Being the impulsive person that I am, I jumped the gun and upgraded my
web hosting account. I’ll be sticking with AffordableHost
. Yeah, there are companies out ther that
offered more bandwidth for more, but they’ve been very good about
responding to querries and I don’t want the hassle of migrating posts
and changing nameservers for the billscontent.com domain. [...]

… according to the anti-war left, President Bush failed to prevent the
Sept. 11 attacks because he *didn’t* assassinate Osama bin Laden at a
time when such an action would have been considered an absolute outrage
at the time.
*AND*
Israel was wrong to assassinate the leader of Hamas, the organization
that convinces or forces children to strap bomb around their [...]

… but this is ridiculous:
A teenage boy pretended to perform a sex act on a head which had been removed from a body in a graveyard tomb, a witness told a court today.
The 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also told the High Court in Edinburgh that Sonny Devlin, 17, was [...]

I still say that the hard part of this development
is finding a bucket
small enough to fit under the mouse.

We host ‘em. We win ‘em.
? Peoria Journal Star (editorial page): Reputation safe: Peoria Prep
Basketball Capital of Illinois

/The numbers tell the story. Peoria High 53, Homewood-Flossmoor, 47.
Peoria high schools 6, the rest of Illinois 5.
Forgive us for boasting, but Peoria High School’s second [...]

The Peoria City council stood firm against letting poor, black Peorians get in on the economic development gravy, then gave a big fat wet kiss to existing businesses, as well.
Journal Star: Peoria Castle Lodge added to enterprise zone
To some criticism, the City Council voted Tuesday to expand the city’s enterprise zone to include the Peoria [...]

? Journal Star: Militants threaten U.S.

/For the first time Monday, Hamas threatened the United States and
suggested it might seek outside help in carrying out revenge attacks.
“The Zionists didn’t carry out their operation without getting the
consent of the terrorist American [...]

I found a link to this truthout.org
piece at North Georgia Dogma
:
/In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the
time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and
columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last
[...]

? Journal Star: Intriguing way to run elections

/If the argument against merging city and county election functions
is truly philosophical and not just a plain old turf war, then there
may yet be a solution to satisfy both sides.
It’s called a [...]

Now, if they can’t get it right this time, I say we just let ‘em become
their own country…
http://billscontent.com/images/votingbooth.jpg

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20040321/mdf502310.jpg
I’m glad to see Michael Jackson finally went and got that boob job he
always wanted.

Liam Gerard , who works at the
University of Illinois, had this

to say about the highly organized, spontaneous protests held the other day:
/It was about a hundred pinkos walking around the county courthouse
and city hall. Ironically, I was wearing my “Hippies Smell” T-shirt.
I saw [...]

Essentially, that’s what’s going on when protestors “take to the
streets” in supposedly grass-roots protests against the U.S. invasion
which happened a year ago.
Essentially, they are not protesting a war. The war is /over/. They are
protesting against the occupation. While I can see the reason in
protesting war itself — there is growing evidence the Bush
administration wasn’t [...]

Today, Jeff Jarvis of Buzz Machine
urges
blogging companies
make sure their tools support languages
that will
make them useful in parts of the world in need of a little democracy.

Local letter writer makes good: Alex
gets a letter published in the Chicago
Tribune
.
/We learned with dismay about the terrible events in Madrid where
hundreds of innocent people were killed and wounded by bombings
perpetrated by terrorists (”Ruthless attacks suggest new foe,”
News,March 12). [...]