Standing By Your Sex-Hobbyist -Man; Because It's Your Fault Too?

PATHOLOGICAL LYING
DOMINATES THE NEWS

This past few weeks its been "pants on fire" headlines. Gonzales has "nothing to hide."

Imus is "sorry," (kind of like 'the checks in the mail' and 'I swear I won't fill in blank') but Al "pin back your yarmaluke" Sharpton "isn't buying Imus' apology and neither is Jesse "hymietown" Jackson.

Rush Limbaugh, that bastian of truth who's 'kicked' his oxycotin addiction thinks Obama is a "HALF-rican."

Bush is getting ready to veto stem-cell research again because he's the "decider" and on this past Friday night's usual news-dump the White House FINALLY admits "abstinence only programs don't work" DUH!!

The Governor of New Jersey refuses to use a dang seat belt and ends up nearly getting himself killed. (let's nominate him for a Darwin Award!)

And my Winner for Understatement of the Month: Dick Cheney admits that the White House has some credibility "issues to work through."

And here's a little supportive posting to help wash done the bitter pill of truth:

WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, BE SURE TO KEEP IT WELL HIDDEN.
by: Ira Apple

Citing Orwell's "1984" has become a cliché, but a useful one. There are now TV cameras everywhere and more coming. The idea of putting GPS in cars for the purpose of charging road taxes is slowly getting bureaucratic attention. Of course that would also mean the authorities could know where you have driven, where you stopped, how long you were away and other information.

The cell phone you carry can tell us where you are presently located. Children who have cell phones are now followed on their parent's computer. We can trace our pets through the electronic chips inserted under their coat; an idea that won't long be ignored by law enforcement for criminals, which will lead to the next logical step to keep us all safe: sub dermal chips for those we suspect might be inclined to break the law.

Soon everyone will carry a universal driver's license. In the movies produced around WW II we saw the Nazi's stopping citizens and asking for "your papers". Ve know who you are und ve know vere you live. Und ve haf ways to make you talk.

"So what? If you have nothing to hide, what difference does it make?"

With that statement the abysmally ignorant among us dismiss their right to privacy and applaud the new science that will keep them safe in their homes and secure in their everyday world.

Years ago in a friendly interview with a member of the FBI I was told each agent had to take turns handling the strange and off-beat calls that surely still come into their offices. These were from people being followed by creatures from outer space, or who wanted to report strange gasses coming from the electrical sockets in their home, and the ever-popular, "The people on my TV screen are watching me and I want the FBI to make them stop!"

One example of the later was an elderly woman who said the only way she would watch her television was to peek around the wall from another room so "they" could not see her. We chuckled. But why was she bothered? Did she have something to hide?

Technology has reached the point where previously unimaginable forms of surveillance, if not possible today, will be common tomorrow. Cameras the size of a blouse button, microphones not much larger than the head of a pin; the list is already endless and accelerating.

We know who you are. We know what you've done.

The people who have nothing to hide seem to think in terms only of law breakers. Since they, themselves would not break any laws, being watched constantly does not appear to be an issue. So I am sure they would not object to having a government camera in all bathrooms. After all, if you were planning an evil deed, wouldn't you try to find the most private place to get your schemes in order? It's for your own good.

When the camera tracks you along the street and detects in your body language a match the super computer compares with its 100 Decabite data base of people who may have done something criminal and you are stopped for questioning, don't object. That is what a criminal would do.

The former head of the Russian secret police, Lavrenti Beria is quoted as saying, "Show me the person, and I will show you the crime." How he would have laughed at his victims who had nothing to hide.

Think hard. Can you ever imagine surveillance being abused by politicians? By government officials? By scam artists? By practical jokers? By private detectives? By blackmailers?

And do we forget to teach our children that they should do the right thing even if they know no one is watching and instead instruct them in the ways of stealth so they won't get caught?

Do you really want to watch television while hiding behind a curtain?

Not possible. Couldn't happen. Not in this country.

Your papers please.
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Gonzales: 'I have nothing to hide'
Attorney general insists he didn't do wrong by firing 8 federal prosecutors

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Sunday he has done nothing improper in the firings of eight federal prosecutors in testimony prepared for his appearance before a Senate panel widely viewed as a last chance to save his job.

"I have nothing to hide," Gonzales said in a statement released Sunday.

But two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Gonzales has an uphill battle in convincing the public he can lead the Justice Department.

Two days before Gonzales is to make a showdown appearance before Congress, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said none of Gonzales' public statements so far has convinced him that the department's ouster of eight U.S. attorneys was justified.

In an op-ed Sunday in the Washington Post, Gonzales apologized for the handling of the matter, including a series of misstatements about his exact role that he acknowledged "created confusion." But Gonzales maintained that "nothing improper" occurred.

"Those statements are very conclusory," said Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. "He's got a steep hill to climb. He's going to be successful only if he deals with the facts."

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., another member of the Judiciary Committee, said Gonzales has "an uphill struggle to re-establish his credibility with the committee given prior statements." Still, Graham said he believed Gonzales could save his job.

"He needs to explain what he did and why he did it," Graham said. "There are three our four different versions of his role in this, and he needs to bring clarity to what he did and why he did it."

Tuesday expected to make or break Gonzales
Gonzales, a former White House counsel who became attorney general in 2005, will testify Tuesday before the committee, in what will likely be a make-or-break appearance for Gonzales.

Specter said Gonzales must explain the firing the U.S. attorneys case by case — and convince senators they were not done to interfere with or promote ongoing criminal investigations aimed at benefiting Republicans.

If he is unable to do so, Gonzales should consider reinstating the fired prosecutors, Specter said.

While a president has a right to replace U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, "you can't replace them for a bad reason," he said.

"The No. 1 question is, is he capable of administering the Department of Justice, did he have enough hands on to know what's happening? Can he explain why these individuals were asked to resign and justify the reasons for doing so?" Specter said.

Specter spoke on ABC's "This Week," and Graham appeared on "Fox News Sunday.

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The Consequences of Pathological Lying
by Kathy Krajco

Many people apparantly think that if you just believe your own lies, then they aren't lies!

Is this like that stupid question about a tree falling in a forest without anybody to see or hear it? In that case, some intellectual asks, "Did it fall?"

Yes, numbskull.

And if you believe your own lies, you're not innocent: you're just a double liar.

It takes little thought to see how a head full of lies is not a good thing. The brain is like a computer: garbage in, garbage out. Narcissists recklessly abuse their minds with garbage.

For one thing, a narcissist's need to think nasty lies about the good makes him unknowing of who his friends are and whom to trust. For another thing, his past could catch up with him at any moment, but he's got himself believing he's so special that he can get away with anything forever. So, he gets reckless, living as though his life is lived on a beach, instead of in a jungle where he has made many angry enemies. Also, he loses track of his various and changing versions of things, tripping himself up and confusing himself.

Moreover, you can't habitually force thinking to take tortuous, anti-logical pathways without damaging the brain's ability to think straight. I've known old narcissists. And I think that, as they age, the mind muddles.

Since much of his lying is through abuse of words, over time words melt together and lose their meaning to him. This becomes evident in his speech. For example, you might notice that his vocabulary becomes so limited he calls anything that comes in an envelope a "letter." No big deal? To the contrary, that's a very big deal, because words are what we think with!

He thus sabotages his mind so that, though he isn't senile and has no trace of Alheimer's, (a) he can't think his way out of a paper bag and (b) he cannot speak a five-word sentence without getting stuck at a loss for some common noun or verb that his brain can't come up with.

This is why narcissists really need to get real and stop abusing their minds. Peter Pan must leave Never Never Land and reach the Age of Reason. For his own sake.

Friends don't lie to friends. People who lie to themselves are their own worst enemies.

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