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There’s nothing like great footage of Preznit Bush doing what he does when he thinks the cameras not on. Staring blankly into space?  Sure thing. Using the Lord’s name in vain?  You betcha.

Three species of beetles have been named for President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Cornell University reports. Agathidium bushi, Agathidium cheneyi and Agathidium rumsfeldi are among the new species of a certain fungus-loving beetle that lives in North America.

From the NY Post: April 7, 2005 — VIDEOTAPE of Jenna Bush in very high spirits at a bachelorette party is being sold and could end up on national TV by the end of the week. Luckily for Jenna, the cameraman missed "the high point . . . Jenna on all fours doing ‘the butt dance’ — and doing it … Read More

"A lot of people in America think there is a vault — and banks take the money you deposit then hold it for you until you want it back and then they give it back to you.  But that’s not the way it works. There is no money in the vault, just IOUs that I saw firsthand." – George Bush, … Read More

According to Gallup, Bush’s approval rating is the lowest of any president in March of their 2nd term – 45%. Here are the ratings for presidents as recorded by Gallup in the March following their re-election: Truman, 1949: 57%.Eisenhower, 1957: 65%. Johnson, 1965: 69%. Nixon, 1973: 57%.Reagan, 1985: 56%.Clinton, 1997: 59% . Bush, 2005: 45% .

From the NYT: "Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and … Read More

From the LA Times: The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St. Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and new financial data show that the firm’s war-related profits have trickled down to a familiar family name — Bush. William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, uncle of the president and youngest brother of former President George H.W. Bush, cashed in ESSI … Read More

A little over a week ago, I wrote a post about the F-word ("fascism") being used to describe the Bush Administration by a prominent conservative magazine. Was it just mudflinging . . . or is there something to the notion that we are heading into a fascist era? This flash animation makes a compelling argument that we are indeed seeing … Read More

Gotta love it. From the NY Times article on the newly-discovered Bush tapes: He refused to answer reporters’ questions about his past behavior, he said, even though it might cost him the election. Defending his approach, Mr. Bush said: "I wouldn’t answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don’t want some little kid doing what I tried." Isn’t … Read More