New Forum Changed to "Board" Format.

Okay, I figured out how to change the new forum to the more familiar board format, like it was on the now moribund "Topix." Take another look (upper right hand corner of the page) and tell me how you like it now. By the way, when the forum first comes up, you will see a "Post" button at the bottom edge. Use that only if you want to start a new thread. If you want to reply to an existing thread, click on that thread in the left hand column. You will then see a reply button on the bottom edge as well. By the way, when the reply screen pops up, all of that info it requests is optional, except for a name (i.e., "Mr. Tact," or, your real name, if you prefer) and your message. Oh, yeah. Right below the subject line, you will see some "message icons." "Hi" will always be the default icon, unless you choose another. You can stick any number of smilies anywhere in your message. By the way, when you want to start a new thread, the screen will look the same as the "reply" screen, only the subject line will be blank.

Cisco / RICO update.

A reliable source tells me that bright and early tomorrow (3/31), there will be one, huge FUBAR fur ball of competing attorneys in the same courtroom. There are currently some $10,000,000 in seized assets in play. One set of attorneys are the class action entrepreneurs wanting to gain access to the funds. Then there are the attorneys representing the various defendants wanting access to their frozen assets. Then there are other attorneys representing those charged under RICO, trying to get those charges out from under RICO. Then there is another group of attorneys representing the Cisco clan and sundry in-laws. It will be one hugely complicated mess. Good luck to the journalists covering this one! Let's hope that BTW's name surfaces again and again.

New Forum: "Camden's Soapbox."

Okay, folks, you asked for it: here it is (top right.) This thing does record IP numbers. It's laid-out a little different from Topix and you can damned welll rest assured that it will be run a whole helluva-lot differently than Topix. Primary rule: Show your ass once and I will delete that post and ban your IP number. Libelous posts will be deleted and poster warned once, then banned. I suggest we all Google "libel & slander" law before we go off half-cocked. Mild expletives not a problem, but juvenile bathroom humor and infantile sex talk will not be tolerated. Racist diatribe will not be tolerated. Rejoicing in another human being's physical disability (be it mine or anyone else's) or wishing - or even tangentially threatening- harm to another human being willl not be tolerated. Nor will anything else that pisses me off be tolerated. I think that covers it. Enjoy.

Sunday Funnies, Vol. 5.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD? WELL.. YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE. MY NAME IS ALICE SMITH AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN? UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT. THIS BALDING, GREY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE. AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL 'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE. 'WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?' I ASKED. HE ANSWERED , 'IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?' 'YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED. HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY. THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED, FAT ASS, GREY-HAIRED, DECREPIT SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED: 'WHAT DID YOU TEACH ???

Scofflaw Willie uses CCSO website to announce candidacy and to campaign!

Thanks to the reader who alerted me to this. http://www.camdensheriff.org/press_release/details.cfm?id=123 You might as well read Big Thug Willie's self-serving "message," while you're at it. http://www.camdensheriff.org/sheriffs_office/sheriffs_message.cfm Let me guess: Simper Fido took vacation time to write these things, therefor he was not engaged in political activity on the public payroll. Right - and Chuckie Sears is a "simple file clerk." Now, 24 hours later, comes this.... http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/032708/geo_262062694.shtml So, now we know that both BTW and Tommy Gregory will be running as Republicans in the July primary. Gamble, running as an independent, is guaranteed to still be in it in November. Folks, the time to knock Smith out once and forever is in the July primary. Even if you plan on voting for Gamble in November, for gosh sakes, go to the polls help us drive the stake through BTW's heart in July and be done with him. If Smith is gone in July, I see it as a win/win proposition for the county in November.

And speaking of polls....

The current polls on how readers of this blog would vote if the vote for sheriff were held tomorrow closed earlier today. Granted, the sample space is miniscule and my audience is skewed anti-Smith, bu the apparent appeal of Rich Gamble to this small group is interesting. Given that 74% of voting viewers of this blog most closely associated themselves with "damned outsiders" in a prior poll (results still up), perhaps Gamble's being perceived as the only damned outsider candidate gives him a real advantage, at least with this small audience. Note that in the top poll, where the only two candidates on the ballot are Gamble and Gregory, the race remains very competitive, especially this far out.

Snapshot of site stats.

As of today, at noon, the average number of different individuals ("unique views") coming to this blog every day was 55. Of those 55, 26 are first time viewers daily. The blog is viewed an average of 146 times per day by those 55 folks. You can find all the data by clicking the stats bar just below the hits counter on the right hand border. A larger readership would give larger sample spaces for polls and engender more publishable comments. If you feel so inclined as to tell a friend or two about the blog - by e-mailing the link, for instance - I would appreciate it.