"The tumultuous and tawdry travels of Neil Bush"

[Bluebear]

Over the past six months, Neil Bush, the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of President George W. Bush, has been shepherded around several former Soviet republics by a man wanted for fraud by Russian authorities, and has showed up in the Philippines and Taiwan at the side of a self-styled messiah.

If people know anything at all about the star-crossed Neil Bush, it likely relates to either his role in the failed Silverado Savings and Loan scandal during the 1980s -- which cost taxpayers more than $1 billion -- or, more recently, the lurid details of his divorce from his wife of 23 years.

After a brief hiatus from the spotlight, Neil Bush is back. Within a three-month period, Bush showed up in Latvia, Ukraine and Georgia with Russian fugitive Boris Berezovsky, and appeared at the side of the Unification Church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Taiwan and the Philippines. In September, Bush visited Latvia with Boris Berezovsky, described by the Washington Post as "a fugitive Russian tycoon who made millions in the violent scramble for control of Russian government assets after the fall of communism."

Bush, whom the St. Petersburg Times characterized as "the scandal-tainted brother of the U.S. president," and Berezovsky, who currently lives in London, where he has received political asylum, was toodling around the former Soviet republics to promote Ignite! Learning, the Texas-based interactive education software company Bush founded in 1999.....

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/1724062.php

[SpiralHawk]

1. Silverado Neil and his skanky escapades

are much more interesting than Billy Beer.

How about some human interest stories, corporate media?

Afraid to tell the American people the truth?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. Methinks the truth . . .

. . . would get in the way of Nascar/Reality TV/American Idol.

The orange cat and I are thinking of learning Spanish, and moving to non-Orwellian culture.

(I'm only half kidding.)

(She has already learned to roll her r's!)

;)



Hey Agent Mike! Bite me!

[stillcool]

3. I just recently read 'Silverado'....

and was surprised at how wimpy they portrayed him....as though he didn't have a clue what was going on around him...and that he too has a 'daddy-complex'......poor boy.