RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/March 2012
March 2012[edit]
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Buchanan, Malkin et al...you can crawl right back into the hole you came in from, thanks. |
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VIDEO: Last December, two Trekkers driving through a small town in Illinois were given a first-hand demonstration of how American law enforcement uses the war on drugs to violate people's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. |
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We're going to have to double our Eurabia debunking efforts. |
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New experiment shows Einstein was dead on in his view of how the universe is expanding |
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MYSTERY: Did Frothy almost drop an N-Bomb on the President? [1] |
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With a looming petrol delivery strike in the UK, the panic buying starts claiming victims. |
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And so begins one of the most important race cases of the 21st century. |
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The 2012 conservative campaign against women reaches absurd new levels. Remember, Repulicans want small government. Very small government. |
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WE'RE #1! AMERICA #1! at being a western nation and executing our citizens... |
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Will somebody please get Pat Robertson some meds? His latest claim is that homosexuality is a form of demonic possession. |
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Small changes in federal policy...can be interpreted as progress. |
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The fact that stories like this are happening every week should be enough to raise alarm bells. Hell, does Anonymous even have this kind of power? |
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While American right wing politicians do everything they can to starve public education, school officials in South Carolina may have found a way to speed up the process -- make bass fishing a varsity sport with teams, leagues, championship playoffs and varsity letters. |
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Canada continues the grand military tradition of buying lemons it doesn't need |
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Not from The Onion: Birthers want proof that Mitt Romney was born in America |
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US anti-abortion group "40 Days for Life" hops over the pond to protest against the British Pregnancy Advisory Service - including filming staff and harassing women in and around the clinics. |
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Just please make a better film than Avatar. - (why isn't this headline "Cameron Sinks to New Depths"?) |
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"Well, she coulda been related to Saddam Hussein, yah know. Just askin' questions." |
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Hitler shampoo commercial gets blasted in Turkey Could be worse. They could be advertising soap. |
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German courts want cisgender purity, and rule that the state can condemn a young trans girl to institutionalization, reparative therapy and foster care simply because her mother didn't try to beat the transgender out of her. |
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Perhaps the world's only Shiva that has Lender's Bagels. |
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How does the Conservative Party get around a strike by the guys who drive the petrol tankers? They get the army to fill in for them! |
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Does getting a heart transplant not imply that you have a heart to begin with? |
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Starbucks is being boycotted, of all things, for being pro-gay. |
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Everyone on me: Galactic facepalm. |
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You know how conservative politicians like to talk about how state intervention in the economy is ultimately destructive? Yeah? Well they might try following their own advice when it comes to private-sector labour disputes. |
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Now it's official: Watching Fox News can be bad for your health, and may even lead to your death. |
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After a year or so of making more off-the-wall statements than usual, should we ask ourselves if Pat Robertson is losing his mind? The most recent example: Because the Denver Broncos signed Peyton Manning and traded Tim Tebow to the Jets, "it would serve them right" if Manning re-injured his neck. |
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Bizarro World: Santorum endorses Obama. Sort of. Update: a pro-choice GOP congressman (not ironically) recommends giving money to Democrats. |
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Coercive vaginal ultrasound scans count as rape, according to |
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Kakistocracy - Rule by the utterly, surreally ignorant. He just doesn't stop. |
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Ironic news item of the day: Two gay men on a gay cruise arrested for having gay sex while in a port where gay sex is illegal. |
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A new petition attempts to place Alan Turing on the next £10 bank note. |
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Awesome but impractical: Scientists send message with neutrinos. |
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So now we know why Sarkozy wanted to get this killer so badly... |
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Lesbian proposal at an Ottawa Senators game. Make sure you have Kleenex within easy reach. |
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From the even evil has standards division, part deux: Rush Limbaugh refused to take ads from the Westboro Baptist Church. |
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From the even evil has standards division: Al Qaeda on Fox News: "falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks objectivity, too.” |
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Bolton football player Fabrice Muamba suffers a heart attack in the middle of a game. |
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Socialist Ken argues for less government: "I could have paid £50,000 more tax. I could. Or I could use it, as I have done, to employ two people" |
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This American Life let themselves get taken in.... |
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(Coptic) Pope Shenouda III dies. |
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Stephen Harper: How are you doing today, friends? Former aides: ... |
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ICARUS: Neutrinos do not travel faster than light. Case closed? |
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UK MP to Canada: You know those subs you bought from us? They might have been lemons. You should ask for your money back. |
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Science uses a fish gene to protect strawberries from freezing. There's just one small problem... |
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Ann Coulter on Sandra Fluke: "liberal women are only pretending to be offended by the word 'slut'.” Also, "As if her haircut isn't birth control enough." Stay classy America. |
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Is it too early to order some Mammoth steak? |
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The Kony 2012 backlash worsens, as even Kony's victims hate the film. |
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28 Belgians, 22 of them chirldren between the ages of 11 and 12, are killed in a coach crash in Switzerland. All our thoughts are with the families of the dead, and those still waiting for news. |
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Sarkozy: Shut down our borders! No more immigrants. Make sure multiculturalism and Islam never spreads again! Angie, do you agree with me? Merkel: Er, about that... |
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Invisible Children primarily backed by fundies. A shitload of fundies. To that we say... |
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Fuck off, Senator! I'm not scared of those liberal pussy wimps in Canada! |
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Quebec man barred from filing lawsuits without authorization after he demanded sole ownership of the Earth, the other planets and several moons. |
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And the US army has fucked things up again. |
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Well, at least they finally stop pretending intelligent design as a science by suing for discrimination on religious grounds. |
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Mississippi and Alabama prove just why we think of them every time we hear "Dueling banjos." |
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What's the best way to observe Lent? Take your money out of Wall Street banks and put it into small local banks and credit unions. |
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Heard of |
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The man who brought about the end of CFCs, passes away. |
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Pussy Riot vs Putin. Sometimes the papers write the WIGO for you… |
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Coal produced less than 40% of electricity in the United States last year, the lowest percent in 33 years. |
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Ice coverage of the Great Lakes down by as much as 71% since 1973. |
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What's worse than letting a penis decide what happens to a uterus? How about your experience with livestock deciding what happens to a uterus? |
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Harold Camping admitting he's wrong? That's new. |
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Not being used to morbidly obese people, Britain's mortuaries take on the new policy of leaving fat guys to decompose for a while before trying to fit them into an enclosed space. |
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"Affirm or deny that forcing Scientology employees to lick bathroom floors is a religious practice of the Church of Scientology" [3] |
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What is it about conservatives and predictions? Santorum makes his own. In honor of this, I shall engage in a little hypocrisy and predict that he will continue to be a total douchebag. |
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Have alcohol problems? Get high. |
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Pizza Goat, Pizza Goat, does whatever a Pizza Goat does. Can he swing from a web? No he can't, he's a goat. Update: Guess which restaurant this is too. |
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More Republican representatives are abandoning Grover Norquist's no-tax-raise pledge, calling it irresponsible. |
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The incredibly difficult and traumatic experience of explaining their gay uncle to my children. |
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For 26 years, Joseph Kony has been leading the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and committing every war crime imaginable, completely invisible to world interests. On April 20, 2012, the small campaign against him is going to try for mass exposure. |
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Romney 6, Frothy 3, Newt 1, and... well, whoever that other guy is 0. |
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Canada's robocall scandal expands as voters in Ontario report being issued a false voter ID card with the Elections Canada letterhead, directing them to a false polling station. Update: The NDP to Harpo: Check. |
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FBI arrests Sabu, then Sabu rolls on the identity of 300 LulzSec. |
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Republicans: Nuke Iran! Nuke Iran! Obama: |
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For the ninth year in a row, PBS is "the most trusted institution in the US', and is considered an "excellent" use of tax dollars, according to a new national poll. |
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Rush Limbaugh update: He's properly fucked this one up. Additional: ThinkProgress is keeping a tally of the advertisers that have dropped him, and one lawyer states that Sandra Fluke has sufficient grounds to pursue a libel/defamation suit. And what the hell does "overeducated" mean? |
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Laurens County, South Carolina GOP: You can't be a Republican if you've had sex outside of your marriage. Oh, Newt... |
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The president of the Australian Medical Association distances himself from the anti-quackery Friends of Science in Medicine, claiming that it casts its criticisms too wide. |
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Er, Republicans, do you support your wealthy donors, or support illegal immigrant slavery? Conundrums, conundrums. |
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Well, Rush, you really are sensitive to these things, aren't you? It's not like we need to get President Obama to offer support or anything. |
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“I did veto a bill on gay marriage, not on gay rights”. What? |
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Looks like you shouldn't trust Newt with your wife... or your money. |
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Mississippi police shut down an LGBT parade, on the grounds it's "illegal to be openly gay in the state". |
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UPDATE: Our friendly Arizona sheriff, who happens to be under investigation for bias against Latinos on the grounds of race, |
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Gay marriage has been signed into law in Maryland. 8 states down, 42 to go. |
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Oh, for crying out loud. Gay teacher fired on his wedding day for the crime of being homosexual. |
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Even in China, internet activism works. |
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Andrew Breitbart is dead De mortuis nil nisi bonum. |