Housewives on crank? A vintage Dexamyl (r) ad

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We are in a cocoon, enveloped by President Bush's benevolence. . .and catapult

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Wrapping up another week and heading rapidly into the mid-term elections, President Bush continues his "Johnny One Note" act, spending most of his time speechifying and defending his decisions to invade Iraq, isolate and torture prisoners, setting the stage for an Iran invasion, and continuing to paint the Democrats as the party of appeasement and the party of ostriches.

While The President continued his relentless P.R. campaign (a/k/a "catapulting The Propaganda"), the White House was buffeted by random ill winds this week:

The resignation of Congressman Mark Foley

President Bill Clinton's charges of administration with inaction on counter-terrorism in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks

Bob Woodward's new book, "State of Denial," depicting a White House in utter chaos following its disastrous Iraq invasion

And that was just the knuckehead stuff! What's next? When will the other shoe drop? Is there a smoking gun somewhere?

The White House is now engaged in a life or death struggle. Losing both legislative houses, will effectively neuter The President. For good. He will have two long years (preferably two long and excruciating years) to plan his Presidential Library.
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White House Goes Ape Over Bob Woodward's New Book, State of Denial

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Bob Woodward’s new book, "State of Denial," draws a disturbing picture of White House in utter chaos, attempting to right itself in the aftermath of its disastrous Iraq invasion.

The New York Times printed excerpts of the book on Friday, and the Administration immediately went into full damage-control mode, as top aides tried to figure out how to spin this one. . .which is really not unlike trying to make a rendering plant smell like lavender.
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My favorite internet search of the day (what is it a sign of when you choke your boyfriend?)

The site meter I use to count visitors tells me where they were referred from, and if it is a search engine referral, it shows the text of their search. A referral to All This Is That [TM] from Ask.com, stemmed from this search: "what is it a sign of when you choke your boyfriend?"

How did she end up on all this is that? A few weeks ago, I wrote a long piece about hand signs (The finger, the wanker, the cuckoo sign, the choke sign, rock horns, the shaka sign, and many more). The choke sign was in the title, and it and somehow it became her number 2 result on ask.com.

Since you asked for an answer, the answer is a) you're sick; b) your boyfriend's sick; or c) you're both sick. Now, I'm not saying you belong in the laughing academy, but levity aside, and whether or not the answer to these questions is A, B, or C, it's probably time to get a new boyfriend, switch sides, or become celibate. Someone could get hurt like this!
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painting: the mandelbrot set

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Painting: Jed's last night in Seattle

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This is the kind of October surprise we need: Mark Foley Hands Seat To Democrats

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This has to kill the G.O.P.: one of their safe districts, pffffffffffffffffffttt!! Another congressional seat falls into the hands of the Godless Democrats!

Congressman Mark Foley's "innocent conversations," were anything but, and he has been revealed as just another Republican bicycle seat sniffer. Foley resigned today, to the simultaneous relief and despair of the G.O.P.. The Democratic candidate will very likely win over whatever last minute hack the G.O.P. insinuates into the race. Of course this has taken some of the wind out a stunned G.O.P., locked in a battle to save the house and Senate from slipping into the Dem colum this November.

Contrary to his claims of innocence, transcripts of Foley's I.M. converations with the youth have begun appearing. This is one of the more innocent ones (!):

Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?
Teen: A little.
Maf54: Cool.
Maf54: What ya wearing?
Teen: tshirt and shorts
Maf54: Love to slip them off of you
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Painting: The Heater

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"What's with that?"

In response to someone's comment on the post/poem You Gather Your Friends, yeah, you're right.

It wasn't just someone, it was a long-time reader, Al Arntsen. He wrote:

"You know this poem is part of another poem (Changes 16). What's with that?

Al"

Hi Al:

Yeah. That's a good point. Actually the short poem came first, although I published it here later. When I was writing Changes 16, it seemed to fit for the last stanzas. But since I included those lines in the longer poem, Changes 16. . .does that mean I plagiarized myself? Or should I have unpublished the original poem, now that it's lines were all included in the later poem? I don't know! But thinking about it, I realized it probably doesn't matter, does it?

The answer to your question, Al, came to me just now. At a concert, Neil Young once responded to a someone who kept yelling for a tune "It's all one song." And so it is with this poetry. It's all one poem--as good and bad, as fragmented and jagged and inwardly-referential as The Cantos (OK, saying it is as good as The Cantos is a bald-faced lie). It's all one poem like we're all children of God (substitute your own deity or favorite concept for the word God).

/jack
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God Must Be A Boogie Man - lyrics by Joni Mitchell

God Must Be A Boogie Man

by Joni Mitchell

He is three
One's in the middle unmoved
Waiting
To show what he sees
To the other two
To the one attacking so afraid
And the one that keeps trying to love and trust
And getting himself betrayed
In the plan oh
The divine plan
God must be a boogie man!

One's so sweet
So overly loving and gentle
He lets people in
To his innermost sacred temple
Blind faith to care
Blind rage to kill
Why'd he let them talk him down
To cheap work and cheap thrills
In the plan oh
The insulting plan
God must be a boogie man!

Which would it be
Mingus one or two or three
Which one do you think he'd want the world to see
Well world opinion's not a lot of help
When a man's only trying to find out
How to feel about himself
In the plan oh
The cock-eyed plan
God must be a boogie man!

Copyright © 1978-1979; Crazy Crow Music
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index to poems

A new index to poems on All This Is That appears below. It includes 13 new poems since the last index in June, 2006. /jb


Changes 17/Following
You Gather Your Friends
Changes 16/Enthusiasm, or, the king begins to falter
The Way We Were
Scarred for life
The White Flag
The Cover-up
The Good German
Changes 14/Possession
Changes 15/The Armies Of The Night
Dream Of The Grey
Torches & Pitchforks
The Red Flag
Don't look back
The Tenth Planet (Or An Incredible Facsimile?)
Anger management is a slippery slope
the vault
The Moon's In Tune
Changes 12/Standstill
Changes 13/Fellowship Changes twelve/standing still
Changes Ten/treading
Changes Eleven/Peace
Another politician resigns in disrace
Changes Nine/The taming power of the small
Rub-a-dub
Tendrils
The Candidate
Reds
Making Room
Changes Eight/Holding Together
Changes Seven/The Army
Changes Six/Conflict
Changes Five/The waiting
Changes Four/The Young Shoot
Changes Three/Trouble Ahead
Changes Two/The Receptive
Changes One/Action
The revolt in heaven
Found Poem: The Richmond Hill Oracle Poem (and painting): The Robot Wars
I don't believe I'm here
Ten ways of looking at lies
The Broken Chord
With our heads in the sand during the transit and eclipse
the sun plays its red song
Litany
Poem: The Developers
A raindrop's life
The mystery of the first amendment to the Ten Commandments
The Bay Of Delusion
Mad Song
Reasons To Keep On
Conspiracy Theory The Moon Race
Mr. Flue's Grave In Hillcrest Cemetary, Kent, Wash.
The World Seems Especially Calming And Verisimilitudinous Today
Kent, Washington
Rollover
[It's the Lee Harvey Oswald smile]
Zombie Breakdown
Heaven
The Variations
You Rehearse Dying
Sonnet For Hari
Defensive Daydreaming
The Dream
Dogpaddling
The Prostethic Head & The Absence Of Blood
Tetuan - "No Paranoia, My Friend"
The Grey Visitors & Painting:
The Grey Ambassador
The Bad Movie
The Bucket
The Man In The Mirror
Liftoff
Optimism
Perspective A Flight Of Swallows
Audioblog - The Prevaricator
Weather Report
Your Wooden Leg
The Revelations Sermon At The First Church Of The Mojo Apocalypse
Dosvidaniya, Ivan Ivanovitch The Late Excavation (Text And Audio)
Jack Kerouac, Meet John Barleycorn
The Gideon Bible In My Nightstand
At The Acropolis
When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
The sous-chef is a sociopath]
James Wright
Falling
[Life Is Not A Hardy Novel]
Seven
Coyote Comes Home Like A Salmon
Shorts For Jerry Melin ca. about 1988
Bird
Monism
The Golden Rule
The Countdown
When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
AT HILLCREST CEMETARY IN KENT, WASHINGTON, I WALK BY THE GRAVE OF SAM THE GRASSEATER
Notes On Flying
Daybreak
Explosions
Not Past Tense Yet
the glass is not half-full
It's Getting Crowded Here
Li Po In Disgrace
The Clock
A Love Song
Bad Timing
The Killer
The Absence of Footprints Growing Up
Gone Fishing
The M.D.s
A Poem - Acrylic
The Marriage
Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River
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Bill Clinton's fabled crooked johnson about to be made public

fox news vidcap by jack brummet

Responding to "finger-pointing" by predecessor Bill Clinton, President Bush discretely ordered White House officials to locate the legendary photographs of President Clinton's penis that circulated in The White House in 2001.


Paula Jones

When contacted by an All This Is That reporter, Paula Jones, who sued Bill Clinton in 1994 for sexual harrassment, admitted a White House staffer had e-mailed her to verify the authenticity of the photos. The photographs were taken by court order as evidence in the civil suit filed by Jones. "I'd recognize that throbbing purple member anywhere. It veers to the left," said Jones. Jones later settled her suit for $850,000, of which $700,000 went to pay her legal team.


All This Is That in general does not publish photographs
of genitalia

On Tuesday, The President ordered the photographs leaked to internet news and blog sites in apparent retaliation against former President Clinton's criticism. Bill Clinton, in a heated interview on Sunday with Chris Wallace (Fox "News"), charged the administration with inaction on counter-terrorism in the months leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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