The recent pandemic scare is made even more scary due to fact that most intelligent people do not believe a word of it.

A very strange part of it all was when Vice President Joe Biden said that he would not recommend taking any commercial flight or riding in a subway car “at this point” because swine flu virus can spread “in confined places.” A little more than one hour later, Biden rushed out a statement backing off.

Joe Biden was giving good advice and talking common sense, but apparently he had made a huge mistake. He had to back off from his statement. Then to show his sincerity and his change of mind he took a well publicized train trip his home outside of Washington DC.

I tell yer, these are strange times. And lies are in huge abundance.
I decided to do a wee bit of research on it all. I found these two sites about lies, and it is obvious that one site has plagiarized the other site. Check them out:
http://www.corporatenarc.com/FamousLies.php
http://www.healthdiaries.com/famous-liars.htm

If plagiarism is a lie, and I think it is because one is pretending to be the writer of some one Else's work; then one of these sites is actually lying while telling about lies!

The truth is very hard to come by, as such conspiracy theories are abundant, and is it any wonder that most of the world still think 9/11 was an inside job? Check out this recent article from, what I assume to be, an Indian newspaper:
http://rense.com/general85/osamm.htm

What we want is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God.

However: "The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth." Alfred Alder

A few hours ago I watched the movie: "Mountains of the Moon". It's about Richard Burton and John Speke's adventures while trying to find the source of the Nile.

A publisher had Jack Speke on contract, and when Speke arrived home before Burton he told Speke a lie about how Burton had lied about Speke in a report. Speke believed the lie, and he then betrayed the agreement that Burton and he had made about speaking together at the National Geographical Society. As such Speke got all the glory, and the publisher sold the books.

Years later, just before a debate between Speke and Burton, the truth was revealed. Speke found out that it was the publisher that had lied, and Burton had stuck to the truth.

Just before the debate, Speke met the publisher on the way into the auditorium where the debate was to be held.

Speke said: "You lied to me about Burton".

The publisher tried to laugh it off and said: "I always lie on my way to the truth."

The debate thing was supposed to last about three days, with Burton putting forward his thoughts on the first day. Instead of sticking around to listen to Burton's rendition, Speke decided to go hunting instead. While hunting, he died from what is well accepted as a self inflicted gun shot wound. The official record, however, says it was an accident while hunting.

Was it the lie that caused his death? Or was it the truth?

Also, only a small matter, tee be sure, but the movie portrays Richard Burton as being Irish, and he has a broad Irish accent. But he was actually born in Torquay, Devon. His father was Anglo Irish. His mother was full Irish and came from a very well off family. As such, Richard Burton was of Irish descent, but it is very doubtful that he would have had an Irish accent. And as far as I can gather, the man never even set foot in the place

Ah but, then again, there is such a thing as poetic license, and I'm all for it. A good story, or a good lie, sometimes, does, indeed, lead the way to a hidden truth.

And it is well known that one thing cannot exhist without the other.

Lies lead to truth, and truth leads to lies.

Reality is mix of both.

And if we actually find the whole truth, then the whole game will be over.