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"Just the facts..."

HOW MANY OF THESE DID YOU ALREADY KNOW? --

1. The three LORD OF THE RINGS movies were all filmed at the same time with the same director and cast -- in New Zealand.

2. American car horns sound in the key of F. So do regular telephone dial tones.

3. More than one-third of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

4. The average lifespan of a major league baseball is only 7 pitches. Major League Baseball goes through 900,000 balls per season at a cost of about $5.5 million, almost as much as a major league first baseman.

5. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

6. The microwave oven was invented at Raytheon in the '40s after research chief Percy Spencer walked by a radar tube, and a chocolate bar in his pocket melted.

7. You burn more calories eating a stick of celery than the amount of calories you get from it. Plus, chowing down on lots of raw celery can fill you up without many calories at all (unless you foolishly dip them in a creamy dressing). Recently researchers have found just 4 stalks a day may help reduce blood pressure.

8. In 1951 the average house cost $16,000, an ounce of gold was $35, a gallon of gasoline cost $.20, a loaf of bread $.16, a candy bar or a bottle of soda pop $.05, and a first-class postage stamp? 3 cents!

9. The base price of the '59 Chevy El Camino was $2,500; The average price of a movie ticket in 1972 was $1.58.

10. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

11. Utah is the youngest state. The median age of its population is 28, eight years below the national median.

12. If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat, it measures 87 feet long.

13. No sidewalks? In America pedestrians who walk on the improper (right) side of the road are TWICE as likely to be killed as those who walk on the recommended (left) side, facing traffic. And bicyclists who ride on the wrong (left) side of the road are more than FIVE TIMES as likely to be killed as those who ride on the recommended (right) side with traffic, where motorists approaching from cross-streets do usually notice them in time. Motorists approaching from their left on cross-streets or driveways and turning right (into them) don't see them because they don't look to their right enough. So whenever YOU're driving a car and turning right, after looking over your left shoulder to see if it's safe to go from THAT direction, make sure you snap your head to the right and check for cyclists BEFORE you turn right!

14. The most dangerous optical illusion is the one which tricks your brain into thinking you're driving much slower and safer than you actually are in heavy rain and blizzards, and especially in simple haze and fog conditions, when in fact you're actually driving much too fast for those conditions. In other words, fog diminishes your sense of speed drastically -- and sometimes, fatally.

15. Trains, large trucks and other large vehicles are ALWAYS moving MUCH faster than they look. Their size can fool your depth perception and sense of speed. NEVER risk outracing ANYTHING big.

16. The surface of a black car can become as much as 60 degrees (fahrenheit) hotter than that of a white car sitting all day in the hot summer sun. A silver car? Up to 40 degrees hotter. Studies show that black and green cars suffer the highest percentage of accidents, as old people often can't see them in time. People who drive with their headlights on during the day suffer 7% fewer accidents (than those who don't) in the lower latitudes, and as much as 40% fewer accidents in the higher latitudes (where the sun is in your eyes more often)!

17. "Small" floods can be VERY powerful! Don't risk getting washed away! Moving water just 6 inches deep can knock a person over, and just 2 feet deep can float a BUS, let alone a car, and wash it away! 70% to 80% of all flood deaths are in vehicles!

18. People who habitually back into their parking spaces in parking lots, garages and driveways run over a lot fewer toddlers, animals, pedestrians, cyclists and even inanimate objects than people who don't, especially when it's time to leave, which they can do with much greater visibility (and speed). According to research reported in Money magazine, EVERY YEAR 2,400 kids are backed-up over BY SUVs ALONE (It's IMPOSSIBLE to see a toddler right behind you while you're backing an SUV).

19. The best and safest car, boat, plane, truck and SUV drivers engage in exercise programs which deliberately isolate and strengthen their leg, arm and torso muscles with emphasis on their obliques, wrists, and especially, their foot and ANKLE muscles. This enables them to continuously make tiny, precise "fine-tuning" control adjustments of their vehicles while they drive, instead of, for example, just stomping on the gas and brake pedals with a "lead foot."

20. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brothers' entire first flight.

21. So far, 747's have carried about a billion and a half passengers, roughly equivalent to one-quarter of the world's population.

22. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

23. Does saving pennies add up? Well, American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating ONE olive from each salad served in first-class (too bad governments don't think that way!).

24. Always put heavy objects on the bottom shelf of shelving units to weigh them down; you never know when visiting toddlers or airhead cleaning people will try to climb up the shelves and pull the whole unit over on themselves. It also helps to put a yardstick or strip of lath under the front of the unit so it tilts back slightly against a wall.

25. When making change in a retail establishment, if you give your customers their COINS FIRST, and THEN their bills, you cause fewer mishaps despite being able to speed up. After all, if you give them a chance to palm their coins while they put their bills in their wallets, the coins are much less likely to fall on the floor by trying to balance them on top of the bills. This, of course, is especially important at DRIVE-UP WINDOWS, right?

26. The quacks of ducks don't echo, and no one knows why, but they surely help them find each other.

27. Cats can make over one hundred different vocal sounds, but dogs? Only about ten.

28. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," uses every letter in the alphabet. It was developed by Western Union to test its telex/two communications, after which it became a favorite with typing teachers. "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" is another one. Can you find the f?.

29. "Typewriter" is the longest word typed on only one row of the qwerty keyboard. "Stewardesses" is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand on it. Most typing (56%) is done with the left hand.

30. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein" -- the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

31. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle (maybe cuz it's so little?).

32. The symbol which most people call a "pound" or "number" sign (#) has a formal name: an octothorpe.

33. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." was the first CD pressed in the U.S.A.

34. Parents, heads up! It is estimated that 50,000 sexual predators are online at any given time.

35. Why is real maple syrup so expensive? About 40 gallons of slowly- collected maple sap have to be boiled down to make just one gallon of syrup.

36. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, 2nd and 3rd Presidents respectively, (also 1st and 2nd Vice Presidents respectively) both died on July 4, 1826 -- exactly 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

37. The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

38. Amendment X to the Constitution of the United States, together with Article I, Section 8, prohibits the U.S. Congress from involving itself in cabbage pricing, education, health care, personal safety, campaign financing, most criminal law, toilet capacity, the banning of amino acid supplements (such as tryptophan) and thousands of other things it has gotten away with (so far). (see http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/constquery.html )

39. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds (So do many politicians, apparently).

40. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (ditto!)

41. Once on the books, a federal law, regulation, act, or establishment of a new federal agency, nomatter how ineffective, expensive or even counter- productive it turns out to be, is more than 80 times more likely to remain in effect -- and even expanded -- than ever to be ended.

42. "Your tax dollars at work"? A recent survey showed that out of every 100 federal government employees who get unsatisfactory job ratings, less than two are fired. Eighty out of the one hundred even get raises! During a budget dispute between congress and the president in 1995, most of the U.S. government was shut down for awhile, and 98 percent of the employees in some agencies were deemed "non-essential" and told not to bother coming to work.

43. Almost all large first-time campaign contributions given by private individuals or companies are asked for by the politicians, not offered by the donors. That's why, despite the "conventional wisdom", the vast majority of them involve politicians' "sales pitches" and extortion than any donors' attempts at bribery. So the problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

44. No jurisdiction in the U.S. will invalidate your ballot if you don't vote on every item or office in it -- in fact, you can vote on just one, and it will count. The only exception (sort of) is in Wyoming, where there's a unique state rule that counts ballots left blank for referendum measures as "no" votes.

45. Before the re-release of E.T., Steven Spielberg had all the weapons the government men were carrying painted-over and replaced with walkie-talkies so they would appear less vicious and dangerous, and wouldn't remind people of the government atrocities at Waco, Ruby Ridge or the Elian Gonzales kidnapping.

46. The Bible was named most often in a survey conducted by The Library of Congress in which respondents were asked to name a book that had made a difference in their lives. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand was named second most often.

47. There are two different kinds of selfishness, the good kind and the bad kind. The good kind is taking care of yourself and your family and the pursuit of happiness; the bad kind is taking advantage of unwilling others -- even by screaming "You're selfish!" at them.

48. The Sears Tower in Chicago was built with 2 million cubic feet of concrete.

49. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

50. By 1997, after the first 30 years of the "War on Poverty," $5.4 Trillion in tax dollars had been spent on poverty programs, and the national debt had risen to (guess what? yep...) $5.4 Trillion. And the poverty rate? Uh-huh, EXACTLY THE SAME as it was 30 years before.

51. A million seconds is less than 12 days; a billion seconds is over 31 years; a trillion seconds is more than 31,000 years, and 5.4 trillion seconds is over 167,000 years!

52. People who don't drink their requisite 8 glasses of pure water a day suffer more headaches (and heart attacks, BTW) than those who do. And often enough, they aren't helped as much by the pain-killers they take as they are by the water they wash them down with. If it contains fluorides however, tap water is not recommended, as fluorine has recently been shown to increase the assimilation of aluminum, a suspected cause of Alzheimers.

52. Fresh water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level, but salt water boils at about 226 degrees or so, depending on the concentration.

54. People whose diets are limited are usually not as healthy as those whose are varied, especially if they contain foods which seem to have a lot of rare nutrients, including turkey, salmon, cranberries, blueberries, yams, broccoli, beans, wild rice, liver, guava, noni, kelp, mangosteen, garlic and root beer!

55. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

56. Serotonin, an important chemical produced in the brain, is a neurotransmitter considered essential for relaxation, concentration, sleep and calmness. Its lack or suppression can lead to severe mental disturbances and even violent behavior. To make serotonin the body requires sufficient levels of magnesium, tryptophan and vitamin B-6, nutrients which many nutritionists say American diets are severely deficient in, but which medical doctors rarely run tests for -- even when they prescribe ritalin or other medications which depend on adequate serotonin levels (which is often!), and even when just taking supplements for those missing nutrients may be all that is needed.

57. There are about 20,000 deaths a year in the U.S. because of illegal drugs, and about 200,000 deaths, or ten times as many, because of prescription (legal) drugs, including the homicides and suicides from "serotonin re-uptake inhibiters" and other so-called anti-depressives.

58. Most American medical doctors have taken no more than 5 hours of nutrition classes in medical school if any at all, yet they are subjected to dozens and dozens of presentations by pharmaceutical company representatives on patent medications every year. So it should be no wonder why more and more people look elsewhere for advice on real nutrition.

59. Cheap vitamins are just as easily absorbed and utilized as expensive ones, but you must have a high level of minerals in your system first, before you can process enough vitamins of any kind. Unfortunately, most mineral supplements on the market are neither readily absorbed nor usable by the body even if they are. Evidence is accumulating to show that the most effective (and cost-effective) mineral supplements are those which are "chelated" with amino acids, some of which should be in the form of long branch-chain molecules and which are bound to the minerals with multiple bonds.

60. The only vitamins known to be absorbed through the lining of the mouth and throat are vitamins C and B12 (all others are absorbed in the small intestine). Sucking on vitamin B12 lozenges has been found to help with canker sores in the mouth. Gargling and swallowing liquid vitamin C has been found to be a very effective natural remedy for ordinary sore throat conditions (adding a drop of tea tree oil and/or grapefruit seed extract sometimes helps). Humans are the only mammals who have lost the ability to produce vitamin C in their bodies. Vitamin C advocate Dr. Linus Pauling took 10 to 18 grams (10,000 to 18,000 mg.) of Vitamin C every day (and never suffered from constipation) until he died at the age of 93.

61. Many people who suffer from dyslexia and/or a general lack of muscular coordination were encouraged to walk too early by impatient or ignorant parents. (Impatient people should never be parents anyway). If you want your babies to develop excellent left-brain/right-brain coordination, make sure you provide a large enough area (NOT a playpen!) to keep them crawling until long after they're really, really good at it. Look up "cross crawl" in your favorite search engine.

62. You inherit your cellular mitochondria (and thus, your energy level) only from your mother. So, men: if you want the best chance of having successful children: choose a high-energy (yet patient) wife! Perhaps this is why it's biology, and not Hollywood, which has made women with thinner figures (implying highly active lifestyles) more attractive to most American men.

63. The average federal income tax rate for the 437,036 individual returns filed for the year 1916 was .0275 (2.75 percent) and the highest rate was 7 per cent. And to think that Senator Nelson Aldrich had urged passage of the income tax, vehemently bellowing on the floor of the Senate his impassioned assurances that it would never, never, EVER go above one percent!

64. The Declaration of Independence has 1,337 words. The entire Holy Bible has about 773,000 words. So far, over 7 million words covering well over 40,000 pages of complex regulations make up the U.S. income tax code. According to a study by the Joint Committee on Taxation, tax compliance alone costs Americans $250 BILLION a year. Since the so-called "Tax Simplification Act" was passed in 1986, the tax code has been changed over 6,000 times.

65. Today the top 1% of American income-earners pay more than one-third of all individual income taxes, (WAY over -- more than 37% -- even though they earn only 17 percent of all individuals' income), and the top 5% pay over half. In the past, their savings and other investments have been used for creating over 90% of all new jobs -- when their taxes were low and they weren't punished so much for moving their money from less productive projects to more productive ones.

66. There are SIX state capitals at a longitude WEST of Los Angeles: Honolulu, Juneau, Olympia, Portland, Sacramento and ... and RENO! Notice that the only two state capitals which end in the letter "u" are included here. One's a "lulu." Did juneau that?

67. Opassa are odder than you thought. Every 'possum has 13 nipples!

68. According to Dr. Thomas Sowell, many people are unaware that the money that is taken out of their paychecks for Social Security is NOT being put aside to pay for their retirement. That money is paying for people who are retired right now, and anything that is left over is being spent by politicians in Washington for anything from farm subsidies to Congressional junkets. The trustees of the Social Security Administration say the system as it stands will begin paying out more in benefits than it receives in taxes as soon as 2017.

69. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by christian socialist control freak Francis Bellamy for the purpose of replacing liberty and individualism with conformity and obedience. He wanted to spread reverence for the federal government and its symbols, to quell objections to state powers being usurped by Washington, and (with the world "indivisible") to stamp out the idea of any state ever trying to secede from the union again. It was Bellamy who invented the straight-arm salute, first used for his pledge, and later adopted by the German Nazis. Very few other countries have a pledge of allegiance or oath of loyalty of any kind.

70. People who brush their gums thoroughly and often as they brush their teeth keep their teeth much longer into old age; it vastly improves the circulation, firmness and general health of the tissues. The best results come from brushing with a rechargeable ultrasonic toothbrush for 2 full minutes every time. If you're messy about it, brush in the shower!

71. "If you are going to travel halfway around the world, you may as well go all the way around the world, since it will take the same amount of time to get back home. And travel from east to west, because that means longer days and fewer of them -- more sunshine and smaller hotel bills." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell

72. The U.S. mortality rate for breast cancer is 25%, but with "single payer" health care systems it's worse. In Canada and Australia it is 28%, in Germany it's 31%, in France it's 35%, and in New Zealand and the United Kingdom it's 46%. For prostate cancer, the U.S. mortality ratio is 19%. In Canada it is 25%, in New Zealand it's 30%, in Australia it's 35%, in Germany
it's 44%, in France it's 49%, and in the United Kingdom it is 57%. In 1997, an estimated 20 to 30 percent of all patients on Canadian waiting lists died before even getting care. As P.J. O'Rourke once said, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!"

73. A 1989 study by researchers at Harvard and the Brookings Institution concluded that fuel economy standards kill thousands of Americans each year. After all, when politicians mandate more fuel efficiency, it often means making the vehicles lighter and flimsier and therefore less safe in crashes. As Prof. Donald Boudreaux says, "Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims."

74. The growing consensus among lawn and garden experts is that lawn-watering is best done at about 4am or 5am in the morning for a variety of reasons, from avoiding mildew from watering too early in the evening to avoiding sunburn and excess evaporation from watering during the day. Besides, since it often causes wet and slippery streets and sidewalks, it's a lot safer done during those hours of the early morning when there are the fewest people on the road.

75. Since oil drilling and pipeline operations began in Prudhoe Bay on the north slope of Alaska, caribou herds in the area have increased to more than 7 times their previous size. Even though TV networks may misleadingly show pictures of rolling grasslands with rushing streams with beaver and other wildlife while Section 1002 of the ANWR is discussed, it is actually nothing but barren ground and tundra with occasional sparse outcroppings of lichens, cottongrass and few other plants.

76. It would take enough solar cells to cover 53,760 acres, or 84 square miles, in order to supply as much energy at the same rate as just one average gas station.

77. Sea temperature calculations prove that between 600AD and 1100AD world temperatures were about 2 degrees higher than they are now. During this period, northern Europe experienced a golden age for agriculture. Greenland, now a frozen wasteland, was then a habitable Viking colony and it was actually green, not white as it is now. There were even vineyards in the south of England. Temperatures then dropped in the 1600s when we experienced the "Little Ice Age" and they have been rising slowly ever since. But they are still much lower than a thousand years ago. So some more global warming would be a good thing.

78. Recently, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest published a very thorough investigation involving decades of research which showed that there is NO correlation between class sizes and students' performances except in kindergarten and first grade, where there was only a small measurable (but lasting) difference.

79. One sure sign of maturity is shown when a person simply says, "Thank you" whenever others tell him something he already knows. Besides, people who say (like the Muppet Miss Piggy) "I know that!" sound like defensive adolescent airheads and wind up so discouraging others they even stop warning them of imminent danger.

80. In the International Adult Literacy Survey it was found that nearly one in four Americans ages 16 to 25 scored at or below the Survey's lowest level of literacy. This represents a tremendous drop in literacy rates in the last 50 years while there was tremendous growth in the apparatus of public schooling and an accelerating increase in the cost, which is now FIVE TIMES what it was then, even in inflation-adjusted dollars. In public schools, anyway, MORE money has been accompanied by WORSE performances for decades, with the worst performances actually accompanying the highest per-student costs, as in D.C., Hartford and Baltimore.

81. According to economist Walter E. Williams, 4 percent, or 1 out of 25 Americans -- nearly 11 million people, are millionaires, most of whom started out with little or nothing. And according to the U.S. Trust survey, the wealthiest Americans worked an average of 56 hours a week for their first 29 working years since less than 11% of them inherited their money. Many people don't know the difference between income and wealth. The income tax hampers those still TRYING to get rich, NOT those who already are.

82. Compound interest is earning interest even on your interest, and it can be amazing. If you start at age 24 and invest $2000 a year for ONLY 8 YEARS at a 10% annual return, and you leave it all in to grow at that rate, it will become $642,752.65 when you're 65. If you don't start investing until you're 32, but then you invest $2000 a year EVERY year until you're 65 (each of 34 years) at the same rate of return, you'll only have $540,048.74 when you're 65. So who says it doesn't matter when you start investing or going into your own business? It most certainly DOES!! Conversely, PAYING interest on interest, as people do when they don't pay off their credit cards COMPLETELY EVERY month, can RUIN you big time, and much, much faster.

83. Some credit repair services are scams. Safe ones are listed at http://ClarkHoward.com .

84. NO financial planner, broker or insurance salesman who works on commission can truthfully claim he has your welfare as his number one priority, no matter how much, how intensely nor how elaborately he goes about insisting that it is. Work with fee-based advisors only.

85. Watch out for people standing near you at retail stores, restaurants, grocery stores, etc., who have a cell phone in hand. With the new camera phones, they can take pictures of your credit card, which gives them your name, number, and expiration date.

86. NEVER put anything in your back pockets thicker than a piece of paper. Especially if you drive, sitting on a wallet, checkbook or anything else as thick will, more often than not, result in curvature of the spine, pinched nerves and backache over time.

87. To quickly relieve a "charley horse" or leg cramp in the calf, try to touch your knee on that leg with your big toe. You won't be able to, of course, but the effort can stretch the calf muscle enough to make the cramp go away.

88. NO web page will be up forever, not even the ones in the web archive (http://web.archive.org). If you find some which are really valuable to you, making your own backup copies in some kind of portable medium is the best way to make sure you'll have continued access to them.

89. When making a collect call, it is advisable to repeat your name both quickly and slowly, as the software often cuts off the beginning or the end of your name when replaying it for the recipients (like asking them whether they want to accept a collect call from "mmmftt?") Best yet, say your name quickly twice and slowly twice, giving your recipient the best chance to figure out who is trying to call.

90. Children (and some adults) have difficulty hearing negatives. They process mostly positive instructions, at least subconsciously. If you say, "Don't forget your lunch money," for example, their subconscious processes only the "forget your lunch money" part. If you say, "don't get hurt," the "get hurt" part, and so on. So it's very important to say things in as positive a way as possible, for instance, "REMEMBER your lunch money," or "BE careful," or "STAY clean!" And don't say the same thing every time, or it loses impact. Try response-generating variations like, "Can you buy lunch?" Can you stay safe?" or "Can you look neat and tidy all day?"

91. Gun accidents account for only 7/10 of 1% of all accidental deaths. Most accidental deaths involve motor vehicles or are due to drowning, falls, fires, poisoning, medical mistakes or choking. According to Dr. Preston Covey of Carnegie-Mellon University, a gun in the U.S. is used over 32 times more often to scare off or defend against a criminal threat than to actually kill anybody, whether accidentally or on purpose. So guns are much more of a boon to honest citizens than they are to criminals. Way more.

92. A comprehensive national study by the University of Chicago in 1996 found that states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rates by an average of 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%.

93. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition forces have found enough chemical weapons in Iraq to kill about one half million people -- but not in clearly-marked "stockpiles" or warehouses. Nonetheless neither the U.S. nor the UN had the burden of proving Iraq still had WMDs. Saddam had the burden of proving he DIDN'T have them any more. He failed to do so, and he paid the price.

94. No matter what the commercials for your favorite detergent might say, cold water or cold liquids will NEVER dissolve as much dirt (or coffee, tea or whatever) as hot water or hot liquids. And dissolving iced tea mix in cold water can NEVER get as strong as tea dissolved in HOT water and then cooled down (which, if maxed out, is called a "super-saturated solution"). And, BTW, don't let your kids get away with "washing" their hands in cold water. That's NOT good enough.

95. The larger branches on old rotten or damaged trees can be deadly. Those from common hardwoods such as oaks can weigh as much as 3,000 pounds, and from giant redwoods (called "widowmakers") as much as 12,000 pounds. Any of these can plunge right through the roof of a house or a car when ripped loose in severe wind conditions, so avoid them during storms and keep them trimmed if they're on your property.

96. Walking for at least 3 hours a week helps to keep your heart, endurance and sense of well-being in shape, even well into old age. Recent studies indicate it's as good as, if not better than, running. Also, weight loss and weight control programs which include brisk nonstop 55-minute walks every other day if not every day appear to trigger the most helpful
metabolic and even psychological improvements.

97. If a deer or a smaller animal jumps out in front of you while you're driving, slow down WITHOUT swerving. Better a dead deer than a dead YOU; STAY IN YOUR LANE!!!!

98. Political parties are neither authorized nor prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. In fact, political parties are not mentioned in it at all. No less than five different candidates for President received electoral votes in each of the first four Presidential elections. In the third election, 14 different candidates did.

99. Third-party candidates don't "steal" votes from anybody -- except perhaps that largest of all groups in the electorate, the habitual non-voters and disgusted and would-be ex-voters. Besides, no one but the voters "owns" their votes in the first place. The third party in the U.S. with the largest number of regular dues-paying members, registered voters, candidates for public office and holders of public office is the Libertarian Party. Nationally syndicated radio talk
show host Neal Boortz is a member.

100. Many people who suffer intense back or neck pain due to degenerated spinal disks can get complete relief much more safely and at one-eighth the cost of surgery by undergoing DRX 9000 therapy developed by Axiom Worldwide (see axiomworldwide.com -- this unsolicited mention is by a happy patient, NOT a doctor or the manufacturer).

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