The Golden Rule (in Progress)

When it comes to war, diplomacy
and legal matters, the truth hurts.
But it cuts both ways.
CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
by Jason Leopold / www.truthout.org / Report

"The truth hurts" is one of those aphorisms. Logic requires truth, and it is a method of discerning truth. (A deeper or higher aphorism?) However, it is probably only the lack of truth or hiding it that truly hurts. Yet discerning it is a reversal of fortunes* or the irony of nature or law itself that facing it hurts.

"The first casualty of war is truth.".Or rather see how buried the truth can be.

* a reference to legal matters, diplomacy and war and what one loses first.

[The premise of my logic is not diminished by my misattribution of cross principles, In reversal, Obama seeks to block abuse photos The Guardian/AP...**
OUCH!: In trying to be cross cultural about the references to truth and freedom, I apologize for the pun to the links, but hope that it raises the value of the intersections.] and
[[Construing an INDEX:
The Golden Rule @ "what one loses"
"The Truth will set you free" John 8:32 @ "cross principles"
Selections from the Koran on freedom @ Ouch!]]
[[[To which I cannot vouch but have found some correspondence.]]]

** third link's a charm? or strike out? My original query was "If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pictures are really needed?" Is that a dangerous penumbra?

Re-Con-Texting Cain and Able

To start out with, I am behind the times a bit here and had gotten my earliest news through the filter of Air American Radio, [KPTK-1090-Seattle] and the likes of Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Al Franken. Randi Rhodes fits in there somewhere but I just may have missed her in the last few days.

So let me start at the end, as far as most recent sources first.
"Cain" a reference in a Keith Olbermann take.
Then back to Able(not a Bible reference) but as Kerry the able veteran.

Last email cut-and-paste first: This topic "...is one of the fronts that the current battle is being waged, we are taking them from the flank. I don't know the military terms, is that right? Maybe we are just giving them the shovel to keep digging."

Previous post script, as readers and friends may "...well know, I have quite a bit of experience reacting to or trying to make sense out of humor. There is a fine line between truth and the humor and it often hurts. But the reaction to this humor seems to be hiding the truth behind the troops, which is routine for this administration. 'Most people' have enough trouble making sense out of Bush, let alone the truth. When they are one and the same, 'Bush' and 'let alone the truth' it is a greater danger. All this focus on Kerry's choice of words, if the media and the Democrats had had such a machine against the Republicans, we would all be in less danger."

See link: end of this post, to be continued.