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The Nation awaits an orgy of destruction, with release imminent of beloved Director Roland

Emmerich’s latest disaster porn epic, “2012”.

Apparently the Mayan’s foretold our doom even while hurtling unaware to their own demise. Or something

 Emmerich has a history of this, of course.           

Audiences cheered the jolly destruction of Bill Clinton’s White House in 1996.

This time Real America’s chosen instrument to destroy the nest of Socialism  is of course the mothballed USS John F. Kennedy, recalled to serve the Republic for one last mission

  Making Waves?   

Gone but not forgotten, former Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s self-defenestration has already been reduced to trivia in America, withmembers of  MSNBC’s online beloved community invited to sort out his death details, multiple choice style!

MSNBC asks, “Are you smart?”

How much do you remember about the week in news? Take msnbc.com’s weekly quiz and find out what you can recall.

6. In South Korea, meanwhile, the nation was shocked when a former president, Roh Moo-hyun, disgraced in a corruption scandal, committed suicide. How did he end his life?

By throwing himself off a cliff in the mountains near his home
By shooting himself at his party’s headquarters
By asphyxiating himself in his car
By hanging himself

INTRODUCTION TO THE ROTUNDA

      When you walk into the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library, the first thing you should see is the rotunda and what is exhibited there.

Odessa Texas’s Presidential Museum threatens to close July 1, despite being on track to attract some 3,650 visitors this year. They have somehow managed to survive for 45 years, given a boost when the semi-local Bushs stumbled to the top.

The museum is an exciting confection of early Bush    home replication, the vaguely presidentialy related, and misinformation.

       “We have some very rare, interesting items for our visitors to see. An example is the registration desk used by President Eisenhower when he was commander of the European forces during WWII. The museum acquired this piece in the 1960’s and it serves to illustrate the unique collection we have, it is not all about buttons and posters.“

The museum’s web page is a melange of odd choices and factual errors.  Their timeline for the 1860s and 1870s finds no space to mention either Lincoln’s election or assassination, but the Chicago Fire gets a mention.

Prize oddity comes when they sound the alarm in the 20th Century:
AREA 7:
DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II

AMERICAN SOCIALISM: WHAT HAPPENED?

  “Not satisfied with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and its initial work/relief programs, left-wing politicians Louisiana’s Huey Long and California’s Father Coughlin advocated radical changes to the American system-tax the rich to provide welfare for the poor.”

What ever are they saying here?

  Long is usually viewed as a populist and/or fascist, rarely as a man of the left.

 Father Coughlin was a Detroit based fascist, although the Townsend Movement for old people’s pensions started in California.

Calling Card

Bush biographer Bill Minutaglio takes to Newsweek’s never too rich and too thin pages to update us on the former president’s goings on, and he appears to have a rather open schedule.    “Bush has always been friendly,” Minutaglio comments, and the Ex is going out of his way to show it.

The local college kid who sold many Bush neighbors “Welcome Home George & Laura” signs found himself besieged by Bush phone calls, and a 14 year-old commanded 90 minutes of Bush’s time for a frank exchange of ideas.

Things are more mixed further from Preston Hollow. Bush got a big welcome when he first returned to Midland as ex-president.  Even a Bush minion was amazed:

“They turned out 30,000 people here,” says his longtime Texas accountant, Bob McCleskey. “And that’s without giving out food and beer.“

But an effort by a hometown state legislator to congratulate Bush on his torture achievements was stopped by

heroic state representative Lon Burman.

Chronicle Of A Fool Foretold  

CBS TV Funnyman David Feherty  has attracted concerned stares over the murderous fantasies about Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid  he revealed while welcoming George Bush to Dallas, but Bush’s fellow Preston Hollow resident clearly has other issues.

If you worry who Bush has settled amongst in Dallas, be of good cheer. Bush’s neighbors share his willful myopia, because after all, “what a nightmare of a time that was to be president of the United States!”

Yes, poor George did his best, or was stabbed in the back, or something, as he  “he played some of the rotten cards he was dealt.”

Feherty is quite the student of  Middle Eastern affairs, as  shown in his evocation of “my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East,” and  “having spent considerable time in the Middle East myself.”

This expertise leads the golf comedian to the bold conclusion that “Americans in America have been safe since 9/11, almost the whole length of G2’s term as president, and for that we should be thankful.”

And just how did he acquire this hard won knowledge of facts on the ground [with added sweep of history] in a dangerous neighborhood?

USO tours!

Yes, 2007 and 2008 crotch joke performances before military audiences, and classic man-dress and camel dung material for the readers back home of have taught Feherty all he needs to know about The Man Who Kept Us Safe. Feherty adds a touch of magic to his tales of desert redemption by saying the stirring war scenes he witnessed caused him to apply for US citizenship

Feherty’s Call to Citizenship

But by his own account he has been applying since July of 2003, back when the mission was accomplished, all we feared was dead-enders, and he had yet to travel to freedom’s new found land.

 In A Foreign Field