Enron?  What id Lay know and when did he know it and how close was Kenny Boy to Bush?
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Boy, am I not convinced by his "I was too busy running the company to run the company" answers. At best, he plugged his ears and went "nyah, nyah, nyah" whenever he heard about something that didn't seem right, and is guilty (morally and legally) by default. At worst he was an active participant.\n\nWhile I don't think he and Bush had anything illicit going on, they certainly knew each other socially. Bush probably was too busy running the country to pay much attention to him during the funny business.\n\nHe's gonna go down.
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Yes Mike, it's all very well about trust, but what happened in 1929?   Something similar may happen soon.   9/11 set the process in motion; Bush is carrying it further.  Thank goodness I'm a poor man, with little to lose.  You rich people had better buy gold or Chinese currency soonest.\nQuestioner bulabate is very near the mark when he talks about printing money - whose head is in the sand - his or Mike Gilbert's?  I reckon your's Mike, rather than bula's, not that I know much about the subject : in fact I don't think anyone does; not even Alan Greenspan.
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Uh, where did you find out this secret 'fact' about Bush wanting Ken Lay as energy secretary? The only place that has this is www.thedailyfarce.com - a spoof newspaper.\n\nAnd where do you get the mistaken idea that 'Big Oil' (ooooh, how scary!) is in charge of our energy policies? \n\nDo you loopy lefties know just how ignorant you sound?
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How much intelligence do you expect from this man.. He's bush!
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All of the above.  El Presidente Jorge Bush and Fox are on the same page.  We get his poor, that he sends here for slave labor, and they bring him our money.  In return we will get their energy.  And we all know how much Cheney loves energy.  In a few months, we will have a major energy crisis, just like the trumped up one in California before 911 that Enron was going to help with.  I see Cheney's hands all over this.
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Enron operated illegally and look what happened to them.
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this is to much but I'm sure bush have dirty hands in all of this enron stuff
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Again... "moral Republican" is an oxymoron... just ask Abramoff... \nBush is just looking for excuses to stir the pot in middle east so his oil stocks will go up... he's doing a very good job...
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With Bush at the wheel, who knows?
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Lay's money is protected in lawsuit proof investments according to an article in Mother Jones. \n\n\nhttp://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/02/enron_insure.html
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There has to be a name change since SBC doesn't exist anymore.  Same as when PacBell "disappeared".\n\nHey!  Enron's not taken!
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The fundamental difficulty was the rising stock market and unbridled greed driven by novice investors. Enron took advantage of the market environment and created numbers that looked tasty and sexy to the market. \n\nDriven by a desire for quick gains, people and institutions bought in to it which encouraged further fabrication. Similar to TYCO, there was also the use of complicated accounting and multilevel partnerships and subsidiaries, which made the paper and profit trail hard to analyze.
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This is nothing.  Just wait until you see the HUGE long list of Presidential pardons he will spew out in the last few days of his presidency.  I bet on that list will be all the Enron executives and all the crooked corporate executives who robbed and cheated their way into millions of dollars of shareholders' money. The stuff he is trying to push through Congress before he is tossed out will be nothing by comparison. Expect to see hundreds of criminals get presidential pardons in the final hours of his term in office.
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Who's Georgie Boy?\n\nThat's a first!\n\nI heard "Dubya" (southerners use that).\n\nI use "W", for what,where, when, who and why...he's a never ending question.  \n\nMaybe there's a link to "Kenny Boy".  You remember, Ken Lay, the guy who watched the house of cards come tumbling down, called Enron.  George used to call him "Kenny Boy" because he could rely on him for generous political contributions.\n\nYes the Republicans are going down to defeat, the polls won't lie!\n\nYes it's going to be lame ducks Cheney and Bush and his pal Veto Corleone...maybe they'll all go out hunting together (wishful thinking, my money's on Dead Eye Cheney!).\n\nYep, I agree.  \n\nAmericans must understand by their personas, we invite either hatred or friendship from other peoples, so elect wisely!
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Originally a barefoot Swaziland native turn Lousiana State University law school graduate in 1984, Ms. Martin-Brock served as an attorney with Enron's law firm of Vinson & Elkins.  She joined Enron in 1991.  \n\nBy 1995, Ms. Martin-Brock was operating and managing Enron’s worldwide assets through the Enron Capital and Trade Resources, where she served as managing director and through Enron Global Power and Pipeline, where she served as senior vice president.  Enron described this position as involving "commercial responsibility for integration with Portland General Corporation."  In 1998, she was named Houston’s top businesswoman in the city’s thriving energy industry.  \n\nBy 1999, Ms. Martin-Brock served as CEO/President of Azurix, which had total assets of nearly $4 billion.  Azurix Corp. was a division of Enron Corporation formed by purchasing Wessex Water under Rebecca Mark, a high-powered Enron International executive.  The company was formed with an IPO of $800 million and an opening stock price of $22.00, which fell to $2.00 within two years.  The Azurix failure contributed to falling market confidence in Enron.\n\nUnofficially, Ms. Martin-Brock was rumored to have a long-running, (some have described as "obscene") office affair with Kenneth Rice, one of Skilling’s top executives running Enron's failing broadband unit.  When she was reassigned to Rebecca Mark’s operation to be her aid and assistant, rumors began that Ms. Martin-Brock was a spy for Skilling even though she denied these rumors.  However, she blew the whistle on Mark for overpaying for a UK water utility company, run by Mark’s fiancé.  Ms. Martin-Brock then urged Enron’s legal counsel to probe into Mark’s conflict of interest and, subsequently, the deal fell apart. \n\nIn January 2006, Ms. Martin-Brock was included as a potential witness in the Enron trials.\n\nCurrently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and continues to donate to her alma mater, LSU.
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Probably a half hour ask bush
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WHAT DRUGS???? Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow.\n\nOriginally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse.  According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates.