Haha!! 
Posted on 08/01/2006 8:51:39 AM PDT by SheLion
Haha!!
Did you get my ping list request?
Laugh all you want, but you'll NEVER see a dermatologist with a suntan...
I'm not laughing. I know the sun can be a very dangerous agent today.
I remember well doing it in Florida as a teenager, while spending the summer with my grandparents.
30 years later, I know live within 20 minutes of several beaches..........the only time you find me there is if we're fishing. If we're visitng with friends who have places on the water we hang out on the dock, under a canopy. I do have a proverbial farmer's tan though, from gardening.
No! If we get rid of the sun we'll all get rickets due to vitamin D deficiency.
Keep the kids in the house, though, so they'll grow up to be pasty little puffballs who have convulsions at the slightest whiff of second hand smoke. That way, a cigar smoking Arab army can walk right over them.
Wait! I think we're doing that already.
I guess that this means we shouldn't quit smoking because the sun's gonna fry us all anyway?
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No. The reason we need smokers to continue smoking is twofold. One, smoking'll kill y'all, so the scarce resources left behind will have to be split among fewer people, and secondly, all that smoke you guys throw out there will provide some shielding for the rest of us.
Please tell me I don't need a sarcasm tag.
Naaa. I got it.
To put this in perspective, some 2.2 million people die every year in the United States. Extrapolate that to the world, and roughly 44 million people die every year. 60,000 equals about .15% of annual world wide deaths. Ain't statistics interesting.
This is a Reuters article.
As is the case for nearly all Reuters articles, numerous details have been eliminated.
And in typical Reuters fashion, an observation has quickly been attributed with a cause and provided with a poorly disguised support of a liberal cause-de-jour.
Is the 60,000 an increasing or decreasing trend?
Have the effects of increased lifespan been considered?
Are these deaths occurring in poor countries with poor medical care?
Does this number reflect an improvement in detection and/or reporting of cancers?
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—World Health Organization officials expressed disappointment Monday at the group's finding that, despite the enormous efforts of doctors, rescue workers and other medical professionals worldwide, the global death rate remains constant at 100 percent.
Death, a metabolic affliction causing total shutdown of all life functions, has long been considered humanity's number one health concern. Responsible for 100 percent of all recorded fatalities worldwide, the condition has no cure.
Many are suggesting that the high mortality rate represents a massive failure on the part of the planet's health care workers.
"The inability of doctors and scientists to adequately address this issue of death is nothing less than a scandal," concerned parent Marcia Gretto said. "Do you have any idea what a full-blown case of death looks like? Well, I do, and believe me, it's not pretty. In prolonged cases, total decomposition of the corpse is the result."
"What about the children?" the visibly moved Gretto added.
Ouch..........
Well, we are all going to die of something.
Microsoft shills.
I gotta get me one of these!
Mark
This ruins my weekend. I was going to ride my motorcycle with no helmet, no shirt and no sunscreen down to the beach to enjoy a six pack, cheeseburger and big ole stogey.
Darn right! We have to ban all pale skinned people to prevent the reflections from their skin! All nordic types will have to wear one of these.
Thanks for the ping!
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