The Italian design house Fendi helped pay for their record...
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.
If that's considered a "swipe" against the U.S., then it's quite an impotent and sissified one. Getting Syria the heck out of Lebanon is a major accomplishment. Kudos to GWB.
A touching tale of maternal devotion:
Talk about your work-versus-motherhood conflict.
Top CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour probably has one of the riskiest jobs in the world. It weighs on her, she told us recently, more out of concern for her 5-year-old son, Darius, than for herself.
"I find it increasingly difficult," Amanpour said during a recent visit to New York. "Because the kind of work I do is rather dangerous. And it takes you away for prolonged periods of time."
With the death of an Associated Press cameraman over the weekend, 63 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Amanpour, 47, covered the Iraqi elections for the all-news network for much of January. She'd been in Afghanistan in October, the Middle East in November and in Sri Lanka after the tsunami.
After Darius was born, Amanpour and her husband, PBS "Wide Angle" host and former State Department spokesman James Rubin, pledged that they'd wouldn't be away from home more than two weeks at a time. But during the elections, Amanpour, who was raised in Iran, had to stay longer.
"I feel increasingly afraid, not just for my life, but for what it will mean for my son," the courageous journalist told us. "So it's increasingly difficult emotionally for me. But I'm still committed, because I think covering international news is getting more important, not less. And there are fewer people, not more, doing it."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/303582p-259765c.html
Yep. People who have something to hide don't like to stir up trouble.
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Amanpour is going to end up with a conservative child if she's not careful. Children who are schlepped off on nannies and day care often grow up with a distaste for the liberal lifestyle. heh heh heh.
The Italian design house Fendi helped pay for their record...
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has resurrected a bill Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sponsored when he was in the House more than 20 years ago that would have kept members of Congress out of the Social Security program.Heh....
Reid’s bill would have kept all federal employees hired on or after Jan. 1, 1984, such as the president, elected officials, political appointees and judges, from participating in Social Security, according to a Republican summary of the bill, H.R. 3589, introduced in July 1983.
Indeed, could a reality show be far behind?
Darn, just darn!! re: Phyllis Diller and Laura Ingraham. Prayers up for both of them...
That photo is worth a million bucks? Well, esthetically, they make a nice little family. I still don't think Angelina will have his babies, though. Will probably just adopt a few from all over the world. And then when she makes her next movie, she will "fall in love" with her co-star again. She has admitted that she has a tendency to do that...lol...what a bunch that Hollywood crew is!!
Isn't Angelina one of those enlightened H'wood gals who chooses adoption in favor of the yuckiness of pregancy, the weight gain, mood swings, pain, etc.?
Big rally at the Capital today. Harry and the gang had props, music and a cheering crowd. Oh yeah, Hillary was there too but she seemed to stay out of the spotlight. How very unHillary, hmmm.
Check out this quote from Alan Simpson to Bill Maher after Maher displayed his usual ignorance of the truth concerning ANWAR.
"I tell you, without fuel oil, New England would drift off into the sea... we passed the Alaska Wilderness Bill in '80, and we set aside 20,000 acres in an area which is - and it said right in the bill that in the event of Congress wishing to drill this area, it would be drilled. And that passed by a huge bipartisan vote. That's in the bill. And that's the only part they're going into. It's about the size of a sparrow fart in the midst of a typhoon." – Sen. Alan Simpson
Alan did have to explain to Maher the sparrow quote was from Kurt Vonnegut. *snicker*
Uh-oh. Does old what's her name have a bad temper? Not smart to tick off the soon to be ex-wife before the divorce is final.
Cedric could be hilarious. He can be extremely amusing working 'clean,' although I haven't heard him doing a lot of political stuff...
Angelina says she's getting a Chech baby this summer. What is it about these celebs being serial adopters...
Poor ol' Hillary - trying to be a moderate while appearing (stealthily) at the lefties' poorly-attended pep rallies:
Get that camera away from me! I'm not really here, you #*)#(%! $#% ^>+^
Speaking of Hillary:
MANASSAS, Va., April 26 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Sen. Hillary Clinton and others whose public positions run contrary to Catholic teaching have been invited to deliver commencement addresses and receive honorary degrees at Catholic colleges, despite the U.S. bishops' ban on such honors.
"We are blowing the whistle on any Catholic college that blatantly disrespects the bishops by defying their clear command and teaching," said Patrick J. Reilly, President of Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a national organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity at America's 220 Catholic colleges and universities.
"After decades of scandal at secularizing colleges, last June the bishops drew a line in the sand. No college that deliberately crosses that line deserves the label ‘Catholic' or the support of the faithful—most especially monetary support."
Reilly will be a guest on FOX News' "The O'Reilly Factor" on Wednesday at 8 p.m. EST to discuss Marymount Manhattan College's plan to honor Clinton on May 20.
Clinton is a strident advocate of legalized abortion, speaking at gatherings of abortion-rights advocates and voting against a ban on partial-birth abortion. She also has advocated expanding embryonic stem cell research and has declared contraception "basic health care for women." During a January 2005 speech to New York State "family planning providers," in which Clinton was widely reported as softening her stance on abortion, Clinton in fact began by confirming her commitment to "fight to defend" Roe v.. Wade, which she called "a landmark decision that struck a blow for freedom and equality for women." She has since snubbed pro-life groups that tried to meet with her. ...
Rest of press release: http://www.earnedmedia.org/cnsy0426.htm
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