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Old 04 February 2007, 09:10 PM
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Comment: What is a military family worth?

You point out that the people in the military volunteer to put themselves
in harms way knowing the benefits are poor, where the people in the 911
attacks did not.

I would like to comment on your line of thinking:

1.) I agree that these military volunteers did put themselves in this
position.

2.) I do agree that they are under represented in government and their
raises and pay are poor at best.

3.) BUT I do not agree that these people put themselves in a war where
their leader LIED about weapons of mass destruction.

4.) These people signed up to protect the USA, not Iran.
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Old 27 April 2007, 06:28 PM
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Comment: http://www.snopes.com/legal/bluebonnets.asp

In this article you state that the belief that it is illegal to pick
trillium in Ottawa is false. I am from Michigan and grew up with wild
trillium in my back yard. I am quite sure that picking/harvesting/selling
trillium IS illegal in Michigan.
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Old 27 April 2007, 07:16 PM
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Hey Christie, how's life down in Ottawa, Michigan?

I mean, I knew the federal government here was outsourcing, but this is ridiculous!
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Comment: My goodness, i put this site on my main page on yahoo...urban
legands...today as a matter of fact...i will immediately remove you from
my page...
The first subject i open up is about some urban legand regarding a country
we are at war with....what am i suppose to feel bad or even feel wow i
can't believe that happened.
What an insult to the american people to post an urban legand from that
place where my niece who's only 24 is serving her second round at war with
that country....praying everyday for her safe return...
what the hec...????you must be pretty desperate to post something like
that from that country.

You must be arabic....muslim... something...is wrong anyway with your
mentality...i'm removing u from my site.
Idiot....no common sense...at all....i hope...(i know) your site will shut
down...because i will make sure i pass it along to some congressmen i know
who realize how many americans we have lost...and you're posting urban
legands....believe me i am going to forward your urban legand to many
americans...i'm sure your site will be down soon.

God Bless America...God Bless our Soldiers...God Bless the Families who
have lost their daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, parents....

I'm so glad I opened this site up....i will put a stop to this crap news
coming into our country...

Many marines will see this too...it won't take much to close u down...we
are Americans....we stand tall...we know whats right and whats wrong.

Goodbye...From a marine who served...and is willing to go back again...to
fight...to stop the madness. Crazy MF
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Old 08 June 2007, 05:36 PM
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I get the feeling this person goes through red stop lights because red is the colour of DEM COMMIES!

Or, this person is suffering from serious oxygen deprivation.
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Old 08 June 2007, 05:58 PM
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So, Snopes: was there ever a time when you would respond to people like this and try to explain their misunderstandings? Or was that impulse burned out pretty quickly?

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Old 08 June 2007, 06:02 PM
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D'oh!

Yes, there was a time. But given the amount of traffic and e-mail our web site now generates, if I gave in to the impulse I'd end up doing nothing but arguing with loons all day, every day.

And it's pointless, because you'll never argue them out of what they want to believe. You cannot out-debate a loon.

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Old 08 June 2007, 06:07 PM
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Oh, please let me take this person on. It sounds like ever so much fun!
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I think his signature says it all...

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Old 08 June 2007, 10:57 PM
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Assuming that we were at war with UAE, why would posting a UL about a civilian architectural disaster be an affront to American soldiers? In my mind, if something like that happened to a building in an enemy country, it would be a thing to celebrate because it's an economic setback.
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Old 08 June 2007, 11:07 PM
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Assuming that we were at war with UAE, why would posting a UL about a civilian architectural disaster be an affront to American soldiers? In my mind, if something like that happened to a building in an enemy country, it would be a thing to celebrate because it's an economic setback.
No, no, no. Even mentioning the enemy, in any context, will embolden the enemy.

That's why we hear no news coming out of the war in Singapore ... I've said too much again.
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i hope...(i know) your site will shut
down...because i will make sure i pass it along to some congressmen i know
who realize how many americans we have lost...and you're posting urban
legands....believe me i am going to forward your urban legand to many
americans...i'm sure your site will be down soon.

I'm so glad I opened this site up....i will put a stop to this crap news
coming into our country...

Many marines will see this too...it won't take much to close u down...we
are Americans....we stand tall...we know whats right and whats wrong.
I'll say my "goodbye"s now, snopes, since your website is so obviously doomed.

Goodbye, snopes.com. I'll miss you. *sniff*

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Old 06 September 2007, 12:14 AM
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Comment: could you check if this story is a hoax please ?

I can't believe that nowadays in Australia students have the impunity to
burn 2 women publicly in a sport field without being arrested...


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...-23109,00.html
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Old 06 September 2007, 12:28 AM
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I can't believe that nowadays in Australia students have the impunity to burn 2 women publicly in a sport field without being arrested...


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...-23109,00.html
I don't know what you're complaining about. The OP is essentially correct.

Sure, one can nitpick that it happened in South Africa rather than Australia. But come on - Australia, South Africa, they're both south of the equator and both are great at international rugby. So what's the big deal?

And one might argue that there's a difference between the OP's statement that "the students have the impunity" and the link's statement that no arrests had yet been made. But what's a minor discrepancy like that between friends when there's a good story afoot

Ta ra 'wan,

Ieuan "Manguzi, New South Wales" ab Arthur
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no arrests had yet been made
Just to be nitpicky, one could also argue there's a whole world of difference created when you insert a "yet" that wasn't there on the original article.
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Old 06 September 2007, 11:23 PM
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Just to be nitpicky, one could also argue that there's almost a world of distance between South Africa and Australia (which is the purpose of this thread, after all).
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You cannot out-debate a loon.
Hey at lest our loons are more rational then the ones in your inbox!
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Comment: Concerning the United Kingdom removing the Holocaust from their
teaching curriculum...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp and the small
mention about UK (the University of Kentucky). Can you add in a link to
the University of Kentucky's Judaic Studies department which clearly shows
we are still very much teaching about the Holocaust?
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I think he misread the title and thinks the damage was done by a nearby marine. jsut my thoughts
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Comment: Is it true that Starbucks coffee refused to send their coffee to
the troops in Iran because they do not support the war or the troops
fighting there?
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