The annoying part is the number of people who can’t see the absurdity in their claims. They keep restating what are manifestly lies, and those lies get parroted by the media as truth. There is no attempt to fact check anything.

The scenario described by the judges is exactly what was done with much of the intel used to support the Iraq invasion. Single-sourced claims from unreliable sources are claimed to be multiple claims because a few different intel shops commented on them. The yellowcake story and everything from Curveball are prime examples. In saner times they would have been filed as rumors until something truly independent was found to support them. Just because three different countries filed them as rumors doesn’t make them facts.

Hopefully this will cause other courts to look more critically at government claims.

I became fascinated by *Lewis Carroll* many years ago, and whilst in the USA obtained at auction a rare copy of the handwritten manuscript for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. The original manuscript was quite different from the printed book. It was great deal smaller, the publishers added many pages to give it decent volume for a book. He had written a dedication on the first inner page which read “to a dear child, in memory of a summer day”. It has been mistakenly reported that the book was a Christmas gift. Alice Liddell was presented with the finished (handwritten) 90 page book in Nov. 1864.

I first came to know him initially because of his work in Symbolic Logic (and Mathematics).

However, he had a great sense of humor and did publish some works of comedy. So, I suspect he would have made great comedy at this Administrations expense, and I would be enormously fascinated to see him use symbolic logic to describe them! LOL My mind boggles!

there are many a historical character that I have wished were alive today. However, on balance, and with regard to their sanity and intelligence, it’s probably best that they are not!

It’s curious to me that so many people there don’t know (or understand) the axiom “The truth need be told but once, a lie must oft be repeated” or, if I may paraphrase Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, *The man doth protest too much, methinks!* The word “protest” at the time Hamlet was written meant “declare solemnly” or “vow”, so Gertrude was saying that the actress’s (she was referring to in Hamlet) vows were too artful, too insistent, deceitful.

Ahem. I didn’t intend to lecture! I felt a need to explain. 🙂