Lay Remembered as a Giving Family Man

[LibDemAlways]

For your reading pleasure.....the Houston Chronicle's account of the first of the two Lay memorials.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4035585.html

Excerpts:

"While Lay had numerous detractors, many in Aspen remained his fans and friends. (Reverend) Lawson told the gathering of almost 200 that those who are vilified in life - John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and even Jesus - often become heroes in death."


"It was very moving," said Fred Malek, chairman of Thayer Capital Partners in Washington, D.C. "It brought back the philanthropic man he was."

How these bastards escaped being struck by lightning is beyond me.

[benburch]

1. "Hitler loved his dog." nt

[ComerPerro]

2. JFK, MLK Jr, and Jesus??? Are they kidding?

[TahitiNut]

19. Hubris, chutzpah, narcissism, ... beyond all imagining.

The insanity on the far right is without peer. These people are beyond corrupt.

[dflprincess]

28. Does this mean we can expect Lay to rise from the dead

like Jesus?

[LibDemAlways]

30. Interesting....Perhaps that's how they'll

explain it if Lay is ever discovered hiding out in luxurious exile.

[Phillycat]

46. Let's hope so - then we can put him in prison. nt

[htuttle]

3. A 'Family' man?

The Corleone family, maybe...

[Captain Hilts]

7. Which 'family' the one with Wife #1 or Wife #2? nt

[flyarm]

42. was he a family man when he committed his wife #1 in a mental institution?

while having an affair with wife #2?????

some family man ..i tell you!!

fly

[partylessinOhio]

4. Lay was a corrupt dwarf. Are people blind?

[TahitiNut]

23. The ability to "charm the buzzards off a gut wagon" ...

... is a common trait among the most corrupt and exploitative in our society. Yes - we people are often blind to corruption when we're being charmed. "Nice guy" - "charming" - "family man" - "friendly" - these are the characteristics of Ted Bundy. Even as he was about to be executed, people were quoted lamenting that such a "nice-looking guy" had to be executed.

Of all the falsehoods we grow up with, the notion that evil is visibly ugly is, by far, the most pernicious lie.

[Captain Hilts]

5. His minister said he "lived modestly." I guess he didn't see the 7 houses

[ComerPerro]

33. Living modestly is a vacation home in Aspen?

[dogday]

44. The 200,000 boat he gave to his

wife is not a modest sum.. You could buy two good houses with that at least.....

[patricia92243]

6. Giving?? Sure, he gave what was not his to give. Yuk!!!

[Aristus]

8. "Giving Family Man".

Yeah, right. He gave his family everything his overworked and underpaid rank-and-file employees strove so hard for. He robbed his workers of their earnings. I hope they're keeping Hell hot for him.

[AndyA]

9. Lay will most likely be remembered for Enron, and its outcome.

Even if he were a family man, he ruined the lives of countless people with his thievery, explaining his obscene salary and bonus package by saying "my wife has expensive taste". History will remember him for that.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. He gave a lot of families bankruptcy, if that's what they mean.

[leveymg]

11. Philanthropist? He stole from all those families and gave it to his own.

Hero? Everyone at that funeral should be ashamed to have been associated with one of the world's biggest thieves.

I'll take that back. They compared Kenny Boy to JFK, MLK and even Jesus? Shameless.

[ComerPerro]

34. reverse robin hood

[Child_Of_Isis]

12. Revisionist history.

The man was a criminal!

[wakeme2008]

13. Where is the body

"The simple stone and stained-glass Aspen Chapel perched on a hillside at the edge of town was modestly decorated with two urns of sunflowers and a large color portrait of Lay."

:grr:

[LibDemAlways]

14. The "body" is in an undisclosed location

laughing his ass off that this bogus death scam has, so far, been successful.

[Bridget Burke]

39. Already cremated....

Generally, the body is not present at "Memorial Services"

[unpossibles]

15. who knew?

that maybe when Jesus threw the moneylenders out of the temple, those moneylenders had investors whose lives were ruined.... And MLK - I'm sure he ruined quite a few people in his day. Same with JFK...

</sarcasm>

[LibDemAlways]

22. His choices of people to compare Lay with

are beyond the pale. In the first place, neither Kennedy nor MLK were "vilified" except by rightwing knuckledraggers. Both were respected the world over. As for Jesus, I'm not going there.

If Kenny Boy is to be compared to anybody, it should be a list of famous scam artists and con men.

[warrens]

16. Giving family man and grasping corporate greedhead

I really wanted to see him in those fat pinstripes.

[acmejack]

17. He gave the Shaft to thousands who worked for Enron!

even as he gives the finger to justice now, he is indeed a very giving guy...

[Kerrytravelers]

18. Oh. Wow.

Words fail me.

[Giant Robot]

20. Not that I agree with what was said of Lay

but come one, what did you expect the reverend to say? "Lay was a hideous toad that will be roasting in the fires of damnation for the rest of forever?"

[LibDemAlways]

24. No, of course not. But JFK, MLK, and Jesus comparisons?

That's way, way over the top.

[Bridget Burke]

41. I can understand a preacher "accentuating the positive"

But those comparisons are ridiculous.

[lpbk2713]

21. He could afford to be "giving" and "philanthropic".

It's not like it was his money. He acquired his wealth by picking other people's pockets and robbing them and their families of their futures.

[sutz12]

25. Yep! He gave American families the finger. nt

[Captain Hilts]

43. They DELIBERATELY screwed over California. nt

[MiniMe]

26. Took from Enron and gave to him family n/t

[cantstandbush]

27. Damn easy to give when it's other people's money! nt

[peekaloo]

29. a modern day Dennis Moore.....stole from the poor gave to the rich

Kenny Boy Lay......stupid bitch!

[Ilsa]

31. Family man and "giving"? Yeah, I wonder how much

in assets got transferred to a family member to keep it safe from the Feds or courts.

As far as his philanthropy goes, it's easy to be generous with stolen money.

[spanone]

32. He 'took' pretty well also.

Fucking thief.

[dogday]

35. A family man that caused horrible things for other families

is more like it.. This guy would not know the meaning of the word...His actions caused so many other families tragedy and sorrow up the ass...

[Libby2]

36. barf!!

Just fucking barf!

[Cleita]

37. So was Vlad, the Impaler and Saddam Hussein.

It doesn't mean they still weren't the meanest SOBs in history.

[xxqqqzme]

38. talking 2 a 30ish texan at a conference

yesterday. He said during a short Christmas trip home, he was talking 2 his retired next door neighbor. He said he had grown up w/ her kids. Asking about the kids; learned her husband died the year before...The woman, retired school teacher, was trying 2 survive on $600/mo Social Security because all the retirement savings she and her husband had methodically put aside, disappeared in the enron black hole.

[flyarm]

40. OH YEAH! GIVING OUR MONEY AND MONEY OF INVESTORS AND EMPLOYEES TO

HIS FUCKING FAMILY AND FRIENDS...

and fucking the little guy..and the hard worker and retiree who thought he had invested wisely for the future..

yes siree..he was a family man alright..fuck everyone..and anyone who was an investor... so his family could live off the sweat and tears of the working man!!

have i told you all lately how much i hate these fuckers>????

yep ken lay the good guy..who fucked every middle class family he could...and who got a governor removed from Calif because of his New World Order plans with little lord pissy pants...

AND THE CALIF PEOPLE WERE TOO BLINDED BY LIES..TO GET IT..

WELL GET IT NOW CALIF VOTERS...arnie was in on the enron meetings to fuck calif with energy..and put your state up to its eyeballs in debt!!

while leaving grandma with no air conditioning..how many i wonder did ole Kenny kill with his conspiracy with * idiot son??

i just wonder how many died because of this fucker...

and no i will never believe this fucker died ..not now..and not without being in prison for life!

fly

[SoCalDem]

45. OF COURSE HE WAS A "GIVING" MAN.

It was stuff he STOLE from other people.. It's easy to be generous when it's NOT YOUR STUFF.