BIZARRE Doesn't Begin to Cover This UFO Science Aspect

Were I a theoretical physicist, and I'm clearly not, right now I think I would be spinning in my grave -- and I'm not even dead.

If THAT makes no sense, then I hope you had an opportunity to check out reporter George Knapp's interview for Las Vegas' KLAS-TV (Nexstar Media), portions posted online 6-24-2022, with Dr. Travis Taylor.  Therein lies a he-said-what? moment.

Taylor, another recent "celeb" of sorts in UFO circles because he was "hiding in plain sight" as part of the UAP Task Force analyzing the Gimbal and Tic-Tac videos, has allegedly discovered some very strange properties about the objects recorded.

Following up on Knapp's question about why photographic representations of UAPs (by the way, I will continue to dismiss this term, which to me seems like bureaucracy's way of obliterating all the decades of "told you so" and extraordinary documentation planted by credible private researchers who carried the UFO designation on to its current status) are often fuzzy, Taylor actually offers an incredible response.

To encapsulate on Taylor's revelations, high-tech instrumentation analyzing these particular UAPs finds objects with an internal part hot enough to melt metal, yet inexplicably surrounded by a layer of cool air -- apparently causing a bubble or some kind of field between what the cameras pick up and record vs. human eye observations.  Complicating the mystery, referencing especially the famous Puerto Rico encounter where a small object raced through the skies and then entered the ocean without causing ANY break in the water, nor precipitating a wake as it cruised effortlessly through the water without any evidence of propulsion -- and lack of propulsion rivals Taylor's findings when Tic Tac and Gimbal UAPs soar through the sky -- it occurs to me as just a li'l old writer and UFO researcher since the 1950s that maybe we humans don't have and may NEVER have advanced enough scientific equipment able to tell us what's going on with this phenomenon / phenomena / phefoomenon / feefumenon or whatever unhelpful words we come up with to semi-satisfy our curiosity.

As far as Knapp, Taylor and all of this goes, hell, I don't know what to believe, for the UFO arena, like so many other patches of activity on the planet, constantly rotates and sheds real, unreal and questionable particles of stuff every day.  Maybe I'd rather be sleeping.  

Will our science advance fast enough to interpret something's, or somebody else's science in the time remaining for our species on Earth?  Or will we just be the next mastodon who knows nothing beyond the vegetation it's eating as it perishes in a flash during mid-swallow?

Republicans Perform the Best Abortions

A couple of brief preambles here:  First, if Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas could have ever indirectly engineered better revenge for that Anita Hill/Coke can/pubic hair thing by throwing abortion to the curb and enraging his detractors, he won.  We love Justice Thomas  for his intellect, and we particularly delight in observing that The Usual Suspects can't call him a racist in this instance.  In fact, we're sure a significant faction out there is devastated because they can't play the anti-abortion race card on a black SC justice.  Thomas and other justices actually made a reasonable decision on abortion, which always should have belonged with the states simply because abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution.  Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hero of the left, opined early on that there were serious problems with Roe v. Wade as a federal issue.

Second, yes, it would be great if both men and women would take personal responsibility for the process of impregnation, and in this era of numerous pre and post birth control options the possibility of unplanned pregnancies should be extremely low.  Unfortunately, the "sex drive" demanded in biological terms just tends to "F" up everything a logical brain suggests during sexual encounters.

Now, with all of that said. . .

Republicans, you did it again, and this is not a compliment.  You complain, correctly, about Biden attempting to put an end almost immediately to fossil fuel dependence in the United States.  Yet, in a similar fashion, as soon as the Supreme Court announced its abortion decision, you folks jumped up faster than a (now legal) speeding bullet to squash abortion clinics, medical personnel and the clients dependent upon their long-established services.  State after state, Republican governors and legislators are coming down ruthlessly on abortion providers with sledgehammer decisions.

The political right should have learned long ago how this works.  Just as they make significant strides among American voters, illustrating the left as the predominant lunatics, fascists and fools many of them are -- and the left generally demonstrates this aspect of themselves with no outside assistance necessary -- the Republican Party dutifully throws its Cloak of Our Supreme Entitled Decency on the abortion issue and sends voters scurrying just in time for personal electorate decisions to be made.

Conservative Republicans seemed to have all the potential for big winnings in November. But now?  Not only have they urinated on the boiling hot abortion issue, but as some observers may have noticed this week, gasoline prices are on a possibly continuing decline and minuscule aspects of the economy are beginning to look a tad hopeful.  Will this give radical Democrats the edge in November?  Everybody knows they will do everything to prop up all the essentials by election time, and after winning they will continue chewing the American people's rights to pieces.

Republicans are the best abortionists on the planet because they know how to effectively self-abort, and we're talking about advantages, not babies.

Of course the respect of moral values is important, but unfortunately humans and nations change for better or worse or, as we experience currently, trend toward a sense of an amoral existence.  Thank you, elementary and high schools and universities for much of that.

Ramping up the outrage, too, are in so small part national radio and TV talk shows, whose hosts frequently cheer-lead about an end to abortions based obviously (MORE than obviously) upon their religious beliefs.  Like politicians in many states, they engage in the dilemma known as imposing your religious thinking on the lives of others PERHAPS because they believe doing so will help assure their own individual place in an afterlife paradise someday.

Chief among their rants is their tearful pronouncement that some 65 million abortions have been performed since Roe v. Wade began.  May I just ask:  If all of those 65 million babies had gone to full term and delivered, thereby growing up and producing more children and grandchildren, etc., etc., where would we put them all?  How many is enough?

As a political independent who leans somewhat conservative much of the time, this "65 million" chant coming from the mouths of conservative talk show hosts and governors troubles me because these are the same people condemning the hundreds of thousands of criminals crossing the Southern border -- many of them, no doubt, pregnant and ready to pop out more.  Based on their "logic," these broadcasters and politicians should be happy as clams about our border invasion which continues to import a never-ending torrent of humans every week.  American talk show moderators and their Republican counterparts, unfortunately, are often so wrapped up in their religions that they fail to calculate the horrors inherent in "the miracle of life."  We are all the cockroach, but that line of thinking is not going to play well among the heaven and flowing white robe faction -- and to keep everything tidy, immaculate and squeaky clean, the Republicans will sacrifice everything to help keep Democrats, the "Do Something!" people in power starting today.  All it requires is a one-track mind coming into play as soon as the word, ABORTION blows up, after which the Republican Party grows blinders and can't concentrate fully upon defeating plans long under construction by Democrats.

Individual states -- and particularly the religious right, the self-abortionists and primary factor in this inglorious multi-sided mix --  must come to realize that the year is 2022, not 1950, and we are far removed from a time when the masses willingly catered to shared beliefs.  Far, far removed.

Shoot 'em up:  The Supreme Court hit a home run on gun rights, it's no more complicated than that (though our leftist friends will make it so).  Did you ever watch that older cable TV show, "I survived?"  Women and men gave personal testimony to instances where, disturbingly often, they were abducted or held up by criminals who used illegal firearms to perform rapes, torture and murder to get what they want.  I was thinking, how excellently would these situations have ended had the victims been armed and ready to defend themselves from the start?  With the new ruling, depending upon how leftist state legislators and governors screw it up, easy-picking victims may frequently be victims no more.  Women should be delighted, for this is a great day in America for self-defense among those who need proper tools the most.  I guess pepper spray is nice, but some instances require something a bit more decisive.  

The only drawback I can imagine is a depression in the sale of chalk, as police chalk lines may no longer prevail to show where unarmed victims were killed.  Then again, chalk sales may increase if stupid perps continue to attack with reckless abandon toward possibilities for their own demise.

States such as New York are busily working on ways to make personal firearm carrying difficult, obvious by a current nearly stone-cold silence in Albany.

However, one thing I do know as a veteran:  The VA medical centers and clinics are going absolutely whole-hog on preventing veteran suicides, which are currently out of control.  If you go to or phone a VA facility, they will question you about suicide, relationships and all manner of things they never used to approach.  In the current climate, I harbor no doubts whatsoever that if a veteran even hints about suicidal or homicidal tendencies -- even a mere mention off the cuff -- people with guns may well come and remove firearms from their homes.  For a day?  A week?  Forever?  

"Red flag" laws, unless "shot down" by the courts, are poised to put a throttle on gun ownership as never before, and regarding the Democrats (in general) not especially thrilled with the military OR the veteran population, I say beware veterans, beware. If you are truly engulfed in a desire to take your life, you will need to reach out and trust somebody, and if it comes down to the VA, that will have to do.  I hear that dead's not nearly as exciting as being alive, even under what may seem the worst of circumstances.

And about some troubled young people and others plotting and planning to do serious gun-induced harm at schools, churches or malls, may I suggest that they have possibly learned a valuable lesson from extensive media coverage, and will now refrain from posting anything online in advance, in addition to saying nothing about their intent to peers?  "Cunning" works on both sides of the gun issue, unfortunately.

A final word, this to our friends in Hollywood and on Broadway:  In consideration of the new, more sensible gun law, looks as though you may have to update "Annie Get Your Gun" to "Annie, Carry and Conceal Your Gun!"

Kiss of the Caduceus

Caduceus?  You've seen it many times, that little coiled serpent insignia associated with the medical field and your cherished local hospital.  The symbol generally speaks of medicine's highest aspirations, but it carries another side as defined by Greek mythology.  

Caduceus was the staff carried by Hermes, and Hermes himself was harbinger and messenger for the Greek gods, serving additionally as the god of commerce, much like the Roman god, Mercury.  

Of additional interest, Hermes was the god, according to one source, of "cunning and invention and theft."

Near as I can figure, that last part must have some relationship to the CDC, FDA, NIH and all those other triple-initial government agencies whose medicine-involved existence seems by design to keep research secrets secret (then there are royalty payoffs to government researchers who sometimes, in the words of the old gold prospectors, strike it rich -- as Sen. Rand Paul pointed out so clearly on "Sixty Minutes" last Sunday).

I've no medical license, but picked up most of what I know about medicine during an old Air Force enlistment,  However, taking that and connecting older knowledge to current findings and approaches, I have an ability to make some sense out of what I encounter when medical field subjects arise.

That said, I am not particularly impressed with Covid immunizations (look at the data, if you can find it), but if you're an adult the choice is yours.  But the kids and the babies?  Wow.  Newborns already receive a host of jabs, but this new one, the mRNA process involving spike proteins which apparently travel all over the body. . .well, not for me, thanks.  I'm "old school" when it comes to allowing children to develop as much natural immunity as possible.  Truth is, almost no kids have died from Covid -- but a buffet of problems including cardiomyopathy have developed from the jab.

Under Biden, this country has gone immunization-insane.  Did nobody care a whit when mRNA delivery system patent holder Dr. Robert Malone warned against injecting into humans something so new whose long-term effects are unknown?  Did no one heed his advice when he said children absolutely should not be exposed to this needle yet?  Apparently, the Biden "science" minions pick and choose.  Fauci?  Who cares?  What aren't we being told every day, that's what I want to know.  When people who received the jab seem to develop Covid more often than those who did not, what does that say?  When recipients of the cult vaccine are immunized several times and still develop Covid, why do we bother?

It's no wonder the kids are having mental issues these days.  If they don't have to worry about a parent or guardian insisting they get a Frankenstein needle jab, it's the schools coaxing them into believing they need to change gender with drugs and surgery.  

Of government and private physicians, medical researchers and other medical personnel, we politely ask:  Which caduceus do you carry today?  The one reflective of your solid integrity?  Or that of "cunning and invention and theft?"  One has a sneaking suspicion that giant pharmaceutical companies currently rolling in the proverbial dough, doing everything to assure Covid vaccinations forever, know the latter well.  Why leave the public with cheap Never-Ending Gobstoppers when government taxpayers will foot the bill for maybe or maybe not curative intravenous moon dust?

Tryin' to fly the friendly skies:  We don't get it.  Didn't all those folks stranded at airports read the news for the past several weeks?  A serious lack of pilots, above all else, was destined to "crash" commuter plans.  So where are all the pilots these days?  Probably at the Southern border, enlisted by the Biden syndicate into flying criminal aliens and their drugs all over the country.  For sure, by now stranded airport passengers would even accept drunken, suicidal airline pilots from Third World countries to get them to their destinations.

The January 6 hearings:  The fact that Rep(rehensible) Nancy Pelosi refused to allow the smart and honorable Rep. Jim Jordan on this panel of folks otherwise psychically enrolled in the loosely associated we-hate-Trump club points out the stupidity of this seemingly never-ending televised commercial for the Democrat Party and its worst.  Yes, Trump went considerably off track during those final weeks, but to be "investigated" by the likes of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger -- and Adam Schiff, who has little integrity on reserve since lovingly chomping down on the phony Russian collusion hoax during Trump's first impeachment hearing -- is a concocted brew that comes up virtually without flavor in the grand scheme.  You would think these people would be thrilled just knowing the TV network news anchors will keep the chain going every night, but they wanted more drama.

I.C.E. cold:  We hope for the day when I.C.E. strengthens and does its border-related work with a vengeance, unencumbered by the left whose members belong in prison for years.

Racists' Corner #1:  Celebrated Juneteenth this month, now that I understand it.  It's when a bunch of white people freed slaves in Texas who didn't know they were already free because nobody told them.  White soldiers saved the day.  You're welcome.  You know who you are.

Racists' Corner #2:  You know, I wouldn't be doing this racist stuff if it weren't being shoveled on me every day.  Aren't we all supposed to be equal now? There's no "equity" in the Founding Documents. There IS Andrew Gillum, but that's another story. Okay, here goes:  Government scientists are concerned that the term, "Monkeypox" is racist, so they plan to change it.  Why complicate this issue?  Considering government incompetence at every level, we're surprised they didn't simply change "Monkeypox" to "Junglepox."  There, that would certainly satisfy the invisible racial dilemma.  Don't blame me, BLM didn't do anything for black people, either, except keep the money and purchase expensive goodies for themselves, right?

Quick but not deep thoughts (I guess):

Wouldn't it be great to get rid of the Fed, a non-government colossus which does little for Americans but print money, distribute it where it probably shouldn't, and easily explains its errors away?  They are just banks -- BIG banks -- after all.  If only we had stayed with the Treasury.

Funny how certain people demand "social justice," but refuse to accept social responsibility. 

Baby formula and tampons become collectors' items:   Don't blame me, I didn't vote for what clearly seemed the inevitable at the time.  Whilst The Usual Suspects (Democrats who use their investigative skills to venture anywhere but toward themselves) continue their drama in cahoots with the DOJ (soon) and corporate media mouthpieces, Trump's accomplishments rank supreme -- that is, if one can find any remaining now after Biden's political AK blew them away.  

Yes sir, to borrow from Apocalypse Now, there's nothing like the smell of expensive gasoline in the morning.

Trumpzilla -- The Primetime Hollywood Movie

Woo-hoo! These left-sucking folks are so scared of Donald Trump's potential return that they had to blast January 6 hearings into America's TV viewers' prime time faces like bullets from a public relations AR-15.

Yes, there remain questions about that dramatic day, and they will be pursued, but to go prime time Hollywood style on all major TV networks (except Fox) is obviously a radical maneuver by leftist power brokers more than aware that November elections may well spell doom and termination for the idiotic, repeatedly failed progressive movement in the United States.  I mean, you just have to be existing in some phony meta-place to see anything beneficial here.

Despite Donald Trump himself, by now one must by evidence admit that he accomplished much of what he promised and did make "America First," while attempting to shovel through the Washington bureaucracy to weed out and destroy swamp-dwelling agencies and individuals.  Bad move on his part, apparently.

I'm no genius, but to acknowledge that American voters actually chose Biden the fool, tangled in the obligatory rat's nest of Obama holdovers eager to come in and annihilate everything great for the nation accomplished by the Trump folk continues to puzzle and infuriate me.  I don't think -- at the moment -- that it was mass stupidity so much as it was mass ignorance on the part of loyal Democrat voters who just couldn't or didn't want to see the sewer and bastion of corruption their cherished political party has become.  Not that it changed much from its days as officiating over Ku Klux Klan officials, civil right deniers, coordinators of black lynching, slave owners and Native American destroyers via the likes of Andrew Jackson, et al.

So the Democrats' only three-ring circus available to divert public attention away from a disastrous economy is January six, guns and abortions, and to get the masses to care about any of that as their dollars shrink and become as appealing as skunkweed, well, good luck.

Meanwhile, the Great God Biden accepts no blame, instead pointing his finger to Putin, and by default we suppose to Trump, for everything going to hell.  Biden's solution to withdraw incredible amounts of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to make a fraction of a penny's difference at the gas pump exemplifies the brilliance of his hand-pickled administration.  Putin and China's finest are obviously delighted at such moves.

By now, it's no secret that the January 6 panel is composed of Pelosi's hand-selected Trump-haters from both sides of the aisle, and we have yet to hear them explore apparently legit reports that Trump wanted plenty of National Guard members present days in advance, but his request was denied. Come to think of it, where were numerous Guard units as cities were burning all over the country thanks to BLM and Democrat encouragement?  It gives one a warm, fuzzy feeling to know that our V-P was helping to bail out some of the perps in those instances.

All we need to know about the January six hearings is the appearance of Adam Schiff's face on TV shows.  They still love and caress this hack even after the Russia collusion hearings upon which he staked his reputation were found to be a lie fostered in large part by the Hillary side of the moon.

However, we have advanced beyond Schiff to another face in the progressive gun control crowd:  Good heavens, it's David Hogg again, this time showing up with something akin to a beard on his face. I must confess, beards trouble me deeply.  Is Hogg's an I-want-to-be-just-one-of-the-guys beard?  Does it cover up something emotional?  Does he want society to realize he has become a man, no longer akin to something angry and chattering on a hamster wheel?  Oh well, nice to, um, have you back, Dave. No, don't get me wrong -- I still want everybody to have guns.  However, should the beard go away, keep in mind that the woman who modeled for Gerber Baby Foods as an infant just died at age 95, so there may be an opening for a new face on the jars and boxes. Just an idea.

Reminds me. . .I so miss Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima on food packages.  They were good people who didn't deserve their fate at the hands of progressive censors who were probably the biggest racists in the land.

Novavax to be approved? If you really, really, really hanker for a Covid shot, the Novavax people may have government approval soon.  Rather than using the mRNA delivery system, Novavax Covid protection is more like your traditional immunizations.  I knew about this one early on during Covid's early months because it was ALREADY THERE and nobody in official-dumb wanted to mention it.  In fact, I attempted to get this one, but no-no-no.

Then again, it's established that people who received Covid shots have more repeat Covid then those who did not.  Toss the dice.

NASA to study UFOs for a few weeks:  I uh, um, right then. . .

R.I.P. Patrick Lyoya -- will you burn?  This little incident in Grand Rapids, Michigan has made the news again because "they" want to charge the cop who shot him dead with murder.  Really? In a nut shell:  Cop stops suspect's car which has wrong license plate, suspect takes off and cop runs after and tackles him, suspect tries to grab taser and cop shoots well-muscled Patrick dead in the head.  The cop must have feared for his life, because once suspects get grabby anything can be grabbed.  If it were me in that scuffle, a non-cop, there would have been more than one shot to the head just to make sure.  There's yer "social justice," folks.

Maybe we need more Biden Fentanyl imported to the Southern border and we'll all feel great eternally.

Lifeguard shortage across the country:  As a young man, I thought nothing of pulling the car over on the road and jumping into a lake or river.  Everybody's so freaked out now, you can't even get to swimming water without some interference.  "At Your Own Risk" should be standard practice, drowning optional.  Life offers no guarantees when and if one has freedom.

All State University of NY institutions have been instructed my Gov. Kathy Hochul (love to see you in prison someday, Ma'am) to use gender-sensitive pronouns.  Also new: All drivers' licenses can now have an "X "for gender -- which will be really unhelpful in medical emergencies where nobody knows what the heck one was born as.  I suggest an "I" designation option on licenses for "Idiot."

As Long as We're Talking About UFOs. . . . . .

All things considered, we humans are pretty lucky.  No, I'm not saying it's lucky to starve or to suffer an illness. I just mean we get up every day and go to sleep at night, and everything in between seems routine and "normal."  Yet, there have always been flies in that optimistic ointment because we are occasionally confronted either with alleged paranormal events or scientific conundrums where normal seems to become just one of several states of mind, body or existence.  The late writer William Corliss, several of whose books on long-enduring scientific enigmas became my pleasure to review, discovered a never-ending wealth of weird things that huffy "respectable" science overlooked or refused to examine.

So I'm watching all of this hoopla with congressional UFO/UAP hearings, references to U.S. Navy images of unknowns and encounters and what have you, and in my eternal frustration with repeat performances of "the one that got away" I lean increasingly toward the impression that these little occasions where we or military personnel bump into bizarre manifestations involve some kind of temporary alteration with the here and now, with time and space.  What does that mean?  Darned if I know, but I'm not the first UFO writer, researcher or investigator to feel that way.  Can a thing or event exist in our frame of reference at a certain moment, and maybe affect our environment in some manner -- yet be somewhere else simultaneously, so as not to be affected by anything we throw at it?

When legendary UFO researcher Wendy Connors assembled her extensive "Faded Discs" collection of old UFO-related radio and TV broadcasts, witness audios, etc., a few years ago (many of which are available online with free access) I reviewed a number of her releases for the late Errol Bruce-Knapp's "UFO Updates" Web site.  At this moment, I write this with no Internet access, but do recall a specific British incident in which a witness encountering something very peculiar was immediately caught up in a situation where speech was impossible and nothing seemed to make sense.  No normal, for a brief instant.  I'm drawing from memory here, but I also remember a road incident where something resembling trees seemed to move as the witness watched, stunned, during a possible encounter with the unknown.

The question becomes, if incidents arise where reality bends in some other direction, what is reality?  Issues of this nature make me uncomfortable because I'll be forced to mentally reincarnate my old college philosophy classes.  Descartes comes to mind.  So do my B grades in philosophy, which was never really my thing.

I was looking over some old newspaper clippings this week and found a few regarding the 1988 Knowles family UFO case in Australia, and the details brought home to me this very issue of the elusive reality we think we know, but can't necessarily be certain about.

The Knowles incident impressed police investigators tremendously, with that particular day in January, 1988 also notable for another UFO incident some 50 miles away at nearly the same time -- and neither group involved was aware of the other.

According to news reports (please check elsewhere for updates to the original investigation, as what I include here is bare-bones and minimal)), at approximately 2:45 a.m. Faye Knowles and her three children were driving on a remote outback highway in Western Australia when a bright light came into view, and closer observation revealed that it appeared to be an "egg cup" shaped object.  Without warning, per witness accounts, the thing seemed to pick the car up off the highway, shook it violently, then deposited the automobile back on the road surface with such force that one of the tires blew out.  The car's exterior and interior were covered with a black ash-like powder (later obtained for analysis).  There are many details not included here, so again I caution the reader to search reliable sites for more.

Ms. Knowles and her children (two of them, teenagers Sean and Wayne, are shown here) stated that during the brief airborne episode their speech changed.  That is, their voices became distorted, as if talking in "slow motion."

In addition to the high strangeness of the Knowles incident, at about the same time the crew of a tuna fishing boat some 50 miles away were "buzzed" by a strange object and told investigators that as they spoke among themselves during the affair their voices became "unintelligible."

Might there have been a connection between the two events?  Was the same object responsible at exactly the same time as the Knowles encounter -- in at least two different places at once?  Or was there a companion phenomenon near the tuna boat?  Why would two groups of witnesses 50 miles apart experience specifically a speech or "slow motion" distortion?  Was existence itself slowed or manipulated as forces unknown to us used the very concept of time to either get something from the witnesses, or to leave something with them?  What of those recent experiments, and I'm hoping my memory sans Internet serves me right now, with subatomic particles hundreds (or thousands?) of miles apart in which researchers exerted some action on one and its "twin" far away reacted immediately with the same response to the stimuli?  For various UFO appearances, can there be a similar event somewhere else, perhaps able to twist our perception of the entire episode?

1988 represented an era still rife with scientists who often seemed unwilling to look beyond the limits of their discipline. Therefore, it wasn't much of a surprise when Charles Morgan of Sydney Observatory was quick on the draw to suggest a "large carbonous meteor shower" coupled with witness responses as the culprit which ruined the Knowles family's otherwise pleasant highway excursion.  Nevertheless, to his credit, Morgan actually did concede that something truly unusual may have caused the event.

Where do the Knowles car/tuna boat events and untold numbers of other dramatic UFO encounters leave us 34 years later?  Maybe some trace of an answer to The Strange and Unusual materialized during the closed-door congressional hearings laid out last month.  Yet, how would we know, when knowledge is perpetually drenched in layers of presumed national security at the whim of intelligence officials?  SNAFU by intent, we may surmise.