Karen Johnson--Still a Kook

You may recall Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson, who briefly became the Troofer with the highest elected office in America before retiring. Turns out that she's had plenty of time to think about the important issues facing America today.

One of these issues took her on a recent trip back to the state capital to try to bring the subject of chemtrails and geoengineering to her former colleagues, including Governor Jan Brewer and Senator Sylvia Allen who is from Snowflake.

Nutbar conspiracy theories are like potato chips: If you eat one, you'll probably eat the whole bag.

The Year of 9-11 Troof: June

BTW, I have a bunch of videos of the Year of 9-11 Troof I will put up over the next few days, including Unsecured Coins' wrapup as well as some of my personal favorites, but I feel I should get through the rest of the Year of 9-11 Troof before moving onto other things.

In June, the Urinal of 9-11 Stundies--errr, the Journal of 9-11 Studies, announced that it would no longer be accepting papers for pier--err, peer review, because they had been so successful in publishing one peer-reviewed paper in a real journal that they no longer felt the need to publish new papers by other crackpots in their phony journal. Or something. Of course, that meant no crucial studies showing how space beam lasers could not have taken down the Twin Towers, and thus they have already gone back on their pledge and have started accepting new papers.

James put together an excellent series of posts on the book Firefight, discussing the battle against the fires at the Pentagon after the crash of Flight 77. James does the solid posts here; I do the "Ha ha!" Nelson Muntz posts.

Alex Jones released Truth Rising, which was basically a mash note to Luke Rudkowski and the We Are Beating Up Girls in Wheelchairs thugs.

Spoof the Troof became something of a pastime in June. Of course, the all-time supreme effort in that regard was Unsecured Coins' tremendous RFID chip implant which fooled even a skeptic like me. I am sure that will be front and center in his video as Alex Jones and Jason Bermas ran with it on their radio programs. But who remembers "Mike Rotch", aka Edmund Standingwho successfully got his crotch into Scholars for 9-11 Troof and Justice and Patriots Question 9-11? Or Troy's hilarious interview with Charles Pegelow, one of the early "engineers" in Box Boy Gages' AE9-11 Troofy Troof, in which the Chuckster espoused his theory of Nukes in the Towers. Definitely headed for the video highlights of 2008 post!

Blair Gadsby ended his hunger strike outside John McCain's office after 17 days. He received some pretty good coverage as I noted at the time, even getting local deep thinker E.J. Montini to write a sappy column about how Blair Gadsby bothers us because we don't have a cause we'd starve ourselves over. The Heaven's Gate cultists castrated themselves for their cause; does it bother E.J. he doesn't have a cause he'd lop off his own nuts over? Blair seemed like a nice guy, and he did get me on the local TV for a comment, and he doesn't seem to have inspired others to cut off the pizza, so maybe it wasn't a big deal. But I worried that he was inspiring others to waste their lives in pursuit of the big nothing.

David Ray Grifter revealed in an LA speech that not only the New Pearl Harbor, but the Old Pearl Harbor was an inside job. BTW, while I was flying this holiday season, I took the time to listen to the entirety of Griffin's November 2008 lecture in Japan which I will have a post on eventually. Griffin claims at the end that Japan was "lured" into attacking Pearl Harbor, and that the White House "arranged" for Pearl Harbor.

Dennis "Frodo" Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment for President Bush, which promptly went nowhere. Troofers got wet panties because the last three articles had to do with 9-11, although none of them were based on the sort of "evidence" we're used to around here. Kucinich may be a fruitloop, but he did not have a "controlled demolition brought down the towers" or a "Bush didn't leave Booker Elementary" claim in there.

The central theme that we kept returning to in 2008 was how many people had lost friends and family over their involvement with 9-11 Troof. Jon Gold, a favorite pinata of ours summed it up in a June video posting:

"This is my whole life now... it's taken up my life. You know, my friends, they really don't even associate with me anymore. Because when I obviously started doing this I was telling everybody about it, and everybody thought I was a nut, so obviously those relationships were strained and they don't really exist anymore."

Best line of the year about the 9-11 Troofers goes to Stephen Lemons, who observed that Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson wrote a couple of nuttitorials in the local papers and commented:

This crazy old bag, who's retiring from the Arizona Senate this year to let anti-Hispanic a-hole Russell Pearce run for her seat, barfed forth more whoppers in those two pieces than a bulimic at Burger King.

Barfed up more whoppers than a bulimic at Burger King? Now that's funny! Speaking as a writer, I tip my hat to Mr Lemons.

Jesse "The Idiot" Ventura Rants in Arizona

Jesse Ventura visits the 9/11 memorial in Mesa along with kook state senator Karen Johnson as well as making a speech. Our buddy the Feathered Bastard reports on some of the nuttiness on his blog, as well as a local tv station witnessing him arguing smoke color with a firefighter. I wish this guy would get some new talking points, as it is the same 3 incorrect factoids repeated ad nauseum.

Still Moron Karen Johnson

She introduced Blair Gadsby to the AZ State Senate today. Then she gave a speech on 9-11 "Truth". Apparently she gave them copies of Mike Berger's Improbable Collapse as well; jeez it's been ages since I saw that movie mentioned anywhere. In her speech, she focused on the pulverized concrete issue, which is simply retarded. The concrete in the building was in the floors only. Even if the building had been a controlled demolition, how would they have pulverized the concrete? This is where "beam weapons from space" come into the equation.

What a fruitcake!

The Bird Soars

Our buddy Stephen Lemons is back with an article on Karen Johnson and Blair Gadsby. It's an absolute delight with laugh-out-loud passages like this:

Enter Republiloon Karen Johnson, state senator from Mesa, who, to cadge a phrase from the Bird's debunking pal Pat Curley of the blog Screw Loose Change, went full woo last month with two error-riddled op-eds — one in the Arizona Republic, the other in the East Valley Tribune. This crazy old bag, who's retiring from the Arizona Senate this year to let anti-Hispanic a-hole Russell Pearce run for her seat, barfed forth more whoppers in those two pieces than a bulimic at Burger King.

Great stuff!

The Word from the Bird

Our buddy Steve Lemons checks in with a column on Arizona's nutbar supreme, State Senator Karen S. Johnson.

Like you needed more proof that state Senator Karen Johnson is nuttier than Paula Abdul, Tom Cruise and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright combined, the Mesa Republitard recently appeared on Texas conspiracy king Alex Jones' radio show, fawning after the crackpot AM a-hole like a gushing schoolgirl and signing on to nearly every conspiracy theory since the assassination of Lincoln.

:)

If only I could write like he can. Savor it!

Still Moron Karen Johnson

She has a guest nuttitorial in the Arizona Republic:

Why, for example, did Building 7 collapse? It wasn't hit by a plane, as the towers were. The 9/11 Commission Report completely ignores Building 7. The Federal Emergency Management Agency report discounts fire as a cause and concludes that the reasons for the collapse of Building 7 are unknown and require further research. But when FEMA issued this report, it already cleared the site and disposed of the dust and steel (evidence from a crime scene), thus possibly committing a felony and complicating any "further research.

She throws in the usual arguments: Concrete dustification, should have toppled sideways, billowing clouds (at least she manages to avoid the pyroclastic claim), molten steel in the basement, Max Cleland, etc. She tosses in a few polling results (notably avoiding the 4.6% MIHOP poll) and concludes with a call for another investigation.

She's also in the East Valley Tribune, her Mesa hometown paper:

In December, physicist Steven Jones announced the discovery of thermite chips in World Trade Center dust samples. The chemical composition of these chips are an exact match to known thermite samples used in controlled demolitions — further corroboration that explosive devices were involved.

Que? Thermite samples used in controlled demolitions? I don't think even Jones makes that claim.

Arizona Senate Kook Karen S. Johnson to Retire

According to the local paper:

The senator gave details about her theories. The World Trade Center buildings could have been rigged with thermite to melt girders. The aircraft could have been drones rather than the commercial airliners most of us thought we saw crashing into the Twin Towers. As to what became of the missing passengers in the aircraft that (theoretically) did not explode against the towers: "That's what I would like to know," she said.

Now, we take no issue with private citizens believing whatever fever-swamp nonsense, however outlandish, they wish about their government.

We do take serious issue, however, with a public official affecting public policy on such grounds.

If Johnson truly maintains mere "questions" about the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, she should have declined to vote. The likely truth of it, though, is that she really does believe her government capable of destruction of the highest order and is happy to express her delusions not just as a private citizen but as an elected official.

Johnson reportedly will not seek re-election this fall. After hearing her 9/11 fantasies, we heartily approve.

But, but, 84% of the people agree with her!

The State Senator Is a Troofer

Since Jesse Ventura hasn't been a governor for several years, I'm going to guess that Karen S. Johnson, a State Senator from Mesa, Arizona, is the highest-ranking elected Troofer. And no, she's not a Democrat, a Green or a Libertarian; she's a Republican.

This one requires a little background. A few years ago, Arizona decided to have a little memorial built to 9-11. It's a circular steel monument with holes cut in it to reveal phrases on the concrete below when the light hits it. Most of the phrases are non-controversial, but some are a little annoying, such as "You don't win battles of terrorism with more battles." Another claims to tie 9-11 to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. So the memorial has been something of a cause celebre in Arizona for the last several years. But it hasn't been changed, so far, which is fine with Karen Johnson:

But legislators who voted against altering the memorial said they believe it needs to represent various viewpoints and feelings about the events leading up to and following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And that, according to Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, includes the still-open possibility that Americans have yet to learn the full story.

"There's many of us," she said, "that believe there's been a cover-up," ranging from who was really behind the attacks to questions about whether what flew into the World Trade Center towers were pilotless drones and the passengers had been taken off beforehand.

"And there's a lot of statements on that 9/11 memorial that reflect a lot of our views that we have about it," Johnson said. "And I think all of those need to be represented."

What a maroon! Johnson's what I would call a paleo-conservative of the Pat Buchanan ilk; in fact, she chaired Buchanan's campaign in Arizona in 1996. She's also a North American Union fruitcake, and is very concerned that gays are ruining marriage. And she's a big believer in the sanctity of marriage, having exchanged eternal vows with five different men so far. And yes, she supported Ron Paul this year.

It's been a while for the old Nutbar-O-Meter, but if Karen Johnson doesn't deserve it, who does?



Hat Tip: Mr Right and National Review Online.