Headlines

McConnell sets key vote on Kavanaugh nomination for Friday

Amazon's hourly workers lose monthly bonuses, stock awards as minimum wage increases

White House finds no evidence against Kavanaugh in FBI report ...

USA Today: Kavanaugh should 'stay off the basketball court' with children

Trump unlikely to face consequences despite allegations of tax dodging

China respects out trade secrets-- unless it wants something, experts say

Minneapolis police won't look into claims against Keith Ellison ...

Mark Meadows: Ex-FBI General Counsel gave 'explosive' testimony about Russian probe 'bias'

Judge blocks Trump from ending protections for 300,000 migrants

[Fed Chair] Powell says we're 'along way' from neutrals indicating more rate hikes are coming

Chinese spy chips found in products made by Apple, Amazon ...

Pompeo blasts Drms for holding up Trump State Department nominees

Headlines

Dems grit their teeth and cheer for Trump on North Korea

Trump may reportedly lift US sales ban on ZTE [phones]

Iced latte: Starbucks says drug use, sleeping unacceptable ...

China's Navy will double size of U.S. Navy by 2030

Grassley seeks DOJ documents on officials' contacts with dossier author

People are selling their royal wedding gift bags on EBay

Human race just 0.01% of all life -- but has eradicated most other living things ...

DHS official: 'In one week, Democrats chose to defend' Hamas, MS-13

Obamas cut deal with Netflix

Goldman Sachs: Fiscal outlook for US 'is not good'

Pope shock: OK to be gay ...

John Brennan threatens Ryan, McConnell for 'enabling' Trump

Shades of Shading

Some WaPo pajama boy has spent months documenting Trump's 3,000 "lies" ... see: Washington Post Story. Now there are lies and there are lies ... and it is best to differentiate between these shades of such shading. Below is my way of placing a metric (low to high -- 1) Shading the truth ... 2) Misleading  ... 3) Spinning ... 4) Exaggerating ... 5) Accentuating the negative ... 6) Fibbing ...  7)White lying ... 8) Prevaricating ... 9) Lying ...  19) Being mendacious ...  11) Telling whoppers)  on such mendacity ... and this author's take on where prominent "liars" lie on this lying spectrum.

My approximate positioning of this group is as follows:

Fox News -- 1.5

Mitch McConnell -- 2.5

Trump -- 4.0

Nancy Pelosi -- 4.5

MSNBC -- 5.0

Main-stream media -- 7.5

Chuck Schumer -- 8.0

Bill Clinton -- 8.5

Barack Obama -- 10,0

CNN -- 10.5

Hillary Clinton -- 11.5


Now, if this isn't taking a stilk to a hornets nest, I don't know what is?