Alex Jones of InforWars being sued by Sandy Hook parents

Many people take Alex Jones seriously. That's probably due to the notion that he says things that conspiracy theorists want to believe, so they do. Sometimes Jones makes claims that are so far out over his skis that he needs to be held accountable.

The families of two kids who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre filed suit against Infowars head for his claim that the Connecticut shooting never happened.

The whole thing was a hoax, he claimed.

Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, the parents of Noah Pozner, and Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse Lewis, filed separate defamation lawsuits Monday against Jones seeking over $1 million in damages.

The suits were filed in Travis County, Texas, the home of InfoWars, Jones' media company.

Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, called Jones' accusations "goulish."

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"Even after these folks had to experience this trauma, for the accusations next five years they were tormented by Alex Jones with vicious lies about them," Bankston told the Huffington Post. "And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people."

Six teachers and 20 first-grade students were gunned down on December 14, 2012 by the gunman, a mentally ill young man who first shot and killed his mother and took her legally-owned guns to continue the slaughter before killing himself.

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The lawsuits allege that Jones insisted the shooting was staged and this resulted in the encouragement of other crazy people to make death threats against the victims' families.

"So, if children were lost at Sandy Hook, my heart goes out to each and every one of those parents. And the people who say they're parents that I see on the news. The only problem is, I've watched a lot of soap operas. And I've seen actors before [he's one of them]. And I know when I'm watching a movie and when I'm watching something real," Jones said at the time.

Jones and InfoWars did not comment on the lawsuit.

There's a difference between freedom of speech and defamation.


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Two more women accuse Franken of inappropriate touching

Oy, not again

Two more women, not familiar with each other, have come forward and told the Huffington Post that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) touched their buttocks in separate buttock touching incidents. This brings the sexual misconduct incident allegations against Al Franken to four, so far.

Radio host Leeann Tweeden wrote last week that Franken kissed and groped her without her consent during a 2006 USO tour.

On Monday, Lindsay Menz said Franken groped her butt at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010, after being elected as a senator.

The two women had remarkably similar stories and both spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of repercussions. Both had also been telling their stories over the years, which lends credibility to them.

In a sweat-stained statement to HuffPost, Franken said, "It's difficult to respond to anonymous accusers, and I don't remember those campaign events."

The first woman, a 38-year-old book editor who lived in Minneapolis at the time said Franken groped her when they posed for a photo after a June 2007 event hosted by the Minnesota Women's Political Caucus in Minneapolis. She wanted a photo with Franken because her mother "loves him" and wanted to give her the photo.

Two women close to the first woman corroborated her story.

"My story is eerily similar to Lindsay Menz's story," she said. "He grabbed my buttocks during a photo op."

The second woman said that weird Al cupped her butt with his hand at a 2008 Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis. He also suggest they visit the bathroom together.

"My immediate reaction was disgust," the second woman said. "But my secondary reaction was disappointment. I was excited to be there and to meet him. And so to have that happen really deflated me. It felt like: 'Is this really the person who is going to be in a position of power to represent our community'"

Franken  told HuffPost, "I can categorically say that I did not proposition anyone to join me in any bathroom." 

Okay, so he calls it a 'washroom.'

The first woman said that Franken is a "serial groper" and that's why she wanted to tell her story. "Only two people have come forward and people are saying that this is a right-wing conspiracy," she said. "It's not. I'm not a liberal person. ... I voted for him after this happened."

The second woman, who said she was groped at a fundraiser, said it took place in the fall of 2008 at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She was excited about attending the event. She was looking forward to looking to meeting someone she wanted to support.

"I had never attended anything like that," she said. 

She and her friends found Franken and introduced themselves to him.

"I shook his hand, and he put his arm around my waist and held it there," the second woman said. "Then he moved it lower and cupped my butt. I was completely mortified."

Franken is such a classy guy.

The woman had to escape Franken's clutches by excusing herself to go to the bathroom. It was then that he leaned in and suggested that he go with her. She grabbed a friend and ran to the bathroom leaving Franken behind, all sweaty and disgusting.

Since the incident, the woman told several people about what happened but didn't want to report it at the time.

I felt like I didn't have a voice," she began. "This man had all of the power, all of the authority. In addition, he is a white man and I am a woman of color. I was 21 years old. And I was afraid that he would use all of those privileges to discredit me, to make me feel even smaller than I already felt."

Now she's more confident thanks in large part to the many women who have come forward to share stories of sexual harassment by men in power.

What Franken is alleged to have done is not as bad as what Roy Moore is alleged to have done, but in both cases a power dynamic is clear. Also, in both cases the allegations of both men's behavior seem true based on corroborative accounts by the alleged victims.

Should Franken and Moore resign?

I believe they should and I also believe the names of others who have been protected with secrecy need to be made public. We pay their salaries; they work for us, it's time to take our government back from the politicians, even if we have to 'clean house' and Senate. 



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Caucasian man thinks he's a Filipino woman

Sounds like Jessica Tarlov when he sings

Adam Wheeler, from New Orleans, changed his name to Ja Du, had his penis and testicles removed, grew his hair long, and thinks he Filipino, possibly because he believes "you are what you eat."

The guy loves Filipino food and culture and identifies as being Filipino. His German shepherd identifies as being a white mailman--and the dog's a bitch, not a male.

Du drives around in a purple colored rickshaw called a Tuk Tuk, a vehicle used for public transportation in the Philippines, and when the temperature falls below 35 degrees F., his female parts turn blue. (The photo below should explain it all.)

"Whenever I'm around the music, around the food, I feel like I'm in my own skin," the mentally ill Du told WTSP. "I'd watch the History Channel sometimes for hours, you know, whenever it came to that and, you know, nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture."

The comments put Du into a small, but growing community of mentally ill people whose reality testing is derived from believing that TV shows such as "The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone" were documentaries. (See also Rachel Dolezal.)

Du told the Huffington Post "I think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person, like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music." Hopefully, things that make sense to him but not mentally healthy people will make sense to his psychotherapist.

He continued, "It's all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it, and [that's] how I feel about the Filipino culture."

What was I thinking? Makes perfect sense.

But actual Filipinos aren't too happy with Du because he is overlooking the history of struggle Filipinos endured. Some Filipinos believe that Du is merely exercising white privilege, but they're just as crazy as Du.

Filipino-American journalist Jackie Fernandez said Du's comments highlight the "thin line between cultural appreciation and appropriations being crossed."

If Du is a liberal, and I suspect he is, the liberal media will define his mental illness as cultural appreciation.




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Stanford Prof.: "Saying your homework was easy is a microaggression

Photo: Heat Street

Writing about people who search for micro-aggressions is really very easy. In fact, it's so easy that I just committed one against other bloggers who find blogging more difficult than me.

The list of micro-aggressions keeps growing like a tumor on the butt of a liberal. You can add talking about your homework to the list.

Stanford "Professor" Ruth Starkman wrote in the Huffington Post: "Sure, you had no ill-intent, and absolutely nothing racist in mind at all. But by merely uttering the words out loud, you risk a micro-aggression because you don't know who in class may have struggled with the assignment," she says.

Even attempting to explain why you found an assignment easy is also a micro-aggression, the fluttering snowflake explains. So if the assignment was in chemistry, let's say, and you had college-level chemistry in high school and both your parents are chemists, your sister and brother are chemists, and all they talk about at the dinner table is chemistry, it's still a micro-aggression if you try to explain why you knew that H2O is water while the idiot next to you thought it was jet fuel.

"Not everyone went to your high school, had your fortunate circumstances, or such a dazzling delivery room arrival, and even if they did, they might still be suffering because of the genuine challenges of the assignments," Starkman writes.

And if the idiot next to you who doesn't know that H2O is water and you tell him why it was easy for you, that might make him feel bad. And if he feels bad, he may cry and realize how unfair life is and go into a deep state of depression . . . and melt.

Starkman claims that some students struggle while others breeze through because of an injustice she calls "unevenly distributed knowledge."

It's kind of like the idea of an 'uneven distribution of wealth.' Socialists actually believe that if I have more money than they have because I'm a chemist, for example, and they're a children's party clown, it's unfair if I make more money developing cancer curing drugs than they make for shaping balloons into giraffes.

In Starman's socialist mind, any student who attends an elite university with a good educational background is excelling academically because of their wealth and privilege. "Chances are your parents paid substantial sums of money for that knowledge," she says, "either in property taxes in highly resourced school districts or in private education or in pricey enrichment."

So why do libtards refuse to go along with school choice?

Starkman actually thinks that paying high property taxes is another form of privilege that wealthier people should feel guilty about. It isn't equal distribution of wealth--it isn't socialism nor communism--thus, it simply isn't fair in her mind.

"Your response 'I already had this in high school' really means 'not only do I have rich parents, I somehow took exactly the right courses to be perfectly prepared,'" the Stanford professor writes. "Congrats if you did. Try not to be a jerk about it."

Progressives always interpret what you say the way they want to hear it. You're being 'a jerk about it' no matter what you say if it somehow illuminates their shortcomings.

They're like the street beggar who asks you for your money then gets upset when you don't want to give it to them.


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Fakebook News

Facebook is finally getting its act together and going after "fake news." 

The giant social media's CEO and hard left liberal, Mark Zuckerberg, announced its plan to tackle what they consider fake news, especially "the garbage you see from Fox News, The Washington Times, The National Review, Breitbart, PJ Media and those damn alt right blogs, just to name a few.

The methodology the liberal media website plans to use to tackle fake news will be by harnessing fact-checking experts such as those found in PolitiFact, Salon, the Huffington Post, MSNBC and Newsweek Magazine, just to name a few.

Democrats have blamed bogus news stories from made-up media outlets for influencing the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets have been very fair to Trump while being tough on Hillary Clinton. 

"We believe in giving people a voice and that we cannot become arbiters of truth ourselves, so we're approaching this problem carefully," Facebook's VP of News Feed, Adam Mosseri said in a blog post. "We've focused our efforts on the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain, and on engaging both our community and third party organizers."

Specifically, Mosseri was referring to hoaxes perpetrated by FBI Director James Comey who claimed that Hillary Clinton used a private email server while secretary of state. That's simply too hard to believe--nobody is that stupid.


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Thank a Vet, Tweak a Liberal

I hope everyone has a good Veteran's Day today.  Well, except perhaps not so much for Bowe Bergdahl and "Chelsea" Manning. I hear that Chelsea is putting in for a Lipstick Request because "she" doesn't want to have to pay for it "herself" out of the money "she" earns making Diplomat license plates and would rather have we taxpayers foot the bill. At least we don't have to pay for "her" birth control, so tough bullets to you, Sandra Fluke (pronounced 'Fluck').

Remember, Chelsea, being gay doesn't excuse treason. They should have hung you for that.

I listened to a little of Joe-the-Village-Idiot-Biden's speech today. Some of it was lost due to technical difficulties but I believe I was able to get the gist of it: "Will the banner yet wave?" hither and thither and yon.

But you have to give Joe credit for belting out the words .  .  .  over and over. He actually sounds patriotic and perhaps he is. Like Obama, Biden wants what he thinks is best for the country. It doesn't matter that what he and Obama really want is a form of socialism that has proven time and again to not work, it only matters that he has good intentions.

Good intentions get pretty worn out and old when the people with those good intentions have absolutely no clue of the reality those good intentions would bring about. Look at Communism and the hundred million deaths it has been responsible for over time.

And if Karl Marx is your role model, please take a bath and use soap in spite of who you look up to. Oh, and feed your own children--it's your responsibility, not "the collective."

Every year we honor veterans. For those on the left, it's an act. They have cut military spending to a dangerous level. They send a minimum of ground forces into war zones to ensure our military impotence; they make disrespectful remarks that are carried on websites like Salon and Huffington Post.

If those on the left like socialism so much, how come they never move to socialist countries? 

Obama is in China and in China they are mocking him. In Russia, Putin laughs at him and does what he wants to do in Ukraine and Crimea. I wonder what's next for Vlady.

So please, in spite of my dour words, have a good, no a great Veteran's Day and be sure to thank a vet if you see one.


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