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May 29, 2005

I went to the World's Largest Brat Festival today and yesterday. It has been cloudy, rainy, and generally not very pleasant weather, but the Festival went on. It was a blast! I have a great picture of me standing in front of the world's largest grill. It is a semi truck converted into a huge propane grill. I will get the picture scanned, and try to get it on the site soon. There were local bands performing, and tons of people. I do believe a good time was had by all.

Here are the stats on last year's Festival. People hope to break the number of brats consumed, but I don't know if it will happpen.


The Record Set Memorial Day Weekend May 28- 31, 2004
4 Days-32 Hours-One Tent.

Johnsonville Brats Consumed in 4 days: 189,432
Johnsonville Brats Consumed in lbs.: 37,886 lbs.
Brats Consumed stacked end-to-end: 17.94 miles
Brat Consumed per minute: 98.7 BPM(Brats Per Minute)
Average Brats per person: Not Sure, But It's A Lot
Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs Consumed: 32,160
Village Hearth Buns Consumed: 221,592 Pre Sliced
Pepsi Consumed: 14,672 2 Liters
Cups of Pepsi: 118,000 7 oz. cups
Onions Consumed: 1,960 lbs.
Mustard Consumed: 161 Gallons
Ketchup Consumed: 130 Gallons
Relish Consumed: 192 Gallons
Sauerkraut Consumed: 4,082 Lbs.
Napkins Used: 102,000
Latex Gloves: 14,000
5' Gas Grills: 16 Grills
Grilling Capacity: 9,000 bph (brats per hour)
Propane Gas: 785 Gallons
Volunteer Hours Donated: 7,667
Volunteer Groups Participating: 53
Dollars Raised For Groups: $53,673
Bathrooms: 5 Unisex
Madison WI Population: 203,211
Brats eaten per Madisonian: 0.93 per person
Brat Man: 1
Money Raised Since 1983: $363,616
Total Brats Sold Since 1983: 1,546,562
Brats Sold Since 1983 in Tons: Over 773 Tons
The Largest Elephant ever recorded: 7.25 Tons
Total Brats Consumed if stacked end to end: 146.45 Miles
Miles to Sheboygan, WI.: 141.70 Miles
Cost in 1983-$1: Cost Today-$1
Celebrity Cashiers: 63 Public Servants
Marriage Proposals: 1 Accepted


Just for the record:

World's Largest Brat Fest 2005
JP Stonne
Brats Consumed - 6
Hot Dogs Consumed - 2
Bottles of Pepsi - 1


May 28, 2005

I have found an acedemic web site that researched The History of Chain Letters. The site is called Chain Letter Evolution.

Chain letters continue to fasinate people, and if you are up on the latest Internet Scams, you'll see that the art has not died. The latest craze I have found deals with getting stinking filthy rich using Paypal. You know the routine. Open up a Paypal account, and send $5 to the 5 people on the e-mail list. After you have done that, remove the top e-mail address, add yours to the bottom of the list, and post the letter to 200 or more newsgroups. In a matter of a few short weeks, you will receive $50,000 or more to your account. This is all perfectly legal of course. My attorney friend told me so.

I was reading through the achives of letters, some dating back 100's of years, and found this one. Just to stay on the safe side, I have included here in Time To Blog! to ensure that no evil befalls those who enter here. It quite all right, you don't have to thank me.

In the year 1603.
A copy of a letter written by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and left by the Angel Gabriel, found under a stone at the feet of a cross eighteen miles from Indiconia. On the top of the stone was written "Blessed by thee that turneth ye." Then they endeavoured to turn it over, but all in vain; they prayed to God to know the meaning of it. In the same time there came a child about the age of six or seven years, and turned it over to the great admiration of the people that stood by, where under it they found this letter; to have it read they carried it to the foresaid town, where it begins: --

Whosoever worketh on the Sabbath-day shall be accursed. I command you to go to church. Keep that day holy, and do no manner of work thereon; for if you keep the seventh day holy, and incline your hearts to keep my laws, your sins shall be forgiven you; but you must believe that this was written by my hand, and spoken with my mouth. You also take your children and servants to church with you, to hear and observe my word, and teach them my commandments. You must fast five Fridays in the year in memory of five wounds taken and received for all mankind. You must neither take gold nor silver from any person unjustly, nor mock nor scorn my commandments. You shall love one another with brotherly love, and with a tender heart, that your days may be prolonged. You shall also charge them that are not baptised to come to church, and receive the same, and be made a member of my church, and in so doing I will heap my blessings upon you, and give you long life, and the land shall be fruitful and bring forth abundantly; but he that is contrary to those things shall be accursed. I will send famine, lightning, and thunder, and scant of all these things, till I have consumed you. Especially on those that will not believe that this was spoken with my mouth, and written with my hand. Also he that hath shall give to the poor; and he that hath and doth not, shall be accursed, and be a companion of hell. Remember, I say, to keep the Sabbath-day holy, for on it I have taken rest myself. Also he that hath a copy of this letter and doth not publish it abroad to others, shall be accursed; but he that sheweth it abroad shall be blessed; and though he sin as often as there are stars in the skies, he shall be pardoned if he truly repent; and he that believeth not this writing, my plagues shall be upon him, his children, and cattle, and all that apertaineth unto him. Whoso hath a copy of this in his house, no evil spirit nor evil shall vex him, no hunger nor ague, nor any evil spirit shall annoy; but all goodness shall be where a copy of this shall be found. Also if any woman be in great trouble in her travel and have but a copy of this above her she shall safely be delivered of her child. You shall hear no more of me till the day of judgment. In the name of God. Amen

This is copied from one that Elizabeth Darnell had copied in October 6, 1793.




Miss Indonesia 2005, Artika Sari Devi, poses for photographs in a one-piece swimsuit at the Dusit Thani in Bangkok, ahead of the 2005 Miss Universe pageant. It has been 10 years since an Indonesian competitor dared to show up at the swimwear event.

It's OK to cut someone's head off for being an Infidel, but it's not OK for an attractive young Muslim woman to wear a modest swimsuit? If they haven't got them covered up in a Burka, they aren't happy. I am starting to believe that extreme right Muslim's are selfish, and intolerant. The world is changing. No one is shoving a ham sandwich down anyone's throat. I praise this woman's courage.


May 27, 2005



Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm living is the life for me.
Land spreading out so far and wide.
Keep Manhatten just give me that countyside.

LOS ANGELES - Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly befuddled city
slicker-turned-farmer in television's "Green Acres," has died. He was 99.

Albert achieved his greatest fame on "Green Acres" as Oliver Douglas, a New York lawyer who settles in a rural town with his glamorous wife, played by Eva Gabor, and finds himself perplexed by the antics of a host of eccentrics, including a pig named Arnold Ziffel.


May 25, 2005



Jackson arrives at the Courthouse
on the last day of his molestation trial

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The defense rested Wednesday in Michael Jackson's molestation trial without testimony from the pop star, wrapping up a succinct, celebrity-studded presentation that portrayed the accuser as a cunning schemer and his mother as a shakedown artist. Jackson was the victim of false charges that surfaced once the mother realized she was being weaned from a lavish lifestyle the singer had financed, defense lawyers claimed.

The trial is over. The defense was unable to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jackson did not commit the crime. Since they were unable to prove his innocence, they persued the only option available. And that was discredit the Mother. There is no doubt she is a shakedown artist, a liar, and a general scourge on humanty. People like her give the human race a bad name. But does that vindicate Micheal Jackson?

What is the lesson here? She is a worse scum bag than Jackson, so he should walk free? Are we being told that he didn't intend to harm anyone, and this low life Mother who profited from her son's cancer did intend to harm Jackson, so he is off the hook? Well, I hope he does move to France. He can be friends with child molester Roman Polanski, and the rest of the deposed tyrants who raped their countries and fled with their nation's gold in hand. If you or I had been accused with the same crimes, and the same evidence, we'd be thrown in a hole so deep we would never see the sunshine again. Justice is a joke in this country. Just turn on the TV and watch the Coutroom Circus with Judge Judy.

I have said it before, and I will say it again. If you have wealth in this country, you can do what ever to whom ever you please. Jackson will walk. If he is intelligent as everyone says he is, he will keep his nose clean - what's left of it. One thing was said at the trial, and it sums up the entire fiasco in a nut shell. During her testimony she pointed her finger at Jackson and said, "No matter what happens here, the world finally knows what you really are." Small consolation to those of us who have lost faith in everything that this great country once stood for.

Back to things that really matter. This is cool!



Tim Pruitt, of Alton, Ill., holds a 124-pound blue catfish early Sunday morning, May 22, 2005, that he hooked late Saturday on the Mississippi River near Alton. The fish is 58 inches long and 44 inches around.







May 22, 2005

Revenge of the Sith is breaking all box office records. People beleive this movie is simply the greatest motion picture ever made. I thought the plot was thin, the characters hollow, and really nothing more than 2 1/2 hours of watching digital special effects with little or no revalence to the story line. The only thing that this movie reveals is the extent of the herd mentality, and the lack of individuality in our present society. Even if you didn't like the movie, I think most people are afraid to say so in fear of retaliation from the majority of the feeble minded Playstation Generation. I am pleased that other people have the guts to tell it like it is. The following reviews accurately describe what a piece of wothless movie craft the film is:

New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
And still the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden. To paraphrase Yoda, the only creature with truly human dimensions ever since Harrison Ford's cowboy-mechanic Han Solo departed the galaxy: Bored I am.

Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Revenge was supposed to be the one that really socked it to us, about Anakin's almost biblical fall from grace. But the movie never rises to its powerful occasion.

Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Until the last half-hour, when Lucas actually does establish a emotional connection between the landmark he created in 1977 and the prequel investment portfolio he laid out in 1999, the movie is one spectacularly designed letdown after another.

Village Voice
Ed Halter
Even setting aside the clumsy inconsistency of its interior logic, Sith is an underachievement of escapist entertainment.

The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones." True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.

Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it. But Revenge of the Sith is still crap.

webstonne.com
Jonathan Perry Stonne
The film was not without merit. Without Ian McDiarmid's convincing portrayal of pure evil, there would have been no plot to this movie whatsoever. George Lucas owes the vast fortune he will reap from this lame production solely to the acting ability of this one man.


May 20, 2005



We had a riot in Afganastan over the report that US Interrogators in Cuba had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet, and now we have this photo of Hussein in his underware. I wonder what kind of crap will break loose over this? Not any good news to tell you about myself, so I'll hold off for awhile. Am going to see Star Wars III tonight. Should be enjoyable.

DUBAI - Lawyers representing Saddam Hussein plan to sue the British tabloid that published intimate photos of the deposed Iraqi dictator, it was reported, quoting the head of the defence team. The photos in The Sun, one of which shows Saddam wearing only his underpants, are a "violation of human rights and in contravention of the Geneva Convention" on treatment of prisoners, Ziad Khassawneh was quoted by Al-Jazeera

May 14, 2005

Another "Nigerian Scam" e-mail. I informed the United Bank for Africa (UBA). I doubt they will find any humor in this obvious scam. I hope they write me back and tell me what measures they are taking to protect the bank's reputation. I will include the comments here in Time to Blog! if I receive any.

From: "OWILLIAMS"
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:44:21 +0100
Subject: CONFIRM RECEIPT !!!

FROM THE DESK: Mr. Oko William.
BRANCH MANAGER,
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC (UBA)
PLOT 669, ILupeju STREET,
P O BOX 75455,VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS.
LAGOS NIGERIA

ATTENTION:Sir.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though,this medium (Internet)has been greatly abused,I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest,surest and most secured medium of communication However,this correspondence is unofficial and private,and it should be treated as such.

I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from all what you may think of. I am Mr. Oko William, a United Bank For Africa PLC Branch manager, ILupeju Branch NIGERIA. ! I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that will be attached to this deal.

The Management and the Legal department of our BANK (UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC NIGERIA) in a recent meeting, recommended that the account of Mrs.Schranner Maria, who was one of my branch depositor,should be declared dormant and confisticated the depositor?s fund to the Bank Treasury according to Nigeria Banking and Financial law. he is a foreigner based in Nigeria, unfortunately She is late. died on a fatal plane crash on monday,31 july,2000,13:GMT 14:22 uk with other passengers on board as you can confirm through this website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

She is an account holder in my branch, she owns a dollar account with the sum of US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred United States Dollars Only) deposited in the account. In fact it happened that since her death,the next of kin of the dollar account holder(thebrother) has not show up for the claim.

This is where I am interested on and this is where I want you to come in.I want you to come in as the relation of the deceased, I will give you the contact of the attorney, you will have to write to him Telling him you are a relation to the deceased and that you have found out that Mrs.Schranner Maria has account with UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC ILLUPEJU BRANCH NIGERIA which you wants to lay claims through his legal authority.He is going to be happy to assist you. I will be the one to provide the vital documents for the claims of the money.

Please include your telephone/fax number/ Home Address when replying this mail and I will give you more information as soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in this transaction.We will use our positions to get all internal documentations to back up the claims.The whole Procedures will last only 7 working days to get the fund retrieved successfully Without trace even in future.Please i need the following:

1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3.HOME ADDRESS
4.COMAPNY NAME AND ADDRESS.
5.YOUR PASSPORT PHOTO

After successful conclussion of this transaction, we shall share the money 60-40.

I sincerely will appreciate your acknowledgement as soon as possible to indicate your interest to enable us proceed.

Yours Truly,
Mr. Oko Williams
Branch Manager,United Bank


Here is another one! I sent this beauty off to a Bank of Africa (BOA) representative. If you notice, it is the same scam, using the same URL as refutable evidence that this person was killed in a plane crash. And it must follow that this man representing the bank is who he says he is, right? It's on the Internet so it must be true! PT Barnum is laughing in his grave.

From: "malik ma"
To: malik_001@latinmail.com,
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION AND CONFIDENCIAL !!!
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:38:25 +0200 (CEST)

FROM THE DESK OF DR.MALIK ALIYASHI.
AUDITIN AND ACCOUNTIN MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
THIS IS MY PRIVATE E MAIL: malik_020@hotmail.com

Dear Friend,

I am the AUDITIING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD$14m(fourtheen million united states dollars).in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer(MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany)who died along with his entire family in Monday,31 July,2000, in a plane crash.FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELOW: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unlessn some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of application .I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately. Yours Faithfully,

Dr.MALIK ALIYASHI.(B.O.A)
MY PRIVATE TEL(00226 76619291.)
MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: malik_020@hotmail.com

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Hey, it's a hat trick. Three "Nigerian Scam" letters in one day.

Mon, 9 May 2005 08:48:14 +0200
From: "David Wood"
Subject: FROM DAVID WOOD CITIBANK LONDON

Greetings,

I am David Wood the Bank Manager of CITIBANK 332 Oxford Street, London W1N 9AA.
I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

On June 6, 1997, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the BRITISH PETROLUEM CORPORATION MR. HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE. Made a numbered time (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months, valued at US$29,500,000.00 (Twenty Nine Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity in 2000, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the British petroleum corporation that Mr. HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE died as a result of torture in the hand of Sadam Hussein during one of his trips to his country Iraq. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that MR HAFFEZ AL SADIQUE. Did not declare any next of kin or relation in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of US$29,500,000.00 have been floating as unclaimed since 2000 in my bank as all efforts to get his relatives have hit the stones. According to the British law at the expiration of 8 (eight) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to claim the fund and the eight years is the end of December 2005.

Consequently, my proposal is that I want to seek your consent as a foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money as the next of kin to the deceased so that the bank will transfer the money to your designated account. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out. I have secured from the probate an order of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I are assuring you that the business is risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest be for me and for investment purpose as I will leave London by the end of the year.

The sharing of the funds will be based According to agreement between {both of us} that is, me and you. As soon as I receive an acknowledgement of receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business proposal, I will furnish you with the necessary modalities and disbursement ratio to suit both parties without any conflict. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.

PLEASE, APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT DOING BUSINESS OVER THE INTERNET IS RISK. ENDEAVOR TO SEND YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER IN YOUR

REPLY TO THIS BUSINESS.

God Bless you.

Mr. David Wood.




May 13, 2005

They say Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. It certainly is an unlucky day for Anna Ayala, and her husband, Jaime Plascencia. It looks like the prosecution team has this baby all sown up.

Finger Traced to Woman Who Blamed Wendy's

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The mysterious finger that a woman claimed to have found in a bowl of Wendy's chili came from an associate of her husband who lost the finger in an industrial accident, police said Friday.

"The jig is up. The puzzle pieces are beginning to fall into place, and the truth is being exposed," Police Chief Rob Davis said.

The owner was traced through a tip made to a Wendy's hot line, Davis said. He said the man lost the finger in December, and authorities "positively confirmed that this subject was in fact the source of the fingertip." The nature of the industrial accident was not disclosed. Davis said the Nevada man, whose name was not released, is cooperating. The police chief would not say if the man was in on the alleged hoax.

Police believe the man gave the finger fragment to Ayala's husband, Jaime Plascencia, who was arrested this month on identity-theft charges unrelated to the Wendy's case.

Authorities are considering additional charges against Ayala and her husband, Davis said. "We are exploring all other options and avenues available to see that those involved in this charade will be investigated," the police chief said.


May 11, 2005



Shown in a photo provided by the Zion, Ill. Police Department, Jerry Hobbs was charged Tuesday, May 10, 2005, with murder in the killings of Laura and her best friend, Krystal Tobias, 9.

Hobbs admitted to authorities that he was the killer. The 34-year-old father, who had been released from a Texas prison last month, told investigators he was angry at Laura when he tracked her and Krystal in the wooded park in Zion, punched her and then killed both girls. The girls were found dead Monday. They had more than 30 stab wounds between them, and Laura was stabbed in each eye, prosecutors said.

If we were truely a compassionate country, this man would be dead by now. Several well placed blows to the side of his head would solve all his personal problems, and save the taxpayers millions of dollars in warehousing this piece of shit till they decide to execute him, or have his worthless ass sit in jail for the rest of his life.


May 10, 2005

If you haven't noticed, the press is having a field day with this "run away bride" story. I'm waiting to read about what kind of toilet paper she prefers. The humiliation she must feel for standing up the groom isn't enough. America wants to know all about her shop lifting, and who knows what else. Hey, better her than us, right? If we don't stand in line taking our turns knifing her in the back, the blade will turn on us. Isn't that the size if it? The sorry state of people's mental health is frightening. We have become a nation of damaged goods. What the hell is happening anyway? It must be a sign of the end times ... mass hysteria with rumors of cataclysmic mental health deteriation to come. People wouldn't know a true friend if they had one. People can't be bothered with that crap. It might interfere with their self hatred.


May 8, 2005

As you know, I have been following the BALCO Case. Have not heard hardly anything lately.

Barry Bonds sounds like he has a real jewel of an ex-girl friend. He buys her a house, and then she rats on him. I don't like that at all. Sounds like he might be in trouble with the Internal Revenue over that too. Women are bitches. If it wasn't for the snatch, they'd be worthless. Barry Bonds might be guilty of taking performance enhancing drugs. Maybe MLB should be investigating him. It isn't up to me. But no man deserves to get his nuts cut off by some two faced cunt.

I got a reply back from Hang Seng Bank. I knew they would rip this fool a new ass hole. Here is the response I got from them:

Dear Mr Jonathan

SUSPICIOUS e-MAIL

Thank you for your e-mail of 9 May 2005 regarding the captioned matter.
Please be informed that we do not have any staff " Mr Wang Qin" at the Bank.
The e-mail in question is dubious and the matter has been reported to the police.
We greatly appreciate your forwarding the e-mail to us for action.

Quality Assurance Department
HANG SENG BANK


Baseball Says It's Not Investigating Bonds

NEW YORK - Major League Baseball says it's not investigating Barry Bonds but merely monitoring the ongoing government probe involving the San Francisco Giants slugger.

The New York Daily News, citing unidentified major league sources, reported on Sunday that "MLB security officials are convinced that Bonds may be at risk of conviction over allegations of tax fraud, and are conducting their own probe into Bonds relationships and activities."

"There's nothing new. There's no investigation," baseball spokesman Rich Levin told The Associated Press on Sunday. "Nothing has changed. We're monitoring the federal investigation, as we have from the very beginning."

Bonds' ex-girlfriend, Kimberly Bell, testified in March to a federal grand jury that Bonds told her in 2000 that he had begun taking steroids. The San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing two unidentified sources, that Bell also testified that Bonds gave her $80,000 in cash in 2001 in separate $9,000 payments to help her purchase a house in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Bonds testified in late 2003 before a federal grand jury in California investigating illegal steroids distribution. According to reports in The Chronicle, Bonds told the grand jury he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by his personal trainer Greg Anderson, who was indicted along with four other men in the BALCO case. Bonds said he didn't know what he was using was a steroid, the paper reported.


May 7, 2005

It's Springtime, and the con artists are blooming. I found two scams in my Yahoo e-mail account today. It's sad that Yahoo has turned into the world's spam dumping ground, but what can you do? I refer to this style of Internet spam as a variation of the old "Nigerian" scam. I do like the Greg Pope version. Very convincing, if you have the IQ of a house plant. When you are financially desperate, or consumed with greed, it can affect your common senses. I went online to see if there was a real Greg Pope who is a member of the stated Committee. Seems there is! And he isn't happy about this email circulating the WWW with his name on it.

The second e-mail is hillarious if you really think about it. This guy must be a genius if he is able to compile legal documentation that proves I am a relative of Gen.Ibrahim Moussa. With my Northern European heritage, I don't think it is possible for me to pass myself off as an Arab. I actually sent a copy of the e-mail to Hang Seng Bank Ltd. in Hong Kong. Wonder how smart this dude will feel when he has the Chinese breathing down his back.


Hyndburn MP Greg Pope

INTERNET crooks have been using the identity of Hyndburn MP Greg Pope to try to con cash out of people.

Mr Pope was horrified when somebody forwarded an e-mail to him claiming to be from “the desk of Gregory Pope Esquire MP, Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, London, United Kingdom.” In fact, Mr Pope is NOT chairman of the committee, although he is a member.

The e-mail asks people to provide personal information including details of their bank accounts.

Furious Mr Pope said he had been contacted by people in America and Ireland who had received the same e-mail, which is believed to originate from Africa.

He said: “I am concerned that somebody is trying to use my name. I am even more concerned that they are trying to abuse the name of the House of Commons and the Foreign Affairs Committee.

“The vast majority of people who have received this unsolicited e-mail will see it as junk and an obvious scam. In the meantime I have been getting in touch with the House of Commons computer people to see what they can do.”

The e-mail also provides a link to the Guardian politics website, where it invites people to view Greg’s political biography, and includes telephone numbers and a “private House of Commons” e-mail address.

The e-mail reads as follows:

UNITED KINGDOM PARLIAMENT FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA

Telephone: +44-704-0121039

FAX: +44-207-5048147

E-mail: gpope@financesource.com

NOTE: THIS MESSAGE IS REACHING YOU DIRECT FROM THE WEBMASTER OF HEAD OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE LONDON UNITED KINGDOM.

From the Desk of ( Gregory Pope Esq,MP ) Member, Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee London United Kingdom.

I have contacted you to partake in Business that favour both of us.

Presently the Contract Investigation Committee London-United Kingdom under the House of Commons has just reached a new resolution to Pay all their Pending Foreign Contractors this beginning of the year 2005; So will demand for your information to enlist you among the unpaid contractors that will be paid this year, And after your information has been alleged and acknowledged by the board of director in charge; the sum of £15 Million Pounds will be paid into any Bank Account which you provide.

NOTE: For your Assistance in this Transaction; I am willing to compensate you with 20% of the total funds after conclusion of the Transaction.

PLEASE YOU PROVIDE YOUR FULL INFORMATION SUCH AS STATED BELOW,

[1] NAME: ............................................................
[2] ADDRESS: ......................................................
[3] AGE: .........................SEX: .............................
[4] TELEPHONE: .................................................
[5] FAX: ..............................................................
[6] OCCUPATION STATUS: ...................................


Also be informed that this Transaction will take us just 15 working days to accomplish beginning from when I receive your Data's.

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I also received this one on the same day:

HANG SENG BANK LTD.
DES VOEUX RD. BRANCH,
CENTRAL HONG KONG,
HONK KONG.
Hello,

Compliment of the day,Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Wang Qin credit officer of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd in Hong kong. I have a concealed business suggestion for you. Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client General. Ibrahim Moussa who was with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of ($20.5 M)Twenty million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war early this year. Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later find out that the General and his family had been killed during the war in bomb blast that hit their home.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Gen. Ibrahim Moussa did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Twenty million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration 3 years the funds will revert to the ownership of the HongKong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Gen. Ibrahim Moussa so that you will be able to receive his funds. WHAT IS TO BE DONE: I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we shall come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to Gen.Ibrahim Moussa, all that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names and Address so that the attorney can commence his job. After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the move of the funds to an account that will be provided by you. Once the funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we shall share in the ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you . Should you be interested please send me your private phone and fax numbers for easy communication and I will provide you with more details of this operation. Please reply through this EMAIL address only( wangqin221@indiatimes.com)your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Mr. Wang Qin


May 6, 2005

I backed up ALL my sites on Geocities. The only site I have not backed up is Time to Blog! I will play it by ear. If need be, I have all the files on my hard drive. It would just be a matter of uploading it.

I have to type quite a bit today. At $10 bucks an hour, it helps pay the rent. I figure I will make enough money this month, plus getting my previous security deposit back, to pay the bills. Not bad for a guy who doesn't have a "real" job. I will go out and do some delivery work Saturday also. It all adds up.

That is about it for now. I have to keep moving forward.


May 5, 2005

I finally got word from my Hosting Service this morning:

"Mr Stonne,

We received your message and apologize if you didn't receive our e-mail message regarding our paypal account. Some of our members report that they did not receive our notice. We had to discontinue paypal temporarily as our account was hacked forcing us to close the account. We are working with paypal to resolve these issues and will resume paypal shortly. As far as your account goes, you're a long and trusted customer and we will not shut down your server. We will contact you for payment when we resolve this issue.

Thank you for your business,
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I started a mirror site yesterday on a Geocities account I have, so I have a backup online. I backed up my Bruce Lee site, and will mirror the Powerball, and Badger 5 sites as well. I think I might have to see if I can get a free Blog service to put Time to Blog! on too, just to be safe. You never know what the future holds. Having a Plan B is important.

Will be busy typing most of the day. I have ads to put in Nursing Matters, and AdWorld Online. I have to study again for my CDL test. I told my soon to be boss I would take it again Friday.

Was doing some research on the Internet about CDL testing. 50,000 people a year fail. What that means is after taking the test a total of five times, they haven't scored 80%. I believe it. The second test I took was a joke. I'm not the kind of person that likes to make excuses, but the test is a farce. Over half of the questions I saw were not included in the study guide provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). I suppose they have to narrow the number of people eligible to apply for driving positions. That doesn't make it right. I will just keep my fingers crossed, and hope I can guese correctly this next time around. I have three shots left to get this behind me, and get started on my training with Badger Bus Lines. Life isn't fair. It's no wonder people are turning on one another.


May 4, 2005



If Paula Abdul asked me to be her "special friend", I'd probably have an accident in my pants. Seriously, she's a hot babe. Who cares if she is 42. Corey Clark is spilling the beans on his roll in the hay with a celebrity. What else is new? This is what I have been saying lately. You sleep around for profit. You sleep with people to advance yourself. You befriend people because they can do something for you. Friendship is a commodity that you trade on the open market. You think if someone came along that you shared certain values and beliefs with you might tend to be loyal to that person. Work together. Take the World on as a team. Pool your resources. I would think that, but I'm wrong. People only want to pool together long enough to get what they want. Immediate gratification seems to be the buzz world of the 21st Century. Who cares about tomorrow? People can only see the immediate furure and don't bother thinking about long term benefits. So Corey Clark is selling out Paula Abdul for quick fame and a quick buck. He's an idiot. He'll go back to being a common joe just like everyone else when the next big thing hits the tabloids.

I'm looking long term. Well, 20 years anyway. Each and every day you have to create the Reality that you want to live in. You can't wait and see how things will turn out. You have to direct and shape the life you want to have. It isn't going to turn out perfect. Life isn't fair. That is the one constant in the Universe. But you can still build something close to what you imagine if you work on it everyday. That has been my weakness. No one ever taught me this. My family is a bunch of stumbling morons who couldn't plan out a grocery list. It's a wonder I have been able to get this far. The last push is the hardest. My faith in humanity stinks. I hear myself saying, "why bother caring about anything"? Getting up each day and dealing with the stench of the Great Unwashed is almost more than I can deal with. That is my problem. I have to narrow my focus. In that respect, it is "everyman for himself". You have to stick to your plans regardless of the absurdities that Life presents. I have no control over that. I can't control things. That is a mistake too. You have to go with the flow of your own creation. You can't force things to happen. You must let them happen. And, accept the results that are not perfectly attuned with your vision. Creating your Reality is an unending process.

webstonne.com is still online, so maybe my Host made a mistake sending me the cancellation notice. Will have to see what happens. No response from my inquiry on what the details are.



The prosecution team finnished it presentation today in the Micheal Jackson molestation trial. In the picture you see Jackson readjusting his prosthetic nose.


May 3, 2005

I just received notice that my web hosting account has been cancelled! On April 25, 2005 I was informed that my monthly payment did not process due to a technical problem on their end. I emailed and informed them right away that if the problem persisted, I would be more than happy to make payment arrangements through other means. I never heard from them. Now, I get this bad news. If need be, I will get another Host.

Talk about a pain in the ass. I just renewed my Domain Name with them for two years. If they boot me, I will have to get that money back. I hope I get some answers soon.


May 2, 2005



Is there any wonder why there is a can and a bottle of beer in this picture? This has to be a gag photo. Would someone really have a toilet mounted on the front porch? It is more likely a bar stool.

I watched a great documentary on PBS about The Ramones. I never realized the influence they had on the whole "punk" rock movement. In fact, they were a driving force behind many groups getting together. After people saw them, they said, "we can do that ..." The Sex Pistols, and The Clash both said they owe their formations to The Ramones. I never was into "punk" rock, but I do like some of the songs The Ramones did; The KKK Took My Baby Away and 53rd and 3rd kick ass. The albumn Phil Spector did with them didn't do much for me. But, according to the documentary, they never did enjoy the financial success they deserved. Radios stations didn't give their music much air time. Joey Ramone died at the age of 49 because of cancer. He died lonely. Chi Chi died of a heroine overdose about two months after they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. All in all, it was a sad, tragic story. But as Johnny Ramone said, ".... you accept things. You realize the way things are and they won't change. You deal with it. You realize it's just a job, and you go out and get the money." I'm sure he isn't hurting today, but he isn't filthy stinking rich.