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How many legs does a dog have?
American Thinker ^ | 21 May, 2022 | ominic A. Diorio, M.D.

Posted on 05/21/2022 4:32:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

We are seeing increasing episodes of delusional people, some of whom are in powerful positions, calling good evil and calling evil good.

George W. Julian was a Free-Soil Party congressman during Abraham Lincoln’s terms as president. According to Julian, during a discussion about issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln posed a particular riddle on how many legs a dog has (Lincoln actually said “calf,” but it has come down to us as “dog”):

Abraham Lincoln faced with some thorny issue that could be settled by a twist of language, or a slight abuse of power, asks his questioner how many legs would a dog have, if we called the dog’s tail, a leg. “Five,” the questioner responds confident in his mathematical ability to do simple addition.

“No,” Lincoln says. “Calling a dog’s tail a leg, doesn’t make it a leg.”

The particulars of this story apply to today’s society and the world in which we live. Things and persons are what they are. A tree is a tree. You can call it a bush as often as you wish, but it is still a tree. A fact is a fact. You can wish it were something else, but it is still a fact.

Where am I going with this, you might ask? Let me answer that for you. Today, we are witnessing all too many delusional people who seem to think that if you call a man a woman, that makes him a woman (or vice versa). That just is not true. I will agree that a person of either sex can dress and look like the opposite sex if they wish, but that person is simply a transvestite, since there is no way any individual can alter the sex chromosomes with which he is born.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 05/21/2022 4:32:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The left is often willing to use force to make others live in their false reality.


2 posted on 05/21/2022 4:32:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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How about declaring an emergency when there isn’t one.


3 posted on 05/21/2022 4:34:26 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber

If they do not like a fact, they call it disinformation.


4 posted on 05/21/2022 4:35:18 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: MtnClimber

2+2=5


5 posted on 05/21/2022 4:36:31 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe the calf identified as a dog with five legs.


6 posted on 05/21/2022 4:43:28 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MtnClimber

The little doggy in the dress was priceless!


7 posted on 05/21/2022 4:51:50 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Good piece.

Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 05/21/2022 4:55:31 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: MtnClimber

If they get you to accept and affirm a false statement, like “2 + 2 = 5” or “a man is a woman” then they have destroyed your critical thinking facility and you belong to them. You will accept whatever they say and do whatever they tell you to.


9 posted on 05/21/2022 4:55:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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I gotta know. Do these people really believe the crap they say, like a man can get pregnant? Are they just pushing their agenda or do they REALLY believe it?


10 posted on 05/21/2022 5:12:37 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Bless America)
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To: sauropod

That was a fräulein.


11 posted on 05/21/2022 5:12:55 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Fzob

2 + 2 = whatever the State says it means.


12 posted on 05/21/2022 5:14:51 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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13 posted on 05/21/2022 5:16:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I thought this story was attributed to Mark Twain?🤔


14 posted on 05/21/2022 6:08:46 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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It’s amazing how much time and energy is being expended on a tiny minority of mentally ill people…


15 posted on 05/21/2022 6:15:12 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To put a perhaps finer point on it, “glorifying and worshipping a tiny minority of mentally ill people...”


16 posted on 05/21/2022 6:26:15 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: MtnClimber

All cats have three tails
Proof:
One cat has one more tail than no cat.
No cat has two tails.
Therefore, one cat has three tails.


17 posted on 05/21/2022 6:32:20 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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My cat has no tail


18 posted on 05/21/2022 6:35:05 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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So another cat has two. Got it. Now, off to fly a bizjet.


19 posted on 05/21/2022 7:01:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: AppyPappy

PS: A Manx?


20 posted on 05/21/2022 7:02:09 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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