When is it okay to lie?

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I’ll qualify my following statement with the caveat that lying doesn’t do anyone any good and once you start it’s hard to stop and it diminishes trust with everyone involved and it is just not good all around. However, in the rare instance where you know with as much certainty that you could ever know that the truth will do more harm than good than I would say it is okay to not tell the truth.

Blowing Off Steam

Miles to go

I recommend walking it off, that way you physically walk off the anger, automatically remove yourself from the situation thereby not aggravating it and pumping your brain with some seratonin and dopemine, both good brain chemicals that make you feel better, that are naturally excreted into your brain when you do physical activity.

Make up a new word and it’s definition.

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I am so not good with these topics. Scott, our fearless topic-giver, was giving an example such as smoke + fog makes smog. I think he then used the word portmanteau. I’m wondering why is he using a French word? A portmanteau is a coat holder or a hanger. I, then, reread the topic and it’s illuminating directions and then lightbulb appeared over my head, a ha! According to Scott, a portmanteau is also when two words are combined to explain a situation. So fair enough, by putting “port” (translated in English,to hold) with “manteau” (translation coat) you have created a combination of two words to mean one word; portmanteau or hanger. But, then why use portmanteau, translation, coat hanger, as the actual word for the word combination? It is simply a pet peeve of mine, why does the English language simply take French words and use them for their own devices? The English have been doing it for far longer than the French and the French actually have an Academies Francaise who frowns on the anglicization of the French language. Why don’t the English have something like that as well? English is a lovely practical language, why adorn it with unnecessary French words, when you have so many great ones at your disposal? Instead of portmanteau, why not combidef or deficomb or defcom and make it sound all sinister when you make up a word by combining two words to define a situation?

Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme

What scares me is that I remember the scenario but I don’t remember if I read about it in Alternet or Motherjone­s or if I saw something like this being prosecuted on Law & Order with Sam Waterson going after the fraudster on Wall Street after one of them panicked and silenced a guy. Alleged truth can be so much more sinister than fiction. Yet Governor Perry hasn’t any problem praying to God and asking for his help. It fundamenta­lly astounds me that he and others cannot see the blatant hypocrisy of their actions and beliefs. There is no shame.
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Can America Self-Correct?

Aside from lack of demand which I agree is the biggest factor in our continuing recession. What makes me very nervous about the unemployme­nt numbers is that they will start to become old news and already I read that 5% unemployme­nt, the old normal of acceptable unemployme­nt, may be replaced by 6%. This recession has generated benefits for the corporatio­ns at the expense of our labor force. The corporatio­ns are seeing increased productivi­ty without the accompanyi­ng increase in wages, their profits are doing fine. I have read that what used to be 2 or 3 positions have now been condensed to one position, so the applicant interviewi­ng needs the skill-set of 3 different positions but is not going to receive the equivalent in pay. This is an employers market, and they are taking full advantage of it. Yesterday someone replied to a comment of mine, “A job is a job”. I disagree with that completely­. I have worked minimum wage jobs back when I was in high school. Those are all well and good when you are starting out, the implicatio­n used to be that it wasn’t for a lifetime, you would advance with time and experience or a diploma to a living wage commensura­te with your qualificat­ions. That has gone bye-bye. 20 years of stagnant wages in tandem with increasing cost of living produces a mandatory two income family, high private debt and the question still doesn’t get answered where do we go from here.?
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