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Manner of Speaking
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 Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject: Some Interesting Statistics |
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Harper's Index for February 2006
(Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006. Originally from February 2006.)
Margin by which total votes for Democrats in the last three Senate elections exceeded those for Republicans: 2,900,000
[Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives]
Number of seats won by Democrats and Republicans, respectively: 46, 56
[Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives]
Percentage of U.S. conservatives who report having experienced deja vu: 63
[Alan Brown, Southern Methodist University (Dallas)]
Percentage of liberals who do: 74
[Alan Brown, Southern Methodist University (Dallas)]
Minimum number of Iraq war veterans who have declared they are running for Congress this year: 11
[Harper��s research]
Number of these who are Democrats: 9
[Harper��s research]
Percentage of Americans who say that fighting terrorism should be one of the nation��s top two priorities: 6
[Harris Interactive (Rochester, N.Y.)]
Number of people whom Coalition forces have imprisoned in Iraq at some point since March 2003: 48,526
[Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force—Iraq (Baghdad)]
Percentage of these who have been convicted of a crime: 1.5
[Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force—Iraq (Baghdad)]
Portion of prison inmates in Mozambique who have been tried in a court of law: 1/4
[Penal Reform International (London)]
Average number of civilian policemen per every thousand square miles of Darfur, Sudan: 7
[U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (N.Y.C.)]
Number of workplace arrests made by U.S. immigration authorities in 1997: 17,554
[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]
Number in 2003: 445
[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]
Percentage change since 1999 in federal prosecutions of white-collar crime: -25
[Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (Syracuse, N.Y.)]
Chances that a U.S. company settling a corporate crime case will illegally deduct some or all of the settlement to the IRS: 3 in 5
[U.S. Government Accountability Office]
Average percentage by which U.S. senators�� investments outperform the stock market each year: 12
[Alan J. Ziobrowski, Georgia State University (Atlanta)]
Percentage of U.S. CEO vacancies that are filled from outside the company: 40
[RHR International Company (Wood Dale, Ill.)]
Average amount the companies spend on each search: $2,000,000
[RHR International Company (Wood Dale, Ill.)]
Chance that the CEO will quit or be fired within eighteen months: 1 in 2
[RHR International Company (Wood Dale, Ill.)]
Average amount it costs U.S. companies to process a query through a call center: $6.62
[The Center for Customer Driven Quality (West Lafayette, Ind.)]
Average performance rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of top U.S. government managers who are political appointees: 62
[David Lewis, Princeton University (New Jersey)]
Average for those who are career bureaucrats: 70
[David Lewis, Princeton University (New Jersey)]
Estimated amount the U.S. would save each year on paperwork if it adopted single-payer health care: $161,000,000,000
[James G. Kahn, University of California, San Francisco]
Percentage change since 2000 in the average amount U.S. workers spend on out-of-pocket medical expenses: +93
[Hewitt Associates LLC (Lincolnshire, Ill.)]
Factor by which the total amount that U.S. pension plans have invested in hedge funds today exceeds that in 1990: 100
[Casey, Quirk & Associates (Darien, Conn.)]
Number of centenarians that the U.S. census counted in 2000: 50,740[U.S. Census Bureau]
Projected number it will count in 2050: 1,149,500
[U.S. Census Bureau]
Percentage change since 1996 in the amount that drug companies spend on direct-to-consumer advertising: +420
[TNS Media Intelligence (N.Y.C.)/Harvard School of Public Health (Boston)]
Percentage of the air-ambulance helicopters in the U.S. that have crashed since 2000: 10
[Alan Levin, USA Today (Washington)]
Number of dominoes that a wayward sparrow toppled just before a Dutch world-record attempt in November: 23,000
[Endemol NV (Aalsmeer, The Netherlands)]
Hours later that the sparrow was executed: 1.5
[Endemol NV (Aalsmeer, The Netherlands)]
Estimated amount spent in the United States each year to treat ACL injuries in dogs: $1,320,000,000
[Vicki L. Wilke, Iowa State University (Ames)]
(The ACL is a ligament in the knee joints of humans and dogs)
Number of registered U.S. teams in the World Adult Kickball Association: 650
[World Adult Kickball Association (N.Y.C.)]
Minimum number of American colleges and universities that offer programs in video-game design: 82
[Game Developer (San Francisco)]
Chance that a boy in a U.S. high school plays cards for money at least once a week: 1 in 9
[The Annenberg Public Policy Center (Philadelphia)]
Monthly fee to add a ��virtual girlfriend�� game to an Ericsson mobile phone: $5
[Artificial Life, Inc. (Hong Kong)]
Price for a vibrator that plugs into an iPod and ��stimulates you in time with your favorite music��: £29.99
[LoveHoney U.K. (Bath, England)]
Year that a Hindu nationalist party in India rechristened Valentine��s Day ��Prostitution Day��: 2005
[Shiv Sena (New Delhi)]
Minutes that the library in Malmö, Sweden, ��lent�� a gay man and a Muslim cleric for conversation last fall: 45
[Stadsbiblioteket i Malmö (Sweden)]
Number of patrons who borrowed each: 8 |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Some Interesting Statistics |
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Year that a Hindu nationalist party in India rechristened Valentine��s Day ��Prostitution Day��: 2005
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"Prostitution Day" in place of Valentines Day? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Harpers wrote:
Year that a Hindu nationalist party in India rechristened Valentine��s Day ��Prostitution Day��: 2005
[Shiv Sena (New Delhi)]
"Prostitution Day" in place of Valentines Day?
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The idea wasn't to get people celebrating Prostitution Day, but rather to get them to stop celebrating Valentine's Day by saying that Valentine's Day glorifies licentious sexuality.
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The Delhi unit of Shiv Sena has termed Valentine's Day as "Prostitution Day" and will hold a protest march near Delhi University to oppose the celebrations.
Sena sources said that they have named the day as "Prostitution Day" because they see it as Western society's poisoning influence on India....
The Sena's Delhi unit chief has also requested the Delhi Police to prohibit any functions and take strict action against all those indulging in 'vulgar displays' of affection.
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http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/02/valentines-day-has-some-big-obstacles.html |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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"Prostitution Day" in place of Valentines Day?
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Yes, the people that gave us the Kama Sutra and lingams in temples have grown up to ban nudity in movies and campaign against sending Valentine's cards. Ironic, isn't it? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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Yes, the people that gave us the Kama Sutra and lingams in temples have grown up to ban nudity in movies and campaign against sending Valentine's cards. Ironic, isn't it?
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Actually, the Kama Sutra isn't quite the free-wheeling, broad-minded proto-hippy masterpiece that it is sometimes claimed to be.
From a Kama Sutra website:
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Earlier I mentioned the Kama Sutra's unexpected aversion to oral sex. Vatsyayana declares, "It should not be done because it is opposed to the moral code." But apparently, he understood that ancient Indian men enjoyed blow jobs as much as men do today, because after condemning oral sex, he provides elaborate instructions to women on how to perform what the Kamasutra calls "sucking the mango." Then Vatsyayana reiterates his condemnation of oral sex, saying it should be enjoyed only with "loose women, servant girls, and masseuses" with whom a man "does not bother with acts of civility." Finally, in an ambivalent aside, he allows that some men enjoy sucking each other's mangoes, and that some even perform cunnilingus: "Sometimes men perform this act on women, transposing the procedure for kissing a mouth."
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But tenderness toward women goes only so far in the Kama Sutra." If a virgin is unwilling to go all the way, men are instructed to have a brother ply her with liquor, and "when the drink has made her unconscious, he takes her maidenhead," i.e. he rapes her. In the Kamasutra's view, rape is acceptable not only for reluctant virgins, but also for other women: "A man may take widows, women who have no man to protect them, wandering women ascetics, and women beggars ... for he knows they are vulnerable ..."
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I haven't provided a link, 'cuz I'm not sure how explicit this website is. Anyone interested can run a google on Love Teachings Of The Kama Sutra. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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Actually, the Kama Sutra isn't quite the free-wheeling, broad-minded proto-hippy masterpiece that it is sometimes claimed to be.
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All I can say, having been given a copy of the Kama Sutra by a hippy chick back in my hippy days, is that it was eye brow raising enough for this small town midwestern boy. We won't go into details about what other parts of the anatomy were also raised by reading it, but I will say that it wasn't just consciousness that was raised. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| What's the deal with the sparrow being executed? I remember being pretty perplexed by that one a few months ago. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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Estimated amount the U.S. would save each year on paperwork if it adopted single-payer health care: $161,000,000,000
[James G. Kahn, University of California, San Francisco]
Percentage change since 2000 in the average amount U.S. workers spend on out-of-pocket medical expenses: +93
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And I just read recently that the average cost of health insurance is up around 76% in the last five years.
This is my number one main reason that I can't even consider living in the States again full time. Every time I go home I come away with a slew of new medical and insurance cost horror stories. My daughter, who works for her local school district, takes home less than $100 a week after paying her share of the insurance cost for her family of four. Her husband provides the income- she works full time for the insurance.
This is such a huge catastrophe in the U.S., but war and oil dominate the agenda, along with, these days, the increasing scandals from the White House.
Argh!! It's too early. I need my coffee.  |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:51 am Post subject: Re: Some Interesting Statistics |
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Minimum number of Iraq war veterans who have declared they are running for Congress this year: 11
[Harper��s research]
Number of these who are Democrats: 9
[Harper��s research]
Percentage of Americans who say that fighting terrorism should be one of the nation��s top two priorities: 6
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Reminds me of an episode of Masters of Horror... The dead soldiers from a war came back to life so they could vote in the election - against those "properly planning and executing" the war.
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Number of people whom Coalition forces have imprisoned in Iraq at some point since March 2003: 48,526
[Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force—Iraq (Baghdad)]
Percentage of these who have been convicted of a crime: 1.5
[Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force—Iraq (Baghdad)] |
Gee, what a surprise. I mean, we're only the country most asociated with individual rights...
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Number of workplace arrests made by U.S. immigration authorities in 1997: 17,554
[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]
Number in 2003: 445
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Maybe the gov't is a little too busy these days.
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Percentage change since 1999 in federal prosecutions of white-collar crime: -25
[Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (Syracuse, N.Y.)]
Chances that a U.S. company settling a corporate crime case will illegally deduct some or all of the settlement to the IRS: 3 in 5
[U.S. Government Accountability Office] |
Does this surprise anyone given the current climate of corporate greed, reduction in controls on big business across the board during this administration and an administration giving out more pork to the wealthy than at any time in history?
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Price for a vibrator that plugs into an iPod and ��stimulates you in time with your favorite music��: £29.99
[LoveHoney U.K. (Bath, England)] |
Someone likely just became very rich. I and my brothers/cousins invented the idea of paintball way back in 1973 or 4... sigh... if only we'd contacted a toy company... |
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