SNOPES.com Exposed: Left Wing Website Not Quite the Impartial Arbiter of Truth

If you’re like me, the first thing You did when you received an e-mail saying that the moon was full of UFOs or that President Obama was a Kenyan trained Ninja assasin, you went off to SNOPES.com to see what the deal was with those crazy e-mails. And for the most part, SNOPES has been a reliable informant on the truth about these Urban legends.

Or . . . apparently not. I began to notice that Snopes was taking more of a Leftist tack with things I obviously knew to be true, and was unwilling to revise their opinion when things went more for the right-wing than the lefties. This message board post HERE agrees, especially when it comes to politics; and especially lefty politics.
(And just in case this Message Board post “disappears,” I’ve reprinted the post in toto so it will be archived. Should the author have any problems with that, they can contact me and we’ll fix it post-haste; but as of this printing they haven’t responded to my e-mails.)

For those of you that think snopes is god when it comes to knowing the truth or not. By the way you might want to check this out on snopes.
I present this for your own evaluation.
Who “Snopes” are was written up in READERS DIGEST and agrees with this account.
(no politcal bias was mentioned in the article).

SNOPES EXPOSED
For the past few years http://www.snopescom/ has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell-all final word’ on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it – kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions – or skepticisms – is a result of Snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the Internet, ‘supposedly’ the Mikkelson’s claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort ‘ever’ took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg’s contact phone numbers – and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec’s at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet, Snopes.com issued a statement as the ‘final factual word’ on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things – not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelson’s are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson’s liberalism revealing itself in their website findings.

Gee, what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line fact ‘proceed with caution.’ Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that’s all the Mikkelson’s do. After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their ‘not’ fully looking into things.
http://http//www.wikipedia.org/ or http://http//www.snopes.com/

I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were False. Then they gave their liberal slant! I have suspected some problems with Snopes for some time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder.
Truth or Fiction, is a better source for verification, in my opinion.
TruthOrFiction.com-Is that forwarded email Truth or Fiction? Research into stories, scams, hoaxes, myths, and urban legends on the Internet
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to You tube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust Snopes.com, ever for anything that remotely resembles truth! I don’t even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on MySpace told me aboutSnopes.com. A few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI please don’t use Snopes.com anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.
Thank you,
Alan Strong
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200 Studio City, CA. 91604-5039

Federal Appeals Court Limits Warrantless Border Confiscations and Searches of Mobile Devices...

Federal Appeals Court Limits Warrantless Border Confiscation and Searches of Mobile Devices... The ruling makes clear that there should be reasonable suspicion; a ruling by the full 9th Circuit that overturned a previous ruling by a three judge panel:

Customs and Border Protection officers cannot confiscate or download every laptop or electronic device brought into the U.S., ruling that people have an expectation their data are private and that the government must have “reasonable suspicion” before it starts to do any intensive snooping.

In a broad ruling, the court also said merely putting password protection on information is not enough to trigger the government’s “reasonable suspicion” to conduct a more intrusive search — but can be taken into account along with other factors.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges said it was a “watershed case” that gets at what kinds of limits the government must observe when it comes to technology and privacy.

Caro, Michigan: 9 Year Old Boy In Trouble For Plastic Green Army Men on Birthday Cupcakes

OK, now this stuff is just getting absolutely ridiculous. In the latest instance of a school official completely overreacting to a situation, a 9-year-old boy has found himself in some hot water for bringing his birthday cupcakes to school because they had… wait for it… plastic army men on top. From CBS Detroit:

A 9-year-old boy’s birthday cupcakes sparked a school controversy that just keeps growing, with scores of people lining up against a school principal who found the cupcake’s topping “inappropriate.”
The boy was chided, and so were his parents, for cupcakes featuring little green Army men on the top.
Schall Elementary School principal Susan Wright called the parents at home and said the cupcakes were insensitive in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. School staff pulled off the Army men before they were served.

Of course the outraged parents decided they call the media about this ridiculous incident, so the principal issued this statement:

In the climate of recent events in schools we walk a delicate balance in teaching non-violence in our buildings and trying to ensure a safe, peaceful atmosphere. On one hand, there are those who advocate arming teachers, having armed security guards and creating a fortress of defense in our schools. On the other hand, there are those who feel that guns create fear in schools and we need to put solid security measures in place plus practice routines to be prepared in case an emergency should ever occur. Living in a democratic society entails respect for opposing opinions.

Umm, what? What does this have to do with army guys on top of cupcakes? I keep hearing about these ridiculous reactions by school administrators and am wondering if NOT having any form of common sense is a prerequisite for being a principal. I get that everyone wants to keep kids safe and all that, but no one is being well served by this kind of garbage decision making by principals. Most certainly not a 9-year-old on his birthday.

High School Female Student Forced By Teacher To Do Lap Dances On Male Students

A 16-year-old female  public high school student is alleging, among other things, that her computer science teacher forced her to perform lap dances on her male classmates during class. From Yahoo:

In the latest sign that America is obviously headed to hell in a hand basket, a 16-year-old student at a public high school in Pittsburghhas accused a teacher of forcing her to perform lap dances for male students in his computer technology class.

The Perry Traditional Academy student says the teacher, Michael White, also kissed her on the lips in a classroom, according to CBS Pittsburgh.

Police charge that White, 29, also encouraged her to attend a hotel party where the festivities would have included a striptease.

The girl declined, she said. However, the criminal complaint against White charges that the computer technology Lothario later seduced the girl into leaving school without permission and having sex at his house. This occurred at least twice, and the teacher also allegedly plied the teen with alcohol and marijuana.

The teacher has denied any wrongdoing through his attorney who said the following:

“We have no reason not to be very skeptical of these allegations at this time,” Chuck Gallo, an attorney representing White, told CBS Pittsburgh.
“Let’s slow down here,” added Blaine Jones, another attorney representing White. “We live in America and he is innocent until if ever proven guilty.”

Of course I believe he is innocent until proven guilty, but it seems that at least some of these allegations should be easy to get to the truth. I mean, the lap dances in the middle of class seem like they’d be easy to prove or disprove, right? No way a classroom of teenage boys ccould keep quiet about that. Even if that was the only thing that went on and even if he didn’t force her to do that, this man belongs nowhere near children or schools. To even allow that to go on in your classroom is completely irresponsible and the antithesis of a being a teacher.

Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that, the older I get, I am reading more and more of these stories. It really makes me wonder about the kind of people we are recruiting and hiring to teach in and run our schools. Do we even conduct job interviews, check references, and do background checks anymore before allowing adults to interact with the future of our country? I only ask because it just seems like lately we’re just picking teachers and administrators out of a hat. We have to do better.

Florida Braces for Plague of Swarms: Invasion of the Giant, Blood-Sucking, Gallinipper

By Marc Lallanilla
LiveScience.com
One of the most ferocious insects you've ever heard of — it's the size of a quarter and its painful bite has been compared to being knifed — is set to invade Florida this summer.

The Sunshine State, already home to man-eating sinkholes, invading Burmese pythons, swarming sharks, tropical storms and other disasters, can expect to see an explosion of shaggy-haired gallinippers (Psorophora ciliata), a type of giant mosquito, according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida.

Gallinipper eggs hatch after a rainstorm or flood, and the state saw a big jump in the numbers of gallinippers last summer after Tropical Storm Debby dumped its load on Florida. Eggs laid last year could produce a bumper crop of the blood-sucking bugs this summer if Florida sees a soggy rainy season.

"I wouldn't be surprised, given the numbers we saw last year," Kaufman said in a statement. "When we hit the rainy cycle, we may see that again."

As insects go, gallinippers are particularly formidable. Their eggs lay dormant for years, awaiting the floodwaters that will enable them to hatch. Even in their larval stage, gallinippers are so tough they'll eat tadpoles and other small aquatic prey. [Ouch! Nature's 10 Biggest Pests]

 



 

 

The Gallinipper pictured beside a typical mosquito

And as adults, the voracious pests feed day and night (unlike everyday mosquitoes, which generally feed only at dawn and dusk). Their bodies are strong enough to bite through clothing, and they're known to go after pets, wild animals and even fish, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

"It's about 20 times bigger than the sort of typical, Florida mosquito that you find," Anthony Pelaez of Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry told Fox Orlando. "And it's mean, and it goes after people, and it bites, and it hurts."

Pelaez described the gallinipper's bite as so painful it "feels like you're being stabbed."
The term "gallinipper" isn't recognized by most entomologists, but over the past century, the word — and the insect — entered popular legend through Southern folktales, minstrel shows and blues songs, according to a report from the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida.

The earliest description of the pest comes from 1897 by a writer who called the insect "the shyest, slyest, meanest and most venomous of them all." (Gallinipper bites don't actually contain any venom — they just feel that painful.)

Will insect repellents help to protect people from the dreaded gallinipper? Maybe, Kaufman said, though the pests may be more resistant to bug repellents — even those containing DEET — because of their large size.

If there's a silver lining to a possible invasion of gallinippers, it's the fact that their larvae are so ravenous they eat the larvae of other insects, including mosquitoes, thus reducing the populations of those pests. And they're not known to carry any diseases, though that may be small comfort to beleaguered Floridians.

Email Marc Lallanilla or follow him @MarcLallanilla. Follow us on Twitter @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.

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SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. SIGNS LAW ALLOWING TEACHERS TO CARRY GUNS IN THE CLASSROOM

 SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. SIGNS LAW ALLOWING TEACHERS TO CARRY GUNS IN THE CLASSROOM

South Dakota Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard on Friday signed into law a bill to allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom.

The education community stiffly opposed the measure, according the Rapid City Journal. With it, school boards can decide whether to adopt “sentinel programs” to arm teachers or other school personnel with guns.

Though some states have provisions in their gun laws allowing teachers to carry firearms in the classroom, South Dakota’s law is believed to be the first in the nation to specifically allow it, according to the New York Times.

Calls came to arm teachers after the shooting massacre at a Connecticut elementary school in December, with supporters saying doing so could prevent future tragedies.

South Dakota school administrators and teachers said arming personnel could lead to accidental shootings and put weapons in the hands of inadequately trained people, the Associated Press reported.

The new law doesn’t force school districts to arm teachers or force teachers to carry guns, according to the AP, and local law enforcement agencies will have to sign off on a school’s sentinel program.

Multiculturalsim Will Lead To Cultural Suicide In America

 

 

This is an image of Muslim degenerates beating a man during a protest in France. Why? Because he's white and a non-Muslim and that's enough for these savages to beat and stomp on an innocent human being.

According to statistics, Arabs and black Muslims compose up to 70 percent of France’s prisoners.

We must heed France's (and other European countries') warnings about Islamification and multiculturalism. We must take notice to what Islam is doing to much of Europe, because it's already coming here.
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Just look at France, Belgium, Germany, England, Spain and many other countries in Europe, and you'll realize the very real dangers of Islamification by stealth, by small innocent touches. In truth, it’s their political, cultural and economic environment that is being Islamitized under the attacks of new North African and Arab populations who are unable/unwilling to assimilate into modern Western civilization.

The Islamists are forcing the French to rewrite it's own history.
They are already obliging them to revise their national identity by making them say publicly that Islam is one of the roots of France, waiting until it becomes the only root. Obama has made similar statements as president of the United States.

Europeans are already being forced to eat halal food, often without knowing it.

Islam doesn’t give a damn about the truth, history and the identity of the original populace. The only thing that counts for it is that these people submit to its law. It demands therefore as a sign of submission that these peoples themselves revise their own history, making a travesty of the truth, deny their collective identity, change their cultural references, profane their ancient religious places and discredit their own symbols. Sound familiar???

France, and beyond that all of Europe, is at an advanced stage of Islamification.

AMERICA BETTER WAKE UP! Because this our future if we don't abandon our infatuation with political correctness and multiculturalism. When multiculturalism is a one-way road, it leads directly to cultural suicide.

Michelle Obama and State Department honoring a Muslim woman who supports terror against the US and the killing of Jews

On Friday March 8, Michelle Obama will join John Kerry at a special ceremony at the State Department to present ten women the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.

Samira Ibrahim, as the State Department’s profile describes her, “was among seven women subjected by the Egyptian military to forced virginity tests in March 2011.” The press release further notes that Samira “was arrested while in high school for writing a paper that criticized Arab leaders’ insincere support to the Palestinian cause.”

It’s telling that the State Department considers the latter to be a reason for handing out an award.

On Twitter, Ibrahim is quite blunt regarding her views. On July 18 of last year, after five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed a suicide bombing attack, Ibrahim jubilantly tweeted: “An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.”

So State, Kerry and Michelle Obama will be honoring a woman who celebrates when Jews are killed.

Ibrahim frequently uses Twitter to air her anti-Semitic views. Last August 4, commenting on demonstrations in Saudi Arabia, she described the ruling Al Saud family as “dirtier than the Jews.” Seventeen days later she tweeted in reference to Adolf Hitler: “I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler.”

Well she quotes Hitler in support of genocide. Clearly this deserves a State Department award.

Ibrahim holds other repellent views as well. As a mob was attacking the United States embassy in Cairo on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, pulling down the American flag and raising the flag of Al Qaeda, Ibrahim wrote on twitter: “Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning.” Possibly fearing the consequences of her tweet, she deleted it a couple of hours later, but not before a screen shot was saved by an Egyptian activist.

In other news, Michelle Obama has never been prouder of her country than this moment.

Wash. state politician says bicycles bad for environment, need to be taxed

 By: Mikael Thalen


Washington state Senate Democrats recently produced a $10 billion transportation package which supports a raise on gas taxes, car tabs, and even a $25 tax on bicycles that cost more than $500.
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In an email to Dale Carlson, owner of Bike Tech in Tacoma, Washington Rep. Ed Orcutt (R), a member of the State Transportation Committee, defended the idea of a bike tax by saying, "Sorry, but I do think that bicyclists need to start paying for the roads they ride on rather than make motorists pay."

“When you are riding your bicycle, tell me what taxes are being generated by the act of riding your bicycle,” Orcutt said to the Seattle Bike Blog.

Yet Orcutt's main support for the tax comes from his belief that riding a bicycle is worse than driving a car for the environment.

"A cyclists [sic] has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride," he said.

Evan Manvel, a writer for Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club said, "The package’s proposed bike excise tax ($25 on sales of bikes costing more than $500) would harm hard-working small business owners. Most such bikes are sold by small family-owned bike shops and this would impose red tape and costs for them while creating virtually no revenue.

“People who bicycle already pay substantial taxes for our transportation system, including the sales taxes, property taxes and federal taxes that together cover two-thirds of all transportation spending in Washington. Bicyclists who own cars also pay the same car tabs as everyone else even if they drive less."

Some even feel that this could open the door to a carbon tax on breathing. A New York Times op-ed from 2007 said that "right now, everyone is using the atmosphere like a municipal dump, depositing carbon dioxide free," also suggesting that the government should start charging for the "privilege" by imposing a carbon tax.

https://www.examiner.com/article/wash-state-politician-says-bicycles-bad-for-environment-need-to-be-taxed