{"id":2044,"date":"2005-11-19T14:11:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T18:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2005-11-19T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T18:11:32","slug":"opening-up-the-old-mail-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"Opening Up the Old Mail Bag&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fan mail this morning asks &#8220;on what planet did you learn English?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>From:<\/b> Intergate [address removed] <br \/>\n<b>Sent:<\/b> Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:13 AM<br \/>\n<b>Subject:<\/b> On what planet did you learn English?<\/p>\n<p>So you whine that the GOP altered Murtha&#8217;s proposal so it would require &#8220;immediate&#8221; withdrawal of the troops&#8230;.yet when one read Murtha&#8217;s OWN proposal, it says:<\/p>\n<p>Section 1. The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable date.<\/p>\n<p>My question to you:  What the hell is the difference between &#8220;immediate withdrawal&#8221; and &#8220;hereby TERMINATED&#8221;?  EXACTLY ZERO DIFFERENCE you stupid prick&#8230;&#8230;.Both statements mean the EXACT SAME THING!!  <\/p>\n<p>++++EAAMPLE:  If you were an employee of mine and I said that your job was &#8220;hereby terminated&#8221;, would you think that you had 6 months to clean out your desk?  Of course not, you would interpret my statement to mean you were fired that second &#8211; right?<\/p>\n[name removed]\n<p>Springfield, VA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our answer&#8230;The same planet on which the sender apparently learned to cherry-pick the information he chooses to read and use as the basis for an argument. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>++++EXAMPLE: If this emailer went to a restaraunt and ordered a steak and the steak involved was to be served medium-well as he ordered it, we suppose he&#8217;d have no problem when the steak was delivered to his table completely uncooked. After all, he got his steak and there is &#8220;EXACTLY ZERO DIFFERENCE&#8221; between what he asked for and what he received.<\/p>\n<p>++++FURTHER EXAMPLE: Using the emailer&#8217;s bullet-proof logic, if we were to refer to him as &#8220;a stupid prick,&#8221; but he was really just stupid and not a prick at all, it would mean the &#8220;EXACT SAME THING!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. For other material the emailer chose to not notice from Murtha&#8217;s original resolution &#8212; above and beyond the stuff he chose to not notice in even the text he <i>did<\/i> quote in his impressive email &#8212; see <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002040.htm\">this previous item<\/a> for the complete text of both Murtha&#8217;s resolution, and the phony GOP resolution cyncially created to play politics with our troops instead of supporting them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fan mail this morning asks &#8220;on what planet did you learn English?&#8221;&#8230; From: Intergate [address removed] Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:13 AM Subject: On what planet did you learn English? So you whine that the GOP altered Murtha&#8217;s proposal so it would require &#8220;immediate&#8221; withdrawal of the troops&#8230;.yet when one read Murtha&#8217;s OWN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}