Mystery continues to envelop a man shot and killed by Houston police Tuesday morning after a high-speed chase that ended near the Galleria.

The victim was identified by friends as Roland Vincent Carnaby, 52, of Houston. But who he really was — or more precisely, what he was — is something police are still trying to piece together.

Carnaby held himself out as a federal intelligence agent but was sometimes cagey about his precise job and employer. At times he mentioned the Central Intelligence Agency or the Department of Homeland Security. He was the president of the local chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers, a legitimate national organization whose board contains luminaries such as former President George H.W. Bush. Friends said they have seen him in the company socially of local law enforcement officials and high-level CIA bureaucrats.

The CIA told KHOU that Carnaby was not an employee of the intelligence agency.

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The CIA told KHOU that Carnaby was not an employee of the intelligence agency.

You can pick up the phone and call the CIA, just ask them if General Michael V. Hayden is now employed in the position of Director of the CIA and they will tell you they have NO knowledge of that person, standard operating procedure…

Maybe the guy was an CIA operative, maybe not, who knows, the fact remains, he ran from the Houston police, there was a high speed chase and the guy was dead when it’s over…

Now I may be wrong but I would think that if I had CIA credentials I wouldn’t be too concerned with the Houston PD finding some guns and/or knives in my vehicle, if the guy really was CIA, why did he run??

He would have known better, and even if he didn’t want to give up his true identity and use his position to take care of the speeding thing, he could have, or, should have just taken a ticket for speeding and swept it all under the rug as only a person of his supposed position could do…

“I can’t fathom any reason why he would be running from the police because he is the police,” Platt said. “This doesn’t make any sense. I can’t understand him running or why they opened up on him. This doesn’t smell right.”

I agree, something doesn’t smell right, but this guy wasn’t ‘the police’ as the article says, the CIA is NOT a police agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. Its primary function is collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers, the CIA is many things but it is NOT a law enforcement entity…

This is going to be an interesting story as we watch it play out, that is, if it doesn’t just disappear from the face of the earth, but that’s not likely really, is it??

Links never just go *poof*, do they??

Will Weider is just the kind of customer Microsoft (MSFT) needs to keep its Windows computer operating system franchise growing.

He oversees tech for a chain of Wisconsin hospitals — 14,000 computers’ worth. But Weider has no desire to upgrade to Vista, the latest version of Windows.

“I wouldn’t put on Vista if it was free,” says Weider, chief information officer for Ministry Health Care. “In the past, there’s always been an important reason to upgrade, but XP (the previous version of Windows) is perfectly acceptable.”

Even as it pursues Internet icon Yahoo to create a more potent online-advertising rival to Google, Microsoft is facing increasing pressure on its Windows cash cow. Corporate customers such as Weider are staging a rare revolt over upgrading to Vista, which launched with much fanfare in January 2007. Last week, Microsoft reported a 24% decline in Windows sales in the third quarter.
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Online magazine InfoWorld is waging a Save XP campaign. More than 175,000 signatures have been gathered. “Why pull the plug on XP when there’s clearly a lot of people who still like it?” says Galen Gruman, InfoWorld executive editor.

Influential analyst Michael Silver at research firm Gartner calls the Vista launch a “disaster.” Other critics have been no kinder. CNet called Vista one of the “biggest blunders in technology.” PC magazine chronicles Vista’s “11 Pillars of Failure.” The Christian Science Monitor likened it to Coca-Cola’s disastrous New Coke experiment in the 1980s.

Vista — not Windows — is the butt of jokes in Apple ads.

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Vista struggles to bust out as business customers snub it

Love em or hate em, Microsoft is a major player in the PC world, and even though there are other options, many of us really like Windows…

I was 1st introduced to Win95, a great system for it’s time, then Win98 came out and it was impressive, and Microsoft did a lot of upgrades along the way and made it even better, but then Microsoft did what they are becoming infamous for doing, they took a perfectly good system and threw it away for a piece of junk…

Case in point, WindowsME, then Win2000, both were pieces of crap, and you know, a smart guy like Bill Gates should have figured it out after he came out with XP, all the PC users were relatively happy, XP made PC users a happy crowd for the most part…

Leave it alone, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, an old axiom that goes a long ways…

We’re a 2 computer household and both of us have XP, and if Microsoft drops support for XP in the future, I will no longer be a Windows person, there are too many people that are very happy with Apple and their systems, and it appears that Apple does listen to their customers, if Windows won’t, hit em where it hurts the most, hit em in the wallet…

Microsoft can tout Vista until hell freezes over but they know it’s a piece of crap and I know that they already have their new system ready to hatch soon, it’s called Vienna, and it’s waiting in the wings right now…

I hope Gates and his crew of eggheads took the time to get it right, they seem to prefer pushing a product off on the public before it’s ready, and if Microsoft has a downfall, that will be it, and there is one other thing that Gates and crew need to consider, the CUSTOMER is always right, keep XP, bring out your new stuff but keep XP, for some of us it IS the perfect system…

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from: Richard Viguerie
7:54 am (2 hours ago)

to: texasfred@texasfred.com

date: Apr 29, 2008 7:54 AM

subject: Petition: Sen. McCain, Apologize to N.C. Republicans

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Dear Fellow Conservative,
It’s time for John McCain to apologize to North Carolina Republicans.

Please sign our petition, at ConservativeHQ.com, calling on him to do so. (The petition is at http://conservativehq.com/active-petitions/mccain-wright-obama/.)

As you probably know, Senator McCain attacked the North Carolina GOP as “out of touch with reality and with the Republican Party” for running an ad criticizing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Senator Barack Obama, along with two gubernatorial candidates who endorsed Obama. He suggested that their ad was out of place in the “party of Abraham Lincoln.”

As Rush Limbaugh noted this afternoon, McCain was essentially calling North Carolina Republicans racist.

Yet even Obama admitted, yesterday on “Fox News Sunday,” that his ties to Wright are a legitimate issue. And, after Obama gave him permission, McCain chose to criticize the Democratic frontrunner’s connection with Wright.

Time after time, Senator McCain has criticized Republicans and conservatives for their legitimate criticism of Democrats and liberals. It seems that he has leapt at every opportunity to apologize for the behavior of his own party.

Isn’t it time he apologized to us? At least, he should apologize to the North Carolina Republicans whom he smeared as “out of touch with reality” and out of place in the party of Lincoln.

Of course, he won’t apologize unless there is an avalanche of demands that he do so.

That’s why it’s so important that you sign our petition, at ConservativeHQ.com (http://conservativehq.com/active-petitions/mccain-wright-obama/) and that you pass this e-mail along to your friends and others who might agree with you.

If John McCain keeps alienating himself from the people whose support he needs the most, soon there won’t be anyone left to alienate.

Please join us in calling on Senator McCain to apologize to Republicans of North Carolina.

Sincerely,
Richard A. Viguerie
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My emailed response to Mr. Viguerie was this:

from: TexasFred
10:17 am (6 minutes ago)

to: Richard Viguerie
date: Apr 29, 2008 10:17 AM
subject: Re: Petition: Sen. McCain, Apologize to N.C. Republicans

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And you expect McLame to actually apologize?? Many of us have tried to tell you, for quite some time, McLame is one of the Dems, he’s as much a Dem as Hillary is…

Suck it up, you’re Repubs, take it like a man, you guys put him there, DEAL WITH IT!!

And that my friends is exactly how I feel…

Why would anyone want McCain to make a LAME apology?? One that he doesn’t mean?? One that would be nothing more than a less than sincere attempt at pandering to Republicans who are so desperate in their fear that they would support this RINO, this Dem in disguise??

And so everyone understands, I have NO problem with the North Carolina GOP attacking Obama or his Rev. Wright, I took a really good shot at them myself yesterday, but the immaturity of the GOP leadership simply astounds me…

They want an apology?? From McCain?? For being a RINO?? For showing his true self?? For making it crystal clear that he is NOT what he claims to be??

John McCain has proven to me, and many real conservatives that we were right in our estimation of him, and to all those Republicans that are supporting him as if he were the 2nd coming of Christ, sit on it, you’re the ones that put him there, we had several very good REAL conservatives running early on and the Republicans did what they have done for a long time now, they fell for the party line of BS and have settled for the lesser of the evils, except in this case, I’m not too sure that McCain IS the lesser…

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church.

Barack Obama’s longtime pastor says he hopes the controversy will have a positive outcome and spark an honest dialogue about race in America. Wright says black church traditions are still “invisible” to many Americans, as they have been throughout the country’s history.

Wright spoke at the National Press Club Monday morning before the Washington press corps and a supportive audience of black church leaders beginning a two-day symposium.

He said the black church tradition is not bombastic or controversial, but different and misunderstood by the “dominant culture” in the United States.

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Wright says criticism is attack on black church

He was misunderstood?? What he said wasn’t bombastic?? What he said wasn’t controversial?? It was just different and misunderstood??

I don’t know about you, but what I heard was The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God Damn America! and for those of you that won’t accept a report from the AP or ABC News as truth, here’s an even more scathing report from World Net Daily, Not God bless, but God d— America!…

This is Barack Hussein Obama’s preacher and spiritual adviser, his pastor for over 20 years, this is the rhetoric that Obama has heard, and regardless of what he says, apparently he approved of it, he would have ended his association with Wright long before the 20 years or so had past otherwise…

Wright doesn’t want honest debate about racial problems in America, he wants to stir up hate and discontent, and that’s exactly what he has done, but on the bright side, he’s also given us a DEEP look at Obama’s beliefs as well, Obama did NOT come out and condemn this man for his words, and in my opinion, a lack of condemnation for those words translates into an approval of them…

Obama wants to become the president of this nation, and he has many supporters, but not all of those supporters are Americans, some are Muslim terrorists, Hamas Endorses Obama, so, you have got to ask yourself, WHY would Hamas support Barack Hussein Obama??

I think the answer is obvious, he is one of them, as one of my good friends calls him, he is a “Stealth Muzzie” and he is, in my opinion, the real life version of The Manchurian Candidate…

Obama is wrong for America, he has no business leading this nation, he has, in MY opinion, no business being a Senator, but him holding that office is the direct responsibility of the citizens of Illinois and it’s their responsibility to remove him from that position…

It’s our job to keep this person OUT of the White House, it’s our job to stop this nightmare from happening and to save this nation from suffering through what I feel will be a direct move to Islamic control of this nation if Barack Hussein Obama were to be elected president…

Real Americans must unite in this effort, even if Hillary Clinton and John McCain aren’t the perfect choices for president, I don’t believe that either of them would give this nation away to Islam, I fear that Obama is waiting to do exactly that, with his Rev. Wright at his side as he does indeed cause God to DAMN America…

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