altho i can't recall ever feeling anything but creeped out by george hw bush,  his wife, barbara, always seemed to me a pleasant, down-to-earth very likeable woman.  i could never imagine what she could have seen in her husband nor how much alcohol she musta had to imbibe in order to mother his children.  speaking of which, i never...ever...thought badly of her for bringing them into the world.  after all, that was something she's hadda live with for over  half century. 

as badly as i hate to admit it, i couldn't have been more wrong about her. *

friends, i'm talkin bamboozled, hoodwinked and hornswoggled by a woman who insisted the sizeable sum of money she donated to the hurricane katrina effort was only to be used to buy said victims a device known as a COW (or curriculum on wheels) manufactured by the ignite! corporation.

the ceo of ignite! just happens to be her rotten son, neil. 

how does a guy who makes money for nothin and gets chicks for free (without even askin for em according to his sworn testimony)...whose own curriculum vitae includes busting out every previous enterprise he's ever run (including a savings & loan which went broke thanks to loans to his business partners which you ultimately hadda pay for)...a guy with no experience with high tech anything other than being paid 10s of thousands of dollars each year for attending a chip maker's annual board meeting...a neer-do-well with absolutely  no background in education find himself running a company which produces a premiere no-child-left-behind compliant  'educational device' ?

first...he seeds the project with $3000 of his own money.   then he gets investors in the united arab emirates to kick in $23 million of their own money. then he starts sellin his product to the state of florida (where his brother jeb just happens to be governor) for the low, low price of only $30 per kid per year.

so what is a cow?  well sir, it looks like they mated one of those  rolling a-v  tables you used to see in schools with one of those pricey dlp projectors.  it's used to display animated lessons in a variety of subjects on any available classroom wall. (animated lessons are, of course, much more accessible to kids who don't rede so gud--and, if that ain't enuff, lessons also have musical soundtrax  including some really groove def rap hip-n-a-hop tunes).   you'll find some sample cow stuff here Link 

whenever possible, reality is trumped by entertainment value (duh...imagine that). andrew jackson's attempt to wipe out the seminole nation becomes the big football game between the jacksonites and the seminoles (both sides wear authentic 18th century  football gear) i can't find it online tho dammit.   of those at this link,  the xyz affair lesson is pretty typical. 

i can hardly wait to see the lesson focusing on  the uae port deal**.   or the savings & loan scandal.

most of all, i wanna see the one in which barbara bush meets the katrina refugees whose kids' education she helped so unselfishly to dumb down.

*a certain demented dr claims i never admit to being wrong.  funny thing is...he'll never admit he's wrong about that even tho the proof is right here for all to see.

**a second admission (in one article alone) i screwed up.   in this rather lengthy article Link about the uae ports deal, i listed what appeared to the most egregious cronyism and quid pro quo connections.  i now realize i totally overlooked the 23 million dollar favor those uae suckers did for neil bush  (actually it should be considered a gift cuz nobody has ever received a cent back on any money they gave dubya's baby bubba).  it's times like this i wish there really was somethin like pat roberson's lake of farrr awaiting the iniquitious and their moms.