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15 Sep 2010 21:02

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U.S.: FBI employees, baseball stars, wrestlers have something in common

  • 4 FBI employees arrested for lying about steroid use source
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09 Jun 2010 10:59

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Politics: Uh, what? BP says the government is lying about oil spill plumes

  • yesterday The government confirmed for the first time that they found massive oil plumes as far as 142 miles away from the base of the spill. People like us freak out.
  • “today” On “The Today Show,” a top BP exec said this: “We haven’t found any large concentrations of oil under the sea. To my knowledge, no one has.” Wait, what? source
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30 May 2010 11:54

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Politics: Now both parties have a Senate candidate with spotty army stories

  • Dems Connecticut Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal, who’s running against a woman who’s been attacked by a folding chair before, made it seem like he served in Vietnam when he didn’t.
  • GOP Now, Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk was caught claiming in his official bio that he won the U.S. Navy’s Intelligence Officer of the Year when he didn’t. Ah well, it’s not as bad as Roland Burris serving. source
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19 Sep 2009 10:07

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Sports: South African official in Caster Semenya case lied about gender tests

  • If we did not let her run, we would be confirming that she is not normal.
  • Athletics South Africa President Leonard Chuene • On the decision to let Caster Semenya run even though they knew gender tests were being performed on her. What’s important to note is that this apology did not come out on its own; South Africa’s Mail & Guardian printed e-mails essentially confirming that they knew the tests were happening before Semenya ran the 800-meter race in Berlin, a race in which she crushed the competition. He lied. • source
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20 Aug 2009 02:02

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Offbeat, U.S.: Meet Antwon Womack, perhaps the most inept politician ever

  • Antwon Womack is running for the Birmingham, Alabama school board (✓) in a district he reportedly doesn’t even live (✓) after giving false credentials – lying about going to college (✓), lying about his age (✓), lying about which high school he went to (✓), lying about graduating from high school (✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓), and calling himself a doctor (ahahahahah ✓). His political career is over before it even began, and this video deserves to seal the coffin.source
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09 Jul 2009 09:52

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Politics, U.S.: Dems to CIA Director Leon Panetta: Apologize for lying to us

Letter to Leon Panetta
  • Six members of Congress signed this letter. All of them Democrats. All on the House Intelligence Committee. A seventh is also on board. Panetta acknowledged this dishonesty, and word from the Huffington Post is that they’re talking about torture.source
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11 Feb 2009 22:04

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Sports: Another MLB player gets in trouble over steriods

  • I apologize. I know it was a mistake. I take responsibility. I am very sorry this happened. I’m sorry to my family, to Congress, to the Houston Astros and to the Major Leagues.
  • Miguel Tejada • a Houston Astros star who plead guilty today on charges of lying to congressional staffers about the steroid use of one of his teammates. Tejada did not admit to using steroids himself, however. He could be sentenced to as much as a year in prison but his sentence will likely be much slimmer. • source
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