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Cecil the Lion: What If We Find Out Cecil Wasn't Poached?
Townhall.com ^ | August 2, 2015 | Doug Giles

Posted on 08/02/2015 4:50:01 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Boardwalk
You doth protest too much

I don't think so, real media admits they don't have the facts yet. Unless you were there you obviously don't. But then facts aren't necessary to grind the Left's axe are they?

81 posted on 08/02/2015 11:54:29 AM PDT by xone
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To: xone

You whine like a liberal. I’m not sure what your agenda is but I don’t trust you.


82 posted on 08/02/2015 11:58:53 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk
You whine like a liberal. I’m not sure what your agenda is but I don’t trust you.

Checking posts in just this thread, it is easy to find the liberal and the whining from a property name from Monopoly. As far as not trusting me as a lib you shouldn't.

83 posted on 08/02/2015 12:06:13 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone

Go back and check all 10 years. Again, message me if you wish but I’m done engaging with you.


84 posted on 08/02/2015 12:09:12 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Boardwalk
Go back and check all 10 years.

So? You're a recent convert. Worse because the veil of the Left is gone. They are 'mainstreamed'. This 'Cecil' business is all lefty all the time. If you are conservative you should be ashamed of yourself. Haven't seen that in a current timeframe.

85 posted on 08/02/2015 12:11:59 PM PDT by xone
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To: kiryandil

86 posted on 08/02/2015 12:37:01 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mister Da
Drones are the answer.

NO one gets too upset when you are miles away from the kill...

87 posted on 08/02/2015 12:38:28 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

So clever! I love it!


88 posted on 08/02/2015 12:45:45 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Texas Songwriter
What is to be done with the memory of Teddy Roosevelt?




 


 
Eerily familiar...
 
 

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.


 



16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

 
 


89 posted on 08/02/2015 12:48:51 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dfwgator

HEY!


90 posted on 08/02/2015 12:49:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

LOL!


91 posted on 08/02/2015 1:04:35 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Boardwalk

Lions face extinction by 2050. In some places it is forbidden to hunt them but poaching persists.

*********************************************************************Cry your liberal tears towards somebody else. I don’t care.


92 posted on 08/02/2015 1:34:06 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Boardwalk

Cry your liberal tears towards somebody else. I don’t care.


93 posted on 08/02/2015 1:35:38 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: xone

You don’t know jack about archery. But that’s ok, because you don’t need facts to support the Left with your continued stupidity about this lion.


Well Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss) makes it look easy so how hard could it be?


94 posted on 08/02/2015 4:05:46 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

She was shooting for her life though, a real heroine.


95 posted on 08/02/2015 4:23:49 PM PDT by xone
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To: Graybeard58

Why is it that so many Darwinists get upset when the rules kick in?


96 posted on 08/02/2015 4:58:21 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
You don’t know jack about archery.

Read up on it a bit.

You'll get the point...

97 posted on 08/02/2015 5:05:03 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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98 posted on 08/02/2015 5:08:01 PM PDT by wardaddy (Mark Levin.....I love him...but he is ignorant of Dixie)
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99 posted on 08/02/2015 5:09:29 PM PDT by wardaddy (Mark Levin.....I love him...but he is ignorant of Dixie)
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100 posted on 08/02/2015 5:11:06 PM PDT by wardaddy (Mark Levin.....I love him...but he is ignorant of Dixie)
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