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hippiemom
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From the Harper's Index ...
Ratio of the number of people worldwide who are overweight to the number who are undernourished: 5:3
Percentage of Britons who say they would give up sex to live to 100: 40
Percentage of women who have an orgasm during sex with a man, according to an Australian study: 69
Percentage who do during sex with another woman: 76
Minutes it took a Princeton researcher to hack into a Diebold voting machine in September 2006: 1
Percentage of Americans who cannot say in which year the September 11 attacks occurred: 30
Number of State Department foreign-service members whose jobs require them to know Arabic: 160
Number of them who actually do: 64
Percentage of U.S. GDP represented by salaries and wages today: 45
Number of years since record-keeping began in 1929 that this percentage has been so low: 0
Portion of U.S. banking assets in 1996 that were controlled by the ten largest U.S. banks: 1/4
Portion today: 1/2
Percentage change since 2004 in the number of Army recruits admitted despite records of “serious criminal misconduct”: +54
Minimum amount of USDA farm subsidies since 2000 that have been paid out to people who do not farm: $1,300,000,000
Minimum value of “small business” contracts given out by the U.S. last year that went to Fortune 500 firms: $1,200,000,000
Percentage of U.S. income in 1983 and today, respectively, that went to the top 1 percent of earners: 9, 16
Minimum number of different vertebrate species that have homosexual sex: 300
Typical length, in minutes, of all-male dolphin orgies: 20
Chance that a British veterinarian says he or she has treated a drunk dog: 1 in 4
Volume of new reserves added by major oil companies in 2005, expressed as a percentage of oil pumped that year: 51
Number of U.S. residents the FBI investigated last year using Patriot Act powers that waive the need for a warrant: 3,501
Number of times that President Bush’s “signing statements” have exempted his administration from provisions of new laws: 750
Total number of times for all other presidents since Washington: 568
Percentage of Irish Catholics who think that priests should not have to be celibate: 76
Percentage change in U.S. discretionary spending during the first five years of George W. Bush's presidency: +35
Percentage change during Lyndon Johnson's and Bill Clinton's first five years, respectively: +25, -8
Percentage change since 1990 in the number of Americans who describe themselves as “nonreligious”: +106
Number of state laws enacted since September 2001 that restrict access to information: 616
Number that broaden access: 284
Ratio of the number of people worldwide who are overweight to the number who are undernourished: 5:3
Percentage of Britons who say they would give up sex to live to 100: 40
Percentage of women who have an orgasm during sex with a man, according to an Australian study: 69
Percentage who do during sex with another woman: 76
Minutes it took a Princeton researcher to hack into a Diebold voting machine in September 2006: 1
Percentage of Americans who cannot say in which year the September 11 attacks occurred: 30
Number of State Department foreign-service members whose jobs require them to know Arabic: 160
Number of them who actually do: 64
Percentage of U.S. GDP represented by salaries and wages today: 45
Number of years since record-keeping began in 1929 that this percentage has been so low: 0
Portion of U.S. banking assets in 1996 that were controlled by the ten largest U.S. banks: 1/4
Portion today: 1/2
Percentage change since 2004 in the number of Army recruits admitted despite records of “serious criminal misconduct”: +54
Minimum amount of USDA farm subsidies since 2000 that have been paid out to people who do not farm: $1,300,000,000
Minimum value of “small business” contracts given out by the U.S. last year that went to Fortune 500 firms: $1,200,000,000
Percentage of U.S. income in 1983 and today, respectively, that went to the top 1 percent of earners: 9, 16
Minimum number of different vertebrate species that have homosexual sex: 300
Typical length, in minutes, of all-male dolphin orgies: 20
Chance that a British veterinarian says he or she has treated a drunk dog: 1 in 4
Volume of new reserves added by major oil companies in 2005, expressed as a percentage of oil pumped that year: 51
Number of U.S. residents the FBI investigated last year using Patriot Act powers that waive the need for a warrant: 3,501
Number of times that President Bush’s “signing statements” have exempted his administration from provisions of new laws: 750
Total number of times for all other presidents since Washington: 568
Percentage of Irish Catholics who think that priests should not have to be celibate: 76
Percentage change in U.S. discretionary spending during the first five years of George W. Bush's presidency: +35
Percentage change during Lyndon Johnson's and Bill Clinton's first five years, respectively: +25, -8
Percentage change since 1990 in the number of Americans who describe themselves as “nonreligious”: +106
Number of state laws enacted since September 2001 that restrict access to information: 616
Number that broaden access: 284
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
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how Ironic
lol Bologna!
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
Camden 5-28-06
Washington, D.C. 6-22-08
Without sex why the fuck would you want to live to be 100.
Those people really need to get their priorities in order.
40 or 50 years without sex would only seem like 100 to you? I'm not sure if I should commend you or slap you in the face?? Either way, it's a pretty bold statement.
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."
Camden 5-28-06
Washington, D.C. 6-22-08
Ok, so it would be, maybe, 20 years ... 25 tops ... (the first 15+, most people aren't having sex anyway)
have you seen some of the british chicks though? with all the pints of beer and battered this or deep fried that, it's pretty hard to find a nice one. even prince charles struggles
how can you have a percentage change that large?
12 people may make the one decision but that doesn't make it right.
Free Rob Farquharson, wrongfully imprisoned!!
www.factbeforetheory.net
Two words. Kate Winslet. Any country that can bloom something so beautiful can't be that bad.
If, for example, the number was initially 50 000, and then increased to 103 000 in the next year, that is a 106% increase.
12 people may make the one decision but that doesn't make it right.
Free Rob Farquharson, wrongfully imprisoned!!
www.factbeforetheory.net
i thought the same.
i appreciate the humor mixed in with the sad realities...yikes.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
the 20 minute all male dolphin orgies....priceless.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
you know, i'm a little surprised that second number is so low.
cross the river to the eastside
I see gorgeous females everytime i leave the house man, and i stay in the UK.
However, last week in an Australian pub i was in, the Australian barmaid looked like someone had set her face on fire and put it out with a frying pan.
You get chicks who look like Prince Charles missus everywhere mate!
percentage of men who dont give a fuck: 99.9%
hehehe........
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
percentage of women who are are painfully aware of this fact......100%
and i'm gonna have to start paying more attention when i go to Sea World
all male dolphin orgies !?!?! haha