Eyeballs? Venus, al-Uzzah, The Morning and Evening Star, the Fallen Angel, Lucifer. Beelzebub, Bal-Zevuv, Baal, Queen of Heaven, and that's just a few. Venus has many names world-wide, she was The Feathered Serpent Quetzecoatl to the Maya, Yahoo to the Chinese, Shiva in India, Thor the Thunder God...and the subject of the Ride of Prometheus through the sky, when he lost control of his father's horses, Venus, of whom the ancients write, 'she moved from her wanted place' and 'caused great destruction on earth' - Venus, the subject of the Australian oboriginal's tale of the Rainbow Serpent that created the mountains and rivers.
Venus, that once was a Comet. Venus, depicted on the flag of islam, above the crescent moon. Islam's al-Uzzah was a comet that became a planet. Islam's allah is al-Uzzah, the fearful planet Venus which almost destroyed the earth. And now I'm outa here, before someone throws rocks at me!
Edward McDonald, 25, was questioned by investigators on Jan. 14, the morning police found his landlord, his wife and their two daughters stabbed to death in their Jersey City Heights home.
After the interview, McDonald walked out of the prosecutor's office - and coolly past the brother of the slain woman, Ayman Garas, who was entering the building to meet with detectives.
On Friday, McDonald and Hamilton Sanchez, 30, pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder in the slayings of Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife Amal Garas, 37, and their daughters, Sylvia, 16, and Monica, 9.
On Jan. 11, the night police say the slayings took place, McDonald, along with his wife and two young daughters, slept in the apartment directly upstairs from the rooms where the four bodies were left after the stabbings, investigators said.
They remained in the Oakland Avenue apartment until the morning of Jan. 14, when police discovered the bodies and ordered McDonald and his family to leave, investigators said.
After his release from prison in April 2004, McDonald and his family - his pregnant wife and her daughter from a previous relationship - moved into his grandmother's house in the Jersey City Heights.
About two months before the slayings, McDonald and his family moved into an apartment in the Armanious's home. Just before Christmas, his wife gave birth to a son.
His mother, Jenny Orbin - who worked for more than 20 years as a crossing guard at the school that the youngest Armanious girl attended - convinced a friend, Jim Walsh, to hire him as a laborer, paving parking lots in Jersey City.
For seven weeks after the slayings and the interview with investigators, McDonald remained in Jersey City, dutifully showing up at work. His boss described him as a "very dependable" worker.
"If I needed him to work early, he worked early. If I needed him to stay late, he stayed late," Walsh said.
"I'd take him back in a heartbeat, without a question," he said. "I wouldn't give it a second thought.
"I hope he ain't being done dirty because of his past," he added. >>>> SNIP http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1110190330146560.xml