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

CBS Market Watch "Big Charts" Web Site ^ | 7/10/2002 | MarketWatch.com

[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."

[Amelia]

Reading comprehension doesn't always seem to be a strong suit.

[Amelia]

You think perhaps Thoreau was the ultimate college student?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I am can comprehend language, signs, and even symbols. How 'bout you?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Well, we can discuss British Lit. if you want.

I am a big fan of Sir Gawaine and the Green Night.

I liked the Faerie Queene too.

[Torie]

Emily Dickenson is the ticket my dear. JMO.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Did you catch my spelling error? I am patiently waiting for your correction.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

My mom really liked Dickenson. I have only read 2 poems of the most, of hers though.

You really like her though?

[Torie]

She's the best. And she never left her house so legend has it.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

And she always wore white, right?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Perhaps she shut herself up because she suffered some sort of romantic tragedy, seriously.

[Torie]

Men don't pay attention to apparel. We look deep into the mind, as well as certain other places more corporeal.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I agree with the mind thing. There is nothing better than a smart guy that can challenge me and one I can relate to both politically and religiously.

[A.J.Armitage]

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.

Mark Twain wrote something called The Literary Offences of James Fennimore Cooper. I've never read it, though.

[Amelia]

I would agree. Interesting character, good poetry.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Really? Twain was good at satire...but I never knew that he believe Cooper to be a bad writer too.

I had to read Cooper in high school and it was practically insufferable.

[Amelia]

I'm on vacation & I don't feel like grading papers tonight.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I understand. I would like to go on a vacation.

[nunya bidness]

She digs the G-Man.

Somebody get a brush.

[Torie]

I had one of those magical teachers in public high school, a defrocked Jesuit who did God knows what, who gave me this odd detour into poetry and literature that I have treasured ever since. My heavy expertise lies elsewhere, but to him I owe a fair amount to what constitutes a well rounded serious liberal arts education.

I still remember his comment about Shakespere, delivered grandeloquently: he was a poucher, a philanderer, and a bounder, but he had one quality that you and I don't have: genius! As he said genius, his arm went up into the air, and his entire body seem to ascend from the floor.

And then it was on to Edna Vicent Millay, whom in a deep voice suffused with disdain in said: "ah, EVN, that epitomy of superficial emotional froth!"

[Amelia]

How lucky you were! I had a dear lady named Mrs. Winters, who was also magical - if I had any idea where she was now, I'd write her a note of thanks.