Painting: Another Flag

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Poem: You Rehearse Dying

You Rehearse Dying

It's not "all good,"
But closer than you think.

Everything you refuse to believe
Is true

Love and mercy and goodness
Fill the air

You look and listen and feel it
But you won't believe

Blue sparks arc in the air
Leaving a trail of ozone

The man in the moon
Is psychotic

Mother Earth
Had a sex change

Every flower is finished

The rising water
Is up to your knees.
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Vincent Gallo's Sperm For Sale: A Cool Million A Pop

Vince Gallo's web site is selling semen. There are some conditions for purchasing Vinnie's seed. Vince is some kind of crypto-Nazi who does not want his genes comingled with non-Aryan ones. OK, gals, I realize he may be "hot," but he looks about like Charles Manson might have if he got cleaned up for a job interview.

The $1 M price includes a "free" in vitro procedure. If Vince likes your picture, he'll throw in in-person "natural" insemination free. If you don't cut the mustard, Vince will deliver the goods personally, via his fabled--according to the website--package, for a price. You probably have to buy the candles and wine. If you're not muy caliente, it will cost you an additional half million. I've said too much. We'll let Vince do the talking:

"Price includes all costs related to one attempt at an in-vitro fertilization. (A $50,000 value) If the first attempt at in vitro fertilization is unsuccessful, purchaser of sperm must pay all medical costs related to additional attempts. Mr. Gallo will supply sperm for as many attempts as it takes to complete a successful fertilization and successful delivery. Sperm is 100% guaranteed to be donated by Mr. Gallo who is drug, alcohol and disease free. If the purchaser of the sperm chooses the option of natural insemination, there is an additional charge of $500,000. However, if after being presented detailed photographs of the purchaser, Mr. Gallo may be willing to waive the natural insemination fee and charge only for the sperm itself. Those of you who have found this merchandise page are very well aware of Mr. Gallo's multiple talents, but to add further insight into the value of Mr. Gallo's sperm, aside from being multi talented in all creative fields, he was also multi talented as an athlete, winning several awards for performing in the games of baseball, football and hockey and making it to the professional level of grand prix motorcycle racing. Mr. Gallo is 5'11" and has blue eyes. There are no known genetic deformities in his ancestry (no cripples) and no history of congenital diseases. If you have seen The Brown Bunny, you know the potential size of the genitals if it's a boy. (8 inches if he's like his father.)

And then there's the really sick stuff:

"Mr. Gallo maintains the right to refuse sale of his sperm to those of extremely dark complexions. Though a fan of Franco Harris, Derek Jeter, Lenny Kravitz and Lena Horne, Mr. Gallo does not want to be part of that type of integration. In fact, for the next 30 days, he is offering a $50,000 discount to any potential female purchaser who can prove she has naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone who can prove a direct family link to any of the German soldiers of the mid-century will also receive this discount. Under the laws of the Jewish faith, a Jewish mother would qualify a baby to be deemed a member of the Jewish religion. This would be added incentive for Mr. Gallo to sell his sperm to a Jew mother, his reasoning being with the slim chance that his child moved into the profession of motion picture acting or became a musical performer, this connection to the Jewish faith would guarantee his offspring a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival or an Oscar. To be clear, the purchase of Mr. Gallo's sperm does not include the use of the name Gallo. The purchaser must find another surname for the child. "

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Alien Lore No. 40 - Teach Earthlings The Language

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So you think it is a little weird when people see UFOs? How about when people see aliens? Or when they're abducted? And, taking it to the next level, how about when you're abducted and the Greys try to teach you their language?

Betty Andreasson Luca was shown the alien document above during her abduction experiences in the '80's. She also saw her daughter being trained in this script. "Her daughter would trace the symbol on a screen with her finger. Then, a ball of light would pop out in front of her daughter, and inside that light, was a tiny picture. This description is similar to holographic designs reported by other abductees. "

The document photo and quote comes from Glimpses of Other Realities, Volume II: High Strangeness, page 206 by Linda Moulton Howe. This book is out of print. You think!?
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Alito: Trouble Ahead On The Right And The Left?

The news today must be giving heartburn to the Republicans so loudly applauding the nomination of Joseph Alito, Jr. for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, "of the four abortion cases in which he participated as an appeals court judge, he voted on the pro-choice side in all but one. The 1995 Alito vote in particular is raising eyebrows among some legal scholars." He also voted on several other cases:

- A 1991 case related to the Pennsylvania law requiring married women to notify their husbands before seeking an abortion. The court struck down the restriction. Alito dissented.

- A Pennsylvania law that required women seeking to use Medicaid funds to abort a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest to report the incident to law enforcement officials and identify the offender. Alito provided the decisive vote in 1995, striking down the abortion restriction.

- Alito ruled in 1997 that the Constitution does not afford protection to the unborn (re: a New Jersey law that prevents parents from suing for damages on behalf of the wrongful death of a fetus).

- In a 2000 challenge to New Jersey's ban on partial-birth abortions, Alito struck down the law based on a Supreme Court precedent.

In addition, the The Boston Globe's web site today reported on Alito from way back. . .in 1971, he chaired a Task Force at Princeton that stronglyurged gay rights, and came down solidly on the side of privacy rights. It quotes his writing:

''We are convinced that in recent years government has often used improper means to gather information about individuals who posed no threat either to their government or to their fellow citizens."

''The erosion of privacy, unlike war, economic bad times, or domestic unrest, does not jump to the citizen's attention . . . But by the time privacy is seriously compromised, it is too late to clamor for reform."
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Bill Clinton Gooses Supreme Nominee Alito's Daughter

Interestingly, the family of Joseph Alito was posed beneath the oil portrait of President Clinton in the White House at yesterday's most recent Supreme Court Justice rollout.

Even more interestingly, President's Clinton's hand appears to be resting on the shoulder of Alito's daughter. If I were a better animator, I could show you what happens next: Bill's hand drifts ever so slowly down, unsnaps the clasp of the skirt, and gingerly breaches the elastic of her panties as he reaches to cup her tender nether regions.

Jesus! Did I just write that? Is she even of age? Is the Secret Service charging over to my house at this very moment? /jack
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All This Is That Design

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Alien Lore No. 39 - Presidents (And Near Presidents) Who Believe In Or Have Seen UFOs: Carter, Nixon, Reagan, Ford, Goldwater, Truman

"The evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that site. We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?" - Capt. Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 Astronaut

There have been several Presidential believers in, and Presidential witnesses to, UFOs. In the case of Richard Nixon, the information comes from Jackie Gleason's widow. The Nixon-Gleason tale is by far the most far-fetched, and the only one involving aliens. The stories and quotes of Presidents Carter, Nixon, Truman, Reagan, and near-President Goldwater (OK, not that near) all come from primary sources: the Presidents and candidates themselves.

President James Earl Carter saw a UFO on, as he said, "a very sober occasion." Howell Raines wrote about the sighting in The Atlanta Constitution, in 1973:

"Carter saw a blue, disc-shaped object during a campaign stop in Leary, a South Georgia town in the same general area where numerous UFOs have been reported recently."

"The object came into view as Carter and several members of the Leary Lions Club stood outside the hall where Carter was to speak. All the members of the group observed the object for about five to ten minutes, Carter said. He immediately went to a tape recorder and dictated a description of what he remembers as "a very remarkable sight."

"It was about 30 degrees above the horizon and looked about as large as the moon. It got smaller and changed to a reddish color and then got larger again."

"Carter speculated that the UFO "was probably an electronic occurrence of some sort," rather than a visitation from outer space. At any rate, the governor said, "it was obviously there, and obviously unidentified."

During his 1976 campaign Jimmy Carter went out of his way to say "If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one."

Senator Barry Goldwater spoke on the Larry King Radio show in 1988:

CALLER: Hello Senator Goldwater, I've heard in the past that you have an interest in UFOs. I just finished a book called, "Above Top Secret," by Timothy Goode, where three or four of your letters are quoted concerning your attempts to enter Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

SENATOR GOLDWATER: Uh-hum.

CALLER: Do you believe that the government is withholding information on UFOs?

SENATOR GOLDWATER: Yes I do. But I don't know enough about the subject involving Wright-Pat. to form any opinion. I remember when I first tried to get into that room out at Wright-Pat. and I went to General Curtis LeMay, an old friend of mine, and asked him. He used some pretty plain language and in effect, told me to "go to hell" and...

LARRY KING: That's the room where they are rumored to have aliens?

SENATOR GOLDWATER: Well, its a storage room where they are supposed to have some of the evidence they've collected relative to Unidentified Flying Objects. I have never...I wouldn't argue against them. I wouldn't argue for them. My only thinking on it is this planet of ours is one of several billion planets in this universe. I can't believe that God or whomever is in charge would put thinking bodies on only one planet. So I'm a firm believer that something can fly around here that the Wright Brothers didn't have anything to do with.

Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason and UFOs. This story, from Jackie Gleason & The Little "Men From Mars by Timothy Green Beckley, appeared in All This Is That (August 23, 2005):

"Larry Warren was an Airman First Class stationed at Bentwaters Air Force Base in England (a NATO installation staffed mainly by US. Servicemen) when an incredible series of events took place over Christmas week of 1980. A UFO was picked up on radar and subsequently came down just outside the perimeter of the base in a dense forest."

"Later that night, matters changed radically, when Richard Nixon showed up at Gleason's house around midnight. "He was all alone for a change. There were no secret service agents with him or anyone else.

"I said, 'Mr. President, what are you doing here?' and he said he wanted to take me someplace and show me something." Gleason got into the President's private car and they sped off into the darkness - their destination being Homestead Air Force Base. "I remember we got to the gate and this young MPH came up to the car to look to see inside and his jaw seemed to drop a foot when he saw who was behind the wheel. He just sort of pointed and we headed off."

"Warren says that later Gleason found out that the secret service was going absolutely crazy trying to find out where Nixon was. "We drove to the very far end of the base in a segregated area," Gleason went on, "finally stopping near a well-guarded building. The security police saw us coming and just sort of moved back as we passed them and entered the structure. There were a number of labs we passed through first before we entered a section where Nixon pointed out what he said was the wreckage from a flying saucer, enclosed in several large cases." Gleason noted his initial reaction was that this was all a joke brought on by their earlier conversation on the golf course. But it wasn't, as Gleason soon learned. "

"Next, we went into an inner chamber and there were six or eight of what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers. Inside them were the mangled remains of what I took to be children. Then - upon closer examination - I saw that some of the other figures looked quite old. Most of them were terribly mangled as if they had been in an accident."

"According to Larry warrens testimony (regarding Gleason's lengthy conversation about UFOs and space visitors), "I forget whether he said they had three or four fingers on each hand, but they definitely were not human...Of this he was most certain!"

President Ronald Reagan described his 1974 UFO encounter to veteran newsman Norman C. Miller, Washington bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.) "I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said, Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it."

President Reagan later speculated, at the U.N., of all places, on how life on earth might change of we did indeed know of visitors from another place: "I think about how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And I ask you, does not this threat already exist?"

President Harry S. Truman, in 1950 said "I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on earth." It's not clear whether or not President Truman had ever seen a UFO. However, if you believe the Majestic documents published earlier in All This Is That 10/22/2005), you may also believe that President Truman witnessed both UFOs and alien corpses.

Following hundreds of UFO sightings in Michigan in 1966, future President Ford said: "In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject."

"I have taken special interest in these (UFO) accounts because many of the latest reported sightings have been made in my home state of Michigan...Because I think there may be substance to some of these reports and because I believe The American People are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air force to date, I am proposing either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House, schedule hearings on the subject of UFOs and invite testimony from both the executive branch of the Government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFOs..."

"In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject."
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OK, You Can't Bitch-Slap Me On Samuel Alito--Will This Nomination Trigger The Nuclear Filibuster Option?--Can POTUS Sustain Any Kind Of Tussle?

President Bush, bitch-slapped by his own party and supporters over his misguided attempt to elevate aide Harriet Miers to The Supreme Court, this morning nominated veteran judge Samuel Alito. POTUS hopes to re-shape the Court, as well as pander to his conservative allies. Democrats warned us earlier in the week that Alito is a judicial extremist who would tilt the balance of the court in right to choose issues.

"Judge Alito has served with distinction on that court for 15 years, and now has more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years," The President said.

"The Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada.

Alito is frequently called "Scalito" because his judicial philosophy closely mirrors that of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He is not so abrasive, but every bit as conservative as his nickname-sake.

Will this lead to the death of the filibuster? We should know before Christmas.
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Fitzgerald Vs. The White House In Executive Privelege War

According to the Drudge Report, Prosecutor Fitzgerald plans to call Vice President Dick Cheney as a witness in the trial of Lewis Libby.

This will naturally result in an executive privilege standoff between the White House and Fitzgerald. A White House source said "If Mr. Fitzgerald is going to demand a public recounting of conversations between the vice president, or even the president, and his staff, on matters he, himself, has acknowledged are 'classified,' executive privilege will obviously be invoked."

Does The President have another big fight left in him? Let's find out!
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Alien Lore No. 38::::It was 67 Years Ago Today That Orson Welles Scared The Living S*** Out Of America

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles caused a national panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds"--a tale of an ugly Martian invasion of Earth. Click on the title of this piece to download an MP3 of the entire hour broadcast. It's great radio, and truly horrifying.

Welles was 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company updated H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds for national broadcast. Welles had already been in radio for several years, in "The Shadow." Mercury Theatre had no idea of the uproar "War" would cause. They did not intend to create a panic.

Millions of Americans had their radios on--but they were listening to Edgar Bergen (Candice's dad) and his dummy Charlie McCarthy. When that show ended at 8:12, the masses tuned to Welles's drama. By then, the Martian invasion was well underway. An announcer reports that "Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning Observatory" had detected explosions on the planet Mars. Dance music came back on, followed by another interruption in which listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed into a farmer's field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey.

A reporter at the crash site describes a Martian emerging from a large metallic cylinder. '

"Good heavens," he declared, "something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now here's another and another one and another one. They look like tentacles to me ... I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face, it ...it ... ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it, it's so awful. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is kind of V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate."

The Martians rode walking war machines and fired "heat-ray" weapons at the puny humans gathered around the crash site. They killed 7,000 National Guardsman, and after being attacked by artillery and bombers the Martians released a poisonous gas into the air. Soon "Martian cylinders" landed in Chicago and St. Louis.

Across the eastern seaboard, panic broke out, including massive traffic jams in New Jersey of people trying to escape the martians. When news of the real-life panic leaked into the CBS studio, Welles went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was just fiction. There were government investigations but no one was ever reprimanded or arrested.

Orson Welles went on to make great movies, including Citizen Kane, surely one of the greatest American movies ever.

Click here to visit a page with a downloadable MP3 of the entire hour broadcast. It's a great show. And an early piece of Alien Lore.
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"A Fresh Start" For The President

After months in the roiling sewer the White House has become, crowned by by the indictment of a senior official, President Bush will, according to New York Times sources "try to give his second term a fresh start by naming a new conservative nominee to the Supreme Court and intensifying his drive to cut government spending."

For now, POTUS will not perform the top to bottom housecleaning that previous administrations have resorted to to rebuild their credibility.
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Who'll Be The Next In Line??

Alien Lore No. 37: The Abduction Of Betty And Barney Hill

In 1964 it was revealed under hypnosis that Betty and Barney Hill had been the subjects of alien experiments. The Hills said that on the night of September 19th, 1961, while they were driving back to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a holiday in Canada. They were on U.S Route 3 and noticed a bright light near the moon that was growing in size. They stopped the car and viewed the object through binoculars for a better look, thinking it was an airplane. The Hills kept driving, but noticed the light was getting near. Approaching the White Mountains, the object now seemed to be on a parallel course to their car. They drove on, checking every now and then for the mysterious eerie light.

Near Indian Head, the UFO appeared directly in front of them. Leaving the engine running, Barney got out to look at the bright object. He viewed it through the binoculars and observed 5-11 humanoid figures moving behind a double row of windows. Betty remained in the car and heard her husband remark "I don't believe it! I don't believe it!" "This can't be happening!

The UFO was 70 feet overhead and only 100 feet distant. Betty screamed for him to get back in the car and Barney drove away fast. The Hills heard a 'beeping' noise. They became very drowsy and sleepy. Two hours later, in Ashland 35 miles south of Indian Head, they found themselves driving. Feeling anxious and puzzled about the missing two hours and the UFO, the continued home.

The next day they contacted the Pease Air Force Base and later the National investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C. Investigators were sent to document their stories and soon after Betty began to have horrible nightmares. The incident played on both their minds for quite some time. Eventually they went and consulted Dr Benjamin Simon, a Boston psychiatrist who specialised in amnesia and personality disorders through the means of hypnotherapy. They were treated for six months which started in January of 1964. What they revealed under hypnosis was pretty much the same as in Betty's nightmares. A group of 8-10 individuals dressed in black matching uniforms with military style caps. Standing in front of the car and being told that they would not be harmed.

Brought aboard the UFO (although it would actually now be an Identified Flying object), they were examined, and samples of their hair and fingernails were taken.

Betty Hill asked one of the Greys where they were from. Under hypnosis, Betty drew a star-map. Not until several years later did a new investigation reveal data which was not available back in '61 showing a cluster of stars, near two newly discovered stars called Zeta Reticuli. Betty Hill's map proved extremely accurate, according to UFOlogists.
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Miers Pulls Out:::::Thanks, But No Thanks::::Woe Is Us Because The President With His Waning Politcal Capital Is Forced To A Heinrich Himmler Clone

Good Afternoon, All This Is That readers. I am writing in from Austin, Texas (one of the great, great towns).

I am glad to see The President stumble once again, but am truly spooked about how he responds. The President will now be forced to bring in a Justice with truly conservative credentials. . .one with which there will be no ambiguity about their views on Abortion or Privact matters. This is not so good.

The only positive thing for us (e.g., Demo/lefties) is that a) POTUS experiences another disaster in what is looking to be a week of Big Disasters; and b) we didn't get much stink on us in the Senate. It was the GOP, the rednecks and the religious right that helped sink this nomination. . .the Democrats (for once) just got to lean back and enjoy the show. I can promise you that won't happen next time. In the meantime, we can take one day and enjoy this stumble by The President and His Brain, Karl Rove.
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