ML>>> oh? seems to me that it is "who ya know and who ya blow"
 ML>>> that get's one around in political circles... i won't even
 ML>>> mention that every single one of those in the trivia quiz
 ML>>> are/were politicians and that, in itself, makes it
 ML>>> political.

 BK>>>  If Abraham Lincoln performed oral sex on his wife that would
 BK>>> qualify by you standards. Not by mine.

 ML>> not, it would not qualify by my standards... please stop
 ML>> trying to think that you know me by the extremely few
 ML>> messages that i've written in here that you may have read...

 BK>>  According to your own words, at the top of this reply, it would
 BK>> qualify.

 ML> wrongo... you're being to terse in your interpretation...
 ML> how was abe's wife to help him in political circles? i
 ML> daresay that she was just a wife and not a politician, eh?

 How was Monica to help Clinton? You didn't make any such
 limiting definition.

 ML>>> the quiz and its subject matter make it even moreso right
 ML>>> dead on on the topic of _this_ echo which is "Politically
 ML>>> Incorrect" and is/was based on the ABC network's TV show
 ML>>> "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher"...

 BK>>>  I am familiar with it. Still doesn't make it anything more than
 BK>>> smear jobs.

 ML>> whatever, cap'n...

 ML>>> FWIW: the following is definitely politically incorrect ;)

 BK>>>  Politically incorrect is a term used by right wingers to divert
 BK>>> from discussion of valid issues.

 ML>> bullshit...

 BK>>  Where in the real world do you see it used for any other
 BK>>  purpose.

 ML> i don't assign "groupings" like "right wingers"
and such to

 That doesn't answer the question. Call them conservatives. They
 assign that term to themselves.

 ML> folk because what i'd think of as one thing ends up being
 ML> another... for example...

 ML>   is one a liberal if they are for folk being able to
 ML>   freely own guns?

 I don't know very many people on either side who advocate people
 freely owning guns.

 ML>

 ML>>> The FBI is warning that Al-Qaeda operatives may try to rent
 ML>>> U.S. apartments and rig them with explosives. The Bush
 ML>>> administration has warned that anyone perpetuating such a
 ML>>> conscienceless act would be hunted down and punished. Plus,
 ML>>> they could forget about getting back their security deposit.
 ML>>> - Bill Maher

 BK>>>  Which is funny. And not a smear.

 ML>> and is also politically incorrect ;)

 BK>>  Not really. There is nothing there racial, ethnic, or about
 BK>> anyone else who could claim any sort of discrimination. There  is
 BK>> nothing there actually offensive to any group I can think of.  Ok,
 BK>> to terrorists, yes, but that's stretching the definition.

 ML> another "too terse" interpretation... it is politically
 ML> incorrect simply because it is a slight at what some
 ML> politician (may have) said ;)

 It's more likely to be correct, than incorrect.

 ML>   perhaps you need to loosen
 ML> your definitions a bit? O:)

 Nah.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... I don't need understanding: I want a bimbo, maybe a harem.
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