Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 28, 2015

Lawyers don’t ‘redistribute’ the facts, they re-interpret them and call that ‘reform’. And when they get good enough at it, they run for Congress.

For the lawyers in my state, the slogan is ‘we don’t get paid until you do’…

Hey, it’s not climate change, its atmospheric redistribution…

This brought to my mind the phrase: Economical with the truth. I thought it was a quote from “The Quiet Man,” but I can’t find it listed on any of the quote sites. (Just a quick search, not in depth.)I did find this much older version, attributed to Edmund Burke, on wiki: “Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.” That sure sounds like a long-winded version of what I thought I remembered Micheleen Flynn saying.

We redistribute the facts. – They can spread it on thick, or not. All depending upon which side their bread is buttered on.

I was about to say the same. But in my book, that hardly increases the honesty quotient. Businessmen will do or say anything for a buck. Just check out their commercials.

And the facts of this case lie before you.

Never vote for a lawyer. They got us into this $18 trillion mess and will never get us out.

Whether in a trial or lobbying, lawyers are advocates for their clients. So somebody just needs to start paying a bunch of lawyer to advocate for something different and maybe there will be a different outcome.

Read a book a while ago: “This Town,” about a year of goings-on in DC. Y’know, the insider stuff, from a well-connected reporter, all the back-room dealing and maneuvering and back-stabbing and self-promotion, and what I realized (though the author never came out and said this) is that maybe the big problem in DC is that everybody there is representing somebody else: the politicians are there to represent their constituencies (which these days are the people who give them campaign contributions, since the DumbMasses seem to vote for whoever runs the most ads), the lobbyists are there to represent the campaign contributors (that is, the corporations, bankers and wealthy interests who seek to run the country), the PR flacks are there to represent the politicians to the media, who are themselves there to represent DC to the rest of the country. And did I mention that the majority of these folks are also lawyers, a profession that’s all about representing the client to the judge/jury? In other words, everybody in the city is a paid mouthpiece for somebody else. No wonder Washington hasn’t come up with a new and useful idea in the last fifty years…

…and I should add that the lawyers, lobbyists, PR flacks (and increasingly reporters) are trained and paid to be masters of spin, experts at selecting, trimming and re-arranging any facts they might encounter so they fit properly into the “message” they’re being paid to deliver. Regardless of whether that message bears any relationship to what the rest of the country needs or wants.

I was wondering when Joe was going to get around to that. Maybe he just needed to finish his drink first.

So lawyers are like Robinhood?

Things seem never to change when they should. At least in terms of how fools characterize others and avoid judgement for themselves.

It’s funny to me that they make you swear to tell the WHOLE truth, then demand you only answer Yes or No rather than explain, just so the WHOLE truth doesn’t come out accidentally.

It depends on your definition of “don’t”…

Monty Python: “I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so, anyway……..”

A half dozen people from different countries can be truthful in relaying historical facts from the perspective of their country or position, and still not be able to agree with one another.

And as the religion of each group accepts having the same God, they each claim that God is their witness. It is the ego of man that determines who is more right in THEIR favor.

I saw that coming waaaay befor the last panel