The beau­ti­ful Eva Lon­go­ria is tak­ing some heat for an offen­sive retweet  @eva­l­on­go­ria  “I have no idea why any woman/minority can vote for Rom­ney. You have to be stu­pid to vote for such a racist/misogynistic twat.”

As one of Pres­i­dent Obama’s cam­paign co-chairs and a role model, we would expect a lit­tle more pro­fes­sion­al­ism and sen­si­tiv­ity from her when decid­ing what she is going to retweet.

Maybe Ms. Lon­go­ria can use a refresher course on how to talk politics.

To be fair, she did later delete the tweet and apol­o­gized. *UPDATE: Thurs­day, Oct. 18, 12:10 p.m. EST — Lon­go­ria apol­o­gized for offend­ing peo­ple with the retweet, via Twit­ter, writ­ing: “I use Twit­ter as a plat­form for all Amer­i­cans and their opin­ions. Sorry if peo­ple were offended by retweet. Obvi­ously not my words or my per­sonal view. I respect all Amer­i­cans #FreedomOfSpeech.”

For me this is per­sonal since I am a minor­ity, a woman and I sup­port Romney.

In my sem­i­nars when I talk about eti­quette and the Internet, I always stress how impor­tant it is to be care­ful about what you put on the Inter­net because it will fol­low you forever.

There is no doubt that this elec­tion is bring­ing out strong emo­tions on BOTH sides.  How­ever, we need to remem­ber that every­one is enti­tled to their opin­ion, so let’s all show some civil­ity and remem­ber that noth­ing pos­i­tive can be accom­plished from name calling.

*Huff­in­g­ton Post

Manutdpeople Weiner" width="258" height="196" /> In light of Rep. Anthony Weiner”s sex­ting scan­dal, it is a good time for a neti­quette refresher course. Proper neti­quette can be bro­ken down to two simple rules.

The first being that what­ever you send will never go away. Whether it is a Face­book post, a tweet, a text, an email, or some other form of elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tion, there will always be a record of it some­where. As such, it can always come back to bite you.

The sec­ond reminder being that before you hit send think about what your mother would say about what you have writ­ten. If the woman who brought you into the world would be embar­rassed or upset by your mes­sage, you prob­a­bly should not send it.

Rep. Weiner’s error in judg­ment vio­lated these two sim­ple rules. On top of this, he exac­er­bated the prob­lem by lying about it. What started out as an error in judg­ment exploded into a full scale national scan­dal that raised even more ques­tions. By sex­ting, did Rep. Weiner cheat on his wife? That is a ques­tion to be answered between Rep. Weiner and his wife. Does sex­ting neg­a­tively impact Rep. Weiner’s job per­for­mance? That is a ques­tion to be answered by his con­stituents. What can be answered is that hav­ing taken this neti­quette refresher course you should real­ize that there is an elec­tronic record of your com­mu­ni­ca­tions and you are bet­ter off admit­ting guilt and suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences than try­ing to cover it up and fac­ing a harsher penalty down the road.

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In Cel­e­bra­tion of Memo­r­ial Day just a few days away, it is a good time to remind our­selves about flag eti­quette.  Did you know that the dis­play and han­dling of the Amer­i­can flag is cov­ered under fed­eral law?  In fact, it is Chap­ter 1 of Title 4 of the United Sates Code.  This means you could be cited for improper use of the flag, but it is highly unlikely as the Supreme Court has ruled that the dis­play­ing of the flag is pro­tected by the 1^st Amendment.

Since Memo­r­ial Day is a day to give thanks to ser­vice peo­ple who have lost their lives for our free­dom, the flag should be at half-staff until noon and then raised to full-staff until sunset.

Other rules include:

• The Amer­i­can flag should be taken down before sun­set, unless there is proper light­ing to keep the flag lit.
• The Amer­i­can flag should not be flown dur­ing bad weather unless you have a spe­cial flag designed to with­stand the weather.
• The Amer­i­can flag should always be higher than those of the states.
• If there is more than one flag on the flag­post, the Amer­i­can flag should always be on top.
• If flags of other nations are fly­ing, they should all be on sep­a­rate poles and be at equal height.
• The Amer­i­can flag should never touch the ground.
• The Amer­i­can flag should also never be writ­ten on or be worn as cloth­ing.  It should not be used in advertising.
• Amer­i­can flags dis­played on vehi­cles or floats should be on a staff and not draped.
• When dis­card­ing a worn Amer­i­can flag, it needs to be destroyed in a dig­ni­fied man­ner.  The best way to accom­plish this is by burn­ing it.  The Boy Scouts con­duct flag burn­ing ceremonies.
• The Amer­i­can flag should never be flown upside down unless sig­nal­ing an emergency.

Fol­low­ing these guide­lines will keep your flag dis­played prop­erly and will show respect to the mem­ory of those who gave their life for our freedom.