Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Brace Yourself for Disappointment, Lad 
Canadian pol Bob “He Too Has Known Disappointment”Rae takes us back to our Nation’s Capitol in the fifties. Dick Cheney’s Fortress of Solitude at the Naval Observatory was decades away, and Vice Presidents walked amongst us.
Or at least resided. Rae says he served as Nixon’s paperboy, and his Christmas tip amounted to ten shiny pennies.
The Dallas Morning News reports that George Bush has found the Imagineers for his Presidential Library.
Dan Murphy and the PRD Group have been qquietly burrowing away since 2007, and they promise much.
Murphy says the Bush exhibits will cover the presidency [Make Way for the Unitary Executive!], and both America and the American Experience!
Who are these tour guides of History’s Path?
The PRDists have already served America, developing such stirring exhibits as the Smithsonian’s “First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image.”
Who’s Had Some Work Done?
We can look forward to hard-hitting analysis of little known chapters such as:
“From the exuberant Dolley Madison and troubled Mary Todd Lincoln, to the humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt and the intriguing wives of our recent presidents, the exhibition celebrates the remarkable individuals who have occupied this demanding post.”
The introduction peaks with a quote from the Everfeisty
Betty Ford:
“I do not believe that being First Lady should prevent me from expressing my views . . . Being ladylike does not require silence.†— Betty Ford
….not mentioning that her saucy spark in this period was stoked by her copious use of prescription drugs.
Where will PRD’s Vision Quest take us? The Dallas Morning News offers clues.
“Work on the design of the Bush library and museum has only just begun, but the selection panel initially asked SMU and other applicants to consider many possible features for the complex, including:
•An IMAX or film theater 
•Permanent exhibit space 
•Traveling exhibit space 
•Gift shop and cafe 
•Video classrooms 
•Performing arts space 
•An apartment or residence facilities for George W. Bush and his wife, Laura” 
Loser 
Your Washington Times continues to perform magnificently as the daily diary of the Confederate Dream. Their latest is an esquisitly detailed roundup on all the festivities unfolding in this, the Jefferson Davis Bicentennial Year.
The creepy efforts to ape real President’s commemorations will be at full force in 2008. There appear to be at least two reenactments of Davis’s swearing in as secessionist President, and strained efforts to tie Davis to Black History Month have been presented with a straight face. The festive schedule will climax with the the reopening of the Davis Beauvoir home in Gulfport Mississippi, the “Mount Vernon of the Confederacy.”
Beauvoir was largely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina,
proving there is a God. 
The neighboring Davis “Presidential Library” was flattened. 
Its all being rebuilt at a cost of $20 million, provided in part by serial bankrupt Donald Trump and the federal government, over the objections of the NAACP.
But for all this, the first Davis oath reenactment attracted a few hundred. The post-Katrina relaunch of Beauvoir was so sparsely attended they used odd cropping to hide the size of the crowd. 
The Lost Cause appears to be getting loster.
Philadelphia Freedom 
Philadelphia is recognising a George Washington slave who escaped while he lived in the city. Oney Judge was one of nine slaves the Father of Our country brought with him to the nation’s first capitol, and one of two who escaped. Their experiences have been in the news with the excavation of The President’s House site in Independence Square.
Judge lived the remainder of her life a fugitive in New Hampshire.
“Surprisingly, there aren’t that many museums or monuments to Stalin anymore.” 
From Carpetblogger comes a report on a visit to Stalin’s hometown and the local museum, the highlight of which from her account appears to be the ticket stamps. 
“Built just after his death in 1953, it’s a typical Soviet-style museum, in which a bunch of uncurated, unanalyzed crap — newspaper articles and photos and random memorabilia — is thrown up on the wall (“unanalyzed” is probably the kindest criticism of this museum. It’s a lot like the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California in that sense).”
Our gal is a serial offender on Uncle Joe, having previously filed on the memorialization of Stalin’s sojourn in Batumi.
“Hottie“? 
