This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1908. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the USA for the Year 1908 :
The average life expectancy was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
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Kabul – The United States is erecting billboards in Afghanistan offering hefty rewards for Osama bin Laden, Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar and US al-Qaeda member Adam Gadahn, the embassy said on Saturday. Ten of the large Rewards for Justice boards were being erected countrywide, two of them in Kabul *** The US government had also been running ads on radio and television with a call number active for a few months, she said. ”We are receiving phone calls” Agence France-Presse
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BAGHDAD – Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only U.S. politicians that can get Iraq’s feuding Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way. *** Across racial and religious boundaries, Iraqi politicians on Saturday bemoaned Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s choice of running mate, known in Iraq as the author of a 2006 plan to divide the country into ethnic and sectarian enclaves. *** “This choice of Biden is disappointing, because he is the creator of the idea of dividing Iraq,” Salih al-Mutlaq, head of National Dialogue, one of the main Sunni Arab blocs in parliament, told Reuters. *** “We rejected his proposal when he announced it, and we still reject it. Dividing the communities and land in such a way would only lead to new fighting between people over resources and borders. Iraq cannot survive unless it is unified, and dividing it would keep the problems alive for a long time.” – REUTERS
DENVER – The candidate of change went with the status quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weaknessinexperience in office and on foreign policyrather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions. *** The picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn’t beat Republican John McCain… – AP
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John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the Democratic National Convention for having an affair and lying about it. Instead Bill Clinton will be speaking in his place……..
Am I missing something here????
Also now we have Obama Biden as the ticket, sounds like a terrorist name. Good thing Biden’s 1st name wasn’t Ben.
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Big deal. Totally expected, just another old liberal. Now let’s move on to something interesting…
by Jack Lee
Are you a little bit of a history buff… like WWII details? I made a side by side comparison. just for fun. between two fighters that squared off in the Pacific. Japan’s most modern fighter was the Nakajima Ki-43 – the earlier version was the Zero (A6M2) while America had the Wildcat which was quickly replaced by the much meaner F4U Corsair. When you look at the stats between them the Corsair was hands down the best fighter of the bunch. Why Japan continued to produce their fighters without significant upgrades is still a mystery. But, if you read the book, “Zero Fighter” you might have
(Check out the stats and see some nifty pics…)
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One of the common themes used to discredit George Bush and the war in Iraq is that it caused an increase in terror activity around the world. Now a study out of Canada debunks that claim. I thought you should know about it since it’s unlikely we’ll hear much about it in the news:
Studies dispel myths about war’s impact Mobile Register
Armed with government statistics showing a big increase in terrorist attacks since 2002, Democrats routinely assert that President Bush ignited a firestorm of terrorism throughout the Muslim world when he sent troops into Iraq. The claim and the statistics are used to illustrate what Democrats see as the foolishness of the president’s belief that toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime would reduce instability in the Middle East and eliminate a major potential source of terrorism. *** A survey released in May by a Canadian university proves that the statistics paint a distorted picture of terrorism outside the borders of Iraq. *** Fareed Zakaria, a columnist for Newsweek, praised Simon Fraser University for producing “a well-researched, independent analysis of the data relating to terrorism.” The analysis shows that, excluding civilian casualties in Iraq, deaths caused by terrorism have declined by more than 40 percent since 2001. *** It “makes no sense” to count civilian casualties in a war zone as deaths caused by terrorism, Mr. Zakaria wrote. Since the mid-1990s, thousands of civilians have been killed in war zones in other countries around the world, and those victims weren’t counted as casualties related to terrorism. *** Perhaps the most telling statistic is the 65 percent decline in terrorist attacks since 2004. Al-Qaida-initiated attacks peaked in 2004, but Osama bin Laden and his followers haven’t been able to sustain the carnage. *** The Simon Fraser study attributes the sharp decrease in terrorist attacks to effective counterterrorism operations, discord among the jihadists and an “extraordinary drop in support for Islamist terror organizations in the Muslim world over the past five years.” *** This dramatic shift in opinion destroys partisan claims that President Bush’s policies have turned millions of moderates in Muslim countries into al-Qaida sympathizers.
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Want to see some of my girls pictures from Europe? Becky has been traveling extensively from Switzerland to Spain while living and working aboard a fantastic yacht as a senior crew member. Her boat was birthed in Florida,
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The relationship Democrats are trying to forge with the faith community at their convention next week took a hit when a popular young evangelical backed out of their Monday night program. Cameron Strang, the 30-something editor of Relevant, a hip magazine about faith and culture, said on his blog that he has changed his mind about delivering the opening night convention prayer because he does not want to be seen as endorsing Sen. Barack Obama. Washington Post
