It's true! They both are members of the skull and bones. Does anyone know anything about this society er group er cult?
IT's a 'secret' fraternity at Yale. Other Ivy League schools have different ones. They really are very secret and not too much is known about them by people outside of the fraternity.
Hell that's why Republicans hated Clinton so much. He wasn't a Skull and Bones-er...he was a Skull and Boner!.
oh yeah, Bush Sr. is also a stonemason (or freemason) as well as some of the people on his staff that are also on bush jr.s staff. edit: i think im getting confused with the simpsons, what a great episode
Bush keeps mum about college secret society 1 hour, 37 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush discussed Iraq, the November elections and the war on terrorism in an interview but laughingly stonewalled a question about his university secret society. "It's so secret, we can't talk about it," he told NBC television when asked about the fact that both he and the Democratic frontrunner, Senator John Kerry, are members of Yale University's Skull and Bones. Though they graduated just two years apart and the society reportedly only inducts 15 new "Bonesmen" a year, Bush curtly denied knowing his rival during their time in college. Bush's father, former president George Bush, and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, were also members, sworn to secrecy about the goings-on in their mausoleum-like headquarters on the school's urban campus. Other members reportedly include another previous president, William Howard Taft; Vietnam war-era White House adviser McGeorge Bundy; and financier and diplomat W. Averell Harriman. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040208/en_afp/us_vote_bush_secret_040208222207
My position on this kind of thing is similar to my position on ghosts, UFOs, etc. Intellectually I see no basis to dismiss the possibility that there is truth behind the perceived myth, and can even see reasons to suppose it has merit... ...yet in every actual incident where it is raised, something inside me automatically goes . Not saying that is the right way to react, might even be admitting it's the wrong way, but there it is. Anyone else like this?
My brother was in Book and Snake at Yale. The societies really aren't that big a deal these days. What they're really good for is networking. Or scoring great seats to the Opera or Yankees game or something...often when alums have season tix to something and aren't using them they'll give them to the society...that kind of thing. They do have really cool houses...called crypts or tombs...
When I was a kid, about 7 or 8, I wanted to be a detective according to the books I was reading. I had a few friends who were mildly so inclined, and I convinced them to form a Detective Club with me. We did all kinds of training, I even studied fingerprints, etc. I don't know what bearing it had, but we practiced sneaking up on the soldiers training in military games in the local park, and got several in trouble by getting to them unnoticed...We established a clubhouse, put out flyers and posters,and sat back and waited for the 'cases' to come rolling in. If memory serves, there was a girl who had lost her cat. We didn't have any luck with that case. I don't recall there being any others. That's the extent of my experience with clubs. Did I miss anything?
"They were into that whole Yale thing." "What whole Yale thing?" "Well, they were probably closet homosexuals who did a lot of cocaine. That whole Yale thing."
