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OUT ON A LIMB

Today's WSJ?OTD is:

"How do you expect the Enron jury will rule?"

Well, I don't know about the jury but I am sure that they are both guilty as hell.

I even have an inside look at the snake Skilling from another, previous life. Not a surprise he would end up here.

You have to remember that I live in California where the 'rolling blackout' was invented based on their schemes.

No hard feelings.

We may have gotten rolled; our rates are still very high. But, we never got blacked out. They did it by area number and they got right up to ours and stopped.

I think the list still exists, so we may get our turn.

But that is not the point.

These are the new magnates. Robber Barons. I just finished reading about the old ones in 15th C England. Rule by force. Rape and pillage. And the prettiest virgins get to the Magnate first.

Anyway, I am letting personal antipathy get in the way of objectivity. We will soon know the real answer to this question.

But for now, we will have to go with the readers of the WSJ who voted with me: Both men are guilty—(73%); Both men are not guilty—(14%); Lay is guilty, but Skilling is not—207 votes (4%); Skilling is guilty, but Lay is not—(8%)

No matter how it goes, it doesn't look too good for the snake: 14+4=18 NOT and 73+8=81% is.

Lay is such a smoothy that he may skate. And, he has less to be charged with.

But, he did not do well on the stand. Petulant. Sarcastic. Little Caesar.

Like I said, we will see what we shall see.