Staff Report
MENDACIOUS
The important definition of “mendacity” is lying in order to deceive. The critical definition of “puff” is overstating and exaggerating one's own opinion in order to convince others. Both could include throwing out numbers of dollars, people, or events in the thousands, millions, billions, or even trillions (that's a lot of numbers, as Trump might say).
Here on my table, which came in today's mail, is the black pamphlet from Kamala. It has four pages, both sides three folds, and the message is as dark as the black. The message is "Trump's 2025 Agenda." Anyone paying a little attention knows that is not his. He said he's never read it. The only truth in it may be that, we could hope, he may attempt to do away with the Department of Education with its history of failure. Other than that, it is completely mendacious, lying in order to deceive. Since she was dragged onto the scene as the nominee, we are familiar with the substance of that continuously lying message to get elected.
We hear a lot about Trump's lying. For years, we have seen his blustery, sometimes disjointed, erratic, sometimes nasty, and sometimes brilliant speaking. Looking closely, we may find a genuine lie in there someplace, but not an attempt to materially deceive us. Puff, a legal definition of overstating or exaggerating an opinion in order to sell an item or idea, is not punishable by law. I think that applies to our man. Lying has been a sin since the beginning of the world, both morally and legally.
Should we be concerned about the moral consequences of the blatant lying of the democratic nominee for president and the lying of her supporters? Did you hear her speech at the border? It should have made her supporters cringe if they are not lying to themselves. If there was a truth in there, I missed it.
They also lie on Trump's stated position on abortion. Remember the OB-GYN doctor, also Governor of Virginia, when aborting the full-term fetus, it came to life; they laid it on the table to decide what to do while he tended to the mother. What if they didn't terminate, but when it became a yearling and was such a problem in so many possible ways that the mother could not cope with it? Now, could they terminate? Or, as a sixteen-year-old, it was the nastiest, meanest teenager anyone ever knew or a normal teenager, but the mother had issues she couldn't handle; now, can we terminate?
Uncomfortable questions. It's hard to write. It's hard to think of the millions that have not come to full term. We have an efficient system for killing our unwanted babies before they have a chance at life. We should improve and encourage adoption as well as motherhood.
Here are two of our national sins: abortion and lying. Do we need to repent?
America, based and created on the Judeo-Christian traditions, old as the world, with the divine promise of liberty, and with that prosperity, to and for a righteous nation. Are these two national sins enough to deprive us of God's continuing blessings and perhaps earn us divine punishment?
Would that punishment be that we elect Kamala Harris and lose the blessings of America as it has been for these two and a half centuries?
Joe Dahl
Fallon, Nevada
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