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B. B. Sharper's Numbers in the News
B. Bea Sharper Ferrets Out the Facts that Harper's Misses
Cost of the War in Iraq
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Current cost of the war in Iraq to you, your children, and your grandchildren: $100, 000 per minute. Official White House estimate, before the invasion, of the cost of the invasion of Iraq and the occupation: $50 billion. Actual cost as of August 2006: almost $300 billion. Number of White House officials and cabinet members who have any of their immediate family serving in Iraq: 0. Estimated number of leaks in Iraq's national water distribution system: 500,000. Percentage of the country's water supply that is lost because of these leaks: 60%. Total US military budget, expressed in Oreo cookies: 40 (You'll have to go here for an explanation.)
 Read Gazette columnist Tiger Tom's scary and prophetic "God Must Divest Himself of Earthly Holdings."
We live in interesting times. One commentator says that our president has the intellectual curiosity of a butter bean, and another says he is the first president in history with a negative IQ. Though these may be exaggerations, it's virtually certain that we are first-hand witnesses to the tenure of The Worst President in History.
"The world is a dangerous place,
Iraqi Child Killed by US Troops
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy! Spanish novelist Pio Baroja said that if you read the works of the Greek historian Herodotus you'll encounter all the possible atrocities and stupidities that men are capable of. Therefore, there is no reason at all to read the daily news. We agree, and we have consequently dropped our old daily update of the comprehensive index of the atrocities du jour. Now we offer instead links to a couple of sites where you can always count on finding bad news aplenty.
So, if you still haven't read
the nine books of
Herodotus, we suggest: For news about the environment, good and bad: Nature is an endless repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.--Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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