By Restless
In 2003, a grandmother from Seattle started investigating the corporations that make computerized voting machines. One night, she stumbled on an ftp site for Diebold Corp. and was successful in downloading their code for the machines and, more important, the code for the central counting system.
She was able to get software engineers to review this […]

Sorry for the recent lack of posts to the blog,  2 days ago I got slammed with a pretty bad case of the flu, which I’m in the middle of now.   Sometimes it takes an effort to even sit and type, other times it’s a bit better.
I’ll probably be out of commission for the next […]

By Restless
This strip from Tom Tomorrow appeared a week ago. In California, Arnold has put forth a plan similar to the one now being tried in Mass. But since both measures are essentially appeasements for the insurance companies and tied to the citizen’s employer they will fail. A universal care measure passed by the Senate […]

By Restless
John Dean, former counsel to Nixon, writes about attempts at impeachment of either Bush or Cheney:
There Is No Chance Either Bush or Cheney Will Be Removed From Office
The Republican Congress shamed itself when it impeached and tried President William Jefferson Clinton. It was a repeat of what an earlier Republican Congress had done to […]

From CNN.COM: 
Ray gun makes targets feel as if they are on fire
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia (AP) — The military’s new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire.
The technology is supposed to be harmless — a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop […]

 
About a week ago, Faux News was reporting that Barak Obama had been enrolled in an Islamic Madrassa school when he was a young lad in Indonesia.  They stated that Hillary Clinton had “dug up dirt” on Obama.  
It turns out, it’s pure fantasy bullshit,  created by the fascists neo-cons at Fox to somehow taint […]

By Restless
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Are you looking for something to chew on in tonight’s Presidential State of the Union Address?
Here’s something,  watch for Bush to once again, pay lip service to “Energy Independence” and America’s “Oil Addiction” and then proceed to do absolutely NOTHING about it for the rest of the year.
I present to you, the Bush’s lies and […]

By Restless
Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision of the Supreme Court, which struck down an onerous invasion of individual privacy in the form of a Texas law criminalizing what a woman chose to do with her own body.  Their ruling applies not just to women and abortion, but to all of […]

Andy Griffith = The U.S. Constitution
Opie = Our Moron President

I love the guy at the very end, he’s walking down the street, puts his hand to his chin and thinks “How the hell did that happen?”

By Restless 
Just discovered (thanks to Americablog) the above vid and many others related to it. These guys are great, check it out!

From YahooNews: 
Woman is stuck in bathtub for 4 days
LINZ, Austria - Firefighters said Monday they rescued an 81-year-old pensioner who spent four days stuck in her tub after she got in for a warm bath and couldn’t muster enough strength to get out
Authorities in Linz, about 120 miles west of Vienna, said they went to […]