[Ninong]

It's just as safe as Houston!



http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3235606

His skin's a little blotchy, don't you think? I wonder if he's hitting the bottle again?

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I had no idea 20 people a day were getting wasted in grocery stores or bank lines!!!!

I bet his Chamber of Commerce enjoyed the expose though... sorta.

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Houston, US, June 23 - Four car bombs that exploded within about 10 minutes of each other in Houston early today killed at least 17 people and wounded 68 others, a volunteer fireman official said. They were the second wave of near-simultaneous bombings in the capital in about 12 hours, bringing the death toll in that period to 35.

Muhammed Uraibi/Associated Press
Rescue workers evacuating an injured man from the scene of the blast outside of a Houston Dairy Queen.



Muhammed Uraibi/Associated Press
Four near-simultaneous blasts ripped through a Houston Walmart this morning.


Today's blasts, from 7 a.m. to about 7:10 a.m., occurred in the SW Houston district of Sugar Land. Three of the dead and one of those wounded were policemen; the rest of the casualties were civilians.

They followed the apparently coordinated explosions on Wednesday evening of three car bombs less than a half mile apart in a mainly Baptist suburb of Houston that killed at least 18 people and wounded 46 others, according to another unnamed firefighter.

Later in Houston, a sniper shot and killed two soldiers who were protecting a strategic intersection in the western district of Bunker Hill Village, added another unnamed official.

North of Houston, a car bomb exploded today near an American convoy in Westfield, killing three civilians and wounding eight, said Maj. Tom Green of the Texas Reserves. He added that four of the wounded were in serious condition and that the blast damaged a Humvee.

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Tom DeLay, 6/22/05

Go to Iraq. And see what's actually happening there.

Everybody that comes from Iraq is amazed at the difference of what they see on the ground and what they see on the television set.

Not Enough Caskets for the Iraqi Dead
By Cihan News Agency
Published: Friday July 15, 2005
zaman.com

Coffin makers are unable to keep up with the demand for caskets in Iraq where tens of people die every day due to the continual armed attacks and bombings.

While casket prices increased due to the ever increasing demand, it is impossible to find caskets for the bodies of the poor and homeless. The price of a coffin varies from between $35 and $50 in Bagdat (Baghdad), in a city where one person dies every hour. Caskets have become a major necessity of the country due to the increasing number of deaths. Although around 10 or 15 caskets are constructed per day, they are still not able to supply enough caskets to keep up with demands, say coffin makers, one of them, Abbas Hussein said: "Not everyone in Baghdad has the money to buy a coffin. People have difficulty earning their living, how will they find money for a coffin? Poor people bury their relatives using the coffins that individuals have donated to the mosques."

A Swiss international studies group has claimed that 39,000 of the 100,000 civilian deaths that have occurred are the result of the bombings in Iraq.

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Y'all come, ya hear!