Tortured Logic

The week's political events have led me to an intellectual impasse due to logic tortured worse than Gonzales would have enemies of the state. For all the tortured, circuitous paths the debate on the Iraq war has taken this week, there are two things I don't understand:

1. Why does the party who sent our troops into an unfounded, unnecessary war with inadequate armor, who keeps them in the indefinite war without any hope of an end or without any definition of what victory even looks like, who overstretches their resources, both man and material, who looks aside as their hospitals and homes decay to the point where they lie in their own pus and feces, and who manipulate soldiers' applications for benefits to avoid paying deserved benefits claim to support our troops?

2. Why does the same party claim that the other, the party who has exposed the lies leading up to the war, who has voted additional money into the supplemental appropriations bill to bring care for the wounded soldiers, who want to bring the troops sent to an unfounded, unnecessary war home isn't supporting them?

I suppose prisoners at Guantanamo and elsewhere isn't all the GOPers torture.

Cheney Diagonsed with Deep Vein Thrombosis

Shame they didn't take him to Walter Reed for treatment.

Accountability Triumphs

Compare Bush's steppin' and fetchin' (like their pants were on fire and their asses was catchin' - with nods and respect to the Charlie Daniels Band) to get to the Southeast in the wake of this week's tornadoes and his lackluster response at the destruction of New Orleans. What's the difference between then and now?

Oversight. Bush is quite frankly scared shitless of his own incompetence in the wake of last year's election. Oversight led to the firing of the head of Walter Reed and then, when the Secretary of the Army hired the incompetent who led the hospital into its current situation, the Secretary got sacked, too. Oversight, led by the Democratic party, is leading to restrictions on the Shrub's unrestrained attempts to form a monarchy of the Executive branch. Oversight and the Power of the Purse will stop the United States' downward slide into tyranny and it's Democrats doing it.

In fact, as Ann Coulter's attempt to bring John Edwards down using the word "faggot" indicates, the entire Right is running scared. The Democrats are showing them how to rule and all they have left are baseless insults. And Bush running to a disaster to show what a good leader he is. Without Democrats in power, he still would have been reading "My Pet Goat" and looking stupid for the cameras.

Completely Off Topic, Adobe Tech Support....

....sucks. Actually I'm not qualified to make that observation because they've made it impossible to contact them. The situation is as follows: A long time ago I bought a product from Syntrillium Software, Cool Edit 2000. In the interim, my computer took a digger (with help from me), causing me to completely re-install Windows XP. Since Outlook Express is an integral part of WinXP, the reinstall wiped out my saved mails and since the registration info was one, it's now electrosmog.

After resuscitating my 'puter, I wanted to re-install Cool Edit and naturally, since it's probably reached Uranus by now, I can't find the registration info. I search on Syntrillium Software and find they've been subsumed by the Adobe giant. Now the fun begins. You can't call Adobe - the number doesn't work. If you work for a living, you can't chat with Adobe since they shut down at 5:00 (isn't it always 5:00 somewhere?). You can't e-mail them because their "contact me" option leads to an endless round of faqs and self-help screens and when you finally get a link that says create a case, you can't.

All this tells me is never buy anything from Adobe. Granted they have some good stuff but if their idea of customer service is to make it impossible to obtain, Adobe is not a company to do business with. Photoshop is nice, but leave it in favor of someone who will support you when you inevitably have a problem that can't be solved with a FAQ.

They Fired the General in Charge of Walter Reed....

And replaced him with an able GOPer administrator known for letting soldiers lie in their own urine. As for this veteran, I'd go back on active duty just to participate in the firing squad for the traitors we so calmly refer to as the Bush Administration. Remember, Bush is a Republican, Republicans are Bush. Keep driving home the equivalence and Bush becomes our best advertising.