I WISH I had a latte RIGHT NOW!
> Rick
> LOL! I am writing this message RIGHT NOW!
>
> Tom Zupanc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kunkel, Richard G.
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Intelligence? Appropriateness?
>
> ALSBers,
>
> Although the security lapse was silly and regrettable, what bugs me more
> about this episode is that the representative presumably is in Iraq to pay
> attention to, listen to and learn from the people there, civilian and
> military, and to LEARN something about successes and /or failures and how
> to make our policies better. Instead he devotes his time to self-centered
> and self-promoting Twitter-ing about how he is going from "point A to
> point B RIGHT NOW!": This "ITS ALL ABOUT ME, SO PAY ATTENTION TO ME NOW"
> approach misses the point entirely. I would prefer the Congressman leave
> his Blackberry at home and focus on making real progress on the necessary
> issues. Save the bandwidth only for communications about actual
> achievement of some importance.
>
> But if you like Twitter, here is a Twitter-like tidbit for you: I am
> drinking Hazelnut Crème coffee RIGHT NOW!
>
> Rick Kunkel
>
>
> On 2/13/09 9:07 AM, "Clarkson, Gavin S" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> In terms of assessing the partisanship of your post, would you have
> posted the same message with a prominent identification of his party
> affiliation if Congressman Hoekstra had been a Democrat?
>
> For that matter, would the media have alerted you as gleefully to
> Hoekstra's arguably boneheaded use of Twitter if he were a Democrat?
>
> (Not a nasty email, just a lament about the level of partisanship in so
> many aspects of our national discourse. Dubya utterly failed to "change
> the tone" in Washington, and I have little hope that Obama will succeed
> in reducing partisan rancor either) :(
>
> -- Gavin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Highsmith
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:28 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Intelligence?
>
> Colleagues, I thought this was a priceless example of why government
> does not always work well.
>
> DOES THIS SOUND SENSIBLE???
>
> The top Republican on the U.S. House INTELLIGENCE committee used his
> Twitter page to update the public on his precise whereabouts while
> traveling through Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> (Terrorists don't use the internet, do they?)
>
> James Highsmith
> P.S. Apologies to anyone who thinks this is not a proper subject for
> our list. Judgment call.
> No nasty emails please. :-)
>
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Suzy Rogers
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