able to predict and alter the behaviour of large populations,” reports the Register.

As Jurriaan Maessen documented yesterday, the ‘Planet Under Pressure’ confab at which Norgaard is appearing to push this insane drivel is nothing other than a strategy session for neo-eugenicists to hone their population control agenda.  (continue at InfoWars, hat tip Drudge)

 

Be sure to go read the ful article and read the comments.  There are truly kooky people out there but the scary thing is they are not alone, you find them in our schools, universities.  To quote [sort of] a famous deputy, "She's a NUT!"

Preventing The Big One

Heart attack that is.  A vaccine delivered in an injection or nasal spray will help prevent heart attacks and could be available within the next five years.

Scientists have discovered that the drug stimulates the body's immune system to produce antibodies which prevent heart disease by stopping fat building up in the arteries.

It is the first time that the underlying cause of heart disease has been targeted. Current treatments focus on using drugs to reduce cholesterol levels and blood pressure. (Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost , PROVINCE)

The vaccine can cut the build up of fat in arteries by up to 70 per cent, according to tests by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The fatty deposits cause arteries to narrow, meaning the body has to work harder to pump blood, and can lead to a heart attack.  (Canada.com)

Sounds fantastic! 

Wait, you mean heart attacks are caused by a build up of fat in the arteries and not that vile, wicked, evil, toxic sugar? 

...  Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new scientific research seems to support his theory that sugar is toxic, including some linking the excess ingestion of sugars to heart disease.

Anything in excess is dangerous to our body.  Trust me.  Feed a mouse excess amounts of anything, sugar, water, whatever, and see if it doesn't have negative results, or even death.

 

An orchestrated leak by Obama administration against an Israeli attack on Iran

A shameful act on the part of Barack Obama.  Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton is exactly right when responding to an article in Foreign Policy magazine that quoted government sources claiming Israel had been granted access to airfields in Azerbaijan -- along Iran's northern border, saying "I think this leak today is part of the administration's campaign against an Israeli attack".  Obama gets his hate for Israel honestly - from his pastor of 20 years.  Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is showing his true colors again (anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian):  Violent Protests On Israeli Border Led By Jeremiah Wright  The Jawa Report had picture and video.  Like pastor, like president?

  

Bolton, a Fox News contributor, noted that a strike launched from Azerbaijan would be much easier for the Israelis than a strike launched from their own country — jets could stay over their targets longer and worry less about refueling. But he said tipping the Israelis’ hand by revealing “very sensitive, very important information” could frustrate such a plan. [snip]

"Clearly, this is an administration-orchestrated leak," Bolton told FoxNews.com. "This is not a rogue CIA guy saying I think I'll leak this out." 

"It's just unprecedented to reveal this kind of information about one of your own allies," Bolton said.   (Fox News)

 

John Bolton is not the only one who thinks the US is actively working against Israel.  Ron Ben-Yishai at Y-Net:

... in recent weeks the Administration shifted from persuasion efforts vis-à-vis decision-makers and Israel’s public opinion to a practical, targeted assassination of potential Israeli operations in Iran. This “surgical strike” is undertaken via reports in the American and British media, but the campaign’s aims are fully operational: To make it more difficult for Israeli decision-makers to order the IDF to carry out a strike, and what’s even graver, to erode the IDF’s capacity to launch such strike with minimal casualties.

The first and most important American objective is to eliminate potential operational options available to the IDF and the State of Israel. I have no intention of detailing or even hinting to the options which the US government aims to eliminate by exposing them in the media. A large part of the reports stem from false information or disinformation, and there is no reason to reveal to the Iranians what’s real and what isn’t. However, it is blatantly clear that reports in the past week alone have caused Israel substantive diplomatic damage, and possibly even military and operational damage. (read it all at YNET, hat tip Monkey in the Middle)

 

 

The French Are Getting Tough On Islam

 A week after a follower of the Religion of Peace, Mohammed Merah, killed seven people including three soldiers, a 30-year-old teacher at a Jewish school, his sons aged five and four, and a seven-year-old girl French President Nicolas Sarkozy will ban certain Imams from entering France.  The headlines were misleading, stating that Sarkozy would 'ban Imams from France'.   Yesterday nineteen people were arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists

According to the Daily Mail, French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to ban Imams from entering France next month for an Islamic conference organised by the Union of French Islamic Organisations. Sarkozy made his plans known in a radio interview, stating that,

“I have clearly indicated that there are certain people who have been invited to this congress who are not welcome on French soil.”

In France, the Union of French Islamic Organisations is regarded as having close ties with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. [snip]

Although French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to ban imams from entering France is not necessarily unwarranted, it comes at a time where anti-Islam sentiments are at an all time high. Along with this latest development, President Sarkozy also supported the ruling of banning of any  face-concealing veil such as the niqab or burka that some Muslim women regard as religious wear last year. According to the Daily Mail, President Sarkozy also mentioned his intentions to punish those viewing websites advocating Islamic extremism and going abroad for indoctrination or terrorist training.   (AmericanLiveWire)

More:

One of those barred, the Egyptian-born Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, says he refuses to come to France.

The ban also includes other high-profile Muslim clerics of Palestinian, Egyptian and Saudi origin.

The foreign ministry said in a statement that "these people call for hatred and violence and seriously violate the principles of the Republic, and in the current context, seriously risk disrupting public order."

Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent,  recorded his killing spree and the video was posted at Al-Jazeera.  Marah's brother praised the killing spree while his father may sue France, claiming his son was murdered.  However:

When police surrounded Merah's Toulouse apartment last week, the gunman fought off an initial assault and then, in a conversation with a police negotiator, claimed responsibility for the attacks.

He said he shot dead three soldiers in two separate attacks in Toulouse and nearby Montauban on March 11 and 15, then last Monday opened fire at a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing a 30-year-old teacher, his sons aged five and four, and a seven-year-old girl.

The killer's father told AFP he had noticed a change in his son's behaviour the last time he returned to see his family in Algeria.

"He didn't appear to want to go out and stayed in his room to recite the Koran and read books. As soon as he'd hear the muezzin (calling for prayer), he would run to the mosque," he said.

Why did he execute seven innocent people?  It has been alleged that Merah traveled to Afghanistan in 2011.

He was described being driven to kill his seven victims in a shooting rampage that terrorized this city by his resentment over the fate of the Palestinians, and France’s military presence in Afghanistan and ban on the full Muslim veil. (Telegraph)

All freedom loving countries should get serious about immigration from Islamic countries.  Was this guy on the French radar prior to his killing spree?  We don't have any indication of that. Good for Sarkozy in his efforts.

More on the terror training camps in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan:

While NATO countries send troops to Afghanistan to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban, these same countries are exporting a significant number of jihadists -- like the Toulouse gunman -- to the Afghan-Pakistan border for terrorist training. "So many people arrive every month that there are problems finding places for them to stay," a suspected al Qaeda member recently told German investigators. (continue)

 

 

He's always been creepy

Drudge links to an article by Peggy Noonan where she says that President Barack Obama is getting "a little creepy".  Getting creepy?  Getting?  Everything about Obama, and I'm talking about his policies, his beliefs, his church, his pastor, his questionable faith, his questionable birth, his questionable friends and supporters, his Socialist/Communist/Marxist mixture of Liberalism/Progressivism, and his condescending attitude and arrogance -- all creepy from the beginning of his rise to power.

What is happening is that the president is coming across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who's not operating in good faith. This is hardening positions and leading to increased political bitterness. And it's his fault, too. As an increase in polarization is a bad thing, it's a big fault.

Noonan gives example after example of Obama's actions and why they can be described as ... creepy.  You can go read the article, but I stand by my statement -- Obama has always been creepy.  Perhaps the scales are falling from some the eyes of his supporters and they are just now seeing how truly creepy he really is.

 

The Council Has Spoken!! This Week’s Watcher’s Council Results

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up!

This week was an important one in the history of our beloved Republic. The Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments for a ruling they’ll make in June or so on ObamaCare’s constitutionality. It will determine whether the tide of Big Government continues sweeping our freedoms before it or whether the turning of the tide has started.

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s The Supreme Court Begins Hearing Arguments On ObamaCare was an attempt at examining the key issues at stake and giving the reader a preview of how the Court might rule and why. Here’s a slice:

President Obama’s solicitor general, Donald B. Verrilli Jr. also said the case should move forward, saying, “This case presents issues of great moment, and the Anti-Injunction Act does not bar the court’s consideration of those issues.”

He also argued that the penalties in ObamaCare aren’t a tax, which is interesting because one of his main defenses for the individual mandate is that it’s legal and constitutional because – wait for it – it falls under congress’s authority to levy taxes!

Taliban Troops In Drag

A follow up to a previous post, "American troops were not allowed to carry weapons in Afghan ministry buildings", where it was reported that 'guardian angels' were assigned to protect our unarmed troops while they sleep -- the Taliban has proven they will go to any lengths to get access to our troops in order to kill them, including dressing like women (or transvestites?).  UK  Mail Online has the story and pictures, ewwwaaaah!   Meet the Taliban transvestites: Rebels are captured dressed in drag

 

U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have assigned 'guardian angels' - troops who watch over their comrades even as they sleep - as part of a series of increased security measures to protect troops against possible rogue attacks.

The added protections are part of a directive issued in recent weeks by Marine General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to guard against insider threats.

And they come in the wake of a spike in attacks on U.S. and coalition forces by Afghans, including the point-blank shooting deaths of two U.S. advisers in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior.

Disguise: Captured Taliban militants are presented to the media in Mehterlam, east of Kabul, yesterday. Concerned by the increased threat to U.S. forces, military commanders have assigned 'guardian angels' - troops that watch over their comrades even as they sleep - as part of a series of increased security measures

 

Spectacle: The insurgents dressed as women show the Taliban's determination to infiltrate coalition forces

The lengths the Taliban are prepared to go to in order to gain access to coalition forces was illustrated yesterday when local police arrested seven men dressed in women's clothing in Mehterlam, Laghman province, east of Kabul.

Tensions have increased in recent weeks, most noticeably after Staff Sergeant Robert Bales wandered off a U.S. military base in southern Afghanistan and allegedly killed eight Afghan adults and nine children.

Some of the security changes have been subtle, others not so much.(continue reading, hat tip Drudge)

 

Doesn't look like any women I've ever seen.

Do go read Tammy Swofford's article, "Sending Unarmed American Combatants into a Conflict Zone", it's a doozie.

Azerbaijan allows Israel to use its air bases near Iran border, U.S. "not happy about it"

Via Jihad Watch and Pam Geller:

If this story is true, and it may not be, it would not be surprising. It would be in line with everything else Obama has said and done to demonstrate his opposition to Israel doing much of anything to defend itself against the global jihad. "'Azerbaijan allows Israel to use its air bases near Iran border,'" from Israel Hayom, March 29 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Foreign Policy quotes U.S. diplomats as saying “We’re now watching what Israel is doing in Azerbaijan. And we’re not happy about it” • A series of quiet political and military understandings have won Israel access to these air bases, senior U.S. sources explain.

 

Read it all here.

 

American troops were not allowed to carry weapons in Afghan ministry buildings

Keeping our soldiers unarmed was a show of good faith to the Afghans.  Makes you want to gag.  Now each soldier will have a fellow soldier assigned to them, to watch over them as they sleep, to protect them from the Afghans they have trained.  Something is very wrong.

From Jihad Watch:  

Tough new security measures for US troops in Afghanistan: now Americans can carry weapons in Afghan ministry buildings!

It is amazing to discover at this late date that there was anywhere in Afghanistan where American troops were not allowed to carry weapons. And there still may be -- it is unclear from this AP story. Such a policy is a consequence of the politically correct fictions about Islam being a religion of peace that prevail in Washington, and have prevailed for years now. The idea is that we will show our good faith to the Afghans by allowing our troops to be unarmed in government buildings. Will Afghan jihadis see that as a sign of weakness and take advantage of it? Of course not!

How many more Americans must die before this idiotic line of thought is abandoned in all its manifestations, not just this one?

Note also that the wretched dhimmi Allen, who videotaped a groveling, embarrassing apology to the "noble people of Afghanistan" after the Qur'an burnings a few weeks ago, is touting the measures that Afghan troops are taking to keep us safe as well. Pull my other leg, Allen. On the other hand, he probably believes and trusts the Afghans in this, as in all things.

"New security for US troops in Afghanistan to guard against Afghan insider threats," from Associated Press, March 29:

U.S. troops in Afghanistan now have far-reaching new protections against rogue killers among their Afghan allies, including assigned "guardian angels," fellow troops who will watch over them as they sleep.

Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, ordered the added protections in recent weeks to guard against insider threats, according to a senior military official. They come in the wake of 16 attacks on U.S. and coalition forces by Afghans that now represent nearly one-fifth of all combat deaths this year....

In several Afghan ministries, Americans are now allowed to carry weapons. And they have been instructed to rearrange their office desks there to face the door, so they can see who is coming in, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the orders.

Two U.S. military officers working in the Afghan Interior Ministry, one of the most heavily guarded ministry buildings in Kabul, were gunned down at their desks on Feb. 25. While Allen did not detail the new measures in a briefing earlier this week, he acknowledged that changes had been made....

Navy Capt. John Kirby, a spokesman for Allen, said the general "ordered commanders to take appropriate steps to protect his troops, prudent steps that make sense to our Afghan partners as well. But he also made it clear that we weren't coming to all stop, that the work must continue, and that we couldn't let the partnership itself become a casualty of war."

U.S. commanders and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta say the killings do not represent a trend, and they say that fewer than half of the killings have been by Afghans associated with the Taliban.

Instead, Allen said, these types of attacks come with fighting an insurgency and happened in Iraq and Vietnam. The enemy, he said, will do what it can to disrupt efforts to train and grow a nation's indigenous security force.

Still, the recent increase in Afghans gunning down troops they are serving with reflects increased tensions between Afghanistan and the U.S. just as the American-led coalition force escalates efforts to train Afghans to take over their own security so that most NATO forces can leave by the end of 2014.

Officials insist the killings have not hampered the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. But they come at a time when new, small advisory teams are heading into Afghanistan to enhance the training program, requiring them to work closely with Afghan military units.

So far this year, 16 NATO service members have been shot and killed by Afghan soldiers and policemen or militants disguised in their uniforms, according to an Associated Press tally. That equals 18 percent of the 84 foreign troops killed this year in Afghanistan. Of the approximately 80 NATO service members killed since 2007 by Afghan security forces, more than 75 percent were in the past two years....

Allen noted that the Afghans also have taken some similar steps to provide guards for their own forces.

The Afghans also have inserted their own intelligence officers into their units to help try to ferret out possible insurgents or rogue soldiers. And, since the ministry shooting, the Afghans have taken a number of steps to increase building security in the ministries and to improve the vetting of their workers.

"They are helping the troops to understand how to recognize radicalization or the emergence of extremism in some of those, in individuals who may in fact be suspect," Allen said.

He noted that there have also been some arrests by Afghan forces when they identified possible attackers within their ranks.