I finally got around to cleaning up the comment spam. There were eight messages in total, all posted within an hour of each other. One of them used a form of social engineering I haven't come across before. The entire comment was abusive, then challenged me to click on some link if I didn't agree that I was scum. The thing is, he probably gets 10x the hits from that spam than the guy that tells me how great my web site is then tries to sell me a vase, or Viagra, or whatever.

Not much going on with us other than the kick-off of soccer season. (Get it? Kick off? Soccer? Get it? Huh? Huh? Get it?) We lost a lot of seniors, so I will be changing the strategy some, but we should still have a good team.

I didn't find much that caught my attention running through my usual web stuff. However, I am starting to get annoyed by something I keep seeing repeated on the internet and in the print media: headlines along the lines of "Police Helpless to Stop Looters." Sorry, that is a lie. The police and National Guard could end the looting any time they wanted, but choose not to because those organizations are controlled by womyn and neutered males. Until the last few decades, looters have always been considered outlaw in the original meaning of the term. Their actions literally put them outside of the law. They are no longer fully human and can be (and historically have been) dealt with as you would deal with a rapid animal: shoot them on the spot. There would be the need for some discretion. There is certainly a world of difference between someone breaking into a grocery store for food or water, and someone carting off consumer electronics and jewelry. But I suspect that the later far outnumber the former, and it wouldn't take too many dead looters for the rest of them to get the idea. But it doesn't matter because it won't be done in the United States of Political Correctness, and New Orleans will not only be the set for Water World II, it will more and more resemble Beirut in the 1970's.

I would love to know what was going on yesterday with my web stats. I had 81 first-time visitors (over 100 total) yesterday alone. Understand I normally get about 20 hits a day. That combined with the flurry of comment spam leads me to believe that Blogger was under some sort of attack. Given the similarities in the comment spam, I suspect some sort of new tool kit made its appearance on the spammer warz sites. Things seem to be somewhat more calm today, although I have had dozens of referrals from other Blogger sites that have no links to this site that I can find. For those who are interested, if you click on the Last 100 Visitors link under my Quick Links, you will see a map of the world with the location of my last 100 visitors marked. If you hover your mouse pointer over the dots, they will show you some details. All I know is that there must be a lot of very bored people in the world.

Well, back to work.