From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V8 #57 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Tuesday, March 18 2003 Volume 08 : Number 057 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NPR: Numbers Lie [Robert Cobb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:18:49 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Cobb Subject: NPR: Numbers Lie Numbers can be used to prove anything. You can take a poll on any topic and use the tally to prove your side. First example: the latest TRUTH anti-smoking commercial They took a sandwich board around with pictures of A: a larger, healthier looking baby and B: a smaller baby. Their tally came up with many more for A, but still some for B. In this they just proved the tobacco company's statement that "some women would prefer to have smaller babies." Yet, the commercial gives the impression that its view is right. The truth IS behind the curtain, but who is really drawing the curtain on it? This viscious anti-smoking campaign or the tobacco companies? Second example: Did you know that if you drive a car, you support terrorism? That's right, you buy the gas from an oil company that buys some of its oil from a middle eastern country that supports terrorim, or at least that's what the HARMLESS people tried to have us think. Then again, that commercial never aired. Third example: Even though the Dow Jones Indutrial Average is down, and consumer spending is low, it doesn't mean diddly-frickin squat to Joe Q. Public. Not in a society where heads of a company can take millions or billions of dollars for themselves and only temporarily harm a small fraction of the populus, if even any. So, where actually is the problem? What exactly is the solution? They never give us a definite answer. I smoke because I want to, I am aware of what it is doing to my body. I am doing it to myself and do not blame Phillip-Morris for my decision to start. I definately do not currently see a viable alternative to petroleum fuels, and yes, I do car-pool my 15 min commute to work. I don't see anyone saying, "gasoline is bad. Oh, by the way, we are also mass producing safe, affordable, zero-emmission cars that run on vegetable oil and perform just as well as a Chevy Caveleir." Maybe I should buy a hybrid-electric car so that I am only supporting terrorism (or the evil oil companies if you prefer to look at it that way) when starting my car and going up-hill. There is doubt on either side. There are cattle on either side as well. It's amazing how many people who believe they have open minds actually put on their own blinders. It's a scary world when you see what you don't want to believe, but I pity those that only see what they want. ===== Adahlfin Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V8 #57 **********************************