Chemical Ali is now a real swinger

I am back. It has only been a week since my last post. Nothing real new to report in the past week. I did read where they executed Chemical Ali in Iraq today. He was the one that took such glee in gassing the Shiites and Kurds in Iraq in the early 1990s. He was also a trusted cousin of Saddam Hussein.

Given that Saddam's sons were psychopathic, like their father, and the cousin fell into this category, it is no surprise that these assholes took great pleasure in torturing, maiming and killing their subjects. Sad, but they died like they lived....violently.

The great irony is that somebody, a Sunni insurgent, detonated a bomb that killed 37 in Baghdad at about the time Chemical Ali was to be hanged (like Saddam, that genius military strategist). He is now a real swinger. It all makes sense to me. Kill each other, so there are less of you to kill anybody else. I like the logic.

I heard that Chemical Ali was sentenced to death four times. I was really curious to know how they were going to carry out that sentence. It is not as if they could kill him and then bring him back to life three times. That would be a tremendous waste of valuable resources, all for the sake of vengeance.

I have no problem with vendetta and revenge is a dish best served cold. Even I think that would be going too far. Bringing a guy back to life, after you executed him, well, may just as well cause him as much pain possible. Let him beg for his life or to be finished off quickly. Make the bastard suffer and then end it. Nothing else to do. His wiring is bad, so just junk that machine.

Around these parts we, by that I mean I, had a pretty mellow weekend. We had an early basketball game (8:30 am) on Saturday. We only had five players, so my guys gutted it out and were out of gas by the end. We did lose and I am proud of the 5 guys that played. It really was more like 4, as our 5th guy is just sort of there. He is like a pylon on defence and offence. He did score a basket but was otherwise a complete non-entity. Oh well, that is house league basketball for you.

That is all for now. Ciao!