Vatican: Pope discovers yet another scapegoat

They’ve tried blaming the devil. They’ve tried blaming atheists. They’ve tried blaming the Seventies. Now it’s capitalism’s turn:

US: ‘And justice for all’ — except global warming ‘deniers’

The US Environmental Protection Agency will talk to non-believers — for a price.

US: To all atheists who insist on your legal rights…

…tell your little sisters to expect intimidation.

Bangladesh: Islamists demand the right to intolerance

AT least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka.

Nigeria: I want to pray for you…

…can I have your underwear?

Australia: Your taxes at work…

…funding hospital care for religious maniacs with cracked skulls.

UK: Nasty Mr Dawkins is at it again!

How dare he draw attention to people saying stupid things in public!

Global: Your guide to conspiracy theories

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But don’t let Them catch you consulting it!

UK: Questions in the House

The Honourable Peter Lilley, MP, skewers the UK government’s carbon fairy tales:

US: How to sell an electric car for $100,000?

Make it for $650,000.

UK: Those who can’t do, teach…

Those who can’t teach write the manuals.

Those who can’t write do performance art.

Australia: Salvos paid $15m to child sex abuse victims

THE Salvation Army has told a Victorian sex abuse inquiry it is ashamed of the treatment of children that occurred in its homes, as it revealed it has paid out more than $15 million to victims and that 50 Salvation Army officers had been named as abusers.

The Australian

Now everybody wants to get into the act!

Australia: Rabbi admits sex abuse at Melbourne Jewish school

VICTIMS say the admission of guilt by a former teacher at a Jewish Orthodox school accused of sexually abusing students is a watershed for Australia’s Jewish community.

UK: Karen Armstrong tells us how to find God…

…Just keep talking till you run out of nonsense.

Australia: Protecting a cultural right to abuse

Yes, there are reasons why people from tribal cultures move out, go to cities and emigrate to the West. They’re not just being silly.

Australia: CSIRO wouldn’t lie to us!

Well, only for money…

US: Jewish welfare group shelters paedophile

A self-confessed paedophile who sexually abused several boys in Sydney is being harboured by a leading Los Angeles Jewish welfare group.

UK: Time for another mutiny?

Britain wasted more than £250,000 in aid on a failed wind farm project for just 55 people in the South Pacific.

Global: 58 failed predictions!

What follows are dozens of predictions for warmer winters made not long ago during the 2000s, many by leading scientists.

Bangladesh: Bloggers arrested for ‘defaming’ a dead and possibly mythical character

Betos poor widdle Muslims had dey’s feelins hurt…

Australia: Misogyny and bullying alleged at Uniting Church college

Sydney University’s Wesley College is investigating reports of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment during Orientation Week, after two undercover magazine reporters snuck in to a number of on-campus parties posing as students.

UAE: Life under theocracy…

…even visitors get shafted.

UK: Green energy — we get the green, and nobody gets the energy

Bad science leads to bad policy. And bad policy kills pensioners.

UK: Equal treatment for all faiths!

…except those stinkin’ atheists.

UK: It’s a win-win situation!

For greenies; a lose-lose situation for everyone else, when environmentalists litigate against the results of the government doing what the environmentalists told them to do in the first place.

Indonesia: What’s an atheist to do?

Condemn the Indonesian government for believing in ‘black magic’, or praise them for making it illegal?

NZ: Greenpeace is full of it…

…BP Petroleum, that is.

And you thought it ran on unicorn farts!

The Commentator.

UK: When hysteria trumps economics

A rational economist visits Climate Wonderland…

We desire to limit climate change in order to stop us causing the future to be poorer than it need be. It is simply entirely fucking insane to then cause the future to be poorer than it need be by overspending on climate change as a way of preventing the future from being poorer than it need be.

via Tim Worstall

India: Mother Teresa a greedy, faking sadist

Apparently Christopher Hitchens was too kind…

US: Can you get fired for having sex?

Only if you’re a woman.