The Truth (Harper's Index) Shall Set Yee Free

[patfromlogan]

Ronin's Fault: Number of Canadian work permits granted since 1998 to stem a labor shortage in “exotic dancing”: 2,000

For Ronin: Fine levied last year on a restaurant in southwest China for serving sushi atop naked women : $242

Another for Ronin: Average number of $75 anal bleachings that an L.A.-area salon performs each day : 5

Need I say who this is for? Percentage change between 2002 and 2003 in the number of U.S. buttock-augmentation surgeries : +533

Length, in yards, of U.S. snipers’ longest confirmed kill in Iraq: 1,050

Rank of 2004 among the most fiscally reckless years in U.S. history, according to the comptroller general: 1[U.S. Government Accountability Office]

Projected cost of disability payments to Iraq War veterans by 2050, based on rates for Gulf War veterans: $285,000,000,000

Number of “veterans of the global war on terrorism” that the VA budget assumed for 2005: 23,553

Estimated number today: 103,000

Years since the Justice Department last released the number of U.S. terror suspects taken into "preventive detention" : 3

Estimated number of people who have been taken into such detention since then : 4,000

Minimum number of Al Qaeda suspects from overseas whom the United States has now "disappeared," by legal standards : 11

Percentage "more intelligence" given up by prisoners in Iraq since coercion of them was banned, according to a U.S. general : 25

Factor by which an Iraqi is more likely to die today than in the last year of the Hussein regime : 2.5

Factor by which the cause of death is more likely to be violence : 58

Percentage change since March 2002 in total U.S. corporate profits, as valued in dollars: +39

Number of free-trade agreements between developing nations and developed nations in 1990 and today, respectively: 23, 109

Projected change in world income over fifteen years if all developing nations were to enter such deals today: +$112,000,000,000

Projected change, in this scenario, in the total income of developing nations: -$21,500,000,000

Number of African countries in which the average life expectancy has declined since 1978 : 22

Estimated percentage change since 1970 in sub-Saharan Africa's share of world trade : -57

Average total cost for a U.S. eighty-year-old to live out the rest of his or her days on a luxury cruise ship: $230,497

Average cost to live them out in an assisted-living facility: $228,075

Estimated total federal assistance for which Wal-Mart employees were eligible last year: $2,500,000,000

Estimated number of young Christians in 1995 who had pledged to wait until marriage for sex: 2,500,000

Estimated percentage who waited: 12

Average amount the Bush Administration has spent per year on contracts with P.R. firms : $62,500,000

Average amount spent during the second term of the Clinton Administration: $32,000,000

Amount the Department of Homeland Security will spend this year directing research at U.S. universities: $45,000,000

Percentage of U.S. high-school students who believe news stories should require “government approval” before publication: 36

Percentage of owners of private businesses in China who are members of the Communist Party: 34

Percentage of all adults in China who are: 5

Average number of East Germans who died each year trying to cross to West Germany: 18

Average number of Mexicans who have died each year since 2000 trying to cross to the United States: 407

Percentage of Republicans who say they would vote for Bush over George Washington: 62

Minimum number of U.S. adults who think Bush is “liberal” or “very liberal”: 11,800,000

Chance that a U.S. adult thinks a “conservative” is someone who supports affirmative action: 1 in 4

Number of female U.S. soldiers disciplined this year for mud-wrestling at an Iraqi prison camp: 2

Year that Boise, Idaho, banned full nudity in public unless it had “serious artistic merit”: 2001

Number of nights each week that a Boise strip club now distributes sketch pads and pencils: 2

Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit: $8,800,000,000

Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector: 100 [Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)]

Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents: 0

Average amount the Bush Administration has spent per year on contracts with P.R. firms : $62,500,000

Average amount spent during the second term of the Clinton Administration: $32,000,000

Amount the Department of Homeland Security will spend this year directing research at U.S. universities: $45,000,000

Percentage of U.S. high-school students who believe news stories should require “government approval” before publication: 36

Minimum number of ExxonMobil-funded groups that have disputed mainstream scientific findings on climate change: 31

Number of America’s nine “Founding Fathers” who denied the divinity of Jesus: 7

Minimum number of illegitimate children had by the nine: 9

Number of killed or captured suspects reported so far by U.S. media to be Al Qaeda’s “number 3” man : 4

Minimum number of people convicted on “terrorism-related charges” since 2001, according to Alberto Gonzales in April : 200

Actual number convicted on charges related to terrorism or national security : 39

Number of Iraqi troops that have been “trained and equipped,” according to President Bush in April : 150,000

Number that the U.S. military considers ready to deploy independently : 1,500

Increase in the total value of U.S. residential property since 2000, expressed as a percentage of GDP : 60

Number of consecutive years that the value of housing in Japan has dropped since its housing bubble burst : 14

Months after his 2004 defeat that Ralph Nader said the Democratic Party had made him feel “like a THE N-WORD” : 7

Number of anti-globalization protesters who were tortured last year by Mexican officials : 19

Stipend that a CIA scholarship program gives annually to undisclosed undergraduates for overseas “fieldwork” : $25,000

Total U.S. spending on poppy eradication and other antidrug efforts in Afghanistan last year: $780,000,000
Amount it would have cost to purchase the country’s entire 2004 poppy crop: $600,000,000

Average estimated salary, in today’s dollars, of the dads on the ten top-rated TV shows of the 1950s: $77,000[Salary.com (Needham, Mass.)]

Average for the dads on today’s ten top-rated shows: $207,000

Minimum number of centuries in prison served by U.S. convicts for crimes of which DNA evidence later exonerated them: 19

Number of toilet seats at the EU Parliament building in Brussels that a TV station had tested for cocaine: 46

Number that tested positive: 41

Number of U.S. terrorism trials brought before a jury since September 11, 2001 : 1 [U.S. Department of Justice ]

Number of terrorism convictions resulting : 2

Number of them dismissed in June due to a "pattern of mistakes" by the prosecution : 2

Revenue generated by Halliburton under CEO Dick Cheney from business deals with Iraq under Saddam Hussein : $30,000,000

Days after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that Dick Cheney married, securing a draft deferment : 22

Price charged on Amazon.com this year for Lynne Cheney’s out-of-print lesbian historical novel, Sisters : $1,000

Estimated revenue generated by Halliburton in 2004 through subsidiaries in Iran : $63,506,000

Percentage of 30-year-old American men who were married, self-supporting fathers in 1960 and 2000, respectively : 65,31

Number of levels of executive positions in the federal government in 1960 and this year, respectively : 17,58

Total number of federal executives in each of those years : 451, 2,592

Estimated percentage of U.S. corporations that paid no federal taxes between 1996 and 2000 : 61

Days before the invasion of Iraq that Osama bin Laden called Saddam Hussein a "socialist infidel" : 36

Days into the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo that candidate George W. Bush observed, "Victory means exit strategy" : 17

Months into the war in Iraq that all U.S. personnel there were equipped with antiballistic body armor : 11

Estimated value of a painting that the Saudi ambassador has given George W. Bush for his future presidential library : $1,000,000

Value of the solid-gold model of a Saudi fortress on display in his father's presidential library : $1,000,000

Average black-market price in Baghdad of a DVD showing the beheading of a foreigner or Iraqi "collaborator" : 50c

[Ronin]

you are indeed, a fountain of useless information.

AND I DIG THAT ABOUT YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elipson]

Where the hell did you get all that info?

[patfromlogan]

http://www.harpers.org/Archive.html

[patfromlogan]

Somewhere in Harper's Index they mentioned that the US has claimed three times to have killed the number three al Qaida leader. Imagine my surprise today when I logged on and the MSN news healined: Officials: CIA missile strike kills al-Qaida No. 3.

Gosh it's deja vu all over again.