Say Anything Blog

If it makes you feel better, others got it wrong also. At least you’ve corrected yourself quickly and visably enough.

[...] Reid did not disclose confidential information. Please read this. [...]

I suppose I could have buried the correction in the forums…

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

*shrugs*

I’m just some dude who likes talkin’ politics.  Its not like I’m a news bureau or anything.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Yeah, if you were the news, you’d have a B section to bury the correction in.

I made a mistake once so I nderstand.

I made a mistake once so I understand.

So it was NPR blabbing Intel to the world. How did they get it? Within 6 hrs of the quake, I was reading that line. NPR was 4 days behind the curve. As usual.

[...] We dealt with the matter yesterday in this space and as well as at Hotline On Call. That item was picked up by Daily Kos. A few of the top lefty blogs picked it up, and centrist Joe Gandelman wrote: “It sounds like some corrections might be in order here.” Others may have corrected it, but one we saw was from ND conservative was Rob Port. [...]