For those of you who have been trying for the last two days to enter comments, I apologize. I had recovered a backup of my blog from a local server and neglected to change the server address to the public one. Dah.

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Think about physicians:

1. The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
2. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
3. Accidental deaths per physicianis 0.171.¹

Now think about gun owners:

1. The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. (Yes, that’s 80 million..)
2. The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups,is 1,500.
3. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.²

So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. Remember, “Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.” Also: Not everyone has a gun, but almost everyone has at least one doctor. Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.

Out of concern for the public at large, we are witholding the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.

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1. Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services. [↩]
2. Statistics courtesy of FBI [↩]

My friends from the left are all a tither about the leaked National Intelligence Estimate cited in the NY Times which reportedly claims that the Iraq war is inflaming Islamic terrorism. They’ve renewed their “impeach Bush!” cries.

I particularly like Michelle Malkin’s response:

Michelle Malkin: About that National Intelligence Estimate
If our intelligence agencies are laboring under the moonbat illusion that Muslim hatred of the infidel West didn’t really start bubbling until the year 2003, we are really in deep, deep doo-doo. Have they not been paying attention over the last year? All it takes is a few cartoons or a dropped Koran or a defiant apostate or a Muslim woman in a bikini or a papal speech quotation to set off The Religion of Perpetual Outrage. Someone order up some copies of Legacy of Jihad and Islamic Imperialism stat.

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“Money may not buy happiness, Loretta, but it does buy beer.”
–From “The Lockhorns” by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner

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The things that come to those who wait will be the things left over by those who didn’t.

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The Villages Daily Sun, Wednesday, September 20, 2006.

Santa Rosa, Calif.

One-time JonBenet Ramsey murder susptect John Mark Karr was offered a plea deal Tuesday on child pornography charges that would free him on probation.

Assistant District Attorney Joann Risse said prosecutors would waive three of the five child pornography charges against him if he pleaded guilty on two remaining charges.

Karr, 41, would get credit for time served and would be placed on probation for three years.

Maybe this kind of stuff happens in other states, but I can’t help thinking that, in light of the outcomes of the O.J., Robert Blake, and Michael Jackson trials, prosecutors in California are just a little gun-shy about taking criminals before its citizens. I know; I know. Karr is not a pop icon…or is he out there on the coast?

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Taylor And Jadyn

Yes. Aren’t they adorable? This is my grand niece Taylor with her new little sister, Jadyn.

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The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.

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The Sermon I think this Mom will never forget…. this particular Sunday sermon…”Dear Lord,” the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. “Without you, we are but dust.”

He would have continued but at that moment a little girl (who was listening!) leaned over to her mother and asked quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, “Mom, what is butt dust?”

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“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
–Dave Barry

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