3/26    HAL isn't moving much.  I'd think that with Cheney funneling Iraqi
        oil contracts to HAL it'd get a bit boost.  But no, the stock is
        trading sideways.
        \_ Everyone's holding their breath to see if HAL gets away with it
           or if people are going to wake up and torch HAL hq.
        \_ get away with what?  there is no other company in
           in the universe with more experience with putting out
           oil well fires after a gulf war, the present and future
           oil well fires need to be extinguished immediately,
           even if the Pentagon had put it all out to bid, Halliburton
           would have won anyway.  can you think of any other company
           in the world with enough experience for this, except
           that tiny Texas company that was in that John Wayne movie? - danh
           \_ Well, there's the Kuwaiti company that first arrived on the
              scene. --dim
              \- well some eastern european companies emerged after the
                 first gulf war, including one that moreor less strapped
                 a MIG engine to a tractor and used it to blow out (smaller)
                 oil fires. --psb
           \_ Halliburton is just going to contract it out to KRB which is
              going to contract it out to Boots and Coots.
              \_ I don't care who they sub-contract it to as long as my man
                 Cheney gets the fat check.
                 \_ I'm against all forms of government corruption but your
                    mindless ranting makes you look like an ignorant kook.
                    Cheney doesn't get a frickin penny from any of this beyond
                    his paycheck for being US VP.  He doesn't have a financial
                    interest in Halliburton or any other company now.
                    \_ Check your facts. Cheney still gets at least $1M
                       annually from HAL...and that's just what's on the
                       books. Your final sentence, though...wow...I mean,
                       there's just no hope for accountability if you really
                       believe that.
                        \_ got a url for the above?
                           \_ Cheney gets money from HAL, but it is just
                              deferred compensation from when he worked
                              there. They are paying his bonus out to him
                              over a number of years rather than all at
                              once. --dim
                              \_ don't bring facts into this.  they said he's
                                 part of some criminal conspiracy to raise
                                 the stock price so he can line his pockets so
                                 it must be so just because.
                    \_ You really believe that?
                       \_ Yes.  Prove it wrong.
                    \_ Yea, he is just helping his old buddies, so they can
                       help him back once he no longer holds the post of VP.
                       \_ Maybe, maybe not.  More likely not given his age and
                          health.