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Sunday, October 19
George W. Bush is a big fat liar!
or is he?
with apologies to Al Franken.
Shrub a liar?
I was listening to Neal Boortz Friday while I was taking The_Rose to the hospital. He was
talking about the "big" Democratic lie. My question is, if the "administration" if not Shrub weren't spinning this whole Iraqi / imminent threat / 9/11 thread together, just how in the hell do 69% of the American population (according to polls) get the idea that Iraq and Hussein were involved with 9/11/2001? It's a left-wing ploy from the liberal media that dreamed this up? Does
anybody believe that? For what purpose, especially when it plays into Shrub's hands? Why else did we have to hit Iraq when we did? If Hussein was
not such an imminent threat, why was he treated like one?
I find it extremely amusing that this whole irony hasn't been lost on others. Gary Trudea in today's Doonesbury spells it out pretty well. Iraq and Hussein had nothing to do with the attack on 9/11. Zilch. Even the Whitehouse (now) admits that they had nothing to do with it. To the Neal Boortz and the Rush Limbaugh's, I have to say, yes, the Shrub lied, I don't care how carefully planned it was for plausible deniability. There is none. This war was not started over the stated terms, weapons of mass destruction or the security of the United States. This war was all about money, oil and power. The comparison of the $89 billion to the Marshall plan is also pathetically laughable. The Marshall plan was not about one single country.
Shrub not a liar?
Rush Limbaugh has a point when I heard his spiel about the "big" Democratic lie. For Shrub to have lied, he would have to know that what he was saying was untruthful. And that may be the actual truth. Shrub
didn't know any better, and therefore, we can not label it a lie, just an unfortunate misunderstanding.
Makes sense to me, as I have always viewed Shrub as more of a puppet president than anything else. Who's pulling the strings? Possibly Cheney, Rumsfield, and other people close to him. Or, it could be forces that are very far from the limelight that are directing Shrub to their doing. I have real concerns about this president, and I hope very much that he is not re-elected. Or, should I say, elected in actuality, instead of the Supreme Court annointing him President.
With the scary stuff going on about
Diebold and the (lack of) security with their voting systems, and guaranteeing that Ohio will fall to Shrub, it may take a miracle for it
not to happen.
More rambling from me later...
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 10/19/2003 06:49:00 PM 
Friday, October 17
Ugly day!
Yesterday on my day off, I dropped Grizelle off at the vet to be changed from a she to an it. After getting her home, she decided to sleep it off in my bedroom, where at 7:00AM this morning she decided she wanted out, got into the litter box (I followed her to make sure she was fine), and heard her take a nice healthy pee. She then walked to the scratching tree, where she scratched a couple of times, and then jumped very wobbily onto the arm of the sofa. I scratched her head, and was rewarded with purring, so I knew she was feeling better. According to the kids today, she was trying to play this afternoon, so she is definately feeling better. Greybeard took longer to "recover" from his fixing.
I took The_Rose to her CT guided liver biopsy this morning. I've gone through a sonagram guided liver biopsy, and that was a walk in the park. Her's wasn't that good. While mine was just to see what was wrong with my liver (actually, mine was unnecessary as my enzymes turned out to be normal the day of the biopsy, but they hadn't been), hers was over a small spot that they had found on a previous CT scan. She is sore. Her lungs were in the way, despite just about every way to get to it. They ended up using a 6 inch needle on her to get it. I was there by her side most of it, unlike mine when I had nobody around me. I just got dropped off and then picked up later by a friend.
I am tired as crap right now.
Garfield decided to sleep late evidently. He was supposed to be at school in class today at 9:00AM. He was still in bed. He eventually made it, even if he was late.
I turned in my resignation Monday morning. I still have to go in tomorrow. I may be working next week. I'm not particularly happy about that, but hey, if they want to do that, then fine.
Clothes are in the dryer, so I will have clean clothes to wear.
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 10/17/2003 09:00:00 PM
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Saturday, October 11
A short update
I have to be at work in less than an hour. Sigh.
I bought a 160gig hard drive this week. Got it installed yesterday, and got the contents of three smaller hard drives moved over to it. I'll be making it my FTP drive, so I should be getting some updates soon there.
I also finally got my V.Everything Courier connected, and it seems to be working just fine. I had to install different drivers than what Windows 2000 wanted for it (2K just wanted to install Standard Modem.... Interesting...)
Work sucks, as usual. The_Rose and I had a talk about it. We'll see what happens.
Sparx... Sparx needs to be kicked out of the house. He's done nothing but lie. He complains that Garfield needs to be kicked out as well. I've tried to impress upon Sparx the fact that yes, Garfield is treading a very fine line, and I'm not that far from demanding that Garfield needs to live elsewhere.
Fun, fun, fun.
Now to get ready for work.
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 10/11/2003 02:12:00 PM
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Monday, October 6
Work sucks, but what's new? :P
I finished my 7th straight day of work today. I get my first day off Thursday. And tomorrow is an 11 hour day.
While I am enjoying it, I find it interesting that we get stuff that we have to put up. And I've got stuff that I know we won't have sold a year from now, and maybe even longer than that. So I'm having issues with what crap I'm getting to sell to start with.
The pay plan is more convuluted than it should IMO, and then there are the performance criteria that boggle my brain. So many dollars, so much in this, so much in that, so much of a % of what you sell in another thing, so much in something else, "sell" so many of another thing (even though we don't charge them a thing for it!).
Then there is the management. I like the team for the people that they are. The details on how they want stuff done though, needs work. I was given a project to get done today. It didn't get done, because I was scheduled to leave at 2PM. She thought I was there till 5PM. Had I been there till 5PM, I would have had no problems getting it done. The manager made my schedule. She should have known what time I was leaving. If anything, I should have been asked. Also, what her idea of what was going to happen met that thing called reality. Shoving a rats nest of wires behind something may hide it, but when it needs to be working, trying to make that rats nest work is another story.
I'm trained that they do one thing, and then told another. Overwhelmed beyond belief trying to learn where everything is at in the store. Learning the procedures that they use.
And I could really use a day off!
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 10/06/2003 09:55:00 PM
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Wednesday, October 1
Tired and hungry...
Well, I ended up starting with CompUSA Tuesday. Got the call at 8:00PM Monday night. I was not feeling at all good up until then. I was thoroughly ticked by the time I got the phone call.
Tuesday was interesting, because everybody was rushing to get everything done for the Regional Manager's visit Wednesday.
Wednesday was even more screwey because he
was there. I get a red shirt, and customers are coming up to me right and left, and I'm trying to help them. I don't know where anything is, I probably let at least $600 go under somebody else. I almost sold a laptop.
I'm tired, hungry, and have no idea what I'm getting to eat. I just might go out.
Sparx has skipped school everyday this week. I am not amused.
Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 10/01/2003 07:19:00 PM
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I'm now down to fifth place when I used to be #1.
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