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Tue May 10 12:31:51 UTC 2022

https://news.yahoo.com/seismic-shift-fractures-evangelicals-arkansas-185525279.html
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“This mindset that Christianity and politics, and the preacher and
politics, need to be separate, that’s a lie,” he said.

JL

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 8:30 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://www.yahoo.com/news/22-things-were-taught-school-064603650.html
>
> "ROY G BIV Is A Lie, And 21 Other Fake 'Facts'  Our Teachers Taught Us As
> Kids"
>
> JL
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 4:20 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cf.:
>>  https://www.yahoo.com/news/horses-cnn-contributor-slams-networks-161600893.html
>> <https://www.yahoo.com/news/horses-cnn-contributor-slams-networks-161600893.html>
>>
>> "would you say that when you’re talking about a drug that has been given
>> out to billions and billions of people?” Rogan asked Gupta. “A drug that
>> the inventors won a Nobel Prize in 2015, a drug that has been shown to stop
>> viral replication in vitro. You know that, right? Why would they lie and
>> say that’s horse dewormer? [...] Do you think that that's a problem that
>> your news network lies?"
>>
>> Ivermectin, the drug at issue, *is* a horse dewormer. The terminology was
>> complicated by the fact that it's also prescribed for parasitic river
>> blindness in humans. Rogan got a prescription for it (he doesn't have river
>> blindness).
>>
>> Said in passing by Don Lemon, the characterization "horse dewormer" would
>> more accurately be called a "misnomer" or even a "tendentious choice of
>> words."
>>
>> But nowadays it's a "lie."
>>
>> JL
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 3:39 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> They lie flat, as opposed to flat-out lying
>>>
>>> MAM. .
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 1:03 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > So you can't trust the inconstant moon either.
>>> >
>>> > I trust the flat-earthers. They have no reason to lie.
>>> >
>>> > JL
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:25 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Well, the Moon always lies *in the northern hemisphere*. In the
>>> Tropics
>>> > her
>>> > > path takes her through or near the zenith on her monthly apparent
>>> journey
>>> > > from east to west and the edge of the shadow is roughly parallel to
>>> that
>>> > > line, so it depends on which way you're facing. And in the southern
>>> > > hemisphere she tells the truth.
>>> > >
>>> > > Mark A. Mandel
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 4:38 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
>>> > > wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > > On Sep 22, 2021, at 4:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
>>> > wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>>> > > > wrote:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > >
>>> https://www.yahoo.com/news/thought-knew-sun-color-lie-133422094.html
>>> > :
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > What You Thought You Knew About the Sun’s Color Is a Lie
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > (People say it's yellow, but it's really white. Liars!)
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > JL
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I don’t know—from the write-up it looks like it’s the sun that's
>>> the
>>> > > > liar.  I was told the moon always lies (it makes a capital D when
>>> it’s
>>> > > > crescent and a C when it’s decrescent), but apparently you can’t
>>> trust
>>> > > any
>>> > > > heavenly bodies.  Or even Springsteen:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > The piss-yellow sun
>>> > > > Comes bringing up the day
>>> > > > She said "Ain't nobody can give nobody
>>> > > > What they really need anyway”
>>> > > > (“Dry Lightning”)
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Is nothing sacred?
>>> > > >
>>> > > > LH
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:19 AM Dan Goncharoff <
>>> thegonch at gmail.com>
>>> > > > wrote:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > >> Interesting how one deals with opinions expressed as facts,
>>> > especially
>>> > > > when
>>> > > > >> they are found to be wrong later. Are they Schrodinger
>>> statements,
>>> > > only
>>> > > > >> found to be true or false once we "open the box"?
>>> > > > >>
>>> > > > >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 10:05 AM Jonathan Lighter <
>>> > > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > >> wrote:
>>> > > > >>
>>> > > > >>> 'any idea or statement that is untrue or that one disagrees
>>> with.'
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> I've been hearing this a lot on cable news, though not from
>>> > > > journalists.
>>> > > > >>> Ex.:
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> Quora.com:  "Electrons absolutely positively do not whizz
>>> around
>>> > the
>>> > > > >>> nucleus of an atom. That idea is a lie-to-children, a
>>> > simplification
>>> > > > told
>>> > > > >>> [to] young kids in grade school."
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> CNN: "Rugged individualism is a lie."
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> Also v.:
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> Protest sign seen on FOX News: "FAUCI LIED PEOPLE DIED"
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> JL
>>> > > > >>>
>>> > > > >>> --
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>>> handle the
>>> > > > >> truth."
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>>
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>> truth."
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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