Latest Jeri Kehn sightings and photographs

Jeri Kehn Thompson hit the road one more time for one more try these last few weeks, attempting to revive her spouse's shockingly moribund campaign.

Once again, the photographs of Jeri Kehn overshadow those of actor turned Senator turned actor, Fred Thompson. You have to admit. . .telegenically, Fred seems to fit Richard Pryor's description of Ronald Reagan: "He looks like a d**k with clothes on,"

1: Jeri gets touched up before a local TV appearance: 2: On the air!


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At The Chicago Club, Jeri Kehn has a babe-off with some other women (guess who wins?):














Jeri Chats up a *cough cough* Fred Thompson fan. Note how closely this
supporter resembles many of the Republicans who seem to be getting
caught soliciting bathroom sex, gerbiling, and sniffing bicycle seats.



photo op at a Washington D.C. dinner





another photo-op at the dinner in Washington

Other recent Jeri Kehn sightings (with around 50 photograohs) are detailed in All This Is That here

Two more Jeri Kehn Thompson Photos
Jeri Kehn Thompson photo update No. 12--eleven new Jeri Kehn photographs
Two more Jeri Kehn Thompson Photos
A Jeri Kehn Thompson cameo appearance in a Fred Thompson campaign video, four new Jeri Kehn photographs, and a Mrs. Fred Thompson photo roundup
Three additional photos of Mrs. Fred Thompson a/k/a Jeri Kehn
Meet the Thompson Twins: Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn (with photos)
One More Jeri Kehn Thompson photo
Jeri Kehn Photos, Part 3: Three more photos of Mrs. Fred Thompson
More Jeri Kehn photos--> A follow-up to "Meet the Thompson Twins: Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn (with photos)
Not Jeri Kehn: people who are not Mrs. Fred Thompson, yet who often turn up in search engine searches on "Jeri Kehn"
Three new Jeri Kehn photos; links to Jeri photos; and Fred Thompson describes the beauty of having a hot first lady;
"New photographs of Jeri Kehn Thompson on the campaign trail (and a couple of her husband Fred too)
Three new Jeri Kehn photos; links to Jeri photos; and Fred Thompson describes the beauty of having a hot first lady;
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Painting: "even the President of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked."

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Giuliani: front-runner in name only?

The Mayor of 9/11 in drag

Citizen Rudolph Giuliani's hold on the front-runner slot is rapidly crumbling. It may not even matter that he leads in the national polls. . .he is being trounced in the two first primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire. Iowa is almost as key for the G.O.P. candidates as it is for the Dems. Conventional Wisdom says that if Senator Clinton takes Iowa, the race is virtually over.

Two new polls show Mitt Romney taking a widening lead in New Hampshire, the first battleground.

While The Mayor of 9/11 has held onto his lead in national polls and several states, Ex-governor Romney is now well ahead in both Iowa and New Hampshire, the two early-voting states that have always been key in determining the Republican nominee.


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Mr. Romney has now opened up a 12-point lead over Giuliani in New Hampshire, 32% to 20%, in a Boston Globe/University of New Hampshire poll released Sunday. The latest Marist College poll, also released yesterday gives him an 11 point edge. Senator McCain of Arizona is running third in both surveys.

Mitt Romney has consolidated his lead and the Republican contest is now a horse race, despite the surveys in September that suggested Giuliani had closed the gap in New Hampshire. Mr. Romney has been ahead in Iowa by double digits since summer. The Iowans caucus on January 3.

"Certainly [Romney] has to be seen as the front-runner now," a political scientist and pollster at the University of New Hampshire, Andrew Smith, said yesterday.

Bummer for Rudy. . .since he has recently been jawboning about winning New Hampshire. It now looks like Romney may sweep the first two states. If that happens, it would catapult Romney into the Michigan, Florida, and South Carolina contests later in January.

It can't help the Mayor of 9/11 that his former New York police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, (whom Mr. Giuliani recommended to President Bush as a secretary of homeland security in 2004) is in hot water. That pathetic recommendation not only brought heat down on the former mayor, but also piled more trouble on the already deeply troubled Bush Administration.

If you've been following the election here, you remember I predicted Romney would surge ahead. I'm just a little shocked it has taken this long.

At least Rudy had some good news this weekend...Pat Robertson's endorsement!
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Quotes of the day

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
- Cullen Hightower

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
- Woody Allen

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Robert Anton Wilson

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
- Jeannette Rankin

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
- Kin Hubbard

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Stephen Wright

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Noelie Altito

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
- Dan Quayle
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Minifig's Lego artwork of the Dick Cheney Hunting "accident"

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This is an old piece, but it still works. Minifig from the U.K. created a lego dramatization of Dick Cheney's hunting accident (around the time of the "incident").

Some earlier posts on All This Is That about Dick Cheney's misfire:

Follow-up: Victim of VP's attemped assassination suffers coronary

Cover-up: Cheney shooting "was no accident"

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Are the Supremes about to rule on the constitutionality of gun ownership?

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The Supremes could decide the constitutionality of gun ownership, and we may know as early as tomorrow whether or not they decide to take the case. To those of us on the anti- side, it seems obvious.

You may remember during his confirmation hearing, that Chief Justice John Roberts said the Miller decision (dating back to the 1939) "side-stepped the issue" and left "very open" the issue whether the second amendment protects an individual right, or a more collective right.

Both anti gun and pro-gun forces (or, peace freaks and gun nuts) have urged The Supremes to take on this case (questioning the constitutionality of the the District of Columbia's strict gun-control law). If the justices agree to hear the case, the Roberts court will find itself square in the sights of a culture war that makes the abortion issue look like a sandbox altercation (because the pro-gun forces are well-armed, and a little bit kooky).

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Does the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual's right to "keep and bear arms?" If the answer is yes, as a federal appeals court held last March, the Supremes must decide how this impacts a statute that bars possession of handguns and requires all guns in the home to be disassembled or protected by trigger locks.

It has been almost 70 years since the court even danced around the gun control issue. In 1939, the United States v. Miller, held that a sawed-off shotgun was not one of the "arms" to which the Second Amendment referred in its "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The District of Columbia is not a normal city (its gun law was passed in that heady first year of home-rule) and the law has pissed off "right to bear arms" types since it was passed in 1973. Even the allegedly apolitical Supremes must be wary of taking on this issue in an election year. November 4, 2008 looms large.

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Drawing: Citizens

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Strange Things Happening On Google Maps

Google Maps and Google Earth have created an pretty fun new app.: The Map of Strange.

The Map of Strange shows you the bizarre, interesting, and odd things you find on Google Maps and satellite photos. It is a publicly editable interface (ala wikipedia), I don't know how people find all this crazy stuff on Google Maps; but they do! For example: in the southeast, somehow found a car doing doughnuts in a parking lot:



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The Vice-President's residence (with some interesting comments):


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A capsized boat:

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An S.O.S.:

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McCain's 95 year old battle-axe mother teaches a lesson of intolerance and religious bigotry

John McCain's 95-year-old mother has savagely lashed out against her son's rival Mitt Romney. She claimed Friday that Mormons were to blame for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics scandal.

In an appearance on MSNBC, Roberta "battle-axe" McCain laid out why her son deserves the Republican presidential nomination. Evaluating McCain's rivals, she criticized Romney's Mormon faith and his time in Salt Lake City. "As far as the Salt Lake City thing, he's a Mormon and the Mormons of Salt Lake City had caused that scandal," Mrs. McCain said.

John McCain quickly jumped in, [disingenuously] saying "The views of my mother's are not necessarily the views of mine." "Well, that's my view and you asked me," Roberta answered.

"I would disagree with any candidate or any campaign surrogate that chooses to disparage someone based on the faith that they hold, and instead implore other candidates and their campaigns to make a case to voters based on the important issues facing the nation," said Kevin Madden, a Romney campaign mouthpiece.

Roberta McCain said "I didn't mean to say it," as they stepped away from the cameras.

Senator McCain later said "What she meant was the Olympics were screwed up by the people in Salt Lake when Romney came in and fixed the problems there. But I know my 95-year-old mother is certainly in favor of Mormons."

What's next, John? People must be getting The Jitters about making your mom's "in favor of..." list! On Monday does she make a play for the redneck base, and rip into the African-American community, Catholics, or maybe even those pushy Jews?

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Painting: Dave Hokit and Jack Brummet on the summit of Mount Constitution

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Poem: Catch 23

Woodcarving by W.F. Bill Judt . Click to zoom.


You can only be locked up
For breaking

Three of the ten commandments.
And none of the seven deadly sins.

We have more slack
Than I thought.
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Onward and upward! George Bush's hunger for real estate moves into new territories

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President Bush finally beats Nixon & becomes the most unpopular President of All Time

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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.


President Bush sits today with a 31% approval rating . But even more signficantly, and for the first time polling history, 50% of those polled said they "strongly disapprove" of the president.

Yes, The President has even whupped Dick Nixon, who at his low (in 1974 in the throes of Watergate), shortly before his resignation, hit a 48% disapproval rating.

You can use the search box in the left hand corner of the blog to search for one of the hundreds of articles on Presidents Nixon and Bush that have appeared in All This Is That....

Mission accomplished: I beat Dick!

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All This Is That Reheated: Walibri Men Ask "May I shake your penis?"

When Walibri tribesmen of central Australia meet each other, they shake their penises instead of hands (I don't know how you greet their women. . .but I'd like to find out.).

I know what you're thinking--this is just the kind of blowhard confabulation I'm always trying to sell under the guise of arcane folkloric scholarship. If you don't believe me, do a G.I.S. a/k/a Google search. And guess what is the first citation that comes up? All This Is That, of course. We're number one in penis-shaking scholarship!

Obviously, people on the Internet have some interest in the Walibri, although truth be told, virtually every Walibri reference is less about the Walibi themselves than about their curious "handshaking" custom. Don't try to find out their annual rainfall, whether they are major exporters of bauxite, or their median income.

I'm pretty sure I saw guys shaking like this the time my friends Fuzzy and Richie [1] took me to The Anvil (a notorious leather bar) in the meat-packing district of lower Manhattan.

[1] Characters in My Worst Job No. 6, my long delayed story of working at Carl Fischer, Inc. in NYC.

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A New Sin

I've come up with a new sin. This has been germinating for something like 34 years.

When the sin is revealed, you'll have to enjoy it while you can, because the powers that be and the self-appointed moral executioners will, as Barney Fife says, "nip it in the bud."

The establishment will pass state, local, and national laws prohibiting the sin, and go to court to litigate which jurisdiction takes precedence. When the Pope gets wind of it, he'll be so spooked and rattled that he'll convene a Vatican III. As word spreads around the Moslem/Muslim world, the inventor of the new sin (yours truly) will be hung in effigy and they'll put a price on my head like Salman Rushdie.

The Ku Klux Klan will burn crosses with my face stapled to the crossbars and the televanegelists will howl for my hide. Religious and political factions will plot to take me out. Soon, the conservative press will demand my incarceration and possible execution; what else could they ask for an inventor and promulgator of degeneracy?

Like the hapless technician who discovers a new element, I invented nothing. I merely unlocked what was there, but hidden.

When the potential legal ramifications are squared away, I'll let you know. Somewhere, someone will need to write a new chapter or codicil to the Book of Mormon, The Torah, The Bible, and the Upanishads. Histories, books, and references will be updated to reflect the 8 Deadly Sins, the eleventh commandment, and the newly revised U.S. Code. An industry will spring up and around the new sin and provide work and income for philosophers, authors, prison guards (a/k/a screws), cops, lawyers, prosecutors, lawyers, judges, psychiatrists, parole officers, psychologists, poets, and behavioral scientists.

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