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Per Satterfield@KNS, it's freakin' official, you betcha.
Hola amigos. How's it shaking out? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but misery's been flying at me from all directions, and it's been a damn full-time job to just duck out of the way of all of it.

Anchowerisms aside, here's a quick one-link wonder* which I'm sure will only serve to drive the O RLYs of the world deeper into public humiliation and further convince certain offended parties (covering your tracks successfully be damned!) that MP is nothing more than a bastion of left-wing ideologues.

Fool your grandparents!  Blackmail your co-workers!  Defraud your local government!  The possibilities are endless.

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* One-link wonder may or may not have been stolen from knoxblab.




Wonkette has a nice little pictorial of MMO"RPG" Second Life's precious little internet version of those adorable little tea parties which sprung up wherever three morons managed to simultaneously stop beating their clubs against the dirt long enough to hold up misspelled signs and embarrass themselves instead of doing their civic duties and directing Stacey Campfield to the courthouse the second he set foot in Knox County to come to their silly little party (UPDATE:  WAAAAAAH).

Anyway, I don't see what the qualitative difference is.  One group is a bunch of deviants and fringe wackos getting dressed up in outlandish costumes and making fools of themselves.  The other is Second Life.
Alleged Palin "hacker", presidential non-issue, and 2008 UT Men's Hacky Sack Semifinalist David Kernell has more trumped up charges to deal with today.

The brand spanking new superseding indictment alleges that not only did Kernell do all that other stuff (twice!), but also that he committed wire fraud (which was already covered by allegations actually relevant to the case at hand in US Attorneys Weddle and Krotski's original redundant and hamfisted indictment) and destroyed evidence in a Federal investigation (which I'll take seriously about acts committed during Bush II only after I see missing Bush administration emails).

Instead of clearing up the original indictment's redundancies and potentially exploitable defensive loopholes, the USDoJ has only created more with this new and "improved" version.  This isn't a surprising development from the legal eagles whose comedy goldmine of a response to the defense's condemnation of the prosecution's inaccurate use of "hacking" has more logical fallacies (And misspellings of Palin's name, for God's sake) than...Christ, I can't even come up with a comparable metaphor right now.

Kernell's trial has been postponed (again!) to October 27, further disrupting my plans to beg for a post-trial interview.
Air Force Keeps Air Force Members From Seeing Hulu Air Force Commercials

Okay, that's not technically their goal.  In all seriousness, bolstering the effectiveness of my taxpayer dollars by attaching accountability and an impetus toward responsible, knowledgeable use of the goods and services purchased with same is damn well what I want to see out of my governmental bodies, military and otherwise.

Tough love or not, I'm a fan of this policy.  Let's go national with it.
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Republican Congressman Redefines "Irony"

The senior Republican representative on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is requesting that a system be put in place to ensure that White House business emails be preserved, account of origin notwithstanding. 

...you know, six years after we actually needed something like this.  Someone get Rip Van Issa a time machine already.

While we're at it, someone call my boy Kernell.  If this goes through, I think I just found a great new post-graduation job for him.
Eat your heart out, Colbert variant!
Or, My Obligatory "Responsible Citizen" Post of 2009
Collating KnoxBlab Subjects Since 2008
In which someone should HIRE ME as a full-time CYBERCRIME ANALYST
In which I exercise my CIVIC DUTY

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