RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/August 2009

It's yoga cranks vs. yoga quacks: anyone who engages in yoga for a commercial purpose is threatening to disrupt the good karma that has attracted millions of acolytes to yoga.

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Big Brother is monitoring your votes.

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Scheduled to be tested on October 31st, NASA assembles it's Ares I-X.

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A majority of American conservatives now support gay servicemen

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Don't worry Michael soon most Eagles fans will start booing Donavon McNabb again, but you'll still probably have to deal with PETA.

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Public health care leads to TERRORIST MUSLIM DOCTORS!!!! Oh for fuck's sake fox...

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Yes, this is gossip about a Z-level celebrity. Still, you have to chuckle at the thought that two years from now the newest Baptist minister will be Reverend Omarosa.

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Okay, so conservatives are being overprotective of Sarah Palin's kids, even when liberals are trying to expose them being exploited. Let's see how conservatives feel about death threats against the Obama kids.

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Arizona man sentenced for leaving water out for illegal immigrants.

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Christian Creationism Exhibit at Tulsa Zoo a Top Priority for Mayoral Candidate.

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Godwin's Law. Health care debate is over.

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Muslim fundamentalists pull gold and silver tooth-fillings from people's mouths, thus ~~getting precious metals to bankroll their war~~ giving people the modest appearance so essential to a good Muslim.

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The government of Norway imposes a gender quota on corporate boards. This of course makes the situation worse for "gender diversity;" women are drawn out of important managerial positions to fill the quotas, and there rises a cadre of ~~deadwood~~ professional quota-fillers dubbed "the Golden Skirts." Awesome quote: ""From the Viking time, the females had to take a lot of responsibility when the Vikings went away. We have a tradition for that..."

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Is Sarah Palin trying to be Phyllis Schlafly?

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The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is awarding credit if you "provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites". Trolling for credit?

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US nuns helping people in the community show "liberal drift", according to the Vatican.

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Irony at its finest: Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), one of 11 Republican co-sponsers of the birther bill in Congress will not release his birth certificate.

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No miracle on the Hudson: a tour helicopter and a small plane collide in New York City, crashing into the Hudson River.

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Ben Stein gets Expelled. Sadly, it's over journalistic ethics, not science.

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Bob Herbert: "Life in the United States is mind-bogglingly violent." The New York Times should pack him off to be a correspondent in Darfur; that'd knock the delusions out of him pretty fast.

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Hell, no - it wasn't about WMD's - it was Satan! Finally we know why Bush invaded Iraq - "We've got to stop Gog and Magog rising from the Underworld", he told French President Jacques Chirac.

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On the lighter side: guy blames his cat for downloading kiddy porn

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Glenn Beck loses advertisers after calling Obama a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people"

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A wise latina gets confirmed to the Supreme Court, and Al Franken announces it.

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APA rejects Gay Therapy

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Creation/Evolution Journal (up to 1996) goes online

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Utne Reader: "Creativity it's surprisingly orderly, it can be learned." Scientifically, no less! And to prove it, we note that people were more creative about designing train systems for cities they'd never seen.

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Which is scarier: A Neo-Nazi who was trying to make a dirty bomb? Or the fact that the corporate media found it utterly unworthy of attention? Or the fact we have laughed at Conservapedia for faulting the media in a similar manner?

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Blackwater founder Erik Prince is implicated in murder. He "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe...."

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Bill Clinton goes to North Korea to negotiate for the freedom of detained American journalists and succeeds! Although some people believe we've given them a reward by talking to them, and some people think Clinton was on a secret mission to betray America over there.

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Australia votes to extend guaranteed paid family leave to its residents, starting in 2011. This makes Oz the second-to-last industrialized nation to do so. Guess which industrialized nation is now the last?

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The New York Times, in a startling turn-around, reports that something good came out of the Iraq War. Unfortunately, this is something that is now under attack from the new government there.