Yep, I have been busy working, and researching the first Crusade {Pope Urban's Council at Clermont, "Deus le Volt!"/G_d wills it!} The political antics and machinations of Byzantine Emperor Alexius, and of Alexius Comnenus, Bohemond, Stephen, et al.
I am also awaiting updated information on a friend in Nederlands who was criminally indicted, tried and convicted for holding his child out of public school for a year when the school could/would not vouchsafe her security from the brutality and verbal abuse of the many underprivileged moroccan moslem waifs.
Should the Dutch court fail to reconsider their position, I am prepared to break it first here on FR as a highly pertinent, worldwide exclusive story. My hope is that itwill assist him by calling attention to the injustice and shaming the court, and the leadership in the schools over their cowardice!
If it happens, I will call upon everybody for a "five alarm ping" alert, so the story gets maximum coverage and duration on FR. I just sent him an e mail this evening requesting an update on things...if they tell him he has to serve the jail time and the probation {being sentenced and actually serving the sentence are not necessarily the same thing in the Nederlands} he is really going to blow his stack, and probably give me a whole lot more than just that particular story...
This could prove very interesting indeed.
It's nice to have a little time to Freep here this evening - I admit I haven't had very much to spare lately.
Stay warm and cozy, and above all - muzzie-free!
A.A.C.
"Let the Final Crusade commence; Cartoons for all!"
We'll need the biggest ping list of all time for that one. But I do hope your friend won't need it. HOWEVER, if worst happens, I'll be there.