The Epstein class didn´t kill itself

 

What the fuck even is this? Republicans in Ohio blocks a law against child marriage! Yes, you read that correctly.  

Current moodbreaker

 

Patsy boy? 

"We know that the (would-be) killer is MAGA". 

Ohio Nightstalkers

 

The good people of Northeast Ohio don´t seem to care that the Patterson-Gimlin film has been debunked. But then, California aint the Buckeye State, apparently. The "Cleveland Superbomb snowstorm" supposedly forced an entire pack of Bigfeet out of their hiding, et cetera. You get the drift.

Fears of mysterious beast spread in Ohio

Silver Alert

 

This is probably a nothing-burger, but it´s making waves on-line as we speak. "General who knew all the UFO secrets mysteriously missing". Even a Swedish tabloid has entered the fray. Obviously a tie-in to Trump´s UFO/UAP disclosure statement. 

FBI joins search for missing retired Air Force general with ties to UFO-linked military base 

Trump, Vance supports Palestine!

 

East Palestine in Ohio, that is. Allegedly. MAGA pretends to be "Strasserite" this week...

MAGA erupts as as Mike Pence tries to delay justice for East Palestine

Groyper provocateur?

 

Anti-Semite crypto-Nazi Incel Nick Fuentes (yes, he again) wants to sabotage the Trump-supported gubernatiorial campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio. This despite the fact that Vivek is running against a very liberal Jewish woman?! So when push comes to shove, Fuentes prefers liberal Jewish females to dark-skinned East Indian "anchor babies". 

LOL. Why doesn´t he consider Jews to be "anchor babies", I wonder? I think it´s obvious that Fuentes is a meme at this point. Maybe he always was. I mean, the guy´s the chief Groyper! The Groypers were the most "based" faction of the on-line Alt Right during the Twitter Silver Age, but the Alt Right was always a post-modernist fart in cyberspace, so none of the above should surprise us. 

Changeling

 

Why aren´t there more conspiracy theories about J D Vance? This "man for all seasons" seems to have changed both his name, his looks and his views in order to become Trump´s veep. And his voice? And his body language?! 

*Is it really the same J D Vance that was elected senator for Ohio in 2022*? If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has body doubles while Joe Biden had five of them, what are we to make of this?

Is it possible that the elected senator was an alien, while the current vice president is the human substitute? Maybe Alex Jones should take a look at this...  

Original Xweet

I believe in Hardcore Zen

 

A very interesting video c/o Brad Warner, a Zen Buddhist teacher based in California who is apparently something of a maverick. In this video, Brad explains why he can´t stand (other) Buddhists. My impression is that he rejects all forms of evangelizing worldviews: Christianity (conservative or liberal), the Hare Krishna, dogmatic atheism-materialism...but also most forms of Buddhism. Brad talks at some length about his upbringing in rural Ohio and his encounters with various cults and cliques in high school and college. 

Brad´s brand of Buddhism is a non-dogmatic form of Zen. It´s open-ended enough to include God (if you can prove his existence!) or reject reincarnation (if you can´t prove *its* existence). Apparently, Brad often gets into trouble with more dogmatic Buddhists who can´t stand anyone questioning or down-playing reincarnation. Their usually passive-aggressive attitudes might turn aggressive-aggressive! Judging by some previous videos, Brad doesn´t really care that much about "the Buddha´s original teachings", "early Buddhism" or the Pali Canon, which also rubs many Buddhists the wrong way. 

Somewhat ironically, the Buddhists our bro can´t stand seem to be Americans. I got the impression that White American Buddhism was very non-dogmatic, but Brad evidently has problems with the opposite kind of people! But - like he points out - even "liberals" can be pretty dogmatic and have a missionary mentality.

Final point. I absolutely agree with the observation that the Hare Krishna sound strangely "Christian", although I would say its their attitude rather than their formal message. Many of them do come across as newly converted and somewhat naive "fideist" Christians with the same evangelizing impulses. Interestingly, they often have a very positive view of Jesus...  

Place holder?

 

Vox Day doesn´t like J D Vance. In case you´re interested...

Note the comments that Peter Thiel will become the real Vice President. And who is Thiel? See Wikipedia link!

No leader of men: J D Vance is a low Delta...if we´re lucky

Two strikes

Peter Thiel (from Wikipedia)

Fina flickor...och de andra

 

Den första länken går till en artikel av Irena Pozar, som spelar Fina Flickan. Och år 2024 ska Fina Flickor givetvis vara PK. Den andra länken går till en krönika av Åsa Linderborg, som absolut inte är någon fin flicka...

Löwengrips inlägg exploderar av exotifiering 

Vance kommer att äta Harris till frukost

Gottes Wille

 

The article linked below is from 2005, but was recently referenced on X. Apparently, Tucker Carlson said something positive about the Amish on Joe Rogan Show recently, and now the knives are out...

From the article:

>>>But their children have medical conditions so rare, doctors don't have names for them yet, reports correspondent Vicki Mabrey. The Amish make up only about 10 percent of the population in Geagua County in Ohio, but they're half of the special needs cases. Three of the five Miller children, for example, have a mysterious crippling disease that has no name and no known cure.

>>>The three Byler sisters were all born with a condition that has no cure and mysteriously leads to severe mental retardation and a host of physical problems. Last year, doctors figured out the girls have the gene for something called Cohen Syndrome; there are only 100 known cases worldwide. Since then, more than a dozen other cases of Cohen's have been discovered in Ohio Amish country.

>>>But for so many years, the Amish have had no names for these disorders. It was simply a mystery why half the headstones in Amish cemeteries were headstones of children. 

Genetic disorders hit Amish hard

Miracle

 

A truly bizarre headline...until you realize that it´s East Palestine, Ohio! And maybe that´s bizarre, too, who knows...

With apologies to Breitbart News. 

Footnote for historians

 

The US Socialist Workers Party on the recent pro-abortion referendum in Ohio. Not sure if their weird and eclectic position is some kind of sectarianism-at-any-cost, or whether they are getting closer to actually opposing abortions...

What if the SWP becomes a right-wing group in all but name within ten years or so?

Pro-abortion referendum blow to the working class?

From frogland with love

 

Who´s sayin´ I aint real, boy?

The fairies have been busy lately... 

Lore of the Loveland Frog

Back to Nibiru

 

A Nibiru-type conspiracy theory about a "fake sun" hiding the real sun for unclear reasons, something about the Biblical apocalypse, perhaps? 

Debunked by a mysterious personage who calls himself Logicked. There is a *lot* of frankly paranoid stuff like this on YouTube, and I admire this man´s patience in sifting through it, patiently explaining all the fallacies. And while some of it may be hard trolling, there does seem to be a subset of this milieu which is deadly serious. 

The part about the airport Yeti was extremely funny!   

No nostalgia

So I just finished watching "Super 8", a supposed monster thriller directed by J J Abrams and produced by none other than Steven Spielberg. I admit that I found it near-nauseating, but not because of any monster! 

Judging by Wikipedia´s all-knowing entry, "Super 8" is intended for adults. That is, adults are supposed to watch it and nostalgically think back at their childhood and early teen years. Perhaps they are also supposed to remember "E.T.", who can tell? I haven´t watched "E.T." since about the Copper Stone Age, and my understanding of and identification with a certain kind of American geek culture is about zero, so I can´t say I felt any nostalgia factor coming my way. 

Quite the contrary, I´m frankly sick and tired of "US suburbia", "the small town in Ohio", "the brave police officer" and similar Hollywood tropes. The film´s attempt to be "socially conscious" (the working class guy with a drinking problem) is downright cringey, and Joe´s quasi-tragic quasi-relationship to Alice almost bored me to death. The "zombie film" shown during the end credits is actually much better than the real flick!

The only light in the tunnel (pun almost intended) is the monster, which (or is it a who) turns out to be an intelligent alien on the run from evil military operatives, trying to find a way to reassemble its space ship. (I suppose I did see some hidden references to "It" and "Alien" in this part of the story. Thank you.) I also wonder about the cool church (or is it a Mormon temple) in the little West Virginian town where "Super 8" was filmed... 

Cryptids and Mormons, OK, maybe that tells us something about *my* geeky interests, LOL. 

Possessed by demons

Democrats go mustang when a Republican demands that biological males ("trans-women") be excluded from women´s sports. From the Ohio state legislature. This is apparently how the Dems "fight for women´s rights". Note the almost demonic quality of the Dem protest...

Tweet from Post Millennial

(It´s a thread featuring two video clips)

High functioning

"UFO" is an embarrasingly bad film released straight to video in 2018. I´m not sure how Sony managed to convince Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully in "The X-Files") to appear in this production. Did she need pocket money? The plot is apparently inspired by a famous UFO observation on Chicago´s international airport back in 2006. The main character, math genius and insufferable teenage nerd Derek, suffers from Asperger´s syndrome. I admit he is convincing (actor Alex Sharp has starred autistic teens before). He even has that typical "Mark Zuckerberg look". 

Unfortunately, the story is pretty "autistic" too, and revolves almost entirely around Derek´s nerdie ability to calculate equations, sound amplitudes, wind speed, and what have you. No aliens, and virtually no UFOs either. The only action are constant quarrels between Derek and his surprisingly hot girlfriend (no autism there). Sure, the FBI shows up and orchestrates a cover up, but in the end, their agent turns out to be some kind of science guy who wants to solve Fermi´s paradox and establish contacts with higher civilizations in the cosmos so human progress can continue?! 

The film ends with Derek getting evidence for UFOs, a new job at a prestigious science lab, and (perhaps) the hot girl. The viewer, alas, gets almost nothing. The most funny part of "UFO" is when Gillian Anderson´s character debunks conspiracy theory - here we go again, LOL. 

Not really recommended. 

Here be Bigfeet

[Originally posted Nov 24, 2018. Reposted here due to technical problems with the YouTube clip at the old location.] 

I just found this interesting YouTube clip, featuring Mattsquatch (real name unknown) lecturing about various types of Bigfoot-like creatures seen across the United States. 

Mattsquatch has tried to bring some sense and order into this bewildering topic, and draws the conclusion that there are at least 10 different types of Bigfeet out there. The “classical” type is known from the US states on the West Coast. This is the type seen in the Patterson-Gimlin film, and could be likened to a gorilla (or even to a huge upright-walking bear). In the South, a more aggressive and chimpanzee-like type is more common. The Florida Skunk Ape resembles an orangutan. Yet another form is the “human giant” or “relict hominid”, similar to the gorilla-like type from the West Coast but with a more human face. 

Finally, there are a number of more unusual creatures, including the Grass Man (which looks like a normal human in feral condition and only exists in Ohio), the Mountain Giant (with Alaska as a hotspot), the Devil Monkey and the extremely rare Little People. Mattsquatch also mentions a number of virtual monsters, who are said to attack and eat people. 

In the last part of his lecture, he talks about the Dogman, which is not a Bigfoot sensu stricto, but rather resembles an East European werewolf. He claims that these creatures, known as “Lobos” (Spanish for wolves), are often seen by US border patrols and Mexican migrants! 

Some of Matt´s private speculations are truly “out there” (ahem, the Nephilim? Aliens? Reptoids?), but I found the more ethnographic part of his lecture intriguing. Why would people in one part of the States be seeing a rough replica of the gorilla, while those in another part see a rough replica of the chimp or orang? If these observations go back to pre-colonial times, TV documentaries or sensational tabloid articles about African or Asian great apes can´t explain the similarities… 

All observations of hairy hominids are usually lumped together under the “Bigfoot” designation (“Finding Bigfoot” even considers the Jersey Devil or the Beast of Bray Road to be sasquatches), but just like with UFOs, we could really be dealing with many different types of creatures or phenomena.

Grassman lives

OK, I admit it. I'm bored, I don't want to read more Steiner on a Friday evening, so...I decided to start watching "MonsterQuest" episodes again!

"Ohio Grassman" features a team of local researchers trying to find the elusive Grassman, a Bigfoot-like creature said to inhabit the wilder parts of Ohio, including an area popularly known as the Sasquatch Triangle. Originally, the Grassman had the reputation for being an aggressive, beastly bogeyman. Today, he seems to have blended right in with the business-as-usual Bigfoot observations from the rest of North America.

In fact, "Ohio Grassman" is a pretty good introduction to the Bigfoot phenomenon, or at least the Bigfooting phenomenon. When I watched it the first time, I considered it frivolous and somewhat bizarre. I mean, one of the researchers puts up a gorilla mask in the forest as a "decoy" to lure the ape-man within camera range?! Later, I realized that the BFRO-type guys featured in the documentary actually represent the *moderate* faction within Bigfooting!

All the usual ingredients of the Bigfoot problematique are present: mysterious "nests" in the forests, weird sounds in the night, Bigfoots approaching camp fires or peeking into people's windows late at night, the inevitable footprints... The research team uses everything from wood-knocking and vocalizations to model helicopters with infrared cameras in its search for the unknown beast. One witness manages to find the skull of an African baboon in the forest! In the end, most of the evidence turns out to be inconclusive. However, fingerprint expert Jimmy Chilcutt believes that the footprints came from a real animal, and closely resemble those of a gorilla.

My main objection to "Ohio Grassman" is that the program is very slow-paced, bordering on boring. There's definitely more action on "Finding Bigfoot"! However, since I feel very pro-squatch this evening, I will nevertheless give it four stars for the effort.

Incidentally, did you notice that the closest town to the Grassman flap area is called Pleasant City? Sounds like Point Pleasant...