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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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Good Morning!
More from the disgusting leftists:
WHEN U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke Tuesday night at NYU's Vanderbilt Hall, "The room was packed with some 300 students and there were many protesters outside because of Scalia's vitriolic dissent last year in the case that overturned the Texas law against gay sex," our source reports. "One gay student asked whether government had any business enacting and enforcing laws against consensual sodomy. Following Scalia's answer, the student asked a follow-up: 'Do you sodomize your wife?' The audience was shocked, especially since Mrs. Scalia [Maureen] was in attendance. The justice replied that the question was unworthy of an answer." (Page Six)
Lloyd Grove, NY Daily News, reports:
I hear that some of Sen. Hillary Clinton's backers are "apoplectic" over her husband's stinging personal attack on gay Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein.
The reason?
Hillary loyalists from the Glover Park Group Democratic consulting firm were embarrassed by Bill Clinton's remarks, because they're working closely with Finkelstein - and they're all getting paid handsomely by Cablevision - to thwart plans for a taxpayer-funded stadium on the West Side.
During a Harlem news conference on Monday, former President Clinton lashed out at Finkelstein - an openly gay GOP operative who recently married his boyfriend in Massachusetts - for launching his anti-Hillary campaign, "Stop Her Now."
"He went to Massachusetts and married his longtime male partner, and then he comes back here and announces this," Clinton complained about Finkelstein, who has worked for some of the GOP's most culturally conservative candidates.
"I thought one of two things," Clinton continued. "Either this guy believes his party is not serious, and is totally Machiavellian in his position, or there's some sort of self-loathing there. I was more sad for him."
Yesterday, I heard that Bill was taking heat from advisers who chided him for going off-message and raising the issue of Finkelstein's sexual orientation. Ironically, Clinton loyalists such as Glover Park consultants Gigi Georges and Howard Wolfson - longtime aides to the senator - are on the same side as Finkelstein in the stadium fight, and Georges, for one, has become fast friends with him.
The former President's press secretary, Jim Kennedy, E-mailed me: "I won't have any comment on this."
A Cablevision spokesman played down the awkward situation.
"We have a big tent, with Republicans, Democrats, independents, women, minorities and many others who are united in opposing spending 1 billion taxpayer dollars on a football stadium."
Lucky me, I will be taking the most handsomest man in Michigan as my date and hopefully I will have at least one decent photo to post for you.
My date will be wearing a white dinner jacket. This is all cleverly planned because I am the only single woman attending and the wives at these events never talk to me. But we all remember the board game when we kids, Mystery Date. Most of us wanted to get the door with the guy in the white dinner jacket and I hope that the women will talk to my friend while I give out my business cards to the men in the room. He's my flypaper.
You are so cleaver!
Have you considered taking along a 6 wk old puppy? That would really draw 'the cold fish wives' into your conversations!
As for the breast implants: We'll see how the sweet young things feel about their overly generous endowments when they are 60 years old and have dents in their shoulders from holding them up.
My guess the reason Brit made this announcement is that she couldn't not show any longer.
Speaking of implants: The only few seconds of the Miss USA pageant I saw the other night were when the reigning Miss USA showed up with her plastic bosoms exposed for all to see. I guess she always wants to be prepared in case a volleyball game (or two) breaks out.
So that's you in the red? And the other girls won't talk to you? Yep, just like the Prom :)
Love is blind, er sumpthin'.
Sheesh, what is it with libs & ugly bracelets?
HLL:
Ya know, I guess I never got past looking at the dream date in the white dinner jacket. What's the deal with that other guy behind him? Not the skier. The other one.
Leprechaun?
Cool Lego church. Do the slideshow.
http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/index.html
Sometimes, love needs a cornea transplant!
His face doesn't match his hand. His hand is yellow. Doesn't that mean that he is full of bile?
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