Protest AOL’s “Email Tax” Charged to Major Emailers-Truth! Summary of eRumor: An alert from Moveon.org asking you to sign a petition targeted to AOL. The email says that AOL is going to be charging an “email tax” to corporations and other large originators of emails, which would bypass AOL’s spam filters and give guaranteed, quick …
HR-347 has been passed by the Legislative Branch and signed into law by President Obama. There are growing concerns that this new law makes the act of protesting in the presence of the President a felony and that it grants the Secret Service the power to arrest and detain protesters.
Victoria Johnson, the founder of Victoria’s Secret, wants to reach into rural communities that don’t have Victoria’s Secret stores. If you forward the email to 9 of your friends, you’ll get a $50 gift certificate to Victoria’s Secret.
The story says that blacks will be losing their right to vote in 2007. The reason is that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was not a law, it was just an act, but never passed into law. In 1982, according to the story, Ronald Reagan amended the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years…until 2007. At that time, congress will revisit the whole issue and in addition to congressional approval, there needs to be the approval of 38 states for the law to be extended.
Four Thousand Israelis Who Worked in The World Trade Center Did Not Show up for Work on the Day of the Terrorist Attacks–Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This eRumor says that when the attacks took place on September 11, there was immediate mourning of 4,000 Israelis who worked in the towers and who were killed. Then, …
4,000 Israelis did not show up for work on the day of the WTC attacks-Fiction! Read More »
A motorist picks up a man or a woman along a lonely road. The motorist is fascinated by this ethereal person. At some point, the hitchhiker says something like “Jesus is Coming soon” then disappears.
Vermont Teddy Bears for Children Affected by the Terrorist Attacks on September 11–Truth! but Now Over! Summary of eRumor: The Vermont Teddy Bear company is asking you to come to their site and pick out a bear to be sent to the children who lost loved ones in New York and Washington D.C. There …
Vermont teddy bears for terrorist victims-Truth! Read More »
The Story of Adam Mayblum, a Survivor at the World Trade Center-Truth! Summary of eRumor: This is an email from a man named Adam Mayblum who was on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center, tower one. The Truth: Adam Mayblum is real and his story has been related in a …
The “Taps” Military Bugle Tune Came From a Confederate Soldier Whose Body was Discovered By His Father, a Union Soldier in the Civil War–Fiction! Summary of eRumor:A Union Captain in the Civil War named Robert Ellicombe hears the moan of a soldier in the distance one night near Harrison’s Landing in Virginia. He …
The story behind the military song "taps"-Fiction! Read More »
Warning of soda cans contaminated with rat urine.
