Duncan linked to a local Philly blogger who is upset about the reaction to Bergdahl’s release. The post includes the official Army picture of Bergdahl which showed something that I wasn’t aware of, Bergdahl was Airborne. The majority of the Army wears a black beret with an infantry blue flash on it, but Bergdahl is wearing a maroon beret with a unit flash. Airborne is a volunteer assignment.

In their coverage of the controversy CNN had this tidbit:

But a U.S. official who has been briefed on the initial Army fact-finding investigation conducted in the months after Bergdahl disappeared told CNN that Bergdahl’s commanders referred to him as “a good soldier” in that report.

Some of his teammates said he had expressed “boredom” and thought his unit was too passive and should have been “kicking down doors,” the official said.

I’m sorry, but Bergdahl doesn’t seem like someone trying to avoid a fight; he sounds like someone looking for a fight.

If Bergdahl’s unit was passive, that would explain why former members are claiming that people died looking for Bergdahl, because without those missions the unit would have been staying on their base.

In the end the facts won’t matter, because reality left the building when Zero was elected.

My XP box died, so I bought a used Dell because I need to work on some legacy software.

I have been spending my time upgrading the drivers et al. so I can work on it. It won’t be on the ‘Net after it gets updated and Microsoft and Dell are the only sites I’m visiting so I will wait until my Eset software is up for renewal to put any virus software on it.I’m transferring things with a thumb drive and eset scans it whenever I plug it in, so there isn’t much chance of an infection.

I’m getting really sick of the XP start-up tune.