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A brief visit with my spring breaking son and springtime have kept me away from the computer. Some grilling may continue to do the same. If I hear anything, I'll try to pass it along. Otherwise, the line is open.

The best story brewing in Arkansas now, though it's not yet fully ripe for us, concerns the highly paid public servant who used his public cell phone for a few hundred calls and text messages unrelated to his public job. That wasn't the last dumb thing the public servant did. After a taxpayer complained to the employee's supervisors, the public servant didn't apologize or volunteer to reverse any of the charges, he sicced a lawyer on the taxpayer with a threatening letter. Would he really sue? Would he really invite court testimony on his telephone records? We could hope. Oh, boy, we could hope.

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Not much slacking here. Just finished mowing the jungle. Hadda go buy a new mower to do that, 'cause I couldn't get ol' faithful to start. Mama did all the inside housework. We're both too old for this. Trying to figure a way to get rich so we can have domestic servants. How hard could it be, getting rich? There's a lot of really stupid people who did it. That either means there's some little secret trick to it, or I'm something below "stupid" on the food chain. So, for the sake of my self-esteem, I'm just gonna hope it's just a secret that nobody's let me in on. Don't s'pose anybody'd like to hep a brudder out by spilling the beans? Looking out my window, I can see that grass growing already.

It looks like this public servant had something to Bragg about.

Thanks for the hint Red but, I'm still in the dark.
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Before Springtime weather entices you to swill in more bottled stuff read this and click blue name for the rest. Who says Bushco cannot act in public interest.

"US food safety authorities have re-opened an investigation closed 15 years ago into soft drinks contaminated with cancer-causing chemical benzene, following evidence the industry has failed to sort out the problem, BeverageDaily.com can reveal."

Lwood, Donna Bragg, Fayetteville Ch. 16, rumors of connections with said public servant via celluar phone and so forth.

Come on, you bunch of teases! Which public servant?

Thanks Cato. Donna is a hot ncaster, good looking woman.

Rick Baber
Regarding your quest for riches I may have the solution for you. A certain
Miss Luzeeda MuGuhho, whose father is a disposed African king just sent me an intriguing E-mail. Seems her nation overlooked confiscating over U.S. $20 Million which are now held in Security in her palace and for which she seeks an exclusive agent in the U.S. who will handle the transfer and deposit of funds for her and her family. She also noted for none to apply unless they are a Christian person who serves the Lord. She was offering one fourth of the of her family's scared treasure to the person chosen to handle the transaction. Contact me if interested. For a small fee I can put you in touch with the King's daughter and your on you way to riches.
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Donna does some good work for the K-HOG news team.

I hear from the Darkside, she's a Hugger.

Moons ago, I believe she worked at Fort Smith's Ch. 5 (CBS affiliate). And, as I recall, she is a grad of SMU.....I think.

I suspect that the civil servant in question is none other than a certain coach. Just a suspicion, based on earlier rumors and subsequent semi-revelations. That's all I can say.

Uh-oh

Thanks Lwood, but the problem is solved. I just won some Powerball Lotto International. All I gotta do now is tell them if I want to go to Madrid and pick up the money, or have it wired to my bank account. I think it's really cool how you can win by them simply drawing your e-mail address. I don't even have to prove it's mine! Matter of fact, I'm feeling generous. I think I'll tell them I'm somebody else and have them wire the money to their account. Anybody got Dick Cheney's bank account numbers?

Everyone needs to read the VF article on Billiken Man.

Dang Rick, I thought my email was THE winning draw. I was supposed to pick up the entire package in Madagascar.
Maybe our paths will cross.

Open line, anything goes...

Ok, how about this:

Is anyone else in this choking smoke from the prescribed burns going on? I hope they haven't let it get away with them like what happened a few years ago in IIRC Arizona! We live in the woods in a wood home!

This is nuts! It started on Thursday and it's still going. It has never been THIS bad here when they burned!

Lwood I am so happy for you! I have done already won the same thing!

I think mine came from Madagascar or some such. It had to do with terrists and them not letting these good people get their money outta the US and of all people, of all concerned citizens, they chose ME. I am honored and awed.

come on quit teasing here, Im so dense I thought you meant Rick Bragg till someone clued me in that it was Donna. a coach was involved in this??? gee whiz I wonder if he used his state phone to send any of those nasty IMs or forward those nasty Emails? now that would be quite interesting.

I'll be in touch with all my friends here when my funds from Madagascar or wherever it was come in.

Oh dear, I almost forgot to tell y'all, I won the UK Lottery three times last week and I dont even remember entering not one single time. someone will have to help me convert all my pounds to dollars.

I have a friend who works for UPS; he told me that they have a special division now that pulls out all packages going to Nigeria and opens them. Evidently now the lucky victims are told to send looseleaf notebooks with several money orders taped to the pages. He said it was amazing how many people fell for that. But UPS decided it couldnt ship people;s money to nigeria in good conscience, I guess the post office already shut 'em down. They have a system......so many blank pages in the notebook, then a page or two with a nice fat money order taped to it, then repeat.......

I hate the burning too rablib and i live downtown. well downtown in a rural town, but my new neighbors to the south have had a big burn pile going for at least ten days. Not that it's unnecessary, but they forgot to shove their whole damn house into the pile before they set it on fire. They also have five pit bulls, a momma and four puppies that they were too lazy/stupid to give away/sell before they got too old to be cute puppies, you know?

since Fred the Wonder Dog and I were attacked by a different pit bull last spring, we remain on watch. Cant walk in our own 'hood any more and its a nice one, just behind the college here. instead we drive downtown or to the college or the creek or somewhere. Its a shame. anybody wtih allergies needs this burning like they need a hornet attack anyway.

I cant wait for this here cell phone story to develop. ;)

Is it really possible a highly paid coach already embroiled in all kinds of sports controversy has also touched off a 900 e mail firestorm of personal controversy?

On a phone subject to FOI?
On a phone that was little used to call recruits?

And that all this involved an on air TV personality?

This is too amazing to be true, but this is what the sports blogs seem to be saying when you read between the lines?

I will say that if this is true...there is simply no legal way you can keep this guy and fire a coach in another sports who seems to be representing the school very well despite a losing record.

You can get rid of them both or keep them both, but the point where you can keep one and not the other appears to have passed.

Wow. This is wild. The blogs are changing how traditional media does business way faster than the old hands in traditional media understand.

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