"Dissent Is Not Disloyalty" has been a popular slogan to quickly explain to people who progressives can hate the war but love the country. I'm reminded of that slogan as I think about the reactions I've gotten to my writing about the John Edwards scandal.
As a long standing member of the DKos community, this hasn't been a fun subject for me to write about. I realized when I wrote my initial story - also cross posted on the Huffington Post - that I was ahead of the curve on the story. I'd reached some conclusions that few other progressives seemed to have reached at the time. I could tell, however, that in the fullness of time the facts would bear out my conclusions so I took a deep breath and wrote as carefully and honestly as I could.
According to my Super Secret Friends in the U.S. and Israeli Intelligence organizations Iran is just days away from perfecting a new flying aircraft that can strike Israel or the United States with devastating results. I have obtained photos, originally taken by the Official Iranian News Service, of this new super secret aircraft.
NASA/JPL and the University of Arizona recently released panaroma photos of the Mars rover and there was a picture of what looked like a human figure at the edge of the photo. They're all saying it's just a rock formation and a lot are joking it's the sand creatures from Star Wars. But it got me thinking--are there any UFO/alien encounters out there that are documented and believable if not real?
Searching through YouTube, I actually encountered this incident which happened to a psychologist, Dr. Jonathan Reed, in October 1996 at Washington State. This'll blow your socks off. Basically, to sum it up, he was walking his dog in one of Washington's forest parks and his dog ran ahead and bit someone/something. Dr. Reed went to see what happened and there was this 4 ft alien with its arm being bitten by his big dog. Well the alien sprayed something on his dog and it started dying and getting ripped apart and Dr. Reed just lost it (I guess he loved his dog) and he picked up a branch the size of a bat and hit the alien on the head.
Dozens of people in a small Texas town are talking about an unexpected visitor, but the question is, where did it come from?
The residents of Stephenville, Texas, claim to have seen a UFO, described as a mile-wide, silent object with bright lights, flying low and fast. So what was it?
More than 30 residents insist they saw the unthinkable a gigantic UFO.
Dennis Kucinich today released a statement blaming the New Hampshire results for alien UFOs that forced Hillary Clinton to cry and then forced John Edwards to make fun of her.
According to Kucinich, who is a steadfast defender of elections against alien influence, the aliens first objective was to swing the NH primary. Their second objective was to anally probe Mr. Kucinich. In fact, this marks the 130th time that aliens have anally probed Dennis Kucinich.
I understand the rules here are no short diaries. And perhaps this is too short for an adult discussion.
Yet I find this a rather amazing fact that in general there are more people who believe we have been visited by extraterrestrials than the number of people who believe in our own President.
I know one thing: UFOs aren't destroying the country.
btw, yes I know the use of the phrase 'believe in' is a double entendre.
Hi guys -- Will Bunch from the Philadelphia Daily NewsPhiladelphia Daily News here (full disclosure, for geeks...and working journalists). I'm writing a book on how to revive American media called "The News Fix" for Vaster Books -- the company founded by Markos Moulitsas and Jane Hamsher -- that's coming out next year, and as the release date gets closer I plan to cross-post more of my regular posts from over at my blog, Attytood.
Here in Philly, we're outraged tonight by murder, and a blown opportunity in the race for the White House:
OK, I realize that 9/11 was supposed to kill irony, I didn't realize it had to kill all understanding of sarcasm and humor.
I watched the Kucinich answer. He was joking. Yes, I saw something I couldn't identify, aka a UFO, and now I'm opening campaign offices in two of the best known sites of UFO lore. It was a sarcastic answer to one of the stupider questions in debate history, a high bar indeed, but that one shattered it.
Did anyone else catch last night's Democratic presidential debate on MSNBC last night? Toward the end, when the moderators decided after ignoring Dennis Kucinich most of the time to zero in on a claim by Shirley McClain that he had once witnessed a UFO and the experience had a profound impact on him, did you think the question both silly and completely unnecessary to the debate? How about asking what costumes the candidates planned to wear for Halloween? I realize it was toward the end and no more relevant questions could be asked, but come on!
Well, Bill Richardson certainly knows how to distinguish himself from the rest of the field, doesn't he?
He told someone at a townhall meeting that if elected president he would unseal classified records about what really happened at Roswell, N.M., back in 1947.
The Associated Press has a new poll out (pdf) that reveals that one third of Americans (34 percent) believe in ghosts. Also, 34 percent believe in UFOs.
The average of five recent polls on Bush's approval rating (Fox, CNN, USA Today, CBS and LA Times) shows a 33 percent approval rating.
There is an upside for Bush, however. He still rates higher in believability than spells and witchcraft, which only polled 19 percent in the AP/Ipsos poll.
As if Kucinich wasn't weird enough... -- Kos on the report that Dennis Kucinich saw a UFO.
THE FIRST TIME I SAW AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT was on an overcast afternoon in Auburn, California in the late nineteen-eightees (I was in my mid-thirties). My partner Allen and I were driving down a road between Highway 49 and Highway 80, just beyond which lies the American River Canyon (pictured above).
Through the trees then lining the road I spotted an extremely bright white light in the distance, and remarked that it was the brightest street light I had ever seen. "That's not a street light," Allen said. "It's a plane."
Here's a neat little story that I think is wonderful fun for conspiracy-happy hearts like my own.
Short version: The man in charge of PR for the military base in Roswell, N.M., in 1947 died a couple of years ago. He left an affidavit to be opened only after his death, and its contents were publicly released last week. It contains his sworn statements that he saw an alien spacecraft, alien bodies and was involved in the decision to make up the weather balloon story.
My apologies to the Reality-based Kos Community, but I know this for a fact. God has a pointy little head. A few months before my grandmother Ada (bless her soul) "crossed over," as they tend to say in central Tennessee, she told me so. Ergo, it is true. How could Granny lie on her near-death bed? I listened intently. Then she said, "you know those things they call flying saucers?" Yes, I said. She paused. Thought about it. "I saw one," she said. After the fold, my Granny's last words on the subject...
This isn't a joke. Most discussions of UFO sightings focus on reported sightings and reactions of those who saw the object or objects. If you consider yourself a rational individual with a good understanding of the physical world, actually having the experience of seeing a UFO can be a life changing event. A recent poll on Daily Kos was very interesting. About a third of us have advanced degrees. I have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics. I'm 65, and I've been a private pilot since the age of 18, and am used to looking at objects in the sky. My wife, who also saw the objects is a Ph.D. clinical psychologist who testifies in court as an expert witness from time to time. Our experience follows:
Time for some quasi-tin foil hat news. I say quasi because there's been a recent uptick in unexplained sighting of lights & phenomena in the skies. The most infamous of these was a couple of months ago by Airline employees (some pilots) who saw something at Chicago's O'Hare....
A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.
A more "down to Earth" explanation for this that's been offered, is that what people were actually seeing was an illusion created by weather phenomena. However, there has been more similar reportings of "lights in the sky" across the country & world.....
I wonder what the end of the world will look like. Not the actual end, of course, because that will probably be pretty formulaic: bright light and then black, plus or minus some pain. But I am certain that Jesus will definitely not be in charge because that guy is always forgiving people, like the thief on the cross, and if Jesus is running things darn few people are going to get really punished (except for me, of course: I’ll be burned for the sacrilegious crap I just wrote) and it just won’t seem like the apocalypse without a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth, and that stuff just isn’t Jesus’ forte. So I expect that Jesus will be doing paperwork when the apocalypse comes around and the Archangel Michael or some of the other bad asses from the Old Testament to dish out the real fire and brimstone. But, of course, all of that is a theological question, (i.e., is God a loving God or a vengeful hard ass God?) and I digress. I was wondering what the period just before the end of the world is going to look like, from a practical, pragmatic perspective, sans morality. How will we recognize it when it comes?
