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Offline rangerrebew

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Lie, Lie, and Lie Again
« on: May 26, 2025, 08:42:27 am »
Lie, Lie, and Lie Again
by Mark Steyn
Steyn on the Blizzard of Lies
May 20, 2025
 

~I am so bored with being lied to. I am even bored with the new lies being told to cover the old lies: Now It Can Be Told!!! The Behind-the-Scenes Inside Story of How I Lied to You for the Last Half-Decade by Jake Tapper and Wossname. Exclusive Excerpt!

The longtime granite-jawed Deputy Assistant Under-Counselor to the President for Running the Country peered thoughtfully through the Oval Office window to the vast city beyond before loosening his cocktail dress and kicking off his three-inch heels. I was stunned by the evident anguish on his face as he turned to me and said:

'I think we may be overworking Joe. Last week he took a ten-minute call from some European guy - the German chancellor, was it? Maybe the Nato dude? - and it seemed fine, but his afternoon nap's gone on for nine days now...'

https://www.steynonline.com/15326/lie-lie-and-lie-again
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Lie, Lie, and Lie Again
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2025, 10:30:33 am »
I have always enjoyed Steyn's sense of humor.
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