Halliburton does not care what you think
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Typical liberal spin, presenting things like facts and shit to demonize war profiteers.
Posted by: yikes | Mar 12, 2007 4:53:07 PM
What about those "American" car companies building plants in Mexico and Canada? I guess they also don't care about image.
Fuck image. The name of the game is PROFIT. Haliburton sells oil, so unless you want to bike to work, you're stuck with their product.
Posted by: Bobby | Mar 12, 2007 5:24:45 PM
Halliburton doesn't sell oil, genius.
Posted by: yikes | Mar 12, 2007 6:18:38 PM
Talk about cliche, dropping a post about the right wing conspiracy on an advertising blog. Whats the next topic "Jesus was a fake". Let see, my books suck, im not getting calls to write, i got it ill write something about halliburton, you know the company 100 million bloggers wrote about already, breaking the news to the people. Get something intresting and new to write about. Maybe about how you and all the idiots in boston are still outraged that someone put lite-brite bombs all over your city. The pure literary genius of inserting a cheapshot in the last sentence of the paragraph really shows your investigative muscle. I thought I was taught to hook them towards the front. You are all over this story!
Posted by: ryan | Mar 12, 2007 8:44:35 PM
It seems there is an opportunity for a start-up competitor to Halliburton.
Posted by: Tom Messner | Mar 12, 2007 9:06:41 PM
You need to do some homework on how bids are placed, bidded upon, and awarded before you jump on HAL. You clearly don't understand this market, and for a 'marketing blog', that's pretty shabby.
HAL is an oil exploration and services co. Most of the oil, genius, is 'over there'.
There are thousands of companies in this sector, some of them are small. HAL is not. Neither is Schlumberger. A start up?? Maybe a bright-eyed Stanford MBA with a billion in his pocket and a dream? Sorry, smarter people hard at work at HAL already.
Posted by: Duck Shooter | Mar 12, 2007 11:14:28 PM
I expect to see a slew of spreads in next year's CA for Halliburton from Dubai. The Fevicol well runneth dry.
Posted by: tom lout | Mar 13, 2007 1:16:03 AM
Duck Shooter,
I was trying to be ironic in response to several people who raised the "no-bid" monopoly argument.
But you, on the other hand, seem stuck in the "they're so smart and rich and connected" you can't compete with them.
Give me an Adelphi University undergraduate instead of your Stamford MBA, 99 bucks for trainfare to DC, and a real contract from the Pentagon and I'll be able to compete with Halliburton or you from day one.
Best, Tom
Posted by: Tom Messner | Mar 13, 2007 8:15:35 AM
Let's give all the business to the only other company capable: SCHLUMBERGER. Sending all that business to a French rooted company will teach Haliburton to be un-American.
Posted by: mark | Mar 13, 2007 10:09:42 AM
You got to pronounce that like cheeseburger for full effect.
Posted by: Tom Messner | Mar 13, 2007 11:26:46 AM
Damn! I think I just pee'ed myself as an unintended result of your anger and scorn! Would love to respond in a measured way, but don't know much about Adelphi U or the chops of a Stamford (is that in CT?) MBA.
The point, here, sparky, is that HAL is a very successful company that most of the left demonizes because of its past association with the VP and its Iraq contracts. Moving to Dubai makes great sense from a business point of view and actually distances them from the taint of Pentagon awarded business. They probably thought the left would approve.
Best of luck with that whole Pentagon start-up thing. We'll be rooting for ya!
Posted by: Duck Shooter | Mar 13, 2007 11:56:16 AM
"HAL" can be profitable and still be a bad company. Look, if it was a company providing educational materials to schools, and it overcharged the way it does, there would certainly be a lot of so-called conservatives decrying the colossal waste of tax dollars. But somehow it's not a waste when it involves military profiteering and big oil. I don't know if the move to Dubai is so much about opportunity as it is about tax avoidance. I'll have to find out more.
Posted by: Follow The Money | Mar 13, 2007 12:57:53 PM
Leahy's a dumb fuck who doesn't even recognize the business end of a dairy cow. Halliburton would still be a US-registered corporation. This move puts them closer to their biggest market. Good for them. I wish I'd bought stock in them in late 2002.
Posted by: daveednyc | Mar 13, 2007 7:11:59 PM
Stamford is what someone types for Stanford when someone has minimal respect for an MBA degree from Stanford vis a vis undergraduate attendance at Adelphi combined with working construction in Hempstead, the latter being better preparation for a Halliburton gig than case histories in marketing, merchandising and management.
However, oddly enough, your analysis of everything else seems okay if bereft a little of a sense of humor. But senses of humor are often misunderstood on-line which is why hereafter I am sticking to handwritten notes.
Posted by: Tom Messner | Mar 14, 2007 10:56:55 AM
http://www.watchblog.com/thirdparty/archives/004874.html
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