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Greetings and welcome back to the Un-Zone, the semi-regular update to all things Un, as well as stuff I find interesting. NaNoWriMo 2005 is over...finally, at least for me. I've gotten my 50,000 words and finished a relatively coherent novella to boot. Now, it's time for me to make an attempt at studying for this semester's lovely law school finals. Wow, I've actually made a sentence with the words "study" and "law school" together.

It's time to go back to the regular format of this blog. No more updates to Gray Hall. I'm doing the normal(at least for this site) format.

An interesting court case that proves that bizarre court cases do not happen just in the United States. Someone complained when they got three speeding tickets. They tested the camera on a brick wall and the wall was moving at 1 kilometer per hour. Apparently, stationary objects aren't stationary. It must be continental drift.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/newsst/newsst1133249856.aspx

Proof that some scientists have too much time on their hands. They might also win an IgNobel Prize to boot. Monkeys have accents. Enough said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17413711-13762,00.html

A dumb criminal story. A man wants drugs. He dials a number and asks for drugs. The person at the other end says he'll be coming over. Man who called gets promptly arrested. The person he called? A police officer. Not very smart.
http://www.lincolntimesnews.com/Default.asp?Section=20&VA=8813

Former State Department official on Dick Cheney's troika of pro-Iraq War people:

"I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard."

Rumsfeld's beliefs on the power of the President:

"the president of the United States is all-powerful, that as commander in chief
the president of the United States can do anything he damn well pleases"

On the intelligence that led to the fateful decision(to quote from CNN):

"Wilkerson criticized the CIA and other agencies for allowing mishandled and bogus information to underpin that speech and the whole administration case for war.
He said he has almost, but not quite, concluded that Cheney and others in the administration deliberately ignored evidence of bad intelligence and looked only at what supported their case for war.
A newly declassified Defense Intelligence Agency document from February 2002 said that an al Qaeda military instructor was probably misleading his interrogators about training that the terror group's members received from Iraq on chemical, biological and radiological weapons. Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi reportedly recanted his statements in January 2004. (Full Story)
A presidential intelligence commission also dissected how spy agencies handled an Iraqi refugee who was a German intelligence source. Codenamed Curveball, this man who was a leading source on Iraq's purported mobile biological weapons labs was found to be a fabricator and alcoholic."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/29/wilkerson.interview.ap/index.html#101

That's all for now.