Bent Corner

• The chief muckety muck at computer security company Kaspersky claimed that Microsoft Vista’s User Account Control (UAC), is so annoying that most users will simply turn it off. He said that without UAC, Vista will be less secure than Windows XP SP2. I don’t know. I think most Windows users are used to dealing with annoying things so they might just leave it on.
• This is probably the best anti-war sign I’ve seen. Not that I have seen all that many of them.
• I’ve discovered the blog of another person here in Hagerstown. I’ve added a link to her blog to my blogroll. Check out Trapper Jen MD.
• Who would have thought Carol Burnett wouldn’t understand the concept of parody? This is just kind of sad.
• Speaking of sad, yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Though I refuse to put one of those stupid magnetic yellow ribbons on my car, I support the troops. I support them so much that I want them to come home. Now.
• Last week, Procter & Gamble Co. won a jury award of $19.25 million in a civil lawsuit filed against four former Amway distributors that started a rumor that P&C were run by Satanists. Amway is the company that make a line of overpriced household cleaning products. People sell Amway products in their homes to friends, family, and coworkers. I remember as a kid being told in church that P&G was run by devil worshipers. This is funny.
• Here is a link to a website that always seems to have a direct link to the current Borders store coupon. If there is one. It’s easier to go to this site then the actual Borders website.
• President Bush says nobody in his administration did anything wrong in firing federal prosecutors. To prove it, he will allow Congress to question Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. As long as it’s in private and off the record. Also, neither Rove or Miers will be sworn under oath to ensure that they aren’t lying.
• Dick Cheney’s feeble body broke down again today forcing him to return to the hospital. Did he go to Walter Reed? No, he went to George Washington University Hospital.

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Surprise, surprise, surprise. Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit have been told that they must awake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m.

Also on an unrelated matter, they are not to speak to the media.

Instead of telling a reporter how bad their living conditions are, they are to use the chain of command.

For those of you who have not been in the military, daily room inspections are used as a form of punishment. The military may not be able to outright punish a service member for speaking to a reporter, but they certainly can and will punish you for having dust on a light bulb.

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Larry Johnson of No Quarter links to an article in the Washington Post that details conditions troops being treated at Walter Reed Army Center as out-patients. It’s pretty disgusting.

Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

Call me a liberal, but I don’t think our troops injured in Iraq should ever have to live someplace where phrases such as “mouse droppings” or “black mold” are used to describe the living conditions.

At a bare minimum, American service members injured in Iraq receiving out-patient medical treatment should be treated no worse then the Bush twins. If Jenna and Barbara were receiving medical treatment on an out-patient basis. Not that they would ever be caught serving their country. They might be caught using fake ID’s so they can illegally drink, but you won’t ever see these two doing anything even remotely associated with patriotism. Even the fake kind that is popular with so many Republicans.

This is one of the results of waging war on the cheap.