Whinnie Ways 
Public resource Michael Abramowitz reports in the Washington Post on a little noticed vignette in Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’s “Wiser in Battle” Iraq memoir.
Sanchez has President Bush rallying the troops via video conferencing, teeing off the illustrious Battle of Fallujah, with what we might call an uncertain trumpet:
“Kick ass!” he quotes the president as saying. “If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can’t send that message. It’s an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal….There is a series of moments and this is one of them. Our will is being tested, but we are resolute. We have a better way. Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!”
Churchillian!
Craggy! 
South Dakota’s favorite sons look down on an aspirant.
“We will take your concept, idol or mentor and create a mammoth statue out of it.”
The Dream 
…And The Ditch 
The vision is taking hold at the Venice of Houston.
Historic Real Estate Inc. – so steeped in, um, something, is building the weirdest incarnation yet of one man’s obsession with gigundus presidential heads.
David Adickes‘s gift to the nation is his obsession with immense busts of our revered former leaders. He already has theme parks centered on these First Oddities in South Dakota and Virginia, but it will be so much nicer with tour boats. And shopping. Somehow the mystery of Easter Island paired with the likes of Marvin Van Buren will draw swarms of Cinnabon munchers.
Adickes’s anything to draw a crowd spirit has already led to the heads use as backdrop to a
rap video. 
Think water ballet!
Goner? 
Saying the unspeakable to the unsavory, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has dared remind the Republican faithful that Ronald Reagan has not been with us for some time, and isn’t likely to return
Daniels addressed a Washington DC conservative gathering, boldly saying “we need to look towards the future rather than staying in the past.”
In simpler times, Mitch was never happier than when shovel leaning at the Ronald Reagan Parkway.
Next we’ll be told this other guy doesn’t exist either. 
The Steady Drip of Progress 
The billion dollar Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was scheduled to open next month, four years after it’s planned opening.
But the launch is indefinitely postponed because of flood damage stemming from a leaking coffee maker.
The hospital will [eventually] stand in proud company with Washington’s Ronald Reagan Building, the most expensive federal office building ever built.
