A batshit crazy like Michelle Malkin could say something this asinine:
Anthony Kennedy and the leftists on the Supreme Court ruled. . .
Yes all those “leftists” on the Supreme Court, 7 of whom were appointed by known Pinko Bastards like Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and The Decider himself.
According to court documents, Isenhour got upset when a red-shouldered hawk began making noise, forcing another take. He began hitting balls at the bird, then 300 yards away, but gave up.
Isenhour started again when the hawk moved within about 75 yards, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer Brian Baine indicated in a report.
Isenhour allegedly said “I’ll get him now,” and aimed for the hawk.
“About the sixth ball came very near the bird’s head, and [Isenhour] was very excited that it was so close,” Baine wrote.
A few shots later, witnesses said he hit the hawk. The bird, protected as a migratory species, fell to the ground bleeding from both nostrils.
I can’t believe this.
“My brother went to war tonight with the government,” Gerald Thornton said in an interview with a local television station after the incident. “He decided that he could no longer verbally work it out.”
More reasons:
On CNN, Mr. Thornton seemed to confirm reports that ticketing of his brother’s commercial vehicles were at the core of the dispute. Violations of his “constitutional protections” was also cited, without elaboration.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The mother of two Sioux City girls that police said were killed by their stepfather said her husband described himself as a pagan and routinely practiced spells to keep those around him healthy and happy.Marla Harris told The Des Moines Register that her husband, Lawrence Harris Sr., told her at the police department that he was trying to help the girls. Harris is accused of stabbing and strangling his stepdaughters on Sunday, then setting their house on fire to cover up the crime.
Kendra Suing, 10, and her sister Alysha, 8, were found dead in their bedroom on Sunday.
Police said it was part of an unexplained ritual linked to his unconventional religious beliefs.
I can’t even read about that guy who threw his kids off a bridge because it’s too upsetting. Happy F’ing New Year!
Yet another bump on the road towards the naming of a town square in Baghdad after George W. Bush. The shooters in Blackwater’s mass killing — in a Baghdad square — were granted immunity from prosecution by the Bush administration:
Potential prosecution of Blackwater guards allegedly involved in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians last month may have been compromised because the guards received immunity for statements they made to State Department officials investigating the incident, federal law enforcement officials said yesterday.
FBI agents called in to take over the State Department’s investigation two weeks after the Sept. 16 shootings cannot use any information gleaned during questioning of the guards by the department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which is charged with supervising security contractors.
Some of the Blackwater guards have subsequently refused to be interviewed by the FBI, citing promises of immunity from State, one law enforcement official said. The restrictions on the FBI’s use of their initial statements do not preclude prosecution by the Justice Department using other evidence, the official said, but “they make things a lot more complicated and difficult.”
The Iraqis might not be so understanding, with 17 of their own dead:
The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, a spokesman said.
The question of immunity has been one of the most serious dispute between the U.S. and the Iraqi government since a Sept. 16 shooting involving Blackwater USA guards that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
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Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the draft law approved Tuesday would overturn an immunity order known as Decree 17 that was issued by L. Paul Bremer, who ran the American occupation government until June 2004.
“It will be sent to the parliament within the coming days to be ratified,” he told The Associated Press.
Al-Dabbagh did not single out Blackwater but said: “According to this law, all security companies will subjected to the Iraqi criminal law and must obey all the country’s legal regulations such as: registration, customs, visas, etcetera.”
Mary’s still trying to get partial custody of her kids.
Grandparents Dan and Diane Winkler contend Winkler is an unfit mother and the children have a better chance at a normal life* with them.
But Gold-Bikin said Winkler’s manslaughter conviction shows the jury believed her testimony about domestic abuse. Among other things, Winkler claimed she was forced to submit to sex acts she considered unnatural.
“Should we take these children away from a loving mother and give them to somebody who hates her?” Gold-Bikin said. “Here is a little backwoods woman married to a very popular preacher and her entire self-worth has been undermined. She’s been made to parade around in high heels and no clothes, to do things she considers perverted. And she’s got nobody to talk to because nobody is going to believe her.”
No trial date is set on the termination petition.
*Dan Winkler is also a Church of Christ minister.
From today’s LA Times:
The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmates have to appeal convictions to federal courts.
The rules implement a little-noticed provision in last year’s reauthorization of the Patriot Act that gives the attorney general the power to decide whether individual states are providing adequate counsel for defendants in death penalty cases. The authority has been held by federal judges.
Under the rules now being prepared, if a state requested it and Gonzales agreed, prosecutors could use “fast track” procedures that could shave years off the time that a death row inmate has to appeal to the federal courts after conviction in a state court.
From yesterday’s Brewster Rocket, Space Guy:
I can see it now — Gonzo expedites the execution of several people, first claiming there was no evidence they were innocent, then after DNA clears them, stating that he made the decision to whack him but he wasn’t involved in the decision and had no knowledge of the reasoning upon which the decision was based.
After it turns out that Rove sent a bunch of emails urging Gonzo to put a bullet in each head personally, which emails the White House won’t turn over.
Better to give a gun to a fucking monkey.
This case brings out different emotions.
The guys I’ve talked to seem to feel “boys will be boys,” though many do feel the girls were victims of a sort.
The women feel much more strongly that the girls were victimized.
My sense is the boys need to be punished. But not as harshly as the district attorney wants them punished.
Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, were arrested in February after they were caught in the halls of Patton Middle School, in McMinnville, Ore., slapping girls on the rear end. Mashburn told ABC News in a phone interview that this was a common way of saying hello practiced by lots of kids at the school, akin to a secret handshake.
The boys spent five days in a juvenile detention facility and were charged with several counts of felony sex abuse for what they and their parents said was merely inappropriate but not criminal behavior.
The local district attorney has since backed off — the felony charges have been dropped and the district attorney said probation would be an appropriate punishment. The Mashburns’ lawyer said prosecutors offered Cory a plea bargain that would not require him to register as a sex offender, which the family plans to reject.
But the boys, if convicted at an Aug. 20 trial, still face the possibility of some jail time or registering for life as sex offenders.
More:
Cory Mashburn said he and Ryan Cornelison slapped each others’ and other kids’ bottoms every Friday. “Lots of kids at school do that,” he said.
Cory and Ryan were brought to the principal’s office Feb. 22, where they were questioned by school officials and a police officer. They were arrested that day and taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention facility.
Court papers said the boys touched the buttocks of several girls, some of whom said this made them uncomfortable. The papers also said Cory touched a girl’s breasts. But police reports filed with the court said other students, both boys and girls, slapped each other on the bottom.
“It’s like a handshake we do,” one girl said, according to the police report.
Man says chopped up pal‘s body in panic
… as opposed to, “while calm and relaxed”?
25 July, 2007 BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A man charged with improperly disposing of a corpse claims he chopped up his friend‘s body, stuffed the parts in a metal drum and rolled it into a river in a panic after the friend died of a drug overdose, police said.
Felix Rivera, 23, was charged Tuesday with improper disposal of a dead body after he told police his story of what happened to Charles Gerber, police Lt. James Viadero said.
Rivera told police he became “paranoid” and decided to hide the body in a metal drum. When the 5-foot-9, 180-pound body didn‘t fit, he used an ax to cut off the head, hands and feet, police said.
Oh, Felix! Are you the reason RodMe has been MIA?
It appears USC and UCLA meet in places other than the football field. Such was the case Tuesday in Santa Ana when U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, above, put the hammer down on Barry Landreth, who was sentenced to six years in federal prison for running a real estate investment scam.
Landreth is a former adjunct professor of real estate and finance at USC. Carney? He’s a former All-American receiver at UCLA.
Prosecutors had recommended a four-year sentence for Landreth, but Carney would have none of that, saying Landreth abused his position as an instructor in real estate finance to lure investors and then used the money to buy luxury items, including a Cadillac Escalade and several show horses.
… A person claiming to be one of the victims wrote in the reader’s comments section of the Orange County Register(’s web site) that “I’m glad he’s going to pound-me-in-the-butt prison for a long time.”
