Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm
http://www.retirelink.com/education/LifeExpectancy.html
http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-life.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html

Google shows much more of the same.
Where did 66.9 come from?

 

Point out, while you're at it, that these figures say absolutely
nothing about health care, one way or another.

 

Please stop abuisng (sic) groups with your cross posts.

 

You must not have been listening very closely, because what you *actually*
heard on the radio was this:

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A German computer technician accused of killing,
dismembering and eating the flesh of a man who agreed to the deal over the
Internet has gone on trial for murder.

Armin Meiwes, whose trial started on Wednesday, is charged with murder as
no crime of cannibalism exists in Germany. The case is the first of its
kind in the country.

Dressed in a dark suit, Meiwes -- from Rotenburg-an-der-fuld, in central
Germany -- appeared relaxed as he sat next to his lawyer at the Kassel
state court.

Meiwes admitted to killing the victim and said there was "hundreds,
thousands" of people who wanted to eat humans or be eaten.

He cut off part of the victim's body before the pair ate it together.
Meiwes then cut up the victim, storing his body in a freezer and eating it
over the following months.

"With every piece of flesh I ate I remembered him," Meiwes told the judge.
"It was like taking communion."

The story was splashed all over the tabloids last year when it broke, and
the 42-year-old defendant has spoken to the press, reportedly saying
"sorry."

The defense is expected to argue that the victim, a 43-year-old computer
technician identified only as Bernd Juergen B., from Berlin, agreed to the
macabre event.

"He told me he had had the desire since he was a child to be slaughtered
and eaten," Meiwes said. "He was very intelligent and I didn't see any
sign that he was disturbed."

The defense is believed to be seeking a charge of killing on demand, which
carries a maximum five-year sentence if proven, rather than murder which
holds a possible life sentence.

Police tracked down and arrested the suspect in December last year after a
student in Austria alerted them to an advertisement Meiwes had allegedly
placed on the Internet seeking a man willing to be killed and eaten.

"The German public on the one hand is repulsed, but of course, on the
other is fascinated," said CNN's Berlin Bureau Chief Stephanie Halasz.

The alleged crime at the 18th century manor house happened in March 2001,
prosecutors say.

A verdict from the court, which is scheduled to hear 38 witnesses, is
expected in February.

 

Thank you for crossposting your spelling correction.

 

Who said anything about capping taxes - how about the purposes to which they're
put - but you knew that.

Bill Putney
(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with
"x")

 

I suppose you've heard about your buddies trying to get laws passed to
make it legal for consenting male adults to have sex in public
restrooms.

Bill Putney
(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with "x")

 

Please stop cross posting.
And, if you MUST crosspost, trim it. There was no need for you to
quote any message at all to post your plea.

 

Why do you read these posts if you don't want to?

 

Please stop abusing groups with your cross posts.

 

Be careful, Mike.
Your own crossposts, when including quotes that have nothing to do
with your message, are just as abusive.

 

It's a truth that one of democracy's worse points is that people, when
they discover that they can vote themselves something for 'free', will
do so.
It's human nature.

 

That's showin' him, Lloyd.
You're really boosting CR's gravitas there.

 

Please stop abusing groups with your cross posts.

Mike

 

Please stop abusing groups with your cross posts.

Mike

 

I see.
Because CR is a "consumer advocate group", that means they are somehow
above having any sort of agenda.
Thanks for explaining that to me.
Um, how does Nader fit in there?

 

Please stop abusing groups with your cross posts.

Mike