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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Trayvon Martin link dump (CORRECTED)

Plenty of kooks and scumbags in this story. There's the shooter himself, who comes across as erratic (maybe mentally ill?); there are the people on his side, who've spun out some crazy notions of why their boy is the innocent victim here, not the dead kid; then there are the dung-slinging wingnuts from Newt Gingrich on down to the lowest cave-dwelling racist assholes who bring on the batshit in ways that make Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann seem rational.

Of course, It's All Obama's Fault!

[NOTE: Somehow most of the links got mangled while I was putting the dump together. This has been fixed]

Here we go:

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17-year-old Martin was on suspension from school in Miami (bag w/pot residue); he was staying in a gated community (apartments?) with his father's GF; walking home from C-store w/Skittles and a drink, was stalked by shooter, then chased; some sort of scuffle/confrontation, then he was shot; shooter claims "self-defense" [wingnuts say shooter had right to "stand his ground" but the kid, threatened by someone armed and bigger, didn't have the same right, even though he was close to home]
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killer's father a retired judge; makes us wonder whether the cops refused to charge Zimmerman because the judge wanted the matter to go away.
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map of gated community where Martin lived and died
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cops tried to coach a witness into changing her story
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kid was shot in late Feb 2012; body kept in cooler for 3 days before parents notified [link somewhere down below]
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wingnuts (including Bankrupt Check-Bouncing Failure Newt Gingrich) blame the kid for his own murder
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shooter was self-appointed Neighborhood Watch (and ARMED, when NW folks are specifically told they're not cops); called 911 frequently in 2011 for meaningless things like trash in street--
and a suspicious 7-9 year old
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the shooter was told to back off by the 911 dispatcher
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the Zimmerman media circus
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shitstorm picks up as people start claiming shooter said "fucking coons"
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Obama speaks out; Gingrich the Bankrupt Failure and other wingnuts screech at him
for pandering; Frothy goes to a shooting range campaign event; stupid woman tells him "Pretend it's Obama!"
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faux noise commenters do their usual racist shit-throwing
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Geraldo "The Moustache" Rivera says if the kid wasn't wearing a hoodie, he wouldn't have been shot
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'witness' claims he saw Martin beating on the shooter, says shooting was self defense [3/23/12]
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Gun Owners of America supports 'witness' and 'self-defense' claim, supports the "stand your ground" gun laws
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PBS holds roundtable on the killing
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Breitard claims kid's photo was 'lightened' to make him look 'innocent' (and picks fight with LGF blogger)
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a different Trayvon Martin's pic used to smear the kid
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convenient 'black friend' of shooter claims Zimmerman said "fucking goons,' it's what the kids call each other these days when they like each other [3/25/12]
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Stand Your Ground, Castle Doctrine--and now what?
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Daily Kos tag roundup
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Killer 'can't stop crying'
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NOLA cop --under investigation for fatal shooting)--to Trayvon: "Act like a thug, die like a thug"
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Miami Herald makes excuses, claims shooter thought Trayvon looked "drugged out" (so smoking pot is a capital offense? Doesn't editorializing belong on the OPINION page?)
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wingnut dickhead says Obama "lynching" shooter
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investigator wanted to charge shooter with manslaughter, was instructed not to
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faux noise commenters go racist (again) (they had a field day with Whitney Houston's death)
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not to be outdone, Breitard commenters go even more batshit racist against Trayvon
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shooter's lawyer abandons chair, runs out on "The Last Word"; chair footage for an entire segment (Lawrence grills it at one point; chair refuses comment)
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shooter's "buddy" Oliver grilled on "The Last Word"; his claims all fall apart (he's a coworker, didn't know him all that well, hadn't seen him in awhile)
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shooter claims he was attacked; broken nose, blood on his face and back of his head from being beaten up by the kid--but police video calls bullshit on that
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funeral director says no injuries on Trayvon's hands (he didn't put up a fight)
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shooter's father claims Martin told shooter, "you're gonna die now" or "you're gonna die tonight"
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keeps blowing up: Trayvon Martin was identified but kept as John Doe until his father filed a Missing Persons report; shooter didn't have blood or broken nose; cops didn't drop the ball so much as put it down and walk away from it
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Spike Lee fucks up, reposts incorrect address for shooter posted by some Twitter dumbass (the address was was actually that of a 70-year-old woman and her 72 year-old husband; they had to bug out because of all the hate mail, phone calls, and visits in the middle of the night).
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wingnut bullies target children
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Snowbilly makes desperate attempt to be relevant, says Obama "orchestrated" his remarks on Trayvon.
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Longer video of shooter's arrival at PD
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breitards say Hispanics--and the shooter--aren't white
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wingnut blames Obama for "Kill Zimmerman" Twitter account
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shooter's pearl-clutching father: "so much hate coming from the President"
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the Gated Community mentality
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Trayvon Martin: License to Kill
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Roseanne Barr joins the "let's post people's addresses online" club, deletes her post, claims she thought Twitter was private
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Spike Lee apologizes, settles with couple whose address he posted
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Rep. Bobby Rush removed from House floor for wearing a hoodie; scumbag Allen "One-Term Lying War Criminal" West lies about it
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more racist scumbaggery from the Breitards
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forensics experts: shooter wasn't screaming for help
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moron says forensics experts don't know how to do their job, says they can't use screams to identify shooter vs. Martin
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Breitards start deleting some racist comments, after a week
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If Martin had been white and the shooter black
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a view of Trayvon from the UK (why the US is an insane police state)
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Breitards still racist scumbags after another week (4-5-12)
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Neo-Nazis "patrolling" Sanford, FL in case race riot breaks out
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fox affiliate in Orlando calls Nazis a "civil rights" group--then they delete the page and rewrite it as "White rights group" and edit that to finally say "Neo-Nazi group"
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Sanford, FL puts National Guard on standby
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a look at sloppy copwork in Sanford, FL (the Martin case is just the latest)
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shooter fan defaces a black cultural center at OSU
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shooter launches fundraising website
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Grand Jury will not get the case; it's in the Special Prosecutor's hands, but there won't be a 1st Degree Murder charge (4-9-12). Could still try him on manslaughter.
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this isn't the first time "stand your ground" has farked things up--in OK, a man was killed in 2010 by a robber, who was allowed to walk because he was "attacked" first. The "attacker's" son and an older friend went on a shooting spree, killing 5 black people who had nothing to do with his father's death (4/2012)
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America's stooopitest blogger says spree-killer was "understandably upset"
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smug yuppie Mark Judge of Daily Caller casts off his chains of "white guilt" 'cos someone stole his bicycle
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Idaho's lone black lawmaker receiving klan mailings
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racist dirtbags whining that criticism is "leftist censorship"
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shooter's lawyers drop him, say he's been unreachable, not in FL, been ignoring advice to STFU, going to the media (specifically Hannity) and trying to call the Special Prosecutor. His website stunt was the last straw.
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NBC fires producer who heavily edited 911 audio
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school fires literature teacher who encouraged kids' Trayvon fundraiser
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shooter's family says US Attorney General Eric Holder protecting "New Black Panthers" because Holder is black
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shooter's family makes awkward literary reference, comparing shooter to the Tom Robinson character from "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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bonus conspiracy red meat from a Daily Caller reader--Obama, Trayvon, Sharpton, Jackson, and Eric Holder are working with the NEW BLACK PANTHERS!!!11! and the shooter stumbled onto it! Obama's building a blah militia!!
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shots fired at empty cop car in Sanford
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shooter charged with 2nd Degree Murder (4-12-2012)
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shooter's new lawyer's best defense should be to
SHUT UP (awww, he can't go into a 7/11 without being recognized)

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Countdown!

Old Harry "World's Gonna End Really Really Really Really Really Really Soon Now" Camping has announced on his website that October 21, 2011 is Really Really Really Really Really Really The End This Time:

"Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period. On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21"
Get your toothbrush and whatever. He's gotta be right this time! We're sure that his May 21, 2011 mistake prediction was just a warmup!

How can Family Radio be so bold as to declare a date for Christ's return?

Given the overwhelming biblical evidence, the Family Stations, Inc. Board of Directors made a determination to dedicate all available resources to proclaim the warning of May 21, 2011. God has prepared Family Radio for this important time in history. Given the population of the world, radio and the internet are the perfect vehicles to deliver this warning.

Go read his site before The End! It's Really Really Really Really Really Really For Real This Time!!


UPDATE: Camping retired from his gig at Family Radio on October 16th (spotted by Slatts in alt.atheism):
(From his Wikipedia page) "Camping officially retired from his position at Family Radio as of October 16, 2011, only days before his last predicted date for the end of the world. Camping reportedly admitted in a private interview that he no longer believed that anybody could know the time of the Rapture or the end of the world, in stark contrast to his previously staunch position on the subject."

Image:
http://i.imgur.com/AXySX.png
It goes without saying that we're still here, ready to make fun of the next Doomsayer.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Teabaggers are Scum.

Just when we think the teabaggers couldn't get any lower, they dig the damn hole deeper.



If you're uninsured and get sick, die quickly. It's the teabagger way, like letting a man's house burn down for not paying a $75 fee.

These people stand in the way of progress for this country. They're working to destroy the very things that give us the standard of living that keeps America from being a third-world country.

It's long past time that the rest of us made them stop digging that hole any deeper; they can stay in it. We should fill it in and move on.

[Update: Added "Evil" tag. Thanks to Pat Robertson!]

Friday, January 22, 2010

Haiti Quake Shakes out the Kooks!

Was anyone really surprised when Dodderin' Pat "Gawd Told Me To Run Fer Pres'dent" Robertson claimed that Haiti was cursed as an "explanation" for the quake?

Sadly, I wasn't. It's the evil old bastard's only way of getting attention anymore.

Was anyone really surprised that Pigboy Limbaugh immediately jumped on the tragedy as a way to bitch about Obama?

Sadly, I wasn't. Pigboy makes his living making things political.

I'm in the wrong gawddamn line of work. These two pricks are raking in the millions.

Did you know that the earthquake was actually an American weapon, and that something went wrong? They're preparing a new test--this time in Iran. It's all linked to September 11 and the July 7, 2005 "bombing" in London [they call it a 'mock bombing']! Hugo Chavez says it's true!

Update [Feb. 9, 2010]:
In other news, John Travolta has single-handedly solved the whole Haiti problem by sending "E-Meters" and $cientology preachers...and some medics, food and water. Not like the Haitians have enough problems.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mabus, David (actually Markuze, Dennis)

This guy's just a low-hanging fruitloop, not really one of your more impressive kooks. According to Skippy the Skeptic's blog, Mabus is actually Dennis Markuze of Canada, a devoted Nostradamus fan who is convinced that the old boy predicted the existence of Depeche Mode.

Mabus is also obsessed with James Randi and his million-dollar challenge, claiming that Randi owes him that million bucks and sneering that Randi has "taken down" the challenge.

Doesn't like atheists, apparently. His most-recent post in the alt.atheism newsgroup:


Path: border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: David Mabus
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Atheist Apocalypse
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:52:42 -0800 (PST)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 4
Message-ID:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.142.32.173
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1259412762 29712 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2009 12:52:42 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:52:42 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com

Kicking in the heads of atheists one at a time...


http://nostradamus-america.atspace.com/



Apparently, he thinks "kicking in" atheists' heads involves a ton of YouTube embeds of Depeche Mode videos.

But he's pathetically unoriginal:

David said...

Kicking in the heads of atheists one at a time...

http://nostradamus-america.atspace.com/
That was in the comments of the Skippy page I linked to above--May of 2008.

Heh.

I've asked him to complete a list of his other kook credentials so that a better entry can be completed here.

Given that Mabus is a troll, PZ Myers at the Pharyngula blog has seen fit to put Davie in the Dungeon--his blog's killfile.

Updates:
On Dec. 4, he replied to the "Lotsa Kooks" post...by linking to a post on the forum at forteantimes.com:


Posted: 02-12-2009 20:18 Post subject: Atheist Apocalypse

Kicking in the heads of atheists one at a time...

http://nostradamus-america.atspace.com/

This guy's more boring than _I_ am.

He's apparently got a boring FaceBook page, too--but it can't be real because it shows him as having FRIENDS (tip of the hat to PanamaFloyd for finding it). Going by his picture, Dennis has a garish gold face and no eyes, and grapes for hair. Scary.

December 13, 2009: Another discussion of Mabus, this time at Skeptic Friends Network (September 2009). Apparently this goofball threatened James Randi and his wife for "cheating" him out of the million-dollar prize.

Photographed at AAI convention.

People demand action on dealing with him; cops do nothing.

Petition goes out demanding action on his threats and stalking


Montreal police answer 4,000-name petition by announcing they'll finally investigate him; his mother says he's a good boy, misunderstood: cops probe death threats; Time to Institutionalize...

...and he's discussed Mabus before:
Markuze exposed
Update on Markuze
Goats On Fire

Some rightie jobbie thinks he's an undercover liberal

Arrested! Aug 17, 2011

Back-story of his exploits, leading up to the arrest
Notorious spammer brought down

Gets conditional release, goes back to trolling (no death threats so far); next hearing Jan. 25, 2012
Out and back in business

Nov. 20, 2012: resumed posting online (including alt.atheism) under the nym "Operation Archangel"); was re-arrested by Montreal police for violating the terms of his probation. Judge releases him in exchange for a promise to stop.
He's back...

November 21, 2012: wow, visited by the Great Man himself (see comments).

November 25, 2012: Tim Farley has a writeup on Mabus' rearrest.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

'Balloon Boy's' father, Richard Heene

I heard about this guy's kookness from Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast #222. He buys into the "Illuminati" thing--a race of reptilian humanoids who have infiltrated leadership positions all over Earth (interesting Illuminati stuff at the link).

Says Hillary Clinton is a lizard:



We humans were genetically engineered to be their slaves.

See, I never really thought about this stuff until I stumbled over a Wikipedia entry on David Icke, who I'll write about later. I never really considered that people actually BELIEVED this stuff!

Put this into Google: "richard heene illuminati". What a resume!

Even the Freepers think he's nuts. That's saying something.

Heene used to be best-known for his stint on "Wife Swap"...until he perpretrated a hoax involving his 6-year-old son Falcon (FALCON?! Seriously?) being trapped in a UFO-shaped balloon. This was apparently intended as a publicity stunt: Heene wanted to start up a reality show, which was pitched to the TLC cable channel. According to Robert Thomas (see below) this was to be MythBusters-meets-mad-scientist.

He turned himself in today (Nov. 12, 2009); he faces up to 90 days in jail for his stunt.

UPDATE: On November 13th Heene and wife Mayumi put in guilty pleas. They're not expected to get much time in jail. The main reason for the plea-bargain was to keep Mayumi from being deported.

More update (Nov. 14, 2009): In this Gawker interview from the Saturday after Heene's balloon went up, Robert Thomas explained how he and Heene had been planning a balloon publicity stunt to garner more attention. He became aware of Heene via his 6-part YouTube series called "Psyence Detectives".

Heene's "Psyence Detectives" website is apparently down. I bet the Illuminati did it to silence him!

Even more update (Nov. 14, 2009): Heene was trying to raise money to build himself a shelter to protect himself from the explosion of the sun in 2012. Apparently he doesn't realize that an exploding sun would destroy Earth and him with it; but the sun doesn't have enough mass to explode--it'll burn all its hydrogen in a few billion years, then start fusing the helium it's been making from hydrogen all this time, expanding into a red giant. Earth will be a cinder then. Heene and the other 2012'ers are a few billion years too soon.

Other stuff he believes:
--The "doomsday" Svalbard Global Seed Vault partially funded by Bill Gates and the Rockefellers: they know something big is going to happen (but...if the sun explodes, Earth will be a cinder, and the seeds will be, too).

--He says there are more than 800 "concentration camps" in the US. I wonder if he listens to Chuck Baldwin?

--He worries about an imagined currency--the "Amero"--that will bring the economies of the US, Mexico and Canada together. Why would anyone do that unless the world was gonna end?

Saturday, November 7, 2009

"Wild" Bill Donohue--Biography


Wild Bill likes to get wrought-up about stuff. He's the Catholic version of Glenn Beck! If there's something he can have hysterics over, and rattle and rail against, Wild Bill is on it.

So who is this kook, this leader of men at the Catholic League? Well, he was born in New York City, got a Doctorate in Sociology (New York University), and is divorced with two--wait, WHAT?! Divorced?!

He clutches his pearls and fans himself over gay marriage [source: Tips-Q] and how it'll destroy the family and all that, but couldn't keep one together himself?

If only there were a word in English to express the concept of "do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do."

So anyway, Wild Bill is vocal--well, maybe "shrill" is a better word--in his opposition to all kinds of evil stuff, such as the ACLU, abortion, gay marriage, the yearly "War on Xmas" and pretty much everything it's trendy for conservatives to screech about. He whined about Kevin Smith's "Dogma," but couldn't suck up enough to Mel "Sugartits" Gibson over "The Passion of the Christ."

Predictably, he spins the rape and molestation of little kids by Catholic clergy into an anti-gay (rather than anti-pedophile) harrangue.

This kind of kook isn't dangerous like the anti-vaxxers; indeed, Wild Bill is what we at Kook Clearinghouse call a "Popcorn kook"--break out the kettlecorn and watch him dance!

[Updated Nov. 30, 2009--added the picture; my first PhotoShop face-swap!]

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Truthers list

Last Update: Aug. 27, 2010

And now, a short list of 9/11 "truthers"--people who claim that the events of September 11, 2001 were an inside job to whatever degree.

As, Berit
Asner, Ed [Actor]
Baker, Ace
Barrett, Kevin
Begley, Ed Jr. [Actor]
Belafonte, Harry [Singer, actor]
Bellamy, Matthew
Berg, Philip J.
Bergeron, Richard
Bermas, Jason
Bigard, Jean-Marie
Binoche, Juliette
Boutin, Christine
Breitweiser, Kristen
Brockers, Mathias
Brolan, James [Actor]
Brouillet, Carol
Casazza, Patty
Chiesa, Giulietto
Cho, Margaret [comedienne]
Cotillard, Marion [Actor]
Cuccurullo, Warren
Def, Mos [rappist; actor]
DeLonge, Tom [singer, Blink 182--not part of band anymore?]
Dice, Mark
Eminem [rappist]
Falk, Richard A.
Fetzer, James H.
Fo, Dario
Fujita, Yukihisa
Garofalo, Janeane [Actor, activist]--needs corroboration
Green, Seth [Actor]--needs corroboration, but doubtful
Griffin, David Ray
Hamid, Zaid
Harrelson, Woody [Actor]
Hicks, Sander
Hoffman, Jim

Icke, David: [Writer; conspiracy "theorist"; actually believes in the Illuminati--reptilian humanoids that "run everything"; says Boxcar Willie is one!]

Jones, Alex [Conspiracy "theorist"]
Jones, Steven E.
Jong, Erica
Lewis, William [Director]
Lynch, David [Director, "Blue Velvet"; Producer, Writer]
McGruder, Aaron ['Boondocks' comic]
Machon, Annie
Marrs, Jim
McKinney, Cynthia [Politician--D-GA (former congress)]
McMurtry, John
Meyssan, Thierry
Moore, Michael [movie-maker]
Nelson, Willie [singer/songwriter; actor]
O'Donnell, Rosie [Actor]
Orr, Daniel
Pratt, Heidi [Famous for being famous]
Pratt, Spencer [famous for being famous?]
Rense, Jeff
Reynolds, Morgan
Rivero, Mike [Radio host; hangs with Jones, Alex]
Roberts, Paul Craig
Rodriguez, William
Russo, Aaron
Scott, Peter Dale
Shayler, David
Sheen, Charlie [Actor]
Sheen, Martin [Actor]
Stone, Sharon [Actor]
Stubblebine, Albert
Sunjata, Daniel
Tarpley, Webster
Van Auken, Lorie
Ventura, Jesse [Actor; former governor of Minnesota]
von Bulow, Andreas
von Kleist, David
Walter, Jimmy
Zwicker, Barrie

InfoWars.net Site--Alex Jones; conspiracies
PrisonPlanet.com Site--Alex Jones; conspiracies


Seems to be a somewhat leftie swing here. Just sayin'.

There's a video compilation over at YouTube in which some of these fine entertainers show us why they are better than engineers at describing what happened on September 11th.