Here’s a news flash for you: people lie. People lie all the time. I was very fortunate as a young girl. I had one of those faces that said, “I’m lying, and you know it.” Actually, I was doubly fortunate, because my mother told me, “Don’t even try to lie. It’s written all over your face.” So I was stuck with telling the truth. I just wish everybody else was stuck with the truth, too. I found that the best…..
Brian Williams was just caught lying about being attacked in a helicopter in a war zone. Dan Rather was caught in a lie trying to influence the outcome of an election. “What difference does it make?” Our government is a republic, not a democracy. We elect people to represent us in our government. In order to elect people who will represent us as we want them to represent us, and not according to their own personal agendas, the voting public…..
During the Revolutionary War, the American army was crossing a river on horseback. A man was standing close to the crossing, watching the soldiers cross. When General Washington was about to cross, the man approached him and asked him for a ride across the river. Washington agreed, and the man mounted the horse behind Washington. Half way across the river, Washington asked the man why he waited for him and why he asked him and not the other soldiers. The…..
Admit it. Just once you would like the see their pants burst into flames. Liars. They are all around us. These days lying seems to have become an art form. Friends and family with an imaginary ax to grind. Co-workers wanting to gain an advantage. Witnesses on the stand in court. Mainstream media personalities wanting to achieve an agenda, not report the truth. Con men looking for fast and easy money. Politicians wanting power. It even extends to the highest…..
In “Choosing Life,” I told you about my dysfunctional family. Both my mother and my father were damaged people. They disowned me in 1975. In 1980, my father left my mother for a woman younger than me. My mother had been a diabetic since 1943. so my father left a very sick woman. He drained her bank accounts. I re-established contact with her when I learned that my father left. In 1987, her kidneys failed. I brought her into my…..