So just for grins, I googled "CESSPOOL", and came up with

http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle08022003.html
"My Alma Mater is a Moral Cesspool"
Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies and the University of Chicago
By FRANCIS A. BOYLE
Professor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law

"Chicago routinely trained me and numerous other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many neophyte Neo-con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. The University of Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft Police State. Attorney General John Ashcroft received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967. Many of his "lawyers" at the Department of Injustice are members of the right-wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, and totalitarian Federalist Society (aka "Feddies"), which originated in part at the University of Chicago."

"Just recently the University of Chicago officially celebrated its Bush Jr. Straussian cabal, highlighting Wolfowitz Ph.D. '72, Ahmad Chalabi, Ph.D. '69"

This is a really good article highlighting the Univ of Chicago alumni and their "principles"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/104-6381053-3439159?search-alias=aps&keywords=confessions%20on%20an%20economic%20hitman

This is an audio download, don't know why the book didn't show up on Amazon.... $9.95 takes it.

On edit: Book link and review....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452287081/sr=8-13/qid=1143372690/ref=sr_1_13/104-6381053-3439159?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin

I didn't realize it touched on the Chicago connection.

It goes to show, ideas do matter in making reality. What I wonder about is who gave Strauss the power to spread his ideas. Who were/are the money people behind the University of Chicago. This would be the 'core' or the 'turd' floating in the 'cesspool' causing the stink.

to the new up and coming lawyers. i read that speech before he was able to go thru the internet and wipe it out. thru part of it it basically said blacks had better remember the times of the 1930's and women need to learn to walk behind their man. for anything in the world i wish i had saved that article.

freedom and democracy, here and everywhere. They really give the Taliban a run for their money.