Sincere professional apologies can go a long way toward fence-mending in business. An apology must be separated from an explanation or any attempt to share blame.

What to do:
Apologize directly. Once the other person has accepted your apology, you can try to explain or excuse yourself.

Offer to discuss the problem further, but do not insist on it.

Make the apology face-to-face if possible or at least on Skype or by phone—do not use e-mail unless there is no alternative.

Offer options to make things right, but do not assume that you know the best way to do so. Close by focusing on next steps.

If the other person brings the matter up again, say that you consider it closed because you have offered an apology and he/she has accepted it.

Source: Tom Searcy, founder and CEO of Hunt Big Sales, consultancy firm, Fishers, Indiana. http://www.HuntBigSales.com

In view of Washington’s agreement with Tokyo in April to transfer 9,000 marines to Guam and other locations such as Hawaii, the panel has demanded that the Defense Department draw up new, comprehensive plans for U.S. military deployment in the Asia-Pacific.

The sleaze bags see an opportunity to fill their pockets with bribe money and they are pigging out like hogs at a trough.

Mike

The real class warfare in this country isn’t rich vs. poor, it’s government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.

Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You can’t be fired and don’t have to exert yourself, but you will receive smaller remuneration than in the private sector, where layoffs are common (especially in the Obama economy!). Instead, government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free — and now, amazingly lucrative!

Whether it’s in Wisconsin, Illinois, California or the nation’s capital, today’s public sector workers expect to do little or no work (I’m not counting partying in Las Vegas as “work”), and then be lavishly compensated. Often, the only heavy lifting they do all week is picking up their paychecks.

When government employees mobbed the state capitol in Wisconsin last year, the upside was: They got to bully people. The downside: Voters finally found out what these public servants were being paid.

I am told that because of who I am I must know at all times what it is I am representing.

Yet, I sit here loving you with fantasies that will have to do since I can not have you. And I know not what that represents.

Unless, it’s just the start of a need for you that I can not fill because I am all alone and you can not come to me.

Yet, I feel it with absolute reality, it is not a fantasy.

When I first had you, you offering your perfectly cheeked ass to me and me eager to take you from behind, I entered and experienced that kind of pleasure for the first time.

Although it was far from your first, it was mine made so much more miraculous because we came at the same time.

When our convulsions subsided and you rolled over to kiss me, your essence swallowed me up and I knew I would never be free of you again.

I found prayer and prayed to I know not who. The prayer though silent was the loudest request I have ever made.

It was – “Love me a little bit, I will belong to you forever”-

I have sworn not to fall in love with you. It was easy then, like the other dozen or so vows I have made to them.

Now whenever I see a reflection of my image, my first thought is “Whatever you do, you are forsaking one vow for the other.”

He’ll get nasty and negative when Obama starts throwing the mud, but give it a few weeks of these two debating each other before the rest of the Pres.’s dwindling fan base starts to see him as nothing more than a negative, ineffective national leader whose own policies have protracted an otherwise manageable economic recession.