Alien Lore No. 246 - A wave of Grey and UFO photos

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.

In recent months, a wave of "real" alien photos have appeared on various websites, blogs, Picasa, Flickr, and Tumblr.

In January, The Bangkok Post ran a photo of an alien on a beach in Thailand:

The Open Minds UFO investigation site explains that these alien photos began appearing not long after the release of the special effects app., Camera360 app for Android. phones. The app. allows users to easily incorporate lightning, UFOs, Greys, and other effects into photos.

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Drawing: Faces No. 375 - TSA profile victim

By Jack Brummet

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Faces No. 374 - The Proctor

Drawing by Jack Brummet

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Poem: Autopsy of a President

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor

From Andy Rash's blog Iotacons - http://iotacons.blogspot.com/.  Used with permission.

Weak character coupled with an honored place
Half-baked knowledge with big plans

And limited reason with heavy responsibility
Will not escape disaster.

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Five years ago today on ATIT: It wasn't the babes, it was the bucks: Eliot Spitzer brings down yet another prostitution ring

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed

It wasn't the babes, it was the bucks, according to Brian Ross on the ABC News website. And get this: they're thinking of prosecuting him under an obscure law for "structuring," which is more or less money laundering to cover up the source of cash (which is just what he did). Curiously, this is the third prostitution ring the former Attorney General of New York brought down. . .this one by accident.

"The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer's suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials. "

They didn't start out investigating the hookers prostitutes call girls escorts. It was Spitzer they were onto after his bank notified the feds of suspicious financial activity. The FBI uncovered his emails and wiretapped his phones. It seems Elliott didn't follow his own advice:

"Never talk when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink, and never write an e-mail because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need," Spitzer told ABC News two years ago.

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It's A Family Affair by Sly & The Family Stone (and happy 70th birthday to Sly)

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.

Happy 70th birthday to Sly Stone a/k/a Sylvester Stewart later this week... [listen in, but ignore the strange marina footage...what did that have to do with anything?].  We forget now, but Sly changed music with one of the first interracial rock/funk/soul bands with women and men, white and black. And he turned music on its ear, adding funk and rock, guitars, and women into the mix. He did this in 1968, and we still haven't caught up. Motown and Volt/Stax never really recovered.

BT Dubs...this is one of my favorite songs to sing at karaoke.  The best version was at a family function with Keelin and my sisters in law on the chorus and me on those rough-edged vocals.

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"It's Skookum" — Notes on a Pacific Northwest word

By Jack Brummet, Pacific Northwest Ed.

The Skookum apple brand has been around forever; it's still around. People say this is

 the most famous apple logo/label of all time. It's been reprinted in all sorts of media.

Having grown up and lived much of my life in the Pacific NW, I have often heard the word skookum used as definition one—usually "everything's great," "everything is just fine,"  or even as a synonym for another favorite word, copacetic [def.: In excellent order.]  One of my favorite place names in the region is Skookumchuck.  In Canada, there are several legends of people named Skookum something.  And a real person, known as Skookum Jim, was one of the discoverers of the Klondike goldfields in the Yukon.  There is also a breed of dwarf cat called a Skookum.

A Skookum cat. Skookums are curly-haired, big-eyed dwarf cats that weigh between 4 and 7 pounds.

The Wikipedia entry on Skookum:  

"Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word that has come into general use in the Pacific Northwest region of America and some parts of Alberta, Canada."

"The word skookum has three meanings:

• a word in regional English that has a variety of positive connotations;
• a monster; similar to the sasquatch.
• a souvenir doll once common in the United States in tourist areas."

Skookum Dolls in a display case at the Native American Nations Trading Post in Billings, 

Montana,a roadside joint where we have eaten and made pit stops at over the years.

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Two more paintings by Ex-President George W. Bush - two dogs

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.

Like his GOP predecessor in the White House, President Dwight Eisenhower, Ex-President George Bush has taken up painting.  See our earlier post with several of his paintings here.

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Jackie Robinson's telegram to President Lyndon Johnson

Thanks to reader Dean Ericksen for passing this along...

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Blatz, the Milwaukee beer for moms and babies

Alien Lore No. 245 - Russell Crowe spots, and photographs, a UFO

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.

Russell Crowe says he recently caught a UFO on camera. The actor told Perth Now that he saw, and photographed, several flying objects whizzing over Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens earlier this week. He uploaded a video to YouTube (see below). 

"A friend and I set camera to capture fruit bats rising from Botanic Gardens. This was a big surprise,'' Crowe wrote on Twitter.  He said that he was about 800 feet from the gardens when he shot the footage.

The short clip titled "UFO? Time Lapse Photos Outside RC's Woolloomooloo Office (THESE ARE REAL)" shows a number of oddly-shaped lights over the Botanic Gardens.

Asked on Twitter if the lights may have been lens flares or other natural phenomenon, Crowe said "Canon 5D, no flash, can't be lens flare because it moves, camera is fixed."

Several other film stars, celebrities and politicians have also reported seeing UFOs; President Jimmy Carter was said to have seen a UFO, as have Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, John Lennon, and Jackie Gleason famously reported seeing alien bodies at a secret U.S. Government facility. 

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Drawings: Faces No. 373 - The Grand Jury

By Jack Brummet

[india ink scratchboard and digitally reversed]

click to enlarge

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