--- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Sorry about this post; I had passed it along, from another writer 
> in Canada; 
>  Had skimmed through it; but see that it does seem to be  
> satirical...

I don't think there was anything wrong with the
post, Robert.  There was some sarcasm in it, but
no satire per se, as far as I could tell.

My comment about satire referred to Rory's response,
not your original post.







>  Some people have the notion, that the government has 'secret 
> weapons' that can control the weather.
>  I think a rain dance is probably more effective...
> 
> 
> > > > --- In [email protected], Robert Gimbel 
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Murder by negligence.
> > > > > All confirmed via the life TV feed at: http://www.wdsu.com. 
> > > > Blatently 
> > > > > lacking: aid activity. One helicopter and Bush on his 
second 
> > > visit. 
> > > > > Devestation.
> > > > > I watched for about an hour some 12 hours ago and all Duane 
> > > states 
> > > > > became horrible truth for me on live TV.
> > > > 
> > > > I have *never* seen the media so energized as it
> > > > is by this catastrophe, never seen so many
> > > > furiously, righteously angry journalists, both
> > > > print and TV.  Even CNN's Wolf Blitzer is pissed
> > > > (although with him it's hard to tell).
> > > > 
> > > > It's quite extraordinary.
> > > 
> > > I could be wrong of course, but it strikes me as perhaps simply
> > > more of the old problem-reaction-response cycle shown so 
clearly 
> in 
> > > the events around 9/11: A "problem" is engineered, producing 
the 
> > > expected outcry and clamor (fostered nicely by the media), 
> > > resulting in the response or "solution" which was intended all 
> > > along.
> > 
> > This is satire, right?




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