Ray's X-Blog

On the morning of December 14, 2012, retired psychologist Gene Rosen, 69, was at home in Newtown, Connecticut when he heard gunfire. He just assumed it was a hunter in the nearby forest. Later as he was leaving his house he encountered six schoolchildren and a bus driver in his driveway. The bus driver told him that they couldn't return to their school, there had been an incident. Rosen invited the crying children inside and soon learned that they had fled from the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He let the schoolchildren play with some toys, listened to their stories, and contacted their parents to pick them up. (Rosen had grandchildren so that's why the toys were around.) For his aid and comfort Rosen was considered a hero. But with conspiracy wackos no good deed can go unpunished; it all has to be part of a dark plot. They accuse Rosen of being a "bad crisis actor," part of a hoax perpetrated by the government to do away with their right ...

ALFAs: My Mistake In a previous post about Peter Gersten's Leap of Faith I mentioned that among the people hanging around Bell Rock were a couple of men dressed up as aliens, springy antennas on their heads, covered from head to toe with aluminum foil. I call such a costumed person an ALFA -- short for an aluminum foil alien. I spotted the tinfoil twins in a news video from a TV station in Phoenix, Arizona, KSAZ Fox 10, that was covering the Leap of Faith event back on December 21, 2012. If I had been paying close attention I would have noticed that the ALFAs clip was not part of the Leap of Faith story; the news program was switching from one story to another with overlapping video. The shot of the ALFAs had a dateline banner saying BUGARACH FRANCE which was the scene of another end-of-the-world event centered around a mountain called Pic de Bugarach that supposedly concealed an alien vessel would come out and rescue true believers from doomsday. I had assumed t...

Cheeky Response After Non-Leap Of Faith On December 21, 2012 "UFO lawyer" Peter Gersten waited for a portal to open up over Bell Rock in Sedona, Arizona. With everything perfectly aligned at the time of the winter solstice, Gersten planned to leap from the towering rock and enter the portal, resetting the cosmic computer that controls our world. But no portal and so no leap that day. I've been trying to find more info about the aftermath of the Leap of Faith, the failure of the portal to appear. So far Peter Gersten has been staying low, under the Google radar. His website, http://www.1111invitation2012.info/ , was inactive for a while but I decided to check it one more time. This image -- semi-censored by yours truly because after all this is a family blog -- greeted me: A Google search using the keywords "Peter Gersten website" shows a link to the site and the above image with the note "A final word from Peter." Only the image is found...

A New Year With Snakes So far 2013 is off to a rough start. But at least I was able to get one long overdue project done, the scanning of the first eleven issues of my zine, Ray X X-Rayer , into easily accessible formats. Back in 1994 I used Apple computers – Macs – to create and print out my zine. Since that time I moved on to PCs, mainly because used ones were cheaper and places like libraries used PCs for public access computers. The switch to PCs created compatibility problems with my Mac files. And even within the Apple system I ended up with another compatibility problem: the older floppies weren't readable on newer machines. So while everyone was ushering in the new year, I was ensconced in my shoebox apartment/monastic cell, scanning hardcopies of my zines into PDF and Word formats. Maybe I'll have to reformat once again in the future when there's another major change with computer operating systems. I did encounter some problems with the scanning b...