Nice try, Timmy boy

 

How likely is it that the United States political/military/intelligence establishment would declassify knowledge about literal space aliens visiting Earth if it would make the entire country "come unglued"? Not very likely, obviously. 

Unless it´s a conspiracy. An excuse to declare a state of emergency, perhaps? 

But if *that´s* the purpose, they don´t need real info on actual aliens. They can just make some crazy shit up. And I don´t think *that* particular lie would serve them, since it probably *would* drive many people completely bonkers. Blaming everything on an Iranian drone mothership might be a better strategy by far!

So no, I´m not optimistic about disclosure. And yes, I know that Trump recently reiterated that it would happen. But then, he also said the Strait of Hormuz is open. So there´s that.  

GOP congressman makes hair-raising admission about alien life: "This country would have come unglued"

Disclosure update

 

Some interesting points in this one...

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Burchett recalled a discussion he had with a Navy admiral who told him about an aircraft they saw on sonar that was “almost as big as a football field” and “traveling over 200 miles an hour” underwater.

“We don’t have anything of that capability or that size,” Burchett said.

According to Burchett, one of the most outspoken legislators on the subject:

I’ve seen pictures and video of things that defy any reason that we have, and everybody says, ‘Well, it’s our stuff, it’s the Russians, it’s the Chinese.’ If it’s the Chinese, ma’am, they would own us. If it was the Russians, they wouldn’t be bogged down in Ukraine.

If it was ours, we would never risk our military fighting men and women in half-a-billion-dollar aircraft out with these things that they’re spotting. These things can hover for hours on end, then they can just shoot straight up, they can do angles.

In another appearence on Pierce Morgan Uncensored, the Tennessee congressman also cited the underwater craft report and said servicemen who report such things are often “pulled off the line and will get a psych evaluation.”

He also criticized a lack of transparency by the federal government, predicting material could very well still be kept secret despite President Trump’s release order.

“I feel like this is something that’s being held back for whatever reason,” Burchett told Morgan. “I have no faith in our federal government will release any of this stuff.”

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Congressman says he´s seen stunning classified UFO reports

Cladistics

 

Look, it´s a chimpanzee singing the creationist song "You can´t make a monkey out of me". 

Pseudo-rationality indeed

 

Cornucopian hedonistic pseudo-feminist atheist Richard Carrier goes to Nashville to debate "Christian Nationalists". May or may not be interesting. Note Carrier´s strange idealism: conservatives are conservative because they literally can´t think straight. Nah, that´s not the reason. And why are cornucopian hedonistic pseudo-feminist atheists the way they are, I wonder? 

How Pseudo-Rationality Grounds Conservative Worldviews

If even hobbits could build advanced civilization, so could women

The Not-Deer

 

I never heard of the Not-Deer before. Cryptid, ghost story, tall tale? And what state was it again...?

Confession

 

A certain Nicholas Confessore offers some criticism of the trans cult in the liberal New York Times following a recent defeat for this "movement" in the US Supreme Court. 

Probably just damage control, but it *is* interesting that trans is the first "Woke" item the Dems criticize. Suggesting the senior hierarchs never really believed in it. Maybe one day they´ll explain why they wanted the rest of us to buy the crap...

NYT skewers former trans heroes after SCOTUS defeat 

Cryptid Cain

 

Do Mormons really believe that Bigfoot is Cain? A clarification from an ex-Mormon.  

What on earth are they *legislating*?

 

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This law was recently approved by the Florida state senate. I´m old enough to remember when this was a Bircher-related conspiracy theory. I assume somebody somewhere realized that the "chemtrail" issue can be used to further climate change denialism. And here we are...

State lawmakers are moving to ban non-existent "chemtrails" 

Titta vem som är tillbaka...

 

Titta vilken konspirationsteori (?) som gör comeback. Tydligen tack vare Robert F Kennedy, Jr. 

Konspirationsteori om "chemtrails" får nytt fäste i USA

Feral fauns

 

Another urban (or rather rural) legend...hopefully. Are there FERAL HUMAN CANNIBALS in the US national parks? Do they ATTACK and EAT hikers? The federal government denies knowledge... 

Holy Christ on a cracker

 

 

Greg Locke is a controversial pastor in Tennessee. The two clips above (from an atheist YouTube channel) deal with some of the turbulence surrounding this man. It seems his church recently suffered a split of sorts, after a substantial portion of the membership came out in favor of flat earthism! Locke made the mistake of inviting a Christian flat earther to his church to debate him. He may have "won" the debate, but the flat earth pastor seems to have won over a portion of his flock in turn. 

The second video is about the dramatic burning of 200 Bibles outside Locke´s church at Easter earlier this year. As I already pointed out in a previous blog post on the incident, Locke and his supporters have previously burned "occultic" books. A clip of one of those events is included in the second upload above. The Locke people are actually confronted by a gay activist who throws a Bible into the bonfire and screams "Hail Satan"! The atheist content-creator, Owen, suspects that Locke himself may have staged the Easter Bible burning, perhaps in order to blame local occultists or Satanists...

Crazy stuff as usual from the land that gave us fast food and nuclear bombs!

Elvis skepticism

 

Dis true? 

What goes around

 

"Talkin´ to me?"

Person or persons unknown burned 200 Bibles outside a Christian church  in Tennessee over Easter. Which may indeed be seen as...well, anti-Christian. And so forth. The church in question is called Global Vision Bible Church. 

But note this statement near the end of the article: "Global Vision has held burning events in the past that involved materials the church believes is connected to witchcraft and the occult."

Oh.

Police: Trailer with Bibles set on fire on Easter

Forbidden archeology

 

"Yes, I´m George F Carter.
I´m an ascended master now!"

 

 

INCREDIBLE HISTORY is a moderately alternative history channel on YouTube. The content-creator, William Brown, is open to speculations about hyper-diffusionism, ancient aliens and ditto giants, but doesn´t go as far as, say, "Ancient Aliens". 

The clips above feature Hopi legends about ant-people from the sky, Utah´s Great Gallery, the Los Lunas Decalogue stone and the Bat Creek inscription. The usual suspects feature Mormons, Masons, Marranos and - you guessed it - aliens. 

Funny how all cultures around the world have legends about spirit-like beings coming down from the sky or up from the underground, I´m sure that´s just a co-incidence... 

The wrong cryptids

 

This may or may not tell us something about American TV production. Imagine seeing and taping a possible lake monster while making a TV show, but the footage is never shown (or even mentioned) since the show is about...monsters in the woods?! Specifically Bigfoot. Yes, it´s an interview with James "Bobo" Fay from "Finding Bigfoot". 

:D

Also some speculations about black mountain lions in the United States and "the Eastern cougar".      

Why I´m not a Unitarian Universalist

 

And, apparently, not a Presbyterian either. Is there no depth of depravity to which "liberal" Christianity won´t sink?! Note that the local UUA were in on the sado-masochistic stuff, as well. But sure, somebody who is really sick could perhaps interpret the Bible as torture porn...

Rhodes college chaplain tries to hold BDSM workshop

Should Rhodes chaplain be able to host BDSM event on campus? 

I *told* you not to mention the lizards!

I'm sure *this* is the biggest threat facing the free world right now.

But OK, the pseudo-intellectual tone of this piece is actually quite funny...

Even worse than QAnon?

Bad fiction

This is a badly written fictional ghost story promoted as “true”. While I can't *prove* that the story is fiction, Tami's and Jade's encounter with the "dogman" does sound extremely unrealistic.

The characters, a lesbian couple in the Tennessee wilderness, frequently behave in irrational ways. Hiking in the woods when you know a werewolf is on the loose doesn't sound like the behavior of a seasoned outdoorswoman whose father and brother were both killed by the monster. Drinking wine and beer in copious amounts under similar circumstances doesn't compute either. Sometimes, the story comes across as a stereotypically bad horror flick. Why would the two women in the story suddenly decide to take a bath, all nude, despite knowing that Something-Really-Strange-And-Monstrous must be nearby? Because that's what happens in bad horror flicks, obviously.

My impression is that the author wanted to write a typical Bigfoot story, but decided to switch the gender of the Bigfoot hunters from male to female. The main character, Tami, must be portrayed as inexperienced in order to be the audience substitute. So far so good, but Tami's lover Jade doesn't come across as the big game/monster hunter she is supposed to be. In the end, “Dogman” sounds like the story of two foolish women who are completely out of their depths. Thus, “Dogman” disappoints both as a factual account and as fiction. Only two stars!

Let them eat ice cream

"Justified & Ancient (Stand by the Jams)" is easily one of the more bizarre pop songs ever recorded. The KLF, really a avantgarde art collective, somehow managed to convince country icon Tammy Wynette to sing the lead vocals on this tune, with lines such as "They call me up in Tennessee, they say: Tammy, stand by the Jams" or "They're justified and they're ancient, they drive an ice cream van". Presumably the flamboyant vehicle at the CD cover.

I mean, where *is* Operation Repo when you really need them? Wonder whip, anyone? Something tells me you won't find this song (a number one hit in many nations) on Tammy Wynette's best of collections, LOL.

The other songs on this EP are just as absurd as the title song. You have been warned.

No time for levity

"1917" is the curiously-named journal of the Bolshevik Tendency (or International Bolshevik Tendency), a small Trotskyist group based in the United States. It also has supporters in a few other countries, including New Zealand and Canada. Of course, 1917 refers to the year of the October revolution in Russia.

The BT or IBT are defectors from the Spartacist League, a U.S. Trotskyist groups that went haywire circa 1979. The BT believes that their little group represent the original program of the Spartacist League, and their political positions are indeed very similar. The main difference is that the BT lacks the crazy-cultic side which has made the Spartacists so notorious on the far left. Some people jokingly refer to the BT's politics as "Spartacism with a human face". I suppose one could also call them Spartacists without the levity!

This issue (no. 7) of "1917" is dated "Winter 1990", but must have been published in the fall of 1989. It mentions the massacre at Tienanmen Square in Beijing, and the elections in Poland which ushered in a transitional coalition government dominated by Solidarnosc. Both these events took place in the summer of 1989. However, the magazine doesn't mention the subsequent collapse of the Communist regimes in "Eastern" Europe, which took place in the fall and winter of 1989, presumably almost literally after "1917" reached its subscribers. Sometimes, history moves fast.

The lead article is about developments in Poland. Other articles comment on the massacre in China, U.S. protests against the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, and the latest gyrations of the Spartacist League. There is also an interview with Geoff White, a founding member of the Spartacist League in 1966. Before becoming a Trotskyists, White had been a Stalinist, and was at one point arrested by the FBI in Tennessee for Communist activities. He says that the local media considered it the most startling thing to happen in the state since the arrest of Machine Gun Kelly!

Despite its extreme political positions, "1917" is written in a somewhat boring, intellectual style. Most of the articles are pretty extensive. The Bolshevik Tendency is probably of interest only to theoretically-minded Trotskyists. Three stars for White's comment about Kelly.