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2016 Postmortem

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts) Fri Dec 21, 2012, 12:56 PM Dec 2012

Question ...

How is saying: "He's offering a chained CPI" without including "with protections for the elderly and exemptions for some programs"; any different from saying: "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" without including: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state"?

Why do we accept half a statement as meaning the same as the whole statement?

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Question ... (Original Post) 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 OP

Because... Hekate Dec 2012 #1

Because it's much more exciting to set your hair on fire or jump in over your head lunatica Dec 2012 #2

Hekate

(90,692 posts)

1. Because...

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 09:43 AM

Dec 2012

.... the crazies and the haters are having such a wonderful time here running around tearing their clothes off and setting their hair on fire.

As Gilda Radner said: It's always something.

Hekate

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

2. Because it's much more exciting to set your hair on fire or jump in over your head

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 10:28 AM

Dec 2012

or jump to conclusions. It's simply doesn't have the outrage meter going up high enough.

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