http://thetexasring.com/2009/12/16/to-tell-the-truth/ Common Sense In A Ridiculous World Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thetexasring.com/2009/12/16/to-tell-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Linda Brady Traynham Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:14:08 +0000 http://thetexasring.com/?p=150#comment-117 Few of us have to worry about telling lies because our characters forbid it and we know it is easier just to tell the truth. Mama's rule for my children was, "I will be far angrier over a lie than I am over whatever childish thing you did wrong." There was a time in America when the President lost his job for lying. ALL Nixon had to do was say, "They have been dismissed for wrong-doing," or even, "Boys will be boys, and the Democrats did it first, but I told 'em not to do it again." Few of us have to worry about telling lies because our characters forbid it and we know it is easier just to tell the truth. Mama’s rule for my children was, “I will be far angrier over a lie than I am over whatever childish thing you did wrong.” There was a time in America when the President lost his job for lying. ALL Nixon had to do was say, “They have been dismissed for wrong-doing,” or even, “Boys will be boys, and the Democrats did it first, but I told ‘em not to do it again.”

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