That’s The Way God Planned It 
Tuesday is your day, Donald Trump and other fans of slavery nostalgia!
It’s the gala reopening of Beauvoir, home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, largely destroyed by politically correct Hurricane Katrina. The accompanying “Presidential Library” was wiped out completely by the avenging wind.
Terrible Swift Sword 
Small compensation for New Orleans, but we Americans are an optimistic people.
Tuesday will also be Davis’s 200th birthday., encouraging the warm feelings of confederate nostalgists towards the traitor. Promoters of the “”Other President” walk a careful but familiar line, lamenting the tragic war between brothers without ever quite explaining what it was about*
Beauvoir’s special day will be marked with flags, speeches, several more speeches, and countless men in itchy wool uniforms. Some sense of decorum is being observed however. The program ask that:
“All re-enactors please use back gate entrance.”
*slavery!
Home Alone 
A promised summer exhibit of entries is postponed, but White House Redux contestants will be battling it out for the favor of judges until Fall.
The goal is redesigning the two hundred year old presidential mansion to reflect it’s present lofty status. There are 831 contest entries, and the friskier of them are deployed on the youtube.
Some plumb the depths of public ignorance 
on where the White House is located, while others set the house free to wander the countryside. 
Don’t Try This At Home 
The Boston Herald visits the storied Reagan Ranch
, and learns that Ronald Reagan was Just Like Us, if by us you mean a god ‘n guns guy. Because after all, ‘The last U.S. president to hunt was Ronald Reagan…”
Maybe so, but try and find a picture of Reagan with a gun which isn’t a movie still.
The Reagan Ranch is now run as a conservative tourist/fundraising stop by the Young Americas Foundation, and they had beloved Boston talk radio personality Michael Graham up for a look.
He was not disappointed.
“…while roaming the Reagan Ranch just outside Santa Barbara, I saw with my own eyes the vast gulf between and the politician some believe is the Reagan of 2008, Barack Obama…It was on display in the two (count ‘em, TWO!) leather-covered Bibles in the Reagan bedroom and the well-stocked gun case nearby.”
What he saw and how they got there is unknowable given the YAF’s dubious history of artifact shuffling.
Let’s explore the land of the ever-fruitful “Reagan Jeep.”
The Spring 2006 issue of YAF’s Libertas has a blue jeep at the ranch, 
but by August a visiting right wing blogger saw a red jeep, 
which appears to have some provenance. 
The YAFers seem confused. Their publication mentions Ronald Reagan’s jeep called “Gipper.†on display at their Santa Barbara “Reagan Ranch Center.”
[note “scramblerâ€]
Perhaps their confusion comes from a license plate they have . 
I have no idea what they have, and they may not either.
Yet another “Reagan jeep” was offered for sale at a Houston car auction in early May 2008.
Signal Intelligence 
Your War President wants you to know: he cares about sending wrong signals.
Getting his story straight is another thing.
President Bush let it be known in an interview with The Politico that he too feels families pain over Iraq [but not enough to attend soldier’s funerals], and he’s given up golf for the duration.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,†he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.â€
But apparently not 
biking,
fishing,
segwaying,
or near religious 
attendence 
at baseball’s 
opening day.
When did the light go on?
“Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights…”I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life,†he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It’s just not worth it anymore to do.’”
But as AFP reports, he kept playing for two more months.
He’d been under the spotlight before things went south in Iraq, most famously while denouncing suicide bombers in 2002.
” “I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers.”
His business out of the way, Bush barely paused for breath before saying, “Thank you. Now watch this drive.”
”
If These Thistles Could Talk 
We feared we’d never see the wedding – the Washington Post was among the media hordes resorting to Bush ranch edges file photos while repeating how little we knew.
Then the White House released manna from heaven, and the nation embraced the lovely couple and her sweaty family.
The President is strangely the only normal looking one here. 
