09-10-2008, 08:11 AM
Well its a stretch ... but if all those oil folks were having sex with ron burkle, maybe aloha airlines would still be flying
speaking of alohas' owner burkle and his pals... seems like he did get sucked into that phony vatican property resale scam - got his 1 million $ back though... amazing how well having connections (clinton) in washington works. burkle always seems to be able to walk away from the table with all of his cash no matter how bad his decisions are, even after getting into bed with scammers - he walked away with his cash......
to bring all back to hawaii .... speculation in oil, while the regulators were boinking the oil company reps, rather than watching out for their constituents, really hurt the travel industry in hawaii and killed aloha .... meanwhile instead of paying attention to the industry Burkle was trying to boink the vatican out of some cheap real estate while Aloha was allowed to fail on the "oil buble" and parted out for more $$ than the whole thing would have sold for - consumers be damned
how is that for tying it all together? - grin