Re: Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-25 Thread Francis Beckwith
Let's not forget this one: Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame left a will specifying that 10% of KFC's profits be given to the Ku Klux Klan. Read about it here: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/sanders.asp On 8/25/05 2:16 AM, Will Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember the

Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-24 Thread Gibbens, Daniel G.
Title: Message I've been a member of the ACLU since 1979(the Skokie situation made it clearthey were committed to basic civil rights even when it had negative impact on their donations) -- I don't agree with all their positions (same as with my church), butI believethey are honest (like my

Re: Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-24 Thread Ed Brayton
Title: Message This is an old hoax. I've had it forwarded to me probably a dozen times over the last few years and even took the time to debunk it on my blog, as have many others. For some reason, the rank and file of the religious right seem particularly susceptible to this sort of nonsense

Re: Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-24 Thread Brad M Pardee
Particularly susceptible? Is this like when the Washington Post said that followers of the religious right are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command? The FACT is that there are a ton of e-mail hoaxes out there. I get them sent to me. Things like this as well as warnings about a tax on

Re: Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-24 Thread Ed Brayton
Brad M Pardee wrote: "Particularly susceptible"? Is this like when the Washington Post said that followers of the religious right are "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command"? The FACT is that there are a ton of e-mail hoaxes out there. I get them sent to me. Things like this as