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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (103395)	2/17/2006 11:06:10 AM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, I wasn't talking about your private Xmas parties, lol. Lew PS, you warming up to getting back in the investment business yet???? Why limit yourself a small stage when you can have the entire World?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (103395)	2/17/2006 11:54:44 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, FYI, newsday.com REGULATOR SUED OVER BROKER EXAM. NASD, one of the securities industry's top regulators, was sued by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. employee Andrew Crabbe, who was one of 1,880 aspiring brokers wrongly told they flunked an exam needed to do business with the public. Crabbe claimed his annual bonus was slashed and reputation blemished in October when he was told by NASD he had failed the Series 7 exam, according to a suit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. In January the NASD said a computer glitch caused the erroneous failures, and Crabbe was told by NASD he had passed. The suit seeks to represent all brokers affected by the glitch. NASD said the problem affected a fraction of the 60,500 tests taken from Oct. 1, 2004, to Dec. 20, 2005. Spokeswomen at NASD and Lehman Brothers declined to comment on the suit. Regards, Don

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (103395)	2/17/2006 12:02:42 PM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Oh, I get it now the Cheney attempted manslaughter was a smoke screen. Sounds like Rove at work, i.e., killing two birds with one stone and blaming it on Clinton, gggg Keys to Half-Dozen U.S. Ports Now In Hands of ... an Arab Company? By Chad Groening February 15, 2006 AgapePress) - A national defense expert and a former presidential candidate do not think it is in America's best interests to allow an Arab-owned company to operate six major ports in the U.S. According to a Washington Times report, the Bush administration recently approved a deal for DP World -- a global port operator based in the United Arab Emirates -- to purchase Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O), a British firm that operates the ports of New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore, and New Orleans. The decision favoring DP's $6.8 billion bid was made by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which includes representatives from various federal agencies. Gary Bauer points out that the United Arab Emirates was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a "financial and operational base" for the 9-11 hijackers. That causes the former GOP presidential candidate to wonder: "Is our security for sale?" Lt. Col. (Ret.) Bob Maginnis could very well be having the same thoughts. The former Army officer considers it unwise to turn over American ports to a country that has terrorist ties. "It's very disconcerting that an Arab country has now purchased a British company that oversees millions of these containers that are coming into this country," he says, noting that DP "could hire people that have other than our best interests in mind." And those employees, he suggests, could easily smuggle in weapons of mass destruction. "It would be easy to hide small quantities of smallpox or anthrax or even a dirty bomb in there [if] you hid it in another type of container that would be hard to detect," Maginnis says. "That's all in the realm of possibility -- and we recognize that." The defense expert discounts the fact that the outgoing port operator, P&O, is well-established. He says he does not think "giving the keys to our key ports" to an Arab-based company -- even though it is purchasing a company that has been doing the job for years -- is in the nation's best interests. Maginnis says even though the United Arab Emirates is considered an ally of the United States, there is evidence that the capital of Dubai -- where DP's head office is located -- has served as a base for al-Qaeda activities.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (103395)	2/17/2006 2:50:35 PM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Dang it, Mike. I need an extra set of hands to drive this damn wooden stake through WGO's heart. Tougher to kill than a vampire. Speaking of which, things are looking good over in the vampire homeland. RC