"This is OUR President at a MOSQUE prayer session LAST WEEK AT THE WHITE HOUSE," reads an email currently circulating with the above image attached. It's entitled, "Look Who's Praying."
"For Obama to continue as our President is an INSULT TO OUR FOUNDING FATHERS! AND DISGUSTING TO EVERY RED BLOODED AMERICAN," the email continues.
Rant if you will, anonymous emailer, but there is not now, nor has there ever been, a mosque on the White House grounds. And since when is taking off one's shoes called "praying"?
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Geographer Matt Rosenberg explains the true origins of Daylight Saving (not "Savings") Time:
Daylight Saving Time was instituted in the United States during World War I in order to save energy for war production by taking advantage of the later hours of daylight between April and October.
Read more...And the smears keep on coming! The following began circulating earlier this week via email:
FW: stimulus jobs...
Some have said that the stimulus hasn't saved any jobs, but here is a case where at least one job was saved.
According to an unnamed source, Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5 in the Pac 10 conference).
When word of this reached Washington , Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. The source now says that Craig Robinson's job is safe for this year.
For the record, Coach Robinson just happens to be Michelle Obama's Brother.
Can you pick out the
one true statement above?
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