Where you been Shane? Hope you are well. I was looking forward to your defense of lower standards for women, as in the Secret Service. Did you see those three Keystone Cops, one who couldn't seem to find the holster for her weapon?
Good morning, Marcia! Unfortunately, a major surgery I had late last year has failed completely, and so I've been dealing with that the past few weeks. Real life is less fun than social media life, for sure :-)
I don't want lower proficiency standards for women in the Secret Service. Those should be the same as for men: ability to shoot, holster, move protectees under fire, those are all training issues, not matters of upper body strength. Anyone, man or woman, who wants to be a Secret Service agent should master the same set of skills before deployment.
The re-holster attempts were indeed embarrassing. But I'm not sure how many of these agents were Secret Service. Apparently the Service has been so short-staffed they've been pulling feds from other agencies to fill in. If these were Postal Service or Homeland Security agents rather than Secret Service, I can see why Trump's evacuation became such a cluster%%%%--they aren't trained to the level of Secret Service.
The details for the two presidential candidates should never be anything but senior, highly trained Secret Service agents. If there are personnel shortages, the Service can plug those holes by moving good agents to the presidential details and filling in at lower-level protectees like vice president and speaker of the House. Or retired presidents. Nobody's going to plug Jimmy Carter or George Bush.
I remembered you had health issues a while back, then when you stopped posting I feared things weren't going well. I hope you feel better each day. Whoever said when you have your health you have everything was 100% correct. Glad to see that you're feeling up to commenting, and thanks for checking in.
Same issues came back to haunt me anew. Last November I fell on my shoulder and tore out two tendons. Surgery repaired them and the rotator cuff, or so we assumed. Just found out after my progress toward 100 percent stopped at 40 percent that the surgery has failed and both tendons are detached again. Better news is the Mayo Clinic here in Phoenix has agreed to review the case to see what my options are. I like my surgeon and at 68, I knew failure was an option--I had a lot of damage in there. But Mayo is the gold standard so I figure I might as well check it out.
Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness, Marcia, I genuinely appreciate it and you. Be well.
Olympics opening ceremony: vulgarité, hostilité, vacuité. Quelle merde.
Absolument!
I don't agree, but this is hilarious. Well done!
Where you been Shane? Hope you are well. I was looking forward to your defense of lower standards for women, as in the Secret Service. Did you see those three Keystone Cops, one who couldn't seem to find the holster for her weapon?
Good morning, Marcia! Unfortunately, a major surgery I had late last year has failed completely, and so I've been dealing with that the past few weeks. Real life is less fun than social media life, for sure :-)
I don't want lower proficiency standards for women in the Secret Service. Those should be the same as for men: ability to shoot, holster, move protectees under fire, those are all training issues, not matters of upper body strength. Anyone, man or woman, who wants to be a Secret Service agent should master the same set of skills before deployment.
The re-holster attempts were indeed embarrassing. But I'm not sure how many of these agents were Secret Service. Apparently the Service has been so short-staffed they've been pulling feds from other agencies to fill in. If these were Postal Service or Homeland Security agents rather than Secret Service, I can see why Trump's evacuation became such a cluster%%%%--they aren't trained to the level of Secret Service.
The details for the two presidential candidates should never be anything but senior, highly trained Secret Service agents. If there are personnel shortages, the Service can plug those holes by moving good agents to the presidential details and filling in at lower-level protectees like vice president and speaker of the House. Or retired presidents. Nobody's going to plug Jimmy Carter or George Bush.
I remembered you had health issues a while back, then when you stopped posting I feared things weren't going well. I hope you feel better each day. Whoever said when you have your health you have everything was 100% correct. Glad to see that you're feeling up to commenting, and thanks for checking in.
Same issues came back to haunt me anew. Last November I fell on my shoulder and tore out two tendons. Surgery repaired them and the rotator cuff, or so we assumed. Just found out after my progress toward 100 percent stopped at 40 percent that the surgery has failed and both tendons are detached again. Better news is the Mayo Clinic here in Phoenix has agreed to review the case to see what my options are. I like my surgeon and at 68, I knew failure was an option--I had a lot of damage in there. But Mayo is the gold standard so I figure I might as well check it out.
Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness, Marcia, I genuinely appreciate it and you. Be well.