“The Defense Department secretly set up a program ten years ago to investigate unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, at the urging of then-Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, according to new reports. Both The New York Times and the website Politico published stories Saturday revealing the existence of the Pentagon’s now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The New York Times said the UFO program began in 2007, while Politico reported in began in 2009.
According to the reports, Reid, a Nevada Democrat, helped steer money under the program to a donor’s aerospace research company.Harry Reid’s interest in UFOs was because of friend and donor Bob Bigelow, who owns Bigelow Aerospace and has said before he is “absolutely convinced” aliens exist and UFOs have visited Earth.
…Politico said the program was not classified but few officials knew about it.(No sh*t!) Reid secured the funding for the program in 2009 with the help of former Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye and former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who have both since died. (undoubtedly killed by aliens!)
Both outlets said Reid’s interest in UFOs was the result of friend and donor Bob Bigelow, who owns Bigelow Aerospace and has said before he is “absolutely convinced” aliens exist and UFOs have visited Earth. The New York Times said the program had a $22 million annual budget and “most of the money” went to Bigelow’s research company, which hired subcontractors and solicited research for the program.
“I’m not embarrassed or ashamed or sorry I got this thing going,” Reid told the newspaper. “I think it’s one of the good things I did in my congressional service. (And Reid’s RIGHT, at least compared to the vast majority of the other things he did while in office!)I’ve done something that no one has done before.”…”
So was running a ship with room for only 1,178 of the over 2,200 souls on board in its lifeboats into an iceberg on a frigid April night; originality is no guarantee or indicator of either wisdom or propriety. And from what we remember of this very forgettable pox upon America, he was sorely lacking in both.
Since we’re on the subject of sh*t you can’t make up, we’re in complete agreement with the editors at NRO when they suggest…
“…Everything that has happened in the Trump probe stands out against a backdrop of leniency in the Clinton investigation. While Mueller has prosecuted two Trump associates for lying to the FBI, the Obama Justice Department gave a pass to Mrs. Clinton and her subordinates, who gave the FBI misinformation about such key matters as whether Clinton understood markings in classified documents and whether her aides knew about her homebrew server system during their State Department service.Mueller’s team conducted a predawn raid at gunpoint in executing a search warrant on Paul Manafort’s home while Manafort was cooperating with congressional committees. When it came to the Clinton case, though, the Justice Department not only eschewed search warrants, or even mere subpoenas, but they never even took possession of the DNC server alleged to have been hacked by Russian operatives.
The irregularities in the Clinton-emails investigation are breathtaking: the failure to use the grand jury to compel the production of key physical evidence; the Justice Department’s collaboration with defense lawyers to restrict the FBI’s ability to pursue obvious lines of inquiry and examine digital evidence; immunity grants to suspects who should have been charged with crimes and pressured to cooperate; allowing subjects of the investigation to be present for each other’s FBI interviews and even to act as lawyers for Clinton, in violation of legal and ethical rules; Comey’s preparation of a statement exonerating Clinton months before the investigation was complete and key witnesses — including Clinton herself — were interviewed; and the shameful tarmac meeting between Obama attorney general Loretta Lynch and Mrs. Clinton’s husband just days before Mrs. Clinton sat for a perfunctory FBI interview (after which Comey announced the decision not to charge her).
We believe that Russia’s interference in the election is (or at least, was, because this sham stopped being about Russian interference a long time ago!) worth investigating and that dismissing Robert Mueller would be a mistake, both politically and on the merits. Yet there are enough questions about the handling of the Clinton and Trump matters that a thorough fact-finding investigation is warranted, and one of greater independence and scope than we are likely to get from the DOJ’s Obama-appointed inspector general.The department needs to appoint a scrupulous, well-regarded United States Attorney from outside the Washington area to scrutinize the conduct of the Justice Department and the FBI in connection with the 2016 election. There now is enough of a cloud around these investigations that the department owes the public nothing less.“
What’s surrounding these “investigations” isn’t merely a cloud. Rather it’s a choking, reeking, roiling smog of corruption which reaches to the very highest levels…
…of government. We don’t know what surprises us most: the MSM’s deliberate decision, purely on the basis of partisan politics we’ve repeatedly been led to believe they’re above, not to investigate, let alone report the facts behind a story which makes Watergate look like a parking ticket…or the failure of the Trump Administration to take advantage of the greatest opportunity ever afforded an Administration to restore the public’s faith in government and the concept of equality under the law. Not to mention crippling the Dimocratic Party for decades to come.
Even were we to grant Obama and Lynch a certain racial untouchability (though what havoc the denizens of America’s urban hell-holes might wreak in response to their indictment could hardly be worse than what they’ve created in the last 50-odd years), who on earth is going to raise a serious objection were Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Ohr, Koskinen and Lerner charged, convicted and incarcerated?
This brings to mind a scene from The Untouchables in which Elliott Ness responds to the offer of a bribe from a crooked Chicago alderman (as if they come in any other variety) by observing, “In Roman times, when a when a fellow was convicted of trying to bribe a public official, they would cut off his nose, and sew him in a bag with a wild animal, and throw him in a river.” We need to update the concept by introducing said public officials to Orwell’s Room 101:
That anyone, let alone certain Conservatives, could continue to accord these unindicted co-conspirators any benefit of the doubt regarding their guilt boggles our mind.
We’ll leave it to Chris Muir, our second-favorite cartoonist behind Stilton Jarlsberg, to summarize this unbelievably sordid affair:
And this is not even all we might ultimately know; after all, even under The Donald, we’ve yet to receive the cooperation of the Department of Injustice.
So much for the supposed draining of The Swamp!
In a related item also courtesy of NRO, David Harsanyi recounts why…
“‘Our record as journalists in covering this Trump story and the Russian story is pretty good,” legendary reporter Carl Bernstein recently claimed. Pretty good? If there’s a major news story over the past 70 years that the American media has botched more often because of bias and wishful thinking, I’d love to hear about it.
Four big scoops recently run by major news organizations — written by top reporters and, presumably, churned through layers of scrupulous editing — turned out to be completely wrong. Reuters, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and others reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office had subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s records from Deutsche Bank. Trump’s attorney says it hadn’t. ABC reported that Candidate Trump had directed Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials before the election. He didn’t (as far as we know). The New York Times ran a story claiming that K.T. McFarland, a former member of the Trump transition team, had acknowledged collusion. She hadn’t. Then, CNN topped off the week by falsely reporting that the Trump campaign had been offered access to hacked Democratic National Committee emails before they were published. Ithadn’t.
Forget your routine bias.These were four bombshells disseminated to millions of Americans by breathless anchors, pundits, and analysts, all of whom are feeding frenzied expectations about Trump-Russia collusion that have now been internalized by many as indisputable truths. All four pieces, incidentally, are useless without their central faulty claims. Yet there they sit. And these are only fourof dozens of stories that have fizzled over the year.
If we are to accept the special pleadings of journalists, we have to believe these were all honest mistakes. They may be. But a person (an honest, sane, unbiased person) might then ask: Why is it that every one of the dozens of honest mistakes is prejudiced in the very same way? Why hasn’t there been a single major honest mistake that diminishes the Trump-Russia collusion story? Why is there never an honest mistake that indicts Democrats?…”
It’s also worth remembering the nature of the horrid harpy for whom these cretins sold their souls:
Lest anyone forget, she also actively participated (with a “leader”…
…who was notable only for his lies and unaccountable absence during any hour of need) in the sacrifice of the lives of four innocent Americans, two of whose boots…
…neither was fit to lick.
For those of you who may not know, Glen Doherty was the remarkable marksman who put a round through the window of a bobbing lifeboat from 50-yds. to secure the rescue of one Richard Phillips from Somali pirates.
Sorry, but while we refuse to hate anyone, our contempt for this particular passel of prevaricating Progressive pus buckets quite literally…
…knows no bounds:
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to the Educated Idiots segment, courtesy today of one Kyna Hamill, the pride of Beantown:
We’ll leave it to you whether to waste your time attempting to comprehend Kyna’s claim, but we’ll allow Richard Hendry to summarize our thoughts on her mindless drivel:
In all seriousness, what’s worse: that someone like Kyna Hamill is actually in a position to influence young minds…or that her “research” was undoubtedly funded in part by taxpayer dollars.
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with a rather abbreviated installment of The Lighter Side:
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