happy 4th of July sale

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

-John Adams


My wish:
The architects of voter suppression will go down.
DHS will actually investigate voting machines.

Comment is free, but facts are sacred

I'm with the press.  If we want to get all Constitutional on everybody's ass, then I'm a Press nut.  I am concerned about DT's attempts to piss all over the first amendment and who knows how many others.  So I post this article from the Guardian from 2002 that is an essay by editor, CP Scott, from 1921 (you know, the good years according to Prezz Assington).  The comment in the title of this post is from this essay.  It resonates more than ever when we have Voices from the White House telling lies about the crowd size and repackaging LIES as alternative facts.  Believe your eyes and ears.  Believe your eyes and ears.  And read reputable journalism...and how do we do that?

Don't forget to research
"The Guardian has been named Newspaper of the Year four times at the annual British Press Awards, the most recent in 2014 for reporting on government surveillance."  -Wikipedia (which has it own problems of credibility.)

However, like anything, it's not perfect..

Other Wiki info:

Alleged penetration by Russian intelligence[edit]

In 1994, KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky identified Guardian literary editor Richard Gott as "an agent of influence". While Gott denied that he received cash, he admitted he had lunch at the Soviet Embassy and taken benefits from the KGB on overseas visits. Gott resigned from his post.^[44]

Gordievsky commented on the newspaper: "The KGB loved The Guardian. It was deemed highly susceptible to penetration."^[45]

Edward Snowden leaks and intervention by the UK government[edit]

In June 2013, the newspaper broke news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by Barack Obama's administration^[10] and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.^[11] The newspaper was subsequently contacted by the British government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, under instruction from the Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who ordered that the hard drives containing the information be destroyed.^[94] The Guardian's offices were then visited in July by agents from the UK's GCHQ, who supervised the destruction of the hard drives containing information acquired from Snowden.^[95] In June 2014 The Register reported that the information the government sought to suppress by destroying the hard drives, related to the location of a "beyond top secret" internet monitoring base in Seeb, Oman and the close involvement of BT and Cable & Wireless in intercepting internet communications.^[96] 

Britannica Encyclopedia

New World Encyclopedia 

Poll on Most Credible New Sources

note, infowars and breitbart are low on this list with satirical Onion

DTs inauguration did NOT draw the most crowds ever. Period. Sad.

Facts are not open to interpretation

“One thing that’s been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts. They’re not really facts,” Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said on “The Diane Rehm Show” on NPR. “It’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”

Definition of fact

1. 1:  a thing done: asa obsolete :  featb :  crime fact

>c archaic :  action

2archaic :  performance, doing

3:  the quality of being actual :  actuality fact

 hinges on evidence>

4a :  something that has actual existence fact

>b :  an actual occurrence fact of damage>

5:  a piece of information presented as having objective reality

in fact

1. :  in truth