Can you imagine working for a company like this?

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[MissBaby]

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

19 have been accused of writing bad checks

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug related charges

8 have been arrested for shop lifting

21 are currently defendants in law suits

84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess what organization this is?

[AppyPappy]

It's a hoax.

[smiley]

Congress and/or Senate

[truenospinzone]

Well, after seeing the keyword here, I must say this is very series!

[nightdriver]

Has to be the US House of Representatives.

[gridlock]

Series, indeed. First in a ~?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Funny, but not true.

I only wish we could arrest 113 Congresscritters!

[Constitution Day]

Congres is never series enough.

[wimpycat]

This is supposed to represent Congress and it is a couple of years old.

[MissBaby]

It's a hoax.

What is a hoax?

[gundog]

I wish you wiseacres would begin to take these issues more serially.

[AppyPappy]

What you posted. It's not true. Emails rarely are.

Snopes on the hoax

[88keys]

What is a hoax?

A hoax is like a trick or a deception, basically something that's not true, and if a hoax is perpetrated with intent to defraud, it's very series, indeed!

LOL!!! ;)

[J. L. Chamberlain]

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

J

[BulletBrasDotNet]

Bubba Clinton's friends?

[Constitution Day]

I guess we are just serial smartalecks.

[MissBaby]

I of course knew this was not true and was merely making sure all of you were on your toes. As usual, you are. Good job. Keep up the good work.

[Cacophonous]

Sounds like my family reunion...

[VRWC_minion]

Roman Catholic church ?

[Arthur McGowan]

The Snopes rundown on this is extraordinarily preachy. Usually they are content to expose the hoax, but this one was written by a real Congress-lover.

[Between the Lines]

Can you guess what organization this is?

Sounds like the Chevy dealership where my wife works.

[Captainpaintball]

Well, can we Freepers come up with an accurate, irrefutable, "snopes-proof" list? We have Torricelli, Rostenkowski, Kennedy, Barney "My Boy Lollipop" Frank...

[Wm Bach]

I wish you wiseacres would begin to take these issues more serially.

Okay.

[Little Bush]

The government? Actually, no, the numbers would be higher.

[vin-one]

I bet our list, would have more than 113 congresscritters on it.

[San Jacinto]

Could it be Congres?
OOh, that's very series.

(But the keywords gave it away.)

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

The snopes article didn't say it wasn't true.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Well hello, Dali!

[AppyPappy]

When you report a fact, it is up to you to verify it's authenticity. The lack of any dates or names would make it impossible to verify therefore rendering it presumably false.

Not only that, you should not repeat something as a fact unless you know it is true.

[gundog]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

[Post Toasties]

I'd like to see a party breakdown on this.

[mc5cents]

This guy took it very series...

[hopespringseternal]

It's a hoax.

No doubt. Some congresscritter probably started circulating this to rehabilitate congress' image.

"Don't tell mom I'm a senator, she still thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."

[Chemist_Geek]

Snopes has a well-known liberal, pro-Big Government, bias. I wouldn't trust them to tell the truth on something like this, and instead expect them to bend over backwards to "prove" it false.

[Wm Bach]

You guys have been making hay out of this cereal nonsense, despite the fact that there isn't a grain of truth to any of it. But then I guess making corny jokes is easier than having intelligent intercourse on the exposed breasts issue.

[mc5cents]

the exposed breasts issue.

Where? I missed that thread.

[Cachelot]

What is a hoax?

A musical instrument often played by Bill Clinton.

[Terriergal]

Congress. Yes this is an old one that has been going around email for quite a while. Sadly true though.

[AppyPappy]

Then you should have no trouble finding the evidence that it is real, right? We'll wait patiently.

[Wm Bach]

The Exposed Breast Issue

[JennysCool]

A hoax is like a trick or a deception, basically something that's not true

But that's not important now...

[FryingPan101]

Heeeheee

[DWPittelli]

It's not entirely a hoax. Some of the stats are believable, some are not. At least one (the bad checks) is probably understated. (Remember the House Bank?) The number of drunk drivers seems both implausibly high and impossible for anyone to have tallied. (If there's no accident, and the police let a guy off because he's a Congressman, one wouldn't expect any paperwork to exist on that.)

Further, the Snopes "debunking" article goes on and on about innocence until proven guilty, but that concept has less meaning here because:

1) As Snopes said, Congress has certain arrest immunities when in session.

2) Innocent until proven guilty is a term that applies to punishment by the criminal justice system, not to political judgements. We don't have to "prove" that a politician has broken the law to let it affect our political judgement, just as we don't have to "prove" his lesser, nonlegal offenses (e.g., incompetence, ideological disagreement with us, whatever) before letting such factors affect our judgement and/or votes.

3) We're talking statistics of large numbers here -- again, not whether to punish an individual. If you're thinking of going to work for a trucking firm in New York, and 10 out of 20 employees have been arrested for racketeering, loan sharking, etc., you'd reasonably suspect that there's something there: it's a mob operation of some sort, and you'd be a fool to go to work for it. (Unless you want to join the mob.)

[88keys]

But that's not important now...

Oh, heehee! Thanks for the pic...made my day! ;)

[TC Rider]

Sounds like a case for Yahoo Series!

[al_c]

Sounds like the company I worked for before my current job.

[Constitution Day]

You guys have been making hay out of this cereal nonsense, despite the fact that there isn't a grain of truth to any of it.

Ceres was the ancient Latin goddess of vegetation, whose worship merged completely with that of the Greek goddess Demeter.

[FryingPan101]

ROTFLOL

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

All I am saying is that Snopes basically made excuses for why it wouldn't be a big deal if the Congressmen couldn't get a credit card, or how it's no big deal so many were pulled over for suspicion of DUI.

[Wm Bach]

LOL! How many inches or feet would you say she was in demeter?

I'm being cirrus about this.