
"No Excuse, Sir!"
Fast -n- Furious- That’s How Eric Holder’s (and Obama’s) Head Should Roll.
A lifetime ago, I was a cadet at West Point. Part of a cadet’s career included being called a ‘plebe’ for the entire freshman year. During this year, among other various forms of torture, we were only allowed to answer an upperclassman with three responses to any question: “Yes, sir!”, “No, sir!” and the best one of all, “No excuse, sir!” Oh, that last one bothered me. Because, of course, your failure was often the fault of others- at least on first inspection. Once, I had ‘laundry’ duty. That meant that I was responsible for leading a group of unlucky plebes in the distribution of upper classmen’s dry cleaning & clean laundry. Well. The plebe who was supposed to deliver the company’s dry cleaning to me was atrociously late! Consequently, I & my team were also late delivering the laundry to the upper classmen. Needless to say, I was severely ‘hazed’ by the upperclassman. I wanted desperately to blame the other cadet. I & my team were rearin’ & ready to go. But all I could say was, “No excuse, sir!” I burned over that one. But, upon reflection, I realized that I could have contacted this other person the night before and made sure he was ready to get his part done on time. It was then that I understood how authority, responsibility & accountability worked.

Kenneth Melson, “I was following orders”
“No excuse, sir” is a dinosaur. Thrown out as ‘old fashioned’ along with so many other wisdoms of the past. Authority, responsibility & accountability no longer go hand in hand as I was taught in my management classes. You can now have full authority and responsibility, but not be held accountable. This is the story of the Fast and Furious fiasco. continue reading
Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse
Sep 14
Posted by Short Little Rebel
Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse. Just when you thought that America could not get any worse, here we see the utter contempt of Michelle Obama, First Lady to us all, smirk and appear to say, “All this for the damned flag”. And the so-called President of the United States turns to her [...]
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