Stating the blindingly obvious

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are upset that they are not seeing all the info on UFOs and UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, one of the newer buzzwords.) An amendment has been proposed ordering the release of such records unless deemed classified by a special review board.

The amendment was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, and is backed by Rubio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the chairwoman of the Armed Services subcommittee on emerging threats, as well as Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.), a former Marine intelligence officer, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.).

“UAPs generate a lot of curiosity for many Americans, and with that curiosity sometimes comes misinformation,” Schumer said Tuesday on the Senate floor.

Rubio took a fairly thoughtful stance.

“Right now, what I know is reliable people tell us that and we’ve seen objects operating over restricted military and national security airspace. They claim it’s not ours. They claim they don’t know whose it is. That’s like the definition of a national security threat,” he said.

He also commented on folks like David Grusch, whom we wrote about earlier:

“One of two things are true. Either A, they’re telling the truth or some version of the truth or B, we have a bunch of people with high clearances and really important jobs in our government are nuts. Both are a problem. And I’m not accusing these people of being nuts. That said, that’s something we’ll look at and continue to look at seriously,” he said.

The Hill

Me, I’ll take ‘C:  All of the above’ for $400. If we don’t have any idea how to do something that has been done in restricted airspace, that isn’t good. And  the other – well, after a decade working with folks who had high clearances, I’d bet a sweep would turn up more than a few nuts whose views were just a little outre. Aliens? Perhaps there is intelligent life in the universe. I’m pretty sure it isn’t here.

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But the big winner is a study from Tulane University, which says that structural racism plays a role in mass shootings – then says:

The study found that in areas with higher Black populations, mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher White populations. There are also more Black people injured and killed when mass shootings take place, the findings say.

CNN

“Likelier to occur”, implying ‘they just happen, like rain’.  No, they are caused by PEOPLE, and disproportionately by people of color. And the great reveal – in communities of color because that is where they ARE.

And to think someone is getting tenure for this kind of thing…

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