The Naked Bible

It seems like All This Is That has stepped into the seamier side of life these last few days. Why should we stop now?!

A German church youth group is publishing a 2006 calendar with 12 photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, the pictures shown here of a bare-breasted Delilah shearing Samson, and a naked Eve offering up an apple.

Anne Rohmer, 21, wears garters and stockings as the prostitute Rahab (mentioned in both New and Old Testaments). "We wanted to represent the Bible in a different way and to interest young people," she told Reuters.

Bernd Grasser, pastor of the church in Nuremberg where the calendar is being sold, was enthusiastic about the project which is detailed on their web site (in German).



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Alien Lore No. 47 - President Harry S. Truman Inspected A UFO Crash in 1947

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Note: This material comes from two files in the UFO spaces on the internet. Neither of the files is attributed. I have always been interested in HST as a President, since I was conceived in the last weeks of his administration...

A British politician says the U.S. government recovered the bodies of four extraterrestrials and the wreckage of their starship in 1947. He claims to have the secret report that proves it! As you may or may not know, President Truman is not the only President to have a UFO encounter. This one seemed to have spooked The President sufficiently that he ended up establishing the notorious black-op Majestic 12.

"The United States has been involved in a massive cover-up of alien contact for better than 40 years," said the politician, who asked to remain anonymous when he gave copies of the document to reporters in the House of Lords. "This is bigger than any mere Watergate," he added. "This is a cosmic Watergate - and it's time the truth was told."

The papers, signed by President Harry Truman (who saw the deceased aliens), were addressed to the most powerful figures in Britain. Then Prime Minister Clement Atlee got a copy, as did Winston Churchill, King George VI, the Queen Mother and leaders of the House of Lords.

The leaders' reactions reportedly ranged from shock and amazement to outright fear. The document itself stressed the need to keep the recovery operation a secret to avoid "a massive religious backlash and worldwide panic." It went on to describe the extraterrestrials in chilling detail.

"Four small human-like beings apparently ejected from the craft before it exploded and crashed in America's southwest," said the report. "All four were dead and decomposed due to predators and exposure to the elements before their discovery. The beings were between four and f ive feet tall. They wore tight-fitting silver jumpsuits. Their heads were disproportionately large, with oversized brown eyes, slanted in t he head. Their noses and mouth were mere slits. They had small holes for ears."

The document went on to say that pieces of the starship were strewn for miles. Analysis showed the fragments to be a strong and lightweight metal but were otherwise inconclusive. The report did not pinpoint the location of the crash, nor did it say where the bodies and fragments were taken. But, as you know from earlier postings, the likeliest destination was Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio - where the bodies of four more humaniods were taken after another crash 10 years later. There has also been much speculation that the bodies ended up at Area 51, near Rachel, Nevada.

The U.S. Government has never confirmed either crash, however, UFO experts are convinced that both wreckage and bodies have been preserved. In fact a super-secret government agency, code-named PI 40 [jb note: so secret, I'd never heard of them until today], keeps tabs on alien visitors and briefs U.S. Presidents on past and present UFO developments.

Gerber Pasche, the founder and president of the Swiss UFO watchdog group, Alien Encounter, was appalled to learn of the cover-up. He told reporters that the governments of the United States and Britain should be held accountable - and tried in the court of world opinion. "The irony of all this is that everybody knows what's going on - we've known for years," he said. "Space aliens exist and have a deep and abiding interest in our planet. This is a concern of all mankind - not just superpower leaders."
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People You Never Thought You'd See Naked

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Condoleeza And Redford: The Rig Was Rockin'!

The annual Kennedy Center Honors were celebrated last night in Washington. The left and the right forgot about the White House disasters for a night to pay tribute to Robert Redford, Tony Bennett, Julie Harris, Tina Turner, and the ballerina Suzanne Farrell. The five were honored for their lifetime contributions to the arts.

At a dinner for 300 hosted on Saturday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, even the jaded and well-oiled politicians seemed awe-struck meeting these entertainment icons.

The gossip mill cranked into full gear following the event. Secretary of State Rice and Actor-Producer-Director Redford were seen in numerous close embraces. One reporter at the event said "They were smoldering. They couldn't keep their hands off each other. It got so hot and heavy that other people at their table became extremely uncomfortable." Their departure from the soiree was reportedly like the notorious Angie Dickinson car scene in De Palma's Dressed To Kill.

Another scribe reported seeing the couple emerge from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington this morning "looking extremely disheveled and very happy." He noted further that as Secretary Rice got into a limousine, she and Redford embraced and kissed for several minutes, oblivious to the honking of taxis and limousines behind them.
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Fence Jumper At The White House. . .Who Looks Like A Laughing Academy Escapee

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Shawn A. Cox, an Arkansas man, scaled the fence around the White House today, while President Bush was in residence.

Looking at the photo of of this nutjob in custody--he is either utterly deranged, or a most accomplished ham actor. He probably just wanted to have a chat with POTUS and Laura. Who wouldn't?

He was immediately bagged by the Secret Service. Secret Service spokesmen said the intruder's name was Unlawful entry charges will be filed tomorrow in U.S. District Court. Cox has some sort of record with the Secret Service, but the spokemen and the spooks in the Secret Service wouldn't talk about it yet.

Cox was unarmed. He refused to answer a reporter's question about why he jumped the fence.
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Sen. George Allen Gets Ready For A Run For The Roses

Sen. George Allen rallied Virginia Republicans yesterday for his 2006 reelection campaign, telling them that he would stand for low taxes, energy independence and opposition to "activist judges" on the U.S. Supreme Court. In other words, he stands for shafting the underpriveleged, raising deficits, assuring energy independence by putting the screws to the Middle-east, and for packing a few more troglodytes onto the Supreme Court.

The Senator is edging closer to hucking his cowboy hat into the Presidential campaign sewer, along with Clinton, Kerry, Edwards, McCain, Frist (if he escapes indictment), Richardson, Bayh, Biden, and the rest of the pack.

I don't know who the Democrats will settle on, but if we're going to war with a field of George Allens, we have a shot at retaking the White House, along with both houses of Congress.
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President Bush Quote Of The Day

"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

Poem: Heaven

You give a knowing wink
To Saint Peter as the gates whir open

You're off the map boy
With just a soul to your name

You pile your clothes and credit cards
On top of your toys and bones

And walk in whistling
Adios Republicans cops and commuting

Concupiscent thoughts drift in
Where's the girls music and beverages?

Rod Serling walks around the corner
In a cloud of smoke.
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copyright (c)2005 by Jack Brummet

Part 3: More Quotes From Pres. Ronald Reagan

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

People don't start wars, governments do.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

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Would You Like To Buy Jerry Garcia's Toilet?

A Southern California charitable auction is offering three toilets and a bidet from the mansion of late Grateful Dead rocker Jerry Garcia. Now, this is one of my heroes. I'm not so sure that I want to buy his commode.

"Henry Koltys of Tiburon bought Garcia's home in 1997, two years after Garcia died. Koltys said it occurred to him he could raise a lot of money for the Sophia Foundation, a charity for children from broken homes.

'The toilets, bidet, a Jacuzzi tub and various household fixtures can be viewed at sophia-foundation.org, and will go up for auction on eBay from Dec. 18-24, the San Francisco Chronicle said.

'Each toilet comes with a certificate of authenticity which states only that the toilet came from Garcia's house.

" 'I can't represent that Jerry Garcia actually used the toilets,' Koltys said. 'But he lived in the house. He was human. I'm not clairvoyant, but you can make reasonable assumptions.' "

Bidding on the toilets starts at $500, the bidet at $350, and the Jacuzzi at $5,000. There are also freezers and other appliances available.

TIBURON, Calif., Nov. 30 (UPI) Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
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No Hot Sex In Prince of Wales & Duchess Of Cornwall Biopic

Whatever Love Means--the Charles And Camilla Biopic--will not have any sex, according to producer Jolyon Symonds. "It is a very sensitive issue and we did not want to antagonize anyone." The 3 1/2 million dollar movie will skip over the hot parts to avoid upsetting the Windsors. The closest they come is showing a hand snaking underneath the prince's dressing gown.

Maybe this isn't such a bad thing.

There is no word if the script includes revelations from the 1993 'Camillagate' tapes, a recording of a cell phone conversation in which Charles talked about being reincarnated as a tampon and living inside Camilla's knickers.
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Ex-Presidents In The News: Bill Clinton Snags An Award (And Some Arm Candy)

German actress and wife of publisher Hubert Burda, Maria Furtwaengler, left, and former U.S. president Bill Clinton are seen prior to the awarding ceremony of the German 'Bambi 2005' media awards in Munich, southern Germany. Bill received an award for his work on tsunami relief, among other things.
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Alien Lore No. 46 - Dark Skies

In 1996-97, Dark Skies, one of my all-time favorite television shows, aired. The show detailed the Greylien "history" that has accumulated (like tartar) over the years. Unlike other shows, Dark Skies established an elaborate mythology and framework for the grey lore, built through research of the voluminous outpouring of writing and reporting on alien-related topics. Bryce Zabel developed a five year plan for the show, ranging from the early 60's to the millennium, all grounded in historical events. Each episode details the impact of The Hive on historical events. Harry Truman, The Beatles, Ed Sullivan, Jack Ruby, William Paley, Hubert Humphrey, JFK, Bobby Kennedy (in a recurring role), Timothy Leary, Jim Morrison, Jerry Rubin, Carl Sagan, and others all appear on the program. The "lookalike" actors are outrageously over the top and campy...which adds a note of bent humor to the proceedings.

The Greys, it seems, are merely hosts for the real aliens, called the Hive. The Hive is far more dangerous and insidious than the Greys. The Greys, in fact, are a race not particularly warlike until they are taken over by The Hive.



The Hive in the form of The Greys has stealthily infested America, and the world. The awful truth is kept from the American people by Captain Frank Bach, the leader of a super-secret government organization called Majestic-12. John Loengard and Kim Sayers are on the run from the alien Hive and from the Government. Their travels lead them all around the country as they learn more about the massive infestation of The Hive, and Majestic's efforts to control it at any cost. It's never clear in the show whether the cure is worse than the illness.

Dark Skies seamlessly put together science fiction, UFOlogy, and past political events and social movements that took place during the 50's and late 60's. Unlike the X Files, Dark Skies was a one trick pony--it was about aliens, and UFOs, and nothing else. They cancelled the show just as it was getting traction. You can get a bootleg copy of the series. I did just that, and I enjoyed the show even more the second time around.

Episode One: The Awakening
Bureaucrat John Loengard and his girlfriend Kimberly Sayers stumble across UFO information considered off-limits by the top-secret Majestic-12 group headed by Col. Frank Bach. Loengard joins Bach and the Majestic group, before becoming disillusioned with their desire to shield the public from the truth. Loengard steals evidence to persuade President Kennedy onto their side, propelling the couple on a dangerous journey where the future of the world is at stake.



Episode Two: Moving Targets
Following Kennedy's assassination, John and Kimberly learn from an eyewitness about the first alien encounter years earlier at Roswell. But when the couple return to Washington for the President's funeral, they discover a more sinister alien plan to destroy world government.



Episode Three: Mercury Rising
Kimberly's recurring dreams of a floating astronaut lead them to the newly re-named Cape Kennedy launch center, where they meet astronaut Ty Yount, a fellow alien abductee. Though Yount was not implanted, Kim realizes that his co-pilot was. Kimberly and Loengard eventually discover that the Hive intends to sabotage the next manned space launch -- and they risk their lives trying to stop the final countdown. They do of course. And the world is safe(r) for another week.

Episode Four: Dark Days Night
The Beatles are coming to America, and the Hive has an evil plan to use this event to cause mass suicide. As John and Kim have found out, some humans aren't suitable for implantation for some, as yet, unknown reason. While these people were aboard the alien ships they were hypnotized and given a post-hypnotic suggestion that, when activated, will cause them to go into a trance of sorts and kill themselves. Captain Bach and Loengard team up temporarily on this venture to stop the Hive from broadcasting the glyph during the Beatles set on the Ed Sullivan Show, and they are successful.

The show goes on, and the Beatles become the sensation that we've all come to love. Loengard and Kim leave New York and search for their next adventure.

Episode Five: Dreamland
Billionaire recluse Howard Hughes joins John and Kimberly's investigation of an underground alien base, mistakenly believing the Hive implantees are communists. This episode is wonderful merely for the nutty portrayal of Hughes.

Episode Six: Inhuman Nature
Loengard and Kimberly investigate a series of Midwest cattle mutilations bearing bizarre alien markings. When they recruit a veterinary student to probe a similar living cow, they are shocked at what they find.

Episode Seven: Ancient Future
The great Alaskan earthquake of 1964 uncovers a ghostly alien scout ship, which provides John with glimpses of the future, a future where the aliens have won.

Episode Eight: Hostile Convergence
Loengard attempts to publicly reveal plans by the U.S. government to replicate an alien spacecraft at Area 51. Kimberly attends her sister's wedding, only to find that Majestic's reach extends close to home. Bach makes a horrific discovery when he interrogates a violently ill Jack Ruby.

Episode Nine: We Shall Overcome
Mississippi in the 1960's was a very hostile place. Racial divides were still quite strong, but times were slowly and painfully changing. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing but the Hive had other plans for humanity.

Our own species' lack of unity provided the Hive with a weapon that, although, mostly silent, kept the people fighting amounts themselves instead of uniting to combat the real threat from the stars.

Then FBI director J. Edger Hoover and Majestic clash over who has authority in the Mississippi events, and finally one of Bach's men meets with Hoover and refuses to disclose any information to him, and this displeases Hoover, but the Hoover would be silenced. Majestic knew about Hoover's gay lover, Clyde, and Hoover agreed to drop the matter if they didn't disclose that information to the public.

This one problem was resolved, but it is now clear to John and Kim that the Hive will use any means to conquer humanity through total subversion of our culture. They will continue to exploit our weaknesses until we resolve them.

Episode Ten: The Last Wave
Loengard and Sayers return to Los Angeles to bury a college friend who died under suspicious circumstances. With the help of college friends, and a young Jim Morrison, they uncover the truth behind the illness which has been killing surfers.

Episode Eleven: The Enemy Within
Seeking shelter with his family, John discovers his brother has become Hive, and that Majestic is watching. John is committed to a mental institution by his parents when he tries to remove the alien implant from his brother. Bach uncovers a Hive operative within Majestic.

Episode Twelve: The Warren Omission
With the Warren Commission looking into the assassination of his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asks John to testify. Despite Bach's warning, Kennedy paves the way with his own testimony before Loengard describes the events that led him into Majestic. And while John has a long way to go before convincing a skeptical Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and his fellow commission members of his story, Bach decides to thoroughly discredit him anyway.

Episode Thirteen: White Rabbit
On a stealth mission to Vietnam, Bach and John are captured by North Vietnamese. Back in the United States, Kimberly takes matters into her own hands. . .and kidnaps Bach's wife.

When Soviet operatives fire on a Hive ship over the Gulf of Tonkin, Bach claims that US naval vessels were their target and starts the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. After air strikes down a Hive ship, Bach kidnaps Loengard for a reconnaissance mission. Yet, when military officials express reservations about having Majestic's Juliet Stuart co-ordinating with Russians also tracking the Hive, Bach joins Loengard for the trip himself. Teamed with Vietnamese guide Tay Ma, Loengard comes across a crazed American soldier as he finds a Grey's severed head. And when John finds that the crash site has been visited by the Viet Cong, Bach orders him to destroy it while requesting an air strike that could kill them all. Of course, they escape.

Episode Fourteen: Shades of Gray
Both John and Kim now working for Bach and Majestic. They plan to use the resources of Majestic to further their cause while secretly trying to take over the organization from within. Majestic's latest plan is to lure and capture an alien craft by making a fake crop circle. The plan works, but Majestic fails to down the alien craft. An injured Grey is left behind, and he scurries off into the cover of night. Bach decides to send John and Kim after the grey, because of Kim's unique ability to track them using her Ganglion-induced sixth sense.

The Grey finds a little girl named Monica and he persuades her to help him. John and Kim find the gray, but Monica almost kills them, but Juliet, the Russian operative working with Majestic shows up and saves them. They recover the Grey and head back to the Majestic base camp. A successful A.R.T. is preformed on the Grey and the now friendly Grey begins to communicate with Kim telepathically. She learns that Monica is in danger, and John and Juliet head over to the girl's house to help. They rescue her just in time.

Back at the base camp, the gray continues to communicate with Kim, and she learns a lot about the history of the Gray species before the Hive arrived. She also learns some shocking news. She's pregnant... and the child is Hive.

Episode Fifteen: Burn, Baby, Burn
A man helps Loengard search for pregnant Kimberly amid the Watts riots, after aliens abduct her in Los Angeles. A lot of crazy scenes of the Watts Towers and footage of the riots are included.


Episode Sixteen: Both Sides Now
Anti-war demonstrations led by Jerry Rubin sweep up Loengard and Juliet on a mission in Berkeley, California, to shut down a Hive operation

Episode Seventeen: To Prey in Darkness
The search for the Roswell alien-encounter film leads Loengard and Juliet to crusading columnist Dorothy Kilgallen and a TV news network.

Episode Eighteen: Strangers in the Night
Juliet and John are sent with Major Colin Powell to investigate the collapse of Aura-Z, the USSR's equivalent of Majestic, while Bach enlists the help of astronomer Carl Sagan to track down the Hive's home planet.

Episode Nineteen: Bloodlines
Alerted to a planet size object (the Hive's Tenth Planet) transmitting a message to Earth, Bach orders Dr Carl Sagan to decode it while he keeps the news from Majestic's directors. And though he's kept in the dark, Albano agrees to ask the captured Gray to shed some light on its contents. Meanwhile, Loengard and Juliet use Dr Timothy Leary to find the San Francisco lab where the Hive has been producing a hallucinogen under the direction of Steele and Kim. And when Kim tosses the drug into John's face, it causes him to see their son aboard a Hive ship.

Loengard offers to infiltrate the Hive's mothership to gain critical intelligence data and find his son. At the end he tells us he succeeded.

Albano kills Frank Bach and reveals that he is now Hive.

At the end of the episode, Loengard speaks thirty years later. He alludes to the fact that somehow the Hive were beaten.
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The Final Enumclaw Horse/Beastiality Update

An Enumclaw-area man has pleaded guilty to criminal trespass Tuesday in a case in which a Seattle man died having sex with a horse.

James Tait and a 45-year-old Seattle man went onto a neighbor's property last summer to have sex with a horse, prosecutors say. The Seattle man sustained a perforated colon and died from his injuries after being dumped at an emergency room.

Tait was essentially the pimp for a nearby farm where people had sex with animals. . .unbeknownst to the horse owners.

Pathetically, Tait, 54, was given a one-year suspended sentence on condition he pay a $300 fine, perform eight hours of community service and have no contact with the horse owners. I don't understand why he wasn't charged with negligent homicide. The horse owners told a reporter last summer that police showed them a home video of the July 2 incident that investigators seized from Tait's home. That videotape, or a similar one, has turned up on the internet.
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President Bush Discloses His Exit Strategy: Victory

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 releasing a document called the "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq." This is an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing in Iraq, and it is posted on the White House Web site, whitehouse.gov."
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Redux: President George Bush's Note to Jack Brummet & Speculations On Strange Goings On At The White House And In The Oval Office

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I need to write him again. I'm not sure I really drove the right message home the last time we communicated. I want to stay friends and maintain a certain level of plausible civility. Doing some research last night, I stumbled on this note on the 'net (leading back here, to All This Is That). It's been a bumpy ride all year for the big fella.

You hear things...stories of him reeling around the White House like Nixon. . .babbling to the oil portraits of his fellow Presidents; drinking Knob Creek Bourbon from dawn to midnight; stories of bizarre threesomes with Laura, and Condy, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Ann Coulter, Scooter Libby, Karen Hughes, and even Speaker Dennis Hastert; cocaine-fueled strategy sessions about how to exit Iraq with a "win"; romps with nubile Mexican housekeepers and perky senior staff interns while Laura is on goodwill tours in Africa; an atmosphere of treachery and betrayal permeating and befouling the White House; the staff so petrified they're gobbling pills around the clock: vicoden, vallium, librium, seconal, prozac, codeine, thorazine, opium, even black tar. . .anything to ease the tension. The atmosphere can only be compared to Hitler's Bunker the weeks before the Russians and Patton's Army arrived in Berlin. And here we are, watching the tawdry operation--the entire executive branch--disintegrate into a steaming pile!

The Democrats have to get to work now. Don't be lulled by the G.O.P. self-destruction. That can change at any minute. We need to make hay while the making hay is good. Kick 'em while they're down!
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Free WiFi In New Orleans

People still wait for water and electricity, tens of thousand of buildings are uninhabitable, and 1,000 restaurants will not reopen, but Mayor C. Ray Nagin told a news conference today that New Orleans will deploy a free wireless internet network throughout town. The system will also will be used by law enforcement and for an array of city government functions, such as speeding approval of building permits. But, the main idea is to jump start the recovery by making living and doing business a little hospitable. It seems a little crazy, but it makes a sort of twisted sense.

Just this morning, the New York Times reported that "barely one-quarter" of the houses in New Orleans have electricity...
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Another Republican Pleads Guilty To Putting His Hand In The Till

An eight-term California Congressman has admitted taking bribes in a sleazy kickback scheme with a defense contractor. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, tax evasion charges, and mail and wire fraud. He's a Republican. Did you even need to ask?

At his tearful resignation press conference, he said, "I can't undo what I have done but I can atone," he said.

Under Republican caucus rules, Cunningham would have lost his chairmanship of the House Intelligence subcommittee on terrorism and human intelligence. "House Intelligence" seems more and more like an oxymoron every day.

The former Vietnam War flying hero was known as a hawk, often given to cranky outbursts.

Cunningham was fingerprinted and released on his own recognizance until a Feb. 27 sentencing hearing, where he could get 10 years in prison. He agreed to forfeit to the government his Rancho Santa Fe home, more than $1.8 million in cash, antiques, and rugs.

In a statement, prosecutors said Cunningham admitted to receiving at least $2.4 million in bribes paid to him by several conspirators through a variety of methods, including checks totaling over $1 million, cash, rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees and vacations.

Cunningham joins the ever-growing list of G.O.P. leaders either in the hoosegow, or headed there: Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, and Scooter Libby.
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Separated At Birth? Mariah Carey's Siblings

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Seeing Mariah Carey's photos this weekend in cheerleader outfits and spooky looking baby dolls, I realized she has a couple of brothers out there. Bert Lahr, David Crosby, and Mariah may well have been separated at birth.
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Alien Lore No. 45 - Dreamland/Area 51, With Its Pants Down

Area 51 also known as 'Dreamland' is located at Groom Lake, just outside the desert town of Rachel, Nevada. Of the Area 51 story, that much that is not in dispute. After that, it becomes extremely complicated. There are charges and countercharges, and thousands of pages have been written, from tales of thousands of alien cannibals living underground (Dulce and other places), down to hard-core skeptics, and the true believers who believe just about everything is a conspiracy.

Like Roswell, Area 51 is a mecca for UFOlogists, nutjobs, and tourists. Over the years the U.S government has allegedly bought up the surrounding area to stop the curious from seeing just what goes on there. It has become the subject of many pop-culture references. Area 51 has become accepted as a sort of folklore--whether anything happened there or not. Glenn Campbell wrote an Area 51 Viewer's Guide in the 90's, that is no longer available. I actually bought a copy. . .at this point, he is offering it for sale for $1,500. Glenn--I'll send you my copy and you can reproduce it via OCR...

Many have claimed that bizarre lights in the night sky can be seen near Area 51 and that flying vehicles buzz around performing impossible maneuvers, like figure eights and stopping dead in the air. The "strange lights" have been thought to change in size and brightness, sometimes disappearing completely, and reappearing in an entirely different place.

Area 51 is said to be surrounded by state of the art surveillance equipment, motion sensors, and is patrolled by security guards in unmarked jeeps. The border perimeter signs which state 'use of deadly force authorized'. If you passed these signs you would be arrested and fined up to a $1,000 and spend the night in jail. If you were to continue any further you would be legally shot and killed. This does not seem to have ever actually happened.

A lot of people believe this is the site where the crashed saucers from the Roswell Incident are kept for study and engineering. Scientists study crashed flying saucers and try and work out how the craft was built and powered. Then once this has been accomplished they try and incorporate it into their own designs. And then maybe fly the alien craft, or incredible facsimiles, around.

Bob Lazar says he worked at Area 51 in a section of the base called S-4 from 1988-1990 and has published a lot of material that has become the core of modern Ufology. He says he worked on nine different saucers while at the base. These flying disks were housed in hangers carved into the mountain side. Lazar also stated that his life was threatened after he allowed friends to watch test flights of the saucers. On one trip, he was arrested by security and threatened. He spoke out about his experiences, thinking that the government would never have the nerve to kill him if he went public. Any mysterious accidents he might have would only validate his claims.

Glenn Campbell for many years (until 1999) maintained the excellent UFOmind website and attempted to research and debunk or verify the many facts. Here is his final word (presumably) on Bob Lazar (if you treat this UFOlogy thing like a spectator sport, you might want to quit reading now, or you'll find out the ending. Glenn Campbell wrote in 2002:

"Lazar did not work with flying saucers in an underground hangar near Papoose Lake. He made the story up. Furthermore, he made it up by himself, without the help of any nefarious agency and probably without any deep motivation other than the pleasure of attracting attention and putting people on."

"The story evolved out of a long heritage of pre-existing underground alien base claims, which eventually infected the pilot and conspiracy theorist John Lear. Lear announced, in electronic bulletin board posts in the 1980s, that gray aliens were eating humans in deep underground facilities at Area 51. Lazar met Lear, heard his ramblings, and decided to give Lear what he wanted. Lazar took Lear's paranoid delusions and repackaged them in a much more intelligent and internally consistent rendition. Initially, Lear was the only audience, but he tipped off a Las Vegas TV station, and the frenzy began. The story soon spun out of Lazar's control, and, at least until the recent Art Bell appearance, Lazar seemed to sincerely want it to go away. "

"Lazar's limited knowledge of Area 51 came from secondhand sources, which are plentiful in Las Vegas. Lazar has never been to Area 51. His "S-4" is a relocated and reconfigured version of "Site 4", a real Top Secret radar testing facility west of Area 51. Lazar's saucers and their propulsion system seem plausible to anyone without a physics degree. They were constructed, in Lazar's head, with the same fastidious care that he has lavished on his real-life fireworks, jet cars and other mechanical projects. "Element 115" and its peculiar periodic neighbors were discussed in an article in Scientific American just before Lazar used it to fuel his craft. Lazar has always displayed an exceptional respect for detail and consistency, and he has an extraordinary ability to focus his attention on whatever his current project is, to the exclusion of everything else. His only deficiencies are moral (that is, if you consider lies and the exploitation of others to be somehow 'wrong')."

In the end, Campbell sums it up better than anyone else I have read:

"Those who believe in Lazar are going to continue believing, and those who don't will only say, "I told you so." The funny thing about oral traditions like this is that they continue to live and propagate regardless of the evidence and far beyond their original source. They spawn new stories, like the similar UFO claims of Bill house, aka "Jarod 2" (which is another fascinating personal journey). Lazar's story has grown much bigger than Lazar himself, and no one will ever be able to follow all of its threads. "

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Photograph Of Mimas, A Moon Of Saturn

Image by: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Click photograph to enlarge

A moon of Saturn, the Meteor-hammered Mimas, has been photographed by the Cassini spacecraft, now in the vicinity of Saturn. The heavily pockmarked moon is seen in front of Saturn's rings (the scale of the photo is roughly three miles per pixel).

Mimas is mainly ice. The 80 mile wide crater you see is called Herschel and covers nearly one-third the moon's diameter (yeah, it doesn't look like one-third to me either. But what am I going to do?, have someone else measure it?).

Herschel is six miles deep, with a central mountain rising three and a half miles above the crater floor (presumably the nipple-like protrusion, dead center, in the crater). Fracture marks from the impact can be seen on the opposite side of Mimas.

This image, from the Cassini narrow-angle camera, was taken on Oct. 13, 2005, about 442,000 miles from Mimas.

The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Cassini imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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Painting: The Makeup Of President Bush's Operation Enduring Freedom Coalition

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SETI Shuts Down

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SETI@Home, a hugely popular distributed computing project, is being switched off on December 15. What is distributed computing? You take a problem, break it up (or, "chunk" it) into thousands of pieces, and then distribute and solve the pieces on individual computers...in this case hundreds of thousands of PCs.

The SETI project searches for signals from other civilizations. I have run it for years now. Anytime your computer is idle, Seti@home begins processing data from the SETI project. When the problem is finished computing, your PC uploads the results and downloads the next problem. What makes it so popular is the included screen saver that showed your PC's progress in solving the problem. It is compelling and well-done. The problems themselves are data from outer space, captured at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Your computer analyzes radio signals (e.g., noise from outer space), looking for patterns and regular occurrences. . .looking for our cousins out there in space. They built this screensaver to be a graphic indicator of the problem you are solving. Watching it makes you feel like you're contributing! It is fun to watch, and fun to be part of a global project. This was not some nut-job deal, but a legitimate scientific endeavor...even if some of us in the field tilt toward the wack-job end of things.

The SETI team is merging with the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. According to The Inquirer: "The workunit totals of users and teams will be frozen at that point, and the final totals will be available on the web."

A SETI spokesman said that "those who want to keep looking for aliens can do so, but they will also be able to donate computer time studying climate change or other BOINC projects." As if!

SETI is the first distributed computing project and has resulted in thousands of idle machines around the world doing something worthwhile and crunching trillions of numbers. It was fun while it lasted. It will be interesting to see the next distributed projects, and if they capture the public's imagination the way SETI has.
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President Ronald Reagan Glances Out The Window

"You glance out the window and the people are walking around Pennsylvania Avenue and you say, 'I could never say I am going to run down to the drugstore and get some magazines.' I can't do that anymore." President Reagan, 8/11/82, to The Time's Hugh Sidey that he sometimes feels trapped in the White House

"Sometimes I look out there at Pennsylvania Avenue and see people bustling along, and it suddenly dawns on me that probably never again can I just say 'Hey, I'm going down to the drugstore to look at the magazines,' " President Reagan, 12/09/82, discussing his feelings of confinement with a People reporter

"Sometimes I look out the window at Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder what it would be like to be able to just walk down the street to the corner drugstore and look at the magazines. I can't do that anymore." President Reagan, 12/16/82, discussing a regret with The Washington Post

"Sometimes I look out the window at Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder what it would be like to be able to just walk down the street to the corner drugstore and look at the magazines. I can't do that anymore." President Reagan, 12/16/82, shares thought with a radio interviewer
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"You find yourself remembering what it was like when on the spur of the moment you could just yell to your wife that you were going down to the drugstore and get a magazine. You can't do that anymore." President Reagan, 1/27/84 , telling Time magazine about being President
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Painting: Cyclops 2

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Painting: Five Presidents

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Poem: The Variations

This is a repeat. . .The original poem is not showing up, and therefore here it is once again...

1.
I don't know which is better
The thing itself
Or the chicanes

Lacunae
Variations
Selections

Emendations
Redactions
Prevarications

Blurring and
Sharpening
That transmogrify the tale with time

2.
I don't know which is better
To see the baby emerge
Or to see who the baby becomes

3.
I don't know which is better
To ponder the variations
Or to not


4.
These rogue and rococo thoughts
Skitter sideways
Like a sideshuffling crab

Using evasive tactics
In case anyone locks on
And attempts to impose

A framework
Of coherence and congruence
On these fitfully nuanced palabra


5.
If you actually begin to understand
What I am writing
We have all missed the point

Sometimes I don't know
What it means
Until someone else tells me


6.
Sometimes I don't know
If it's better to pull your leg
Or my own


7.
I don't know which is better
The fog and the detours
Or the thing itself.
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copyright (c) 2005 by Jack Brummet. 11-13-2005 vancouver, british columbia

Alien Lore No. 44 - The Extraterrestrial Exposure Law

This doesn't fall into the lore category, but certainly applies to people subscribing to that lore.

In July 1969, the ET Exposure Law was enacted without public debate (well, except some muffled screaming from UFOlogists). The law prohibits anyone from making contact with a UFO or any alien. If a person breaks this law, he or she can be fined up to $5000 and be incarcerated for up to a year. A NASA administrator is empowered to determine, even without a hearing, if a person has been exposed and can have that individual quarantined under armed guard for an indeterminate period of time. That would mean, I take it, up to and including forever...

There was no appeal to this decision. No test case ever came up, of course--somehow we never bagged anyone chatting up an alien. The law was revoked in the early 1990s. What were they thinking in the first place?
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Mencken Scoffs At Poets

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

-H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

He flings serious mud for someone who seemed pretty miserable most of the time. We don't want to even go into the world of hurt Mencken was in. . .but he was a very funny man nonetheless.

What Was Jack Kennedy Saying To Lyndon Johnson?

What was happening here? I don't think I have ever seen a photo of President Jack Kennedy with that same look:::::::::::::concern and anguish, woe, or the benign public face of his rage at whatever LBJ was shouting. I think we all extrapolate JFK saying "Okay Lyndon," or "that's enough," or something along those lines. Of all the LBJ pictures I have seen over the years, this one remains a mystery.

Someone must know how this photo was taken, and the circumstances that caused Senator Kennedy to reach out to muzzle Senator Johnson. It feels like a campaign appearance (therefore it happened after the Demo convention in July). After taking office, LBJ was presumably more restrained. The picture was likely taken sometime between September 5th and November 9th, 1960, between Labor Day--the 'old school' day to launch campaigns--and Election Day.

If you know anything about this photograph, please write! I have done searches on different portals and engines, and quite a few of the serious reference to the photo lead back to
All This Is That, which has no information at all! I can find the picture in other places, but no one ever explains it.

/jack

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Betty Brummet Triumphs Over Lori Sotelo, The Republican Party, And Former Dogcatcher, Republican Chair Chris Vance!

Betty Brummet has won back (and, in fact, never lost because her November 8 ballot was counted), her right to vote in Washington State. The 82 year old grandmother and World War II veteran had her right to vote challenged in a misguided sweep by frenzied Republicans trying to narrow the gap. The G.O.P. focused on evening the score after their hapless gubernatorial candidate narrowly lost a recount in a hotly contested and litigated election.

On being challenged, Betty and her supporters swung into action, contacting newspapers, local politicians, the A.C.L.U., Democratic and Republican Party officials, as well as the King County Prosecutor's Office.

This weekend, Betty Brummet received a self-serving and officious letter from the Republican Party telling her that her right to vote had been "challenged in error."

The Republican efforts backfired. As one citizen put it on the Sound Politics web site, "The only thing Chris Vance and the Republican Party succeeded in doing this election was to use a mean-spirited last-minute voter registration trick which backfired horribly to mint thousands of new Democrats. " ___________________________________________________________

King County Republican Party


November 18, 2005

Betty Brummet
xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Betty Brummet:

We have found that your voter registration address was challenged in error. It was never our intention to challenge your registration address [1], but it was, unfortunately, included on the forms delivered to King County Records and Elections on October 28, 2005. We have delivered a letter to Dean Logan today asking that your voter registration address be rescinded from our challenge.

It is the intention of the Voter Registration Integrity Project that all legal voters in King County be registered properly. Ensuring that only properly eligible and registered persons can vote is essential to prevent diluting the votes of all citizens. There are tens of thousands of duplicate registrations, illegal registrations and registrations of people who are either deceased or have moved. We trust our government to value the sanctity of our vote. When clean voter rolls and not a priority, our vote is not valued. Out intention is to hold our government accountable to its citizens.

We value the right of every eligible person to vote and have no intention to undermine that right in any way. Please accept my apology for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Sincerely,

Lori Sotelo, Sr. Vice Chair
King County Republican Central Committee


[1] All This Is That Editor's Note: In fact, Ms. Sotelo wrote under oath on the affidavit that accompanied the challenge to Betty's voter registration that Sotelo "has personal knowledge" that Betty did not in fact reside in the house where she has lived the last 52 years.

South Dakotan Charged With Having Sex With Dummy

The victim, or did she
entice him into the
lascivious act?


A Sioux Falls man was charged yesterday with indecent exposure after he was caught trying to have sex with a female mannequin on display at an arts centre.

Security guards found Michael Plentyhorse, 18, sprawled with the dummy on the floor of the Washington Pavillion with his trousers and pants down.

Police spokesman Loren McManus said: "There was inappropriate activity between him and the mannequin. " "That's the only way I know how to put it."

Security at the Pavillion say they've noticed the same mannequin undressed on several occasions. Drugs or alcohol do not seem to have been involved, and there seems to have been no consent given by the dummy.

If you want to visit him, drop him a line, or even send him a blow up doll:

Michael James Plentyhorse
708 N. Dakota Ave.
Sioux Falls, SD 57104-2417
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