News 2014.03.20
World
- CPAC's most important panel: Minority outreach. Look at the crowds! (A photo of this same panel room full of people exists, because the outreach panel went over its time and the room began to fill for the next scheduled talk: NRA exec Wayne LaPierre.)
- United States of Socialist America!
- Hot on the heels of the conspiracy about Obama wanting to nuke America, Arizona's Senate passes a Teabagger-sponsored bill to protect its citizens against an EMP that could "cast America into the Dark Ages."
- For the sentimental: A online community helps a little girl with a 3D printed prosthesis.
- Jason Priest is a Pro-life, Tea Party state senator in Montana. He allegedly threw his 4 year old daughter 8 feet so she landed on her head and the child had injuries consistent with this. A police officer witnessed other serious assaults, "his commitment to “protecting” the unborn is apparently not matched by an equal commitment to protect children who have been born."
- Michele Bachmann explodes irony meters across the globe, by saying, that the Tea Party "at its core is an intellectual movement."
- Payback's a bitch for the bro who outed the Duke porn star.
- Thought CPAC was bad? Comments from the rival NSAS, "The Jews are the problem." Also, Obama's mind control raises its head again.
- So, how do you think the British would react if they found out that a right-wing billionaire had secretly owned BBC News and BBC World News since 1994? Now let's see how Americans react when they learn that PBS has been leading viewers to believe that the (MacNeil/Lehrer) NewsHour has been an in-house production for the last 20 years. (Full disclosure: Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer have had full editorial control over the NewsHour the full time. It's just that some taxpayer dollars may have made their way into the billionaire's pockets and . . . WHAT?!? Miley Cyrus said what about Katy Perry? Gotta read about that!)
- Another psychic fraud never saw it coming.
- The Dalai Lama now all but supports gay marriage.
- Newsweek: "We found the creator of Bitcoin!" Satoshi Nakamoto: "Get the fuck away from me! It's not me!" Newsweek: "Shit?" Everyone else: *Facepalm* Update: And the magazine's glorious return to print is... outta here! (And the cryptocurrency itself.)
- Emily Willingham: Hyping your conspiracy theory in 5 easy steps.
- Fox News Crazy Alert: propping up Lost Cause of the South. (And, in full irony, Civil War-era Democrats.)
- I for one welcome our new Pleiadian overlords - it's about time someone got rid of the chemtrails!