Canon City Inmate Shot

An inmate at Canon City's Four Mile Correctional Facility felt a sudden pain in his leg on Tuesday, as he was walking around the track during recreational time.

When he looked down he found that he had been shot, which doctors confirmed on Thursday after finally getting the fragments out of his knee.

The prison reports that none of the guards fired the shot, and it is not clear where it came from.

Currently the minimum security prison is on lock down as Colorado Department of Corrections officers, from other prisons, search the facility for a weapon.

Buildings outside the prison are also being searched.

In efforts to look at all possibilities, officials are considering that he may have been shot from the nearby hills, with a high powered rifle.

Student Stops Bus After Driver Falls

Thursday morning while taking a turn a school bus driver fell out of his seat, into the stair well.

A quick reacting teenage student jumped up front and pulled the emergency brake, stopping the bus.

The incident happened near Platte Avenue and Chelton Road, according to Colorado Springs police.

Two Indian Military Helicopters Crash

Two military helicopters crashed in India, on Thursday.

All nine people aboard were killed.

The two Mi-17s were flying out of Jamnagar air base, in the state of Gujarat.

The air force is investigating the crashes.

A mid air collision is possible.

100 Year Old Man Injures 11 With Car

Wednesday afternoon a one hundred year old man lost control of his car and ended up hitting a group of people.

Eleven ended up sent to the hospital, including nine children, four of whom are still in serious condition.

The vehicle backed into and over the group of people standing on the sidewalk, with the driver saying his brakes failed.

Police are investigating the incident as an accident, and no arrest will be made.

The driver turns 101 on September 5.

Isaac Continues to Pound Gulf Coast

Hurricane Isaac may have dropped to tropical storm, but it is still pounding the gulf coast and parts inland.

Isaac has now caused a death in the United States, as high winds knocked a tree over killing a man in Pearl River County, Mississippi.

The storm is continuing to cause tornado warnings and flooding in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Dozens have been injured in various incidents caused by the winds, tornadoes, and waters; and hundreds have been trapped or displaced by the storm, with thousands more evacuated.

Some places have seen as much as twenty-four inches of rain, in twenty-four hours, and some levees are no longer able to hold back all the water, even as predictions of as much as twenty-five more inches of rain are made.

Parts of Louisiana are being aided by National Guard efforts, and disaster areas have been declared in fifty-eight of the sixty-four parishes.

Nearly a million people are out of power, help is on the way from other states, but some routes are not currently passable.

Residents along the Tangipahoa River have just been given til 11:40 CDT to evacuate as the levee at Lake Tangipahoa is about to brake.

The state government is sending buses to aid in the mandatory evacuation of fifty to sixty thousand people.

Morris Brown College Failed Business: Bankruptcy and Foreclosure

In Atlanta, Georgia, one college is bankrupt and facing possible closure. Morris Brown College posted a notice on their website concerning these financial troubles that are plaguing the one hundred and thirty-one year old university. The school's financial problems are rooted in federal grants to students. The college was receiving up to eight million dollars a year in federal student aid.

With this "free government money" (taxpayer provided funding) coming in, a former president of the school and a former financial director were embezzling funds and defrauding taxpayers. The funding they stole was not intended for personal use, but to allay some of the college's financial woes. The college is currently over twenty-seven million dollars in debt, struggling, and taking on volunteer lecturers and professors in an effort to maintain its various curricula. Alumni are even volunteering hours to provide maintenance and janitorial services.

The embezzled taxes defrauded from the citizens of this great republic are even more indicative of the false narrative that somehow taxpayers should assume individuals' responsibilities. In the case of Morris Brown's scandal in the early 21st century, the president, financial director, and school administration believed that tax payers should pay the debts of a private university.

The financial troubles are further exacerbated by the school's rapidly declining enrollment rate. At the time of the fraud scandal, the school had approximately twenty-five hundred students, with eighty percent of them on federal scholarships and grants. The school is now struggling to keep over fifty students matriculated at the university.

Now, the school faces a very real possibility of closing due to foreclosure and bankruptcy. 

Faculty, staff, and students need to realize that colleges are businesses. They provide goods and services for appropriate compensation. If they want "free education", they will get one that is worth exactly what they paid for it.

Like other businesses, should the colleges mismanage their funds and fail to employ a working business model, they will fail. They should not seek government bailouts or taxpayer money to allay their failure, especially when their failure is, in part, due to defrauding taxpayers.

Original and full article at Mental Aikido

Blue to Gold: Remembering Our Troops

You may have noticed our new "Remembering Our Troops" section. Whether you did notice or missed it, we wanted to share a little bit about the section.

We want to honor our American soldiers, specificaly those who give the ultimate sacrifice, and lose their lives in the service of the country. We are grateful for and respect them.

From now on, every time a US soldier is killed in combat, there will be a short post about them.

Kim Hedum has been gracious enough to commit to this effort. She herself is a blue star mom, and we hope that it stays forever blue.

We hope that the section sees no use, but it shall ensure that none are forgotten.

Each post for this section will start with "Blue to Gold".

Many people are not aware of the significants of flags such as the one pictured. They are kept in windows of houses across America.

Each star represents a family member who is in the military. Blue signifies that they are serving. Silver that they were wounded in combat. Gold that they were killed in action. A star is never replaced. If necessary it is sewn over with the new color of thread.

Cow Trapped in Tree

In Cumbria, England a cow had to be rescued from a tree.

The cow had fallen down a hill, into the branches of a tree, and become trapped.

Firemen were called out to rescue it, but had to wait for a winch to arrive, to life the cow.

A vet tranquilized the cow, even then fire crews wore body armor just in case the cow lashed out.

The cow is apparently fine, but bruised, and her owner is grateful to the rescuers.

Hundreds of Body Parts Found in Pensacola Storage Unit

A man in Pensacola, Florida made a rather unwelcome discovery after he bought the contents of a storage unit, at auction.

When he entered the unit he noticed a rather horrid stench, and found out why when he investigated.

Hundreds of body parts and organs had been stored in the unit, which had been previously owned by Dr. Michael Berkland.

Berkland formerly was a medical examiner for the state of Florida, from 1997 to 2003.

He had been let go for not filling out autopsy reports and suspicion of carrying out unauthorized autopsies.

Police suspect that the organs may have been stolen from bodies he had worked on, and are searching for Berkland.

Storage unit contents are often put up for auction, if their owner fails to pay for the rent for several years.

Pueblo Police Officer Wounded in Shooting

Pueblo County Sheriff received reports of a man shooting at cars near Hollywood Drive and Canterbury Lane, Wednesday morning.

An officer responded to the call and was shot twice before he returned fire and killed his attacked.

The officer is St. Mary Corwin Emergency and will recover.

Pueblo Police Department, County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado State Patrol, and the 10th Judicial District Attorney’s Office are all involved in the investigation.