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Happy 123rd Birthday Brooklyn Bridge!

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One of my favorite walks when I lived in Brooklyn and Manhattan was across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Today is the Brooklyn Bridge's 123rd birthday. Crossing the East River between the huge cities of NYC and Brooklyn, it opened on May 24, 1883, after 14 years of construction (and 27 deaths).

Within 24 hours, a quarter million people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, using the promenade above the roadway that John Roebling designed specifically for walkers.



The connection between the population centers of Brooklyn and Manhattan changed New York forever, and in 1898, the city of Brooklyn merged with New York, Staten Island, and a few farm towns to create what would become the wonderful and terrible NYC metroplex.
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Help wanted: Need a Time Traveler. "I have only done this once before"

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Alien Lore No. 74: The Tenth Planet

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In the alien lore of the television series Dark Skies, the Tenth Planet was a mothership for the Greys and The Hive, heading toward earth. This audio clip is from the final episode, where a Hive traitor, Lt. Phil Albano, frames Captain Frank Bach and is about to turn the reigns of Majestic over to the Hive. He mentions the arrival of the tenth planet "at the millenium," when the invasion, and takeover, of earth will be complete.

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The Clintons on a tightrope

"Mrs. Clinton may be the only Democrat in America who cannot look at Bill Clinton as an unalloyed political asset"

The New York Times today published an article "Clintons Balance Married and Public Lives," that speculates about the delicate balance of the Clinton marriage. And how the public will react to possibly electing a President with a First Man whose failings and intimate details have been repeatedly and graphically (e.g., the blue dress, the crook in the Presidential phallus) documented. The article analyzes how many days and hours the Clintons spend together over various months, both in their New York and Washington homes.

The most revelatory tidbit:

"Mr. Clinton. . .has told friends that his No. 1 priority is not to cause her any trouble. "

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Is everything on blogs true?

Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz writes:

"Even ten years ago, false stories, rumors and speculation disguised as knowledge operated in a world of hushed tones, being passed from individual to individual. If a lie was making its way around the world, it at least wasn’t being heard world-wide. The Internet has changed all that. Today, not only can even the most outrageous stories be instantly available to millions of people, they are susceptible to different interpretations. One man’s suggested dress code can become another’s Nazi-like pogrom."

All This Is That, however, wants to thank our contacts within the White House for all the recent breaking stories we have covered, including:

2006-03-30: White House sources reveal Cheney under suicide watch and a White House in chaos, according to some guy who just made all this stuff up (35)

2006-05-11: In surprising turnaround, Vice-President Cheney announces he will seek the Presidency (4)

2006-05-01: President angrily refuses to accept Veep Cheney's resignation--discussion reported to have become physical (9)

2006-04-28: President Bush's new Press Secretary Tony Snow lambasts Bush "off the record" (7)

2006-04-24: George Bush's son?

2006-04-19: Rumsfeld, reacting to resignation pressure threatens to expose drug use, sex, and corruption in White House

2006-04-12: President George Bush 'channels' Adolph Hitler during Iowa speech (includes audio clip)

2006-04-06: Flashback: President Bush vows to "take care of" CIA leaker (with SFW POTUS photo)

2006-03-22: Nearly catatonic President soils pants following voodoo doll disclosure - White House terrorist charged with littering

2006-03-17: President Bush lights up the "c***suckers" in the press

2006-03-01: President Bush intends to beat Dick

2006-02-27: Bizarre scheme: Republicans threaten to release White House sex tapes
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Del Brummet's Spontaneous Poem: Audio Blogger

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I was cleaning out old computer files tonight and stumbled onto this one by my son Del Brummet, who must have been around seven when I recorded this. This was spontaneous; he just started talking. . .

[Your kookiest guy]

By Del Brummet

Your kookiest guy
In the world

Numbers
Flying in the sky

Stars
And moons
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Copyright (c) 1999, 2006 Del Brummet

The tenth planet a/k/a 2003 UB313

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"It's definitely bigger than Pluto," says Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology who announced the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system just about a year ago. Some things move fast in science. . .some, like the discovery of a dim and far distant planet, seem to move slowly. Not much new has turned up in the year since the tenth planet's discovery.

The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet (other than 2003 UB313), is nicknamed--for the moment, Xena--was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It has also been spotted on other and smaller telescopes. 2003 UB313 is about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth. When they discovered it last year, it was said to be 30% larger than Pluto. Since then, they have found it is about 1,490 miles in diameter. With the margin of error being about 60 miles, it may be larger or nearly exactly the same size as Pluto (which the Hubble telescope measures as 1,422 miles in diameter). Other observers/scientists say the planet is 125% the size of Pluto. Whoever you listen to 2003 UB313 is right up there!

The new planet is more or less in the Kuiper Belt, a dark realm beyond Neptune where thousands of small icy bodies orbit the sun. Its sheer size in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a planet itself, Brown says.

Backyard astronomers with large telescopes can even see the new planet. It looks like a dim speck of light, visual magnitude 19, moving very slowly against the starry background.

"We are 100 percent confident that this is the first object bigger than Pluto ever found in the outer solar system," Brown said. "Even if it reflected 100 percent of the light reaching it, it would still be as big as Pluto," says Brown. Pluto is 1400 miles (2300 km) wide. "I'd say it's probably [about] one and a half times the size of Pluto, but we're not sure."

Rumor has it that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has either made a decision (or will by August 2006) as to whether or not the tenth planet will really be classified as a planet or not.

The original discoverers of the tenth planet, along with astronomers at the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea took a look at the 10th planet with a new instrument that allows them to see details as precise as those seen from the Hubble Space Telescope. The images quickly revealed that it has a faint moon in orbit around it!

The tenth planet will not be named Xena. The IAU is the group responsible for approving astronomical names and they have suggested that the name should follow in the Greco-Roman tradition that the previous planets used. The discoverers will have to come up with a more suitable name. Sheesh!
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God is warning of big storms, Reverend Robertson says

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God has told him that storms and possibly a tsunami will hit the Pacific Northwest this year.

Over the last two weeks The Right Reverend Robertson has made this prediction four or more times on the Christian Broadcasting Network's "The 700 Club."

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said on May 8. "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."

Selected recent postings about Reverend Roberton on All This Is That:

More Wisdom from Rev. Robertson

Pat Robertson calls Islam Satanic
Robertson's Jesusland in Jeopardy?

Pat Robertson only managed to keep his foot out of his mouth for two weeks
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Poem: Changes Eleven/Peace

1
Heaven and earth unite
In an image of Peace

When grass is pulled up
The sod comes with it

There is no one
Without the other

2
No plain is not followed by a slope
No going not followed by a return

No relief exists without discomfort
And no woman without a man

Or man without a woman
Or a virus without a host

3
One who courts danger
Is testing and exploring

The very margins
Of life

4
The wall falls back into the moat
The king's body hangs naked

From the flagpole
A ruler is toppled

And the condition exists
For the next leader to emerge.
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Condoleeza Rice's favorite music

The Ten Best Musical works - chosen by Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State (From The Independent, and a special issue edited by Bono, published: 16 May 2006)


1 Mozart
Piano Concerto in D minor

At the age of 15, Rice began piano classes - although she has played since she was three - with the intention of becoming a concert pianist. This concerto holds many memories for her: "I won my first piano competition at the age of 15, playing this work."

2 Cream
'Sunshine of Your Love'

I love to work out to this song," says Rice. "Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do."

3 Aretha Franklin
'Respect'

"The Queen of Soul's anthem", in Rice's opinion. Aretha Franklin is best known for her soul and R&B music, but is also skilled at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel and opera.

4 Kool and the Gang
'Celebration'

Rice loves this upbeat track, saying: "It's just such a great song."

5 Brahms
Piano Concerto No 2

This is considered one of the most difficult piano works to learn, but Rice isn't fazed. "It's a stormy, difficult piece, but I'm going to learn to play it before I leave this earth!"

6 Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor

This piece by Johannes Brahms is "passionate without being sentimental", Rice says. The work, composed in 1864, is the piece she most loves to play with her quintet.

7 U2
Anything

Rice, a big fan, is happy to listen to any of their tunes.

8 Elton John
'Rocket Man'

"It brings back memories of college, friends, my first boyfriend."

9 Beethoven
Symphony No 7

"Quite simply the greatest symphony of all time," is how Rice describes Beethoven's Seventh.

10 Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov

"The greatest opera of all time," Rice says. "If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov."
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President Hugo Chavez enjoys protestor's bikini

You have to commend PETA and Greenpeace for their skin-revealing tactics. . .in this case, it might not help their cause much, but it did impress the President of Venezuela (click here to read the original Reuters story in The Scotsman).

A bikini-sporting woman protesting plans for a pulp mill in Uruguay snuck into a photo session of European and Latin American leaders in Vienna today.

Evangelina Carrozo, a Greenpeace activist and "carnival queen" from Gualeguaychu, Argentina slipped by the security guards, stripped to a tasselled bikini and leather boots and held up a protest sign.

"She was very pretty and I blew her a kiss," said Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez..."
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