Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 15, 2017

The Russians did it

If Facebook and Twitter are your primary news sources, you’re not informed.

We have to do our own fact checking with the help of those who do truly follow the credo of accurate news, researched and supported by facts.

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

Yes, Internet “news” is a dream gone straight to nightmares. It should be myth news though instead of just “fake”, as they intent is to make folks “myth” any facts.

The nice thing about facts are that they are true whether you choose to believe them or not.

but BREITFART makes all the TBAGGERS/dRUMPfettes all comfy inside.

I want a pair of PooF glasses! Go ahead guys. Take the idea. Just let me have 10% of the profits….

It’s a bit frightening that so many people can’t distinguish between an organization that adheres to some journalistic standards and a blog that just writes whatever confirms their biases.

And it’s even more frightening that one of those people is the President-Elect.

There was a local car accident and I can’t find 2 reports of it that match.

It is said that legends were rooted in actual events, and that the narrations changed over time to suit prevailing social attitudes.

Some say both religion and myth followed the same path to the present. It all happened over many millennia, and has left confused multitudes in its passing.

Wouldn’t that indicate that ‘fake news’ is nothing new? Isn’t the current version just a speedier, more deliberately aggressive way to produce the same effect in a shorter time?

The news in the “independent news sites” has been retouched more than the models in Vogue.I still have Facebook, but only because I need it to sign in one some sites.

Y’know, that news seller really needs to install a trap door in the sidewalk right about where she’s standing. Or buy a high-powered taser…

clearly he has not sold very many papers today

About the time we got married was the end of the Vietnam war. My wife had a little sister who was just learning to distinguish between what is real on the news and make believe on TV shows. Sad, now there is no difference

Today, most “news” is really infotainment, and not very good at either informing or entertaining.

How about that?

They have POV Waltz on YouTube.

watch?v=KAkmmZZdAsM

Obviously, Wiley STILL hasn’t gotten over the election! GET OVER IT!

NPR & PBS

Now I have an Annie Lennox ear worm – Sweet Dreams

Donny’s tweets are made of this

Bogus facts and lots of poo

He’ll fool the world

And even you

Everybody hears his bulls*&^.

What if they gave an inauguration for Putin’s Potemkin Pizzagate President and nobody came?

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” — Joseph Goebbels

“A lie told often enough becomes truth”

- Vladimir Lenin

“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”

~Adolf Hitler

“It doesn’t have to be true; it just has to be plausible.”

Tom Flanagan

There’s drinking the Kool-Aid, and then there’s snorting the crystals right from the packet.

© Dan

That’s enough. Stupid formatting wouldn’t let me post it as one comment

It used to be so easy to know what news was fake. It came in a tabloid that they sold every week at the supermarket checkout and no one believed it. Now it comes on a website and too many people believe it.

But…..But….But It’s the lead story in the National Enquirer. It must be true

I’ve never been on Twitter or Facebook so they are non-entities in my life.