Missing Constitution Page Found

Boy-o-boy do I love fake news!
The new paragraphs specify, in part, that “He shall have power to vest as much authority as deemed necessary in the law enforcement agencies of the nation; and he shall nominate special law enforcement officers as deemed appropriate.” They also specify that the president must be an individual of “unquestionable moral fiber” who “shall have refrained from adulterous activities, or questionable fundraising processes, or any other conduct unbecoming the leader of a nation. He shall be a true champion of the Republic – a true Republican, so to speak.”

Diebold to Settle with California to the tune of $2.6 mill

Lockyer, who earlier dropped a criminal probe into Diebold, claimed that Diebold provided Alameda County with software that was not certified by the government. Researchers earlier determined the machines contained dangerous flaws.

Researchers said the voting system could easily allow someone to cast multiple votes in the same election. Last April, California set stringent standards for electronic voting by ordering new security measures for e-voting machines

Yahoo! News - Bhutan Bans Smoking in World First

Well...maybe it would work. Just think about the organized crime that would be produced by such a move. And then maybe they would leave the pot smokers alone!!! Somehow...I doubt it.

Old School Pizza is Open again!

If you live in Oly this is welcome news, especially if you are downtown at all, (like us). Old School Pizza is Open again! See ya there.

Something is rotten in Denmark: Exit poll data in former Soviet Republic of Georgia vs. USA

Maybe it's too late. Maybe we've reached the end of democracy. Maybe we're just paranoid and conspiratorial, but indeed..."Some thing is rotten in the state of Denmark." Did you hear that? Who are you? Who am I? SOMEBODY CALL THE THOUGHT POLICE!!!

history of safe-cracking

nice little article
via www.boingboing.net
thank you richard feynman, for being such a fucking bad ass.

Pentagon Plans a High-tech Concentration Camps

It looks like a failed strategy from the Vietnam conflict is going to be used in Fallujah.
In 1962, the Strategic Hamlet program was introduced in Vietnam. In a dismal attempt to prevent the National Liberation Front from “influencing” peasants in South Vietnam, the United States turned villages into concentration camps—they erected stockade walls and patrolled the villages with armed guards. ... As to be expected, this program was a stupendous failure because the peasants resented living in concentration camps, far away from their ancestral lands. As noted in the Pentagon Papers, peasants “were herded forcibly from their homes” and locked inside the so-called strategic hamlets and their “old dwellings—and many of their possessions—were burned behind them.” As the Pentagon saw it, the program “was doomed by poor execution,” not the fact that people don’t like being locked up in concentration camps and will resist and continue to resist until things change.
The story goes on to say
Under the new plan, according to the Boston Globe, “troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.” ... Fallujah male civilians will be organized in “military-style battalions” and, depending “on their skills” will “be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.” In other words, Fallujans will be organized into chain-gangs and forced to clean up the criminal mess the United States made of their city. For some reason the Pentagon either does not realize or could not care less about the anger and resistance such humiliation will cause.

Offshoring IT: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Reverend Blunden tells all: who's going offshore, who’s helping them do it, and why. In addition to presenting the pro-globalization stance of Corporate America, Reverend Blunden gives voice to dissenting opinions that have largely been ignored by the media. This book offers an enlightening, detailed analysis of the offshore outsourcing phenomenon, and exposes the underlying core values of America's economic and political system.

Fallujah in Pictures

An interesting look behind the lines in Iraq. Caution some pictures are extremly graphic.

The Moral Majority Coalition

The Moral Majority Coalition

So it looks like Jerry Falwell and his buddies are creating a "christian" party. Looks pretty scary. Check out thier platform by clicking on "About Us".

the Discordian Haiku

This is so much better than Kerouac's American Haiku.
The Discordian Haiku is a newly designed dying artform. It consists of three lines, much like a traditional haiku. The first and last line contain 5 syllables each (therefore complying with the law of fives), and the middle line contains a total of 23 sylables. It is traditional for the haiku to follow the pattern of "statement, violent outburst, statment" or a voice rallying against mediocrity which is quickly silenced.

A morning math class
Quick drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to the educational system
Carry the seven

The Olympian story on Evergreen Bio-Diesel plant

The Organic Farm at The Evergreen State College has its own biodiesel production plant, thanks to the creativity and hard work of three students.

BBC NEWS Rumsfeld in Iraq abuse complaint

Donald Rumsfeld and others are named in the complaint, lodged in Germany, over the abuses in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
It comes as the New York Times reports the Red Cross has told the Pentagon that US military methods at Guantanamo Bay have been "tantamount to torture".

Yahoo! News - Japanese robot to chat lonely elderly out of senility

Japan's growing elderly population from will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile.
Snuggling Ifbot, who is dressed in an astronaut suit with a glowing face, has the conversation ability of a five-year-old, the language level needed to stimulate the brains of senior citizens, its software designer said.

The Guardian | Thai PM's origami initiative takes flight

Having failed to quell months of escalating unrest in three southern provinces by force, Thailand's unorthodox prime minister is hoping plane loads of origami peace bombs will defuse the tension.
Thaksin Shinawatra has urged all 63 million Thais to make at least one paper bird in the next fortnight so they can be dropped on the three restive provinces on December 5 as a sign of goodwill to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej's birthday.

Military Cargo Ship Now in Port

Just got word off the street (sneakernet) that a military supply ship is in the Port of Olympia right now (2:30 p.m. Cascadia standard time).
If you are so inclided to prostest the shipping of military supplies from our town, now's the time. Spread the word.
(added link 3:15 p.m.)

::: Centralia Massacre Collection ::: U-Dub

Just got this link in the bookstore email account, looks like a good collection.