What are you thinking? Well stop it.

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□ [“Trump Administration Releases Major Batch of 'Never-Before-Seen' UFO Files and Footage"]

Interesting, it's basically a bunch of pictures of lights and shapes and nobody knows what they're looking at.  I haven't dug into the release but was disappointed to see that what was listed in this article was mostly from the 2020s.  You've had pictures going back for decades and these are the first ones to put out?

But they've also included some material from the Apollo 12 and 17 missions, from November 1969 and December 1972 respectively.  It's the same problem, it just makes you go 'what is that?' and you can understand why the astronauts weren't eager to release this info.  They might be crazy, they might be doomed and even if they were neither, just admitting this would have made millions of people go bonkers from all the possibilities.  We've seen a lot of that from people obsessed with the UFOs.

My theory is that the Earth, and probably the Moon, are living entities.  The moon landings were the closest they ever had to direct connection.  I'll assume they could communicate anyway but this was deeper and more relevant to them.  If the moon has no living beings on it and is just a satellite of our planet, the earth is the one that would have all the reaction.

Either way, I think this has been what's affected human behavior for the last fifty-some years.  If there were other sentient beings, they'd also be affected.  Because the Earth is far more knowledgeable than humans, I assume she - yes, I refer to planet Earth as female - had spent a long time preparing for this meeting.  She probably aspires to keep growing to the point where she can have interactions with other planets in the solar system, perhaps even the sun.

So essentially I think that's what these UFO sightings amount to.  The planet is doing something that's above our pay grade so although we might be interested in learning more, I don't think it's particularly relevant.  I'd also suspect this links up with similar beliefs in ghosts and other monsters.  They might be interchangeable, they might be different sets of tools the Earth uses for different reasons.

And because I've gone this far, I do think this is fundamentally what human conflict is about.  Part of us, as individuals or groups, tribes, cities, nations, religions, sides with the planet, worshipping her.  The other part of us more correctly submits to the will of God and what He has brought to the entire universe.  What we see on Earth is just a small part of that.  And He is probably involved, one way or another, with these UFOs.

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□ [“Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Democrat Gerrymandering as Unconstitutional"]

I haven't paid much attention to all the states trying to remake their election districts to benefit their favorite parties but I've still noticed it.  My main reaction is still surprised, I really would have thought every state was as gerrymandered as it could possibly be by this point.  The only way they'd need to be changed is if large voting blocks packed up and moved.  While that is happening, it's not the only thing going on.

There's all the illegal immigrants being busted.  They might still be able to cast votes in blue states but it'll probably be harder to get away with that.  Then there's all the accusations of voter fraud.  I have deliberately avoided looking into these articles because they seem overly-complicated and there's no way to trust anybody's statements on the matter.  But that still raises the question, what do you do to investigate?

Thinking about it, you'd have to be able to account for all sides in counting votes to see who is the closest to correct.  If the Democrat victory is by the exact same number of votes as there are dead people and illegal immigrants voting twenty times each, always voting for Democrats, there's probably something to the accusations of voter fraud.  Another problem is the lack of federal funding going to leftist NPOs to help get more votes.

Then there's the fact that Trump is doing everything he can to get MAGA candidates to throw out the RINOs.  Then there's the fact that Democrats are rushing far-left, repulsing a lot of their standard voter base in the process.  And now we get red states doing the same gerrymandering that the blue states are doing and it's working better for them, like it was a weapon that Republicans always had but kept hidden until the right time.

They're doing everything they can to get the MAGA vote out for the mid-terms, hoping to overwhelm the leftist candidates and their supporters.  I don't know what chance there is of success but putting all this stuff together, it looks like an enormous amount of effort and it was planned all the way down the line.  The left certainly can't do that, this could show them how outmatched they are at every level.  Only when they have all the elites and government bureaucrats and media can they even convincingly claim to be large in number.  I would love to see this as coming true to celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary.

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□ [“Trump Announces Three Day Ceasefire Between Russia and Ukraine To Celebrate ‘Victory Day’"]

Oh how wonderful.  We're all so lucky that Trump has found time to stay involved in this war halfway around the world.  Because he's done so much to help them.  And they already do this every year.  Or they say they'll do that, or something, I don't know.

Of course they're still arguing over this and looking for an excuse to break the ceasefire.  Zelensky is warning foreign leaders about going to Moscow for the celebration, like it's a dangerous place to be and he doesn't recommend it.  For its part, Russia has warned all diplomats to leave Kiev if they do something during the ceasefire.  Threats for the sake of threats or are they actually going to try something.  If these people were white, maybe that would make a difference but otherwise it doesn't matter.  [someone whispers something to me.]  Well I still don't care.

This leads to other problems.  Russian diplomats have been kicked out of Austria.  Who knew they even had relations?  They're being accused of spying.  Russians accused of spying?  What kind of world are we living in where anyone would make that claim?  What next, Austria is getting along with Germany?

Meanwhile Russia is getting ready to finish its conquest of Donetsk.  This was the central point for the whole war and they waited five years go get this far?  I keep saying they've gone slow deliberately since they also have to face Europe and NATO but five years?  It's Russia so I don't expect them to be sensible but what's the point of this delay?  Could have just charge through with full military force years ago, the casualties wouldn't be much different and everyone else would shrug and go on with their day because it's Ukraine, no one cares.  Even fewer care about Donetsk.

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What started me on these series of essays about comic book history was thinking about the use of their characters as corporate intellectual property.  Maybe it was because comics were shady cheap medium, maybe there were other reasons.  I had been thinking about the way their modern corporate masters were trying to push the 'multiverse' in both Marvel and DC movies and, thinking back through comics history, noticed that they had been paying attention to this nearly from the start, tying the concept of 'alternate universes' together with their individual IPs.

This raises obvious questions which probably only lawyers would care enough to answer and also seems most notable to the superhero genre.  If Superman is the star, the one people want to buy comics for - or listen to the radio, watch the movies, by the toys - then what does that make Clark Kent?  By the nature of the story, they're the same person but how does that work legally?

Then there's other aspects of the characters and their supporting cast.  Superboy was legally defined as a separate character, proven when Jerry Siegel was able to keep ownership of him after a lawsuit.  He would immediately turn around and sell Superboy to DC but it still remains, isn't this the same character?  And if not, how so?

Then there's further definitions for the supporting cast.  Lois Lane and Jimmy Olson were popular characters who would go on to be the title characters in their own comic books.  Perry White and Lana Lang did not get that so how do their trademarks be legally distinguished?  Lois and Jimmy comics were still just another Superman title, they didn't go out to live their own lives.  The whole franchise was maintained.  This also applies to the supervillains and other aspects like Krypto or the Daily Planet.  The Legion of Superheroes were created as back-up characters for Superboy but went on to be part of their own large franchise.  It's a valid question how connected they are, legally.  DC would have to figure this out so make use of their IPs.

It's just a guess and I'm not sure how accurate it really was but my early theory was that many DC policies for its IPs had been developed by starting off as two separate companies.  Actually three because for some reason, Detective Comics Incorporated was formed to publish that title.  What little explanations I can find get very iffy very quickly, especially once you notice the founders of DC had connections to William Randolph Hearst media, Tammany Hall and organized crime.  They cranked out material by pulp writers and science fiction founders for an audience of desperate kids.  Then they had the unforeseeable hit that was Superman which made things even bigger.

Superheroes were a cheap and easy way to make use of fantasy and imagination.  Cost as much money to crank out pages of Clark Kent sitting at a desk as it did to show Superman beating up alien species across dozens of planets.  Other artists and publishers so the potential for profit and dug in.  At some point, it would occur to them to start putting these characters together.  Timely had the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch fighting each other in June-August 1940.  Then in Winter 1940-41, the different DC companies put together the Justice Society.

My early theory was about these companies being separate.  I knew they were close and worked together - they advertised each other's comics - so it was a distinct decision to put their various IPs together in a single title.  My mistake was that Jack Liebowitz had been involved in the founding of all these companies with a high executive rank.  He was still president when DC was purchased by bigger companies and stayed for decades, finally resigning from the Warner Communication board in 1991.  So it wasn't different companies with their own policies and legal departments, it was one guy deciding which day-to-day business decisions could be better handled by which company.

But the control of their IPs would still be relevant, through different companies across different mediums through the years.  The Justice Society would lead to a reboot which led to inspiration for other companies like Marvel.  The influence on corporate intellectual property still holds firm, especially as both companies are desperately spending hundreds of millions of dollars on movies to put these IPs together in hopes that the public will fall for it.  And that was effectively the same goal they had started with.

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