I've got a real simple set of questions that will tell me -- typically to about a 99% degree of certitude -- whether something comin' outta someone's pie hole is an outright slimeball lie. Here are some basic questions to consider:1. Does the person consider himself to be a member of the democrat party?
2. Does the person consider himself to be a member of the republic partisan party?
3. Does the person like to refer to himself as a "conservative," "liberal" or "progressive" (or, as I like to say, a deranged right-winger or loony leftist 20 percenter)?
4. Does the person call himself an "[i]ndependent" who actually claims the democrat party is too "moderate"?
5. Does the person call himself an "[i]ndependent" who actually claims the republic partisan party is too "moderate"?
6. Does the person actually maintain that the individual we currently have as a president is a "moderate"?
7. Does the person claim that Mitt Romney actually stands for anything?
8. Does the person claim that Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum could actually ever be elected president (even if Jimmy Carter was the opponent)?
9. Does the person claim to know the facts of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman tragedy and has therefore purportedly taken up a "side"?
10. Does the person maintain that every single thing a public or private sector union does is either (1) peaches 'n cream 24-7 or (2) more evil than a Hitler-Stalin love child?
I could go on, of course, but these 10 simple questions (if the answer is "YES" to any of them) will implicate and rein in most of the liars. Is it 100% foolproof? No. But like I said, give me about a 99% accuracy rate over here (as usual).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2123262/How-spot-lying-Just-ask-computer.html
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