Cities vie for Bush library and Laura Bush "literacy center"

If Texas Tech and Midland College are chosen as the site for the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Laura Welch Bush Center for Early Literacy, the college has committed $15 million to the project.

Private money would be solicited for the venture; however, no fund-raising would start until a location is selected for the library, Midland College President David Daniel said....

"Today, I very humbly tell you don't bet against us," he said during a press conference at City Hall. "We're in a horse race. We're down to the wire."

Cost of the George W. Bush Presidential Library is about $500 million, Miller said. He said $102 million has been raised so far, with $50 million coming from the city of Lubbock. Fundraising has stopped for now until a site is announced, Miller said.

http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15542265&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475626&rfi=6

That is one place I will never visit. BTW...great pic of Laura. Gave me the heebie jeebies!!

What a bizarro woman...

She would have looked better blinking....

How many coloring books can one man possibly own?

that sure is a lot of coloring books.

....Pop-Up books, too! :rofl:

Bush has to have the two most important books to why he's anywhere in life:

1) My Pet Goat

2) The Bible

It only needs to have preschool books and a few coloring in books.
Don't forget the crayons.

Er, I mean draw to. ;-)
(I've seen 'em before but never at the same time!)

learn to smile like that.

Every day is Halloween!

What's next? The Strom Thurmon Equal Rights Museum? The Judge Ito School of Judge Training? T. Ownes School of Sportmanship?

If the sites are all in Texas, I can avoid going there.

.... and then an Integrity Center and Ethics Center.

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Always having to up do Clinton I guess. :shrug: Just like daddy. How much does daddy's cost?

obscene presidential "libraries." Enough, already. Put the records in the National Archives and stop building and maintaining monstrous piles in memory of the second-rate leaders of what is fast becoming a third-rate country.

All this phony grandeur.

A $500 million dollar library to store an empty warhead's emptiness.
go figure!

freakiness shining through? :yoiks:

...when Bush has pretty much sealed everything generated during his Presidency for the foreseeable future, and there are only two books he's been known to read, and one of those was My Pet Goat.

$500 million for that?? Wow.

'Bout damn time.

So I wonder where the Iraq masacure section will be. Excuse me while I barf. :puke:

:wow:

:rofl:

I pray for Texas. One of the most beautiful places on earth.