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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:25 PM
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Who has seen "Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room"?
Saw it last night. The SOB's should be in prison for life.
That includes Bush & Cheney.
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Nomad559 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:26 PM
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1. Enron Traders Caught On Tape
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 08:31 PM
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2. Yup - it was in the movie.
Since I'm in California and have gone through this - along with the
"Bush-whacking" of our governor - it just fills me with venom.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:40 PM
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4. Yea, I saw it...
I live in California so there's that AND my brother worked for Enron since before they were Enron (he was with them about 25 years). He lost all but about 10% of everything. Five years ago he was in a four bedroom house in Houston and now he's in a garage apt. What can I say that I haven't already? I've been following this thing since it happened in 2001 - basically I was obsessed (however, I let it go quite a while back). If Ken Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and Andrew Fastow don't get their due - there will without question be a special place in hell for them - it's called karma.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:07 AM
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6. I'm hoping Lay and Skilling's trials will be on Court TV in January.
It pisses me off about the ignorance of the public. How can they continue to ignore the Bush ties to big oil and Iraq and keep donating their money and children to his cause?
Totally infuriating!
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:27 PM
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3. My husband and I plan on seeing it.
But we want to wait till it comes out on DVD, and see it at home. We've pretty much stopped seeing movies in theaters: too noisy by far, too dirty, too expensive, too crowded. Stay at home, see the parts you want OVER, pay less for popcorn, no mess, no noise, no dirt...well, you get my drift! The flick looks OUTSTANDING!
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-05 09:49 PM
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5. i saw it a few weeks ago when it opened here
I thought my teenage daughter would not be interested, but she was DYING to see it, because she kept hearing Enron this and Enron that, but had no clue about what it meant, other than a crooked oil company linked to Cheney.

We were sitting right near the exit, so we were the first people out, and I said, let's look at people's faces as they walk out. Man, what a bunch of pissed off people, young and old. It will be out of DVD in plenty of time for the trial in January, and I hope it will be on PBS and Sundance and HBO and so on too.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 11:09 AM
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7. Damned bastards. They have not a care in the world what they put
the people on the West Coast through. I am thinking of the patients I saw in the Cancer center who had such difficulties in paying their electric bills and paying for treatment. I hope they all rot in the hell they deserve.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 02:24 PM
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8. I know....
the effect they had on millions of people simply can't be measured. I sometimes imagine going to the trials and screaming at them the way people got to scream at Jeffrey Dahmer. They need to be imprisioned for the rest of their lives and sentenced to hard labor-Let's just see if that happens. I bet Cheney & Bush are pulling strings behind the scenes at this moment.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 03:11 PM
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9. You 'bet your sweet bippy' they are.
Wonder where the trials will be held? Perhaps that's something we should consider doing.
Protesting and letting our angst be known.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 03:15 PM
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10. Most people also don't know arnold met with Lay aproximately one year
prior to this bullshit recall we're all suffering from now. Tell that to all the arnold-lovers out there.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 03:21 PM
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11. It sickens me everytime I see Ahnold's mug - and that of his wife.
All of the Bush-ites are laughing their way to the bank on our backs.
Amazingly, middle-America just applauds and watches Fox News and continue to send their children off to war. Still am waiting for a reporter (HA!!!) to ask Bush or Cheney why their kids are not serving their country in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Would also like to see the flag-draped coffins coming home on the nightly news like we did during the Viet Nam debacle.
That won't happen since Carl Rove and his crowd understand how to manipulate the media to serve them well. God knows they can't have anything akin to 'truth' coming out during prime time.

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