Ask AG Gonzalez, Bud McFarlane, and start asking Karl Rove no matter how devious he is. Mark Hanna wannabes end up like Machiavelli...powerless and broke.
These emails never go away. NEVER! NEVER! EVER! They are the metaphysical answer to the eternal question that has beguiled philosophers for centurys.
EMAILS MAKE IDEAS REAL AND THEY LAST FOREVER IN THE ETHER OF CYBER WORLD. THE EMAILS SPREAD IN HARDDRIVES AND DISKS AD INFINITUM. THEY MORPH INTO BLOGS AND ZIP DRIVES UNTIL THEY DISAPPEAR INTO THE FILES OF INVESTIGATORS ONLY TO RE-EMERGE IN THE PARAGRAPHS OF SUBPEONAS OR THE DIATRABES OF PONTIFICATING FOOLS ON TELEVISION.
No these emails would even got President Ronald Reagan when they were merely black and white screens with DOS programs ruling the roost and IRAN-Contra Deals were running amuk! Does KARL ROVE really think he has the gravitas of the Cowboy from Brentwood? He's really just the terd blossom from the east texas shit patch;)
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
IRAQ WAR: MARCH 18, 2007
U.S. TROOPS KILLED: 3,192
U.S. TROOPS WOUNDED: 24,042
COST: $350,000,000,000
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS: 55,000
SOURCES: DOD, Congressional Budget Office, AP
U.S. TROOPS WOUNDED: 24,042
COST: $350,000,000,000
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS: 55,000
SOURCES: DOD, Congressional Budget Office, AP
Monday, March 12, 2007
Cheney's Halliburton bids The U.S.A. Good Bye for Dubai! Is That Being "ALL AMERICAN?"
IN A MOVE LIKE JANE FONDA GOING TO NORTH VIETNAM in the middle of a WAR,The Halliburton Co., Former CEO, Vice President Dick Cheney's firm, the #1 rebuilding agent in the Iraq War, IS MOVING ITS HEADQUARTERS TO DUBAI, IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES PERMANENTLY FROM ITS GOOD OLE' HOME IN TEXAS!???
THAT'S DOWN RIGHT UNAMERICAN TO ME! SHAME ON YOU DICK CHENEY!
Halliburton to open new HQ in Dubai
CEO will be based in new facility; move immediately sparks criticism
March 12, 2007
MANAMA/HOUSTON - U.S. oil services firm Halliburton Co. is moving its headquarters and chief executive to Dubai in a move that immediately sparked criticism from some U.S. politicians.
Texas-based Halliburton, which was led by Vice President Dick Cheney from 1995-2000, did not specify what, if any, tax implications the move might entail. It plans to list on a stock exchange in the Middle East once it moves to Dubai — a booming commercial center in the Gulf. The company said it was making the moves to position itself better to gain contracts in the oil-rich Middle East.
“This is an insult to the U.S. soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years,” said judiciary committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat.
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, might hold a hearing on the implications, an aide to Waxman said.
Halliburton has drawn scrutiny from auditors, congressional Democrats and the Justice Department for the quality and pricing of its KBR Inc. unit’s work for the U.S. army in Iraq.
“My office will be in Dubai, and I will run our entire worldwide operations from that office,” Chief Executive David Lesar said at an energy conference in Bahrain on Sunday. “Dubai is a great business center.”
Halliburton, which has long been involved in the Middle East, generated more than 38 percent of its $13 billion in oil-services revenue in the eastern hemisphere last year.
Middle East growth“The company as a whole has continued to diversify internationally, and the Middle East is a point that they have targeted,” said William Sanchez, a U.S.-based analyst at Howard Weil Inc.
“They are being opportunistic in putting the CEO in the middle of the action.”
Sanchez said he believed Halliburton’s move to Dubai was not tax related. Instead he viewed it as a strategic play.
Alan Laws, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, said the move would likely help Halliburton’s position in negotiating large contracts. Halliburton said it would maintain its legal registration in the United States and was not leaving Houston, where it was currently based. But Lesar told reporters: “At this point in time we clearly see there are greater opportunities in the eastern hemisphere than the western hemisphere.” KBR, the engineering and military-services contractor unit that Halliburton is in the process of splitting off, is the Pentagon’s largest contractor in Iraq. KBR has so far booked more than $20 billion in revenues from its work in Iraq and has been the target of several investigations into the company’s billing practices. It has also faced complaints from some U.S. lawmakers about the company’s close ties to the Bush administration. Oil and gas service companies have raised prices for their services over the past two years as the sector strains to bring enough capacity on line to meet rapidly rising oil demand. Many new supply projects are in the oil-producing countries of the Middle East, while Asia accounts for most of the rising demand.
In contrast, a slide in natural gas prices in the United States has prompted investor concerns that oil and gas companies might cut back spending in North America. Lesar also said he expected the price of oil to stay above $40 a barrel, providing good conditions for future investment in the oil and gas industry.
THAT'S DOWN RIGHT UNAMERICAN TO ME! SHAME ON YOU DICK CHENEY!
Halliburton to open new HQ in Dubai
CEO will be based in new facility; move immediately sparks criticism
March 12, 2007
MANAMA/HOUSTON - U.S. oil services firm Halliburton Co. is moving its headquarters and chief executive to Dubai in a move that immediately sparked criticism from some U.S. politicians.
Texas-based Halliburton, which was led by Vice President Dick Cheney from 1995-2000, did not specify what, if any, tax implications the move might entail. It plans to list on a stock exchange in the Middle East once it moves to Dubai — a booming commercial center in the Gulf. The company said it was making the moves to position itself better to gain contracts in the oil-rich Middle East.
“This is an insult to the U.S. soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years,” said judiciary committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat.
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, might hold a hearing on the implications, an aide to Waxman said.
Halliburton has drawn scrutiny from auditors, congressional Democrats and the Justice Department for the quality and pricing of its KBR Inc. unit’s work for the U.S. army in Iraq.
“My office will be in Dubai, and I will run our entire worldwide operations from that office,” Chief Executive David Lesar said at an energy conference in Bahrain on Sunday. “Dubai is a great business center.”
Halliburton, which has long been involved in the Middle East, generated more than 38 percent of its $13 billion in oil-services revenue in the eastern hemisphere last year.
Middle East growth“The company as a whole has continued to diversify internationally, and the Middle East is a point that they have targeted,” said William Sanchez, a U.S.-based analyst at Howard Weil Inc.
“They are being opportunistic in putting the CEO in the middle of the action.”
Sanchez said he believed Halliburton’s move to Dubai was not tax related. Instead he viewed it as a strategic play.
Alan Laws, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, said the move would likely help Halliburton’s position in negotiating large contracts. Halliburton said it would maintain its legal registration in the United States and was not leaving Houston, where it was currently based. But Lesar told reporters: “At this point in time we clearly see there are greater opportunities in the eastern hemisphere than the western hemisphere.” KBR, the engineering and military-services contractor unit that Halliburton is in the process of splitting off, is the Pentagon’s largest contractor in Iraq. KBR has so far booked more than $20 billion in revenues from its work in Iraq and has been the target of several investigations into the company’s billing practices. It has also faced complaints from some U.S. lawmakers about the company’s close ties to the Bush administration. Oil and gas service companies have raised prices for their services over the past two years as the sector strains to bring enough capacity on line to meet rapidly rising oil demand. Many new supply projects are in the oil-producing countries of the Middle East, while Asia accounts for most of the rising demand.
In contrast, a slide in natural gas prices in the United States has prompted investor concerns that oil and gas companies might cut back spending in North America. Lesar also said he expected the price of oil to stay above $40 a barrel, providing good conditions for future investment in the oil and gas industry.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Beware the Wrath of the Clinton Machine
David Geffen's gonna get it. Give it time. He can't just be humiliated immediately. He's too hot right now. Wait until he cools off. He'll wish that he never publicly attacked the Clintons. The minions will do their bidding, and it will never be known by anyone exactly who, what, where when, why, how or what happened...but it will happen. And when Geffen takes the two or three dozen eggs in his face, the Clintons will have not only "plausible denial", but they may even believe that they had nothing to do with "ridding themselves of this burdensome bishop."
As for Mr. Speilberg, well, let's just say, he's not as hot as Mr. Geffen, and the WH certainly doesn't want anyone but Hillary getting the Democratic Nomination...Isn't that correct my favorite suburbanite from Montgomery County with his venomous television show???
Stolen Rockwell Painting Found in Steven Spielberg's Collection
Saturday , March 03, 2007
LOS ANGELES — A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, the FBI announced Friday.
The painting, Rockwell's "Russian Schoolroom," was snatched during a late-night burglary at a gallery in Clayton, Mo., on June 25, 1973. The Oscar-winning filmmaker purchased the painting in 1989 from a legitimate dealer and didn't know it was stolen until last week, the FBI said in a statement.
Spielberg's staff alerted federal authorities, and an FBI agent and an art expert inspected the painting at one of Spielberg's offices and confirmed its authenticity Friday morning. Early FBI estimates put the painting's value at $700,000, officials said.
A message left with Spielberg's publicist was not immediately returned.
The oil-on-canvas painting shows children in a classroom with a bust of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. Spielberg is cooperating with the FBI and will retain possession of the Russian Schoolroom until its "disposition can be determined," the bureau said.
In 2004, the FBI's newly formed Art Crime Team initiated an investigation to recover the work.
Mary Ellen Shortland worked at the long-closed Clayton Art Gallery when the painting was stolen 34 years ago. She recalled Friday that the gallery was holding a Rockwell exhibit, mainly of lithographs, at the time. The gallery's parent company, Circle Fine Art in Chicago, arranged for the Rockwell original to be on hand to draw visitors to the show, she said.
Shortland said a Missouri client bought the painting for $25,000, but agreed to let it remain on display, as it had been advertised as part of the show. Just a few nights later, someone smashed the gallery's glass door and escaped with the painting.
"That was all they took. That's what they wanted, that painting," Shortland recalled.
The gallery refunded the client's money, and there was no sign of the work for years. Then in 1988, it was auctioned in New Orleans. "It sold for $70,400 and a 10 percent buyer's premium," Pero said.
Shortland recalled that she saw the painting again in an advertisement for a small New York gallery, since closed, about 15 years ago. She said she contacted Circle, but "Russian Schoolroom" was not recovered. Shortland, now the owner of Creative Art Gallery and Picture Framing, estimated that the painting could be worth "hundreds of thousands of dollars" today, if it is in excellent condition.
Rockwell's work often resonates with people because much of it captures moments from everyday life, such as a boy watching his father shave, family members saying grace over a Thanksgiving turkey or a young girl having a dress fitting.
The artist died at age 84 in 1978. While "Russian Schoolroom" appeared in Look magazine, the artist is best known for the covers he did for The Saturday Evening Post. More than 300 Rockwell creations appeared on the cover of the publication.
As for Mr. Speilberg, well, let's just say, he's not as hot as Mr. Geffen, and the WH certainly doesn't want anyone but Hillary getting the Democratic Nomination...Isn't that correct my favorite suburbanite from Montgomery County with his venomous television show???
Stolen Rockwell Painting Found in Steven Spielberg's Collection
Saturday , March 03, 2007
LOS ANGELES — A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, the FBI announced Friday.
The painting, Rockwell's "Russian Schoolroom," was snatched during a late-night burglary at a gallery in Clayton, Mo., on June 25, 1973. The Oscar-winning filmmaker purchased the painting in 1989 from a legitimate dealer and didn't know it was stolen until last week, the FBI said in a statement.
Spielberg's staff alerted federal authorities, and an FBI agent and an art expert inspected the painting at one of Spielberg's offices and confirmed its authenticity Friday morning. Early FBI estimates put the painting's value at $700,000, officials said.
A message left with Spielberg's publicist was not immediately returned.
The oil-on-canvas painting shows children in a classroom with a bust of communist leader Vladimir Lenin. Spielberg is cooperating with the FBI and will retain possession of the Russian Schoolroom until its "disposition can be determined," the bureau said.
In 2004, the FBI's newly formed Art Crime Team initiated an investigation to recover the work.
Mary Ellen Shortland worked at the long-closed Clayton Art Gallery when the painting was stolen 34 years ago. She recalled Friday that the gallery was holding a Rockwell exhibit, mainly of lithographs, at the time. The gallery's parent company, Circle Fine Art in Chicago, arranged for the Rockwell original to be on hand to draw visitors to the show, she said.
Shortland said a Missouri client bought the painting for $25,000, but agreed to let it remain on display, as it had been advertised as part of the show. Just a few nights later, someone smashed the gallery's glass door and escaped with the painting.
"That was all they took. That's what they wanted, that painting," Shortland recalled.
The gallery refunded the client's money, and there was no sign of the work for years. Then in 1988, it was auctioned in New Orleans. "It sold for $70,400 and a 10 percent buyer's premium," Pero said.
Shortland recalled that she saw the painting again in an advertisement for a small New York gallery, since closed, about 15 years ago. She said she contacted Circle, but "Russian Schoolroom" was not recovered. Shortland, now the owner of Creative Art Gallery and Picture Framing, estimated that the painting could be worth "hundreds of thousands of dollars" today, if it is in excellent condition.
Rockwell's work often resonates with people because much of it captures moments from everyday life, such as a boy watching his father shave, family members saying grace over a Thanksgiving turkey or a young girl having a dress fitting.
The artist died at age 84 in 1978. While "Russian Schoolroom" appeared in Look magazine, the artist is best known for the covers he did for The Saturday Evening Post. More than 300 Rockwell creations appeared on the cover of the publication.
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