The Guardian article about grampa bush stated that although the government siezed his holdings for aiding and abetting the enemy, they gave it all back after the war.
What a pity. Had they locked the bastard up, preferably hanged him, the family would have had much less wherewithall to use against us these past seventy years.
um, don't hold back how ya feel LM, repression isn't a good thing 
As soon as I read the reports of the speech I thought about Ol' Herr Prescott and I wondered if W knew he was stepping in something or not. But these glaringly obvious screams of lunacy never get pointed out in the US press, so I guess this is just another incident that will slide right by.
I also suspect His Lunacy will be acting out and acting up regularly from here on out. I wouldn't be at all surprised if suddenly {like, hell, it's time right now really} he went on a long, no press conferences, thank you, vacation to Crawford and around about September he came back to Washington and just stuck to the no comment photo-ops until after November. If anyone is dealing with any level of sanity in the Republican Party, they would make that happen.
Better yet, larynx surgery is a good option. He'll really be grunting after that.
Bush's other speech over the weekend lectured Arab nations about oppressing their own people, especially women. I laughed and laughed.
The real problem being that old "Mr. R" in the neighborhood didn't have a marine following him around with the launch codes for enough nuclear weapons to end all life on the planet.
Please "Mr. B" just slink off into that wasteland you own in Texas and clear brush for the next 20 years...
Don't know about Texas Paraguay is more likely, South America as ironically noted by Wonkette is where many Nazi war criminals ended up http://wonkette.com/politics/geo...-too-
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I knew way back in '99 that this guy was a complete idiot. His screeds over the past years have only confirmed it. Thank Cthulhu this is his last term.
Does trading involve talking? I mean capitalism is the perfect economic system in which all our most negative impulses conversely evoke the greatest humanitarian result.
Prescott Bush was doing the best for his family and the best for his country. He knew that he was getting the upper hand on the Nazis and taking capital away from them that they needed to continue the war effort.
Don't you people know that Bush is the visionary for our times. He has implemented policies that we won't see the successful result of for generations to come. If you allow rich people to keep all their riches it is a universal good. They toss coins to us poor folks y'know.
I dunno about that, Wengler. While I don't know the specifics of who came out ahead in Grandpa Bush's dealings, quite a few other US businessmen were perfectly content to do business with their corporate counterparts in the Third Reich, and the results were, shall we say, highly variable.
You might want to read up on the business relationship between Standard Oil and IG Farben as detailed in Joseph Borkin's The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben. The bottom line was that the Nazis got full access to American synthetic rubber and tetraethyl lead manufacturing technology, while Standard, and the USA, basically got screwed financially and technically. The dealings between Standard and Farben very likely set the production of synthetic rubber in the USA back by at least two years.
LM,
Well done.
It was my colleague Hubris Sonic who noted:
249 days to go. Honestly, I think these next months will be some of the most dangerous under this administration as the frat boy comes to realize, more and more, that his days in the limelight are rapidly waning.
You got that right. They cranked out a new bin-Laden tape to prepare us for something.
Perhaps Olbermann can bring this up:
In attendance at the valedictory luncheon Rumsfeld hosted on December 12, 2006 were David L. Grange, Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, and Robert H. Scales, Jr. among others.
The most extraordinary exchange takes place when Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong bemoans shrinking political support for Neo-Con war plans on Capitol Hill and suggests that sympathy for the Bush administration's agenda will only be achieved after a new terror attack.
Rumsfeld agrees that the psychological impact of 9/11 is wearing off and the "behavior pattern" of citizens in both the U.S. and Europe suggests that they are unconcerned about the threat of terror.
http://www.godlikeproductions.co...ssage550290/
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I like the second half of this post a lot, and I like the photo. But I don't think it is right to compare a lying, thieving war criminal like Bush to an unfortunate person who suffers from a mental illness.
There's "crazy," as in mentally ill......and then there's "crazy" as in stupid, irresponsible and evil. They're not the same and shouldn't be equated.
Jeez, LM, you gotta be careful. Your evocative description of that house, and especially the garage, almost made my own pants as "eccccchhh"-stained as old Mr. R.'s
"While I don't know the specifics of who came out ahead in Grandpa Bush's dealings, quite a few other US businessmen were perfectly content to do business with their corporate counterparts in the Third Reich, and the results were, shall we say, highly variable."
Then there's the lovely story of Hollerith punch-card databases. And speaking of worrisome authoritarian governments and databases, meet Main Core.
It's possible he WILL get even more outrageous in months to come ... but it's always strategy for these bastards, 24/7, never doubt it for a New York Minute.
Maybe he'll even get so "Crazy" that McCain has no choice but to radically distance himself from him publicly - & then just KEEP being El Presidente Loco, & an even bigger camera-whore than ever - regularly eating up valuable newscast air-time as he draws heat (& attention) off the GOP's next candidate. Hey, look at that now - a "Psycho Shrub" scenario sure would wind up making even a twit like McCain look comforting & rational by contrast, wouldn't it? These people don't have much in the way of scruples - or limits - when it comes to extreme tactics, remember? No matter what he says to the McMedia, Bush knows he's a lame duck, & that same Fast-Food Journalism happily did rehab jobs on the "legacy" of nice-guys like Nixon & Reagan too, so he can look forward to the same soft-focus treatment. The only place I want to see his geek-act is in retirement, back on his oversized armadillo-farm. This is the guy who was "dead in the water" in 2004.
We might be seeing a party-politics version of Nixon's "Madman Strategy" ... I heartily favour mocking them, but not "misunderestimating" their focus on getting & keeping power.
I sincerely hope they're as moribund as they look right now. This planet can't take another GOP head of state right now - it's a powder-keg.
"Maybe he'll even get so "Crazy" that McCain has no choice but to radically distance himself from him publicly"
McSame is already trying to do this... but not successfully as Bush is sticking to him like glue.
And when he DOES try to do this it is up to us DFHs to remind the world how much McCain has sucked up and imitated this disastrous regime.
He's so detachted he hasn't realized that nobody in the GOP wants anything to do with him.
Why do those guys always drive El Camino's?
Borah was a prominent isolationist who took 300,000 dollars from the Nazis. His isolationism was sincere but he didn't mind taking money for something he already believed in.
Considering what Bush has done re: habeas corpus, detention centers, martial law, posse comitas, wiretapping etc...I'd say Hubris is right and we should be scarred shitless until he and his criminal buddies are well and truly out of there. In the back of my mind, I don't think he's going anywhere. I'm afraid we were couped in 2000.
"should be scarred shitless until he and his criminal buddies are well and truly out of there"
I think we are actually going to have a hard time finding them to get rid, some of the incompetent crowd will no doubt be hard to root out of all of the many many agencies that have been corrupted by Bush and Co.
Bush may be an embarrassment to everyone on the planet with more than eight brain cells, but he can still raise millions per night on the stump. And as long as McCain depends on the GOP as his prime source of campaign money, he needs Bush to draw in that right-wing moolah. And he'll never, ever accumulate enough cash to cut the cord.
The wingers still love the frat boy. And why not? He perfectly reflects their own image.
Only richer.
No wonder he's a role model for some.
And I think he was haunted by his future irrelevance pretty early on, judging from his obsession with "how history will see me."
But he has enough money to keep the bubble going indefinitely.
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A couple of the more prominent US multinational corporations that openly profited from cooperating with Hitler's regime include Ford Motor Company (Henry Ford was a notorious anti-Semite who even received an award from der Fuhrer), and IBM. IBM's contribution to the Holocaust, sadly, was the sale, and servicing of their punchcard machines, the Holleriths, used in compiling and sorting population statistics. These systems were used by the Nazis to very efficiently identify the Jewish residents in Germany and occcupied countries.
Interestingly, in occupied France, some census workers with anti-Nazi sentiments who knew how the punchcard systems worked used their knowledge to falsify the existence of Jewish persons in various communities and rig the system. It may come to no surprise that the French Jewish population suffered probably the lowest rate of deportment and decimation of occupied Europe.
Excellent post, but you've made one factual error. Prescott Bush wasn't a sitting US Senator at the time he was dealing with the Nazis. He wasn't elected until 1952. It doesn't make that much difference to your argument, but I'm sure you'd want to get your facts right.
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