2009/12/22
Carbon footprint of the Copenhagen climate summit: 46,200 tons of carbon dioxide. That’s enough to fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 660,000 Ethiopians.
The cheapest form of therapy: “Children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance.
Almost one in five Americans say they have been in the presence of a ghost: One in six say some people can use the “evil eye” to “cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen.”
The Great Recession seems to be solidifying, not eroding, the marital bond: “The divorce rate…declined to 16.9 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2008 from 17.5 divorces in 2007 (a 3% drop), after rising from 16.4 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2005 (a 7% increase).
I’ve been in the presence of a ghost. It’s the ghost of free enterprise health care — which has been dead for some time and is about to have a final stake driven throught the heart by
Obama and the Congressional Democrats.
Hey, flying all the way to Norway to denounce capitalism and doing it in style requires a big carbon footprint. What else is there to say?
Stephen, when these guys talk about reducing carbon emissions, they are not referring to themselves. They are referring to you and me.
What’s so bad about carbon footprints?
Plants love them and so do people, especially those people who have already made fortunes by convincing the ignorant that it is a good thing to pay for them.
See http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/ on global corruption and Pachauri’s fortunes.
In most cases, the cheapest form of all mental health care is to medicate the patient. I’m not surprised that Medicaid chooses money over patients.