Why I do this website and why I need your
help: People lie, people die.
(Reviewed and updated February 26, 2009)
My name is Diane V. McLoughlin. I am a writer. I am continually
working to keep up with new content, reading and writing. My
website opened early in the year 2008. I have been writing for a lot
longer than that.
As an independent I receive no outside funding, subsidies, grants or
bursaries of any kind. I am not independently wealthy. Although I
have decided after much soul-searching to have limited advertising
on my site, the primary means of financial support in keeping this
site alive comes from readers like you.
The truth is actively kept from people by much of the Mainstream
Media and political leadership. Not telling the truth in legal terms is
called lying by omission.
What is wrong with lying by omission? If the press doesn't ferret out
the truth then the people, even politicians who have good intentions,
have a harder time discerning if what they are told is true.
Wars such as Iraq proceed based on misinformation and lies.
People lie, people die.
I post independent editorial writing and political analysis of my own,
along with my recommended selections of the best independent
political writing and articles on the web that I find.
I have a fine and growing LINKS page of on-line resources.
On a personal aside I use my middle initial V because there is
another Diane McLoughlin with the exact same spelling whose name
Googles way better than mine if I don't use the V. She is apparently a
well-known and wicked jazz sax player in Great Britain. Someday I
hope to hear her wail. Alright.
At the upper right-hand side of my home page is the picture I picked
to be my icon (shown, right). This masterpiece is entitled, 'Christ in
the Storm on the Sea of Galilee'. It was painted by the artist
Rembrandt.
I wanted an image that depicted a ship on a choppy sea to represent
the times we live in. Searching in Google Images, I liked this one the
best, even though I am not a religious person.
(The painting itself has fallen on hard times. It was stolen from a
gallery in 1990, according to Wikipedia, and has yet to be
recovered.)
With an article I wrote about the 2008 American election cycle, Vote
for Hope, I wanted to find an image for that. It is my second favorite
on my site, entitled, 'The Personification of Hope'. It portrays an
angel. Also painted hundreds of years ago, it embodies the hopes
and prayers in the hearts of sailor's wives. I feel this for all people
everywhere: Bring them home safe.
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Cross-linking with me helps a lot, too.
Your support makes
all the difference.
Diane V. McLoughlin
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