RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2009

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February 2009

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Joe the Plumber Sam the Lobbyist decides that Congressmen and others who "don't support the troops" should be shot. We suggest Rush "Phony soldier" Limbaugh should be first.

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At the fascist wingnut CPAC convention, they know why the Democrats won power: The Republicans weren't conservative enough. Can't wait for Palin-Jindal 2012.

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Why doesn't Conservapedia's article on Barack Obama include this vital information? ANSWER: Because it's on Comedy Central, you three-hour-a-day watching, publicly-schooled heathen!

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"Jindal's Eruption of Hot Gas": Setting the record straight regarding the Louisiana governor's typical Republican anti-science pooh-poohing of volcano monitoring. Or, if you prefer to read a more satiric take . . . If that's still not enough, see the smarmy liberal photo response here on Rationalwiki

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The anti-vaccine crowd gets pwned.

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YouTube video: "Who's Keeping Burger King Workers Below the Poverty Line?" Watch this video for another reason to skip going through the drive thru window.

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"God and Ponzi." Among the customers of Ponzi schemer "Sir" Allen Stanford was a fundy Christian YouTube knockoff called "God Tube." (This article has lots of links to God Tube videos, including one of a crazy prayer that "rebukes" every sex act and thought.)

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Who needs Big Government?

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Hard work doesn't work, and why that fact is a menace to us all.

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PZ Myers posts a top-class example of how to respond to requests to debate creationists.

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Where the wild things aren't...

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Galaxy Quest - social computing goes intergalactic(self promotion warning)

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Breaking the internet's fourth wall - on blogs and RationalWIki.(plugging for Ames warning)

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Johann Hari: Despite these riots, I stand by what I wrote; why free speech should be defended.

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Essential science books - required reading for science undergraduates(self promotion warning)

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Simon Conway Morris still thinks “God did it” is a scientific statement -an epiphany in the Burgess Shale?(self promotion warning)

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Telegraph and Daily Mail jump off the deep end over Jennie Cain case -another British "Christians as a persecuted minority" flap.(self promotion warning)

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How the Party of Lincoln Forgot About Lincoln by becoming the party of Reagan.

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Andrew Sullivan and Mark Slouka agree: If you know not of what you speak, STFU. "English was good enough for Jesus Christ..."

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Could Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream be any more awesome? To this the ice creams gurus say, "Yes, Pecan!"

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A Review of "OfQuack": The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council

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Henry Morris' latest argument for teaching creationism broken down line-by-line.(plugging for Ames warning)

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Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres are better liked than Rush Limbaugh.

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Where does morality come from; knowledge and understanding or bronze age story books? Thunderf00t on the Mirror of Mankind