Prevarication is no different for women than it is for men. But men are likely to lie to protect themselves from accusations, the truth of their own guilt about something, or just to "enhance" what people may say about them. But in my life (being male) I have been confronted by elaborate schemes, continued and ongoing deceptions, and a rewriting of past events --- all invented by and deviously applied by women who love to deceive.
Perhaps it is the "love of drama" that drives such elaborate schemes --- or maybe the thoughts that some people have that they are just "cleverer" than the people around them. For whatever reason women's lies are like webs -- filled with intrigue, innuendo, and a flair for the exotic. This kind of "fake drama" poses as "real life" for some women, and completely erases their reliability as human beings. If they are willing to fabricate in one corner of their life, they are willing to fabricate everywhere.
My weakness as a male is that I don't cope well with liars. I never know, once they have lied with gusto and conviction, if they are even capable of telling the truth the next time. And no matter what the Trump blitz likes to portray in their communications, we are not living in an age of alternate facts -- only in an age of liars.
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Trump's Cabinet
The shape of the "support system" for Donald Trump is now becoming clear. We have a former avowed racist as Attorney General of the United States; a Secretary of Education who doesn't believe in public schools and wants "school choice" (private schools, vouchers, charter schools) to be the new normal; a HUD director who knows nothing about poverty or public housing; a Secretary of Energy who didn't know what his job was til he looked it up; an Chief Advisor and Strategist on the National Security Council who thinks that war and the apocalypse are "at hand."
Obviously Donald Trump has paid off political debts and shaped the future of our country in his own dystopian, crypto-fascist, autocratic, oligarchic terms. And "the Donald" isn't through yet.
Obviously Donald Trump has paid off political debts and shaped the future of our country in his own dystopian, crypto-fascist, autocratic, oligarchic terms. And "the Donald" isn't through yet.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
The Pain of Trump
There it is: something in the world is "almost the truth" but then lapses into prevarication. A situation cries out for action -- but then the action applied is a massive over-reach with horrible side effects.
The Trump "non-administration" is saddled with many such instances, the immigration travel ban being an early example.
There are poor, near-governmentless countries (with Muslim majorities) incapable of doing much of anything but fomenting hatred for America -- and Trump further alienates them and isolates their evil by placing an unfair and uneven travel pain on the passage of their citizens into the US --- for ANY reason. So we cannot travel there -- and they cannot come here. All commerce stops; all aid stops; all change stops. Hatred grows in the vacuum left behind.
Thank you Donald Trump, for your lack of planning, foresight, and just plain thinking.
The Trump "non-administration" is saddled with many such instances, the immigration travel ban being an early example.
There are poor, near-governmentless countries (with Muslim majorities) incapable of doing much of anything but fomenting hatred for America -- and Trump further alienates them and isolates their evil by placing an unfair and uneven travel pain on the passage of their citizens into the US --- for ANY reason. So we cannot travel there -- and they cannot come here. All commerce stops; all aid stops; all change stops. Hatred grows in the vacuum left behind.
Thank you Donald Trump, for your lack of planning, foresight, and just plain thinking.
Monday, February 6, 2017
For Most Americans...
For most Americans their day-to-day world is calm and easy. And their children don't worry about things like: food, shelter, school-or-no-school, injury, death, or deprivation of any kind. These everyday Americans however now reside in the world of "Trump."
And that means all the things Americans as a whole cherish and expect from their everyday lives, can change in an instant. "Trump" is capable of anything -- putting himself and his interests above those of the people --- DONE; declaring himself to be a supreme source of knowledge---DONE; profiting from the chaos he inspires while the rest of us "worry" and "empathize" for the many people affected---DONE! This truly is an intolerable situation.
And that means all the things Americans as a whole cherish and expect from their everyday lives, can change in an instant. "Trump" is capable of anything -- putting himself and his interests above those of the people --- DONE; declaring himself to be a supreme source of knowledge---DONE; profiting from the chaos he inspires while the rest of us "worry" and "empathize" for the many people affected---DONE! This truly is an intolerable situation.
Resist, Resist, Resist !
It is our duty as Americans to resist the "push" towards autocratic rule in our country. Trump as President is not the ultimate power in America; we the people are. Trump is not the smartest man in the room; we are. Trump is not the best businessman in the world; we the people are.
If you need proof -- look at our history, as opposed to Trump's. We have not "deserted" multiple wives. We have not lied to our children and our grandparents. We have not demeaned our enemies or exalted our enemies so that we can use them as our friends.
Stay vigilant! Resist the temptation to be nice to this boorish and un-American President.
If you need proof -- look at our history, as opposed to Trump's. We have not "deserted" multiple wives. We have not lied to our children and our grandparents. We have not demeaned our enemies or exalted our enemies so that we can use them as our friends.
Stay vigilant! Resist the temptation to be nice to this boorish and un-American President.
Friday, February 3, 2017
What Can "the Donald" Do For You?
You say you want the loud Christian-music loving neighbors to turn off their music no later than 7:00 PM ? Call "the Donald" (and contribute $5,000. to Trump Ties International, a 501c3 registered charity)!
The teenage girls next door (twins, I think) are changing clothes with the shades up again? Call "the Donald" -- (and sign that $25,000 check over to Donald's Daily Devotion, a Christian Sentient Movement -- affiliated with Young Christians Dress Like Pageant Winners)!
How about clearing out the neighborhood of all skin colors that don't turn "blotchy red" after a nice steak and martini lunch? Send that stipend to Donald Trump's Light-free Church of Money, or just send it directly to: The Donald, The White House, Winning is My Way, USA! For "the Donald" is the "Way, the Truth, the Light, and the Winner"!
The teenage girls next door (twins, I think) are changing clothes with the shades up again? Call "the Donald" -- (and sign that $25,000 check over to Donald's Daily Devotion, a Christian Sentient Movement -- affiliated with Young Christians Dress Like Pageant Winners)!
How about clearing out the neighborhood of all skin colors that don't turn "blotchy red" after a nice steak and martini lunch? Send that stipend to Donald Trump's Light-free Church of Money, or just send it directly to: The Donald, The White House, Winning is My Way, USA! For "the Donald" is the "Way, the Truth, the Light, and the Winner"!
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
America Hurrah !
A long, long time ago --- while I was living in Rome, Italy; I was cast in a "professional" production of the play America Hurrah, by Jean-Claude van Itallie. This play is composed of three shorter plays or acts, all of which, in their own way depict some of the foibles of American society. The play also targets the Catholic Church, the societal hypocrisy of Americans generally, and the mores of the times (the infamous 1960's).
Nowadays, that play (and the texts of Brave New World and 1984 and the movie Network, for that matter) are being played out in the political machinations of Washington D.C., the American press, and American television. We are rapidly becoming, at least in America, the worst internal views of ourselves. We are our own worst selves!
Nowadays, that play (and the texts of Brave New World and 1984 and the movie Network, for that matter) are being played out in the political machinations of Washington D.C., the American press, and American television. We are rapidly becoming, at least in America, the worst internal views of ourselves. We are our own worst selves!
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