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To: KLP who wrote (50756)	6/18/2004 4:05:58 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

Some of the people who are still in Saudi "need the money, and have to pay their own way home, plus will loose their benefits", I know work in Saudi Arabia pays well. I actually considered working there once a long time ago--for all of a couple of minutes. There's a temptation to go there to build a nest egg. That's a gamble people are entitled to take if they so choose. At the time I considered it, the only hazard was going nuts over spending a couple of years without ever feeling the wind in my hair, particularly driving a convertible. Even at that level of discomfort I was unwilling. I sure wouldn't risk my life. As for paying their way home, I'm pretty sure Uncle Sam will evacuate anyone who needs to be evacuated. There might be a bill later, but at least you wouldn't need cash to get out alive. BTW, I caught your boy, Hannity, the other day. I surfed into him so I decided to stick around per my promise to you. I didn't last very long. When I tuned in he was badgering his guest, Podesta as I recall. The guest was trying to make some point and Hannity kept repeating some interrupting word, can't recall what, over and over. Then when the guest stopped speaking, Hannity started arguing with him rather than asking another question. I was gone pretty quick. Too much cacophony for me, same as the rest. Which reminds me, speaking of Fox, I caught an interview on Fox of a security expert. Don't know who it was because I missed the beginning but he was being handled gently so I assume he was someone acceptable to the right. He was making a distinction between major terrorism events and what he called, I think, "nuisance" events. In the latter category he put the kind of events we see as part of the intifada--car bombs and pizza parlors. His opinion was that we wouldn't experience anything more than nuisance events here and my impression was that he found that inevitable and discountable.