Pat Oliphant for December 18, 2013

“Begins to resemble” should be revised to “is”.

As we enter another election year, it’s time to tune up our Baloney Detectors. Two useful chapters in the maintenance manual: .George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language.”Donna Woolfolk Cross, “Propaganda: How Not to be Bamboozled.”

It is, including the part where the hard-working horse is sold to the glue factory when he’s no longer productive.

Hmm, Joshua used a hooker to spy on and betray Jericho, Orwell had LOTS of prior history to work from, especially from his father’s experience and jobs working for the British Foreign Service.

Always been done and always will be ……

Uh one problem Orwell was an Englishman

Poor Debt Free! It’s all Obama’s fault! Nothing about Georgie Porgie and Icky Dickey’s ramming through a compliant Congress the (anti)Patriot Act after 9/11.There are seeral good recent reads about our intelligence services fabricating facts and extending their reach under every president going back to Ike.Debt’s mantra is the “See No Evil” monkeys, except when you hate the current pres!