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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Furn_Darkside" data-source="post: 245285" data-attributes="member: 210">Lord knows, being conservative means you are a "spinner". Thank god the liberals are there to show us the virtues of honesty. First, do I believe some of this is true, sure- people make mistakes. However, a lot of the stuff on this site is rather silly.for example: Paragraph 2-4, none of these statistics disagree with each other.Para #2: 58 percent of single-mom homes are on welfareThis takes a count of single-mother families and does a check on how many are on welfare.Para #3: 52 percent of families receiving public assistance are headed by a single motherThis does a check on the number of families on public assistance  and computes the percent that are single-mothers. Para #2 does not have to equal #3 for it to make sense.Para #4: About 14 percent of single mothers receive federal welfare benefitsThis is talking about federal aid. Most aid comes through states- the stat does not necessarily disagree with the first two.Second, the one on the percentage of foreign aid from the GDP has to be off. I don't have time at work to do the research- but the US funds a large amount of WHO, UN activities, and the IMF. Heck, the money we give to Isreal alone would stagger the numbers.Third, NPR- I listen to them a bit, and they are rather left leaning. I am not surprised the guy on the site can't see it: "Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who as a global warming skeptic represents a tiny fraction of the scientific debate, was on NPR three times last year"A tiny fraction of the debate? Wow. I am by no means a science expert, but I read a lot of magazines and journals- it is hardly a tiny fraction- and would there be a debate if the other side was so tiny? Where are the number for the times Global Warming experts were on?For the record, that ulta-conservative O'Reilly believes in Global Warming. Cool, Rush quotes liberals every day. He must be fair and balanced as well.Finally, look at the source at the bottom of the page: fair.orgAhh, well, that ranks up there with Cornell as a reliable source for the "truth". (Yes, I am not believing work by an Ivy League Institution- I work at one.)Ugh, well, *shrug* believe what you want, but I would rather have a better example- as one of those evil conservatives.. I know O'Reilly irritates me at times with some of his stances. FD</blockquote>

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