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Posted on 07/10/2002 11:04:03 AM PDT by 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."
Larry just didn't get his application in on time and he won't admit it.
If Thoreau really wished to live a full life, why did he go to live by himself in a $29 shack by a pond? Why didn't he ever get married, have a steady job, or pay his poll tax? The man was looney and a wannabe Emerson.
Is that what Larry told you??
Let me guess...you are a big fan of Walt Whitman too?
I am currently investigating each of those questions. Along those same lines:
Have YOU ever gotten married?
Do YOU have a steady job?
Have YOU ever paid a poll tax?
The man was looney . . .
By the way, does YOUR shack have a pond?
I guess I just don't like his poetry because I don't agree with Transcendentalism.
Those Transcendentalists wrote some pretty scary poetry. For example, one of Walt Whitman's greatest poetic works was about how he stalked Abraham Lincoln's coffin all over America and then found comfort in smelling Lilacs, sort of like Ferdinand the Bull. It was one of the funniest poems I have ever read.
I shall find out myself when I stop by the library in Concord. Tonight I'm shoveling manure.
I personally liked the Transcendentalist-pessimists, like Hawthorne and Poe.
And if you ever get to the earlier American writers, I personally believe that John Smith's journals were greatly exaggerated and that James Fennimore Cooper's stories stunk.
Well, you have come to the right place! There's a lot of it on this thread!
You'll grow out of it, if you haven't already.
What? Learning something new everyday?
I don't think I will ever grow out of that. Learning new things every day is a definite intellectual turn-on for me.
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