01) Sandy Hook Parents Fight Back Against Alex Jones
“Three parents whose children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who has long claimed the shooting was “completely fake” and a “giant hoax” perpetrated by opponents of the Second Amendment.
Mr. Jones, the popular radio show host who also operates the conspiracy theory website Infowars, has questioned for years whether 20 children and six adults died in the school massacre in Newtown, Conn. To bolster his false claims, he often cites news reports and video clips from the hours after the shooting that turned out to be incomplete or based on wrong information.
Soon after they buried their children, many Sandy Hook parents started to come under fierce attack by conspiracy theorists who have said they are actors in an elaborate scheme to enact stricter gun control laws. The fringe theories still thrive in small forums online but have reached a far greater audience through Mr. Jones, the most vocal propagator.
The two lawsuits filed on Tuesday represent the first civil action taken by parents accusing Mr. Jones of defamation. One was filed by Leonard Pozner and his former wife, Veronique De La Rosa, and the other was filed by Neil Heslin. Their sons, Noah Pozner and Jesse Heslin, both 6, were killed at Sandy Hook.
The suits focus on comments made by Mr. Jones in the past year. In a segment on his radio show called “Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed,” which aired on April 22, 2017, Mr. Jones highlighted an interview that Ms. De La Rosa did with Anderson Cooper of CNN after the shooting. While they are standing outside a downtown Newtown building, Mr. Cooper turns his head to face her.
01) 10 Things You Didn’t Know Your Old Game Boy Could Do
“The Game Boy was innovative for so many reasons. The portability of the system gave us gaming on the go and it had a library of games filled with a lot of classics including the original Pokemon games. Even with all the games and the Game Boy camera, the portable device could do things you can’t even imagine.
Into sewing? Well, the Game Boy was compatible with a sewing machine that would automatically create patterns and designs. The Game Boy was great for camping trips, but the device could also be used to catch some huge fish. Systems like the GameCube and SNES were compatible with the games, but there was also a way to play games on the Sony Playstation. The Game Boy wasn’t really built for multiplayer action, but there was a four player link and a number of games you could play with three friends. The Mission Impossible game has some amazing features including the ability to control your TV or VCR. The original Game Boy was so tough, it could actually survive a war. For those who love style, the Game Boy has been transformed into both a luxury collector’s item and some pretty fancy shoes. Game Boy music was pretty basic, but the handheld console could be transformed into a portable radio and used with both speakers and headphones. The console also had the ability to connect to computers through special software. Watch to see all these great uses and then decide if it’s worth pulling out your old Game Boy for some action once again!”
Richard Carrier concisely rebuts six common claims apologists make.
00:28 “Spacetime had a beginning”
1:38 “The Universe is fine tuned for life”
3:43 “Life requires a creator”
5:20 “Consciousness requires a spirit/soul”
7:34 “God is needed for objective moral values”
9:07 “Jesus was resurrected”
This may seem like a strange milestone to recognize…But I’ve never had any of my posting series actually hit 100 published posts on any individual blog I’ve ran…
…Though I’ve written well beyond 100 posts for it…not even “In Self Defense”, has reached 100 posts published on the same blog [not counting the “worthy additions”].
This has been an easy series to blog for, however…So…It’s grown quickly…
…Here’s to the next 100 Atheist Media posts…the next of which will be published momentarily…
01) Bernie-Style NY Governor Candidate Cynthia Nixon Gets Major Lefty Endorsement
“The New York Working Families Party, a major force in the state’s progressive politics, voted Saturday to endorse Cynthia Nixon in New York’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Nixon, an actress and longtime education activist, received 91.5 percent of the vote at a meeting of the party committee in Albany.
“I am indebted to you today and every day, because you are the heart and the soul of the progressive New York that we want to create ? a New York that belongs to all of us,” Nixon said in a speech accepting the endorsement…
01) Ex-Host Exposes MSNBC: ‘I Was Told Not To Cover Bernie’
“Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz has broken his silence on his final months at the network, stating that MSNBC president Phil Griffin told him to not cover Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary.
01) The Ugly Face Of Carceral Feminism – TFF episode 78
“Should a man be sent to jail and have to register as a sex offender for 10 years because at age 18 he had an under-age girlfriend who sent him nude photos of herself?
Citation:
“Directing the movement’s energy into the criminal justice system doesn’t build the power we need to stop sexual violence: It allies us with a system that’s incompatible with liberation.”
“[…] Some members of Britan’s House of Lords are advocating that the U.K. do just that: stop imprisoning women, full stop. It’s a move mainly supported by the House’s female members, including Baroness Jean Corston, who in 2007 put out a report on the ways that English women are made especially vulnerable by the penal system. She didn’t exactly argue that no woman should be in prison, but pointed out that in a system designed by and mostly stocked with men, women’s needs weren’t really being considered.
“We must find better ways to keep out of prison those women who pose no threat to society and to improve the prison experience for those who do,” Corston wrote in her executive summary.” https://jezebel.com/should-we-stop-putting-women-in-prison-1656085733
Professor Janice Fiamengo is a breath of fresh air, in a world being suffocated by a kind of psychosis “feminism”, which deals in self obsession and cultural cruelty towards “the other”…
01) Protesting Lawyer Burns Himself To Death
