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Ron DeSantis Violates Our Precious Political Norms Once Again
Florida Legislature and Governors: “Here are the new laws we, the people’s elected representatives, have passed to regulate abortions and outlaw sex change procedures on minor children.”
Democrat State Attorney Andrew Warren: “I refuse to enforce these laws.”
Florida Governor Ron De Santis: “You’re Fired*, clean out your desk and see HR for your COBRA forms.”
“When you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties,” DeSantis said at a news conference in the county sheriff’s office.
“And so today we are suspending State Attorney Andrew Warren effective immediately.”
* OK, suspended. Whatever.
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Or it might have been Sarah Palin. It was a while ago, anyway.
Yes, I remember now. Thanks. I never really went to it, but I read it when it was linked on Hot Air. I quit Hot Air about the time (and because of the associated trend) Noah Rothman became a regular. I guess that was 2014.
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It’s an initialism. Acronyms create a word, such as NASA. This is just El Gee Eff, as far as I know. Drew has started using el jibity for LGBT, which I trying to pick up too.
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I wish I know who I could credit for El-Jibbity, but it was so awesome I cannot stop.
They are so prevalent in the military but I’ve started to try and spell things out more. For example, I’ve started asking people for a point of contact instead of the ubiquitous POC. I’m not sending messages by telegram. I don’t need to save letters. Also one should spell things out the first time it’s used.
When Heather Wilson was Secretary of the Air Force she made it a rule that acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations couldn’t be used in her office. She had an acronym jar and come Christmas, was able to throw a nice office party. She was tired of asking people what something meant and they had no idea. It was so ingrained in the lexicon.
Because they are efficient.
Ah, two Bs. It didn’t look right. Like the capitalization too. You’re the first one I saw use it, so I credit you.
True. I’m sure her trouble was that different Major Commands (MAJCOMs) use the same letters to mean different things. At her level she was probably seeing ten different ABCs, for example, and wanted to know what was going on.
We work with the WSSIC a lot and it’s always been the Wiss Ick. Once our branch chief asked what it stood for and none of us knew. Uh, Weapons something something Intel Community? Uh, they’re the guys who look at red weapons. I still have to look it up when people ask, because it’s just the WSSIC. Had to look and it is the Weapons and Space Systems Intelligence Committee.
I took LGF to mean Little Green Footballs [link]
My favorites were MFWIC, HMFIC, and REMF.
I had to look up the first two. Knew the concept but hadn’t seen them abbreviated that way.
And of course POC has at least two meanings.
Proof of Concept.
That’s three.
That’s a pet peeve of mine too! I don’t want to have to constantly have to go looking up abbreviations and acronyms every time I read something. Although I like her posts, SHE on Ricochet is often guilty of that.
The easy fix is remembering to spell them out the first time.
The was standard in my old company. Spell out the first use with the acronym in parentheses immediately following.
When in doubt, refer to the FLAT.
I kinda like the sound of LGFTQ… etc.
The rule is if you’re going to use an acronym, unless it’s generally considered universally recognizable (FBI, NFL, NASA) it should be defined in full the first time it’s used.
What about BLM? I still think it’s Bureau of Land Management.
Three.
Indeed. See #104.
As does POS. Be careful, folks.
Point of Service
Piece of S…omething
What’s the third?
Products of Conception.
Um…conception starts with a “C.”
Oh, I guess my attention level was TOS.