DEAD!

[dan foster]

Ali Hassan al-Majid...alias "Chemical Ali" - DEAD!.....by a swinging rope.

Thank the US for giving him the weapons and delivery systems.  There should be some US officials and corporate assholes hanging beside him.


http://rickwrites.blogspot.com/2008/03/ali-hassan-al-majid-aka-chemical-ali.html
The US not only helped arm Iraq with military equipment right up to the time of the Kuwait invasion in 1989, as did Germany, Britain, France, Russia and others, but also sold and helped Iraq to integrate chemical weapons into their US-provided battle plans while fighting Iran between 1985-1988.

(snip)

... while making his case against Saddam, President Bush said "He's used poison gas on his own people." Bush deceives because he hides the fact that US officials, including his father, had no qualms about helping Saddam gas Iranians.

(snip)

US policy makers, financiers, arms-suppliers and makers, made massive profits from sales to Iraq of myriad chemical, biological, conventional weapons, and the equipment to make nuclear weapons.

(snip)

A PBS Frontline episode, "The Arming of Iraq" (1990) detailed much of the conventional and so-called "dual-use" weapons sold to Iraq. The public learned from other sources that at least since mid-1980s the US was selling chemical and biological material for weapons to Iraq and orchestrating private sales.

These sales began soon after current Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad in 1985 and met with Saddam Hussein as a private businessman on behalf of the Reagan administration.

[Anne]

Pernell Roberts DEAD @ 81

(Adam on Bonanza and Trapper John).

I didn't realize he was that old. He was a good looking son of a gun when he was on Bonanza, even with the rug.

[kimmi]

I didn't realize he was that old. He was a good looking son of a gun when he was on Bonanza, even with the rug.

I thought he was handsome too! 

[Locutus]

Another one with that nasty pancreatic cancer. 

[Palehorse]

Another one with that nasty pancreatic cancer. 

Yup! 

[Scumpadelic]

Stepped into the light.

[Anne]

Stepped into the light.

Who is that?

[Scumpadelic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Rubinstein

[Palehorse]

Poltergeist

[Anne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Rubinstein

Thanks, Recognized the face but couldn't remember her name.

[Palehorse]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zelda Rubinstein, the 4-foot-3-inch character actor best known as Tangina, the psychic who tries to calm a family inhabiting a haunted house in the 1982 horror film Poltergeist, has died. She was 76.

Her agent, Eric Stevens, tells the Los Angeles Times that Rubenstein died Wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital. Stevens says she recently suffered a heart attack.

Rubenstein made her film debut in the 1981 comedy Under the Rainbow and went on to roles in Sixteen Candles, Southland Tales and the TV show Picket Fences. She returned for both Poltergeist sequels. . .

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=indystar&sParam=37378524.story

[Locutus]

J.D. Salinger   DEAD!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35127071/ns/today-today_books/

91 years old.  Catcher in the Rye is a classic.   

[Palehorse]

J.D. Salinger   DEAD!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35127071/ns/today-today_books/

91 years old.  Catcher in the Rye is a classic.   

Wow. . . That's depressing!

[Locutus]

Wow. . . That's depressing!

Yup!  It's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

[Palehorse]

Yup!  It's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."

"Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon. "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door."