Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
except for yours truly, of course.
*luuuurk luuuuurk luuuuurk*
This woman is built like an Ape and walks like one too. I know that’s catty but it’s very true. As you said before, “As Ugly outside as inside”. And NOW, they are trying to pass an amendment to the Constitution to remove Term Limits for Presidents??? Cripes, America is in such trouble!! It didn’t take long that’s for sure but then nothing, not any of these sweeping, destructive “changes” have taken very long!! CO
Boxer, the U.S. Senator, Chides Brigadier General for Calling Her 'Ma'am'In case you forgot, Barbara Boxer is a senator.
The -snip- California lawmaker felt the need to remind an Army brigadier general of that fact Tuesday during a hearing before her Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, where the military officer testifying had the apparent gall to call Boxer "ma'am."
Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was testifying on the Louisiana coastal restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He began to answer one of Boxer's questions with "ma'am" when Boxer immediately cut him off.
"You know, do me a favor," an irritated Boxer said. "Could say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?'"
"Yes, ma'am," Walsh interjected.
"It's just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I'd appreciate it, yes, thank you," she said.
"Yes, senator," he responded.
However, Walsh surely meant no disrespect, as military protocol advises that officers may use "sir" or "ma'am" when addressing anybody higher than them on the chain of command.
"We would call them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or 'senator such-and-such'," Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nathan Banks said. Banks said any of those terms would be "appropriate" when addressing a senator.
According to one guide, the Navy and Coast Guard typically use "mister" or "miss" to address officers below the rank of commander, and "sir" or "ma'am," or a specific title, to address anyone at that rank or higher.
"You can never go wrong by using 'Sir' or 'Ma'am,' but it is a nice touch if you can properly address a senior officer," says the guide, Military Protocol: Uniformed Services.
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Tuesday's hearing was hardly the first time a military officer used those terms during sworn testimony.
The same day at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing, two Navy officials repeatedly referred to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., with the title, "sir."
"Yes, sir," Navy Vice Adm. Bernard McCullough said when answering questions.
Wicker raised no objections.
Actually, I'll have to agree with ole Barb, General Walsh should not refer to her as ma'am because that term of address implies respect. A more appropriate term for her would have been, B*TCH.
Everyone must be in a severe depression these days. Not much posting going on it seems. I do the best I can to ignore it. Not terribly effective, but the job keeps me distracted almost to the point of consumption, so I don’t really have time to think about much else. Impossible to avoid altogether though...unless you’re a complete moron. Of course, that’s what got us into this mess in the first place....morons vote in large numbers. I suppose they all think that things are just fine and dandy.
I had a wonderful vacation though, even though I had to squelch a couple of potentially heated political arguments. Just ddn’t want to go there. I stay stressed out with work too much of the time as it is. I darn sure don’t want to deal with it in my precious few times of relaxation.
I hope all are doing well and finding acceptable ways of coping the current state of affairs.
That’s a fair description of my mental state.
Seems there are two main mental states in the country these days....depression/stress and oblivion. A major disadvantage to having a functioning brain...
Aye, that.
Most people seem to be laying low. No point in leaving too wide a data trail, I guess...
Libby, I can’t barely watch or listen to the news. I cannot even have any faith that my American friends really have a grip on what is happening to them so I don’t post very often for that reason. All I can do is pray that the American public will rise up and I really mean rise up, before it’s too late. I don’t have faith that they will do that tho. They will do it, but too late. God has already told “me” that Canada will be a “refuge nation”. I think I know what that means. My American friends however, do not believe it. Oh well!! CO
Great to hear from you. I know what you mean. When I’m not working, I’m playing...either outside or on the computer. Games, Facebook, pictures....anything but politics. Have to for my sanity...and health.
And here I thought you only gnawed on logs.........silly me for not knowing it was LEGS.......
It’s way past your bedtime, Oso. Get your jammies on and grab your teddy while I read you a story about the big bad cougar...errr....I mean wolf. :P
Fer cryin’ out loud, you’re not making sense! Of course, that’s not really news, is it? :)
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First Class First LadyBy INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Integrity: In a society that so often feeds on others' adversity, Jenny Sanford has reminded us that hard times bring out the best in good people. No politician's wife has ever shown more grace.
South Carolina's first lady sacrificed her privacy and much of her time for the sake of her husband's political career. In return, she discovered that her husband, conservative Republican Gov. Mark Sanford, was having ongoing trysts with his Argentine mistress.
The details are the sort of thing that keep a gawking public coming back for more — steamy e-mails, a cover story that he was hiking incommunicado on the Appalachian Trail, the choice of Father's Day for adultery
Unlike so many other jilted political wives of recent times, Jenny Sanford was not convinced by her ambitious husband or his aides to take part in the charade of standing with him disingenuously at some circuslike press conference. The cameras would not get their image of offender and victim, side by side.
Instead, the visual the media would be forced to accept was video of the first lady taking some well-deserved vacation time with family. This wife, so dedicated to her husband's aspirations that she actually managed his campaigns, told reporters that the governor's career was "the least of my concerns."
The former Wall Street executive was even able to present a cheerful face to the swarm of reporters at the side of the car she was driving, as she headed off for some R&R.
"I've got both my sisters," she said, pointing to them in the vehicle with her. "Am I okay? You know what, I have great faith and I have great friends and great family. And you know, we have a good Lord in this world, and I know I'm gonna be fine. Not only will I survive; I'll thrive."
She added: "I don't know whether he'll be with me, but I'm gonna do my best to work on our marriage because I believe in marriage. I believe in raising good kids; it's the most important thing in the world."
Driving away, she grinningly left the reporters with this sassy goodbye: "I wish we had room on the boat for y'all, but we do not!"
That's a first lady worth being faithful to. South Carolinians and all Americans won't soon forget her. Too bad Gov. Sanford did.
Ditto! Ditto! Ditto!
*Waves*
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