'Tis the Season for . . . Political E-Mails

Well it has already started and I'm getting E-Mails from friends and just people that want me to think the way they think. Most of these E-Mails are dubious at best and they are coming from many sides (I'd say BOTH sides, but with the TEA Party's advance, there are more than just two sides and in some cases there are more than three sides).

First of all, check out E-Mails that seem far fetched, you might even want to check out the ones that don't seem to be false. Most of these have an element of truth in them but that is small and is not the point of the E-Mail. Less than 10% of the E-Mails I've checked out were totally true, about half of them were only partially true, but the majority were totally false. If the E-Mail you receive is hard to believe, there is probably a reason for that. I don't call these E-Mails . . . I call them E-Mauls because they either MAUL the truth or they MAUL a person.

Here are some places that you can check out the veracity of the next E-Mail/E-Maul you get. Go to:
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.politifact.com/
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.ask.com/

There is an E-Maul out there that states the Mikkelsons, the couple behind snopes.com, are liberals and that Snopes is biased. It also states that the Mikkelsons are avid about their privacy and doesn't want anyone to know who they really are. This is, of course, not true. Go to:
www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/
There you will find that David Mikkelson was a registered Republican as of 2000 and re-registered as a "No Preference" in order to not show any bias. Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen and can't vote or contribute to any candidate. All records show that David has never contributed any money to any candidate or any political party. Their privacy was given up long ago and they have done TV appearances as well as Magazine articles and given interviews to the media. In 2009 there was a Reader's Digest article about them complete with where they lived and a total background on them. So they are not shy or reclusive.

Here are some of the E-Mauls I have checked out as being totally false:
1. The new health care bill will provide free health care for illegal aliens.=FALSE
2. "In God We Trust" isn't on the new Dollar Coins. =FALSE (on the edge of the coin)
3. Abortions will be provided free on demand and all Doctors will be forced to provide them to their clients.=FALSE & FALSE
4. "Cap and Trade" would cost the American Family $6,800 per year, says the CBO. =FALSE (That estimate came from the Conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, not the Congressional Budget Office)
5. You have to have a Microchip inserted into you body if you go on the public health care plan.=FALSE
6. You must list all your guns on your 2010 income tax return.=FALSE
7. The Obama White House is renaming all Christmas Trees to Holiday Trees.=FALSE
8. Congress is 100% exempt from the new Health Care Bill.=FALSE
9. Hillary Clinton recently signed a treaty with the U. N. and Congress passed legislation that by passed the second amendment and we all have to turn in our guns or face prosecution.=FALSE (nothing supersedes the Constitution, and it is otherwise false, too)

And the list goes on! And, new ones will show up tomorrow. Check these out yourself, you now have the resources to do your own research. It's fun to be able to not be taken by one of these gross lies or even the subtle ones.

If you get something you just can't sort out, send it to me and I'll do what I can to check it out. Some are so new that they have not yet been checked or are in the "Undetermined" stage. But don't pass them on unless you are sure they are real E-Mails and not just E-Mauls.