Remembering history the way they wished it had been
 The Dallas Morning News reports that all is not lost for Southern Methodist University/Bush Library opponents. The opening comes next July, when SMU asks the United Methodist Church South Central Jurisdictional Conference to approve the library.
History is in these delegates hands! 
President Bush may continue to sit on his pile of secrets, thanks to Kentucky Junior Senator Jim Bunning. A bill to overturn Bush’s executive order allowing Presidents and their families to block document releases into eternity has passed the House. Now Bunning has blocked a Senate vote.
Bush’s order essentially reversed a Reagan executive order, which had implemented years of Congressional efforts to open the books.
In other news, madcap antics to hide White House emails continue
Pen wraps paper.
He corresponds with ordinary citizens by email, and actually lives on his ranch. The ranch is home to his Presidential Library, inspired by fellow thespian-politician Ronald Reagan.
But this former President can’t leave home. He’s under house detention. And running spies in the White House.
Former Philippine President and action star Joseph Estrada is popularly known as ERAP. He’s confined to his ranch, appealing his conviction on corruption charges. His films portrayed him as a sort of Filipino everyman. Jokes about him litter the Internet. His term was interrupted by a 2001 soft coup after impeachment efforts failed, and prosecutors have pursued him for crimes in office. He is suspected of ties to counter coup plotters.
Two spies who funneled information from Vice President Cheney’s office to Estrada and other Philippine opposition figures were sentenced to six and ten year terms.
Estrada says his presidential library and museum was inspired by a pilgrimage to Simi Valley, and his too features his film career and an enourmous bronze statue of himself.
Competing with his attraction is the better known Imelda Marcos shoe collection.
Estrada’s Vice President succeeded him and still serves, and is now flirting with a Fordist wound healing pardon.
Late of the beloved anarcho-syndicalist one hit wonders Chumbawamba, Danbert Nobacon has released The Library Book Of The World, backed by the musical stylings of the Pine Valley Cosmonauts.
For our purposes the highlight is the song Nixon Is My Dentist, sadly not available on the artist’s MySpace page.
We can enjoy the lyrics though, as the late President contemplates the devastation Bush has wrought:
“NIXON JOLTS, BOLT UPRIGHT IN HIS GRAVE
BANGS HIS HEAD ON THE LID … … HE NEEDS A SHAVE
PAT LOOKS ROPEY, SHE’S SEEN BETTER DAYS
THEY CAN’T BELIEVE HOW WELL THE PRESS BEHAVES
(HE SAYS) YOU DON’T KNOW HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT SON”
Has Bush’s Poodle turned on his former master? Out of office and enjoying his thankless task in the Middle East, Tony Blair will sit for a portrait by a British artist whose porn infused Bush portrait was supposedly commissioned then rejected by the White House. 
Perhaps it was this portrait of a kindly grandfather which caught the Bush eye: 
