Monday, November 12, 2018

Dialing For Destruction



Just set that dial, load, drop and -- boom or BOOOM!


I was joking around with someone about a bad 1960s sci-fi novel called “The Day They H-Bombed  Los Angeles” by Robert Moore Williams.  Who was bombing LA?  While our government, of course, trying to contain a plague caused by a rogue protein molecule turning humans into howling zombies.  But our hero and his friends live to tell the tale after the City of Angels is H-Bombed three – count 'em – three times.

I joked the government must have been using low-yield H-Bombs.

And while I was Googling to see what was out there for low-yield A-Bombs I came across a reference to variable yield or dial-a-yield nukes.  Some nukes can be adjusted before they're loaded on bombers.  There was the Mod-10 B61 bomb that had four dial settings: 0.3, 5, 10 or 80 kilotons.

So what would happen if the technician setting the dial was upset, the-wife-had-a-headache-last-night scenario?  The dial is supposed to be at its lowest yield but the technician says screw it, ramps it up to 80 kilotons.

Dialing for destruction.  The greatest idea since the neutron bomb that would slaughter people but leave buildings standing.

A Quiet Place: Aw, C'mon!



Pile it on!


Sometimes I skip to the end of a book or movie to see if it's going to be worth my time to eXperience the whole thing.

But some people say, “How can you enjoy a fictional work if you know the ending?”  Simple.  I've always been interested in writing fiction – never been published – and along the way I've learned how a work is constructed.  I can enjoy fiction on another level, seeing how well it was put together.

The film A Quiet Place had a great premise: blind aliens have invaded our planet and they can only detect human victims through sound.  Make a noise and you're dead.

I did notice that these carnivorous critters with their blindness can run around all over, at one point panically racing away in a beeline, without slamming into trees or and other objects.   They even don't even slip on something like Little Johnny's damn skateboard left in the driveway or one of Curt Collins' banana peels.  But let's leave that aside.

I watched about the first third of the movie then skipped to the ending.  OK, the ending works.  So then I watch the middle part.  Uh-oh.

I hate crisis clustering, everything happening at once to all the characters.  It's just unbelievable that most characters survive three or four threats at the same time.  The kids are missing.  Their father is searches for them, monsters prowling the cornfields.  Unfortunately Lassie isn't around to tell him the poor kids fell into a grain silo, trapped.  (With all that annoying barking Lassie produced she was probably one of the first ones to become a monster meal.)  Meanwhile back at the ranch mother and baby are being stalked by a hungry space critter.  And wombats are rampaging across Wisconsin!

This is compound melodrama, putting the characters in such impossible situations, threats in all directions.   Save the kids, save the mom, and get those freakin' wombats out of Wisconsin!

Sorry but I don't buy it.  A good story doesn't need a danger pileup to build suspense.

My place wasn't quiet as I watch the disappointing middle part.  Guffaws and scorn permeated the air.  Technically a well made movie, good acting and direction, but the distended middle didn't work.

Monday, September 17, 2018

Opposing Viewpoints



Besides this blog I also have an ezine that includes posts from here with the addition of a letters column.  In the last issue -- Ray X X-Rayer #141 -- Bob Jennings (Fadeaway zine) wrote in his LOC some negative comments regarding Dr. Robin Wright.  Robin is known for submitting dense philosophical essays addressing science fiction symbolism.  Below is Robin's email to me which includes Bob Jennings' criticism.

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Subject: Sick and not a doctor   
robin usher<robika2001@yahoo.co.uk>
Attachment - Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 9:43 PM
To: raypalmx@gmail.com


Hi, I wrote to Robert asking him to retract these remarks that somehow found their way into what at first sight seemed a fairly innocuous letter to X - Ray # 141.
However, he wrote that it was his opinion, although I've never written anything remotely approaching this as a summarization of my writing, '... evil womankind is corrupting the human race and destroying civilization.' I'm appending a letter so that the readers of X - Ray can make up their own minds, if that's acceptable to you?

Dr Robin Bright PhD

(NOTE FROM RAY: What follows is Bob Jennings' LOC comment Bright reprinted in his email.  He didn't indicate the source.)

'“Dr”. Robin Bright sent a lot of articles to me years ago, hoping to get something in my fanzine Fadeaway. Needless to say I accepted nothing he wrote. I think the guy is a genuine nut case. Everything he ever writes, no matter how well it starts out, quickly turns into a tirade about “women’s seed”, and how evil womankind is corrupting the human race and destroying civilization. The stuff is not unintentionally humorous; it’s just sick and sad, and not even logically written either. I admit I was shocked when one of his articles appeared in one of John Purcell’s fanzines. I’m glad John has since repented that rash decision and has disassociated himself from “Dr.” Bright.'


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(And this is what Bright wrote in his attached doc file:)

Robert Jennings of Fadeaway suggested I was sick, and not a doctor, in a letter to X –Ray, # 141, September, 2018. I don’t want to be sick, and I take exception to being told that this summarizes what I write, '... evil womankind is corrupting the human race and destroying civilization.' (p. 4) Moreover, I think that English is a beautiful language, and I don’t want it to be plain. However, this is as plain as I can make it, without being a muzzle ‘em:


Flesh Fiction 

Bartholomew made a stab at what appeared to be a large fat sausage on his plate. Moving aside what looked like a couple of large potatoes, he made another stab at the apparent sausage, `Phew! It`d be difficult for the woman to sexually reproduce human brains without her penis.` Bartholomew chewed on fully thoughtful.

Robin Bright


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In a follow-up email Robin Bright wrote:

Subject: "Dr"
robin usher

Hi Ray, although I studied Human Biology (O) at school, it wasn't to the level of a Professorial chair. I quite understand your decision not to publish an article. Please, go ahead and publish my letter.

Robin Bright

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Information about Robin Bright can be found here.


Friday, September 07, 2018

Strung Along With QAnon


Image by D. Marshall


Unelected governmental officials really control the US, lurking in the background, evil, nebulous.  The Deep State.  Out to get Trump.

Yeah, right.  I've heard it all before.  Communists, the Illuminati, whatever, boogeymen striking fear in the hearts and minds of non-critical thinkers.

But have no fear -- QAnon is here.

QAnon followers showed up at a Trump rally, proudly displaying their "Q" signs.  So far no bigots unaware of what the Q symbolizes have attacked any of these sign-holders, driven by homophobic rage.  The Q refers to Q-level clearance with the Department of Energy, i.e. top secret clearance.  The Anon is short for Anonymous.

QAnon's beliefs are all based on material shared first posted in October 2017 on the 4chan image-board site where a poster can hide his identity.  An anonymous poster or group referred to itself as Q with the inference that the items of  information being shared -- "bread crumbs" --  originated from someone in the intelligence community.

QAnon is dedicated to protecting Trump from the Deep State.  But there's an unique twist to its version of reality.  Special counsel Robert Mueller, Department of Justice, seems to be investigating Trump for any collusion with Russia but appearances are deceptive.  The truth is Mueller is on Trump's side, secretly looking for criminal evidence on Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama.

The QAnon followers are the same type of true believers who thought Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor in Washington, DC was a front for Hillary's child trafficking operation. In December 2016 Edgar Maddison Welch from North Carolina -- wielding a semi-automatic rifle -- entered the eatery as part of his personal investigation into "Pizzagate."  He fired a few shots but no one was injured.  The police arrested him and he is now serving a four year prison sentence.

Welch stated that he wanted to stop children from suffering, adding he was mistaken in his belief regarding the fantasy of the child sex ring.

So will QAnon lead to similar "mistakes?"  It already has happened.

There was an incident last summer in Arizona. QAnon believer Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer occupyied a cement plant he suspected being the front for another child sex-trafficking operation.  Previously he reported to police that a homeless encampment was the site of a trafficking ring but they found nothing, So the next month he occupied a cement plant tower for nine days.  He left after police again found no evidence of any trafficking operation.  But Meyer came back to the plant and this second trespass led to his arrest.  No mention of weapons or any violence.

But a second incident in Arizona was more problematic.   A QAnon follower named Matthew Phillip Wright (don't any of these guys only have a first and last name?) blocked the southbound lanes at the Hoover Dam bridge with his semi-armored truck.  Armed with a rifle he stood outside his vehicle displaying a sign: "Release the OIG report."  This apparently referred to a purported Office of the Inspector General second hidden report on former FBI director James Comey's activities, the released report concealing the truth, Wright was later taken into custody with no one being hurt.

QAnon believers suffer from delusional gullibility.  How bad is it?  One time Trump mentioned the number 17 a few times in a speech, supposedly his coded acknowledgement of Q.  You see Q is the seventeenth letter in the alphabet.

So how's your reality?

Monday, September 03, 2018

Do White Supremacists Hate Gray Aliens?





A Trump supporter told me: "It doesn't matter what happens.  Everything is going to fall apart anyway."

I hardly ever watch Fox News, Trump's favorite TV "news" channel.  At times FN will make a false statement and the "president" will repeat it.  I have enough bullshit in my life, thank you.

But the other night I was flipping through 100+ cable channels for something worthwhile to watch when I caught mention of alien abduction on one of FN's talking heads programs.  The Miami Herald endorsed a GOP primary candidate who ran for a Florida House seat despite revealing she had been abducted as a child by aliens and was still in telepathic contact with them. The candidate, Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, lost the nomination.

The Greg Gutfeld Show -- which features the cackling host and his guests discussing topical issues -- had focused on this item.  This show is known for its "comedic" take on the news. http://video.foxnews.com/v/5829821171001/?#sp=show-clips



There was a purported comedy piece showing three animated gray aliens illuminated with brilliant backlighting slowly walking towards the viewer.  They shared their thoughts, saying they found Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera to be a charming person.  Then they added they were looking forward to invading Earth and devouring humans "skull by skull."  I imagine an alien monitoring Earth communications said to itself: "These hairless apes are still too dumb to contact. No gut laughs with Gutfeld."

Only two guests found nothing wrong with the candidates strange beliefs.  Terry Schappert, United States Army National Guard Special Forces veteran, said he had no problems as long as the candidate -- "this gal" -- supported Republican goals such lowering taxes, doing away with government regulation, and supporting a strong national defense. (He didn't mention other glorious Republican goals such as killing off "useless eaters" who can't afford health insurance and stopping those "uppity Negro" football players from kneeling during the national anthem in protest to racism.)

The host Greg Gutfeld had the last word, explaining why they were no aliens out there.  In a serious tone he said other extraterrestrial civilizations had followed mankind's path to extinction.  As he kept looking down at his notes he stated a civilization would evolve on another planet, developing technology to the point that artificial intelligence took other and eliminated that civilization.  (Sounds like someone is a fan of the Terminator movies.)

His "reasoning" had one glaring flaw: Couldn't the AI overlords on other planets be contacting people on Earth?

Greg said in 200 years we would end up the same way, extinct.  This explains why people like him don't worry about pollution and climate change.  It's all going to fall apart anyway.

Monday, May 21, 2018

Chloe -- How Could You?



IMAGE: http://perezhilton.com/2017-11-09-smallville-actress-allison-mack-second-in-command-sex-cult-nxivm-report#.WwNmAUgvzIU


Actress Allison Mack -- or at least her Smallville character Chloe Sullivan -- appeared to be so innocent but independent.  That's why allegations about her sadistic involvement in a sex cult shocked me.

From what has been reported the path to her arrest began when she met Keith Raniere, leader of the group called Nxivm (pronounced BULL-shit.)  Apparently Raniere filled a need in Allison.  Despite her success in Smallville -- a TV series about young Clark Kent before he became Superman -- there was still something missing in her life.

Nxivm had different organizations under its aegis.  Allison first attended a seminar held by Jness which promoted itself as a women's empowerment movement that would bring personal growth to its members.

The story goes as part of her personal growth Allison would become Rainere's #2, running another organization called DOS, Dominus Obsequious Sororium, or Master Over Slave Women.  Allegedly Allison would recruit sex slaves into the cult to service Raniere. Prosecutors have reported that DOS recruits would be initiated by being held down as a cauterizing pen burned a brand into their skin, a symbol that combined the initials of both Raniere and Allison.

New York federal prosecutors indicted Rainere and Allison with felony counts including sex trafficking.

In one Smallville episode Chloe Sullivan became evil after being exposed to red kryptonite.  I would like to watch that episode again.  Maybe some of Allison's negative side was showing through.

After all each of us has a dark side.


Sources:

"How Did Smallville's Allison Mack Get Involved With A Sex Cult In The First Place?" | HuffPost

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-did-smallvilles-allison-mack-get-involved-with-a-sex-cult-in-the-first-place_us_5aff3222e4b0a046186b7fbb



"I Was Recruited by Allison Mack’s Sex Cult" By Rachel Goldberg

http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/i-was-recruited-for-allison-macks-sex-cult.html



"Her Darkest Role: Actress Allison Mack's Descent From 'Smallville' to Sex Cult"
by Scott Johnson, Rebecca Sun  May 16, 2018


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-smallvilles-allison-mack-went-actress-sex-cult-slaver-1112107


Bill Messner-Loebs Keeps Going Despite Another Setback


IMAGE By User:Meowwcat, Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17946160
Some creative people never have it easy.

Outlets for their work dry up.  And their own personal life -- not easy to begin with -- is compounded when the income they counted on is gone.

Bill Messner-Loebs is a writer/artist who had a good run in comics books with such titles as Wonder Woman, Thor and The Flash.  But the market changed, he was no longer in demand. Back in 2005 Bill and his wife were living in a motel, just getting by.  After the story about his situation became known fans rallied and he was able to get some more comic book work.

Bill had owned a home but his mother and wife became sick.  He was evicted when he couldn't keep up with the bills. 

But he got back on his feet, living in a mobile home in a nice trailer park for 15 years.  Then bad luck paid another call.  There was a gas leak in his mobile home that made it uninhabitable.

Bill and his wife found themselves homeless, living in their car. He has been working two part-time jobs to keep their heads above water.

If you can help you can donate at https://www.gofundme.com/billmessnerloebs.


Sources:

Comic Book Wife  TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2005

"smiling in the Face of Adversity" 

http://web.archive.org/web/20050331202721/http://comicbookwife.blogspot.com/2005/01/smiling-in-face-of-adversity.html


"Comic book artist worked on Wonder Woman & Thor, now homeless"  By: Derek Kevra     POSTED: MAR 27 2018 09:35AM EDT

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/one-armed-comic-book-artist-worked-on-wonder-woman-now-homeless-in-michigan



Sunday, April 15, 2018

Defending George Adamski


I asked myself: Are these comments for real?

Recently I had two comments posted at my blog regarding my article, George Adamski & Our Amazing CRT Solar System.  George was one of the most famous contactees of his time.  He claimed that on November 20, 1952 he met a Venusian visitor named Orthon in the Colorado Desert.  Instead of a many-tentacled monstrous blob Orthon looked human, his features the archetype of the Nordic alien.

George claimed he traveled to other planets in our solar system thanks to the Space Brothers.  In his third and final book, Flying Saucers Farewell, he explained how other planets far away from the sun were still hospitable, sunny and warm, due to the solar system acting like a cathode ray tube (CRT.)  It sounded like some inventive but wild rationalization for what he saw and what scientists had actually discovered.

Both commenters came to George's defense.  Maybe one or both are jokers, putting me on, but their comments provide an opportunity to further eXamine his claims.

Someone named Anonymous sent me this observation:

Orthon was not a "nordic" nor do such people exist as pushed in modern ufology. This is sloppy research and shows a lack of respect for the subject. He had sandy brown an olive complexion..that's not "nordic" in any way. Adamski's contacts came in all shapes, sizes and colors..just as people do on earth. Get your facts straight before posting on the internet.

That's odd.  Google the search terms "Orthon Nordic" and see what happens.

Anonymous continued with his snit:

Real proof can only come from personal experience, no amount of photos or film will ever count as "proof"..especially not today. That being said, the film and photos GA produced were the finest ever and have never been proven to be fakes. Those that have seen those same ships with their own eyes know the facts, those that have not..they only know what is on the internet..which is a sea of confused people who don't care enough about the topic to start at the beginning and employ basic human psychology. 

So here are examples of George's flying saucer photos, "the finest ever" in quality:



George's shot of a mothership birthing some baby flying saucers. 
(Oops, I meant saucers berthing the mothership.)



A thoughtful George Adamski and his iconic photo.

These images lack fine detail: they're kinda blurry.  Check out the close up of the circular craft with the three orbs projecting underneath as landing struts that George claimed he shot on December 13, 1952.  A German scientist explained the photo was faked using a combination of light bulbs and a surgical lamp.  Too bad the resolution isn't better to see whether or not his claim was right.

Then again I'm drowning in "a sea of confused people" on the internet.  

And here's this comment from someone with the handle Gloria Lynn:

I would of course disagree with the context of the negative view on Adamski and what he had to say. Consider that scientists are beginning to understand the universe as an electric universe which makes so much more sense than current accepted scientific theory. You also have people like Nassim Haramein making great strides in the theory of everything as a holotographic universe. It is best to keep an open mind. BTW, Dr. Ernest L. Norman never said it validates his astral visit to Venus. He has always contended that life exists in many different dimensional levels throughout the universe. "In my father's house, there are many mansions," as Jesus put it. 

That quote attributed to Jesus is generally interpreted as there is room for all of God's followers.  Nothing about other dimensional levels.

Holotographic universe?  Did you mean holographic universe, the theory that our 3d existance is a hologram of a 2D surface?  Proof?  Some scientists have found some evidence backing up that theory but I haven't heard of any definite proof.  Anyway I'm a pragmatist.  What difference does it make if I'm living in a holographic universe and when I stub my toe it still hurts like hell?

Sorry but I live in a dimensional level called reality.


Monday, February 26, 2018

A Ufoologist And His Money Soon Parted


 Investigative journalist Jaime Maussan and friend


     In the field of ufology there is a body of non-evidence regarding alien visitors to this world.  Actually it’s more appropriate to refer to bodies of non-evidence.

     Believers in ET visitors are so desperate for proof that they will believe in any alleged alien corpse that seemingly fell out of a flying saucer’s garbage chute.  And when such proof turns out to be bunk they say that the claim of a hoax is a hoax.  (Does that mean that a claim that a hoax is a hoax is itself another hoax?)

    The late great editor/writer Jim Moseley, perpetrator of the zine Saucer Smear, referred to the extreme believers as ufoologists.

     When researching tales of dead alien bodies the name Jaime Maussan pops up.  Maussan is a Mexican investigative journalist who critics say is too obsessed with UFOs and aliens.  Others call him a serial fraudster.  Along the way he’s repeatedly become involved in sensational media hoo-ha over the latest ET smoking gun.
     In the spring of 2013 someone came across a strange old Kodachrome slide.  He was amazed when the image was projected to see what appeared to be a dead alien inside a glass case.  Maybe this was one of the space aliens purportedly seen in the area of Roswell, New Mexico after a saucer purportedly crashed there in 1947.
     Kodak experts could find no signs of trickery with the slide.  They also said it was produced some time between 1945 and 1950, meaning it could have been used to photograph a Roswell crash corpse.
     Enter Jaime Maussan, the P.T. Barnum of ufoology.  He arranged the Be Witness event held in Mexico City to reveal to the world the Roswell slides.  Around 7,000 suckers – oops, I mean attendees – paid up to $86 a head to be part of the spectacle.
     But the placard blew the whole deal.
     Attached to the glass case seen in the slide was what appeared to be a sign but the lettering was too indistinct to read.  Using digital technology someone was able to decipher the blurry print.  The truth was revealed: the placard stated the body was the mummified remains of a two year old boy.
     Later the mummy of the Native American boy was traced to a museum in Colorado where the slide was taken.
     OK, if you can’t trust photos then actual physical evidence should do the trick.  That’s the approach Jaime Mussen took – repeatedly.
     Back in 2013 there was the case of the demon fairy “corpse” linked to a description in Revelations.  (It’s not the first time that ufoology overlapped the Bible and religion with aliens.)  A tiny dark brown body with wings, slender elongated arms and pointy ears was presented to the world.
     Two researchers who discovered the body believed fallen angels were related to UFOS and that the demon fairy heralded the End Times.  Reportedly Maussan paid $10,000 to gain possession of the body.
     The demon fairy had been stored in liquid.  But once it was exposed to the air it fell apart, revealing it was composed of glue, wood and plastic that had been held together by its skin, the work of a taxidermist.
     Those taxidermists can be sneaky fellows.  Take the tale from 2007 of the Metepec creature, a small strange being found caught in a rat trap that was killed by frightened Mexican farmhands.  Maussan forked over $23,000 for ownership.
     The body did indeed look extraterrestrial, suggestive of those gray aliens who wield anal probes.  But Maussan kinda overpaid for the body: a taxidermist admitted it was made from a mammalian corpse reported to be either be a squirrel monkey or a Buffy-tufted marmoset.   He skinned the animal and removed some musculature to create its eerie appearance.  The taxidermist claimed he never promoted the corpse as anything really unusual: Maussan made that assumption.
     Maussan hasn’t given up, his most recent proof being the pre-Columbian “mummified aliens” from Nazca, Peru that generated a lot of buzz last year.  This time he seemed to have a winner.  Actual proof.
     And also another money-maker.  After teasing online viewers with some video of the "alien mummies" the website gaia.com had anyone sucked into the story to see more behind a paywall, a subscription costing about $10 a month.
     After all how can you explain a humanoid body with an elongated skull and only six fingers and toes?  To top it all off the fingers and toes are extremely long.  Gotta be an alien, right?
     Not so fast.  The elongated skull could be the result of head binding when the individual was a baby, a practice that has been carried out for centuries among certain civilizations.
But what about those freaky digits, three per limb, much longer than a those of a normal human?  One explanation is trickery through mummy mutilation.
     With each hand cut off the thumb and little finger.  With the feet cut off the big and little toes.  Now you cut between the remaining fingers all the way to the wrist.  You could even add extra finger bones for more length. Presto change-o!.  Freaky digits.  Perform a similar procedure with the remaining toes.
     The "alien mummies" were examined, DNA testing proving they were the bodies of earthlings, not aliens.  Mummification experts issued an angry report, “The Fraud of Extraterrestrial Mummies,” that stated it was all a hoax involving the remains being altered to create alien features.
     So there’s money to be made – and lost – in claims of ET corpses.  It’s all a matter of trust.
     I tell people don’t go to someone else who will scam you.  Come to me.

Monday, January 29, 2018

Social Commentary With Ma & Pa Kent



Ma and Pa Kent now rue the day they voted for Donald Trump.


See what happens when those damn technocrats take over?


The illegal alien situation is getting way out of hand.