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It does not. Which is an every scarier problem.

 

I'd agree with pretty much all of that.

 

I think she's somehow confused and conflated the Fort Hood shootings and Bowling Green arrests into one event. The way she's referenced it as an attack "on our soldiers" sounds like she's describing Ft. Hood, but then she also gets that two people were arrested in Bowling Green for Al Qaeda ties. But what she doesn't seem to grasp is that these are two entirely disconnected and unrelated events.

In which case she would have basis to claim "honest mistake", but it still suggests someone who's way too incompetent and confused to be in her position.

 

The GOP with regard to Obamacare was like the dog chasing the car. Now they've caught the car and it's "Now what?"

 

No, I think she's fucking lying. Or too stupid to keep breathing my oxygen.

 

They just DO things.

 

It sounded better when Baz Luhrmann did it 20 years ago.

 

Well, yeah. That's the point Audi.

The same "various factors" exist at every company, and explain their pay gaps as well.

 

Baz is reading someone else's work.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

 

No wonder it sounded so good.

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Malicious or moronic. Hell of a choice to be given, and one we have to make all too often.

 

Charles Blow alert, gift-wrapped for YF ...

Donald Trump is a proven liar. He lies often and effortlessly. He lies about the profound and the trivial. He lies to avoid guilt and invite glory. He lies when his pride is injured and when his pomposity is challenged.

Indeed, one of the greatest threats Trump poses is that he corrupts and corrodes the absoluteness of truth, facts and science.

It is no coincidence that the rise of Trump is concurrent with the rise of “fake news.” It is no coincidence that his rise comes during an age of severely damaged faith in institutions.

And now that he has been elected, Trump wants absolute control over the flow of information, to dictate his own version of facts rather than live with the reality of accepted facts. Trump is in a battle to bend the truth to his benefit.

He hates members of the press because, when properly performing, they are truth seekers rather than ego-strokers. The press may sometimes get things wrong, but it most often gets them right. A truly independent press is not stocked with political acolytes but political adversaries.

This doesn’t sit well with an administration that wants to be perpetually patted on the back and never rapped on the knuckles.

A Lie by Any Other Name