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The Guild 4-14-2005 Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld share beetle honour [We love them, yeah, yeah, yeah!]
UK Reuters ^ | 4-14-2005

Posted on 04/14/2005 2:39:29 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty

U.S. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld can now also be called bushi, cheneyi and rumsfeldi, or simply slime-mould beetles.

Two former Cornell University entomologists named three species in the genus Agathidium after the U.S. leaders, Cornell announced on Wednesday.

Quentin Wheeler and Kelly Miller christened 65 new species of slime-mold beetles, named for the fungi-like molds on which they feed, which they discovered after collecting thousands of specimens for a study of their evolution and classification.

Wheeler, who after 24 years as a professor of entomology and plant biology at Cornell is now the keeper and head of entomology at the Natural History Museum in London, said the U.S. leaders were being honored for having "the courage of their convictions."

The bushi beetle is found in southern Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia; the rumsfeldi is from Oaxaca and Hidalgo in Mexico, and the cheneyi is known from Chiapas, Mexico, Wheeler said.


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To: mountaineer
Pretty much anyone can get a star on the Walk of Fame nowadays.

All it takes is $1,500.00 and some community service credits...

121 posted on 04/22/2005 8:25:51 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

In that case, don't be surprised to see me on the Walk of Fame someday (although I was thinking of holding out for a spot in front of Graumann's Chinese Theatre).


122 posted on 04/22/2005 8:36:10 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: daisyscarlett; All
Nicole Kidman, freshly botoxed at the Vanity Fair party in NYC!


123 posted on 04/22/2005 8:37:56 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: mountaineer
Nicole is quickly verging into Jacko territory, with her face not resembling the previous botox.


124 posted on 04/22/2005 8:42:36 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

That woman desperately needs a donut.


125 posted on 04/22/2005 9:04:10 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: Timeout
With a huge billboard saying "Touch a child...you're next".

Perfect.

JibJab has a new hiphop homage to Matzah. Another good one.

126 posted on 04/22/2005 11:35:57 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
OK, but that still doesn't explain the seal clapping!

LOL!

Whew, great picture of three great men...

I like Gen. Myers but I like Gen. Pete Pace more for some reason. He's just so cute.

127 posted on 04/22/2005 11:46:36 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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To: gopwinsin04
Not happy about those bikini briefs. They need to be just a smidge higher.

Every gal in Hollywood should beat a path to Phyllis Diller's plastic surgeon, she looks fabulous.

But she had a fall on Monday. Hope she's doing well.

128 posted on 04/22/2005 11:56:49 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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To: BigWaveBetty
she looks fabulous...like Lucy!
129 posted on 04/22/2005 12:13:52 PM PDT by Timeout (Dean & the Bike Path Left: aging anti-warriors who use "summer" as a verb~~Jonah)
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To: Timeout; BigWaveBetty; All

Good grief:

Heinz squeezes blame from pope

By Eric Heyl
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, April 22, 2005


Were it not for the man now known as Pope Benedict XVI, Teresa Heinz might already have installed new drapes and carpeting in the White House.
Or so she seems to believe.

Based on remarks Heinz made recently at a Seattle money-raiser, the Pittsburgh ketchup heiress -- a practicing Catholic -- appears to have little fondness for the new pontiff.

You can almost understand why. He did, if you buy her argument, indirectly help keep her husband, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., from becoming president last year.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported last month that Heinz blamed Kerry's inability to unseat President Bush on anything and everything but Kerry himself.

She implied votes might have been improperly tabulated because most optical scanning devices used to count votes in many parts of the country are owned by two "hard-right" Republicans.

She also suggested the Kerry campaign was brought down in part by Catholic bishops who assailed the candidate's pro-choice view on abortion.

"You cannot have bishops in the pulpit -- long before or the Sunday before the election, as they did in Catholic churches -- saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry," she said. "The church has a right and obligation to teach values. They don't have a right to restrict freedom of expression, which they did."

I assume the Post-Intelligencer's Joel Connelly did his best to accurately quote her. No reporter wants to have to ask Heinz to clarify her remarks immediately after she finishes speaking.

We've heard it can be dangerous.

Last summer, American bishops received a letter from the Vatican advising that Catholics who condone abortion are committing "a grave sin."

Kerry wasn't named, but the communique stated that communion -- the body of Christ, Catholics believe -- should be denied "in the case of a Catholic politician consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion laws."

The letter was written by the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. At the time, that was a fellow named Ratzinger -- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, named Tuesday by the College of Cardinals to succeed the late Pope John Paul II.

Whatever your opinion on abortion, whatever the intent of the letter, the implication that the Vatican helped sway the presidential race is ludicrous.

The presidential race wasn't lost in Rome. It was lost in Boston, Fox Chapel and along the campaign trail.

I recall a far less conspiratorial campaign than does Heinz.

I recall a senator ineptly unable to defeat a president who plunged the nation back into debt and into a war based on assumptions that -- at best -- were completely and utterly erroneous.

Heinz recalls an election that might have been fixed, an election unduly influenced by a Catholic Church she apparently believes betrayed Kerry.

Such thinking is misguided and unfortunate.

The new pontiff is Pope Benedict. It's a pity Heinz considers him to be Pope Benedict Arnold.

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/mostread/s_326763.html


130 posted on 04/22/2005 3:55:43 PM PDT by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
It's just sad.


131 posted on 04/22/2005 4:22:46 PM PDT by They'reGone2000 (Re-elect Rossi 2005!)
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To: They'reGone2000

She must really be in agony. This is the first photo I've ever seen of the two of them, where he's attempting to be 'tender' with her and she isn't pushing him away.

I suspect for Mamma T, the porch light's on, but nobody's home.


132 posted on 04/22/2005 7:10:08 PM PDT by Iowa Granny
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To: Iowa Granny

She's living in la-la land.


133 posted on 04/22/2005 10:08:28 PM PDT by pubmom (I'm out of clever things to say.)
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To: They'reGone2000; Iowa Granny; pubmom

She looks like a drama queen - eyes closed, vague expression of anguish and pain, as she gingerly rests her head on her beloved's manly chest. It must be a wild and wacky ride to live in the same house (or in one of the same houses) as Teresa.


134 posted on 04/23/2005 5:22:47 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer; pubmom; Iowa Granny
It seems like the Kerry's live in a parallel universe, all right. Two interesting articles:

JEALOUS KERRY FUMES AS DEM BOOSTS HILL

A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president — suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival...... Kerry, who will visit Minnesota on May 3, has left little doubt that he yearns to run for president again in 2008, but trails Clinton in every poll of Democratic preference by margins approaching 2-1.

Kerry’s tale of woe illustrates disconnect of some Democrats

To hear John Kerry tell the tale, he lost the 2004 election as a result of Republican dirty tricks. Or at least that’s the line creeping out in his speeches. Speaking to the Massachusetts League of Women Voters, Kerry claimed that many people were duped into not voting. “Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans on Tuesday,” he claimed. “People are told in telephone calls that if you’ve ever had a parking ticket, you’re not allowed to vote.” Did an armada of black helicopters also intimidate voters?

135 posted on 04/23/2005 11:19:35 AM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: daisyscarlett
“Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans on Tuesday,” he claimed.

Is he admitting that Dem voters really are this gullible and stupid? I guess so - after all, they've been voting for people like him.

136 posted on 04/23/2005 12:14:43 PM PDT by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
Paris Hilton, actually wearing clothes in this photo schoot and envisioning her future as a dowdy old maid...


137 posted on 04/23/2005 4:52:43 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: mountaineer
Family values: Ray Reggie and sister Vickie

From WizBang:

Ted's second marriage, to Victoria Reggie, a DC area lawyer, in 1992 seemed to settle him down. He lost a bit of weight, seemed to cut back on his boozing, and in general seemed a bit more respectable. But the female curse that hangs over his head seems to have been deferred, not denied.

This time it wasn't exactly a woman that is getting him in trouble, but said woman's brother. Ray Reggie, 43, was a political operative in New Orleans who got himself in a bit of trouble a few years ago. He got caught not only ripping off three banks for the sum of 3.5 million dollars, he also pulled over teenage girls with a blue light on his car in the hopes of winning their favors.

But the FBI didn't toss him away immediately. They came to an agreement with Reggie that kept him out of jail for a bit while he continued his political work -- but now wearing a wire.

Reggie continued his political shenanigans over the last three years, but now the FBI has it all on tape. They have him meeting with both Bill and Hillary Clinton, for example, and several high-ranking members of her staff. In fact, one of her top fund raisers, David Rosen, is going on trial in Los Angeles next month for violating election laws at a 2000 fund-raiser for Hillary's Senate campaign, and evidence from Reggie is expected to play a key role.

Now that the story is finally breaking (Reggie's trial started in 2001, was pleaded out 2002, but the details were only made public recently), the speculation is flying fast and furious. Did Ray Reggie set up his brother-in-law? Did Ted know just how much trouble Ray was in, and did he "freeze him out" of anything sensitive? Did he aim Ray at the Clintons, hoping to save his wife's brother's hide (along with his own) at the expense of the family that has largely supplanted the Kennedys in Democratic power circles?

138 posted on 04/23/2005 7:42:38 PM PDT by They'reGone2000 (Re-elect Rossi 2005!)
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To: They'reGone2000

Great story, isn't it?


139 posted on 04/24/2005 7:24:31 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: gopwinsin04

Is she wearing a slipcover?


140 posted on 04/24/2005 7:28:42 AM PDT by mountaineer
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