QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If you'd bought $1000 of Nortel stock a year ago, it'd now be worth $49. If
you'd bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) a year ago,
drank all the beer, then traded in the cans at a redemption center for the
nickel deposit, you'd have $107. Given the current conditions of the
economy, my advice is to drink heavily and recycle."
- - An Annonamous Accountant
Rhino here:
As the multinational corporation rip off scandals continue to surface and
shrub dubya attempts to position himself as the leader of a new business
ethics movement, the whole truth yearns to come out like toothpaste from a
tube sat upon by rush imbaughsal. Following are short excerpts and web links
to two facinating articles, one an Associated Press piece from Friday and
the other, from a 1992 edition of the magazine "Mother Jones" detailing not
only the thief-in-chief's unethical business dealings but his siblings too.
Everybody knows. Emperor Shrub wears no clothes.
Secrecy Surrounds Bush Stock Deal
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 7/12/02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When George W. Bush's sale of oil stock attracted the
attention of regulators a decade ago, the Securities and Exchange considered
interviewing him about possible insider trading but never did. The SEC won't
say why it didn't talk with Bush, whose father was president at the time...
FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Harken-Stock.html
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"Bush Family Value$ - The Bush Clan's Family Business"
by Stephen Pizzo, MOTHER JONES - September/October 1992
In 1991, President Bush bristled at a flurry of news accounts that
questioned the business ethics of three of his sons. "The media ought to be
ashamed of itself for what they're doing," Bush complained. "They [the boys]
have a right to make a living, and their relationships are appropriate,"
added a White House spokeswoman in June 1992.
Since George Bush has raised "family values" as a campaign issue repeatedly,
though, it seems only fair to take a look at his own family. A computer
search showed that over the past five years stories have periodically
surfaced chronicling the individual business antics of the president's sons
-- each riding comfortably through life in the slipstream of his father's
growing power and influence...
...None of George Bush's offspring is more his father's son than George W.
Bush. George Jr., or "Shrub" as Molly Ivins refers to him, began his own
Texas oil career in the mid-1970s when he formed Bush Exploration. Like the
business dealings of his brothers, George's company was not a success, and
it was rescued...
FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO:
http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html
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Gary Rhine
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7:46:38 AM 
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