It appears that even those who believe in space aliens are optimistic about President Obama.

Readers of this blog know your blogger has been closely monitoring the effort to qualify a ballot initiative in the city of Denver to establish an extraterrestial commission. It's being pitched as a sort of civil defense thing--preparation for attack (and Denver is at some altitude, so the aliens would probably go their first).

Now the initiative's sponsor, Jeff Peckman, says he's putting the measure on hold. He tells the Rocky Mountain News that the initiative isn't needed because he's confident Obama will take the ET threat seriously. Perhaps this is part of the new Obama diplomatic strategy of engaging our adversaries.

Jeff Peckman, the author of the municipal ballot initiative to establish an extraterrestrial commission in Denver, has revised his initiative. The commission will have seven members, not 11, and members no longer have to be Denver residents. In the interests of recruiting those with UFO expertise, the ET commissioners can be from "anywhere in the universe." Peckman tells the Rocky Mountain News: "We've set the bar higher for the people that would be on the commission." Yes, but it says here it's not enough. Wouldn't limiting the commission to just "people" deprive us of alien expertise. Perhaps another revision is in order, Mr. Peckman.

National endorser of initiative to establish a city extraterrestial commission (to prepare for alien invasion) says that with gas prices this high, it's time for the government to disclose what it knows about UFOs. Which makes perfect sense. I, for one, hope that these folks will have a strong presence at the Democratic National Convention.

This blog's favorite ballot initiative of the year -- the Denver measure to establish a city commission preparing for the city's defense against extraterrestial attack -- has legs. (Don't ask me how many legs). Its sponsor has called a press conference for Friday to unveil a video of a space alien. Your blogger wonders if the alien going to endorse one way or another on the initiative? Denver has such a low signature gathering threshhold -- less than 5,000 -- that this measure could make the ballot... One thought submitted by a reader. Perhaps Houston needs something similar. After all, it was the Texas city, not Denver, that was totally destroyed in the alien attack in the 1996 film Independence Day.