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[RC] The Derby - Bruce Weary

Truman--
You said: " No it is not I portending to have 20/20 hindsight - it is those that claim that the event went well because the world stepped in and whipped the organizers into shape. This contention makes the assumption that it would not have gone just as well if this had not have happened."

Are you saying that our rides here might be expected to go "just as well" without the benefit of proper veterinary attention?

Then you said: " This is as fallacious as the argument that because "I went out and cut down the tree that was growing out over the roadway and I saved someone from death because in three days the tree might fall on top of a car on the roadway."

Ummmm........Truman, highway departments around the country cut down trees all the time for that very reason. Are you saying we can save all those tax dollars by not cutting them down because
we can't prove beforehand that they will fall on oncoming traffic? I'll alert the media.

You went on: " I have spent a lot of time in strange and wondrous places.... "

Without leaving your computer chair, no doubt.

" many of which I cannot discuss......."

I know. James Bond has the same problem. That "Double O" status is such a burden, isn't it?

And lastly you quote Carl Sagan, of whom I am a fan also: "“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.” Carl Sagan

To which I respond: "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small
piece of fluff in his ear." Winnie the Pooh






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