Google Information Search of recent articles on George Bush appearing in All This Is That.

Here is a G.I.S. of articles, essays, satires, and paintings related to the Presidency of George W. Bush that have appeared in All This Is That recently...Google turned up 80 articles:

George Bush sees ghosts
14 Dec 2007 by Jack Brummet Thanks to Jeff Clinton for pointing out this nugget. Robert Draper's new book, "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush," unloads a few bombs on the stumbling President, but perhaps the most interesting one had to do with spooks. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Painting--> President Bush: Hear No Evil
26 Dec 2007 by Jack Brummet Click Dubyah to enlarge... At the Press Conference, President Bush indicates that he refuses to entertain any further questions. ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

President Bush finally beats Nixon & becomes the most unpopular ...
7 Nov 2007 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge - copyright (c) 2007 by All This Is That 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. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Former Press Secretary McClellan says Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby ...
21 Nov 2007 by Jack Brummet In his forthcoming book, the former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lied to the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative, ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Laura Bush puts the mark on George Bush/President Bush rumored to ...
10 hours ago by Jack Brummet Thanks to Dean Ericksen of the cogent, concerned, and controversial blog, Almost There In No Time, for pointing this one out, despite the ongoing blog war with All This Is That (ATIT vs ATINT). According to The Globe, "GEORGE BUSH and ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

445 Days To Go: The George W. Bush Presidency Sputters To A Halt
1 Nov 2007 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Bush numbers plunge again: President hits an all-time low
17 Oct 2007 by Jack Brummet The mood of Americans has turned increasingly ugly and sent Bush's approval rating plunging deeper and deeper into the toilet bowl to another record low this month, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll that came out today. ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/




President Bush succumbs to blackmail and commutes Scooter Libby's ...
2 Jul 2007 by Jack Brummet 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. ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Retired General George Washington Lashes Out At President Bush
13 Jun 2007 by Jack Brummet The Onion. Retired Gen. George Washington Criticizes Bush's Handling Of Iraq War. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

All This Is That callback: President Bush's new Press Secretary ...
29 Jul 2007 by Jack Brummet WASHINGTON, DC—With an administration in shambles, hounded by criminal allegations, a plunge in approval ratings that shows no signs of ending, and bi-partisan calls for the resignations of various cabinet members and advisors, ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Jimmy Carter Reams Bush: Bush Responds Like A Wounded Swamp Sow
21 May 2007 by Jack Brummet AP article verifies that President Jimmy Carter said President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, singling out the White House's pre-emptive war, and the Administration's feeble ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Sparrow unloads its bowels on President Bush during Rose Garden ...
24 May 2007 by Jack Brummet Even the birds have begun flinging ca-ca The President's way. During Thursday's Rose Garden press conference, a passing sparrow made an editorial comment on George W. Bush's performance in office. The LiveLeak video appears below. ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Gonzales & Bush Paying Their Respects To Old Glory
17 May 2007 by Jack Brummet One of these two guys will be looking for work within ten days. I wish I could say it was both of them... ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Flashback: President Bush vows to "take care of" CIA leaker (with ...
6 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet President Bush speaking at a press conference in Feb. 2004 Former VP Chief of Staff Scooter Libby has testified that President Bush authorized him to disclose the contents of highly classified intelligence documents to the media. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Bush Family Is Split
15 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet From The Drudge Report today. It sounds like Nixon's last year in the White House! Tue Nov 15 2005 11:23:51 ET - Drudgereport.com. President Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush drunk at Camp David
27 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Photograph: unknown source. If it's yours, let us know! All This Is That News Wire Camp David, MD 12-26-2005. President Bush's Christmas retreat at Camp David devolved into a troubled, drunken "bender," according to sources close to The ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com


CNN: Bush Resigns
12 May 2007 by Jack Brummet The CNN Today program, just after midnight Eastern time, led with a graphic 'Bush Resigns.' Of course, they meant 'Blair Resigns.' Even though the graphic was on screen 12 seconds, the screen grab is now all over the internet. ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

"THE BIGGEST TERRORIST IN THE WORLD IS GEORGE W. BUSH"
18 Aug 2005 by Jack Brummet Cindy Sheehan, camped out near the Bush ranch in Crawford, TX, in a high profile media blitz, has toned down her rhetoric somewhat in her current protest I guess you'd call it. Last spring, however, at my old alma mater, San Francisco ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Paints Himself Into A Corner Over Not Firing ...
20 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet The President And Advisor Karl Rove During Happier Times. The Associated Press reports that The White House on Tuesday offered to make political strategist Karl Rove, former counsel Harriet Meiers, and a couple of lesser-knowns ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html

President Bush achieves an all-time low in approval ratings
27 Feb 2006 by Jack Brummet CBS News released a poll yesterday that shows President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an All-time low of 34 percent. Skepticism of the Iraq War has soared to an all time high. He's also being shelled over the UAE port ownership ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Alien Lore No. 65 - George Bush, Dick Cheney & The Greys
7 Mar 2006 by Jack Brummet With the circumlocutious logic we so often find in the reasoning of the UFOlogy community, the UFO folks were in a tizzy when George W. Bush became President. They believed he had promised, and would deliver on the promise to make a ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Bush: Eavesdropping Helps Save US Lives
17 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush delivers his live radio address in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Facing angry criticism, challenges to his authority in Congress, ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush intends to beat Tricky Dick
28 Feb 2006 by Jack Brummet The President appears to be "shooting the moon" with his current approval rating of 34 percent. The operational theory amongst the White House staff is "if you can't come out on top, lose big." Only two Presidents stand in the way of ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush: "Stop doing this shit!"
17 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet As diplomats focus on possibly sending an international force to southern Lebanon, President Bush--who was unaware that his microphone was "hot"--revealed that his focus was to force Syria to stop the Hizbullah attacks on Israel. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush: The Election Was A Mandate To Win This War!
15 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet According to The Guardian , President George Bush recently told his most trusted aides and advisers that the US and its "coalition" must make one last "big push" to win the war in Iraq. The President's increasingly tenuous hold on ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush lights up the "c***suckers" in the press
16 Mar 2006 by Jack Brummet President George W. Bush, acknowledged his stunning freefall in the polls, saying on Thursday that his unpopular decisions have hurt his standing but that it "comes with the territory and you. . .you've got to stand on what you believe. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush loses his cool with the Senator elect from Virginia ...
28 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet The Hill Dot Com reported yesterday that President Bush has gotten off to a very rocky start with the Senator Elect from Virginia, Jim Webb. Webb, you probably remember, is the Senator who recently stomped George Allen and pushed the ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Donald Trump Eviscerates President Bush On CNN
16 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet Donald Trump tore into the President tonight on CNN's Situation Room. "...Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States. And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election." ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html



President Bush Announces Iraq Exit
21 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet The Onion. Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'. WASHINGTON, DC-Almost a year after the cessation of major combat and a month after the nation's first free democratic elections, President Bush unveiled the ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html

President Bush, remembering images of her tush, makes a move on ...
19 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet click the montage to enlarge What kind of a hopeless bonehead is Our President? There appears to be a tempest in a teapot controversy over POTUS's "massage" of German Chancellor Merkel. Was it an unwelcome advance? ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

George Bush Takes A Chunk Out Of Our Lady Of The Harbor
1 Apr 2007 by Jack Brummet I don't know who did this illustration, but I like it. It may be from a t-shirt. Various people were claiming credit for the work. If you did it, let me know, and we'll give you credit, a link to your t-shirt, or take it down. ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html

President Bush, reacting to yesterday's article on All This Is ...
14 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet In an apparent response to yesterday's article in the blog All This Is That, "Rumsfeld, reacting to resignation pressure threatens to expose drug use, sex, and corruption in White House," President Bush on Friday said that Defense ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Quote Of The Day
3 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet "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.All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com
President George Bush 'channels' Adolph Hitler during Iowa speech ...

11 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet this is an audio post - click to play. Ina bizarre incident in Des Moines, Iowa yesterday, President George Bush began channeling Adolph Hitler during an afternoon speech on Medicare. Five minutes into the speech, The President faltered ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush condemns bilingual national anthem
28 Apr 2006 by Jack Brummet A Spanish language version of the US national anthem was released Friday by British music producer, Adam Kidron. I wonder if he does the French version of God Save The Queen next? The President did not like this one bit. ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Bush Media Consultant Joins McCain Presidential Election Team
7 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet BY G. ROBERT HILLMAN. The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Mark McKinnon, the Austin political consultant who oversaw the advertising for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, has committed to help Sen. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush: "Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton"
29 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet [click images to enlarge] According to Reuters, President George W. Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father he's almost one of the family. Between their disaster relief work, fund raising, attending funerals, ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Says "F*** You!" To The Foreign Intelligence ...
27 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet A United Press International story dated December 26, 2005 says that POTUS decided to blow off warrants for international wiretaps "because the court was challenging him at an unprecedented rate. " Click on the post title to go to the ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Painting: President Bush Awakes From His Recurring Nightmare
27 Apr 2007 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge. ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

George Bush & the Geometry problem
17 Mar 2006 by Jack Brummet Test question from George Bush's college Geometry 202 class.All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Presidents Bush and Chirac, and Queen Elizabeth II F*** For Peace!
29 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Following up on the EuroPART scandal we (and a couple dozen others) reported yesterday, another picture has surfaced depicting the world leaders Chirac, Elizabeth II and W, having a grand old time while keeping Anglo-Franco-American ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Portrait of President Bush five years and six days into his presidency
25 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge ---o0o---All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Sex Pictures Of President Bush, President Chirac, And Queen Elizabeth
29 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge 400 Vienna billboards showing Britain's Queen Elizabeth "performing The Act" with US and French Presidents Bush and Chirac are causing a bit of consternation as Austria prepares to assume the rotating European ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Has An Unintentionally Comic Moment In Beijing
21 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush performed a comedy routine yesterday. At a briefing in China, The President ducked a question and attempted to leave the news conference. However, he bumped into a set of locked doors. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Priests to Purify Archeological Site After President Bush Visit
10 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet Mayan priests will hold a purification cermony at a sacred archaeological site, Iximche, to eradicate bad vibrations following President Bush's visit to Guatemala next week, Mayan sources told the Washington Post. ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html

President Bush sets new goals for Iraq
7 Jan 2007 by Jack Brummet click photograph of The President to enlarge According to The New York Times on Sunday, President George W. Bush President will establish "a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to try to ease sectarian ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Silent On Recent Ted Haggard Revelations
3 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge The President--as of Friday, at least--has not yet leapt to the defense of his old buddy, the Reverend Ted Haggard. The White House remains most circumspect on the matter. A reporter from All This Is That called and ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President George W. Bush Speaks About Universal Values
11 Jul 2005 by Jack Brummet "The relations with, uhh — Europe are important relations, and they've, uhh — because, we do share values. And, they're universal values, they're not American values or, you know — European values, they're universal values. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Four years in Iraq commemorated by President Bush
19 Mar 2007 by Jack Brummet click uncle sam's skull to enlarge President Bush marked the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq today with more words and pleas for patience (!) from the Roosevelt Room, as the White House struggled with the Democrat's attempts to ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html

"I would love to kill George Bush"
24 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet Betty Williams is just a touch more bellicose than your average Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Yesterday, she ripped into US President George W. Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. Campaigning for the rights of young people ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com



North Korea: President Bush Said The Magic Word ("Mister"). Could ...
3 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet click to enlarge SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea gave rare praise to President Bush on Friday, welcoming his use of the honorific ``Mr.'' when referring to leader Kim Jong Il and saying the softened tone could lead to its return ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Former President George HW Bush excoriates his son's war
21 Aug 2006 by Jack Brummet The "First Family" is rumored to have suffered an irreparable rift. More precisely, the rift between the former and current President George Bush has grown into a Grand Canyon-sized chasm. Sources told All This Is That that former ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Twilight Of The Bush Presidency:::Will The Last Person To Leave ...
9 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet The Ostroy Report and thousands of other blog and web sites are trumpeting the big Democratic win in the gubernatorial races in Jersey and Virginia. I'm not going to speculate on what this portends for the future, but it feels pretty ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Bush and Abramoff captured together in explicit photographs
22 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet click photograph to enlarge As the Abramoff scandal continues to unfold, envelop, and roil the GOP, the President's flacks have continually denied that he ever really met with Jack Abramoff, other than casually in large groups. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush performs encore of his Katrina song from one year ...
29 Aug 2006 by Jack Brummet Today, on the anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina landfall, President Bush reprised the same song he performed last year, and declared that the rebuilding of New Orleans and Mississippi was complete. ...All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Hits The Wall Over The Bolton Nomination: Is POTUS ...
21 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush faces a politically thorny situation _ and stark choices _ now that Senate Democrats twice have blocked John Bolton's confirmation as UN ambassador. The president could withdraw the nomination, authorize further ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush and the origins of the "you rock/devil horns" sign
26 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet For some reason, George Bush, his daughters, and wife often use the devil horns sign that I used to see only at rock shows. Fortunately, Ear Candy magazine did my work for me...they tracked down the genesis of the sign (but they did not ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Best President Bush quotes of 2005
2 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job." - This now famous line was on many people's quotes of the year list, in addition to being the punchline of hundreds of jokes, japes, and parodies. It was named on Thursday as US President George W. ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Says We're Winning The Iraqi War
19 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet President Bush, in a speech from the Oval Office Sunday night, told us we are winning the war. Click here for details on the speech. None of us are getting any younger, I'll admit. The President has been relentlesly hammered by the ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Doug Forrester Blames President Bush For His Spanking In Jersey
13 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet Doug Forrester, in a follow-up interview about the election with New Jersey's Star-Ledger, directly blamed The President for his loss in the governor's race. Forrester told a reporter that Bush's rapidly declining popularity made it ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Discloses His Exit Strategy: Victory
30 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet 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 ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush Retreats
12 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet "Unable to placate the wailing child - despite all his skills of diplomacy - President Bush was forced to hand it back to its waiting mother. " Read the Associated Press story here. When I think of it, the way he handled the baby and ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Bush unloads Abramoff contributions
4 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Like many other politicians today, The President's re-election campaign is unloading the (now) dirty money they received from Jack Abramoff. President Bush's re-election campaign is giving up $6000 in campaign contributions connected to ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Update On The Former Presidents Club: POTUS Bush & Clinton Hang ...
28 Jun 2005 by Jack Brummet POTUS Pals - click to enlarge The friendship between President Clinton and President Bush (the elder) continues. Early on, it felt like a marriage of convenience, but it really appears the two Presidents have come to genuinely like each ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Painting: President Bush and Karl Rove hold a press conference to ...
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Bush resigns
24 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet I don't know who made this. I found it, in three different places, all uncredited.All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

A letter from President George W. Bush
21 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Click the letter to enlarge for readability ---o0o---All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Painting: President Bush In The Twilight Of His Misbegotten Presidency
9 Nov 2005 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge. All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/

Painting: President Bush Jawboning
18 Oct 2005 by Jack Brummet click painting to enlarge... ---o0o---All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Painting: President Bush & Some Budget Facts
2 Sep 2005 by Jack Brummet click image to enlarge.All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com


Mosaic: President George W. Bush
14 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet Click the mosaic to enlarge! ---o0o---All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Spying and Lying: ACLU Demands Special Counsel Investigate ...
29 Dec 2005 by Jack Brummet The ACLU ran the following advertisement in today's New York Times, demanding a special counsel investigate illegal domestic spying against President George W. Bush:. Click image to enlarge. ---o0o---All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Painting: President George W.Bush does a face plant on the world ...
24 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet Click image to enlarge A portrait of the President's speech at G8. As Maureen Dowd wrote in a recent column: "In snippets of overheard conversation, Mr. Bush says he has not bothered to prepare any closing remarks and grouses about ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

another photgraph of President George Bush and Jack Abramoff
24 Jan 2006 by Jack Brummet Following up yesterday's photo , another shot of Jack Abramoff and The President has turned up: As Time Magazine said, "[these photographs] are likely to see the light of day eventually because celebrity tabloids are on the prowl for ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

President Hugo Chávez: Hang President Bush First
10 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet In a speech Tuesday, Venezuela's President Chávez declared that ''If sentencing is to be done,'' Chávez said, "the first one to be given the most severe sentence this planet has to offer should be the president of the United States, ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

The Wrong Place At The Right Time: Secret Service Agents Reported ...
22 Nov 2006 by Jack Brummet John Kincaid and Nicholas Cimino, Secret Service Following an incident in which President Bush's daughter Barbara's purse was stolen in a Buenos Aires restaurant, two Secret Service agents have apparently disappeared. ...all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

The Declaration of Independence & Parallels between King George ...
4 Jul 2006 by Jack Brummet Happy 4th of July! Note the bold sections below. Several groups of people have averred that President Bush is as guilty of these offenses as King George of Britain was. . .in fact, one group is suing The President over these very ...All This Is That - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

Painting: Menage a trois - Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Vice ...
10 Sep 2006 by Jack Brummet Cllick image to enlarge ---o0o---All this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com

The Time Has Come For George W. Bush And Dick Cheney To Pay The Piper
21 Apr 2007 by Jack Brummet Click the photograph to enlarge ---o0o---. Copyright © 2007 by Jack Brummet. All original material on All this is that can be purchased or licensed.all this is that - http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com/index.html
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Laura Bush puts the mark on George Bush/President Bush rumored to be hitting the bottle

Thanks to Dean Ericksen of the cogent, concerned, and controversial blog, Almost There In No Time, for pointing this one out, despite the ongoing blog war with All This Is That (ATIT vs ATINT).





According to The Globe, "GEORGE BUSH and wife Laura are headed for divorce - again - after she left claw marks on his face during a furious fight over his boozing, White House sources reveal. The president was left with a bloody three-inch gash along with a smaller cut. Our world exclusive reveals the shocking details of their explosive showdown - and what their future holds."

Relevant links re: Almost There In No Time:

The Blog War, continued
Word about Dean Ericksen Spreads Around The Internet
The Blog Wars are on hiatus?::::::Dean Ericksen has hightailed it into Central America
Further reader submissions of Dean Ericksen Stories And Photos
The Gathering Storm Around Dean Ericksen
Blog Wars--> Boycott This Blog: Almost There In No Time
At Last! Dean Ericksen Begins Blogging!
Dean Ericksen's review of the Grammys
Dean Ericksen's Metro Melodrama
President Bush drunk at Camp David
Photograph: Dean & Jack In California
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Adolph Hitler meets Miami Vice??

Click to Adolph Hitler and the youth to enlarge


Thanks to Dean Ericksen (our competitor) for pointing out this one. This photograph was recently offered for sale on EBay. The photo was taken around 1940. Hitler clearly, even at this early date (and when his war of domination still seemed winnable), looks frail and stooped. And those future Hitler youth, look amazingly colorful in juxtaposition with the drab Fuhrer.
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Two Beatles Movies: Video trailers

Two Richard Lester Beatles films. . .one great one: A Hard Day's Night, and a far weaker one, Help:

A Hard Day's Night:



Help:


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Painting: Zombie!

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The Beatle's Last Waltz

This is a video of the last time The Beatles played together, in 1970, on a London rooftop. I believe this is where John Lennon uttered his wonderful "Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen. On behalf of me and boys I hope we passed the audition!" (which was grafted onto the studio track of the Let It Be LP). On a personal note, I saw them in Seattle in 1966, on their final tour, one day before their final show in San Francisco.

Five Greatest Cities In The United States

This is my current list of the Five Greatest/Favorite Cities In The United States. In order. As with all of my lists here, I reserve the right to change my mind tomorrow. Let's debate!

1. Seattle.
2. New York City.
3. Austin.
4. SF/Berkeley-Oakland.
5. Los Angeles.

Five greatest cities not in the United States:

1. Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico.
2. Rome.
3. Madrid.
4. Chora Sfokya, Crete, Greece.
5. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Kerry endorses Obama (which may be enough to drop him another five points)

I wonder if you can decline endorsements from a fellow Senator? Why didn't Kerry just give him the kiss of death ("it was you, Fredo.")?

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New Hampshire wrap-up & the necessity of telephoning the voters

Coming home from Boston tonight on Alaska Airlines Flight 15, I bumped into Ralph Munro, our long-time Washington State Secretary of State (he retired in 2000). He was in the seat behind me (yes, coach!) and had been in New Hampshire the last week or so doing "grunt work" for the McCain campaign...grunt work being working the telephones. I have done the telephone thing for various candidates and for school levy elections. It is indeed grunt work...grueling, often unrewarding, and difficult. You get a lot of hostility and a lot of hangups. But the conventional wisdom says it's important work, and no matter how digital and internet- and media-based campaigns become, campaigns still rely on phone banks to turn the voters out.

Good on you Ralph...nice meeting you.

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Video: The Beatles perform She Loves You In Manchester in 1963

I will never forget the night when I was ten years old and The Beatles played this song on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was one of those extremely rare times when you think "nothing will be quite the same after this." And, for me at least, things never were. It led to a lifetime addiction, and their music and the people they inspired and competed with, and the next generation (now two generations!) took what they did, honored what they did, rebelled against what they did, and formed a soundtrack for a lifetime. I mean, yeah, I often cut away to other musical pleasures in the jazz, country, blues, bluegrass, classical modes. . . but The Beatles are the absolute Gold Standard. From them I learned about melody, sitars, flutes, strings, harmony, rhythm, ballads, suites, bridges, Aeolian cadences. . .you name it. For me, the music all springs from John Paul George and Ringo; even Beethoven!


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Audio Lost and found: some great downloadable MP3s from the great WFMU Blog

I love strange old audio ephemera, from the hundreds of Jean Shepherd shows I have to recordings of chatter on shortwave, the famous Buddy Rich rant tapes, and the "shut up and play" compilation of rock and rollers freaking out on stage and ripping into their audiences (Doiurtney Love, Mike Love, Elvis, Jim Morrison, Lou Reed, etc.). A great source all of this is the WFMU radio site that often releases free weird recordings that have slipped into the pulic doman.

WFMU's beware of the blog is a great web site and they always have lot of goodies for downloading. You should visit once in a while... in the meantime, here are three gems I recently found there that you can download.




1) How Do I learn. A collection of 6 MP3s from a collection of old educational film strips. Check out the cut "Who's afraid?" . . .it is genuinely spooky.



2) Flying Saucers Unlimited. This record is probably the score for Frank Stranges UFO documentary Phenomena 7.7. Pretty cool. The Reverend Strange is unquestionably way way out there.



3) Sound off Saxons! This is amazing. "Created as a keepsake for the 1965 graduating class of North High School in Torrance, CA, this album takes you through the school and introduces you to the multiple characters and events there — all with the corniest, dated humor you can imagine."

This is a wonderful slice of a world that has long since disappeared. It was already gone by the time I graduated from high school.
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Senators McCain and Clinton win in New Hampshire: stayin' alive

I am in Boston tonight, about 30 miles from ground zero in New Hampshire. I am glad to see that both Senators Clinton and McCain won their respective races tonight. Not that I am particularly in favor of either of them becoming President, but because I think they help keep the race honest.

Just last summer I and nearly everyone else had written off McCain...his campaign was in shambles. . .people were quitting, and the money was drying up. Has he cleaned up his act, or is he lucky to have Huck and Giuliani and Romney dicing each other up, and is able to sneak into the breach?

As for Hillary, she made an amazing comeback overnight--only yesterday she was running at least 7-10% behind Obama. Did this mini-comeback spring from the piling on from the press over the last two days, and a public reaction? Or were the press, pundits, and pollsters just wrong? I don't know, but I want her to remain in the race to keep Edwards and Obama honest. Even if Obama is destined to be the nominee, I'd like to see him go through a grueling primary season just to toughen up for the general election. He has had a tendency to pull back when attacked. . .and the attacks he's suffered from the Dems will look like creampuffs when the Republicans start lobbing anti-personnel bombs. I think it's important for Barack to learn to play hardball. Early on he showed signs of being gun-shy. He has to be able to do more than just make great speeches and talk about change. He's not alone of course...in the debate last weekend, the Democrats on stage mentioned change 61 times. And the G.O.P. candidates used the word 30 times.



That's some margin of error in that poll!
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The Press and Mass Hysteria: :::::How far will we descend?:::Watching Senator Clinton's transit and eclipse as the men sweep out the female interloper

click Hillary posing with the ambassador from Trunobulax, to enlarge...

If you follow the Democratic Presidential nomination, you may have seen the swell of articles in the 'papers, Websites/blogs/and news sites, predicting the demise of Hillary Clinton. All of a sudden, the press have descended like the pack of jackals they are (and God bless them BTW). Now her star is falling, and it's open season.

You may have noticed I love politics. . .and hardball, and if you're in the game you have to be able to pitch and hit the hardballs. Beginning with the withdrawal of Senator Joe Biden from the race (really, the only person I could wholeheartedly get behind), I have become extremely dejected. Today, the Drudge Report and other media outlets focused on Hillary's "emotional" statement yesterday: "Senator Hillary Clinton got emotional and had tears in her eyes as she spoke with voters about how hard it is to balance a busy campaign life and her passion for the country's future." Got emotional!? If she had been angry, of course, it would not have been characterized as emotional, but reported something like "Hillary Clinton gives spiritied response to heckler." On the Drudge report main page alone today, these articles all appeared. . .none of which portray Sen. Clinton or her campaign in a favorable light:

HILLARY UNLOADS: YOU'RE NO MARTIN LUTHER KING
HILLARY TEARS IN EYES...
'IT'S NOT EASY'
...VIDEO...
Rivals React...
VIDEO: BILL SAYS HE CAN'T MAKE HILLARY 'YOUNGER, TALLER, MALE'...
...Answers call from wife during speech: 'I love you!'
FLASH: RASMUSSEN South Carolina: Obama 42% Clinton 30%...
NEW HAMPSHIRE 2008...
DIXVILLE NOTCH: First votes counted; Clinton gets none...
WASH POST HILLARY VIDEO: 'FIRED UP AND READY TO BORE'...
VIDEO: 'Iron My Shirt!': Screaming Men Disrupt Clinton Event...
MAG: Clinton campaign faces a 'cash crunch'...
TALK OF HILLARY EXIT ENGULFS CAMPAIGN...
'She did not work this hard to get out after one state! All this talk is nonsense'...
Clinton Fires Back: Obama, Edwards Given 'Free Ride'...

Man, oh man, oh man, oh man. I have read Matt Drudge for years and am able to read him with a good filter. But this is just depressing. Everyone is unloading on Senator Clinton. Yeah, she may have "asked for it" (another allusion that used to be used to explain away rape), and that's life when you're the front runner. Well, she isn't the front runner anymore. And it feels like people are taking advantage of the situation. Now that she's down, it's time to give her a curb stomp. And yet today, her campaign, and perhaps the Senator herself have begun playing the race card: "HILLARY UNLOADS: YOU'RE NO MARTIN LUTHER KING." I thought ganging up on Hillary was depressing. But her campaign's apparent reaction is even more depressing. . .if it can be tracked backed to her strategists. I guess it probably can.

Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation. So now, the Senator's camp is playing the race card? This is even more depressing than the rest of the news! And to boot, they toss in the assassination card.

Quoting from the New York Times politics blog:

"Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama have been in a running feud arising from her suggestion at Saturday’s debate that he was raising “false hope.”

"Mr. Obama responded that Mr. Kennedy did not decide going to the moon was a false hope and that Martin Luther King, Jr. did not see ending segregation as such.

“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” Mrs. Clinton said when asked about Mr. Obama’s rejoinder by Fox’s Major Garrett after her speech in Dover. “It took a president to get it done.”

"The Obama campaign declined to comment on either of those remarks."

This has become so disheartening that I have thought of abandoning politics here altogether, skipping the caucus, and maybe even not bothering to vote. That won't happen, but I am sitting here utterly dejected tonight. This has not been a good week. It's rare when I get the blues, but these past few days have trying. A co-worker committed suicide, and now it feels like the political party I have worked for since I doorbelled for Sen. George McGovern in Oregon in 1972 is also committing suicide.

I can live with whoever we finally nominate. I will work for and send money to whoever we nominate, but tonight, I'm not feeling the love; I'm not feeling the passion; what I am feeling is down down down. You may have correctly apprehended that I am a glass half-full person. Tonight I am down to the corners.

The corners is about as obscure a reference as you could possibly find. It isn't even Google-able. Let me explain. Hobos often collected old (capped) liquor bottles. If you hold a lighter to an empty bottle of vodka, gin, bourbon, etc., the residual liquor, say, half an ounce or so, will slowly collect in a corner at the bottom of the bottle. If you have enough bottles, you may even get a buzz. So far this campaign has transmogrified me from a relentless optimist of the glass half-full school to searching for corners.
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Drudge Report predicts Hillary exit, stage left

Senator Hillary Clinton: relegated to the shadows?

According to the Drudge Report, tomorrow's likely double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a collapse in national polls and a probable drastic fund-raising slowdown are pushing Hillary Clinton to pull out of the race.

"Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?! 'She can't take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada," laments one top campaign insider to the DRUDGE REPORT. "If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn't want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats."Meanwhile, Democrat hopeful John Edwards has confided to senior staff that he is staying in the race because Hillary "could soon be out." "Her money is going to dry up," Edwards confided, a top source said Monday morning.

"Key players in Clinton's inner circle are said to be split. James Carville is urging her to fight it out through at least February and Super Tuesday, where she has a shot at thwarting Barack Obama in a big state. "She did not work this hard to get out after one state! All this talk is nonsense," said one top adviser. But others close to the former first lady now see no possible road to victory, sources claim. "

Take it for what it's worth. Matt Drudge is often right on the money. On the other hand, he has also had headlines about the John Edward's love-child, and an unnamed Obama scandal, neither of which actually materialized. Neither of those two bogus stories were ever retracted or corrected.


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Please Please Me Video: One of the great early Beatles' tunes

And then Paul McCartney repspectably covered the old tune on a recent DVD:


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The India Traffic cam video

I have to thank Dean Ericksen's blog for posting this one. At first, it looked like, yeah, an Asian city's traffic cam. As I watched it twice, I realized, no, what this is is a schematic animation of my brain in action. This is exactly what it feels like--for better or worse--in my head.


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Huckabee & Obama take the Iowa contest

click the winners to enlarge

Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama took the Republican and Democratic caucus votes in Iowa on Wednesday, and in the Democratic race, left Joe Biden and Christopher Dodd on the sidelines, as they dropped out of the race. Mitt Romney is sweating. Hillary Clinton "the electable one" is really sweating. John Edwards feels OK. He survived another day. Rudy? McCain? Richardson? The rest of the pack? Hanging on by their fingernails, or mired in the back where they've always been...

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Political hero Joe Biden throws in the towel; hold your nose and stand behind Edwards or Obama

click to enlarge Senator Joe Biden

Senator Joe Biden was right. A campaign video:



Sadly, but unfortunately wisely, Senator Biden announced following the Iowa caucuses that he was abandoning his run for the Presidency. I had always hoped that Senators Edwards, Clinton, and Obama would decimate each other and that the populace would race to embrace Smilin' Joe in the breach. It became clear last night that was not going to happen, and the Senator decided to shut down his shoestring operation.

Senator Biden went his own way this time around, and often during the debates, the other candidates would admit "Joe is right," or "Joe Biden said it best," or "As Joe pointed out." The Senator brought great ideas and candor to the race, and he would have brought those same ideas and values to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Fortunately, we still have Joe to kick around. He is, after all, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (one of the most important committees in Congress).

Joe Biden's concession/withdrawal speech from YouTube:



Like Mario Cuomo of years past, this was a guy I really wanted to be my President. Kerry, Dukakis, Mondale, Carter, I held my nose and mailed in the check or doorbelled for. . .I could get behind Joe. But that was not to be.
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Suicide, and getting through

I found out this morning, on returning to work after our blissfully long Christmas vacation, that a long-time co-worker had taken his life. He shot himself in his car.

I liked him. He was one person I could always trust when I asked design questions, and who would patiently walk me through (with some good-natured sighing about my ignorance) whatever question I posed. Even if he was working 18 hours a day, he would take the time to answer my questions and school me. He was intense, cranky, insistent, and smart as a whip (like all great designers). He's gone.

Between the time I was about 25 and 30, two friends, Jannah Hill and Peter Whitten, and my brother-in-law Colin Curran, took their own lives. I thought (no, hoped) those days were behind me (and there isn't much I wish to be already behind me). The death of my friend, reopens those old thoughts and regrets,. Could I have sensed something, or said anything if I had sensed something? Shouldn't I have known? Have I wasted my life doing what I am doing? Don't people who work side by side, in the end, have a sacred, really, a familial, responsibility for each other? Do we miss the signs, or do they carefully cover their tracks when they decide to leave this life?

When I was 17-20, I worked on a crisis hotline, and some calls came from people both toying with, and seriously contemplating, suicide. I know I changed at least one person's mind (or at least got them to cool off for a few days), and that when I checked a few years later, they were still among us. There were others where I never knew what finally happened. I don't think I had a gift or anything...just an overwhelming belief that you never know what tomorrow brings and that if you put off the moment, you just may see your way through. The death of my friend/co-worker brings that all back. . .I wonder if it isn't time to get back in?

In this country, thirty thousand people a year end their own lives. Last summer, we went to NYC where a lot of the family participated in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's "out of the darkness" walk, where thousand of people marched overnight to raise money (millions!) for research and prevention. This year's walk will be in NYC and Seattle (New York: June 7-8, 2008/Seattle: June 21-22, 2008.

Man, if you can pull even one person through to the next day, you never know! You don't know if he had planned this for years or if it was a bad moment, or if the turning point (and the way back) was just around the corner! Tomorrow, you could get it all back or turn the corner on the darkness.

I send my prayers and good vibrations to his family and friends that they can emerge from this whole, or mostly intact. And to Dream, "may the four winds blow you safely home."

I wrote this poem after my brother-in-law Colin took his life in 1983, and it kind of applies, still.


The Absence of Footprints

1.
We're not trilliums or daffodils
That spring back up
After a nap in the dirt.

2.
You told me you wanted
To make the crossing
Over to Cold Island
And I could never believe you.

It wasn't the karmic stain
That bothered me,
But the unfathomable fact
You didn't want to be here;
That all this wasn't enough.

All this is that.
And it wasn't enough.

3.
You stare into the ditch
You spent years unloading.

You are afraid to climb in
And stop,

To take something
That isn't working,
and make it not work forever.

4.
It's
so
quiet
you
hear
dust
motes
six
feet
up
bump
in
shafts
of
sunlight.
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Obama climbing...with one day to go to the Iowa caususes

click to enlarge Obama, Edwards, and Clinton

Barack Obama pulls in 32 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers, up from 28 percent in the Des Moines Register's late November poll, while Hillary Clinton, held steady at 25 percent and Ex-Senator John Edwards held at 24 percent. This leaves Hillary with a fair shot at coming in third. The poll reflects continued insanity and volatility in the contest, even now the year of campaigning In Iowa is over. One third of likely caucusgoers say they could be persuaded to choose someone else before Thursday evening!!!
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Alien Lore No.121: The Telepathic Aliens In Kent (England)

This is a fascinating story from Bufora (the British version of MUFON, the national UFO network located here in Seattle). Here are some of the most interesting "facts." To read the entire, baffling story, go here.

Judy Jaafar's findings in the Bromley, Kent, 24th August 2003 alien sighting and her interview and investigation:

• Judy Jaafar investigated the case initially in 2003, but even this year, BUFORA was contacted BUFORA by email, trying to tell her stories to other, perhaps more receptive ears.


• Two investigators were dispatched to research "what turned out to be some of the strangest testimony we have ever heard." One them ran a tape recorder, and the other took notes.


• Sarah is clearly and undoubtedly the dominant of the two personalities, but she defers to John the channeler of spirits, and latterly aliens, but deferring in a way that assures his compliance.


• Both Sarah and John say they have no knowledge of alien lore and have never read a book or magazine on the subject, nor seen any films.


• Linda can be a grey or take human form, and in both forms he can be visible or invisible. John is channele and a psychic, who is more "open" to greys since meeting Sarah. Sarah first saw greys in 1986 lying in her beach hut in Negril, Jamaica, sick wither a collapsed lung and fever. The greys arrived to help. According to Sara, the "Greys are supremely intelligent and give information to humans in all disciplines - science, medicine, arts etc. They are here to help, and in fact are the "godparents" to many planetary civilisations.

• "The greys NEVER abduct people, or do experiments on them. "They have no need to as they know humanity inside out. Human spirits can, however, meet them on the astral plane and this might be mistaken for abduction."


• The greys sustain themselves by ingesting a homeopathically refined liquid made from pure water and certain herbs. They drink this through their mouths and it is deposited in a reservoir which we would call a stomach. They have no other end to the digestive tract, no bowels, therefore excretion is impossible. They extract the "energy" from this liquid and use it up totally.


• They use "energy" also to procreate. There is no sexual union as such (so
  presumably no sexual organs).


• Any 3-4ft tall greys seen by othe people must be juveniles, as they are
  around 7ft tall when mature.


• Greys can choose to be reincarnated as humans, whereupon they take very
  cerebral jobs because they are so clever.


• They live for 200-300 years, and just stop energising in order to die. This is to make way for the younger generation.


• The greys come from the planet Sirius D, and Sirius A is their sun. There was no mention of Sirius B or C. One third of the planet surface is covered by fresh water, but no salty seas. The flora is green and lush, and the climate mild. No mention of fauna, or other humanoid species. There is no pollution and the inhabitants live in simple but sophisticated buildings, generally sort of "round".


• On the home planet, the greys use "energised" vehicles which Sarah calls "flying caravans". She showed us a sketch she'd drawn of one of these, and it did look for all the world like a flying box with windows and door.




• There are schools and recreational facilities. They're not much into sport but do enjoy swimming and boating. Mostly they prefer mental games like chess in order to relax. The family is everything, and the grays as a race are very gregarious and sociable, as evidenced by their partiality to communal jacuzzis. [Ed note: this is a little scary, knowing my love of hot tubs, and hot springs.]


• They have a senate of fifty individuals, just as a guide, since no-one ever does anything wrong, and the senate retires every so often to allow the younger individuals some experience.

• There is no illness or poverty or hardship.


• John perceives that there are other alien races out there, but the greys have never told him this. To "tune in" he just relaxes.


• The greys will not give any information about future developments because we need to find our own answers, but they can nudge us in the right direction from time to time.


• The greys do not have a concept of God. They are completely self-sufficient and at one with the universe, so have no need of such ideas.




• Telepathy, which is their preferred mode of contact, will become common amongst humans after our next developmental leap.


• Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong. [ed note: !!!]


• For distances of more than 300 million miles, the greys use an interstellar rocket. Sarah had a sketch of one, and it was blunt nosed, truncated and had three tail fins. It reminded me of Thunderbirds. It takes three months to get here from the home planet. They can, of course, just teleport if they wish, but as they're very "communal" they like to travel together in a physical way.


• On shorter trips they use a conventional flying saucer, and Sarah showed us her sketch of this also. When in our atmosphere, the greys travel in a miniature version of the above saucer.


• They never allow their craft to be seen, as they have very efficient cloaking technology. UFO sightings cannot be attributed to the greys, definitely.


• There have never been any crashed saucers from their civilisation - they're far too smart for that.


• They have no bases here on earth.


• The long, hot summer was caused by the energy from their massed craft in our atmosphere.


• To Dan Bright's (ufologyinuk) question about residual alien artifacts: the pyramids of Giza and meso-America are their legacy.


• To Joe's (ufologyinuk) question about the Mars probes: no information on that, but will ask. They do know, however, that Mars once supported an intelligent civilisation.


• To several questions about the mysterious "energy" the greys seem to use for everything, including their propulsion systems on their anachronistic rockets: "don't know".


• There are male and female genders amongst the greys, but it's hard to tell the difference.


• Anyone can in theory be able to see the greys, but only if you are imbued with truth, sincerity, love and lack of fear and ignorance.


• All especially talented people (several historical luminaries were mentioned) are influenced by the greys, or are actually greys themselves in human disguise.

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The absurdity of excesive air traveler scrutiny

The New York Times blog on air travel--Jet Lagged--had a great editorial (The Airport Security Follies), on December 28th, by Patrick Smith, a commercial pilot and the author of Salon's "ask the pilot." Read the full editorial here.

"Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following the September 11th catastrophe have been drastic, and largely of two kinds: those
practical and effective, and those irrational, wasteful and pointless. The
first variety have taken place almost entirely behind the scenes. Explosives
scanning for checked luggage, for instance, was long overdue and is perhaps the most welcome addition.

"Unfortunately, at concourse checkpoints all across America, the madness of passenger screening continues in plain view. It began with pat-downs and the senseless confiscation of pointy objects. Then came the mandatory shoe removal, followed in the summer of 2006 by the prohibition of liquids and gels. We can only imagine what is next."
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Alien Lore No. 120 - Jack Brummet observing an alien autopsy at Area 51

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click here for more Alien Lore links on All This Is That.

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Happy New Year: We start 2008 out at the Yellow National Security Threal Level

It's not DefCon 5, but here is what the TSA expects you to do during a Yellow National Security Threal Level

- Develop a family emergency plan. Share it with family and friends, and practice the plan.
- Visit www.Ready.gov for help creating a plan.
- Create an “Emergency Supply Kit” for your household.
- Be informed. Visit www.Ready.gov or obtain a copy of “Preparing Makes Sense, Get Ready Now” by calling 1-800-BE-READY.
- Know how to shelter-in-place and how to turn off utilities (power, gas, and water) to your home. Examine volunteer opportunities in your community, such as Citizen Corps, Volunteers in Police Service, Neighborhood Watch or others, and donate your time.
- Consider completing an American Red Cross first aid or CPR course , or Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) course .
- Review stored disaster supplies and replace items that are outdated. Be alert to suspicious activity and report it to proper authorities.
- Ensure disaster supply kit is stocked and ready.
- Check telephone numbers in family emergency plan and update as necessary.
- Develop alternate routes to/from work or school and practice them.
- Continue to be alert for suspicious activity and report it to authorities.
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