Blog Heap of Links for the day 29 May 2009

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Obamanation

Obama"I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.

8:21pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

ObamaOn his trip to get a burger with Brian Williams at Five Guys this afternoon, the president appears to have learned of the existence of a Defense Department intelligence arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, from an agency employee also at the burger restaurant.

8:20pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Bill ClintonObama's predecessor asked the former president to orchestrate the response to the Asian tsunami and then to Hurricane Katrina. Obama gives him Haiti.

8:17pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

ObamaJustice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

5:14pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Sick, Sick, Sick

A Lubbock man was convicted Friday of kidnapping three children who were taken to Oklahoma on a three-day camping trip where they endured what prosecutors called "terror games" that included talk of cannibalism and sex acts.

8:04pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Investigators continue to search for a missing 5-year-old girl whose mother spoke of a sex offender considered a person of interest in the case as a "father figure" to her daughter, who disappeared five days ago. Police found a blood-stained towel, shorts and a photo of a girl similar to Nevaeh Buchanan during a search of the motel room where 36-year-old George Kennedy, a registered sex offender, was staying Thursday. Kennedy is a longtime acquaintance of the girl's mother, Jennifer Buchanan.

5:23pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

A jury sentenced a suburban Dallas man to 45 years in prison Friday for knowingly infecting six women with the AIDS virus. Philippe Padieu, described by his own lawyer as a "modern-day Casanova," shook his head and looked down when the decision was read.

5:16pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Disturbing Family Patterns

Desmond Hatchett's brood came to light after authorities in Tennessee in the U.S. took him to court for non-payment of child support. He has apparently set a U.S. record but said: 'It just happened.'

5:14pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Transport Tragedy

MIDWEST CITY, Oklahoma -- Just days after graduating, Carl Albert High School students are mourning the loss of classmate Ashley Parham. Parham was picking her brother up from football practice when she hit another car in the parking lot.

8:09pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Transport Near-Tragedy

A Tulsa driver is lucky to be alive after a pole fell on his car on Highway 75. He says a man hit the light pole with a tractor.

8:12pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW
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Liberty and Justice

Legendary music producer Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life in prison for killing actress and House of Blues VIP hostess Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his Alhambra mansion more than six years ago.

5:14pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Bartlesville - prairie frontier town

A promise made more than 30 years ago is giving a Bartlesville woman the chance for a free education. All it took was a little digging through some old files and a belief in commitment.

8:15pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Print is Dead

R.H. Donnelley Corp., the publisher of 600 directories including telephone Yellow Pages, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors to reduce debt by about $6.4 billion amid mounting losses.

7:11pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Digital Culture

Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia anyone can edit, has decided to block contributions from computers owned by the Church of Scientology, saying that it has changed copy to advance its own agenda.

7:11pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Energy

Oil futures rallied Friday, posting the biggest monthly gain since 1999, as sharp weakness in the U.S. dollar and hopes of an economic recovery boosted demand for crude.

7:11pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Lost and Found

Even though it has been nearly 30 years, when I first saw him I recognised him, he has my eyes.

5:17pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Digital Business

We're still waiting on what is expected to be an opportunity to play with Google Wave, the company's ambitious project to rework email, instant messaging, document sharing, and blogging. After doing some thinking, however, I wanted to highlight some of the points that intrigued me personally.

7:10pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

At the All Things D conference on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled the latest re-branding of its search engine. Forget Live Search--that's so three months ago. Now Bing is in! Launching in a couple of weeks, Bing hopes to make searching a little more useful and, judging from this video demo (warning: video contains Steve Ballmer), it looks a bit like the love-child of Google and WolframAlpha.

6:49pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Theory of Sex Education

after the boy's mother was tipped off by school employees, she checked her son's cell phone and found hundreds of calls and texts from Weber, the last text reading, "erase your phone."

5:20pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

Language Culture

An all Spanish-speaking television station has joined the Tulsa market. ... "It's an advertising opportunity, a marketing opportunity and a political one...."

8:07pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW

History

Outside China he is known simply as Tank Man. Inside the country he is not known at all. No trace is to be found of the young man armed only with shopping bags who 20 years ago blocked a column of tanks rolling through Beijing. His defiance became the defining image of the student demonstrations crushed by the People's Liberation Army. ... The identity of Tank Man remains a mystery. Did he vanish back into the crowd? Was he picked up by police and jailed? Even executed? Throughout the deathdefying stand-off, none of the many cameras focused on him from the Beijing Hotel ever captured his face. Perhaps only the tank driver and passers-by who pulled him away ever saw his features....

5:22pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW
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United States of America

ObamaIt must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

5:14pm CDT Fri 2009 May 29 :MW