Where did the Bush family fortune originate from?

Samuel Bush, through his munitions company “Buckeye Casting”, was reportedly a major war profiteer during WW1.

Parsons? As in Boston Big Dig? I imagine those pigs are livin’ high on the hog with all OUR money. They’d be unworthy of contempt, but I enjoy hating people who think they’re cool when, in fact, they’re nothing but fucking criminals.

Were they the Big Dig prime? I thought I recognized that name from somewhere. Looks like they had a big, expensive piece of it, anyway.

They’re also involved with a project called the T-REX Corridor.

Not to defend Parsons, but in the pictures at the bottom, some of that debris and damage could be from weapon fire, rather than shoddy construction.

For example, the piles of dirt and debris on the staircase, or the holes in the walls showing daylight. The latter photo has a bunch of debris on the ground, as I’d expect to see if people had been taking potshots at the building.

It wouldn’t be unusual for people to take potshots at a vacant building for kicks – except in Iraq they’d use weapons heavier than bb guns and slingshots.

That’s interesting speculation, I suppose.

However, the Inspector General has seen and reported on the evidence that the construction was unbelievably shoddy. I just saw him talk about it on the news the other day in an interview. It was staggering — it was hard to believe the buildings they “constructed” were actually standing. And there was plenty of film footage in the segment to show the gory details.

For example, the piles of dirt and debris on the staircase, or the holes in the walls showing daylight. The latter photo has a bunch of debris on the ground, as I’d expect to see if people had been taking potshots at the building.

It wouldn’t be unusual for people to take potshots at a vacant building for kicks – except in Iraq they’d use weapons heavier than bb guns and slingshots.

Greeeaat….

Parsons is the lead engineering design firm for the contractor for the rebuild of I-64 in St. Louis. This is already a boondoggle, as they’re supposedly going to start in April and have this all finished by 2010. Right. This is going to go WAAAAY over budget and will be a disaster.

Are there bridges in that stretch of roadway? And can you avoid driving on it?

Fitzgerald, however, will not be intimidated. And with his having studied with the Jesuits, I guarantee he understands every rhetorical trick in the book, every false analogy, every straw man argument, etc. etc. (too numerous to list).

That’s why I love him.

In fact, I can hardly believed Cheney will allow himself to be put on the stand.

He’s too arrogant not to.

I too was educated by Jesuits, something that’s stood me in good stead all my life. When in graduate school I had professors stop me and ask me where I’d gone to school (and bemoan the fact that other students seemed to lack the rigor of critical thinking).

Did you too go to a Jesuit institution? [Not that that’s the only way to become a great critical thinker!]

Parsons is the lead engineering design firm for the contractor for the rebuild of I-64 in St. Louis. This is already a boondoggle, as they’re supposedly going to start in April and have this all finished by 2010. Right. This is going to go WAAAAY over budget and will be a disaster.

Mrs. K8 @ 64

In fact, I can hardly believed Cheney will allow himself to be put on the stand.

I’m not sure he will…this might be just a shiny object

he might video tape, he might answer wells and then simply say;

“you don’t know what I know and if you did you would understand this trial undermines national security

scooter libby is a patriot and was doing what needed to be done to protect our country and anyone that decides otherwise is a traitor”

don’t put it past him

He can’t just cough up a videotaped segment and call it testimony. He has to be able to be cross-examined. I don’t believe for a minute that the judge would allow such a thing.

Hey, attorneys in the house? That’s not permitted in a trial, is it? For a witness to testify without being cross-examined?