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February 2010

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"Evolutionism: the dying West's science of magic and madness"

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Conservative hypocrisy has reached new levels, with theocrats calling for religious liberty and torture-supporters calling for the "rule of law".

10

Breaking news: The secular world is on the verge of admitting the veracity of Genesis, because historians refer to the ancient civilisations around Israel by the same names used in the Bible. Circular logic much?

7

Apparently Glenn Beck is being politically correct.

12

If scientists don't know what it is, it must be a sign from God.

12

Please meet blogger James I. Nienhuis. He hasn't been blogging much in the last month, but his last post Christendom Preachers Pastors Christian Lay People Asleep Wheel Ignore Darwinian Attacks Veracity Genesis Scriptural Inerrancy Not Defended Historical Account Torah Doubted Treated Lightly Quaint Fairie Tales Believers Story Adam Jesus Revelation When Will Evangelists Pulpits America Wake Up Academic Intellectual Onslaught Christian Holy Writ?, should give you plenty to read - even if all you read is the title. Update Our Joycean blogger is back from his Sabbatical Dancing, plus we get a mention.

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First there was the birthers; now there is the paycheckers. Clinton is ignoring the "plain and unambiguous" constitutional provision: "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office."

8

Birchers say that serving in the military is a privilege not a right.

13

Because WND was not making enough from advertising, shilling its own books, and it "exclusive" subscription only G2 Bulletin; WND is now going to sell the crap they give away for free, in a weekly form.

18

CMI just keeps excreting it. Not only do they think that the idea of a "living constitution" has something to do with evolution theory, but they complain that the Nazis did not believe in the traditional concept of God-given human rights. Heard of the divine right of kings, fellows?

January 2010

18

Criticising religion = atheist hate speech.

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Ah, the self-justifying logical gymnastics of the typical airhead Playboy model devout Christian! When asked if her ten plastic surgeries were a rejection of God's design, professional celebrity Heidi Montag says that God made her imperfect because He intended for her to have plastic surgery.

14

Climate "science" is an oxymoron. No, the only moron around here is Gerald Warner, who clearly doesn't understand the first thing about the subject which the Telegraph has decided to allow him to write about.

6

In America everybody has free speech, however some people's speech is freer than others, George Will has a problem with that.

18

A prominent Youtube creationist admits wrongdoing, that he has broken the law, and asks forgiveness while he gets help for his problems. Again.

19

Dr. James P. Wickstrom, D. Litt. puts Haiti down to Yahweh killing savages. (NSFW)

13

Um, Burt. If 20 million Australians were trying to sneak into the US, that would be known as the whole goddamn country. Oh yeah, if you are black, born in the US, and are in any way unhappy with it, you should go back to Africa. Of course as Farah informs us, the only racists are those Democrats trying to correct past injustices.

11

Julie informs us that her neighbor, Pat Robertson, is technically correct. Haitians did in fact bring the recent earthquake on themselves via Voodoo and their 200 year old revolution against slavery. Update: The page has been pulled, but has been reproduced here as was the mirror.

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Pat Robertson blames the Haitian earthquake on a 200+ year old deal with the devil.

14

Ol' Chuckie thinks that Obama is going to use Interpol to hide all the evidence of his traitorous concessions to global jihadists.

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Liberal author Susan Estrich shows her true colors on National Security: Go ahead and profile, I don't like being inconvenienced.

18

Do you want God to pay more attention to you? Julie says try fasting, where fasting consists of eating cheeseburgers but denying yourself chocolate, Diet Coke and television for three whole days

6

A recipe. Cherry-pick concepts out of Buddhism and Hinduism, distort thoroughly, mix together, season liberally with quack psychology, and what do you have? Why, the mindfulness-increasing practice of Laughter Yoga, of course!

15

Towards the end of his article Farah gets closer to the truth behind the birther movement: it is an attempt to prevent Obama's re-election. (Also, note Farah's whopper about how natural born citizens have to have citizen parents.)

6

Answers in Genesis let themselves be fooled by an obvious parodist named Michael.

17

When Glenn Beck thinks you're a conspiracy nut, it is probably time to give the whole thing up.

4

WND new "comedy" news show ends with the line "next week we could all be dead", at least we would have evidence of a merciful god.

18

Brit Hume: If Tiger Woods was a Christian, he wouldn't commit adultery! Convert Tiger, and be healed! Update: Ann Coulter agrees. Don't be a liberal, Tiger; Christianity is a get-out-of-adultery-free card.

15

Burt Prelutsky: There is nothing wrong with me, it is all the liberals doing. Oh, by the way bashing your wife over the head with a chair is an appropriate way of dealing with her excessive spending. Has he been watching too many repeats of The Honeymooners?

December 2009

11

WorldNetDaily ends the year with a poll that would go straight to Andy Schlafly's heart.

20

Crazed birther Orly Taitz suggests that now is the time to take up arms against the "Kenyan, Indonesian communist usurper". Update: Firefox marks the page as an attack site - DO NOT VISIT.

14

Daily Mail columnist "discovers the plight of the homeless" because she spent too much money, couldn't afford a hotel room and spent about 7 seconds outside before her agent bailed her out.

11

WND's Top 10 Stories of 2009 Nobody Else Cared About.

12

If you think the 2012 Apocalypse predictions are far-fetched, Joseph Farah is predicting that 2010 will be the end of the Democratic Party.

4

Some business journalists are promoting the meme that you're a social dinosaur if you still pay by check. But, as the comments point out, try to pay your mortgage, rent, student loans, utilities, etc. with a debit card. Or for that matter, try to get a business to give an electronic refund.

8

Climate change is natural; here's 100 reasons why.

6

The Obama administration is trying to stop political appointments to the civil service. Therefore, the Obama health care plan is a Big Brother plot to make all Americans into civil servants.

4

Larry "Uncle Tom" Elder scores again in a column that seems to be about Tiger Woods but somehow becomes an attack on pro football, Bill Clinton, and a defense of George W. Bush. Bonus points for stating that Clinton was "the only elected president ever to be impeached"

4

The distinguished scientist Joseph Farah informs us that Polychlorinated biphenyl is perfectly safe and the science is faulty. Care to drink a glass to prove it?

18

Kent Hovind's doctoral dissertation. Read it and weep.

4

Sarah Palin schools us all on this so-called "Global Warming". How to speak Alaskan: Willful Ignorance

5

Ironyimg in Michelle Malkin's blog: She wrote a lead article criticizing the EPA and environmental problems while a corporation posts an ad addressing the issues of global warming.

10

When you don't have a point of view that can be backed up logically, just spew as many words as you can and hope that people won't notice.

18

Oh my God! The UN doesn't believe WorldNetDaily is a legitimate news organisation. THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT IS HERE PEOPLE!

17

Don Feder on Jews: the problem with Jews is they are all liberals, which makes them anti-Semitic, unlike the right-wingers who all love the Jews, but don't worry right-winger they are all going to die out soon. What?

7

That war on the war on Xmas (i.e. Focus on the Family) launches a website. (Thanks to Wonkette)

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Egregious sources

List all your favorite small-time local blogiots main addresses, etc., here.

• Denyse O'Leary, who runs multiple IDiot blogs and cross-links them to pretend it's a movement.
• No Shoes or Shirt Required is written by a Southern-fried little hate monger with a (virtual) hard-on for "Darwinists" and Homosexuals. Specializing in simple lies for simple people, quote mining, and hate speech disguised as God's love, this blog is sponsored by the online version of a Norfolk, Virginia local paper, because they like to broadcast their bigotry down in the Bible Belt.
• Five Feet of Fury, a comments-free Canadian hard right blog, run by an unemployed woman who thinks hoaxing Jews by claiming to be a Holocaust victim is hilarious. But hey, she doesn't think the Nazis were really responsible either, so how stable can she be?
• Small Dead Animals, allegedly "the best Canadian blog" (2007) another unpleasant Canadian woman .
• Rachel Marsden's Daily Drive-by. Sometimes called the "Canadian Anne Coulter" (mostly by herself). Better known for (i) falsely accusing a swimming instructor of rape; and (ii) sleeping with Jimmy Wales whilst trying to make her Wikipedia biography more favorable and then (after getting dumped on Wikipedia) trying to sell his clothing on eBay.
• Mesopotamia West, run by a 67-year-old Conservative who gets off on his own poor smut and really doesn't like people from other countries.
• Answers in Genesis' own journal, Answers Research Journal
• A lovely Australian biologist, Christian, and creationist.
• Shock and Blog, the ramblings of a part-time anti-semite, one-time CP sysop, full-time moron called Jinxmchue. WARNING: Direct links to "Shock and Blog" from RationalWiki are redirected to goatse. Please format all links to Jinx's blogs like the link in this entry to circumvent this.
• The REAL Jesusland, loony Christian-related stuff from (Oh no! Not again!) Jinxmchue. WARNING: Direct links to "The REAL Jesusland" from RationalWiki are redirected to goatse. Please format all links to Jinx's blogs like the link in this entry to circumvent this.
• Coast-to-coast-am's news ticker could practically just be copied here.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Encyclopedia - just hit "random page"...
• GrasstopUSA - Whilst sometime their guest commentator is good their "exclusive commentary" by Don Feder (who?) is always prime quality clogo. While you are there don't forget to ask Chris to send your "50 Blast Fax" for $50 (they use to be $20 InstaFaxes) you just need a major credit card.
• American Family Association Action Alerts - these are always stupid, but sometime they out class themselves in demanding apologies for trivialities. Be sure to send your personal outrage in the form of a form letter (at least they don't charge you).
• Creation Science Evangelism God talks to America's favorite tax fraudfeasor.
• Science and Math Defeated
• The American View: Originally set up as a part of Michael Peroutka's 2004 presidential campaign, now effectively the personal bullhorn of a hyper-Calvinist crank named John Lofton, who gets a sub sandwich for $6.66 and concludes that the end of the world is at hand. [1]
• Holy plan - A staggeringly immature blog, by man in his 20s. If you can't stand the excessive use of lol, especially when used as a debating point, as in "scientist think they do science, lol they are wrong", this blog will cause you major cardiac problems.
• James Edwards: The Rise of Ethnopolitics — "Conservatism is dead. Liberalism has no answers. What comes next? The rise of ethnopolitics."
• Cao's (pronounced Key's) blog - A right-wing, pro-military, al-Qaida conspiracy theorist, married woman. Has been used by Ken for source material.
• WomanTalk -Sharon Hughes and friends (i.e. right wing fundies}
• Ladies Against Feminism: Housewives who somehow find time off from their busy schedule of skivvy duty to rant on the website about how "Christ is the head of the man and man is the head of the woman" and emphasize that "Biblical womanhood is not a 'white thing.'"
• David Klinghoffer's blog is bound to have an anti-Darwinist screed on it.
• Save the Males - Rantings about Zionists, Illuminati and feminist.
• Atheism is Dead — an anti-atheism blog featured on the front page of Conservapedia on August 8, 2009.
• Dancing from Genesis - YEC blog that has really, really long entry titles.