Anyone else out there not in love with Valentines Day? Yeah, that's what I thought. I won't rehash the Why of it, we all know why. Instead, how about a random excursion around Twitter using Valentines Day as a launching pad? I knew you would like that better. Join me over the wadded up kleenex full of
_____
(a) tears (b) other bodily fluids (c) imitation chocolate smears (d) all of the above, for the Official US Government version of
XOXO and
❤ U 4-Eva
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A 5pm Google search for
Valentines Day turned up this top story from The Verge:
The NSA just captured the evil side of Valentine's Day in this perfect tweet.
Valentine's Day may be about love as filtered through romance novels, candy hearts, and chocolate-covered strawberries, but love has a dark side. As a reminder, here's the NSA using the single most sinister love song Sting ever wrote to send a cheery V-Day greeting:
I would have to agree with Matthew Mulligan at the bottom there, it is "weird unnecessary creepy". Stalking is a real threat to many people and I've never been a fan of making light of it, especially by the agency who has perfected the Government version. A FB friend posted a warning this past week about the latest fake profile her stalker ex-husband put up to try and find her. That's the
16th one in the last 12 months! She has all the requisite court orders in effect, but the reality is no one can actually protect her from the guy if he truly wants to hurt her. A disturbing yet understandable result is that the bulk of her posts on FB are video of her at the gun range and pictures of her damn near perfect targets. Thanks NSA for making me dislike V-Day even more.
Next up, the Department of Defense with an equally creepy message. Someone made this creative Vine of toy soldiers abandoning battle to rearrange themselves in a heart with what is surely supposed to be an arrow but to me looks like a hypodermic syringe. Maybe it's a love letter to the Afghan opium trade, doing better than ever despite (or because of?) the $7.6 billion and counting we've poured into, ahem, "crushing" it after 9/11?
I figure if NSA and DoD are in on the game, other federal agencies are probably working hard to keep up, right? For example, what is more romantic than knowing where your loved one is in an emergency, right?
And speaking of contact, I seriously doubt another Federal agency could trump the
Centers for Disease Controlin the romance department. After all, CDC is about contagion, and everyone knows that after coordinating emergency contact info with your partner the next most crucial Valentines Day step is geting tested for
#Chlamydia!
And since we are talking about covering things up for healthcare, I'll bet
Health and Human Services can give CDC a run for their money on randy V-Day messages, amirite?
Eh, maybe not so much. Great message though...
I know, the First Lady! If anyone with an official US Government twitter account knows how to do Valentines Day it's Michelle Obama!
That's what I'm talking about!
Almost makes me lose my grinch-on for the whole deal. Of course, then I went and made the mistake of reading retweets from the FLOTUS twitter page.
Happy Valentines day, indeed.
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February 13, 2015
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