Red Herring or not?

Beer w/Straw

Beer w/Straw

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Is or is not the edit in this quoted post a red herring?

Beer w/Straw said:
Isn't a no review of a bill passing how the U.S. congress mostly functions?

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Off topic. Is the above sentence better understood like this: 'Isn't a no-review-of-a-bill passing how the U.S. congress mostly functions?

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Too convoluted for me to parse.

A red herring is an argument that, while it may well be true, does nothing to forward the case at-hand; it only distracts.
 
Beer w/Straw said:
Is or is not the edit in this quoted post a red herring?
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I don't think it's a herring (misleading clue in a mystery story). But it may be a mackerel.
What does the sentence mean?
My first guess is: Congress usually passes bills without reviewing them.
My second guess: Congress can put a rider on a passed bill: no review will be considered - and it's standard practice to do so.
But then, I'm not familiar with the inner functioning of US legislature; it might be clear to people who are.
 
Jeeves said:
I don't think it's a herring (misleading clue in a mystery story). But it may be a mackerel.
What does the sentence mean?
My first guess is: Congress usually passes bills without reviewing them.
My second guess: Congress can put a rider on a passed bill: no review will be considered - and it's standard practice to do so.
But then, I'm not familiar with the inner functioning of US legislature; it might be clear to people who are.
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The arrow beside my name in the quote is a link to the OP in the thread on peer review with scientific papers.

I think it is a red herring in an aspect of distraction but not surreptitious.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I wrote a reply, but realized you were addressing Seattle. You can't delete a post once posted, so all I can do is label it as junk. Or 'duplicate', which is how this usually happens.

I am 'overloading' the dupe() method. :D
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She hasn't addressed me yet. I just typed my response. She was responding to Dave.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I had been responding to post 5, thinking it was for me.

Also, isn't BwS a dude?
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No, and can that be considered a red herring?

Also, that 'dupe' came to me by an alert indicating you quoted me, yet from a different thread than this one, from what I could gather anyway, or, it was a suggestion of duping someone. Hence, :?
 
And there are two points to it being a red herring that should be considered (but I'm lazy right now).

1. I posted the idea of it being a red herring as a separate thread topic and not in the originating thread.

2. I was definitely distracted by it.
 
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