Forteana in the skies

 

Credit: Wikipedia 

For a moment tonight, I actually thought I saw a UFO. Or even the planet Venus under *very* strange conditions. I mean, dude.

How long moment? I don´t know. 30 seconds? One minute? It must have been a chopper. Although I have to say that it stayed put in the same position for quite some time. Perhaps drones can do that? And yeah, their red and green lights kind of give the game away...

Unless the sky-elves have learned to mimic our technology. As per usual.  

The long night has come

I never even heard of this scy fy TV series before. "Gene Roddenberry´s Andromeda" (or just "Andromeda") was originally aired over 20 years ago. Somebody (unclear who) has started to upload the old episodes on YouTube. The link above goes to episode three, "To loose the fateful lightning", which I have been hate watching a couple of times now. More on that later in this review!

"Andromeda" is apparently based on some old ideas by the late "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. It was produced by his widow, actress Majel Barrett. Judging by the four episodes uploaded so far, the series is similar to "Star Trek" but mostly lacks its weird charm. The good guys are called the Systems Commonwealth, somewhat imprudently dubbed "the greatest civilization in history". Following a civil war, the Commonwealth is destroyed and replaced by a dark age in which humans are constantly attacked by various evil alien races. The main character, Dylan Hunt, is a High Guard officer from the Commonwealth who miraculously survived for 300 years at the event horizon of a black hole. His starship Andromeda Ascendant and a *very* motley crew roam the galaxy, trying to restore the old civilization. 

In the third episode, Hunt and his associates encounter a group of teenagers and children onboard an otherwise abandoned Commonwealth space station. The youngsters have formed a quasi-religious cult, awaiting the appearence of a Messiah-like figure who can save them from the Magog and the Nietzscheans (two alien races at war with humanity). It turns out that the cult´s expectations are very concrete: the children need the High Guard access codes to battle ships armed with planet-killing doomsday weapons. As the sole survivor of the old Commonwealth, Hunt does indeed have the codes. 

What happens next is...interesting. The stranded children clearly expect Hunt (their long awaited savior) to be a militarist who will lead them in battle and utterly destroy the aliens. Instead, Hunt turns out to be an idealist and near-pacifist. One of his associates is a full-pacifist Magog who sounds like a stereotypical Buddhist (or is it Quaker). He´s darn ugly, too. Like the Jews in the New Testament, the children are disappointed when the Messiah preaches peace instead of armed resistance. Their mentality is clearly that of religious fundamentalists. 

However...

What annoys me with this episode is that the "cult" is clearly right. With a few exceptions, the Magog are clearly evil. Like parasitic wasps, they reproduce by laying their eggs inside humans. Why *not* nuke their planets sky high? Already in the first episode, we learn that the Systems Commonwealth preferred to negotiate with this bizarre race rather than resist them, handing over the Nietzschean home world to the intruders. At the time, the Nietzscheans were key *allies* of the Commonwealth. This triggered the civil war which brought down "the greatest civilization". Sounds like civilizational suicide. Yet, at least in this episode, we are somehow supposed to draw the conclusion that the children are crazy fanatics, while Hunt is the adult in the room?!

Frankly, I never seen more idiotic pacifist propaganda.  

"Star Trek" is mostly liberal, but during the 00´s, there was actually a series in the franchise that was more Neo-Conservative: "Star Trek: Enterprise". I wonder if "Andromeda" acted as the liberal counter-weight to that show? I suppose those of us who didn´t see the series when it was first aired will find it in 106 episodes. Assuming the YouTube channel Andromeda Official really has the rights to show them!

Jävla IKEA-bög, flytta dina flata möbler

 

Vet inte om nyorden "IKEA-bögar" och "IKEA-flator" är så lyckade, ärligt talat. Fast IKEA kanske inte vågar klaga? Och sedan känns det här utspelet kanske lite desperat. Eftersom det kommer från Liberalerna. Som man väl skulle kunna kalla "SD-bitches" eller något sådant, LOL. 

Debatten bör handla mer om IKEA-bögar

Bland drakar och dragqueens

 

Kulturvänstern stretar på...

Lägg märke till att den idiotiska skribenten *inte med ett ord* nämner att terroristen i Tyskland var islamist. Istället utmynnar artikeln i ett angrepp på...Agnes Wold. Som knappast inspirerar islamister ideologiskt. Även om skribenten tydligen vill att vi ska dra den slutsatsen. 

Av detta drar jag slutsatsen att "Hatbrottsrådet" inte kommer att föreslå några åtgärder som faktiskt kan stoppa *islamistiska* attacker mot hbtqi-personer. Alltså kommer vi även i framtiden att få se "bilar köra in i folkmassor". Men det visste vi ju redan. Alltså lägger vi detta till handlingarna och går vidare.     

Prideveckan är livsviktig

Game changer or nothingburger?

 

Trump has decided that former federal employees and contractors are allowed to share information on UAPs (UFOs) without violating non-disclosure agreements. The catch is that they can´t speak directly to the public, but only to the Pentagon-related AARO and the UAP Task Force, which will decide whether or not the information will be unclassified.

Critical ufologists believe that this won´t change anything. Why would a whistle-blower talk to the Pentagon in the first place? Many of the relevant people are bound by more than just non-disclosure agreements and so may not legally talk anyway. Besides, much of the evidence probably no longer exists. For instance, pilots would destroy videos showing potential UFOs for fear of otherwise losing their jobs.

Personally, I will follow the peregrinations (and perhaps contretemps) of Avi Loeb with great interest, but *of course* they´re not going to disclose actual evidence for aliens (if they even have it). Still, it might be worth some popcorn to see what they´ll do instead...  

Peace, bro

 

I just realized that I posted a lot of negative stuff today. OK, so here is a peaceful pic of Amitabha and Bala. End of transmission! 

Muhammed, Muhammeeeed

 

Någon på Aftonbladet tycker att det här är roligt. Jag antar att de syftar på Blondies gamla låt "Maria". Vilken tur att det inte finns polska katolska terroristgrupper. Än så länge.

Den bisarra rubriken är från startsidan. Själva artikeln har en mer lämplig rubrik...

Polsk miljardär bakom gigantisk Mariastaty

The fire next time

 

162 people have been arrested in France on suspicion of - wait for it - having started wildfires. Had I been a climate activist, I suppose I would have added "none of them is an oil executive". But I won´t.

Let´s just say that the fires seem rather overdetermined at this point. A toxic brew of bad forest management (cuz no money or whatever), pyromaniacs, Godzilla El Nino, and - yes - long-term anthropogenic climate change. I wouldn´t be surprised if both Islamists and France´s geopolitical adversaries will start fires in their forests during the years ahead as a form of bio-warfare (or eco-terrorism). 

Thanks for your attention to this matter.  

Cosmopolitan

 

Imagine an Indian kshatriya with a Vaishnava name offering an idol of the Buddha to Isis in a Hellenistic temple in Egypt also used by Bhagavata Hindus. It happened when Egypt was Roman and the Empire had an Arab Caesar. Evidence? Well, we have the idol and the dedication. The latter is in both Greek and Sanskrit. 

OK, interesting. I can hear the purists screaming: "Noooo, you´re not allowed to blend different traditions". Try stop me, Karen. 

Stiff upper lip

 

Why is everyone so upset after the Islamist terrorist attack, I mean the car mysteriously driving into a crowd, in Berlin recently? Why aren´t the pundits telling the Euro-homosexuals that obviously the suspect wasn´t a Muslim, that we should do nothing, that terrorism is part and parcel of living in a big city, and that we should all have a "stiff upper lip"? After all, that´s what they told us after the ISIS-related attacks in the UK about ten years ago. 

Perhaps Euro-prides simply can´t be expected to have a stiff upper lip. Or maybe "They" know that nobody would buy it, so instead they are pretending to complain about *their own* broken justice system, which failed to stop the terrorist blah blah? 

Let´s see if that works out better for them. Probably not. I´m not a big fan of the pro-Russian AfD, but something tells me having a lezbo co-chair might prove to be a master stroke for the would-be Fourth Reich...