RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/December 2014

December 2014
Venezuela accuses US of starting oil war to 'destroy' Russia and Chavez' Venezuelan revolution. "Destroy." What is this, a bad 80s soap opera? Satan's very own metric system makes airplanes fall from the skies. (Warning: Link embeds Daily Mail.) The War Against Christians and Even Christmas Michele Bachmann: Five Moments From 2014 That Were Definitely a Sign of the End Times Eric Metaxas and the WSJ finally go full-bore 'God musta done it' William Gheen Defends Don Sterling: 'I'm More Worried About The Black Mobs' A post about creation, linking language and computer science to religious text.' Also here fromthemachine.org Pat Robertson: Gays 'Will Die Out Because They Don't Reproduce' 5 Ways to Explain Bitcoin Over Christmas Dinner. Perhaps your drunk racist uncle isn't such bad company by comparison. Today's pseudoscientific Kickstarter: DNA is not a helix. The video is remarkable. (Check out the guy's website for some NWO-flavored religious grandomania.) Worried about all this giving malarkey? Peter Schwartz of the Ayn Rand Institute tells you how to celebrate Christmas the Objectivist way. Yes, instead of noting that the NYPD shooting suspect had a long history of mental illness and the like, let's all blame it on the Ferguson/New York protests. Then we'll say there's a "war on cops" spread by Al Sharpton. Sheriff Joe, the Great American Sage! Vox Day: If a woman says she was raped by a white man, she’s probably lying, because only blacks and hispanics rape. (HT Mammoth.) Pastor Logan Robertson: It's the Government's job to execute gays. NEVER SEND YOUR PASSWORD OVER UNSECURED EMAIL. Unless it's to the Bitcoin company who just inexplicably lost your money. (Blockchain.info really did this.) HT /r/buttcoin. VDARE argues that a white man going to jail for life after shooting a black kid for playing his music too loud is an example of a "war on whites". From the people who brought you #Gamergate: #Metalgate Phyllis Schlafly warns us about the "War on Men," waged by those damn rape-crying feminists. Rebecca Watson and PZ Myers hit all new lows. Open Carry Group Member Is Arrested For Murder, Leader Calls For Armed Takeover Of D.C. [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dick-cheney-george-w-bush-knew-about-torture-program You know what? Keep talking, Dick.] Given all of the police harassment and killing of numerous peaceful young black men it's time for American whites to step up and take a stand against the atrocities committed against ... white people? Yes this is a petition to stop immigration or something, oh and Anti-racist is code for anti-white. Behind the Patina of Anita Sarkeesian, a.k.a. "I'm a top-level Harvard faculty member no really I am watch me use all this jargon, bombast, and verbiage which proves I'm a senior Harvard academician pay no attention to the thesaurus and the flubbed Foucauldian philosophy behind the curtain"Possible Poe? Milo Yiannopoulos explains, in full MRA/Gamergate apologism style, "The Sexodus". Never mind "Paul is dead", here is PROOF The Beatles (as they were presented to us) Never Existed. Another reason never to take the Wall Street Journal seriously. In a cross-promotion piece with the new 20th Century Fox film Exodus: Gods and Kings, they do their damnedest to explain how Moses could have parted the Red Sea. BONUS:  Rival Forbes calls the movie "god-awful". NaturalNews on GMOs: Liar Neil deLiar-McLiarson is a LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR. Phyllis Schlafly and Alex Jones, sitting in a tree studio, K-I-S-S-I-N-G spinning bullshit about the POTUS. No, this is surprisingly not the first time the POTUS has been claimed to have Martian heritage. Technically, it's a Poe as soon as you can't tell if it's a parody or not. (Vaccines. In chemtrails.)