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

December 2012
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xOGVw3KJE Here's an idea. Let's try to make subjugating human rights into a gentle, reassuring video!] Oh hey, Thunderf00t. Feminism is 'poisoning' Atheism, is it now? Stay classy, bro. Reparative therapy advocates have proposed a lot of nutty "methods" to supposedly turn gay people straight. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/29/raymond-bell-cowboy-church-of-virginia-horses-gay_n_2381028.html But, stroking horses? Really???] ...what? Pane Andov tries to explain why the Sun didn't turn into a red giant on 23 December, as he predicted. Sample quote: ''A huge wave of negative energy transmitted from the thoughts of so many people, containing anger, disappointment, aggression and judgment had reached my bio-field. I had to use all my knowledge to block it since the thought energy of some is very strong and can do harm.'' Police staff and officers in the UK are taking second jobs. Normal person: "Maybe we're not paying them enough in the face of cuts." Daily Mail: "SCANDAL! HOW DARE THEY! MUSH, SLAVES, MUSH!!" George Will: Easy access to voting is bad because Hitler "To raise these queries is not to play gotcha, or to be judgmental in a dire time." Er...yes you are, and you apparently don't know the definition of humanism too. God's Facebook page attracts the best trolls. Fox Nation: "Bikers Turn Out to Protect Newtown Mourners from Left-Wing Westboro Cult." Linking NaturalNews in Clogs is fish in a barrel, really. Mayan calendar, Sandy Hook, Peace Prize Obama: Your entire reality has been scripted by the manipulation masters. The NRA's silence on the recent shootings has ended; to nobody's surprise, the NRA advocates MORE GUNS as the solution. World Net Daily gets a Jewish guy to blame the Jews for the War on Christmas. Stormfront: The real problem with video games isn't the violence, it's the Jooz' anti-white propaganda! The National Review weighs in on the Newtown school shooting: It's because there were no adult males at the school. The winter is coming! Homo sapiens will be replaced by the Others "their sober, conservative, hardy and reverent cousins represented in the Neanderthal genome." (bold mine) <vote poll=clog2532 closed="yes">Indeed, trained ex-military professionals, protecting the most important position in the US administration, with a near 1 in 10 prior odds of assassination is totally the same thing. <vote poll=clog2531 closed="yes">School shootings won't happen if principals have assault rifles - guess which country and which party that idea comes from? <vote poll=clog2530 closed="yes">"The Sexual Excesses of Modern Civilization" apparently include things like masturbation, homosexuality and non-procreative sex in general (because some hunter-gatherer tribe has no words for the former and allegedly doesn't practice the latter). And yes, this was written by a Catholic. <vote poll=clog2529 closed="yes">An ex-"Wall Street trading legend," remarking on Republicans' lackadaisical attitude toward reality, shares his version of history: not only did Galileo invent the telescope, but he was hounded by the Spanish Inquisition. <vote poll=clog2528 closed="yes"> Hel Gower on the official English Defence League Twitter account: "If those kids were children to filthy leftists, Adam Lanza did the right thing" Turns out the screenshot's a fake. <vote poll=clog2527 closed="yes">Consumerism is good for the soul. <vote poll=clog2526 closed="yes">Alex Jones also wastes no time, jumping right in and blaming the Connecticut school shooting on "mind controlled assassins [or] mind controlled patsies." <vote poll=clog2525 closed="yes">Fox: "Find excuse, find excuse, C'MON, PEOPLE! ...there!" <vote poll=clog2524 closed="yes">Gun-owning journalist: Hi there, I'm going to retweet an [http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/als-morning-meeting/182059/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-guns-and-gun-control/ article I wrote about some things you should know about guns that can easily be found on Wikipedia. You're too stupid to know what a bullet and what auto/semi-auto means, and gun crimes aren't rising!] Everyone outside the US: you can also find some things on Wikipedia. <vote poll=clog2523 closed="yes">Kent Hovind gets political - hilarity ensues. <vote poll=clog2522 closed="yes">[http://www.anh-europe.org/news/lord-taverne-tries-to-shut-down-university-chinese-medicine-courses You can't shut down unproven or disproved medicine because... because... erm... because SOVIET! FASCIST!] <vote poll=clog2521 closed="yes">The Daily Mail enjoys opinions. <vote poll=clog2520 closed="yes">Eric Hovind thinks dragons are real after watching a fictional mockumentary on Animal Planet (Uses it as an excuse to sell shit from his book store) <vote poll=clog2519 closed="yes">Creationists understand evolution better than liberals <vote poll=clog2518 closed="yes">Richard Hoagland: Curiosity spots "Martian Apartments" <vote poll=clog2517 closed="yes">Schizophrenics and psychopaths are holding America hostage. Their schizophrenia, obviously, is of the sluggishly progressing variety. <vote poll=clog2516 closed="yes">[http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/06/15731458-golden-spike-space-venture-wants-to-fly-you-to-the-moon-for-14-billion?lite Hi, my name is Newt Gingrich, and with me are a couple of NASA masterminds who don't have anything else to do with their time. In a time where repeating Apollo will be a good $100 billion, it'll only cost you 1.4 to get yourself on the Moon! Weeeeee!] <vote poll=clog2515 closed="yes">No! Not “Millions of years”, “Evolution” & “Feathered dinosaurs”. That's downright unbiblical! Sayeth Mr Ham. <vote poll=clog2514 closed="yes">Rick Santorum explains how the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities crushes US sovereignity. Was this man seriously in the running for President of the USA? <vote poll=clog2513 closed="yes">The Daily Mail and its comments board: Man running naked? [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242211/Man-wins-appeal-jog-naked-New-Zealand-If-offensive-God-wouldnt-given-genitals.html Disgusting! An affront to common sense! Not in my back yard!] A woman running naked? [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2242228/Nigella-Lawson-naked-chef-admits-runs-just-bra-trainers.html Phwoar! Yeah! Tits!] <vote poll=clog2512 closed="yes">Sensationalism 101: WND Headline is "Apocalypse news: NASA warns of real threat" regarding Mayan doomsday prophesy. Story says? Children and depressed teenagers are getting frightened and suicidal over all the apocalypse sensationalism.