OT And so it begins...

We owned 6 carbuereted Corollas: 1 2T-C, one 3K-C and 4 3T-C's None of them ever backfired more than once. None of them ever backfired 7 times in a row, and none of them sounded exactly like a gun going off.

Charles of Schaumburg

Apparently you had one of the good ones. ;)

mike

Dad's old 77 we had for 22 years. One time we restarted it after it had been sitting for a long time. It sort of backfired starting up but it didn't sound like a gun going off. I've lived in Humbolt Park and heard the sound of a real gun going off. (Humbolt Park being part of Chicago, how come there are guns there if handguns are banned?)

Charles of Schaumburg

I recently saw a list of American cities in which more people are die violently than in Baghdad. Detroit was another ;)

mike

In message news:tnwVh.1465$Qp.875@trnddc07, Truckdude sprach forth the following:

Take a look at how many people from the rest of the world want to come to America vs. how many Americans want to live somewhere else and smoke on THOSE statistics.

According to this, Baghdad had around 5000 violent deaths during the first half of last year. It has about 5,000,000 residents. That is a violent death rate of about 100 per 100,000 per year, more than that of Detroit, assuming no more violent deaths.

That's far higher than the death rate in Detroit or any other American city.

But I think the real figures are worse: According to a study from the Johns Hopkins University, over 400,000 people in Iraq (not just Baghdad) died violently 2003-2006. And that's low end of the range. That's far more than the 64,000 or so Americans killed by guns in the US during the same time period. Iraq has about 26,000,000 people, or a little less than 10% of the US population.

Jeff

PS, I see why you didn't inline post in this one. It has absolutely nothing to do with the message to which you are replying.

My apologies: I didn't cite a source for these numbers. Here it is:

mike

Go and do your own homework. I don't do homework for my students. I won't do homework for you. ;-)

I see you removed parts of my post again, without indicating that fact. Intellectually, dishonest. The usual.

Jeff

I would not expect anyone to do my homework. Isn't doing anothers homework intellectually dishonest?

Like any good lawyer one will only ask question to which they already know the correct answer. Since you apparently do not know the answer, you do a search ;)

mike

That's telling me that you don't know the answer.

Perhaps you would perfer to count them yourself:

It doesn't include the Allied troops killed or the innocent civilians killed.

However, I don't see how it is ok for people to die in Iraq just because they are dying in car crashes.

Jeff

Apparently making the comparison makes him feel better. He does it quite often.