Painting: Gibberish/Alien Lore No. 115: The Grey Manifesto

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I think of this painting as alien script. . .something that was perhaps slipped under my door by Krill. To decipher this manifesto, you would need to utilize the same procedures that have been used before to translate various ancient codices, The Rosetta stone, the texts found on crashed UFO vehicles, or the methodology Joseph Smith used to decode the golden tablets that contained the Mormon scriptures. First you need to determine how the text is arranged: does it read top to bottom, left to right like a standard English text? Do you read it up or down, from the bottom up, from right to left? Is the message encrypted, or is it raw data? And then, you need to analyze the actual markings as text, and attempt a translation based on recurring character patterns. attempting to establish some sort or corollary with English texts?
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Cindy Sheehan for Congress::::::The "Spokesperson" abandons her five week retirement to hit the hustings:::::::: Sheehan is ineluctably inelectable

Cindy Sheehan emotes under the burden of being the spokesperson

for the entire anti-war movement

Cindy Sheehan told the Associated Press earlier this year that she would enter the 2008 House contest, in one of the nation’s most solidly Democratic and liberal-leaning districts, unless Speaker of the House Pelosi introduces articles of impeachment against Bush by July 23.

Guess what? The Speaker did not move to impeach the President. Therefore Sheehan is in the race, running for the San Francisco 8th District seat now occupied by Nancy Pelosi.



She even has some supporters lined up. In a recent interview with The Hill, Sheehan said she has been endorsed by actress Roseanne Barr, country star Willie Nelson and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. Sheehan also claimed that White House hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich (a/k/a "the runt") and former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) are also backing her.“Celebrities bring a certain kind of...credibility,” Sheehan said. Willie Nelson is apparently a friend of Sheehan’s and has offered to help her raise money for her campaign. “[Nelson and his wife] just have the exact correct politics and the exact compassion for the earth and humanity that I think attracts us as friends,” she said. Willie? When I bought tickets to see you this summer, I hope you realize I never intended for my hard-earned mon to go toward a misguided attempt to unseat the Speaker.

God help us. Cindy, I do have a few questions:

- have you thought about taking on actual supporters of the war?

- why attack The Speaker, who has solid anti-war credentials, but failed to cave in to your pathetic blackmail tactics?

- was your five week retirement from spokespersonship so painful that you needed to leap back in to reclaim the limelight?

- do you really think your histrionics will fly in the House of Representatives?

- do you really want to be the spoiler in this election? Are you Ralph Nader (a/k/a The Dingbat) in disguise? - don't you realize this folly will only result in hellish blowback for your cause?

- do you not realize that you are ineluctably inelectable?

Other recent articles here on Ms. Sheehan:

Matt "Sleazeball" Drudge Strikes Again

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

Cindy Sheehan now outside the tent, pissing in

Cindy Sheehan rides again

Cindy Sheen picks up the cudgel again

Cindy Sheehan: They’re a bunch of f***ing hypocrites!

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Bin Laden escapes the hangman's noose once again

According to NBC news, Bin Laden may have just escaped U.S. forces. An August mission in Afghanistan just missed snagging Public Enemy Number One.

"A little more than a month ago, with the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaching and fears of a new al Qaeda attack rising, some U.S. intelligence and military analysts thought they had found one of the world’s two most wanted men just where they last saw them six years ago." Read the NBC news story here.
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The Party & an anonymous party's eternal mortification

Of all the readers of All This Is That [tm], only Jeff Clinton could have sent me this. . .and he did. No editorial comment is needed...

[you must click this to enlarge and read!]



What I like best about this email are 1) this is the first time he ever drank; 2) his fretting over the homosexual aspect of what happened. It was a dog, fella!); and 3) the episode was apparently videotaped by one of the cheering crowd.
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Dynamiting, bulldozing, and building in Whister, British Columbia

destruction and construction on 99 to Whistler

I have been at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia for the last few days. Driving up here was a complete circus. Hundreds of trucks parked everywhere; huge mountains of gravel and scree everywhere, waiting to be deployed by trucks and bulldozers; dynamite shacks and blasting off hillsides; literally hundreds of flaggers on the road between Vancouver and Whistler. They are seriously widening this gorgeous, winding road to make way for the thousands of people who will be attending and participating in the Winter Olympics 2010. It is completely insane! The road to Whistler is faced on one side by rocky hills/mountains, and on the other by a steep cliff. 99 is about the last road you'd want to widen...which explains all the dynamiting. And it looks like everything they dynamite away is being used on the cliff side to build up the road so they can add another lane on that side.

click to enlarge the bobsled run

Then, when you actually get to Whistler, there is an insane frenzy of building all over the place. As if it wasn't insane enough in the first place! We are having meetings on top of the mountain, which entails going up rocky, windy, and muddy switchback roads in a HumVee caravan every morning. The drivers on the road are all in constant communication, since the road is about a lane and a half, and you have to plan ahead for possibly meeting a Semi-truck trailer, or another HumVee, or possibly even a little ATV. It's a little spooky. Let's put it this way, you have to sign an insurance waiver every morning to get in the truck.

The most interesting thing here, aside from the mountains, of course, is the construction of the bobsled run. I am naive enough that I actually believed bobsled runs were just carved out of the ice and snow. Au contraire. It is a massive undertaking...way longer than I ever expected, with reinforced concrete, and it looks like piping (to cool the snow?) and, of course, lights, and platforms. It is a massive undertaking, and that's just for one sport. Just like on 99, there are hundreds of trucks here and building going on non-stop.

It began snowing today when we were on top of the mountain. In a month, you won't be able to drive to the top, and the construction will presumably slow down until the thaw next spring.

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I haven't heard it yet, but I am happy to know that Joni Mitchell released a new album yesterday called Shine. I won't get to hear it for a couple of days, unless there is a CD store in Whistler, British Columbia.

Today, also, I believe Herbie Hancock released a tribute album to Joni. I'm looking forward to that one too.

As it turns out, the day of this record's release I am in her home state, about fifty miles from her house on Vancouver Island (where my daughter also lives). Like I said, I won't hear the record until I get back to stateside. I am not much of a digital music buyer. I have to hit the brick and mortar shop and have a CD to hold in my hands. Then, I just play a CD once...when I digitize it. Anyhow, here's to Joni. The advance on this album i that it's very good.


The tracks of Shine:

"One Week Last Summer"
"This Place"
"If I Had a Heart" "If I Had a Heart, I'd Cry" is a reaction to the state of the environment and what Mitchell called the current "holy war." In February 2007, The New York Times described the song as "one of the most haunting melodies she has ever written." Of the impetus that inspired her to write the song, Mitchell explained, "My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. I can't cry about it. In a way I'm inoculated. I've suffered this pain for so long. …The West has packed the whole world on a runaway train. We are on the road to extincting ourselves as a species."
"Hana"
"Bad Dreams are Good" "Bad Dreams Are Good" was inspired by a comment Mitchell's grandson made at the age of three: "Bad dreams are good, in the great plan." In a March 2007 BBC2 radio interview with Amanda Ghost, the singer jokingly said she'd promised to "cut him in" on the song's profits.
"Big Yellow Taxi" In March 2007, The Guardian reported that Shine will feature a "new version" of Joni's 1970 environmentally-themed hit single.
"Night of the Iguana"
"Strong and Wrong"
"Shine" Toronto Globe and Mail described this song as "a lush lullaby for the soul."[
"If" This song, which will be the last on the album,[8] is based on the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling. The jazz-inflected piece features Herbie Hancock playing piano.
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What would Jesus do? (pick up a naked woman?)

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Belgian Catholic bishops are protesting a TV ad that shows a pot-bellied, "hippy" Jesus performing miracles and picking up barely-clothed women in a club, according to church spokesfolk.

Plug TV and RTL-TVI defended the commercial, saying that it was not blasphemous but depicted a "laid-back Jesus addressing youth."

Some more traditional approaches to depicting Jesus:






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Alien Lore No. 113: Why do cars in the vicinity of UFOs die?

Why do witness's vehicles inevitably die when they see an alien space craft?

Ufologists seem to agree (that doesn't happen often!) that these engine failures are the result of electromagnetic fields emitted by the spacecraft. Thomas M. Sipose, the L.A. Bureau Chief of "Weekly Universe" wrote:

"The functioning of starcraft ionic-microwave engines (aka antigravitation or electromagnetic engines) is accompanied by electromagnetic field phenomena, i.e. plasma, which can cause air mass movements."

According to Weekly Universe: "...When real true-life starships descend, says [ufologist] Voron, "ionic-microwave streams interact with the environment...Even more shockingly, starship electromagnetic fields can impact our environment in still other ways -- some of them potentially deadly! UFO sightings have been accompanied by dangerous engine failures in planes, boats, cars -- as well as failures in other mechanical, electronics, communication devices."

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Poem: Imaginary Friends

I wonder which is worse—
Having imaginary friends
Or imaginary enemies?

I don't know anyone
With an imaginary friend,
But I know plenty of folk—

From The President on down—
With imaginary enemies,
From ghostly dopplegangers

To the guy in the next cubicle,
That control every thought
And every move they make.
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President says Hillary will win the nomination/White House calls Obama "lazy"

On Drudge, more quotes from Bill Sammon in the bombshell book, EVANGELICAL PRESIDENT

President Bush has declared that Senator Clinton will win the presidential nomination. In other news, the White House called Barack Obama "lazy."

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Video (and lyrics) Not Alone Anymore...by Roy Orbison & The Traveling Wilburys

This song, from late in Roy Orbison's short life, was one of the finest The Wilburys recorded. And Roy is absolutely at the top of his game. It's one of my favorite Orbison tunes ever. It's a sweet, poppy, rock and C/W tinged gem. Thank you Roy!

Not Alone Any More

You always said that I’d be back again, that I’d come running to you in the end.
I thought that you were on your own, (sha la la la, sha la la la)
and now I find you're not alone. (sha la la la)
(Not alone) I’ll see you through the rain, (not alone) through the heartache and pain,
(not alone) it hurts like never before, you're not alone anymore.

You always said that I would know some day just how it feels when your love's gone away.
I let you down, I let you go, (sha la la la, sha la la la) I lost you, how was I to know? (sha la la la)
(Not alone) I see you through the rain, (not alone) through the heartache and pain,
(not alone) it hurts like never before, you're not alone anymore.

I never knew I could feel this way, I never could see past yesterday.
You feel that everything is gone, (sha la la la, sha la la la)
I feel it too, you're not alone. (sha la la la)
(Not alone) I’ll see you through the rain, (not alone) through the heartache and pain,
(not alone) it hurts like never before, you're not alone, you're not alone,
you're not alone anymore, any more, any more.

Painting: Dean Ericksen - portrait of a madman