Post-Teenage Mutant Assassins

Tyler Robinson appears to be the second-most name of the month, perhaps eclipsing even the passing of actor Robert Redford. I had been told growing up that we had Robinsons in the family, though I never met any of them. I doubt any family relationship here because, after all, the country is actually awash in Robinsons, everywhere you look.

But this particular Robinson, alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk, carries a name guaranteed to survive in infamy as much for his presumed assassination of Kirk as for his personal and political beliefs. You've already been clobbered with the details of his life, his love relationship with a transitioning male (to female) roommate and his incredible hatred for Charlie Kirk. To paraphrase from George Orwell's Animal Farm, all people in America have freedom of speech, but some people have more freedom of speech than others, and are therefore apparently enabled to kill those of an opposing viewpoint.

The extreme left in this country is just rabid, hot-headed beyond reason and brain-brooded crazy with radical ideas, lies and exaggerations intended often to serve the most dangerous people in the world. The phenomenon is especially prevalent among young people who, in many instances, probably see no future for themselves in what they're being shown or told by authorities enhanced by seniority and power. Increasingly, we've little in common with one another, and people will be affected in various ways as they absorb visions and words of hatred sometimes leading to disaster.

So the curtain is down, for now. 

Should Tyler Robinson be found guilty at trial and put on Utah's death row, the rest of society's Charlie Kirk assassination nightmare will proceed. If he's executed by the state the MAGA-hating radical left will wave its magic wand of miracles and make Robinson a martyr, and his legend will be enhanced and humanized in order to serve many masters. Maybe better to give him life in prison, where he will be forgotten among the shadows of time.

Young people in the USA very much require heroes of achievement, not martyrs of horrible deeds.

Arising almost simultaneously with Kirk's murder were cries of making "hate speech" a crime, and sadly a good share of this thinking emanated from those on the political right. Me, I intend to speak out and hate anybody and anything I wish, but if my words directly result in actions driven to kill, defame or destroy there would likely be problems of legality, if not charges of criminal behavior on my part. 

 And yes, I have noted in the past that a major problem with these young shooters is all the trouble they exert is getting everything just right before they take action (the firearms, the gear, the attitude) -- and then they always shoot the wrong people. I mean, if you're going to take that Extra Step and be loony enough to take somebody out, make it a Hitler, a Putin or the wanted-at-any-cost serial killer/rapist, and not the fast-food employee who couldn't bag your fries fast enough.

So now we have Robinson in addition to Mangione in society's custodial care. What influences these agenda-blinded zombies, if not social media and infectiously leftist college and university professors? Radical intentions don't come about merely through osmosis from the ground to the brain. To deny that right now the country is well-populated with fringe group followers and insane young people all but willing to pull a trigger or thrust a knife blade is to invite repetition. A solution to this chaos for a country guided by constitutional principles and freedoms will not come easily, if at all. Ours is a nation slowly turning its most valuable historical inheritance over to children of ignorance, mal-education, apathy violence and barely an inkling of common sense.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was tragic and senseless -- and relentlessly reported upon -- but we suspect that a significant number of observers will respond with a so-what? attitude, and in the end, after the tears are long dried and evaporated, few will know the difference between Charlie Kirk, Captain Kirk of Star Trek, actors Tommy Kirk or Kirk Cameron, a Scottish church called a kirk or a thousand other Kirks.

As for Robinson, I'm going to do what I often do, which is to make a prediction, aware that my glances into the future don't always turn out well. Anyway: When push comes to shove on the death penalty, there will arise a general consensus about "what Charlie would have wanted" and if I'm reading his family and close friends right, the word mercy will creep into the conversation following the ongoing rage and death will be off the table in exchange for life in prison. Yes, this is Utah -- AND the Feds -- we're talking about, but I believe some very serious thinking will be accomplished before the almost guaranteed vision of martyrdom for Robinson via execution occurs. Would Charlie want his killer executed? Surely, that basic question will overwhelm the halls of justice as this unusually special case proceeds.

On Grinding Kimmel to Kibble and How UFO Talk Once Canceled an ABC-TV Show

The last time I checked, in the USA we're allowed to say or write stupid things, as long as lives aren't threatened or otherwise homicidal or injurious actions are not encouraged.  Unfortunately, with the uproar surrounding ABC-TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and his absurd comment this week regarding MAGA having a close relationship with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the political right has paid homage to a very deep lesson from the howling leftist media which it (rightfully) despises so much.

While President Trump and his associates claim victory in the suspension of Kimmel from his nightly show -- and wishing the same fate for competing talk shows on other networks -- one wonders what happened to that thick skin traditionally enveloping conservative bodies, the attitude that says say what you will because words are words and they bounce off harmlessly like raindrops while making either valid or invalid points of view?

We understand also that Sinclair and Nexstar Broadcasting are in merger discussions, as are other broadcasters, and that there may be some desire here to please Trump and the FCC, who will be key players in the success of any such major corporate maneuver.

Me?  I haven't watched a late-night TV talk show since the days of Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno.  These were the days when late-night TV was fun as well as educational.  My favorite, however, was Tom Snyder on NBC, who invited the most outrageous guests and topics available. 

Early in his career Snyder attempted a generally unsuccessful shot at acting, listed as Thomas Snyder, and if you're a fan of the fifties TV western, The Rifleman there is one episode where Snyder briefly shows up for mere seconds with several other actors as they sit upon horses in town.  Don't blink or you'll miss the scene.

Yes, Snyder was a publicity hog, screwed up now and then with various news reporting ventures, but he was fun to watch.  After he lost his Tomorrow TV show on NBC, he briefly hosted a syndicated call-in radio show out of L.A. and I was fortunate to have called in one night where I had the opportunity to speak with a Jackie Gleason historian -- who, strangely, seemed oblivious to the well-known fact that Gleason had owned one of the largest libraries of books regarding UFOs and the paranormal in the world.

But I do go on, don't I?  I brought all of this up to lead in to another instance where ABC-TV banished a late-night host -- this time, forever.  His name was Les Crane, once a popular DJ and once the husband of famed actress Tina Louise (who is still with us).  During his popularity in the 1960s ad seventies Crane released a well-received LP record album entitled, Desiderata.

At a time when ABC was experimenting with the late-night format and making decisions on its future they joined with Crane to produce and offer national viewers a show with a studio audience in an attempt to compete with Carson and others who resided comfortably in the late hours of TV.  Crane's show took off and enjoyed a fan base for a brief few weeks, though like its eventual successors beating NBC big time was a dream not to come true.

You can read all about the Crane show and its downfall on my earlier postings via this link:   https://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2007/05/tv-show-destroyed-by-ufos-part-1.html  but my main point is that I believe Les Crane was canceled by ABC primarily because, during a caustic interview he conducted with the then-director of the UFO organization NICAP in the sixties, he also invited a skeptical -- no, make that a debunking -- astronomer to join in the emotionally charged "massacre" of Keyhoe's attempt to indict the Air Force re UFO information censorship.  The national TV audience saw this as ganging up on Keyhoe and they were outraged.  While NICAP suddenly received tons of new interest by the public, the standing of Crane's already fading show quickly deflated and cancellation was its fate.**

At the time, I was pleased about ABC's action, but felt bad because I did like Les Crane (an Air Force veteran like myself) and his talented career, and if this happened today I would feel differently because there really is room for everybody to speak -- even Jimmy Kimmel.  So please, political right:  Don't be like the radical left by wanting to censor what you don't like.  Did you learn nothing while Biden was in charge? Respond boldly instead, and don't shoot the messenger for his stupid message.

** Once I started this blog years ago, I was surprised to get an e-mail from a member of Les Crane's family, inquiring about where to find my article.  Whether there was merely some interest on the family's part or whether they suspected I was smearing Crane's name I do not know, but even after offering to give the person space to respond to my article I never heard anything more.

Doth the Cheshire Cat Also Jump Over the Moon?

This week's top creature feature took place during the latest congressional UFO hearing in Washington when those in attendance viewed a military video taken off the coast of Yemen last year, showing a Hellfire missile attacking a UAP/UFO, where the detonated missile appeared to simply bounce off the object.

First, I'm not sure about the wisdom of firing on something unknown, but maybe there was more going on than we know.

Second, if this video didn't finally make a case for all of those reported incidents from at least World War II and going forward -- usually doubted by the skeptics -- of incidents where military pilots all but swore on their very lives that they KNOW they fired and made contact with things in the sky resulting in no apparent effect or damage whatsoever (except for cases where the pilots themselves were allegedly affected by intense heat sources after gaining on such objects), I don't know what will.

A close observation of this week's main video isn't required to note also that as the missile apparently hit its mark some smaller objects seem to have separated from the UFO -- which, unaffected, immediately followed the primary object as it soared along.

Reaching back to the early sixties, I fondly remember my file folders stuffed with letters from government officials and various authorities pretty much denying the very existence of UFOs.  At least those days may meet a well-deserved end.  We hope.

So what exactly was going on in that military video?  Does established (or crazy) science have a clue?  As we're all forced to bow to artificial intelligence, and risks to humans not yet imagined likely to accompany its progress, will AI make perfect sense out of the often nonsensical appearing UFO quagmire?

The video?   https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/shocking-radar-footage-shows-hellfire-missile-fired-by-us-military-directly-hit-ufo-over-ocean/

I don't know what's going on, but I had a thought or two, ASSUMING this is a real video of a genuine unknown..  For instance, did the UFO have an ability to "read" everything about the missile before it even struck?  Did the object have a quality wherein it knew everything about the missile just as it hit, allowing a fractional split-second response?  A precognitive sense?  Did it know what the drone's pilot was thinking?  We're already familiar with instances where UFOs appear to have locked on to and/or comprehended real-time conventional aircraft instrumentation well in advance of evasive or confrontational action initiated by human pilots.

Mirrors.  I wondered.  A mirror reflects an image.  Does the UFO possess some technological mirror, somehow reflecting externally or internally what it encounters at light speed, duplicating what it then knows in order to react accordingly and swiftly?  I suppose this would require some kind of protective external layer of plasma or electricity or whatever on the UFO, but like most mirrors busted into pieces by a smashing blow there would still be support structures behind them. 

Could a UFO mimic precisely one and all the things it encounters in the sky to protect its environment?  If atoms and molecules and substances of which we are perhaps unaware can be manipulated so that something as elaborate as a guided missile can instantly be detected in terms of force, mass and exact effects, can the mysterious sky-born enigma conjure up a similar force to cancel out its destructive qualities?  A mirror image of what exists, in essence, causing said missile to collide with a duplicate, a clone if you will, of itself in an intricately altered space-time continuum, causing damage primarily to the dispensed missile?

In the realm of the impossible, is it possible that the UFO's very structure is composed so differently from our own aircraft that the meeting of missile and object have little or nothing in common with one another?  Are UFOs like M&M candies, protected by a hard, impervious shell to keep the contents blissfully unaware of external forces?  Exactly what keeps the strange objects out of harm's way, no matter what we throw at them?  Can they be here and not here at the same time?

Anyway, this would be something for the physicists to contemplate, aside from historians perhaps mulling over troublesome theories of whether the UFO phenomenon's bright and shiny objects account for the origin of favored religions on Earth.  

Beware or entertain the theories of an aging crackpot, but let's continue bringing on the military videos and films!  If little else at the moment, science has been confounded by the UFO/UAP, and some of its cherished tenets appear to have been turned upside-down.  Are we ready for more, or shall the UFO phenomenon remain the smiling Cheshire cat of the skies?

Grab Bag

Engaged in a very expensive and comprehensively planned activity of hide-and-seek, with I.C.E. agents pretty much gaining the upper hand on the seek part, illegal aliens from coast to coast are on the run, even if running consists simply of concealment by a friendly neighbor.

It's astounding, however, to watch city protestors turn out by the hundreds or thousands dedicated to supporting the criminality with which they live. The "just came here for a better life" mantra wears thin, and the question that should be asked all over the country, but isn't, is:  Why weren't you storming street demonstrators raising this much vocal and poster hell while Joe Biden was allowing these illegal folks in by the train load?

So now Trump has taken it upon himself to do the right thing and reverse course on this Biden outrage, sending in whatever it takes to remove and/or eradicate the criminal human fungus which, sadly for all concerned, has taken root in U.S. cities and communities.

Sometimes I think that if I see one more contrived national TV network news video about unaccompanied children my grab bag of hostility will turn into a gag bag (the kind where you choke, not joke).

Meanwhile, in a hearing last week, as the usual House suspects attacked RFK Jr. for owning more brains than they can buy for their heads even with the money Big Pharma contributes to their campaigns, it appears nobody is yet concerned enough to bring up the rubbery arterial clots perhaps attributable to Covid mRNA shots, as found in deceased people.  Where did science and legislators go on this one, to a vacation perhaps?

The media continue to report how Covid shots save thousands of lives, yet fall short on focusing on young people who experienced coronary emergencies after receiving them.  Did we not just glance at a report, a military study suggesting that flu shots may make one susceptible more easily to acquiring Covid?  We are truly in pharmaceutical hell.  Me, I have taken many immunizations for various diseases, but would hope never to introduce the mRNA version into myself unless and until a number of serious questions can be answered satisfactorily -- which may be never.

Fall is in the air soon!  What does that mean?  It means leaves in the gutter, Halloween scares in the making, the crisp night air and, oops, almost forgot -- possible power shortages as AI continues to gobble up vastly increasing amounts of energy at your expense.  When our toes turn black and fall off this winter because our smart meters blame us for attempting to stay somewhat warm-ish, let's be sure to thank technology for making our lives better.

Back to School!  While parents cringe and law enforcement does everything it can to keep schools, buses, crosswalks and children safe during those important hours of in-house education, what's going to be the safeguard or cure when somebody or some group awash in drones decides to precision-direct several with powerful explosives attached to the local middle school?  Is it any secret that if one is going to perform terrorism, they tend to do it  with particular attention paid to the chore?  Escape seems increasingly futile as society winds its way through the maze.

Dementia Salad

Brains are strange people.  I mean, they're sort of like people because they have their own personalities and, like it or not, they are us and possess firm control of everything we are and do.  Without brains, we would cease to be human, though I suppose some folks without brains might function perfectly well as members of a "woke" political party.

Working in Air Force hospitals during the Vietnam years, I encountered more than a few brain injuries culminating in various personality changes. Sometimes there was violence, and sometimes blank stares were as placid as pools of water. It wasn't uncommon to find patients with various mental disorders lulled into zombie status with Thorazine and other potent anti-psychotics.  I clearly remember one young man, an Air Force dependent whose brain was traumatized from a serious car accident, whose motor skills were all messed up, but he did manage to scrawl out a shaky note for me when I asked him what happened.

Brains are in the news a lot lately, primarily because of actor Bruce Willis's frontotemporal dementia and Diane Sawyer's ABC-TV report about his slow mental decline.  For my part, I was surprised to learn that actor Johnny Crawford had died from dementia two or three years ago.  Having grown up watching him as young Mark McCain on TV's "The Rifleman," just a few years younger than he, his passing via such a terrible brain disease was hard to believe.

Yes, brains are strange people.  Many years ago when my mother developed a tumor in the worst possible area of her brain, I cared for her at home.  Surgery was attempted, but such an incursion only made her condition worse as she forfeited so much of her very being to the tumor.  Her doctor assumed she would only live a month or two at that stage, but her will to live and I kept her going for a year and a half.  One can provide care, but there is no winning in the end.

Currently, I find myself confronted with dementia in another family member, a cousin whose troubled brain commanded him to drive across two states until he eventually ran out of gasoline, suddenly not knowing who he was, where he was from or where he was going.  In so doing, he was shuffled from hospital emergency room to a nursing facility whose care has cost him pretty much all the money he had saved to purchase a house in another state.  Though physically fit, the remaining course of his life will slope downhill at a slow pace in a nursing institution. As I thought back, I remembered that his father, too, had perished from dementia, a somewhat rare form known as Binswanger's dementia.

We are all getting older, and predictions for dementia overtaking us -- and even young people -- exponentially are frightening.  The reasons may be complex, but we shouldn't be surprised if a lack of proper nutrition in our food sources, as well as substances with which we pollute our living space, play a significant role.

Whether AI, Elon Musk, new drugs or ??? can diminish dementia's forces remains to be seen, but complicated brain disorders on the rise apparently have no intention of disappearing any more than will our shadows under a street light.