Quote from: Skeptik on February 03, 2014, 05:18:10 AMOG, I hope the anal probe wasn't too uncomfortable.
I've heard they can be a bitch. ;D
From my experience it depends on the aliens. Most aliens from the milky way are kind enough to lube. Those from Bootes I. galaxy can be quite rough.
Aha. Here we have the stump of a thread that was mostly lost in the database problem of 2015. I was using the HAF search function for "aliens" and this came up. A couple of usernames to conjure with. Then there's
SSY and
Crow and the list continues . . .
Anyway, a reminder of what sort of individual can get elected to high office in the United States, as if it were required. :sadshake:
"Disgraced ex-GOP rep claims US has a secret 'alien hybrid breeding program'" |
Raw Story (https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-aliens)
QuoteFormer Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made an eyebrow-raising claim on air with a far-right talk show host: the U.S. government is not only covering up the existence of extraterrestrials, but breeding them.
Gaetz told Benny Johnson that he received this information from an official briefing.
"I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication," said Gaetz, in a clip flagged (https://xcancel.com/interstellaruap/status/2039041136254243119) by a social media channel following alien conspiracy theories. "An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that."
He went on to say that the humans who were "abducted from war zones" and even from "migrant caravans" were forced by the government to interbreed with space aliens and that crash sites of unidentified aerial phenomena often contain evidence of "non-human biologics."
Gaetz did not provide evidence to substantiate that this conversation happened, and did not clarify why he didn't make this public while he was a member of Congress.
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Yes, the USA elects some real wieners, but it's not as if no other country elects unqualified wackadoos. Under the current regime though, the executive branch also appoints people who have absolutely no business anywhere near the levers of power. Sure, the repulsive greasy knob "Secretary of War" Hegseth. Actually still officially the Secretary of Defense, but Trump likes war despite campaigning as committed to peace, so . . . There's also the dirtbag loon Kennedy Jr. who's made it his mission to degrade the health of the country by various means, empowered as the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Some are just outright delusional and apparently that's just fine as long as they assiduously kiss the rotten toad king's arse. See for instance:
"Top Trump FEMA Official Continues to Claim He's Being Teleported By God" |
Common Dreams (https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fema-official-teleporting)
QuoteThe man appointed by President Donald Trump to lead America's disaster recovery will not stop talking about teleportation. It's leading many people to question whether he's fit for the job.
Even before this past week, many concerns had already been raised about Gregg Phillips, who Trump tapped as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in December.
But he did have qualifications that are evidently more important to the second Trump administration: a long history of echoing the president's baseless claims about election fraud, including that millions of noncitizens illegally voted in 2016 and that an elaborate operation involving ballot stuffing "mules" helped former President Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020.
Because Phillips was a presidential appointee, Congress was not given the opportunity to scrutinize these statements or others he's made, including his description of himself as a "very vocal opponent of FEMA," the very agency he was chosen to help lead. Nor did it have the opportunity to examine accusations that he directed millions in government contracts to his own personal businesses and associates while working in the Texas and Mississippi governments.
But months into his tenure, Phillips is finally getting some attention for comments he made on multiple podcasts, in which he claimed to have been involuntarily "teleported," including to a Waffle House in Georgia.
[. . .]
Given the enormity of FEMA's responsibility, especially with the climate crisis increasing the number of billion-dollar disasters in the US in recent years, Phillips' tenuous grasp on the fabric of reality has led some to worry that the agency is in suboptimal hands.
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we appear to get the government we ask for, though.
there was a discussion around the dispatch table the other morning where i work, as the drivers were picking up their assignments for the day.
the question one had was who we were threatening to bomb: iraq or iran? the driver didnt know the difference.
another driver had never heard of nuclear fallout, and asked me if what i meant was chemtrails. which he had heard of.
Man, that is industrial grade ignorance. You educated them, right? At least a little?
it would be an endless task. the other day one driver asked me about bald eagles. he was under the impression that they were immortal and periodically lost their feathers and beak and regenerated their entire bodies, giving them another lifetime. another recently asked me to explain what a hypothetical question was.
people dont like to be educated or corrected, as it implies that they dont know what theyre talking about. the fact that they really might NOT know what theyre talking about is secondary to their reluctance to acknowedging ignorance. if i contradict every error i hear i merely anger people.
so im circumspect about what i say, dont use sentences that contain too many multisyllabic words, and just look for the tipping points.
i suppose this sounds arrogant, but its the reality of the world i work in.
I know plenty of people like that. I worked 15 years in assembly of spacecraft. One would think that all the people working in such an environment would be pretty smart. Nope. I did spend about 10 years in antenna engineering. A lot of really smart people, PhDs everywhere. In the Navy and afterwards until I graduated uni, a period covering 11 years, again, lots of willfully ineducable people.
that "willfully" is an important characteristic, i think.
i cant help but learn things just by existing. i take a walk along the road with the dog and i see things i never noticed before and they go into the hopper for processing. later on that information might be linked up with something else to make a connection, if i can retrieve it. learning things is involuntary, but i take willful effort to encourage the retrieval and cross-referencing as a conscious skill.
but lots of people i know dont have an interest in taking any effort, for a variety of reasons. some of them are deer-in-the-headlights people, but others with more brains just dont have an interest in expanding their comprehension of the world. they remain ignorant of things i see around them, and are comfortable that way.
thats a choice they make that has consequences. one of them is that they are more easily duped by people who do educate themselves, but are interested in using that skill in deceiving people.
im thinking of the american fox news, for example. someone asserted to me the other day that you cant trust any media sources to tell you the truth, which of course is what you hear from the ones that lie. i pointed out that bias was universal, but actual lies were not so common. the example i used was fox news, who have recently lost a defamation case in which they were found guilty of lying, and it cost them $787 million. they were ignorant of the judgement, and had no interest in assessing its implications for them.
as a result, fox news still has some level of authoritative status in their minds that it does not deserve. fox lies to them, and they are willfully led by the nose.
Sad. That's the demographic who will use horse parasite medicine and bleach to kill Covid...and many times, themselves. That and accepting a know-nothing like RFK Jr as a person of authority in medicine.
I've been calling it Faux News for decades, btw. :D
in fact, the individual that i was talking to about lies in the media has been trying to locate a reliable source for ivermectin.
Yikes. It was in a movie(?), "Life's tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid".