Official Unfinished Portrait of George W Bush.

[Octafish]

[madokie]

1. Please don't say he is Curious George, please (-:

It will devastate my almost 6 year old Grand Daughter.

[Octafish]

4. I'm so sorry, madokie. I would never want to scare a child, apart from my own. Try this...

It's Gary Trudeau's cover art for the now-gone "Lies Of Our Times" back in 1992.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. That explains Bush Sr.'s speech at the '92 RNC:

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"My family"

Whoa, boy

[Octafish]

26. A thousand points of criminality.

What a smart guy much smarter than me, myself and I said:

The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?

Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University

The S&Ls, the Mob and the Bushs

During the 1980's hundred of Savings and Loan Banks failed. Those bank failures cost U.S. taxpayers over $500 billion to cover federally insured losses, and much more to investigate the bank failures (Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo, 1989; Brewton, 1992; Johnston, 1990). More than 75% of the Savings and Loan insolvencies where directly linked to serious and often criminal misconduct by senior financial insiders (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305). In fact, less than 10 percent of bank failures are related to economic conditions, the rest are caused by mismanagement or criminal conduct (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305).

A good example of the Savings and Loan failures can be found in the activities of Mario Renda, a Savings and Loan insider who often worked in close collaboration with organized crime (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 123-126;302). Renda served as a middle man in arranging about $5 billion a year in deposits into 130 Savings and Loans, all of which failed (Kwitny, 1992: 27). Many of these deposits were made contingent on an agreement that the Savings and Loan involved would lend money to borrowers recommended by Renda, many of whom were organized crime figures or people entirely unknown to the banking institution involved (Kwitny, 1992: 27).

SNIP...

Prescott Bush: The Yakuza’s Frontman

Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that country’s largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsusho’s purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).

George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces

Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& L’s, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).

CONTINUED...

http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm

That's the way a professor of criminal justice puts it. Me, to get a better handle on War Inc's first family, I call them the "BFEE" for short.

[xxqqqzme]

27. I thought

Prescott was poppy's dad; dumbya's grandfather?

[Octafish]

28. Two Prescotts.

Prescott Sr. gave birth to Prescott Jr., friend of the Yakuza and Communist China; Poppy, friend of Saddam and Manny and DeMohrenschildt; and a couple more boys, IIRC.



Prescott Sr. also did a lot of financial stuff and secret stuff on Wall Street and Washington, pioneered things for the future generations.

[madinmaryland]

13. Yeah... and there was absolutely no curiosity shown by W.

[rhett o rick]

20. I'd love to ask if he was ever curious why Poppy suggested he ask Cheney to "help him" find a VP.

Poor Georgie. Manipulated all his life. He probably will never figure it out, but Laura knows.

[backscatter712]

31. I thought he was Incurious George. n/t

[deutsey]

39. No...Bush is "Spurious George" n/t

[Gregorian]

2. That looks remarkably like something I made a while back.

<a href="http://www.b3tards.com/" title="Image hosted on b3tards.com"><img src="" /></a>

[Octafish]

5. Got another link, Gregorian? I'd love to see your work.

That one doesn't show up for me -- the address seems to include an image symbol that my cheap computer can not fathom.

[Gregorian]

38. Darn, I don't. But I do have this one from way back.

Wait. I did it.

[dipsydoodle]

3. another here

[Octafish]

6. Is that a radish or a turnip or are you just glad to see the doctor?

[dipsydoodle]

14. lol

I was comparing levels of intelligence.

[green for victory]

7. .

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[Octafish]

9. Excellent transformation, a little boy who grew up to rhyme with littler.

PS: A hearty, if belated or redundant, welcome to DU, green for victory!

[rhett o rick]

22. I hate to say it but I believe Hitler was way smarter than George the DimSon. nm

[Octafish]

29. Yeah. Imagine what Hitler coulda done with a Harvard MBA?

He'd loot the United States treasury, penure its people and destroy the world economy.


Hey! Wait one freaking minute!

[rhett o rick]

35. Harvard called and they want their MBA back. nm

[backscatter712]

33. Hitler had his own brand of stupid.

He barely graduated from the Austrian equivalent of high school, couldn't get in to a painting school, so all he learned about politics was what he learned on the street. He spent years as a semi-homeless grifter in Vienna and other parts of Germany before WWI.

Though he's good at firing up a crowd. But ever read Mein Kampf? The one time I attempted, I only made it a couple chapters - the translators put in a bunch of notes where they had to guess what Hitler was saying because his grammar was so bad.

And most of his ideas, were, well, racist, blame Jews, blame liberals, blame unions, attack, attack, attack, reactionary nonsense. Very anti-intellectual.

He's kind of a German-speaking version of Sarah Palin.

[backscatter712]

37. Something they had in common - they were both bad artists. n/t

[rhett o rick]

24. "What, me worry?" nm

[Kurovski]

8. LOL

I didn't know what to expect.

Well done octafish, but I know that you know it's too flattering a portrait for that sociopath war criminal.

Is that from "Curious George Sells Smack in Morocco"?

[Octafish]

10. From a hand-out at the Project P.U.L.L. pep rally.

Gee. I really do feel bad now, using the OP art. Oh well, what did the ancients say?

"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."

Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Know your BFEE: George W Bush did "community service" at Project P.U.L.L.

[Cleita]

11. That's good!

If only it comes true. Although even if he gets imprisoned for war crimes, I have a feeling he will end up in Club Fed.

What would be good though is to strip both him and Poppy of all their money for war reparations. Even if they are out in the world, make them and the Mrs's. live on Social Security and Medicare like many of us must.

[Octafish]

17. I like that, Cleita! Put the whole gang on the webcam 24/7.

Until that day when justice replaces just-us,
something about where we're going thanks to them...



from Gahan Wilson, ca. 1975: Click!

[bluesbassman]

12. Is that Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice down in the corner?

Only seems right.

[Octafish]

19. War is Sell

War Is Sell - Washington's Power Elite Are the Beneficiaries of War

The Bush family is getting financially fat off the "war on terrorism."

By Christopher Bollyn
Exclusive to American Free Press
Oct. 31, 2001

War has always been a profitable money machine for shrewd investors with foresight, but the extremely close connections of the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private equity investment firm and major war profiteer, to the Bush and bin Laden families-and the current occupant of the White House-raise unavoidable questions of waging war for profit.

Established in 1987 the Carlyle Group was founded by David Rubenstein, a former staff member in the Jimmy Carter White House, and his two partners, Dan D'Aniello and Bill Conway. Today there are 18 partners in the firm and one outside investor. The Washington Post has described Carlyle as a "merchant banking firm" set up "to serve corporations and wealthy families." From the beginning the founders of Carlyle have recruited former politicians as consultants: former President George H. W. Bush is among them-along with a host of other Bush family cronies.

The Bush connection to the Carlyle Group is nothing short of a scandal, according to Larry Klayman, a notable government watchdog best known for pursuing the scandals of former President Bill Clinton.

Now that the United States is bombing Afghanistan and allocating huge sums of money for defense, including $40 billion for the "war on terrorism" and more than $200 billion <1994 dollars> for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the conflict of interest is "direct," Klayman says. "President Bush should not ask but demand that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group."

SNIP...

"Carlyle is as deeply wired into the current administration as they can possibly be," Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, said. "George Bush is getting money from private interests that have business before the government, while his son is president. And, in a really peculiar way, George W. Bush could, some day, benefit financially from his own administration's decisions, through his father's investments. The average American doesn't know that. To me, that's a jaw-dropper."

CONTINUED...

http://www.bollyn.com/war-is-sell-washington-elite-benefits-from-war

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. ... where he lived unhappily ever after.

The end.

[Cracklin Charlie]

16. My mom had a saying...

He's in a prison of his own makin'.

Curious George was put in prison by someone else. Incurious George put his own self in prison.

I think there's a lesson in there, somewhere.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. You tease.

[johnp3907]

23. Spurious George.

[Smilo]

25. From Octafish's mouth to God's ears

Oh Lord, please hear our prayers and make it so.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. The idiot thinks of himself like this...

[Agony]

32. Wait?! I thought this was his portrait... "The Slipper Tongue"

At least according to bush... "This is us"

You just can't make this stuff up. George's hero turns out to be a horse thief.
http://www.thecoyotereport.com/the-slipper-tongue/

[Wilms]

34. ^

[raouldukelives]

36. Nice. nt

[zentrum]

40. Way too touching

...and sweet. Curious George---not a psychopath. Besides, his name, "Curious" is the very opposite of our Village Idiot.

[WillyT]

41. K & R !!!