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Crawford’s festive wedding atmosphere will be even more lively this weekend, now that famed director Oliver Stone has confirmed what a mess his upcoming biopic of President Bush will be.

The First Family can party responsibly, knowing that it’s gonna be another Stone classic.

With all the epic events of Bush’s life in draw on, Stone pledges to scratch the surface.

“…we don’t really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we’ve been allowed to see on TV. This movie’s taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain.”

*simulation

Foxey!

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Former Mexican President Vicente “Even Blacks” Fox threatens to open the first ever Mexican Presidential Library Monday.

It’ll be great.

Es Muy, Muy Autentico! fox-child.jpg

fox.gif His web page is already filled with endless caption-less photographs the nature of which we can only speculate about. This appears to be the bottom of an alien transport vacuum device. fox-museum-tube.jpg

Who’s coming to the opening?

fox-bush.jpg Probably not Gorge Bush. President Bush started out all buddy-buddy, but despite their shared love of endangered species cowboy boots, Bush’s interest in close-in neighborhoods faded when a middle east tear-down became available. And more recently Fox called out Bush’s cowboy schtick, recalling that he was afraid of horses.

There’s always fellow after office investigatee Brian Mulroney.

Mulroney appears to have time on his hands, and he ought to done flogging his eleven hundred page memoirs by now.

Crapo History

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Meet Mike Crapo. He’s Idaho’s “other” senator, the one who isn’t Larry Craig.

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Mike wants you to visit our nation’s capitol, but for a guy from the Rocky Mountain West he seems awfully interested in steering you to Confederate tourist spots.

crapo-silver-mouse.jpg Crapo’s “Silver Mouse Award” winning Senate website alerts interested visitors that the capitol area is alive with history, mostly in the form of dead white men’s houses.

“Four of the first five U.S. presidents made Virginia their home. Within a few hours’ drive of Washington, DC, you can visit several homes and sites that were significant in the lives of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and other founding Fathers. You will find information below on Presidential homes as well as other historic homes that may be of interest.”

Crapo’s tour begins with Arlington House, the Custis-Lee Mansion smack dab in the middle of Arlington National Cemetary. Readers are thoughtfully informed that here Robert E. Lee wrote his tear-stained resignation from the US Army, but no tales of his war adventures, or how come all those bodies ended up in the front yard.

The Crapo crusaders find space to point to Lee’s birthplace, hours away from Washington, but miss out on the Lee Fendall House in nearby Alexandria, perhaps tainted by it’s past ownership by Mineworkers leader John L. Lewis.

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Don’t Answer

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A federal judge has ordered the Bush White House to produce Secret Service records of White House visitors, but the Administration argued in Federal Appeals Court Monday that the President’s advice seeking cloak of invisibility covers all entering the White House grounds.

The Bushies introduced a novel scheme to avoid disclosure: the Secret Service checks you in, passes the record to the White House staff, then destroys it’s own record. Presto, nothing to see here!

The AP says a hearing judge summed up the White House defense of Groundskeeper Willie:

simpsons-groundskeeper-willie.jpg “Under the government’s theory … visits to the White House social planner, caterer and gardener would all be secret because the president needs to receive advice privately.”

The Miracle Of Richard Nixon

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The Jenna Bush Crawford wedding buildup sheds light on a puzzling past White House wedding.

nixon-tricia-paper-doll.jpgThe Associated Press consults Katherine Jellison, history prof and author of “It’s Our Day,” who points out how Iraq keeps the Bush family from going all out:

“This is going to be such a different kind of situation from Tricia Nixon’s wedding …The frivolity of a big White House wedding in the middle of an unpopular war would have used up what little political capital he has.”

Vietnam, anybody? nixon-vietnam-map.jpg