CanonRay
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Thu Mar-12-09 11:51 AM
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Help me refute this RW garbage |
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Got this from a "friend" in Illinois, and would like to answer, any thoughts (other that just to piss off)? Anybody hear of an executive order regarding refugees? Sounds like total B.S. to me though:
"Obama funds $20M tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA This is the news that didn't make the headlines... By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in migration assistance to the Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza . The "presidential determination" which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4. Few on Capitol Hill took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006."
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Thu Mar-12-09 11:53 AM
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1. I get these horses--t emails too |
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Claiming Obama's getting Federal funds to study everything from determining why fire burns and water is wet. I delete them without reading them.
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Thu Mar-12-09 11:54 AM
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NavyDavy
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Thu Mar-12-09 12:14 PM
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6. yeah I challenged someone with snopes.com and factcheck.com |
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the idiots on the site attacked both sites as owned by "left wing" lunatics....I had to just laugh...no matter how reputiable site is if it doesn't show that they are correct they call it a "lefty" lunie site..
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Thu Mar-12-09 11:54 AM
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gratuitous
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Thu Mar-12-09 11:57 AM
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4. Not only is Snopes your friend |
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But so are the words "Prove it."
You might also follow up your debunking with a little admonition that most systems of morality throughout the history of mankind frown quite heavily on bearing false witness against one's neighbor. Or, to put it more succinctly, tell your correspondent not to be such a fucking liar.
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Thu Mar-12-09 12:39 PM
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9. remember, Hannity tried to pull that stunt ... "Nancy Pelosi demanded X million |
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for some mouse!"
When challenged, he said, to the effect, "It's not named, but you know it's in there!"
Of course, we didn't have access to the evidence, but we "knew" that Bush was lying his ass off on WMDs in Iraq + ...
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CanonRay
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Thu Mar-12-09 12:10 PM
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5. Thanks to all: they got both barrels! |
icnorth
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Thu Mar-12-09 12:17 PM
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7. Anytime you get this crap |
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tell the sender you are interested in verifying their claim and ask them to provide links to reliable sources so you can read the details yourself.
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icnorth
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Thu Mar-12-09 12:21 PM
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8. You may also want to add |
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you don't consider Rush Limbaugh a reliable source.
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Thu Mar-12-09 12:42 PM
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10. This crap comes from all over.. need to update my |
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