Replies to post #303165 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[marketmaven]

PB- you are on the dark side....With Ransom Payments to Terrorists
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Samuel Goldwyn(1882 - 1974) Death
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Nancy Reagan- Death
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) Death
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

Pancho Villa
Death - Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - (His last words.)

Cato the Elder (234 - 149 B.C.)
Death After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Captain Lawrence Oates
Death I am just going outside and may be some time.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Death In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)
Death A very ignorant young fellow, who had plagued us all for nine or ten months, died at last consumptive: ""I think (said Mr. Johnson when he heard the news), I am afraid, I should have been more concerned for the death of the dog; but -------- (hesitating a while) I am not wrong now in all this, for the dog acted up to his character on every occasion that we know; but that dunce of a fellow helped forward the general disgrace of humanity.

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)
Death Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Death Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Italian Hostages freed due to ransome being paid - Rome Paid Big Ransom to Free Hostages
Reuters ^ / Sept.29 / Luke Baker
Ransom payments seen fuelling Iraq's hostage crisis

By Luke Baker BAGHDAD, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The release of two Italian aid workers in Iraq has raised hopes other hostages may soon be freed, but reports that a large ransom was paid may only feed the burgeoning hostage crisis.

The two Italians, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, had been seized along with two Iraqi colleagues from a central Baghdad office in a brazen attack witnesses described as very organised and probably carried out by a criminal gang.

Gustavo Selva, an Italian lawmaker, told French radio a ransom of around $1 million had been handed over.

"In principle, we shouldn't give in to blackmail but this time we had to. Although it's a dangerous path to take because, obviously, it could encourage others to take hostages, either for political reasons or for criminal reasons," Selva told RTL.

"The sum ($1 million) is probably correct," he added.

Over the past year or more, hundreds of Iraqis -- doctors, surgeons and prominent businessmen -- have been kidnapped by criminal gangs who demand ransoms of up to $100,000.

Now, with so many easily-identifiable foreigners in Iraq, criminals appear to have branched out, targeting more lucrative Westerners and foreign workers as well as locals.

Kadhim estimates that about 90 percent of the kidnappings in Iraq are carried out by criminal gangs, who then trade the captives on to militant Islamic groups and other factions.

"If the criminals don't get their money within 72 hours or so, they sell them up the chain to other groups," said a British security consultant who has been operating in Iraq for a year.

"There's vast amounts of money being paid, whether it's by companies, families or governments. It's a very, very good business," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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[nomoweed]

That's good stuff.You should be a screenwriter.But I say that if their father commits suicide,Petey,Tommy,Zuzu,etc would've had a worse life?And Mary?George is her life,remember.She'd be devastated.They lose everything.The town goes to shit.I say no.I prefer the SNL alternate ending where the whole town goes and kicks the shit outta Potter.<g>Now tell me the one where Dorothy stays in Oz.<g>

[lee kramer]

Patrick: Maybe you're right, but it doesn't matter. I like the movie is all.