"Smirks and Sneers"

Another great piece by Alfred on the UFO Magazine blog: "Those Smirks and Sneers"

This is for anyone who wrongly detests the working stiff holding them in his or her providing arms, and manufacturing their complete convenience out of thin air — you lofty, sneering, clueless, and non-appreciative Elite!

And an equally entertaining perceptive response by Mike Good.

This elite classist sneering and such goes on within UFOlogy and Bigfoot research . . . obvious point but felt like making it anyway.

Keep UFO Hunters on the Air

Lesley posted this on Women Of Esoterica, and I'm passing it along. Please sign the petition and keep UFO Hunters on the air!

Bill has just finished filming for Season 3 and I don't know if there will be a Season 4. Maybe you -- plus some pals -- can write to the network and let them know you would like to see more episodes:

http://www.history.com/global/feedback/contact.jsp?site=HistoryChannel.com&NetwCode=THC

or you can sign a petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/uf0hunt/petition.html

Either way, it can't hurt, and it just might help!

Keeping hope alive!

Thanks!

nb

Lesley on "Powerless Policing"

Lesley has a good piece on "the wannabe Ufology Police" for her Grey Matters column at Binnall of America.

SDI #468 Twenty Questions

SDI #468

20 Questions astonishingly if insightfully addressed by Dave Furlotte, Roger Marsh, Glen Campbell, Frank Feschino, and Alfred Lehmberg as seamlessly produced and then deftly executed by Bosscat Bruce-Knapp, esq.:

1. Are ufologists intellectually challenged, fundamentally bonkers, insane, foop-shooby, or flip city?

2. Have our "intrepid mainstream authorities" put last years flap at O'hare entirely to rest as the most prosaic of prosaic prosaics (sic)?

3. Who, indeed, is guilty of Streckers' "pathological receptiveness" and can these be revalidated with lithium and a big bag of stale Easter peeps?

4. Does Dr. Harlow Shapely, a one time eminent Harvard astronomer, stick a fork in UFOs with his admonition that anyone seeing such —Jimmy Carter springs to mind— is either drunk or crazy?

5. Do "uncommon objects" seen in "uncommon seeing conditions" constitute all uncommon reports and observations... apart, of course, from those made by "the crazy liars," as proclaimed by the infamous uber-klasskurtxian Dr. Donald Menzel?

6. Did Donald Menzel, himself, see a UFO then dismiss same as, likely, some poorly digested beef?

7. Do all card carrying klasskurtxians cop the M-cubed plea reflexively? UFOs are a result of the Misled, the Mis-leading, and the Mentally ill... exclusively?

8. Is smirking klasskurtxian "spokespuppy" Mr. Oberg a paid disinformation agent —whatever that may mean— and ashamed of his apostrophe?

9. Do civil aircraft pilots regularly "over-interpret their observations" from the cockpit, according to Mr. Oberg, and what does this mean regarding the safely of the passengers flying?

10. Are airline pilots subject to fits of temerarious insanity while they fly!?

11. Who said, "...All UFOs are easily explainable because they can all be rationally explained..."?

12. Can one prove an ordinary absolute?

13. Is Dave Furlotte Crazy? Errol Bruce-Knapp? Is this writer only assisting the misleading, presumed to be misled, or dismissed as mentally ill?

14. Was the aforementioned Dr. Menzel, who saw his UFO, crazy?

15. Does Mr. Oberg "slide the scale" or otherwise play fast and loose with his goalposts when his spurious argument begins its obligatory tatter? Can the reader say, "Jerry Cohen"?

16. Are all UFO reports bona fide observations of the craft flown by intelligent reptiles from a moon vicinity Betelgeuse?

17. Is it entirely impossible any longer to believe ones own eyes?

18. Does technology bring us closer to the UFO or does it keep us away?

19. Is psychiatry always able to recognize "crazy"?

20. "...Yet here [Screamin' Demon]! The wind sets in the shoulder of your sail, and you are stayed for"?


A suffering Zot —most barragrugous— good readers and listeners, but that 58 explosive minutes of SDI remain! Again, I am unable to clear even the always provocative Dave Furlotte regarding 20 questions prodded and gouged from sensibilities outraged anew!

Be that as it may newcomer Roger Marsh, the director of communications for MUFON, outlines a new ufological consciousness venue for MUFON uber-grande artists, writers, and contributors at examiner.com.

Area 51 Legend Glen Campbell visits inspiration even as he travels what he indicates is "irrelevant" and "disappointing" ground. Damn.

Frank Feschino at last puts paid to previous if errant and otherwise erroneous estimations of well earned credibility. He, at once, at great cost, and from over four arduous years unceasing litigation, resurrects face, justice, and victory for himself, Stanton Friedman, and an aviation war history in plain sight all the time... but missed by everyone else! Crow hors d'oeuvres will be served with brandy and cigars on the poop deck.

Alfred Lehmberg rounds out with some gobsmackers! Did Glen Campbell invent the ufological internet?

It was a time of known toads, "known" to be knowing not — knowing _still_, brothers and sisters! Know that toad!

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"Battles, UFOs, and the Folk"

On the UFO Magazine blog, my latest: Battles, UFOs, and the Folk.

"A Movement Afoot" : Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

According to a few bloggers with a disturbing dependence on thesauruses (thesauri?) there is an underground UFO group afoot. Why underground? Ah, to seriously study UFOs. I mean, seriously. Deeply. Studiously. Without the taint of the rest of us. Allusions to this all mysterious, top secret, underground UFO study group have been made before. I have visions of them toiling away in dank rooms, kind of like mushrooms grown in basements as a side business...when will they emerge to give us the truth? We can only wait, and hope.

Rich Reynolds: Psychopath?

RRRGroup (Rich Reynolds) published a new comment on the post "Lies and Moore Lies": a piece by Kevin Randle on his highly rated blog "A Different Perspective." This is a site devoted to sincere and rational discussion regarding UFOs and the Roswell mystery in particular.

In the commentary to the above referenced piece and after a revolted assessment of Rich Reynold's particular "commentary" by myself —exploring fact and fallacy of same— Rich Reynolds published the upcoming response to Randle's un-moderated blog for the world to see.

The preceding activity is in addition to a mass mailing for any persons following Randle's weblog. The potential readership and mailing list is international and numbers many hundreds, I suspect, if not many thousands.
Persons read:

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One would think that a person whose name showed up in a child porn site
during a Google search would be circumspect about the alleged shortcomings of
others.

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Gods and Devils!

We'll forget for a moment that this egregious, insane, and libelous charge regarding my behavior has been completely debunked, roundly discredited, and abundantly exposed!

http://alienviewgroup.blogspot.com/2005/11/smoke-and-fire.html

Yet here it is, published yet again in a public forum like it is an authoritative fact!

Too, I am entirely at this psychopathic bastard's mercy because I must prove damages or pay Rich Reynolds' own legal fees, plus my own! He can do or say anything he wants as a result.

Sir or madam reading, I'm an aspiring author trading on reputation and some small talent to achieve that end. How am I not being damaged?

This has been going on for years, admittedly ... I can't let it go.

I can't give this guy a by because it's not just me effected, see? It's the memories of my father and grandfather and son. We all have the same name as it's turning out...

This is all not to forget that tolerated behavior such as this throws a monstrous blanket over freedom of expression for all of us. Finally, Reynolds needs to be brought to account so no one else has to suffer similar treatment from him.

Persons better than myself offer "well meant advice" in regards to my struggle with Reynolds given that it must be patently obvious to all that he is the "salt" in my wound, the "thorn" in my side, and the ultimate "pain" in my ass!

They say; however, that they've found that the "best solution" to individuals like Reynolds is to "ignore them." It takes "two people" to engage in a fight, these counsel, and in these instances there is "no winner." In their view the only way to win is to "not engage." "Don't play!" these say...

The man published authoritatively, just recently, that I have sex with children, Reader. This is no teenage pique on my part.

My refusal to contest that slander is a signal that he is correct and my silence is then not mature; it becomes —to the disinterested— something of an admission, am I right?

Advice is well taken but my removing myself from the "playing field" allows the craven rape of my reputation to go by uncontested. Moreover, Reynolds et al will be emboldened to do it again, perhaps, to another. Maybe once the reader has fallen afoul with Reynolds they themselves could be in the sights of this seeming monster for a similar maliciousness, eh?

RRR is no good for anybody, provides no service, and is not sincere — I think this plain in my opinion. Clearer air has prevailed in his absence. Of course, I'd see him made professionally extinct. The man is unrepentantly suggestive that I have sex with children, reader! That's the cruel upshot.

He owes me damages and apologies... neither of which is now remotely forthcoming. I must resort, then, to the court of public opinion. People will know "who" he is and "what" he does for my effort, at all cost to me. I think the reader would do no less in my shoes.

Would the reader give up? How about after that first time a grandchild reads something dodgy about you on the internet? My print publisher Nancy Birnes is embarrassed. My electronic publisher and pod-cast project chief Errol Bruce-Knapp is appalled. My writing partner on another project, Alan Graham, is embarrassed; my wife and son are fit to be tied, my brother is supremely agitated, and my friends, in and out of ufology are aghast!

How are we not damaged? Also, when must I become a discomfiting liability to them.

I really don't think the reader would or could forget this. Sex with children, ladies and gentlemen! That unsupported charge is unconscionable, without conscience, and unscrupulous behavior on Reynolds' part. As bad as it gets.

It remains, Reynolds cannot be rewarded by my inaction. I'll ensure he has a bigger reputation as a smear-or than I ever ever have for being a smear-ee. Honor demands it, eh? An Army officer for 23 years, I know something about honor and integrity.

Whew! Sorry about the longwinded kerfuffle.

Thanks again for your understanding, and feel free to pass this on, to anyone, as a sample of my thinking on this issue. If you don't understand or think I make a mountain out of a dung-pile it is because no one has looked at you penetratingly and asked why this "kiddy porn" thing keeps coming up about you, eh?

Know I'm sincere if nothing else. Reynolds damages me with malice aforethought. He owes me effuse apologies and seven figures.

Posted!

Catholics Ordered To Keep Quiet Over Virgin Visitations

On UFO-Mary; the Vatican's latest efforts at maintaining authority.

The End of MUFON?

MUFON member and UFO researcher/author Art Champoux asks: "What? NO More MUFON State Organizations?" his recent piece on UFO Digest.

Altering Egos

Perhaps a study in Psychopathia?

What a right bastard Rich Reynolds is, albeit predictably.

Still, there is his flurry of pompous genuflection I'd link to reader, only he'd take it down so his pathetic little scuttle could go unsubstantiated. He's performed such and so in the past. Why bother citing him?

...But friends of mine, one Regan Lee and and equally significant Lesley Gunter (spell their names right you prolapsed flock-wits!) lately stand to bear the insentient and repellant reptilianism that is Rich Reynolds and his alleged murder of flatulent were-crows: "RRR Group," "UFO Iconoclasts," "UFO Reality, (no truth in advertising there)" and other sites of hissing and suppurating spoor even less relevant, in my opinion. Such has been so.

Lately, I am not the egregiously libeled innocent owed effuse apology and seven figure damages, you see. No, today I am no less than representative, along with Regan and Lesley, of the destruction of the study of UFOs. Pause for squirty giggles.

After the three of us are contrasted to the likes of "well meaning" if misguided" ufological persons from Friedman through Vallee to Hynek, we are panned when compared to "hopelessly lost" second tier "mavens" and "enthusiasts" Kimball through Bishop to Tonnies! Michio Kaku is no "UFO Destroyer," don't you know, "but his views are so amorphous that they are platitudinous and useless." Friends close, enemas (sic) closer?

"Platitudinous And Useless" Kaku...

At last Lesley, Regan, and myself are relegated to the said woo-besotted ranks of the much contested and controversial contactees. These are persons who are pretty much solely responsible, Reynolds propounds, because of their frivolity, self-involvement, and stupidity for the destruction alluded to. It won't end there.

Further, we are (I am) accused of "purloining" something curiously unsubstantiated, but that is also par for the Reynolds course. Reynolds lacks all substantiation, you see.

More as this Reynolds wrap-rap seems instructive, eh? Though I contemplate the contemptible I am reminded that to give up is to give in, righteous victory is necessary even if Phyricc, and an inch given is a mile taken.

I know you're reading Ritchie, too vain to do otherwise... Consume fecal manner and expire.