Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Where’s His Wedding Ring?  
Not content with periodic sightings of “New Reagans, ” Michael Reagan has pronounced victory in the search for Ronald Reagan’s Celestial Soul-mate.
Overcome with excitement at John McCain’s fresh faced choice Sarah Palin announcement, the Reagan offspring rounded up the usual icons:
Executive Assurance 
The Methodist Church will not try to block the Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University, according to the Dallas Morning News. Unless a full regional meeting Thursday rejects it, the South Central Jurisdictional Conference resolutions committee is putting it’s faith in fair treatment from Bush.
“The group voted to reject a potentially divisive proposal calling for the conference to reverse a decision by the church’s Mission Council granting SMU the ability to lease land to the Bush library foundation for up to 250 years…Instead, it approved a resolution saying it expects the institute to protect SMU’s “integrity,” signaling that committee members don’t want the institute’s work to affect SMU’s academic independence.”
That should do it!
Dallas Deficit 
The Dallas Morning News has covered the would-be rise of the George W. Bush Library at SMU in lavish detail, but has so far found itself unable to pass on to local readers allegations about Houston fixer Steve Payne and his offer to clean up a Central Asian ex-tyrant’s image via Bush Library donations, in secret if “he wants to be anonymous for some reason”
The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune stirred themselves to follow up on London Sunday Times and. Even Fox News and Moonie owned UPI reported the allegations.
Innocent Abroad 
So?
His response wasn’t quite that Cheneyesque, but would-be George W. Bush Library benefactor Steve Payne concedes nothing. He claims remarks are taken out of context, says his request of confidentiality was violated, and tells some more whoppers.
“I have been a victim of a confidence game sponsored by the paper. The paper and its employees, not content with merely reporting news, have instead opted to manufacture the news in this worst-case example of “Gotcha Journalismâ€.”
Payne’s statement claims that hidden donations to the Bush Library were the furthest thing from his mind, and that he expected the worthy gentlemen with whom he was dealing to be above board in thought and deed.
“I was also very clear… in this conversation and in subsequent e-mails that any donations would need to be completely transparent and open to public scrutiny.”
The transparency extends to a Payne email dump which accompanied his statement., in which he suggests the Library cash could be hidden:
“The donation will be done publicly and must be in the form of a check or wire and will be done publicly in Akayev’s name unless he wants to be anonymous for some reason?”
The March Of Democracy 
Supporters claim they have enough signatures to place a San Francisco ballot measure naming a sewer plant for our departing president. The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco launched their effort this spring, and hope to file signature petitions in July, with a November vote.
The Memorialists were way ahead of Barak Obama in vandalizing our sacred Presidential Seal.
Shocking! 
