RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/August 2015

August 2015
The patriarch of clogospherics, Time Cube, is gone. Looks like nobody paid for the domain. Raise your glasses to the last Internet Archive snapshot, from 18 August 2015. Sic transit gloria cubi. Update: It's back up! Whoops, it's redirecting to an ad splash if you don't hit the "X" button ... Bryan Fischer: Obama changed the name to Denali, because the mountain was named after the things Obama hates: White, Republican, Americans! It's crank magnetism ... on a boat! The Conspira-Sea Cruise. West Point has apparently lowered their teaching standards. One of their law teachers is arguing that (foreign) legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a "treasonous" fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants. Abortions mean sacrificing babies to the devil. WorldNutDaily finally gets an article where one satanist abortionist comes clean and tells the whole story. Abortions are all about sacrificing lives to Satan. "He said he performed many of the sacrificial abortion rituals at the clinics of “a large abortion provider,” but he would not identify the provider for fear of lawsuits.". The poor guy also has a personal website where he describes himself thusly: "An average boy in an average American neighborhood, Zachary grew up in a Baptist home. He began practicing magick at 10 years old, joined a satanic coven at 13 years old, and had broken all 10 Commandments by 15 years old. From his teen years to adulthood he worked his way up to High Wizard in the coven and actively pushed satan’s agenda including ritualistic abortions and breaking up churches. But then...". Yes, his website sells stuff, why do you ask...? [http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/black-lives-dont-matter-no-lives-matter-when-life-is-not-sacred?f=obamacare #blackLivesMatter is BS because... abortion] We are a very passionate family ideologically but using Bitcoin can happen to any family. You don't need to be a creationist to clutch at any scientific straw. The Catholic version: A scientific mechanism for the Assumption of Mary bodily to Heaven. Sad Puppies: uh, tears baby! Conservative talk radio host, Jan Mickelson, argues in favor of slavery and still got Republican presidential candidates to come on his show.
 * Vox Day totally meant this to happen all along, ahahaha!
 * Social justice warriors have made Sad Puppies "the new n******".
 * Milo Yiannopoulos: SJWs just burnt down the Hugo Awards!! How unwelcoming of them.
 * "Please don't gloat, it's unseemly. Also, we'll totally get you back next year."
 * SURELY THE FBI WILL BE INTERESTED

We need to end birthright citizenship because DREAMers are going to vote to return the entire southwest and Florida to Mexico!!11!, also that same lone commenter from earlier is carrying on the fight. Carly Fiorina is a flawed candidate because she doesn't share my irrational hatred of Islam raggh!

Apparently the Tianjin chemical works disaster was caused by an American secret weapon. Say what you will about NaturalNews, "The Rod of God" is a pretty good name for a band. Chicago journalist prays for a Katrina-like hurricane to hit the city (The original, unedited, column available here) Viral quackery of the day: how you spell “The Berenstain Bears” could be proof of parallel universes. Everyone's favorite conservative blogger is still pushing his case that Barack Obama proclaimed himself a Muslim in 2009 Some poor optimistic fool in the comments section apparently thinks he's arguing with a rational person, because he's spent two articles shredding Terry's "evidence" only to watch his opponent move goalposts and contradict himself. Michele Bachmann Is 'Extremely Excited' for Iran Deal Because It Will Usher God's Judgement on the World

Seeking evidence for extraordinary claims is "unfair, unbalanced" and decent statistical methodology is so last year. Only in the Trumposphere. Netflix starts offering its employees year-long maternity and paternity leave. Suzanne Venker (niece of Phyllis Schlafly) decides that's a bad thing for women, because of Reasons. Rob Rhinehart, while wearing magnets in his hands, envisions a bright, pollution-free future full of people, clad in synthetic fabrics, drinking soylent while riding Ubers