George Rebane

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.  Congress has become aware of UAPs reported subrosa for decades, and openly in recent years.  Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is heading up the effort to create an ‘Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office’ to get to the bottom of all these UFO sightings and stories.  Her amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act is co-sponsored by Sens Rubio, Graham, Blunt, and Heinrich. (more here)  Given the Congress’s record of ‘getting to the bottom’ of anything, this new initiative will at least have the opportunity to provide us with some sensational entertainment in the coming months – and then again, maybe not.

Mentality of Congresscritters on Display.  Rep Paul Gosar (R-AZ) was censured by the House for posting a since-deleted video “where he appeared to be attacking Ms Ocasio-Cortez with a sword and was poised to attack Mr Biden.” (here)  While I’m again astounded by such an act, I am no longer surprised because for years (decades?) we have seen our congressional honorables do the dumbest things, always followed by our head-scratching ‘What in hell was s/he thinking?’  And here we go again; what kind of thought process (if any) preceded Gosar’s junior high act of posting such online graffiti?  More importantly, how does someone evincing such mental processes perform at the more usual tasks for which they were elected?

[19nov21 update]  The House passed the $4.6T ‘Build Back Better’ travesty of historical government enlargement and population control, and sent it to the Senate where, if God is kind, it will die an agonizing death.  The legislation is based on the largest bamboozle that the federal government has ever pulled on our ill-informed citizenry.  The 19nov21 WSJ does an excellent job (here) spelling out the atrocities included in what the Democrats are seeking to foist on the nation.  There is not a single item in this pack of lies – including ‘fully paid for’, decrease deficits, and the CBO’s ‘scoring’ – that will not hurt our economy, national security, and people’s growing dependency on wealth transfers.  Its evil objective is to create more compliant takers and limit/control prospects for the nation’s makers. (more here and here)

‘Kyle Rittenhouse acquitted of all charges.’  For at least half the country this is heartening news that our justice system is not uniformly broken.  For the other half, fomented by the lamestream media that volubly prejudged the teenager guilty, this is bad news since it breaks the narrative that self-defense with a gun should be banned across the country, and most certainly in any public forum. (more here and here)