Snopes...............

Something was brought to light this morning via an e-mail from an old friend. Sure who can say where the e-mail originated or from whom it originally came but the fact is it got me thinking about Snopes.
We've all no doubt heard of snopes or the website snopes.com "rumor has it" an urban legend and pretty much a majority of folks out there use snopes as gospel when it comes to finding out if an article, e-mail, quote, you name it is in fact the truth or just a misleading lie. I know early on a good friend of mine threw snopes in my face a number of times as I forwarded e-mails which snopes believes to be untrue or misleading or misconstrued in someway or another. Oh sure as it turns out a lot of those e-mails where false, wrong, misleading etc., but now I'm starting to wonder if our socialist friends have infiltrated snopes!
Some folks are now not just taking snopes word for it but doing more diligent research and finding some of what snopes spews is not always the truth either or at least slanted towards the liberal direction more often than not.
I'm sending an e-mail to a lot of my friends that will read it and asking for a more reputable website for finding out the whole truth on matters like this that come up in e-mails or conversations. At the time of this writing I'm not sure how many other sites are out there but I'm sure there must be a few so that will be a project for today (you know us retire folks don't have shit to do other than crap like this) but it's my job to keep you informed.

One last thing that has been bothering me and maybe some of you intellectuals can give me an answer via an e-mail or FB as to how and why. I'm just going to take a couple of words but we know there are many more, but why all of a sudden we're or at least the media is changing the pronunciation of words we grew up with and were taught in school. Let's take the first that comes to mine, Jaguar (jag'war') I've notice and bear with me that some commercials now call the vehicle jag'u'waaa. Did I miss something in school, is this car named for a large cat the jaguar now ending with a long waaaaaaa? Also in the news now is another one, the country of Chile (chili), we grew up with everyone pronouncing it Chili but now especially the media has to work their asses off to pronounce it "Cheeelay"and it's getting to the point there's a new one every week. My kids are too old and my grand kids are too young but it would be interesting to know if our geography teachers or literature teachers or reading teachers are in fact teaching these and other words to our children different that we were taught and why! Was my geography teach a dumb dumb, because I'm sure he taught me exactly how he was taught so we literally have had generations of children being taught wrong.........................if these folks in the media are in fact correct in telling me these miners in Cheeeelay are having a tough go of it.
Just some more of what I like to call "food for thought".