Sunday, July 08, 2007

A Public Service Announcement for All This Is That


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Pfffft! Senator McCain's campaign fizzles out

It appears to be all over for Senator McCain's Presidential ambitions. In a stunning decline for the candidate who was the absolute front-runner not long ago, McCain now appears poised to throw in the towel.

In late June, Sen. John McCain slashed his presidential campaign staff and then finished fifth in a straw vote June 30 during at the summer conference of Pennsylvania's Republican State Committee.

Rudy Giuliani was first with 87 votes, besting unannounced candidate Fred Thompson's 40. McCain pulled only seven straw voters, and finished behind Mitt Romney and possible-candidate Newt Gingrich.

The money is running out and new donors are few and far between. Maybe the Senator will wait until fall to withdraw, hoping one of the other frontrunners stumbles; but why bother? It's over.

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Backlink of the day--Jack growing up tales



Growing Up & Having Grown-->True Tales from *All This Is That*
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An Index of Jack's poetry published in All This Is That

An index of poems by Jack published here over the last three years, from November, 2004-July, 2007. Except: the 64 poems all based on the Book of Changes,

Index of the 64 poems in rhe Changes cycle
You Rehearse Dying
How the first baby in the world
The Big Boat
Babylon and the unfinished tower
Late Spring
Higher Ground Poem:
The Icarus Factor).
Truism 1
The Grey Convoy Flies Over the UFO Crash Site
Dual Mortality
Ephemeral Communications
toast
3 A.M.
I'm agnostic about atheism
Snow Day In Kirkland, Washington
Squirrel poem
Going Mad Might Be Like A Bad Eight Track Tape Deck
Fall Haiku
Jericho & How Joshua Caused The Walls To Come Tumbling Down
The Orgy In The Pantry (starring Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker, Pilsbury Dough Boy, Aunt Jemima, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and more
With Or Without The Words
Hello. . .My poem is. . .
You Gather Your Friends
The Way We Were
Scarred for life
The White Flag
The Cover-up
The Good German
Dream Of The Grey
Torches & Pitchforks
The Red Flag
Don't look back
The Tenth Planet (Or An Incredible Facsimile?)
Anger management is a slippery slope
the vault
The Moon's In Tune
Another politician resigns in disrace
Rub-a-dub
Tendrils
The Candidate
Reds
Making Room
The revolt in heaven
Found Poem: The Richmond Hill Oracle
The Robot Wars
Ten ways of looking at lies
The Broken Chord
With our heads in the sand during the transit and eclipse
the sun plays its red song
Litany
Poem: The Developers
A raindrop's life
The mystery of the first amendment to the Ten Commandments
The Bay Of Delusion
Mad Song
Reasons To Keep On
Conspiracy Theory
The Moon Race
Mr. Flue's Grave In Hillcrest Cemetary, Kent, Wash.
The World Seems Especially Calming And Verisimilitudinous Today
Kent, Washington
Rollover
[It's the Lee Harvey Oswald smile]
Zombie Breakdown
Heaven
The Variations
Sonnet For Hari
Defensive Daydreaming
The Dream
Dogpaddling
The Prostethic Head & The Absence Of Blood
Tetuan - "No Paranoia, My Friend"
The Grey Ambassador
The Bad Movie
The Bucket
The Man In The Mirror
Liftoff
Optimism
Perspective
A Flight Of Swallows
Audioblog - The Prevaricator
Weather Report
Your Wooden Leg
The Revelations Sermon At The First Church Of The Mojo Apocalypse
Dosvidaniya, Ivan Ivanovitch
The Late ExcavationJack Kerouac, Meet John Barleycorn
The Gideon Bible In My Nightstand
At The Acropolis
When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
The sous-chef is a sociopath
James Wright
Falling
[Life Is Not A Hardy Novel]
Seven
Coyote Comes Home Like A Salmon
Shorts For Jerry Melin ca. about 1988
Bird
Monism
The Golden Rule
The Countdown
When Aliens Land, Or, The Return Of The King
AT HILLCREST CEMETARY IN KENT, WASHINGTON, I WALK BY THE GRAVE OF SAM THE GRASSEATER
Notes On Flying
Daybreak
Explosions
Not Past Tense Yet
the glass is not half-full
It's Getting Crowded Here
Li Po In Disgrace
The Clock
A Love Song
Bad Timing
The Killer
The Absence of Footprints
Growing Up
Gone Fishing
The M.D.s
Acrylic
The Marriage
Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River
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Friday, July 06, 2007

Tough Talking Joe Biden!


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According to the New York Times, Joe Biden unloaded on the President yesterday. Now, if Cindy Sheehan had said it, I wouldn't like it. But Smilin' Joe. . .bring it on!

In Des Moines, Iowa at a campaign event, Senator Biden had some choice words for President Bush.

“This guy is brain dead,” Mr. Biden said to surprised applause and laughter from the crowd. “I know I’ll be quoted, I’ll be killed for that.”

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Six digital flags for the 4th of July


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Cindy Sheehan Rides Again: She's back after five weeks of retirement


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I know it's not popular among my liberal pals, but I do not like Cindy Sheehan's approach. I do not believe in calling conservatives fascists. Using that word for a group of clowns like the ones Bush has assembled is off the mark. Cindy--if you want to know about Fascists, read a biography of Himmler or Goebbels or Goering.

She vehemently denies it, but Cindi's five weeks of retirement gave her a severe case of limelight fever. She's back!



Her shrill posturings do nothing to advance the cause. She mentiones over sand over how her "enemies" call her an "attention whore." I don't object to anyone seeking attention, but seeking attention AND annopinting yourself our self-appointed moral executioner. . .that's another story. To top it off, her prose sucks. Long-time reader Dogbowl seems to agree: "She wore out her welcome a long time ago. She makes us look bad now. If we want to win we can't have loopy people like that be our public face."

A taste of her rant on the Daily Kos:

It is about time us “peasants” (in the eyes of the Fascist Ruling Elite) march on DC with our “pitchforks” of righteous anger and our “torches” of truth to demand the ouster of BushCo. I have a dream of the detention centers that George has built and filled being instead filled with Orange Clad neo-cons and neo-connettes.
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

An open letter to Grist on the propriety and greenness of urination

Dear Grist:

It may not be "cool," but what do you think about urinating in the great outdoors? Say it's 12:30 AM and nature calls. Rather than go to the bathroom, you slip outside in your backyard and relieve yourself there? Discretely, of course, and perhaps shifting the target area nightly to prevent nitrogen burn?

Certainly you've saved at the least 1 gallon of water. Or is there some kind of enviro blowback from depositing urine with its various chemicals, untreated, onto the earth, where it will inevitably end up, in my case, in Puget Sound? Over the course of a year, you may well save, say, 500 gallons of water. Or is that 500 gallons nothing compared to the impact on the earth of performing this act?

Anxiously awaiting your word, I am

Holding It In Ballard,

Jack Brummet
Seattle, Wash.

President Bush succumbs to blackmail and commutes Scooter Libby's prison term






President Bush today commuted Scooter Libby's multi-year sentence to time served (that is, zero days). While I suspect Bush will wait to actually pardon Libby until his last day in office, January 20, 2009, this is just about as good. Bush seems to have waited until the last minute. The court had just ruled that Libby must begin his sentence while his appeal winds it way through the court system. This meant Libby would go to prison in the next couple of weeks.

It seems like The President let Libby sweat it out until the very last moment, possibly in hopes he would actually be clipped, or to let him stew on it so long that when it actually came, he had Libby in his pocket forevermore.


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From the administration-friendly Drudge Report:

Bush Spares Libby From Prison...Grant of Executive Clemency...Statement by
President...

Special prosecutor challenges Bush assertion...

Obama: 'This is exactly the kind of politics we must change'

Fred Thompson: 'I am very happy for Scooter Libby'

Pelosi: 'The president shows his word is not to be
believed'

Statement From Libby's Attorney...

Hillary: 'In this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice'


Why did the President exercise executive clemency to protect Libby? Obviously one reason is to protect the shadow president, VP Dick Cheney. As you know, All This Is That has speculated over the last year or so on other possible reasons, including various blackmail schemes involving variously, the Attorney General Roberto Gonzales, the Vice-President, and Donald Runmsfeld, among others. Recent All This Is That articles on the events and personalities surrounding the Scoter Libby fiasco and sentence commutation:

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Ann Coulter and a love-letter from Henry Rollins




Since I was on vacation, I didn't want to spend a lot of time thinking about Ann Coulter or her latest hate-gaffe. Thankfully, Henry Rollins did, and composed one of the periodic letters he writes, and created a video. It probably captures what a lot of us think about Ann.






Other recent posts on Anne Coulter on All This Is That:

Caption of the week: "Coulter's Ugly Crack"


Ann Coulter calls Presidential Candidate Edwards A "Faggot" & Howard Dean Fights Back


Ann Coulter: Justice John Paul Stevens Should Be Poisoned


Ann Coulter Says POTUS Picked The Wrong Guy


$25,000 Worth of Ann Coulter
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Sunday, July 01, 2007

Word about Dean Ericksen Spreads Around The Internet


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Since publishing our expose of Dean Ericksen's activities, we have been innundated with horror stories, photos and other examples of his degenerate lifestyle as well as the development of his nefarious cult. Dean Ericksen Must Be Stopped seems to be leading the charge.


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