Halliburton Responds to Larry Klayman's Supersillyous Suit(My Title)

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[SierraWasp]

12:57PM Halliburton responds to Judicial Watch lawsuit (HAL) by Michael Baron Halliburton (HAL) is off 30 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $13.82, in midday action. The company is out with a press release responding to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group. The suit alleges fraudulent accounting practices at Halliburton took place during the period when current vice president Dick Cheney served as its chairman and CEO. Halliburton called the claims in the suit, "untrue, unsupported, and unfounded." The company continued: "We are working diligently with the SEC to resolve its questions regarding the company's accounting procedures. Halliburton has always followed and will continue to follow guidelines established by the SEC and GAAP, General Accepted Accounting Principles."

[A Citizen Reporter]

Fraud, did I get you correctly.....you ARE talking about Fraud and scamming honest investors, right? I wonder how many of Larry's former donors would think that they've been cheated out of their investment?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Okay, you are right, Klayman is representing two shareholders in this lawsuit, but isn't it possible for a civil lawsuit to have criminal elements involved? I think so.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Just his mom.

[terilyn]

Larry's got to keep the "cause" alive. Without a headline a month, he would whither and die. As would his fundraising.

Much like a raisin or a prune.

And we all know what raisins and prunes are good for.

[Howlin]

I'm sure it's coming.

He'll probably say he's looked back through all those votes cast in Florida and now he thinks Bush is an illegal president, Cheney being the defacto president and all.

[Fred Mertz]

You supported that crook? GOOD GRIEF.

Geez, Howlin, my point went way over your head again.

[terilyn]

Awww...I liked you better when you were a somehody.

I guess you'll have to forfeit the crown.

Any takers?

[terilyn]

Is that a blonde joke? ;)

[Howlin]

LOL.....offended?

[aruanan]

Cheney IS a player; Klayman is a wannabe.

And Klayman can be morphed into Klymer more easily than Cheney into Crook.

[terilyn]

Nah...I've got a ton of them myself! If you can't laugh at yourself you might as well throw yourself out of a window.

Our youth pastor used to e-mail them to me all the time when I was the Sunday School director.

Oh, and I also keep an arsenal of brunette jokes at my ready disposal just so I can fire back!

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Ping!

[Registered]

I wonder how many of Larry's former donors would think that they've been cheated out of their investment?

There's your class-action lawsuit. Now get to work.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

LOL!

[Howlin]

Ask your buddies over at JW -- or ask Larry himself -- why Larry thinks Cheney might be impeached over something Larry is accusing him of doing BEFORE he was vice president.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I *knew* they stole the election! Dang! Those fake conservatives! Ya just can't trust them! They obviously don't read their bible!

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Why don't you call up JW yourself. I won't waste my time over silly questions.

[Amelia]

I have never accused either you or Howlin of not possessing integrity. I understand that we will probably never have the same opinion on Judicial Watch, but I will not judge what is going on in your heart or your intentions.

Yes, dear, but let me try to type slowly and carefully, and you try to read slowly and carefully, and let's see if you can understand what I'm trying to say.

Larry Klayman has accused Vice-President Cheney of doing bad things. Right now, there is little or no evidence that Klayman is right, and there is some evidence that Cheney is innocent of Klayman's charges. Keep this in mind.

The charges will affect Cheney's reputation in the eyes of some people, just because the major media is reporting them. So it's possible that a good man's reputation is being tarnished, even though right now there is no evidence he did anything wrong. Some people will always believe he did, even if it's later proven that he didn't.

If the lawsuit continues, it will have to be fought in court. Halliburton and Cheney are probably having to pay lawyers now, and certainly will have to later. So it's not only damaging their reputation, it's damaging them financially.

If Halliburton is damaged financially, so will innocent stockholders be damaged - even if Larry's lawsuit isn't true. The stockholders are not all rich people.

Do you think it's right that all of these people might be hurt, are being hurt now, when all of the currently available evidence shows that there is no basis for this lawsuit?

Do you think it's fair to damage someone's reputation, just because you might find they did something wrong? Shouldn't you have a pretty good idea there is wrongdoing before you do something like that?

[deport]

What's the next major announcement coming from the watch or your buds over there and when? Got any ideas?

[Howlin]

Confess! You were one of those Florida voters who marked the wrong hole, aren't you?