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[SepiaAndDust]

Donald Trump Jr. Claims Barack Obama Plagiarized His Unoriginal Line

Just when you thought all the charges (and counter-claims and fake news) regarding plagiarism at the national political conventions couldn't get any sillier, they did.

Now, Donald Trump Jr. is claiming that President Barack Obama's address at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) nicked a line from a speech that Trump Jr. had delivered at the Republican National Convention (RNC) the previous week:

There’s so much work to do. We will not accept the current state of our country because it’s too hard to change. That’s not the America I know. We’re going to unleash the creative spirit and energy of all Americans. We’re going to make our schools the best in the world for every single American of every single ethnicity and background.

What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, and turn away from the rest of the world. There were no serious solutions to pressing problems — just the fanning of resentment, and blame, and anger, and hate.

And that is not the America I know.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

The Smithsonian is Hiring a Beer Historian at an Annual Salary of $64,000

The gig came with a decent salary ($64,650 a year) and curator Paula Johnson told the paper that "the museum is seeking someone who can 'focus and dedicate efforts towards research, documentation, and collecting American brewing history.'" The Brewers' Association is funding the initiative, and Johnson said the project aimed to document the history and cultural role of beer in the United States post-World War II....

 

[SepiaAndDust]

2012 Voter Fraud

A list of instances supposedly proving voter fraud in the 2012 U.S. presidential election only demonstrates that some people are really bad at math.

 

[ThatRobGuy]

lol where do people come up with this stuff?

 

[BlueBrown]

2012 Voter Fraud

Lol I'd seen this myth floated around but didn't know Snopes had gotten on it. Good on em.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

Breitbart Duped by Fake News (Again)

On 1 July 2016, the notoriously unreliable Breitbart web site published an article based on "conservative icon" Sarah Palin's quipping that "paid anti-Trump protesters show presidential candidate Donald Trump is creating jobs even before taking office,"

And as usual, Breitbart had a problem with not being able to demonstrate that what they were reporting was actually true.

The quote Breitbart offered from the "Arizona protester [who] said he received $3,500 after answering a Craigslist ad that led to him protesting Trump’s Fountain Hills, Arizona rally" did not originate with a report from the legitimate ABC News outlet, but with a fake news article published on a fake news site that appropriated ABC News' trademarks to masquerade as a real news site.

 

[BlueBrown]

Breitbart Duped by Fake News (Again)

That's an original Paul Horner right there.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Gardasil did not kill a 12 year old girl in Wisconsin.

People who don't like Khizr Khan are really bad at making fake documents.

 

[cow451]

Breitbart Duped by Fake News (Again)

I thought Breitbart itself was fake news. My bad. I was giving them too much cred.

 

[Archivist]

The Smithsonian is Hiring a Beer Historian at an Annual Salary of $64,000

I was actually thinking about applying for this. I've spoken on Beer and the Law at several conferences. However, $64,000 isn't a great salary for the DC area.

 

[tulc]

http://www.snopes.com/un-backs-secret-obama-takeover-of-police/

No, the Obama administration isn't secretly pursuing a plan for the federal takeover of all local police forces.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

Tokémon GO

Weed needles!

 

[SepiaAndDust]

4th Mysterious Death Connected to the DNC

The evidence-free, conspiracy theory linking of unrelated deaths into a large-scale nebulous political plot involving the Clintons continues unabated.

However, as is typical of this form of conspiracy theory, those four people had only the most tenuous and indirect of connections to Hillary Clinton, and the putative reasons offered for why they would supposedly need to be killed (if any reasons were offered at all) ranged from non-credible to erroneous.

 

[SepiaAndDust]

Terrifying!

لا يوجد اي هدف لهذا النص الا نشر الرعب في نفوس من يهاب اللغة العربية

"The only goal of this text is to spread panic among those who fear the Arabic language."

Reminds me of the story about the guy who got some Asian symbols tattooed on his arm because he thought they looked cool and no doubt imparted some sage, esoteric wisdom.

Turns out that it said "Made in Korea".

 

[tulc]

http://www.snopes.com/trump-taxes-smart/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Donald Trump proclaimed during the first presidential debate that not paying federal taxes made him "smart," then denied having said it.

 

[USincognito]

2012 Voter Fraud

That chain e-mail has shown up here several times.

http://www.christianforums.com/thre...108-voter-registration.7700858/#post-61734375

 

[rambot]

I think it could be more of a game if we had to guess "true/false/mostly true/false"

 

[TerranceL]

I think it could be more of a game if we had to guess "true/false/mostly true/false"

It would be pretty cool if we could have have polls setup for each post, but this forum and to fair, no forum that I know if allows this.

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=57edad8fe4b03d77a3f4815c

The above site however is free and easy to use. You just need to create an account and bam.