RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/January 2012

January 2012
I'm looking for a woman who I can build a life with. Who has a nice bum and is dirty in bed. Who I have a lot in common with. Who is an intellectual doormat who will do the homework that I assign her. Bill O'Reilly still likes The Muppets, but they'd better "watch it". Right-wing hate Pastor, Bryan Fischer blames Bill Clinton for oral sex related cancers. Oh noes!! Now they're printing Muslim friendly Bibles... for distribution in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. In fact, psychologists are hailing January 30 as ‘Happy Monday’. (or, as we call it, "advertising equivalent exposure" for the travel industry) The military conducted a training exercise in Los Angeles recently involving black helicopters. Therefore, "it appears America is preparing for war against its own citizens ... If someone can make a suggestion for another way of interpreting this, please do." We would suggest Occam's Razor. Watch the THRIVE trailer: where crop circles meet free energy suppression conspiracy theories and the world is controlled by alien lizards international bankers. Also featuring Deepak Chopra. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NnQNYiUJfM0 Gasp! LAX is a transit point for the FEMA Death Camps...] according to Alex Jones. Holy fuck. Fox News is too liberal and they need to bring back Glenn Beck. Oh, and it's all George Soros's fault. SOPA will mean the end of Naturalnews! All together now... Yaaayyyyyyy!

Shorter Flingbooty: Arguments from authority don’t impress me, unless I'm quoting Walt Brown. WND trumpets yet another PRATT: Piltdown Man, ergo evolution is false. Even more stupid in the comments. There is a "sketchy bit of news" to the effect that the Attorney General of New York is joining a presidential committee. Clearly this is part of a plot by President Obama to neutralize his opposition. Pack your bags! There's another Rapture due on January 28th A columnist states that neither the military nor the free market ever fueled significant technological innovation. He then shatters a dozen irony meters by sending the column to its readership over the Internet, formerly known as ARPAnet. <vote poll=clog2091 closed="yes">[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/tim-thomas-skips-white-house-trip-due-to-out-of-control-government/article2311914/ Waaaaahhhh! I don't want to show up at the White House because Glenn Beck tells me that Obama is leading America into fascism! Free speech!] <vote poll=clog2090 closed="yes">Democrat's cat killed, word "LIBERAL" written on its corpse. (Warning: graphic imagery included.) <vote poll=clog2089 closed="yes">"No (sic) only is Ms. Hillary ruthless to the core and would do any bidding to put herself in the No. 2 seat, but so too would her equally felonious hubby, Bill. In this way, he could back door his way into the White House for a second run at the interns, among other “affairs of state.”". WorldNetDaily, please don't ever change. <vote poll=clog2088 closed="yes">Newt is happy to have Chuck Norris as his "Secretary of Attack." <vote poll=clog2087 closed="yes">Atlanta Jewish Times editor: Israel should assassinate Obama. <vote poll=clog2086 closed="yes">Rush Limbaugh: Newt's adultery is a mark of character. <vote poll=clog2085 closed="yes">Fox News: The recession is good for kids! <vote poll=clog2084 closed="yes">Somebody should tell Stuart Wilde that LSD and blogging don't mix. <vote poll=clog2083 closed="yes">Moving the goalposts has a new companion: "not far off"

<vote poll=clog2082 closed="yes">James David Manning notices that The Young Turks are talking about him... <vote poll=clog2081 closed="yes">Truthout: If anyone told you that Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party are enemies, they were probably corporate shills. Reports that Truthout itself said this are obviously malquoted. <vote poll=clog2080 closed="yes">Apparently it comes as a shock to CNN that civil rights wasn't the only thing MLK cared about. <vote poll=clog2079 closed="yes">Islam Q&A: Medical benefits of female circumcision. <vote poll=clog2078 closed="yes">Stephen Colbert is evil!poe <vote poll=clog2077 closed="yes">Since Atlas Shrugged did so well in theatres, a documentary is being released about Ayn Rand's "prophecy".

<vote poll=clog2076 closed="yes">A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for ze damn French. <vote poll=clog2075 closed="yes">Looks like we won't be seeing a "Rationalist Spring" at the Daily Mail any time soon... <vote poll=clog2074 closed="yes">The New York Times may have made a slight misreading of a report about the Iranian nuclear program. Therefore, they are colluding with the AIPAC to trick the U.S. into going to war on behalf of Israeli colonial ambitions. <vote poll=clog2073 closed="yes">Lunatic fringe found on tree (3 letters) <vote poll=clog2072 closed="yes">There is "no qualitative difference" between nukes held by a democratic state and nukes held by a state with theocratic fundamentalist whackos in charge of it. <vote poll=clog2071 closed="yes">WorldNetDaily: Discounting someone's testimony due to their "negative statements about transgenderism" is absurd, even when they are making accusations against a trans woman with only their word to back it up. <vote poll=clog2070 closed="yes">The Nation is apparently willing to make an exception to its usual opposition to coal power in Margaret Thatcher's case, blasting her for deciding that coal was an inferior energy source. Even a stopped clock is right once a day, guys. <vote poll=clog2069 closed="yes">Prof. Henry A. Giroux is upset that the media coverage of the Penn State football scandal does not mention Penn State's receipt of military research money, despite not actually managing to make a link between the two. <vote poll=clog2068 closed="yes">Michael Shermer serves up a double-dose of bullshit by plugging sock puppeteer and data fabricator John Lott as well as Steven Pinker's latest exercise in PIDOOMA statistics. (But I thought this was supposed to be Skeptic Blog!) <vote poll=clog2067 closed="yes">Operation False Flag Feminist Blogging Is A-Go! <vote poll=clog2066 closed="yes">[http://www.naturalnews.com/034554_consciousness_awakening_2012.html We are all one. Wooooo! Expand your consciousness. Wooooo!] <vote poll=clog2065 closed="yes">The Malaysian Institute of Geomancy Sciences makes use of feng shui to predict which children will be born with autism. Well, at least they're not blaming vaccines... <vote poll=clog2064 closed="yes">Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) is "Biblically qualified" to be President. <vote poll=clog2063 closed="yes">If Jesus had been aborted, there would have been no art, no architecture and ... no wine!! Therefore, Oh God.