This couple says they saw the 9th ward levee bombed by helicopters.

Well. I don’t know, about the military but I sure wouldn’t want to fly a chopper in a cat 5 blow and I certainly wouldn’t use anything as obvious as helicopters if I was going to do something like that with people around. Too many of them have video cameras…. But that’s just me.

The Brown Corporation is proud to present the Shit Box

This is too weird to make up.

This company in England makes a folding cardboard box that accepts a biodegradable bag for you to take a shit in when you’re out camping.
This image is from their website.

This device cost £15.67 which is $30 odd US dollars each. + £11.00 shipping +any import duties for 2 boxes
Every BOG standard comes with:
* + A Duffle Bag (to carry)
* + Shit Box (reusable)
* + 10 poo bags (not reusable)
* + Tissues (for a happy bum)

Here are the Tech specs:
Basic brown box – content 70% recycled card
Weight Tolerance: 55lbs/inch2
Bursting Force: 225lbs/inch2
Tested up to 20 stone/127 kilograms weight. (279.4 lbs)
[based on a dry unused box]
Size: 350mm × 350mm × 350mm
As this is a cardboard box it may collapse
if used when wet – please keep dry.

They also have an interesting returns page.

BOG standard?? I wonder if they have a deluxe version?

This looks like a joke, but it’s just strange enough to be true.

You say you’re bored and want to bug the piss out of everybody’s favorite “Uncle.”

You say you’ve been told you can up your readership by getting Spook Central to look at your site and you want to give it a try.

-Ok. But be aware that if you do get their attention they are not going to go away -ever.

They will stick your site along with your email address and anything else they can find on you in their database along side about a bazillion other sites and automatically monitor for any interesting traffic.

That’s right. Your personalized monitoring will be done by a massive computer network armed with customized data filtering and collection software and unless you do something really weird, your site will remain untouched by human hands. –That kinda takes the fun out of it.

Here’s some starting points:
This site has a list of words they call “spook words,” posted back in ‘98 that purportedly will get the NSA to look at your site.

The Register posted a short list back in 2001.

Here is a site that claims that the original was a joke.
There is a good link list at the bottom of the page although there are a few broken links.

Here is a DOD acronym list.

Here is the DOJ contact list for guidance on the FOIA (freedom of information act).

Here is Loyola University’s links to military and government intel. sites. (with this disclaimer: You should be aware that the government interprets your viewing of DoD web sites as tacit agreement to monitoring while connected to those sites.)

Here is Loyola’s link site for Strategic Intelligence.

Here is Australia’s Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS)

Referring to DOD acronyms like AA&E (arms, ammunition, and explosives ) or R&S (reconnaissance and surveillance) in a message to someone in the Middle East or in the former Soviet block will likely get you noticed.

Another way to get the attention of those folks the rest of us would like to avoid is to send encrypted messages to foreign governments or “persons of interest.”

–This last suggestion alone will probably get my site looked at. — I hope they don’t bore easily.

And you thought your boss had a screw loose.

No one really disputes that Chad Hudgens was waterboarded outside a Provo office park last May 29, right before lunch, by his boss.

There is also general agreement that Hudgens volunteered for the “team-building exercise,” that he lay on his back with his head downhill, and that co-workers knelt on either side of him, pinning the young sales rep down while their supervisor poured water from a gallon jug over his nose and mouth.

What’s at issue in the lawsuit Hudgens filed against his former employers — just as in the ongoing global debate over the CIA’s waterboarding of terrorism suspects — is the question of intent.

Prosper Inc. maintains that what the supervisor did, while unauthorized, overzealous and misguided, falls far short of torture, and in fact was not nearly as bad as Hudgens makes out in his quest for damages.

“We’re not the mean waterboarding company that people think we are,” said George Brunt, general counsel for the firm.

There are some folks in this world who think that Friedrich Nietzsche’s ( ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker) “What does not kill him, makes him stronger” is the only philosophy needed to train salesmen in the art of the “hard sell.”

It would appear that until this lawsuit was filed this particular company thought this was acceptable policy and is now having to defend itself by by the only means at their disposal; denying that it is torture.

They have a bit of a problem however. Their general counsel’s statement implies that the company is aware that this activity is inherently wrong or at least “mean.”

Given public opinion on this subject, and Prosper Inc’s inability to deny that it happened, it is reasonable to assume that the company will settle out of court. A jury trial would in all likelihood result in the person who was waterboarded being handed the keys to the company.

It seems to me that using something that is being debated in the courts as to whether or not it’s torture, is the sign of someone who does not think things through, is probably not overly bright, and should not have been put in a position of authority.

In other words: WTF were they thinking??

The full story can be read here.

These two guys tried to use womens thong underwear to hide their faces during their robbery.

One man’s garment was a verdant forest green with white trim, while the other sported a deep royal blue.

The men stuffed cash and cigarettes into a small pink girl’s rucksack before fleeing, according to Colorado police.

They would have been easy to identify because you could see most of each of their faces and that big honkin’ tattoo on the one guy’s arm, in a CCTV tape that was broadcast on the 6 o’clock news.

So the Nineteen-year-old Joaquin Rico and his alleged accomplice Joseph Espinoza, 24, turned themselves in.

Well, hmmm…. Womens underwear and a girl’s pink rucksack….. Yep, these two should do quite well in prison.