"Bad year, 2011, even though some bad guys and charlatans got a karma blast. Osama bin Laden got it up close and personal from a Navy SEAL, while his cohort al-Awlaki got drilled from the sky. Gadhafi went down, and al-Assad is tottering.
Schwarzenegger, Weiner, Sheen and Cain all got hammered in the court of public opinion. Blagojevich, Bonds and Mubarak were held accountable in actual courts.
Casey Anthony got away with killing her 2-year-old daughter. Amanda Knox finally beat the rap in Italy. And Kim Kardashian continued to be the poster girl for narcissism.
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, by all accounts a stellar human being, survived a brutal gun attack, but more than 20,000 Japanese did not survive the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in March.
But things like those listed above happen every year. The primary reason that 2011 is not a year to remember is focused around one thing: The folks continue to get a bad deal..."
(Bill O'Reilly)
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January 1, 2012
SandBox Comments: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel "Pair held in 5-day shooting spree"
SandBox is just at a loss for words on this story out of Grand Junction.
'SandBox Nanny' keeps feeling a sense of what law enforcement has got to be feeling over this one.
You are so appreciated. Thanks so much for your service. A very special thank you here in Garfield County to Garfield County Sheriff and their TAG program.
Stay the course.
Grand Junction Sentinel:
"..According to the affidavit, other events that occurred during the shooting spree include:
Plotner admitting he fired through a home’s second-story window, while Kintz drove. No one was injured, but one of the people in the home, Jered Sawyer, told investigators the shooting may have been in retaliation for gang-related violence. Sawyer told police he had stabbed one of Kintz’s friends during a dispute a couple years ago, and Sawyer had been charged with smashing out the windows of a car of another friend of Kintz.
Sawyer said he is part of the Nortenos gang, and Kintz and his friends are part of a rival gang, the Surenos.
Sawyer also told police Kintz, whom he said is known as “Wedito” on the street, published a song on MySpace that threatened to kill Sawyer.
“Aaron described feeling anger and rage at times and wanting to kill people. He said he told Darian that if he had anyone he needed taken care of, Aaron would do it. Darian talked of past issues with Jered (Sawyer) and showed Aaron, Jered Sawyer’s home.”
On the night of Dec. 27, Plotner shot through the windshield of a parked car outside of Sawyer’s home, but the men didn’t know if it was Sawyer’s vehicle. The following day, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the men returned to the home, 458 Mesa Lake Drive.
“On this occasion Aaron sat in the back seat on the driver side so he could shoot in the direction of Jered’s home. Aaron admitted shooting at the window of the upper level of the home, but did not see anyone.
When asked if he would have felt bad for hitting an occupant, even a 4-year-old that was home, Aaron said he would not have cared and indicated he was hoping to hit someone inside....”
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'SandBox Nanny' keeps feeling a sense of what law enforcement has got to be feeling over this one.
You are so appreciated. Thanks so much for your service. A very special thank you here in Garfield County to Garfield County Sheriff and their TAG program.
Stay the course.
Grand Junction Sentinel:
"..According to the affidavit, other events that occurred during the shooting spree include:
Plotner admitting he fired through a home’s second-story window, while Kintz drove. No one was injured, but one of the people in the home, Jered Sawyer, told investigators the shooting may have been in retaliation for gang-related violence. Sawyer told police he had stabbed one of Kintz’s friends during a dispute a couple years ago, and Sawyer had been charged with smashing out the windows of a car of another friend of Kintz.
Sawyer said he is part of the Nortenos gang, and Kintz and his friends are part of a rival gang, the Surenos.
Sawyer also told police Kintz, whom he said is known as “Wedito” on the street, published a song on MySpace that threatened to kill Sawyer.
“Aaron described feeling anger and rage at times and wanting to kill people. He said he told Darian that if he had anyone he needed taken care of, Aaron would do it. Darian talked of past issues with Jered (Sawyer) and showed Aaron, Jered Sawyer’s home.”
On the night of Dec. 27, Plotner shot through the windshield of a parked car outside of Sawyer’s home, but the men didn’t know if it was Sawyer’s vehicle. The following day, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the men returned to the home, 458 Mesa Lake Drive.
“On this occasion Aaron sat in the back seat on the driver side so he could shoot in the direction of Jered’s home. Aaron admitted shooting at the window of the upper level of the home, but did not see anyone.
When asked if he would have felt bad for hitting an occupant, even a 4-year-old that was home, Aaron said he would not have cared and indicated he was hoping to hit someone inside....”
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SandBox Comments: Pueblo Chieftain "Velez shaping police force"
Happy New Year to the Pueblo Police Dept. These guys have had such a rough time reshaping their PD. Yet, still managing to grow and keep up with making record-breaking drug busts.
Thank you for all your hard work and your service. You are appreciated. (Those K-9's too...)
(Pueblo Chieftain)
"Change knows no stranger, and in the last year it's been ever-present at the Pueblo Police Department.
Friday is the six-month anniversary of July 6 and the naming of Luis Velez as Pueblo police chief. He became interim chief nearly a year ago — on Feb. 16,the day after longtime police Chief Jim Billings retired...."
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Thank you for all your hard work and your service. You are appreciated. (Those K-9's too...)
(Pueblo Chieftain)
"Change knows no stranger, and in the last year it's been ever-present at the Pueblo Police Department.
Friday is the six-month anniversary of July 6 and the naming of Luis Velez as Pueblo police chief. He became interim chief nearly a year ago — on Feb. 16,the day after longtime police Chief Jim Billings retired...."
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SandBox Comments: Coloradoan "They're called BATH SALTS and they're deceptively lethal"
Robert Allen:
"Shopping for bath salts
Aside from the Internet, smoke shops are the primary sources for bath salt substances. However, when contacted for comment, people who answered the phone at seven local shops told a Coloradoan reporter they don’t sell the product.
“The people it draws in are sketchy business,” said Morgan Lindskot, manager of One Love in Loveland. “They just gave me a very weird vibe.”
Lindskot said her store quit carrying the substances about eight months ago, and people had tried to trade gold and “weird things” for bath salts.
Kelsey Trybushyn, manager at Rock ‘N’ Robin’s in Fort Collins, said her store also quit selling bath salts because of “sketchy” clientele.
“I’m not a big fan of them,” she said. “It’s definitely not a good thing to have on the market.”
WHAT ARE BATH SALTS?
"The presumption is that most bath salts are MDPV, or methylenedioxypyrovalerone, although newer pyrovalerone derivatives are being made by illegal street chemists. Nobody really knows, because there is no way to test for these substances."
Why are they called bath salts?
"It's confusing. Is this what we put in our bathtubs, like Epsom salts? No. But by marketing them as bath salts and labeling them 'not for human consumption,' they have been able to avoid them being specifically enumerated as illegal."
What do you experience when you take bath salts?
"Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality.
It’s a very scary stimulant that is out there. We get high blood pressure and increased pulse, but there’s something more, something different that’s causing these other extreme effects.
But right now, there’s no test to pick up this drug. The only way we know if someone has taken them is if they tell you they have.”
Source: www.webmd.com Q&A with Zane Horowitz, emergency room physician with Oregon Poison Center
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"Shopping for bath salts
Aside from the Internet, smoke shops are the primary sources for bath salt substances. However, when contacted for comment, people who answered the phone at seven local shops told a Coloradoan reporter they don’t sell the product.
“The people it draws in are sketchy business,” said Morgan Lindskot, manager of One Love in Loveland. “They just gave me a very weird vibe.”
Lindskot said her store quit carrying the substances about eight months ago, and people had tried to trade gold and “weird things” for bath salts.
Kelsey Trybushyn, manager at Rock ‘N’ Robin’s in Fort Collins, said her store also quit selling bath salts because of “sketchy” clientele.
“I’m not a big fan of them,” she said. “It’s definitely not a good thing to have on the market.”
WHAT ARE BATH SALTS?
"The presumption is that most bath salts are MDPV, or methylenedioxypyrovalerone, although newer pyrovalerone derivatives are being made by illegal street chemists. Nobody really knows, because there is no way to test for these substances."
Why are they called bath salts?
"It's confusing. Is this what we put in our bathtubs, like Epsom salts? No. But by marketing them as bath salts and labeling them 'not for human consumption,' they have been able to avoid them being specifically enumerated as illegal."
What do you experience when you take bath salts?
"Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality.
It’s a very scary stimulant that is out there. We get high blood pressure and increased pulse, but there’s something more, something different that’s causing these other extreme effects.
But right now, there’s no test to pick up this drug. The only way we know if someone has taken them is if they tell you they have.”
Source: www.webmd.com Q&A with Zane Horowitz, emergency room physician with Oregon Poison Center
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SandBox Comments: Steamboat Today "Jimmy Westlake's 2012 Cosmic Calendar of Celestial Events"
It's here!
Every year, we wait for Jimmy Westlake's cosmic calendar of Celestial Events to be posted on the Boat.
Still haven't picked up one of Westlake's annual calendars, complete with incredible photography?
Better change that...
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Every year, we wait for Jimmy Westlake's cosmic calendar of Celestial Events to be posted on the Boat.
Still haven't picked up one of Westlake's annual calendars, complete with incredible photography?
Better change that...
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