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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw George Bush attended the funeral - and it made me wonder.. 'why?'
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4 months left



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiger Beer wrote:
I saw George Bush attended the funeral - and it made me wonder.. 'why?'


It was Bush Senior that was at the funeral. Used to be buddies and Bush Jr. called him "Kenny Boy." I'm sure each others palm was greased many a time. Look at these quotes by these F$#KIN IDIOTS.

Enron's Lay funeral draws former president Bush

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HOUSTON, United States (AFP) - Former president George H.W. Bush was one of hundreds of people who attended a memorial service for Enron founder and chief executive Kenneth Lay, convicted of fraud and conspiracy in one of the largest corporate scandals in US history.

One speaker -- Reverend William Lawson who heads a predominantly African-American church in Houston -- compared Lay's treatment by the media and federal prosecutors to a lynching.

"He was a wonderful, able businessman," he said. "Did he try to save his company? Yes. Was he guilty of anything? No. He was a leader and he was Mr. Houston."

"I know there was not a dishonest bone in his body. He was an able, giving guy. A strong personality. A hard worker. He would take on assignments and get his teeth into it. He was a model citizen."

Thousands of people lost their jobs and life savings when Enron collapsed with an estimated 40 billion dollars in debt, hidden through financial deals and often kept off the books of the Houston energy-trading giant.

Many at Lay's funeral said he was unjustly scapegoated.

"I don't know that Ken Lay would knowingly hurt anyone. He was always trying to do good. He's just a good person," said Larry McKaskle, a former city councilman.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060712/ts_alt_afp/usenrontrialbusiness_060712194900


Ken Lay's memorial attracts power elite
George H.W. Bush, James Baker among attendees at packed church for the Enron founder; reverend compares fallen energy titan to Jesus.


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Lay was a longtime friend of the Bushes, contributing to their political campaigns and was nicknamed "Kenny Boy" by President George W. Bush.

The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared.

"He was taken out of the world right at the right time," he said. "History has a way of vindicating people who have been wronged."


http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/12/news/newsmakers/lay.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest
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igotthisguitar



Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

4 months left wrote:
It was Bush Senior that was at the funeral. Used to be buddies and Bush Jr. called him "Kenny Boy."
I'm sure each others palm was greased many a time. Look at these quotes by these F$#KIN IDIOTS.

The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ,
and said his name would eventually be cleared.

"He was taken out of the world right at the right time," he said.

"History has a way of vindicating people who have been wronged."


http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/12/news/newsmakers/lay.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest


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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:
"He was taken out...


I admit it: I mocked you earlier. But, incredibly, I was not misrepresenting your position.

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=60900

So, tell us. What, then, exactly, leads you to believe that Lay was assassinated?
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4 months left



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gopher wrote:
igotthisguitar wrote:
"He was taken out...


I admit it: I mocked you earlier. But, incredibly, I was not misrepresenting your position.

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=60900

So, tell us. What, then, exactly, leads you to believe that Lay was assassinated?


Could it be that he cost hundreds of people their retirement savings and the people who lost money on a phony company stock?? I think it could have also been suicide. If your in your 60s, do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail?
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you just speculating and feeding on a cynical worldview or do you know something concrete?

Because if you know something or have some direct evidence to cite, you have not shared it with us yet.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gopher wrote:
Are you just speculating and feeding on a cynical worldview or do you know something concrete?

Because if you know something or have some direct evidence to cite, you have not shared it with us yet.


No, no evidence just conjecture. Been following this case for years. I hardly think it is cynical, a CEO knowing nothing about the falsifications of revenue in one of the biggest corporate scandals in history??

You think he is innocent?? If so, I have some swampland in Pyongyang I would like to sell you. PM me for details.
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, I don't believe I need to pm you; keep your North Korean land.

Igotthisguitar alleged that Ken Lay was assassinated -- by innuendo, as is usual with him or her -- or whatever this poster is.

I asked for evidence. Or at least that s/he should explain why s/he thinks Lay was assassinated.

Then you ridicule my position by alleging that you think I think that Ken Lay was innocent, when we were not discussing guilt or innocence at all, but an absurd and unsubstantiated assassination allegation.

You also use not one but two question marks, I imagine to show that you are outraged that I do not accept at face value your and Igotthisguitar's wild allegation that Ken Lay was assassinated or, as you assert, that he committed suicide.

Then you ramble about an issue already settled -- that is, whether he knew what was going on. I think, at the very least, he has been judged guilty or responsible for this. I do not know who you are arguing against on this point. Certainly not me. Because I never claimed he was innocent.

So, in any case, it is clear that you cannot deal with allegations and evidence and you also cannot focus on a single issue.

"Was the Skull and Bones and the New World Order conspiracy that Igotthisguitar continually tells us about involved in Ken Lay's 'death'"?

I am just asking how you know the man was assassinated or how you know he committed suicide (or the other poster that alleged Lay faked his own death). I am not asking for the usual antiEstablishment diatribe, least of all not from an angry mob of posters who are celebrating someone's death and saying everything but "burn him!"...

As for me, unless I see compelling evidence otherwise, I think Lay probably died from a heart attack, which may have been helped along by prior medical history, a possible guilty conscience, and a great deal of stress experienced over the last couple of years.

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"Apparently, his heart simply gave out," said Lay's pastor, Dr. Steve Wende of Houston's First United Methodist Church.

An autopsy indicated Lay died of coronary artery disease, Mesa County, Colorado coroner Robert Kurtzman said. There was "no evidence of foul play," he added.

Toxicology reports are still pending and won't be completed for two to three weeks, Kurtzman told reporters late on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Aspen Valley Hospital confirmed that Lay arrived at the hospital at 1:41 a.m. MT and was pronounced dead at 3:11 a.m. MT.


http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/05/news/newsmakers/lay_death/index.htm?section=cnn_topstories

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A forensic pathologist in Colorado already performed a prelminary autopsy on Ken Lay's body. Yesterday, the pathologist, Robert Kurtzman, went before the TV cameras to say that Lay died of natural causes and that he had coronary disease. The doctor said Lay's heart showed evidence of a prior cardiac event.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/07/05/DI2006070500553.html

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Dr. Robert Kurtzman, Mesa County Coroner, said his autopsy showed Lay died of heart disease while on vacation in Aspen, Colo[rado]...Kurtzman said the autopsy revealed that Lay had a heart attack in the past.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/06/ap/national/mainD8IM65U80.shtml


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whoa, chill. It is possible that he died of a heart attack but it seems pretty fishy. He cost people Billions dollars, yes Billions with a B. He is a sleazy, greasy rat that will make many innocent people suffer because they lost a lot of money because he was money grubbing slimeball and personifies what is wrong with the free market system. No I don't have proof he was assisinatied or committed suicide. Do you have proof how Kennedy was shot or if Elvis is still alive??? (triple question marks Cool

Reeelax.
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No. This is not about JFK or Elvis.

It is about Ken Lay's death.

It is not about Ken Lay's guilt in the Enron scandal or what you think of his character. It is about his death -- how he died.

I presented evidence, as reported by several credible news sources, that show that people saw him dead, that he was in fact pronounced dead, that authorities cite a prior history of heart disease, that a preliminary autopsy concluded that he died of a heart attack, and the man who conducted it specifically told us that he saw no evidence of "foul play."

Apparently that is not good enough for you and Igotthisguitar. So, then, what have you got (besides a cynical and bitter antiEstablishment worldview)?

And, by the way, here is another discussion on Lay's death and the link between stress and heart attacks...

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Ken Lay, founder and former chairman of Enron, died Wednesday of a heart attack. His death comes two months after he was convicted of conspiracy and fraud. Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the link between mental stress and heart attacks.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5538248

If you cannot listen, then see...

http://www.slate.com/id/2145074/
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gopher wrote:
No. This is not about JFK or Elvis.

It is about Ken Lay's death.

It is not about Ken Lay's guilt in the Enron scandal or what you think of his character. It is about his death -- how he died.

I presented evidence, as reported by several credible news sources, that show that people saw him dead, that he was in fact pronounced dead, that authorities cite a prior history of heart disease, that a preliminary autopsy concluded that he died of a heart attack, and the man who conducted it specifically told us that he saw no evidence of "foul play."

Apparently that is not good enough for you and Igotthisguitar. So, then, what have you got (besides a cynical and bitter antiEstablishment worldview)?


I have quite the opposite view Goph. I believe in democracy and capitalism even though they are not perfect I believe they are the best of all choices. When someone abuses the system to screw innocent people, I get pissed off. I own stocks, I am studying to be an anlayst and maybe want to enter politics someday. I don't really care how he died, I think he got off easy by dieing and I ain't gonna argue with you anymore because I really don't care enough to.
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Gopher



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

4 months left wrote:
I have quite the opposite view Goph. I believe in democracy and capitalism even though they are not perfect I believe they are the best of all choices. When someone abuses the system to screw innocent people, I get pissed off. I own stocks, I am studying to be an anlayst and maybe want to enter politics someday. I don't really care how he died, I think he got off easy by dieing and I ain't gonna argue with you anymore because I really don't care enough to.


You are the perfect representative of so many idiots who post on this board.

This is not about your views on capitalism and democracy, how innocent people have been screwed, how Ken Lay's character was unsavory, or whether you approve or how you feel about all of this.

You, Igotthisguitar, and at least one other poster on this thread, have casually alleged, directly and by innuendo, without any evidence at all to back your position up, except for vague and non-specific references to "timing" -- and indeed, without even being able to explain to me or anyone else here how or why you think this -- that Ken Lay was assassinated, killed himself (for some cynical reason, presumably, and not for depression), or faked his own death so that he could, presumably, join JFK, Elvis, and Hitler.

I have not asked you to attack of defend capitalism or democracy, and I do not care whether you own stocks or what you plan to do as a career in the future.

I just would like to know, sincerely, how it is that you and the others know what you are alleging about Ken Lay's death.

And you cannot do that. You have not even thought it through far enough to understand it yourselves.

Do you have a suicide note? Has something "happened" to the death certificate, autopsy, and toxicology reports? Has anyone sighted Ken Lay since his "death?" Is there a grassy knoll somewhere in Aspen that I did not see the last time I was there?

What, in short, was the thought process that led you to post your allegation?

Oh yeah, one other question: when you talked about "tears of joy," celebrating Lay's death, and then fantasized that he should have gone to prison and suffered rape from other inmates, were you serious or "just joking"?

4 months left wrote:
Death was too good for him, he should have rotted in jail and been the boyfriend to everyone in a Maximum Security Prison. It's despicable...


I thought that guys like you make all kinds of grandiose and emotional proclamations about universal human rights?

In any case, Lay is dead. This part of it is over. Unless you and some of the others here want to go to where he is and vandalize his grave...which would be funny, as I do not believe that anyone on this board has claimed to have lost money as a direct result of this tragic and egregious scandal. Why so much personalized bitterness, then?

Sick puppies, you are.
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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...

PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 4:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ken Lay is dead. He was not murdered. Although it is possible this was a suicide with some doctor assisting him and helping to cover it up, there is no evidence to conclude that that is what happened. All evidence suggests that this was a stress induced heart attack bringing about the premature death of an already old man. Look at his pictures and you can see that he would have not lived to be very old in any case.


There are enough real conspiracies in the world. There is no need to fabricate any extra ones.
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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know for a fact that God killed him.............

That is if there is a god. If anyone took the Lord's name in vain, it wasn't me but Ken Lay.

I just hated all those people saying how "generous" he was.........of course he was generous, merely from the gross amounts of cash he illegally gained but mostly from the guilt of what he had done. His giving was anything but philanthropic.

And then he backed it all up with admonishings and pious displays of God worship.......

If there was / is a god, I know for a fact she killed him.

DD
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endo



Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home

PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WorldWide wrote:
ddeubel wrote:

He is a shining example of do what you can UNTIL you get caught. Entitlement. Then when caught, DENY, DENY, DENY. I wish he'd of left a handbook so it would be all so clear for many...




That is exactly why you can't trust americans. Their culture is based upon greed and personal benefit. Everyone is trying to screw everyone over. Even doctors try to screw patients with high bills. It is a despicable culture and needs to be squashed before they infect other nations with their ideology.




You don't think the leadership in North Korea is just as bad?


Yeah, lets have a large segment of our population starve to death while we chill in Pyongyang,


Infect other nations?

You moron, this sort of stuff has been happening since Babylon.
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