{"id":6219,"date":"2015-01-06T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2015-01-07T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T04:57:25","slug":"as-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/as-if\/","title":{"rendered":"(as) If"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hubris shown by the New Plains Democrats who changed their web site domain to Truth Colorado blows my mind.<\/p>\n

Truth – an objective concept – can only potentially mean something as an observation by other people. And even then the concept requires substantiation. Truth, subjectively announced about oneself, amounts to the puffing of carnival barkers and snake oil salesmen.<\/p>\n

Content from the new truth site is no different than that of the old plains site with its maundering innuendo against anyone not liberal, and long-winded leftist positions on various agenda projects.<\/p>\n

The local loopy left have gone far beyond the point of reasonable forbearance. The harm they steadfastly continue to inflict on this community is expensive. Preventing an economy from developing – promoting the impoverishment of a population – holding out regulatory strangulation and job prevention with one hand while promoting social services with the other – these should be chargeable offenses.<\/p>\n

And they shamelessly call themselves the truth.<\/p>\n

They don’t deserve this place.<\/p>\n

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If\u2014<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

By Rudyard Kipling<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

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(\u2018Brother Square-Toes\u2019\u2014Rewards and Fairies<\/em>)<\/p>\n

If you can keep your head when all about you<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,<\/div>\n
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But make allowance for their doubting too;<\/div>\n
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or being lied about, don\u2019t deal in lies,<\/div>\n
Or being hated, don\u2019t give way to hating,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/div>\n
If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;<\/div>\n
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And treat those two impostors just the same;<\/div>\n
If you can bear to hear the truth you\u2019ve spoken<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<\/div>\n
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And stoop and build \u2019em up with worn-out tools:<\/div>\n
If you can make one heap of all your winnings<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<\/div>\n
And lose, and start again at your beginnings<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And never breathe a word about your loss;<\/div>\n
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To serve your turn long after they are gone,<\/div>\n
And so hold on when there is nothing in you<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Except the Will which says to them: \u2018Hold on!\u2019<\/div>\n
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,<\/div>\n
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If all men count with you, but none too much;<\/div>\n
If you can fill the unforgiving minute<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,<\/div>\n
Yours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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