{"id":132,"date":"2006-03-23T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/132"},"modified":"2006-03-23T17:45:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T22:45:16","slug":"heros-of-the-conservative-movement-trading-cardscollect-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/132","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Of The Conservative Movement Trading Cards&#8230;Collect Them All&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Card 31: Barbra Bush donates a portion of her vast wealth to help her fellow Americans recover from Katrina.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/007978.php\">Well&#8230;to her son actually<\/a>&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/metro\/3742329.html\">reports<\/a> this morning that the donation Barbara Bush made to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund was &#8216;earmarked&#8217; for the educational software company <em>Ignite!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As some of you probably know that&#8217;s the junk company owned by her ne&#8217;er-do-well son Neil Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, though, it&#8217;s way better, or worse, depending on your turn of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Ignite!&#8217;s has a <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/politics\/bushed\/2002\/04\/12\/neil\/index.html\">unique business model<\/a>, which works like this. Neil goes around the world finding international statesmen, bigwigs and criminals who want to &#8216;invest&#8217; in Ignite! as a way to curry favor with the brother in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago when I was at <em>Salon<\/em> I <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/politics\/bushed\/2002\/04\/12\/neil\/index.html\">wrote<\/a> about the craze for investment in Ignite! then taking hold among Red Sea oil magnates and progeny of the rulers of the People&#8217;s Republic of China (See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/index.html\">article<\/a> as well about the craze for investing in <em>Ignite!<\/em> in the United Arab Emirates and specifically in Dubai).  Now, Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/000165.php\">awakened to the wonders<\/a> of investing in Ignite!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to Joshua Marshall.&nbsp; Yes&#8230;her donation was tax deductable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Card 31: Barbra Bush donates a portion of her vast wealth to help her fellow Americans recover from Katrina.&nbsp; Well&#8230;to her son actually&#8230; The Houston Chronicle reports this morning that the donation Barbara Bush made to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund was &#8216;earmarked&#8217; for the educational software company Ignite! As some of you probably know that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,6],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tales-of-the-smirk","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}