Truth or Lie

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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads 09/01/2004 06:10 AM
open letter to John Kerry .. offered

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The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1

The Truth About FOX News is That It is
Not the Truth: It is Murdoch's Right
Wing Shill Machine for Bush 11/1 11/03/2003 06:39 AM
Miles from 'fair and balanced' .. Media Matters column .. fair

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"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..."

"In this mourning space, however, there
must be room made for the truth. Writer
Edward Abbey once said, "The sneakiest
form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt
society, is to speak the plain truth.
The critics will not understand you; the
public will not..." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

On scientific truth and Christian
truth...

On scientific truth and Christian
truth... 07/16/2004 06:40 AM

In the middle of an article about the way that the religious right have interfered with scientific work in the US, I find a troubling paragraph:

At a time when biology is poised to undergo a fundamental revolution, the US government, arguably the most potent government in the history of the world, is rife with White House appointees who believe that scientific truth and Christian truth cannot be synonymous, and may well be in opposition.

I ask myself - do I believe that scientific truth and Christian truth can be synonymous? My answer - no. I ask myself - do I believe that they may well be in opposition? My answer - yes. The only difference between me and the people from the religious right then, is that we disagree with which 'truth' is the more reliable. I stick on the side of the people who test their conclusions and refine their belief systems with reference to evidence - they stick to the side of the people who believe that a magic being sets bushes on fire and turns women into salt.

So the scary bit for me is not that the nutters in power believe that the two are incompatible, but that the assumption is that for reasonable, normal, run-of-the-mill scientists all across America that it's normal to be able to reconcile meteorology with the concept of rains of blood and biology with people who bring people back from the dead...

Read the comments

"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..."

"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..." 08/12/2004 08:05 AM

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow 08/20/2004 10:56 AM
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow .. Larry Thurlow responds to attacks from the Kerry campaign .. Instead Thurlow has spurned this dishonorable honor

swiftvets.com/article.php?story=20040819100856500
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Here's the truth

Here's the truth 09/07/2004 09:26 PM
Bush was AWOL

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``Ain't It the Truth?``

``Ain't It the Truth?`` 09/06/2004 05:10 AM
An appreciation of the Cowardly Lion.

The truth is out there!

The truth is out there! 05/20/2004 07:00 PM
Viewing porn will make you want to kill, kill. KILL. And Dr, Science will prove it. He has a degree in science.

The truth is out there

The truth is out there 04/23/2004 05:49 PM
The truth that MeFites don't want you to know. As a follow-up to this post on "the Coffins GWB doesn't want you to see," it is revealed that many of the photographs that ran rampant over the Internet and wire services weren't of fallen American soldiers, but were of the crew of the Columbia.

Truth

Truth 08/27/2004 01:51 PM
A letter from the wife of one of the commanders of the three Swift boats, killed in action later, reports on her husbands's views. (via NYT)

The truth isn't out there

The truth isn't out there 09/02/2004 10:09 AM
From Dick Cheney on down, the Republican convention's speakers haven't let the facts get in the way of their partisan ferocity.

Truth?

Truth? 03/31/2005 02:47 PM
Rape, Torture, and Lies An ongoing Canadian saga has a sad new twist today: photojournalist Ziba Zahra Kazemi was likely brutally tortured and raped before her death in Iran in 2003. Arrested after a demonstration, the official Iranian line has been that her death was an accident due to injuries from a fall. The ER doctor who treated her has now spoken out, after being granted refugee status in Canada. Wikipedia has an excellent outline of the entire story.

Why Can't a CEO Tell the Truth?

Why Can't a CEO Tell the Truth? 02/18/2004 05:31 PM
Overstock chief Patrick Byrne just wants to be honest.

GI Joe Veterans for Truth

GI Joe Veterans for Truth 08/16/2004 09:41 PM
From Salon comes a nice satirical piece about the group GI Joe Veterans for Truth. In one 60-second ad, veterans of the two-year-long, completely...

Can We Handle the Truth?

Can We Handle the Truth? 02/11/2004 08:18 PM
Internet.com Feb 12 2004 0:13AM GMT

The Way, The Truth, And The iLife?

The Way, The Truth, And The iLife? 02/17/2004 11:50 AM
By Robert Velarde (CMUG via MyAppleMenu)

USS Clueless - The truth is...

USS Clueless - The truth is... 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
Steven Den Beste: The Truth Is .. brilliant article .. IRRITATED

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"USS Clueless - The truth is..."

"USS Clueless - The truth is..." 05/02/2004 08:40 AM

"First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth"

"First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth" 04/19/2004 04:29 PM

The truth of the image

The truth of the image 05/05/2004 06:46 AM
Philip Kennicott of the Washington Post writes about what the images of torture mean to the world and mean about us. Look at these images closely and you realize that they can't just be the random accidents of war, or the strange, inexplicable perversity of a few bad seeds. First of all, they exist. Soldiers who allow themselves to be photographed humiliating prisoners clearly don't believe this behavior is unpalatable. Second, the soldiers didn't just reach into a grab bag of things they thought would humiliate young Iraqi men. They chose sexual humiliation, which may recall to outsiders the rape...

The Truth Shall Set You Free

The Truth Shall Set You Free 05/10/2004 05:52 AM

The Truth About Maryland

The Truth About Maryland 03/25/2005 09:38 PM
Sarah Vowell seems to be at the center of a stylish sort of literary entertainment scene. Contributing editor and…

"The truth has a force of its own"

"The truth has a force of its own" 05/28/2004 09:29 AM
In a Salon interview, John Kerry talks about Iraq, his "personal" decision on a running mate and the "craven, petty, childish and destructive" politics of his opponents.

Truth in Advertising?

Truth in Advertising? 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

Perhaps it is because I come from a culture where advertising pervades every aspect of waking life and which wouldn't surprise me if paid product placements would start appearing in our dreams, but I give some extra attention and curiosity to the advertising in Finland. I've noticed that Finnish advertising tends to lean towards a more straightforward and clean style than much of the aggressive in your face advertisements in the US. This is not to say that both countries don't have their own respective loads of crap, but overall I think the softer sell and elegant design is more attractive. However, I wasn't prepared for a new trend of blatant truth in advertising lately. It's refreshing, yet disturbing since it goes against all the usual rules of the advertising grift.

The ad above is from last weeks Nyt Magazine which is attempt ing to recruit young engineering students with "Sex can wait...". Never mind that the guy is dressed like a 1970s fashion disaster complete with afro and seriously tragic rainbow shades, is telling young nerds the truth that their chances of getting laid are so slim that years of toiling for an engineering degree is a far better option a successful sales ploy? I mean, I've spent my life around these sorts of guys who at the mere mention of the word boobies go completely quiet. Sure, sex can wait, but getting an engineering degree isn't going to make you dress better, bathe regularly or get you laid, ever. Well, unless you come into some serious cash which, in Finland at least, probably isn't going to happen. So, I think the slogan needs a little tweaking to something more like, "Those who can get laid get MBAs. Those who can't, become engineers. Enroll in our engineering program now!" Sex can sell anything as even the most casual observation of modern advertising will show, but not getting sex as a marketing tactic? It's hilarious, brutally honest and I'd love to see if their enrollment increases. :)

[update: Ignatz sent me the American version of the sex can wait advertising ploy. The billboard is sponsored by the Kansas City Missouri Department of Health. Did I miss the memo that engineering is the new priesthood? Does sex make you stupid? What? The unwritten subtext to this billboard is that KC is much like St. Louis in that the black population live in the post-apocalyptic downtown with an educational system handicap. So, the real message here is something like "We already have enough black crackhead single mothers so dream that you can get into and afford a college education and, while you're at it, keep your dick in your pants." Of course, studies show that kids who participate in these 'just say no to sex until marriage' campaigns still have sex and often unprotected sex. Maybe the government will start offering scholarships for abstainers through their churches as soon as Dumbya gets a second term.]

The Finnish Army also has a new campaign which has a poster that shows a doctor's Porsche, an engineer's BMW [which still won't get them laid], and a soldier's car that makes a Boston beater Yugo held together with duct tape look good. In the US this ad would be amusing, yet deadly. As the North St. Louis wise old saying goes, "You can sleep in yo' car, but you can't drive yo' house." A more pure or elegant distillation of the American love affair with the automobile would be hard to come by. The US TV commercials for the Marines always show an attractive, beefcake white guy wrestling with some demonic enemy in a video game style of unreality. Honesty is refreshing but reality has not been a traditional tactic in military recruitment. The classic "Uncle Sam Wants You" poster is brief for a reason since finishing the sentence would leave less to the imagination and the power of your mind to see what it wants to see. I wonder what happens to the engineering student who graduates and goes into the Army. Well, I guess if they're not getting laid, a sexy car won't seem so important.

[update: Jarkko has informed me that I have been had. :) I did wonder about the kil.fi domainname but considering Helsinki is hel.fi and Finland hasn't deployed armed forces outside of Finland, I didn't give it more than a passing thought. It is, apparently, a parody of mil.fi attempting to dissuade people from joining up. I suppose I should feel a bit better that it took him a little while to catch on to the joke. :) So much for my optimisim about truth in advertising.]

I'll hope to see this trend continue into the fashion and cosmetics industries where reality is in cryogenic suspension. And what about those foods that advertise themselves as 100% "organic"? :) That always cracks me up, but maybe that's because I'm a chemist. I don't know that advertising culture could survive a trend towards honesty, but it certainly would be entertaining to see more of it since it is charming and compelling in a field of carefully crafted manipulations of varying levels of integrity.

The truth about milk

The truth about milk 06/21/2004 09:00 AM
From a few days ago, Slate on the decline in milk's popularity, Milk: How a wholesome drink became a villain. There are some interesting facts in there about how Americans began drinking milk so much in the first place. Milk reform began as soon as milk drinking became an entrenched American habit -- during the mid-1800s, as Americans moved to cities. But the early reformers wanted Americans to drink more milk, not less...the early reformers blamed rising infant mortality on city life: The new cities, they argued, caused women to become morally degenerate and physically weak, and they transmitted those ailments to the infants they breast-fed. The solution: Feed babies cleaner, purer cow's milk. A perfect solution, if I may say so. Everyone knows that cows are the most morally upright citizens in the barnyard! The other sins against milk, according to Slate: its high cost, its racist inability to be digested by peoples other than Northern Europeans and Saharan nomads, and its agribusiness, Frankenfood tendency to get all drugged up with hormones. While I don't agree with all the arguments against milk, I will admit to being a soy milk drinking since 1998. And I'm happy to report that soy milk is gaining in popularity. Once an obscure beverage relegated to a back aisle in a San Francisco health food store, I can find it right next to milk in the dairy section at nearly every supermarket I shop. Yay yummy delicious soy!

You can't handle the truth!

You can't handle the truth! 03/08/2004 11:04 PM
&quot;These people always complain,&quot; said Graham Thorn, a psychiatrist, in a Chicago Tribune article about racial tensions in Australia. &quot;They want it both ways--their way and our way. They want to live in our society and be respected, yet they won't work. They steal, they rob and they get drunk. And they don't respect the laws.&quot; The problem isn't that Graham Thorn didn't say that; as blogger Tim Blair uncovered,< /a> the problem is that Graham Thorn never existed. [more inside]

First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth

First With the Scoop, if Not the Truth 04/17/2004 01:54 PM
With her gossipy, raunchy, potty-mouthed blog, Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox has grabbed the attention of staid Washington.

"Iranian Truth"

"Iranian Truth" 12/28/2003 08:54 AM

Iranian Truth

Iranian Truth 12/28/2003 07:47 AM
- Iranian Truth - .. need .. Nema

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"Texans for Truth"

"Texans for Truth" 09/08/2004 04:23 PM

Why truth matters.

Why truth matters. 09/08/2004 12:36 PM
Why truth matters.

Ministry of Truth

Ministry of Truth 03/19/2005 02:18 AM
Ketchum .. work

ketchum.com
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The Truth Uncovered

The Truth Uncovered 12/05/2003 04:29 AM
The Truth Uncovered: A Documentary About the Iraq War .. trailer, links to bios, clips, screenings .. buy a DVD copy of the movie .. movie

truthuncovered.com
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Microsoft and Truth

Microsoft and Truth 05/21/2004 11:28 AM

Bloomberg News: Microsoft told to explain e-mail deletion mem. A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. yesterday to search a company computer to help explain why Vice President James Allchin told employees in 2000 to eliminate e-mails.

Allchin, you may recall, is the senior executive who told his colleagues that Microsoft had to "leverage" its Windows franchise. Antitrust law makes it illegal to leverage a monopoly. In a company that either took antitrust law seriously or was run by honorable people, he would have been disciplined or fired for that statement. Instead he has been repeatedly promoted. Now, years later, it turns out that he was up to his same old tricks, if the implications of this latest story prove true. But this isn't about Allchin. It's about a corporate culture. In the Burst case, which this story is about, Microsoft is accused of appropriating a small company's technology. There are suspicious gaps in Microsoft's e-mail, as the judge notes, and peculiar explanations by Microsoft lawyers -- and the judge made it plain that he doesn't believe Microsoft is telling the truth here. Again and again lately, Microsoft has tried to persuade the world that it's changing. Some evidence would be useful if the world is to buy that notion.

Texans for Truth

Texans for Truth 09/08/2004 08:53 AM
Texans for Truth, established by the 20,000-member Texas online activist group .. MORE

texansfortruth.com
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The Truth is Funny Ha-Ha

The Truth is Funny Ha-Ha 03/21/2003 09:13 AM
Russia Makes It Funny: Communist Party organ Pravda ["Truth"] updates its play for the weird news niche with a skewed take on the blogging aesthetic, with links to Romanesko New World Disorder.

A lot of people like going to saunas. A sauna used to be associated with cold beer and a company of friends. Now the situation has changed a bit: going to a sauna implies some sort of sexual activities and even perversion sometimes. Steam, beer and friends have been pushed into the background. Since people love mixing business with pleasure, let us try to find out, to which extent the sauna entertainment is good, and to which extent it is bad.

Truth in Advertising

Truth in Advertising 03/12/2003 07:07 PM
A survey of recent discussion on the XML-DEV mailing list, including controversy about XML subsetting in JSR 172, whether there should be a central namespace registry, and whether XML-DEV should find a new home.

Cheerleaders for Truth

Cheerleaders for Truth 08/31/2004 09:40 AM
Cheerleaders for the Truth .. Bush's Cheerleading Squad .. nothing!

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