Details emerge for George W. Bush library- Dallas Business Journal--YIKES!

[Ichingcarpenter]

Southern Methodist University will disclose on Friday the planned details of the George W. Bush presidential library.

According to published reports, the university will announce a 99-year-lease, with available extensions for up to 246 years. Other reports say the library will cost between $200 to $500 million to build. All of the money will come from private donations.

The site selected for the library is near the intersection of Central Expresway and SMU Boulevard.

Final approval for the project, which is expected to take up to five years to complete, must be given from the Methodist Church, which owns the land.

More than 11,500 individuals have signed an online petition urging the church to deny land rights for the library. The petition was launched by a collection of Methodist ministers and church officials. >>>snip



http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/02/18/daily33.html

[Wickerman]

1. So, they will condemn thousands of acres of private land

use hundreds, and sell the remainder at obscene profit? Oh, wait, that was the ballfield, wasn't it? I'm sure that won't happen again. :sarcasm:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Wonder if they can raise taxes on buisnesses to pay for it

Like they did Arlington Stadium?

[Wickerman]

7. forgot that caveat

:grr:

[Buzz Clik]

2. Crayons are expensive

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. So nice to know that ordinary Methodists,

Board members, ministers, and bishops don't mean a thing to SMU. Glad I left that church 20 years ago.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. All that to hold the one book that he actually read....sorrowful.

[lligrd]

8. Argh, You Stole My Line

:rofl:

[JackintheGreen]

10. You beat me too the same joke

but my punchline was:

for the two memos from the cafeteria that aren't classified

[rsdsharp]

6. Up to a half BILLION dollars for the vicious little bastard's library?

Christ, it's only gonna have two books in it, and one of them he hasn't even colored in yet!

(OK, three if you count My Pet Goat.)

[monmouth]

9. That is absolutely obscene. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

11. Who the hell would donate $ for that joke?

I hope SMU discovers that no one will fork over the money.

[elehhhhna]

12. the Saudis. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

13. I'm concerned that it will be a neocon think tank as well as a repository of

records that will never be available for public examination.

[DrDan]

17. "neocon think tank" . . . "conservative think tank" . . . . "republican think tank"

those just don't sound right for some reason

[crispini]

14. I hope the Methodists nail him to the wall.

LOL. :D

[crispini]

15. Methodist petition here

http://www.protectsmu.org/

[Vinca]

16. $200 - $500 million? For Little Golden Books?

:rofl: