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I thought I knew. Between certain political leaders past and present there are plenty of examples, How Lying Works

* To conceal misdeeds and stay out of trouble. Wrongdoings often can’t be undone, and it’s rare that owning up to a misdeed will result in a positive outcome (at least in the short term). ­These lies are told to avoid responsibility and repercussions.

* To preserve reputation. A recovering drug addict may lie about time spent in a treatment facility, especially to a potential employer or romantic prospect. A lie like this is told to avoid shame or embarrassment.

* To avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Children learn early on to be polite, not to point out physical flaws, and to say “thank you” even after they receive something they don’t like. These “white lies” are distinguished from other types because they carry no ill will or bad intentions.

* To increase stature and reputation. Some lies are told without any obvious external stimulus, such as a demand for an answer to a specific question. This type of lie is often narcissistic in nature, told to make the liar seem more accomplished, skilled or gifted as a means of gaining favor in the eyes of others.

* To manipulate. These lies aren’t evasive or defensive, but rather aggressive and malicious in nature. Such lies are told to gain wealth, love, favor or other assets by damaging another’s reputation or spreading harmful untruths.

* To control information. As opposed to airing a falsehood, indirect lying is withholding or concealing important facts. This is often seen as a more acceptable form of lying, since a person doesn’t actively construct lies, but only sits tightly on the truth. A missing piece of information can completely alter the understanding of an event, leading American courts to demand not only the truth, but “the whole truth.”

The third one composes a good sized part of the foundation of civilization, marriage, friendship and safe passage on some public transportation. The day those kinds of lies stop might be the day that the earth, or humanity anyway stands still. Five and six have their merits if you’re mental make-up tends toward the sociopathic. You can indirectly, see Ma no blood on my hands, murder someone or lots of people. The banana split school of murder, slather the top with some creamy noble sounding BS about national security and patriotism, toss on some sugary blather about carrying out the will of a deity and you’ll even have some people working overtime defending you. I wonder if this woman couldn’t work on manipulating some proteins that make the unrepentant five and sixers glow green.

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The Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008 – by Roy Edroso

#8: The Hoover Boom. “This election year does look quite a bit like Hoover vs. Roosevelt (and given that choice, I’ll take Hoover),” said National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, setting off a little avalanche of rightblogger warnings that “electing Obama and the congressional Democrats will be like electing FDR in 1932.”

You hear that America if you do the right thing you’ll be punished – I can imagine  Mr. Goldberg’s still wagging, but gangrenous finger of freakish self righteousness falling off in about a year.

#6: The War on Starbucks. For Michelle Malkin, even hot beverages are political. Malkin announced she was giving up Starbucks because they wouldn’t let customers put the phrase “Laissez Faire” on their gift cards, and switched to Dunkin’ Donuts because they were “unapologetic supporters of immigration enforcement.” Then she denounced Dunkin’ Donuts because Rachel Ray wore a keffiyeh in one of their ads, but relented when the ad was pulled. The price of breakfast is eternal vigilance!

Proper scarf attire was all important to Jefferson and Madison. First women wear scarfs and what’s next – short skirts and hip huggers. Everyone with an ounce or 29 ml of common sense knows that neck adornments are the lubricant on the slippery slope to Purgatory. They banned scarfs in the original Constitution which was burned by jihadists that came over as stowaways on the Mayflower.