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I want to know, “Where did I go wrong?”
Maybe I was born in the wrong place and time. Maybe it’s because I majored in English instead of computer programming. Maybe it’s just because I understand what the word “no” means.
“No”? What is it about ‘no’ that is so hard to understand?
Well, among other problems that Ms Carly Fiorina has (and they are too numerous to list and go into here), she seems to have a really really poor grasp of some words. We have already discussed the issue of ‘must’ as in ‘you must file paperwork in order to be incorporated and you must file paperwork and the appropriate tax forms when you are a charitable foundation.’ Carly Has Trouble With Details
OK, so ‘must’ is definitely NOT rolling around in the part of her brain that handles language. This could be a problem for someone who has already thrown her hat in the ring for a Senate run.
Another word she has problems with is ‘NO’ as in ‘No, you can’t sell stuff to countries that are on the US banned list.’
Simple, right? I’ve been in business for 30 years and when I worked for a company that did a lot of exporting, we were always on the prowl for business but we also knew not to touch certain people with a ten-foot pole because the US government had said, “No.”
Like Whom, you might ask, Gentle Reader?
Like IRAN.
Carly’s Problem With Selling to Iran
“Over the past dozen years, Hewlett-Packard has sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of printers and other products to Iran through a Middle East distributor, sidestepping a U.S. ban on trade with the country.
Now the person who headed HP for much of that time, Carly Fiorina, is ramping up to run for U.S. Senate. And questions are emerging about what Fiorina knew about HP’s growing presence in Iran during her six-year tenure at the Silicon Valley firm from 1999 to 2005….(Recently, the US) Securities and Exchange Commission issued a letter to HP seeking information about the company’s dealings in Iran, Syria and Sudan. HP responded that in fiscal 2008 about $120 million worth of products were sold to Iran by a Dutch subsidiary through a Middle Eastern distributor. But even as the company claimed that those sales were legal because its subsidiary was acting on its own, HP in January announced it was severing ties with Dubai-based Redington Gulf. The distributor had sold HP products to Iran since 1997, two years after the United States imposed a complete ban on exports to Iran.”
Now, not to connect Ms Fiorina too closely, but I am reminded by our good Phoenix Woman that this is a long-standing gambit with another Republican businessman…Dick Cheney:
“We all know that one of the two counts Rudy Giuliani filed against Marc Rich, way back when, concerned Rich’s buying oil from Iran.
However, it also seems that Halliburton has been caught violating President Clinton’s 1995 executive order forbidding US companies/individuals from doing business with Iran:
Halliburton Co., the U.S. oil-services giant until recently headed by Vice President Richard Cheney, has opened an office in Tehran and operated in Iran in possible violation of U.S. sanctions, Thursday’s Wall Street Journal reported.
Since 1995, U.S. laws have banned most American commerce with Iran. Halliburton Products and Services Ltd. works behind an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is "non-American." But, like the sign over the receptionist’s head, the brochure bears the Dallas company’s name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world.”
Oops.
Is this written down in the Rethug Handbook or something? “Rules are for other people”?
(photo courtesy of Tech Show Network)
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Just more evidence that the Republican Party is really the PNF = Partito Nazionale Fascista.
I’m hoping the Justice Dept goes aftter Darth for this but is Carly really an issue after Arnold has dropped the state budget and many of its workers in a black hole can a Republican win in California?
Carly has many strikes against her. She does not have name recognition; she is a Republican (and after Arnold who needs that); her ouster from HP was widely publicized (blaring headlines) and she is not exactly the warm and fuzzy type. Can’t see voters in this state tossing Boxer. She’s overall been a good Senator and is very likable – not to mention that she is about 5 feet tall which is sort of appealing. Boxer will have big money behind her.
I believe that Fiorina was also part of the gang that systematically looted Lucent–then touted as the most highly capitalized tech company–into bankruptcy. While at HP she acquired and ran down Compaq. Her executive credentials thus look great in the fantasy league that is the corporate boardrooms of America, but selling her to the man on the street could be harder.
The ironic thing is that Gray Davis had worked out a budget plan that had California’s debt paid off at the end of two years. But NOOOOOOO — the Calis had to recall him.
And over a faked-up issue, too: it was a deal that the Rs had agreed to, a couple of years earlier, and then changed their (so-called) minds when it was about to end, and started the recall instead of following through with the agreement.
I really don’t understand why anyone in CA would trust an R on anything at this time.
It helped that they’d had a quarter of a century to destroy California’s public-school system, thanks to Prop 13.
Kitchen Gal, yer SO far above the Carly’s Of Our Lives.
Bless ya for this post, and fuck Carly Fiornia.
She’s a loser, she’s a hater.
She’s not progressive.
She’s shit.
I’m in CA, I know her history.
I DETEST that woman.
As a human, a politician, and as a human.
It’s reasonable and appropriate to question her intelligence – or at the very least, her judgment.
[As we speak, undoubtedly somebody is working to CHA on the corporate/foundation legal issues, viz: do we file now, effectively admitting we erred? or do we brazen it out?]
Toby, you do great work!
Recommended.
Thanks Toby.
sarah palin is another republican women who does not know the word “no” applies to her also.
sarh palin, the ethics queen, has been very quiet about an ethics violation that was filed against her regarding her Alaska Trust Fund. It was set up to help her pay he lawyers bills from all her ethics violations.
That appeared to be in violation of state law saying a gov. could not benefit from her position. She was told to dissolve the fund and refund the money. But since then she’s resigned. Let’s see what her state does with the illegal fund.
Also she did not follow the rules with her Sarah Pac and has the FEC on her trail. She’s had to make a few contributions and take back some money(from McCain no less!. They are still undecided if she will have a penalty.
So another republican women, who if not smart enough to obey the rules, should not aspire to higher office, OR one who is hypocritical and devious enough to do what she wants to until she gets caught.
My money is on the devious enough…
In short, no boundaries.
What do you expect from a person who wiretaps her own board and top employees?
snake is too nice a word.
Not just rules, laws are for other people. Besides, once again you forget IOKIYAR.
Ok then I guess we want Carly to be the GOP candidate in California because she has so many flaws to pick at.