Subj : Re: Haliburton
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Ken McElhaney
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 13:45:20

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape


Steve Brooks wrote:
> Chaya wrote:
> > Steve Brooks wrote:
> >
> >> Nick wrote:
> >>
> >>> HOUSTON-On Tuesday, Halliburton received a $110 million no-bid
> >>> government contract to pry the gold fillings from the mouths of
> >>> deceased disaster victims in the New Orleans-Gulf Coast area. "We
> >>> are proud to serve the government in this time of crisis by
> >>> recovering valuable resources from the wreckage of this deadly
> >>> storm," said David J. Lesar, Halliburton's president. "The gold we
> >>> recover from the human rubble of Katrina can be used to make
> >>> fighter-jet electronics, supercomputer chips, inflation-proof
> >>> A-grade investments, and luxury yachting watches."
> >>
> >> Hmm. I could believe the basic story - if I heard it from a reliable
> >> source; which is no criticism of you Nick,  I don't know where you
> >> got it from. But I don't believe the president of Halliburton would
> >> ever be silly enough to use the phrase "human rubble" in public.
> >>
> >> So I vote.. Hoax!
> >
> >
> > Ya think?
>
> Not any more.  Now I've had time to think about it I can see htat it's
> absolutely 100% true.  Leaking the story via the onion is a cunning ploy to
> put all those communist media ( e.g. Fox ) hacks off the scent.

Funny, I thought "fascist media" would be the term used against Fox.
Perhaps it's all the same?

Ken

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