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This Week:
- National Day of Prayer
- San Antonio has ghosts and ghost hunters!
- The coming apocalypse(s)/ Rapture(s)
- Mike Adams' The Gullible Mind Explained
- The unpronounceable Koch brothers hire some faculty in Florida
- Unskeptical local paper pushes ghost kids, bigfoot, nostril breathing
And a lesser- but not unentertaining- shadow show by The Resident Canines.
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Liars Or Just Plain Lazy?

When Senator Jon Kyl and his staff opened up their “not intended to be a factual statement” can of worms last week we caught a glimpse behind the curtain of politics. We all know the old joke: “How do you know a politician is lying? When they’ve opened their mouth.” But the real problem with these non-factual statements aren’t really that they’re lies, it’s that they’re so easily disproven. It would have taken 30 seconds to get a real number off of Google. Given how amazingly wrong Kyl’s number was, there is *NO* way that Kyl and his staff could have possibly looked for a real number. What we have here is a politician who wants to rant about something he doesn’t like, so he just makes something up. That doesn’t make him a liar, just lazy.

As far as I’m concerned that makes him a worse lawmaker than if he had lied.