Danziger Toon- Contemplating Thanksgiving Dinner at the Bushes….

[n2doc]

Note the pic on the wall….Danziger doesn't forget….

[Octafish]

1. Danziger does not forget.

Over the weekend, The Guardian (U.K.) set out in a lengthy story based on files in the National Archives the story of how in the '30s, young Prescott Bush, with the help of his father, got together with Averill Harriman, son of the railroad scion E.H. Harriman, and set up a company called UBC (Union Banking Corporation). Bush was a founder and director and owned one share, valued at $125. As it turned out, UBC was an American shell company for the Thyssen family interests. The Thyssens were a preeminent German business family that dominated the nation's iron and steel and coal businesses and were crucial to bankrolling and building the Nazi war machine. UBC was a shell, owned by a Netherlands bank, with anonymous real owners who, on further inspection, turned out to be the Thyssens.

-- James Ridgeway, The Bush Family Fortune, Village Voice

[demwing]

2. Wow. Danziger went for the Nazi card!!!

top right, Prescott and Adolf.

[gratuitous]

5. Don't miss the pile of skulls under the table

Nameless, faceless skulls.

[Jim Lane]

7. Thanks, I *had* missed that! The portrait distracted me, but the skulls are also a great touch. eom

[Gothmog]

3. Great cartoon

[Hekate]

4. Love, love, LOVE Danziger!

Thanks, n2doc.

[dgauss]

6. Very rich

When I hear the phrase "freedom of speech" thrown around this is the type of thing I think of. The court jester, the ability to do satire. The ability to really poke at things that seem outrageous.

The ability to flood bribe money into the government doesn't seem like freedom of speech.