The aliens have landed. And they have a gavel!
That is as plausible a takeaway as any from this week’s House Oversight Committee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, the curiosity formerly known as UFOs. The panel’s national security subcommittee brought in, as its star witness, one David Grusch, a former Defense Department intelligence official who now claims:
That there are “quite a number” of “nonhuman” space vehicles in the possession of the U.S. government.
That one “partially intact vehicle” was retrieved from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1933 by the United States, acting on a tip from Pope Pius XII.
That the aliens have engaged in “malevolent activity” and “malevolent events” on Earth that have harmed or killed humans.
That the U.S. government is also in possession of “dead pilots” from the spaceships.
That a private defense contractor is storing one of the alien ships, which have been as large as a football field.
That the vehicles might be coming “from a higher dimensional physical space that might be co-located right here.”
That the Roswell, N.M., alien landing was real, and the Air Force’s debunking of it was a “total hack job.”
And that the United States has engaged in a nearly century-long “sophisticated disinformation campaign” (apparently including murders to silence people) to hide the truth.
I’d tell you more, but then they would have to kill me.
Alas, Grusch has no documents, photos or other evidence to corroborate any of his fantastic claims. It’s classified, you see.
Maybe everything he says is true, even the claim that “the Vatican was involved” in pursuing extraterrestrials, and Grusch has just exposed the best-kept secret and most sprawling conspiracy in the history of the universe. Or maybe Grusch himself is a conspiracy theorist, or he’s just having a lark at the subcommittee’s expense. Easier to discern was the motive of several Republicans on the panel: They greeted his out-of-this-world claims with total credulity, using them as just more evidence that the deep-state U.S. government is lying to the American people, covering up the truth and can never be trusted. Their anti-government vendetta has gone intergalactic.
[…]
Just over a year ago, a House Intelligence subcommittee held a similar hearing on “unidentified aerial phenomena” but with dramatically different results. The panel’s bipartisan leadership said the matter should be taken seriously to protect pilots and to make sure enemies don’t develop breakthrough weapons. But they assured the public there was no evidence of “anything nonterrestrial in origin,” and they cautioned against conspiracy theories. In addition, Sean Kirkpatrick, the head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, where Grusch worked, testified to senators in April that his UAP-hunting office “has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics.” NASA has said likewise.
The truth is out there. Just don’t expect to learn it from the alien life forms currently running the People’s House.
Inflation has calmed, the stock market is at its highest since 2021, illegal border crossings are down, unemployment remains at its lowest in decades, and GDP growth just came in better than expected.
Time to create some chaos!
This is where the House Freedom Caucus comes in.
Members of the group of far-right Republican lawmakers gathered this week to outline their priorities for the House when it returns in September from its six-week recess. Their agenda can be summarized roughly as follows:
The first order of business is to shut down the federal government. The second order of business is to impeach President Biden — on charges TBD.
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I am getting the feeling the greedy old perverts are willing to toss mitch overboard but only by including Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, etc. Somehow the deal smells.
But the issue of a lot of old people in the Congress hanging around until it is too late, so far no one has croaked in the Well, but that could happen, is real. I have read several articles regarding this but all of those have missed the one and main point of why it happens. They bounce around medical care and luxury life, and skip the biggy. The medical care, luxury life are nothing compared to be one of the most powerful people in America. There are one hundred powerful people in the Senate. There are four hundred thirty-five powerful people in the House. There is one very powerful person in the White House. Power is a mighty thing and giving it up is not easy.
Chasjing invisible rabbits like UFOs and Hunter’s laptop pretty much all the GOP can do now that real issues like the economy, crime and the border aren’t what they used to be.
BB, their cut off line seems to be at 80 since they conveniently leave out donny knocking at that door at 77. dementia can come to some much earlier than others as well as original stupidity and psychosis.
Good news for the universe lovers among us
Hark While I croon a verse
In praise Of the universe.
The universe is quite good-sized,
And is, I think, well organized,
Containing as it does, a slew
Of stars and planets. Comets too Occasionally whiz about
And dodge and circle in and out
Among the clustered nebulae.
They scare the dickens out of me,
But I suppose they know their stuff
And are expert and quick enough
To keep from bumping or colliding With other worlds. But I’m residing At present on the planet, earth,
And it does not arouse my mirth
To see these reckless comets fly
Around as if they owned the sky.
It’s much too dangerous in a crowd, And really shouldn’t be allowed.
Yet tho there’s nothing to prevent
Bad manners in the firmament,
The heavenly bodies, generally,
Are well behaved and courteously
Avoid all quarrels and disputes-
Tho when they have them, they are beauts.
As to the universe’s size,
It’s rather large than otherwise, Containing stars and galaxies
And satellites of all degrees.
And some are dim and some are bright, But all are lighted up at night,-
Mostly along the Milky Way-
A quite remarkable display.
Some scientific fellows hope By peering
thru a telescope To chart the heavens and name each star Of all the billions that there are.
More sensible I think it is Just to sit back and let them whiz
Along on their accustomed track Around and round the zodiac.
For since they are not bothering me
I think it’s best to let them be.
And that is all I have to say
About the universe today.
—The Poems of Freddy the Pig By Walter Brooks
Freddy the Pig was resident poet of Bean’s Farm, up around Roxbury, NY.
Bonus Fun: Mr Brooks also wrote Mr Ed. Apparently he had a thing about animals who were able to converse intelligently. with humans.
He seems to have missed Francis The Talking Mule but still
I’d wager that when he was a kid there was a mule on the property.
I know, I know……even a broken record is right twice a day ….,
Sturg, I think you’re referring to a broken clock.
Soooo, Fani is definitely going to drop a dime on ol’ Dumbass in the next few weeks if I’m reading the tea leaves correctly. I don’t think ““Some people may not be happy with the decisions that I’m making, and sometimes, when people are unhappy, they act in a way that could create harm,” is referring to Democrats if she doesn’t charge SFB.
“Part 1: In 1998, a legal revolution was quietly born in Texas. It would pull America’s courts rightward.”
“It’s hard to imagine today, as the Texas Office of the Attorney General constantly pours lighter fluid onto the culture war bonfires, but 25 years ago, it was a relatively quiet agency that mostly collected child support and defended the state in bureaucratic lawsuits. The office could be a political launching pad, but as for the work itself, “months and even years will go by without the AG making a big splash in the Texas political pond,” Texas Monthly wrote around that time.”
“The office was so quiet, pundits couldn’t understand why John Cornyn would give up his seat on the Texas Supreme Court to run for attorney general in 1998.”
“Lawyers for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton requested Monday that all but one of 20 articles of impeachment be dismissed, arguing his removal would “override the will of the people” who elected him with knowledge of his alleged misconduct.”
“In a separate filing to the court of impeachment, Paxton’s team also requested that his trial before the Texas Senate exclude any evidence of “any alleged conduct” that occurred prior to January 2023, when his third term in office began.”
“With only a single exception, the articles (of impeachment) allege nothing that Texas voters have not heard from the Attorney General’s political opponents for years,” Paxton’s team wrote. “The alleged acts underlying 19 of the Articles took place before the Attorney General’s most recent election and were highly publicized.”
“The unchallenged article against Paxton is related to the $3.3 million lawsuit settlement he reached with whistleblowers who were fired from his office after reporting Paxton to law enforcement for bribery and other alleged wrongdoing. The House’s investigation into Paxton began earlier this year, after he asked the Legislature to pay for the lawsuit settlement.”
“Under rules previously adopted by the Senate, rulings on pretrial motions are expected to be made on the opening day of the trial before opening statements. Approval of a majority of senators is required to dismiss an article of impeachment.”
“Yellow Corp., a 99-year-old trucking company that was once a dominant player in its field, halted operations Sunday and will lay off all 30,000 of its workers.”
“The unionized company has been in a battle with the Teamsters union, which represents about 22,000 drivers and dock workers at the company.”
“Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising. Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry,” said Teamsters President Sean O’Brien in a statement.”
“Experts in the field said it was primarily an unaffordable amount of debt, more than the cost of the union contract, that did in Yellow.”
“The Teamsters had made a series of painful concessions that brought them close to wage parity with nonunion carriers,” said Tom Nightingale, CEO of AFS Logistics, a third-party logistics firm that places about $11 billion worth of freight annually with different trucking companies on behalf of shippers. He said the company began taking on significant amount of debt 20 years ago in order to acquire other trucking companies.”
“The closing is bad news not only for its employees and its customers, who generally used Yellow because it offered some of the cheapest rates in the trucking sector, but also for US taxpayers. The company received a $700 million loan from the federal government in 2020, a loan that resulted in taxpayers holding 30% of its outstanding stock. And the company still owed the Treasury department more than $700 million according to its most recently quarterly report, nearly half of the long-term debt on its books.”
“The company had received that loan during the pandemic, despite the fact that at the time it was facing charges of defrauding the government by overbilling on shipments of items for the US military. The company eventually settled the dispute without admitting wrongdoing but was forced to pay a $6.85 million fine.”
Pogo……I beg to differentize……..it’s the blind clock which catches no squirrels.
“This week’s full moon is also called the “sturgeon moon” because it occurs around the time of year that, historically, indigenous populations found the large freshwater fish were easily caught in the Great Lakes, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Stateside, you can best catch a glimpse of the sturgeon supermoon after sunset Tuesday, looking toward the southeast.”
“The August 30 super blue moon will reach its peak at 9:36 p.m. ET, according to the almanac. The celestial orb will also be visible the night of August 31, local weather conditions allowing.”
“A tweet from the account of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday used language that many observers say evokes the known Nazi hate symbol “1488.”
I know he’s running as a Dem, but I honestly think Orange Adolf would pick him as a running mate.
“The largest school district in Texas announced that it will eliminate libraries…Houston independent school district announced it will convert libraries across its 28 schools for the “new education system” initiative led by superintendent Mike Miles.
“The converted libraries will be called Team Centers “which are designed for students to continue working – individually or in teams – throughout the school day”, said Joseph Sam, a spokesperson from the school district.”
“You cannot have a situation where you are closing libraries for some schools in certain neighbourhoods and there are other neighbourhoods where there are libraries, fully equipped,” he said during a speech at a Houston city council meeting on Wednesday, Houston Public Media reported.”
billions of individual cellphones in people’s pockets and zero indisputable footage of “aliens”
i swear i can’t handle how idiotic my contemporaries are
Oh, and the same goes for ghosts.
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lest we forget the senate also frozen in time. whether by mitch or tubby, take your pick and veep wannabe names a few others at Nikki Haley suggests Mitch McConnell should step aside amid health concerns | Republicans | The Guardian
Attribution: Levers of Power by Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY
dana milbank also touched upon the wackiness last week in his
Opinion | Aliens are among us — and they want to impeach Biden – The Washington Post
I am getting the feeling the greedy old perverts are willing to toss mitch overboard but only by including Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, etc. Somehow the deal smells.
But the issue of a lot of old people in the Congress hanging around until it is too late, so far no one has croaked in the Well, but that could happen, is real. I have read several articles regarding this but all of those have missed the one and main point of why it happens. They bounce around medical care and luxury life, and skip the biggy. The medical care, luxury life are nothing compared to be one of the most powerful people in America. There are one hundred powerful people in the Senate. There are four hundred thirty-five powerful people in the House. There is one very powerful person in the White House. Power is a mighty thing and giving it up is not easy.
Chasjing invisible rabbits like UFOs and Hunter’s laptop pretty much all the GOP can do now that real issues like the economy, crime and the border aren’t what they used to be.
BB, their cut off line seems to be at 80 since they conveniently leave out donny knocking at that door at 77. dementia can come to some much earlier than others as well as original stupidity and psychosis.
Good news for the universe lovers among us
Hark While I croon a verse
In praise Of the universe.
The universe is quite good-sized,
And is, I think, well organized,
Containing as it does, a slew
Of stars and planets. Comets too Occasionally whiz about
And dodge and circle in and out
Among the clustered nebulae.
They scare the dickens out of me,
But I suppose they know their stuff
And are expert and quick enough
To keep from bumping or colliding With other worlds. But I’m residing At present on the planet, earth,
And it does not arouse my mirth
To see these reckless comets fly
Around as if they owned the sky.
It’s much too dangerous in a crowd, And really shouldn’t be allowed.
Yet tho there’s nothing to prevent
Bad manners in the firmament,
The heavenly bodies, generally,
Are well behaved and courteously
Avoid all quarrels and disputes-
Tho when they have them, they are beauts.
As to the universe’s size,
It’s rather large than otherwise, Containing stars and galaxies
And satellites of all degrees.
And some are dim and some are bright, But all are lighted up at night,-
Mostly along the Milky Way-
A quite remarkable display.
Some scientific fellows hope By peering
thru a telescope To chart the heavens and name each star Of all the billions that there are.
More sensible I think it is Just to sit back and let them whiz
Along on their accustomed track Around and round the zodiac.
For since they are not bothering me
I think it’s best to let them be.
And that is all I have to say
About the universe today.
—The Poems of Freddy the Pig By Walter Brooks
Freddy the Pig was resident poet of Bean’s Farm, up around Roxbury, NY.
Bonus Fun: Mr Brooks also wrote Mr Ed. Apparently he had a thing about animals who were able to converse intelligently. with humans.
He seems to have missed Francis The Talking Mule but still
I’d wager that when he was a kid there was a mule on the property.
I know, I know……even a broken record is right twice a day ….,
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Sturg, I think you’re referring to a broken clock.
Soooo, Fani is definitely going to drop a dime on ol’ Dumbass in the next few weeks if I’m reading the tea leaves correctly. I don’t think ““Some people may not be happy with the decisions that I’m making, and sometimes, when people are unhappy, they act in a way that could create harm,” is referring to Democrats if she doesn’t charge SFB.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/31/texas-federal-courts-conservative-takeover-cornyn-abbott/
“Part 1: In 1998, a legal revolution was quietly born in Texas. It would pull America’s courts rightward.”
“It’s hard to imagine today, as the Texas Office of the Attorney General constantly pours lighter fluid onto the culture war bonfires, but 25 years ago, it was a relatively quiet agency that mostly collected child support and defended the state in bureaucratic lawsuits. The office could be a political launching pad, but as for the work itself, “months and even years will go by without the AG making a big splash in the Texas political pond,” Texas Monthly wrote around that time.”
“The office was so quiet, pundits couldn’t understand why John Cornyn would give up his seat on the Texas Supreme Court to run for attorney general in 1998.”
“Part 2: Texas backlash to Obama fueled conservative drive to reinterpret U.S. Constitution.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/31/ken-paxton-dismiss-articles-impeachment/
“Lawyers for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton requested Monday that all but one of 20 articles of impeachment be dismissed, arguing his removal would “override the will of the people” who elected him with knowledge of his alleged misconduct.”
“In a separate filing to the court of impeachment, Paxton’s team also requested that his trial before the Texas Senate exclude any evidence of “any alleged conduct” that occurred prior to January 2023, when his third term in office began.”
“With only a single exception, the articles (of impeachment) allege nothing that Texas voters have not heard from the Attorney General’s political opponents for years,” Paxton’s team wrote. “The alleged acts underlying 19 of the Articles took place before the Attorney General’s most recent election and were highly publicized.”
“The unchallenged article against Paxton is related to the $3.3 million lawsuit settlement he reached with whistleblowers who were fired from his office after reporting Paxton to law enforcement for bribery and other alleged wrongdoing. The House’s investigation into Paxton began earlier this year, after he asked the Legislature to pay for the lawsuit settlement.”
“Under rules previously adopted by the Senate, rulings on pretrial motions are expected to be made on the opening day of the trial before opening statements. Approval of a majority of senators is required to dismiss an article of impeachment.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/business/yellow-corp-closing/index.html
“Yellow Corp., a 99-year-old trucking company that was once a dominant player in its field, halted operations Sunday and will lay off all 30,000 of its workers.”
“The unionized company has been in a battle with the Teamsters union, which represents about 22,000 drivers and dock workers at the company.”
“Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising. Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government. This is a sad day for workers and the American freight industry,” said Teamsters President Sean O’Brien in a statement.”
“Experts in the field said it was primarily an unaffordable amount of debt, more than the cost of the union contract, that did in Yellow.”
“The Teamsters had made a series of painful concessions that brought them close to wage parity with nonunion carriers,” said Tom Nightingale, CEO of AFS Logistics, a third-party logistics firm that places about $11 billion worth of freight annually with different trucking companies on behalf of shippers. He said the company began taking on significant amount of debt 20 years ago in order to acquire other trucking companies.”
“The closing is bad news not only for its employees and its customers, who generally used Yellow because it offered some of the cheapest rates in the trucking sector, but also for US taxpayers. The company received a $700 million loan from the federal government in 2020, a loan that resulted in taxpayers holding 30% of its outstanding stock. And the company still owed the Treasury department more than $700 million according to its most recently quarterly report, nearly half of the long-term debt on its books.”
“The company had received that loan during the pandemic, despite the fact that at the time it was facing charges of defrauding the government by overbilling on shipments of items for the US military. The company eventually settled the dispute without admitting wrongdoing but was forced to pay a $6.85 million fine.”
Pogo……I beg to differentize……..it’s the blind clock which catches no squirrels.
https://apnews.com/article/pee-wee-herman-paul-reubens-dead-616484f62a62c4ac3e0cc46b02376dd8
RIP Pee Wee
Oh, sturg, of course. I (and my clock) stand corrected – until 9:23.
Tubby screwed Space Command for Alabama. Too bad. I’m glad for my new home state.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/world/supermoon-sturgeon-full-moon-2023-scn/index.html
Sturg!
“This week’s full moon is also called the “sturgeon moon” because it occurs around the time of year that, historically, indigenous populations found the large freshwater fish were easily caught in the Great Lakes, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Stateside, you can best catch a glimpse of the sturgeon supermoon after sunset Tuesday, looking toward the southeast.”
“The August 30 super blue moon will reach its peak at 9:36 p.m. ET, according to the almanac. The celestial orb will also be visible the night of August 31, local weather conditions allowing.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tweet_n_64c3fab7e4b021e2f29310ba
“A tweet from the account of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday used language that many observers say evokes the known Nazi hate symbol “1488.”
I know he’s running as a Dem, but I honestly think Orange Adolf would pick him as a running mate.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-school-district-libraries-detention-centres-b2384727.html
“The largest school district in Texas announced that it will eliminate libraries…Houston independent school district announced it will convert libraries across its 28 schools for the “new education system” initiative led by superintendent Mike Miles.
“The converted libraries will be called Team Centers “which are designed for students to continue working – individually or in teams – throughout the school day”, said Joseph Sam, a spokesperson from the school district.”
“You cannot have a situation where you are closing libraries for some schools in certain neighbourhoods and there are other neighbourhoods where there are libraries, fully equipped,” he said during a speech at a Houston city council meeting on Wednesday, Houston Public Media reported.”
billions of individual cellphones in people’s pockets and zero indisputable footage of “aliens”
i swear i can’t handle how idiotic my contemporaries are
Oh, and the same goes for ghosts.
NEW THREAD