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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7946)	11/28/2001 1:19:13 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

THis is an email that was sent to me by a family member who lives and works in Houston, TX. Apparently, the Enron mess is the talk of the town and the talk ain't good! THis email is being circulated around Houston. George Jr.'s ;argest campaign contributor seems to be knee deep in financial trouble. > Here is an email that a field employee sent to Ken Lay and to people > on the board. > > > > I have done a lot of thinking these past few days and have decided to > share my thoughts with you and the board of directors. I mean, after > all, FACTS are friendly....Right?! > > I have had the utmost respect for Enron and the board for all of my 23 > years - thru mergers and name changes and cuts and all the ups and > downs. Let me just stop beating around the bush, and just get down to > the bottom line here. > > I, like everyone else out here have some questions and comments for > you. I want you to get down to our terms and answer these in layman's > terms - we understand pistons & crankshafts and nuts & bolts, so > please keep all of you acronyms out of it. > > Where in the world did you get the questions for the MergerQ&A? > Someone has messed around with our retirement, our livelyhood and our > families! > Do you really think we give a flip about what Enron field is named? > Do you really think we care if the Enron body shop stays open? > Do you really think we care about the United Way right now??? > NO! We have been cheated out of money here! Have you ever put a pencil > to it? - Probably not, since your wages total in the $MM figure! > > Let's just do that, let's figure out what a measley 1000 shares > calculates to before and what it will be upon the merge! > 1000 X $80+ = $80,000+ - early 2001 > 1000 X $40 = $40,000 - mid 2001 > 1000 X .2685 = 268.5 X let's say... $40 = $10,740 - next year > Ouch! And that is a comparison to our stock - NOT our stock OPTIONS! > > I and everyone else out here want to be compensated for what has > happened - you had guys bailing out with $30+MM. They will be sitting > high on the hog and we have people looking at a measley $15,000 plus > the thought of losing their jobs with the merger. > > How ironic that the Code of Ethics is sent out immediately after your > merger e-mail! Does the board of directors EVER read that document??? > We read it MANY times a year!! Perhaps you should practice what you > all preach! > > Have you had a stranger walk up to you on the street and ask "What > have YOU done to the stock?" > Well, that is happening out here! What have we done to deserve this > treatment? Nothing, but cut ourselves down to the meanest, leanest > teams around only to have something like this slapped in our faces. > > I am ashamed, embarrassed, and MAD. > > 1. What happened? > 2. Who did it? > 3. We want compensation > > What should I say now? Hmmm.... > GO DYNEGY

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7946)	11/28/2001 4:04:28 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Female Afghan General Blasts Hillary Over Monicagate Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 2:55 p.m. EST A female general who is considered a hero to Afghanistan's women invoked ex-President Clinton's sex scandals to condemn New York Senator Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, just days after Mrs. Clinton penned a column for Time magazine on women's rights in her country. "She cannot defend her own rights against her husband. How can she defend the rights of my country?" asked Gen. Suhaila Siddiq. Gen. Siddiq is Afghanistan's only woman general, a surgeon, hospital director and heroine to a generation of young women who remained in the country, said the London Times, which first reported her criticism of Mrs. Clinton. In a column posted to the Time.com Web site Saturday, Mrs. Clinton presumed to advise Afghanistan on the liberation of its women, offering an extensive list of recommendations. "A post-Taliban Afghanistan where women's rights are respected is much less likely to harbor terrorists in the future," Clinton observed. "A society that values all its members, including women, is also likely to put a higher premium on life, opportunity and freedom - values that run directly counter to the evil designs of the Osama bin Laden's [sic] of the world," she added. "There is an immoral link between the way women were treated by the oppressive Taliban in Afghanistan and the hateful actions of the al-Qaeda terrorists." The former first lady also argued that the mistreatment of women in Afghanistan was "an early warning signal of the kind of terrorism that culminated in the attacks of September 11." But instead of complaining about the burqa, said Siddiq - as Clinton did in her column - other matters should take precedence. "The first priority should be given to education, primary school facilities, the economy and reconstruction of the country, but the West concentrates on the burqa and whether the policies of the Taliban are better or worse than other regimes," she told the London paper. "Let these things be decided by history." By invoking the specter of Monicagate and other sex scandals that came to characterize the Clinton presidency, Gen. Siddiq threw a monkeywrench into any plans Hillary may have had to make political hay over the plight of Afghan women. And while the New York senator's anything-goes marriage has apparently cost her fans in Afghanistan, there seems no doubt about where Gen. Siddiq ranks with her countrywomen - particularly if those who know her are any indication. At the 400-bed hospital in Kabul, where she now heads a separate women's section, her colleagues speak reverentially of her. When the Times asked female medical students to name the woman they most admired in the world, they replied unanimously, "General Siddiq, General Siddiq." newsmax.com