[HPFGU-OTChatter] It's Simple, Really--Was Re: Plain English Awards - Rumsfeld Honoured

IggyMcSnurd coyoteschild at peoplepc.com
Tue Dec 2 21:42:03 UTC 2003


> Sandy
>Oh, well done.

Iggy here:

Thanks.  *grin*

> Sandy
>
>But there's a difference between stuff that not only isn't on our 
>radar but is so far outside our experience that it will never concern 
>us; 

Iggy here:

Which is the stuff we don't know we don't know.


> Sandy
>then there's the stuff that is going to rear up and bite us that 
>we don't even see an outline of before it's chomped our heads off. 
>(With most stuff, we don't care. Determining the difference between 
>them is part of what the Rumsfeld quote was about, IMO.)
>

Iggy here:

And that's the stuff we know we don't know.  (Who is out to get the US,
and how do they plan to do it?  Is there any significance to the 15 Arab
Muslims suddenly deciding to learn to fly jet-liners all at once?  How
can we balance the budget to eliminate the deficit, and the National
Debt without destroying the economy or screwing the American public...)

Iggy McSnurd

 






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