"...and that's the truth!"
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.
"...and that's the truth!"
In their article, TIME MAG presented a photo essay on Ann Coulter, including this photo:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
I'm with you...definitely not feminine looking...lol...
Prayers for you and yours...May your Father-in-Law RIP.
I read the Ann does not like her Time Cover Photo...she is disturbed because it makes her feet look big, lol. I don't think it is so bad, sure does highlight and flatter her long legs...I wouldn't mind at all if I looked like her, big feet and all....(Trivia: Jackie Kennedy wore size 11 shoe.)
Victoria Jo Stinnett is shown at Easter 2005, in a photo released by family spokesman Daniel Madden. The infant girl, cut from the womb in a grisly attack that left her mother dead, is '4 months old and beautiful,' her father said Monday, April 18, 2005. Prosecutors have charged a Kansas woman with killing Victoria's mother, 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and cutting her open with a kitchen knife to steal her unborn child. (AP Photo/Family Photo Released by Daniel Madden)
We're back from Boston. Much too hot for runners, but the weather was fantastic for us turistas. Mr. M is bound and determined to run next year, so watch it snow. Anyway, we ate well - twice in the (Italian) North End, so I've consumed enough garlic to keep me healthy for years.
Effin Kerry was the honorary starter for the wheelchair racers, and his lovely daughter Vanessa ran for charity (which is how people who have no business running the Boston marathon get to run it, because real runners have to qualify). Anyway, when she finished, she said, "My dad told me I ran the same time he did, which is kind of scary." WHAT?? Effin never ran the Boston Marathon (according to a Boston Athletic Ass'n official), despite his repeated claims that he did, so what the heck are they talking about? Oh my. Thank goodness I didn't see him, or I would have shouted, "Sign the 180!" Anyway, that's my report: we went, we ate, we ate some more, we came home. A perfect trip.
Natalie Cole, left, and Denise Rich arrive for the VH1 Save The Music Concert in New York on Monday, April 11, 2005.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., hugs his daughter Vanessa at the finish of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2005, in Boston. Vanessa ran with the Dana Farber Marathon team to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Teresa Heinz Kerry walks at left. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers.
I wondered the same thing. Do you think Stepmoney gives her an living allowance to fund her socialite lifestyle, or does Dad have to give her a cut of his allowance from Mama T?
Thankfully, we had returned to our hotel by the time Vanessa crossed the finish line, and so didn't see the family reunion. We had taken the T out to Newton and saw the leaders run by, then returned downtown and watched for a while on Hereford St., just a few hundred yards shy of the finish line. What a mob! Mr. M has a new appreciation for what I do when he runs a marathon - all the running around, dodging crowd barricades, hopping crowded trains, frantically trying to find him in the sea of runners!
Really cute trench coat on sale for $99 over at J. Jill:
Sorry to read about your FIL. May he RIP. Prayers sent for his family.
"Ttthhppthtppphhh!"
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Thanks for the DeKnees pic!
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What is with this girl's obsession with writing on her body? Didn't her mother ever tell her she could get ink poisoning? Wait... maybe that's what makes her so nutty.
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