| Just ran across this from Saturday's Detroit News:
Liberals need war perspective
California homicides dwarf Iraq deaths. The state lost 2,394 to murder in 2004 compared with 905 coalition lives.
Perhaps U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer of California could turn their cheeks away from the Botox and take a look at the report “Crime in California 2004.â€
This thing called “perspective†is tough for liberals. How many Americans died today in California?
J.D. Andary
Waterford
Here's what happens when you continue to slash funding for education. If J.D. had stopped for just one small second to question what was most likely fed to him by Rush Limbaugh, he might have realized that this doesn't even make sense! To put it another way:
Iraq
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California
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905 coalition deaths (2004) out of about 150,000 coalition troops.
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2,394 murders out of 35,893,799 state residents
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Odds of death: 1 in 166
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Odds of death: 1 in 14,993
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(BTW - just for the purposes of this post, I will accept J.D.'s numbers with respect to the number of coalition deaths and number of murders in California.)
As George Orwell once wrote:
2+2=5
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