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Leader of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), Ashworth Jack, has to provide a better explanation for his relatively sudden construction of a multi-million-dollar mansion on land he does not own.
As exclusively reported in the Sunday Express, Mr Jack moved into his new two-storey, eight-room home two months ago. He has dismissed allegations that the house was built for him free of charge as payback for his support of the People's Partnership administration. Although he did not take out a bank loan to build the house which, he says, cost $2 million, Mr Jack explained that he was able to pay for the construction because he has four sources of income.
Unfortunately, there are some holes in his explanations. He says, for example, that one of his four incomes comes from selling cucumbers and pumpkins. Unless he has acres of land planted for overseas buyers, however, this would hardly generate the kind of funds required to build a mansion. Mr Jack also claimed that his main source of income came from his job as a project manager, which paid him $35,000 a month. That is a substantial enough sum to account for his lifestyle, but Mr Jack unfortunately has no known qualifications or track record in project management and has refused to say which Trinidadian company employs him in this capacity.
He also admitted to not owning the land on which he had built his new home. In fact, he still owes $880,000 on the $1 million property, although the land's owner seems unworried about this hefty balance. Still, this curious financial arrangement naturally arouses scepticism from a citizenry predisposed to be cynical about politicians.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar faced similar allegations about her own home, which San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning had absurdly alleged cost $30 million. But Mrs Persad-Bissessar, an attorney who is married to a medical doctor, has a credible explanation for her $4.5 million construction. But it too often happens that, when politicians get into office, their finances take a fortuitous turn for the better. They start driving luxury cars, get good deals in real estate, and start completing family homes. This may be nothing more than serendipity, given that people's careers tend to peak at particular periods. But politicians, especially, need to have good explanations for their good fortune. When they do not, it looks as though they are being paid hefty bribes by party financiers or that they are using public funds for private gain.
As a politician vying for the plum post of THA Chief Secretary, Mr Jack needs to come better in order to avoid the perception that he falls into any of these categories.


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Funny Friday: Eavesdropping on my son
Tonight, as my 9-year-old son was chatting with his friend, whose parents were packing and moving into their new house today, they got talking about the woman who bought the former house.
"It's her first house," explained my son's friend. "And she's only 23. Why would she want such a big house for one person?"
My son, who's never met a question he couldn't answer, responded, "She's at that age," he said. "She'll be getting married and having S-E-X."
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I remember my first fishing pole well. It was just like my second, third, and fourth – a sturdy sapling about 5 feet long that had just a bit of spring to it.
We lived along the river bank all summer long when I was a boy. Mom and Dad had real fishing gear but we kids had to make do with our sapling fishing poles.
We would tie a piece of fishing line with a hook on the end of our poles and slip a bobber on the line about 18 inches above the hook. Then we would thread a fat night crawler on the hook and drop our line in the water.
We caught the night crawlers the night before crawling around on the damp grass in the backyard with a flashlight. Sometimes we would catch crickets too, but I never had much luck catching fish with crickets.
We never saved our sapling fishing poles when we were done for the day because it was easy to just cut new ones the next time we went fishing.
I felt like a real fisherman when I got my first bamboo cane pole. With one of those 10 foot long shiny blond poles you could swing your line halfway across the creak.
Later, I graduated to a cane pole that came in two pieces, which brings me to my favorite fish story.
That summer day when we hiked along the railroad tracks to Gambier and back (last week


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- a burial place or ground.
- Nebo Cemetery (1.6km)
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NOt a good idea compositionally to have a picture divided in the middle by a horizon line. Seemed the best part ot crop off here was the sky. Picture looked to yellow to me and also lacked contrast so I increased the contrast first with a curves adjustment and then applied a blue filter in Photoshop CS2 to tone down the yellow. Ended with a bit of Smart Sharpen. May have overdone the saturation :-)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - If you don't feel like heading out to a Mother's Day brunch, don't be afraid to try this recipe for root beer braised ham from Chef Ryan of KC Hopps restaurants He says it's one of his son's favorites.
1 qt pork broth or chicken broth
1 20-ounce bottle of your favorite root beer
2 cinnamon sticks
3 whole cloves
2 whole allspice
3 bay leaves
1 tbl black peppercorns.
1 5-6lb boneless, precooked ham
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Score the Ham on the top in a "XX" pattern lightly ( about 1/8"-1/4" deep). Combine all of the ingredients in a large baking dish, then place the ham in the liquids. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. Bake for 2 hours.


text: Lindsay and Mike were married a couple weeks back at the lovely Elkridge Furnace Inn in Elkridge, Maryland. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed shooting their big day — they were so much fun! Together with their bridal party, they had me laughing and smiling throughout the day, not only with their jokes and good humor, but also because it was so wonderful to see a couple who got along so beautifully and happily. Linsday and Mike really do compliment each other and I was honored to be a part of their wedding day! So here are a few of my favorites:


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'Underneath the Lintel' review: Librarian on quest
Published 4:43 pm, Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Underneath the Lintel: By Glen Berger. Directed by Carey Perloff. With David Strathairn. Through Nov. 17. $20-$95. American Conservatory Theater, 415 Geary St., S.F. 90 minutes. (415) 749-2228. www.act-sf.org.
Obsession becomes David Strathairn in the American Conservatory Theater's "Underneath the Lintel." That sentence works both ways. The meek, mildly befuddled Dutch Librarian embodied by Strathairn becomes incrementally more obsessed during the play that opened Tuesday. As he does, the actor becomes more magnetic as well.
It's a tough act to pull off, particularly given the minuscule importance of the Librarian's quest - the identity of the man who just returned a Baedeker's Travel Guide 113 years overdue - and its presentation as a lecture delivered in a rented, derelict theater. Neither Glen Berger's script nor the production avoids some lapses in tension and descents into schmaltz. But for the most part, Strathairn and director Carey Perloff's tight focus keep you engaged.
The offbeat quest has certainly proved popular. Since its 1981 Los Angeles premiere, "Lintel" has had more than 200 American productions, including a long off-Broadway run (and a recent Just Theater staging in Berkeley). For Berger, a two-time Emmy-winning writer of children's TV shows, it's his best-known stage work besides being Julie Taymor's co-author on the epically troubled "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" - and author of the new, embarrassingly chatty backstage tell-all, "Song of Spider-Man" (Simon & Schuster).
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"Lintel" shares that chattiness, as the now unemployed Librarian keeps showing off his encyclopedic knowledge - from how many people are killed by vending machines each year to the odd death of Aeschylus in ancient Greece. Or digressing on his dislike of a colleague and regrets about the woman who got away. But mostly he's bent on finding the man who slipped that overdue book through the overnight slot.
The first clues set up a very wide-ranging quest for a man who has rarely ventured beyond the Dutch town of Hoofddorp. Tucked in the book is an unredeemed 1913 laundry claim ticket from London. The home address on the man's library account is an ancient city in China.
One clue leads improbably but often captivatingly to another as Perloff has Strathairn range farther around and deeper into the mysterious recesses of Nina Ball's fantastically cluttered, deserted-theater set. The Librarian follows his leads from London to China, New York to Australia and beyond, illustrating his travels with slides and taped music - even some engagingly comic-poignant dance steps.
The farther he ventures, the more his quarry takes on aspects of immortality. The ancient Christian myth of the Wandering Jew comes into play, merging with this Flying Dutchman into a kind of omnipresent Kilroy. "Lintel" doesn't fully live up to its subtitle, "An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidence." But as performed with baffled earnestness and deft comic timing by Strathairn, it's a charming time-and-space odyssey.
Robert Hurwitt is The San Francisco Chronicle's theater critic. E-mail: email@example.com


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September's retinue of Microsoft patches includes one very important .NET fix that blocks a security hole brought to life when you open an RTF file in Word. So far, it's only been seen in the wild in a Russian-language RTF document, apparently generated by NEODYMIUM, allegedly used by a nation-state to snoop on a Russian-speaking target.
Several researchers have found ways to leverage the security hole, and it's only a matter of time before some enterprising folks come up with ways to turn it into a widespread infection vector. Bottom line: If you can't keep your finger off the "Enable Editing" button in Word, you better get this month's security patches installed.
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Obama's financial fraud task force has miles to go in restoring public confidence
It will initially focus on the types of crime that can be most damaging during this time of economic recovery, including:
- Mortgage fraud – from the simplest of "flip" schemes to systematic lending fraud in the nationwide housing market.
- Securities fraud – including traditional insider trading, Ponzi schemes and misrepresentations to investors.
- Recovery Act fraud – to ensure that the taxpayers' investment in America's economic recovery isn't siphoned away by a dishonest few.
- Discrimination – the task force will work to ensure that the financial markets work for all Americans and that no one is unfairly targeted based on impermissible characteristics.
Holder said the group's first priorities will be to "protect borrowers and ensure the integrity of the financial services industry by combating mortgage fraud head-on. We will protect investors and our capital markets by vigorously attacking securities fraud. We will ensure that recipients of federal financial rescue funds do not obtain them through fraud, or use them for improper purposes. And we will make sure that federal stimulus funds are well-spent by vigilantly protecting the integrity of federal procurement and grant processes."
All lofty goals and all definitely needed to ensure that any criminals involved in this financial crisis are exposed. We can all hope by uncovering and punishing these crimes, future crimes will be prevented.
A Coordinated Assault on Mortgage Fraud
Holder does recognize that citizens have lost faith. "Mortgage, securities and corporate fraud schemes have eroded the public's confidence in the nation's financial markets and have led to a growing sentiment that Wall Street does not play by the same rules as Main Street," he said. "Unscrupulous executives, Ponzi scheme operators and common criminals alike have targeted the pocketbooks and retirement accounts of middle-class Americans, and in many cases, devastated entire families' futures."
The greatest progress has been made in the area of mortgage fraud. The FBI is investigating more than 2,800 such cases, up almost 400% from five years ago. The bureau more than doubled the number of agents investigating mortgage scams and created a National Mortgage Fraud Team. It also launched a coordinated state/federal mortgage fraud initiative with state attorneys general from around the country to enhance information-sharing and improve anticrime and civil enforcement efforts.
But even with the advances against mortgage fraud, the big question is: Do Holder and the others in the administration realize that part of the erosion of public confidence can be placed at their doorstep -- as well as the previous Bush Administration's -- for their actions in divvying up money during the financial crisis? Catching Ponzi schemers and insider traders may help restore public confidence in the markets to some extent. But if the questions about how the taxpayers money was spent aren't answered, that faith cannot be fully rebuilt. This administration must still prove that Wall Street won't be favored over Main Street.
Lita Epstein has written more than 25 books including Reading Financial Reports for Dummies and Trading for Dummies.


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I scored this tray during my vacation thrift store jackpot. It was only a couple bucks and I knew I wanted to make it into a cheese tray using chalkboard paint. Here it is in all it's dirtiness!! Not very appetizing!
I started off by spray painting the entire tray white. Notice how the center is not really covered. I just wanted to make sure the frame was painted because I knew the center tray would be painted again with chalkboard paint.
Next I taped off the frame with painters tape
And painted the center with chalkboard paint using a sponge brush to minimize brush strokes. I also love that I can just toss the brush when I am done, no messy clean up!
And now, time for the bad news!! I let the paint dry for a few days. When I went to peel it off, things didn't go as well as planned.
Not only did some of the chalkboard paint peel off, but some leaked up onto the frame. I ended up using a small craft brush to fix this by hand. It took 3-4 coats of the white paint (using Kilz primer for added coverage) to cover up that black chalk paint. In the end, I wish I would have not taped at all and just cut in with the chalkboard paint using a steady hand.
I always say, things don't have to be perfect, but I will admit this one was a little painful for me. I had to remind myself that the tray would be covered with pretty food and these minor imperfections would fade into the background!!
I got myself a "chalk pen…" a definite must have!!
I actually love the finished product. I think it could be used for any types of appetizers, not just cheese. By using the chalkboard to label, it's a really versatile tray


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Cornerback Nick Harper sat out a second consecutive day with a shoulder problem on Wednesday as Rod Hood took the first-team reps for the Tennessee Titans as they ready for the Christmas night game against the San Diego Chargers.
Hood, signed as a street free agent in October, made a splash when the Titans first signed him, getting three interceptions in three starts while Harper was out with a broken forearm, but has been idle in recent weeks. Hood said news of his working with the starting defense on Wednesday was a bit of a surprise.
"They came to me and told me I was going to practice. I had no idea," Hood said. "I thought I was going to continue to do scout team reps, because I haven't practiced other than doing scout team. I did scout team [Tuesday], walk-through for scout team."
Hood said he has tried his best to stay ready, even though he not played since returning an interception 31 yards for a score against Buffalo. He said he has no idea how things will turn out for him Christmas night against the Chargers.
"It's still up in the air right now. I have no clue," Hood said. "I try to stay as ready as possible, but I'd be lying to you if said it's not been tough, going for five weeks and not putting any pads on."
Asked if he would be active after filling in for an ailing Harper, who watched Wednesday's work, Hood said, "I hope so. I've been out for five weeks and haven't had an opportunity to get on the field. But I'm looking forward to the opportunity now."
Titans coach Jeff Fisher downplayed Harper's injuries, adding that the cornerback has had foot and arm issues as well.
"Nick is always able to answer the bell, so I'm not concerned about him," Fisher said. "Rod is fine. He's preparing himself. He's a pro and he knows what we're doing.He's done that thus far."
In regards to other injuries, defensive tackle Tony Brown (knee/quadriceps) and defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch (neck stinger) did not practice.
Brown, who did not practice last week and did not finish against Miami Sunday, said he plans to play, no matter what.
"I'll be out there if it falls out. This will be one where they'll have to pull me out. I'm planning on going," Brown said.
Tight end Craig Stevens (concussion) practiced fully, while Nate Washington (ankle) was limited. Troy Kropog suffered a calf injury during practice and did not finish on Wednesday.


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THE Government has announced millions of pounds worth of investment in Swindon and Wiltshire which will be used on local infrastructure and economic growth projects.
A potential £130 million has been allocated which will be used on a variety of projects, such as the building of a tunnel under the M4 to link up the new Wichelstowe housing project and the development of infrastructure linked to the Eastern Villages.
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AneLaLa is a shoujo manga magazine published by Hakusensha every even month. The target audience is an older female audience. So far no series from Ane LaLa have been licensed because it's a fairly new publication.
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(I Can't Wait Until Morning!)
Meca Tanaka
Suzuki Chronicle
Ririko Tsujita
Koi Hitoyo
(Love Overnight)
Wataru Hibiki
Ai ga Chikyuu o Sokuu no da!
(Love Saves the Earth!)
Masami Morio
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Yuki Nakaji
Tomo Matsumoto
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Akane Ogura
Kawaii Hito
(Cute Person)
Ken Saitou
Tonari wa Nani o Kuu Hito zo
(My Neighbor Will Eat Anything)
Yuki Fujitsuka
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(Ten Years Later, We Bump Into Each Other in the City ~across the universe~)
Masami Tsuda
Otona no Kobayashi-kun
(Kobayashi-kun the Adult)
Masami Morio
Inaka no Kekkon
(Country Marriage)
Chiaki Kawasawa
Yosh! Those are all the series currently running in AneLaLa. There are always short stories and one shots of course. These are the main series you will see that are ongoing.
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What happens when, after messing up the first time, you want badly to "do it over?" It has often been said that there are no do-overs in life, but there seems to be a good deal of evidence to the contrary, from golf and tennis to the resurrection of public careers. In the broadest sense, we might well ask whether or not the "do-over" (or its temptations) are built into our very humanity (cultural and biological), and several of these broad questions will weave through this lecture on Friday (Sept. 17) at 4 p.m., in the Porter Brown conference room, Center for the Sciences.
Practices of Chinese divination will provide a specific way of approaching the topic, which has broad implications for social theory and the understanding of Chinese culture. Professor LaFleur will investigate the intersection of three overlapping features of Chinese divination—anxiety about the future, the power of written classification, and the concept of "secondary elaboration," which allows practitioners to rethink or redo certain aspects of the divination. LaFleur will take listeners through the mechanics of several divination practices in order to illustrate the elaborate lengths to which it is possible (and often ultimately impossible) to go in order to find the answer one wants to find within a complex cultural system.
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Former Inter Milan star Luis Figo says he'd love to see Barcelona ace Lionel Messi wearing Nerazzurri colours. Figo, also a former Barca player, said: "Lionel is the best of all, the number one and this is unquestionable.
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Funny how some atheists and adherents to other faiths accuse Christians of forcing their beliefs onto others, when you have people like this calling the Christian faith a load of "bull excrement." Was your input valuable in any way? Just a fair warning that if you want tolerance and acceptance, it has to go both ways.
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All you have to do is research who owns and runs the media of the world.
You'll find out that its the same type of minority that runs and survives on secret societies.
Zionist Luciferian Jews.
Many of them Ashkenazi.
They own and run the music media, movie, entertainment, and porn industry. For the sole purpose of indoctrinating you through mind control.
Do you think its just a coincidence that this group of people own all the media?
Not at all, especially when you realize that their survival depends on you being brainwashed and indoctrinated.
Can a free-thinking and well structured society be ruled by tyrants?
Obviously not, so other than indoctrinating you with ideas and views.
They have carried out a well devised sinister and satanic plan, to spread corruption among society.
Because a corrupted society which becomes lost, is one which can be easily ruled...
Because one who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
And that is the society they are building for the Antichrist's arrival.
How else will you accept their New World Order?
Originally posted by ozmoid
reply to post by AboveTopSecret.com
This thread is sad ...so very, very sad. It's the 21st century and still this mindset/madness continues.
Originally posted by liveandlearn
I have just finished 15 ( have to stop and absorb).
There are a few things I question...want to see the documentation or at least where to find it.
I noticed in part 15 (and I have to say this now lest I forget) that the blood line includes Thor, Alexander the Great, Abraham, David, Jesus as well as Mohamed.
So my question is; If the Illuminati contains Mohamed's bloodline, why are they trying to portray the Arabs as the bad guy and only seeking the Zionist Jews agenda?
Hopefully the answer will be in the videos to come.
It would be good if the authors made themselves available for questions.
And I definitely want to explore the Thor statement.
So my question is; If the Illuminati contains Mohamed's bloodline, why are they trying to portray the Arabs as the bad guy and only seeking the Zionist Jews agenda?
the creator(s) is(are) Muslim, so they didn't want to admit that Islam is part of the NWO/antichrist, and are the moon-god worshippers.
What if the Zionist Jews agenda ruins the world? The way events are unfolding I can see the whole world backing the Arab countries against Israel and America. Economy, wars and plenty of other things they could throw at Jews.
Originally posted by Moreonethananyone
This is disgusting and should be removed right away.It has really made me think about hard about ATS .The obvious religous agenda here is not what I thought this site was about.Members expressing thier views is one thing ,but I find this very creepy that this Rubbish is being pushed by the site itself.I thought you were here to moderate.


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Friday, January 23, 2004
In tonight's presidential debate, Peter Jennings said that I made a reckless charge about Bush being a deserter. The facts are the facts. The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New Republic and numerous other publications have all called into question Bush's whereabouts when he was supposed to be serving our country. The only thing reckless is how people like Peter Jennings refuse to report the truth.
"The question is, where were you, Governor Bush?" said Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii and a World War II veteran. "What would you do as commander-in-chief if someone in the National Guard did the same thing?"
Boston Globe: Bush Let Guard Down
Boston Globe: BUSH PRESSURED ON MILITARY GAPS
Washington Post: Bush Let Guard Down
Dallas Morning News: RECORDS OF BUSH'S ALA. MILITARY DUTY CAN'T BE FOUND
The New Republic: Notebook
TomPaine.com: FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
TRANSCRIPT: Peter Jennings asks Wesley Clark about my charge that George W. Bush is a deserter
By Walter V. Robinson, Boston Globe Staff, 5/23/2000
AUSTIN, Texas - After George W. Bush became governor in 1995, the Houston Air National Guard unit he had served with during the Vietnam War years honored him for his work, noting that he flew an F-102 fighter-interceptor until his discharge in October 1973.
And Bush himself, in his 1999 autobiography, ''A Charge to Keep,'' recounts the thrills of his pilot training, which he completed in June 1970. ''I continued flying with my unit for the next several years,'' the governor wrote.
But both accounts are contradicted by copies of Bush's military records, obtained by the Globe. In his final 18 months of military service in 1972 and 1973, Bush did not fly at all. And for much of that time, Bush was all but unaccounted for: For a full year, there is no record that he showed up for the periodic drills required of part-time guardsmen.
Bush, who declined to be interviewed on the issue, said through a spokesman that he has ''some recollection'' of attending drills that year, but maybe not consistently.
From May to November 1972, Bush was in Alabama working in a US Senate campaign, and was required to attend drills at an Air National Guard unit in Montgomery. But there is no evidence in his record that he did so. And William Turnipseed, the retired general who commanded the Alabama unit back then, said in an interview last week that Bush never appeared for duty there.
After the election, Bush returned to Houston. But seven months later, in May 1973, his two superior officers at Ellington Air Force Base could not perform his annual evaluation covering the year from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973 because, they wrote, ''Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report.''
Bush, they mistakenly concluded, had been training with the Alabama unit for the previous 12 months. Both men have since died. But Ellington's top personnel officer at the time, retired Colonel Rufus G. Martin, said he had believed that First Lieutenant Bush completed his final year of
service in Alabama.
A Bush spokesman, Dan Bartlett, said after talking with the governor that Bush recalls performing some duty in Alabama and ''recalls coming back to Houston and doing [Guard] duty, though he does not recall if it was on a consistent basis.''
Noting that Bush, by that point, was no longer flying, Bartlett added, ''It's possible his presence and role became secondary.''
Last night, Mindy Tucker, another Bush campaign aide, asserted that the governor ''fulfilled all of his requirements in the Guard.'' If he missed any drills, she said, he made them up later on.
Under Air National Guard rules at the time, guardsmen who missed duty could be reported to their Selective Service Board and inducted into the Army as draftees.
If Bush's interest in Guard duty waned, as spokesman Bartlett hinted, the records and former Guard officials suggest that Bush's unit was lackadaisical in holding him to his commitment. Many states, Texas among them, had a record during the Vietnam War of providing a haven in the
Guard for the sons of the well-connected, and a tendency to excuse shirking by those with political connections.
Those who trained and flew with Bush, until he gave up flying in April 1972, said he was among the best pilots in the 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. In the 22-month period between the end of his flight training and his move to Alabama, Bush logged numerous hours of duty, well above
the minimum requirements for so-called ''weekend warriors.''
Indeed, in the first four years of his six-year commitment, Bush spent the equivalent of 21 months on active duty, including 18 months in flight school. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore, who enlisted in the Army for two years and spent five months in Vietnam,
logged only about a month more active service, since he won an early release from service.
Still, the puzzling gap in Bush's military service is likely to heighten speculation about the conspicuous underachievement that marked the period between his 1968 graduation from Yale University and his 1973 entry into Harvard Business School. It is speculation that Bush has
helped to fuel: For example, he refused for months last year to say whether he had ever used illegal drugs. Subsequently, however, Bush amended his stance, saying that he had not done so since 1974.
The period in 1972 and 1973 when Bush sidestepped his military obligation coincides with a well-publicized incident during the 1972 Christmas holidays: Bush had a confrontation with his father after he took his younger brother, Marvin, out drinking and returned to the family's Washington home after knocking over some garbage cans on the ride home.
In his autobiography, Bush says that his decision to go to business school the following September was ''a turning point for me.''
Assessing Bush's military service three decades later is no easy task: Some of his superiors are no longer alive. Others declined to comment, or, understandably, cannot recall details about Bush's comings and goings. And as Bush has risen in public life over the last several years, Texas military officials have put many of his records off-limits
and heavily redacted many other pages, ostensibly because of privacy rules.
But 160 pages of his records, assembled by the Globe from a variety of sources and supplemented by interviews with former Guard officials, paint a picture of an Air Guardsman who enjoyed favored treatment on several occasions.
The ease of Bush's entry into the Air Guard was widely reported last year. At a time when such billets were coveted and his father was a Houston congressman, Bush vaulted to the top of a waiting list of 500. Bush and his father have denied that he received any preferential
treatment. But last year, Ben Barnes, who was speaker of the Texas House in 1968, said in a sworn deposition in a civil lawsuit that he called Guard officials seeking a Guard slot for Bush after a friend of Bush's father asked him to do so.
Before he went to basic training, Bush was approved for an automatic commission as a second lieutenant and assignment to flight school despite a score of just 25 percent on a pilot aptitude test. Such commissions were not uncommon, although most often they went to prospective pilots who had college ROTC courses or prior Air Force
experience. Bush had neither.
In interviews last week, Guard officials from that era said Bush leapfrogged over other applicants because few applicants were willing to commit to the 18 months of flight training or the inherent dangers of flying.
As a pilot, the future governor appeared to do well. After eight weeks of basic training in the summer of 1968 - and a two-month break to work on a Senate race in Florida - Bush attended 55 weeks of flight school at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, from November 1968 to November 1969,
followed by five months of full-time training on the F-102 back at Ellington.
Retired Colonel Maurice H. Udell, Bush's instructor in the F-102, said he was impressed with Bush's talent and his attitude. ''He had his boots shined, his uniform pressed, his hair cut and he said, `Yes, sir' and `No, sir,''' the instructor recalled.
Said Udell, ''I would rank him in the top 5 percent of pilots I knew. And in the thinking department, he was in the top 1 percent. He was very capable and tough as a boot.''
But 22 months after finishing his training, and with two years left on his six-year commitment, Bush gave up flying - for good, it would turn out. He sought permission to do ''equivalent training'' at a Guard unit in Alabama, where he planned to work for several months on the
Republican Senate campaign of Winton Blount, a friend of Bush's father. The proposed move took Bush off flight status, since no Alabama Guard unit had the F-102 he was trained to fly.
At that point, starting in May 1972, First Lieutenant Bush began to disappear from the Guard's radar screen.
When the Globe first raised questions about this period earlier this month, Bartlett, Bush's spokesman, referred a reporter to Albert Lloyd Jr., a retired colonel who was the Texas Air Guard's personnel director from 1969 to 1995.
Lloyd, who a year ago helped the Bush campaign make sense of the governor's military records, said Bush's aides were concerned about the gap in his records back then.
On May 24, 1972, after he moved to Alabama, Bush made a formal request to do his equivalent training at the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Two days later, that unit's commander, Lieutenant Colonel Reese H. Bricken, agreed to have Bush join his unit temporarily.
In Houston, Bush's superiors approved. But a higher headquarters disapproved, noting that Bricken's unit did not have regular drills.
''We met just one weeknight a month. We were only a postal unit. We had no airplanes. We had no pilots. We had no nothing,'' Bricken said in an interview.
Last week, Lloyd said he is mystified why Bush's superiors at the time approved duty at such a unit.
Inexplicably, months went by with no resolution to Bush's status - and no Guard duty. Bush's evident disconnection from his Guard duties was underscored in August, when he was removed from flight status for failing to take his annual flight physical.
Finally, on Sept. 5, 1972, Bush requested permission to do duty for September, October, and November at the 187th Tactical Recon Group in Montgomery. Permission was granted, and Bush was directed to report to Turnipseed, the unit's commander.
In interviews last week, Turnipseed and his administrative officer at the time, Kenneth K. Lott, said they had no memory of Bush ever reporting.
''Had he reported in, I would have had some recall, and I do not,'' Turnipseed said. ''I had been in Texas, done my flight training there. If we had had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered.''
Lloyd, the retired Texas Air Guard official, said he does not know whether Bush performed duty in Alabama. ''If he did, his drill attendance should have been certified and sent to Ellington, and there would have been a record. We cannot find the records to show he fulfilled the requirements in Alabama,'' he said.
Indeed, Bush's discharge papers list his service and duty station for each of his first four years in the Air Guard. But there is no record of training listed after May 1972, and no mention of any service in Alabama. On that discharge form, Lloyd said, ''there should have been an
entry for the period between May 1972 and May 1973.''
Said Lloyd, ''It appeared he had a bad year. He might have lost interest, since he knew he was getting out.''
In an effort last year to solve the puzzle, Lloyd said he scoured Guard records, where he found two ''special orders'' commanding Bush to appear for active duty on nine days in May 1973. That is the same month that Lieutenant Colonel William D. Harris Jr. and Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian effectively declared Bush missing from duty.
In Bush's annual efficiency report, dated May 2, 1973, the two supervising pilots did not rate Bush for the prior year, writing, ''Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of report. A civilian occupation made it necessary for him to move to Montgomery, Alabama. He cleared this base on 15 May 1972 and has been performing
equivalent training in a non-flying status with the 187 Tac Recon Gp, Dannelly ANG Base, Alabama.''
Asked about that declaration, campaign spokesman Bartlett said Bush told him that since he was no longer flying, he was doing ''odds and ends'' under different supervisors whose names he could not recall.
But retired colonel Martin, the unit's former administrative officer, said he too thought Bush had been in Alabama for that entire year. Harris and Killian, he said, would have known if Bush returned to duty at Ellington. And Bush, in his autobiography, identifies the late colonel Killian as a friend, making it even more likely that Killian knew where Bush was.
Lieutenant Bush, to be sure, had gone off flying status when he went to Alabama. But had he returned to his unit in November 1972, there would have been no barrier to him flying again, except passing a flight physical. Although the F-102 was being phased out, his unit's records show that Guard pilots logged thousands of hours in the F-102 in 1973.
During his search, Lloyd said, the only other paperwork he discovered was a single torn page bearing Bush's social security number and numbers awarding some points for Guard duty. But the partial page is undated. If it represents the year in question, it leaves unexplained why Bush's two
superior officers would have declared him absent for the full year.
There is no doubt that Bush was in Houston in late 1972 and early 1973. During that period, according to Bush's autobiography, he held a civilian job working for an inner-city, antipoverty program in the city.
Lloyd, who has studied the records extensively, said he is an admirer of the governor and believes ''the governor honestly served his country and fulfilled his commitment.''
But Lloyd said it is possible that since Bush had his sights set on discharge and the unit was beginning to replace the F-102s, Bush's superiors told him he was not ''in the flow chart. Maybe George Bush took that as a signal and said, `Hell, I'm not going to bother going to
''Well, then it comes rating time, and someone says, `Oh...he hasn't fulfilled his obligation.' I'll bet someone called him up and said, `George, you're in a pickle. Get your ass down here and perform some duty.' And he did,'' Lloyd said.
That would explain, Lloyd said, the records showing Bush cramming so many drills into May, June, and July 1973. During those three months, Bush spent 36 days on duty.
Bush's last day in uniform before he moved to Cambridge was July 30, 1973. His official release from active duty was dated Oct. 1, 1973, eight months before his six-year commitment was scheduled to end.
Officially, the period between May 1972 and May 1973 remains unaccounted for. In November 1973, responding to a request from the headquarters of the Air National Guard for Bush's annual evaluation for that year, Martin, the Ellington administrative officer, wrote, ''Report for this
period not available for administrative reasons.''
This story ran on page 01A of the Boston Globe on 5/23/2000. C 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
The Boston Globe
November 3, 2000
WASHINGTON - Democratic military veterans in the US Senate lashed out yesterday at Governor George W. Bush of Texas for failing to explain his apparent extended absence during his tenure in the Texas Air National Guard.
"The question is, where were you, Governor Bush?" said Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii and a World War II veteran. "What would you do as commander-in-chief if someone in the National Guard did the same thing?" Inouye asked during a telephone address to supporters of Vice President Al Gore in Nashville yesterday.
Inouye joined several colleagues, Senators Bob Kerrey, Democrat of Nebraska, and Max Cleland, Democrat of Georgia, in raising harsh questions about Bush's role during the Vietnam War.
The remarks were in response to a Globe article this week showing that Bush stopped flying after 22 months within his unit of the Texas Air National Guard. Further, the article reported, Bush failed to show up for required Guard drills during a six-month stay in Alabama, and he was lax even after returning to Houston.
"At the least, I would have been court-martialed. At the least, I would have been placed in prison," Inouye said. Bush "made a commitment to the Texas Air National Guard, and God bless him for doing so," said Kerrey. But "if you're going to make a commitment to join the Guard, especially at that time, you've got to keep that commitment," Kerrey added.
Bush has refused to be interviewed by the Globe on the topic of his military service. His spokesman, Dan Bartlett, yesterday called the questions about the governor a "scurrilous charge" of a "desperate" Gore campaign.
The Washington Post
November 3, 2000, Friday, Final Edition
2 Democrats: Bush Let Guard Down; Gore Surrogates Revive Issue of Apparent Laxity in Candidate's Military Service
George Lardner Jr.; Howard Kurtz , Washington Post Staff Writers
Two high-profile surrogates for Vice President Gore, in an 11th-hour attempt to exploit a dormant issue, yesterday castigated George W. Bush over allegations that he did not fulfill some of his National Guard duties in the 1970s.
Democratic Sens. Bob Kerrey (Neb.) and Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), both Medal of Honor winners, were drafted to attack Bush on a 27-year-old controversy that the Gore campaign has avoided mentioning until now. They spoke by phone to a veterans rally in Nashville led by Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.), a decorated Vietnam veteran. Reporters were invited to listen by conference call.
Bush says he fulfilled all his obligations as a pilot in the Air National Guard, but he has had difficulty rebutting charges that he played hooky for a year.
"Where were you, Governor Bush?" Inouye asked. "What about your commitment? What would you do as commander in chief if someone in the Guard or service did the same thing?"
Kerrey questioned how Bush immediately got into the Guard "even though there were 500 people ahead of him" at a time when "350 Americans were dying every single week in Vietnam." Kerrey has been drawing a sharp contrast with Gore, who served in Vietnam.
Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer called the attacks "the final throes of a campaign that has now lost any semblance of decency. The governor, of course, was honorably discharged, and these are inventions and fabrications. All the questions have been answered."
But Gore spokesman Mark Fabiani said the senators "seem to have raised some very important questions . . . that deserve an answer."
Bush signed up with the Texas National Guard for six years in May 1968, which allowed him to avoid the Vietnam draft. He became an F-102 pilot in 1970 but made his last flight in April 1972 before moving to Alabama to work on a GOP Senate campaign. The dispute centers on what he did in the Guard between that point and September 1973, when he entered Harvard Business School.
Bush campaign officials say their evidence shows that he did his duty in 1972-73, when he worked for six months on the Senate race in Alabama and then returned to his home base outside Houston. But other documents in his Guard record contradict that claim, and critics who have examined that record contend that he also skimped on his obligations in 1973-74. It is safe to say that Bush did very light duty in his last two years in the Guard and that his superiors made it easy for him.
The personnel officer in charge of Bush's 147th Fighter Group, now-retired Col. Rufus G. Martin, says he tried to give Bush a light load, telling him to apply to the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron in Montgomery, Ala.
Martin said in an interview that he knew Bush wasn't eligible for the 9921st, an unpaid, general training squadron that met once a week to hear lectures on first aid and the like. "However," he said, "I thought it was worth a try. . . . It was the least participation of any type of unit." But Air Force Reserve officials rejected the assignment, saying Bush had two more years of military obligations and was ineligible for a reserve squadron that had nothing to do with flying airplanes. Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett said Bush didn't know that when he applied.
Bush had been notified that he needed to take his annual flying physical by his 26th birthday in July 1972, but the move to Alabama made that unnecessary. He had been trained to fly F-102 fighter-interceptors, and none of the units in Alabama had those planes. He could have taken the physical to preserve his pilot's status but chose not to do so. "Because he wasn't flying," Bartlett said.
On Aug. 1, 1972, Bush's commander in Houston, Col. Bobby W. Hodges, ordered him grounded for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination." Some critics say this should have triggered a formal board of inquiry, but Hodges said in an interview that this was unnecessary because Bush accepted the penalty and knew "he couldn't fly again until he takes a physical."
"It happens all the time," Hodges said of the grounding. "That is normal when a Guardsman is out of state or out of the country."
In September, Bush was assigned to another Alabama unit, the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group. Since "Lieutenant Bush will not be able to satisfy his flight requirements with our group," the unit told him to report for "equivalent training"--such as debriefing pilots--on the weekends of Oct. 7-8 and Nov. 4-5, 1972.
There is no evidence in his record that he showed up on either weekend. Friends on the Alabama campaign say he told them of having to do Guard duty, but the retired general who commanded the 187th, William Turnipseed, and his personnel chief, Kenneth K. Lott, say they do not remember Bush ever reporting.
The Bush campaign points to a torn piece of paper in his Guard records, a statement of points Bush apparently earned in 1972-73, although most of the dates and Bush's name except for the "W" have been torn off.
According to the torn Air Reserve Forces sheet, Bush continued to compile service credits after returning to Houston, winding up his fifth year with 56 points, six above the minimum needed for retention. However, Bush's annual effectiveness report, signed by two superiors, says "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report," May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973.
Hodges also said he did not see Bush at the Texas base again after Bush left for Montgomery. "If I had been there on the day[s] he came out, I would have seen him," Hodges said.
Dallas Morning News
By Wayne Slater
Monday, June 26, 2000; Page A06
AUSTIN –– After a thorough search of military records, George W. Bush's presidential campaign has failed to find any documents proving he reported for duty during an eight-month stint in Alabama with the Texas Air National Guard.
But a spokesman expressed confidence Saturday that inquiries will turn up former Guard members who can corroborate Bush's having been there.
"He specifically recalls pulling duty in Alabama," spokesman Dan Bartlett said of Bush. "He did his drills."
Bartlett said the Republican governor showed up "several" times while in Alabama, where he transferred from his Houston Guard unit in 1972 to work for the unsuccessful Senate campaign of Republican Winton Blount, a friend of Bush's father.
According to Bartlett, the governor could not recall specifically how many times he reported for duty during his months in Alabama.
After leaving Alabama in December 1972, Bush returned to Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, where he made up missed time in order to complete his obligation, said Bartlett.
Bush was a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from May 1968 to October 1973, primarily flying F-102 fighter-interceptors.
The focus on Bush's service in the Guard--and the transfer to work on the Alabama political campaign--has raised questions over whether he received preferential treatment at a time when many young men were seeking to avoid the Vietnam War.
Both Bush and his father, who was then a U.S. representative from Houston, have denied that the younger Bush received special treatment.
Bartlett said Saturday that he reviewed a 200-page packet of documents last week from the National Guard's records repository in Denver. He said they largely duplicated documents the campaign already had obtained from Texas National Guard headquarters.
"What it shows is that Governor Bush met his annual requirements in order to fulfill his military obligation but doesn't show the portion of the training that took place in Alabama," he said.
While Bush was in Alabama, "most of his work was paperwork related," said Bartlett.
Campaigning Friday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Bush was asked about his 1972 service in that state.
"I was there on a temporary assignment and fulfilled my weekends at one period of time," he said. "I made up some missed weekends."
"I can't remember what I did, but I wasn't flying because they didn't have the same airplanes. I fulfilled my obligations."
In May, retired Gen. William Turnipseed, the former commander of the Alabama Guard unit, said Bush did not report to him, although the young airman was required to do so. His orders, dated Sept. 15, 1972, said: "Lieutenant Bush should report to Lt. Col. William Turnipseed, DCO, to perform equivalent training."
"To my knowledge, he never showed up," Turnipseed said last month.
Bartlett said Bush recalls seeing then-Col. Turnipseed. The campaign aide suggested that because Bush was not a pilot, his commander might not remember him.
The New Republic
NOVEMBER 13, 2000 page 10
MILITARY READINESS CONT'D: It's no longer news that George W Bush, to avoid being sent to Vietnam, enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. Nor is it news that Bush, contrary to assertions in his 1999 campaign autobiography A Charge to
Keep, appears not to have honored his commitment to the Guard after moving to Alabama for a period, apparently failing to report for duty there for a full year, between May 1972 and May 1973. (No one who was in the Alabama National Guard at the time recalls encountering Bush; the only person who vouches for him is a former girlfriend, who merely says Bush spoke of doing Guard service in Alabama.) What is news, though, is that the Bush campaign continues to lie about Bush's National Guard service.
"George W Bush served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 until 1973;" reads a snippet from the biography posted on the campaign's website. This is demonstrably false on two counts. For one, although Bush began his Guard service in July 1968, he spent his first two years in basic training and flight school and did not begin serving as a pilot with the 111th Fighter- Interceptor Squadron at Houston's Ellington Field until June 1970. Secondly, as has been reported in The Boston Globe and in these pages, after Bush moved from Texas to Alabama in May 1972, he never flew again. Nor could he, because he skipped his annual medical exam in 1972 and was suspended from flying.
What had been assumed is that Bush, upon returning to Texas from Alabama in May 1973, made up for his missed service by performing nonflying duty At least, that's what Bush campaign spokesman Dan Bartlett told reporters in June. But now it seems unlikely that Bush did even that much. According to a report in the October 31 Boston Globe, "a Bush campaign spokesman acknowledged last week that he knows of no witnesses who can attest to Bush's attendance at drills after he returned to Houston in late 1972 and before his early release from the Guard in September 1973?" That means Bush probably skipped the final 17 months of his National Guard commitment, a period almost as long as the 22 months he served as an actual pilot. But, then again, in the early '70s W. hadn't yet ushered in "the responsibility era."
FINALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH'S MILITARY SERVICE RECORD: George W.'s Missing Year
By Marty Heldt
Marty Heldt is a farmer. He told us, "I spent 17 years as a brakeman [for the railroad] before moving back to the farm. That job had some long layovers that gave me a lot of time to read and to educate myself." He lives in Clinton, Iowa.
Nearly two hundred manila-wrapped pages of George Walker Bush's service records came to me like some sort of giant banana stuffed into my mailbox.
I had been seeking more information about his military record to find out what he did during what I think of as his "missing year," when he failed to show up for duty as a member of the Air National Guard, as the Boston Globe first reported.
The initial page I examined is a chronological listing of Bush's service record. This document charts active duty days served from the time of his enlistment. His first year, a period of extensive training, young Bush is credited with serving 226 days. In his second year in the Guard, Bush is shown to have logged a total of 313 days. After Bush got his wings in June 1970 until May 1971, he is credited with a total of 46 days of active duty. From May 1971 to May 1972, he logged 22 days of active duty.
Then something happened. From May 1, 1972 until April 30, 1973 -- a period of twelve months -- there are no days shown, though Bush should have logged at least thirty-six days service (a weekend per month in addition to two weeks at camp).
I found out that for the first four months of this time period, when Bush was working on the U.S. Senate campaign of Winton Blount in Alabama, that he did not have orders to be at any unit anywhere.
On May 24, 1972, Bush had applied for a transfer from the Texas Air National Guard to Montgomery, Alabama. On his transfer request Bush noted that he was seeking a "no pay" position with the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron. The commanding officer of the Montgomery unit, Lieutenant Colonel Reese R. Bricken, promptly accepted Bush's request to do temporary duty under his command.
But Bush never received orders for the 9921st in Alabama. Such decisions were under the jurisdiction of the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver, Colorado, and the Center disallowed the transfer. The Director of Personnel Resources at the Denver headquarters noted in his rejection that Bush had a "Military Service Obligation until 26 May 1974." As an "obligated reservist," Bush was ineligible to serve his time in what amounted to a paper unit with few responsibilities. As the unit's leader, Lieutenant Colonel Bricken recently explained to the Boston Globe, ''We met just one weeknight a month. We were only a postal unit. We had no airplanes. We had no pilots. We had no nothing.''
The headquarters document rejecting Bush's requested Alabama transfer was dated May 31, 1972. This transfer refusal left Bush still obligated to attend drills with his regular unit, the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron stationed at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston. However, Bush had already left Texas two weeks earlier and was now working on Winton Blount's campaign staff in Alabama.
In his annual evaluation report, Bush's two supervising officers, Lieutenant Colonel William D. Harris Jr. and Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, made it clear that Bush had "not been observed at" his Texas unit "during the period of report" -- the twelve month period from May 1972 through the end of April 1973.
In the comments section of this evaluation report Lieutenant Colonel Harris notes that Bush had "cleared this base on 15 May 1972, and has been performing equivalent training in a non flying role with the 187th Tac Recon Gp at Dannelly ANG Base, Alabama" (the Air National Guard Tactical Reconnaissance Group at Dannelly Air Force Base near Montgomery, Alabama).
This was incorrect. Bush didn't apply for duty at Dannelly Air Force Base until September 1972. From May until September he was in limbo, his temporary orders having been rejected. And when his orders to appear at Dannelly came through he still didn't appear. Although his instructions clearly directed Bush to report to Lieutenant Colonel William Turnipseed on the dates of "7-8 October 0730-1600, and 4-5 November 0730-1600," he never did. In interviews conducted with the Boston Globe earlier this year, both General Turnipseed and his former administration officer, Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Lott, said that Bush never put in an appearance.
The lack of regular attendance goes against the basic concept of a National Guard kept strong by citizen soldiers who maintain their skills through regular training.
Bush campaign aides claim, according to a report in the New York Times, that Bush in fact served a single day -- November 29,1972 -- with the Alabama unit. If this is so it means that for a period of six weeks Lieutenant George W. Bush ignored direct instructions from headquarters to report for duty. But it looks even worse for Lieutenant Bush if the memory of Turnipseed and Lott are correct and Bush never reported at all.
After the election was over (candidate Blount lost), Bush was to have returned to Texas and the 111th at Ellington Air Force Base. Bush did return to Houston, where he worked for an inner-city youth organization, Project P.U.L.L. But, as I mentioned already, his annual evaluation report states that he had not been observed at his unit during the twelve months ending May 1973. This means that there were another five months, after he left Alabama, during which Bush did not fulfill any of his obligations as a Guardsman.
In fact, during the final four months of this period, December 1972 through May 29, 1973, neither Bush nor his aides have ever tried to claim attendance at any guard activities. So, incredibly, for a period of one year beginning May 1, 1972, there is just one day, November 29th, on which Bush claims to have performed duty for the Air National Guard. There are no dates of service for 1973 mentioned in Bush's "Chronological Service Listing."
Bush's long absence from the records comes to an end one week after he failed to comply with an order to attend "Annual Active Duty Training" starting at the end of May 1973. He then began serving irregularly with his unit. Nothing indicates in the records that he ever made up the time he missed.
Early in September 1973, Bush submitted a request seeking to be discharged from the Texas Air National Guard and to be transferred to the Air Reserve Personnel Center. This transfer to the inactive reserves would effectively end any requirements to attend monthly drills. The request -- despite Bush's record -- was approved. That fall Bush enrolled in Harvard Business School.
Both Bush and his aides have made numerous statements to the effect that Bush fulfilled all of his guard obligations. They point to Bush's honorable discharge as proof of this. But the records indicate that George W Bush missed a year of service. This lack of regular attendance goes against the basic concept of a National Guard kept strong by citizen soldiers who maintain their skills and preparedness through regular training.
And we know that Bush understood that regular attendance was essential to the proficiency of the National Guard. In the Winter 1998 issue of the National Guard Review Bush is quoted as saying "I can remember walking up to my F-102 fighter and seeing the mechanics there. I was on the same team as them, and I relied on them to make sure that I wasn't jumping out of an airplane. There was a sense of shared responsibility in that case. The responsibility to get the airplane down. The responsibility to show up and do your job."
Bush has found military readiness to be a handy campaign issue.
Bush's unsatisfactory attendance could have resulted in being ordered to active duty for a period up to two years -- including a tour in Vietnam. Lieutenant Bush would have been aware of this as he had signed a statement which listed the penalties for poor attendance and unsatisfactory participation. Bush could also have faced a general court martial. But this was unlikely as it would have also meant dragging in the two officers who had signed off on his annual evaluation.
Going after officers in this way would have been outside the norm. Most often an officer would be subject to career damaging letters of reprimand and poor Officers Effectiveness Ratings. These types of punishment would often result in the resignation of the officer. In Bush's case, as someone who still had a commitment for time not served, he could have been brought back and made to do drills. But this would have been a further embarrassment to the service as it would have made it semi-public that a Lieutenant Colonel and squadron commander had let one of his subordinates go missing for a year.
For the Guard, for the ranking officers involved and for Lieutenant Bush the easiest and quietest thing to do was adding time onto his commitment and placing that time in the inactive reserves.
Among these old documents there is a single clue as to how Bush finally fulfilled his obligations and made up for those missed drill days. In my first request for information I received a small three-page document containing the "Military Biography Of George Walker Bush." This was sent from the Headquarters Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) in Denver Colorado.
In this official summary of Bush's military service, I found something that was not mentioned in Bush's records from the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Virginia. When Bush enlisted his commitment ran until May 26, 1974. This was the separation date shown on all documents as late as October 1973, when Bush was transferred to the inactive reserves at Denver, Colorado. But the date of final separation shown on the official summary from Denver, is November 21, 1974. The ARPC had tacked an extra six months on to Bush's commitment.
Bush may have finally "made-up" his missed days. But he did so not by attending drills -- in fact he never attended drills again after he enrolled at Harvard. Instead, he had his name added to the roster of a paper unit in Denver, Colorado, a paper unit where he had no responsibility to show up and do a job.
Bush has found military readiness to be a handy campaign issue. Yet even though more than two decades have passed since Bush left the Air National Guard, some military sources still bristle at his service record -- and what effect it had on readiness. "In short, for the several hundred thousand dollars we tax payers spent on getting [Bush] trained as a fighter jock, he repaid us with sixty-eight days of active duty. And God only knows if and when he ever flew on those days," concludes a military source. "I've spent more time cleaning up latrines than he did flying."
The following is a rush transcript of the exchange between Peter Jennings (PJ) and Wesley Clark (WC) from this evening's debate in New Hampshire
PJ: General Clark, a lot of people say they don't know you well, so this is really a simple question about knowing a man by his friends. The other day you had a rally here and one of the men who stood up to endorse you was the controversial filmmaker Michael Moore. You said you were delighted with him. At one point Mr. Moore, said in front of you that President Bush, he was saying he'd like to see a debate between you the General and President Bush who he called a deserter. Now that's a reckless charge not supported by the facts so I was curious to know why you didn't contradict him and whether or not you think it would have been a better example of ethical behavior to have done so.
WC: Well I think Michael Moore has the right to say whatever he feels about this. I don't know whether this is supported by the facts or not. I've never looked at it. I've seen this charge bandied about a lot but to me it wasn't material, this election is going to be about the future, Peter, and what we have to do is pull this country together, and I'm delighted to have the support of a man like Michael Moore, of a great American leader like Senator George McGovern, and of people from Texas like Charlie Stenholm and Former Secretary of the Navy, John Dalton. We've got support from across the breadth of the Democratic Party, because I believe this party is united in wanting to change the leadership in Washington. We're going to run an election campaign that's about the future. We're going to hold the president accountable for what he did in office and failed to do, and we're going to compare who's got the best vision for America.
PJ: Let me ask you something you mentioned then because since this question and answer in which you and Mr. Moore was involved, you've had a chance to look at the facts. Do you still feel comfortable with the fact that someone should be standing up in your president, in your presence and calling the president of the United States a deserter?
WC: To be honest with you, I did not look at the facts Peter. That's Michael Moore's opinion; he's entitled to say that, I've seen, he's not the only person who's said that. I've not followed up on those facts, and frankly it's not relevant to me and why I'm in this campaign.


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I had some fresh butternut squash and tried this recipe on a whim! – I was really excited with the turnout.
Here's what I did:
1. Coat about 2lbs of cubed butternut squash with olive oil, maple syrup, salt and pepper.
2. Roast at 350F for about 30-40min (at this point the cubes will be super tender with some good color)
3. Puree most of squash (I saved some to have as a side) in blender or simply mash with a potato masher as i did for a more rustic approach (aka I didn't want to dirty my blender ha). Put your pureed/ mashed squash to the side and create your favorite bechamel "white sauce". Mine was enough for a small batch:
a) 1/2 stick of butter melted in a heavy pot,
b) add 1/4 cup of flour (whisk this for 1 minute),
c) slowly pour in 2 cups of milk (whisking until thick). Season with salt and pepper.
d) Once thickened turn off heat and add 1 Cup sharp cheddar & 1/4 cup of grated parmesan with 1/2 about cup of your pureed squash
4. Toss with cooked pasta, you can be traditional and use macaroni or you can use farfalle like I did if you have a wild side that just cannot be tamed.
5. Top with more cheese and bake for 10-15 at 400F
I served it with the remaining roasted butternut squash and a simple side salad, it was a totally satisfying weekday dinner. I encourage you to try it, put your own twist on it and enjoy!


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I agree with Skywing, however to "piggy-back" off of what he said...
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Assuming you already know about meditation...
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For those who are looking forward to conducting aromatherapy workshops or classes, it is imperative that they know every detail about essential oils, their properties, their way of working and other technical details.
These are elements that are extracted from parts like flowers, twigs, barks, roots, wood, berries, peels, leaves, and fruits of various medicinal plants.
These elements have therapeutic or natural healing properties and are hence also regarded as medicinal oils. People undergoing treatment can enjoy their benefits by either applying them locally, or by inhaling their aroma. They generally have a calming, relaxing, and stimulating effect on humans. Besides, they also balance mood, and are good for digestion and various other biological activities.
All the clinics and spas that conduct aromatherapy treatment use these therapeutic oils. These elements come in an undiluted state and are extremely strong. Hence, it is important that they are diluted with carrier oils like grape seed, sweet almond oils, and jojoba.
Though these elements are termed as, 'essential oils' technically speaking, they are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils or oils of the plant. They are highly volatile and have a tendency of evaporating pretty quickly, and as they do so they release a strong odor. The ones that are generally used in online aromatherapy workshops or classes are prepared from peppermint, chamomile, lavender, eucalyptus, lemon, rose-geranium, and the likes.
However, it needs to be mentioned at this juncture that these oils are used in various areas and not just for aromatherapist. Some essential oil varieties are used as common food flavors and also for manufacturing toiletries, and are generally available in food stores. However, when blending for use for therapeutic treatment, an aromatherpist should purchase oils that supply detailed information, including their botanic species, chemical or chemotype composition, the producing plant organs like fruits, barks, roots, flowers etc. and other vital statistics.
Besides having a pleasing and strong odor, these oils also come up with certain properties that help to relax, by uplifting the moods. They also have other qualities that are, to say the least, simply amazing! For example, there are certain types of essential oils that help set up protection and fight against various types of infections and infectious diseases. Therefore, it can well be said that they come up with certain anti viral and anti bacterial properties as well. Some of them also have adaptogenic properties as they encourage the growth of cells, facilitate detoxification, help improve the health of skin, and also help functionality of various body organs and systems.
It is believed that these oils were discovered many years ago. Because distillation was not used in earlier times these products cannot be classified as essential oils but aromatic products. Enfleurage and the use of herbs were used for ceremonies and medicinal purposes. They were used somewhere between the late 16th and 19th Century, after which they went into a sort of oblivion only to shoot back to fame during the 1920s, thanks to Maurice Gattefosse, the French doctor who rediscovered the efficacy of these oils in treatment of various diseases and ailments.


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Pleasant Valley High School's International Baccalaureate Program presents "The Gift of Music: A Benefit Concert for and by Chico Students". The show will be held at Chico Unified School District's Center for the Arts located at PleasantValleyHigh School Thursday, September 13th at 7:00 pm. All proceeds are going to music programs in the district through the Arts for All foundation. Tickets will be sold at the door starting at 6:30 pm . For more information listeners could call the PleasantValley line at (530)891-3050.
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