Comments on: Simply didn’t think of it. Mind must have been elsewhere. Forget my head if it weren’t nailed on! https://sorrywatch.com/simply-didnt-think-of-it-mind-must-have-been-elsewhere-forget-my-head-if-it-werent-nailed-on/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:28:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: tanita https://sorrywatch.com/simply-didnt-think-of-it-mind-must-have-been-elsewhere-forget-my-head-if-it-werent-nailed-on/#comment-11741 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:59:26 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1718#comment-11741 …the least most untruthful answer.

GOOD. GRIEF.

There’s no penalty for the government in any case, unless and until we remember that government is allegedly for and by the People…

]]> By: David Turoff https://sorrywatch.com/simply-didnt-think-of-it-mind-must-have-been-elsewhere-forget-my-head-if-it-werent-nailed-on/#comment-11730 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:25:43 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1718#comment-11730 With respect to high level federal officials there is apparently no penalty for treason or war crimes either, so why should there be for lying to congress?

]]> By: S.McC https://sorrywatch.com/simply-didnt-think-of-it-mind-must-have-been-elsewhere-forget-my-head-if-it-werent-nailed-on/#comment-11729 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:55:16 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1718#comment-11729 Seems to me “testify” implies an oath. And…the online dictionaries say:

tes·ti·fy (tst-f)
v. test·i·fied, test·i·fy·ing, test·i·fies
v.intr.
1. To make a declaration of truth or fact under oath; submit testimony: witnesses testifying before a grand jury.
2. To express or declare a strong belief, especially to make a declaration of faith.
3. To make a statement based on personal knowledge in support of an asserted fact; bear witness: the exhilaration of weightlessness, to which many astronauts have testified.
4. To serve as evidence: wreckage that testifies to the ferocity of the storm.
v.tr.
1. To declare publicly; make known: testifying their faith.
2. To state or affirm under oath: testified in court that he saw the defendant.
3. To bear witness to; provide evidence for.

]]> By: sumac https://sorrywatch.com/simply-didnt-think-of-it-mind-must-have-been-elsewhere-forget-my-head-if-it-werent-nailed-on/#comment-11724 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:21:19 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1718#comment-11724 In reply to Anita.

I don’t think so. I don’t think he testified under oath (sometimes witnesses are asked to, but more often they are not).

]]> By: Anita https://sorrywatch.com/simply-didnt-think-of-it-mind-must-have-been-elsewhere-forget-my-head-if-it-werent-nailed-on/#comment-11722 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:34:06 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=1718#comment-11722 Is there no penalty for lying when testifying before a Senate committee?

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