Ken Lay -- dead, or just a convenient out?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1813720,00.html

I don't have the creativity to lay out (heh) a conspiracy theory, but someone will.

― a great big turk running amok with a machete (kenan), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

now why didn't the rest of us think of that?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

He must have seen the end of last year's "24."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, as usual, your genius is quite a few hours later

― Arial Pink (account), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

as usual, i did not proofread my post

you're a boring dick (heh) is what i'm saying

― Arial Pink (account), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

why does anyone give any countenance to the faked dead theory? ALL THE DOCTORS AT THE HOSPITAL HAVE BEEN PAID OFF.

which reminds, i still owe Aspen Valley Hospital something like $2000. Thanks again, beer!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

can you "give" countenance? i think i just used the word wrong. oops

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think you meant "creedence".

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/Music_Images/cc-revisited1.jpg

"Hey now don't drag us into this!"

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

that picture is almost as depressing as hearing that lay kicked it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

Lily Tomlin is in CCR???

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

no john fogerty = no CCR. that simple.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

what really happened??

the answer =

http://www.cinetudes.com/photo/122349-172195.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 6 July 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Geez Trayce, what did we do to deserve that picture? It's horrible!

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

i think that "lily tomlin" is elliot easton (formerly of the cars). and he's looking even more skeletor-esque than rik "OG skeletor" ocasek!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm particularly appalled by the beard/mullet combo that the Jeremy Clarkson lookalike is sporting.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Thursday, 6 July 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

Too terrifying for words? Man, now I really want to know who the seconos are.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

and what does Rock Huoson have to do with it?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

More heartwarming examples of how fucked the human race is:

Ken Lay praised and defended by family and friends
...Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death in a racially motivated murder near Jasper eight years ago.
"Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was, but I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching," said Lawson, who predicted that history will vindicate Lay...
[...]
"He had a lot of loving friends and a lot of loving family," said David Herrold, one of his two stepsons. "He had a strong faith in God, and I know he's in heaven. I'm glad he's not in a position anymore to be whipped by his enemy."
Family friend Mick Seidl defiantly described Lay as a "good, honest, God-fearing friend who did not have a criminal bone in his body.
"What really makes me sad today ... is that Ken may not be remembered for these enviable qualities," Seidl said. "Instead, many will remember him for the Enron bankruptcy, the indictment and the trial. Overzealous federal prosecutors and media have vilified an exceedingly good man."
[...]
Security was tight, with uniformed police officers stationed inside and outside the downtown church. Secret Service agents and security dogs also were present. No protesters were seen...

WHIPPED, I tells ya! Why, if he was at his own funeral, his enemies woulda turned those dogs & firehoses on him!

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

FFS. If as a guilty man and a believer Lay did not fear God...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

"I am glad to have known Ken Lay and glad that he was willing to reach down and touch people like me," said the Rev. William Lawson, pastor emeritus of Wheeler

And who said the church wasn't getting more broadminded these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

reach down

― Fluffy Bear, Perpetual 12-Year-Old (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

...Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death in a racially motivated murder near Jasper eight years ago.

"Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was, but I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching," said Lawson, who predicted that history will vindicate Lay...

I wish I could declare a moratorium on metaphorical use of the word "lynching." for fuck's sake, how do people say this shit with a straight face?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pearl-jam.com/pictures/groupbw2/pjbwtotd.jpg

(xpost to Fluffy)

Roz, you gots to remember -- most people are morons. The rest follows.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew Sullivan:

In the funeral for corporate thief and crook, Ken Lay, we have a spectacular display of what is wrong with contemporary Republicanism. We have the famiglia paying their respects to a loyal money-man - Bush senior, Baker, Mosbacher. And we have the exoneration of malfeasance by the Christianist doctrine that if you're on our side, you can do no wrong. Ken Lay up there with Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr? And the amazing thing is that this is sincere. Christianist spiritual hubris - fused with political and financial power - is phariseeism remade.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

the man was lynched and whipped, surely he will only get justice with th e passage of time

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

from Reuters

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."

and more funny quotes

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

from Reuters:

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."

and some and more funny quotes

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

damn poxy fuleing

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

ewww. just, ewww.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 13 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

all this is nothing but dubya pouring out a 40 for his dead homie.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

what's up with the British (or Scottish?) banker involved in the Enron case being found dead in a park recently...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

the body that was supposedly ken's lay's was actually that british banker's, the body found in the park was that of jesus christ our lord and savior.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

all this talk of jesus was just coded language meaning that everything went according to plan and everyone should meet in argentina in like six months and maybe set up some shell companies or something.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 13 July 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

just for old time's sake.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, neither black nor poor, nor physically attacked by an illegitimate mob, nor hanged, nor burned, nor castrated, nor beaten and actually, was tried by a jury of his peers with the best representation oceans of dirty money can buy and found guilty according to the legal process...

But lynched. LYNCHED I SAY!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.damninteresting.com/wp-content/tinfoil_hat.jpg

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 13 July 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't he have his mind and soul transferred, Being-John-Malkovitchily into Suri Cruise and that's why she hasn't been seen, because she's too busy emptying swiss bank accounts, smoking Panatellos and drinking 30 year old Glenlivet?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

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