New Stuff
Shrub Team Names historic Landmark- a Superfund Garbage Dump!
Oh, the irony!    From Tribune news services,  August 29, 2001 :

FRESNO, Calif. -- A day after honoring a municipal landfill with the same historic landmark status as the homes of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Interior Secretary Gale Norton revoked the accolade after she found out what a dump it really is.

The 140-acre mound of crankcase oil, paint solvents and rotting garbage in Fresno briefly earned a spot on the nation's list of historic sites because it was one of America's first "sanitary" landfills. But Norton withdrew the designation Tuesday after reporters told Interior Department officials that the dump also was honored in 1989 with a place on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of Superfund sites.

(AP)  The GOP National Committee announced today that it is changing the Republican emblem from an elephant to a condom, because it more clearly reflects the party's political stance.

A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives one a sense of  security while screwing others.

Furthermore, it was reported today that at a White House staff meeting last week there was a heated discussion about the health of Vice President Cheney and his angina problem.

President Bush interrupted and stated emphatically  that "Men do not have anginas."

He was especially perplexed when a staffer informed him that Cheney has "acute angina."    <quite plausible!>

The Salvation Army attempted secret a quid-pro-quo deal with Shrub.  The deal: exemption of the Army from discrimination laws via a "quite" regulatory change (vice legisation) in change for the Army lobbing to the tune of $88,000 to $100,000 per month in support of Shrubs faith based abortion.

If the Army has that much money for such a stupid endeavor, they sure don't need any more of my contributions.  Further, what I used to give to them will go to organizations fighting "faith based" like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Show what you really think of Shrub with Bumper Stickers.  Eleven different messages are available.  My favorites:

Republican leaders spent most of yesterday trying to placate GOP moderates who wanted to strike language from the bill exempting religious organizations from state and local discrimination laws. The section in question states that a religious group "shall have the right to maintain its autonomy from federal, state, and local government, including such organization's control over the definition, development, practice and expression of its religious beliefs."

Well, that leaves the door open for a Jim Jones style ministry to "treat", say, folks with a drug problem with some special Kool-Aid or for a Heaven's Gate cult to provide some treatment.  Personally, I hope some group can provide that sort of "faith-based" treatment for the nightmare problems Ripublicans have!

BTW, does this mean they now gonna support Native Americans' religious use of peyote?

If Shrub thinks more arsenic is safe, I propose all of the water he, his wife and kids and his cabinet drink be spiked with arsenic at the increased level he wants us to tolerate.   Let's then see how fast he backs off!      And, along a similar line...

Shrub and ANWR
Once again Shrub's aligned with his big oil buddies/puppet masters and is hence for drilling in the Arctic Natl. Wildlife Refuge.   I think it would be most fitting if some group secured the the mineral rights on his Texas ranch and promptly started drilling an oil well in his from yard.

Shrub and SUVs
Shrub's against increasing the mileage requirements for SUVs and/or including them in the CAFE.   Much has been make of the predicted  increase in fatalities if manufacturers made SUVs lighter to meet tighten requirements.  What about the reduction in fatalities which would occur in their collisions with nonSUVs....  Its probably not a consideration- Ripublicans are much more likely to drive faddish SUVs.

Shrub has stated, `...when money is left in Washington, there is a tremendous temptation for the government to use it. The point is simple: if you send it, they will spend it.''

"They" of course are now Shrub and his henchmen.  They will be recommending a tremendous increase in defense spending.  Is it a mere coincidence that their recommendations and spending increases will come only after his tax cut and budgets are passed?   Remember Ronnie's deficits and the astounding national debit he caused?  The "evil empire" is no longer around to blame increased defense spending on but that will not stop the military/industrial complex from a feeding frenzy at our expense.   Well, maybe there's no evil empire now, but Shrub is sure trying mightly to PO the Russians and Chinese. Already 41.3% of our income tax payments have gone to fund current and past military activities (info is here)    It's going to be deja vu with the debt after Shrub gets through folks!!!

The military/industrial complex is just one of the many special interests Shrub owes his "selection" as president to.  Once the drones of  Big Business and the Rich in congress get through with the tax cut and the increased spending, the results will be even worse for us little people.  Of course Shrub says he won't allow increased spending.  Yeah, sure!  Just like he was for CO2 emmission reductions.

The Citizens for Tax Justice has info on why Shrub's tax plan sucks.  Shrub's alledged $1.6 trillion cut is now projected at $2.4 trillion.  The facts and figures here prove it is skewed toward the rich- e.g. Shrub would get almost $100,000 a Year.

Now Shrub is saying the cut is now needed to stimulate the economy.  Well, if that were the case, it'd take effect quickly rather than being back-loaded.  It's designed that way since it will casue a huge increase in national debt which won't be apparent to many until after he's out of office.  Also, a rational tax cut to stimulate the economy would favor us peons rather than the rich.  We would spend a tax cut and hence increase economic growth since consumer spending accounts for 2/3 of the entire economy.    The rich will invest their tax cut which will merely inflate the markets.   Shrub's tax plan is at best a posion posing as cure.

4/7/01  Shrub Losses Tax Battle in Senate!
Well, kinda- the smaller more progressive tax cut proposed by the Demos. would have been a bigger defeat, but, a $4B trim isn't pocket change.  Another hopeful point is that the vote it shows the Demos. can forge a coalition with halfway sensible Rips. to deny Shrub complete domination.  Still, the rich will get even richer.  And to all the Rips that howl "class warfare" anytime anyone points out how they and their tax cut favor the rich, I say- ya'll started it- the Rip. party has always been and always will be the party of the greedy rich.

Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota  said after the vote, "We have said from the beginning, if he'd work with us, we could reach bipartisan compromise.  He chose not to do that and he got beat. I don't think that's something that I would expect him to do in the future."    Methinks Shrub does not learn so readily-  the idiot will require more defeats to at least change his behavior.
 

President Bush is quietly building the most conservative administration in modern times, surpassing even Ronald Reagan in the ideological commitment of his appointments, White House officials and prominent conservatives say.

Appointing Corporate Execs to Agencies (or letting the foxes watch the chick house):
DAY 42, Friday..."A lobbyist for the hospital industry has emerged as the leading candidate to run Medicare and Medicaid, Bush administration officials say. The lobbyist, Thomas A. Scully, would be the chief salesman for President Bush's proposals to overhaul Medicare, add prescription drug benefits and increase the role of private health plans in caring for the elderly.... Mr. Scully, 43, is president of the Federation of American Hospitals, a trade group for 1,700 investor-owned hospitals [and is paid $650,000 a year in his present health industry lobbyist position]....The job is one of the most powerful in American medicine. The agency regulates health care providers of all types: doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, health maintenance organizations, home care companies and laboratories. The agency influences private insurance companies, which often follow Medicare's example in deciding how to pay for services. --NYT, 3/3/01

DAY 45, Monday..."Three corporate executives will be nominated by the Bush administration to be the secretaries of the Air Force, Army and Navy, The Washington Times reported Saturday. ... England, 63, who retired last week as a vice president at General Dynamics Corp., will be nominated as Navy secretary.... Roche, 61, a vice president at Northrop Grumman Corp., has been picked to head the Air Force...  The nominee for Army secretary will be Thomas E. White, 57, a retired Army general and AN EXECUTIVE WITH ENRON CORP., A HOUSTON-BASED ENERGY COMPANY [AND BUSH'S MAJOR CORPORATE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTOR  --AP, 3/3/01

Other mischief Shrub is up:
DAY 48, Thursday..."President Bush's top trade negotiator says the U.S. steel industry may deserve sweeping, short-term relief from a flood of foreign imports. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick told Congress on Wednesday that the new administration was looking ``very seriously'' at employing a rarely used broad trade remedy that would allow imposition of various barriers to protect the domestic industry.... Such a move was rejected by the Clinton administration, which believed it would send the wrong signal at the time of the 1997-98 global financial crisis if the United States began retreating behind protectionist barriers....Trade analysts viewed Zoellick's comments with some surprise given that Bush during the campaign stressed the traditional Republican support for free trade and opposition to protectionist barriers." --AP, 3/8/01

DAY 41, Thursday..."Christine Todd Whitman, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said President Bush would not automatically offer the same compromises former President Clinton's negotiators hammered out with European countries at failed climate talks last November. "The United States is committed to ensuring we address the global environmental issues. This administration has been on the record, the president has indicated his commitment to this," Whitman said on the fringes of a G8 environment ministers meeting. But she added the U.S. government felt no obligation to return to a compromise that was nearly agreed at November's United Nations conference in The Hague on the future of a 1997 U.N. pact to cut the pollution thought to cause climate change. The statement will come as a blow to environmental groups which saw the two weeks of talks in The Hague make some progress toward finalizing a global pact to reverse the growth in developed nations' "greenhouse gas" emissions." --Reuters, 3/2/01     <Reckon "address" encompasses "ignore">

DAY 35, Friday..."Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced yesterday that he would allow a new round of outside critiques of the first federal standards to safeguard the confidentiality of patients' medical records. The regulations were to have taken effect next week, after years of controversy among consumer activists and health care interests. Thompson's creation of the unexpected, 30-day comment period gave hope to longstanding opponents of the rules, including the insurance industry." --WP, 2/24/01

Pat Robertson is Now Concerned About Shrub's 'Faith-Based' Plan

Good old Pat has final had a flash of rationality...  Some snippets of his from the Washington Post of Thursday, February 22, 2001 on  Pat Robertson's 2/20 "700 Club" :

...groups as the Unification Church, the Hare Krishnas and the Church of Scientology "could all become financial beneficiaries of the  proposal to expand eligibility for government grants to religious charities."

"This thing could be a real Pandora's box. And what seems to be such a great initiative can rise up to bite the organizations as well as the federal government,"

"I hate to find myself on the side of the Anti-Defamation League and others, but this . . . gets to be a real problem," referring to  funding for groups outside the religious mainstream. He said the Unification Church has been "proscribed, if I can use that, for brainwashing techniques, sleep deprivation and all the rest of it that goes along with their unusual proselytizing. The Hare Krishnas [do] much the same thing."

IMHO, Shrub and his zealots little brain fart cannot be stopped by appeals to reason, so behavioral modification is the only answer- more specifically, adverse conditioning.   A thought experiment:   Shrub and his czar of matters "Faith-Based", John DiIulio, have stated that our tax money will be given to religious groups based on the results of their programs and not their specific religious beliefs.   OK, consider alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs offered by, say, the Baptists vs. the Hare Krishnas or the Church of Scientology which Robertson loathes.  The later two have very few if any drug or alcohol abusers among their member while the Baptists have many (and an associated richly deserved reputation for hypocrisy).   Notwithstanding their mere words otherwise, how is Shrub going to justify funding the Baptists and not the later's. programs.  Even as weirdly as the majority of the supreme court has ruled of late, I don't think even they would rule so as to permit such wanton discrimination based on religious beliefs.  Not only will they  have the obvious church/state separation issue to deal with, they'll also have to address the equal protection doctrine!   The majority's use/abuse of the doctrine in deciding the Fla. election results ensures either the doctrine must be applied to the thought experiment case or really fancy smoke and mirrors employed.

If the above little thought experiment is not convincing enough, consider potential drug treatment programs modeled on, say,  the Heaven's Gate group or Jim Jones's Peoples Temple.   If reducing drug abuse is Shrub's goal, faith based is his means of choice, and low drug abuse after "treatment" <heh heh> is the criterion for funding,  programs based on either of those two religious groups proven method would definitely qualify.

Finally, if anyone knows of "unpopular" religious groups who have social programs with good results, I'd sure like to know about them.  Their work and, especially, their faith based funding application might be worthy of my financial support!

Like Shrub the Elder, he's gonna be a one term president so, STL is the time until someone else is inaugurated on 1/20/05.   STL is also the worst-case time- I think he'll be impeached and removed from office rather promptly if the Republicans are as rabid in investigating his oil-patch dealings and FunrealGate as they were with Whitewater, TravelGate, ect.  After all, they wouldn't want to be exposed so glaringly as hypocrites, would they?

An Windoze Program

ShrubTi.exe is an small (~12k) executable that'll display STL in a little window (a screen shot is below).  It needs VBRun300.DLL to run, if it's not on your system (usually somewhere in the Windoze folder/subdirectory), you can get it here (225k, via the Ziff-Davis download  site )

<-- Screenshot from ShrubTi.exe

To keep the time current, click the "UpDate" button.
The "More" button displays some info and a link to the excellent ShrubWatch page.
Clicking the "Copy" button places STL in the clipboard so you can past it anywhere.  The format is:
   Shrub Time Left: 1430 days, 19 hrs, 49 mins, 2 secs

ShrubTi.exe and VBRun300.DLL work fine with Windoze 97-  YMMV with other versions.  Either register hits for viruses, BUT, practice safe computing by scanning them yourself.

A  Word v.7 Macro-  Running the macro calculates the STL and inserts it in a Word doc.

Installing the macro:
1.  Open the Word doc. you want to insert the STL in.
2.  Create a new macro and then open it for editing.
3.  Switch back here, select the text below and copy it.
4.  Switch back to Word and put the cursor between the SUB and END SUB lines and paste.
5.  Save the macro
6.  Switch to the Word doc. and place the cursor where you want SLT to be inserted
7.  Run the macro.
STL in the following format will be inserted:
     "Shrub Time Left: 1430 days, 19 hrs, 27 mins, 41 secs"
After installation, you only need to do 1, 6 and 7 to insert STL.

The macro code:
stl = (DateValue("1/20/2005")) + 0.5 - Now()
hms = stl - Int(stl)
days$ = Str$(Int(stl))
If days$ = " 1" Then days$ = days$ + " day," Else days$ = days$ + " days,"
hrs$ = Str$(Hour(hms))
If hrs$ = " 1" Then hrs$ = hrs$ + " hr," Else hrs$ = hrs$ + " hrs,"
mins$ = Str$(Minute(hms))
If mins$ = " 1" Then mins$ = mins$ + " min," Else mins$ = mins$ + " mins,"
secs$ = Str$(Second(hms))
If secs$ = " 1" Then secs$ = secs$ + " sec" Else secs$ = secs$ + " secs"
Insert "Shrub Time Left:" + days$ + hrs$ + mins$ + secs$

An Excel v.7 Formula-  Displays the STL in a worksheet cell.

1.  Put the cursor/insersion point in the worksheet cell you want to display SLT.
2.  Copy the following  text (don't grab any carriage returns at the end of lines!)
3.  Put the cursor/insersion point in the formula bar and Paste.
Something like "Shrub Time Left: 1431 days, 19 hrs, & 22 mins" ought to appear in the cell

The Excel formula:
= "Shrub Time Left: "& FIXED(38372.5-NOW(),0,TRUE) & " days, " & HOUR(38372.5-NOW()) & " hrs, & " &  MINUTE(38372.5-NOW()) & " mins"

Click here for the photo collage  (47k)  It might cause you to do some reflecting on the artist's intent. <grin>

Republican Party Drops the Elephant
(AP)  The GOP National Committee announced today that it is changing the Republican emblem from an elephant to a condom, because it more clearly reflects the party's political stance.  A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives one a sense of  security while screwing others.

Furthermore, it was reported today that at a White House staff meeting last week there was a heated discussion about the health of Vice President Cheney and his angina problem.  President Bush interrupted and stated emphatically  that "Men do not have anginas."   He was especially perplexed when a staffer informed him that Cheney has "acute angina."    <quite plausible!>

Transcript of Shrub's Dictation of His Draft Inaugural Address
(Lifted from an email humor posting)

My fellow Armenians:

As I stand here today, looking over this magnificent viagra, I think we can agree that the past is over.  Our country is ready for a fresh, bipolar approach.  I want to bring America together.  We are the hill shining on a city, and each of us can get to the top if we set our feet to it.  Americans have made their decision.  They don't need sympathy; they need ablutions.

We need to move beyond the petty armadillos.  Politics doesn't have to be the way it is today.  We can make the pie higher.  A high pie lets everyone put food on their family and their family on the table.  That's my record: I side with most of the people... and Democrats be people too.

(Music break)

A president has to think not only of himself and his family and his baseball team's families, but of all American families.  I don't believe a president should be choosing who are the right Americans and who are the wrong Americans.  All of us are together, white or wrong, black or right.  Or perversely.  That's why my tax cut is as broad as we are.  And it will give our expansion a timely second dose of wind. (Zantac commercial)

I say there's a cost to inaction.  I haven't done the acrobatics, but it's probably around a trillion dollars.  That's a good round sum to offer to everyone, especially our seniors, who are the backache of our nation.  I would like to take a moment to mention my mother, Barbara Bush, who tragically has turrets syndrome.  We need our seniors to be free to pass on. Thanks Mom, thanks Dad, thanks Jeb...and long live the Supreme Court..at least five of them.

(Applause; tears)

We know that America is the best in the world.  We are the great super-premium; we cannot afford to be unleaded.  This is still a world of madmen and mental losses. And mental loss is easy to underestimate.  We need a sharpened sword to light our way.  To quote Ronald Reagan: "I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.  I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do something.  And it must never run our lives."

(Exxon commercial)

I worked in Texas by common sense and plain dozing.  I got on with small business, because I was one myself.  I'm less now.  But I'm also more.  I know you would rather be watching TV, and so would I, so I will draw to a quick confusion.  My message is: I will get things done.  I will inspire and untie. I will appeal to people's better angles.  I will prove that politics can be bigger than you ever thought possible.  We will trust the people we serve, and serve the people we trust.  Together, we can do what needs to be done to preserve this great fruit basket of freedom.

....Leave us pray.

I am now te presipent of all of the peoples.  Espesially my god friends in bidness, in the Ripublican Party and the relegiousness folks.  I won the erection so you SoreLosserman creeps had better just get over it if you know wat is god for you.

Pleze joint me, Pat ROBBERson, Jerry Fawnwells, Jim Dobbieson, and my udder fellow christians up here wit me in prayer.

Dear Jesus, son of God and this nation's only king and its true salavator; help us as we make this a khristian kuntry.  We call on you to help us by smiting the demokratics, the god-less athesesits, the satan-worslippers, the homoes, the lesboes, the dope-friends, the sexular humanists, the fornikators, the liberals, the naderites, the progressives, the socialismists, the commies and and all the other trash with hell-fire, briming-stones and judges of godly character.  AMEN

I've gotta go nap now-  Bye-Bye!.

Bush Watch  The best way to keep up with Shrub's mischief!
     Their Humor Page is great too.  A snippet:

Bush Isn't Dyslexic, He's Possessed (a great read!)
OK, so I've been puzzled all day. Why wouldn't Bush jump at the chance to blame all his linguistic atrocities on dyslexia? I mean, if he's a bona fide dyslexic, as opposed to a lazy, arrogant, anti-intellectual cretin who obviously doesn't spend much time reading or listening carefully to articulate spoken English (an alternative diagnosis), then we all have to leave him alone, right?   I mean, a neurological disorder is a neurological disorder. If Bush claimed to be dyslexic, all us bleedin' heart liberals would have to shut up and cut him a great deal of slack.

Info on the Bush Tax Estimator, a nifty feature on Quicken.com's website that allows you to enter your basic tax information and
calculates the precise dollar amount you would have saved if Bush's tax cut plan had been in effect last year.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Bush's Statistics  by the great American Prospect writer Josha Green on on Shrub's tax cut for the rich: .  (more articles).

He got a girl pregnant and he got her an abortion. His fathers campaign manager arranged for the abortion.
Four of her friends knew about the affair, knew about the pregnancy and knew about the abortion. The only
thing Flynt is lacking is the girl to say yes to telling her story. He has affidavits from the 4 girls. Flynt said
he went to the mainstream media and said you do not have to ask about the story just ask if it happened.
They won't touch it.

http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/   (from the URL, I'll bet this is a Shrub page)

Bush Jr.'s Skeleton Closet documents some of Shrub's sleazy history:

-- Convicted of drunk driving. Lied repeatedly to cover up his arrest.
-- Lying under oath. Bush & staff stop investigation of contributor's huge funeral home company.
-- Pulled Strings to Avoid Vietnam, & Got Favorable Treatment
-- Texas government corruption: State $$ for campaign funders & business cronies
-- Cocaine: felony drug use, vile hypocrisy, and a hushed up arrest?
-- His "young and irresponsible" behavior: sex, drugs and (gasp!) rock and roll?
-- Thin skinned: censors his critics with police, lawyers, $$$
-- Character: Spoiled rich kid living off his family's name and reputation
-- Made millions on insider business deals, for little work

A nice personal anti-Shrub page- good articles...

The facts and figures prove it is Skewed Toward Wealthy.- e.g. Shrub would get almost $100,000 a Year.

Tax Subsidies Reward Job Cutters  includes this plum which might explain the real rationale for corporate downsizing isn't shareholder wealth:

In fact, it appears to be almost a general rule that CEOs for companies that laid off workers have done the best for themselves in terms of pay. In 1995, average CEO salaries and bonuses jumped by 18 percent to $1.7 million.   But Business Week found that the CEOs of the 20 companies with the largest announced layoffs last year saw their salaries and bonuses jump by 25 percent.

Almost two-thirds of total capital gains reported on individual tax returns go to people whose incomes exceed $200,000. In contrast, only 7.8% of the total gains are reported by the three-quarters of tax filers with incomes of $50,000 or less. Thus, more than any other type of income, capital gains are concentrated at the very top of the income scale.

The record of capital gains tax cuts when it comes to jobs is equally dismal. In fact, the unemployment rate rose sharply after both the 1978 and 1981 capital gains tax cuts. Conversely, the jobless rate fell notably after the 1976 and 1986 capital gains tax hikes were enacted.

Find out how much of a tax cut you will get.  For a shocker, double your income and throw in some capital gains....

A great site with a great name Bush Team Has the "Right" Credentials, Far Right   It has much news and opinions on Shrub.
 

TomPaine.com  has a lot of articles and commentary on Shrub

The Nando Times   Good news and search engine

Molly Ivins' column - for the straight skinny.  Via the Sacrmento Bee.

Taking Names and Keeping Score  Campaign Promises/Score card

The Consortium for Independent Journalism

Common Dreams NewsCenter - News & Views for the Progressive Community
    A sample: What Ashcroft Did  by Anthony Lewis

About.com
  Shrub News
  Politics/Current Events
  Did Ashcroft Lie Under Oath?  Surely a rhetorical question!
  Roe vs. Bush  Very nice opening animations

None Dare Call It Treason  How Shrub was selected by the supreme court.

Flawed defences -  Bush's missile plan may explode in his face.  From the London Guardian

Do you know your Bushisms?  An interactive quiz.

Perjury: The Ashcroft Exemption  A scorcher!  A snippet:

Last year, the Republicans fumed that a senior government official, the President, had lied under oath. yet when the same accusations are made against John Ashcroft, the Republicans are suddenly silent.

How polluted is you town?  Info by zip code

People For the American Way

Required reading via the Consortium for Independent Journalism:

Rehnquist -- Political Puppeteer.  IMHO- the guy that's responsible for Shrub's "election" as president... VERY interesting reading!
Behind Colin Powell's Legend demostrates that he's not typically protrayed to be...  .
The Ronald Reagan Retrospective proves he wan't the great savior the zealots on the right have been protraying him as.

A recommended read on the Reagan era by a mainstream (i.e. Washington Post) journalist is Sleep Walking Through History.

The Mother Jones 400  Industry pumped in a  record 696 million dollars to elect George W. Bush and a GOP Congress.
Reveals the top contributors -- and what they expect in return.
 

Open Secrets   has great info on Shrub's indebtness to the rich and corporate America.  A neat item is a gizmo that allows you to search a database via a zip code to see how the rich and powerful in your city or zip area overwhelming supported Shrub.  Also amazing is how the families and employees of CEOs and the powerful also gave overwhelming to Shrub and the republicans.  You can also get listing of all of a candidate's contributors.  I used this to generate a boycott list of outfits I've ceased doing business any with!

The transcript of Ashcroft's "We Have No King But Jesus"  speach at Bob Jones University.  Scary stuff from our (HA!) attorney general:

You could quote the Declaration with me. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

In "CFOA: Homeschooling"  on  NPR's All Things Considered of 2/28/01, it was reported that the National Morality Scold, William Bennett has:

1. Written a book within the last year in which he states that "cyber" home-schooling is not effective.
2. Has now changed his mind and stated on the program that one company has an effective cyber program.
3. He has an interest in said company- which is funded in the "low eight figures"
4. A big investor in the company is <you'd better sit down> a prime robber baron of the 80's and convicted felon Michael Milican!

Jenna Bush and her Secret Service detail gets her drunk boy friend out of jail after a party a Texas Christian Univerisity.
 Bet it wasn't reported in your newspaper....  The London Times published it- here.  Includes and attempted a followup:
       "The White House declined to discuss Ms Bush’s friendship with Mr Bridges, or whether she was at the party."
If Shrub's spin doctors had said anything, it would likely have been written off, as her dad's as "youthful indisression....".   Oh well, your tax dollars at work....

Iran Contra Pardons Saved Poppy Bush Robert Parry in Consortium News, February 19, 2001.  Also at The Consortium for Independent Journalism's site.