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  #11  
Old June 30th 05, 03:04 AM
Bernard Farquart
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"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
n.umich.edu...
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Garth Almgren wrote:
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>> > I have looked online and sickened to see 40,000 plus people die every
>> > year. thats over 400,000 people in 10 years!

>>
>> That's actually not much, given how much we Americans drive. The NHTSA's
>> FARS front page places the fatality rate at 1.48 fatalities per
>> 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled (2003), and that's the lowest it has
>> been roughly since the advent of the automobile.

>
> ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
> chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
> deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
> respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).
>

It's not like we are going to run out of people soon, though.

heh heh

Bernard


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Old June 30th 05, 03:35 AM
The Real Bev
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"Daniel J. Stern" wrote:
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> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Garth Almgren wrote:
>
> > > I have looked online and sickened to see 40,000 plus people die every
> > > year. thats over 400,000 people in 10 years!

> >
> > That's actually not much, given how much we Americans drive. The NHTSA's
> > FARS front page places the fatality rate at 1.48 fatalities per
> > 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled (2003), and that's the lowest it has
> > been roughly since the advent of the automobile.

>
> ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
> chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
> deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
> respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).


So you're saying that we need to kill more people? Can I pick?

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Old June 30th 05, 03:40 AM
Laura Bush murdered her boy friend
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Paul. wrote:
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> And how many more die each year from heart disease? Should we outlaw red
> meat too? Something you need to come to grips with: we are all going to
> die eventually. Death is on your calendar and you can't do a thing about
> it.


Reckless drivers don't merely kill themselves like meat-eaters do.
They kill others. Reckless drivers should be compared to mass
murderers like your heroes john wayne gacy and george walker bush.

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Old June 30th 05, 03:47 AM
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Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
> Paul. wrote:
> >
> > And how many more die each year from heart disease? Should we outlaw red
> > meat too? Something you need to come to grips with: we are all going to
> > die eventually. Death is on your calendar and you can't do a thing about
> > it.

>
> Reckless drivers don't merely kill themselves like meat-eaters do.
> They kill others. Reckless drivers should be compared to mass
> murderers like your heroes john wayne gacy and george walker bush.


So now you're calling Ted Kennedy a mass murderer? I'm sure your
z^Hhero will be so disappointed.

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Old June 30th 05, 04:12 AM
Daniel J. Stern
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, The Real Bev wrote:

> > ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
> > chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
> > deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
> > respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).

>
> So you're saying that we need to kill more people?


Er...no, it means 9 and 15 (respectively) other countries have lower
highway kill rates than we do.
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Old June 30th 05, 04:48 AM
Scott en Aztlán
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:04:20 -0700, "Bernard Farquart"
> wrote:

>
>"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
in.umich.edu...
>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Garth Almgren wrote:
>>
>>> > I have looked online and sickened to see 40,000 plus people die every
>>> > year. thats over 400,000 people in 10 years!
>>>
>>> That's actually not much, given how much we Americans drive. The NHTSA's
>>> FARS front page places the fatality rate at 1.48 fatalities per
>>> 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled (2003), and that's the lowest it has
>>> been roughly since the advent of the automobile.

>>
>> ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
>> chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
>> deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
>> respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).
>>

>It's not like we are going to run out of people soon, though.


Thanks to the third world...

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Old June 30th 05, 06:18 AM
The Real Bev
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"Daniel J. Stern" wrote:
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> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, The Real Bev wrote:
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> > > ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
> > > chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
> > > deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
> > > respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).

> >
> > So you're saying that we need to kill more people?

>
> Er...no, it means 9 and 15 (respectively) other countries have lower
> highway kill rates than we do.


****, now you tell me...

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Old July 2nd 05, 09:31 PM
Garth Almgren
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Around 7/2/2005 12:16 PM, Aunt Judy (Pride of Diarrhea)
<http://tinyurl.com/65nqz> wrote:

> Alex Rodriguez wrote:
>
>>In article .com>,
says...
>>
>>>If we stopped coddling the highway terrorists, highway
>>>deaths would go down by 90% overnight.

>>
>>Too bad you have no data to back up your stupid theories.

>
>
> URACRIMINALCODDLER.


Yet another example of one of your stupid unsupported theories.


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