Saddam to Swing

[DanaC]

rkzenrage suffered maybe trivial category two storm damage, at most, and hyped that somehow into major disaster

His neighbour died and he and his family suffered privations due to the destruction those hurricanes caused. Back off tw, you are in the wrong.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Katrina hit NO at 130, a strong category 3.

No, it didn't. It made landfall Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, as a category 3. New Orleans saw winds of around 95 mph.

Katrina made landfall Aug. 29 with top sustained wind of about 125 mph, not the 140 mph that was calculated at the time, the hurricane center said in its final report on the hurricane.

New Orleans was on the storm's west side, which normally has weaker wind. Although an accurate reading of the highest wind in the New Orleans area was made difficult by the failure of measuring stations, a NASA facility in eastern New Orleans measured sustained wind of about 95 mph, the report said.

It's all moot, anyways. Katrina still still produced a category 5+ storm surge -- large hurricanes often produce surges equivalent to that of a smaller storm with a much higher wind speed.

tw is back on his major "bury Florida's power, not our soldiers" protest rant, again. Who can argue with him after all those hurricanes he's had to endure and all the evacuees he's helped?

[JayMcGee]

WTF?


People die, and you lot argue stats?

You truely do deserve GWB

[yesman065]

Jay, this thread got hijacked a long time ago, but yes thats what ends up happening when it becomes painfully obvious to all but a single poster as to whats going on.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Jay, that demonstrates you've got a heart in your chest, but do keep in mind tw is prone to fixations and to delusional speech. And we can't fix him, more's the pity.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

"Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind" is the phrase that unites hangings and hurricanes.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by JayMcGee

People die, and you lot argue stats?

You're new here, aren't you?

[yesman065]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

You're new here, aren't you?

I like that Kits - The Cellar: You're new here, aren't you?

[classicman]

Wow . . . just reread the last 5 or so pages. What a trip down memory lane . . . Ahhh the good ole days.
Anyway - Seemed relevant to post this here.

Chemical Ali is executed

With a hood on his head and a noose round his neck, these were the final moments in the life of Chemical Ali, Saddam Hussein's brutal cousin.

The 65-year-old henchman - full name Ali Hassan al-Majeed - was hanged in Iraq yesterday for genocide and crimes against humanity.
He was sentenced for the gas attack that killed 5,000 Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988, the atrocities that led to his nickname.
On his orders, Iraqi jets had swooped over Halabja and for five hours sprayed it with a lethal cocktail including mustard gas.
He also faced the death penalty for three other cases involving crimes against his fellow countrymen and genocide.
He could have been hanged earlier but it was seen as important that he was convicted of the Halabja attack, one of the worst of Saddam's regime.

Link

[TheMercenary]

Not a bad thing. Where is the video?

[classicman]

On the internet

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Link is bad. Seems to be only partial, try uploading it again and clearing away any supernumerary http header. The site's been having some problems auto-clearing that initial http: that the link window provides.