Denial, it is said, is not just a river in Egypt. This is meant to be funny, because Denial is a homonym for "The Nile", which IS a river in Egypt. And the reason the statement exists in that form, as a joke, is because a little giggle sometimes makes it a little easier to say "Yeah, I guess I am in denial. The whole concept of god is really just an unneccesary philosophical complication that proves nothing which is not already assumed to be true, and in fact is just a concept whose primary function is to shelter this collection of prejudices I hold dear out of habit." It's part of human nature that people don't like being wrong about stuff. Like the president being a liar. See, some people have an awful lot of their precious feelings invested in his being an upstanding, honorable guy.
But even those of us who
aren't in denial of the president being a liar could occasionally use a reminder that we live in a country, that, like 1940 Germany, thrives on its denial.
So here's George W. Bush, the howling void of intelligence, whose lips moving, as usual, indicates a flagitious abuse of language and truth, announcing that the United States doesn't torture people:
And here's a picture of all the people who believe that is actually true:
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