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

May 2011
Look! I found 8 off-white interpolated pixels! It must be an alien base! Nowait! It's NASA's sikrit base! Nowait! It's a fallen spaceship! And NASA refuses to reply. That has to mean something! Chris Hedges: The recent tornadoes, wildfires, etc., are judgments of God Gaia against human sin hubris. Chris Christie accepts scientific reality and thus is unworthy to be a Republican. Whirled Nut: Give it up, liberals! Jerome Corsi's new book is a NY Times bestseller and Jack Cashill proves Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father Obama and Social Security-ers? Release the Social Security number! Are you radioactive? Drink water! To honor people who could "get a tough job done, without complaint," a blogger complains his head off about politics and how mothers are marginalized in modern culture. A scientist whines about Lenski-esque FOIA requests, thus proving, once again, that global warming is a hoax.

Last week, when his opponents were misinterpreting the Bible, William Rivers Pitt thought it contained a superior blueprint for living a good, moral life. This week, when his opponents know their Bible a little better, he thinks the Bible is for the most part a nest of savage, cruel gibberish that is hard­ly the best basis for the es­tablish­ment of a code of soci­al con­duct. Barack ("Mr. Hopey Changey") Obama, being a flaming imperialist after the fashion of Winston Churchill and George W. Bush, is pursuing an agenda of criminalizing dissent and squishing Middle Eastern democracy. Top Ten Reasons to hate Sarah Palin "1-10: Because she's beautiful, and LIBRULS SUCK". Jewish and Arab land claims in the Levant compared. The Jews claim that they own the land because God ordered them to conquer it and they did. Therefore, their claim is valid. Palestinians claim that they own the land because God ordered them to conquer it and they did. Therefore, their claim is invalid.

"32 Signs That The Entire World Is Being Transformed Into A Futuristic Big Brother Prison Grid". You can't make this shit up. [http://www.naturalnews.com/032469_homeopathy_AIDS.html Got AIDS? Drink water!]

If The Moon Does Not Rotate 360 Degrees How Did It Become Spherical? Choice quote by another poster: "If the phases are caused by the light reflecting off the moon, and the shadow because of the angle of the sun and the moon, why is it that when the moon and the sun are in the sky at the same time, the moon is still half, crescent, etc."

A blogger uses the Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrest as an excuse to discuss being groped by a stranger on a French train. The groper was, of course, not just grabbing a random woman's rear for kicks, but was an enlisted hitman of the Patriarchy, out to teach her a lesson. <vote poll=clog796 closed="yes">Ah, the Good Old Days, when Puritan values reigned supreme and checked the ravenous violent capitalistic id that leads to violent rape and commodification of women. Looks like that whole chattel marriage thing the Puritans had was a good deal after all. <vote poll=clog795 closed="yes">Prof. Henry A. Giroux: "Democracy" has nothing to do with elections, but everything to do with street battles and (of course) "formative cultures." <vote poll=clog794 closed="yes">Vincent Bugliosi: The Golden Rule "is the highest, most noble form of human behavior and the basis of all morality." (Right up to the point, that is, at which you meet a masochist or a self-hater, at which point it becomes rather spotty.)

<vote poll=clog793 closed="yes">Camping comes out of hiding, is "flabbergasted" that he's not in heaven. <vote poll=clog792 closed="yes">With no sense of irony, Joseph Farah threatens to sue Esquire over a "false story." Oh yes, and he's going to do it using your donations. <vote poll=clog791 closed="yes">A victory for Andy! Other cranks are embracing the "atheists are fat" meme. <vote poll=clog790 closed="yes">Pamela Geller: Obama calls for "Auschwitz borders." <vote poll=clog789 closed="yes">Tired of liberal public school indoctrination? Here's a great homeschooling resource for traditionalist Catholic parents. Instead of being brainwashed by Marxist teachers, your kid will learn that - babies go to hell if they aren't baptized, which is why Satan loves abortion. Masturbation is a mortal sin and leads young men to other "unnatural lusts" like homosexuality. Homosexual orientation is the result of demonic possession, and only "faithless liberals" who don't understand the supernatural world believe otherwise. Having sex with your wife while she is on her period is as "evil" as contraception, since it's an attempt to avoid having a child. It's a sin to attend the funeral of your relatives if they aren't a traditional Catholic. People who believe the Sun is the center of the solar system may be mortal sinners, since Galileo was condemned as a heretic by the Catholic Church. And let's not forget that the Holocaust was a Zionist hoax meant to silence criticism of Israel. <vote poll=clog788 closed="yes">Ben Stein thinks that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being treated poorly.

<vote poll=clog787 closed="yes">Plagiarism? In Wegman? No gross hypocrisy to see here. Move along.

<vote poll=clog786 closed="yes">Skeptics Guide to the Universe's blog goes down. Because God willed it so. <vote poll=clog785 closed="yes">The Texas Education Agency appointed a bunch of Creationists to their science review panel. Good job, guys!

<vote poll=clog784 closed="yes">A "Sovereign Citizen" (J.M Sovereign Godsent) explains the movement in a quick on air segment. <vote poll=clog783 closed="yes">Uh, cool story bro? <vote poll=clog782 closed="yes">NASA caused the Mississippi floods! Using its giant rocket engine test stand weather control machine! And they admit that they are creating rain clouds!(videos at YouTube, the usual warning about the comments applies) <vote poll=clog781 closed="yes">The Roswell incident was apparently the result of Stalin trying to throw the US into panic by sending a prototype jet full of deformed children. Created by Dr. Mengele. <vote poll=clog780 closed="yes">Ann Althouse suspects a liberal conspiracy to take down her blog, Andy-style. Balloon Juice notes the obvious explanation. <vote poll=clog779 closed="yes">A student was doing poorly in school. His teacher decided to go the extra mile and ask why, and they managed to get him back on track. Therefore, obviously, with respect to education, the Obama administration is talking bunk and efforts to improve teacher performance are not effective. <vote poll=clog778 closed="yes">A protip for Tim Ball: Don't continuously use a plagiarized, non-peer reviewed report as "evidence." <vote poll=clog777 closed="yes">Dana Ullman is very angry with the "medical fundamentalists." <vote poll=clog776 closed="yes">[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-what_4_b_856898.html Time puts a red X over Osama's face. Racists!] <vote poll=clog775 closed="yes">Let Quantum Woo Officiate your Wedding <vote poll=clog774 closed="yes">Remember Godlike Productions' owner desire to build an observatory? It's getting finished, as this video tour shows. <vote poll=clog773 closed="yes">The coal industry cares about kids with asthma. Really, Coal Cares. And those "clean" energy sources are no better than coal. <vote poll=clog772 closed="yes">Try the Alex Jones quote generator <vote poll=clog771 closed="yes">Be careful when giving your children books with animal characters; a sinister conspiracy of publishers are using them as a secret conduit for subliminal "gendered messages." <vote poll=clog770 closed="yes">1911: Joe Hill sings, "If you ... try to get something good in this life, you're a sinner, a bad man, they tell." 2011: Right-wingers have ditched that chatter and are now yammering about evil fringe leftists who champion the virtues of frugal living and other "pagan" nonsense, such as global warming.

<vote poll=clog768 closed="yes">Oh great, it is ineligibility week over at WND! <vote poll=clog767 closed="yes">This one's a bit late (sorry!), but a senior editor at a newspaper owned by some of User 188's favourite people, thinks President Obama should have either flown the SEALs to the compound or gone to church instead of playing golf before the raid that killed Osama/Usama. <vote poll=clog766 closed="yes">There is a movement to repurpose Mother's Day as "Mama's Day" so as to agitate for the honoring of "overlooked" mothers, such as young ones; the sole arbiters of who gets honored on Mother's Day being of course "right-wing conservatives" and Hallmark Cards, with no one allowed to honor anyone else, even their own mother. <vote poll=clog765 closed="yes">Every single ex­cuse that Cheney/­Bush pro­vided to the American peo­ple for in­vad­ing Afghanis­tan proved to be false. (Except the one — conveniently not mentioned — about the Taliban admitting Osama bin Laden was in the country but refusing to hand him over.) <vote poll=clog764 closed="yes">An insight into the minds of the WND title editors: Bitches is not allowed (except in huge gold letters). Fart is not allowed (RIP Carlin). Juvenile masturbation joke? That is cool. <vote poll=clog763 closed="yes">The American Family Association buys porn on line too um, ..., show you how you can buy porn online. <vote poll=clog762 closed="yes">Mike Adams shatters some irony meters by penning a column called The Gullible Mind. <vote poll=clog761 closed="yes">We did not have to invade and occupy Pakistan to catch Osama bin Laden, so whyever did we have to occupy Afghanistan? Could it possibly be because Afghanistan, unlike Pakistan, was under a government that would not let Americans in to hunt for him? No, that's clearly too obvious an answer. <vote poll=clog760 closed="yes">Prof. Henry A. Giroux: The idea that "there are no alternatives to a hyper-market-driven society" has been largely unchallenged. Oh, if only that were true. <vote poll=clog759 closed="yes">Dana Ullman: "Skeptics of homeopathy cannot answer: what are the CHEMICAL differences between an empty CD and one full of data or music?" <vote poll=clog758 closed="yes">Dublin, 11th June: The Masterplan: The Hidden Agenda For A Global Scientific Dictatorship! Featuring Richard Gage, Andrew Wakefield and, er, Jim Corr. Not the one from The Corrs. Update: Poor Jim, he really got screwed over by the laws of genetics/inheritance; not only did his sisters get all the looks, they seem to have received all the brains too! <vote poll=clog757 closed="yes">Pamela Geller: The order to kill Osama was actually the result of a coup within the White House. <vote poll=clog756 closed="yes">Shocking! The Bible doesn't mention Easter eggs! And WND can sell you the book that proves this! <vote poll=clog755 closed="yes">The real Antichrist - Gordon Brown! <vote poll=clog754 closed="yes">Infowars truthers "expose" the "truth" about Osama and harass Geraldo Rivera. <vote poll=clog753 closed="yes">It is "xenop­hobic" to display an American flag or cheer the U.S. in the course of celebration. <vote poll=clog752 closed="yes"> Experts Psychics predict wave of terror attacks in the wake of Osama's death. <vote poll=clog751 closed="yes">Chuck Norris is launching an "expose" of "creeping Sharia." <vote poll=clog750 closed="yes">Silly sheeple, [http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php Osama died in 2001. This is just a hoax to start all-out war with the Middle East.] <vote poll=clog749 closed="yes">Fox News: Osama bin Laden is dead. Oh, the never retracted story is dated December 26, 2001. <vote poll=clog748 closed="yes">Vox Day: Uh-oh! Obama's birth certificate says his father is "African," but we called them "Negroes" back then. <vote poll=clog747 closed="yes">Stephen Harper has dictatorial aspirations, meaning that if he wins the Canadian election, Americans will have nowhere to flee when—not if—the Tea Party stages a coup.