DST or EST That Is The Question

It looks like fixing the clock is a done deal, the question boils down to either fixing the clock Daylight Saving Time or Standard Time. So I asked Gemini: Congress is look at fixing the time to either standard time or daylight savings. what are the pros and cons of the clock of either one?

The main tradeoff comes down to a choice between economic/recreation benefits in the evening versus human health and safety in the morning. [1, 2]

While the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to pass the ⁠Sunshine Protection Act to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent, a competing bill called the ⁠Sunshine for Our Kids Act pushes for permanent Standard Time. Both options successfully eliminate the widely disliked twice-yearly clock change, but they shift daylight hours in very different ways. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

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Permanent Daylight Saving Time (Clocks Forward Year-Round)

This option extends the time system currently used from March to November into the winter months. [1]

The Pros:

• More Evening Light: Sunsets occur one hour later in the winter, leaving more daylight for outdoor activities, exercise, and family time after work or school. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
• Economic Boost: Industries like retail, golf, tourism, and restaurants benefit heavily because people are more likely to go out and spend money when it is still light outside. [1, 2, 3]
• Crime Reduction: Extra evening daylight has historically been linked to lower outdoor crime rates during peak commuting hours. [1, 2]

The Cons:

• Dark Winter Mornings: Sunrises are delayed by an hour. In northern and western parts of time zones, the sun might not rise until 8:30 AM or 9:00 AM during the winter. [1, 2, 4, 5]
• Child Safety Hazards: School safety advocates and parents worry about millions of children waiting for school buses or walking to school in pitch-black darkness. [1, 2]
• Historical Failure: The U.S. actually tried permanent DST in 1974. It was quickly repealed after only a few months because the public grew to hate the freezing, dark winter mornings. [1, 2, 3]

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Permanent Standard Time (Clocks Back Year-Round)

This option keeps the country on the time system currently observed between November and March. It is the system currently used year-round by Hawaii and Arizona. [1]

The Pros:

• Better Physical Health: Major medical groups like the ⁠American Medical Association strongly support permanent Standard Time. Morning light is vital for resetting human circadian rhythms. Stanford researchers found that permanent Standard Time reduces "circadian burden" and could prevent up to 300,000 strokes and reduce millions of obesity cases nationwide compared to the current system. [1]
• Improved Sleep Quality: Brighter mornings make it easier to wake up naturally, while darker evenings signal the brain to produce melatonin, helping people fall asleep earlier and get more rest. [1, 2]
• Safer Morning Commutes: Drivers and workers have better visibility during the rush hour commute, lowering the risk of early-morning traffic accidents. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The Cons:

• Extremely Early Summer Sunrises: In June and July, the sun would rise as early as 4:00 AM or 4:30 AM in certain states. This daylight is largely wasted while most people are still sleeping.
• Darker Summer Evenings: Sunsets would occur an hour earlier in the summer. This reduces time for evening recreation, backyard barbecues, and outdoor youth sports.
• Economic Pushback: Businesses strongly oppose this option because early darkness cuts into post-work consumer spending and hurts the recreation industry. [1, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Feature	Permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST)	Permanent Standard Time (ST)
Primary Beneficiary	Retail, tourism, and evening recreation	Public health, sleep quality, and morning safety
Winter Mornings	Dark; sunrises as late as 8:30–9:00 AM	Bright; matches the natural biological clock
Summer Evenings	Bright; sun stays out late for activities	Darker; sun sets an hour earlier than we are used to
Scientific Stance	Opposed by sleep and medical experts	Strongly endorsed by health and sleep experts

So what do you think?

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Hun?

So I have been getting 3 or 4 calls a day from something that the caller ID said "PCH" so after a week of getting "PCH" the only thing that I could thing of was "Publisher Clearing House... but I thought that they went under. So my curiosity got the better of me.

Well it turns out that they say it is an organization that collecting money for police that are victims of assault. But Guide Star didn't have any non-profit by PCH name.

When I searched on the internet, I got:

That opening line is a very common script used in fundraising pitches, especially ones tied to law-enforcement-themed charities—and also by a fair number of questionable or outright scam operations.

A pitch starting with something like “the growing number of assaults on police officers…” is designed to:

• create urgency
• trigger sympathy for officers
• reduce skepticism before asking for money

What it could be

In Connecticut and elsewhere, that wording is often used by groups claiming to support things like:

• local “police support funds”
• officer injury/benefit funds
• police union–adjacent charities (sometimes loosely connected to groups like the Fraternal Order of Police or similar associations)
• “fallen officer” or “public safety” foundations

Why it raises suspicion

That exact style of pitch is also heavily used by bogus telemarketers and door-to-door fundraisers, because:

• it sounds official without naming a specific organization
• it avoids verifiable details early in the conversation
• it leans on a real-world concern (attacks on officers) to build credibility

Quick way to judge what you were dealing with

If you remember anything else, these details matter a lot:

More likely legitimate if:

• they gave a specific organization name (not just “police fund”)
• they provided a mailing address in Connecticut
• they offered a website ending in a known org domain (.org tied to a real group)
• they didn’t pressure you for immediate payment

More likely a scam if:

• it was vague (“support our officers fund”)
• they pushed urgency or guilt
• they asked for gift cards, cash apps, or instant payment
• they refused to clearly identify the department or charity registration

Bottom line
That opening line alone doesn’t confirm legitimacy—it’s a standard emotional hook used by both real fundraisers and scams. In practice, most complaints about “police fund” solicitations come from unaffiliated telemarketing outfits using law-enforcement themes, not actual police departments.

So what out! It maybe a scam!

Mixed Out Comes.

As you read this, keep one thing in mind... the Republicans think being trans a choice!

Utah lawmakers sweep their own study on care for trans kids under the rug as they push to ban it

“They have no intention of actually using the data,” a Utah health provider treating transgender youth said.

The 19^th News

By Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune

February 4, 2026

Few Utahns have witnessed the effects of withdrawing transgender kids’ access to care as Collin Kuhn, a clinical child and adolescent psychologist who specializes in helping their clients navigate challenges and questions related to gender.

The difference between receiving care and not receiving care, they said, is “night and day.”

“All of a sudden, socially, their world opens up,” Kuhn said of transgender clients after they start hormone therapy — treatment that, Kuhn added, doesn’t start until the client has met with them or another mental health professional for a year or longer. “They’re not just isolating and sitting in their rooms behind a screen.”

[...]

But in 2023, Utah lawmakers passed what they referred to as a “moratorium” on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, then-state Sen. Mike Kennedy’s SB16. The bill’s GOP proponents, at the time, repeatedly insisted they were concerned for minors’ health and safety. So as part of the law, the Legislature commissioned an in-depth review of all research into the effects of hormone treatments.

And the results didn't come out the way they thought it would.

As the Republican supermajority now moves toward permanently banning such care in Utah, lawmakers continue to sidestep public dialogue about the results of that research — which concluded that gender-affirming care for minors with gender dysphoria is largely found to result in positive outcomes and reduce the likelihood of suicide.

Records obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune indicate legislative staff aiding the Health and Human Services Interim Committee initially planned on lawmakers discussing the review’s findings after the report’s delivery last May.

Hey wait a minute! We have to hide this... 

Gov. Spencer Cox said at a June news conference that he felt Utah’s limits on access to gender-affirming care are “probably in the right place right now,” adding, “There doesn’t seem to be an appetite to readdress it. I think things have shifted significantly over the past couple years.”

WTF! Trans kid will die! Trans kid will be effected for the rest of their lives with their deep voices all because the governor doesn't have the appetite to readdress it!

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This is not good news!

The medical system pushed transgender surgery on kids — now it's facing legal justice

A New York woman received $1.6M for pain and suffering and $400K for future medical expenses after suing doctors over teen transgender surgery

By Chloe Cole Fox News

February 5, 2026

Two million dollars.

That’s how much money a 22-year-old woman just won in a New York lawsuit against her doctors. She sued them for medical malpractice after they cut off her breasts when she was 16. They told her she could become a boy, even though that’s biologically impossible. Now she has won the first-ever lawsuit against doctors who try to give sex changes to kids.

That brave young woman isn’t alone.

This is the bull that the right-wing is pushing out!

The woman in New York has a heartbreaking story. She accused a psychologist and surgeon of pressuring her to get a sex-change surgery when she was a teenager. While her mother was opposed to the surgery, she felt like she had no choice but to allow it. That checks out: Doctors tell parents all the time that without a sex change, their child is going to commit suicide. How can a parent argue with that?

I don't know any therapist with forced or encouraged their patients to transition!

For that matter, every doctor who’s even remotely involved in providing sex changes should stop — immediately. People like me are coming for them. They pressured us and hurt us in profound ways. We demand justice. The $2 million that New York woman just won is a start. But this won’t end until the medical profession atones for its actions and stops giving sex changes to children once and for all.

The National Review writes,

The Dam Just Broke on Transgender Medical-Malpractice Lawsuits. Where’s the Coverage?

By Brittany Bernstein

February 2, 2026

Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at the lack of mainstream media coverage of a major verdict in a gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case, and cover more media misses.

As readers of National Review will know, a woman who received a double mastectomy at only 16 as an act of “gender-affirming” care was just awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a detransitioner.

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Twenty-eight detransitioner lawsuits are now in different stages of legal proceedings across the U.S., according to the New York Post. But Varian’s is the first known successful lawsuit. The case could open the floodgates for lawsuits of its kind.

This is horrible! This will not only affect minors but also those over 21... the hospitals and healthcare providers are going to backing off surgeries!

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Then we have discrimination in the health care industry!

Parents of trans kids ask: Does California really protect our rights?

Cal Matters

by Kristen Hwang

February 4, 2026

In summary

The Unruh Civil Rights Act provides the fundamental protection for equal access to health care regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, experts say. The state has not acted to uphold those protections, transgender rights groups claim.

On Friday evening, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest children’s health provider. The complaint accused Rady Children’s Health in San Diego of taking steps to illegally terminate gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

News of the lawsuit spread quickly through chat groups of parents of transgender kids, LGBTQ organizations and the broader transgender community. It was the first major action the state has taken against a hospital that had severely limited or ended transgender health services.

Many in the community see this move as a major step towards protecting transgender health, but some still question why the state’s legal claims don’t rest on broader civil rights questions. Instead, the key argument relies on the state’s corporations code — a provision governing business transactions — to try to compel Rady into continuing gender-affirming care.

The hospitals are between a rock and a hard place with the fed saying that they will cutoff Medicare and Medicaid funding and the state saying not so fast!

California’s civil rights law — the Unruh Civil Rights Act — is the backbone of the state’s guarantee of equal access to transgender health services, which can include puberty blockers, hormones, surgery and therapy, said Megan Noor, a staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center. The law prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. 

Noor said that means, for example, if a hospital offers puberty blockers to a cisgender child who is starting puberty too young, they cannot deny access to that same treatment to a transgender child even if it is for a different purpose, such as giving the child more time to explore their gender identity. 

But the hard fact is the feds will bankrupt the hospital by cuttings the funding!

Hospitals say their hands were forced by an unfriendly federal government that does not recognize the existence of transgender people. 

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order characterizing transgender health procedures as “chemical and surgical mutilation” and directing agencies to defund any supportive programs. 

Since then his administration has intensified the pressure against health care organizations. Over the summer, federal investigators issued subpoenas to clinics and hospitals around the country, alleging fraud and seeking medical records. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in November published a self-described peer reviewed report “on the medical dangers posed to children” of gender-affirming care.

And as usual we get caught in the middle!

Homogenized

ber-LIN or BER-lin?

Regional accents are becoming a thing of the past!

The Boston accent is disappearing. How much longer will its music linger?

From call-in radio shows to corner bars, the accent that defined Boston is losing ground. A Dartmouth linguist has research to prove it.

Boston Globe

Beth Teitell

January 16, 2026

To even ask the question feels borderline blasphemous. But is the Boston accent — a dialect that has minted mayors, sabotaged movies, and fueled a robust industry of gift-store mugs — dying?

Has the last person to bark out pahk the cah in hahvahd yahd already been born?

In December, Katherine Loftus, a proud daughter of Southie — and now a lawyer living in Milton — took to Instagram to sound the alarm.

“My kids don’t have a Boston accent and it literally kills me,” Loftus, 41, began in an intimate video, as she cradled a mug of coffee, her hair, makeup, and nails decidedly done, her r’s decidedly missing. “They’ll make fun of me. They’ll be like, ‘Can we go to the paaahk?’

“It’s gone. It’s gone,” she continued, mourning gentrification and other forces that sparked a diaspora so intense her own children are growing up in the suburbs, surrounded by friends, teachers, and others who, in her words, “talk regulah.”

We are becoming homogenized!

It is happening all around the country. As we move from region to region, we blend our dialects. I can see it right here in my hometown, and "foreigners" (i.e., those who were not raised here) are now speaking a blend of accents.

Just watching the local news, I hear the news anchors butcher the town names… but what do you expect when they come from the four corners of the country and none of them are local? My teachers were all local; now they come from all over the state.

We are blending regional cultures as we move around the country.

Also, the post office erased all of the villages in the state. How did they do that? With ZIP codes! ZIP codes were never laid out according to local towns and villages. We think of Winsted as a town, but it is not—it is a village in the town of Winchester! Municipalities are vanishing: Winchester is no more, Kensington is no more, and “I pahked my cah in the yahd.” is going the way of the Dodo bird.

Life On A Sandbar

Flocks of tourists descend upon New England for the foliage—the reds and yellows. But not to Cape Cod. You would never know it is fall with all the pine barrens; the oaks just dry up and turn brown.

Dried brown leaves litter the trails along with dried pine needles, making the classic rustling sound as you walk. Then we have the invasive species—the black locust exists in scattered patches across the Cape and whose leaves only turn yellowish brown.

The crisp, dry air makes it ideal for sitting around a firepit outside, reading with no biting insects!

But next weekend, the craziness is back for the three-day weekend, though nowhere near the summer levels. The three-day Indigenous Peoples' Weekend brings an inrush. The following weekend is Wellfleet's Oyster Fest!

Then, two weeks after that, it's time to pack everything up and get ready to close it up for the winter and the elections.

Mini-Post: On The Plus Side

One of the fringe of transitioning that no one ever talks about... if being able to identify junk mail at a glance.

This morning I got U.S. mail I got a nice letter but it was spam. How do I know with just looking at it? It had my deadname!

That name hasn't been around in close to twenty years.

And yes, I did just get an offer to go to a retirement planning session, but it had my deadname on it, I wonder what old list they got my name and address from?

A Recipe For Disaster.

So while I was driving the other day and there was a dedicated bike lane to my right.

I was coming to a intersection two-lane road with dedicated bike lanes on both sides. The light was green and the car in front of me was making a right turn with his blinker light on. But to their right was the bike lane with a bicyclist was going straight but the car that was turning right in the right turn lane couldn't see the bicyclist approaching on the right in their blind spot.

The bicyclist who got cut off kicked the car back passenger door denting it!

So that got me wondering who has the Right-of-Way?

The bicyclist does.

And this is a recipe for disaster! It's not just a matter of who has the right of way; it's a design problem that creates a high potential for disaster. The kicker is that it is widely recognized by traffic safety experts as a dangerous setup.

The answer?

• Dedicated traffic signals for bicyclists.
• Signs for bicyclists that say, "Yield to turning cars."
• Allowing cars to merge into the bike lane before making a right turn.

Sadly I see deaths and injuries from this defective design. 

Mini-Post: Cultural Sensitivity

OMG! That's DEI!

I have written about this in the past. There is another great divide here in the U.S.: phone etiquette, and by phone, I also include texts.

I bought new glasses a week ago Tuesday, and I had been waiting for them for almost two weeks!

I asked Gemini AI about phone usage, "Is there any data about phone usage with seniors compared to non-seniors?" and it said,

In short, the data shows that while seniors are quickly adopting smartphones and other digital technologies, their usage habits differ from those of non-seniors. They tend to spend less time on their devices and use them for more specific, functional purposes, although their engagement with social and entertainment-focused apps is steadily increasing.

In my house, I have a landline phone extensions in the kitchen, in my bedroom, in my office upstairs, and one in the den down in the basement. My cell phone is inside my bag on the dining room table. On Saturday morning at ten, I was probably eating out on the deck when they called.

Now, you would think that they would call again when I didn’t show up. Nope, just that one cell phone call. I get a cell phone call a day from CVS; they call both my landline and my cell phone... unfortunately. It is good that they call both, but I don’t need a dozen calls reminding me to order a drug that my doctor stopped. But other than those, I don’t get many calls. It is not that I don’t like talking to friends on the phone, but they know to call my landline first.

So I noticed when I took my cell phone out to charge that it had over a dozen messages. "Hi, this is CVS…" Delete! "Hi, this is CVS…" Delete! "Hi, this is CVS…" Delete!

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"Hi, this is the optician; your glasses are in." WHOA! Checking the envelope… Saturday at 10:00 a.m.… I was out on the deck eating breakfast!

You know, at one time I used to work. While at work, I made phone calls. If they didn’t return the call, I called them again.

Back to phone etiquette. When I make a call, I am aware of their preferences. My niece and nephews… text is their preferred method. My brother used to prefer the landline, but now that they are living in their daughter’s house, it is the cell phone.

When I was working, I always called the landline first and then their cell. I figured if they have a landline, that is their preferred first choice.

There is data that shows that seniors have the highest number of landlines. I wonder why? Could it be because there are hundreds of friends, relatives, and others who only have that number? Maybe it is also because they don’t make extension phones for the house. And I'll be damned if I will carry my cell phone around the house with me.

What it all boils down to is common courtesy to respect others… it is simple. If they list a landline, call that number first.

So now the optometrist will not get any new business from me. My old optometrist, who I went to school with, retired, so I was looking for a new optometrist, and I chose them because they are local and not a chain store.

It Is 3AM

I was sitting out on the deck just now, drinking a hot chocolate milk and listening to the night.

Off in the distance, a freight train is coming to a crossing, but that is not the only sound of the night... You can hear cars starting up at a red light miles away. But even more amazing is the roar of I-84, four miles away—the tire noise from the traffic.

On the Cape... quiet! Relatively. Rt. 6 is less than a mile away, but at that time of night the only traffic is trucks resupplying the tip of the Cape. Sixty miles out in the ocean does make it quiet. But...

The New Hampshire cottage had them all beat... it was quiet. Really quiet! There was a story circulating that some folks from Queens couldn't stand the quiet. The nearest streetlight was 20 miles away! When you ordered pizza, you started driving as soon as you hung up because it was a 20-minute drive... you got to like pizza. It was an old fast-food restaurant with a drive-through window—you never had to get out of your car.

The background noise is something we don't think about because... well, because it is background noise. It's kind of like tinnitus—it's always with you, but your mind tunes it out.

Mini-Post: It Is 3 AM Do You Know Where Your Pets Are?

I'm sitting out in the addition at the cottage with all the window open to the cool 55F breeze. Off in the distance a dog is yapping, not a big dog. It sounds like a lap dog not a big dog with a bark.

Earlier in the night the sounds of a coyote pack howling off in the woods.

A lot of people up here are from a city or from the suburbs, they don't have to deal with animals that eat other animals. When my family had a cottage up on a lake in New Hampshire there were a lot of animals like a Fisher Cat that would see little Fifi as an appetizer. There were also birds of prey like Eagles, Hawks, and Owls. 

In New Hampshire on a wall in the grocery store there was all the missing animals. With notes saying "We have to go back to New York... our little Fifi is missing" with a cute picture of a lap dog with a bow in its hair.

Here on the Cape there are also Ospreys besides all the animals that feed on small animals and fish.

These city slickers are used to putting their dog out at night to do their business... well here there is an abundance of woods and forest there are also predictors.

Just saying it might be a good idea to go out with your pet at night while up here.

Mini-Post: What Do You Think?

I believe on inclusion. Period.

What Trump is doing now with his anti-Woke campaign is discrimination! It is exclusion rather than inclusion. In the 3PM afternoon post I wrote about have Trump & Company is bring back discrimination in the military.

Our language is also bring back discrimination... Woke is the new word meaning "to discriminate." and other words are creeping into the language.

I use "folk" as it was original meant as an inclusive word... But now there is a new word that is being used "folx" according to Merriam-Webster dictionary,

folx

plural noun

ˈfōks 

: folks —used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized

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Folk means...

1

folk or folks plural : people generally

2

folk or folks plural : a certain kind, class, or group of people

old folks

just plain folk

country folk

media folk

3

folks plural : the persons of one's own family

especially : parents

4

: folk music

5

: the great proportion of the members of a people that determines the group character and that tends to preserve its characteristic form of civilization and its customs, arts and crafts, legends, traditions, and superstitions from generation to generation

6

archaic : a group of kindred tribes forming a nation : people

folk

2 of 2

adjective

1

: originating or traditional with the common people of a country or region and typically reflecting their lifestyle

folk hero

folk music

2

: of or relating to the common people or to the study of the common people

folk sociology

Call me old fashion but to me it seem Folk is inclusive and Folx is exclusive.

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Mini-Post: Little Boxes On The Hillside

Little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky

Little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes all the same

Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes

Yesterday I was up at UConn in Storrs and on the way up along Rt. 195 I noticed new apartment buildings going up, when I was driving around the campus there were more now apartment building that were built... the same as the ones along Rt. 195.

When I go home in town, there was apartments going up and you know what they were just like the ones in Storrs. Three stories with the same style of balconies, the same of siding.

Then in the center of town... there were the exact same style as all the other apartments, but had shops on the first floor.

And that reminded me of the song... Little Boxes. Now it nice to see all these apartments going up (And at least in town I know they need a certain number of low income apartment (But I bet you that there will not be one low income apartment over the requirement for low income apartment.) and that we really need more housing.

However, could they please modify the outside design so they all don't like like a bunch big ticky-tacky boxes on a hillside.

What Is All Of This Paranoia Over Drones?

Fact: Drones have been sighted all over the northeast!
Fact: Drones are not illegal to fly!

N.J. is freaking out over these mystery drones. Inside the fascination and paranoia.

NJ.com
By Murjani Rawls
December 17, 2024


Look up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s many large drones reported to be flying all over New Jersey (more than 3,000 reporting sightings so far, the FBI said).

Surely, the statewide hysteria surrounding these mysterious machines — even the Feds don’t know who’s behind them — will someday be immortalized, not unlike Orson Welles’ infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast, which also claimed to see lights in the sky over Jersey.

But these drones are real, concrete details are scarce since their first sightings in mid November, and folks are descending into varying displays of fascination, paranoia and conspiracies, as seen all over social media this week.

Are these objects being sent from an alleged foreign adversary to spy on the everyday dealings of New Jerseyans, or is Marvin the Martian gearing up to use his Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator? Nobody seems to know, but there sure are plenty of opinions as to what these flying objects could be.

They must be sinister!

The New York Times writes,

After reviewing thousands of tips, federal law enforcement officials on Saturday reaffirmed that mysterious drones spotted in the Northeast in recent weeks pose no national security threat and in most cases are not even drones.

Investigators reviewing video footage and interviews with witnesses have so far determined that at least some of the roaming objects were manned aircraft, such as airplanes or helicopters, that were misidentified as drones, according to officials from the F.B.I., Department of Homeland Security and Federal Aviation Administration, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity on Saturday because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Oh look Jane!
See the lights!
They are blinking… red and green!
Oh Dick, I’m scared!

You know you would think that half of the people never look up at the sky!

The U.S. officials said they had confirmed drone sightings over military bases in New Jersey, including Picatinny Arsenal, but they had no evidence the devices were operated by a foreign government or authority. U.S. national security officials have not been able to identify the operators of the drones.

Meanwhile the more that the government denies that they are harmful the more these kooks think it is a conspiracy theory!

Mystery Drones Saga: Ohio Air Force Base Sees More Drone ‘Incursions’ (Updated)
Forbes
By Stephen Pastis
Dec 17, 2024

 A group of federal agencies on Monday night said the weeks-long sightings of low-flying drone-like objects in the night skies of New Jersey and other nearby states are likely a mix of misidentified legal aircraft and stars that pose no threats—even as a U.S. Air Force base reports repeated drone sightings.

 

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 In a joint statement, the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, FAA and Defense Department said they examined the notable leads from the more than 5,000 reported drone sightings and determined “the sightings to date” are a “combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones.”

The more they deny it the more conspiracy theorist scream coverup!

Conspiracy theories and false recordings of alleged drones have circulated online. Unfounded claims the U.S. government is flying the reported drones—possibly to search for radioactive materials—appears to be gaining traction, thanks to celebrities like Bethenny Frankel posting on TikTok, Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arguing it’s “in control” and podcaster Joe Rogan promoting a video claiming the drones are secretly detecting radioactive material. Michael Melham, the mayor of Belleville, New Jersey, fanned the theory to Fox 5 New York Tuesday, saying drones are “all over the place” while federal officials say New Jersey officials “don’t know what we’re talking about.” Another prominent conspiracy theory that’s re-appeared is Project Blue Beam, a decades-old conspiracy that the government will use deceptive tactics—like faking an alien invasion—to dominate society.

Then we have the perpetual Congressional nut case Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Daily Mail says...

Firebrand Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused the Pentagon of being 'full of crap' amid mystery drone sightings.

The unidentified objects have been hovering over New Jersey for nearly a month, yet the FBI and the Pentagon say they have no answers as to who is behind them.

Greene told DailyMail.com: 'I'm gonna call it total bulls*** that no one knows what these are. And I think it's a slap in the face to the American people to say they don't know what this is.

 She added: 'They can track down a guy that just killed a CEO, but they can't identify what these drones are and where they're coming from?'

'I think that is absolutely disgusting to lie to the American people like this, and the truth needs to be told about it.'

Then we have Trump adding his two cents...

Trump accuses Biden, Pentagon of covering up drone mystery in NJ, NY: ‘The government knows what is happening’

New York Post

By Steven Nelson

December 16, 2024

The truth is out there.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday accused President Biden and the Pentagon of hiding information about mysterious drones spotted hovering above New Jersey and New York.

“The government knows what is happening,” Trump, 78, said after Biden representatives pleaded ignorance despite thousands of Garden State and New York City residents seeing — and in some instances photographing — the unidentified aircraft.

“Look, our military knows where they took off from — if it’s a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went, and for some reason they don’t want to comment,” the once and future president said during a wide-ranging, 70-minute press conference in Palm Beach, Fla.

“And I think they’d be better off saying what it is. Our military knows and our president knows. And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.”

The Daily Beast writes...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday made his first public comments about recent reports of unexplained drone sightings in the northeast.

Asked by reporters what was behind the drones, Biden answered: “Nothing nefarious, apparently, but they’re checking it all out.” He added that authorities are “following this closely,” but so far there is “no sense of danger.”

Biden’s comments were the latest effort from his administration to reassure the public about the sightings. Lawmakers have called on the federal government to provide more answers, and conspiracy theories have spread online.

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But Biden administration and law enforcement officials have repeatedly addressed the concerns. National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby told CNN Monday that the sightings over the East Coast “represent lawful, legal, commercial [and] hobbyist drones—even law enforcement drones,” which don’t pose a threat to the public.

But that just riled up the conspiracy nuts including Trump,

On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump nevertheless insisted at a press conference that “something strange is going on” and claimed government officials “don’t want to tell the people” what’s happening. “I think they’d be better off saying what it is,” Trump said. “Our military knows and our president knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense.”

The comments of Yahoo are hilarious, one person wrote "We want the truth! No more lies" what they really mean that the only answer they want is something nefarious even if it is lie. 

So what do you think all this drone stuff is about?

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