You never stop being a hero - an 86 year old veteran speaks up on Gay and Lesbian rights

An American hero re-emerges and gives a heartbreakingly great speech

"The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"
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Poem: The Reverse King Midas Touch

Sending out feelers
And testing the ground,
The right place was the one
Place he couldn't be found.
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Patti Smith music video 2006: Because The Night

Patti performs an awesome acoustic version of the tune she wrote with The Boss. This had to end he biggest, or maybe only, "hit."



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Horsing around: Co-conspirator in Enumclaw beastiality/horse sex case arrested in Tennessee

By Jack Brummet
All This Is That Social Mores and Ethics Correspondent
Illustration by Jack Brummet


click to enlarge the horsef***er

As you may or may not know, All This Is That has [too?] extensively covered the Enumclaw beastiality/horse sex case over the last four years. I grew up in that neck of the woods, and while a lot of my friends had horses, we never really considered them potential f*** buddies.

But once again, the Enumclaw beastiality case makes its way back into the news as two men face animal cruelty charges for sex acts with a horse. The "authorities" found more than 100 videotapes showing Tait and others engaging in sex with animals.

According to the Columbia [Tennessee] Daily Herald, authorities arrested 58-year-old James Michael Tait and charged him with three counts of animal cruelty. Fellow horse f***er, Kenny Thomason, 44, faces two counts. Thompson, according to authorities, was actually not involved in the sex acts, but allowed the crime to continue. Tait is in the Maury County, Tennessee Jail, in lieu of the $125,000 bond.

Authorities say Tait repeatedly engaged in sex acts with a stud horse [ed's note: why wouldn't you select a filly?] at a farm. A police captain reportedly discovered pictures of Tait in flagrante. They didn't mention how the Captain found the photographs--on the internet?, or perhaps he was called by a clerk at the local Foto-Mat?



In 2005, the Seattle Police charged Tait with making a videotape of a friend engaging in sex acts with a horse. The friend died from internal injuries. However, due to our state's laws at the time, authorities could only charge Tait with trespassing. He pleaded guilty, served a year of probation ,and paid a $300 fine. Since then, the Washington State legislature actually enacted a law prohibiting beastiality here. Apparently Tennessee has dealt with this issue before.

Other horse love stories appearing on All This Is That:

Further ruminations on Enumclaw
Horsin' around: update on Enumclaw
Another shocking revelation
Beastiality in south King County
The final horse/beastiality update
Enumclaw Story To Become A Movie
Seattle Horse Sex Film Is Selected For Sundance!
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Grin/Nils Lofgren Sad Letter slideo

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The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset -- an old school music video, by one of the great British Invasion bands

A gem of a tune from this tragically underappreciated band (I only got to see them once, at the concert hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey in the summer of 1977). I kind of fell out with The Kinks after Schoolboys in Disgrace (a great album to part ways on), but they have to definitely be somewhere in the top-twenty of my all time rockpile.



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A list of famous Jacks - even includes an All This Is That editor

This is kind of interesting. I can only assume I made the 1039 Jack-FM list because they stumbled on my name in various work capacities on the Internet, and the fact that my name is attached to this blog, and the like 3,700 articles that have been posted here. Anyhow, that's some nice company mostly...

http://www.1039jackfm.com/friends/famous/


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Bad Hallowen Costumes, Part 3: The Illegal Alien costume, sold at Target

We have recently published numerous examples of bad, and tasteless Halloween costumes. But now, in Los Angeles, (at a Target store) they are selling a costume called "The Illegal Alien."

"He didn't just cross a border, he crossed a galaxy!" according to the costume's description. "He's got his green card, but it's from another planet!" The Illegal Alien Adult Costume includes an orange prison-style jumpsuit with 'Illegal Alien' printed on the front, an alien mask and a 'green card.'"

Naturally, this pissed off numerous special interest groups, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles,who asked Minneapolis-based retailer Target to remove the costume from its website. Target spokesman Joshua Thomas told The Associated Press that the company is removing the costume after receiving several complaints.

Other recent costume posts on All This Is That:

Halloween Costume Ideas 1
Strange Halloween Costumes 2
Weird Halloween Costumes From The All This Is That Inbox
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Video of the drunkest guy ever attempting to buy even more beer

It looks like they probably didn’t sell him the beer. I wonder if he hopped in his car after this?



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Federal Government stands down in the war against medical marijuana

By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor


In a surprise ruling today, the Justice Department said that citizens who distribute and use marijuana for medical purposes should not face federal prosecution. The directive has far-reaching political and legal ramifications.

A high government official reportedly urged the Department of Justice to draft and release these new guidelines.


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"We did it for the show," which must go on, and conversely, The Piper must also be paid. The Sheriff commences payback time for the Balloon Boy Hoax

By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor

The authorities who assured us Friday that the Balloon Boy episode was not a hoax, were actually hoaxing all of us, and have in the meantime, scrambled hammer and tong for evidence to prove otherwise.

In order to get to the truth, Sheriff Jim Alderden of Larimer County said, "it was very important during this time that they [the Heene family] maintained their trust with us." The investigators misled the media (which really means you and me) while they carried out their "game plan," gathering the truth [?]. And now, the cops say the whole thing was staged.


The famous balloon at the sheriff's department in Fort Collins, Colorado, this weekend. Click to enlarge.

After young Falcon Heene [ed's note to Ex-Governor Palin: file that name!] told Wolf Blitzer of CNN "we did this for the show," the authorities, and news media went ape, and two days later, Sheriff Alderden is calling the incident a "hoax," confected by the Heenes in hopes of landing a reality show based on their kooky family.



The parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, "put on a very good show for us," Alderden said. And now, cops and prosecutors have dropped hints of various possible charges, up to and including:

- Child endangerment [Because Falcon was hiding in the attic?]
- Conspiracy to defraud law enforcement [does this mean the kids should also be charged?]
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor [one charge per child]
- attempting to influence a public servant [Uh, wouldn't we also need to arrest about five thousand lobbyists, the heads of any corporation doing more than, say, $50 million of business a year?]
- Filing a false police report

The sheriff now says charges will be filed in the case, and says he is concerned about the safety of the youth, ages 6, 8, and 10. The local CPS (Children's Protective Service) is also making rumblings about an investigation.

Hell hath no fury like a bunch of bamboozled cops, editors, CPS workers, and a scandal-starved general public.
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Storyboard: sketches of the news this week

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