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RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/February 2009
February 2009[edit]
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Who buys the most porn - red states or blue? This is yet more proof that conservatives don't know where to get free pornography. |
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More proof of the American two party system going from Republican vs. Democrat to sane vs. insane. (Read this while you can. The Rocky Mountain News, which published this on 25 February, folded two days later. No telling when they will close the website, so we've taken a picture of the story.) |
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Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is over and the countdown begins. The day the Iraq War will end: August 31, 2010. |
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Rwanda's genocidal priest is jailed |
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A Catholic priest in Brazil who defended the use of contraceptives and the rights of homosexuals has has been suspended by his archbishop who said "This is intolerable!" |
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Wouldn't it be extremely hypocritical of one political party to cry that another party of conducting a class warfare when the previous president (from the first party) gave tax cuts to the wealthy, cut welfare and ignored a horrible event in Louisiana affecting millions of middle-class members? Yes, I thought so too. (It's only "class warfare" if the poor hit back.) |
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Does hiding birth "defects" from children protect their psyches, or cause lifelong discomfort with people who are "different?" Britain is abuzz with this question now that the BBC has hired a TV kiddie show hostess who is young, pretty, and was born without the lower half of her right arm. |
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Conservatives need a convention to explain to each other that liberals are to blame. The various conference titles are pure genius. You would swear they were parody. |
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A new Facebook page was launched after the Republican "response" to Obama's speech: "Bobby Jindal is Kenneth the Page. |
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Is Gitmo worse under Obama? A lawyer who represents detainees says that guards began ramping up the level of torture last December because they want to "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed. (Warning: May cause you to lose any hope you still had for humanity and/or the US government.) |
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Dubya's legacy continues to grow! This time, his FDA failed to inspect a hypodermic syringe factory for almost two years, leading to "a series of complaints that its needles were dirty or filled with colored particles." |
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In breaking news, scientists have discovered kryptonite. In a related story, hELL has had a major snow storm. |
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Why did the British government decide to invade Iraq? "Telling you would be bad for democracy." |
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How bad is the credit crunch? American Express is now offering $300 to its cardholders if they will close their accounts. |
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Top Gear, a British car show , drives through Alabama after decorating their cars with liberal left wing slogans, result is predictable |
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Midlife lesbianism -- it seems that it isn't all that unusual for the sexuality of women over 40 to shift from straight to gay. |
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In a pathetic attempt to turn attention away from the fact that they've done fuckall about helping their states through the stimulus package, Republican governors have fallen back on their method of attacking Obama's economic policies as being a symptom of "big government" (it must be reminded that these governors were the ones who were highly vocal about the package's success). |
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Of all the many, many things wrong in this horrible story, the worst may be that he used a "youth model (largely defensive weapon of) shotgun." |
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Recently discovered papers reveal that Hitler had bad table manners and also believed in "Divine providence". Darn, another blow to the Hitler was an atheist camp. |
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Lemons into lemonade department: For all those people worried about illegal immigration, the problem is solved! |
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Want to register a business name in Pennsylvania? You may have a helluva time if you use any "naughty" words in the name. |
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Louisiana Governor Jindal is refusing his state's portion of the stimulus package on the basis that it would cause government to grow "in an unsustainable way". Considering the state of America's economy, does he really think his state will thank him for being so asinine? |
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Do declining birthrates have an evolutionary explanation? |
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Ireland's worst driver |
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A New York Post editorial cartoon seems to compare Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. Would it surprise you to learn that the Post is a sister company of Fox News? |
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Pride v. Lust. The Vatican reports that men and women "sin in different ways" |
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A North Dakota measure seeks to give |
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Ten new species of amphibian are discovered in the country of Columbia. The include one species of rain frog, one species of salamander, one harlequin frog, three poison dart frogs, and three glass frogs. Blink and you'll miss it (theirextinction, that is). |
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The daughter of former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin says of her teen pregnancy that abstinence is a good idea but "isn't a realistic option" for teenagers. Mom cringes. |
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Authors of the peanut butter argument should take note that a second genesis is actually a respected and quite plausible idea. |
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It's official: America's "War on Terror" has utterly fucked up the rest of the world. |
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A "consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women" in India planned to protest the actions of a group of self-appointed Hindu morality police by going bar hopping and sending pink panties to the group's leadership on Valentine's Day. |
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Is evolution over? |
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Not content with inventing a new name under which to prosecute blasphemy, the British government is apparently now starting to invent a new name under which to prosecute apostasy. |
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Dubya is traveling to the Great White North to deliver his first post-presidential |
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For decades, conservatives have sold the myth that privatizing public services is good policy. Tell it to the kids who got sent to juvenile prison for minor charges because the judges in their cases took kickbacks from private prison corporations. (Of course, this is most likely just a couple of bad apples. It can't be a widespread problem, right?) |
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Happy 200th birthday, Abe Lincoln! As gifts to you, we have a new coin design and this lovely speech in your honor. |
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A special court rules that vaccinations do not cause autism |
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"A lesbian socialite by night and a crime-fighter by later in the night" |
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An Iowa Trooper has been suspended after he violated his department's policy by, while off-duty and at home, forwarding an email containing mugshots and a claim that Obama has "quite a fan base." He has apologized for his actions, which his department classifies as a political statement rather than a racial one. Certain people who would have hollered blue murder if this had happened under Bush have yet to comment. |
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A porn star -- who sounds like she has a lot more intellectual firepower than Sarah Palin -- may run against David Vitter for the U.S. Senate. (Love those potential campaign slogans near the end of the video!) |
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The Obama Administration cancels the |
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It's not wonderful, but it's a slap in the face for ID and YEC |
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Jo Hovind (Kent Hovind's wife) joins him in jail for tax evasion |
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Herbal remedies for arthritis "mostly ineffective". |
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We're born to believe, it seems. |
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Sen. Patrick Leahy calls for a "truth commission" to be set up regarding to Bush administration in order to investigate things like the promotion of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping. Hopefully this will bring a better understanding to the events and ensure that such abuses do not occur again, but when has that ever worked? |
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Ann "Women shouldn't vote" Coulter under investigation for voter fraud - again. She lives in New York and may have voted in Connecticut. Previously, she was under investigation in 2006 in Florida. |
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It seems that the "connection" between vaccines and autism was based on faked data. How long before that appears in CP breaking news? They don't censor things at CP, do they? Come on, Andy! (For newbies, that's one of Andy's hottest hot-button issues.) |
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Verbatim headline: "OBAMA BIG SPENDING BILL STIMULATES ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY" You can't make this stuff up! |
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The doctor who "found" the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, is being investigated for fraud. |
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After the Troopergate debacle, where Governor Mooseburger was found guilty of ethics violations and nine state employees (including Todd Palin) were found guilty of contempt, Alaskan legislators have decided to let it all go instead of, y'know, following the law. |
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Obama: "There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being." Obama should try reading the Bible sometime. Or if that doesn't convince him, whatever those Esoteric Hitlerists use for their holy texts probably would... |
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Obama seeks to create a treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear arms. No doubt millions will have their eyes on the Doomsday Clock. |
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Obama creates the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, an organization involving both religious and secular nonprofit organizations in order to maximize benefits in their communities. No doubt Andy will be surprised to learn that James DuBois, the office's new director, is >gasp!< not a Muslim. |
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The cheese eating surrender monkeys take on $cientology on May 25th. can't wait. |
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Pat Robertson's "prayer offensive" dubbed Operation Supreme Court Freedom may be getting its third and final success, albeit a few months too late: Ginsburg is hospitalized with early-stage pancreatic cancer. |
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Christians, upset at the "There is probably no God" bus ad campaign in London, fight back with their own unprovable propaganda. |
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Obama signs a bill to extend health care to 4 million uninsured kids. |
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Just when you thought Republicans couldn't sink any lower, they start taking advice from a neanderthal. |
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Ben Stein withdraws from a commencement speech after widespread protest. The Discovery Institute bitches and moans and bitches and moans and bitches and moans. And now Howard Dean is the speaker! Oh, dear, unite conservative creationists, unite! |
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Food Story Two (Peanut Corporation of America): A worker at the salmonella-tainted peanut plant in Georgia saw a rat roasting with the peanuts. Another PCA plant in Texas ran for years without an inspection or a license. And PCA's CEO was on the USDA board overseeing the quality of peanuts. Bon appetit! |
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Food Story One (America's omnipresent sweetener): "Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury." So HFCS not only makes you fat and diabetic, it makes you stupid and crazy, too. |
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Iceland appoints world's first openly gay Prime Minister |
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Just what does it take to be a true Democrat President? Offer of hope? Check! Sensible policies? Check! Embarrassing (half) brother? Check! |