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RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/February 2013
February 2013[edit]
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Don't worry about the government censoring your emails - Apple will do it for them. |
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Discrimination is dead in the United States. Oh wait, no, sorry, this guy is dead. (Probably worth noting that the coroner thinks politics wasn't involved in the death) |
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Tom Flanagan (Stephen Harper's Rove doppelgänger and Assange execution advocate): Child porn for everyone! Update: Fired by the CBC. Update II: Fired by the University of Calgary. |
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Mars space proposal #46: Hitch a sexually active middle-aged couple in a refrigerator-sized, radiated capsule for 500 days for a flyby 5 years from now without any re-entry plan. The cost - 1/10 of an Apollo mission. The sane person's reaction - [1] |
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Scalia thinks that African-Americans are entitled. |
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Italian election results are in. Good news: Silvio Berlusconi lost. Bad news: So did everyone else. |
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That reported decline in enemy attacks in Afganistan was a goof. |
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Never wrestle with pigs in the mud, they'll enjoy it, and they'll beat you with experience. Progressives say something racist and do the GOP's work for them. |
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Two-body interactions: A Longitudinal Study: Physicist proposes in science paper. No word on how this will be peer-reviewed. |
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Daily Mail: 'Hi Mumsnet, got any nasty stories about NHS doctors being "reluctant to treat children" and sending them to A & E?' |
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Ted Cruz, a Tea Party Senator talks about Reds under the bed. |
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Yet another one: prize-winning homophobe Cardinal Keith O'Brien 'accused of inappropriate acts' with other priests. O'Brien was friend to notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile. [2] More: he resigns or The Pope forces him out. |
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Heart-warming story of the year, starting with a diamond ring dropped accidentally into a begging bowl. |
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   | 13 | US Justice Department calls laws denying financial benefits to gay and lesbian marriages unconstitutional. |
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Oh Jesus fucking Christ. (Berlusconi might manage a comeback) |
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North Korean Women Encouraged to Choose from 18 Official Hairstyles, Men Get 10. [No, not The Onion] |
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Vermont caves to the anti-vaccine crowd. |
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Outrage! Religious oppression of Pastafarianism in New Jersey. |
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Another day, another round of gay sex, blackmail and corruption allegations at the Vatican. |
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Japan executes some people. |
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The cop investigating Oscar Pistorious is himself up on attempted murder charges. |
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Capitalist spits in the face of labor rights. (And lectures French officials in English. Well done.) |
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Hilarity ensues as the chairwoman of the Yellowstone County, Montana Republican Party comes up with a totally original black man/watermelon combo. |
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Alberta in 2008: "See what happens when you listen to to the Gore-sucking enviroweenie socialists, Ontario? Oil trumps all!" |
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"In order for you to understand quantum mechanics, I will need to take off my clothes and play this video with Hitler and 9/11 while ninjas beat me up." |
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Does baseball involve getting hit in the head a lot? 'Cause Jose Canseco is trying to explain science, and not doing very well. |
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"Hello, Hello! America? Yes, can you please nuke us? It would be really great!!" Chinese Politburo: |
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Irony meters are SPROINGing eveywhere when a GOP Missouri state rep proposes legislation to make proposing gun control legislation a felony. His argument for a bill which violates the First Amendment? "We seem to be having a lot of people willing to further restrict our constitutional rights and take our rights." |
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North Carolina allows illegal immigrants to have driver's licenses in the most begrudging fashion possible: slapping a humiliating "NO LAWFUL STATUS" label on their licenses. |
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In the Republican Party's continuing gross misunderstanding of human biology, an Alabama lawmaker claims fetuses are "organs" that women shouldn't be allowed to "remove." |
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Oscar Pistorius, who was recently charged with murdering his girlfriend, is now also alleged to have been using anabolic steroids. Is there no athlete for our children to look up to?.Apart from Usain Bolt and Bradley Wiggins and David Rudisha and Allyson Felix and Anna Chicherova and Kobe Bryant and Gabby Douglas and Beth Tweddle and Chad le Clos and Jade Jones and Mo Farah and Omid Norouzi and jacqueline Freney and David Villa and Cameron Leslie? Probably not, no. |
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Mississippi finally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment thanks to Steven Spielberg.[No, not The Onion] |
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So much for all Buddhists being peaceful. "Stop having freedom of religion, you bloody Muslims and your halal products!" (They were actually protesting against the process of Halal slaughter.) |
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Let's see you doing it then, you fucking prick (Especially if it's for free) |
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Irish government to, after much waiting, apologise for the atrocity known as the Magdalene laundries...while another high-up institution stays silent. |
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So, what do you get when your TV network airs a blatant Da Vinci Code ripoff that gets the lowest ratings for a scripted pilot episode in your network's 65 year history. (And that includes this infamous turd.) |
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The moment sexual equality becomes a reality: When you don't have to use a professional soccer career to try and "escape" from your own sexual orientation. |
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Suddenly the Tunguska event isn't such a mystery any more. Update: The Guardian has more videos of breaking glass and swearing Russians. Cue conspiracy theories in 4...3...2...1... (The first one to connect it to 2012 DA14 |
gets a shiny new tinfoil hat!)
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Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA paper has been released, but there are a few problems with it... (It's this joke come to life.) |
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In Arizona, convicted felons cannot legally carry firearms (with certain exceptions). But join Boss Hogg's Maricopa posse and as long as you weren't convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony in the last 12 months, mount up, podner! |
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Prepare to watch a NYT writer get fired for trying to repeat the Tesla/Top Gear fiasco. Update: Pwning continues. |
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Brooklyn College continues to show the democratic, American spirit by throwing students out of a public meeting for being visibly Jewish? |
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The Tea Party demonstrates how classy it is by making a fake Hillary Clinton bestiality video. |
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio hired a convicted child-sex criminal for armed school "posse" that schools didn't ask for. And said he didn't care when it was pointed put to him. And also hired Steven Seagal to provide weapons training for the "posse". Remember, only ten links ago, the Tea Party was trying to block, possibly with some force, a recall petition against Boss Hogg. |
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The same Icelandic parliament containing internet freedom activist Birgitta Jónsdóttir is now considering instituting its very own Great Firewall of China in order to enforce its very own "Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance." Gail Dines is very much excited, pretending that this approach has not been tried before. |
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Try not to make eye contact with the photo. The BBC reports on legal action against itself in the Jimmy Savile sex scandal. |
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Fugitive Ex-Los Angeles Cop Believed Killed in Fire After Shootout |
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Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers UPDATE: Tea Party and Faux News say, "Nuh-huh and they used tax-payer dollars for the research!" Grab the popcorn. |
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Remember the "penis-head fish" that was 'made of lol' last year? Creationists, what's your God doing now? |
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this medical procedure is shit |
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What does it all mean? UK government permits gay marriage: nada. Pope Benedict resigns: Vatican struck by lightning twice. St. Peter's Basilica being a tall building on a hill with a lightning rod during an electrical storm is, naturally, just a coincidence. |
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Add "democracy" to the list of things Teabaggers don't understand. |
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Homophobic assholes just love to show their support for tradition by eating, don't they? The "pro-family" crowd have a cake dessert from the Oregon bakery that refused to make a lesbian wedding cake to follow down that fried chicken. |
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A woman who was raped in New York a year and a half ago had her case demoted to sexual assault...because it wasn't vaginal. With luck, her case will help a languishing bill that will make oral and anal rape classified as, you know, what it fucking is. |
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Coroner: "Drinking 10 litres of Coke a day for years may have been a causal factor in a woman's death". The family "did not consider Coke was harmful because its labels do not contain warning signs". Maybe a baby being born without enamel on its teeth might have been a sign. |
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CNN hosts a debate between William Lane Craig and The Amazing Atheist. Finally, someone who makes even T.J. look good. |
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That's no earthquake... (North Korea may have tested a nuclear bomb.) Update: Confirmed. All eyes on China now. |
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Pope Ratzy is resigning at the end of the month. (We're witnessing history here. The last Pope to do this was Gregory XII, in the 15th century.) |
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Sometimes, standard sciencey stuff |
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Brazilian pastor jailed after telling his flock that his penis contained "holy milk." (Spanish original.) Update: We done been Poed. Original satirical blog post, article on people Poed by it. |
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Conservatives can't get enough of those robocalls. Amazingly, they fessed up this time, after first denying it. |
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Atlas Shrugged Part 2 fails as badly as part 1. (The fans in the comments are great.) Will we see part 3? |
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At least it's not the Bible in schools: a new bill would require all Idaho kids to read Atlas Shrugged in school. UPDATE: Bill fails. |
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The WBC responds to 2 of Fred's granddaughters leaving the flock: "If they continue with the position that they have, those two girls, yeah, they’re going to hell." So much for "blood is thicker than water." |
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Well, at least the rightwingers will be happy it wasn't one of them this time: Black ex-cop snaps, goes on spree shooting in Los Angeles. His manifesto. Police shoot wrong people. Update: Up pops a loony almost immediately |
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"Targeted killing" = The new "extraordinary rendition." |
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Who saved the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu from the Islamists? The librarians, of course! |
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What part of "Streisand effect" don't you people understand? |
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Newly discovered largest known prime number (257,885,161-1) is 17,425,170 digits long. The previous largest known prime number, discovered in 2008, was a mere 12,978,189 digits long. |
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Taking the kids for fast-food? Don't forget your gun, in case another customer bothers you. |
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What did the new head of security for American nuclear facilities do at his last job? He managed a Target.[No, not The Onion] Bonus: He's a retired colonel who previously commanded a missile base that flunked a nuclear security test within five months of his departure. |
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Oh, look. Another ex-gay activist who isn't as ex-gay as he claims. |
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Magnitude 8 earthquake in the Solomon Islands; potential for tsunami in the Pacific ocean. (clearly God's wrath for the WIGO below) |
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The Britons are set to pass gay marriage! |
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You know that knuckledragger from the 49er's who said gays wouldn't be allowed in the locker room? Well... |
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The GOP's War on Women continues unabated. |
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No sooner do we celebrate the successful end to the Alabama stand-off, with the gun nut dead and the 5-year-old safe, than we hear about the |
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Thunderbirds are go!.......again.... |
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They've dug up the skeleton of someone who probably was Rich the T...hird. |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserts his readiness to be the first Iranian in space |
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From now on, girls shall be pretty and inoffensive when in school. |
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Israel demonstrates to the world how much of a modern, democratic nation in the Middle East they are. Correction: Independent article is blown out of proportion and misleading. |
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The "Gay dog" saga descends deeper into a mini-statement about all that's wrong with the American right wing, as Bill Donohue describes its adoption as "reverse discrimination" against straights. These days, satire writes itself. |
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NASA's Curiosity tests out its tools to penetrate rock on Mars. Drill, baby, drill! |
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A legend says goodbye. If I have half as much grace as he does I will die very happy. Sleep well Wilko, every punk and R&B head and guitar fan from here to 'there' will miss you my friend. |
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Never mind the absurd rates of teenage pregnancy and KKK membership, the GOP lawmakers in Tennessee are busy with having another shot at passing the "Don't Say Gay" bill, and this time, teachers have to inform parents if Johnny uses too much glitter in arts and crafts class. |