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It also happens to be fake. Generated to stoke tension. The WSJ article you mention does not support your claim, it says nothing about immigrants wanting to cancel Oktoberfest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://m.snopes.com/ban-oktobe...

But not for this guy.

There is a story that surfaces once in a while regarding her being fired from that House Judiciary Committee;

FWIW, Snopes claims it never happened.

There are several states, california included that have made it illegal to 'harvest' rainwater. The stupid continues.

Just for the record, that is a bunch of Alex Jones right-wing survivalist nonsense.

Note Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

There are some local laws (none at the state level) that make certain types of reservoirs illegal when you don't have water rights. Those kind of laws go back to 1925, and none are in California.

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

Supposedly you have a brain... try using it for a change.

One of the worst examples was the kids school that Disney sued. Disney falsely claimed that by giving away or by charging minimal values, it opened them up to law suits from other locations demanding the same treatment. After it happened, Universal gave that school - for free - the use of their characters - Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Flintstones, etc. That happened in 1989.

Disney demanded that the unauthorized 5-foot-high painted figures of Disney characters on the walls of Very Important Babies Daycare, Good Godmother Daycare, and Temple Messianique (all in Hallandale, Florida) be removed for valid business reasons: infringements must be fought in order to keep trademarks intact; other Disney character licensees would have grounds to object if Disney provided inexpensive (or free) licenses to the centers (which are, after all, profit-making enterprises); and the use of Disney characters falsely suggested Disney's affiliation with the day care facilities.

Universal, still smarting from the early opening of Disney's studio-themed park... saw in the day care controversy a way to seize some publicity for themselves and give Disney a bad name in Florida as part of the bargain. Accordingly, Universal Studios Florida and Hanna-Barbera Productions offered the centers the use of characters from their own cartoons, such as Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, and Yogi Bear.

Daycare Center Murals

This was a clever publicity stunt for Universal, but I don't think it has ever shown that Universal really allowed their characters to be used without a license.

The day care centers in question all appear to be defunct. Hallandale, FL Child Care Centers

This is what happens when you aren't paying attention to the licensing of your product: Flintstones Bedrock City in Arizona on Sale for $2 Million, Brontosaurus Included

Because I love quirky roadside attractions, I hope someone does make this place nice again. If not, $5 is a fair price for some rabbit hunting.

I dunno, a lot of us natives love the creepy charm. I've only been once, but would love to go again were there less risk of tetanus.

"100 years ago coca cola contained actual cocaine, it probably did promote weight loss"

By 1891 coca cola was already de-cocainized to the best available technology of the day. (That's already 124 years ago)

" In an entire year's supply of 25-odd million gallons of Coca-Cola syrup, Heath figured, there might be six-hundredths of an ounce of cocaine."

http://snopes.com/cokelore/coc...

And that's gallons of syrup. Actual coca cola of course is further mostly diluted by water.

Back in the 1860s-1880s, before "Coca-Cola" the syrup was mixed wine instead of water, and marketed as "Pemberton's French Wine Coca, the patent medicine; cure for everything from nerve trouble, to mental exhaustion, to gastric irritation... " yes, THAT had cocaine in it... but that wasn't Coca-Cola.

You do realize that Ms. Palin never said this, that this was Tina Fey's line from Saturday Night Live?

It always amuses me to see low-information voters like you mindlessly regurgitate the drivel they've been spoon-fed by the lamestream media, in this manner, without even realizing that they're exposing their own lack of capacity for independent thought.

The reason the government and Goodwill "exploit" each other and the disabled people is that those disabled people really don't work efficiently enough to be worth minimum wage, and consequently without a subsidy, would be unemployable. Since the government unions won't allow the disabled to be hired directly, Goodwill is the vehicle that allows them to have a meaningful job. Sure, the CEO of Goodwill makes $850K/year, not actually that good for an organization with a $5B annual revenue. They're putting about 83 cents on the dollar into the disabled, which is a very low overhead when you realize how painfully expensive it is to deal with government contracting.

is a much better source than random shit on the internet.

Yes, they already do that with ectoparasiticides and they're dyed pink. Once ground up, they can be identified at a boarder customs.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/a...

It's also word of mouth stuff. As in being asked if you take enough zinc every time you get a cold. Doesn't matter how ridiculous it is, if they heard it from a friend then you should try it.

Yes, I have heard of many strange uses for Vicks Vapor Rub that many a person swears by because they heard it from a friend/family member.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/...

TFA: The results are intriguing—even a relatively simple neural network can be used to over-interpret an image, just like as children we enjoyed watching clouds and interpreting the random shapes. This network was trained mostly on images of animals, so naturally it tends to interpret shapes as animals.

Less intriguing: to consider that similar networks (especially once giving "recommendations" to unquestioning end users) might ascribe e.g. criminal propensity or lack of creditworthiness to the odd proverbial "innocent bystander" by over-amplifying distinctions they "think" to have learned.

The "Bad Blue sky" tank detector https://neil.fraser.name/writi... "might be apocryphal" (just like the Obstinate Lighthouse http://www.snopes.com/military... ;-)) but instructive nonetheless.

I just hope they have a good QA department examine the .STL file for the bridge and find any unanticipated flaws.

Gotta love context-free quotes!!

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/k...

[That interpretation of my comment] is, of course, ridiculous because the business we were in was making PCs, and almost from the start I had them at home and my wife played Scrabble with time-sharing machines, and my sixth-grade son was networking the MIT computers and the DEC computers together, hopefully without doing mischief, using the computers I had at home. Home computers were a natural continuum of the "personal computers" that people had at work, in the laboratory, in the military.

Following this sidepath... it's similar to the original concepts of home electric motors, which was not considered worth doing until electric illumination brought electricity home. If you look at the first sketches, ads, etc. for the concept they had a huge motor in the basement running everything via a series of belts and gears and shafts, analogous to Olsen's big computer running the whole house. In practice, of course, that wasn't as useful as little dedicated motors everywhere embedded in the gadgets so you don't think of them as motors explicitly, analogous to the small dedicated computers he saw coming.

Gotta love context-free quotes!!

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/k...

[That interpretation of my comment] is, of course, ridiculous because the business we were in was making PCs, and almost from the start I had them at home and my wife played Scrabble with time-sharing machines, and my sixth-grade son was networking the MIT computers and the DEC computers together, hopefully without doing mischief, using the computers I had at home. Home computers were a natural continuum of the "personal computers" that people had at work, in the laboratory, in the military.

Just for the record, the "Obamaphone" program has a name. It's called the "Lifeline Assistance Program" and was started in the 1980s by...Ronald Reagan. It has nothing to do with Obama.

https://www.fcc.gov/guides/lif...

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

http://gawker.com/5947133/the-...

http://www.snopes.com/media/go... No, those posted videos and photos and reports of news in Japan were all fakes. There's a difference between actually seeing it on the news in Japan and hearing that it's on the news in Japan.

Nope, it was on the news within the last month.

Maybe legendary news on this site?

With the same reasoning, schools in Europe are taking the holocaust out of the history lessons, to avoid nasty remarks from muslim kids in the classroom.

No, they are not. You may be thinking of this: http://www.snopes.com/politics...

There are two major reasons why people incorrectly think aspartame causes cancer:

1. In 1975 a bad study was released saying aspartame caused brain and other cancers. This study became “legend”, and is what everyone thinks about aspartame, but it is not true. There is even an article on Wikipedia specifically about this controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
2. In 1998, a hoax was released saying aspartame caused all sorts of serious diseases, and people believed it: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp.htm. It’s also on snopes http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Due to the 1975 study, studies were launched and FDA officials describing aspartame as "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever approved" and its safety as "clear cut" (http://web.archive.org/web/20071214170430/www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_sugar.html)

1. The European Food Safety Authority concluded in its 2013 re-evaluation that aspartame and its breakdown products are safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3496.htm)
2. As do other independent studies (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408440701516184)
3. The national cancer institute has cleared aspartame as having no links to cancer (http://web.archive.org/web/20090212130028/http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/AspartameQandA)

There are many more scientific studies on it by national governments showing it’s safe as well:

• UK https://www.food.gov.uk/science/additives/aspartame/
• Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/securit/addit/sweeten-edulcor/aspartame-eng.php
• Australia / New Zealand http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/additives/aspartame/pages/default.aspx

Besides, we know it's really 10 cc. (Not really.)

Maybe the taller ones avoid being suffocated in a dutch oven

Oh! Hi, all you other frogs in here.

Is this water getting warmer?

Not warm enough if none of them have jumped yet.

(Time for that metaphor to die, methinks.)

Most geeks would make excellent mechanics

yeah but this would become actual reality

"Would you want a car that would crash twice a day for no reason?"

The supposed use of Roundup as a desiccant is mostly a horseshit myth:
http://www.snopes.com/food/tai...

There's a snopes for that:

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

No, you are saying that the Dem's aren't at fault, and you're lying by obfuscation.

Words of Mass Destruction

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line." President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998.

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999.

"There is no doubt that . Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." Letter to President Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, Dec, 5, 2001.

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seing and developing weapons of mass destruction." Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002.

"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002.

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002.

"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years . We also should remember we have alwa

Those fucking Yanks are trying for PATENTABLE DRUGS, not a Nobel prize that literally anybody (warmonger Obama Barrick for example) could get. The patent system rewards drug makers, hospitals push their drugs, and the American consumer gets the hard deep fucking they asked for.
 
Could be worse. If the US blew their entire year's budget on something other than interest payments to the non-Federal "Federal Reserve" - eg. bogus drug Tamiflu - you'd be in the same shoes as Britain. And America wonders why nobody wants (shitty, non-working) vaccines and chemo. Pff.

Just remove the stupid laws that make it illegal for rival companies to lay cable in their territory.

Um, no.. We don't need to have the streets dug up every week for an underground version of this.

First off, Canada != US, fellow American.

Second: people and businesses can limit the forms of payment they'll accept for practical reasons all the time. As in: no bills over a certain amount, or refusing payment in pennies. Coins CAN be legal tender, but no merchant or private party MUST accept a particular form of currency. Don't want to accept $1 bills, only $5 and $10? That's fine:

  http://www.snopes.com/business...

"Legal tender is the default method of payment assumed in contractual agreements involving debts and payments for goods or services unless otherwise specified."

Third: the currency is defaced. That is the whole point - it's potentially not legal currency if you've drawn all over it. If you interfere with security features in the bill and it becomes more risky to trust as valid (such as, counterfeit bills that meet other security features elsewhere on the bill)...then they are right to refuse it.

I'm kind of shocked Canada doesn't specifically outlaw defacement of the currency; the US sure does.

A quick check with Snopes puts the lie to your claims.

Snopes on 2012 voter fraud.

Can't you at least check snopes before you start spouting off?
http://www.snopes.com/media/no...

Reminds me of that scare-mail that was going around warning about the dangers of margarine:

"Margarine is one molecule away from being PLASTIC!"

Yeah, well.. WATER is "one molecule away from being plastic." Just swap each H2O molecule for a C8H8 molecule...

You might want to consider doing a bit more research into those safeguards.

Australia's crime rate went up after guns were outlawed in 1996...

That same old horseshit that's been forwarded to half the email accounts on the planet? Not quite the case, mate.

Snicker. Another RW moron that doesn't know that Saint Reagan actually began the "Obamaphone" program.

"The Lifeline program originated in 1984, during the administration of Ronald Reagan; it was expanded in 1996, during the administration of Bill Clinton; and its first cellular provider service (SafeLink Wireless) was launched by TracFone in 2008, during the administration of George W. Bush. All of these milestones were passed prior to the advent of the Obama administration."

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

Wrong.

Fraud enforcement got defunded because that evil big government has decided to stay in power by handing out Obamaphones to bribe low-information voters into keeping the people in power.

Snopes.com: Free 'Obamaphones'
Guess how long that took to find? Less time than it took to type this message.

Citing redstate.com doesn't exactly help your credibility (just as citing salon.com wouldn't). Looking at the Snopes piece, there's not enough to prove conclusively that he knowingly spoke to a white supremacist group, but it's by no means debunked or clearly not true.

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

If Scalise thinks this claim is libelous, he should definitely sue the blogger. Not sure he really wants to be questioned under oath on the topic, though...

That's stretching it a bit. While touring New Orleans to speak about his opposition the Stelly tax plan, he spoke once to a small EURO contingent, hours before the actual convention, not at the actual convention, one stop among many. Guilty by brief association?

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

The snopes article doesn't quite back you up. It's possible that he spoke to a related gathering a few hours before the convention, not knowing it was EURO related nor that there were a few white supremacists in attendance. But it's also possible that he did address the EURO convention with full knowledge of who they were, either because he wanted their support (or non-opposition) and/or he was sympathetic to their beliefs.

The truth is there's insufficient information to know what really happened.

That's stretching it a bit. While touring New Orleans to speak about his opposition the Stelly tax plan, he spoke once to a small EURO contingent, hours before the actual convention, not at the actual convention, one stop among many. Guilty by brief association?

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

There should be a requirement that if you flag a story as false, you have to provide a link to a reputable source refuting it.

Years ago I did this at work when some administrative staff person sent around the chain email warning you not to press a certain sequence of buttons when on your home phone as that would let the bad guys do all sorts of nefarious things. (#90 scam I was nice about it, only replied to the person who originated the email and pointed them to the Snopes article showing the said information was a hoax.

In return, instead of thanks, I got a blistering email about who I was wasting company time by looking at things on the internet. From that, and other attempts to point out wrong things, I have come to the conclusion that some people would rather be in denial to the truth than admit that they were taken in by a hoax, and get very angry when confronted with their own stupidity.

Nope - that was the Arabs (Palestinians) too.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/r...

Nice try:

http://www.snopes.com/racial/l...
http://www.babynamewizard.com/...

This would be a more accurate site to link to
Media Matters = propaganda

Unless the Nokia 215 is aiming to be the next Obamaphone

You mean Reaganphone, since it was Reagan that signed the law creating "Lifeline service" not President Obama.

http://www.snopes.com/politics...

You must mean a "Reaganphone"... http://www.snopes.com/politics...

CBS, NBC, and ABC have a far worse record and its provable. Just because you don't like facts doesn't change reality.

Anyways, the FCC regulates CBS, NBC, and ABC but has no say whatsoever over Fox News on cable. So not sure what you mean about FCC policies they had to argue against in court. I did find this snopes thing which you might be referring to which says your claim is false.

So not only are you wrong, you are wrong at every possible level and you probably knowingly lied to try and make your point. Like I said before, if a liberal makes a claim, look it up and find the lie. It usually takes less than 5 minutes.

Of course, you would be perfectly insane to try to play chicken with it, no matter what you are piloting.

Unless of course it's a lighthouse. ;-)

The words were difficult to understand due to the lead singers braces just having been retightened.

http://www.snopes.com/music/so...

No, no, bite the wax tadpole. Don't cook it with baking soda and smoke it.