As we await The
Second Greatest Show on Earth
(the first, of course was also a circus) via the pending public release
of two slides allegedly, maybe, might just be showing pictures of UFO aliens
photographed somewhere around the 1940s, I started wondering. I wondered, if May's anticipated sideshow slide
show in Mexico somehow turns out to provide little more than another boondoggle
around the neck of serious UFO research, what's next? If a disappointed audience shrugs off the
grand unveiling for reasons either valid or not, will public attitude, particularly
in the United States, pound another nail in the UFO investigative coffin,
supplemented by a laugh or two?
Reluctantly,
I've become accepting of observations that an explosion of drones in the sky
will further doom that portion of UFO research which lacks funding and extended
scientific involvement in the U.S. -- which bodes not well for private UFO
organizations. This, along with an
increasingly secretive government, routinely unwilling to part with information,
or even to acknowledge the existence of various documents and incidents,
certainly won't help. Sadly, we in
America have reached a point where we seem little more than societal anathema
to some of those sworn to serve the public interest.
Meanwhile, UFO
lobbyist Stephen Bassett and others, long itching for UFO
"disclosure," appear, disturbingly, to be pinning their hopes on what
some assume will be a hands-down win for Hillary Clinton as president. Bassett, concluding that election advisor
John Podesta's recent UFO comments infer a possibility that Clinton would blow
the lid on government UFO files, is quoted in
Mother Jones of April
3: ". . .it's already been
announced publicly that (Podesta) is going to be a key adviser to the heir
apparent to the White House, the de facto candidate. . ."
The heir apparent? I hold no ill will toward Bassett, but to
prognosticate as the 2016 winner a member of the Clinton dynasty whose
accomplishments in government add up to a pretty definite zero is
disheartening, to say the least. I can
only speak for myself, but to look upon Clinton with a narrow view, embracing
her only because she might influence UFO "disclosure," takes us down
a very rocky road. We can bring up
Benghazi, the e-mail controversy, foreign financial donors and her involvement
with helping cause chaos in the Middle East with Obama's terribly (criminally?)
engineered "Arab Spring," certainly -- but anybody who remembers
Hillary Clinton's dismal performance last time she participated in a
presidential candidate debate should realize instantly that this failed
"public servant" is a disaster for all seasons. Whether practicing incompetency as Secretary
of State or cruising along blandly as a U.S. Senator from New York prior to
that, H. Clinton is and was no national heroine. Stephen Bassett's obvious emotions of shock
and awe over the mere possibility that he could commence lip-smacking if a
Hillary Clinton presidency emerged --
based only upon a slim chance that government UFO files would be exposed for
all the world to see -- provide, in my humble opinion, a really, really
unfortunate reason to drive down the busted and fragmented Clinton highway.
Don't get me
wrong, I have always been a proponent for a scientific UFO investigation and
public release of relevant government files, but sometimes my mind wanders to
places unanticipated. For instance,
hundreds or thousands of years after all the information we foolishly store on
electronic media has faded away, wouldn't it be a hoot if whatever critter
succeeds humans explores Earth's "ancient" libraries and finds,
foremost, remnants of books written by UFO contactees -- those denizens of
bonkers land who distorted, yet raised the UFO issue long before science
would even begin to dirty its hands with the subject? Despite the arduous efforts of serious UFO
researchers, I could imagine explorers of the future -- whether the hybrid
descendants of humans or visitors from elsewhere -- discovering the
"works" of George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, Buck Nelson and other contactees of the era, and coming to a very
puzzling, but apparent and quite erroneous conclusion regarding public
knowledge and impressions about the UFO subject. Fair-haired maidens from Mars? Travelers from Venus? Yes, indeed, explorers of the future may
assume that our solar system was a busy little social club during earlier times
-- though total fiction, thanks purely to the fact that science avoided the UFO
issue and allowed the contactees to be first on the planetary block to claim
ownership of the phenomenon.
Hillary seeks
the zombie vote. Frankly, we can't imagine anybody else who
would vote for Hillary Clinton, knowing what we do about her. But she, the ossified candidate, made the
announcement Sunday, preceded in days past by questions such as, isn't it time
for a woman to become president? Yes, it
is, but not you, H.R.C. She had her chance last time, she blew it in
the debates -- and will likely repeat her incompetence during the next series
of debates. I once admired the
Clintons, but a Clinton political dynasty, like a Bush political dynasty,
performs no favors for the U.S. voter.
Both Hillary and Jeb need to go away and maybe volunteer at animal
shelters or something. At any rate,
Hillary's subdued announcement via the social network signifies one more social
disease inside the tent of a faded clown show.
New free UFO books online: The free online books section at
nicap.org (see link) has added two exceptional books of the past from Richard
F. Haines, in .pdf format. I’m very
pleased about these additions because Haines is solidly on the side of science,
and I respect his work enough to have previously reviewed each volume for Pursuit, journal of the now very, very defunct Society
for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU). “Free” is an exceptional bargain here, and
you should find the other books listed of interest as well.
Tattoo who? Hey, great news! The Army will now allow tattoos in places
where military folk couldn't have them before, though the face and other
minimal areas remain off limits. Who
should have tattoos? People enamored
with the fact that police agencies the world over love tattoos, allowing speedy
identification of perps via creative body artwork.
The Rolling
Stone rolls into a lawsuit. Having
dealt with editors as a writer myself, editors who sometimes irritated me
simply because they were doing their jobs, it's almost beyond comprehension
that Rolling Stone, right down the line, failed to fact-check an
incredibly horrifying story of campus fraternity rape at the University of
Virginia that didn't happen.
Adding to this outrage, various feminists and barnyard chicken cluckers
defend the situation, pleased in blissful ignorance that it somehow brings
focus to the issue of rape on campus. Rolling
Stone, a magazine I once subscribed
to and read for years, is poised to be sued, and sued its responsible parties
should be. We wonder if a little part of
this scandal's birth relates to an attempt to resurrect interest in a magazine
industry in rapid decline.
Good cops, bad
cops, psycho cops, just cops:
We live in troubled times, while law enforcement personnel on the
streets dwell increasingly in a world of public nightmares. Some of this relates directly to a
race-baiting Dept. of Justice exploding out of control under Obama and Holder,
an influx of border-jumping criminal trash and a general attitude among those
who care nothing about law and order that the time is right to raise hell. As never before, cops live on the edge, and
for a suspect of any variety to fight, run away or cause a disturbance when
pulled aside by an officer of the law is a dangerously careless idea. This is an era when split-second decisions
are made by cops and, unfortunately, on rare occasion responses by police turn
out to be reprehensible. Nevertheless,
though many believe cameras and other recording equipment will make law
enforcement better for suspects, the downside is that cops will have one more
object to carry on their uniforms and one more reason to linger over making a
hair-trigger decision -- thus putting their own lives in danger -- of should I or shouldn't I? Cops, our only neighborhood barriers between
the daily good and bad. We hope never to have to ask, why would anybody want to
be a cop? In the meantime, we suspect
that those who currently shout the loudest against police in general have a
little something of a personal agenda.
He doesn't care how
you remember him, as long as you remember him. President Obama seems ever so rushed to
sweep up a legacy, and if he can't do it with Iran he'll try Cuba, hazards
notwithstanding. Iran's ayatollah and
its other radical Islamic criminals who brutally keep the Iranian people under
their vicious thumb, while obviously determined to destroy Israel and targets
of opportunity with nuclear supremacy, have already performed a backstroke on
an agreement, certain to make Obama and Kerry look like fools. Cuba?
Yes, it's time for changes, but I can't get away from watching video of
Obama shaking hands with Raoul Castro, pondering how much happier Obama might
be if Venezuela's Chavez were still alive and in attendance. Somehow, the three would look so -- so natural standing together, all kissy-face, with so
much in common as leaders of three subdued populations. We sure hope Barack Obama feels comfy with
his eventual legacy of horrors, thrills, chills or absurdities because he may be the only one experiencing the warm and
fuzzy. But we'll hope for the best.
