Based on what? Is this snopes thing reliable? This story may very well have been elaborated upon, however, it is based in fact. Read the bill.<\/p>\n
Whatever, just go ahead and discount this and go along blindly, just don’t complain about it later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hoo boy. Now in non-snarky fairness to the sweet squirrelgirl55 who asked a fair question about the methodology of Snopes.com, here’s the methodology that they use…<\/p>\n
We don’t expect anyone to accept us as the ultimate authority on any topic. Unlike the plethora of anonymous individuals who create and send the unsigned, unsourced e-mail messages that are forwarded all over the Internet, we show our work. The research materials we’ve used in the preparation of any particular page are listed in the bibliography displayed at the bottom of that page so that readers who wish to verify the validity of our information may check those sources for themselves. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The bottom line is they’re good at what they do and I can’t ever remember a time that they were wrong. It’s a safe assumption that whatever the Snopes crew says, it’s well-researched, cited and correct. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s resume our look into Bizarro World. Ms. ras<\/strong> tries to play nice by not yelling “This is bullshit!” but I don’t play that way.<\/p>\nDear sppaint<\/strong>: Your cut-and-pasted email is total bullshit. Take the time to carefully read it and cross-reference it with a small degree of common sense. You should come to the rational (oops, there’s that word) conclusion that there is absolutely no chance that the government would install such a program and even if they attempted to do such a thing, it would never even come close to becoming law. The defense strategy of “BUT IT REALLY MIGHT COULD HAPPEN!” only goes so far. The sky isn’t falling. I’m not a doctor nor have I played one on TV, but I’ve got a prescription for you. Common sense and Snopes. Take multiple times per day as needed. Welcome to HalifaxTalk. You’ll fit in quite well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some new blood flows into the HalifaxTalk message board and gets caught up in two trainwrecks within a month. Yep, he’s going to fit in just fine. Giant thanks go out to the three people who sent this in as a ThreadSpotting potential!<\/p>\n
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