--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > I just helped circulate that in another post. 
> > > 
> > > It is ambiguous, but I am not sure which slant was meant.
> > 
> > I just *told* you which "slant" was meant.
> 
> Well I guess that solves it then. Case closed.
> 
> I have just had a revleation. Life will be so much easier if I just
> always get the truth straight from Judy. 
> 
> > Don't let your mind be so open your brains
> > fall out.  You've been doing that a lot
> > lately.
> 
> I suppose cults could use the same reasoning.

Um, no.  I guess you don't understand what
it means.

> >  The "by
> > > definition" "proof" isn't definative IMO.
> > 
> > What are you talking about?  "By definition"
> > refers to what he meant, it has nothing to do
> > with "proof."  Read what I wrote again, please.
> 
> I did read it again.

Yeah, but you've now come up with a different
point.  You apparently misread it at first and
thought that the phrase "by definition" was being
used as some kind of proof.  It wasn't.

Responding to your on-second-thought point:

 And again it appears to me that you make the
> same mistake that a lot of smart people make. They confuse  that 
> which makes crystal clear sense with reality. Bob Bigante does 
> this a lot, IMO Peter does it, you do it, and frankly I do it -- 
> though I try to catch myself and make the distinction between what 
> seems "for sure" and that which may be -- opening myself to the 
> fact that I might be wrong (though is a small probability) even 
> though I had that FLASH of Eureaka insight that usually rings the 
> Bell of Truth.

Yeah, well, this wasn't a FLASH of Eureka insight,
this was good old common sense.

Your problem is, you're not making a distinction
between what is *self-evidently* true and what is
*probably* true.  Your caveat is fine when it comes
to what is *probably* true, but it looks real silly
with regard to what is self-evidently true.

> >  It needs clarification by
> > > Wilson -- which I assume he will provide today.
> > 
> > I'm sure he will, yes. 
> 
> Yes, so lets wait till he does instead of putting words in his
> mouth.

Nobody put words in his mouth.  I stated what he had
meant by the words he actually said.

> > But he really shouldn't
> > even have to; 
> 
> Yes, the world would be a lot simpler if the damned press would just
> call you and clarify what everyone meant when words are ambiguous. 
> But until Sat yuga, we will have to let the original speakers 
> actually clarify for themselves what they meant, instead of relying 
> on the clearly superior method of relying on you. :)

Actually we can all use our God-given brains in
many cases to figure out where the press has failed
to use theirs.

> > it's quite obvious what he meant,
> > in context.  
> 
> On second read, i agree that your interpretation seems probably. But
> to tell you the truth, being the idiot I must be (your words) when I
> read it in the press, I thought it a little odd, but I thought 
> Wilson was making the same point Sanford did last night -- that Val 
> did not meet the strict definition of the "covert" in the statute.

That's what I thought when I first read it.
However, when I read the *context*, I realized 
it was a  misreading.  Have you read it in
context?

> > It's being spun otherwise by folks
> > who *have* no brains (including AP, sad to say),
> > or who think nobody else has any brains to see
> > through the idiotic spin.
> 
> Oh come now Judy, no need to resort to ad hominen venting and to
> delfate what I am sure is your vast capacity for compassion.

Er, I wasn't including you.  You at least
have the good sense to realize it's *probably*
a misreading, just not quite enough good sense to
realize it's *self-evidently* a misreading,
especially when you see it in context.

Wilson can't acknowledge what his wife's status
was, by the way, for the same reason the leaker
should not have revealed it; he has to be very
careful about the language he uses.  That's why
he wasn't more direct.  But *in context*, his
meaning was plain; if Wolf Blitzer got it, it
*had* to be plain.





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