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Michael Devlin in Solitary Confinement for Life

  I read, on line, that Michael Devlin has now been moved to the prison and will begin to start serving his 74 life sentences in solitary confinement.  He will spend the rest of his life in a small cell alone.  He will never mix with anyone else.
  He kidnapped two boys and I bet he did other things in the past that we do not know about so he is getting what he has earned.  He will be in a maximum-security prison in Cameron (MO) and be housed in "administrative segregation" which is confined to his cell all of the time.

  This is what I found interesting...He can have one magazine and one newspaper and some sacred readings but no hardback books.  He will have no TV, no radio and no computer.

A Shawn Hornbeck website!

The End of An ERROR 01/20/2009

  It is going to be a long election.  We have about 9 months of the election.  We can expect dirty tricks from the Republicans.  I think that Democrats will win.  We have got to get these Republicans out of government.  The damage they have done to the United States is hard to believe.  It is hard to believe that their greed and Bush being so stupid could have such a bad effect on us.  Never again can we have a Republican president AND a Republican congress.

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My New Camera

  It has been like Christmas this week.  I got my "Joomla!" book last week.  I got my Uniden scanner the other day.  Today I got my book on Ubuntu 7.10 Linux.
  Then I walked up to Radio Shack and got my new Casio Exilim EX-Z1080 digital camera.  I got the last one they had in stock.  It was gray.  I would have liked to have had black but thank God they had gray I did not want the other colors.

  OK the Casio was made in China.  That is no surprise.  I charged up the battery and it works. 
  This Casio Exilim is a bit thicker that my last one.  But the camera is small.  I will do like I did with the last one and take it with me at all times.  I will be waiting to take some photos that I can post on the blog. 

  Here are the first three photos I took with my new camera.


  This was taken with me sitting in my chair at my computer desk looking outside.


This I think is pretty neat.  I was still in my chair, inside the house, and I just zoomed.  The camera only has a 3x optical zoom and I think I was just using the optical.

This photo was interesting because I set the ISA to 1600 and of course this photo was taken without flash.  I like the look and feel of it.  When I was young I always liked taking photos without flash and I am so old I enjoyed taking black and white photos.
I took the same photo about with the ISO setting of 3200 and it was almost as good as this one.  I may set my ISA high and you may see a lot of photos like this here.

  Well I am happy with my new camera.  I am sure I will be bugging you with a bunch of photos until I lose interest in the new camera.  When you see all the photos and wonder why I am posting...well if you read this post you will know why.  Smile

Casio EX-Z1080

  I do not own a digital camera now.  I must be the only person in the United States that does not own a digital camera.
  I had a Casio EX digital camera and you have seen many of the photos here on ShowMeBlog.  I think I did a little review of it.  They are excellent cameras.  They are not digital SLR and they don't have a 10x zoom or anything fancy.  But they are very small and take excellent photos.
  Last week Russell was going to spend $300 or $400 on a digital camera and since he is not working I was trying to talk him out of it.  I told him he could have my camera and he would not have to buy a camera and it said deal.  Now he has a digital camera and I need to buy a camera.

 

We Own the Night

"Public database sheds light on spy satellites

U.S. has more satellites in orbit than rest of the world combined

The Associated Press

updated 8:07 p.m. ET, Wed., Dec. 7, 2005

The United States has more satellites than the rest of the world combined.

The scorecard: U.S. 413, all others 382, according to a new database that catalogs the high-flying technology that does everything from transmit music to snoop on adversaries.

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Clampdown on satellite info

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For instance, the database lists 40 classified military and surveillance satellites with names such as Mercury, Trumpet and Orion run by the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and manages U.S. spy satellites. The classified names are listed only when known; often aliases are found.

The agency’s spokesman, Rick Oborn, said he had not seen the database yet. “From an intelligence standpoint, the less people know or think they know about what we have, that is certainly our preference,” he said.

A Long Way Gone

Ishmael Beah wrote best-selling "A Long Way Gone," about Sierra Leone war

Some observers question Beah's timeline

Beah: I "stand by" my memories

See CNN Story

 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The Associated Press on Wednesday that he will "stand by" what he wrote.

  I saw Ishmael Beah on CSpan BookTV and was spell bound by his story.  I did wonder  how he could be so normal and well balanced after everything that he had seen and done. 

"...During his time in the government army, Beah says he killed "too many people to count." He and other soldiers smoked marijuana and sniffed amphetamines and "brown-brown", a mix of cocaine and gunpowder. He blames the addictions for his violence^[2] and cites the addictions and the pressures of the army as reasons for his inability to escape on his own: "If you left, it was as good as being dead...."

The following is from Wikipedia:

"...In 2008, the newspaper The Australian reported that aspects of Beah's account of his life story did not match other evidence. The report claimed that Beah was 15 (rather than 13) when his village was destroyed, and that given the more compressed time frame, he could not have been a soldier for more than a couple of months, rather than the years that he describes in his book.^[7] These claims were subsequently denied in a statement issued by Beah, in which he called into question the reliability of the sources quoted by The Australian, and reaffirmed the validity of the dates, quoting two Sierra Leonean sources who corroborated the chronology of events given in his book.^[8] However, the publisher was forced to amend this statement after it was pointed out that it seriously misrepresented The Australian's report and that the sources cited were in fact quoted by The Australian, and did not validate Beah's chronology. However, the publisher stood by the accuracy of the book.^[9] As of January 26, 2008, The Australian stands by its previous report^[10] and has further reported that another prominent child soldier does not believe that Beah became involved in the conflict until 1995, not 1993 as he claimed.^[11] The paper claims that local journalists and relief workers can find no evidence of a 1996 fight in a rehabilitation camp that allegedly killed 6 people and "are confident the incident described by Beah did not occur..."

The 2008 Bloggies Award

"Honor. Prestige. Wealth. These are some of the things that a Bloggie won't bring you. But that won't stop the Web from voting, because this is the annual non-profit competition that determines which blogs are the best of the best. Get ready to find out who the 2008 Weblog Awards are going to."

Pharmacy Costs

  I think we have too many laws and regulations in the United States now.  I think a lot of the regulations harm more than help.  (No I am not a right wing Republican or supporter of Ron Paul.)
  I switched from the Any Any Any insurance plan to the AvMed insurance plan at the first of this year.  I have not seen the new plan doctor so I could not get my medications paid for by the new insurance company.  So I decided to skip taking my CoregCR heart/blood pressure medication because it cost $108.34 for 30 day supply and that is $3.61 each capsule. 
  Well it has been a couple of weeks, I think, and my heart pain is bad.  I woke up today with heart pain and pain in my left arm (yes I know I know..I worked hospital security for 30 years and I was an EMT in Missouri plus a CPR instructor so I know). 
  Now a heart attack is not a bad way to go IF you do go right away with it. 
  But I decided to go ahead and buy 8 CoregCR capsules  because I will see my new doctor in 8 days and he can write a Rx for me and then the new insurance company will pay for most of the medication.
  So I call in the order to CVS and tell the it will be for 8 capsules and that I will be paying cash for it.  I went to pick it up.
  Now what would you expect me to pay for the 8 capsules?

John Edwards Ended His Campaign to be President

  I was an early supporter of John Edwards but I voted on Tuesday, here in FL, for Hillary Clinton.  Now John Edwards has ended his campaign to be president.  When we elect Obama or Clinton as president I hope that John Edwards will be the vice president but if not I hope they find a place for him in the administration.

  I never vote for a Republican and if you wonder why just take a look at the United States today after a Republican president and congress.
  John McCain is a good and decent man and I hope the Republicans pick him.  But he is too old and he is a Republican.  I think he also has some issues that would not make him a good president. 
 
  Giuliani is a low life scum and thank God he is out of the race to be the Republican presidential candidate.

  The Federal Reserve cut the key short term interest rate again.  The more they do things to make is feel better the more I start to worry.  It looks like they are sitting there out of control.  All this interest rate cutting does not make me think things are going to get better. 
  But then I can't get my check book to balance.