I had a few requests, so I have put my HSAS Watcher script (the one that generates that cool little box with the terror threat level at the top of my pages) up on The Alligator Pit. Enjoy…

Yes, It’s Friday time again….

1. What do you most want to be remembered for?

Being a good father and husband.

2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life?

I think, therefore I am.

3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past year?

In the past year? Helping JM learn his numbers and letters.

4. What about the past ten years?

Finding my wife (okay, realizing she found me, sheesh) and settling down.

5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would you say?

mangi la porta (If you habe you to ask, you DO NOT want to know)

He’s baaaaaaack.

Thayrone, aka Terry Hughes, the uninhibited host of the “Bone Conduction Music Show” who was fired April 2 by WEMU-FM (89.1 FM) in Ypsilanti, has been picked up by Kool 107 (WQKL-FM, 107.1) in Ann Arbor.

’bout time someone got smart and put this guy back in front of a mic.

If you have not read Ann Coulter’s article on global warming, you should. Whether you like her or not, the article is very informative.

Did you know:

Even Kyoto rejected Kyoto.

and

God knows how many trees had to be sacrificed to print new data refuting global warming.

It’s a good read. So. Go. Read.

The number of people with SARS in the latest outbreak in Canada’s largest city tripled to 33 on Thursday when health officials broadened their definition of what constitutes a probable case to meet international standards.

It’s so very nice of Canada to rise to the occasion and “meet international standards”.

Prime Minister Jean Chretien promised his government would provide financial help to fight SARS in Toronto, and insisted the city was safe to visit.

Of course the city is safe to visit, for everyone who keeps their head in the sand, like you Mr. Chretien.

Despite the SARS scare, life has continued as usual in the metropolitan area of more than 3 million people on the north shore of Lake Ontario. No one wears masks in the bustling downtown streets, and restaurants, theaters and other entertainment venues remain open despite complaints of decreased business because of SARS.

It sounds to me, if “venues remain open despite complaints of decreased business because of SARS” then “life has not continued as usual“.

Okay, okay, so there is no travel ban to Russia. Sheesh.

Russia reported its first case of SARS on Wednesday on its border with hard-hit China, while two more people died from the virus in Toronto, where a school was closed and thousands quarantined on concern the illness may be spreading outside hospitals.

The first confirmed case of SARS in Russia, a man living in Blagoveshchensk on the Amur river, which forms the frontier with China, came as Chinese President Hu Jintao tried to persuade the world his country could contain the disease.

Umm… I think you better re-think that thought.

Well, I finally did it. I finished the long anticipated new game, Just The Facts, M’am!.

Actually, it has been done for two days now, but I have been working at night to complete some new That’s A Fact Packs for the game.

Anyway, it’s done. Here is the description:

A combination of “Concentration” with a splash of trivia. Test your trivia knowledge and your memory while you try to match the clues with the answers in this exciting new game from The Alligator Pit. Win points as you make matches, and watch your points dwindle as you view hints, or peek at the board. You better play quick, each second costs you another point, but you can pause the game to catch your breath.

The game comes complete with 14 background images (you can add more of your own at any time), 80 basic facts (with images), and 43 U.S. President facts (with images) to keep you playing for hours. You can also download additional “That’s A Fact” Packs to add the number of facts to the game. Fact Packs are available at no additional charge, but you must be a registered user to add the fact packs to the game.

Go. Get. It. You. Know. You. Want. It.

More than 6,400 people, including 2,000 from the school, are now in quarantine in greater Toronto after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome resurfaced six days ago.

“Unfortunately, they were not taken seriously,” Doris Grinspun, executive director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, told Reuters, describing it as “ridiculous” that no one paid attention.

It sounds to me like the hospitals in Canada have the same problems that we have in ours. The doctors never listen to the nurses.

“This is not a problem that is serious … It is not dangerous to travel to Toronto at all,” Chretien told a news conference in Athens, Greece, after a summit between Canada and the European Union.

Obviously, if the only places with deaths are in Asia and Canada, I think I would avoid BOTH, no matter what “The Cretin” says.

Editors Note: I am NOT bashing Canada, I am not bashing Canada. I am just stating my opinions about the SARS outbreak, not the Canadian people (except “The Cretin”).

Is this still making news?

Sultanna Freeman, 35, says Florida’s insistence on photographing her face violates her religious rights.

Assistant Attorney General Jason Vail argued that having an easily identifiable photo on a driver’s license is a matter of public safety.

I have no problem with your “religious rights”. However, you must remember,

Florida law requires identification, proof of date of birth and social security number (if issued) from all customers before a driver license or identification card can be issued.

Therefore, if wear a veil, no one can see your face, and you cannot be identified. Which means, by Florida law, that you CANNOT be issued a driver’s license. PERIOD.

Freeman claims her religious beliefs require her to keep her head and face covered out of modesty and that her faith prohibits her face from being photographed.

If you don’t like the rules, then don’t play the game. I hear that public transportation in your area is quite efficient.

NEXT!

–Capt. Delbert A. Olson of Casselton, N.D.

–Petty Officer 3rd Class Gale R. Siow of Huntington Park, Calif.

The men were aboard a Navy OP-2E Neptune plane that crashed into a mountain in Laos in January 1968. The remains were recovered during six U.S.-Lao missions to the crash site between 1993 and last year, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Their plane left a base in Thailand on Jan. 11, 1968, on a mission to drop sensors in Laos to detect enemy movements, the Pentagon statement said. The crew reported their plane’s descent through dense clouds in its last radio transmission.

The nine will be buried June 18 in a joint observance at Arlington National Cemetery