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Charlie Traffas
Charlie Traffas has been involved in marketing, media, publishing and insurance for more than 40 years. In addition to being a fully-licensed life, health, property and casualty agent, he is also President and Owner of Chart Marketing, Inc. (CMI). CMI operates and markets several different products and services that help B2B and B2C businesses throughout the country create customers...profitably. You may contact Charlie by phone at (316) 721-9200, by e-mail at ctraffas@chartmarketing.com, or you may visit at www.chartmarketing.com.
What's New
2009-02-01 14:22:00
Lie to me
Question: So,what’s new?
What a show! In case you don’t know, “Lie to me” is a new TV show on FOX, from the producers of 24, on Wednesday nights, at 8 PM CST. It stars Tim Roth as Dr. Cal Lightman, the world’s leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why. When someone shrugs one shoulder, rotates a hand or raises the lower lip, Lightman knows he’s lying.Based on the real-life scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman, the series follows Lightman and his team of deception experts as they assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies. A couple of episodes back, I watched in awe as Dr. Lightman had a conversation with a staff member. I say “conversation” but she never said a word, yet he continued to interpret her facial expressions and body language from the comments he made during his conversation with her. Oh Yes, I know it’s a show and a script, but the theories behind this science are fascinating…or at least they are to me. All of the past and current discussions about using water boarding to extract information are moot now. Just put this guy in the room with whomever, and the truth will come out. Once he smacks the interviewee with the fact that he or she is lying, and here is what the truth is, they spill it all. That brings me to my next thought (gosh I have some strange ones, don’t I?). It begins with Jack Nicholson’s line in “A Few Good Men,” when he said, “You can’t handle the truth.” I wonder if we, as a society, could handle the truth. I mean, all of the 100% truth about everything to do with a situation. Wouldn’t you like to ask this question? “What did you know…when…and what did you really do?” to each living President, each dead President, nearly every member of the House and Senate, at least 100 professional athletes, Millie (our dog who is always in trouble), and so many more. Oh yeah, and maybe…since we’re just dreaming here…we could have a red light and siren go off each time one of these tell the slightest lie…and it would keep going off until we got the 100% truth. What would happen if we lived in a 100% truthful world? Would it be better than what we have…or worse? What do you think?
 
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