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When you see the overall death rate During this year of a deadly pandemic is a little bit less than the death toll of 2018 keep trusting the untrustworthy people Who tell you it's deadlier than the factual numbers you see belowUnited States Death Totals 2018 vs 2020 2018:Days: 365Deaths (all causes): 2, 839, 205Deaths per day: 7,778.64 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm 2020Days: 317Death<span;>s (all causes): 2,475,323Deaths per day: 7,777.04 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm Deaths by December 31, 2020: 2,838, 621Come out of the Coffin of your Comfort zone, once there's no more death in the world You can be a sheep... And sheep are...

RealClearPolitics.com, which averages all recent national public opinion polls, now shows President Obama's job approval average has dropped to 49.9%, marking the first time this number has dipped below the critical 50% line. Obama's job disapproval average has also climbed to an all-time high of 44.6%, thus narrowing the approval/disapproval gap to a new low of +5.3%.

REGULAR meals of mammoth meat helped some early human tribes to expand more quickly than their largely vegetarian contemporaries, according to a genetic study. Human populations in east Asia about 30,000 years ago developed at dramatically different rates, following a pattern that appears to reflect the availability of mammoths and other large game. In the part of the region covering what is now northern China, Mongolia and southern Siberia, vast plains teemed with mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and woolly rhinoceroses and the number of early human beings grew between 34,000 and 20,000 years ago. Further south, where the terrain...

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2006 – Vice President Dick Cheney said today the evidence that Iraqis and coalition will succeed in Iraq "is overwhelming" and that it's important, when assessing the situation there, to keep perspective of its impact on the global war on terror. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," on the third anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the vice president said terrorists recognize what some others don't: that what ultimately happens in Iraq will impact the entire region. "There's a lot at stake here. It's not just about Iraq...[and] today's situation in Iraq," Cheney said. "It's about where we...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California's workers' compensation insurance rates have dropped an average 10.38 percent since lawmakers adopted a series of cost-cutting measures, but greater decreases are possible, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said Tuesday. "Workers' compensation rates are definitely on the down escalator, but the escalator needs to speed up," Garamendi said. "Greater savings are possible." The workers' comp insurance rates paid by California employers shot up dramatically in recent years, increasing 200 percent to 300 percent for some businesses. Lawmakers responded last fall and this spring with legislation that, among other things, imposed new limits on benefits for injured workers...