Gun Ownership – U.S. Style
Americans make up about 4.4 percent of the global population but own 42 percent of the world’s guns and commit 31% of the mass killings.
America’s gun homicide rate was 33 per million people in 2009, far exceeding the average among developed countries. In Canada and Britain, it was 5 per million and 0.7 per million, respectively.
A New Yorker is just as likely to be robbed as a Londoner, but the New Yorker is 54 times more likely to be killed in the process.[1]
[1] NYT Nov 7th 17
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Even Little Sparrows
"Even Little Sparrows"
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Recalling life as an animal welfare inspector in 1970's England, Even Little Sparrows is now available for immediate download as a revised and updated eBook, while still obtainable from the publisher and leading bookstores in its original paperback format. Over 300 pages of heart-rending, yet often hilarious anecdotes weave a poignant love story around the lives of characters dedicated to caring for the sick and unwanted of the animal kingdom.
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Did you see where BO has forbidden the phrase?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/01-3
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It’s unbelievably bad. They’ll repair the damage and carry on as though it was just a one-off tragic oddity, ignoring the droughts, the fires, the increasing violence of storms and peculiar weather patterns, the loss of ice in the arctic, etc etc etc. No doubt They’re also planning some enclave, somewhere They consider They will remain safe when it all comes down on us at once – down upon the once Great Unwashed.
WWW – NO, I hadn’t seen that, but I did read the Guardian article. Do these people truly believe the climate will wait till oil runs out and the petroleum companies need some ‘cleaner’ way to make their money? Or, until gasoline becomes so expensive only the top one percent will be able to run cars? The saddest of all is that it’s ordinary people, listening to the idiots pushing their own crazed agendas, who are keeping the subject politically toxic. Partly to blame are the environmental groups who went along with Obama’s decree. They should have pushed even harder – kept the issue in the public domain. Instead, it’s been allowed to lose focus. That is, until Sandy came along. Hopefully, if any good can come from the misery and suffering caused by this storm, it will be in reawakening the climate debate as a serious political issue. Though, I fear Americans will rapidly lapse back into complacency once the media lose interest in the aftermath of this storm.
Twilight – Sandy is yet another glaring example of how the ‘Great Unwashed’ will be left to suffer, while the well-off rapidly repair their homes and carry on with their comfortable existence. Katrina showed it all too clearly. When the really big one finally comes, the one that’s too big to rebuild, that destroys the infrastructure totally, the one percent will be well prepared, arrogantly content to leave the rest of us to our fate.