All This Is That

Drawing: County Employees

2009-12-06T01:20:00.002-08:00

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Drawing: Stories

2009-12-05T14:53:00.002-08:00

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Narboo's blog & his Flickr photostream

2009-12-05T13:41:00.003-08:00

Narboo is a Seattle artist who always makes me smile. I bought two of his painting this fall. His Flickr photo stream is here, and his blogspot blog is here.

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Drawing: Neighbors

2009-12-05T13:23:00.001-08:00

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free MP3 Christmas songs on the punk rock advent calendar

2009-12-05T00:01:00.003-08:00

This advent cvalendar is much like a regular advent calendar. You open a window and out pops a treat. Open the window, and instead of getting a piece of waxy milk chocolate, you get to download a free Christmas song. Pretty cool. I've only listened to four or five songs, but among those were some gems. Check out the website here.
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Mr. President: repeal the second amendment

2009-12-05T00:01:00.001-08:00

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By Pablo Fanque

All This Is That National Affairs Editor

After seeing or reading about the assassinations of four local police officers in a coffee shop, preceded by another cop-killing on Capitol Hill, on top of all the other recent shootings, snipings, assassinations, and cold-blooded murders, you really have to wonder how we haven't reached the absolute saturation point.

It's a recurring nightmare. Or an awful slasher movie with a dozen sequels. The National Rifle Association is some sort of twisted Energizer Bunny. Every time we see an office shot up, or episodes like the recent murders of four northwest cops, or just the mundane, run-of-the-mill "father kills family, self" headline, the NRA releases a statement about how the tragedy might have been avoided if one of ouir good citizens hard been nearby, and packing.

Despite Columbine, Fort Hood, the recent assassinations of five Seattle police officers, and the other dozens of tragic incidents... and countless other cases of carnage in America, the NRA continues to herlald its resurgence...membership rolls have swelled as people fear President Obama will send in jackbooted thugs to confiscate your guns.

Mr. President, you have not been afraid to tackle other thorny issues. We urge you to propose the repeal of the second amendment. Sure, you'll lose some votes from the gun nuts and NRA, but, then, none of them ever voted for you in the first place.

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Drawing: Stella, Heidi, Liza, Chester, Lonnie, Omar, Ivan, Willy, Garner, Luca, Joan, Eddy, Karen, Enid, and Mike

2009-12-04T16:19:00.003-08:00

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Drawing: The Nine

2009-12-04T00:03:00.000-08:00

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Dean Man Walking--->> The brief transit and rapid eclipse of Mike Huckabee's political career

2009-12-03T00:03:00.004-08:00

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Illustration by Jack Brummet
Editorial note by Pablo Fanque, All This Is That National Affairs Editor

Huck, a/k/a Ex-governor Mike Huckabee, has cashed his check. It's all over now. His clemency grant to a child rapist became national news when his boy assassinated four Seattle-area policemen. Any Presidential ambitions Huck had have been utterly and irrevocably extinguished.

Back in 2008, Huckabee had a brief couple of weeks as the GOP "It Guy." He was fairly rapidly smacked down, after snagging a lot of magazine covers, ink, and talking head oxygen. But his pardon of the northwest cop-killer seems to have laid his Presidential ambitions permanently to rest.

I am completely serious when I say that Sarah Palin is thereby jumped up one big notch in the small pack of apparent Republican Presidential contenders.
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Official White House photo of the party crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi

2009-12-02T00:10:00.000-08:00

A fox news transcript of an interview with the hairdresser:

JENKINS: We are here at Erwin Gomez's Salon and Spa, Washington's premiere place to come, if you need hair and makeup, like the Salahis needed in the hours before crashing the big party at the White House.

ERWIN GOMEZ, SALON OWNER: This is where she got her make-up.

JENKINS: This was it? So Michaele Salahi sat here. How long did it take to do?

GOMEZ: It took a good one hour for me to be able to do her makeup and I helped her style her outfit, her sari and -- but she was here for about seven hours.

JENKINS: You got to do the hair of Michaele Salahi?

PEGGY IOAKIM, MICHAELE SALAHI'S HAIRDRESSER: Yes, I did.

JENKINS: You did it here, how long did it take? What was it like, what's she's talking about.

IOAKIM: I asked her, so, how did you get invited? And she told me she got an invitation in the mail and she told me that she --- shortly after, they called the White House to make sure that what she -- if her gown was appropriate, like what she should would wear, and she wanted to wear a sari, that she also told me it was designed for her -- it was made for her.
So as we're talking I was asking her, just because I was a little curious, you know, what does the invitation look like? Do you have it with you? Because I knew they were coming going from the salon to this event, so how can you not have the invitation with you? She looked through her bag and she didn't find anything, and so she said it might be in the limo, like she just...

JENKINS: She was casual about not having an invite to the White House.

IOAKIM: Right, right.

JENKINS: The first state dinner.
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Poem: The Cover-up

2009-12-01T00:05:00.000-08:00

The absence of facts
Further inflames
The conspiracy theory:

The missing facts
Point to the utter and diabolical
Efficacy of the cover-up.

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Alien Lore No. 163: It's not a matter of when the aliens arrive; they're already here, among us

2009-12-01T00:02:00.000-08:00

Some of the most compelling alien lore in the last couple of years has emerged from Eastern Europe, "Russia," England and France. This story is no exception. Thanks to Jeff Clinton for once again alerting us to another fascinating story.

Luchezar Filipov, a deputy head of the Space Exploration department within the BAS, recently told reporters that "they (the aliens) are here right now, among us". He said that, although there is little awareness of their presence, they are conducting surveillance and research on Earth.

The scientist said that they are not hostile in any way; on the contrary, they are friendly and willing to help us. Unfortunately, due to our lack of evolution and development, we are unable to conduct any coherent form of conversation with this superior life form. "They want to help us, but the problem is that we don't know what to ask of them once a contact is established," Filipov told Dnes daily.

Filipov reckons that it will be impossible to try and track extraterrestrial life with our current radar equipment, or through the usage of radio telescopes. Apparently, the aliens were "categorical" that any future means of contact between us and them would be conducted through mental power and telepathy.

"The aliens are very critical of our immoral behaviour and our destruction of the environment. They say that global warming is attributed mainly to infrastructural engineering. Additionally, they are very skeptical of our use of cosmetics, and artificial insemination because this is 'unnatural,'" Filipov said.

According to Filipov, his team of scientists are currently analysing the answers to their questions from the interactions with the visitors. The scientists aim to have a coherent "strategic plan" pertaining to questions which they will put forward to the extraterrestrials in their next meeting, which is said to be in the spring of 2010, Dnes reported.

Work on deciphering a complex set of symbols sent to them is underway, scientists from the country's Space Research Institute said. They claim aliens are currently answering 30 questions posed to them.

Lachezar Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirmed the research. He said the centre's researchers were analyzing 150 crop circles from around the world, which they believe answer the questions.

"Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time," Mr Filipov told Bulgarian media. "They are not hostile towards us, rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to establish direct contact with them."

Mr Filipov said that even the seat of the Catholic church, the Vatican, had agreed that aliens existed. [Ed's note: this is true. The pontiff recently acknowledged the possibility, and likelihood of the existence of alien life.]

He said humans were not going to be able to establish contact with the extraterrestrials through radio waves but through the power of thought.

"The human race was certainly going to have direct contact with the aliens in the next 10 to 15 years," he said. "Extraterrestrials are critical of the people's amoral behavior referring to the humans' interference in nature's processes."
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The Beatles' You Never Give Me Your Money: music and lyrics

2009-11-30T00:50:00.004-08:00

You Never Give Me Your Money is one of my all-time top-ten Beatle songs, for sure. Abbey Road may also be my favorite album, but I am not sure I'd go that far--the competition is fierce and spirited. You Never Give Me Your Money starts off the second side of the LP, with its chain of interlocked tunes spanning the entire side.

You never give me your money
- Lennon/McCartney ('though it was actually) written by Macca

You never give me your money
You only give me your funny paper
and in the middle of negotiations
you break down

I never give you my number
I only give you my situation
and in the middle of investigation
I break down

Out of college, money spent
See no future, pay no rent
All the money's gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning, turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go
Oh, that magic feeling
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go

One sweet dream
Pick up the bags and get in the limousine
Soon we'll be away from here
Step on the gas and wipe that tear away
One sweet dream came true... today
Came true... today
Came true... today...yes it did
One two three four five six seven,
All good children go to Heaven
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A short-cut gone really, really wrong: A crocodile meets his match amongst a herd of hippos

2009-11-30T00:10:00.001-08:00

Crocodiles are pretty scary, as you all know, but not nearly so scary as a herd of PO'd hippos as it turns out.

A young crocodile was stalking a mother and her calves in the river, and got a little too close.

Fifty-some hippos gathered around them, and the wigged out croc, tried to race across their backs to escape. He didn't. Read the story here...
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Various,warped, self-portraits of Jack Brummet

2009-11-29T18:07:00.000-08:00

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Painting: Hey, we're naked!

2009-11-28T13:03:00.002-08:00

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Two drawings: The Maze and The Road of Good Intentions

2009-11-28T11:46:00.002-08:00

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jack paintings in group show in Saskatoon

2009-11-27T00:33:00.000-08:00

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happy Thanksgiving everyone (photos: Presidents and turkeys)

2009-11-26T13:43:00.003-08:00

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ObamaCare -- The outsource shocker: Tijuana dentures, Bulgarian kidneys, Albanian hips, and Guatemalan rest homes

2009-11-25T16:00:00.001-08:00

By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That Medical Editor

In recent conversations, well-placed senior administration officials told All This Is That that the health care plan championed by President Obama and the Democratic leadership includes little-known provisions for outsourcing surgeries and medical procedures. One official told me "Let's say you need false teeth, uh...dentures. We can get this work done for you in Tijuana for less than half what it would cost anywhere in the states. And that's after adding in plane fares, meals and a couple of nights in a hotel."

Several independent sources revealed that the U.S. government is contracting for outsourced medical work in at least seven foreign countries. In some cases, the U.S. Government has purchased or leased land, and is breaking ground on a series of medical facilities in "outsource partner countries."

Prospective plans include, but are not limited to, outsourcing kidney and liver procedures to Bulgaria, knee- and hip-replacements to Albania, and dental work to Mexico. The most potentially explosive outsourcing initiative involves exporting virtually all geriatric, rehabilitation, and rest home care to Guatemala, where per-patient costs are a third of those in the United States.

As one government health services manager on Capitol Hill told me, "Change. And you guys thought we were bulls***ing, didn't you?"
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Invented in Seattle?

2009-11-25T11:36:00.000-08:00

Not sure if they are referring to the phrase originating here, our famous phallic Space Needle, or the locally famous hamburger chain? From the married to the sea website. . .

Bernard Ruhe's painting marathon, Part 2

2009-11-25T01:23:00.001-08:00

More photos of Bernard Ruhe's painting marathon in Seattle last Saturday, including a couple while he is working out our portrait. Click the 'photos to enlarge...

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Drawing: 24 heads

2009-11-25T00:01:00.008-08:00

A drawing of four groups of people...

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What if you searched for your birth parents and found out one of them was Charles Manson?

2009-11-25T00:01:00.007-08:00

"I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster." Thanks to Bill Schneider for sending along this fascinating, and sad, story.

As many other adopted children have, Matthew Roberts went searching for his biological parents with mixed emotions of excitement and trepidation. Roberts, who bears an incredible resemblance to his dad--with a lot less crazy mixed in--has been in touch, but not too close of touch, with his father who is serving a life term for murder(s). Although Manson sent him his prison phone number years ago, he has never been able to bring himself to call. His mother, whom he found first, "always believed Manson was the father of the baby she gave up for adoption. And after seeing a picture of Matthew, her worst nightmare was confirmed."

Read the story from The Sun here.
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Poem: [A lone climber bivouaced]

2009-11-24T16:44:00.001-08:00

A lone climber bivouaced
In blue ice and snow

Halfway up the mountain,
You wait beneath gathering black clouds

As sinister fog banks and night lumber in.
There is no going up and no going down today—

Just you in your ice cave,
Listening to the Devil and Jiminy Cricket argue.
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