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Old 03-13-2012, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by BarryRX View Post
This statement is utterly false and is a good reason why an award winning web site like snopes exists.
The snopes web site is (and always has been) a completely independent, self-sufficient entity wholly owned by its operators, Barbara and David Mikkelson, and funded through advertising revenues. Neither the site nor its operators has ever received monies from (or been engaged in any business or editorial relationship with), any sponsor, investor, partner, political party, religious group, business organization, government agency, or any other outside group or organization.
I just snoped George Soros and found the above information on Snopes. It also said that Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian. Go Canuck, (not that it means a darn thing if she is a Canadian citizen, but it makes me smile)!
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