As Odd As This May Seem

A woman in China was sued by her husband after she gave birth to a baby the husband considered so ugly he insisted she must have had an affair. After all, his wife was gorgeous and he clearly believes he is a dreamboat, so how could they have an ugly baby? When it came to light the woman had had a lot of plastic surgery before they met and the new daughter merely inherited her old face, the man not only divorced his wife, but sued her for the equivalent of $120,000 -- and won. The presiding judge ruled the man had technically married the woman under “false pretenses.”

So, let’s explore this concept of FALSE PRETENSES…

There are three major theft offences: larceny, embezzlement and false pretences.  False pretence simply means obtaining property by deception; however, in the modern sense of the word, pretense means: the conscious creation of fiction.

It is this alternative meaning to which I am humbly presenting my thoughts…

Surely, we are all aware that there will be a Presidential election taking place on November 6, just 1 week from tomorrow and that the two candidate:  President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are neck-&-neck, according to the poles presented to the public by the mainstream media.  We may or may not be aware that a combined total of over $2 billion will be spent by both parties on this election that indicates, at least to me, that there are many wealthy people who have a vested interest in the election’s outcome.

And, since that is the case, I find it curiously odd that only a few weeks ago that the statistics indicated that President Obama led the challenger in all polled categories and given the fact that there are more registered Democrats than registered Republicans, many Democrats, according to the statistics of these new poles must have broken ranks and changed ships.

Or, maybe someone has consciously created fiction in order to make this a more interesting race.  And, if that be the case, have we been deceived?  I don’t mean from a legal standpoint but from a personal and emotional standpoint.

As a media executive, I stand to make a ton more money, if the race is close than if it is not…

Have the two parties come together and in their union created an ugly baby?

According to Wikipedia (a rather unreliable source), a conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

The term "conspiracy theory" is used to indicate a narrative genre that includes a broad selection of (not necessarily related) arguments for the existence of grand conspiracies. The term is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at "stealing" power, money, or freedom, from "the people".[citation needed] Conspiracy theories are based on the notion that complex plots are put into motion by powerful hidden forces.

Less illustrious uses refer to folklore and urban legend and a variety of explanatory narratives which are constructed with methodological flaws or biases. Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.



Did he or did he not?



The term is sometimes used to automatically dismiss claims that are deemed ridiculous, misconceived, paranoid, unfounded, outlandish or irrational.

I hope you do not think that I am doing that here???? 

…Although, I have been known to “stir the pot.”