We’re going to try again this morning to open the comments up for business. It’s obvious we are being spied on by the Bush administration, filtered by the Internet service providers in collusion with the Bush administration and spammed by their paid hacks to try and put the number one true voice for news in Alabama out of business. Don’t let them succeed. Keep coming back.

That’s it folks. Shutting down for the night…

The spam finally stopped and the server is running fine again, it seems, so we opened the comments function back up. Sorry, again, for the trouble. Just in case, we will most likely turn it off again at some point tonight to prevent spam comments from being published while we sleep.

Meanwhile, that crazy early March storm is on the way…

Due to the Karl Rove and Jenna Bush spamming operation out of Paraguay and Texas, we are temporarily shutting down the comments section for approved commenters only. We hope to get this situation under control and fixed as soon as our AWOL programmer gets to the bottom of this and shuts it down. Sorry in advance for the trouble.

There will also be thunderstorms moving through the area later today and tonight, so there’s a good chance the Alabama Power “Always On” campaign will be proved wrong again and we will likely lose our Net connection at least temporarily later today or into the evening. So if you try go get to this site later and the link doesn’t work, it could be the spammers, the downed power or the lost Net connection here. Just warning you in advance.

Meanwhile, for all the newbies here, notice the three types of blog posts below. The first is an opinion column, the second is a breaking news story and the third is simply a blog post with a few funny comments with links to other stories. We also do investigative reports and news features as well as feature photography. I hope this helps people new to the Web understand what a blog is all about.

As always, we are chasing the world headlines over on the Locust Fork World News page. When we get in the mood to write, it will be right here…

A THOUSAND LIVES A MONTH ? - A renowned researcher estimates that 22,000 patients could have been saved if the Food and Drug Administration removed the heart surgery drug Trasylol two years ago, when his study revealed widespread death associated with it. Scott Pelley reports. Solly Granatstein is the producer.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - Little Denmark, with its five-and-a-half million people, is the happiest country in the world, says a study done by an English University. Morley Safer reports why the Danes are so happy and explores why the U.S. is way down the list. Deirdre Naphin is the producer.

No sign of the Siegelman story this week…