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lies, big lies, and statistics

Some of the countries reporting infant mortality rates lower than the U.S. classify babies as “stillborn” if they survive less than 24 hours whether or not such babies breathe, move, or have a beating heart at birth.

Forty percent of all infant deaths occur in the first 24 hours of life.

In the United States, all infants who show signs of life at birth (take a breath, move voluntarily, have a heartbeat) are considered alive.

If a child in Hong Kong or Japan is born alive but dies within the first 24 hours of birth, he or she is reported as a “miscarriage” and does not affect the country’s reported infant mortality rates.

numbers to know

Number of Americans killed in Iraq since 2003: 4,142

Number of deaths in Mexico since December 2006, largely because of the U.S. War on Drugs: 4,909

Happy Birthday has a copyright

avoidence isn’t a crime

Why did the tiny mom-and-pop enterprises pay no taxes? Because they didn’t make any money!

the Speech

“If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what’s at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation.”~Ronald W. Reagan, 1964.

Rm 8:35

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

Refrain

O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When years of time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Refrain

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

Refrain

1920s roadster


  1. Go Raw Now (trailer)
  2. Eating more than his “fair-share.” PHELPS: 12,000 calories a day!
  3. Chicago Tribune: Past Decade Had Fewest 90-Degree Days Since the ’30s

if only we ended the “income tax”

The New York Sun makes an excellent point about Barack’s tax plan.

house car

  1. Whose “Special Interests”?
  2. John Stossel is 61? wow.
  3. What are enzymes?
  4. and three more questions:
    First, would the United States have ever produced an opening ceremony as pervaded with Christian imagery as the Chinese ceremony was with traditional Chinese religion or philosophy?
    Second, would the United States have produced an opening ceremony as pervasively about American history as the Chinese ceremony was about Chinese life and times?
    Third, would the United States show our best cultural contributions or focus on ephemeral pop cultural phenomena?

car in snow

In the 20th century, the powerful state, not religion, was the greatest purveyor of evil in the world.” (ht:dp)

 

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