We had a storm last night. It actually snapped the neighbor's flag pole, sending the confederate flag to the ground.

Clearly an act of one of the cooler gods.

After more checking around, it turns out that as of June 1st, Canadialand will not let you in without a valid passport, so going there and renewing my passport by FedEx through an expedited service is not on. Which would be wildly expensive in and of itself.

Watching last night's Daily Show.

Dear Steve Doocy,

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP OH, MY GOD, SHUUUUUT UUUUP.

Sincerely,
me

Woohoo! I just cleaned all the old invoices off my desk and alphabetized those that are still current! Now to filed them into the binders after punching holes in them, and those will be off my desk. Yay!!

Next goal (after I get caught up on Oregon regulations for the month) is to clean the stack off my top shelves and finally put my pictures and personal stuff out and get rid of the box they've been in for a year or so. Hopefully by the end of the week...

Dear Steve Doocy,

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP OH, MY GOD, SHUUUUUT UUUUP.

No kidding. I so badly wanted to point out that the government already runs loads of health care in this country with less overhead that private insurers.

Plus, the problem with Cash for Clunkers is that it was too successful. Actually, I don't want to keep extending that program very long, but that's aside from the point.

Does anybody know what happens if you try to cross back to the US with an expired passport?

Usually, they won’t let you leave with an expired passport. In fact, a lot of places say that your passport must be valid for 30 days after your return date.

We'll vouch for your tendency to not know where you are going, Theo. Clearly inadvertent border crossing.

That didn’t work so well for the journalists in Northern Korea. Of course, in Canada, you’re less likely to get 12 years of hard labor rather than a heartfelt apology for not marking the border quite clearly enough.

There are expedited passport places online -- I've even heard some promise a 24-hour turnaround. Did you check those out?

I once got a passport in 4 hours. I came in at 8, came back to pick it up at lunchtime. But, I live in DC, so that may not be possible elsewhere.

Judge clears way for dinosaur park to be seized

A federal judge has cleared the way for the government's seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola owned by a couple convicted of tax fraud.

A ruling by U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers states that the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land as well as two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 owed to the federal government.

Kent Hovind, who founded the park and a ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, is serving 10 years in federal prison for failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $470,000 in employee taxes.

He was found guilty in November 2006 on 58 counts, including failure to pay employee taxes and making threats against investigators.

The conviction culminated 17 years of Hovind sparring with the IRS. Saying he was employed by God and his ministers were not subject to payroll taxes, he claimed no income or property.

Hovind is incarcerated at the Edgefield Federal Correction Institution in South Carolina.

His wife, Jo, also was sentenced to a year in federal prison for her role in the tax fraud. She's currently jailed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna.

Awww--Uganda has its first newborn rhino in nearly three decades, and they've named it Obama.

The first baby rhinoceros born in Uganda in almost 30 years has been named Obama because his father is from Kenya and his mother was born in the US.

A federal judge has cleared the way for the government's seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola owned by a couple convicted of tax fraud.

They'll have to remember the whole "Give unto Caesar" thing next time.

Give unto Caesar

Hee-hee. Say, did I already mentioned that if I'll go back in time more than once (because destination #1 is already set for a fixed place and time), I'm planning to burn all of Cicero's writings?

He's. Just. So. Annoying.