Conservapedia - An encyclopedia you can trust

changing by the hour!

http://www.conservapedia.com/Damian_Green

Damian Green is a British politician and Conservative Party member of the House of Commons. He is the party's spokesman on immigration policy, and has repeatedly embarrassed the ruling socialist Labour Party, pointing out many incidences of incompetence and bungling, and exposing lies told by Home Office ministers responsible for immigration policy. In November 2008 he was arrested by a large squad of anti-terrorist police and held incommunicado for nine hours, while his home and office were searched. The case has raised grave disquiet about the misuse of police powers by the socialists in power in order to stifle dissent.[1]
HELP US IN THE UK - WE ARE IN SERIOUS POLITICAL TROUBLE. DAMIAN GREEN WAS ARRESTED BY OUR OUT-OF-CONTROL RULING LABOUR PARTY. PLEASE RAISE AWARENESS IN AMERICA - OUR ALLIES FOR SO LONG:
Incredibly, in the last five or ten years, we have seen - or rather not seen - an enormous change in the democratic freedoms afforded to British citizens. To name but a handful; we are being forced to adopt unwanted and malignant identity cards (despite owning passports already), we can be placed under 42 day arrest for mere suspicions, our government cannot keep a track nor hold of our personal data and we have been pushed into two controversial wars apparently under our ruling party's need to be associated with right-wing America.
Now we are being asked to accept that a political opposition leader can be arrested apparently at the behest of the ruling party, without a statement any more substantial than a cursory "i didn't know" from our illustrious, scheming and power-crazy prime minister. Does this scenario remind you of anything? Let's consult that good old standby, namely Recent History. Namely Zimbabwe. China. Russia. Iraq. Syria. Rwanda. DR Congo....need I go on?
We are on a precipice - and the chasm beneath us is as dark as it can possibly get. Our nation - for so long a shining paradigm of democracy and fairness that the world could aspire to - is hanging by a thread. And the worst of it? That our government can create this police state to either rapturous applause whipped up by the right-wing idiots of the tabloid press, or the sheer political apathy that has infected most of our population and which has allowed this vile Labour government to spread uncontrolled, far beyond the realms of the free 'Western' world. We must regain control of our nation as a people, before the dark dreams of our 'leaders' stop us from doing so altogether.

The Trustworthy Encyclopedia

Random serendipitous searching comes up with fun:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Violent_video_games

Violent video games
Violent video games are video games that teach and encourage the players -- typically children -- to engage in horrific virtual violence. Teenagers playing these games are desensitized to violent and criminal acts[1][2]. In a particular study specifically children who were diagnosed with neurotic behavior and predisposition to aggression reacted to violent stimuli brought by video games, though not all of them showed aggressive behavior as a consequence[3].
Examples of violent video games include:
Grand Theft Auto (series) -- The series, which now spans ten games, is considered a "sandbox" game where a player can roam around a virtual city at will. The player is able to obtain many different types of weapons, murder anyone they encounter including other criminals and prostitutes, innocent bystanders, and even police officers. One of the games also included a modification that allowed a player to engage in graphic sexual acts in the game however this was not made for the public and was found long after the original release.
Doom and Quake are first person shooter games wherein a player roams around various levels killing various demonic creatures. The games have been described as murder simulators and were blamed as inspiration for the Columbine Massacre as well as other school shootings.
Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend (M-rated) -- The ads for this first-person shooter boast that new weapons will enable you "to hack your enemies to meaty bits!" It involves a game character who commits violent acts against unarmed civilians. Other features in the Postal series include: urinating on people to make them vomit in disgust, using cats as shotgun silencers, and playing fetch with dogs using human heads.
The Punisher (M-rated) -- Game player is able to jam knives into victims' sternums and pull up to increase the damage, cut off heads, ram a character's open mouth onto a curb, run a character over with a forklift, rip a character's arms off with an industrial hook, and set a character on fire in an electric chair.
Resident Evil (series) (M-rated) -- Includes chainsaw decapitations and impalements, and zombies and other monsters ripping off other characters' throats and biting off their heads. A promotional chainsaw shaped controller was released with Resident Evil 4.
Manhunt (M-rated) -- Game player's character is James Earl Cash, a convicted serial killer facing execution. The execution is ordered to be faked so that a character named "The Director" can use Cash as a star in a series of snuff films. As the Cash character kills other characters, by suffocating them with a plastic bag, slicing them up with a chainsaw, shooting them point blank with a nail gun, stabbing them in the eyeballs with a glass shard, or beheading them with a cleaver, The Director makes sexually vulgar comments. The game has two difficulty settings: fetish and hardcore.
God of War (M-rated) -- Game features disembowelment, mouth-stabbing, eye-gouging, severed limbs, and human sacrifice.
Silent Hill 1-4 -- large portions of these games involve roaming around decaying buildings and beating hideously malformed humanoid monsters to death with blunt instruments.
Condemned -- Requires the player to bludgeon NPC's to death.
The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit declared this to be free speech and struck down a Minnesota law that prohibited minors from purchasing or renting video games bearing a "Mature" or "Adult Only" rating.[4]
See also

Video games
References

↑ http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/04/07/violent_video_games_held_to_be_free_speech?page=2
↑ http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-anderson.html
↑ http://www.qj.net/Study-Violent-games-don-t-alter-normal-kids/pg/49/aid/88522
↑ Entm't Software Ass'n v. Swanson, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 5634 (8th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008).

I'm disappointed that the God of War entry doesn't list the whoring, including the button-mashing/sexualizing sequences

large portions of these games involve roaming around decaying buildings

o no!

The game publishers should use those descriptions in their advertising, sure to shift a few more copies.

large portions of these games involve roaming around decaying buildings and beating hideously malformed humanoid monsters to death with blunt instruments.

Wait, is that, like, "wrong?" I mean, surely befriending the monsters, or treating them as a sort of policing issue, would be a liberal thing to do.

Are they in favor of Hideously Malformed Humanoid Monster rehabilitation services, or are they just afraid of being mistaken for one of them?

I'm disappointed that the God of War entry doesn't list the whoring, including the button-mashing/sexualizing sequences

andy schlafly never found those parts

Hahaha that British uh "addendum" in the Damian Green thing! A+ conservapedia trolling.

http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Sarah_Palin&diff=prev&oldid=523414

http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=People's_Republic_of_China&diff=prev&oldid=471393

Guy who did the Damien Greene edits has got some choice back catalogue cuts.

Offensive remarks by Sandra Bernhard

Hi. The liberal comedian Sandra Bernhard made remarks which were deeply offensive to Sarah Palin and to Christians in a recent comedy performance. Breadan43 15:50, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

andy schlafly never found those parts

excellent, a double-edged zing, points for you

"A crowd much smaller than the millions predicted by the liberal media show up in D.C. for Obama's swearing in as President.[8] His first official order is expected to be to authorize taxpayer funding for abortion in foreign countries. "

LOL

I second that LOL.

I don't know, this is pretty much LOL all the way:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Obama?&&

I know we lost a week...
But we can't stay in some alternate universe where G.W.Bush is still president forever, especially if this article is going to link to the front page. We need to update this article to show that Obama is now president. I would do so, but its locked. As it has been. For quite some time. --DReynolds 23:57, 27 January 2009 (EST)

trustworthy

Have we mentioned Andy Schlafly's recent effort to rewrite(not retranslate) the Bible to fit in line with the rightwing ego-defense that the rest of the site?

link plz

what has to happen to a person to have this kind of break with reality?

wat

If that's not just fronting, it deserves a new thread.

'allegedly born in Honolulu', sets the tone straight away.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Essay:Adulteress_Story

hang on aren't you banned

When he takes office, President Obama will be the first person having ties to a known former terrorist to gain control over America's nuclear weapons.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Bible_Retranslation_Project

http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Bible_Retranslation_Project

And the Rationalwiki converage: http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Conservapedia:Bible_Retranslation_Project

Project outline

The project apparently does not involve much actual translating (e.g., from the original Hebrew texts or later Latin or Greek texts), but rather changing words and concepts that Schlafly feels threatens his personal concept of Christian Conservatism. It is more of an alteration project; rather than addressing the ancient texts, the words of the original authors and the context in which they were written, Schlafly and his close supporters are aiming to modify the language in existing English translations of biblical text. This is probably because, while claiming to have expertise in ancient Greek,(1) he seems to have a shaky grasp of it and isn't even sure that's what Jesus was speaking.(2)
(edit) Reasons behind the project

The stated rationale behind the project is that English is changing (or "devolving" according to Schlafly(3)) so rapidly that the words in previous Biblical translations are no longer accurate. Schlafly goes on to say that "If a word inevitably alters its meaning after an approximate number of uses, then the time period for the change in meaning will shorten due to improved technology". The project also focuses on the fact that several new words have entered the English lexicon since the original translations of the Bible and that these could be useful in adding new bias giving the translation more relevant meaning (naturally, these words include homeschool and conservative). Presumably this means that by the time the project is completed, it will already be out of date and a new translation will be required to compensate for further devolution.

The roots of the idea seem to lie in Schlafly's Conservapedia entry for Disputed Biblical Translations, started earlier in December 2008. In this he lamented that recent translations such as the New International Version have fewer direct mentions of Hell, the Devil and the divinity of Jesus Christ than are in the King James Version. Of course in Schlafly's mind this is all about liberal creep and misappropriation, rather than anything to do with advances in classical scholarship over the past four centuries...

I parsed that incorrectly. (xp)

Suggested Improvement
replace "behemoth" with "dinosaur"

From the Obama entry:

"He has no clear personal achievement that cannot be explained as the likely result of affirmative action."

http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Conservative&diff=prev&oldid=611260

daily mail: not conservative

Do all their entries read like book reports written by 4th graders with wingnut parent?

http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Gardasil&diff=next&oldid=609636

rape: less likely than being struck & killed by lightning

i'm basically giving up on talking to conservatives about anything ever again based on the reactions to some i know about obama's arab tv interview, mostly thanks to comments along the lines of "these people can't be reasoned with, he's one of them, see he admits it" etc

Essay:Differences Between Homeschoolers and Public Schoolers
From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search

There are some fundamental differences of significance between homeschoolers and public schoolers:

1. Homeschoolers are consistently more proficient in mathematics, science, writing, and language.[1]
2. Homeschoolers do not stop learning upon receipt of a diploma; most public schoolers do not try to learn outside of school
3. Homeschoolers vote at three times the rate of public schoolers, when they become of voting age
4. Homeschoolers engage in less deceit than public schoolers, and are less easily amused by it
5. Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers
6. Homeschoolers are less amused by profanity, and rarely have the compulsive profanity common to public schoolers
7. Homeschoolers are more able to be self-employed or self-disciplined without requiring constant supervision.
8. Homeschoolers are more likely to embrace faith and have a close relationship with God.
9. Homeschoolers pray more often than students in public school, where prayer is censored.
10. Homeschoolers perform better on average on all standardized test that are not infested with liberal bias (and even some that are)
11. Homeschoolers attain higher literacy rates and reading competence, due to an absence of anti-intellectual peer pressure.[2]
12. Homeschoolers have much lower teen pregnancy rates, and abortion is almost unknown among homeschoolers.

Do they ever cite any sources when making these claims?

[1]

[2]

1. ↑ Dr. Brian Ray, A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement, National Home Education Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 1990, p. 53-54.
2. ↑ Dr. Brian Ray, A Nationwide Study of Home Education: Family Characteristics, Legal Matters, and Student Achievement, National Home Education Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 1990, p. 53-54.

1990

OMG these people are fuckin' deluded.

12. Homeschoolers have much lower teen pregnancy rates, and abortion is almost unknown among homeschoolers.

aint the only thing unknown by homeschoolers amirite

http://www.nheri.org/

The National Home Education Research Institute's mission is to:

* Produce high-quality research (e.g., statistics, facts, findings) on home-based education (homeschooling).
* Serve as a clearinghouse of research for the public, researchers, homeschoolers, the media, and policy makers.
* Educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education.

my gf wants to homeschool eventual kids and it terrifies me

5. Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers

man the gangs h/s'ers DO get around to forming must be seriously rugged

hoos that's a 'troubling indicator' i believe

It would flummox me to spend ALL DAY EVERY DAY with kids and even if they were mine, that would probably apply. School is not just an education and social skills, it's at least eight hours where children cannot make a mess/break shit in the home and you pay for it in taxes already so just go, OK?

http://www.conservapedia.com/images/5/59/Atheism.png

otm

hahahaha this is awesome, the only home-schooled kid I ever knew really well was raised a totally lefty hippie who didn't celebrate christmas *and* was a complete horndog and got with plenty of teh girlz