mutilated misquotes from Bruce Marshall's 8 Jan 2006 classic prose may follow:
[...8<...] " It's also my observation that the liberals will say and do anything to get " back or retain their power, whether what they say/do is good for the country " or not. And they don't mind lying or shading the truth to accomplish that. One does a serious disservice to the concepts both of truth and of falsehood, imo, by accusing a politician of any stripe of any degree of lying. One must have some idea of what truth is, and falsehood, and some moral reason for giving a general preference to one or to the other before one has the capability either of lying or of telling the truth. Otherwise, it's mere coincidence when any statement happens to coincide with one or the other. Politicians have no concept either of truth or of falsehood; they don't live in a universe where either exist. And every fibre of their being is steeped in and saturated with the belief that if there were a universe in which these two concepts did exist that each concept would have the exact same meaning as the other. The _only_ criterion a politician uses to decide whether statement A or statement B is preferable is which is more likely to keep them in or get them into power and they don't care if they make the diametrically opposite statement in the next nanosecond or did in the last; and what they actually do needs have no connection with either. R -- http://www.quen.net "Gold needs no endorsement, it can be tested with scales and acids. The recipient of gold does not have to trust the government stamp upon it, if he does not trust the government that stamped it. No act of faith is called for when gold is used in payments, and no compulsion is required." -Benjamin M. Anderson _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
