(A FILTHY LIE)
I was strolling through the park recently when I came across a familiar socks-and-sandals-clad figure doing… something… Curious, I inquired…
Harv: Hey Glenn, whatcha doin’
Evil Glenn: GAH! Don’t sneak up on me like that. Don’t you ever knock?
Harv: Ok [KNOCK!]
Evil Glenn: Ow! My head!
Harv: Happy now?
Evil Glenn [rubbing rapidly swelling knot on his forehead]: It’s a start. Anyway, if you MUST know, I’m setting up my Independence Day fireworks celebration by wiring bricks of C-4 to this helpless family of adorable fuzzy little bunny rabbits.
Harv: That’s evil!
Evil Glenn: Lawyer.
Harv: Yeah, but this is beyond lawyer evil. It’s practically French.
Evil Glenn: Like defending Saddam Hussein against war crimes charges?
Harv: Exactly
Evil Glenn: Well, I was turned down for that gig because I blend puppies.
Harv: Ah, I see, you were too evil.
Evil Glenn: Not evil enough. Jacques Verges uses an industrial paper shredder.
Harv: No wonder he’s defending Saddam. Anyway, I’m going to have to stop you from harming those cute little animals
Evil Glenn: It’s ok, I’m making them wear eye protection. The won’t be harmed, just exploded.
Harv: Well, as long as you’re taking precautions, I guess it’s ok. Have fun.
Too bad Glenn’s a little fuzzy on the concept of “minimum safe distance”, because, when I heard the explosion, I turned around and took a picture. This is what I saw:
(see extended entry for exciting conclusion).

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It’s back up!
Go vote now for the IMAO podcast! We will be number one this month!

I don’t like to irk fans of my site, but I thought I’d share this (since who wrote it was nice enough to share it to me). This is a report I assume filed to this site.

Knowledge Report
Frank Fleming
Blogger known as “Cadet Happy”
On Thursday, June 30, 2005 around 12:30pm, I was reading a web log called IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion) which is a political humor blog. It is one of my favorite web logs (or blogs) and I frequent it regularly.
Today, there was a entry posted by “Tom Cruise” with doctored images of the E-Meter and promoting altered tech and claiming it was Scientology. The posting was supposed to be humorous but is meant to ridicule Scientology and Tom Cruise. A link to the article is below.
http://www.imao.us/index.php/category/why-me-laugh/
The owner of this site is Frank J. Fleming. However, it is a group blog (meaning that is has more than one participant posting to the blog). The article is titled “Carnival of Comedy” and was posted by the blogger who calls himself “Cadet Happy”
I did not read the article in full (seeing that it did have altered tech in it). But I did leave a comment about how most of that weird stuff on the Net about Scientology is to make Scientologists and Scientology look weird and said if anyone wanted to know the truth about Scientology that they should ask me via email.
This is true.

(NOTE: The link doesn’t point to the article anymore because I didn’t like it in that category.)
Here are the reasons for report filings including:
* Any misrepresentation of Dianetics or Scientology.
* Any person who is hypercritical of Scientology or the Church.
* Publicly departing Scientology.
* Public statements against Scientology or Scientologists but not to Committees of Evidence duly convened.
* Anyone forbidding or advising against the writing of Knowledge Reports.
* Anyone refusing a confessional or refusing to answer a reading question.
* Anyone implanted this lifetime.
* Any person who acts Type III PTS (Potential Trouble Source).
* Any students or preclears who seek to resign or leave courses or sessions and refuse to return despite normal efforts.
I don’t think this post violates any of that.

Apparently we crashed the voting at Podcast Alley. This must be some effort to keep the IMAO podcast from being #1. I’ll keep you updated at the situation changes.

Last Thursday was a rainy day at Epcot in Disneyworld. At 4pm, I sat on a bench outside of Canada and joined in another conference call with bloggers about Live 8, this time with Mike McCurry (as Reagan is the first President I was conscious of, so is McCurry the first White House Press Secretary) and Mark McKinnon, chief media advisor to Dubya during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Also in attendance was David Sifry of Technorati.com (who set up a special Live 8 Technorati page), and Joe Trippi hosted once more. George Clooney tried to be a part of the call, but had a scheduling conflict. Thus, I did not make him answer for his crime against humanity that was Batman and Robin.
This was a shorter conference that the first, and I got in one question (and had another but it ended for I got it out). If you’ve seen the ads about One.org, you know that there is no fundraising involved with Live 8, it’s all about getting people on board to build political influence. My question (more of an observation, really) was that I lacked a good place to point my readers to that describes in simple terms what is the plan to help Africa emerge from poverty. Hearing Bob Geldof himself speak about it, it seemed like there really are things that can be done – which involved political and economic reforms in Africa. I’m at a loss to repeat that plan to you and am simply not as well educated on Africa, and my big point is that right-wingers are going to be extremely skeptical about anything involving rock stars and need to hear about things like making free trade work in Africa.
My other question that I didn’t get to ask (again, more of an observation) is that getting the blogosphere to all talk about this is not a simple thing. Sure, we’ve had influence in the past, but that was because issues sprung up we cared about (like the Rathergate scandal). There was no concerted effort to influence people; we just all spoke our voice. Here, no one is talking much about poverty in Africa, and thus we have to first break static friction to get a conversation rolling. To me, that seems like something that would require a coordinated effort, but I’ve seen little organization so far about this in the blogosphere (last e-mail I got was to tell me when the next conference call was). Actually, if some conservative bloggers wrote about this second conference call, I missed it.
Still, I’m hopeful there is something to this Live 8 effort. After all the criticism America gets in the world these days, it’s nice to hear Europeans like Bob Geldof and Bono (who was recently on Meet the Press) talk about how great and generous Americans are and how much good the Bush administration has already done in Africa. Despite the rock stars, there seems to be some pragmatism behind this. Not sure what I can do, but had to get this off my chest.
Be honorable, ronin.

Get ready! It’s going to be time for a bare-knuckle brawl! Yee-haw!

Earl Jennifer has now been telling lies about Frank J. for 2 years. and if there’s anyone who deserves lies about him, it’s Frank J.
so go over to Jennifer’s History and Stuff and congratulate her and stuff.

While you’re voting (or revoting if you voted last month since you are lucky good fan) to make the IMAO podcast number 1 this month (super-special patriotic episode comes out Monday, Independence Day, BTW), you only have hours left to e-mail your comments and questions to podcast [ at ] imao.us in a chance to win a t-shirt. It’s like Frank Answers™ – except I talk!
UPDATE: We’re number 2! Let’s go for number one! It’s a new month, so everyone vote!

I was the first to vote for the IMAO podcast this month at podcast alley.
BTW, voting starts over each month and as it stands we are only 5 votes out of first place!!!
I’m sure you know where to go and what to do.
Will you be first to be second? Or first to be 116th? I’m dying to find out!!