The Family That BUSHwhacked America (Part 4)
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 18th, 2011
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The last of this series…
The Family That BUSHwhacked America
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Neil |
Jeb |
George Snr |
Marvin |
 George Jnr. |
“The Actors” cont.:
This maybe small potatoes by comparison with all the other Bush clan scams, but nevertheless Ignite! Learning has made Neil Bush $20 million over the past three years. Not bad for a guy who ran Silverado S&L into the ground. With accusations of nepotism flying around all over the place, especially now that Neil Bush is trying to get the Florida school system to buy into his learning software (at $30 a pop per student per year), the state that his brother Jeb is governor of, it’s no wonder. Connected is the wholesale privatisation of state services, which opens such areas as education to the predations of people like Neil Bush and indeed, the whole issue of influence peddling and nepotism.
The Jeb Bush Connection This is a murky story with connections to the Nicaraguan Contras, the Mafia, Cuban-American terrorists, Iran-Contra, bribery and corruption, coverups and the CIA. Essentially, IMC was contracted to give medical assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras but the story is in fact, a lot more complex and gives you some idea of just how inter-connected events really are, especially when you’re dealing the Bush clan. Perhaps this review of a book by Duncan Campbell The Bush Dynasty and the Cuban Criminal, will give you some idea:
“The Bush family connections go back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship overthrown by Fidel Castro.
Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (£320,000) embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them.
Padreda later pleaded guilty to defrauding the housing and urban development department of millions of dollars during the 1980s.
The president’s younger brother was also on the payroll in the 80s of the prominent Cuban exile Miguel Recarey, who had earlier assisted the CIA in attempts to assassinate President Castro.
Recarey, who ran International Medical Centers (IMC), employed Jeb Bush as a real estate consultant and paid him a $75,000 fee for finding the company a new location, although the move never took place, which raised questions at the time. Jeb Bush did, however, lobby the Reagan/Bush administration vigorously and successfully on behalf of Recarey and IMC. “I want to be very wealthy,” Jeb Bush told the Miami News when questioned during that period.
In 1985, Jeb Bush acted as a conduit on behalf of supporters of the Nicaraguan contras with his father, then the vice-president, and helped arrange for IMC to provide free medical treatment for the contras.
Recarey was later charged with massive medicare fraud but fled the US before his trial and is now a fugitive.
Jeb Bush sealed his popularity with the Cuban exile community by acting as campaign manager for another prominent Cuban-American, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, when she ran successfully for Congress.
George Bush Sr famously appeared with her during her campaign in Miami declaring: “I am certain in my heart I will be the first American president to step foot on the soil of a free and independent Cuba.”
She has since lobbied successfully for the release of several exiles convicted of terrorist offences held in US jails but who now live freely in Miami.
Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.
According to the justice department in George Bush Sr’s administration, Bosch had participated in more than 30 terrorist acts. He was convicted of firing a rocket into a Polish ship which was on passage to Cuba. He was also implicated in the 1976 blowing-up of a Cubana plane flying to Havana from Venezuela in which all 73 civilians on board were killed.
CIA memorandums strongly suggest, according to Bardach’s book, that Bosch was one of the conspirators, and quotes the then secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, as writing that the “US government had been planning to suggest Bosch’s deportation before Cubana airlines crash took place for his suspected involvement in other terrorist acts and violation of his parole”.
Bosch’s release, often referred to in the US media as a pardon, was the result of pressure brought by hardline Cubans in Miami, with Jeb Bush serving as their point man. Bosch now lives in Miami and remains unrepentant about his militant activities, according to Bardach.
In July this year, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Batista, as a Florida supreme court judge despite his lack of experience. Mr Cantero had previously represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as a “great Cuban patriot”".
Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1202-05.htm
Lynne Cheney, champion of democracy?
“Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Frank Gaffney, James Woolsey, and William Bennett, former Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, all play prominent roles in domestic suppression of criticism of the War on Terrorism. A group founded by Lynne Cheney, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently released a report titled “Defending Civilization.” It listed 127 “unpatriotic” statements made on U.S. college campuses since September 11.” http://www.publiceye.org/foreign_policy/just-fp.html
National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty
This takes us back to the 1980s although as the article below informs, like a bad meal, the sins of the past keep coming back, in this case it’s Otto Reich who was part of the original Contra force funded and supported by the Reagan/Bush government with its links to drugs for guns and connections to the CIA and the Iran-Contra affair. I have also included links to the official CIA version of events.
“Bush nominee linked to Latin American terrorism” By Bill Vann 24 November 2001 Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/reic-n24.shtml
“As the Bush administration exhorts governments throughout the world to line up behind its “war on terrorism,” it is pressuring the US Senate to push through confirmation of a nominee to a key foreign policy position whose own links to terror and an illegal CIA propaganda operation have raised concerns even among the usually docile Democratic leadership.
Who is Otto Reich? Well basically, he’s a friend of terrorists, there’s no other way to describe him.
“Otto Reich came to prominence during the Reagan administration when he was appointed head of the office of public diplomacy within the state department. According to the national security archives, Reich used this role to pursue his own agenda to such an extent that in 1987 the Comptroller-General of the US, a Republican appointee, found that some of the efforts of his office were “prohibited, covert propaganda activities … beyond the range of acceptable agency public information activities”. A letter of September 30 1987 concluded that Reich’s office had violated “a restriction on the state department’s annual appropriations prohibiting the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorised by Congress”". Duncan Campbell – The Guardian http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FoT.html
He is now George Bush’s assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs. The central point is that Bush is filling his government with characters like this, people who have broken the law, an enemy of human rights, a thoroughly unsavoury character.
Richard Armitage – another Iran-Contra figure come back to haunt us
“On March 23, after being recommended in a unanimous 18-0 vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former Vietnam-era covert operative and Contra-era figure Richard Armitage was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State in a voice vote on the Senate Floor. The unchallenged confirmation of a figure who had previously been investigated by President Reagan’s Commission on Organized Crime (1984) for alleged links to gambling and prostitution was totally ignored by the major American media. Armitage has already begun work at the State Department and is deeply involved in negotiations over a US spy plane recently captured by the Chinese government.” From the Wilderness
Source: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/politics/armitage_SS.html
The Silverado Savings and Loan Scandal
The savings and loans crashes of the 1980s, themselves directly the result of Reagan’s deregulation of the banking industry, is more interesting because of how it reflects the rapacious nature of unbridled capitalism than of Neil Bush himself. Who by the way, is now embroiled in another scam with his latest venture, educational software, Ignite (turnover $20 million, much of it from educational subsidies obtained in the state of Florida ,where, ‘coincidentally’ of course, his bro Jeb, is governor).
Altogether, it’s been calculated that bailing out the failed S&Ls countrywide cost the US taxpayer around $1.4 trillion!
There are nowhere as many digital sources on the S&L debacle because it predates the Web. Much of it is contained in pages that refer to the numerous scandals and malfeasances of the Bush clan at large. Even so, I’ve managed to uncover a number of dedicated sources.
Stratesec/Securacom, KuAm (Kuwait-American Corporation), HCC Insurance
The links between these companies is strange. All have a Bush connection as well as a World Trade Centre, United Airlines, Dulles International Airport security, aviation and Kuwaiti connection. What is known, is that SEC regulations were breached by Marvin Bush in filings submitted to the SEC.
Who is Marvin P. Bush?
The public rarely sees Marvin P. Bush, brother of President Bush II.
Marvin P. Bush is the founder (1993) and Managing Partner of Winston Partners Group of Vienna, Virginia. It’s a private investment company. He is also the Managing General Partner of Winston Growth Fund, LLP; Winston International Growth Fund, LP; Winston Small Cap Growth Fund, LP; all related companies.
Before this, he spent 12 years in the investment business with the firms of Mosley, Hallgarten, Estabrook and Weeden, Shearson Lehman Brothers, and John Stewart Darrel & Company.
In January, 1998, Marvin Bush was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Fresh Del Monte Produce company, the giant fruit company (major product bananas) that makes the canned goods we buy in our markets. Del Monte is owned by a very wealthy family from Kuwait, the Abu-Ghazaleh family. Mohammed Abu-Ghazaleh is the CEO and he has several family members on the Board alongside Marvin Bush. Another member of the Fresh Del Monte Board of Directors is Stephen Way, who is a major Bush fundraiser. Way is the head of the Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Company. In early 2000, Stephen Way acquired the appointment of Marvin Bush to the Board of Directors of HCC. In that transaction, Bush not only landed a very large salary, but a sweet stock option deal. He purchased about $130,000 worth of HCC stock which is now valued at close to $600,000, not even one year later.
Marvin Bush is also on the Board of Directors of something called the Kerrco Company.
Marvin also was named to the Board of Directors of the Stratesec Company, another large publicly-traded firm. This company is very secretive and you can find virtually nothing about it. Their website does not allow entry to several links unless one has a password. Virginia-based Stratesec is a provider of high-tech security systems. Two of the major customers for which they provide security are the Dulles International Airport at Washington, D.C. and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Stratesec’s revenues recently went up by 60%, due to what the company describes as “new customers” Prominent people at Stratesec also include former Reagan operatives including Barry McDaniel and Air Force General James A. Abrahamson (who was involved in the Reagan “Star Wars” project). Stratesec is a company is heavily inter-related with the Kuwam Corporation (“Kuw” = Kuwait; “am” = America). Kuwam is a major Kuwaiti Company into many, many activities including the aircraft business. Stratesec’s Chief Executive is also the Managing Director of Kuwam Corporation and Kuwam’s Chairman Mishal Yousef Saud Al Sabah sits on Stratesec’s Board of Directors. Stratesec is providing the primary security for one of the most sensitive airports in the world. Dulles in D.C., has a heavy middle eastern airline connection.
Another can of worms. Actually, I’m getting fed up with the Bush clan. It’s like the only life they have is screwing up everybody else’s! Sybase software is part of the Choicepoint system which is part of the Patriot Act which part of the whole damn system for keeping track of everybody and everything we do, read, visit, buy, and no doubt think about.
Zapata is the story of oil and the Bush clan and of course, Texas. This is the company GW Bush Snr founded in 1953 and, depending on your predilictions for conspiracies, the Bush connection can take you all the way to the Kennedy assassination and back, and given the scale and scope of the Bush saga, it doesn’t surprise me at all, if indeed there are links between all the goings on of the Bush clan, oil, Texas, the FBI, the CIA, the Rockefellers, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Nugan-Hand Bank,the Mob, The Pope (or at least the Vatican, I think the current uncumbent is a little too doddery) and the assassination of JFK. Of one thing I am sure, when billions and governments are at stake, anything is possible.
Other important sources
Federation of American Scientists Website http://www.fas.org/index.html
The FAS Website contains probably the most complete record of the US dealings with the Iraqi regime, arms sales and related information, including Congressional records. For example I did a search on “iraqi arms sales” and pulled up 882 locations including:
“1992 Congressional Record Documents”
A particularly useful set of documents, because they are the official record of US congressional representative Henry B. Gonzalez and his longstanding investigations into a range of related dealings which included BCCI, Banco Nazionale Lavoro (BNL), Iraq-gate, illicit arms dealings, and especially attempts by the Bush government to block his investigations. http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1992/index.html
Other Bush family -connected Companies & Institutions
Amsec Corp, Global Strategies LLC, Bass Enterprises Production Co, Asset Management International Financing and Settlement Ltd, Palmer National Bank
Other Bush Men (and the odd woman) that at some point, I’ll get around to adding to this dossier. Dick Cheney, Ari Fleisher, Asa Hutchinson, Robert Mueller, John Negroponte, Paul O’Neil, Theodore Oison, Richard Perle, John Poindexter, Colin Powell, Michael Powell, Otto Reich, Orlando Bosch, Leonel Martinez, Robert Reilly, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, John Walters, Eduardo Noriega, Richard M Nixon, Robert Mosbacher, Ferdinand Marcos, John Erlichman, Robert McFarlane, Brent Scowcroft, Donald Regan, Jim Baker, William Casey, Santos Trafficante, Miguel Recarey, Jr, Oliver North, Manucher Ghorbanifar, Sheik Abdullah Bakhsh, Tongsun Park, Sargis Soghnalian, Dan Quayle, Salem bin Laden, Prince Mohammed Ben Abdullah, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
A final word; I’m all Bushed out as the saying goes, but if I’ve learned one thing in putting this testimony together (because that’s what it is), it’s the awesome power of US capitalism to corrupt and to corrupt totally. Defeating a juggernaut of this size is going to be a long struggle, probably not in my lifetime but what the hell!
~ Wiliam Bowles
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Peace out.
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October 18th, 2011 at 7:37 am
HI Mischa, brilliant series, really appreciate it, the rabbit hole had some of this, but certainly not all…I never have any issue getting in though occasionally I get ‘your commenting too slow’ but then it posts and others have commented between that time I was typing and the time I hit ‘submit comment’ – can’t wait to see Vegas GOP outcome tonight, Mitt Romney, really…?
Robert, once again, you’ve summed it – white ‘boys’ are threatened, white MEN are not, they see it for what it is…of course, you have to be a white man with a pair and likely have a swingin’ one to get that (penis envy runs very deep), so – yes, it’s a nice tip off to who’s a smart man (and also who’s packing heat ; ) and all puns are intended.
Luv, Zen Lill
October 18th, 2011 at 8:03 am
WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY: HEALTH TRADE-OFF?
If you are obese and want to get healthy, there’s no way around the need to make significant changes to your lifestyle habits.
However, some people who need to get meaningful results faster or who are unable to lose weight any other way opt for bariatric surgery — and advancements and experience have made these procedures much safer than they used to be.
For the right candidates and under the right circumstances, this type of surgery can make a dramatic, positive difference in how the rest of your life unfolds.
All that said, one thing hasn’t changed about weight-loss surgery — it’s a far more serious undertaking than the hospital billboards would have us believe.
Bariatric surgery is major surgery that alters your body’s primary functions, including digestion.
I spoke to Marc Bessler, MD, director of the Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, to get expert insight on the full impact of bariatric surgery.
He told me that laparoscopic approaches have made many of these procedures safer, resulting in fewer complications and deaths, especially since patients are encouraged to participate in lifestyle-change programs before and after the surgery. Nonetheless, there is still much to consider.
If you’ve tried dieting, you know the biggest problem is keeping weight off long term. “Everybody tries to accomplish this with diet and exercise first, but the vast majority — about 90% of people — aren’t successful,” says Dr. Bessler.
He explained that one obstacle for many obese individuals is that the signaling between the brain and the gut has become impaired.
They feel hunger and a strong urge to eat more because their bodies continually communicate that they’re not getting enough food.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY
There are three different surgical procedures for weight loss that are now widely available. Dr. Bessler discussed factors that may influence which type is right for which kind of patient…
MOST COMMON: GASTRIC BYPASS
What it is: In this procedure, a large section of the stomach is stapled off. A small pouch remains that is connected to a section of the small intestine.
Why it works: Patients aren’t so hungry and therefore lose weight quickly.
This is in part because the shrunken stomach can hold just a few ounces of food or liquid and also because the bypass means that hormonal signals of fullness and satiety are sped up, since the undigested food enters the intestine so soon after it is eaten.
Success rate: Just about all (more than 95%) patients lose at least half of their excess weight, making this one of the most effective types of bariatric surgery. An estimated 15% regain a significant amount, however.
Downside: Patients are less able to absorb nutrients from their foods, so those who’ve had this surgery must be vigilant about eating enough protein and will need to take vitamin and mineral supplements.
Also, eating sweets or fatty foods can cause cramping, diarrhea, sweating, fatigue and light-headedness.
Best for: Because the overeating impulse gets blocked, this can be a good solution for people who binge on junk food, people who have diabetes and those who have difficulty chewing and eating slowly.
LEAST INVASIVE: GASTRIC BANDING
How it works: An adjustable plastic band is surgically inserted then cinched around the upper part of the stomach, limiting how much you can eat and slowing the passage of food into the stomach.
Patients feel full after eating less. Since neither the stomach nor the intestine is cut, this is the least invasive weight-loss surgery.
Success rate: Two-thirds of patients meet their weight-loss goals — losing about half their excess weight on average and sometimes much more.
Best for: Since this procedure limits how much you can eat at one time, it can be a good solution for people who are big eaters.
Downsides: Since the opening to the stomach is narrowed, it becomes very hard to digest fibrous foods, pasta, rice and red meat — all foods (especially these) must be thoroughly chewed or patients suffer severe discomfort.
Fluids are limited — patients cannot drink any liquids within an hour of eating. Also, in as many as half of patients, the band slips at some point afterward — this requires an additional procedure for adjustment.
PERMANENT: SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
How it works: Sixty percent of the stomach is surgically removed and the shape is changed to a tube (or “sleeve”), which results in a permanent restriction on how much food you can eat at one time.
Also, the portion of the stomach that produces the hunger hormone ghrelin is removed, so hunger pangs are diminished.
Success rate: Success rate is slightly less than with gastric bypass — mostly because the procedure leaves a larger portion of the stomach intact so patients can still eat more than they should.
Best for: Sleeve gastrectomy doesn’t involve bypass, so patients maintain the ability to absorb vitamins and minerals at near-normal levels, making it a good option for most patients.
Dr. Bessler predicts this operation will become more popular because it is more reliable for weight loss than the lap band and simpler than bypass.
Downside: It’s permanent and cannot be undone. If patients overeat, it can stretch the stomach — resulting in the need for an additional procedure.
HOW SAFE ARE BARIATRIC SURGERIES?
Bariatric surgery is a big deal — all surgeries carry some risk, and these procedures are major, not minor.
The likelihood of certain complications — cardiac problems and pneumonia, in particular — increases with patients’ obesity levels.
Depending on the procedure, there is some risk for surgical complications (bleeding, leaks and bowel obstructions) as well.
CHOOSE CAREFULLY
If you’re considering a bariatric surgery, Dr. Bessler makes the following suggestions…
Choose a surgeon who has been performing bariatric procedures for at least five years and who does 50 or more bariatric procedures annually.
He/she should be a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the American College of Surgeons.
Choose a hospital with a bariatric program that has been in place several years, that does 125 or more procedures each year, and that offers more than one option (because you want to be sure you get the one right for your needs).
Also important — the hospital should have a specialized support staff, since patients need a variety of services over time, including pre- and postoperative counseling and help with lifestyle changes, including nutrition and exercise.
In an upcoming story, I’ll interview one of our expert naturopathic physicians to get a different perspective on extreme weight loss.
Given that obesity has been called our country’s number one health challenge, you can count on Daily Health News to cover a wide variety of effective solutions to help you — and the people you love — get healthy.
Source(s):
Marc Bessler, MD, director of the Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, in New York City.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:09 am
When your phones are tapped, and/or you are spewing Patriot Act possibles, try using TOR browser and protocol-specific support software if you don’t want the sites you visit to see your identifying information. They hate that. There are much less bread crumbs. If you want to leave a break in your trail of fears, bounce from your normal browser of choice to Tor. It is been blogged about and I use it at times…when doing specific and appropriate research and I don’t want the specifics or appropriates to be found…at least not easily… http://www.torproject.org/
This is a similar concept to what I was using some 15(ish) years ago for some online projects I was involved with, although, that was a beta program we downloaded from a guy named Ivan…long story.
Don’t fall into the trap of having all of your shit go to your phone…your phone can be turned on without your knowledge and you Big Bro can listen to anything you say…and new cars have all the smart gear for them to know where you are, where you go, and can listen to convos in the car at any time…
You might pass this off with a turn of the cuff, however, when you understand the gravity of it you will hopefully begin to get very angry. This is part and parcel of the Occupy Wall Street, how corporations have entered your personal lives at every level. Most people sit complacent of their rights being ripped from them by rationalizing the unfathomable scale to which they cannot comprehend with a quip of “Well, I don’t have anything to hide.”…good, because, you can’t…
Oh, by the way, the last time the GOP gave a shit about any one of you who are not billionaires was when you were in a uterus.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:19 am
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October 18th, 2011 at 8:32 am
Influence peddling a nepotism just falls hand-in-hand with racism here in Tennessee. I work for the state and it is all about race here.
We routinely deny OTWs, especially blacks of their entitlements. It is a joke around here. We often tell each other stories of niggers calling in begging for their assistance which by law and need they are entitled to and how we denied them.
I have been doing it for 27 years, but after one dinner party and a few jokes along that line a few months ago, my daughter pulled me aside and said she was leaving because she couldn’t stand me.
I asked why and she said “Daddy they are human beings.” Honestly, I’ve never thought of niggers as anything but monkeys that can talk.
But, my little girl said that she voted for Obama because she has made friends with an asian girl that she studies with at college and that girl has a black boyfriend.
She said while she would never consider a romantic relationship with one, over the 6 quarters she has spent at school studying with them, she has come to believe that they deserve to treated as human beings.
My little girl is my pride and joy. She is the only thing still important to me in this world. So when she suggested that I read your blog, I didn’t hesitate.
That nigger Robert is an ass hole. Nothing like a workable rope in Pulaski to keep out niggers in line. It would certainly give him more respect for the “white boy” he finds so discomfortable.
My point is reading your blog shows me that I have been used by people like those traitors the Bushes to destroy America. While we are sticking it to the niggers they are sticking it to us.
If I continue on my path there may be nothing else to save. What kind of country will I be leaving to my baby girl? What they are doing to us is just not right.
Ken
October 18th, 2011 at 8:36 am
Main Dude, I didn’t know any of that.
Thanks
Lisa
October 18th, 2011 at 8:46 am
Hafa adai,
I don’t know why we continue to believe that the corporations will show some compassion for the people who need every penny they make to survive.
The price per barrel of crude oil is hovering around $86 dollars a barrel. Matson navigation and Horizon lines have recently dropped their fuel surcharges, the cost of gas on base is at $3.64 cents but off-base gas prices are holding steady at $4.63 cents a gallon nearly a dollar more. Why?
We are being handed some idiotic logic that it is “Sticky prices.” Meaning things don’t go down in price as fast as they go up.
Duh? Could that be because the people who control those prices want to continue gouging the public for as long as they can.
Fuck that sticky price logic, I’d rather hear that Santa Clause is real at least it would be more appropriate this time of year.
We have to do something about regulating these corporations. We have to stop voting republican off the island Guamanians. Those republicans are bought and paid for.
They work exclusively for the rich and racist. They are not the same as the republican party on Guam. Have you heard Senator McCain lately?
Peter
October 18th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Hi Michelle: Great series on the Bushwacker klan. As a long time resident of Florida I can tell you that the most notorious act that occurred during Jeb Bush’s terms as governor (1999 to 2007) was the illegal recount when George “dubya” stole the presidency from Al Gore in 2001, who had already won this election. At least the democrats that I know would say so.
Now this could be a coincidence that this was done in the state that his younger brother “Jeb” just happened to be governor of. Not trying to correct you or anything, but Jeb is no longer our governor, he was followed by Charlie Crist, repug, and our current governor Rick Scott also a repug.
Thanks for your hard and detailed work. These bush’s were into everything it seems. I was expecting Jeb to be nominated, maybe in the future.
Al
October 18th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Al:
I live in the same state and I too was appalled at how the state of Florida manipulated the vote to give Bush the office.
I also agree with you that it could only have occurred the way it did because his brother was the governor of that state.
Jennie
October 18th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
We are in 1889:
In 1883 cattle-dealers Sam and Belle Starr, for whom the government offered a $10,000 “dead or alive” reward, appeared before “Hanging Judge” Issac Parker.
As their actual offense was only receiving stolen livestock they drew short prison sentences. But while Belle was in jail the Police Gazette immortalized her as the “Queen of the Bandits.”
When she came out she joined a Wild West Show, and delighted audiences with a whooping attack on a stagecoach supposedly carrying Judge Parker.
When Same came out, he shot one of Belle’s new lovers, went into hiding and re-emerged to resume receiving stolen livestock.
In 1886 Belle was arrested again, but this time Judge Parker discharged her for lack of evidence.
Sam died in a shoot-out that Christmas. The last of Belle’s subsequent succession of lovers was a Creek Indian outlaw named Jim July, whom she persuaded to surrender to the law at Fort Smith.
It was returning form this errand that she was bushwacked and killed on a lonely road near Eufaula, Indian Territory, Okla.
Since no one knew who did it. Bita wanted to see so we went to the spot and their was son 18 year old, Ed Reed waiting for her with a gun. He shot and killed his mother.
Bita wanted to know why a son would kill his mother so we went back and followed her son 17 -16-15 we didn’t have to go any further to see why he killed her.
Although we didn’t go any further back, we saw enough. When Belle wasn’t beating him with a bullwhip she was incestuously having sex with him.
The woman loved her sex and she wasn’t shy about who she had it with.
AH
October 18th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Michelle, thanks for the article. I say if we don’t take on that juggernaut now, then when?
October 18th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Frances Fox Piven. You’ve probably heard that name before. She’s the aging leftist “academic” who called for Greek-style “strikes and riots” here in America. She’s advocated overloading the state and federal welfare programs to accelerate the fall of capitalism. She’s a proud admirer of Karl Marx and an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America … and that’s all before lunchtime.
Naturally, she’s also a college professor in New York City. So to maintain “solidarity” with her underworked and overpaid professoriate brethren, Piven also hits the college speaking circuit.
Just last week, Piven was a guest speaker at Messiah College, as part of the school’s American Democracy Lecture series. As one would expect, she used the occasion to prove her leftist bona fides by calling the Tea Party racist, compared the Occupy Wall Street temper tantrum to the Civil Rights Movement, reaffirmed her dreams of seeing mass rioting in the United States, and even went as far as to say that “riots are what poor people do when they get together.”
There was supposed to be a conservative speaker tonight at the school to counter Piven’s intemperate views. The talk, “Why I Love Rich People (And You Should Too),” was the type of counterbalance needed after giving Piven two uninterrupted hours with the small Pennsylvania college’s student body. That’s what the College Republicans thought anyway. That is until their faculty adviser pressured them into canceling the event.
Oh, and you, the loyal HUMAN EVENTS reader, know who the speaker is. Actually, I know him really well too. Probably better than you! So here’s your must-read story of the day, a HUMAN EVENTS editorial, of how a self-avowed Christian college invited one of the most radical people on the planet to grace their halls, but at the last minute blocked the planned conservative response.
— Jason Mattera
October 18th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
PATTI AND THE SPIDER
Patti is ten and has a deep affection for those of Nature’s children condemned to creep and crawl. Patti, in fact, has often been in trouble at school for bringing these creatures to class with her.
Patti’s teacher, Miss Hull, did not share the child’s love for creepy-crawly things.
Then one day a spider appeared, crawling across another pupil’s desk, and there was a momentary uproar.
Patti had never seen the spider before, but since she was a friend and patron to spiders generally, she was blamed for introducing it into the classroom.
She kew that it would be futile to deny the charge, so she held her tongue.
It happened, however, that the English assignment for the day followed immediately after the discovery of the spider. Patti applied herself to her composition.
Then, perhaps as a form of punishment, Miss Hull called upon her to read her essay aloud to the class. Patti did read it, and she read it dramatically, placing strong emphasis on certain sentences, as follows:
One day, I was sitting in school doing my writing lesson, when I heard a gast from the back of the room. I turned around to see Maria Cutturini with her chair pulled away from her desk and a horrified look on her face.
Then I say the reason for her gast, Crqwling over her writhing book was a big yellow spider. I snatched out of my desk a little bag I happened to have and went to the rescue.
Miss Hull, our teacher, thought the spider had run away from me because she kew how I love Insects. She said, “Why did you bring that spider to school?”
I didn’t have to answer because I knew she knew that I brought him, even if I didn’t bring him. I decided that the spider had come to school to learn something, but he didn’t learn much in that little bag in which I carried him home.
October 18th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Thank you for writing to me in opposition to efforts that would curtail the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to enforce the Clean Air Act.
I have proudly fought against such efforts, and I appreciate hearing from you.
As your Senator and Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, I am determined to protect our nation’s landmark environmental laws and the ability of our federal agencies to enforce those laws.
The EPA’s finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and well-being is based upon years of work by America’s leading scientists and public health experts.
Limiting EPA’s authority to enforce the Clean Air Act would increase our dependence on oil, set a dangerous precedent that would undermine EPA’s ability to protect children and families from pollution, jeopardize clean energy jobs across the country, and stall efforts to build a clean energy economy.
Please know that I will keep working to uphold the Clean Air Act and fully support EPA as it takes necessary action to reduce the dangerous carbon pollution that causes climate change.
I will also continue my efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, promote clean energy, and create millions of new jobs.
Again, thank you for writing to me. Please feel free to write to me in the future about this or any other issue of concern to you.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
Please do not respond to this message. If you would like to comment on legislation, please visit my website and use the correspondence form at https://www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm.
October 18th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the Everywhere into the here…
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
October 18th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
The situation in Sudan is dire and it’s getting worse with every day that passes.
As you read this email, families in South Kordofan are seeking refuge in holes dug into the ground as makeshift bomb shelters, families are being torn apart, children are at risk of losing a limb, or worse, from an unexpected attack —
these crimes are happening every day while men, women and children are left to suffer and die.
Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, the same man responsible for the atrocities in Darfur is at it again — slaughtering men, women and children and displacing hundreds of thousands of people in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, Sudan.
And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — once a supporter of our efforts to end genocide in Darfur — is actually entertaining the idea of normalizing relations with this genocidal monster.
October 19th, 2011 at 12:09 am
Don’t you find it interesting that because republicans are fielding a candidate with a questionable religious affiliation like mormonism that the new talking point is “discussions about a candidate’s religion is a distracting sideshow from the important issues.”
Of course that was not the mantra when Obama was being called a muslim.
Oh, the party of hypocrites.
Lucy
October 19th, 2011 at 1:08 am
It’s about time.
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DOI Awards $1.5 Million to Expand Agana Library
Written by Josh Tyquiengco
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 17:10
Guam News – Guam News
Guam- The eye sore of the Agana library may soon be a thing of the past.
Department of the Interior (DOI) Assistant Secretary Tony Babauta says he’s awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant to the Department of Chamorro Affairs to expand and update the existing facility.
He also says he will be sitting down in the coming days with President Joseph Cameron and his staff to expand the square footage of the space and how they can execute the library’s evolution.
“We hope to do that next week. Sit down and meet” said Babauta.
“Talk about the type of expansion and make sure that any expansion that we do is going to be serving an increase in customers, maybe new customers and making the library a place to learn and to be able to access different sorts of technology. I mean the library system need to evolve.”
The Guam Public Library System and 3 other government organizations have been put under the control of Chamorro Affairs as part of the Governor’s re-organization efforts to cut costs and streamline GovGuam.
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Hafa adai
Anna
October 19th, 2011 at 1:47 am
100-INNING LIMIT FOR YOUNG PITCHERS
In past generations, overuse injuries from tennis, basketball, baseball and other sports were pretty much the province of professional athletes and aging men and women.
Now, because of kids’ aggressive sports schedules, pediatricians and orthopedic physicians report that they are seeing “wear and tear” injuries in children of younger and younger ages, which is of great concern for those young bodies.
In fact, new research from the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) in Birmingham, Alabama, has found a direct correlation between the number of innings played by the pitchers in youth baseball and the likelihood of injury in years to come.
Based on the findings, researchers hope that youth leagues will establish and enforce a 100-inning-per-year limit — and I’ll weigh in here and say that I’d like to see similar, commonsense standards applied to other youth sports as well.
THE REAL BOYS OF SUMMER PLAY ALL YEAR
“Years ago, most youngsters played organized baseball only in Little League and school teams,” says Glenn Fleisig, PhD, lead author of the pitching study and research director for ASMI.
“But a sharp rise in travel teams is giving kids the opportunity to play organized baseball more months of the year.”
Today, a young pitcher might pitch 30 or 40 games a year (at six innings per game, that’s as many as 240 innings) — compared with 10 games a year in previous generations — which has led to an increased number of elbow and shoulder injuries. And these are kids in primary and secondary school!
The study participants included 481 boys between the ages of nine and 14 who were followed for a decade.
They were asked, yearly, whether they had pitched… if so, how many innings… whether they had had an elbow or shoulder injury that resulted in surgery or retirement from baseball.
Researchers found that boys who pitched more than 100 innings in a year were 3.5 times more likely to be injured. Playing pitcher and catcher in the same game also appeared to increase the risk for injury.
LITTLE PITCHERS
Pitching brings stress to the bones, tendons and ligaments of the elbows and shoulder at any age — and there’s a reason why childhood and adolescence are called “the tender years.
” “Kids’ bones are still growing, with soft areas at the ends of their bones — the so-called growth plates,” said Dr. Fleisig.
“Young pitchers are especially susceptible to injuries at the growth plates of the elbow and shoulder.”
Most elbow injuries involve the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow, known as the Tommy John injury after the professional pitcher who tore this ligament in the 1970s and then made a very unlikely comeback after innovative surgery to replace it.
Shoulder injuries usually involve the rotator cuff tendons or the shoulder capsule (the ligaments that wrap around the upper arm bone connecting it to the shoulder socket).
SAFE PITCHING
If you know and care about young pitchers (male or female), you’ll want to encourage them along with their coaches to consider these guidelines offered by Dr. Fleisig:
Stop when tired. Pitchers who end up needing surgery as a result of overuse tend to be the ones who kept pitching when they were fatigued.
Rest is important. Pitchers should avoid overhead throwing completely for at least two to three months a year — although a four-month break from competitive baseball pitching every year is preferred.
Keep track of innings pitched. Learn and adhere to the recommended limits for pitch counts and days of rest (one to four days, depending on the number of pitches). You can find details on the ASMI Web site, http://www.asmi.org/asmiweb/position_statement.htm.
Do not pitch on multiple teams with overlapping seasons unless you can keep to the guidelines above.Learn and use good throwing mechanics (just as pro pitchers do).
There are many young pitchers who are effective on the mound — for now — but whose pitching form is almost guaranteed to overstress their arms and shoulders.
Working with a fitness coach and pitching coach/instructor is a good idea.
Avoid using radar guns to frequently measure the speed of young pitchers’ throws. This may lead them to focus too heavily on speed at the expense of protecting their arms.
Do not pitch and catch in the same game.
Don’t “push through” pain. If a pitcher complains of pain in his elbow or shoulder, get an evaluation from a sports medicine physician.
Encourage young pitchers to have fun playing a variety of sports so that they strengthen different combinations of muscle groups and avoid overuse.
“The issue of overuse comes largely from playing the same sport year-round,” said Dr. Fleisig. “For children to be as healthy as possible, they need athletic activity, but they develop best if they engage in multiple activities using a variety of muscles rather than specializing in one sport or position.”
Source(s):
Glenn S. Fleisig, PhD, research director, American Sports Medicine Institute, adjunct professor, department of biomedical engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and pitching safety consultant for Little League Baseball & Softball.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:49 am
Michelle:
I live in Japan. I would like to be a Girlz. I am 23 and a college graduate. I like my work very much. But I lie awake in bed on the weekends dreaming of becoming a Girlz.
Please allow me to become one.
Miho
October 19th, 2011 at 2:01 am
I have been saying the whole tea-party (the original tea party. They’ve even been co-opted by wall-street now) was founded the night Obama won the election.
There was going to be a black family in the white house and they aren’t the servers and house keepers. I’ve said about a trillion times.
“A huge portion of white America was fatally offended that a black man was going to the most powerful man in the world.”
October 19th, 2011 at 8:19 am
Ohiru #13 October 17:
Either the Aliens want souvenirs from Guam — or — the fact that those 125 LB. Manhole Covers are being beamed up means that there will be some jets captured by Aliens.
The answer is simple. The Aliens that have not agreed to work through Tyna continue to crash into each other so they need heavy metals of all sorts to aid in their repair. Some use the metals to drop when they capture military jets. They can reconfigure the metal to make it appear as it was what was left of a Jet Crash. That way they can keep the entire jet and its occupants, yet leave a crash site as evidence to document.
HOWIE
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