When Mom, Dad and I watched this story on Paula Zahn while eating our dinner of shrimp scampi--Dad's shrimp scampi is the best, BTW & National Shrimp Scampi Day is April 29 (I'll explain why I know that in a future blog)--we began discussing what will happen to Sgt Marcia Ramode, AKA the Biggest Closet kd lang Fan Evah now that her eloquent email have gone public.
Click here for the link to the story.
I must add that I really wasn't happy to hear that the insulted threw some American Indian slurs back at her. That was unfortunate, but it still doesn't excuse her behavior.
I wasn't bothered as much with the homophobia as I was with the grammar and punctuation. Listen, Sarge, you need to brush up on your writing skills. No one wants to read poorly written hate speech. That's just adding insult to ignorance.
Let me just list some style books for you. I've recently added a World Cat search bar at the bottom of the blog, so you can find them at the local library. Let me qualify this with a description of your local library, since you may not know.
(I must again qualify the derision in the last sentence. It doesn't come from Marcia Marcia Marcia being in the Army. General Petreaus has a PhD in international affairs from Princeton. The Army has plenty of intelligent people. My derision comes from her being an ignorant piece of sh1t.)
Here is the description of the Jersey City Free Library:
Serving the second largest city in New Jersey and located on the Hudson River across from lower Manhattan, the Jersey City Free Public Library system consists of a main library, four large regional branches, and seven smaller neighborhood branches to provide access to a diversified collection of 400,000+ pieces of printed, audiovisual, and electronic resources that addresses the needs of the truly multicultural clientele of the city's 240,055 population. *
(*good to know that the library is more open than the Army Recruitment Center. If only budgets were based on openness...)
And now, the list (I'm starting with the elementary level stuff):
Put it in Writing
Painless Grammar
Writer's INC
Once those are studied
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation (now there's something to be intolerant of!)
Elements of Style
MLA Handbook
Once you've read those, I think you'll be better equipped to spew hate mail.
Oh, forget it. I'll just do it for her.
I'm sorry. I just can't help myself. Once an English teacher, always an English teacher.
Instead of what Large Marsh the Sarge wrote: “YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY”
She should have written (corrections in BLUE): You are definitely unqualified. Now take your gay self someplace else. We do not tolerate gay people like you in any part of the military.
The parents and I were discussing what might happen to her for these email. Mom said fired. I said, "Shoot, no. She'll probably get a medal if-uh- what's him name--" Then Dad said, "General Pace." "Yeah, Gen. Pace has a say in the matter.
This is what Gen. Pace said last month:
Speaking about the military's ban on homosexuals serving openly, Pace told the Chicago Tribune on March 12 that "homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and ... we should not condone immoral acts." He compared homosexual behavior to adultery, which is also prohibited by the military.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070315e.html
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