After tracking down New Hampshire-based spammer Brad Bournival, AOL managed to win a judgment against him. That led to a settlement and the seizure of his prized vehicle, $75,000 in cash, and $20,000 in one-ounce gold bars.

Now that they have the goods, AOL plans to give them away. A contest that started on August 10 and running through August 19 will have daily giveaways of $1,000 cash. The grand prize winner gets the Hummer, $65,000 in cash, and the gold.

12. In the Star Wars universe, weapons are rarely, if ever, set on 'stun'.

11.The enterprise needs a huge engine room with an anti-matter unit and a crew of 20 just to go into warp -- the Millennium Falcon does the same thing with R2-D2 and a Wookie.

10. After resisting the Imperial torture droid and Darth Vader, Princess
still looks fresh and desirable -- after pithy Cardassian starvation torture, Picard looks like hell.

9. Jabba the Hutt would eat Harry Mudd for trying to cut in on his action.

8. Luke Skywalker is not obsessed with sleeping with every alien he encounters.

7. One word: lightsabers!

6. The Federation would have to attempt to liberate any ship named Slave I.

5. The Death Star doesn't care if the Earth is class M or not.

4. Darth Vader could choke the entire Borg empire with one glance.

3. Picard pilots through the Enterprise through an asteroid belt at one-quarter impulse power. Han Solo floors it.

2. Aliens have make-up in other places than their foreheads.

1. Death Star vs. Enterprise!

Kyle has his first day of school today and I keep freaking out. This is the first time he is going to be away from us. Not to mention that he is going to be in school for about 8 hours. He is going to do well and get along with kids but I am a very untrusting parent. I trust no one with my son except his mother and that is because I have to.
With all the kidnappings, sexual assaults and murders of kids it makes sense to not trust people. You don’t get blessed with trust and honesty once you assume any authoritative role in society.

I am trying to work through it and I am trying to calm myself down but it is hard to do. It is all I am thinking about. At least I had a chance to see him before I had to go to work. I would have liked to get him ready and drop him off with Dawn but circumstances beyond my control prevented me to do so. Oh well, at least he knew I wanted to be there which is more then I ever had. I think that is more of the problem that I am having. I never had a family like he has and I don’t want Kyle to ever feel like I have. I don’t ever want to look back and wish I did it any different. If I have to sacrifice everything to give him that I will.

Soon it will get better and it will seem like it is not that big of a deal but I will always want to be there. The only difference is that I would be able to deal with it better. I make sure that he is protected and I need to trust in that.

And he is very excited......

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