Before I get into the politics and war... I think that it is soooo cool that Elizabeth Smart has been found alive! I had hoped originally that she had eloped and would show up after a few days, but that didn't work, and now, nine months later, she's rescued! OK... you all know that I will never say anything good about either of the presidents Bush, neither BabyBush nor DaddyBush. Not even if they deserve it, but what are the chances of that happening, heh? You also know that if there is anything hateful going around about them that I will gleefully report it and even embellish it a little if I can, right? So, it's really kinda silly of me to say anything at all about them, given my admitted bias. But, well, dammitall anyways, I just really *WANT* to. I do not understand why Bush is so bound and determined to go to war, I really find that it's hard to believe that it's just him paying back his buddies in the energy business. However, that's really the way it looks from here. And something that's been said about him and his buddy from the UK, that they're bucking popular opinion on a matter of principle, is just plain wrong. They're finding out that you can't fool all of the people all of the time, is all. 80% of the britons think that it's wrong to go to war without the UN, arguing that if you can't convince the UN with the evidence, the evidence isn't there. And how fu*&^$%g silly is BushyBoy going to look with those 250,000 troops that are massed on the Iraqi border is there isn't a war? Pretty silly, heh. So, does he have a choice? Yes, he does. He can stand on some better principles, he can. But you know that he won't. This war is a matter of pride with him, and he can't let it get away from him. Think how bad he would look in his Daddy's eyes, if nothing else. How much of this is his Daddy's war, anyway? That his Daddy didn't, or couldn't, finish? And then there's the embarrassment of not being able to get Ben Laden, after all of his initial bravado and bragging... he needs to win a war to get people to forget that, heh. But, of course, he forgot about me, he did, and I'm not gonna forget, no I'm not. And I'm not gonna let anyone forget it, either. Well, at least the people who come here. War is the failure of diplomacy, and BabyBush isn't, evidently, a diplomat. The MOAB bomb... the announcement that we had it, with the expectation that we would all be in awe of our destructive power. What a joke on us, heh... we should be so proud that we can kill more people faster than ever before, and not even have to use our atomics! We are just sooooo fu&^#$%g civilized! I'm not easily given to tears... well, maybe just a little... but I just watched Ed I mentioned that I felt like I'd lost 15 pounds last week, and I confirmed that when I found our scale... an old one that I'd put up when we bought our new one. At this rate, I'll be at my target in six months! But my BS this morning was 130, higher than it's been for a while. I had some crackers and cheese last night, must've been that what put me over the edge. I'm slowly learning what works and what doesn't. Exercise would work even better if I'd give it a chance, heh. I volunteered to take call tonight for another tech who's going on vacation, I can't figger out why he scheduled himself that way in the first place... I don't expect to get called, of course, but then I never expect it. I went in early to help Herman with a program this morning, and I wasn't much help... he's using a program that's FoxPlus-based, but the report-writer is what he's having the problem with, and it's pretty arcane as far as making sense out of it goes... but it's not really a FoxPlus problem but rather an interface problem... if it were simply a Fox program it wouldn't be a problem. O'well. In the Mail: On the shelf:
Smart. Tears are just OK sometimes, y'know?