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2008: The deadliest year in history
The Daily Redundancy ^

Posted on 01/08/2009 11:15:57 AM PST by chordmaster

NEW YORK, NY - Preliminary data from the United Nation's World Health Organization indicate that 2008 was the deadliest year in history. Worldwide deaths were up a staggering 0.6% from the previous record set in 2007, continuing a series of increases throughout this century. As has been the case in most years, the sick and the elderly were the hardest hit...

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: 2008review; satire

1 posted on 01/08/2009 11:15:57 AM PST by chordmaster
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To: chordmaster

No words how stupid this is.


2 posted on 01/08/2009 11:17:58 AM PST by mnehring
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To: mnehrling

Very poor satire


3 posted on 01/08/2009 11:20:15 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: mnehrling

Satire?


4 posted on 01/08/2009 11:20:32 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Obama is living proof that stupid people should not be allowed to vote.)
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To: chordmaster

There’s always a bright side. Zombies are up 0.6%.


5 posted on 01/08/2009 11:20:49 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yep, I should have noticed the source. I guess I saw UN followed by stupid statements and I assumed it fit the normal UN pattern.


6 posted on 01/08/2009 11:22:21 AM PST by mnehring
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To: chordmaster
What did they expect to happen when they reduced the death tax? Of course you'll get more of it. If they jack up the death tax to 100% they should be able to eliminate death. < /s>
8 posted on 01/08/2009 11:23:04 AM PST by KarlInOhio (On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
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To: xcamel

They’re usually a lot better than this.


9 posted on 01/08/2009 11:27:11 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: chordmaster

Now that was funny.


11 posted on 01/08/2009 11:50:48 AM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Satire?

Yes. And entirely truthful at the same time.

12 posted on 01/08/2009 11:57:44 AM PST by Drew68
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To: chordmaster

Greater population= great number of deaths. Nothing unusual about that. In the long run births always equals death. Surprising how many folks don’t understand this.


13 posted on 01/08/2009 12:02:44 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: xcamel

Here is a really good one!

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39236

Something MUST be done!


14 posted on 01/08/2009 12:20:59 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: mnehrling

It’s making fun of the way pressure groups grab innocuous data and make it into horrifying headlines.

The joke is that the population is up 1.2%. More people died than ever before... because more were alive than ever before. Of course, the problem is you have to get the joke to get the joke...


15 posted on 01/08/2009 12:42:45 PM PST by dangus
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To: chordmaster
NEW YORK, NY - Preliminary data from the United Nation's World Health Organization indicate that 2008 was the deadliest year in history.

Idiocy in motion. I'm thinking as a percentage of world population, 1941-1942 was pretty damned rough on good planet Earth.

16 posted on 01/08/2009 12:43:53 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: chordmaster
As has been the case in most years, the sick and the elderly were the hardest hit...

Well ... perhaps next year the young and healthy will take their turn.

17 posted on 01/08/2009 1:14:28 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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