Now that it’s finally warming up and I’m mostly over my illness, I can start training for the new season of Triathlons! That’s right, I’m coming out of retirement after a year long sabatical…
I’m still getting my bike legs back from the winter so I did a 15 mile jaunt today with moderate hills. It took me 1:19 to complete… glad it’s still early in the season.
That's right! Since we are now officially 2 years back on the air — we decided to spiff up the place.
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That’s right it’s been 3 years since we started the war in Iraq. You will of course hear 4 years in the news because that sounds longer and technically we have started the 4th year of our presence there. What you won’t hear as much any more is our causalty rate. Why? Because it’s going down and mentioning that would be too close to good news. The causalty rate in Iraq has been around 2 deaths per day most months with a few months hitting an average 3 per day. This year, however, the causalty rate has dropped to about 1 per day. Of course here in America we value all human life (so we claim) and so 1 death is 1 too many, but let’s put the war in perspective.
Leading Causes Of Death In America
| Cause | Annually * | Per Day |
| Heart Disease (all) | 725,000 | 1986 |
| Cancer (all) | 556,000 | 1523 |
| Coronary Heart Disease (Heart Attacks & Angina) | 479,000 | 1312 |
| American Health Care System** | 225,000 | 616 |
| … | … | … |
| Auto Accidents (all) | 40,000 | 109 |
| Drunk Driving | 16,000 | 43 |
| Falling Down | 15,000 | 41 |
| Poisoning | 9,000 | 24 |
| Drowning | 4,000 | 10.9 |
| … | … | … |
| War In Irag (3 year average) | 766 | 2.09 |
*rounded to the nearest thousand – most data was from the year 2002
** deaths due to unnecessary surgery,medication errors, hospital errors, infections in hospitals, and negative effects of drugs (http://www.health-care-reform.net/causedeath.htm)
Not to deminish the loss of our soldiers but by the numbers the Iraq War death toll has been blown way out of purportion. We should be out running or handing out yellow bands instead of having a coronary (pun intended) every time an IED goes off in Iraq… Unfortunately the combination of Anti-Bush sentiment and old hippies longing for their glory days of sex, drugs and Vietnam — have clouded the national debate on the important issue of Iraq.
Oh and if are a part of the magority of Americans (according to a recent AP poll) that considers Abortion Murder… you would have a new number one killer for our chart at a rate of 1,290,000 per year or 3534 per day. About the total of the top two leading causes of death in America combined.
“The ladies of The View are glittering jewels of colossal ignorance who think they’re the smartest people in the room.” – Rush Limbaugh
“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.”” – Popular Mechanics, March 1949.
“If I’m not back in five minutes.. wait longer” – Jim Carrey, Ace Ventura Pet Detective
“Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.” – Ambrose Bierce
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” – Mark Twain
Now, I’m no hippie, but I do love a hot shower… and apparently that – like everything else – is going to kill me with cancer. That’s right cancer. Did you know that you absorb more chlorine through your shower than you do through your tap water? ( greennest.com – WaterFilterInfo.pdf ) Oh yeah, so all you Brita users out there… we have a new filter for you.
GreenNest.com is a place for ex-hippies that have tired of eating granola and living in vans but still want to stay true to the movement. Well maybe not, but it lets you greenize your home and protect yourself from all the bad stuff that modern civilation has created in the course of creating -well- modern civilation. For instance there are chemicals in carpet! Who knew? I always though carpet grew next to the peach trees in Georgia. Isn’t that smell we all love to huff in our new cars and homes simply the way it acheives cross-pollination?
Seriously, though. While most problems could be address by opening your windows or going outside occassionally, a few things may grab your eye or give you something else to worry about tonight instead of sleeping.