Moon Over College Station 
“…too many citizens these days are becoming disengaged at a time when we need more involvement, more debate, and more foreign exchanges…That’s why the work of the Universal Peace Federation and The Washington Times is so important, and I thank Rev. Moon and salute all of you for coming here to address these urgent issues.†George H.W. Bush
John Gornfeld brings word of further Bush family cavorting with Reverend Sun Myung Moon, this time in the hallowed halls of the College Station Texas Bush Presidential Library.
It’s return on investment for the Korean cult leader.
Friend to Power*
Moonies funneled a million to the Bush Library on the sly, and former President Bush has given multiple speeches for pay to various Moon front groups. Bush bad seed Neil Bush, son of the former and brother of the current, has been on the Moon payroll for years. Most recently he traveled to Paraguay during the last days of the Colorado Party’s clinging to the
Down Paraguay Way 
presidency, and Moon has put a million dollars into Neil’s troubled education via cow schemes. 
The current Bush Administration has returned the favors, giving Moonies a piece of the abstinence education boondoggle among others.
Future Ford Afloat! 
Who’d a thunk we’d turn to ESPN’s “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” to point out oddities at sea, but Gregg Easterbrook is on to something peculiar in the Navy’s naming schemes.
The troubled USS Gerald Ford, paired with Reagan and Bush Sr. ships, sent him over the edge.
“TMQ finds repugnant this blatant Pentagon favoritism for Republicans. Gerald Ford was never elected to national office: he was appointed to the vice presidency, then became president by succession when Richard Nixon resigned. The never-elected, half-term Ford will have a supercarrier named for him while Clinton, a two-term president twice chosen by U.S. voters, does not.”
Bush Is Gear 
A groundswell [or tsunami?] for Gerry is difficult to detect. The wingers at Newsmax ran petitions to name the ship for Ford, even touting USS Ford caps. Their site is Ford-free of merchandise now, if it ever carried it.
And lest we forget, the USS John F.Kennedy was retired last year.
Loot & Lore of the Sea 
Legal, but not the touching catch and release tale we’ve been told?
Questions are being raised about the Senior President Bush’s Tarpon adventure off Florida. Byron Stout’s Tarpongate probing makes clear that, tagged legal catch or not, the fish in question may have suffered fatal injuries in the course of the fish/Bush photo-op.
“The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made it clear, in guidelines distributed last spring, that there is no legal rationale for boating an untagged tarpon because there are no size restrictions that compel its measurement. The commission’s position is that large fish have skeletal structures not designed to support them out of water, and pulling such fish into a boat or onto land violates the legal requirement of releasing them “unharmed.” Studies of the effects of catch-and-release fishing have shown that fish hauled out of water can suffer lethal injuries, including suffocation, damage to internal organs and structures, and removal of slime that protects them from bacterial infections.”
Enjoy your trophy, Mr. President!
Home of the Whopper! 
Ex President Bush caught a fish, and the event will of course be commemorated for all time in the Bush Presidential Library.
There it will join the shrines to tiny foes created 
and destroyed 
and the salutes to Patriot Missiles, which may or may not have helped.
Gritty, Urban 
Laura Bush has unveiled an exciting new talking point for the Bush Library to come in Dallas:
“This will be the first truly urban location for a presidential library “
Meaning what exactly? George will be taking public transportation to work on his memoirs at the Library? And she is casually dissing the two existing Texas Presidential Libraries at Austin and College Station, one of which is her father-in-law’s.
Would A Cow Town Shine So Brightly? 
