Found an old post from an Air Force wife where she encountered Extreme Snottiness from other wives:

As I was paying for my groceries I heard "you would think the commander's wife would put a little more thought into her appearance before leaving the house."

I looked around and realized they were talking about me.

Thank heavens my husband will never be a traditional commander because of his switch to CA. I haven't worn make-up in two years, except for that one day at SpouseBUZZ Live. And I wear so many track suits I chould be in a Wes Anderson movie. Today I have on courderoy pants covered in drips of baby blue paint. They used to belong to my dad 15 years ago. I think the paint came from his boat or something. A beauty queen, I am not.

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Via RWN via Polipundit:
Police chief's pick stuns black leaders: Whitman names Hispanic to head special operations

It doesn't get any more karmic than this, folks. The Black Police Officers Association is furious that a qualified black woman was passed over for a qualified Hispanic. There aren't any Hispanics in leadership yet, so this was affirmative action at its definition. But because it was at the expense of a black candidate, it's "a travesty."

This is what happens when skin color is allowed to matter more than who can best do the job. I have no idea who would be the best division chief here, but when it becomes more important to have a collector's set of races in leadership rather than actually valuing, uh, leadership, then we're all screwed.

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An excellent comment on Polipundit's post:

Diversity?

I have searched for a long time to find out what the value of diversity is per se and I have never had an answer. It has been like Diogenes walking the street of Athens looing for an honest man.He emphasized the point by walking with a lantern in daylight.

Presumably diversity broadens an outlook by exposing people to other perspectives etc. I have never seen this to be the case. Outside of cuisine what do most people know or care about China or any other culture. There are people of course who know all about specific facets of a culture such as the mosaics on Persian rugs, ceramics from India, etc. But the vast majority of people know little and care less and I donÂ’t see them in anyway impoversied emotionally, physically, or spiritually.

I always mocked the denizens from NYC who claimed to be cultured as contrasted to the “rubes” from Middle America or from anywhere in New York State north of Poughkipsee. Their idea of culture was to be able to claim to be from NYC wherein you will find museums, opera houses, etc. They never spent an afternoon contemplating a Van Gogh etc.

You wonÂ’t learn anything new about physics, chemistry, geography, etc from diversity and most moral codes are the same the world over. The great aspect of America is that diversity becomes blunted when one becomes an American. It was always this way and being an American was something to brag about and not something to be hyphenated.

The old days were better. Straight ahead

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Just a quick post about the MilBlog conference.

I will be attending with the illustrious CaliValleyGirl, and I'll be speaking on the "All in the Family" panel at the event, in the company of Some Soldier's Mom and ArmyWifeToddlerMom. I have no idea what substance I'll bring to the panel, seeing as my blog has devolved into into the fated make-up and houseplants, or in my case, Charlie and having a baby. I'm finding it hard lately to get worked up enough over Pelosi's jet or Arkin's diarrhea of the mouth to bore you with thoughts you can certainly read better elsewhere. But I'll do my best to appear legit in Washington.

So if you're in the area, or anywhere near the eastern half of the country, come on out and meet us! More info on the Milblog Conference webpage.

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Yesterday I babysat our neighbors' four year old while they were in the hospital delivering their second. All in all, I think I did pretty well, in spite of the fact that I have no idea how much a four year old eats, how fast he can walk, how long he should nap, and how often I should reply to the incoherent strings of speech flowing nonstop from his mouth. I went in pretty blind, but we managed to get along. The only headache all day was this kid's bipolar spastic attitude towards the dog. "Charlie, come here!" he'd screech at the top of his lungs. Five seconds later: "Charlie, go away!" We had a couple close calls where the kid would dangle a toy at Charlie's nose and then yell at him if he took it, or where he thought it was great fun to keep tapping Charlie in the face with his bare foot, but thank heavens Charlie supressed all his normal dog instincts and just went with the flow. And I realized what a blessing it will be that our child will just grow up alongside Charlie so he won't be such a novelty.

So I managed to handle a kid for 12 hours...with the extreme help of Lightning McQueen, Mike Wazowski, and Willie Wonka. And I realized how much I should cherish the absolute silence of our home for as long as is still possible; it will never be that way again.

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Mark Steyn: What's so hot about fickle science?

Joe's Global Warming Groundhog Day

Glenn Reynolds' thoughts on global warming

And make sure to check out Donald Sensing's very interesting post What if global warming is a good thing? The gist:

Folks my age and maybe a little younger can remember when the Environmental Apocaplypse was not global warming but global cooling. So let us suppose two things: first that global warming really is occurring and human attention to it can reverse it, and second, that we do reverse it. Are we then to agree that a cooler earth really is in our best interests? Why?

That's actually a very interesting question.

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1 Current temp. - 8 Deg's. Yup, love that Global Warming.

Posted by: tim at February 05, 2007 05:06 AM (nno0f)

2 Gonna have to agree with you on this.....Global warming just seems to be something else for people to complain about and blame America for....we use to many aerosols, we use too many fossil fuels, we waste our natural resources....if we fixed all that, they would pick another issue to find issue with us over.....If you listen to some scientists, they will tell you that their data says we are headed for another ice age, and the magnetic reversals are well on their way, signifying that we could enter an ice age within the matter of centuries....if you believe that data how does global warming figure in? Wouldn't you think it would mean the opposite? Maybe that is the NEW MATH hard at work....I don't know I liked when 2+2 actually equalled 4!

Posted by: HH6 at February 06, 2007 09:54 AM (Yo28E)

3 Today everybody is anxious about the global worming.

Posted by: Kliff at February 06, 2007 04:02 PM (pGt94)

4 Anyone who is considering the possibility starting a family in the near future should be very concerned with the CO2 emissions America is creating - we're talking worst than China here... yes, America has LOWER car standards than CHINA! Look it up.

Posted by: Will Somerset at February 07, 2007 11:22 AM (QRBGL)

5 the global cooling theory was primarily media hype, and no major scientific organizations supported the theory. the entire scientific community is in agreement about global warming. temporary weather conditions are not indicative of overall climate change unless studied as a whole over a period of hundreds to thousands of years. the recent cold front which moved across the US has nothing to do with the average temperature increase or the fallout which will happen over the next few years if we do not try to curb the warming trend. in this case it is extremely important to listen to scientists and climatologists, and not political pundits (of any party) who have ulterior motives for obscuring the truth. this is a human issue, a global issue. this is not a partisan issue. not that i have a strong opinion on this one or anything...

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A few weeks ago, CaliValleyGirl lamented the fact that my German isn't good enough to read the book Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren. But der Spiegel was nice enough to translate part of it for us.

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1 And what is your opinion about your German?

Posted by: Flamingo at February 06, 2007 04:02 AM (qC7fx)

2 My German is decent enough for getting through the basics like grocery shopping and talking about the weather. Not good enough to read political books though

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The husband has been considerably less excited about starting a family right now. He had certain milestones he wanted to reach before he became a father -- a specific chunk of change in investments, finished with his MBA -- and if we get started now, he won't be at his benchmarks. But he did have an a-ha moment that has made him more receptive to the idea over the past 24 hours: he realized that if we had the baby now, we'd get the earned income credit for 2007. Lord, I married my father.

We have been having a good deal of fun making up names for the imaginary baby. Jack Bauer LastName is a common joke around the house. Though the absolute gut-buster was when my husband suggested David Lo Pan LastName. And when he said it was no big deal if I stopped drinking, that we could easily raise a "party baby."

My husband's got jokes.

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1 I vote for "Doniphan"....I sent you an email about it this morning. Too funny! Russ ALWAYS makes me laugh

Posted by: Angie at February 02, 2007 07:28 AM (0AAcM)

2 well, I give him the MBA, but there is never enough money when you have a kid. so go for broke and have that kid!!!!

Posted by: catwin at February 02, 2007 10:33 AM (iUrvV)

3 "LIFE" is what happens, while we're trying to make ''plans''.....................get practiced up, either way!!!

Posted by: debey at February 02, 2007 12:35 PM (Aqt2t)

4 I am sure it may be sacreligious to name the kids after a charactor played by Keiffer Sutherland. His Daddy is Donald afterall. The apple cannot fall very far from the tree after all. A sort of 6 degrees of separation to liberalism if you will.

Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at February 02, 2007 03:50 PM (30YLh)

5 The actor who plays Jack Bauer has a father who is a liberal huh? Well, definately can't call him that then... jeez... what were you thinking sarah?

Posted by: Will at February 03, 2007 02:09 AM (QRBGL)

6 laughing at Will... really I only brought it up, because I was surprised Sarah had not thought of it..

Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at February 03, 2007 12:28 PM (30YLh)

7 My brother, and let me say right here my entire family are uber-libs from California, was almost christened Abraham Maslow James Carter [last name]". Good God in Heaven. I asked him a few weeks ago how he felt about his near miss at being named for an anti-semite... He said at least he wasn't nearly Adolph. And thank God we only had one boy. My husband is absolutely enamored of the George Foreman school of naming children. As an aside... my hair stylist has a family member named Bernardo. He has nine kids (boys and girls). They are ALL named Bernardo. He just had his first grandkid last year... named Bernardo.

Posted by: airforcewife at February 05, 2007 05:42 AM (0dU3f)

8 Howse 'bout Charlie? Short for Charles or Charlotte and you can just yell at anything that moves,baby or dog..

Posted by: MaryIndiana at February 05, 2007 03:14 PM (YwdKL)

9 Oh Lord! Our husbands are so similar! My husband didn't want to start trying until we had x amount of dollars put into investments, we were out of the Army, Master's Degree for him AND me, etc. etc. One day he finally just said out of the blue that he was ready -- even though all of those benchmarks hadn't been met. And the Jack Bauer thing -- We've TOTALLY joked about that before, too! Too Funny! We even though that if we had a girl we could make her middle name be Chloe. So glad you guys have a great sense of humor!

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This is what our neighborhood looks like this morning.

My husband left for work and then came home about 10 minutes later. There's a two hour snow delay. They told him he doesn't even need to bother coming in today.

The South is hilarious.

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1 Imagine your mail box buried in white stuff, thatÂ’s my neighborhood.

Posted by: tim at February 01, 2007 03:28 AM (nno0f)

2 same here. I will gladly stay in the house.

Posted by: armywifetoddlermom at February 01, 2007 03:44 AM (30YLh)

3 Sarah, We have a ton of snow in Ohio and the kids are at school The north certainly deals with snow better! Congrats on the jobs!

Posted by: Stephanie at February 01, 2007 04:36 AM (+bp0U)

4 hey, we haven't had snow in two... maybe three years! this is a major event! welcome to NC.

Posted by: Sis B at February 01, 2007 07:01 AM (gPOch)

5 It looks like a good opportunity for you to wear some of those wonderful sweaters you knitted in Germany!!

Posted by: Ruth H at February 01, 2007 10:03 AM (lS0ga)

6 I am in stitches. THAT'S snow!?! God Bless our Southern neighbors.

Posted by: MaryIndiana at February 01, 2007 11:46 AM (YwdKL)

7 She says after living through 5 winter storms in 5 weeks and 2 blizzards in one winter season in Colorado, "I love it! I just love it!" Hope Charlie enjoyed a little taste of snow too.

Posted by: Angie at February 01, 2007 12:54 PM (oIZIB)

8 this will henceforth be known as "the great blizzrd of '07"

Posted by: Sis B at February 01, 2007 02:30 PM (gPOch)

9 Yep, we got hit by the same blizzard! Pretty much all the schools around here are closed (they announced the closings last night, in fact). We don't even have the dusting that you got, just a few flurries on and off thru the day... My husband's from Pittsburgh, so he's even out without his coat just so he can rub it in for other people that he's not cold

Posted by: karishma at February 01, 2007 03:36 PM (yU8Jx)

10 We got a whopping 2 inches of snow and 2 inches of ice a couple of weeks ago......Post closed for 2 days and schools were closed the entire week. The best part is the city only budgeted for 5 snow days.............we've surpassed their expectations for the year. LOL!

Posted by: Vonn at February 01, 2007 04:07 PM (/VoEr)

11 Sarah, Funny, my neighborhood looked very much the same this morning. But the county my kids go to school in was the ONLY county in the area that didn't delay school or close altogether today. Congrats on the new jobs. How lucky for you to have a job doing something you love so much, although I'm sure luck had very little to do with it. I'd love to learn how to knit. I also bought a book but haven't been able to really get the hang of it. Would you email me when you get a chance?

Posted by: Robin at February 01, 2007 04:15 PM (V5aG3)

12 When i was stationed at Ft Stewart (GA) they closed the post for about the same amount of snow one year, I was the only one at PT that am and was shocked when the MP's told me to leave because the "The post is closed, and the roads are not safe to travel on." but they still wanted me to drive off post to my house. But hey i took a tank trail most of the way to work/home anyways

Posted by: dagamore at February 03, 2007 08:08 AM (fA13W)

13 That's all it takes to cancel work/school? I am moving to the South!

Posted by: Shawn at February 05, 2007 04:08 AM (xZebA)

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