Robert Romano

Children of the Grave RPG. @ComicsgateVideo. #Comicsgate This is where I post art, music and sometimes politics. @LimitGovt

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

And experimenting in grey scale in Clip Studio! Learning a lot. Thanks @Friended4Ever for recommending some good brushes.

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

@Lombiart Can’t complain! Hope all is well !!!

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@america Extranationals!

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@HumanCinepede @Y2John84

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH!

HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON!
🦅🇺🇸🕯️

[Vasilis Lolos Greek God of Comics @VLolosOfficiel]

My Graphic novel version of the Odyssey
is
the best.
Soon to be crowdfunded
#ODYSSEIA

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

There could be no Independence Day without Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

@PeteHegseth As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on!

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Two simple Truths:

Jesus Christ died for our sins.

America’s fallen died for our freedom.

May we live worthy.

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

101-year-old World War II veteran Don Graves — the last surviving flamethrower operator from his battalion, which fought on Iwo Jima — sings “God Bless America” at the National Memorial Day Parade.

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

As for reports of aliens being recovered from a crash, the very first version of that story was from a 1950 book by Frank Scully, Behind The Flying Saucers: https://t.co/25yrOBGmHK of a supposed Aztec, New Mexico incident (which seems to have been a hoax) were these March 1950 memos

The incident does appear in the first batch of documents in the https://t.co/6CABcFc39u releases: https://t.co/1AtTvV3JJr but it's not contemporaneous since the incident is said to have occurred in 1948.

Silas Newton said he had "doodlebugs" that could find oil and it was based on the alien tech (so Newton himself was controlling the tech!) that he had got from a crash, claiming the government recovered the wreckage and alien bodies. And yet this is one of the more well known accounts because of Frank Scully's book but as we see in the releases, is just one of hundreds of case files that got filed and archived because the government didn't take them seriously.

Eventually this got morphed into the Roswell account, popularized by books like The Roswell Incident (that then covers a separate incident in the Plains of Saint Agustin that sounds an awful lot like Newton's account, but only told 31 years later), a television special featuring Leonard Nimoy https://t.co/MaSihofLah and Robert Stack's Unsolved Mysteries https://t.co/rfSI2M8tAl.

So, the alien crash mythology then might be boiled down to fake "doodlebugs" reverse-engineered from a crashed alien craft that a huckster claimed could detect oil (he alone controlled the tech!) and a toy manufacturer making the Roswell balloon with decorative tape amid wartime shortages. From that, you get a multi-billion dollar Hollywood-based industry selling the alien mythology. Today, the public expectation for alien craft and bodies has again been advanced by David Grusch's claim of crash retrieval and "non-human biologics". In the meantime, we also have decades of reports of the sightings that have never been fully discounted.

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

Miss Goodman cracked the case! I hope she won the science fair! "Director Hoover forwarded my inquiry to the Air Force on my behalf!" "Fantastic! Why, Judy, you get the blue ribbon!" 🤣 https://t.co/G6a312vj4J

There appear to be hundreds of such letters from Hoover responding to police chiefs, etc. saying he'd forward it to the Air Force. That seems to be because beginning in 1950, the FBI got out of the UFO business and was directing the public to the lead agency, the Air Force.

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To which, the Air Force replied -- albeit in a 1995 report -- that the "hieroglyphics" were because the balloon had been made by a toy manufacturer: "The witnesses have recalled small pink/purple 'flowers' that appeared to be some sort of writing that couldn’t be deciphered. These figures were printed on tape that sealed the seams of the of the radar target. The radar targets, sometimes called corner reflectors, had been manufactured during or shortly after World War II, and due to shortages, the manufacturer, a toy company, used whatever resources were available. This toy company used plastic tape with pink/purple flowers and geometric designs in the construction of its toys and, in a time of shortage, used it on the government contract for the corner reflectors." https://t.co/QyR3OYtkq0

Charles B. Moore, project manager for the NYU balloon project, stated for the record: "I have a specific recollection of reinforcing tape applied to the seams of the reflectors that had some symbols such as arcs, flowers, circles and diamonds. These were pinkish in color." There's a sketch attached of what the tape looked like. https://t.co/x6o0UJEyMZ

The Marcels were telling the truth! But, these were not hieroglyphics in the official story, but patterns for children's toys.

There was also a follow-on report in 1997 entitled "Case Closed": https://t.co/HFRWgw3kDW

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

Sitting VPs perform better when succeeding a term limited President with a tendency to keep things close even if they don’t usually win. https://t.co/HRldkl98Jk In modern history only Harry Truman and George HW Bush got their parties beyond two or more terms. Adlai Stevenson and John McCain got blown out.

Now technically Trump is serving non-consecutive terms but I think judging by approval we’re seeing the same voter fatigue set in that often but not always accompanies second terms.

You could do worse than Vance. But it’s basically up to him (and Trump). In modern history, VPs who run usually win the nomination.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

George Lucas initially wanted to start the "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) with a sequence showing Indy as a boy, but Spielberg initially disagreed with the idea. According to Lucas, Spielberg rejected the idea as he had really been trashed by the critics for "Empire of the Sun" (1987) & he had said. "I just don't want to do any more films with kids in them."

Lucas also suggested making Indy III “a haunted-house movie.” He had such a script written by screenwriter Diane Thomas before her death in a 1985 car accident, but, Lucas said, “Steven had done 'Poltergeist' (1982), and he didn’t want to do another movie like that.”

Menno Meyjes’s draft was about Indy’s quest for the Holy Grail, a plot device suggested by Lucas, left Spielberg dubious. However Spielberg agreed to do the movie about The Holy Grail on one condition.

Spielberg said, "I will make the movie about the Holy grail but I want it to be about a father and son. I want to get Indy’s father involved in the thing. I want a quest for the father."

"I wanted to do Indy in pursuit of his father, sharing his father’s dream, and in the course of searching for their dreams, they rediscover each other."

However, according to screenwriter, Jeffrey Boam the Father-Son story was the idea of George Lucas.

("Steven Spielberg A Biography", Joseph McBride, 2010)

P.S: On this day, 37 years ago, "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) was released in the USA & Canada.

[ETHAN VAN SCIVER @EthanVanSciver]

@robertromano We can't do it without you!

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

@EthanVanSciver Good luck!

[ETHAN VAN SCIVER @EthanVanSciver]

ComicsGate is about to experience a revolution.

We've got some incredible things lined up to make our EXCELLENT comics go global, as well as making funding easier.

[Robert Romano @robertromano]

I'd like to congratulate anti-woke X and YouTube for making exactly the same exact argument against The Odyssey's casting as one of UCLA's DEI brochures in 2019 made against "whitewashing" and "inauthentic" casting. https://t.co/qGwkariA0V

I even see some of you unironically posting shots from Troy of all movies to make the argument. Eric Bana wasn't Greek, either. And Orlando Bloom was not really an Anatolian Trojan (assuming there even ever was a Troy). Maybe you don't really care about the cultural "heritage" involved at all.

I think it's just gotten really silly but it's all over my timeline so here's my response.

Let's say you accept the argument. Well, then Christopher Plummer never does The Sound of Music, Robert Powell never does Jesus of Nazareth, Charlton Heston never does The Ten Commandments, James Caan never does The Godfather, Jenette Goldstein never does Aliens, Paul Giamatti never does John Adams, Ciarán Hinds never does Rome, hell, Brad Pitt never does Troy (were there even any Greeks in that movie?). All of the movies I mentioned won Oscars (three won best picture), too, upon inspection, not that it matters, although I suppose it factors into a separate argument that "inauthentically" cast movies never won awards before the Academy added their new DEI.

There is some irony that the DEI simultaneously blasts "inauthentic" casting and then embraces it, but that's just like the posts I'm seeing today. So, I guess congratulations on all being equally hypocritical. 🤣

When we cast our musicals in high school, we were just looking for the best singers, dancers, actors and actresses. When we did The Sound of Music, we weren't trying to do any accents except maybe some variant of the theatrical mid-Atlantic accent perhaps. It's just art.

But, bravo, after a decade of getting hit over the head with DEI and complaining about race swapping, you've somehow managed to adopt Critical Race Media Literacy as your own. It's actually quite impressive to see an ideology become so universalized.

Whatever this "race conscious" society is that we've become, I must say it really hasn't enhanced our country's appreciation of the arts or culture, if anything, it's destroying love for the arts and culture.

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Did anyone complain Charlton Heston wasn't Jewish? https://t.co/UG8MsfO8eX Or a Finnish actor playing Jesus? I enjoyed Robert Powell's portrayal from 1977. Also, in Rome, everyone was British. Vader's voice was James Earl Jones but Anakin was white. What are the "rules"? 🤣