It’s early yet and there’s certainly to be more details and information to come out in the future but my initial reaction is about the two men who’s actions may have very well stopped this act: the vendor who saw it and the officer who first reacted.

Of the t-shirt vendor Lance Orton:

When asked if he was proud of his actions, he said: “Of course, man. I’m a veteran. What do you think?”

Of Officer Wayne Rhatigan:

For his part, Rhatigan, 47, said he still plans to retire this year after 19 years of service.

“Of all the idiots in New York, I find this thing,” he said. “I was almost a fireball.”

The event is frightening. Their modesty is moving.

Washington Post is reporting that Governor Bob McDonnell was among 30 other governors to receive a letter calling for his resignation or face “removal”.

The letter was drafted by Guardians of the free Republics. Their website doesn’t offer much in terms of their identity and members. But it does make a bold call to peaceful arms:

The  Restore America Plan is a bold achievable strategy for behind-the-scenes peaceful reconstruction of the de jure institutions of government without controversy, violence or civil war.  After consultation with high ranking members of the United States armed forces, the Plan is in the process of assembling the Guardians of the Free Republics and reinhabiting the De jure Grand Juries to…

You can check out the rest if you wanna. But the IRS is a cartel, foreclosures and mortgages need to be stopped, stuff like that.

The domain was registered by CopperCards E.A under the admin contact name of Guardian Elders with the email address clive@coppercards.com. CopperCards appears to be along the same level as Guardians in regards to their language and objectives.

CopperCards was registered by Clive Boustred of Infotelesys and Strategize. The same Clive registered Liberty For Life.

Infotelesys has some unfortunate news:

InfoTelesys has been placed on hold since March 10, 2003 following an assault by the government and the false malicious prosecution of InfoTelesys’ founder.

Poor fella.

Quite the virtual paper tiger Clive has set up here. I’d expect this guy to be hearing from the FBI fairly soon if he hasn’t already.

Back in the early days of blogging (well, not early early but early 2000s) there was a meme running around called the Friday Five. I forget the exact history of it and I’m sure there were a few concurrent sites or groups running their own thing, but it existed. It was kinda fun. The one I was following stopped at some point and the world was a sadder place.

You can see my old Friday Five responses here.

Feeling nostalgic, I thought I’d look around and see if anyone’s doing Friday Five still. And the answer was yes. A lot of people are. Sheesh.

Friday5.org seems like a good one, though. so let’s give it a go, shall we?

For this week’s questions, how about giving a thoughtful (or sarcastic, or whatever) answer to these too-oft-asked chit-chat questions?

Can do. And, to make things more interesting, my answers will be in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure.

1. “Come here often?”

When I get in the mood but not nearly as often as I used to.

or

Pistachio.

2. “What’s new?”

The Apple iPad, which is due for release next month.

or

Not much, man, just hanging out, same old stuff, you know. How about you? Family OK?

3. “[insert your recent weather condition here] enough for ya?”

Ha ha, don’t you know it? I mean, sheesh, when will it end, ya know?

or

Pistachio.

4. “How’s it hangin?”

Low.

or

Well, you know, weather and all being what it is, can’t really tell.

5. “How ’bout them [insert local sports team here]?”

You see that mascot of theirs? I swear, someone wasn’t thinking when they came up with that one.

or

I’m not a big communist kickball fan.

PS – Yes, yes, I know, I owe answers to questions from, what, October? I’ll get to it. Eventually. When I feel like it. Now eat your peas.

The urge to redesign J’s Notes is strong. But will there be content?

31

Now with more awesome!

So far 2010 hasn’t been as awesome for me as I’d hoped it would. Ah well.

Comments seem to be broken. my apologies. I hope to have time to fix them this weekend.

One of my New Year resolutions is to pay more attention to this site and give it the love it deserves. I typically suck at resolutions…

OK, so that’s not really how it goes. But it’s Wednesday. And Wednesday night is the night that we usually ask questions.

If you’re feeling saucy enough, ask me questions and I’ll answer them. Maybe you want my opinion on something. Or maybe you’re wondering my philosophical feelings on pie. I dunno, toss me a bone and let’s see what happens.