Re: An oasis on the moon?

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:37:03 GMT

On 27 Feb 2005 18:54:31 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Double-A"
<double-a@hush.ai> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

>Did Bush the first lie when he said, "Read my lips, no more taxes."?

Of course not, unless he had no intention of keeping that pledge.
There's no evidence to that effect. It was simply a broken promise.
That's a bad thing (and he was punished for it), but it's not a "lie."
People seem to have gone so nuts in their Bush hatred that they don't
even know what the word "lie" means.

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