VERIFIABLE TRUTH MATTERS BECAUSE . . . ?

Verifiable truth came up the other day when I showed this picture.

“It’s a halo.”

“Yes it is.”

“A miracle.”

“Uh huh.”

Or the reflection in a car window as I passed by.

You need to keep a sharp eye out for those halos when they pop up.

I googled verifiable truth just to make sure I knew one when I read one in the extensive research that goes into each blog post on boomerpdx.

Extensive I tell you, very extensive. (Hey Judy)

In a world of media, of entertainment and news, along with news and entertainment, things get ‘accidentally’ mixed.

The men and women on the Hawk Tuah News Network have had a special relationship with the verifiable part.

From Vox:

 

Right now it looks like “at least 20” may be a conservative estimate of the number of women who have stories to tell about Ailes, although it’s not clear just how conservative.

Laurie Luhn, former Fox News booker, said she would meet Ailes at hotels, where she would dress up, dance, and kneel in front of him while he psychologically dominated her and had her perform . . .

 

The list of men and women who took a knee in front of their boss is a long and winding road, and it comes with a script to follow that passes as hard news to viewers with little interest in verifiable truth as long as they see their dream girls and guys.

To each their own. Grain of salt, blah, blah, blah, right?

But why do the news women look like cocktail waitresses, or one time blonde beauty queens in their backyards who married up and moved to Florida? 

 

Verifiable Truth On The Internet

This image of Honest Abe is obviously fake.

Well positioned news hawks know, and if you know, you know:

Abe was a Tele guitar player, down home chicken-picker and verifiably true with none of that whammy bar sound bending that comes out of a Stratocaster.

Abraham Lincoln played it honestly.

What was his top song?

 

Remarkably, No. 1 on Lincoln’s iPod might have been his all-time favorite, “Dixie.”

“It had already been a popular song before the Civil War and came from a minstrel show,” Hoffman says. “Lincoln had been quoted as saying, ‘I have always thought “Dixie” one of the best tunes I have ever heard.’ “

 

Dixie?

 

I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times they are not forgotten;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land where I was born,
Early on one frosty mornin,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

Then I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! hooray!
In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie,
Away, away, away down South in Dixie,
Away, away, away down South in Dixie.

 

A more current interpretation from Dwight Yoakam:

 

I sang Dixie, as he died
People just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him, of all his Rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died

Said way down yonder in the land of cotton
Old times there ain’t near as rotten
As they are on this damned old L.A. street
Then he drew a dying breath, laid his head ‘gainst my chest
Please Lord, take his soul back home to Dixie

 

‘All Davids Are The Same.’ Verifiable?

Verifiable truth is a cornerstone of news writing.

If you find three sources who tell the same story on the same topic, you’re going good.

Three online sources for some cockamamie story on the internet?

Not the same outcome, but not everyone agrees.

When you’ve got a serial fabricator, a compulsive liar, a misleader, calling trusted news organizations ‘Fake News,’ doubt is sewn.

If the same man is shown telling his version of his story for eight years, from 2016 to 2024, and it starts to wear you down, then you need to change.

Either give up and submit to the treatment: Trump was cheated in the last presidential election, Jan. 6 was a normal tour of the Capitol, and women are better off without bodily autonomy, without the right to make decision about their own bodies.

Or?

Or find verifiable truth about the last presidential election.

January 6 was not a normal day.

Roe vs Wade is women’s health.

 

Are You Verifiable

From the US Patent And Trademark Office:

Statements that are verified include assurances of the accuracy and truth regarding those statements; they are sometimes called declarations.

Verified statements are made under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the statements provided are true and believed to be true or accurate.

 

Those are the rules of the physical world; what about the metaphysical?

. . . metaphysical doctrines are not false but meaningless—that the “great unanswerable questions” about substance, causality, freedom, and God are unanswerable just because they are not genuine questions at all.

 

I’m not some genius with command of the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, which is no secret to the readers here.

Does that stop me? No, because I want more than a guess when it comes to writing.

My verifiable truth is pretty easy: Ask me anything and I’ll tell you more than you want to know.

Will it be verifiable? As God is my witness, yes.

With you as a reader, hell yes.