-Caveat Lector- Thought you might be interested... > -----Original Message----- > From: Common Courage Political Literacy Course > [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:44 PM > To: List Member > Subject: As the Millennium Churns > > Information about this email course appears at the bottom. > > Steal These Facts! > > As we head off optimistically into the 21st century, consider a few > indicators that it's not going to be a totally new era: > > 1. Small is lucrative: The 1998 budget approved by Congress included > expenditures such as the following: $700,000 for building a pedestrian > overpass in a town with a population of 306; $15,000,000 toward renovating > a gravel strip in a town with a population of 451. > > 2. Death takes its poll: Some 50,000 Oklahomans voted for a woman in the > Democratic primary running for a Senate position--even though she had died > six weeks before the election. > > 3. Bully Pulpit: Even though the FBI's 1997 data shows that the rate of > violent crime has dropped since the 1970s, two-thirds of Americans > actually think that crime rates are increasing. The Kentucky Legislature > voted 76-9 to let ministers carry concealed handguns during sermons. > > 4. Equal opportunity department: In a recent Forbes magazine list of the > 400 richest Americans, only one--Oprah Winfrey--is black. > > 5. Flight of fancy: The General Accounting Office of the federal > government has reported that the several-billion dollar B-2 stealth > bomber, allegedly impervious to enemy radar detection, will lose its > stealth coating if it comes into contact with moisture, such as ordinary > rain. > [Note: The original specs for the F-117 Stealth fighter called for the aircraft to be colored pale pink, which was determined to blend in with the widest number of backgrounds. The Air Force rejected this after their "Top Gun" pilots objected, arguing that the only color macho enough for them was black. This is fine in night operations. Unfortunately, as the Air Force discovered in Kosovo, in daylight, especially against a cloudy sky, the Stealth sticks out like a sore thumb...all because Air Force pilots' manhood was too threatened by the idea of flying a pink aircraft.--Bob] > 6. Fat or cancer: the tough choice. Despite the conclusion of the head of > the Harvard School of Public Health that the artificial fat substitute > Olestra will cause thousands of cases of cancer, and more than 5,000 > letters complaining of bad experiences with Olestra, the Food and Drug > Administration reviewed and approved Olestra twice. > > 7. Executing Justice: In 1997, the six governments which executed the > greatest number of people per capita were China, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, > Florida and Texas. > > For more facts that make you laugh and cry at the same time, see "Steal > this Book and Get Life Without Parole: Incendiary Insights by > Investigative Humorist Bob Harris," a man who has been called a cross > between Lenny Bruce and Noam Chomsky. Click on > http://www.commoncouragepress.com/steal.html. > > TOMORROW: More facts to steal from Bob Harris > > This is the free Political Literacy Course from Common Courage Press: A > backbone of facts to stand up to spineless power. Email 28, October 14 > 1999. Week 6: History and the Future > > Homepage: http://www.commoncouragepress.com > To subscribe for free: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Chatroom: http://www.cartserver.com/bbs/a/3827/index.cgi > Feedback/Title suggestions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Missed any? 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