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- From: dickw@IASTATE.EDU (Richard Wallingford)
- Subject: Re: More of the House Bank "scandal" (was Pardon stuff...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.165158@IASTATE.EDU>
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- Reply-To: dickw@IASTATE.EDU (Richard Wallingford)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <1993Jan19.223006.12627@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1jic1jINN7uk@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan21.000113.3405@Princeton.EDU> <1jmi2sINNk68@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:51:58 GMT
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- wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
-
- >Craig, can you cite one posting by David Marc Nieporent in which he
- >_denied_ that the congress spends irresponsibly? If not, you're looking
- >an awful lot like a desperate and/or incompetent attorney who tries to
- >make the other side's expert witness look bad on the stand by asking him
- >something like: "So, Doctor, you ADMIT that you've been practicing
- >medicine for over twenty years and have examined literally HUNDREDS of
- >people with knee injuries similar to the one my client has, isn't that
- >right? And you further ADMIT that you are on the teaching staff at
- >Harvard Medical School and regularly lecture and instruct on the topic
- >of knee injuries, don't you? Don't try to deny it, Doctor -- it's all
- >there in the record!"
-
- Ok, I knew he said it somewhere, so I decided to look it up.
-
- In article <1993Jan16.053243.29097@Princeton.EDU>,
- niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:
- ...
- >>They [congress] managed money fine.
- ...
-
- I immediately recognized your newbee law-student tactics of bluffing
- in order to win by default on an unaccepted challenge.
-
- If you weren't just a lawyer wannabe I'd say *you* were the incompetent
- attorney here. But then again, third-year law students are supposed
- to be a little smarter than to issue a challenge to look something
- up in a readily available public forum. So, maybe you really are
- incompetent.
-
- >Free advice from a third-year law student, Craig: don't ever try to
- >become a prosecutor. At least, not unless I get to be the defense
- >attorney.
-
- Remind me never to hire Mr. Starr as counsel. (Then again, his state
- Bar Association may take care of that for me)
-
- --
- Dick Wallingford
-