tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674313104544718575.post4234297420923720487..comments2023-05-20T07:34:38.057-07:00Comments on Bits and Pieces: About the President-ElectLeannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17020780856206891718noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674313104544718575.post-62796533793578953082008-11-06T17:15:00.000-08:002008-11-06T17:15:00.000-08:00If I had a dollar for every time I sent someone to...If I had a dollar for every time I sent someone to snopes, LOL .. if I could set a rule up, I wouldn't allow anyone to forward me anything - ever - without checking for it on snopes first. I think in 8 years I have found 1 thing to be semi-true, and I get a lot of idiotic forwards, political and otherwise.<BR/><BR/>politifact.org is another good site to check facts<BR/><BR/>please don't get all your information about the opposing candidate from "your side". Try to get info from somewhere else too. For a Rep, this means you should not get all your info from Rush or Hannity or Coulter or FreeRepublic or .. For a Dem, this would be Air America or .. I listen to Michael Savage occasionally, because I liked his dog stories, and because it gives me another perspective.<BR/><BR/>You can always look at what someone has done - voting records, work history, legislation ..Elizabeth Halthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595395276757245598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674313104544718575.post-14203269934582723622008-11-06T14:34:00.000-08:002008-11-06T14:34:00.000-08:00Politics are a hard thing to discuss. Because rar...Politics are a hard thing to discuss. Because rarely can you make someone of opposing views see your point. Which makes it look like they have no compassion, like they don't know the facts, they don't understand, etc. But it takes all kinds to make the world go round, doesn't it? I felt very badly about anon. comment, because it felt like someone was attacking you. And I didn't like that. It should have been said in a gentler way. Because I understood the basic point.MindiJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15786207107743192543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674313104544718575.post-77534827388869535342008-11-06T13:44:00.000-08:002008-11-06T13:44:00.000-08:00Okay, so use more than one. Check snopes, factche...Okay, so use more than one. Check snopes, factcheck.org, whatever other sites you can find. I've always found them to be truthful.Leannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17020780856206891718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674313104544718575.post-67941516603111311242008-11-06T13:07:00.000-08:002008-11-06T13:07:00.000-08:00Actually Lenny, my mom told me, and maybe its a ru...Actually Lenny, my mom told me, and maybe its a rumor, that snopes is a liberal left leaning site.. who knows.. I like your truth or fiction suggestion thou ..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com