XPost: seattle.politics, or.politics, mn.general   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Don Homuth  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:33:54 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:26:21 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Don Homuth  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:07:52 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> A phone call to   
   >>>>>>Ma could fuck up your "friend's" whole year.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Which is why no such phone call will Ever be placed through any   
   >>>>> action of mine hereon.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>Oh, really?   
   >>>   
   >>> Really.  I'm quite certain of it.   
   >>>   
   >>> No call from he has ever passed the MNDOT switchboard.   
   >>   
   >>Personal cell phone?   
   >   
   > I made that clear earlier.  Do keep up.   
      
   So. An EXECUTIVE with MNDOT does not have a department cell phone?   
      
   >   
   >>> And nothing   
   >>> got said that was prohibited.   
   >>   
   >>Really?   
   >   
   > Really.  We aren't discussing National Security here, after all.   
      
   No, just confidential information. Which you proceed to blab all over the   
   place. They know you do this shit?   
      
   >   
   >>> But most of all, No One hereon is going to get involved in that,   
   >>   
   >>But you just never can be Sure. Not 100%. A Good friend would not   
   >>expose his friends.   
   >   
   > And I haven't.  Let's say some amUsenet clown wanted to call the head   
   > of MNDOT.  What might they say?   
   >   
   > "Hey - some guy out here in Oregon says he called someone in the MNDOT   
   > senior ranks to discuss something about the bridge collapse.  What are   
   > you going to Do about that?"   
   >   
   > "Nothing.  Who is this?"   
   >   
   > [click]   
   >   
   > End of discussion.   
      
   Maybe, maybe not. Maybe somebody reads your gasbaggery and happens to be   
   a 'personal friend' of the Lt. Governor. Entirely different story.   
      
   >   
   >>> because it really doesn't matter, save as a ranting point.   
   >>   
   >>Uh, huh.   
   >   
   > That's what happens on the amUsenet.  Ranting points.   
   >   
   > Save for the Information that got passed on, which has allowed you to   
   > know more earlier than you are going to get from the regular   
   > noozemeeja -- and which has now been confirmed in subsequent reports.   
      
   Nothing you provided has been 'confirmed'. What you provided was initial   
   speculation.   
      
   >   
   > No harm; no foul.   
      
   You say that every time someone points out how you might just have Caused   
   harm.   
   >   
      
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