David Goldenberg of Gelf writes: "Yes, the note is real. And yes, the president really wrote it. “It was shot at a pretty good distance,” Wilking tells Gelf. “I had no idea what was on the paper.”
Until, that is, the editors at Reuters enlarged it.
"The court concludes that it is bound by the Ninth Circuit's previous determination that the school district's policy with regard to the pledge is an unconstitutional violation of the children's right to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God," Judge Lawrence Karlton wrote.
"well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. you know. just a little... funny. and uh, he went and did a silly thing. well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to attack your country." - dr. strangelove
dead propagandist edward bernays called it the "engineering of consent." i like the term partipulation. participating in your own manipulation. it's happening right now. you're soaking in it.
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