RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/May 2012
May 2012[edit]
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And so the crazy begins: Oklahoma doctor refuses to provide rape victim with emergency contraception, because it was against her religious beliefs. |
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Louisiana newspaper defends running ad that asks the magical question: "Will Obama and the Democrats shoot Christians and Catholics?" |
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One Million Moms views on homosexuality don't seem to be the only thing they are 50 years behind on. PROTIP: Children don't read comic books anymore! |
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US evangelical group uses Saul & The Amalekites to teach children it's OK to murder atheists |
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"In Texas Senate races, it was a night for the conservatives." Any bets which will be the next state to start passing wingnut laws? |
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The standards body of U.S. Conservative Judaism introduce new ritual frameworks for same-sex Jewish weddings. Mazel tov! |
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A pastor in West Virginia chugs strychnine and handles a rattlesnake in his service, pursuant to Mark 16:17-18. He, like his father before him, dies on the job, thus demonstrating that he was not a True Believer™. |
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It seems the US and Israel created Stuxnet. Problem is, they lost control of it. |
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Pastor jailed for advocating corporal punishment for young children. |
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North Carolina's Tea Party-dominated legislature moves to criminalize accurate predictions of sea level rise. Trends: they don't work that way. |
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U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals rules DOMA unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples. |
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I dont think that the music industry hires mathematicians... |
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Well, well, well. How many times will this have to happen for people to listen? |
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It's Political Correctness Time! Is it alright to call Nazi death camps Polish? |
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Disagree with Bobby's budget ideas? Get your budget cut by 1/2 a mil with no explanation |
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The Dominion of Canada is dying. Update: Speaking of Tories, WTF? |
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"It's not a racist problem, it's a cultural problem!" The first Euro tournament to show the Nazi salute live on international television? |
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Like customizing your bike? Then be very careful about the parts you use. |
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A man was killed by police in Miami, FL as he ate the face of his victim. |
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The line between tolerance and condemnation frequently blurs - this is probably one of the most extreme. |
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How to Stop Violent Gangs 101 — Fire artillery into residential areas. |
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The butler did it. No, really. |
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Some in the Roman Catholic Church are finally realizing they're waging a winless war. |
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First the Koreans, then the Filipinos, now the Poles, Marion Barry you're just the gift that keeps on giving. |
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Got any ideas on how geologists can waste precious time and money? Here's a suggestion. Have them use biblical-era seismic records (????) and the book of Matthew to pinpoint the date of Jesus' crucifixion. |
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Very interesting... (compare this to the Liberals during the Adscam fiasco) |
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Greens spark euthanasia debate in Finland. Wingnut reaction is as expected. |
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53% of Americans overall support gay marriage. And 59% of African-Americans do. Wasn't Obama's stance on gay marriage supposed to alienate those anti-gay rights black voters....? |
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London Metropolitan anti-corruption police officer arrested for allegedly taking bribes |
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Extremists in Afghanistan, opposed to women's education, have apparently taken to poisoning schoolgirls. |
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Superheroes in gay marriage shock! |
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More "Christian love:" NC pastor says gays and lesbians should be kept behind electrified fences until they die out. |
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No wonder the Daily Fail is on top of this story. The headline is just so . . . them on so many levels -- "Missing girl 'buried in murdered mobster's tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties', claims Catholic Church's leading exorcist priest" |
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And we thought that summer would mean the end of this bullshit. |
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Newt Gingrich facing bankruptcy. |
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The dawn of a new space age? After Sunday's abort, SpaceX launches successfully Falcon9/Dragon towards the International Space Station (video). It's expected to be berthed with it before the end of the week. |
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The sad truth is that hundreds of Americans will want to bid on this. |
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Members Of Congress Speak Like High School Sophomores, and the worst offenders are all Republicans. |
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"Staines-upon-Thames massive" just doesn't have the same ring to it. |
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Ahh, the tropical paradise that is the Maldives... not! |
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SpaceX launch aborted at last half-second by computer. (Next launch window: Tuesday 22nd) |
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Same-sex marriage is not legal in Maryland, but same-sex divorce is. |
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Turn the clock back to the 1950s, and this would be happening to communist sympathizers. |
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Biden smash! "And by the way, I'll take a lot of credit for a man having land on the moon, because all the while in school, I rooted for it." |
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Vision Forum's online poll about Obama's Same-Sex Marriage endorsement gets taken over by pro same-sex marriage pollsters. |
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Malawi bucks the trend of homophobic lawmaking in Africa. |
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Apparently Jesus belongs to Tim Tebow AND NO ONE ELSE!. |
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Hello, RationalWiki. While I've been on hiatus due to recent drama, this ignorant prick is forcing me to return to the site on a near-daily basis. So let's cut a deal. Give this asshole the criticism he deserves without me, and you'll have the added benefit of refraining my infamous editing record. Thanks - OS |
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New Zealand creates catalogue of the country's entire known living and fossil life from 530 million years ago to today. |
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TED is apparently too scared to show the reality on income inequality in the United States...and the National Journal loves it. |
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Justin Bieber will go. He will vanish and shrink. Jesus is more popular than him now. We don't know which will go first — pop music or Christianity. |
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Kansas has passed a law that makes it legal for doctors to refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. Critics say that under the law, a doctor could also refuse to treat a pregnant woman for cancer if the treatment could cause a miscarriage. |
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Now it is not just the "moonbats" saying that Dubya is a war criminal; the matter has been decided by a Malaysian court that apparently decided to give itself jurisdiction in the matter. |
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Greece creates another caretaker government after parties can't decide on anything, and the day of reckoning will occur in June. |
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Faux News blames the increase in support for same-sex marriages on... public schools. |
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Want to stop the spread of AIDS? Make the women shave their heads and bathe less. |
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You know the meme about "Ceiling cat is always watching? Well, substitute "pastor" for "ceiling cat" and you've got it. |
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After a 2008 car accident left a 71-year-old man paralyzed, doctors managed to bypass the damaged nerves through surgery. While he was able to move his arm, he had still lost the ability to pinch and grab with his fingers... until now. |
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Norway disestablishes its state-funded church. Secularists, always happy to sling broadsides at their best friends in lieu of grappling with an actual adversary, rejoice. |
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Paul Cameron says that because Obama supports gay marriage, he must also be gay. Oh yes, and all gays should be locked up, before they rape children. |
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In Lexington, Kentucky, two lesbians are barred from their school prom, so the students hold a better one in the car park. |
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Somewhere, I hope, someone is telling Romney: You can take yer approval ratings and shove 'em straight up yer ass! |
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Ron Paul announces he will no longer campaign (citing lack of money); but still wants his followers to vote for him |
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Romney goes to a certain institution of -- AHEM! -- "higher learning" to deliver the commencement address. (BTW, he used the opportunity to double-down on his anti-gay marriage stance. It's a one-liner about halfway through the speech which you can read here.) Since LU was founded by Jerry Falwell, it should come as no surprise that it is so fundamentalist Christian that the curricula of two required courses teach that Mormonism is a cult. And many of the students believe that so whole-heartedly that they remain pissed off that the school invited a cultist to deliver the speech even after Jerry Junior told them weeks ago to get over it. |
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Fundie school forfeits state championship, rather than play against a girl. |
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Read the fine print, 2012 apocalypse proponents! |
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Missing - 1 Bow Shock: Please return to Sol if found. IBEX starts probing |
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Joe "Sheriffs are all powerful"" Arpaio is sued by the Justice Department over civil rights abuses. |
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Mitt Romney was, of course, a violent gaybasher at school. But it's okay! After initially denying it, he now says "if anybody was hurt by that or offended by that I apologize". |
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President Obama declares his support for marriage equality. |
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Ron Paul gets a new campaign theme song... courtesy of "Pokemon." |
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Teabaggers call for armed revolution if Obama wins again. So much for democracy. |
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North Carolina takes a step further back from Equal Rights, banning official non Male-Female relationships. |
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The Obama Administration turns a surplus for their first month. |
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Fuck, fuck, fuck. Update: Oh no. |
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Three years on, can al-Qaeda improve on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear bomb and get it working? Nope. |
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After greenhouse gas emissions declined by 1.5% in 2009, they increased by 5.8% in 2010. Thanks economic recovery! |
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Introducing the 100% effective, reversible male birth control. |
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Democratic congressman: We should respect nonbelievers. But they don't really exist! |
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The Prosperity Gospel works for some people at least. |
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The beginning of the end. I'm not a crook! |
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Remember the Sedsuden movement from the to-do list? It's going to go one step further: Japan will try to survive the summer without any nuclear power. |
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Rand Paul has an actually thoroughly good idea for the first time in his life: scrap the TSA. |
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Suddenly those kiddies' programs I used to watch make far more sense... |
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Porn vs. religious internet sites -- can you guess which type Symantec says is by far the riskiest to click on? |
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Barack Obama might be the first President to have his early sex life detailed while still in office (well, with the exception of Bill, but that was an in-House relationship). In the words of one NPR commenter, "I will hazard the observation that the contrast with Shrub could not be starker." |
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Afghan woman flees home and finds refuge from an "honor killing" among the U.S. Military |
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Prison personnel being laid off? Replace them with dog-wolf hybrids |
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The World Trade Center quietly reclaims the New York skyline. |
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Ouch. Not a time to be a Murdoch. |
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"But it's from Berkeley! They're all a bunch of godless sodomites!" |