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To: fut_trade who wrote (22667)	9/1/2006 6:17:32 PM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

Now with the additional information from Frist - we will also have to add the possibility that he was inept. This isn't a simply, oh I forgot. He was fined because he should have known better. I sure wouldn't want to have another President who's administration was plagued with incompetence.

To: fut_trade who wrote (22667)	9/1/2006 11:59:07 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Actually my reading & comprehension abilities are more than adequate. In fact they must be superior to yours as I did not read anything into the story that did not happen, unlike you. Bottom line, your out of context cut & paste job does not change the facts as they happened in the real world. There simply is no credible evidence that Frist "lied" as you asserted. Associated Pravda only contacted Frist's office after Frist's staff notified the proper authorities of a potential CPE shortfall. That is what made this incident a public matter. <<< Turner [a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Health] said a Frist representative contacted the board on Tuesday to report the situation, and the board's medical director received a letter from Frist lawyer C.J. Gideon Jr. on Wednesday. >>> Note that Associated Pravda didn't indicate that the Dept of Health knew there was a CPE shortfall before they were notified by Frist's office. Note that AP didn't state they contacted Frist about the shortfall before Frist's office contacted the Dept of Health. Scandal sells more newspapers, right? Well, if the Dept. of Health or Associated Pravda knew of the CPE shortfall before Frist's office notified the board, you can bet that the AP would have reported that Frist came clean only after Frist was informed that the media knew about the improper filing. Had the AP broken the story before Frist went public, the AP would have been able to make allegations of some type of shenanigans by Senator Frist in addition to the CPE shortfall. But they didn't, did they? The AP story only makes it clear there was a CPE shortfall & the potential consequences from improperly filing the renewal form. No more, no less. Of course they carefully worded their story so that leftists would jump to conclusions & see things that never happened, just like you did. That doesn't change what was actually reported no matter how much you want it to be otherwise. And the fact that this story has died as quickly as it appeared tells you there is nothing there. The leftist MSM would be all over it if there was anything worth hyping to death to harm any conservative.

To: fut_trade who wrote (22667)	9/2/2006 12:49:53 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

< "Since you can't seem to read very well.. No wonder nobody else posts here - you are really dense." > I see you still haven't read the thread header. I do not tolerate baseless personal attacks. The same goes for insults, name calling, ridicule or any other unwarranted, malicious behavior. I won't warn you again. And your "nobody else posts here" BS, besides being a ridiculously blatant lie, it's just another way to demean & ridicule. You aren't the first brain surgeon to try to get their licks in that way. In fact, just about every mean spirited leftist with an agenda has tried the "nobody else posts here" crap right after the BS they were peddling had it thoroughly discredited with real facts & credible, independently verifiable evidence. Since you "feel" I'm so dense, perhaps you could explain that "nobody else posts here" stuff to me. Are you all convinced you are a "nobody"? Could it be that, just like the BS you tried to peddle, you simply tend to grossly overstate, blatantly distort or intentionally misrepresent reality in order to push your agenda? As you can see, I'm quite able to read. I'm not as dense as you think. And there are several, civil, reality based people who do post here - present company excepted, of course <ggg>.