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g~j weren't really sure where to include the following info, but we'll pass it on here...
As it seems it has some weird~perverse link to this R.I.P. thread...
So, here ya go...

Doctors vs. Gun Owners
Doctors
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is
700,000
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are
120,00
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is
0.171
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is
80,000,000
(Yes, that's 80 million)
(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is
1,500
(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is
.000188
Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately
9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
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FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a gun owner!!!
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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
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Out of concern for the public at large, the statistics on lawyers are withheld for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!

That is just too funny, even if it is not true.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

admin wrote:That is just too funny, even if it is not true.

Ya know... that got g~j reflecting on a cross~threading we posted before...
The FACTS about "Death by Medicine" are actually undisputed, verifiable, documented.
http://www.allchile.net/chileforum/topic4151-30.html
http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf
It's there, in all the lurid and scary detail...
There is much more than a mote of truth in the eye of the above attempt at crude humor...
There is a freak'n beam
Quite frankly... g~j would rather take their chances with a drunk friend showing off their 9mm...
Than sign into a hospital - and take our chances with docs, meds, infections and iatrogenisis.

The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US.

Regardless... all gets back to R.I.P. U.S.A.
Things goin' from bad to worse

Despatch from your man on the Pequod:

The police in the local small towns on the Oregon Coast (as well as elsewhere) are getting very aggressive in handing out as many traffic tickets as possible. It has officially become RIDICULOUS. It's just part of the overall deteriorating atmosphere here in the home of the brave. Predatory police everywhere, I dunno what these guys think they're doing....... I give them too much credit I think, no thought going on, just robots operating on their programming. I got three tickets in two weeks! All "ticky-tack" and questionable. I don't really blame the cops, doodoo rolls downhill, they get the orders to hand them out from their superiors and the politicians (although cops imagine they have no superiors ) and so they hand them out like candy to us mundanes. I'm really getting to dislike the vibe here in the Homeland.
I actually talked my way out of one ticket in Lincoln City, Oregon or it would have been four, thank you Officer Blakely, now go have a donut. I deliver packages as my business and I no longer do business in Lincoln City. Can't afford it and I don't need the wonderfully edifying interaction with the boys and girls in blue.
The money transfer from us hoi-polloi to the political/banxster class is proceeding on so many levels it's frightening. I just read the other day the US Government is bringing back the inheiritence tax, yep, they want 55% starting January 1st 2011. Anybody know anything more about that? Well, they got to pay for the 900+ foreign bases and the war machine and somehow 'kill that darn white whale', 'eh? I have had a few interesting conversations in Chile with the carabenieros before, they are approachable, civil and polite. Can you imagine just going up to a cop in say a major US city and just shooting the breeze? Probably get a beatdown, at least would run your ID.

I gotta go now, the water is rising onto and over the decks here on the Pequod. I'm getting into my little dinghy of a lifeboat and I'm breaking out my oars.

Chuck, make sure those 'oars 'as lifejackets too! Such a loss!
Yes, on the Southern Or coast the ticketfest is on par with Lincoln and the cops are as unfriendly as if they were in a ghetto.
Here in LA, should one make eye contact with a roving "cop in cruiser" there's at least a deferential nod to be had, in Or I appear to be transparent.
Must be the pressure of keeping order in the barrio...."suspicious conditions"!!
http://www.currypilot.com/2010072811580 ... ly-28-2010

After a few serious (? ?) sessions on other threads...
g~j must now return to their favorite Empire Bashing...
Here's one for y'all...
Enjoy, or not... each to their own sense of humor

The Great Seal of the United States is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the United States federal government. The Great Seal was first used publicly in 1782.
The obverse of the great seal is used as the national coat of arms of the United States. It is officially used on documents such as United States passports, military insignia, embassy placards, and various flags.

The government today announced that it is changing its Great Seal to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance.
1 - Condoms allow for inflation,
2 - They halt production,
3 - Destroy the next generation,
4 - Protect a bunch of pricks,
5 - And give you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed.
Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that!

Good morning any fellow Empire bashers...
This one crossed our screens this fine a.m....
Nicely on the thread's topic and certainly good enuff to share with others...
Placing blame where blame lies...
And right from the mouth of one of the horses (asses?)

In an extraordinary mea culpa published July 31st in the New York Times, President Reagan's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, David Stockman, a Republican, blamed his own party for four critical errors that contributed to America's decline:

The errors are as follows:

The first of these started when the Nixon administration defaulted on American obligations under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement to balance our accounts with the world. It is.. an outcome that Milton Friedman said could never happen when, in 1971, he persuaded President Nixon to unleash on the world paper dollars no longer redeemable in gold or other fixed monetary reserves. Just let the free market set currency exchange rates, he said, and trade deficits will self-correct. [But] relieved of the discipline of defending a fixed value for their currencies, politicians the world over were free to cheapen their money and disregard their neighbors…

The second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt…This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts…

The third ominous change in the American economy has been the vast, unproductive expansion of our financial sector…the trillion-dollar conglomerates that inhabit this new financial world are not free enterprises. They are rather wards of the state, extracting billions from the economy with a lot of pointless speculation in stocks, bonds, commodities and derivatives. They could never have survived, much less thrived, if their deposits had not been government-guaranteed and if they hadn’t been able to obtain virtually free money from the Fed’s discount window to cover their bad bets.

The fourth destructive change has been the hollowing out of the larger American economy…It is not surprising, then, that during the last bubble (from 2002 to 2006) the top 1 percent of Americans - paid mainly from the Wall Street casino - received two-thirds of the gain in national income, while the bottom 90 percent - mainly dependent on Main Street’s shrinking economy - got only 12 percent. This growing wealth gap is not the market’s fault. It’s the decaying fruit of bad economic policy.

Stockman’s mea culpa is an unexpected admission of political responsibility especially at a time when Americans are searching for someone to blame. But there’s no one to blame except America itself. The Russians aren’t responsible, the Muslims aren’t responsible and guess what, illegal immigrants aren’t responsible either - America, and America alone, is responsible for its own demise.

But surely not "everyone" in America...
Exactly WHO...?
As always...
Follow the Money - you'll see

Some may take us to task for a "solution"...
OK... here ya go...
(Thanx to Aerosmith...)

hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain

WAKE UP KID IT'S HALF PAST THE YOUTH
YEAH AIN'T NOTHIN' REALLY CHANGIN BUT THE DATE
YOU A GRAND SLAMMER BUT YOU NO BABE RUTH
YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW TA RELATE
OR YOU'LL BE SWINGIN' FROM THE PEARLY GATE YAH-HAH
GOT ALL THE ANSWERS AND LO AND BEHOLD
YA GOT THE RIGHT KEY BABY
BUT THE WRONG KEY HOLE-YO

YEAH-AH
WELL I WOKE UP THIS MORNIN'
ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BED
AND HOW I GOT TA THINKIN'
ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS YOU SAID
ABOUT ORDINARY PEOPLE
AND HOW THEY MAKE YA SICK
AND IF CALLIN' NAMES KICKS BACK ON YOU
THEN I HOPE THIS DOES THE TRICK

'CAUSE I'M SICK OF YOUR COMPLAININ'
ABOUT HOW MANY BILLS
AND I'M SICK OF ALL YOUR BITCHIN'
'BOUT YOUR POODLES AND YOUR PILLS
AND I JUST CAN'T SEE NO HUMOR
ABOUT YOUR WAY A LIFE
AND I THINK I CAN DO MORE FOR YOU
WITH THIS HERE FORK AND KNIFE

EAT THE RICH
THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THAT THEY'RE GOOD FOR
EAT THE RICH
I TAKE ONE BITE NOW COME BACK FOR MORE
EAT THE RICH
I GOTTA GET THIS OFF MY CHEST
EAT THE RICH
I TAKE ONE BITE NOW SPIT OUT THE REST

SO I CALLED UP MY HEAD SHRINKER
I TOLD HIM WHAT I'D DONE
HE SAID YOU BEST GO ON A DIET
I HOPE YA HAD SOME FUN
AND DON'T GO BURST A BUBBLE
ON THE RICH FOLK WHO GET RUDE
'CAUSE YOU WON'T GET IN NO TROUBLE
WHEN YA EATS THAT KINDA FOOD

AN' NOW THEY'RE SMOKIN' UP THEIR JUNK BONDS
AND THEN THEY GO GET STIFF
AND THEY'RE DANCIN' AT THE YACHT CLUB
WITH MUFF AND UNCLE BIFF
BUT THERE'S ONE GOOD THING THAT HAPPENS
WHEN YOU TOSS YOUR PEARLS TO SWINE
THEIR ATTITUDES MAY TASTE LIKE SHIT
BUT GO REAL GOOD WITH WINE

Chorus...

BELIEVE IN ALL THE GOOD THINGS
THAT MONEY JUST CAN'T BUY
YOU WON'T GET NO BELLYACHE
FROM EATIN' HUMBLE PIE

I BELIEVE IN RAGS TO RICHES
YOUR INHERITANCE WON'T LAST
TAKE YOUR GREY POUPON MY FRIEND
AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS

Chorus...

EAT THE RICH
THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THAT THEY'RE GOOD FOR
EAT THE RICH
TAKE ONE BITE NOW COME BACK FOR MORE
EAT THE RICH
DON'T STOP ME NOW I'M GOIN' LOCO
EAT THE RICH
THAT'S MY IDEA OF GOOD TIME BABY

I usually like to check out the UK view of the US economy, there's often a fresher approach but here's a guy with a mouthful of Koolaid if I ever saw one. His readers' comments are the better read. BTW, read the address bar, the IT peeps having a larf??
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/je ... dity-trap/

Two items for Empire bashers:

What collapsing empire looks like
FRIDAY, AUG 6, 2010 12:07 ET
BY GLENN GREENWALD
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... index.html


The next YouTube video is shocking to me (well not really ). Can anyone confirm the sentiment and reality of what is occurring in So Cal?

MikieO?

Keiser Report №65: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
Russia Today
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:12 EDT

Advance to the second part at 12:25.

Max talks to Internet sensation George Hemminger about his experience with financial collapse in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eanx7VK5 ... r_embedded

watching it right now, so far he's right on the money, I get panhandled every time I pump gas.

The next YouTube video is shocking to me (well not really ). Can anyone confirm the sentiment and reality of what is occurring in So Cal?

Good one eeuu... notwithstanding the rose-colored glasses placed on the credulous eyes of a distracted~sleeping population...
It's Ugly... getting Uglier... soon-to-be Ugliest.
Very nice to be watching from the outside (of SoCal).

Try this one...
An Excellent comparison perspective
Of where Japan WAS and IS now...
With where Am'urka IS now and WILL be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udT3dbbryEU&feature=player_embedded

g~j think that anyone with at least one eye and half a brain...
Can see Mr. Inflation's ugly head lurking closer
And right behind him... is his even uglier partner - Mr. Hyper-Inflation
And don't think for a minute that those ugly bro's won't be bringing some local repercussions...
...even here in the Long, Thin Country.
C.Y.A. allchileans...
Gotta "Plan B" when TSHTF