9/8/2008

Troy Anthony Davis: Execution date set

Filed under: Death Pen. @ 8:01 pm

See Robin site for details, where she reviews the details of what happened the night Mark Allan McPhail was shot to death in cold blood.

I hope they go through with Davis’ execution, rather than bow down to his lawyers who are looking for the sentence to be changed to life in prison. We don’t need to waste anymore time or money on that POS.

Monday Open Trackback Party

Filed under: My trackback parties @ 7:53 pm

This is a trackback party, where people will trackback to this post with a post of interest from their blog.

From the Open Trackback Alliance FAQ: The entire concept is to encourage bloggers to showcase their best recent articles on other blogs which may not otherwise recognize or know about their works.

In other words, this is a way of developing traffic and driving more traffic to your blog without buying it or surfing.

I don’t have a limit, so trackback away! The next one this week will be on Wednesday, as long as I can remember to post it.

A great way to get involved is with Link Fest Haven Deluxe.

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using the trial version of iwatermark

Filed under: General , my photographs @ 7:37 pm

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This is one of the earlier photographs taken with the Panasonix Lumix DZ8 with the 12x optical zoom and 3x lens. It was taken at the end of August. I also enlarged the photo somewhat, but there was enough clarity in the image so that the detail remained.

iwatermark is a cool little program for my macbook that will enable me to use IPTC code to tag the pictures with; although I need to study up on how to use the coding. I need to upgrade to the paid version, which I’ll be doing later on this week. That should get rid of that annoying middle line that says ‘register’.

Since it was very cold today, coupled with the fact that it ALSO happened to be raining, I didn’t get out to Fermilab. I had intended to check out the Buffalo herd and other parts of the large nature preserve in Fermilab’s surrounding area. Somewhat disappointed, I ended up just coming home and looking through the photos I’ve managed to take so far.

There is something spellbinding about these little athletic birds; they’re only 6-8 inches long; they fly nimbly but self assuredly like little F16’s with attitude. While they’re doing that, they manage to catch bugs, either from the surface of the water or simply during dive bombing style flight patterns.

They also crack me up when I get out of my car and start snapping photos because they come in close to watch.

Freedom Folks on Sarah Palin and illegal immigration

Filed under: McCain @ 5:56 pm

Very interesting, since I am not “for” amnesty, and Jake and MJ have turned up what is probably her position, since Palin doesn’t even have a position statement available on the subject.

That is very troubling.

Who helped Obama get into Harvard?

Filed under: Obama , Terrorism and Islam @ 6:33 am

Saudi advisor to billionaires, Dr. Khalid al-Mansour aka Don Ward, from Texas.

Sutton, the founder of Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour contacted him to ask a favor: Would Sutton write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School?

“He wrote to me about him,” Sutton recalled. “And his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?”

Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour’s advice.

“I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly,” Sutton told NY1.

Sutton did not say why al-Mansour was helping Obama, how he discovered him, or from whom he was raising money on Obama’s behalf.

It raises questions as to how exactly al-Mansour helped Obama, outside letters of recommendation. One doesn’t have to wonder ‘from whom he was raising money’, considering other examples of foreigners’ interests in Obama - recall Rezko and Iraqi billionaire Auchi.

Texas Darlin’:

Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour is an African American formerly known as Donald Warden, a graduate of Howard University and Berkley Law School and “mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort, Bobby Seale”.

He is also said to have been mentor to Maulana Karenga, otherwise known as Ronald McKinley Everett (FBI Spy and creator of Kwanzaa), and the founder of the African-American Association. He was described as “the most articulate spokesperson for black nationalism at the time [the early-mid 1960s]“. He was also associated with future Judges Henry Ramsey and Thelton Henderson and future Congressman and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. Another associate was Percy Sutton, Malcolm X’s and Maulana Karenga’s Lawyer.

Newsmax:

In 1989, for example — just one year after Obama entered Harvard Law School — The Los Angeles Times revealed that al-Mansour had been advising Saudi billionaires Abdul Aziz and Khalid al-Ibrahim in their secret effort to acquire a major stake in prime oceanfront property in Marina del Rey, Calif., through “an elaborate network of corporate shells in California, the Caribbean and Europe.”

At the same time, he was also advising Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in his U.S. investments, and sits on the board of his premier investment vehicle, Kingdom Holdings.

MTV and Obama

Filed under: General @ 3:13 am

Now Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a PR Stunt, and MTV promotes foreigners for Obama with the British host, Russell Brand’s America-hating diatribe from on stage.

MTV piles on the Palin family; host Russell Brand promotes Obama, bashes America, Bush, and Christians; viewer backlash; transcript added

What a disgusting pile of rubbish to wake up to.