Check Your Political Facts
October 2, 2008 – 5:55 am
NEWS FLASH! Politicians and the members of their campaign teams sling more manure than a stable boy. Unfortunately, the traditional news media and talk radio lean more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Where do you turn for the straight scoop? Try visiting FactCheck.org to verify the wild buzz that is circulating everywhere.
FactCheck.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. They accept no funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals. It is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.
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CopCAST Correspondent Sgt TC sent me this article that got the old blood boiling. Over the years, I have run into many government bureaucrats who have forgotten that their jobs exist for one reason – to serve the public. The public and the people they serve should not be viewed as an inconvenience – the constituent public are the reason for their job. So often they use the words “can’t” and “won’t” as synonymous terms.
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CopCAST correspondent Sara Roberts, who is a resident of Hawaii, sent me a note to let me know that a new dwarf planet has been discovered in our solar system. What she really wanted to mention was that the folks at the International Astronomical Union in Paris named it Haumea, after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility.
Do you frequently find yourself cutting and pasting non-consecutive lines of text from a Web page? I know it is a pain to select each portion of text, copy it, paste it and then repeat the process until you have captured all the text you need. Well if you use the Firefox 3 browser, permit me to lessen you burden.
Google just released its new Chrome browser. Microsoft is pushing the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (
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How cool would it have been if some of history’s greatest writers would have had access to the internet. Imagine the body of history that would be available if they would have had their own blogs.
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The military, fire departments and police departments have something in common. They are all trying to find “a few good men or women” and they are meeting with limited success. It is not an issue of education or intelligence since there a host for well educated applicants. Unfortunately, the applicant pool gets much more shallow when we start examining physical capabilities. This lack of physical fitness is not limited to new applicants. Many veteran officers are not physically equipped to handle the demands of the job. The good news is getting in shape is not that tough and you do not have to hundreds of dollars on a health club membership
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