Posted on 01/03/2013 6:36:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s off-air comments that Russian Presidents are given a secret file about extraterrestrials living among us created much media interest. Most news reports claimed that Medvedev was simply joking. His apparent reference to the Men In Black movie as a source of information on a super secret agency that monitors extraterrestrials on Earth was commonly cited as key evidence that he was in fact joking. The reasoning is that no political leader would refer reporters to a comedy to clarify national policy. It has now emerged that Medvedev was not referring to the Men in Black comedy after all, but to a recent Russian television documentary titled “Men in Black” that reveals many details about an extensive cover up of extraterrestrial life visiting Earth.
However, a more accurate translation of what Medvedev actually said about the Men in Black phenomenon was: “You can receive more detailed information having watched the documentary film of the same name.” So Medvedev was referring to a Russian “documentary film” titled Men in Black, not the Hollywood blockbuster by the same name...
Russian Men In Black (MIB) documentary, a number of prominent UFO cases in Russia and the USA are discussed. The Roswell UFO crash is covered, along with a number of extraterrestrial abduction cases, and UFOs disabling nuclear weapons facilities. The documentary examines testimony that extraterrestrial bases have been established on Earth, and that some are in restricted US military areas with the full knowledge of the Pentagon. The documentary even goes on to seriously discuss President Eisenhower’s alleged meeting with extraterrestrials, where agreements were reached with some of the visitors giving them permission to take some of the Earth’s resources in exchange for advanced technology...
(Excerpt) Read more at exopolitics.org ...
British Isles? Afternoon, moose.
I don't think we're supposed to call them "colored" any more. I can't remember the latest. It was "African-American" but then they started calling them all that whether they were American or not, which is confusing as all get-out.
Gulag Archipelago,yes.
Good Morning, No-To-Illegals.
I trust you are in fine fettle this day?
The Ducks on the pond looked a bit mardy this morning, the water had contrived to go solid on the surface.
What a terrible place you are posting from. Do we need to organize and bust you out?
I suspect this is one vehicle I will drive until it just stops on its own.
Getting used to owning it after three years without a vehicle is going to take me a while! LOL!
747 <Shudder>
Right ,that's the plan. Will it survive first contact...LOL!
” “Burn to-do list”.
most of it never gets done anyway
I had lots of time on Saturday so I decided to weed the flower bed in front of the house. When I got out front I noticed one of those free newspapers that often clutters up my driveway. I decided it was best to just get it right then. When I got to the front of the driveway I noticed a problem spot that really needed some water.
I went into the garage and put the little Miracle-Gro sprayer on it and set it up to do the watering. The Miracle-Gro has one of those shut-off valves so you can start the water then go do the spraying. Well, when I got down to the sprayer and turned on the water I noticed the pressure was shot.
I've been here before. There's an input filter in my house that gets clogged sometimes so I went down into the basement to clean that out. I got it cleaned out and turned the water back on, when I noticed some old potting plants that I had meant to take up to the attic the week before. Knowing I would just forget again if I didn't take them right up I hiked up to the attic to put them away.
Wouldn't you know, the last time I was up there I had found an old trunk from my Air Force days and had been looking through some of that stuff. Somehow I never put it all away so I put it all carefully back, closed the trunk, and put the trunk where it belonged. Then I headed downstairs.
It was lunch time so I made myself a nice sandwich and some lemonade and looked through the latest copy of World Magazine that had arrived the day before. I had a couple of cookies for dessert - my favorite chocolate chip recipe.
The doorbell rang as I was cleaning up and it was the mailman with a package I had ordered from Amazon. He also had brought me the letters he normally puts in the mailbox the trip. I thanked him with a cookie then took the mail back into the table. Most of it was junk, but there was a letter from my brother in China so I read that and put it in the mail pile. But the mail pile had been really piling up over the week so I sorted the pile into all the places I keep my mail.
By now it was 2:00. I'm getting older so I like to take a little nap in front of some game or other. When I woke up the game was actually pretty good, so I watched it until the end.
Suddenly it was 5:00 and time to get ready to meet my wife for dinner. I hadn't accomplished anything. Not only was the flower bed not weeded, but the bottom of the driveway was flooded from the water I had left running all day.
I wonder if this is how Alzheimer's starts.
” Suddenly it was 5:00 and time to get ready to meet my wife for dinner. I hadn’t accomplished anything. Not only was the flower bed not weeded, but the bottom of the driveway was flooded from the water I had left running all day.”
LOL!!
Life is what happens when “to do” lists are set in place!
LAX is just SO big, and SO congested that there was some talk of making the relatively nearby Long Beach airport into an extension campus for it. Then some wiseguy coined the acronym EX-LAX and — quite predictably — the whole idea just went right down the flusher.
LOL!
My “to-do” lists are more like loosely worded suggestions. That way, I don’t feel the pressure of “MUST!”
Orange County was a quiet place filled with orange groves. Nobody ever lost sleep over the trees moaning in the night as they made those gorgeous, succulent oranges.
Likewise up in Napa County. The vines don’t disturb the tranquility grunting out their world-class grapes.
It’s John 15. Vine. Branches.
Just BE in The Vine.
I was talking about this very thing with one of my best friends last week. I’m just about to the point of subscribing to the idea that, if I’d JUST BE in The Vine; if I’d JUST focus on “First Commandment, First Place,” — if I’d just REMAIN, to use Jesus’ verb from John 15 — then all of the DOING I invest (waste?) so much time trying to make happen would be Divinely re-ordered, and the things that REALLY need to get done would actually flow naturally (and peacefully) out of my relationship to God, instead of being this forced mass of chaos that I keep cobbled together all over my mental calendar.
In that context, Matthew 6:33 looms large on the page: “Focus on The Kingdom of God as you FIRST priority, and all of the temporal things you really need will come to you in due course.”
That mentality is shockingly counter-intuitive to the entrepreneurial, “Seven Habits...” go-getter culture our business community has touted for so long. Still...there it is, with the attached promise of our needs being fully met.
It’s like, “Who ya gonna believe: Jesus or Stephen Covey?”
Ducks looked a bit mardy? Mr. Quackers here looked just fine. Maybe your ducks should relocate.
I 40-30-20-10 is a safer route. Don’t know what year you drove on 40 but we did it a couple of times and it almost rattled our teeth loose.
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