" THE DESRICK ON YANDRO." SOME CLASSIC FICTION HITS THE MARK, AND WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION.

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EXCERPTS FROM THE STORY "THE DESRICK ON YANDRO."

BY MANLY WADE WELLMAN.

(TWO MEN CLIMB A HILL CALLED YANDRO. THE HILL HAS A DESRICK

LOCATED AT THE TOP. YET BOTH MEN ARE VERY DIFFERENT. THESE ARE TAKEN FROM THE

END OF THE STORY.)

"That's it," puffed Mr. Yandro. "The desrick."

I looked at him then, and knew what most he wanted on this earth. He wanted to be boss. Money was just something to greaten him. His idea of greatness was bigness. He wanted to do all the talking, and have everybody else do the listening. He had his eyes hung on that desrick, and he licked his lips, like a cat over a dish of cream.

"Let's go in," he said.

"Not where I'm not invited," I told him, as flatly as anybody could ever tell him. "I said I'd come to the top. This is the top."

"Come with me," he said. "My name's Yandro. This mountain's name is Yandro. I can buy and sell every man, woman and child in this part of the country. If I say it's all right to go into a house, it's all right to go into a house."

He meant that thing. The world and everybody in it was just there to let him walk on. He took a step toward the desrick...Mr. Yandro snorted at me, to show how small he reckoned me because I held back, and he headed toward the big door."If she's there, she'll show me the gold," he said.

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A few observations about the Narrators companion.

He wants to be boss.

A Man who wants to do the talking, and everyone

else do the listening.

If he says it's all right...it's all right. 

Take these observations for what you will.

ANOTHER LESSON IN LOGIC. THE FOX NEWS MYTHOS. PART 1.

It really gets frustrating at times.

I am tired of listening to the "FOX NEWS" has the trust of the American People Diatribe, 

claimed because of the Television Ratings.  

Besides the fact that it is Logically Invalid to claim that higher ratings equal greater trust, 

it is false on its face. 

What do we know about the Major News Networks, and Cable News?

- That FOX NEWS, and their leading "Celebrity News Host" have admitted in Sworn Court Testimony

to Fabricating or Deliberately Reporting news items they knew to be untrue.

- This includes the 2020 Election Results, and the False Claims of Election Fraud that have been 

rejected by 100% of all Cases Litigated in Lawsuits brought by Trump, GOP, or their allies.

- We have seen that the maintenance of Higher Ratings, revealed in Messages and Memos Fox News

Employees exchanged through Internal Dialogues with each other, was the Primary Motivation.

Point #1- Ratings Numbers are not a Measure of Quality or Veracity in terms of information relayed, but

the number of individuals willing to listen to it. Given FOXES Intellectual and Moral Codes that 

encourage reporting inaccurate information as a part of Station News Policy, why do individuals choose

 to tune in? 

See part 2.

TO MY READERS...

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DAVID MCDONALD.

AN HONEST ANSWER FROM...Pence says Trump 'endangered my family' on Jan. 6.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has unleashed his harshest criticism yet of former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol

ByZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press.

 Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday harshly criticized former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, widening the rift between the two men as they prepare to battle over the Republican nomination in next year's election.

“President Trump was wrong," Pence said during remarks at the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner attended by politicians and journalists. "I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”

Pence's remarks were the sharpest condemnation yet from the once-loyal lieutenant who has often shied away from confronting his former boss. Trump has already declared his candidacy. Pence has not, but he's been laying the groundwork to run.

In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Trump pressured Pence to overturn President Joe Biden's election victory as he presided over the ceremonial certification of the results. Pence refused, and when rioters stormed the Capitol, some chanted that they wanted to “hang Mike Pence.”

The House committee that investigated the attack said in its final report that “the President of the United States had riled up a mob that hunted his own Vice President."

With his remarks, Pence solidified his place in a broader debate within the Republican Party over how to view the attack. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for example, recently provided Tucker Carlson with an archive of security camera footage from Jan. 6, which the Fox News host has used to downplay the day's events and promote conspiracy theories.

“Make no mistake about it, what happened that day was a disgrace," Pence said in his Gridiron Dinner remarks. "And it mocks decency to portray it any other way.”

Trump, meanwhile, has continued to spread lies about his election loss. He's even spoken in support of the rioters and said he would consider pardoning them if he was reelected.

Speeches at the Gridiron Dinner are usually humorous affairs, where politicians poke fun at each other, and Pence did plenty of that as well.

He joked that Trump's ego was so fragile, he wanted his vice president to sing “Wind Beneath My Wings” — one of the lines is “did you ever know that you’re my hero?” — during their weekly lunches.

He took another shot at Trump over classified documents.

“I read that some of those classified documents they found at Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president's Bible," Pence said. “Which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.”

Even before the dinner was over, Pence was facing criticism for his jokes about Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history.

Pence mentioned that, despite travel problems that were plaguing Americans, Buttigieg took "maternity leave” after he and his husband adopted newborn twins.

“Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression,” Pence said. ___