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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: BigWaveBetty
"I am Edith Ann..."

"...and that's the truth!"

61 posted on 04/18/2005 9:04:24 AM PDT by They'reGone2000 (Re-elect Rossi 2005!)
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To: They'reGone2000
Maybe this one will work?


62 posted on 04/18/2005 9:08:16 AM PDT by They'reGone2000 (Re-elect Rossi 2005!)
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To: They'reGone2000
If you haven't already seen this thread, rush right over and check it out. Hysterical!

In their article, TIME MAG presented a photo essay on Ann Coulter, including this photo:


Protesters blast Coulter at the G.O.P. Convention in New York City last year
READ THE SIGNS! Those are Protest Warriors and Freepers from the "Communists for Kerry" group!! LOL! I can't believe TIME took them seriously!
63 posted on 04/18/2005 9:38:37 AM PDT by Timeout (Dean & the Bike Path Left: aging anti-warriors who use "summer" as a verb~~Jonah)
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To: Timeout

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!


64 posted on 04/18/2005 12:05:58 PM PDT by pubmom (I'm out of clever things to say.)
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To: gopwinsin04
Did you get to see Air Force One? Sorry, didn't mean to be rude, but haven't been back since my post. No, not this time, although I did see it taking off several years ago when he was in Cleveland after the Supreme Court voucher ruling (Cleveland schools were involved.) We're located about 30 miles from Cleveland and the airport is another 15 minutes beyond that. Apparently, Marine One took off from the college and flew him back to the airport. I wish I'd known. That would have been something to see.
65 posted on 04/18/2005 12:13:36 PM PDT by dr.j'sfirst
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To: BigWaveBetty
We've got a new Man of Steel filming down in Sydney, cyborg thinks he looks feminine, I don't think so.


66 posted on 04/18/2005 4:26:48 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

I'm with you...definitely not feminine looking...lol...


67 posted on 04/18/2005 5:07:44 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: Iowa Granny

Prayers for you and yours...May your Father-in-Law RIP.


68 posted on 04/18/2005 5:09:00 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: They'reGone2000

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.)


69 posted on 04/18/2005 5:11:42 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: BigWaveBetty
This is glorious...

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)

70 posted on 04/18/2005 5:14:44 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: Iowa Granny; All
I'm so sorry to hear of your FIL's death. Prayers for the family.

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.

71 posted on 04/19/2005 4:02:50 PM PDT by mountaineer
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To: BigWaveBetty
Here is another photo for our DeKnees Wardrobe Album...

Natalie Cole, left, and Denise Rich arrive for the VH1 Save The Music Concert in New York on Monday, April 11, 2005.

72 posted on 04/19/2005 9:32:38 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: mountaineer
Welcome back, glad you had a nice time. You and Mama T were in the same city on the same day....And when is Vanessa going back to school to complete her medical studies?

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)

73 posted on 04/19/2005 9:37:49 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: All

Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers.


74 posted on 04/20/2005 5:41:51 AM PDT by Iowa Granny
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To: daisyscarlett
when is Vanessa going back to school to complete her medical studies?

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!

75 posted on 04/20/2005 5:54:52 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: daisyscarlett
Lindsay goes strawberry blonde for the Garrison Keillor 'Prarie Home Companion' movie in LA. I could see her in a Guy Noirs sketch.


76 posted on 04/20/2005 4:20:08 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
Guy Noir! LOL!

Really cute trench coat on sale for $99 over at J. Jill:


77 posted on 04/20/2005 8:06:07 PM PDT by Timeout (Dean & the Bike Path Left: aging anti-warriors who use "summer" as a verb~~Jonah)
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To: Iowa Granny

Sorry to read about your FIL. May he RIP. Prayers sent for his family.


78 posted on 04/21/2005 4:39:25 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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To: They'reGone2000
"...and that's the truth!"

"Ttthhppthtppphhh!"

79 posted on 04/21/2005 4:44:58 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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To: daisyscarlett
Oh my gosh, how sweet. Prayers for that little angel, hoping she never learns what happened to her mother.

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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.

80 posted on 04/21/2005 4:51:18 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty (~~Secretary of Keepin' It Real)
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