Naval Academy Principal Nomination

Whistle_Pig
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:33:52 +0000

And in my #9 to #1 example, the Academy WAS able to provide him an appointment. Therefore all my statements stand.



Even where you noted early on …



Representative nominations come out and, and only if, you are the top candidate on this slate, you will be awarded an appointment.



Of course, as has been noted and duly illustrated, your original claim is, shall we say, baloney, inaccurate, not the case.

More important than hair-splitting, had any reader believed what your wrote, they’d have been misinformed.

The consequent “yes, butting” edifies the correct, complete answer. But when one proclaims to grasp all the facts, be the font of all truth, nothing but the truth, the standard is a tough one to achieve. And sets one up for merited scrutiny.

Practically speaking, I always fall back on what my brutal English teacher-preacher shouted from her pulpit …“Say what you mean, mean what you say.”

She also waxed eloquently and often about brevity, and how ramblings rarely get read. I’m done and that’s for another class.