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

June 2012
Project Blue Beam in the Obama Era (somehow manages to throw 9/11, birtherism and "a new, vibrationally different Yuga" into the mix) White girls we have problems too, we're just like you, except we're white. Welcome to the world of Margaret Wente.  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7C-x6yXV0&feature=player_embedded#! Apparently seceeding is a great way to escape the tyranny of the Federal Government™.]It's also a great tax dodge. Right Mr. "Sovereign" Citizen?

Michael Savage: Roberts only supported Obamacare because his epilepsy medication affects his cognition. Feminist blog publishes a short post celebrating the Obamacare decision. Post gets linked on Reddit as "Feminists gloat over Obamacare victory, mock the pain and neglect of men, and tell men to move to Canada", MRA trolls invade the comment section to whine that the decision is a "terrible blow to men". Operation Omega Phoenix is go! The Earth Allies shall begin mass arrests of members of the Cabal! [http://www.carolinahuddle.com/boards/topic/70487-urgent-arrests-imminent/ Don't panic. Don't turn on eachother. (sic) Don't riot. Don't run into a bank and start shooting people.] Please just try to be calm and work together to meet the needs of your community. Chuck Norris: Obama is secretly influencing the Boy Scouts to accept gays. (Note to Chuck: if you have to open nearly every paragraph with "is it a coincidence", the answer is probably "yes".) Margaret Wente: The disappearing influence of churches, Boys Scouts and Girl Guides is making our children into law-breaking douchebags! Speaking of Boy Scouts... Accelerated Christian Education schools are using Nessie to prove evolution wrong. Pleased to say that I will be the first to place Thunderf00t, for the first time, into the Clogosphere. Disco 'Toot on Wikipedia: a bunch of layabouts who should get proper jobs. According to the upstanding, well-informed folks at A Voice for Men, Christianity is not patriarchal (or not sufficiently patriarchal, or something). Judge to Farah: fuck off, you loony. No doubt the editors at Snopes thought they'd seen everything. But then the spam generators at Obama Hate Machine LLC came up with this little gem for them to debunk. The saying "Oh, the stupid! It burns!" is inadequate here. (HINT: His mother's given first name was Stanley.) Joe the Plumber sez gun control caused the Holocaust Don't eat the tomatoes! They're Christian. <vote poll=clog2295 closed="yes"> WND: God guided Nik Wallenda during his tightrope walk over Niagra Falls, and not his decades of training and experience with tightrope-walking. Not to mention his tether and a plethora of other safety equipment. <vote poll=clog2294 closed="yes">Ken Ham: Our billboards are way better than your billboards! (Spot the fire-breathing dragon!) <vote poll=clog2293 closed="yes">Hello, TJ. <vote poll=clog2292 closed="yes">The metric system is COMMUNISM! <vote poll=clog2291 closed="yes">VDARE: Hip locavore trend of raising chickens in the backyard is bad because Mexicans.

<vote poll=clog2290 closed="yes">Banning plastic bags - the new Puritanism! Margaret Wente: the new McMegan? <vote poll=clog2289 closed="yes">Vox Day proves PZ Myers' point.

<vote poll=clog2288 closed="yes">The Institute for Creation Research launches a new blog: Your Origins Matter. Claims of conversation about "origins science" are likely overstated. <vote poll=clog2287 closed="yes">Alex Jones debuts a social network for gibbering nutters: planet.infowars.com. (HT Skeptical Humanities.) <vote poll=clog2286 closed="yes">Wikipedia is just part of the eugenicist New World Order conspiracy put forward by H.G. Wells. <vote poll=clog2285 closed="yes">WND: Hawaii birthers promising an October surprise.