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Big, BIG Changes Afoot at State Department
Sorry for the late notice, but apparently unbeknownst to me, big, BIG changes took place a few years ago at the State Department. With the pace of change at State such as it is, it can be hard to keep up. I guess I am a little surprised this is not still being talked about on State’s social media, or that someone has not made a Gangnam Style-Call Me Maybe mashup video about it.
Nonetheless, for the naysayers who claim the State Department cannot change, have a look at what one alert reader of this blog noticed online:
Even U.S. diplomats have responded to the age’s new imperatives. In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared that it was abandoning the font it had used for years — Courier New 12 — and replacing it with a new standard font that would henceforth be required in all documents: Times New Roman 14. The internal memorandum announcing the change explained that the Times New Roman font “takes up almost exactly the same area on the page as Courier New 12, while offering a crisper, cleaner, more modern look.” What was more remarkable than the change itself — and what would have been unthinkable had the change occurred a generation ago — was that everybody in the State Department understood what the memo was talking about.
(Special thanks to ever-alert reader Lisa for this breaking news. It takes a village to run this blog, people.)
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Lisa said...
1I tries to do my patriotic duty, Peter.
We must be ever-vigilant in our hyper-speed world; stuff like this doesn’t just fall from trees, y’know? One must trawl through the data … sometimes one must go beyond the Gangnam-style vids, Dear Peter, entertaining though they are 😉
–Comrade Lisa
[rendering a Benny-Hill-style hand salute]
08/17/13 2:39 PM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
2Well…postponed trips notwithstanding….
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
priceless. Big news from the parallel universe of DIMWITTERY. ! DoS has a new font!
good god. If stupidity were weather this pathetic monstrosity would be a fucking 8.1 hurricane.
08/17/13 5:05 PM | Comment Link
Eric Hodgdon said...
3What? You’re not on their mailing list? Not even the cc list either?
08/17/13 6:07 PM | Comment Link
Eric Hodgdon said...
4Screw Times New Roman ! Narrow trash !
Monospaced is better – more readable.
I suppose it had to happen someday. It’s further erosion of Western Civilization.
PS – I case anyone is wondering, I still working on getting a date. So many divorced women want Mr. Perfect !
08/17/13 6:13 PM | Comment Link
Helen Marshall said...
5Shucks, I retired too soon!!! (Joke…) I prefer Arial myself.
Remembering those wonderful days when you had to type your cable on a form, no corrections allowed, and the clerk in the little office where you handed it in after struggling for hours would hold up a ruler to ensure that you had not strayed too close to the line. No one cared about the contents, just the form.
08/19/13 9:37 PM | Comment Link
wemeantwell said...
6“No one cared about the contents, just the form” is the new State Department catch phrase.
08/20/13 1:12 AM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
7Hey PVB, on a side note, why are the comments “closed” on your latest entry? I’m getting the feeling I’ve been..well..banned. If this post goes through, I’ll assume I haven’t..yet. 🙂
08/20/13 3:41 PM | Comment Link
pitchfork said...
8Ok, well, it posted. Cool.
On another side note, it looks as if the lid is ready to blow off the Benghazi pressure cooker. When it does, I hope it blows Obummer and his sycophants to smithereens. 400 missiles stolen, from the embassy annex during the attack, originally destined for..whudda thunk..the Syrian rebels..aka..you got it..our favorite ole “terrorist” scape goat..al-…well, you know. priceless.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/12/Attorney-For-Benghazi-Whistleblower-400-U-S-Missiles-Stolen-In-Benghazi-Annex-Involved
Meanwhile the good ole NSA is sucking up the content of every communication on planet earth in the name of fighting the very same “terrorists” that are being supplied missiles, and probably guns by the thousands. Any one see something wrong with this picture?
(ooops..my bad..shhhhhhhhch!..can’t be divulging those kind of things..after all, it might make Obummer & Co. look bad, Clinton’s election aspirations notwithstanding)
sheeezusHchrist… living proof the USG is a Cartel of biblical proportions. Add sending weapons to Mexico via Fast and Furious and I’d submit the Mob is jealous as hell…er..I repeat myself..sorry.
08/20/13 4:00 PM | Comment Link
wemeantwell said...
9I haven’t had to ban anyone is the two years or so I’ve had this blog, and don’t intend to start with you. Your posts and only your posts among the regulars somehow often end up in SPAM for some reason I cannot figure out.
If I ever did have to block someone I would certainly tell them first.
08/20/13 4:27 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
10Big Changes coming? The more things change at State – four State Department officials put on administrative leave following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi have been allowed back on the job after being cleared by Secretary of State John Kerry to return, in a move one lawmaker decried as a “game of musical chairs.”
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vowed Tuesday to investigate how the department decided “not to pursue any accountability from anyone.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/20/kerry-clears-state-officials-faulted-in-benghazi-report/#ixzz2cX5xfPjj
08/20/13 5:53 PM | Comment Link
Woodkern said...
11OMG, I didn’t get the memo. I’m using Verdana 12 pt. in my whistleblower lawsuit against State. Maybe this explains why they distort and mischaracterize everything. I thought they were malicious, but matbe I’ve over-rated them again.
Peter, btw, I’m on hold by my attorney at the moment, but will be providing a write-up in the near future when I’m let off the leash.
08/21/13 10:33 PM | Comment Link