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Wait. Didn’t Trump say he was going to share what the government knows about aliens and UFOs? I seem to remember him saying that and me thinking that was about the only thing about him I could get behind.

Then again, I might have dreamed it. I have a lot of dreams involving aliens.

Speaking of space (UFOs, aliens and the such) I just learned of the existence of the thinking housewife. That article is depressing to read. Considering how much I love learning about astronomy, especially since dabbling into astrophotography.

Thought she was a troll.. but it seems like she’s trying out for a real world version of Serena Joy.

@ Weirwoodtreehugger,

I was just discussing this with other people. And since I’m not really into these things, this is off the top of my head, trying to recall other things I read as well.

What I heard, or read, or whatever, is that Jimmy Carter was told something in the first few days he was president that “made him cry”. And, from what I have read of him, he must’ve been pretty strong of mind to be both a farmer, and nuclear engineer. In the military. So what would make him cry?

This may or may not have to do with UFOs. I read that he saw a UFO once. And reported it. Another indication of being a strong minded person, willing to risk his own reputation, wants to be honest and follow through. And that was many years before he was president?

So what would someone tell him that would “make him cry” ? What could it be?

And that’s all I really know about that. Read some few things here and there about it. And probably concluded that “it” had to do with something along the lines of, – you’re just a figurehead and big money rules the world, you answer to us.

But then again, you’d think an intelligent man, who’d by then been in gov and politics for years – would’ve known that.

So what was “it” then?

On the topic of UFOs, – hey, it’s still kind of like Halloween, right? And I am not at all mocking people who believe in these things. I have met several people myself who claimed to have seen things.

And there was a UFO in Chgo once? Right over the one airport? That I had to read more about! Plenty of people saw it, too. And it was widely reported, made the international news.

And then I was distracted by something else, I don’t know much about these things. Hopefully I’m not “coming off the wrong way” here, when people tell me things, I believe them.

Anyway, UFOs. I am skeptical, but if JC (Jimmy Carter, not made up Jeeziz or JC Penney), – if he says so (he saw something), I believe him.

I was never much into this stuff, nor “space” things, I did study sci in school too. Applied sci anyway, make things. Was never much into “that stuff”. And from what I did see of sci fi, – this has to do with sci, how? Most of it is just soap operas set in “space”. They could set the same story in a laundromat, be the same thing.

Space what now? Or instructions on how to build a spacecraft similar? No, there’s none, it’s about people in angsty situations, much stress and drama, hero saves the day.

Back to the UFOs again. I read something lately that did intrigue me, – the idea that these are not from outer space, rather inner space. And they might be some kind of monitoring devices. This is an intriguing idea……

But why? OK someone told me there was a UFO seen over a Chicago airport. I looked it up, there are multiple reports of this and legit news stories.

What was it?

I think “spies” can be crossed off because any foreign country can just – land their planes their. And there are high altitude planes flying around right now.

Strange theories I saw, like “Middle Earth Dwellers”, – well, same ideas apply. If they want to look around, and intelligent enough to build things, they’re going to make a plane that fits right in at any airport, they’re not going to expose themselves.

Unless they want to. And, all of this might be something….else.

But what?

Monitoring devices?

This idea intrigues me.

But I also just came up with an explanation for that too – what if they just tell you that to scare you? What if they know exactly what it all is? And then that would go back to exotic spy planes.

One possibility. Without a clear explanation it can be anything.

I’d like to know what it was that made a nuclear engineer and military veteran cry though…..

Right now the tough chamber to get nasty stuff through is the Senate anyway, where the R majority is razor-thin and they keep having handfuls of defections.

@Z&T:

But why? OK someone told me there was a UFO seen over a Chicago airport. I looked it up, there are multiple reports of this and legit news stories.

What was it?

Weather balloon.

Ooh — unfortunate wording in this headline:

Roy Moore continues to deny mounting allegations

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/roy-moore-statement/index.html

@Haise

What . . . What on Earth?

God gave men galaxies and distant planets and asteroids to compensate them for the misfortune — and unfairness — of never being able to become mothers. Outer Space takes their minds off the unfairness of it all, something women have been kind enough to recognize in the past by not denying those who have dreamed of being astronauts since they were little boys of the chance to experience the “vomit comet.”

Whatisthisidonteven.

I’m sincerely surprised I’ve now read something sillier on the web than today’s anti-active SETI screed on BGR. Mind you, I don’t expect much from any text that includes the term, “space cadet”, but very seldom does one get such a mixture of ignorance and bitterness outside Steam user reviews of new Call of Duty titles.

What’s really funny about the whole thing is that the author later disclosed in the comments that:

I didn’t mean to suggest, except facetiously, that women should have no interest in astronomy and aeronautics or that there should be absolutely no female astronauts.

Remember kids: Simply hand waving imbecilic statements away with the magic cleaner of, “it’s satire!” instantly makes everything better again! For similar products, please see, “bless their heart” and, “God love ’em“.

@weirwoodtreehugger
The Men in Black won’t allow him to disclose the existence of aliens. That’s why they covered up the Ross 128 signal made earlier this year!

@Tovius
That’s actually a depressingly common occurrence. The Moon and Venus (and perhaps an unhealthy amount of alcohol) account for the majority of UFO sightings.

Agent J used the Neuralizer on Trump many years ago and implanted a memory to replace the reality of aliens staying at Trump Tower (because only aliens would dig so much marble and gold amirite?) with a bid to seek the presidency. It’ll be hilarious, he told K, they’ll laugh over sometime over Chinese dine in, he said.

Agent K did not find it funny at all.

@Axe Oh, nitpick away. I’m cheerfully willing to rip all assumptions to shreds, this being 2017. I want to toss in the dumpster and burn the idea that politicians all have to follow the same life script (heterosexual, wife + kids, church every Sunday) in order for voters to be reassured that they’re the best and brightest of their district. We need to start breaking that mold in every way possible. I’m so sick of old white dudes.

But which is, like, the exact opposite. (Usually young, urban, brown) singles are the ones who’re actually in favor of things that help families. (Older, white, suburban/rural) married people only care about policies that will help their family. Especially if it can come at the expense of families they don’t approve of

If anything, singles have more time and energy to devote to caring about big-picture issues that affect everybody. Having kids doesn’t make you myopic, exactly, but boy does it ever sap your energy and force you to pick your battles. I’ve heard that in India, single politicians are viewed as much less prone to corruption and nest-feathering than their married counterparts, so it’s actually an advantage.

@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
I only just remembered that remaining single (or at least providing the illusion of such) was a widely publicized trait among old fascist leaders like Hitler and Mussolini. So great was their dedication to the fatherland that they did not have time for significant others and emotional attachment!

Mind you, there was also one U.S. president that remained a lifelong bachelor: James Buchanan, otherwise best known for palming off the American Civil War to his successor.

Given the track record of single world leaders from my adequate sampling of their population, clearly the answer is not to elect married *or* single presidents. Ideally, nations should have their leaders married to multiple people at the same time.

@PV

Not the crying, but the killer rabbits! ;p I’ll let shadowplay tell the story, unless they want to tell us that the monty python skit is *not* based on jimmy carter. Then they’re just lying.

@mrex

But the rabbit had fangs!

Worse! It was baring it’s fangs and hissing!!

@PeeVee –

Alas, no. Steinbeck is far too good for politics.
It was a foolish little incident towards the end of Carter’s term. He was “attacked” by a swamp rabbit (no, I’ve never heard of one either) while fishing from a boat. His staff at the WH sort of didn’t believe him, so he had enlargements made of a photo the photographer had taken. Quite indignant about it, Carter was. Not only having trouble with a rabbit, but the whole “staff not believing him” thing pissed him off too, since he wasn’t having an easy go of the Presidency around that time.

Of course, Washington being a shithole, the story got out and the Post (not exactly friendly to Carter) ran the tale, complete with a spoof of the classic Jaws poster. Carter got pissed and refused to release the photos (they were released by Reagan in a bit of a shitty move after the election). Since Monty Python and the Holy Grail had just come out in the US, the killer rabbit scene got tied in as well.

The 70’s were a VERY strange time. I do prefer their scandals though.

😀
It’s about the only thing I can remember from the Carter era – he didn’t get much coverage here in the UK and we had troubles of our own.

Well – I remember one other thing. He had a brother, Billy, who was a little, um, colourful. A right chancer and opportunist. Revell released a model kit of Billy Carter’s truck. Saw that in a model shop I used to drop by in, I think, 1978 😛

Of course, since Carter’s term finished he’s pretty much cemented his rep in my mind as a really good person and a definite class act.

PeeVee:

I didn’t get that anyone was making fun of Jimmy Carter as being unmanly at all, but was wondering what government secret was so awful, it made him cry.

“Mr President, we have black sites in a number of countries, secret prisons, where we send people, without trial, to be tortured, sometimes to death”. Something like that sounds more plausible to me than “omg aliens”. Or perhaps something about medical experiments: the country which conducted the Tuskegee syphilis experiment may have got up to all kinds of heinous shit which still remains secret.