RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/June 2012
June 2012[edit]
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30 Million uninsured Americans? The GOP says that's not the issue. |
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Moonies have mass weddings. Mormons have mass resignations. |
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One Million Moms don't seem to know the bit about "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it." |
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Conservative author Michael Marin kills himself in the courtroom after being found guilty of arson |
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In totally unsurprising news, Katie Holmes decides to divorce Xenu. |
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Home-birth advocate proclaims: "Free-birthing is beautiful! It's natural! It's how ALL births should be done! (Oh, um, just ignore the fact that I caused the death of my own baby) |
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The US Supreme Court upholds 'Obamacare' Update: Oh God, the irony, it burns! |
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65 percent of Americans say Obama better suited to handle alien invasion than Romney. |
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8 TRILLION LEGO!!! That is all. |
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Texas GOP platform opposes the teaching of critical thinking skills. (see p.12 of the PDF, section heading "Knowledge-Based Education" - platform also includes abstinence-only sex ed and teaching the controversy.) |
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Oreo goes badass. Best Comment yet: "Now that I think about it, Oreo cookies are basically gay metaphors anyway. Cream filling stuck between two hard, round, black, flat things? Come on. Someone's got jungle fever." 27 June 12 |
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Germany bans the cutting of foreskin on religious grounds, pissing off Jews and Muslims alike. And so begins the "War on Circumcision!" :) |
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Charles Carreon vs The World takes a turn for the even stranger (Is such a thing even possible? Yes it is!) |
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The U.S Supreme Court strikes down 3/4 of the controversial Arizona immigration law. Pundits explode into confusion and rage |
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Good news for the 80-odd prisoners sentenced to life without parole for murders committed before their 15th birthday: SCOTUS declares their punishment "cruel and unusual." |
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If prayer actually worked, don't you think Christians have better things to pray for than "praying Lady Gaga away." |
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Animals are WAY smarter than we thought. Or we're dumber than we thought. Or both. |
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Mohamed Morsi elected president of Egypt. Will it be able to remain a secular state for long? |
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Ah, the beauty of knowing exactly what will happen. Enjoy yourself, Benedict. |
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First? Whatever. Congratulations! You came second! |
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As part of the commemoration of Alan Turing's 100 birthday, a conference today at Oxford will debate whether his death was a suicide (as per the official findings) or an accident. |
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Sandusky found guilty on 45 of 48 charges. |
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Rio +20: Achieving fuck all! |
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Watch as DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart goes full retard. Drugs are bad, m'kay. |
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"Doomsday" bird flu data released to the public in full. The verdict? Do not, I repeat, do not fuck with nature. |
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Want to have a competition and want to give it a cool name? Don't mess with the 'Olympic' brand, or they'll sue your sorry backside for denigrating True American Athletes™. |
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UK comedian Jimmy Carr admits to using a (legal) tax avoidance scheme, apologies and states he will withdraw from it. David Cameron, who has his family fortune nicely tucked away in an offshore account, calls Carr's action "morally wrong". Also: *cough*. |
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Andrew Schlafly now apparently writing textbooks for the UK. "Solar Fusion is a Myth" |
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Three Alberta oil spills in exactly 30 days. Just need a little more Harper! Congratulations! |
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Egypt's Hosni Mubarak dies....oh wait maybe not.. |
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Adidas fails forever. |
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More "Christian love:" Christians, carrying pigs' heads and chanting anti-Islam slogans, crash an Arab-American festival in Michigan. |
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After failing to get Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal) to give him twenty grand, the latest purveyor of the Streisand effect is now suing the National Wildlife Foundation and the American Cancer Society. |
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So, has post-Arab Spring Egypt become the "Islamic Caliphate" that wingnuts feared? Nah, a possible military coup. |
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Sheriff Joe keeps fighting the good fight and arrests a six-year-old girl on suspicion of being undocumented. |
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Glenn Beck is aghast at Glee's message of acceptance and diversity and wants to create a conservative version to destroy it. |
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François Hollande unsurprisingly wins a majority in today's legislative election, but strangely (in regards to France's lenient views on sexuality) his former wife Ségolène Royal loses in her riding after Hollande's new partner started a Twitter catfight. Update: In even more strange news, Voldemort is set to disappear from the national spotlight while another Le Pen wins a seat (and another addition to the Evil, but Hawt! list.) |
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Oh, Jenny, can't find anything else to do with your time, can you? And forfucksake HuffPo, her son doesn't have autism. |
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In some sick Euro 2012 joke, Greece advances to the quarterfinals before tomorrow's election. In true Philosopher Football fashion, they will have to face their creditors. |
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Female Michigan House representatives disagree with invasive anti-abortion bill. They are subsequently forbidden to speak at all. Democracy in action, no women allowed. |
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Someone could write a thesis on this: Compare the reasonable comments on Obama's illegal immigrant decision today in the Beeb and (shockingly) Reddit to the full-scale batshit insanity on Politico: Dey took er jobs! Illeagals can voet! Americahh! |
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Plants can talk. The UN is to vote on reclassifying veganism as an act of genocide in an emergency session tomorrow. |
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Dubya's head was cut off and stuck on a pike. |
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In a blow to at least one source of bodybuilding woo, it seems Growth-Promoting Hormones Don't Stimulate Strength (note that ScienceDaily's is mostly an aggregator of press releases) |
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Alexander Aan, the Indonesian atheist who made the "God does not exist" post on Facebook, sentenced to 2½ years imprisonment for blasphemy. |
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New theory on why the male "gay gene" doesn't bring on its own extinction: 1.) Gay men's mothers and aunts carry the gene; and 2.) these women tend to have more children than average. Okay, this theory overlooks the number of closeted gay men who have children. But still, it's ironic (not to mention both sad and amusing) to think of all the homophobic dominionists who pop out a dozen or so kids, thus increasing the likelihood that they will produce at least one confirmed bachelor. |
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Lance Armstrong brought up on new doping charges by the US Anti-Doping Agency |
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Former Mobster and inspiration for the film Goodfellas, Henry Hill, dies at 69 |
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This stretch of highway brought to you by...the Klan? |
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TERRORISM: Now with a sense of humour! |
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Democracy in Canada takes another brutal body blow, as "embarrassment to the government" is declared to be a national security threat. |
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How fucked is the Euro? Fucking Bitcoin is preferable. |
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Greek fascist finds himself at the bottom of a hole, keeps digging. |
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Ok...did anyone consider the implications of leaving a full city-state to the Roman Catholic Church? We might be en route to a scandal worse than 2010's. |
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Holy crap. Mr. President, we suggest you stay away from Jesusland. (as if he wasn't already) |
   | 12 | Hey look, it's God denying that he's God! |
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Details on the Stuxnet attack on Iran's nuclear program leak. |
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Terry Jones (no, not the funny one) hangs an effigy of Obama outside his church. |
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Dirty socialism caused Greece to go (almost) bankrupt … oh, wait! |
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Support for gay marriage comes from a surprising quarter. |
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Alberta oil spill #2 Keep going Harper! You can do it! |
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Nothing to do while detained in Wal-Mart for shoplifting while the police are on their way? Cook some meth. |
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Y'all lookin' fer the ideal place fer y'alls lil'uns birthday party? Come on down to our shootin' range. |
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Giant venomous spiders attack a village in northeastern India. Anti-venom is slow to arrive; in the meantime the locals seek assistance from witch-doctors, who bleed them to death. |
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Denmark legalizes same-sex marriage. Helle! :) |
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Greece lurches even closer to chaos as a newly elected, neo-nazi, Golden Dawn MP assaults two female communist MP's live on air and then goes on the run. |
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Update on a previous WIGO: After DOMA forced a legally married widower to pay $363,000 in estate taxes, a New York district judge rules the law unconstitutional and calls for laws that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation to be "subject to a heightened form of judicial scrutiny." |
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Why worry about coal mining's massive environmental impacts to nearby communities when SOMEONE TOOK A PHOTO OF THEIR CHILD IN THE TUB! |
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Private Christian school hires music teacher, then immediately fires him when they find out he's gay. |
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Stephen Harper's go-to guy for questions on the robocall affair faces investigation for possible electoral improprieties. |
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Call the wammmbulance! For the love of all that is holy, Canuckistan! |
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Republican spokesman calls for acid to be thrown in the faces of female Democrats. |
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South Korean creationists win a petiton to get the teaching evolution banned in S. Korean schools. |
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Louisiana continues its slide into ruin with a voucher system for schools, most of which are religious. |
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