Okay, so I'm no
political genius, just a guy writing a blog, like so many thousands who busy
themselves at the keyboard. I'm also
yesterday, pensively, yet often unsuccessfully, trying to be tomorrow, a
classic symptom of "senior citizens" losing relevance. But I know some things, those petitions for
instance. To the best of my
recollections, I did not sign any of them, but here's what I did do: Since the mid-sixties I wrote and wrote and
wrote letters to all manner of government officials, expressing my concern that
both congressional and scientific inquiries of the phenomenon should be
undertaken in earnest. In response, I
frequently received long letters typewriter-inked with either sweet nothings or
just nothings. If you've followed this
blog since its early years, you know that I've posted some of the responses.
In recent years,
confronted with boxes of old files, I weeded out carbon copies of just my own
letters to various officials and other individuals, and took the insignificant
portion to a shredder for destruction and recycling. To my surprise, I stuffed two standard
large-size grocery store paper bags with old paper copies.
All that paper,
all the postage costs -- and all those years of effort. And what did it get us? Surely not an ultimate solution to the UFO
issue. Nevertheless, I certainly
received a lot of responses from folks telling me what they thought I wanted to
hear -- or what they thought they knew, even if they knew nothing of the
subjects they addressed.
Which reminds me
once again of the extensive correspondence I conducted over the years with the
late WW II veteran and intrepid UFO subject inquirer, Russ Reardon, who colorfully
narrowed everything down simply by asking, "What does it all mean? It don't mean sh**!"
From my blog
entry long ago, you may recall that Russ, an inveterate cigarette smoker,
experienced a horribly disabling stroke, and when his physician asked why he
hadn't visited his office prior to experiencing a stroke, Russ merely replied,
"Because I'm not psychic!"
Sounds pretty logical to me, considering the inane poop coming out of
Washington every day.
And speaking of
Washington, former defense secretary Robert Gates reportedly filled in a few
nasty spaces with his new book, soon to be released, taking President Obama,
V-P Biden and Hillary Clinton to task.
If anybody had any doubts about how Obama relates to the military, Gates
seems to have answered that question, though of course the White House was
quick with denials regarding Gates' unpleasant, make that damning,
assertions. Obama's leadership abilities
appear as solid as a gingerbread house, Biden is wrong on everything regarding
foreign policy and Hillary plays the political game. Yes, Obama ordered a farewell party for Osama
bin Laden (carried out by Navy SEALS) but, beyond that, Obama's detachment from
many aspects of the Middle East war puts his questionable actions in Gates'
line of sight for the book. Gates'
published treasure chest may provide some input for the 2016 elections. And maybe now we have some insight into all
the high-ranking military officers who lost their jobs or "resigned"
their commissions under this embarrassment of a President. Gates should have blown the whistle on the
Obama Administration's Middle East faults while he was still part of the war
effort because his -- expressed in writing --
outrage then might have saved many a military serviceman's life. Instead, the politicians bickered and worried
about their own political futures. For
me, this is all too reminiscent of the late former defense secretary Robert
McNamara's belated second thoughts and tears over his own actions during the
Vietnam conflict. Shame on Gates for
shutting up when he shouldn't have, and shame on the whole Obama bunch and
others, apparently painted in Gates' book as exactly the tyrants and
undesirables many of us assumed they are.
This may not be helpful for Hillary, either, despite some faint praise
by Gates.
The currently headlined
scammers in New York City are, unfortunately, retired policemen and
firemen who responded to the 9/11 tragedy.
With the assistance of allegedly corrupt psychiatrists, physicians,
lawyers and other facilitators, a number of apparently dishonest and
dishonorable members of the NYPD and NYFD faked various disabilities in order
to garnish huge sums of money from the Social Security Disability system. Obviously, NY cops and firemen who follow the
high road during their daily heroic activities have expressed outrage over
those who scam and make their departments look bad. The "bust" of these folks should
reverberate across the country, as other "disabled" scammers in high
or low places are investigated, arrested and punished.
Are Independent
voters and the Tea Party starting to mesh into a single organism? Disgust with both GOP self-preservationists
and big government Democrats -- and
outrage at the worst of both parties currently striving to legitimize illegal aliens
in some fashion -- is causing a continuing mass exodus of people whom either of
the established parties depended upon in previous elections.
The man-made
global warming herd continues to tilt at windmills of ice, predictably
insistent that the Big Freeze is part of the whole human-caused phenomenon. Like far left university intellectuals (Pol
Pot comes to mind) rabidly convinced that they know what's best for everybody, Chicken Little-style members of the
scientific community just naturally assume ownership of The Answers, and any
deviation from their intricate pre-ordained calculations is strictly forbidden
-- even when their ship gets stuck in
the summer ice of Antarctica and starts to break apart, and people with better
things to do need to inconvenience themselves by coming to the rescue of loony
scientists who derive incomes by worshipping at the altar of thermostatic
gods. How lucky indeed that they
continue to keep Obama on their side, as he strives though any weather event to
impose green taxes on all.
That rules out
another job choice for me. I can't be a
diplomat with the Dept. of State because I would simply tell international
thugs to go to hell, and I can't be a climate scientist because my lack of
credentials in that discipline would take me no further than the realization
that, yes, the climate changes. It never stopped changing.. So what?
Chris Christie probably needs to go away, far, far away from the national
elections. His administration – yep, that’s
Christie’s name on it -- inconvenienced and “dissed” its own people, and if the revenge aspect of the bridge slow-down
incident isn’t a clear reincarnation of Nixon’s enemies list intent, I don’t what is. Even if Christie isn’t directly responsible
for this fiasco, he chose the staff which reflects his own calamitous
definition of integrity. Presidential
aspirations? Crashed and burned, could be. Christie, disturbing from the
get-go, even makes Queen of Benghazi Hillary Clinton appear reasonable. Because I’m about to make a brain death
notation, may I leave this paragraph by suggesting six little words of relief
and rescue to the brain-dead GOP? Ted
Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul. As if.
Brain Death Update:
The attorney and mother for a 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead by
multiple physicians following a disastrous surgical procedure claim the girl,
moved in secrecy from the hospital to another location, is “improving.” Will she be one of the fortunate few? I remain skeptical, as “improving” can mean
anything. Nursing homes and hospitals
throughout the country are already filled with people kept alive by machines,
no matter their hopeless prognoses. If
one looks forward to a society keeping everybody declared dead alive through
technology, birthing centers will be forced to accept machine-assisted bodies
and a whole new definition of newborn. What does hell look like? This is what hell looks like.
