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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (35608)	5/21/2009 2:43:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Well... if you are of the opinion that reality can safely be ignored, is 'meaningless' I'm sure you are of that opinion as well, if not your rather irrational. My car is silver. That's reality, but I doubt you care. You can safely ignore it. There is a supernova going on somewhere in the universe at this moment. That's also reality. And its a truly massive reality, the energy released is stupendous on any normal human scale. But its also something you can safely ignore since there is no very close supernova (well its possible that there is a somewhat close one and the light just hasn't reached us yet, but I'm talking about being able to ignore supernovas that are far away) North Korea has nuclear bombs. That's reality, and its a somewhat important reality here on earth, but its also meaningless in the context of our conversation about Chrysler's bankruptcy. "Anyone with skin in the game can propose any plan of reorganization to the Court that they want to" is a point about the bankruptcy process, but its also not significant in terms of a discussion about whether senior debt should be treated as junior/subordinated debt". It might be meaningful if someone was saying "the government can't propose that", rather than "the government shouldn't propose that", but no one is making such a claim.