{"id":278710,"date":"2018-06-25T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278710"},"modified":"2018-06-25T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:00:32","slug":"lessons-in-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lessons-in-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humbug? Yes!\u00a0It is BS.<br \/>\n<em>\u201cBah!\u201d said Scrooge. \u201cHumbug!\u201d from Charles Dicken\u2019s A Christmas Carol, 1843.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHumbug: deceptive misrepresentation short of lying, especially by pretentious word or deed, of somebody\u2019s own thoughts, feelings, or attitudes.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n                    \u2014Max Black, The Prevalence of Humbug, 1985<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDeceptive misrepresentation in that we have a deliberate<br \/>\ndeception of a given situation. Short of Lying, did you ever<br \/>\nhear the old saying, \u2018I\u2019m Dying if I\u2019m Lying? Did you ever<br \/>\nthink it is being said to convince you the Misrepresentation<br \/>\nor lie being told to you is True? The difference may be in the<br \/>\ndegree of or the differences between what you already know,<br \/>\nhear, and see, or can think Through.<br \/>\nSee for yourself, and, well, it was like that last time I looked.<br \/>\nI heard it right from the horse\u2019s mouth! and of course the<br \/>\nchildren\u2019s old favorite, Cross my heart and hope to Die!<br \/>\nThe honorable humbug, a master of BS, has made an art of<br \/>\ndeceptive misrepresentation with humor, Wit and Yes I guess<br \/>\nthat dear reader is not BS or is It?<br \/>\nI have not learned to hold my Tongue. The tale is filled with<br \/>\nDung and without humble Pie. He doesn\u2019t know when to Quit.<br \/>\nIt is Nothing but a bunch of horse Spit.<br \/>\nI cannot tell a Lie. So the apocryphal story goes about George<br \/>\nWashington chopping down a cherry Tree. George supposedly<br \/>\nadmitted the Deed. Thus depriving the nation, he was destined to<br \/>\nLead as its first president, of some delicious cherry Pie or Cobbler.<br \/>\nWolfed down with well water or fresh milk by many the Gobbler.<br \/>\nThen there is Pinocchio whose every prevarication elongated the<br \/>\nproblem with his Proboscis providing difficulties getting his first Kiss.<br \/>\nSo the first president made a mistake and cut down a tree for Kindling.<br \/>\nOur 45th president has many emoluments and they\u2019re not Dwindling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>None Can Legislate Like Irishmen<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cYou can lead a man to Congress, but you can\u2019t make\u00a0them think.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n                      \u2014American comic, \u2018Uncle Miltie\u2019 Milton Berle<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNone can legislate like Irishmen Ryan and McConnell<br \/>\nask the King of Bling who scorns these leading two<br \/>\nwho sends insulting tweets in the name of Donald<br \/>\npays mistresses to close their mouth more payments due<br \/>\nno one else but his lawyers are supposed to see<br \/>\nyet the information is leaking out all over the place<br \/>\nin major city newspapers, on line and channel TV<br \/>\nwith 45 not worried one bit about saving face<br \/>\nthe new Don, the old Don, the Don unashamed\u00a0<br \/>\nthe King of Debt, Trumpty Dumpty, leading states red<br \/>\ncontinues demagoguery regardless what he\u2019s nicknamed<br \/>\nregardless of rational advice or what Congress said<br \/>\nbut he\u2019ll never pass legislation like those two Irishmen<br \/>\nfrom Capitol Hill to Mar A Lago\u2019s greens and back again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humbug? Yes!\u00a0It is BS. \u201cBah!\u201d said Scrooge. \u201cHumbug!\u201d from Charles Dicken\u2019s A Christmas Carol, 1843&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[774,21686,21687,21688],"class_list":["post-278710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bs","tag-irishmen-ryan","tag-max-black","tag-yes-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}