The Truth Hurts

It's finally happened. The mythos of compassionate neo-conservatism has shattered. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5613296/ has the story, but the truth has finally crept from the mouth of our Great and Fearless Leader.

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,” Bush said. “They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

Thank you for the confession, Mr. Bush.

Work-related rant

Gods damnit, use some common sense, and don't overreact at the slightest perceived offense.
If you send an issue to triage - which ends up in my inbox - and it's something i find and fix in fifteen seconds (literally), don't tell me what was or wasn't in the form i found on the website which corrected your problem. Especially don't get snippy with me when you're wrong. I don't care what you think you saw, selecting the Australia marketing region for something is not the same as specifying that the place in question is in Australia; and, since at present only US states and Canadian provinces are supported in the system, when you select the Australian state of Western Australia by its abbreviation - WA - don't be surprised when the place in question shows up in the directory as if it were in Washington.

Especially don't bitch at me when i'm the person who's dropping what he's doing to fix YOUR fucking error, you stupid bint. Fuck you. You can sit in your godsdamned office in Ft. Worth and just godsdamned wait while i submit a change request and have it sit in every queue i can think of next time so that instead of getting fixed in a matter of seconds you get it done in, oh, a few months. Stuff which gets classified "Severity: Low. Priority: Annoyance" around here does have a way of getting cobwebby and mouldy, because we have real problems to fix rather than dealing with stupid data entry fuck ups.

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I'm sure that most, if not all of you USAdians have seen or heard the Bush attack ad where John Kerry is explaining his votes on funding US military personnel in Iraq- the whole "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it" thing.

Clarifying the issue, there were two versions of the appropriations bill. The first would have rolled back the tax cuts for Americans making over $200,000 to pay for the expenditure, and included funding for veterans and reservists. Kerry voted for this bill. The version he voted against did not have the tax cut repeal and had no source of revenue with which to cover the expense, and cut vets and "weekend warriors" out completely. This one was voted against- the government needs to stop writing checks without some sort of revenue adjustment and needs to be accountable to all those folks who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their nation.

The first version of the bill went nowhere. In fact, Bush threatened to veto it.

Who's strong on defense? Who supports the armed forces? Who threatened to veto a bill which would have helped veterans' funding?

Sure, Kerry voted for the appropriation, and then voted against it; but coming from an administration that would have vetoed funding for military actions to which it had already committed our troops, that's not such a damning accusation. What's worse, given the current balance in power in the House and Senate, overriding that veto likely would have proven difficult.

I think the strategy (or is that 'stratgery' these days) was wrong, and the Congressional Democrats should have called the bluff or forced Mr. Bush to veto the appropriations bill, but all in all, it's one more reason to get rid of the Republicans.