Extraterrestrials, American Exceptionalism, and the Left-Right Gap (Dems tend to believe in ET)

Townhall ^ | 12/27/2010 | Michael Medved

[stockpirate]

Well no flames from this guy. GOD bless you for telling it like it is!!!

“All will be reveiled”.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., (also a well known freeper), held a piece of the I-beam like wreckage that his father had brought home from the Roswell crash in 1947. (Jesse Jr. was 11 or 12 years old in 1947.)

http://marceljr.com/about.html

[Finny]

Of course America is a "a flawed nation state like many others, displaying a maddening mix of admirable and appalling characteristics." The question is not one of whether American history, actions and values has been perfect and of unmixed goodness, it is one of the net effect and value of America as compared to the net effect and value of other societies/nations.... This "there is no black and white, only shades of gray" argument is a common one on the left, and is fallacious. While it is technically correct when dealing with any human activity, the purpose of making the argument is to imply, without saying so explicitly, that there is no real difference between dark gray and light gray, which is just stupid.

Well said.

[ASA Vet]

I'll explain via FR PM

[Finny]

Funny the people(Democrats) who belive in UFOs being space aliens also belive barack obama is a legitimate natural-born American citizen.

Hoosier, you're being manipulated into pitting something entirely apolitical against human nature, and allowing it to divide you from your allies.

Michael Medved, first of all, is hardly "conservative" himself. Second, you would be surprised and shocked at the reality of the UFO thing, which is that it transcends politics and has some very heavy hitters on its side, such as Mercury 7 astronaut and Christian Gordon Cooper, who matter-of-factly makes no bones about it in his autobiography, though little of the book is about UFOs.

The whole UFO thing is emotional and gut-pitting, so somebody wants YOU to equate anyone who "believes" in UFOs with your enemy. It is a mistake to do so; it ONLY serves to divide.

Stay frosty.

[onedoug]

Yeah? Where is this so-called ¨I-beam¨?

And without calling you any names, stockpirate, where are the pieces?

[ArrogantBustard]

I kow there are UFO’s.

Yes, I have seen what appeared to be objects, which seemed to be flying, which I could not identify.

These see to be, therefore, by definition: Unidentifed Flying Objects (UFO).

Doesn't mean they have anything to do with ET, Aliens, Little Green Men, Greys, Men In Black, Bug Eyed Monsters, or any other such ... just that I couldn't identify them.

[JoeFromSidney]

Back in the '60s there was a professor from some university in Arizona, whose name escapes me at the moment. He had taken a sabbatical to investigate UFOs, and concluded Earth was being visited by aliens. He was to give a talk at the Pentagon. I was stationed in DC at the time, and wangled an invitation. As a Major, I was seated in the back row, while the Colonels and Generals were up front.

At the end of his talk, one of the Generals asked, "If we're being visited by aliens, how come they never crash? How come we never find any wreckage?"

With one of the most charming smiles I've ever seen on a human face, the professor answered, "Maybe their Zero Defects Program really works."

[Quix]

Still addicted to those

TYPE II ERRORS, it seems.

[Quix]

There are now more than 4,000

landing cases with scientifically verified residue, bits, pieces, impacts on the environment of various types etc.

Stan Romaneck sp? by surprise one day, had part of his house’s siding removed because the paint had been discolored by a UFO . . . and the ‘siding crew’ was from a non-existent company etc. etc. etc. They wouldn’t let him keep part of the discolored siding but he managed to hide some anyway.

[Quix]

That was an interesting case.

Thx.

[Quix]

INDEED.

However, as improbable as it is . . . such naysayers want to hold a piece in THEIR hot little hands and do all the analysis in their own nonexistent laboratories etc. etc. yada yada yada.

[Quix]

Please explain to me, too!

[Quix]

Well put.

[Quix]

I think Marzulli is spot on in a list of ways.

Thx Thx.

[Quix]

Logically . . .

evidently . . .

all such factors

do NOT PRECLUDE their having something to do with so called “ET’s” etc. etc. etc.

either.

[denydenydeny]

P.J. O’Rourke’s famous line “Republicans believe in God, Democrats believe in Santa Claus”, though said in jest, applies here.

All humans aspire to the transcendent, but leftist ideology requires its followers to hold God in contempt. So leftists always find themselves worshipping bizarre analogs of God...with too many examples to list. Aliens would definitely qualify.

[onedoug]

...landing cases with scientifically verified residue, bits, pieces, impacts on the environment of various types etc....

Please direct me to some peer reviewed verification. Otherwise this is complete and utter nonsense.

[Quix]

Not tonight.

I don’t recall if it’s in a peer reviewed journal, or not.

I’m not impressed with that plea, however,

I’ve provided peer reviewed journal articles documenting that unhoaxed crop circles have a list of very exotic differences in the plants and the ground . . .

and naysayers like you just scoffed as usual.

Y’all are wedded to TYPE II ERRORS and seem to have no clue about how they can bite one in the rear every bit as devastatingly as a TYPE I ERROR.

Y’all have a LOT more ‘getting real’ to do in this field.