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

July 2011
Christian End Times fundamentalism, conspiracy theories, alien lizards, Richard Hoagland and Comet Elenin in a wonderful cocktail of craziness. Republicans want the US to default, because the resulting depression will turn people to God. Update: A good non-clog article on this phenomenon. America's natural and national treasures belong in private hands Who are the latest bunch of wingnuts to climb on the Comet Elenin bandwagon? WND. Another great "decline of Western civilization" piece from Whirled Nut: This time it's the fault of Marx, Darwin, and Nietzsche. Bring on the debt default revolution! CPAC don' wan' no stinking homos at their conference. Even if they are Republicans. Taxing the rich would add $716 billion to revenue per annum, thereby making a $14+ trillion debt disappear in 10 years. In case you weren't sure when the decline in democracy in the US started, it was in 1787, with the Constitution. Orly Taitz has a subpoena to see the original birth certificate. Maybe that will shut the bitch up. How about a fresh cup of rage? New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism. (Read: Roy Spencer still pushing the PDO/ENSO line.) The comments are gold. Update: That was fast -- it's already being trashed by other scientists. Choice quote: "Spencer agreed that his work could not disprove the existence of manmade global warming." Update II: Joe Romm comments. Farah is upset to learn that states' rights cuts both ways and that not everyone is a hypocrite about it. Ann Coulter stays classy. Think the Oslo attacks were secretly perpetrated by the Islamists? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t94gpoOgIOQ Wrong! It was the Masons.] Hey, little girl, want some candy?

Pat Buchanan: Breivik may be right. <vote poll=clog937 closed="yes">WND takes Godwin's Law to new depths <vote poll=clog936 closed="yes">Glenn Beck: The kids killed in Norway were like the Hitler Youth. Update: Beck doubles down.

<vote poll=clog935 closed="yes">Claims of a flat Earth are mostly a popular myth, therfore, climate deniers aren't scientifically illiterate hacks. <vote poll=clog934 closed="yes">Po', po' Rupert whines the WSJ <vote poll=clog933 closed="yes">Tune in, turn on, drop out...or something. <vote poll=clog932 closed="yes">WND finds new culprits for the Norwegian shootings: Clinton (reality check here) and Darwin. How long until Obama's name is mentioned? <vote poll=clog931 closed="yes">Freedom from the Rothschilds in Iceland is at hand, brothers! America's Rothschild stooge still reigns supreme, however. <vote poll=clog930 closed="yes">Nope. It was the muslims <vote poll=clog929 closed="yes">Get yer guns, the gays are a-comin'! <vote poll=clog928 closed="yes">Climategate: The gift that keeps on giving to deniers. <vote poll=clog927 closed="yes">Using the nefarious tactic of changing the color scheme on its soldiers' helmets, the UN is poising itself for world domination. <vote poll=clog926 closed="yes">Ron Paul: "When a country is indebted to the degree that we're indebted, the country always defaults. We will default because the debt is unsustainable." Just like when we defaulted under Harry Truman.

<vote poll=clog925 closed="yes">Darn that Internet! Christianity does poorly when it doesn't control the entire message and people have a free exchange of thought! <vote poll=clog924 closed="yes">Hurrah! Long lost medical knowledge cancer quackery is unearthed. <vote poll=clog923 closed="yes">Phone-hacking whistleblower found dead at home. Bring on the conspiracy theories! <vote poll=clog922 closed="yes">Not like China ever breached "basic norms governing international relations" with regards to Tibet <vote poll=clog921 closed="yes">This story is quite well rounded, as it includes religious pareidolia, South Carolina and Wal-Mart, all breathlessly brought to you by a small-market TV newscast. <vote poll=clog920 closed="yes">You know a Freeper list of "26 Reasons Why Obama Does Not Want to Face Palin and Might Lose" is going to be good when one of the reasons is "[i]t would be God and providence vs the Devil and secular humanism". <vote poll=clog919 closed="yes">It's true, Hollywood movies are a government plot to desensitize us to the next conspiracy! <vote poll=clog918 closed="yes">All your 9/11 wing-nuttery, in one handy smorgasbord of crazy. <vote poll=clog917 closed="yes">Arizona may be the definition of "batshit insane," but the rest of the world is quickly catching up <vote poll=clog916 closed="yes">I looked up "batshit insane" and it said "See Arizona." <vote poll=clog915 closed="yes">I'm not racist but...I am a member of Stormfront! <vote poll=clog914 closed="yes">Life imitates anime: Japan Is Cursed Because The Emperor Had Sex With A Demon <vote poll=clog913 closed="yes">Los Angeles SWAT team members carry big guns. U.S. Army soldiers carry big guns. Therefore, SWAT team operations nullify the Posse Comitatus Act. <vote poll=clog912 closed="yes">Filmmaker bawls "censorship" because the "liberal media" declines to distribute his anti-Obama film. <vote poll=clog911 closed="yes">Prof. Henry A. Giroux: Tea Partiers are all sadists, in part because they hold the despicable belief that "brilliant individuals [are] more qualified to run government." Meanwhile, back in the real world, they proudly flaunt their status as Real AmericansTM who do not know their brain from a hunk of Velveeta. <vote poll=clog910 closed="yes">The term "Arab Spring" is a counter-revolutionary conspiracy of the American media to keep the proles elsewhere in false consciousness. Never mind that it was coined by Dominique Moisi, a French writer. <vote poll=clog909 closed="yes">Remember that "family promoting" pledge that Bachmann signed and Santorum endorsed? Now the conservative "The Family Leader" group have removed the bit about how fewer African-Americans are raised in two-parent families today than under slavery. <vote poll=clog908 closed="yes">VenomFangX continues his descent into madness and/or self-parody. <vote poll=clog907 closed="yes">Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush did, but Louie Gohmert and Tony Perkins are on to his game. They know that, deep down, Obama is really a Muslim who wants to make secular humanism the state religion. <vote poll=clog906 closed="yes">Jerome Corsi continues to clutch at straws. Best: the original images do not support the premise being made at all. <vote poll=clog905 closed="yes">Bill Gates thinks vaccines should be available for every child. Oh, right, NaturalNews thinks that's a bad thing.

<vote poll=clog904 closed="yes">Margaret Thatcher snubs Sarah Palin because socialists feed her disinformation. (Really, Maggie - the Iron Fucking Lady, screwed the miners, not for turning - Thatcher employs socialists to do her research?) <vote poll=clog903 closed="yes">Kentucky teabaggers wear their hearts on their sleeves racism on their chests. N.B.: The T-shirts in question are ironic.

<vote poll=clog902 closed="yes">Women who feel no compunction to improve what nature bestowed upon them are, in my experience, arrogant, lazy or deluded, and frequently all three. Or, with Captain Subtext's Truth Helmet translating, "I'm a wrinkly old bag, lack any self confidence and am in total denial of that fact". <vote poll=clog901 closed="yes">A Quaker pontificates on how patriotism is a sin that validates the behavior of such stinkers as Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, and the folks who brought down the Soviet Union.

<vote poll=clog900 closed="yes">Regarding the mass homeopathic "overdoses" by the 10:23 campaign, Natural News ponders "Why won't homeopathy skeptics drink their own medicine?" The answer being, of course, that they are under the febrile delusion that electrons are physical objects rather than "vibrations." <vote poll=clog899 closed="yes">In Thailand, the party of that monopolistic self-aggrandizing cell-phone tycoon tireless champion of the people, Thaksin Shinawatra, has just won re-election; one should look out for a re-hash of the demagoguery and human rights abuses of his first term transformation of the elite establishment. <vote poll=clog898 closed="yes">Whereas, some noble savages subsistence-farming tribal societies back in the sticks of Southeast Asia lack what we would call a "government," therefore, anarchism is a viable political philosophy. <vote poll=clog897 closed="yes">It only took a couple of years, but George Will buys into the "whitewash theory" of the financial crisis. (Update: Dean Baker responds to Will's latest nonsense.) <vote poll=clog896 closed="yes">Cynthia Boaz: "There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press," except, of course, when it is used by people who lie, distort the truth, or deliberately push one party's viewpoint over another's, at which point it "degrades the quality of democracy" instead. Double standard much? <vote poll=clog895 closed="yes">Seth MacFarlane: writer, cartoonist, comedian...thrall of the Illuminati?!? <vote poll=clog894 closed="yes">Student: Dear Creation Ministries International, I would like some help with a school project on intelligent design and evolution. CMI: Here you go, have this list of PRATTs. <vote poll=clog893 closed="yes">Here's your one-stop-shop for everything free energy and conspiracy related.