Writing that reply YOU have written MORE ON how easy it is to talk oneself into being a liar. As a modern US lawyer, dang it, you DID learn your intellectual meanderings coursework very well.
Liars are a form of self-made morons.
The simple recorded facts are that you lead with a few obvious truths in order to magically transform your guess of statement about something you do not know as a fact, into a more fact-like statement.
Intellectual meanderings? Is that what the uneducated are calling logical reasoning?
Do yourself a favor, turn off the tv and pick up a book. I would suggest starting with the subject called syllogism. You might actually learn something, and perhaps even embarrass yourself a little less - maybe.