News 2014.03.21
World
- Countdown to wingnut response of "See, there is a international movement that agrees that Evolution is wrong, and it's not just Christians." in 3...2...1...
- Media Matters creates new directory of wingnut lies, Mythopedia. It was just in time for the Conservative Political Action Conference.
- Not only does the CIA lie to the oversight committee, they spy on them too (possibly to figure out who told them they were lying).
- Facebook clamps down on people using the site for illegal gun sales.
- American politics: Where the term "Establishment Republican" is now a badge of sanity. (Well, relative to the Teabaggers.)
- Baptist pastor from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, arrested for allegedly raping a woman with mental disabilities.
- Ah...that god fella....what a trickster.....hiding the biggest virus ever seen in the permafrost 24,000 years before creation to save it from the floods so it could be newly discovered in the thaw!
- The Serbian Orthodox Church seeks to posthumously claim Nikola Tesla.
- Financial regulations are unconscionable statist oppression, part two.
- Haggard's Law of Internet Porn Filters: Patrick Rock, senior Tory involved in Internet porn filter plan, arrested on ... child porn charges.
- Since 2011, Phoenix area cops have been arresting "lawfully detaining" sex workers and taking them to a local church where they are given the ultimatum of prison time or time in a church-run diversion program. And no they aren't allowed to meet with defense council first.
- SCOTUS rules that merely a grand jury indictment, not an actual conviction, is enough for the government to freeze your assets.
- Apple, Inc. to climate change deniers: fuck off. (Of course, it was probably the Comic Sans that really annoyed Tim Cook.)