Mother Bush Takes Care of her Brood

[RedEarth]

It's been said that a dog is man's best friend, but don't try to sell that argument to Neil Bush. The odd Bangkok prostitute aside, no one's taken better care of Neil than his dear old mom.

Neil's run over more than his share of road bumps as he's made his way down life's highway, including his involvement in the Silverado Savings and Loan scam that cost the taxpayer of this country an estimated $1 billion, a few other shady dealings and a messy divorce. But through it all, Mama Bush has stood by sonny boy, just as she has his older, disaster-prone brother.

Bar's most recent manifestation of mother love came in the form of a "charitable" donation to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, a donation with more strings attached to it than the ones connecting Number One son to Dick Cheney.

The gift, described in news accounts as "at least $30,000," was to the Bush-Clinton Huston Hurricane Relief Fund. So far so good. But with a stipulation: That the money be used to buy educational software from a company called Ignite Learning of Austin, Texas.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0402-21.htm

[Berry Cool]

1. Olbermann named her Worst Person in the World

after finding out about this!

[shenmue]

2. Mike Malloy once compared her to a spider...

hatching its innumerable brood.

Not far off.

[1620rock]

3. She is also the ugliest person in the world. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

4. Inside and out,

Deeply ugly.

[madmom]

5. Two more things I heard about this...

she also owns stock in the company, and some are saying that the "donation" is to help the Katrina fund, it's not it's to the Huston Hurricane Fund, not associated with the other.It's to help the schools who might be a recipient of some of the Katrina lowlife:sarcasm:

[flordehinojos]

6. bill clinton is a grown man who does not need anyone's advise but darn if

i were him, i would disassociate myself from the bushes faster than the road runner running away from a speeding bullet.

[ShortnFiery]

10. He's part of the problem with regard to trade - NAFTA anyone? n/t.

[flordehinojos]

11. do you think that is why he is so much in bed with the bushes these days?

[vard28]

7. Here's another tidbit...

... that helps us understand a little bit more.

Speaker's Biography:

Neil Bush Neil Bush
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Ignite!, Inc. (Austin, TX)

Neil Bush is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ignite!, Inc., a web-based developer of educational software that also targets children with learning disabilities. Bush provides overall strategic direction focusing on long-range planning, investor relations, school partner development, and strategic corporate partnering and alliances. Prior to founding Ignite!, Bush was chairman and co-founder of Interlink Management Corporation, a merchant banking firm that successfully raised capital and invested in high tech and biomedical start-up companies. *snip*

http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/events.taf?function=show&cat=allconf&EventID=gc02&SPID=169&level1=speakers&level2=bio

[vard28]

8. Oh wait, there's more...

Ignite turns to Mexican company

Neil Bush's e-learning company has laid off 42 percent of its workforce as it prepares to sign a $15 million deal to outsource software production to a Mexican telecommunications giant.

Austin-based Ignite Inc. plans to seal the deal — expected to be at least a two-year partnership — with Mexico's Grupo Carso Telecom SA before the end of the year, says Ken Leonard, chief financial officer of Ignite. *snip*

http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/10/28/story3.html?jst=s_cn_hl

[flordehinojos]

12. and then people wonder why there are so many "indocumentados" crossing the

border ... here is why:
(1) we go to their lands to exploit their work there: we pay pay them 40cents an hour there.
(1a) when they cross the border to make a slightly few more cents than the 40 cents an hour they make in their countries, we hire them for considerably less than we hire americans who work for us. a savings in dollars, employee social security payments by the employer to the government, we give them zilch health care benefits, and they work to clean our derrieres when we end up in hospitals, nursing homes, or rehabilitative homes as we get older, need recovery from surgeries, etc., and they, are the hired force to provide security in our federal buildings such as the immigration and naturalization building down in miami, florida, u.s.a. where the security force there is comprised of haitian refugees/entrants/immigrants--what an irony!
(2) we excuse ourselves from paying taxes when we outsource our companies elsewhere.
(3) we blame the poor ignorant souls who come here to make (at a very hard and rough sweat) more than 40cents an hour for the problems with our economy (but we refuse to see that our economy is tanking because bush is looting our economy to support his invasio/occupation of iraq, to enrich his pockets and those of the halliburton group (including those of cheney's) and all of his other cronies.
(4) they are easy to scapegoat as joyce tarnow did this sunday on a local sunday talk show with local anchor elliot rodriguez, while cheryl little, longtime lawyer for haitian immigrants, did her best to defend and explain why they are not a threat to the u.s. economy and why the u.s.a is not acting on its best behavior when it wants to criminalize so many for such stupid reasons as helping those who need help with just a stroke of the pen.

[Bozita]

9. Just like Bar, the UAE gives financial help to Neil Bush

Joe Conason wrote:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/02/24/ports_controversy/print.html

-snip-

The ports controversy could cause similar problems for Neil Mallon Bush, the president's most troublesome brother, who has become a familiar face in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Neil Bush seems to be in constant pursuit of investors and government contracts in the Emirates, and is treated there with a respect and deference that have always eluded him in his own country. For reasons that must be painfully obvious, UAE royals have been quite eager to engage the former Silverado Savings and Loan director ever since his eldest brother entered the Oval Office. That embrace only intensified after 9/11.

In October 2001, only a month after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Neil Bush showed up in Dubai to attend a technology trade fair -- and to meet with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. While peddling the products of Ignite!, his educational software company, Bush was feted as the guest of honor at a gala dinner for a charitable foundation, also hosted by the crown prince. (Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore, who had been scheduled to travel to the Emirates around the same time, both canceled their attendance at those events.) According to the UAE's official news agency, Bush's discussions with Sheikh Mohammed and with Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan focused on "the world economy in light of recent events." During that visit Bush also met with the UAE's finance industry minister.

Exactly how much money Neil Bush raised in the Emirates as CEO of Ignite! isn't clear, but he managed to acquire a local partner, known as Trans-Data Systems, which is required for doing business there. He returned to Dubai in January 2002 to deliver a lecture on educational reform to a "select" audience of 200 government and education officials from the seven emirates that comprise the UAE. The signs of state patronage could not have been more plain. The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry sponsored his seminar, and the official news agency made sure to note that "the younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush ... agrees with the vision of General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defense Minister, about adopting new ideas into the existing education system."

During his seminar Bush noted that the "UAE is facing a golden opportunity to lead the world by putting in place a high-speed, broadband access to rich-media content which will revolutionize education in this part of the world." He illustrated this point by streaming a video clip of his son, Pierce, appearing on a television show to discuss his own learning difficulties.

"My father was the 41st president and my brother is 43rd; I think that if Pierce finishes high school, he'll be the 50th president of the United States," quipped Neil Bush. And should he fail to graduate, perhaps he will become a global businessman, just like dear old Dad. Young Pierce -- bearing the name of his mother's family and descended indirectly from Franklin Pierce, one of the worst presidents ever -- must only hope that an indulgent relative will still be in the White House.

-- By Joe Conason

-snip-

[wowfundude]

13. Have we had enough of the Bush family?

Enough is enough, already.

[cliss]

14. And you wonder why this family steals so much?

They have to, in order to keep Neil Bush afloat. I've read stories about how Neil, along with his other brothers, has gotten into bad business deals for years. They tried one idea after another. These boys got involved with bad people, who often scammed them financially and ran off with the dough.

Other times, the business went bankrupt for one reason or another. This has been going on for years. And that's the problem with being the son of a president. You can't just open up a laundry mat. It has to be BIG stuff, big investments, big deals,......big losses.

We always hear about how Poppy bailed out George time and time again. But that's nothing compared to Neil.