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You know there are many articles, statements, opinions, and the like written all over America. Some we copy and post on the vine and some we speculate on through e-mails and personal conversations. Each of us has an idea of the "rest of the story". We speculate We discuss.

Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. Will Rogers or become a politician

Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. Will Rogers Or a politician, need I say more?

9/11: Truth, Trutherism, and Truthiness
Source: MotherJones.com

The morning of 9/11, when the alarm went off with National Public Radio's Carl Kasell talking about planes flying into the World Trade Center, I was convinced I'd stumbled into a modern-day War of the Worlds.

Labor Day A Celebration Or A Swan Song For The Middleclass?

Nothing stands between the love of my wife and children. They are my reason for living. The center of my universe and right there next to them are my friends. Every Saturday for 35 years, at 6:30. I make a pot coffee, bake some biscuits and get out a a jar of peach marmalade.

Obama's Health Care Whopper is Bigger :: Robert Robb
Source: RealClearPolitics

Health care reform supporters claim they are losing public support because of lies and distortions told by opponents designed to scare people.

The TOP 6 values essential for success in relationships (Poll)

Some time ago, after I met the guy I called the 'love of my life', and labelled him '11% short of heaven' (because of the score we kept getting on every relationship quiz we did), I was fascinated to find out why we had clicked together so amazingly, despite our different backgro …

Wikipedia and the Church of Scientology
Source:

Its an opinion piece, dated 29 May, 2009, but interesting: "In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates."

Neuroimaging suggests that truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people
Source: PhysOrg.com

A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation.

Radical Honesty and Big Brother UK

After returning back from the Equality and Human rights event, I enjoyed a lovely BBQ to celebrate my nieces 7th Birthday. When I got home I put the TV on and saw a clip of Big Brother that made we watch more why ?

Press corps now openly laughing at Obama's backtracking on taxes
Source: Hot Air

It's a laugh riot, isn't it? Actually, they might be laughing more at Gibbs's feeble way of ducking the question than The One's looming broken promise, but in Gibbs's defense, what's he supposed to say? Obama pounded McCain for wanting to pay for health care by taxing …

Are we really able to forgive and forget?

We all say we forgive and forget but I think that forgiving a little easier than forgetting. We keep memories of all the things that happen to us, things that people do to us and when these things cause feelings of happiness of sadness, they won't go away.

Did Clinton cause the Banking crisis?
Source: MSN

Well it has been said and said and finally another media, MSN money has joined the ranks of "the willing", after being shot at repeatedly that it is "lies, false, unreal, not true or otherwise self motivated.

Stephanie Grace: So much for an honorable rationale from ex-Congressman William Jefferson
Source: NOLA.com

Jefferson's guilt or innocence is yet to be determined. Honor, however, would seem to be off the table. Even if jurors think Jefferson is unethical, dishonest and greedy, it doesn't mean he's guilty of the bribery and racketeering charges he faces.

Is it lack of commonsense or is it plain stupidity?!

To me sometimes it is just hard to believe how certain people have difficulty understanding such obvious things.

Obama's speech to the Muslim world falls short of his promised 'honest' dialogue
Source: American Thinker

President Obama promised that he wanted his Cairo speech to be the start of an "honest" dialogue with the Muslim world. When it comes to how he handled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he fell short.

Man Says His Chair Caused DJ's Death
Source: wesh.com

A local man said it was his chair in the road that caused the death of local DJ Erika Roman. Roman was killed when she swerved to miss a chair on Florida's Turnpike. She went off the road and landed in a water-filled ditch where she died.

When 'Local' Makes It Big as in Buy Local
Source: The New York Times

WHEN Jessica Prentice, a food writer in the San Francisco Bay area, invented the term "locavore," she didn't have Lay's potato chips in mind.

Honest Taxi Driver Rewarded With Cash Donations
Source: NPR

A taxi driver in La Plata, Argentina, returned a bag of money to an elderly couple who rode in his cab. The bag contained $32,000. Word got out, and a Web site was set up in the cabbie's honor. So far, he has received nearly $15,0000.

Honest taxi driver reaps rewards
Source: BBC News

Hundreds of Argentines have been donating to a taxi driver who found a bag with $32,500 (£21,600) in cash in his taxi and returned it to its owners.

Cashier returns man's forgotten $68 in change after three months and that feeds 30 homeless people - St. Petersburg Times
Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local News

Three months ago, on Valentine's Day, a Palm Harbor businessman was on a mission to buy his wife a gift. He stopped to buy gas at a Shell station and drove off without his change.

Student arrested because no good deed goes unpunished
Source: dailyexpress.co.uk

AN HONEST student who handed in a mobile phone he found was stunned when police arrested him for theft.

Do you think you can really handle the truth?

Just wondering…why do people ask to be told the truth, when they can not take it? The truth is, truth hurts! People do not take criticism in a good way, even if it's a constructive one.

Sen Dodd Brings More doubts on Honesty in Government
Source: upibalon.com

If Obama's administration is filled with people of shabby integrity, how can America expect a quick recovery from the economic crisis? Many critics think there isn't much difference in how Capitol Hill is being run.

Party-Line President - A Post-Partisan Dawn Quickly Turns False
Source: The Washington Post

Obama's proposed budget shows all the vision, restraint and grace of a grasping committee chairman, using the cover of a still-unresolved banking crisis to push through a broad liberal wish list before anyone notices its costs and complications.

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