wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:08 -0700 (PDT), Jack
wrote:

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!
Former President Clinton had a pretty sweet consulting deal with Dubai
too.
And China... can you say "How much to sleep in the Rincoln bedroom?"

It is no accident that WalMart doubled it's market share in the 90s.
They are from Bentonville Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock.


Aren't republicans FOR free trade? Or is that with certain qualifiers?

NotNow wrote:
Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:25:00 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
Jim wrote:
Lu Powell wrote:
From the website of Free Library, at
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436



"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama,
for example. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her
in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood
outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority
contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from
$120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a
U.S. senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S.
senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC
Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle! But now that
Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will
remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital
enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one
explanation: Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."


Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliberton, quit to become Vice President,
but still gets "deferred compensation," bonuses and held stock
until 2006.

Halliburton received no bid contracts and cost plus contracts for
their work in the Iraq war.

Profiting from a war, especially one you were instrumental in
starting, should **** you off.

But it doesn't. Everything is Obama.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing, but it's ok now. As long
as you are a Republican, that is.

Don't be an...... Clinton used Haliburton in the Balkans too, for
the same reason.. Nobody else does what they do! Period...
That wasn't a "no bid" contract.

Who bid against them?

Like most of the criticism, the Haliburton issue is a red herring
manufactured by the opposition... Like most of these issues, they are
criminalizing "government as usual", and in this case, have done
exactly the same thing themselves... IE Tom Delay...

This is only possible because of the full support of the Media. we are
already seeing censorship and the stomping of the constitution with
new rules against criticism in the senate and senators political
speech, next it will be the rest of the media, just like I said long
ago. We are in huge trouble..

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!

There have been more investigations done on this subject than any other
since Pelosi took over and not once did anything criminal or out of
order really show up. It's just a farce perpetrated by the MSM and the
DNC... Something like 240 something investigations, all of them wasted
money...

wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:32:48 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:25:00 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
Jim wrote:
Lu Powell wrote:
From the website of Free Library, at
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436



"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama, for
example. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in
2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood
outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority
contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000
to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a U.S. senator.
Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S. senator? He sure
had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in
fact. Way to network, Michelle! But now that Mrs. Obama has
resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How
can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth
$317,000? We can think of only one explanation: Roland Burris's
wife wasn't interested."


Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliberton, quit to become Vice President,
but still gets "deferred compensation," bonuses and held stock
until 2006.

Halliburton received no bid contracts and cost plus contracts for
their work in the Iraq war.

Profiting from a war, especially one you were instrumental in
starting, should **** you off.

But it doesn't. Everything is Obama.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing, but it's ok now. As long
as you are a Republican, that is.

Don't be an...... Clinton used Haliburton in the Balkans too, for
the same reason.. Nobody else does what they do! Period...
That wasn't a "no bid" contract.
Who bid against them?
Like most of the criticism, the Haliburton issue is a red herring
manufactured by the opposition... Like most of these issues, they are
criminalizing "government as usual", and in this case, have done exactly
the same thing themselves... IE Tom Delay...

This is only possible because of the full support of the Media. we are
already seeing censorship and the stomping of the constitution with new
rules against criticism in the senate and senators political speech,
next it will be the rest of the media, just like I said long ago. We are
in huge trouble..
Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!


Former President Clinton had a pretty sweet consulting deal with Dubai
too. I see little difference between the Bushes and the Clintons.

Shhhhhhh... You are not supposed to mention that!

NotNow wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:08 -0700 (PDT), Jack
wrote:

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!
Former President Clinton had a pretty sweet consulting deal with Dubai
too.
And China... can you say "How much to sleep in the Rincoln bedroom?"

It is no accident that WalMart doubled it's market share in the 90s.
They are from Bentonville Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock.

Aren't republicans FOR free trade? Or is that with certain qualifiers?

I guess about as much as all democrats are for socialism...

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
NotNow wrote:
Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:25:00 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
Jim wrote:
Lu Powell wrote:
From the website of Free Library, at
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436



"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama,
for example. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her
in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood
outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority
contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from
$120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a
U.S. senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S.
senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC
Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle! But now that
Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will
remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital
enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one
explanation: Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."


Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliberton, quit to become Vice
President, but still gets "deferred compensation," bonuses and
held stock until 2006.

Halliburton received no bid contracts and cost plus contracts for
their work in the Iraq war.

Profiting from a war, especially one you were instrumental in
starting, should **** you off.

But it doesn't. Everything is Obama.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing, but it's ok now. As
long as you are a Republican, that is.

Don't be an...... Clinton used Haliburton in the Balkans too, for
the same reason.. Nobody else does what they do! Period...
That wasn't a "no bid" contract.

Who bid against them?

Like most of the criticism, the Haliburton issue is a red herring
manufactured by the opposition... Like most of these issues, they are
criminalizing "government as usual", and in this case, have done
exactly the same thing themselves... IE Tom Delay...

This is only possible because of the full support of the Media. we
are already seeing censorship and the stomping of the constitution
with new rules against criticism in the senate and senators political
speech, next it will be the rest of the media, just like I said long
ago. We are in huge trouble..

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!

There have been more investigations done on this subject than any other
since Pelosi took over and not once did anything criminal or out of
order really show up. It's just a farce perpetrated by the MSM and the
DNC... Something like 240 something investigations, all of them wasted
money...

That's simply not true!

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:32:48 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:25:00 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
Jim wrote:
Lu Powell wrote:
From the website of Free Library, at
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436



"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama,
for example. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her
in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood
outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority
contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from
$120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a
U.S. senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S.
senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC
Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle! But now that
Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will
remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital
enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one
explanation: Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."


Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliberton, quit to become Vice
President, but still gets "deferred compensation," bonuses and
held stock until 2006.

Halliburton received no bid contracts and cost plus contracts
for their work in the Iraq war.

Profiting from a war, especially one you were instrumental in
starting, should **** you off.

But it doesn't. Everything is Obama.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing, but it's ok now. As
long as you are a Republican, that is.

Don't be an...... Clinton used Haliburton in the Balkans too, for
the same reason.. Nobody else does what they do! Period...
That wasn't a "no bid" contract.
Who bid against them?
Like most of the criticism, the Haliburton issue is a red herring
manufactured by the opposition... Like most of these issues, they
are criminalizing "government as usual", and in this case, have done
exactly the same thing themselves... IE Tom Delay...

This is only possible because of the full support of the Media. we
are already seeing censorship and the stomping of the constitution
with new rules against criticism in the senate and senators
political speech, next it will be the rest of the media, just like I
said long ago. We are in huge trouble..
Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!


Former President Clinton had a pretty sweet consulting deal with Dubai
too. I see little difference between the Bushes and the Clintons.

Shhhhhhh... You are not supposed to mention that!

Using your previous analogy, how many criminal charges were filed?

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
NotNow wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:08 -0700 (PDT), Jack
wrote:

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!
Former President Clinton had a pretty sweet consulting deal with Dubai
too.
And China... can you say "How much to sleep in the Rincoln bedroom?"

It is no accident that WalMart doubled it's market share in the 90s.
They are from Bentonville Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock.

Aren't republicans FOR free trade? Or is that with certain qualifiers?

I guess about as much as all democrats are for socialism...

Oh, so your NOT for free trade?

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
NotNow wrote:
Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:25:00 -0400, NotNow wrote:

Just wait a frekin' minute! wrote:
Jim wrote:
Lu Powell wrote:
From the website of Free Library, at
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436



"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama,
for example. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her
in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood
outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity, and minority
contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from
$120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a
U.S. senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S.
senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC
Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle! But now that
Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will
remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital
enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one
explanation: Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."


Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliberton, quit to become Vice
President, but still gets "deferred compensation," bonuses and
held stock until 2006.

Halliburton received no bid contracts and cost plus contracts for
their work in the Iraq war.

Profiting from a war, especially one you were instrumental in
starting, should **** you off.

But it doesn't. Everything is Obama.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing, but it's ok now. As
long as you are a Republican, that is.

Don't be an...... Clinton used Haliburton in the Balkans too, for
the same reason.. Nobody else does what they do! Period...
That wasn't a "no bid" contract.

Who bid against them?

Like most of the criticism, the Haliburton issue is a red herring
manufactured by the opposition... Like most of these issues, they are
criminalizing "government as usual", and in this case, have done
exactly the same thing themselves... IE Tom Delay...

This is only possible because of the full support of the Media. we
are already seeing censorship and the stomping of the constitution
with new rules against criticism in the senate and senators political
speech, next it will be the rest of the media, just like I said long
ago. We are in huge trouble..

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!

There have been more investigations done on this subject than any other
since Pelosi took over and not once did anything criminal or out of
order really show up. It's just a farce perpetrated by the MSM and the
DNC... Something like 240 something investigations, all of them wasted
money...



You really are a delusional moron.





--
Whatever moral rules you have proposed, abide by them as they were laws,
and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them,
*unless* you are a conservative Republican office holder or minister. If
that is your position in life, then anything goes.

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:26:45 -0400, Lu Powell penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|From the website of Free Library, at
|http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436
|
|
|"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama, for example.
|The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in 2002 to run "programs
|for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff
|diversity, and minority contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary
|from $120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a U.S.
|senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S. senator? He sure
|had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way
|to network, Michelle! But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital
|says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did
|was vital enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one explanation:
|Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."
|

I can only assume it is just another example of hospitals overcharging
patients so they will have huge quantities of cash to squander in
foolish ways......



$300,000 isn't a lot in a major city for someone working as a "rainmaker."

Lu lives in a part of Florida that until recently paid teachers with
master's degrees $28,000 a year, and where a very special bit of
corruption between the local cops and infrastructure contractors has
"off duty" cops snoozing in the local government's patrol cars at the
sites "protecting" highway construction sites.

wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:46:22 -0400, NotNow wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:38:08 -0700 (PDT), Jack
wrote:

Oh, come on now. You can't possibly think that the
Bush/Cheney/Halliburtion/Dubai debacle was on the up and up. No one
except a complete opposite of Harry could think that!!!!!!
Former President Clinton had a pretty sweet consulting deal with Dubai
too.
And China... can you say "How much to sleep in the Rincoln bedroom?"
It is no accident that WalMart doubled it's market share in the 90s.
They are from Bentonville Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock.

Aren't republicans FOR free trade? Or is that with certain qualifiers?

I don't have a problem with free trade,
The real question was if this was "fair" trade.
We pile environmental, labor and safety laws on our corporations (not
a bad idea) without imposing those on the competition (the bad part),
then wonder why they kick our ass.

Ah, so then it's not free trade if we put a bunch of restrictions on it,
not is it? If the cost of environmental and safety laws make us
non-competitive in a certain sector, it's time to re-invent.

BTW this trend still continues. All of the upcoming "carbon" and
existing CFC protocols that favor countries like China and Mexico who
are largely exempt.

So? First of all that's the personification of "free trade". I take it
you really don't want free trade at all, you just don't want anyone in
the U.S. bound by any rules. Tell me, what ARE Mexico and China's
environmental, safety and labor laws anyway? Don't say they are
non-existent because that's not true.

Do you have a problem with the unions getting "busted" because all
the jobs are in China now?

Nope.