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

UK Reuters ^ | 4-14-2005

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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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By the way, I wonder how Bill Clinton enjoyed his bachelor vacation (no Hildebeaste, no Chelz) on Kiawah Island, S.Car. Woo hoo, beach bunnies! Alas, but he's back in NY, bloviating on tsunami relief:

Former US president Bill Clinton said Secretary General Kofi Annan picked him as the UN's Asian tsunami recovery envoy to heap guilt on nations that have pledged money but not paid up.

"He thought I could guilt-peddle my former colleagues better than anyone else he could think of," Clinton said at a conference here aimed at boosting private efforts to help with future disaster relief worldwide.

"Countries have a notorious reputation for committing massive amounts of money when people are dying on television -- and then when the TV cameras turn off, they don't give the money," Clinton said. ... story

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What's with her nose in that photo???

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Now that I've taken a 2nd look....

I see she's wearing these

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LOL! Brilliant!

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