RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/June 2011

June 2011
Come one, come all to the Heartland Institute's Denial-a-palooza weekend, starring all your denialist favorites like Jim Inhofe, Tim Ball, and Pat Michaels. (Update: Salon reports Inhofe didn't appear as he was "feeling under the weather" (geddit?) and linkfarms to further coverage.) If you have created an illuminated manuscript, then you are connected to the Illuminati. Also, if your mother was a Bohemian princess, then you are connected to the Bohemian Grove. Oh, and Comet Elenin apparently appears in a 15th century manuscript. (Not.) Dear Old Mumsy still hates the Equal Rights Amendment. Roseann Salanitri: New York's same-sex marriage law violates the First Amendment because it "dictates what churches must recognize." Ugh! Next thing you know they'll be making the Catholic Church marry divorcees! UPDATE: Terry Hurlbut admits that the argument in the column does not actually apply to the current law, but to a conjectured future law being secretly plotted by those evil "same-sex marriage activists." Everyone's favourite nuts are suing Esquire Magazine to the tune of $120 million. Shame on you, Bill Clinton, for suggesting solutions to the U.S.'s economic mess rather than engaging in mortification of the flesh as punishment for crimes in office.  Apparently the Rothschild family pushed the US into invading Iraq in 2003 in order to acquire their water supplies for Israel...because the family lives there. It had nothing to do with oil. Dumbest reactions to the gay marriage law at National Review collected by Salon. Whirled Nut: Gay marriage is CAWMUNISM! Never mind that communists were not known to be enthusiastic supporters of homosexuality, a.k.a. "bourgeois decadence." NaturalNews hearts the skin cancer. Bonus: retinyl palmitate (a Vitamin A supplement) is toxic! "There are several states within a relatively short drive of New York that allow gay marriage, so it's not like they had to pass the law to protect anyone's "rights"." Now that's what I call logic. An attempt to flog the secular religion trope harder than it's ever been flogged. A thorough analysis of Denver International Airport's Phallic-Satanic symbolism. I simply refuse to believe this is anything but a very non-subtle parody. It cannot be real. Or can it? First there was Left Behind, now Terry Hurlbut is writing bad science fiction. GLPers swallow vintage John Birch Society propaganda "warning". (Sample quote: Ok, I watched the video and I must say, I would be a bit more interested in politcal elections if we had a candidate running that spoke PLAIN ENGLISH like this man.) [http://mises.org/daily/5401 Discrimination in a "free market?" Economic fallacy!] (Check the tags for bonus lulz.) <vote poll=clog876 closed="yes">Alex Jones: DMT was invented so the elite could harness the power of magic elves to kill us all. <vote poll=clog875 closed="yes">Newsbusters: "Peacenik" hypocrites. <vote poll=clog874 closed="yes">Deniosphere: The NASA-Soros connection exposed! Now go jam NASA's phone lines! Reality: Christopher Horner's front group launches yet another stupid FOIA suit. (Update: Further explanation of this stupidity. Update II: The manufactroversy spreads to Faux (on the teevee, not the website).) <vote poll=clog873 closed="yes">The Confederacy still exists! <vote poll=clog872 closed="yes">Monckton pulls a Godwin. <vote poll=clog871 closed="yes">It would appear that Prof. Henry A. Giroux's English interpreter is off sick; your guess is as good as ours as to what the man is trying to say. <vote poll=clog870 closed="yes">Chris Hedges, M.Div.: A "religious radical" was prosecuted for fraud. This constitutes "evidence that our moral order has been turned upside down." <vote poll=clog869 closed="yes">NaturalNews shatters some irony meters with a post complaining about fear-mongering. <vote poll=clog868 closed="yes">The Moonie Times scrubs a post accusing Anthony Weiner of being a crypto-Muslim. <vote poll=clog867 closed="yes">This Week in Climate Denial: Global warming is debunked twice in one week as "warmbat" professors rig sea level data and JAQing off about a new Ice Age begins due to sunspot predictions. (Pay no attention to the actual science behind the curtain.) <vote poll=clog866 closed="yes">Summer camp that teabags indoctrinates kids into squirting at each other's bubbles, being good christians and being selfish... Wait, what. <vote poll=clog865 closed="yes">"Four Minutes of Hate" - the best of the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer <vote poll=clog864 closed="yes">Terry Hurlbut, YEC, on the national debt: "By what right did those who racked up that debt saddle future generations with it?" Could it possibly be the same right by which Adam and Eve saddled future generations with the damnation of ? <vote poll=clog863 closed="yes">Warner Todd Huston of RightPundits: "The police have no responsibility to stop or prevent crime," and anyone saying otherwise is out to steal your money. <vote poll=clog862 closed="yes">A "veteran of the civil rights movement," Michael Berkowitz, bawls about the "suppression of democracy" in Wisconsin. One wonders why he is making so much noise about this, as such suppression would move Wisconsin closer to the model favored by Mr. Berkowitz's employer, the People's Republic of China. <vote poll=clog861 closed="yes">A U.S. intelligence operative leaks new documentation of Dubya's blunders on the anti-terrorism front; journalists write a report about it. The report's comment section is promptly taken over by truthers, despite the journalists' repeated protests that they are not pushing trutherism. <vote poll=clog860 closed="yes">Obama's despicable photo-ops...with sausage and burgers! <vote poll=clog859 closed="yes">Glenn Beck trying to up the crazy quotient before the end of his TV show? His latest conspiracy theory is about a sooper seekrit postal service army. <vote poll=clog858 closed="yes">A talk-radio host displays some American exceptionalism: [http://www.truth-out.org/americas-energy-ethos-do-regardless-harm/1307900259 This isn't just any industrialized country! This is America circa 2011!] <vote poll=clog857 closed="yes">[http://conservativebyte.com/2011/06/obama-forgers-admit-they-produced-phony-documents/ Oh noes! Obama supporters made Orly Taitz look like a moron by forging birth certificates!] Birthers froth at the mouth (seriously, the comments section has to be seen to be believed.) <vote poll=clog856 closed="yes">Whenever the Big Nasty Capitalists want a Republican in the White House, they team up with the CIA to give the economy a good licking. But the economy has not been very cooperative to this little cabal, it seems, booming in 1996 when Bill Clinton needed ousting, not to mention those annoying crashes in 1987 and 2001 under Reagan and Bush. <vote poll=clog855 closed="yes">Presenting the lunar diet. <vote poll=clog854 closed="yes">Anthony Watts last month: The "mendacious" Joe Romm is "disappearing" comments from his warmist blog. Watts this month: My comments are broken, it's all Wordpress' fault! <vote poll=clog853 closed="yes">Rick Santorum: I don't oppose anyone and you can live the life you want...just don't be gay! <vote poll=clog852 closed="yes">Apparently Alex Jones is covering the Bilderberg Group meeting "live" (in his studio in America) with real time updates that seem to be driving his listeners already tenuous hold on reality to the edge. <vote poll=clog851 closed="yes">As usual, the tired old bigoted comedian Rush Limbaugh took offense that anyone could call Sarah Palin "nuts," even though she is quite obviously a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and her grip on reality is, shall we say, tenuous. And as usual, Limbaugh blamed it on the left, i.e. the Guardian's Wintour/Watt blog. What he doesn't understand is that Palin's nutsiness is not a partisan matter in Britain, or anywhere else in the world. It is an obvious truth marveled at by all. Palin's emergence as a serious figure in American politics has made the country a laughing stock across the world. The idea that a stateswoman like Thatcher, in advanced dementia, would be used by such a crackpot is simply unseemly. <vote poll=clog850 closed="yes">Jerome Corsi's steaming heap of crap magnum opus isn't selling... because of Amazon's sneaky tactics. (This being the same Amazon where the same book was a #1 best-seller.) <vote poll=clog849 closed="yes">I blame women for Weiner-gate (all of them). <vote poll=clog848 closed="yes">Shockofgod will go full throttle and cut Atheism in half. This video is a response to Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris not anymore <vote poll=clog847 closed="yes">[http://www.divinetruth.com/# Hi! I'm Jesus!] <vote poll=clog846 closed="yes">From aligning pyramids with constellations, through alien mummies, to Kepler telescope findings - yet another fine Ancient aliens theory in the making. Amusing, but nowhere nearly as half-baked as some. <vote poll=clog845 closed="yes">Colony collapse disorder is (allegedly) caused by cell phones, just as it was foretold in Revelations. <vote poll=clog844 closed="yes">Beware the next big health risk: Chemtrails! (Oh, and once you've "educated" yourself, buy our woo!) <vote poll=clog843 closed="yes">Public school, prison, same diff.