Major PUKE alert: Bush to get statue

[newsguyatl]

i wish this were a joke folks, but it's not.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige will join U.S. Rep. John Boehner,
R-Ohio, and Hamilton City Schools Superintendent Janet Baker at an 11:30
a.m. Tuesday ceremony celebrating Hamilton High School's role in the
2002 signing of the No Child Left Behind Act.

A bronze and granite sculpture, commissioned by Hamilton residents Donna
and Pat Carruthers, will commemorate President Bush's signing of the
landmark legislation two years ago at the high school. It shows Bush
surrounded by children and dignitaries.

Paige will deliver brief remarks at the ceremony.

www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/06/08/loc_localrail0608.html]

[htuttle]

1. An inscription along the bottom will read:

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[Eurobabe]

28. more like 'Is our children learning?'

[qanda]

34. Or how about today's Bushism?

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."

-- U.S. News & World Report; January 3, 2000

[hatrack]

2. Fitting that this news comes when it does

In the middle of a weeklong hagiography of a president who was all about style over substance, here's the Department of Education doing its bit to maintain the same "ideal".

[mopaul]

3. here's the photo

[Catfight]

24. Now THAT'S funny! ROLFMAO ...he's alittle tall for Bush!

[progressivebydesign]

38. No. That fellow appears to be holding a book.. couldn't be Bush. N/T

[truthspeaker]

4. Now there's a statue crying out for a black hood!

[Jacobin]

5. No problem. Just don't fund the fucking statue

Like Smirk didn't fund his "education" program.

:-)

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Four words in response to this travesty

Bart Simpson.
Jebediah Springfield.

Anybody get my meaning here? :evilgrin:

[mopaul]

7. a beheading in effigy?

i'm warped and twisted from living in america

[mrfrapp]

36. Someone did this...

...to a statue of Thatcher in the UK. I particularly like the detail in the story, describing how he first attempted the decapitation with a cricket bat.

[gWbush is Mabus]

8. there will be vandalism, oh yes there will be vandalism

[Cocoa]

12. that statue will be a security headache

they're going to regret this.

[havocmom]

9. If there is anything to reincarnation, I may wanna be a pigeon

next time around :evilgrin:

[Spazito]

10. and that statue will meet the same fate as Saddam's...

if the US is to remain a democracy. When, and I am hopeful, the US public regains it's sanity and turfs bush and his admin, charges them with war crimes, the statue will be torn down.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Was thinking the same thing

[JimT]

11. a suggestion

I hope they plan on covering the face of the statue with cloth. W is certainly more offensive than the breasts in the Dept. of Justice.

[donhakman]

14. here is mine

[JohnOneillsMemory]

20. "No one shall die in vain as long as there is perpetual war" Cogent!

Nice memorial fantasy, very accurate.

[mopaul]

22. jeez! that is beautiful

major major fine art

[Gin]

15. let the pigeons of the world unite..........and show * what we all think

of him and his policies, by landing on his head and leaving a calling card.

[seabeyond]

13. can we say saddam

what is it that held all our views as we entered iraq. all the statutes adn pictures of saddam. for a couple years bushie boy has taken on a lot of saddams characters.

[donhakman]

18. yep

[Zen]

16. Hehe, we need a web cam focused on that statue so we can personally

witness the continual vandalism to this statue with Mr. Piece of Shit on it.

[mopaul]

17. topple bush

[donhakman]

21. topple bush pic - speed award

lol

[LTR]

19. Funny, I always envisioned Houston, TX as Bush's memorial

An overcrowded, corporate, toxic waste dump.

[MallRat]

23. Excellent. I smell "flight suit" PR disaster.

Once this week's Reagan-o-rama quiets down, Kerry should immediately head to this school and make a major education policy speech...

...RIGHT IN FRONT OF SMIRK'S STATUE.

NCLB is a travesty- the worst kind of unfunded federal mandate, and it's killing the schools at the town and state level.

Huge, huge opportunity here. I can't believe the GOP gave us this gift. Have you ever heard of a statue unveiling in honor of a SITTING PRESIDENT?!?!

This speaks volumes about the imperial tendencies of this Administration and its Party.

-MR

[JHB]

25. "Commissioned by Hamilton residents Donna and Pat Carruthers"

None too shabby Bush donors. No wonder they're buying him a statue: he'll pay them back.

From http://www.fecinfo.com/cgi-win/x_allindiv.exe

CARRUTHERS, DONNA MRS.
11/12/2003 $2,000.00
HAMILTON, OH 45013
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BUSH-CHENEY '04 COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE INC.


Carruthers, Donna Mrs.
6/16/2003 $1,500.00
Hamilton, OH 45013
retired -
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC


CARRUTHERS, DONNA MRS.
9/30/2003 $2,500.00
HAMILTON, OH 45013
RETIRED -
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC


CARRUTHERS, DONNA MRS.
11/12/2003 -$2,000.00
HAMILTON, OH 45013
RETIRED -
BUSH-CHENEY '04 INC

[MallRat]

31. Some fancy accounting done here to avoid violations of FEC law.

$1,500 in June 2003 to BC04.
Then, $2,500 in September 2003 to BC04.

Just one problem: The Federal limit on how much one can donate to the Bush (and Kerry) campaigns is $2,000 per election cycle.

So, to help Mrs. Carruthers comply with Federal law, BC04 subtracted $2,000 from their coffers in November, and redirects it to their "Bush-Cheney Compliance Committee," which is only permitted to use the funds for legal or accounting fees and activities. Compliance committees also have a $2,000 limit per election cycle.

How nice.

-MR

[progressivebydesign]

32. How embarrassing!!

Asking your donors to erect a statue for you!!

[dmr]

33. Ah, that says it all, doesn't it?

That's quite a bit of money she's given there. Too bad this good money couldn't go to the children and their schools instead of Bush* and Bush*-aggrandizing statues.

[ewagner]

35. "Bush-Cheney Compliance Committee"?

:wtf:

Is this the "enforcement wing" of the Repub party?

[MallRat]

39. Compliance committees- they're the "legal and accounting" ops of BC04.

Kerry probably has one, too. If another recount debacle is triggered, I think it's the Compliance Committees who go to war for their candidates.

IIRC, I think donations to these committees were unlimited in 2000. Now, they're limited to $2,000 per person, just like the campaign committees.

-MR

[AndyTiedye]

48. Doesn't the $2000 Limit Apply to Republicans???

>CARRUTHERS, DONNA MRS.
>9/30/2003 $2,500.00
>HAMILTON, OH 45013
>RETIRED -

I thought $2000 was the limit.

What's up with this?

[newsguyatl]

26. lol!

you folks are hilarious!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. Wow Saddam had a statue too!

[OpSomBlood]

30. The statue of Bush I at the Houston airport is pretty hilarious.

It's Poppy Bush in mid-stride with his jacket flung over his shoulder and a big smile on his face.

[progressivebydesign]

37. This is such a piece of shit election stunt!

My head is about to explode!!! THOSE stupid, disgusting mother-fuckers! Bush's NCLB has been the worst thing to happen to public schools.. in my lifetime!! How DARE they? I'm CERTAIN the teachers and admins there are NOT happy about this. THEY know the truth.. but are probably forced to accept this "gift". GOP is probably giving them a couple thou for computers, if they just go along with it.

I love how the two donors just came up with this idea.. all by themselves. Bullshit! Two RETIRED ladies just decided (with no kids in school during the NCLB years), to commission a statue of BUSH signing a bill??? Total bullshit. Can you tell this is making me a bit angry???? I hope that the teacher's union protests.. or that people start sneaking over there in the middle of the night and putting stupid hats on his statue.. no vandalism.. just window dressing. a DUNCE cap, perhaps? Or a beanie with propeller??

[MallRat]

41. Election stunt? This will backfire BIGTIME...

...if the Democrats have half a brain.

They erected a statue TO A SITTING PRESIDENT?!?! TO COMMEMORATE AN UNFUNDED MANDATE?!?!

This could a huge gaffe for *. We should CRUSH THEM over this stupidity.

The arrogance is mindblowing, and your average American will "get it."

[Cleita]

40. I hope they have eagles in that area, so much better than

pigeon shit.

[MallRat]

42. Let the EAGLE SOAR!!!

hmmmmm....

[iconoclastic cat]

43. I know a great artist who welds...

Make that propeller permanent!

[Generic Other]

44. What the statue will look like (Plans to put them up everywhere!)

[bullimiami]

45. tear down saddams statue

hail the victor. hail the new ceaser.

[Generic Other]

46. Spotted in another undisclosed location

[LittleApple81]

47. Oh my God!!!!!!! THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BEYOND THE PALE! n/t

[Led Revel]

49. interesting article

but you cant usually trust anything from the freaking equirer website.

[fujiyama]

50. Hmmm

Some other leaders had statues of themaselves erected when they were alive...

Stalin and Saddam come to mind.

Creepy, I told myself I'd consider leaving when the statues started coming up. :scared: