At least two sources, including Upsidedownworld and Prensa Latina, report rumors of a Bush family purchase of land in northern Paraguay.

Upsidedownworld writes, on October 11:

The Governor of Alto Paraguay, Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta has admitted to hearing that George Bush Sr. owns land in the Chaco region of Paraguay, in Paso de Patria. Acosta says that rumor has it that Bush owns near to 70 thousand hectares (173,000 acres) as part of an ecological reserve and/or ranch. However, the governor said he had no documents to prove the rumor.

The skyrocketing death toll in Iraq climbs to, some estimates claim, 250,000 Iraqi civilians dead.  2,973 U.S. service personnel are dead and over 20,000 have been injured.  CBS-TV used to show the faces of U.S. service personnel who died in Iraq as a memorial tribute.  

Why was this news feature eliminated?  Could it be as the death toll of U.S. service personnel mounted, it was decided for political reasons that the practice be stopped?

When Dan Rather was banished from CBS Nightly News, Bob Schieffer was a temporary replacement until Little Mary Sunshine accepted her multi-million deal to provide balance, so to speak, to CBS Nightly News.

Katie Kouric's balancing act included in her first wonderful week interviews with Thomas Friedman, George Bush, and Rush Limbaugh.  The balance stemmed from Friedman being perceived as a "liberal".

President Bush and his Administration have been tragically misleading us.  Among the more blatant and destructive courses in this direction has been the infamous war promotion fear campaign with the "weapons of mass destruction" high voltage propaganda pitch.  

This was geared to strike fear, to rev the American public into a "fight or die" war frame.  Once the truth was revealed, once much of Iraq's infrastructure was destroyed, was there an apology for this deadly deception?

Not on your life!  The "Saddam was a bad man and we got rid of him" message was declared.  Nothing was mentioned as to why, if Saddam Hussein was such a bad man, did Daddy President Bush ask for that $3 billion loan to help Saddam buy foodstuffs during the elder president's first two years?

Then, suddenly, when we had announced we would not do anything about Saddam invading Kuwait, when Iraq felt fully justified in stopping Kuwait's oil steal through slant drilling, the Elder Bush went to war in the Gulf.

With righteous indignation, the U.S. rallied allies and the coalition managed to kill Iraqis running across the desert, many with their hands up begging to be taken prisoners, anything to escape from Saddam - a man the U.S. had supported for years with a "weapons buffet".