From The Police Blotter....

From time to time I'll drop something in here that sounds so improbable that you'll say "OWW, you have got to be making this stuff up!"
No, I don't.
It's a weird, wonderful world out there folks. Just full of idiots doing stupid things for our entertainment.
Like this couple, courtesy of my local rag, the Tribune & Georgian, of June 8th, 2007. They don't put all their stuff on-line, so I typed this in MANUALLY - wearing my fingers to the bone, all for my legions of readers....

Woman Attacks Husband With Electric Screwdriver A Folston woman was arrested after being caught outside the Kingsland Police Department beating her husband. Connie L. Stone, 33, of Folkston, was arrested at 1:30 p.m. May 31 by Officer William Lee and charged with simple battery. Lee reported he was standing near the rear of the Kingsland Police Department when he and another officer heard screaming coming from a store located just behind the department. He reported he heard Stone screaming obscenities and shouting "get out." Both he and the other officer approached the truck that Stone and her husband, Richard, were sitting in and witnessed her strike her husband in the face with a closed fist several times. Stone then began to hit her husband with an electric screwdriver, Lee reported, and continued to yell obscenities....

Honest, folks, you cannot make this stuff up.

Duke University Steps Up

HERE I enumerated all the ones I did not expect to "step up" and make acknowledgement of their sins.

Although I included the Faculty of Duke University, I did not include the University itself - I intended to do so, but I, Old Weird Ward hisself dropped the ball.

To the University's great credit, it has "stepped up", and made a financial settlement with Mr. Finnerty, Mr. Seligman, and Mr. Evans. No word yet on any expression of apology.

The "Duke Lacrosse Rape Case" That Wasn't

Nifong has been disbarred. See the story HERE.

What that means is that even lawyers - a notoriously self-protective bunch - are agreed that Mike Nifong, District Attorney, "manipulated the investigation to boost his chances of winning his first election for Durham County district attorney. In doing so, he committed "a clear case of intentional prosecutorial misconduct" that involved "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation."

In other words, Nifong has undermined the justice system of the state of North Carolina so badly that no one, of any creed or color, can have any faith that they will be treated fairly in a North Carolina court.

That isn't the only bad thing that's happened.

Who will make amends to the unjustly accused?

Will the faculty of Duke University, oh-so-quick to accuse, step up? I think not.

Will the State step up? I think not.

Will the Bar step up? Lawyers? You gotta be kidding me!

Will Durham step up? Oh, yeah. Sure. Right.

Will those who said "Privileged white boys raped a black stripper for the hell of it" step up? Rev. Jackson? Rev. Sharpton? The silence is deafening.

ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/FOX? I'm listening...

This disgusting rush to judgement has been marked throughout by what is called "the race card".

I'm calling "bullshit" on Duke University, Durham, the State of North Carolina, the Bar, the Drive-by Media, and the so-called "Civil Rights Movement".

A pox on all of you.

Yard Work

Finished off the doggie fence today.

Because I now live in SE Georgia (That's "Jawja" to them in the know), I'm going to put this post in the local accent:

"A'hmm whupped"

G'night....

Illegal Aliens In Our Midst

Illegal Aliens are the 800 pound political gorilla which simply will not go away.

Let's get a couple of definitions by example set up here first:

1. Juan sneaks across America's southern border with Mexico. He has no visa. He's an Illegal Alien.

2. Ibrahim enters America on a student visa. After graduating, he simply stays. His student visa has expired. He's an Illegal Alien.

3. Josette enters America on a tourist visa. She decides to stay. She's an Illegal Alien.

Let's say that all three of them marry, and have children born here in the US. The children are, by current interpretation of US law, US Citizens.

Let's further say that Juan, Ibrahim, or Josette come to the attention of The Law, and are convicted of a felony, and sent to the slam to do five-to-ten. At the completion of their sentence, the merest suggestion is made that they be deported.

Juan or Ibrahim have many supporters, all screaming that America is "racist" and "anti-immigrant". La Raza and CAIR have a field day. Josette is being supported by NOW and the French Embassy.

Out of the three, how many are actually deported?

Meanwhile, Colleen from Scotland, who is married to an American, and has a Green Card which needs to be renewed, has to jump through many hoops and devote two full working days to filling out forms and enduring interviews.

Meanwhile, Maria from Puerto Rico has to explain endlessly to booger eatin' mohrons who definitely should know better that Puerto Rico is AMERICAN territory, and that she is therefore an American citizen.

And our glorious Senate can't get their stuff in one sock.

In my next installment, Old Weird Ward solves the Immigration issue in two simple steps!

Yard Work in the Hot, Hot Sun

I have been burying a dog fence. An invisible dog fence. See HERE for details on the fabulous invisible dog fence. The reason I'm burying mine is to keep it really far away from the lawn mower.

The objective is to keep Tiny, Bruiser, and Ralph from running out into the middle of the street and getting their idiot doggie brains splatterd all over the road.

The start to this ugly affair was to lay the wire, then use a flat-bladed shovel to lift the sod, squeeze the wire in, and then stomp the sod flat again.

Two hours to go twenty feet and get a very nice blister on the right hand from running the fully-automatic shovel manipulator arm.

Step two was to rent a powered trencher.

One hour to acquire said trencher. One hour to run a trench three to six inches deep and two inches wide around the perimiter of about one acre.

One-half hour to return the trencher.

Two hours to complete the burying of the wire in the back yard - that is, lay the wire in the trench, make sure the wire lays flat, and fill in the trench. I have the assistance of Chickie a large part of the time, which helps a lot.

I'm now working on the front yard.

Due to weather, there's no living way in hell I'm going to get this thing done in less than three more days. The sun is bright and hot here in SE Jawja these days, my friend. The afternoon temps are 90F+, and the humidity is at 90%+. Even after 7PM, it's still 85F+ and 90%+. And don't forget, SE Jawja has the most amazing collection of biting bugs.

After the wire is done, THEN I'm going to start serious work on the young jungle of weeds that my alleged lawn has become.

This whole business reminds me rather forcefully why I originally thought that having a job in a nice air-conditioned bug-free office was a pretty good deal.

Paris Hilton LEAVES Jail!

HERE I mentioned that L.A. has a history of "special treatment" for celebs.

HERE you can see that the "special treatment" is a little more lenient than I thought it would be.

Yet another reason that I'm glad I no longer live in the PRK (Peepul's Republik of Kalifonia) - where, if you're a member of the nomenklatura Comrade, the rules of the proletariat do not apply to you!

Jefferson Indicted

FINALLY!

Jeez, it only took two freakin' years to indict this slimeball.

In between the time the Honorable Congresscritter came under very public suspicion and his indictment, he managed to get himself re-elected.

A federal grand jury on Monday indicted Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson on 16 charges relating to a long-running investigation into bribery, racketeering, obstruction of justice and money laundering. Calling it a "broad range of serious crimes," federal prosecutors called the case one about "greed, power and arrogance." "The 16-count indictment alleges a pervasive pattern of self dealings, bribery and corruption by Mr. Jefferson, in violation of his oath of office, of his duty to the United States Congress in which he served, and of the duty to the citizens of the United States," said Chuck Rosenberg, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Given that the Congresscritter was re-elected by some of the voters of the state of Louisiana, and also given that Louisiana's Governor Blanco, and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin totally screwed up during Katrina, I propose that:

1. ALL Federal funds for Louisiana be stopped, forthwith.
2. Louisiana be expelled from the Union.

Both 1 & 2 above on the grounds of laughable incomptetance.

OK, I'm kidding.

Uhhhh... make that "half-kidding".

Good Free Stuff

Another of the reasons that I've been MIA recently has been the instability of my primary home system.

I've had the same installation for two years, and I've been "doing these silly things so you don't have to" for all that time. What finally did happen was unexpected - the Linux install that shared my primary drive with Windows XP killed itself, and along the way it whacked bits and pieces of the partition table.

For those of you from Rio Linda, the entire system became unstable, and needed a complete rebuild.

So, I backed up all the data and started from the beginning. Six working hours later, I have a functinal, stable system.

Along the way, I found a couple of neat, and FREE utilities.

CCleaner (which stands for "Crap Cleaner") will help you clean up your Windows Registry. Get it HERE.

Page File Defrag is a product of SysInternals (which has been acquired by Microsoft), and can be found HERE.

Both of these are on OWW's List of Good Free Stuff, so get 'em while you can.

Where has OWW Been For The Last Month?

Well!

It has been a busy month!

Here in Jawja, the school year lets out in May - so the first three weeks of May are hectic with the end of the school year activities.

(Mrs OWW can give you a better rundown over at Moogie's World, HERE)

In addition, at work we were in the last lap of a 17-month rebuild of the building that we work in. I won't go into the gory details, save to say that the actual move of computers and networked equipment into the rebuilt section of the building went far smoother than anyone could reasonably expect.

The next big project will be a brandy-new, from the foundations up, building, into which we will move ALL of our little IT section, including the server room.

Taking the ease with which we managed the rebuild of our existing building as an indicator for the new building would be a fool's attitude.

Just consider - we're going to physically move the data center, do it within a 36-hour time-frame, and do it so seamlessly that our users will never notice a thing.

Well, that's my story and plan, and I'm stickin' to it!