AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!

About 9-9:30 this morning a construction crew cut a major Verizon cable in my wee little burg. We lost land-line, cell phones, internet. Bank ATMs no workee. Merchants can NOT has credit/debit card sales.

911 didn't work.

Dammit, I was right in the middle of a snarky exchange regarding pulled pork sammiches when teh intertoobz went dark.

Federal Judge David O. Carter Orders Posse to Find Fugitive Brad Keith Lee
By R. Scott Moxley Wed., Mar. 7 2012 at 12:14 PM

David O. Carter is undoubtedly Orange County's most colorful federal judge.
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If your name is Brad Keith Lee and you're reading this story, several hefty drops of sweat should have just appeared on your forehead because Carter believes you've dissed him and he'd like to see you in his courtroom in handcuffs and surrounded by snarling U.S. Marshals.
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Carter ordered Lee to pay $1 million in restitution, serve 24 months in prison and then undergo three years of supervised federal probation.

The felon got out of prison and now can't be found.

"I think he's in the wind," Carter said to two U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors.

The judge then looked at a middle-aged man wearing a suit and sitting in the audience. He stared at the man, apparently a federal agent, and squinted his eyes.

"Find him," Carter said.

"Yes, sir," the man replied quickly.
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"Bring him back to me."
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One of the interesting things I learned is that the biggest threat to the internet isn't malware, it's a strategically deployed backhoe.

The Spear of Destiny was the actual spear used by the Centurion named Longinus. It is thusly considered the spear that killed Jesus or God's Son.
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Constantine himself was once owner of this sacred relic. Yes, the same man responsible for today's KJV Bible owned the spear that killed God's Son. [Note: If only Chaucer had bothered to read the KJV, undergraduates would have been spared years of Middle English.]
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Hitler invaded Austria in WW2 to get this spear so he could control the world through the 3rd Reich.
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...a young apprentice of Himmler named Soros stole the great Spear of Destiny and kept it a secret. He later realized what he had stolen and decided to use it's power to reinvent the 4th Reich in his NWO.

Soros' awesome power finally explained: he has the Spear of Destiny!

Constantine himself was once owner of this sacred relic. Yes, the same man responsible for today's KJV Bible owned the spear that killed God's Son. [Note: If only Chaucer had bothered to read the KJV, undergraduates would have been spared years of Middle English.]

I gotta say I'm pleased with the quality of our most recent crop of newbies.

That won't get any of them out of the hazing, but still, I'll respect them while... well, I won't say any more.

I've not been able to attend one since raicha had her... uhhhh... unfortunate incident (do we still use the ice cubes and live frogs?), but I hope to make this one.

I gotta say I'm pleased with the quality of our most recent crop of newbies.

That won't get any of them out of the hazing, but still, I'll respect them while... well, I won't say any more.

having been found to exhibit “visible signs of problems due to conditions that affect their health or welfare.”

Amazing -- and here all this time I thought that James I was responsible for the KJV.

James is responsible for the writers (translators), but Constantine chose the chapters (Books).

Given the haphazard way the book was assembled, trying to figure out who approved what when and what got left out and why is mind numbing.

Michael D. Higgins, now President of Ireland, in 2010 kicking some Right Wing Radio Ass. (Palin is mentioned. ) The radio guy is Michael Graham.

So the original writer is saying that the KJV came before Chaucer? With a straight face? Or was that Tollie's edit? I iz cornfuzzled.

YOu sould have a look at his inaugiration presidential speach as well. Great stuff!

Meh....

Not a single one of them has brought us a shrubbery yet.

Come back, Fooogy, we misses ya!