Obama's new (and secret) plan to end the war in Iraq: The SuperSurge [tm]

By Pablo Fanque,

All This Is That National Affairs Editor

Washington, D.C. May 15, 2008 - A disgruntled former Obama staffer (e.g., fired staff member) recently disclosed to All This Is That Senator Barack Obama's secret plan to end the war. The plan? To increase troop levels in Iraq to 1.5 million troops, followed by a staged, and complete, withdrawal 60 days later. Some staffers believe that this will require reinstatement of The Draft. The SuperSurge [tm] plan was also confirmed by a former Obama fundraiser.

While Senator Obama frequently says he intends to immediately end the war in Iraq, he has not disclosed his exact plan of sending one million additional troops to Iraq. The blitzkrieg clean-up operation would be immediately followed by a staged withdrawal of 100,000 troops per month, ending the war during his first year in office. While the Obama camp is fully behind the Obama Surge, they are understandably reluctant to roll out details of the plan to a base that was strongly energized by his anti-war messaging.

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Alien Lore No. 128 - The Vatican Says Aliens Are God's Children Too

According to an Associated Press article yesterday, datelined from The Vatican, "The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God."

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, says the vastness of the universe means it is possible there may be other forms of life outside Earth--even intelligent ones.

In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.

The astronomer said that ruling out the possibility of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.

Thanks to Jeff Clinton for the tip on this fine article...

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The Scorched Earth Duo: Billary Clinton

"If we can't be President, no Democrat can be President."

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President Hugo Chavez strikes back & a round-up of colorful quotes from the deranged Presidente

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell. Chancellor Merkel had earlier called on Latin American leaders to distance themselves from the wackjob Chavez. He backed off for using the word Hell, but went right ahead and called her a Nazi spawn--a political descendent of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. The leftist President said: "She is from the German right, the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany today." Chavez also said he might confront her about that statement if she attends an upcoming summit of heads of state from Europe and Latin America in Peru.

El Presidente has also commented on other world leaders over the last few years:

On President George W. Bush: "The devil."

Also on George W. Bush: "The devil came right here... And it still smells of sulfur today." ~ Chavez at the UN referring to the President of the United States.

On Sunday, President Chavez called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe a "liar" who "shouldn't even run a corner store."

President Chavez on President Bush: "You are ignoramus, you are a burro, Mr Danger... or to say it to you in my bad English: [switching languages] You are a donkey, Mr Danger. You are a donkey, Mr George W. Bush. [Returning to Spanish] You are a coward, a killer, a [perpetrator of] genocide, an alcoholic, a drunk, a liar, an immoral person, Mr Danger. You are the worst, Mr Danger. The worst of this planet... A psychologically sick man, I know it. "

On televangelist Pat Robertson: “That's why Pat Robertson, the spiritual adviser of Mr. Bush, is calling for my assassination. That would be much cheaper than an invasion.”

Chavez talks about the U.S. Secretary of State: "Remember, little girl, I'm like the thorn tree that flowers on the plain. I waft my scent to passers-by and prick he who shakes me. Don't mess with me, Condoleezza. Don't mess with me, girl. " He blew a screen kiss to Ms Rice and jokingly referred to her as "Condolence."

On former Prime Minister Tony Blair: "Don't be shameless, Mr Blair. Don't be immoral, Mr Blair. You are one of those who have no morals. You are not one who has the right to criticise anyone about the rules of the international community. You are an imperialist pawn who attempts to curry favour with Danger Bush-Hitler, the number one mass murderer and assassin there is on the planet. Go straight to hell, Mr Blair. "

He once called U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "one of the dogs of the devil," and described-President of Mexico Vicente Fox as a "lap-dog of the empire."
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Noted Sex Expert Pope Benedict XVI says that "sex can become like a drug"

My friend Daryle Conners meets the Pope shortly before
she interviewed him for her Vatican II documentary

Pope Benedict XVI admitted on Saturday that the Vatican's teaching against birth control was difficult as he praised a 1968 Church document that condemned contraception.

In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the document, Benedict reiterated the Church's ban against artificial birth control as well as more recent teaching against using artificial procreation methods.

"What was true yesterday remains true even today [Pope Paul VI's 1968 "Humanae vitae]. The truth expressed in 'Humanae vitae' doesn't change; on the contrary, in the light of new scientific discoveries, it is ever more up to date," the pope added. "No mechanical technique can substitute the act of love that two married people exchange as a sign of a greater mystery," Benedict said.

Il Papa expressed concern that human life risks losing its value in today's culture and worried that sex could "transform itself into a drug" that one partner had to have even against the will of the other. Did he learn this from studies, or from the histories of his minions, the Priests?
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Ben Fry's Map of every road, lane, boulevard, avenue, street, highway, expressway, turnpike, parkway, and freeway in the United States

click the road map to enlarge

This is definitely the coolest map and one of the most magnificent obsessions I've seen in a long time. Ben Fry has mapped 26 million separate road segments. There aren't enough roads in Hawaii and Alaska to clearly delineate those states, so he, regretfully, left them out. And you thought the map of McDonalds in the U.S. was comprehensive? For more details, check out Ben's website:


http://benfry.com/allstreets/
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Dirty Old Egg Sucking Hound; Johnny Cash song and lyrics

Dirty Old Egg Sucking Hound

Well he's not very handsome to look at
Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a hog
And he's always killin' my chickens
That dirty old egg-suckin' dog

Egg-suckin' dog
I'm gonna stomp your head in the ground
If you don't stay out of my hen house
You dirty old egg-suckin' hound

Now if he don't stop eatin' my eggs up
Though I'm not a real bad guy
I'm gonna get my riffle and send him
To that great chicken house in the sky

Egg-suckin' dog
Your always hangin' around
But you'd better stay out of my hen house
You dirty old egg-suckin' hound
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Poem: Vision, education, and the clock

The more I see,
The more there is to see.
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Poem: One of those days

It was one of those days
Where the darkside Jiminy Cricket

Kept landing on my shoulders
To whisper redrum redrum...

You don't have to take that.
It was one of those days

Where my smile felt like a rictus
and I lied every time someone asked

How are you?
It was one of those days

I'd rather have skipped
But I trudged on

Dragging my wooden leg
Behind me.

It was one of those days
Where I wouldn't have been shocked

To have a Buddhist tell me
Don't get mad; get even.
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Poem: Weather Report

Life is a raindrop
Sizzling as it skitters
Across the universal griddle.
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Poem: Delusion

Between what we do
And what we'd like to think we do
Lies a vast bay of denial and delusion

We make believe
There is war in our bones
That growth is the child of destruction

That we are the chosen ones
God's boys and girls given carte blanche
To make war

We make believe
We are right or wrong
That it doesn't matter

In this world
And we'll take a flier
It doesn't matter in the next.
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South King County is in the news again--not Enumclaw beastiality, but ghostiality in Federal Way

Otherworldy sex offender?

All This Is That earlier provided extensive coverage of the Enumclaw Horse Sex death, in my old stomping grounds of South King County. Now that the Enumclw beastiality case has settled down, Southeast King County is the site of some hot and heavy ghost sex.

From the Federal Way police information log:

At 4:02 p.m. April 10, two women went into the Federal Way police station claiming that over the past two years, a paranormal person has been placing sensors on their bodies and visiting them in their house at 28600 block of 25th Place South. They said that the ghost has been having sexual intercourse with them. One woman said that these incidents started in Kent and continued when she moved here. The other woman said that this just started now.

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