Ahoy, Sailor! 
An action painting depicting the near sinking of future President Gerald Ford’s World War II ship has been unveiled near his final home in Rancho Mirage California.
A Pacific Ocean typhoon caused fires aboard Ford’s ship the USS Monterey. Ford led efforts to douse the flames below decks, presumibly with his “lantern jaw of a young Johnny Weissmuller.”
The Ford painting is on display in a Palm Desert California gallery which also features thoughtful alternatives to
lawn jockeys. 
Artist Stan Stokes doesn’t only look to Ford’s past. He’s already donated a painting of the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier to the Ford Library, all the more impressive since the troubled ship has yet to launch. 
Why The Nixon? 
Fresh from hobnobbing with the Burmese junta, conservative talk radio titan and Jew-On-The-Go Dennis Prager takes his act to the Nixon Library out buildings today.
We are told that everything changed, that the Nixon Library has been stripped of it’s discredited Watergate exhibit, that steady historian hands are in charge now. Their writ may not run to the Nixon”East Room” where Prager will hold forth. 
It’s vast whale of space attached to the Library and rent-able for your function, like the White House East Room if it had skylights and an enormous Presidential seal slapped on the floor.
The Nixon Library is open enough to drive away Jewish events in recent years, but Prager is the sort to remember Nixon as the first President to visit Israel, rather than the anti-Semite the Nixon archives reveal.
Prager has his own troubles with religious minorities. His crusade against first-in-the-nation Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison using a Koran for swearing-in staging was widely mocked. Prager’s bible thumping [“America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on“] invented a rule which didn’t exist, and when he got called on it claimed he was being persecuted.
Prager is a Bush appointee on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which distanced itself from him in the controversy.
Daily diary of the George W. Bush Library dream the Dallas Morning News has a thorough guide to all manner of dubious characters hopin’ and a prayin’ for some traffic to their Bush Library-ish sites, or to at least sell the web addresses they’ve squatted.
Motley don’t begin to describe them.
GeorgeWBushLibrary.net is the usual crummy collection of random ads pining for your patronage.
Better than Half Off! 
Hardy perennial “Ann Coulter’s Column Free” vies for your eager fingers with the Republican National Committee and this guy 
intensely posed in what appears to be his bathroom in order to further his writing career.
Look, but don’t buy, it only encourages them!
TheGeorgeWBushLibrary.com and GeorgeWBushLibrary.org are anti Bush sites without much content.
The orgs do have a handsome graphic featuring Bush at his mission accomplishing best. 
Father Figures 
Production looms for Oliver Stone’s long awaited George W. Bush biopic “W.”
The story of Bush’s uncertain rise to greatness, the title has shifted from “Bush” in the course of preproduction, “Young Bush” apparently having been rejected.
How they deal with the already existing “W: The Movie” is unclear.
Additional casting has been announced, with daddy Bush to be played by James Cromwell. Right wing whining about left wing Cromwell has already begun from people apparently untroubled by his roles as homicidal police chiefs and Kiefer Sutherland’s loathsome dad.
But the standout casting remains Elizabeth Banks, 
as the Laura Bush you never knew.
Book ‘Em! 
Their dream of a massive paperless Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library has run into trouble, and plucky North Dakota may beat them in the race to debut a presidential library with no actual documents. Now the Theodore Roosevelt Association is having trouble keeping what papers it owns.
The former acting Executive Director of the Association has been charged with stealing a Roosevelt letter, and with forging a document saying it was his. Edward Renehan’s attorney appears to be leaning towards an insanity defense.
Renehan is doing his part to get off. His blog links to his TR book, 
but his bio has no mention of working for the TR Association. It does share that
“I was diagnosed as bipolar (aka, manic depressive) during the summer of 2007. This is a progressive biochemical disorder from which I’ve evidently suffered for a very long time, perhaps even since childhood, and which had reached a grave critical mass in recent years. I am currently under treatment, on meds that my doctors and I are fine-tuning, and I am slowly learning how to cope more efficiently and constructively than I have in the past. This, too, is a part of my journey.”
A March 27th blog entry intriguingly titled “My Only Answer” shares memories of his childhood:
” I lay on the cot masturbating while reading a thick paperback containing the complete editions of a bawdy Victorian magazine: The Pearl.”
and plaintively asks “Medicating Away Creativity?
