Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Kamala Outright Lies About Women's Basketball Brackets Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 06:25:43 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <_hGdnRw9YZYzVcX7nZ2dnZfqnPQAAAAA@giganews.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 12:25:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f1193c63dfcb5b2269cadddd419d2e3d"; logging-data="2309828"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19j5+di+a4Y/EZtHgY8x5IV" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AA1RnfATacG2hjbCtz1lNt1xcsc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <_hGdnRw9YZYzVcX7nZ2dnZfqnPQAAAAA@giganews.com> Bytes: 3264 On 5/30/24 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On May 30, 2024 at 9:46:55 AM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" wrote: > >> BTR1701 wrote: >>> FPP wrote: >>>> On 5/29/24 4:19 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>>>> Kamala Harris claimed that women's basketball wasn't even allowed to have >>>>> playoff brackets until 2022, when in reality, women's basketball has been >>>>> using them since 1982, 42 years. >> >>>>> Kamala herself tweeted out exchanges with her husband in 2021 where they >>>>> talked about who they were choosing in their brackets. >> >>>>> https://youtu.be/yYjH5g9ogXE?t=409 >> >>>>> Between Biden's almost weekly made-up stories about his past and Kamala >>>>> gaslighting us about women's basketball, what the hell is going on in the >>>>> White House? >> >>>> Now tell the rest of the story, coward. But you won't, so I'll have to >>>> do it again. >> >>>>> Mediaite reached out to the Vice President's office for clarification and >>>>> was told that Harris did, in fact, misspeak and that she meant to say that >>>>> the use of the "March Madness" copyright was only made available to the >>>>> women's tournament lin 2022. >> >>> Hahahahahahahahahaha! >> >>> "Misspeak". That's politician code for "lie". >> >> It makes no sense. How can the generic concept of playoffs be >> copyrighted to begin with? > > It's not even a copyright issue. At best "March Madness" is a trademark. The > copyright statute doesn't allow for copyrighting de minimis phrases like > that. Didn't know she was a copyright lawyer like you. That must have been the only class you actually attended. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0