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Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Snopes has a massive and blatant liberal bias.

I hear that complaint a lot. So I decided to fact check it.

For a few months I bookmarked each fact-check result that was generally favorable to a conservative viewpoint. Real life isn't binary so not all conservatives will agree on everything. Still, I tried to be inclusive such that as long as at least one interpretation of the results was a win for at least some type of conservative, it went on the list. I don't read snopes every day so the list isn't complete and some of these articles have been updated with new information that made them less pleasant for conservatives. But close enough.

FACT CHECK: Were President Trump's Sons Detained at Vancouver Airport over Ties with Fascist Dictator?
FACT CHECK: Did Tucker Carlson Hire an Actor When He Couldn't Book Protest Organizers?
FACT CHECK: Did Pat Robertson Say 'Staring' at Melania Trump 'Can Heal Gays'?
FACT CHECK: Trump Billing Michelle Obama For $11 Billion?
FACT CHECK: Did President Nixon Say Watergate Details Were 'Illegally' Leaked by Deep Throat?
FACT CHECK: Has the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump Begun?
Did President Donald Trump Ban 'Full Face' Veils?
FACT CHECK: Betsy DeVos Said '40 Percent' Means 'More Than Half'?
Did President Trump Refuse to Give Federal Aid to California Because of the State's Sanctuary Cities?
Was Donald Trump Seen at a Swiss Resort with Vladimir Putin Before the Election?
Did President Obama Deport More People Than Any Other President?
George H.W. Bush Death Hoax
Did Trump Call Trudeau 'Leader of the Igloo People?'
Secret Service Adds 'Emotional Protection Division' for President Trump? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Ban 'Sharia Law' in the U.S.? - Snopes.com
Did Betsy DeVos Demand That Classroom Globes Be Flattened? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Fire White House Butler Cecil Gaines? - Snopes.com
Did President Trump Make English the U.S. Official Language? - Snopes.com
Did the NAACP Give Jeff Sessions an 'Award of Excellence'? : snopes.com
Did Vice President Mike Pence Lament That God Never Asked Him to Sacrifice His Children? : snopes.com
Did President Trump Enact a 90-Day Ban on Childhood Vaccinations? : snopes.com
National Prayer Breakfast Remarks: President Trump vs. President Obama : snopes.com
Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Wh

Except that media organizations make up stuff out of whole cloth, like the report about trannie suicides going thru the roof since Trump became president.

Ok, find one major media organization that covered that one, and show it.

But yes, Trump has manufactured stories, and misled. Those things are real. Yours? As valid as that picture claiming marines are volunteering for guard duty now when they aren't under Obama who is not leading an army of anti-Trump activists. Random noise in the stream.

You might as well be one of the Infowarriors condemning the media for not covering it.

Except that media organizations make up stuff out of whole cloth, like the report about trannie suicides going thru the roof since Trump became president.

Ok, find one major media organization that covered that one, and show it.

But yes, Trump has manufactured stories, and misled. Those things are real. Yours? As valid as that picture claiming marines are volunteering for guard duty now when they aren't under Obama who is not leading an army of anti-Trump activists. Random noise in the stream.

You might as well be one of the Infowarriors condemning the media for not covering it.

Oh that one? Got Proof?.

No, you just have an image with some words on it?

My, my. But let's see, if you are claiming it to be true, then you're basically asserting that the Marines are a bunch of partisan bigots.

Oh wait, no, it's just you, who need to glom onto their glory for some reason.

Fresh urine is sterile. Day old urine, not so much. Mother nature decided not to split hairs and gave us more or less the same revulsion to both. Besides, you shouldn't drink too much fresh urine, no matter how sterile. It's hard on the kidneys (which is way less hard on the body than thermal runaway due to terminal dehydration, so don't let your camel spill a drop).

In any kind of debate about purity, what instantly kicks into gear is a purity spectacle, because we all want to brag about our elite and inviolable pea-under-the-mattress gross-out threshold.

It's a method of social signalling where we implicitly brag about being clean, clean, clean.

For precisely the same reason that long hair on women is a prized signal: many dietary deficiencies make hair brittle, and thus long, even, healthy hair impossible to maintain. It takes years and years to grow hair out, so it can't be faked anytime soon after you've be pogromized (I am clean! I am consistently well-fed! I am not the reviled underclass!)

The social side of our disgust reflex is 75% purity theatre.

The other 25% is functional innumeracy. "I'm not actually very good at working out the real risks here, so I'm just rolling with optimal optics." It's thus important to make this signal look extremely automatic, and not calculated, otherwise even the dull knives begin to notice how it conflates with risk-assessment innumeracy.

Then you get this group of people who become so practiced at making their every emotional ripple look automatic and non-negotiable, they manage to self-destruct any form of ironic detachment concerning their internal emotional messengers. "I'm just playing the cards as they lie, emotions are never wrong—oh, those, poor, mangled trees."

Okay, honeybun, emotions are an evolutionary tool, and God took many shortcuts in order to pack our many survival instincts into such a small suitcase, e.g. cheesecake as an absolute good. (Or, maybe, constant war with your own self-image is a covert fitness fillip. Who can say, really? Human sexual drama moves in mysterious ways.)

Does a Urine-Revealing Pool Chemical Exist?

No, but we say it does to the worst of the usual suspects. By any means available, give the little buggers a sense of their every move always being watched (fine print: may contribute to risk-assessment innumeracy later in life—but who's counting? Only bunch of snivelling geeks, who are easy enough to ward off anyway with a mere half-hour ritual in front of the bathroom mirror every morning.)

Trump is obsessed with what his staff wears. Don't let their costumes distract you.

In a striking case of character assassination by tailoring, Sean Spicer, the president's freshly appointed press secretary, stepped to the podium over the weekend for a briefing that disappointed the president, The Washington Post later reported. He was wearing a gray pinstriped suit jacket that looked as though it had been hurriedly borrowed from a man twice his size. The sleeves were sloppy; the collar didn't fit; the fabric looked cheap. The tie was poorly knotted. The shirt collar was so snug that his neck overflowed its boundaries. Spicer's attire was not just a tad ill-fitting. It was distracting and sloppy. It epitomized the cliche style of the used-car salesman. Spicer's clothes wholly undercut a message that was already riddled with falsehoods.

Of the entire administration, only Steve Bannon looks properly equipped to survive a month in the Bedouin desert.

Ummm, about that chemical that turns purple when pee is detected: From Snopes:
"No matter what your parents might have told you, there isn’t any magical chemical that when added to a swimming pool will reveal the presence of urine in the water by producing a brightly-colored cloud."

Democrat Hank Johnson who thought putting 8000 US Marines on Guam would cause the island to capsize... because, you know, Democrats are all sciencey and such...
[facepalm]
There's a false internet meme that leftist politicians are smarter and more pro-science than righties. They're not. Politicians of all stripes tend to be lawyers and corruptocrats who as teenagers discovered they could get somewhere in life by exhaling while flapping thier lips and wagging their tongues and smiling and kissing babies instead of by doing something productive. That bit about pro-science Democrats is a big wad of claptrap - there are just a bunch of Democrats who see science as something they can claim to beleieve in to get support from a certain demographic. If you watch what they DO and how they VOTE, you'll notice that they only vote consistent with science when the science aligns with their idieology, and they happily reject any science that disagrees with their ideology. Politicians of allstripes are similarly anchored to things like economics and mathematics; happily invoking when it aligns with their agenda and ignoring when it does not.

"Hands up, don't shoot" was well covered. Took months and an actual trial to learn it never happened.

Neither did this but I never see you complaining about that one. Of course, the trial has a prosecutor who allowed perjury to occur, so who knows what really happened? That prosecutor's conduct does not inspire confidence.

Of course, you could have read the Report on the Ferguson Police Department as a whole, and tell us what you think is important about it.

The Echo belongs to the suspect. (Alternate link if you don't trust that site.

You're probably thinking of the San Bernardio iPhone case. Most people think the phone belonged to the shooter. It didn't. It belonged to the San Bernardino County government. They assigned it to the shooter for work use. Apple refused to help the legal owner of the phone unlock it.

and aerodynamics sez bumblebees can't fly.

That old meme. "Scientists said bumblebees can't fly, yet they go right on flying. Dumb ol' scientists!"

It came from applying rigid-wing models to bumblebees, which doesn't work; a bumblebee is a much more dynamic system that needs more complex math to describe. Aviation engineers never claimed that bumblebees can't fly just because a simple mathematical model computes a self-evidently incorrect result.

http://www.snopes.com/science/bumblebees.asp

If he's such a fraud, why did people step down and get fired?

As the Shirley Sherrod case shows, such things don't have to be legitimate.

Or as the adage goes, Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.

Let's see, ACORN, exonerated, Planned Parenthood, cleared, the list goes on and on.

His track record is rather poor, when you look at it, and don't just swallow the videos wholesale, as they are saying what you desperately want to hear.

For example, the recent one, you find does not actually have evidence of anything happening, just one cantankerous person saying things, that may or may not be true, or even crimes. Consider busing for example. There are no buses in the video that have voters, and even if there were, it's not illegal to bus people to their precinct.

Again, O'Keefe, like Trump, is ultimately BAD for the conservatives, as they're such bald-faced liars, they ultimately LOSE people.

Really, Sweden? C'mon. Even the best, most forgiving, interpretation means that Trump is so inarticulate, he can't say what he means, and that's bad for him.

Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet.

BWAAA HAAA HAAA!

Snopes?!?!?!

Can you say "Fake news!"

Hell, just Google "Snopes is wrong"

Al Gore never claimed he invented the internet.

sitting on evidence that the Trump campaign was in bed with the Russians

Ahh, Russians - the modern Goodwin law comes into effect.

It's funny you liberal simpletons have such a problem with Trump communicating with Russians - do you even understand how diplomacy is done? It involves talking to foreign governments.... DUH.

Couldn't find our message complaining about Obama telling Putin he would have more flexibility after the election... No "Red" flags there (har har!), no sir!

I'll let you have the last word since you conspiracy nuts cannot help but dig a deeper hole.

Ah, another conservative rant, devoid of reality, devoid of substance, and contrary to what actually happened, which is very popular with the lie-telling set.

In reality, Davis was recalled because of his mishandling of the power crisis, which was consistently and repetitively blamed on liberals, leftists, and environmentalists, but turned out to be the machinations of a company in Houston, Texas. They're the ones who profited off inflicting chaos in California.

Of course, even despite this unearned victory, the Republicans spent the next few years frittering away in California, which was pretty bad for them once the Citizens decided they'd take control of the redistricting process, and crippling when the non-partisan jungle primary was implemented.

But now, you continue to lie about the driver's licenses letting illegals vote, you foment corrupt campaign contributions yourself, and freak out over law protecting victims of sex trafficing, by acting as if it legalized child prostitution.

I'm sorry s.petry, but you shouldn't throw stones when you live in a glass house.

But gosh, I'm sure you know all this, you're just too afraid to say it.

Sessions? The same Sessions who got an award from the NAACP for breaking up the KKK? Racist? I'm getting cognitive dissonance here.

No, I'm sensing some fantasy delusions here, Sessions never got an award from the NAACP for breaking up the KKK, which would be pretty hard, since it never had any singular organization while he was alive anyway, and the organization remains much as it has been for the past few decades, but the only claim of Sessions getting an award from the NAACP in 2009 is so recent, and is specious, with no particular association or claim to it.

Maybe Sessions didn't go down to the plaque shop himself, but there's no evidence to show who did, the NAACP isn't supporting it or him.

Isn't it suspicious that there's been no press release or media brief from when he got it?

Huh. The only question is...why?

What does Sessions have to hide, that he needed a fake award to give him credibility?

Sorry, but there is no established provenance to that "award" which Sessions received.

Now I'm not saying that Sessions went down to the local plaque making shop himself, but is it possible he knows who did? Why is it only a Republican who claims to remember it? Why hasn't anybody dug up any press releases? Maybe it was just some random group of people at the convention who rented a room, bought a plaque, and that's all there is to it.

At least with Obama's Nobel Prize, you know they were mocking George W, but legit.

BTW, Check this out

As to your question, "Why shouldn't I see to it that the name which is presumably on this person's Certificate of Live Birth isn't forgotten?" I answer, "Maybe because it's none of your fucking business?" Or have you granted yourself the authority to dictate how other people identify themselves?

What a load of crap!

http://www.snopes.com/2017/02/...

No, there's no fakery here. And when you're finished digesting just how gullible, then you can ponder the fact that the Arctic has been as high as 30 degress above normal temperatures this winter. While you try to salve your infantile feelings that the universe should behave like you want it to, CO2 still has the properties it has been known to have for over a century;

Grow up

How can anyone with any intelligence protest voter ID laws?

Because people with intelligence realize that oppressive manifestations of even the most genuine and benign laws exist.

If you weren't a dishonest liar, you're realize that, and account for it, instead of trying to disingenuously dismiss any challenges at all.

Voting is a PRIVILEGE in the USA reserved only for citizens.

Technically no, there are many cases where residents or property owners are allowed to vote. Regardless of citizenship.

California allowing anyone obtaining a driver's license to register to vote without verification of eligibility could, in theory, allow non-citizens (including illegals, since they don't check that when issuing a driver's license either) to register to vote.

We need stricter voter ID laws.

Nope. You need some regard for the truth, as what you're saying about California is a malicious lie.

Really, what is the purpose of making such easily disproven lies?

Why do you repeat such things? Are you a mindless shill, or are you intent on making Republicans look bad? Which is it?

WRONG. http://www.snopes.com/presiden... Obama's deal only increased the time it took to get a certain type of visa. It didn't ban them outright as this is doing.

I'm sure someone will accuse Snopes of being "fake news" or something, but I find their version of events more credible than yours.

Did Fox News win a court battle for the right to lie on air?

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=27363

"Now, with the publication of the “Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media 2015,” Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman and CEO, has confessed that his network, despite its name, is not actually in the news business. Belittling his cable news competitors CNN and MSNBC, he gave the Reporter a statement revealing his true professional aspirations:

“In fact, Ailes, 74, no longer views those networks as rivals. ‘We’re competing with TNT and USA and ESPN,’ he says.”

That's mostly irrelevant. It still means that "fake news" which conforms to left-leaning biases is more likely to slip through the fact-checking.

No, because well-known fact-checkers can still be relied upon to call out fake news no matter the bias.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-cr...

Er... Um... huh. This is a weird thing to respond to.

I'm not going to do a super long post here, but: "the effective ingredient in them is probably the belladonna rather than the homeopathic ingredients" is wildly off the mark. The point of homeopathic medications is that the active ingredients, including the belladonna, are present in such tiny amounts that they don't do anything. You can put poison in these things because there isn't enough to matter.

This is why the FDA doesn't regulate them: because they don't do anything. This is also why over-the-counter homeopathic remedies for infants weren't removed: because they don't do anything, so they aren't dangerous. In principle you can give your baby as much as you want, because it doesn't matter.

The problem here is a manufacturing defect, some of the pills contain too much poison. When you say that you want to know "what the current consistency of the belladonna levels in the product is" what you're asking is: "What are the odds that my baby will die if I give it some of these pills?" We don't know what the answer to that is, and you may find that frustrating but... what number is low enough for you here? If the FDA comes out and says, "0.0001%" are you going to shrug and say, "That's fine."?

Interestingly, this isn't the first time that this product has been scrutinized by the FDA over this issue. Link.

I read about things.

You READ about things? Well, stop the presses then! With literally millions of news sources, could you cite something at least a bit specific?

Voting machines being few and defective in Democratic areas.

States run the elections and voting places, so why would Democrats tamper with voting machines in their own areas?

Voter ID laws combined with closing offices that issue licenses in heavily Democratic areas.

Voter ID laws prevent illegals and dead people from voting, not to mention preventing people from voting multiple times. Again, why would Democratic states close offices earlier if it impacts Democrats from voting?

Illegals and dead people do not vote in significant amounts. This is the sort of fraud that would be easy to find lots of examples of it it were going on, and we haven't seen them.

Funny, but Google pulls up enough examples of voter fraud:

• Hidden Camera: NYC Democratic Election Commissioner: They Bus People Around to Vote
• North Carolina Hillary Supporter Brags on Facebook about Voting Multiple Times
• Double Voting - Even Triple Voting - Found in US Elections
• Democrat Confirms Rampant Voter Fraud
• CBS4 Investigation Finds People Voting Twice
• Detroit Recount Reveals Major Vot Fraud by Dems
• A JMU Student has allegedly registered 19 dead people to vote

Read some real news sometime.

May I suggest the same to you?

Because clearly we have 58 states and Obama was right all along!

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

Also, all his "facts" about gun crime/control are entirely accurate.

http://townhall.com/columnists...

There's a another theory about the disappearing hamsters and it involved Richard Gere and a length of PVC pipe.

It was a gerbil, not a hamster, and a cardboard paper-towel tube, not a PVC pipe. And Richard Gere's supposed connection to the episode has been debunked as a myth.

Your analogy is off by orders of a magnitude. Quit trying to justify irrational fear.

Here are some actual numbers:

In 2016 'islamic' terrorists were responsible for 0.3% of the all the murders in the US.
Over the last 15 years they were responsible for 123 out of 240,000+ murders or just 0.051%.

In 2015 more people were killed by toddlers than were killed by 'islamic' terrorists.
On average, toddlers kill 2x more americans than 'islamic' extremists do.

It was a local Fox affiliate's news involving a couple of disgruntled employees who that local affiliate did not allow to exercise their own editorial content. The story never aired.

I'm sure someone will accuse Snopes of being "fake news" or something, but I find their version of events more credible than yours.

Did Fox News win a court battle for the right to lie on air?

From Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/...

Unfortunately I can only read the abstract of the actual study but the article seems like crap. They state a bunch of opinions as fact. For example:

"Remember, a low-ball estimate says there are at least 11 million to 12 million illegals in the U.S., but that's based on faulty Census data. More likely estimates put the number at 20 million to 30 million."

What more likely estimates? What is your source? There are a number of different agencies and groups that estimate about the same numbers, some of whom have a vested interest in inflating the number (like the DHS). From Wikipedia:

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has estimated that 11.4 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States in January 2012. According to DHS estimates, "the number of illegal immigrants peaked around 12 million in 2007 and has gradually declined to closer to 11 million." The DHS estimate "is in the same ballpark as several independent organizations that study illegal immigration, including Pew Research Center (11.3 million); the Center for Migration Studies (11 million), which studies migration and promotes policies that safeguard the rights of migrants, and the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for low levels of legal immigration (11–12 million)."

"Specifically, the authors say that illegals may have cast as many as 2.8 million votes in 2008 and 2010. That's a lot of votes. And when you consider the population of illegal inhabitants has only grown since then, it's not unreasonable to suppose that their vote has, too."

The data from Pew indicates that the number has either stayed level or gone down (at least in the years they are citing). Again - what is your source of this data?

"Leftist get-out-the-vote groups openly urge noncitizens to vote during election time"

Which "leftist" groups? What did they say? This might have happened but it seems foolish just to take this on faith, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I couldn't find too much relevant on Google (search terms "groups encouraging illegal voting california"), other than the claim (easily debunked) that Obama encouraged illegals to vote.

"Heck, even the liberal fact-checking site FactCheck.org says so."

What is your evidence that that the site is "liberal"? Is it just because they said something that disagrees with your narrative? According to their about page, We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. and publicly list all sources of their funding here.

In summation, the article seems quite bogus with a number of seemingly false or unsourced claims. This is a great example of the biased news that the site seems to rail against, but only if they are biased to the left.

They're not killing nearly as many people as toddlers with guns, and we're not doing anything about those!

http://www.snopes.com/toddlers...

Is he homophobic? I get the first two but I don't remember any homophobia.

Trump is a reductivist.
He pigeonholes everybody by stereotypes (like his thing about only wanting jews for accountants not black guys).

So if he holds a positive stereotype then its not quite so bad. But its still literally prejudice. And a negative stereotype, well nobody would mistake that for anything but bigotry.

But even if Trump isn't a flaming homofoe, Pence totally is. And thus trump's platform is standard republican hating on teh gays.

The only time they had anything positive to say about gay people was to use them as a prop to bash muslims because all muslims want to behead gay people and the american taliban just wants to never have anything to do with them ever.

I'll see your Nobel Laureate, and raise you 36 Nobel Laureates.

Not that any of their opinions matter half as much as a practicing climatologist's, since expertise in the field is the only way to reach an informed conclusion. By contrast, your chosen authority freely admits:

"I am not really terribly interested in global warming. Like most physicists I don't think much about it. But in 2008 I was in a panel here about global warming and I had to learn something about it. And I spent a day or so - half a day maybe on Google, and I was horrified by what I learned..."

Anyone who watched the process KNEW full well that there was massive collusion by the DNC and Media to INSTALL Hillary as the candidate. In the first election, she won 6 straight coin tosses to take Iowa. That was day 1. So did Russia fix all of the coin tosses, card flips, and dice rolls of which Hillary won 100% of the "tie breakers"?

I couldn't agree more! Why don't people ever even type "Iowa coin toss" into Snopes before they start talking shit about conspiracies? I mean, sheesh, people! How many conspiracies do we have to confront before everyone realises that my conspiracy is the real one, and all the other ones are just phantasmagorical fever dreams?

... Right?

Why would we put Tina Fey in charge of Russia's nuclear inspections?

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

I dare you to find someone more effective than Rudy.

I'd rather have somebody more honest.

He whipped a completely out of control NY government into shape.

Perhaps not

He cut the murder rate in NY from over 2000/year down to like 400/year.

This would be a better argument if not for it being part of a nationwide trend, that started before Giuliani took office, and thus not attributable to any actions of his, or his associates.

his responses on the NYPD brutality are his own responsibility.

He was very effective as a chief executive and in leading and organizing people to get things done.

This kind of praise is very useless, it isn't even tied to specific actions and programs.

He was an effective US attorney for 10 plus years before that.

Jeff Sessions was a US Attorney. I'm not impressed with him either. Especially since he seems to think that he needs to be conciliatory and apologetic to police departments accused of corruption and civil rights abuses.

Same with what's his name in New Jersey.

Look, fine, you want Giuliani to be Ambassador to North Korea, go for it, but nope, not Cyber Security.

Someone finally clued in the bees they are violating the Law of Aerodynamics and they're just dropping out of the sky.

Urban myth, it is well known how they fly, they USE aerodynamics.

http://www.snopes.com/science/...

I find YouTube to be the best fact checker.

Youtube does an often terrible job. You can find almost any video on that place. I would submit it is not a good fact checker at all.

And videos can often be deceptive, take for example, Shirley Sherrod's resignation based on a video that wasn't the whole story.

The media claimed that Trump mocked a disabled reporter, or more to the point, that Trump mocked a reporter for his disability. Trump did in fact mock a reporter who is disabled. However, there are videos on youtube that will show you that those body movements of his are used regularly, not for mocking disabilities but to personify his view of someone who doesn't have an answer.

That's one way to interpret it. Then Trump is mocking somebody without realizing how it will be taken. But ok, you want us to forgive him for that? Then Trump is still mocking somebody. That's not a good thing. It's still uncouth behavior from somebody who wanted to be president. If any liberal politician acted that way towards Fox News or Breitbart, they'd be roasted at the stake.

Just today's actions of Trump towards that reporter, if Obama or his press secretary had done it, I believe you'd be calling for their head.

Trump, himself, also denounced SNL for their mockery of him. But that's a comedy show. They aren't intended to be serious. But Trump is too thin-skinned to tolerate them. Which says a lot about him too.

Most of the mainstream media also claimed that Donald Trump said soldiers that commit suicide are weak. He said no such thing. Go to youtube and watch the actual speech. He was discussing the lack of care available for our veterans, particularly the lack of mental healthcare. He was discussing triggers, and our soldiers being left without the support they deserved. Every soldier and veteran I know who watched that video loved it. In fact, it was the first, and almost the only time I watched Donald Trump and thought to myself that he looked presidential.

Or you could find the snopes fact check and saved yourself the trouble.

However, whatever credit you want to give to him not mocking veterans, I find Trump's remarks in that regard to be very shallow and lacking in details. Now you may say that is presidential, and I won't necessarily disagree with you that presidents as well as other politicians do tend to produce very superficial remarks.

I personally would prefer less bombastic flutter about fixing it, and more specific references and implementations. I find Trump to follow that tendency, just today, in his press conference, I noticed his effusive claims of better, cheaper, blah-blah-blah, on the F-35, on healthcare reform, on so very much.

I do not esteem it. Far from it.

Watch MSNBC, they'll show you protestors at a Tea Party rally outside one of President Obama's townhall meetings. They'll show you a man carrying an AR-15 on his back. They'll state how this is intimidating and seemingly rather racist. Go to youtube and you'll find the another video of that same rally. Except this video will clearly show the man in question with an AR-15 strapped to his back is in fact a black American.

Black men aren't allowed to join the Tea Party? I thought they made a point of not being racist. Now you're somehow arguing against it. I think.

Were you trying to say something, like it's ok for black men to be armed with an AR-15 and protesting? No, it's not. Black, white, yellow, red, green, or blue, you shouldn't carry around a gun like that. That's wrong. Just like it's also wrong to grow palm trees in Wisconsin.

So ya.....trust me, conservatives are very aware of how fake most of the m

Snopes sucks:

Snopes Caught Lying For Hillary Again, Questions Raised

Snope's "defense" of Hillary:

Claim: Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case.

Verdict: mostly false (and that's a BULLSHIT lie, as we shall see...)

Snopes' lame defense:

WHAT'S FALSE: Hillary Clinton did not volunteer to be the defendant's lawyer, [irrelevant] she did not laugh about the case's outcome, [that was NOT the claim - because she DID laugh about the case - just not the outcome specifically] she did not assert that the complainant "made up the rape story," [again, that's not in the claim at all - that's a Thalidomide-baby strawman, it's so lame] she did not claim she knew the defendant to be guilty [Again, not in the claim, but HIllary did say, "I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs. [laughs]" - and there's one laugh...]., and she did not "free" the defendant. [again, not part of the claim - a plea bargain that spares a guilty child rapist lengthy jail time is a type of "success" for a defense attorney...]

Yet, Snopes says the statement "Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case." is "Mostly false" when the only thing that isn't DEMONSTRABLY and COMPLETELY true is the "successful" characterization, and that's at the very least arguably true.

But Snopes says "Mostly False", and that's BULLSHIT.

Sorry, but that sounds like utter bull. Took me two minutes to search several (more reputable) sources debunking your claim, but Snopes has a very good explanation: http://www.snopes.com/california-motor-voter-act/.

Oh yes, Somebody made deals with Putin, but you're thinking of the wrong guy.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/09/23/marine-accused-unlawful-classified-leak-fighting-government.html

I looked at that and it clearly looks like intent was proven. Taking the documents home might have been a mistake, but then sending them after all that time seems to show intent. I'm not sure what military.com means? That can't be an official government site or it would be .gov. At any rate looking at google for someplace I know is reputable yields link

What follows is directly from that article:

While that case can certainly be made, the way it appears as laid out in the meme is founded on inaccuracies.

First, as of this writing Maj. Brezler has not been discharged from the Marines. In March 2016, the Marine Corps agreed to delay his separation pending a federal lawsuit filed by Brezler challenging the board of inquiry's original recommendation.

Second, in e-mail correspondence quoted in the international affairs journal Foreign Policy, Lt. Gen. Richard Mills, the Marine officer overseeing the Brezler case, stated that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service had found more than 100 classified documents on Brezler's personal hard drive, a consideration that played a part in the judgment that he had mishandled sensitive materials.

And though it's true that the FBI concluded in July 2016 that 110 of the 30,000 incoming and outgoing personal e-mails turned over to investigators by Clinton contained information that was classified at the time they were sent or received (even if they were not marked as such), that number is far smaller than the 2,079 she is alleged to have sent. FBI Director James B. Comey rebuked Clinton for being "extremely careless" in her handling of sensitive information but did not recommend that federal charges be pursued.

Why would the Russians, who are close allies with Hillary since she sold them a chunk (20%) of the US uranium deposits for a simple donation to the Clinton Foundation

The State Dept. was one of nine agencies who reviewed the deal. And Clinton wasn't even the State Department person who sat on the committee who reviewed it.

And the biggest donor didn't even have a financial stake in the company in question at the time he donated to the Clinton Foundation.

and the fake news sites (CNN, etc) are so relentless on spreading this rumor without any evidence.

Yes imagine, someone spreading rumours of corruption without evidence.