Geez...if she was so enthused about the program, why didn't she talk Neil into donating the software so he could write it off his taxes? So much for letting school districts finding what programs work for them...it's the "one size fits all, especially if we make money" approach...

I used to like Babs...but she's just another witch with a capital B...

[apologies for potentially insulting honest Democratic Wiccans...]

"Who does the President think he's f-in' kidding?" -- Keith Olbermann, 3/20/06

It's a family affair!

Bush's "Unky Bunky" is in on the cash party too:

As President Bush embarks on a new effort to shore up public support for the war in Iraq, an uncle of the commander in chief is collecting $2.7 million in cash and stock from the recent sale of a company that profited from the war.   {snip}

William Bush was a director of Engineered Support Systems. Recent SEC filings show he was paid cash and DRS stock in exchange for shares and options he obtained as a director.

Before DRS purchased it, Missouri-based ESSI experienced record growth as a result of expanded U.S. military contracts — many to supply U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The contracts, some awarded on a no-bid basis, include a $77-million deal to refit military vehicles with armor for use in Iraq.   {snip}

SEC filings show that two federal investigations of ESSI are underway. One inquiry involves a stop order from the government on the field generators. The order was issued because the units didn't operate properly.

The generator contract was a major source of revenue. SEC files show that ESSI did not tell stockholders about the stop order until last June, about seven months after it was issued.

During the interim, several ESSI executives, including Bush's uncle, cashed in stock and stock options worth millions of dollars, the filings show.

According to one recent filing, the SEC and the U.S. attorney in St. Louis are investigating the delayed disclosure and other matters.

Take a look at my Alaskan Tribes & DHS No-Bid Pork Contracts for more ways to profit in the War on Terror.

". . . the more educated you are, the more indoctrinated you are. After all, propaganda is largely directed towards the privileged." -Noam Chomsky

Neil is still remembered in Colorado as a sleazy con artist.  Specifically, the Silverado S&L bust that cost the US taxpayers the tidy sum of $1.3B back in '88.

Bab's has got to funnel some of those ill gotten gains to him to keep him quiet.

Lots of History Here on the entirety of his escapades, and it stops at the end of 03, no telling what he's been up to the past 2 years.

He's a major piece of work, as is the entire family.

Peace

the revolution will not be televised...

What a slimy evil witch.  No wonder at least one of her offspring fits the DSM IV criteria for a sociopath.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

For God's sake, Babs and her beautiful mind is just uck** nuts..besides they are a dynasty of crooks.  What else would you expect from a woman such as that!!!  She is not a woman who thinks outside her own created box.  Just temember what she said about the evac's from NOLA, she is such a pathetic example of female bush speak and I can tell you honestly she is nto making many points with all that she says outloud.    I can and could not stand her ever.  That goes for Laura and all the rest of the clan.  They are such closed minded ppl about the reality of life over all, it is such a sorry group of ppl in that family....they all seem dysfunctional.

Whatcha want to bet that right after the schools spend those bucks on Neil baby's software, a crucial upgrade is released that the schools will have to pony up their own money to buy?

"As a woman, I have no country. . . . As a woman, my country is the whole world." --Virginia Woolf

There may be some sanitizing details I have overlooked, but restricted gifts which create a benefit for a family member of the donor are a big time NO-NO under the Internal Revenue Code.
Chimpy truly is a S.O.B.

If you seek peace and fulfilment rather than wealth and power you must take up the reins of government or else you will be ruled by tyrants

Let me see if I understand this correctly:  It's moral for the Bushes to work the system so they can get richer but, per gwb:

"It's not immoral to make sure that prescription drug pharmacists don't overcharge the system."

 linkk to diary w/gwb's quote.

Someone is missing something here!!

"First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." Mahatma Gandhi

 Cheney's daughter takes on Iranian mullahs
Sarah Baxter, Washington
March 06, 2006

THE war in Iraq is her father's business, but Elizabeth Cheney, the US Vice-President's daughter, has been given responsibility for bringing about a different type of regime change in Iran.

Ms Cheney, a 39-year-old mother of four, is a senior official in the US State Department, which has often been regarded as hostile territory by Dick Cheney's White House team.

However, father and daughter agree it would be better for the mullahs' regime in Iran to collapse from within rather than be ousted by force.

The question is whether democratic reform can be achieved before Iran becomes a nuclear power. That is the younger Cheney's job.

In the State Department, she is referred to as the "freedom agenda co-ordinator" and the "democracy tsar" for the Middle East. "She's fantastic and dynamic," said a colleague.

Her official title is deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and she is in charge of spending $US85million ($114million) -- up from $US10 million last year -- recently allocated to promote democracy in Iran. Much of the money will be spent on broadcasting the views of exiles, dissidents and reformers inside Iran.

Ms Cheney is better known to Iranian listeners of the Voice of America's Persian service than she is to Americans, although she publicly backed her sister Mary's right to privacy when Democrats made an issue of her lesbianism in the 2004 election.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18360632%5E2703,00.html

Banned but hopefully not forgotten.