02-26-2013, 03:49 PM
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Me, Myself, and I
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Redwood City, CA
Posts: 38,882
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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel
I would rather people did their own research, as the knowledge will be better reinforced in their minds.
The right wing slander that our Federal tax dollars are being spent on iPhones for every unemployed person, courtesy of Obama is false.
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Some serious credulity here and there. Someone on Mitch McConnell's staff wrote a letter on behalf of a constituent to Elizabeth King, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, expressing serious concern about prisoners at Gitmo being given full GI Bill benefits:
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In the constituent’s note, which was also uncovered by Wired magazine, the individual points out that there was no information about this online, not even on the Pentagon’s website. Instead, the constituent [says] the only place such a claim can be found is in an article on The Duffel Blog, a military news satire website.
I cannot imagine that his staffer or her supervisor bothered to actually read the blog post, because if they had, they might have questioned this:
DoD spokesman Wesley Manheim said that it was all a matter of fairness, “The DoD has been doing everything it can to prevent torture from being used against detainees at GiTMO. By allowing the detainees to use the Department of Veterans Affairs, we hope to completely crush their souls with bureaucracy, which to be noted, is completely different from torture. I mean hell, the V.A. does that to our veterans on a daily basis.”
The front page of that blog is hysterical, and also quite obviously a competitor with The Onion for best satire and parody site. There's no way anyone could take it seriously, not with headlines like "Method Actor Prepared For Bin Laden Role By Founding Al Qaeda Cell, Blowing Up Bus Station" and more.
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