Say What You Want, Extreme Wacko Right Wing Is Imaginative

Liz Crokin has some, um, interesting theories about
the Democratic National Committee.

The people that brought us "Pizzagate" have an even wilder theory now, and boy is it entertaining.

And they're winning the competition to come up with the most far-fetched theories possible.

Pizzagate was the theory early this year that to the wackos, indicated by John Podesta e-mails, that the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton were running a child sex ring out of the basement of a Washington DC pizzeria.

Among the other nonsensical parts of this story, the pizzeria doesn't even have a basement.

But, whatever.

Now, they've gone further with their theory of the evils of the Democratic party.

Here's the scoop, as Right Wing Watch tells us:

"Right-wing columinst, commentator and conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin is fully committed to the conspiracy theory that there is a massive global satanic pedophile ring run by high-ranking government officials, powerful business executives and celebrities which regularly engages in the ritual sexual abuse and murder of children."

Right Wing Watch goes on:

"Crokin said that the average person simply cannot comprehend the fact that 'one third of the government' is part of a satanic Illuminati cult that sexually abuses, kills and eats children, but 'that's what these people do.'"

She said all this does seem unbelievable, but the John Podesta emails prove that it's happening. Crokin does not explain how those Podesta emails prove it, but whatever.

It's actually hard to follow how all this grew into Pizzagate and beyond, but this how Crokin's "logic" apparently works. 

The Democratic National Committee emails were hacked during the 2016 campaign, and this included emails to and from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.

Many of the emails were innocuous and referred to dinner plans, sometimes involving pizza.

Somehow, Crokin and the other right wing wackos decided the word "pizza," particularly the phrase "cheese pizza" was code for "child pornography" since both phrases have the same first letters in their words.

Podesta also communicated with the owner of that Washington DC pizzeria, so the conspiracy was born.

Yeah, I don't get it either.

A lot of other people apparently "get" it, though, as YouTube videos of this theory and social media posts got lots of followers who apparently believe this shit. A guy even traveled up from South Carolilna and opened fire on the pizzeria to stop the child sex ring.

If that many people are that stupid and that gullible, God save us.

Alex Jones, Who Is Trump's Wacko Muse, Is Entertaining In A Scary Way

Alex Jones is one of Donald Trumps most, um,
interesting news sources.

One of Donald Trump's favorite news sources seems to be Alex Jones.

Jones is the visible head of something called InfoWars, which is, to put it mildly, a wildly crazy, train wreck of an extreme wacko conspiracy theories.

There's an entertaining video of him at the bottom of this post.

Jones is the guy who informed us that terrorist attacks and mass shootings in Orlando, Sandy Hook, Boston and other places were "false flags" by the Obama administration to take away all our guns and all of our freedoms.

He's the guy who informed us that the government is creating gay people by putting estrogen in juice boxes,thereby being a method of population control.

When a terrible tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma in 2013, he said the U.S. Air Force has the ability to control and direct swarms of tornadoes and launched a strike on Moore. No word from Jones yet on why the government targeted the fine people of Moore.

Also, Diet Coke is a by-product of a Pentagon study that would engineer e-coli bacteria and the fact that Taylor Swift endorsed Diet Coke in ads means that she loves genetically modified bacteria poop. 

So, yes, Jones is, um, interesting, which makes it very easy for me to pick on him. I know I'm being mean. I shouldn't abuse the mentally ill.

But in Jones' case, I can't help it. He needs to be taken down a notch.

Thankfully, we got some help from Vice, who tweeted the compilation you'll see below of clips from Jones' radio show.

Jones tends to have a temper, or which he also apologizes for. The wax and wane of these episodes is something to behold.  The dude certainly is excitable.

Watch the clip if you dare:

 Alex Jones wants you to know he’s sorry for his outbursts pic.twitter.com/i83ubKiwNp

— VICE News (@vicenews) March 5, 2017

Conspiracy Nutjobs Delight In Torturing Orlando Shooting Victims

Patience Carter, who was injured during The Pulse nightclub
massacre in Orlando, was victimized again by nutjobs
 claiming she's a crisis actor partiipating in a government
ruse to take all our guns away, or something.
Photo by Zack Wittman/Tampa Bay Times 

A woman named Patience Carter was shot and injured at The Pulse nightclub during the massacre there earlier this month and a friend she was with was killed.

Carter, like all the victims in this shooting deserves all the support and love anybody can give her,  obviously.  

But cue the nutjobs!

Every time something like this happens the conspiracy weirdos come out of the woodwork to tell us the same old story they have. This massacre didn't happen. It was staged by the government to take all our guns away and suspend all our civil rights.

And those victims we all saw on TV? Those are all crisis actors brought in to stage the "shooting"

Riiiigghht.

You'd think the conspiracy wackos would come up with something original, but that's the narrative they give every time.

We could safely ignore these idiots if they didn't make sport of harassing people like Patience Carter. But they seek people like her out, splash her all over the internet and "expose" her as the fraud she is clearly not.

According to Slate, the "proof" the conspiracy dingbats offer is that Carter is supposedly a crisis actor , which is obvious because she had interned at television station WTFX.

She worked for awhile at a TV station! Which proves she's an actor!

Or something like that.

Patience Carter meets with President Obama after the
Orlando shooting, not before, as the conspiracy nutjobs
would have it. 

Carter also Instagrammed photos of herself after the shooting, including one in which President Obama was comforting her when he went down to Orlando after the crime. 

Someone changed the time stamps on Carter's Instagrams to make it look like they were taken before the shooting, then re-posted them on line.

Hey, if you do a sleight of hand and change the time stamp, then the time sequence really did alter, apparently. What, these conspiracy theories have Cher's "If I Can Turn Back Time" as a constant earworm in their sick little heads?

Similarly to this situation, the kooks tortured parents of young children who were killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut school massacre. As if these grieving parents needed more pain in their lives.

I'm not sure what to do about these nutjobs. Trying to bat away their idiotic rantings is just a fruitless, endless game of whack-a-mole.  Still, they deserve all the ridicule we can throw at them, which is what I'm trying to do here.

As for Patience Carter, she ended up "thanking" the morons who were bothering her with the nutty conspiracy theories. On Instagram she wrote: "It's your outrageous insensitivity that makes me want to heal even faster, and grow even stronger."




WTFX

The Debate Over The Rapper Who Thinks The World Is Flat Is Actually Interesting

No, the Earth is not flat despite what B.o.B says.

There's a popular rapper named B.o.B. who announced last week via social media that the world is flat. As in flat as a pancake.

I thought we resolved this question -  you know, is the Earth flat or round? -  centuries ago. I thought everybody agreed that it's round.

Well, not everybody agrees, I guess.  Apparently, B.o.B. thinks there's a vast conspiracy falsely tellling us the world is round. Okey, dokey, then.

Normally, I would have ignored this as just some ignorant musician spouting off on social media about nonsense.  So I was going to put B.o.B's rants in my delete folder.

Who the hell is B.o.B. anyway?

But this whole rapper says the world is flat thing has been bugging me anyway.

I suppose such a flat earth rant is no surprise in this age of anti-intellectualism.  I get it that you can't trust everything the experts tell you, but there's so many tin hat conspiracies out there being peddled by, to put it gently, wackos.

It's also irresponsible to ignore these weird statements without at least making an attempt at setting the record straight.

Or as Salon put it, "When millions of people are receiving assertive messages from a celebrity they admire, it's kinda hard to just pretend it's not happening because the rest of us don't want it to."

The reactions to B.o.B's startling announcement have been the most interesting aspect of all this. And B.o.B.

B.o.B. might be a decent rapper, but his
grasp of basic physics leaves much to be desired.

 B.o.B's "proof" that the Earth is flat is that if the Earth were round, the curvature would obscure the skyscrapers of distant cities from your viewpoint, that the horizon looks flat, not curved from an airplane, and it's hard to get permission to visit the North and South Pole, so what are governments hiding?

So, do the rest of us who have a basic understanding of science and physics and astronomy ignore the rantings, or do we risk people believing this junk?

Famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson jumped right, futilely trying to set the record straight for B.o.B.

deGrasse Tyson then went beyond science to say this, which I agree totally needed to be said:

"......but the whole thing is a symptom of a larger problem. There's a growing anti-intellectual strain that is growing in this country. In maybe the beginning of the end of our informed democracy. 

In a free society, you can and should think whatever you want. If you want to think the Earth is flat, go right ahead. But if you think the Earth is flat and you have influence over others, as would successful rappers or even presidential candidates, then being wrong becomes being harmful to the health the wealth and the securityk of our citizenry."

B.o.B. responsded to deGrasse Tyson by releasing a rap song dissing the astrophysicist.

THEN, deGrasse Tyson's nephew, chimed in. The nephew, who just goes by the name Tyson, also a rapper who put out a track dissing B.o.B. for dissing his uncle.

Are we going to have a street battle over astrophysics? That would be an improvement over wars over drug selling turf.

Offering another perspective, the rather intellectual magazine The Atlantic defended B.o.B, kind of.

Don't worry. It appears everyone at that rather intellectual magazine and web site agrees the Earth is round.    

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is
still struggling to convince conspiracy theorists
that the Earth is in fact round. 

But one Atlantic writer, Lizzie Wade, gives him a pass for at least questioning the (not flat) world around him. I guess that's better than just accepting whatever the Internet tells you is true as fact.

Says the Atlantic:

"This isn't a man who never learned science, or who has some fundamentalist objection to examining empirical evidence about the world. This is a man who has looked at the world around him and decided that mainstream science isn't doing a good job at explaining what he sees.

So he's collecting evidence, seeking out literature by well-versed "experts" and working out a better theory on his own. This is the hallmark of people I've come to think of as outsider physicists."

True, Wade writes, many of us also consider people like B.o.B. loons, kooks and crackpots.

However, physics has gone beyond helping us make sense of our own physical world. It's not about Newton's apple falling from the tree anymore.

There's these exotic theories of what goes on in space, things that us dumb laymen have a real hard time understanding.

If you think you're so smart, explain string theory to me, for example.

As the Atlantic points out, some of us just trust the scientists to figure things out for us, and some of us don't.

So we come up with our own theories to explain the universe. That's human nature.

I wish there would be some sort of balance.

As Wade writes in the Atlantic,  if it's not about a political or religious agenda, if you're not screwing up the world by insisting public schools teach creationism, and not discuss evolution, or blocking scientific and political efforts to fight climate change, or spreading disease by discouraging vaccinations, then B.o.B.'s flat earth stuff is pretty harmless.

Unless, coming back to deGrass Tyson's point, it prevents knowledge and safety and understanding from moving forward.

One last point. I've always wondered, if these conspiracy theories are true, why hasn't anyone blown the whistle on the "cover up.?" I mean, you'd think some Ed Snowden-like character would come forward and give us proof that the scientists and governments have been lying to us. That the Earth is flat, the moon landing never happened, or aliens are about to take over New Mexico or something.

But that hasn't happened.

Now I have research to back me up.

Grist has a story on a researcher named David Grimes of Oxford University, who calculated, roughly, how long it would take for someone to spill the beans on a conspiracy, depending upon how many people were involved.

The gist of it is, it would only be a few years before a whistleblower offered conclusive proof that the Earth is flat, or the moon landing was a hoax, or that there's a cure for cancer, but vested interests are keeping it from the public.

Grimes based his research on how long it took for actual conspiracies to be exposed such as the NSA scandal Snowden exposed, or the Tuskegee syphilis scandal.

But now I'm expecting someone to tell me that Grimes is part of the conspiracy that's lying to the public and saying the Earth is round.

Sigh.

Jerk Of The Month Harasses Parents of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim

James Tracy might get fired from Florida Atlantic University
for what many his harassment of the parents and relatives
of Sandy Hook massacre victims. 

So many jerks, so little time.

It seems like idiots and mean people keep proliferating, and there's so many it's hard to keep track of them all.

But I'll try by nominated as the Jerk of the Month, one James Tracy, a professor in the school of communications and media studies at Florida Atlantic University.

Gee, with that title, the guy sounds pretty smart and sane.

But oh, no. He's a "Sandy Hook Truther" one of those people who actually believe the 2012 massacre of 26 little kids and teachers at an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the government to take all our guns away.

At the behest of some of the people Tracy has allegedly harassed, the unversity is in the process of trying to fire the guy.

I know, I know, firing the guy for his beliefs sounds like a bit of a First Amendment issue. We're all entitled to our opinions, no matter how completely moronic they are.

But it seems Tracy went beyond just talk.

Lenny and Veronique Pozner, parents of a boy murdered at Sandy Hook, published an op-ed in the Broward County, Florida Sun Sentinal in which these so called Sandy Hook truthers, have been harassing and intimidating them.

The Pozners' essay has since been re-published in several other web sites and media outlets.

They Pozners write:

"Tracy even sent us a certified letter demanding proof that Noah once lived, that we were his parents, and that we were the rightful owner of his photographic image. We found this so outrageous and unsettling that we filed a police report for harassment.

Once Tracy realized we would not respond, he subjected us to ridicule and contempt on his blog, boasting to his readers that the 'unfulfilled request' was 'noteworthy' because we had used copyright claims to 'thwart continued research of the Sandy Hook massacre event.'"

No, Tracy, your request went unfulfilled because who in their right mind would respond to such a jerky, horrible demand as yours?

On his Facebook page, Tracy calls the Pozners "fake parents" who profited "handsomely from the fake death of their son."

Earlier, according ot The Trace, the Pozners tried to debunk the so called debunkers by posting Noah'ss birth and death certificates online, shared the medical examiner's reports and Noah's report cards from the school.

Of course I'm afraid the Pozners were naive. You can't convince a conspiracy theorist of anything once you start showing proof they're wrong. The "truthers" dismissed the documents the Pozners provided as fakes.  

Conspiracy theorists are saying the death of Noah Pozner, shown here
was faked, along with every other death at
Sandy Hook Elemetary School in 2012
by a government who wants to take our guns away,
or something. Noah's parents are fighting back.  

To fight back, the Pozners have created an organizaton called the HONR Network, whose stated goal is to "bring awareness to Hoaxer activity." says the web site BoingBoing.

Of course, as good an idea as HONR is, the organization is playing an endless game of whack a mole.

The group does things like when a screed attacking the victims appears on YouTube, HONR contacts YouTube to alert them their terms of use have been violated to get the video removed.

Pozner probably believes that HONR won't change the "truthers'" minds. But it does bring consequences to them. He filed police reports about the harassers and placed them on line, as he put it, "so the hoaxers could see what I was doing," even thoug Pozner knew the police reports wouldn't go anywhere.

But the reports were enough to sometimes get some hoaxers to take down offensive content from their blogs and web pages and such.

Every well publicized violent act or crime ends up drawing in the conspiracy theorists who claim it was all a fake so that the government can cow a frightened populace and oppress them.

As The Trace points out, the so-called Sandy Truth truthers take this to a whole other level. There's the obvious cruelty of abusing parents whose young children have been murdered.

Led, sort of, by a guy named Wolfgang Halbig the conspiracy theorists have been attacking Sandy Hook parents and witnesses to "prove" they were part of a "treasonous" fake shooting staged by the U.S. government.

They claim parents didn't appear "sad enough"' in public appearances. Time stamps on photos of the kids taken before the massacre were wrong, which is a very common bug in digital photos and online memorial pages, such as those run by Google.

Sure, it's fine to be skeptical of what the government or anybody else has to say. But if the evidence is overwhelming, and documents proving what happened are readily available, then geez, give up already.

That idiot professor Tracy isn't the only one to harass Sandy Hook parents. A 32-year old man was arrested for accosting the sister of Vicki Soto, a teacher slain during the massacre, during a Newtown charity event. He demanded to know whether photos of Soto were photoshopped.

As I noted, now there's an effort to get Tracy fired. He's a tenured professor at Florida Atlantic University, so getting him fired is thorny. But possible.

It's true you don't want to get rid of a professor whose views are contrarian. You want vigorous debate and to allow students to see perspectives they haven't thought of.  Even if a few of the perspectives are full of hooey.

But pretty much everyone is in agreement that Tracy has gone too far. He's certainly an embarrassment to Florida Atlantic University.

From the New York Times: "Jeffrey S. Morton, a professor of international law at the university, said in a statement to the Times that Mr. Tracy's "harassment of the parents of murdered children was vulgar, repulsive and an insult to the academic profession."

I guess conspiracy theories are fun. They fuel and define a person's inner unfocused anger and makes them feel better.

But the conspiracy theorists are too stupid and too delusional to understand they are wrong, and they're too stupid and delusional to understand the real harm they do to others.

When conspiracy theorists begin to abuse others, the only way to shake them out of their hallucinations is to do something that really wakes them up. Like make them face criminal or civil sanctions, or have them lose their jobs, if such actions are legal and ethical.

Or at least put the hoaxes on notice that people are watching their awful activities. That maybe would freak them out just a little, who knows?

The Sandy Hook "truthers" seem to be among the people who correctly embrace their free speech rights, but cannot accept that with those rights comes the equal weight of responsibility for your comments.

And consequences for what you say.

So let's fire Professor Tracy!

Fear In Texas: The Great U.S. Invasion Of 2015!! EEEK!!!

A U.S. military map for the Jade Helm
military exercise in the American Southwest
this summer. Some paranoid Texans
think the government is going to
put them in concentration camps,
but probably not.  

Texans are bracing for an invasion of that great state by the U.S. military.

Um, yes, Texas is already part of the United States, like it or not, but some Tea Party and conspiratorial types are saying the military will invade anyway.

This all started from a long planned military exercise called Jade Helm 15.

Parts of the southwestern United States, including Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, will be stand-ins for rugged Middle Eastern terrain.

(As Gawker notes, they're using the Southwest for this exercise because you can't really train for a war against Iran inside Iran. They might object.)

The military exercise divides different areas of the Southwest into friendly and hostile areas, for the purposes of training. Texas is marked as "hostile"

That means, according to Tea Party kooks, that the military is going to take away everybody's guns, lock up the Christians, and, I don't know, make everybody get gay married or something.

A website called AllNewsPipeline has the scoop. It's on the Internet, so it has to be true. Here's what AllNewsPipeline tells us what's really going on:

"Numerous 'FEMA Domes' are being rushed to completion across the state of Texas in locations suchas Lumberton, Brownsville, Pancho Maples and Kingsville are raising alarms with many who view these structures as 'FEMA death domes' used to house insurgents following the red and blue list round up of gun owners, Christians and patriotic supporters of American and the U.S. Constitution."

The conspiracy wackadoodles say
Walmart is closing Texas stores to help
the government set up concentration camps.
Nope the stores are closing because they're
underperforming or need renovations.  

Adding fuel to the fire was the closure of six Walmarts in western Texas. And what do failed Walmarts have to do with the Great Invasion of 2015?

Walmart is saying the stores closed because nobody shopped there, or the stores need to be renovated, which sounds plausible.  But no! They're going to be detention camps for all them god fearin' Christuns being oppressed by that evil Muslim Jihadist Obama.

Or something like that.

All this Tea Party right wing conspiracy craziness would be good for just a chuckle, and then we would move on except for one thing:

People who should know better, who are in charge, are buying into this craziness. Or at least pandering to it.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he has told the Commander of the Texas State Guard to monitor the millitary training exercise, so that the U.S. government doesn't get any ideas and kill all the Texas Christians and take their guns. Or something.

Rest assured, says Gov. Abbott, that the Texas State Guard will ensure that Texans'  "safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed" by this evil U.S. invasion U.S. military exercise in the state.

The ever reliable Texas U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert also chimed in. He's always fun to listen to with his extreme rhetoric, and he doesn't disappoint here:

"This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law. Certainly, I can understand these concerns.

When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans or even 'cling to guns or religion,' patriotic Americans have reasons to be concerned."

 Of course U.S soldiers, the ones participating in the military exercise are patriotic American citizens. Isn't it kind of insulting to think these fine soldiers would set up concentration camps or something to detain and kill other Constitution loving Americans?

Yep, but oh well.

It's no secret a lot of Texans, with all those conservatives, don't like President Obama, which is totally fair enough. NPR quoted former Texas Lt. Gov David Dewhurst as saying, "Unfortunately, some Texans have projected their legitimate concerns about the competence and trustworthiness of President Barack Obama on these noble warriors. This must stop."

Don't count on it stopping, Mr. Dewhurst.

That's because there's money to be made. All these conspiracy organizations need a source of income. If the U.S. "invasion" of Texas doesn't happen, then these whackadoodle groups can say they "prevented" it, and if need be, do a money beg to take advantage of it.

And the Texas governor's pandering, and Gohmert's babble around all this is just being pro business, right? Keep that conspiracy industry going. Plus, throwing red meat to this constituency won't hurt in future elections.

Crazy Guy With Crazy Radio Show Says Obama Luring Kids From Central America as Child Soldiers

At least Alex Jones' conspiracy theories are entertaining  

There's a lot of theories and opinions about how President Obama is handling the flood of kids coming from Central America, and causing a refugee crisis in the U.S.

The most novel theory is that Obama is recruiting these kids as child soldiers who will take our guns and freedom away.

Um, right.

The guy who gives us this is Alex Jones, somebody I'm usually loathe to give attention to. 

He's usually given to telling us that the government is causing weather disasters to control us. and that awful things like the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing were "false flag" operations conducted by the U.S government to take our rights away, or something.

But his latest theory is so over the top I couldn't resist repeating it, just for laughs and giggles.

According to Jones, his buddy William Gheen,  Obama is recruiting all these kids from Central America and when they get here, he gives them Obamacare and Obamaphones, whatever those are.

That ingratiates them to Obama, and lets him build up a secret child army, like some tin pot African dictator. This army of vicious children will take all our guns and freedoms away.

Of course, I doubt even Jones believes this wacko theory, or many of the others on his scary Web site, infowars.com

As Salon noted not long ago, Jones peddles these ideas to a gullible audience and makes bundles of money from the enterprise. He's a conspiracy entrepreneur

The only really scary part for me, is how many people read and watch Jones just to laugh at the conspiracies, and home many people actually believe every word Jones says?

Unique Oklahoma Politician Says He Was Defeated By Robot Or Body Double

Unsuccessful Oklahoma Congressional candidate
Tim Murray said his winning opponent is actually
a robot or body double, and is thus disqualified.  

U.S Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Oklahoma won the recent primary for his party's nomination to the House of Representatives. It looks like he's headed for an easy re-election.

But one of the defeated candidates isn't going to take this lying down. Candidate Tim Murray says Lucas is actually a body double or robot for someone who died in 2011

"It is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed by a look alike," Murray writes in a note to television station KFOR.

Murray claims Lucas is among several U.S. Congress members who were executed in Ukraine in 2011.

Hmm. I'm pretty up on the news and I would have seen in the papers and on TV and the Internet a few years ago word of the execution by The World Court of Lucas and other Congress members in Ukraine three years ago.

Murray said these executions by hanging were televised world wide and it's common knowledge that it happened.

Somehow, I don't recall it. You think it would be all over the news. Like Benghazi or something.

Maybe there was a coverup or something.

KFOR reports that Lucas is a bit shocked by the news he doesn't exist. "It does come as kind of a shock to read that you're not you," Lucas said.

Lucas says he has never been to Ukraine. That's what they all say.

By the way, you HAVE to check out Murray's campaign Web site, that's still up despite the fact that he lost to the robot that is pretending to be Lucas.

Here's one example of Murray's accomplishments, taken from his Web site:  "Requested and obtained removal, from humans, of an illegal de-human chip from persons abroad and in armed forces use. Helped block the 7th day Legislation in the '70s that would put the 666 de-human chip on every person on earth. In prevention of the fore-mentioned, it was sealed with The People, The U.S. President, and the U.S. Supreme Court at that time and since that time."

I hadn't heard about this. 666 de-human chip? 7th day legislation? Tim, Tim, you have to explain this more to us ignorant sheeple.

However, the conspiracy Web sites, which are oh, so accurate, are all over it, Thank Gawd!

On the ZPi Blog, "serving the paranoid since 1997" we have this laudatory report on Murray:

"Murray is not threatening to break the set of political theater by exposing the conspiracy at the heart of modern government: Most politicians are actually android replacements known as Simulacra."

Now I'm even more confused. Simulacra? I've never even heard that word. And why hasn't anybody embedded a 666 chip in me? Or did they?

Maybe Murray will win his appeal of the election which Lucas, or his body double, won. Then we can learn more about this insidious plot.

Or at the very least, be entertained by this, um unique candidate.

Predictable: Whackadoodle Conspiracists Say Newtown Was a Hoax

Once again I delve into the inevitable, in which the fringes inform us the awful stuff we've been seeing and reading about out of the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre was all a hoax.

Apparently, the government, or the United Nations, or I don't know, space aliens from Neptune orchestrated a fake school shooting so they can take all our guns away. Or so the UN can take over the world, or something.

Like all weird conspiracies, the hoax promoters going to great lengths to link vaguely similar, but mostly unrelated situations.  The fathers of both the Newtown shooter and the person responsible for the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado earlier this year are sort of, kinda working in the financial sector.

Neither man is the top dog in these businesses, but somehow, both were going to testify to the U.S. Senate on some weird financial scandal involving something called LIBOR.

The U.S. Senate was planning on no hearings regarding the matter, and nobody had heard either guy was going to testify for anything.  But of course we're not supposed to believe that.

All those newscasters, traumatized families, grim rescuers and police you saw on TV? All actors hired by the government. The proof? The father of one dead girl briefly laughed nervously before a press conference at which he tearfully rememebered his daughter

That brief nervous laugh proves he was an inept actor hired by the government, supposedly.

Another wacko site, Infosalvo, says Newtown was a "staged false flag attack" whatever that is, but it's some sort of plot to take away everybody's guns. 

Atlantic Wire sums up the conspiracy theories this way:

Depending on who you believe, it's the global banking industry, the Freemasons, and Barack Obama (who is also the anti-christ) acting on behalf of "his Illuminati Jewish handlers like Mayor Bloomberg of NY and Dianne Feinstein."

The conspiracy theories aren't all homegrown. According to AtlanticWire, Iran says the massacre was a hit by Israeli officials to punish President Obama for not being loyal enough to Israel, and Obama covered all this up, in order to take the punishment rather than retaliating.

I read these off the wall conspiracy sites every once in awhile because I get a strange jolt of entertainment reading stuff from people who have really gone off the rails.

But maybe I shouldn't read this stuff. Maybe when I do, I'm contributing to the problem. I give them all a Web hit, which in this day the more web hits somebody gets, the more "legitimate" they are, even if everything there is nonsense.

I'd hate to live the life of one of these conspiracy nuts. The paranoia!  So many people, lurking around the corner, trying to take your liberty, your rights, your life away. It could be anyone! And the web of conspiracy is so extensive! It's tentacles are everywhere! Everyone is suspect!

Can you imagine living in fear like this instead of seeing things logically. They've watched too many bad TV movies growing up, and now their life is now one big, awful, preposterous, cheap TV movie.

The conspiracists also have a caustic effect on society overall.  Few people believe these nutcases, of course. But does exposing ourselves to their delusions nudge us just a bit toward a bit of increased paranoia.

I hope not. We sure don't need it.

Obama Is Hiding His Past Teleportation to Mars, Pair Says

It turns out Donald Trump was barking up the wrong tree when he accused President Obama of faking his birth certificate.

According to Wired, the real scandal was revealed by Andrew Basiago and William Stillings, who say they are ex-government agents who were once "chrononauts" and went with a 19-year old Obama on a secret CIA mission to Mars. 

Apparently, Obama was up there on Mars helping to squelch threats from extraterrestials and establishing territorial sovereignty on the red planet.

Did a youthful Barack Obama participate in a secret mission
to Mars to kill extraterrestials, like Marvin the Martian?

Of course, the U.S. government, those cloakers of government nefariousness, deny that Obama was anywhere near Mars, or had anything to do with Mars, other than watching Looney Tunes' "Marvin the Martian" as a kid.

I wish Obama would come clean on this. Is he promoting green technology as a ruse to establish new fuel sources for a Martian conquest? Did he kill Osama bin Laden because bin Laden knew too much about the secret government Mars takeover? Did Obama push through health care reform to take care of any astronauts that go to Mars.

I call on the field of Republican presidential candidates to expose this major potential scandal.