XPost: seattle.politics, or.politics, mn.general   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Don Homuth  wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:02:11 GMT, Lobby Dosser   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>In the midst of a Crisis an Executive (or 'Senior') has his Personal   
   >>cell phone turned on and takes calls from curiosity seekers? WOW!   
   >   
   > There was no Crisis at the time.   
      
   Yeah, there was. Apparently your "friend" is not Quite That Senior,   
   otherwise he wouldn't have had time to piss away talking to an   
   Acquantance.   
      
   >   
   > The Crisis had already happened, the bridge was in the water and those   
   > who were killed weren't going to be revived.   
   >   
   > One's personal cell phone may be kept on for all sorts of reasons.   
      
   But not for calls from 'acquaintances'.   
      
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>> 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?   
   >>>   
   >>> Nothing confidential about it.  The noozemeeja had it about twelve   
   >>> hours later, after all.  I just got it earlier.   
   >>   
   >>When it was NOT Public.   
   >   
   > No -- it was not yet Reported.  It was not Confidential, however.   
      
   ANY inside info is confidential.   
      
   >   
   >>> Your time in Classified Information seems to have skewed your   
   >>> perception a tad.   
   >>   
   >>Your lack of Ethics and Morals has skewed yours more than a tad.   
   >   
   > I   
      
   I know you love yourself, but that remark is just too bizarre!   
      
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> The LTGOV has no role to play in these sorts of matters.  Once   
   >>> again, your Respect for Authority betrays itself.   
   >>   
   >>Ah, you DON'T know what's going on after all!!!!!!!!   
   >>   
   >>The Lt. Governor is ALSO - WAIT FOR IT!! - the HEAD OF MNDOT!   
   >   
   > Only in an ex officio sense.  The LTGOV chairs the meetings -- but is   
   > not a civil engineer.   
      
   No, NOT in an ex officio sense. Ma is IN CHARGE.   
      
   >   
      
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