Friday - September 17, 2004

Too Good To Pass Up

It’s not for lack of stuff out there to comment on but sometimes you see commentary at other blogger’s sites and you have to share.

So it is with Kim du Toit’s two posts over the past couple of days.  Where or how he finds this stuff I have no idea.  Maybe he’ll share with us.  But great stuff it is!

First off we have this offering about statistics.  You know, I get tired of the lefties always trying to present their numbers as so much gloom and doom.  Especially numbers dealing with deaths and the subsequent demands our law makers do something about it.  But check out these numbers and tell me if you feel there is much to worry about.  Frankly I always thought it was much ado about nothing but I’ll let you decide.

Here’s a snippet from his post.

For the year 2001, here are a few random odds of dying by injury (ranked in order of likelihood, to be read as “1 in _____"):

-----Unintentional Accidental Falls: 18,982

-----Car occupant: 19,075

-----Accidental poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances: 20,251

-----Assault by firearm: 25,123

-----Pedestrian: 46,960

-----Occupant of pick-up truck or van: 76,249

-----Exposure to smoke, fire and flames: 86,157

-----Complications of medical and surgical care and sequelae: 94,371

Then some unlikely ones, but which seem to get a lot of Press coverage for some reason:

-----Exposure to forces of nature (exposure, earthquake, lightning etc): 259,176

-----Drowning and submersion while in or falling into natural water: 270,487

-----Unintentional Accidental Firearms discharge: 355,479

-----Inhalation and ingestion of food causing obstruction of respiratory tract: 384,223

-----Drowning and submersion while in or falling into swimming-pool: 478,345

Go here to read what all he has to say on the subject.

Don’t forget to check on his source, too.

I kinda like the stats on death by fireworks---1 in 47,515,636!!!  I don’t know about you but I do not feel threatened by that.  Yet how many times have you heard the panty-waisted left demand we BAN fireworks?!?!?!?!

The other one was today’s post dealing with health care and a different blogger’s prescription for fixing it in the US. (yep, us bloggers love to cut and paste and copy and refer to one another, eh?)

Kim wishes he could take this list and nail it to Fuckface’s forehead with a six inch nail.  Frankly, I can’t think of a better idea.

Kim likes the one about making health care shitty. Personally I favor the part where hospitals can automatically begin the process of garnishment for those who seek care in emergency situations and then claim an inability to pay for it.

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