400 Texas Mayors Endorse Baylor as Bush Library Site (LOL)

[mobuto]

WACO -- Some 400 Texas mayors want the George W. Bush presidential library to be built at Baylor University, school officials said today.

Baylor is one of several institutions seeking to be the site of the library, a decision Bush is expected to make after leaving office.

Other contenders are the city of Arlington, where Bush was managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team before he was elected governor; the University of Texas at Austin; SMU in Dallas, the first lady's alma mater; Texas A&M and Texas Tech universities.

In October, 100 mayors said they endorsed Baylor as the library site. A month later, Baylor formed a 50-person national steering committee for planning and fund-raising in hopes that the library will locate there.

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2468293

George Bush should probably start thinking about the site of his Presidential Library pretty quick. He doesn't have that much time left, and its sure going to be hard to find a site in Texas with enough room to store all his books. So where should the Bush library be?

[xray s]

1. How many book can a guy who doesn't read have?

[Jack Rabbit]

8. But he colors them!

!!

[Supormom]

10. Now if we only we had a library for all of the anti-bush* books

that have been written!

[moondust]

24. They'll all fit nicely into a bathroom someplace.

n/t

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. They should consider "Reichstag" as an architectual model for....

the Bush Library!

[0007]

7. I'd vote for Baghdad as a good place for junior's library.

[Eye and Monkey]

3. 400 Texas mayors endorse Bush library, billions of flies endorse feces.

More-or-less the same thing, isn't it?

[jo35042]

35. Thanks for the big laugh

before I call it a day. roflmao:bounce:

[Eye and Monkey]

36. cheers.

[mhr]

4. Baylor, Out of Sight And Out Of Mind, Could Not Choose A Better Setting!

eom

[DemoTex]

5. Amen!

Although I'll vacate the neighborhood on 4/28, I don't want his stench anywhere near SMU.

[woofless]

6. Are they sure they have room for BOTH books?

[Mokito]

38. What !? There are TWO (!) books?

Shit...back to the drawing board.

[buff2]

9. It should be in the far corner of a basement

in an elementary school. All he needs is enough room for "The Hungry Caterpiller"....and.....oh yes.....his Bible. :puke:

[Supormom]

11. Are you sure

he actually owns a Bible? I thought he got by on with quoting Pat Robertson.

[UpInArms]

13. here's another of his favorite books

[peterh]

12. what the hey….

A university that believes in fairy tales housing a site chock full of fairy tales….makes sense to me…

[jobycom]

14. Surely there's an outhouse behind a prison somewhere.

Failing that, Baylor is as good a place as any. The home of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, the most notorius basketball team in the NCAA, and a chunk of Ted Nugent's leg, seems like the right collection of tragic oddballs to make W feel at home after he gets out of jail.

And the town is pronounced Waco, with a long A. Not a short a, as seems more appropriate.

Oh yeah, and the Texas Rangers Museum is in Waco, so Bush can brag about how he used to own them, until someone points out it isn't the baseball team.

[Redbear]

15. Hey I live here.

We are quite proud of our tragic oddballs.

[mark11727]

19. I passed through Waco eleven years ago...

...had lunch at the IHOP there, and walked by the Texas Rangers Museum.

It seemed like a nice enough place.

A week later, Koresh's place burned down.

Back on topic --- put Bush's Library spang in the middle of his Crawford ranch.

It's not like anyone ('cept pubbies) are going there anyway.

[jobycom]

20. I guess you'd have to be

Or you'd just weep all day.

I live right down the interstate from there, so Waco's family, in an odd sort of way. So I can pick on ya'll! :-)

[TheDonkey]

16. Under the Rio Grande

no one needs to be bothered by bush trash.

[Cassandra]

17. How much room does he need for...

the Very Hungry Caterpillar or a book on goats?

[ironflange]

25. Don't forget. . .

Goodnight Moon, but not the pop-up edition. That one gets him too excited, then he can't get to sleep.

[Eye and Monkey]

18. Baylor denies professors hurt - they weren't sufficiently devout (link)

University accused of putting religion above academics
Baylor denies professors hurt because they weren't sufficiently devout

In the past year, a Waco attorney estimates she's been contacted by more than a dozen Baylor University professors and lecturers alleging they were victims of a new emphasis on religion.

They range from a professor contending he was denied tenure because of circumstances concerning his divorce to a chaplain alleging censorship to others complaining of job applicants losing out because they weren't sufficiently devout.

"I believe the past year indicates that we're heading in a direction different from our historic path,"says Michael Bishop, chairman of the journalism department and former vice president for communications. "Suddenly, religious credentials are more important than academic credentials."

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/96/09/16/baylor.html

[Endangered Specie]

21. Be one small ass library thats for sure

[DenverDem]

22. As long as they keep this shit out of Austin, I don't care where

they put it.

The campus of a southern baptist pac paramillitary school seems fairly appropriate place to put a neofascist zionist temple.

[Dover]

23. Well I know one Goat Book that will live in infamy.

I wonder where that book is now? I'd like to read it...it must have been absolutely riveting to keep Bush's mind off the collapsing towers in NYC...

Maybe they ought to build a shrine for that book where the towers once stood...rather than a library.

[daleo]

26. Yes, "The Pet Goat"

It is the only book needed in the Bush Library - it will tell future historians all they need to know.

[Dover]

31. Indeed. Have you read the story?

I never heard anyone talk about the story and can't find the book for sale on Amazon. Just curious....

[daleo]

37. It is on my list of things to do

Seriously, I have also heard some people mention something called "The Hungry Caterpillar" in this connection as well.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

39. I used to read "The Hungry Caterpillar"

to my younger sister before bedtime. So that one exists at least.

[daleo]

41. The Pet Goat may have been a story written by a child

It may have been written by one of the kids at the school, and therefore not an actual published book. But that is just a vague memory and may be incorrect.

[mouse7]

27. Library? Wouldn't Bush library fit in a bookbag?

They could just throw the Bush Presidential Bookbag in front of a desk at the regular Baylor library during open hours, and store it in a bookbag slot at the Baylor student bookstore when it closed.

[drhilarius]

28. actually it'll be the "Dubya Libary"

[bluestateguy]

29. Baylor can have Baby Bush's coloring books, we don't want them in Austin

We have a REAL presidential library in Austin that is a national treasure.

[tlcandie]

30. Put it in west Texas on a site that is no longer viable for anything

due to all the oil and salt water spilled on the ground. There is nothing there but dust, oil, salt, tumbleweeds, some Mesquite SHRUBS, all kinds of bugs, lots of HOT AIR, and the like. It would do justice to his tenure as a toxic Texan and pResident.

Find some funky named small Texas town in no-man's land.. That's my suggestion and I'm sticking to it!

EDIT: Here Big Stinking Creek, Texas works for me!

http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasPanhandleTowns/BigStinkingCreekTexas/BigStinkingCreek.htm

Second EDIT: It might even create some jobs there!!! :wow:

[Dover]

32. How about a toxic waste site?

I think that ought to be Bush's fate....to be a janitor at a toxic waste site. He and his junta are toxic and dangerous...

[tlcandie]

34. I would go for that!!!!

Best idea yet Dover!

[Bozita]

33. Will they pass out the crayons at the library ... or will visitors ....

...be asked to bring their own?

[PurityOfEssence]

40. I believe that's pronounced "LIE-BERRY", and spelled "Lie Bury"

Should be able to break ground in about 10 months now...

[Terran]

42. Why don't they just be realistic and forget the library thing

Bush would prefer a Presidential tavern, or a Presidential pool hall, I'm sure.