Monday, February 18, 2013

President's Day: ATIT "reportage" on the presidency of George W, Bush, a/k/a POTUS 43

Original articles/posts by Mona Goldwater, Jack Brummet, and Pablo Fanque




Here is a G.I.S. of articles, essays, satires, and paintings related to the Presidency of George W. Bush that have appeared in All This Is That during the GWB Presidency...Google turned up 80 articles:

George Bush sees ghosts
14 Dec 2007 by Jack Brummet Thanks to Jeff Clinton for pointing out this nugget. Robert Draper's new book, "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush," unloads a few bombs on the stumbling President, but perhaps the most interesting one had to do with spooks. ...
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Painting--> President Bush: Hear No Evil
26 Dec 2007 by Jack Brummet Click Dubyah to enlarge... At the Press Conference, President Bush indicates that he refuses to entertain any further questions. ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or ...
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President Bush finally beats Nixon & becomes the most unpopular ...
7 Nov 2007 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge - copyright (c) 2007 by All This Is That The most recent USA TODAY/Gallup survey tells us something many of us already knew. That President George W. Bush is even less popular than President Nixon was at his very nadir. ...
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Former Press Secretary McClellan says Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby ...
21 Nov 2007 by Jack Brummet In his forthcoming book, the former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lied to the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative, ...
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Laura Bush puts the mark on George Bush/President Bush rumored to ...
10 hours ago by Jack Brummet Thanks to Dean Ericksen of the cogent, concerned, and controversial blog, Almost There In No Time, for pointing this one out, despite the ongoing blog war with All This Is That (ATIT vs ATINT). According to The Globe, "GEORGE BUSH and ...
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445 Days To Go: The George W. Bush Presidency Sputters To A Halt
1 Nov 2007 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.
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Bush numbers plunge again: President hits an all-time low
17 Oct 2007 by Jack Brummet The mood of Americans has turned increasingly ugly and sent Bush's approval rating plunging deeper and deeper into the toilet bowl to another record low this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll that came out today. ...
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President Bush succumbs to blackmail and commutes Scooter Libby's ...
2 Jul 2007 by Jack Brummet President Bush today commuted Scooter Libby's multi-year sentence to time served (that is, zero days). While I suspect Bush will wait to actually pardon Libby until his last day in office, January 20, 2009, this is just about as good. ...
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Retired General George Washington Lashes Out At President Bush
13 Jun 2007 by Jack Brummet The Onion. Retired Gen. George Washington Criticizes Bush's Handling Of Iraq War. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.
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All This Is That callback: President Bush's new Press Secretary ...
29 Jul 2007 by Jack Brummet WASHINGTON, DC—With an administration in shambles, hounded by criminal allegations, a plunge in approval ratings that shows no signs of ending, and bi-partisan calls for the resignations of various cabinet members and advisors, ...
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Jimmy Carter Reams Bush: Bush Responds Like A Wounded Swamp Sow
21 May 2007 by Jack Brummet AP article verifies that President Jimmy Carter said President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, singling out the White House's pre-emptive war, and the Administration's feeble ...
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Sparrow unloads its bowels on President Bush during Rose Garden ...
24 May 2007 by Jack Brummet Even the birds have begun flinging ca-ca The President's way. During Thursday's Rose Garden press conference, a passing sparrow made an editorial comment on George W. Bush's performance in office. The LiveLeak video appears below. ...
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Gonzales & Bush Paying Their Respects To Old Glory
17 May 2007 by Jack Brummet One of these two guys will be looking for work within ten days. I wish I could say it was both of them... ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.
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Flashback: President Bush vows to "take care of" CIA leaker (with ...
6 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet President Bush speaking at a press conference in Feb. 2004 Former VP Chief of Staff Scooter Libby has testified that President Bush authorized him to disclose the contents of highly classified intelligence documents to the media. ...
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Bush Family Is Split
15 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet From The Drudge Report today. It sounds like Nixon's last year in the White House! Tue Nov 15 2005 11:23:51 ET - Drudgereport.com. President Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely ...
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President Bush drunk at Camp David
27 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Photograph: unknown source. If it's yours, let us know! All This Is That News Wire Camp David, MD 12-26-2005. President Bush's Christmas retreat at Camp David devolved into a troubled, drunken "bender," according to sources close to The ...
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CNN: Bush Resigns
12 May 2007 by Jack Brummet The CNN Today program, just after midnight Eastern time, led with a graphic 'Bush Resigns.' Of course, they meant 'Blair Resigns.' Even though the graphic was on screen 12 seconds, the screen grab is now all over the internet. ...
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"THE BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD IS GEORGE W. BUSH"
18 Aug 2005 by Jack Brummet Cindy Sheehan, camped out near the Bush ranch in Crawford, TX, in a high profile media blitz, has toned down her rhetoric somewhat in her current protest I guess you'd call it. Last spring, however, at my old alma mater, San Francisco ...
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President Bush Paints Himself Into A Corner Over Not Firing ...
20 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet The President And Advisor Karl Rove During Happier Times. The Associated Press reports that The White House on Tuesday offered to make political strategist Karl Rove, former counsel Harriet Meiers, and a couple of lesser-knowns ...
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President Bush achieves an all-time low in approval ratings
27 Feb 2006 by Jack Brummet CBS News released a poll yesterday that shows President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an All-time low of 34 percent. Skepticism of the Iraq War has soared to an all time high. He's also being shelled over the UAE port ownership ...
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Alien Lore No. 65 - George Bush, Dick Cheney & The Greys
7 Mar 2006 by Jack Brummet With the circumlocutious logic we so often find in the reasoning of the UFOlogy community, the UFO folks were in a tizzy when George W. Bush became President. They believed he had promised, and would deliver on the promise to make a ...
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Bush: Eavesdropping Helps Save US Lives
17 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush delivers his live radio address in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Facing angry criticism, challenges to his authority in Congress, ...
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President Bush intends to beat Tricky Dick
28 Feb 2006 by Jack Brummet The President appears to be "shooting the moon" with his current approval rating of 34 percent. The operational theory amongst the White House staff is "if you can't come out on top, lose big." Only two Presidents stand in the way of ...
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President Bush: "Stop doing this shit!"
17 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet As diplomats focus on possibly sending an international force to southern Lebanon, President Bush--who was unaware that his microphone was "hot"--revealed that his focus was to force Syria to stop the Hizbullah attacks on Israel. ...
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President Bush: The Election Was A Mandate To Win This War!
15 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet According to The Guardian , President George Bush recently told his most trusted aides and advisers that the US and its "coalition" must make one last "big push" to win the war in Iraq. The President's increasingly tenuous hold on ...
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President Bush lights up the "c***suckers" in the press
16 Mar 2006 by Jack Brummet President George W. Bush, acknowledged his stunning freefall in the polls, saying on Thursday that his unpopular decisions have hurt his standing but that it "comes with the territory and you. . .you've got to stand on what you believe. ...
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President Bush loses his cool with the Senator elect from Virginia ...
28 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet The Hill Dot Com reported yesterday that President Bush has gotten off to a very rocky start with the Senator Elect from Virginia, Jim Webb. Webb, you probably remember, is the Senator who recently stomped George Allen and pushed the ...
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Donald Trump Eviscerates President Bush On CNN
16 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet Donald Trump tore into the President tonight on CNN's Situation Room. "...Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States. And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election." ...
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President Bush Announces Iraq Exit
21 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet The Onion. Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'. WASHINGTON, DC-Almost a year after the cessation of major combat and a month after the nation's first free democratic elections, President Bush unveiled the ...
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President Bush, remembering images of her tush, makes a move on ...
19 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet click the montage to enlarge What kind of a hopeless bonehead is Our President? There appears to be a tempest in a teapot controversy over POTUS's "massage" of German Chancellor Merkel. Was it an unwelcome advance? ...
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George Bush Takes A Chunk Out Of Our Lady Of The Harbor
1 Apr 2007 by Jack Brummet I don't know who did this illustration, but I like it. It may be from a t-shirt. Various people were claiming credit for the work. If you did it, let me know, and we'll give you credit, a link to your t-shirt, or take it down. ...
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President Bush, reacting to yesterday's article on All This Is ...
14 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet In an apparent response to yesterday's article in the blog All This Is That, "Rumsfeld, reacting to resignation pressure threatens to expose drug use, sex, and corruption in White House," President Bush on Friday said that Defense ...
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President Bush Quote Of The Day
3 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - President George W. Bush.
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President George Bush 'channels' Adolph Hitler during Iowa speech ...

11 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet this is an audio post - click to play. Ina bizarre incident in Des Moines, Iowa yesterday, President George Bush began channeling Adolph Hitler during an afternoon speech on Medicare. Five minutes into the speech, The President faltered ...
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President Bush condemns bilingual national anthem
28 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet A Spanish language version of the US national anthem was released Friday by British music producer, Adam Kidron. I wonder if he does the French version of God Save The Queen next? The President did not like this one bit. ...
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Bush Media Consultant Joins McCain Presidential Election Team
7 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet BY G. ROBERT HILLMAN. The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Mark McKinnon, the Austin political consultant who oversaw the advertising for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, has committed to help Sen. ...
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President Bush: "Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton"
29 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet [click images to enlarge] According to Reuters, President George W. Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father he's almost one of the family. Between their disaster relief work, fund raising, attending funerals, ...
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President Bush Says "F*** You!" To The Foreign Intelligence ...
27 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet A United Press International story dated December 26, 2005 says that POTUS decided to blow off warrants for international wiretaps "because the court was challenging him at an unprecedented rate. " Click on the post title to go to the ...
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Painting: President Bush Awakes From His Recurring Nightmare
27 Apr 2007 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge. ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.
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George Bush & the Geometry problem
17 Mar 2006 by Jack Brummet Test question from George Bush's college Geometry 202 class.
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Presidents Bush and Chirac, and Queen Elizabeth II F*** For Peace!
29 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Following up on the EuroPART scandal we (and a couple dozen others) reported yesterday, another picture has surfaced depicting the world leaders Chirac, Elizabeth II and W, having a grand old time while keeping Anglo-Franco-American ...
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Portrait of President Bush five years and six days into his presidency
25 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge ---o0o---
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Sex Pictures Of President Bush, President Chirac, And Queen Elizabeth
29 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge 400 Vienna billboards showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth "performing The Act" with US and French Presidents Bush and Chirac are causing a bit of consternation as Austria prepares to assume the rotating European ...
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President Bush Has An Unintentionally Comic Moment In Beijing
21 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush performed a comedy routine yesterday. At a briefing in China, The President ducked a question and attempted to leave the news conference. However, he bumped into a set of locked doors. ...
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Priests to Purify Archeological Site After President Bush Visit
10 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet Mayan priests will hold a purification cermony at a sacred archaeological site, Iximche, to eradicate bad vibrations following President Bush's visit to Guatemala next week, Mayan sources told the Washington Post. ...
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President Bush sets new goals for Iraq
7 Jan 2007 by Jack Brummet click photograph of The President to enlarge According to The New York Times on Sunday, President George W. Bush President will establish "a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to try to ease sectarian ...
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President Bush Silent On Recent Ted Haggard Revelations
3 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge The President--as of Friday, at least--has not yet leapt to the defense of his old buddy, the Reverend Ted Haggard. The White House remains most circumspect on the matter. A reporter from All This Is That called and ...
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President George W. Bush Speaks About Universal Values
11 Jul 2005 by Jack Brummet "The relations with, uhh — Europe are important relations, and they've, uhh — because, we do share values. And, they're universal values, they're not American values or, you know — European values, they're universal values. ...
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Four years in Iraq commemorated by President Bush
19 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet click uncle sam's skull to enlarge President Bush marked the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq today with more words and pleas for patience (!) from the Roosevelt Room, as the White House struggled with the Democrat's attempts to ...
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"I would love to kill George Bush"
24 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet Betty Williams is just a touch more bellicose than your average Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Yesterday, she ripped into US President George W. Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. Campaigning for the rights of young people ...
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North Korea: President Bush Said The Magic Word ("Mister"). Could ...
3 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea gave rare praise to President Bush on Friday, welcoming his use of the honorific ``Mr.'' when referring to leader Kim Jong Il and saying the softened tone could lead to its return ...
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Former President George HW Bush excoriates his son's war
21 Aug 2006 by Jack Brummet The "First Family" is rumored to have suffered an irreparable rift. More precisely, the rift between the former and current President George Bush has grown into a Grand Canyon-sized chasm. Sources told All This Is That that former ...
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Twilight Of The Bush Presidency:::Will The Last Person To Leave ...
9 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet The Ostroy Report and thousands of other blog and web sites are trumpeting the big Democratic win in the gubernatorial races in Jersey and Virginia. I'm not going to speculate on what this portends for the future, but it feels pretty ...
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Bush and Abramoff captured together in explicit photographs
22 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet click photograph to enlarge As the Abramoff scandal continues to unfold, envelop, and roil the GOP, the President's flacks have continually denied that he ever really met with Jack Abramoff, other than casually in large groups. ...
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President Bush performs encore of his Katrina song from one year ...
29 Aug 2006 by Jack Brummet Today, on the anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina landfall, President Bush reprised the same song he performed last year, and declared that the rebuilding of New Orleans and Mississippi was complete. ...
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President Bush Hits The Wall Over The Bolton Nomination: Is POTUS ...
21 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush faces a politically thorny situation _ and stark choices _ now that Senate Democrats twice have blocked John Bolton's confirmation as UN ambassador. The president could withdraw the nomination, authorize further ...
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President Bush and the origins of the "you rock/devil horns" sign
26 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet For some reason, George Bush, his daughters, and wife often use the devil horns sign that I used to see only at rock shows. Fortunately, Ear Candy magazine did my work for me...they tracked down the genesis of the sign (but they did not ...
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Best President Bush quotes of 2005
2 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job." - This now famous line was on many people's quotes of the year list, in addition to being the punchline of hundreds of jokes, japes, and parodies. It was named on Thursday as US President George W. ...
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President Bush Says We're Winning The Iraqi War
19 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush, in a speech from the Oval Office Sunday night, told us we are winning the war. Click here for details on the speech. None of us are getting any younger, I'll admit. The President has been relentlesly hammered by the ...
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Doug Forrester Blames President Bush For His Spanking In Jersey
13 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet Doug Forrester, in a follow-up interview about the election with New Jersey's Star-Ledger, directly blamed The President for his loss in the governor's race. Forrester told a reporter that Bush's rapidly declining popularity made it ...
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President Bush Discloses His Exit Strategy: Victory
30 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet For the first time since the war began, The President today disclosed his strategy for winning the war in Iraq. The White House also released a slick 40 page PDF detailing that strategy. President Bush at Anapolis today: "So today we're ...
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President Bush Retreats
12 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet "Unable to placate the wailing child - despite all his skills of diplomacy - President Bush was forced to hand it back to its waiting mother. " Read the Associated Press story here. When I think of it, the way he handled the baby and ...
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President Bush unloads Abramoff contributions
4 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Like many other politicians today, The President's re-election campaign is unloading the (now) dirty money they received from Jack Abramoff. President Bush's re-election campaign is giving up $6000 in campaign contributions connected to ...
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Update On The Former Presidents Club: POTUS Bush & Clinton Hang ...
28 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet POTUS Pals - click to enlarge The friendship between President Clinton and President Bush (the elder) continues. Early on, it felt like a marriage of convenience, but it really appears the two Presidents have come to genuinely like each ...
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Painting: President Bush and Karl Rove hold a press conference to ...
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Bush resigns
24 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet I don't know who made this. I found it, in three different places, all uncredited.
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A letter from President George W. Bush
21 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Click the letter to enlarge for readability ---o0o---
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Painting: President Bush In The Twilight Of His Misbegotten Presidency
9 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge. All This Is That -
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Painting: President Bush Jawboning
18 Oct 2005 by Jack Brummet click painting to enlarge... ---o0o---
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Painting: President Bush & Some Budget Facts
2 Sep 2005 by Jack Brummet click image to enlarge.
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Mosaic: President George W. Bush
14 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Click the mosaic to enlarge! ---o0o---
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Spying and Lying: ACLU Demands Special Counsel Investigate ...
29 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet The ACLU ran the following advertisement in today's New York Times, demanding a special counsel investigate illegal domestic spying against President George W. Bush:. Click image to enlarge. ---o0o---
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Painting: President George W.Bush does a face plant on the world ...
24 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge A portrait of the President's speech at G8. As Maureen Dowd wrote in a recent column: "In snippets of overheard conversation, Mr. Bush says he has not bothered to prepare any closing remarks and grouses about ...
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another photgraph of President George Bush and Jack Abramoff
24 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Following up yesterday's photo , another shot of Jack Abramoff and The President has turned up: As Time Magazine said, "[these photographs] are likely to see the light of day eventually because celebrity tabloids are on the prowl for ...
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President Hugo Chávez: Hang President Bush First
10 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet In a speech Tuesday, Venezuela's President Chávez declared that ''If sentencing is to be done,'' Chávez said, "the first one to be given the most severe sentence this planet has to offer should be the president of the United States, ...
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The Wrong Place At The Right Time: Secret Service Agents Reported ...
22 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet John Kincaid and Nicholas Cimino, Secret Service Following an incident in which President Bush's daughter Barbara's purse was stolen in a Buenos Aires restaurant, two Secret Service agents have apparently disappeared. ...
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The Declaration of Independence & Parallels between King George ...
4 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet Happy 4th of July! Note the bold sections below. Several groups of people have averred that President Bush is as guilty of these offenses as King George of Britain was. . .in fact, one group is suing The President over these very ...
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Painting: Menage a trois - Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Vice ...
10 Sep 2006 by Jack Brummet Cllick image to enlarge ---o0o---
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The Time Has Come For George W. Bush And Dick Cheney To Pay The Piper
21 Apr 2007 by Jack Brummet Click the photograph to enlarge ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.
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ATIT Reheated: My visits with Richard Nixon in NYC

By Jack Brummet, Editor-in-Chief
with research by Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor




Frank Curran, Claudia Curran, Nick Gattuccio, and Jack outside Richard Nixon's House, 1980 - click to enlarge

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One of my favorite things when I lived in NYC was to visit President Richard Nixon.

The President had a sweet townhouse at 142 East 65th Street on the Upper East Side. We probably stopped by five times while I lived there. I would drag friends there in a taxi, or car, if someone had one. The President never actually came out to greet us, although I often hoped he'd come out and say hi to the kids, and hang with us like the time he visited the students at the Lincoln Memorial. Maybe we'd have another one of those uncomfortable Nixon moments where he is bound and determined to seem like a regular guy. . .an almost laughable goal.


A few years after he resigned, he returned east from his California exile. This is the President who wanted to send me to Vietnam, so I had mixed feelings, indeed, about this man. He kept the Great Society funded, even as he lied and weaseled his way to disgrace. What could you think of the ex red-baiter who went to China and opened diplomatic relations? He was a two-edged sword, which made him endlessly fascinating. And I went there to pay homage to both Good King Richard and Evil Dick.

These visits often occurred around closing time. I seem to recall often having a bottle or go cup in hand, as we stood outside the townhouse for ten or fifteen minutes and pondered the dark and magnificent phenomenon of President Nixon.

In all of those visits, the Secret Service never came near us. We saw them a few times, but no matter how loud and raucous we got, they never approached. I guess that makes sense. There were 20 million people living within an easy car drive. We were probably not the only knuckleheads in the region to stop by.


In the mid-eighties, Richard Nixon and I both moved from Manhattan. He moved to Saddle River, New Jersey and wrote a lot of books, and advised every President in some capacity.  RMN died in 1994, in NYC.
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Happy Presidents Day - Selected Presidential Photos

Selected Photos by Pablo Fanque and Mona Goldwater

Presidents Gerald R. Ford and William J. Clinton

President William H. Taft

Presidents Eisenhower, Coolidge, Nixon, Taft, and Johnson

President Warren G. Harding

President Barack H. Obama

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

President Harry S. Truman (with Lauren Bacall)

President George W. Bush (with Karl Rove)

President John F. Kennedy

Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson

President Theodore Roosevelt


President Ronald W. Reagan

President Zachary Taylor

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Faces No. 362 - Soroptimists

By Jack Brummet


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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Beautiful, a sweet video from some Ballard youth

By Jack Brummet, Ballard Metro Editor

wow. Wow. WOW.  Althea and Augie, my niece and nephew appear in this oh so sweet  video (age 11)  created by their friends in the 'hood.  I *think* some of the kids (and probably the actual creators) hailed from a family that runs a dance school on 15th NW..  In any case, everyone who worked on this video was very young--there appears to be no old codger interference.  They did an amazing job.


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Friday, February 15, 2013

In the kitchen with Jack: Harira

By Jack Brummet

I first had this soup in Morocco in 1982.  It's one of the world's great soups.  My rendition is not necessarily 100% faithful, but it's close, and very tasty.  You can easily make it vegetarian by leaving out the lamb, vegan by leaving out the lamb and eggs, and gluten-free by substituting rice for the vermicelli.


Jack's Harira

 1+ pound cubed lamb meat (chicken OK too) 
 2 cloves garlic, crushed
 1 teaspoon ground turmeric (I sometimes add a little saffron too)
 1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper
 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (or 2-3 sticks of cinnamon)
 2 tsp.cumin
 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, or better yet a few hearty gratings of fresh ginger
 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper (or a doze of your favorite chilis or Tabasco)
 2 tablespoons olive oil
 3/4 cup chopped celery
 1 onion, chopped
 1 red onion, chopped
 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
 1 (29 ounce) can diced tomatoes
 7 cups water
 3/4 cup green lentils (French De Puy are the best, but any green or brown lentil works)
 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained (better: soak and cook the dried ones)
 4 ounces vermicelli pasta, or thin spaghetti, or rice (Basmati or short grain) for GF folk
 2 eggs, beaten
 1 lemon, juiced (note: if you have access to preserved lemons, chop one up and add it...it's a great addition)


1. Place the olive oil, lamb, turmeric, garlic, black pepper, cinnamon, cumin, ginger, cayenne, butter, celery, onion, and cilantro into a large soup pot over a low heat. Stir frequently for 5 minutes. Pour tomatoes (reserve juice) into the mixture and let simmer for 15 minutes.
2. Pour tomato juice, 7 cups water, and the lentils into the pot. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat to simmer. Let soup simmer, covered, for 2 hours.
3. About 10 minutes before serving turn the heat to medium-high, place chickpeas and noodles into the soup, let cook about 10 minutes (until noodles are al dente). Stir in lemon and eggs, let eggs cook 1 minute. Add some freshly chopped parsley and cilantro.
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Gravity wins: 'planes coming down





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Poem: Tethers

By Jack Brummet
Your tenuous hold on earth
Is disguised in your shadow
Tethered to the ground
By the soles of your feet
And a theory of gravity. 
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day - The Beach Boys "Kiss Me Baby"



Painting: That is love - Happy Valentine's Day everyone

Illustration by Jack Brummet [editor in chief, ATIT]


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The Needle - a poem by "Robert Service" a/k/a Ken Kesey

By Jack Brummet, ATIT Poetry Ed.



Cover of the last supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog - click to enlarge

Ken Kesey contributed this poem (among his other wonderful contributions) to The Last Whole Earth Catalog and supplement.  I read The Needle when it came out in 1971, attributed to Robert Service. It was undoubtedly written by Ken Kesey (maybe in conjunction with Ken Babbs).


Ken Kesey, back then


The Needle

by "Robert Service" 

First, brothers and sisters and spirits of our sphere,
I wish to make one thing perfectly clear;
During these last ten turnings of a year
I have been
Jacked-up, jerked-off, brought down, strung-out,
And I've
Holed up, come on, cooled off and hung out,
And I've
Rushed and flashed and flushed and twitched
And I've
Sniveled and snorted and bellowed and bitched
And I've
Been spaced out atoms in the heartless void
And a slightly-plotted tightly-knotted paranoid,
I've watched friends grin goodby as I spiraled down the drain?
I've had doctors shake their fingers at the fungus on my brain;
And I have called, friends and doctors, oh I have roared out my soul
From the compass busting bottom of the false magnetic pole,
But it was a place beyond friends or medicine's reach--
A senseless 3-D cry from a binary breach--
And the heartless void can listen but doesn't seem to care
And my call was never answered until the needle turned to prayer.
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