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Posted on 02/22/2010 10:39:54 AM PST by Treasa

As part of my daily routine, I'm reading a conservative online newspaper. I click the headline about "citigroup", and right away I repost the "facts" on a social network. Only to further reasearch it, (right here on good ole free republic) and find out, not so fast..it isn't as it seems. In fact, Citigroup makes a statement contrary to the entire article. So I take personal responsibility for taking it at face value, but shouldn't those kind of headlines be relegated to somewhere besides the front page?


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To: Treasa
I have no idea what you're talking about...

So here's a bunny with toilet paper on it's head.


21 posted on 02/22/2010 11:06:44 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

That rabbit looks wiped out.


22 posted on 02/22/2010 11:08:02 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Treasa

Your not seriou’s, do you?


23 posted on 02/22/2010 11:09:27 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Treasa; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

I have heard that ship Brangelina is on the rocks!


24 posted on 02/22/2010 11:10:52 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!
Your not seriou’s, do you?

Stop making fun of the poor womens writing's.

25 posted on 02/22/2010 11:11:52 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Treasa

Hit the abuse button to make your request... they pay more attention to you there... hope that helps.


26 posted on 02/22/2010 11:13:34 AM PST by JDoutrider (Send G. Soros home! Hell isn't half full!)
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To: La Lydia

How does it help to ridicule someone who isn’t as educated as yourself? I don’t get it. I’ve been a member since 2006, I’m a conservative who was very upset I was duped into repeating that citigroup was going to make people wait 7 days to make a withdrawal. I came here to vent but in hindsite that was even a bigger mistake.


27 posted on 02/22/2010 11:17:35 AM PST by Treasa
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To: Treasa

“I’ve been a member since 2006”

Uhhh....

Treasa
Since Mar 10, 2003

Are you drunk?


28 posted on 02/22/2010 11:19:28 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Treasa

I just made some texas sheet cake and its rocking and that is no rumor.


29 posted on 02/22/2010 11:20:41 AM PST by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Treasa
How does it help to ridicule someone who isn’t as educated as yourself? I don’t get it. I’ve been a member since 2006, I’m a conservative who was very upset I was duped into repeating that citigroup was going to make people wait 7 days to make a withdrawal. I came here to vent but in hindsite that was even a bigger mistake.

I think you need to give them a break. The problem was that you knew perfectly well what you were saying. However nobody else had a clue what you were talking about. You needed to fill in some details. Not everyone has been following your every move and so your post became a prime target for WHAT???

30 posted on 02/22/2010 11:21:20 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Revolting cat!
R U SERIES?!?

31 posted on 02/22/2010 11:21:51 AM PST by evets (beer)
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To: Treasa

You are only as uneducated as you choose to be:
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/grammar.htm


32 posted on 02/22/2010 11:21:53 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: JDoutrider

Thank-You.


33 posted on 02/22/2010 11:22:47 AM PST by Treasa
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To: humblegunner

Hmmmm...I always understood the pancake, but the toilet paper is ridiculous. /sarc


34 posted on 02/22/2010 11:23:23 AM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: La Lydia

Agreed.


35 posted on 02/22/2010 11:24:18 AM PST by Treasa
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To: Treasa

No way you get to make this go away now. it’s one of the more entertaining threads of the week.

If only we had some idea what it was about. Although that might spoil it.


36 posted on 02/22/2010 11:26:59 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: JDoutrider

S’hhhhh!


37 posted on 02/22/2010 11:28:29 AM PST by T Minus Four (I already have a Savior. It's a President I'm looking for.)
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To: Treasa

You were just one of MANY people who were duped into believing some earth-shaking change was being made by citigroup.

If you want to avoid that in the future, you might want to avoid things that are sourced to names like “Market ticker” or “Market Oracle”.

Now, the people who read those swear by them, and as far as I can tell, they did predict 10 of the last 2 major market corrections.

But don’t feel too bad — people tend not to read anything but the excerpts, and almost nobody goes and does their own research to learn the facts behind the stories.


38 posted on 02/22/2010 11:29:51 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Treasa

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.


39 posted on 02/22/2010 11:34:12 AM PST by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: linn37

OH YUM.... the kind with cocoa powder and sweetened condensed milk in a jelly roll pan? MY FAVORITE. Nuts or no nuts?


40 posted on 02/22/2010 11:34:36 AM PST by NEMDF
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