Bits and Pieces for March 2026

Democrats inflicting pain:  Once again, "the American people," as Sen. Chuck Schumer calls them, are suffering extraordinary punishment under these wonderful Democrats, many of whom now proudly proclaim themselves to be socialist Democrats or Democratic socialists, choose your pleasure. These desperate folks have fallen so deeply into the "Hate Trump" mode that using American air travelers, Homeland Security and especially TSA employees to expand their tantrums is now their apparent policy.  Unfortunately, they are given such perfect cover by the mainstream media that many voters will remain clueless regarding the fools and chaos perpetrators for whom they obediently and characteristically vote in the midterm election.  One cannot simply wish away politically engineered trauma by voting for the same smiley-faced puppet string-pullers every time -- but that's exactly what will happen come November when Americans with either short memories or no information at all exercise their right to elect badly, very badly.

Eat the Press:  We loved watching Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent being interviewed by Kristin something or another on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press," where their question and answer back-and-forth seemed, as always, akin to a rocket scientist trying to explain physics to a kidney stone.

When the only good one is a dead one:  As I recall, when actress Joan Crawford died (and again, oh how I wished I had gone to see her at a Pepsi bottling plant appearance in Valdosta, Georgia during my Air Force years, just down the road. . .) fellow actress Bette Davis was asked to comment.  Remarking that it wasn't nice to say anything about the deceased unless it was something good, Davis allegedly said, "Joan Crawford is dead.  Good."  Which brings us to Donald Trump and his remark that he was glad Robert Mueller had died.  Yes, Mueller had an exemplary military past, but when we consider how Mueller and so many others went on the attack against Trump for falsehoods and invented crimes, don't we wonder where the breaking point comes in?  Trump shouldn't have been so harsh -- but I understand from whence his comment came after extended abuse by officials using their immense power to do bad things to one man.

Chuck Norris dies:  A true motion picture and television legend, the kind whose numbers are seriously in decline, and yet again an actor with former military experience adding to his "edge."  We're quickly getting down to actors and actresses who know little of life more threatening than tripping over their shoelaces on a pickleball court, and it shows on the screen.  I like watching something on recent TV and putting the sound on mute, just watching the acting and facial expressions -- and after laughing I turn off the TV and go back to radio or music!

Illegal migrants continue to kill:  Another one from the past year, this time a young woman shot dead by a tuberculosis-ridden criminal let in under the evil Biden gang.  This will not appear on Democrat re-election posters.

Thank you Obama: For flooding Iran with pallets of cash way back.  They sure put that money to good use, if missiles and nukes are defined as good use.

AI and suicides:  It was only a matter of time before everybody's hands reached into the Internet pie to regulate, ban, censor, arrest and condemn social media instead of simply leaving it alone.  Look, I'm sorry if some beloved teenager sparked a "conversation" with artificial intelligence and in so doing was helped along to killing himself or herself -- but if parents continue holding everything outside the family unit responsible for personal tragedy instead of looking within, difficult as that may be, then all communication skills and tools are in jeopardy.  Just as making temporary shrines of places where roadside automobile accidents claimed the lives of teenagers is no permanent solution to death, attempting to manipulate and legislate the Internet continuously interferes with its true value.  And frankly, this rush to "protect" children on the Internet at the expense of making it restrictive or treacherous for adult use when protection is a parental responsibility is simply wrong.  If somebody on the Net is suicidal or accomplishes the deed, their problems started long before they encountered the computer or smart phone.  This is the bitter pill that few of the parent or guardian class are willing to swallow.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy:  To me, brackets are something one uses for punctuation when writing, or for attaching a shelf to a wall. In athletics, it's something else involving teams and names and apparently life and death itself.

Everybody needs an enemy.  Everybody. Needs. An. Enemy.

You can look upon sports as a friendly competition, but it's not.  The opponent is an enemy and must be.  I'm a better player than you.  Mine is bigger than yours.  If I don't win this game I'll kill you.  I'm gonna put an end to your career.  You're going down.  Mine is bigger than yours.  Only one of us is coming out of this stadium a winner.  Mine is bigger than yours.

My neurosis of the day:  I suspect that our species will perish sooner than we expect.  Maybe we'll get to Mars, but as the future creeps forward we don't appear suited to become a "Star Trek" society.  Hatred and wanting what the other guy has is inherent in our genes and we will literally fight to the death unless some cosmic invader (rock or species) accomplishes the job for us.  Physically and physiologically we just aren't built for space travel without the assistance of something more, and we've already surrounded our own planet with space junk so hazardous that maneuvering through and around it becomes more problematic every day.  And we continue adding to the mix.

We are also sick, unhealthy from unsettled cradle to anxious grave.  Is it the food?  Is it the plastics we eat?  Is it the TV or computer?  Are we microwaving our brains into fine pieces of furniture as electronic beams from all manner of earth-based devices perpetually criss-cross our lives?

Maybe the innocents know -- the animals.  Do they not frequently bear the brunt of our "friendly competition?"  Are animals our enemies, too?  Determined, we erase their presence as we hysterically attempt to preserve ours.

Quick, select one:  Havana cigar or Havana syndrome?

I think we are screwed and afraid to comprehend the horrors and possibilities of situations insurmountable.  But fear not, for I am often wrong, and the musings of today so often merely become the toadstools of tomorrow.

You Don't Have to be MAGA

What did we expect?  United States presidents of both parties AND other international players have let Iran's religious throwback messengers of Islamic doom function for decades without taking them down and out, and here we are.

As petroleum products and everything associated with so-called fossil fuels rise in cost, we hope on a temporary basis, MAGA folk are taking the political hit, and those who dislike or flat-out hate Donald Trump continue to ramp up their hostility.  Oh, and midterm elections are coming up. . .

One need not subscribe to a Make America Great Again philosophy, though if one is a true American I don't know why attempting to improve and enhance our national identity is a flawed idea.  In Congress, the Republicans quiver and quake in their seats, seemingly afraid of now-radicalized Democrats whose options apparently have little to so with supporting a Republic over their vision of a "democracy" which only a dime-store communist could appreciate.

Trump's brilliance is, unfortunately, unseen by those unaware or uncaring that he is reorganizing the entire Western hemisphere in order to keep the USA safe and strong, and as a side benefit other nations may opt to embrace the freedoms which many have been unable to grasp.  How about no nukes from a distant Iran for starters?  How about a lesser Chinese influence reaching across the planet?

In the meantime, we mourn and honor our war dead, and while folks on the street may find it difficult to comprehend why a parent or spouse of a deceased military member would insist that Trump "finish the job," such words are perfectly normal for the military's bereaved as they deal with harsh realities of armed conflict.

In contrast, we again condemn the Academy Awards nonsense on ABC-TV, where none of the self-absorbed egos gracing the stage could bother thanking U.S. military members, both dead and living, for the sacrifices they make which allow such stupid ceremonies to even take place in safety year after year.  Communist f***s some, don't deny it.

We in the U.S. are in debt, terrible debt, much of it from being very kind to the rest of the world -- and by supporting border-jumping criminals (one and all) who wise citizens continue to hope will be tossed out in far greater numbers eventually.

The only possibility of an economic cure, despite current actions in Iran which were absolutely unavoidable, lies with Trump, hate him or love him.  If you still cling to the Democrats, hopeful of some leftist miracle to make our lives, country and world better, keep in mind that nearly every grand Democrat plan which has wormed its way through our national intestines in recent decades screams absurd costs, if not failure.

Not to forget:  Thanks also to the useless Biden and the gang who allowed illegal aliens in by the millions, we now have the worst of Islam invading every aspect of our nation, from government to schools to corporations.  While most Muslims wish to live in peace and do, radical Islam is quite another matter, a religion which is also a government absolutely incompatible with the U.S. Constitution (as you've heard a thousand times by now).  A reading of Sharia Law should chill you to the bone.  Want that here?  Islamists are trying to bring it, right now, in courts and state government seats everywhere.

And estimates that a third to a half of the national debt could go away if we just cut fraud in (mainly blue) states abusing tax dollars should turn every overtaxed and overcharged head in the country.  Wake up America!  Trump has a good chance of being a salvation, not an enemy to your household.  Patience is the recipe, and unfortunately patience is not an abundant human quality in this country right now.

What's Cooking? (Your Brain)

I'm grateful that CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" remains on the U.S. government personnel brain-injury issue in which possible microwave (?) devices invented and assembled by a foreign enemy may indeed be a real concern.  It's just a shame that our American government has been so slow to admit what may be categorized, as was brought up on the program, an act of war against the United States by way of this instrumentation directed by foreign agents. Is Dr. Russia in the house?

As I have written in the past that some close encounters with UFOs may have involved ultrasonics, a theory I developed while working with therapeutic ultrasound equipment in the Air Force in the sixties, I simultaneously treated patients with microwave and shortwave energy and wondered about this application -- but instead concentrated upon the ultrasound aspect.  As years have elapsed, I believe microwave energy may also be acceptable as a UFO encounter side-effect (refer to James M. McCampbell and his book, Ufology).  Then again, we may be dealing with a form of immense energy about which we really have no working hypothesis.

Nevertheless, we hope "60 Minutes" continues to champion instances of government personnel who seem overwhelmingly to have suffered bizarre energy wave attacks.  There comes a point, unless you're in a communist country where throwing a psychiatrist or team of psychologists in the mix to quell legitimate concerns, simply doesn't make sense, and the propaganda boys and girls have no place left to piss away the truth.

Trump and everything else:  He apparently has a long-term plan to make the Western hemisphere safe for the U.S. and our willing neighbors, and if Cuba goes down as did Venezuela, as we watch Iran sway like a tree with rotted roots, a remarkably different future may be in store.  We wish Canada's Mark Carney would get a giant dose of common sense as he plays footsie with China's take-all business sense, and if Mexico could shed its drug empire . . . well, just imagine.

Meanwhile, the worthless American Democrats continue holding Homeland Security hostage (no funding) and kissing radical Islam butt (hello, New York City) -- that is, the religious crazies who insist on killing all Jews and everybody in the West who won't submit to their religion. Isn't it absurd to concentrate on "hate speech" words when the real haters want to murder others with viable weapons?  Does anybody believe the two terrorists who threw an unexploded device into a crowd over the weekend in NY were just joking?!

Regarding I.C.E. -- go get 'em, guys!  What do I want?  I want the estate of the late Alex Pretti charged for the tail light he kicked off a government vehicle my taxes paid for during his first assault on law enforcement.  By the way -- if he was an ER nurse at a VA facility, wasn't he therefore a federal government employee who maybe should not have been doing the protest things he was doing?  I don't know his status or the rules, just suggesting. 

Ayatollah in a Hole-Ah

A fond farewell to the not-so-supreme leader of Iran and everybody who formerly surrounded his commanding evil presence.  Rest not in peace, but in pieces (lots of pieces) y'all.

Several times over the years I have mentioned two young Iranian women with whom I attended medical classes when I was in Air Force training in 1968, but maybe my best recollection occurred in my posting from 2025.  The photo showing them and the rest of us appears below and in the entry here:   https://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2025/06/before-infestation-decade-before.html

 

 

Silencers in the Shadows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may have noticed the deletion of my first February blog posting showing this visual,

and I was as surprised as my readers when the posting disappeared.  However, it did not merely disappear-- it was taken down by that entity known as "The Blogger Team."

In order to appeal a deleted post, Blogger provides a peculiar, if not arduous e-mail address which I am unable to access no matter how I organize it or break into sections.  Because I seem unable to connect with this nebulous entity known as The Blogger Team, I will print below for everyone the response I intended for those who consider appeals.  Maybe they will see this, maybe they won't, but you will and this will explain what happened:

To The Blogger Team:


This is in response to Blogger removing my post, "Bits and Pieces for February 2026" from my blog, robert-barrow.blogspot.com.  This is reportedly a "hate speech" issue, but your generic note offers no specifics.

For nearly 20 years I have posted two blogs on Blogger and never received even one complaint, and all e-mails in response have been positive and inquisitive.  If someone had a problem with the post in question they could easily have contacted me, as my e-mail address is clearly available and my name is real.  From where I stand, anonymous complaints leading to consequences for one's literary style could be looked upon as the ultimate in intolerance.

My deleted posting is not out of character with years of previous entries, and I feel it entirely fair to comment on people, places and events in the news.  I do not write "hate speech," which is a very easy term to define and manipulate by those who themselves wish to condemn another's freedom to comment on newsworthy topics.  If my entry or any of my entries were "hate speech" it seems I would have invoked some agenda to inflict physical harm, murder or incite violence -- when, to be honest, some of my words actually reference those who themselves might have some relationship to those ideas.  If I was deleted purely because of my commentary, my personal thoughts, this is in my opinion a very problematic approach and dangerous to any person's or group's freedom of expression.  If my words are emotionally hurtful to somebody, there is no cure for that, for there are people in this world who will cry and fuss over the mere thought of rain spoiling a sunny day, while others delight in knowing rain will make flowers grow and thrive.

Having reviewed my post and knowing no specifics of the problem, it is impossible for me to address the reason for deletion.  To take down an entire post because of a point of contention does not serve the reading community, except perhaps those with some agenda contrary to  words written.  In another sense, if I "ruffled feathers" among my readers my writing has performed a valuable service, and to either agree or disagree is one's right.  But to censor and remove the ability of others to understand a writer's perspective is just wrong.

I suspect this action could have only a single person or group representative complaining, quite possibly some entity outside the USA (where I reside), but of course I don't know.  However, I have been a writer for decades and my writing has appeared in newspapers, national magazines and now blogs (from which I derive and seek no financial gain, by the way), and I have never experienced a problem.  Yes, my words can be humorous, ironic, irreverent, absurd, fictitious, sarcastic, satirical, annoying, flippant, harsh, critical and inescapably offensive to one's personal beliefs -- and intent upon making readers actually think about a variety of issues, including names and topics very much newsworthy and ripe for commentary.  I am not a Nazi or some supremacist out for blood.  I am not reporting news as a member of the press, but I am offering personal commentary, measured condemnation and impressions, abundantly clear to readers who freely agree or disagree without resorting to censorship.  If I wrote something subject to possible litigation involving Blogger or myself, that would be worthy of alert, but I see no such application in my deleted post.

If this comes down to perhaps a single person or organized group with opposing political views painting me as a perpetrator of so-called hate speech and can't handle views opposite to their own, I would suggest they discontinue reading my blog and go elsewhere so my otherwise faithful readership may continue enjoying freedom of (not hate) speech.  Am I now in the position of needing to "watch my back" every time I post an entry, especially because it is ever so easy for anyone to arbitrarily click on a flagging icon due to my having somehow shattered their personal senses? "Hate speech" finger-pointing seems an exceptionally dangerous and nebulous path to follow in a world begging for a variety of thoughts to counter elitist dogma and extremist national policy or to just provide alternative ideas.

As Blogger appears to serve as a platform for diverse postings and discussion, I request that you reconsider and please either re-post my February blog entry or give me permission to do so.  I look forward to your reply.  Thank you.  

Robert Barrow   robert-barrow.blogspot.com
                             ufothemovie.blogspot.com

Blogger's printed guidelines state the following regarding "hate speech" issues:  

"Hate speech is content that promotes or condones violence against or has the primary purpose of inciting hatred against an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization."

Well, that certainly covers everybody who exercises thought.

But who knows how this decision came to be?  My generic e-mail from Blogger was essentially a form letter with no reference whatsoever to my wandering indiscretion, though wrapped in a likewise generic warning that if I continued with hate speech my blog may be removed entirely!?!  Was my blog entry removal initiated by a bot?  More likely, I wonder if the force behind reporting my "hate speech" is some emotionally or sexually unfulfilled human with little to no influence elsewhere who delights in going from blog to blog and flagging the opinions of others in order to gain, I don't know, some weird power play or neurotic high to complement their apparently miserable, humorless and worthless lives.  A member of the crazed far left perhaps? Frankly, I am curious whether such people who feel it their duty to insist upon censoring the words expressed by others are even able to write a coherent paragraph themselves.

Blogger is owned by Google and Google owns the world or maybe wants to, I guess, but of course they have their standards with which I vehemently disagree and my disagreement means nothing to those who run this circus.  

I cannot speak to Blogger Team folk who employ their established standards, but I can address my readers as follows: 

I am probably several decades older than many of you, am a wartime veteran who experienced a few things in life, and I say to one and all that if our society continues ratcheting up on this often contrived "hate speech" monstrosity and its increasing number of definitions the future will be bleak, leaving everybody less and less opportunities to express their own opinions.  Others will be silenced far worse than I have been silenced by the removal of one blog entry (with perhaps more on the way until I am shut out entirely).  

The implementation of "hate speech" to suppress and replace free thought with politically favored dogma is also currently a weapon of choice among tyrants wanting to control the West, and favored among the world's Elite who demand no rights for anybody but themselves.  Frequently, "hate speech" appears merely an abbreviated form of the sentence, I (or we) hate your freedom to say or write your thoughts.  

Hate speech, you see, is the fearsome two-word accusatory war weapon which can easily be deployed by those with an agenda to destroy an entire society or culture without the firing of a single gunshot.