The Hurricane Bros: Christie and BHO in 'Jersey

by Mona Goldwater, New Jersey Editor

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“I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested,” Christie said when asked whether Romney would visit New Jersey. “I’ve got a job to do here in New Jersey that’s much bigger than presidential politics, and I could care less about any of that stuff.”

Christie praised The President for how the storm response has been handled by the White House.

“The federal government response has been great. I was on the phone at midnight again last night with the president personally,” he said Tuesday on the “Today” show. “The president has been outstanding in this.” 

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A poem by A.E. Housman

By Jack Brummet
















This is a favorite small poem by A.E. Housman that has always stuck with me. . .

“The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.”

- A.E. Housman

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Vote For Us

By Jack Brummet

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ATIT Reheated (from five years ago today): Kucinich questions Pres. Bush's mental health (and admits he's "seen a flying saucer")

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President Bush's mental health yesterday because of comments he made about a nuclear Iran causing World War III.

"...we have to start asking questions about his mental health," Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board on Tuesday. "There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."

Later that night, during the Democratic Presidential debate, Representative Kucinich admitted he had seen a UFO (see yesterday's All This Is That).

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ATIT Reheated: The end of the polling place

By Jack Brummet, Nostalgia Editor

 

[This article is reprinted from November, 2008]

2008 was a good election. . .it was the first in which most of what and whom I'd voted for actually won. As you can see from the sticker they gave me after I voted, it was also the last time I will go to the polling place. I know most people like the convenience of voting by mail. I never actually have. Call me a Luddite, or troglodyte. I like the polling place--the flags draped around the churches and Elks Clubs, schools and community centers. I like the old men and women, working for minimum wage, who regard me with suspicion, even after 20 years of voting in the same precinct.

I've always missed those gigantic steel analog voting machines, where you physically pulled a metal lever. I'll miss the election monitors, the occasional exit poller, and most of all, seeing your friends and neighbors line up a couple times a year. It's progress, I guess, but it is also one more chink in the armor of communities and neighborhoods. I'll miss voting live and in person.

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Faces No. 329 - the district office

By Jack Brummet

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Zombie Gnomes

By Mona Goldwater, Halloween Editor

Our friend T found this photo on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/StreetArtGermany).  Sweet.  "Foto by Hub09 - Social Design"

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Spokane Sasquatch Encounter

By Jack Brummet, Paranormal & Unexplained Phenomena Editor

From Bigfootencounters.blogspot.com—Samantha13950 (the uploader) saw a creature walking near the upper right hand corner of the screen when she was reviewing footage she took on a hike.  . 

"I didn't even notice until I got home and saw it on the computer! This scarred the crap out of us!"

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The largest trompe l'oeil tarp I saw in Moscow

By Jack Brummet, Moscow Travel Editor

While I was in Moscow, I wrote about all the buildings under construction covered with those trompe l'oeil tarps. Like this one, hung on a building in the neighborhood where I stayed:

Here are two photos I took at The Kremlin, one side under construction, and one still open to the public. . .

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Iran's PressTV uses fake Hurricane Sandy photo from the eco-tastrophe movie "The Day After Tomorrow"

By Mona Goldwater, Society Editor

Iran's PressTV used a photo from the 2004 eco-catastrophe movie "The Day After Tomorrow" to illustrate this morning's article on Hurricane Sandy.

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Karzan Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square

By Jack Brummet, Moscow Travel Editor

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Faces No. 314 - The Russians

By Jack Brummet

[hand drawn on 8"x10" India Ink scratchboard; second image is digitally reversed]

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