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L. Fletcher Prouty

'''L. Fletcher Prouty''' {{lived|January 24, 1917|June 5, 2001}} was an [[United States|American]] Air Force Colonel who had, by his account, a distinguished career, before he gave up respectability up to spill the beans on the secret shenanigans of the US military-industrial-intelligence complex. His 1973 book ''The Secret Team'' informed on the "high cabal" of [[Plutocracy|plutocrats]] that ran that complex, before the paperback edition was "disappeared" by those shadowy powers.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jun/22/guardianobituaries</ref> The book is now unavailable, except all over the internet. Walter Pforzheimer wrote about the book that "Reading it is like trying to push a penny with one's nose through molten fudge," but he was a [[CIA]] agent, so you'd expect him to say that, but not to be so witty about it.<ref>https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no4/Fifty_Years_1.htm</ref>

Prouty's online legacy is maintained by Len Osanic, a recording engineer who uses a website ostensibly about Prouty to hawk his t-shirts and promote his conspiracy podcast, Black Op Radio.  He has also created his own private wiki devoted solely to Prouty, without even the requisite hookers and blackjack.  Proutypedia, which one can edit only at the behest of Osanic, has exactly two articles: an article about Prouty and an article about Wikipedia.  Their article about Wikipedia is a 20,000-word shrine to the fact that Osanic can't get a link to his Prouty fan page on Wikipedia. 

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LGBTP

[[File:LGBTP Poster.jpg|thumb|right|200px|4chan-generated poster with no idea how text-background contrast works.]]{{Homophobia}}
'''LGBTP''', also known as '''HeartProgress''' or '''LoveIsAgeless''', is a [[Manufactroversy|fake campaign]] manufactured by [[/b/|4chan's /b/]].<ref>Dan Evon (December 7, 2017). [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lgbtp-adding-letter/ "Is 'LGBT' Adding a 'P' for Pedosexuals?"]. ''Snopes''.</ref> The campaign allegedly desires to add "P" (to represent "pedosexuals") to the [[LGBT]] abbreviation. This should not be confused with those who use a "P" to include [[pansexual]], [[polyamory|polyamorous]], or [[polysexuality|polysexual]] people, as in ''e.g.'' "LGBTQIAP"; the acronym "LGBTP" in specific is never used by the LGBT+ community, even for including pansexuals, polysexuals, etc.<ref>Enter the following into Google, with quotes and without brackets: {"LGBTP" -"pedosexual" -"pedosexuals" -"pedophile" -"pedophiles"}. How many results do you get, and of what sort?</ref><ref>(June 3, 2020). [https://factcheck.afp.com/lgbtp-has-never-been-used-describe-lgbtq-community-experts-say "'LGBTP' has never been used to describe the LGBTQ community, experts say"]. ''AFP FactCheck''. AFP Australia.</ref>

Pedophiles themselves may use it for [[entryist]]-esque reasons, though fact checkers have not found evidence of any widespread push among pedophiles for inclusion in the LGBTQ umbrella.<ref>https://factcheck.afp.com/pride-flag-pedophiles-someone-created-one-no-one-waves-it</ref> Unsurprisingly, {{wpl|Amos Yee}} used this image to promote [[pedophilia]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180516040941/http://amosyeebanana.com/</ref>

==See also==
*[[DropTheB]]
*[[Manufactroversy]]
*[[No White Democrats]]

==External links==
*[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lgbtp-adding-letter/ Is ‘LGBT’ Adding a ‘P’ for Pedosexuals?], [[Snopes]]
*[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LGBTP LGBTP], Urban Dictionary

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Labour

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*[[Australian Labor Party]]
*[[Communism]], at least in the views of [[right wing bastards]] who can't see the difference between this and socialism
*Giving [[Childbirth|birth]] to [[children]] is sometimes described as "going into labour"
*The [[Labour Party]]
*[[New Labour]], [[Tony Blair]]'s version of the Labour Party
*[[Socialism]], according to [[right-wingers]]
*[[Trade union]]s

And, yes, the [[American|Yanks]] have to show that they are different from the rest of the [[English]]-speaking world by spelling it '''"Labor"'''.
Laestadianism

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'''Laestadianism''' is a [[conservative]] [[Lutheran]] movement that is hot in [[Scandinavia]]. Its home ground is Lapland and Northern [[Sweden]], [[Finland]] and [[Norway]], where it represent a significant political force, particularly in clerical politics. It has existed since the 1840s, and is also found in [[Russia]], [[Africa]], [[South America]], Central [[Europe]] and [[North America]]. In Scandinavia, Laestadians belong to the mainstream Lutheran state churches, but the United States has separate Laestadian churches. As in general with Scandinavian movements, charismatic lay-preachers are an important part of the tradition. Laestadian meetings take place separately from, and in addition to the general congregation. That is, the movement can exist alongside and inside a parent [[church]].

While theologically their positions are unremarkable compared to mainstream Lutheranism, Laestadians are best known to the public because of the host of weird rules that they follow. Banned are TV, alcohol, [[contraception]], makeup, hair-coloring, [[gambling]], [[premarital sex]], female [[clergy | pastors]], competitive sports, pop or [[rock music]]; but not [[smoking]], the [[Internet]] or even the use of televisions in education.<ref>https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005274708.html</ref> In this respect, they resemble [[Mormon]]s. The story that washing-machines with a window are banned because they'd allow you to see underwear is, however, an [[urban legend]].<ref>https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9684757</ref> Because contraception is banned, Laestadians [[Quiverfull | often have many children]]: 13-child families aren't even unusual. Formally, they are not endogamous, but because the lifestyle is so restrictive, they tend to be endogamous in practice.

In [[Norway]], Laestadians don't use curtains, because righteous, [[god]]-fearing folks shouldn't have anything to hide from their neighbours. Thus they can often be observed watching their old black-and-white TVs in their living rooms. If the lights are out, they're either not home, they're sleeping, or they're secretly watching their 50" plasma screen in their conveniently windowless basement. Ah yes, and they're strongly [[consumerism | anti-consumerist]], except when it comes to the newest SUVs, which are very practical in sub-arctic winters and absolutely not to be classified as luxury goods.

==Schisms==
The Laestadians have always been fond of their preachers, and this has led to several [[schism]]s over the years. As such, there are not only a few, but 19 (nineteen) different Laestadian sects. For some reason the Laestadians started discussing the age of the Earth amongst themselves in the 1990's. This promptly caused another branching and subsequent passing of judgment: generally, the [[Young Earth creationism|young Earth]] Laestadians are convinced that the [[Old Earth Creationism|old Earth]] Laestadians are going to [[Hell]], and ''vice versa''.

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Lake Agassiz

[[File:Agassiz2.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Diagram of the lake.]]
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'''Lake Agassiz''' was a pre-historic freshwater lake located south of Hudson Bay in [[North America]].  The lake covered an area ranging from the region located about halfway between Lake Winnipeg and Reindeer Lake in present day [[Manitoba]] and [[Saskatchewan]] in the north, to the vicinity of Watertown, [[South Dakota]] in the south.  It also had at least three large adjacent lakes, one of which extended as far south as present day Spirit Lake, [[Iowa]].  The surface area of Lake Agassiz is estimated to have been about double that of the combined surface area of all five Great Lakes (244,106 km²).

==Modern conceptualization==
In 1823, [[American]] [[geologist]] William Keating postulated that such a massive lake might have existed in that area.  In 1879, the lake was named for Louis Agassiz, the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[palaeontology|paleontologist]] and geologist who originated the theory of the [[Ice Age]].<ref>{{wpa|Lake Agassiz}}</ref>

==Significance of the lake==
===Origin and demise===
Lake Agassiz formed near the end of the last glacial maximum (around 15-20,000 years ago) as the glaciers covering much of North America retreated and meltwater pooled.  A more recent theory states that episodes of sudden drainage of the lake &mdash; such as when its northern boundary breached, draining the lake into Hudson Bay &mdash; ''caused'' sudden cooling when the fresh water from the lake disrupted the thermohaline circulation.<ref>Teller et al. 2001,  [http://cgrg.geog.uvic.ca/abstracts/TellerOutburstsDuring.html "Outbursts from Glacial Lake Agassiz and their possible impact on thermohaline circulation at the start of the Younger Dryas, Preboreal Oscillation, and 8.2 ka cold event."], American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting.</ref> As a result, the Northern Atlantic region would have grown colder while the equatorial regions would have grown warmer.

===Great flood===
Louis Agassiz also theorized that the sudden influx of the lake's waters into the Atlantic Ocean might have raised sea level by about one meter.  This would have suddenly and violently flooded most coastal areas.  In turn, this would have led to the many [[great flood]] [[mythology|myths]] that originated in the more temperate regions of the world.



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Land Destroyer

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'''Land Destroyer''' is a blog run by an undetermined number of authors who post long articles critiquing the "corporate-financier oligarchy" of the world. It criticizes what it sees as "Western [[imperialism]]", to the point where it firmly believes that the [[War on Terror]] was manufactured by the western corporate-financier [[oligarchy]] as an excuse to topple self-sufficient governments and force them into an international [[currency]] that's friendly to Western corporations.

They expose lots of [[Lobbyist|lobby groups]] behind the scenes and it's alright if you like polemic articles that never condemn any enemy of [[America]]. For instance, Iran is portrayed as one of the more enlightened states in the [[Middle East]].<ref>[http://landdestroyer.blogspot.sg/2013/10/the-iranian-smoke-and-mirrors-threat.html The Iranian “Smoke and Mirrors Threat” and Washington’s “Human Rights Card”] Land Destroyer, October 2013.</ref> Expect the word 'imperialism' to be repeated over and over again. It's the old fallacy about portraying America's enemies as saints and demonising the US. It's a website with a clear anti-American agenda, but with its articles chock-full of hyperlinks, offers starting points for the rational viewer to conduct more research from the comfort of his or her chair.

==External links==
*[http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ Official site]

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Landover Baptist Church

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'''Landover Baptist Church''' is a website that parodies [[Fundamentalist Christianity|Christian fundamentalist]] beliefs and activities. Despite being around for years and being one of the most famous parody ministries on the internet, people still get [[Poe's Law|Poe'd]] by it and assume that it is real. It is engaged in some sort of mock war with the other big parody ministry website, [[Objective: Ministries]].  Landover Baptist Church also has a discussion board, which functions as a ''[[reductio ad absurdum]]'' of its target.

The Landover Baptist Church is not to be confused with [[Westboro Baptist Church]] which looks like parody (and has indeed been parodied by the [[God hates shrimp]] movement) but is apparently, and unfortunately, very real.

==Betty Bowers==

It is also the home of Mrs. [[Betty Bowers]], <strike>America's Best Christian</strike> a satirical character played by Deven Green.<ref>http://www.bettybowers.com/</ref> Betty is the quintessential [[conservative]] Christian American woman.

== External links ==
*[https://www.landoverbaptist.org/ Landover Baptist Church -Unsaved unwelcome!]
*[https://www.landoverbaptist.net/forumindex.php Their forums]

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Lane v. Sabine Parish School Board

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'''''Lane v. Sabine Parish School Board''''' is a lawsuit against the Sabine Parish School Board, filed on behalf of Scott and Sharon Lane by the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] in January 2014 in response to discrimination by Negreet High School in Negreet, [[Louisiana]] against their son, C.C. The family is [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] and of [[Thailand|Thai]] heritage, but C.C.'s science teacher, Rita Roark, regularly taught that the [[Bible]] was "[[Biblical literalism|100 percent true]]" and promoted [[young Earth creationism]].

This might have been just questionable, but Roark would feature [[Christianity]]-related questions on her [[science]] tests, and when C.C. failed to fill in the expected answers, Roark would belittle him in front of the class, even going so far as to insult Buddhism, calling it "stupid". When his parents objected to this, the Sabine Parish superintendent Sara Ebarb told them "this is the [[Bible Belt]]", and suggested that the family either convert to Christianity or move to another school. The family did in fact move later to protect their son from the school's incredibly hostile environment to those not of their faith.

Many legal commentators{{who}} noted that, despite Sabine Parish's wish to battle this out in court, "they had no legal defense", as the school policies were undoubtedly placed to turn the school into a platform for religion. For instance, when one of the tests that Rita Roark gave bore the question "ISN'T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" , C.C.'s failure to give the teacher the answer she wanted apparently gave the teacher justification to belittle him in front of the class for his beliefs.

Needless to say, the US district court ruled against the school board. On 14 March 2014, Sabine Parish was ordered to end its discriminatory policies and pay for the cost of transferring C.C. to another school. 

==External links==
*https://www.aclu.org/religion-belief/lane-v-sabine-parish-school-board
*https://www.laaclu.org/press/2014/031414.htm
*http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/01/the-public-school-where-prayer-is-everywhere/283384/

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Lao Tzu

[[File:Laozi 002.jpg|thumb|165px|Stone carving of Lao Tzu in Fujian provnce, China.]]{{philosophy|1}}
{{cquote|[[Secret society|Those who know do not speak]].<BR>[[Bullshit|Those who speak do not know]].|||''Tao Te Ching''}}

'''Lao Tzu''' (or '''Laozi''' in Pinyin) is a legendary [[philosophy|philosopher]] from [[Imperial China]]. He supposedly wrote "The Way and the Virtue" (''[[Tao Te Ching]]''), before departing to the west to withdraw from this world. According to legend, the guard at the border, recognizing Lao Tzu's wisdom by his long ears, asked for a record of Lao Tzu's wisdom. Lao Tzu quickly wrote the ''Tao Te Ching'', and wandered off into the sunset. His name translates into "Old Master", and many scholars today believe he probably wasn't real and that the Tao Te Ching had multiple authors.<ref>[https://www.worldhistory.org/Lao-Tzu/ Lao-Tzu], Joshua J. Mark, ''World History Encyclopedia'' 9 July 2020</ref>

During the Han Dynasty, there was a particular variety of [[Taoism]] referred to as Yellow-Lao Taoism, which venerated Lao Tzu and the mythical Yellow Emperor as [[deities]].

Studying the "Way and the Virtue" can consume a whole lifetime, even for someone with a strong grasp of Classical Chinese. It can also be quickly yoinked to make your own half-baked philosophy sound important and [[mystic]]al.

==In modern times==
Barrington Hall (a residence hall at the University of California at Berkeley, {{wpl|Barrington_Hall_(Berkeley%2C_California)|and one hell of a dump}}) coopted Lao Tzu's quote to be the Hall motto, purportedly attributed to a mythical Onghh Yaangh, "Those who say don't know. Those who know don't say." In 1989 a lawsuit was filed against Barrington Hall for being a center of [[drugs]] and [[crime]]. The [[U.S.]] 9<sup>th</sup> Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1991 that the [[Mafia|gangster]]-inspired Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was applicable to the case, in part because the Hall motto implied a "code of silence".<ref>[https://ejinjue.org/green-book/responses/fall-of-barrington-hall/ The Fall of Barrington Hall: A Rebuttal to Assertions of the Management of the University Students Cooperative Association (USCA)] by Joel J. Rane (2006).</ref><ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-27/news/mn-156_1_law-school Use of Racketeering Law in Tenant Lawsuit Upheld] by Henry Weinstein (July 27, 1991) ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> The RICO charge was overturned on appeal in 1992.<ref>[https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F2/965/965.F2d.783.90-15750.html United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit: 965 F.2d 783 60 USLW 2789, 75 Ed. Law Rep. 782, RICO Bus.Disp.Guide 8020]</ref>

==External links==
*[[wikisource:en:Author:Laozi|Works of Lao Tzu on Wikisource]]
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Last Universal Common Ancestor

The '''last universal common ancestor (LUCA)''', also called the '''last universal ancestor (LUA)''', or the '''cenancestor''', is exactly what it sounds like: the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all current life on Earth. The LUCA is estimated to have lived some 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago (sometime in the Paleoarchean era).<ref>{{wpa|Last universal common ancestor}}</ref> The LUCA would most likely be extremely simple, having only those properties which are shared by every living thing on Earth, whether they be [[human]]s or [[bacteria]]. Naturally, [[creationists]] [[denialism|deny]] any such thing exists.

==See also==
*[[Common descent]]
*[[Tree of life]]

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Lauren Stratford

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'''Lauren Stratford''', born '''Laurel Rose Wilson''', {{lived|1941|2002}} was the [[author]] of ''Satan's Underground'', yet another fraudulent book that was a best-seller on the [[Christianity|Christian]] book market during the 1980s claiming to be the testimony of somebody who escaped [[Satanism]].  

The book was published during the height of the "[[Satanic ritual abuse]]" scare of the late 1980s and championed by, among other [[Christian]] preachers, [[Hal Lindsey]]. The tall tales she spins in this book are among the goriest and sickest of any in the notoriously sensationalist field of Christian books by "ex-Satanists," recounting tales of being ritually sexually abused, forced to perform human sacrifices, brainwashed and tortured, placed in a metal drum with the bodies of babies who had been ritually sacrificed to Satan, and giving birth to children who were used in "snuff films".  

She was exposed as a fraud by other Christian ministries who investigated and found them to be outright fabrications.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110604055311/http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss090/sideshow.htm Bob & Gretchen Passantino and Jon Trott, "Satan's Sideshow: The True Lauren Stratford Story," ''Cornerstone'', 1990 Vol. 18, Issue 90]</ref>

It gets weirder.  She resurfaced in the late 1990s, this time using the name '''Laura Grabowski''', claiming to have been a childhood survivor of the [[Nazi]]s' Auschwitz-Birkenau [[concentration camp]] and that she had been experimented on by Joseph Mengele.  This story was likewise exposed as fraudulent—she was from [[Washington]] State and not a [[Poland|Polish]] [[Jew]] as she claimed—and it soon surfaced that "Laura Grabowski" was the same person who a decade earlier had claimed to be a Satanic abuse survivor as "Lauren Stratford."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20110629062853/http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss117/lauren.htm Bob & Gretchen Passantino and Jon Trott, "Lauren Stratford: From Satanic Ritual Abuse to Jewish Holocaust Survivor," ''Cornerstone'', 1999 October 13]</ref>

==See also==

*[[Confabulation]]
*[[Lying for Jesus]]

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Law

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*[[Admiralty law]]
*[[Common law]]
*The law of [[evidence]], especially as applied to [[science]], and its relevance in fighting the [[anti-science]] movement
*The series on [[Fourteenth Amendment|discrimination daw]]
*[[Eponymous laws]]
*[[:Category:Eponymous laws]]
*[[Executive power and the War on Terror]]
*[[Fun:Lawyer]]
*[[Gay Rights]] in the law
*[[Internet Law]]s
*[[Law of attraction]]
*[[Law enforcement]]
*[[Law of gravity]]
*[[Law of the hammer]]
*[[Law of Large Numbers]]
*[[Law of parsimony]]
*[[Martial law]]
*[[Natural law]]
*[[Pseudolaw]]
*[[Rule of law]]
*[[Scientific law]]
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Lawrence Ford

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'''Lawrence Ford''' was for a time the [[Institute for Creation Research]]'s Director of Communications.<ref>[[:File:Capture b1267eb865f25a994031be7b1bb290836d132011.png|Screenshot of his former bio at icr.org]], originally located [http://www.icr.org/lawrence_ford/ here.]</ref> He was the editor of their ''Acts & Facts'' magazine and other ICR publications, and was in charge of the ICR's various strayings into the world of social media. He seemed to run both the ICR's Twitter<ref>[https://twitter.com/#!/ICRMedia @ICRMedia on Twitter].</ref> and Facebook,<ref>[http://facebook.com/icr.org The ICR's Facebook page].</ref> and had his own Twitter account that parroted the ICR's new articles.<ref>[https://twitter.com/#!/fordlawrence @fordlawrence on Twitter] - now "protected" from public view.</ref> He wrote the editor's column on ''Acts & Facts''<ref>As of October 2012 this has been taken over by [[Jayme Durant]].</ref> and was also on the ICR's speakers list.<ref>[[:File:Capture_edc5c72a19a53fadfbf5bc7ce71de9c762c40366.png|Screenshot]] of [http://www.icr.org/events/speakers/ the list] as at 13 April 2012.</ref>

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