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

August 2012
Start your facepalms, ladies and gentleman; there are two new chick tracts! Jon McNaughton finally releases his one painting that says it all. "The logic behind Protect the Polls is simple. If you are a legal gun owner in the state of Florida and you suspect someone on Election Day is committing voter fraud you can shoot him or her with your licensed weapon and not be charged with a crime."  Update:Possibly a parody. Gawker reads Godlike Productions so you don't have to: Moon Truthers react to Neil Armstrong's death. Monica Crowley from Fox News reminds us what Neil Armstrong's death is really about: Obama spreading Islam. (via Gawker, not The Onion) Prepare for the apocalypse with plenty of superfood smoothies and sea salt! Shorter S. E. Cupp: Racism, sexism, and classism are leftist conspiracy theories. [http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-plan-b/ Obama's "Plan B": Attack Israel to attack Iran and then send in unarmed US Soldiers. Makes sense to me.] First, they moved my books to the Kindle, then they shoved me into an oven! Gay marriage will lead to more abortions, because “statistics show that unborn babies are four or five times more likely to be aborted outside real marriage.” Surprisingly, this is the UK being batshit insane, instead of the USA. Your next Rapture check point: Sept 25, 2012. And that's also why NASA cancelled the Shuttle program. The Hunger Games, a society where the poor are subjugated and forced to perform by an elite minority, is exactly where the elitist-hating poor-loving left-leaning socialist Barack Obama is taking us (also, there's a poll to screw over) Rush Limbaugh: "Hurricane is an Obama conspiracy to cancel the GOP Convention." Charles Koch demands economic "freedom" -- shatters irony meters.

EN&V: "Intelligent design is not an argument from analogy. ... A bacterial flagellum is not analogous to an outboard motor; it is an outboard motor." Best reason yet to vote Romney? He has more sons than daughters, and that's a scientifically proven method for telling he's successful. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-trice/gop-scared-ron-paul_b_1814846.html Dr. Paul is going to be President and Mitt is trying to steal the most important 15 minutes of the election! Dr. Paul is the only one who cares about 'da Constitution and doesn't suck up to those darn Big Daddy GOP!] Meet the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the average Paulbot. Meet 8 fellow fuckheads who think Todd Akin has a point. Islamic cleric stopped clock? Buying popularity on Twitter is haram [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/08/08/former-columbia-classmate-calls-obama-unseal-college-transcripts?intcmp=obnetwork Right when we thought the birthers had skulked back to their hobbit holes, Sean Hannity reignites the flames. What the hell, Fox?] <vote poll=clog2386 closed="yes">In a brief flash of rationality, some denizens of Godlike Productions crowd-source a huge list of failed prophecies that had been posted on their site. <vote poll=clog2385 closed="yes">A local Tory writes: [http://www.freezepage.com/1345148868NOTWTWGISE Facts are stupid things. You can use them to prove anything that's remotely true. Take that, "science!"] Followup: You're all sooo mean. <vote poll=clog2384 closed="yes">A VSP gives us a glimpse into his bizarro world: "Ryan is a real fiscal conservative. He isn’t just another Tea-Party ideologue spouting dogma about less government and the magic of free enterprise." <vote poll=clog2383 closed="yes">Sarah Maid of Albion: Basically, if you discount the black medallists in Britain's Olympic team, there weren't any black medallists in Britain's Olympic team! <vote poll=clog2382 closed="yes">Are chemtrails hiding the Nibiru flyby as they brainwash us and depopulate the planet? (HT Skeptical Humanities) <vote poll=clog2381 closed="yes">According to Sarah Palin, the currently-under-construction bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles is a "train to nowhere." <vote poll=clog2380 closed="yes">It's official! Ham's Ark will have fire-breathing dragons! <vote poll=clog2379 closed="yes">Remember the imbeciles who mocked the Japanese earthquake/Fukushima as "revenge for Pearl Harbor?" Here we go again. Even more depressing: it was on the anniversary of Nagasaki. <vote poll=clog2378 closed="yes">Pat Robertson shows us he's a terrible human being part MCMXVIII. <vote poll=clog2377 closed="yes">Might we be insinuating that liberal academia needs some wingnut welfare? <vote poll=clog2376 closed="yes">Jon McNaughton, still full of shit. <vote poll=clog2375 closed="yes">Science reporting at its best: PLoS One Study: [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042911 Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is induced by cellular stress... Here we show that natural birth in mice triggers UCP2 expression in hippocampal neurons.] Daily Mail Headline: Babies born naturally 'have higher IQs than those delivered by caesarean section' <vote poll=clog2374 closed="yes">Jerome Corsi's latest theory: Obama may be gay and previously married to a man.

<vote poll=clog2373 closed="yes">Bryan Fischer advocates kidnapping the children of gay couples, forgets that the original Underground Railroad was for people who wanted to escape. Clearly, not an American Dad! fan <vote poll=clog2372 closed="yes">Phyllis Schlafly finally retreats to the kitchen that she says she belongs in compares the oppression of Christian values to the vilification of smokers. Sound familiar? <vote poll=clog2371 closed="yes">Louisiana education: Slave owners were nice people, the KKK was ok, the Depression is liberal hype. And so a country's education system goes down the tubes. <vote poll=clog2370 closed="yes">American girls don't use condoms anymore, so lets bang those bitch whores!! - all in your average day for your douchebag PUA. <vote poll=clog2369 closed="yes">Romney landslide! based on numbers I got from somewhere <vote poll=clog2368 closed="yes">Morrissey (aye, that prat singer off The Smiths) pulls one hell of a Godwin over the Olympics. <vote poll=clog2367 closed="yes">Flingbooty goes for the fundie trifecta: The Mars Rover "Curiosity" was designed by God, it's proof of Intelligent Design and if it does find life, that life came from Earth, thanks to the Flood. <vote poll=clog2366 closed="yes">MRA theologian: "Mary Magdalene fucked an alien to get preggers and got Joe the carpenter to pay for it all." <vote poll=clog2365 closed="yes">Hey Faux: Shut the fuck up. <vote poll=clog2364 closed="yes">Birthers in three words: Obama's alleged mother. <vote poll=clog2363 closed="yes"> ZOMG! ZION! A British Olympic team is "spearheading the New World Order"! A TV presenter said it, so it must be significant! <vote poll=clog2362 closed="yes">Do you know that there's sinister Illuminati symbolism everywhere? Especially in Google Doodles (Olympic or not), Katy Perry video clips, the outlines of residential areas and power plants and, of course, Illuminati! cards. <vote poll=clog2361 closed="yes">Truly some disturbing people on the internet. James Holmes, the Aurora shooter, has a fandom. <vote poll=clog2360 closed="yes">WND ramps up the crazy and paranoia over Iran and nukes.