It turns out that Arnold Schwarzenegger met with Enron's Kenny Boy Lay and other Republican superstars to help plan the fake energy crisis and drive up utility costs. Now he wants to be governor. Arnold should be in jail.
From Salon Magazine:
Exerpt:
Joe Conason's Journal
When Arnold Schwarzenegger gets around to attacking Gov. Gray Davis for the state's energy fiasco, someone should ask why he appointed Pete Wilson his campaign chairman.
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Aug. 11, 2003 | Arnold's secret meeting with Kenny Boy
If you're compiling a list of public figures even less popular in California than Gray Davis, one name is likely to top it: former Enron chairman Kenneth "Kenny Boy" Lay. Voters in the Golden State are behaving like sheep these days, but even the dimmest of them can probably remember how Enron and the other corporate vultures descended on them during the electricity "crisis" of 2001.
What California voters may no longer remember, however, is that after the third wave of rolling blackouts hit their state, Kenny Boy quietly summoned a select group to the Beverly Hills Hotel on May 11, 2001. And they may also have forgotten that one of the prominent Republicans who showed up at Lay's request was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
On June 21, 2001, the Associated Press reported that "Lay met secretly with California Republicans at the Beverly Hills Hotel and pushed a plan that called for ratepayers to pay the billions in debt racked up by the state's public utilities. The plan contended that federal investigations of price gouging are hindering the situation." According to William Bradley, the L.A. Weekly's sharp political columnist who wrote about Enron for the American Prospect, the meeting revolved around Lay's plans to "preserve deregulation" in California. The L.A. Times noted that Lay was seeking the support of Schwarzenegger and the other GOP luminaries for even greater deregulation. Apparently Lay wanted help in saving a lousy system, squeezing the unfortunate Californians even more, and avoiding accountability for their plight.
To: Steve Balmer
Here's an interesting solution to the blaster worm problem. An anti-virus virus.
Every computer that is infected has the virus - and it still has the secutiry hole. You could write a virus of your own that took advavtage of this security hole to remove the virus and to patch the security hole. You could make it part of the windows update upgrade.
What would happen is when the attaking virus tries to infect a machine with the anti-virus the attacked computer detects this and identifies the IP address of the attacking computer. It then would use the same security hole to upload a program to the attacking computer that would remove the virus and patch the hole. It would also turn the attacking computer into an anti-virus computer and the patch would spread as fast as the virus did - fixing all the systems.
Something to think about .....
Marc Perkel
Should you sell your stock or hang on to it? Well - that depends on if you think the economy is going up or down. Are we really in a "recovery"? Is the economy on the rebound? I think not.
America is living a lie and it's just a matter of time before we can no longer fake it. Interest rates are on the rise. Unemployment is increasing. Taxes are going up, especially on the middle class as states raise taxes on everything to fix their own deficits. And - the national deficit for 2003 is currently projected at 455 billion, and that's not including the social security ripoff that bumbs it up to 650 billion.
So - if you want to stat in the market - good luck! The only mystery here is - how long can they keep the lie going? America is a nation in deep denial. Reality is going to catch up to us some day soon.
Letter to the Editor
In 2000 and 2001 California had a major energy crisis because several big energy companies like Enron gamed the system and created artificial energy shortages. The high energy prices were devastating to the California economy - but Davis managed to see us through it and get new power plants online. But what would happen if an actor like Arnold Schwarzenegger were governor and we had an energy crisis? What would Arnold do?
Isn't that the real question facing the voters of California? In an environment where all of America under the Bush administration is on the verge of economic collapse, you do you trust to get us through the tough times? Shouldn't California have a governor who knows what he's doing rather than an actor who is merely playing a role? What would Arnold do?
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When it comes down to it, that is the real question. Maybe I could get in touch with the right people in the Davis camp and help them get the right message out. Modeled after the slogan "What would Jesus Do?" it raises the real issue which is - what does it mean for California if we hire an actor to play governor? Can we afford to do that?