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50 Numbers From 2014 That Sound Fake But That Are Actually Real

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

2014 was quite a bizarre year, wasn’t it?  The past 12 months brought us MH370, Ebola, civil war in Ukraine, civil unrest in Ferguson, the rise of ISIS and the fall of the Democrats in the midterm elections.  Our world is becoming crazier and more unstable with each passing day, and I have a feeling that things are going to accelerate greatly in 2015.  But for the moment things are relatively quiet as much of the world stops to celebrate the holiday season, so now is a good time to look back and see where we have been over the past year.  The facts that I am about to share with you sound false, but they are all quite true.  If you doubt any of these facts, just click the link on the number to find the source.  It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction, and that was definitely the case during the past 12 months.  In no particular order, the following are 50 numbers from 2014 that sound fake but that are actually real…

2.5 – Researchers have discovered that characters in cartoons for children are 2.5 times more likely to die than characters in adult dramas.  But as long as those characters look cute and make funny noises it must be okay.

$4.20 – The price of ground beef just hit a brand new record high of $4.20 a pound.  Exactly 10 years ago, it was just $2.21 a pound.  What do you think Clara Peller would say about this?

19.8 percent – This holiday season, nearly 20 percent of all American families are on food stamps.  But since the stock market is soaring, most of the rest of the country doesn’t seem to care.

$20 – If you want to “lock down that new man for Christmas”, you can buy a positive pregnancy test on Craigslist for just 20 dollars.

29.0 years – The average age when a man in America first gets married has reached an all-time high of 29.0 years.  Thus the need for the fake pregnancy tests.

31.1 percent – An astounding 31.1 percent of all U.S. young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.  But the good news is that demand for tacky basement decor is at an all-time high.

33 percent – According to the Wall Street Journal, close to one-third of all Americans have a file in the FBI’s master criminal database.

34.6 percent – According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in America officially meet the criteria for being obese.

36 – At this point only 36 percent of the U.S. population can name all three branches of government.

43 – The new EPA regulations issued while Barack Obama has been president are 43 times as long as the entire Bible.

45 percent – One survey discovered that 45 percent of all Americans “dread” the Christmas season.

48 percent – Only 48 percent of Americans can immediately come up with $400 in emergency cash without borrowing it or selling something.

50 – An MIT research scientist is warning that if current trends continue 50 percent of all children in America will be autistic by the year 2025.

50 percent – Half of all college graduates in America are still financially dependent on their parents when they are two years out of college.

52 percent – According to a survey that was conducted earlier this year, 52 percent of all Americans cannot even afford the house that they are currently living in right now.

54 percent – For the first time ever, more than half of all U.S. doctors support the legalization of assisted suicide.

57 percent – A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 57 percent of all Americans consider race relations in America to be “bad”.  That is the worst number in 20 years.

59 percent – One very disturbing recent poll discovered that 59 percent of Americans are in favor of torturing our prisoners.

60 percent – In the United States today, 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees are earned by women.

64 percent – It would be a great understatement to say that pornography is popular with men in America.  This is true even among men that are supposed to be religious.  For example, one survey discovered that 64 percent of all Christian men ages 31 to 49 look at porn at least monthly.

65 percent – One shocking new poll found that 65 percent of Americans believe that the government is “broken”.  The shocking part of the survey was that it was only 65 percent.

65 percent – According to a Census Bureau report that was released in December, 65 percent of all children in America are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government.

70 percent – Right now, about 70 percent of all government spending goes toward dependence-creating programs.

78 percent – According to a Pew Research Center study that was released earlier this year, 78 percent of U.S. women “want a spouse with a steady job”.  Apparently the other 22 percent want an unemployed bum that stays home all day playing video games.

85 percent – 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are now made in China, and there is a rumor that Santa and his elves are considering a permanent move to the Chinese city of Shenzhen.

1979 – The United States has become the nation of the “permanent emergency”.  In fact, there has been at least one “state of emergency” in effect in this country since 1979.

7,500 – The worldwide Ebola death toll has surpassed 7,500 for the first time, but most Americans seem to believe that the crisis is over.  The truth is that it may just be beginning.

20,000 – Right now McDonald’s has 14,267 locations in the United States, but payday lenders have more than 20,000.

$30,000 – According to the Social Security Administration, 52 percent of all American workers made less than $30,000 last year.

80,000 – Back in 1980, there were only about 3,000 SWAT raids conducted in the United States.  But today, there are more than 80,000 SWAT raids per year in this country.

100,000 – It is estimated that there are at least 100,000 underage sex workers in the United States.  In case you were wondering, yes that means that we are a very sick nation.

$1,000,000 – We are supposed to be a government “of the people, by the people and for the people”, but at this point more than half the members of Congress are millionaires.

1,400,000 – Thanks in large part to unchecked illegal immigration, there are now 1.4 million members of criminal gangs living in our cities.

2,400,000 – There are currently more than 2.4 million people behind bars in America, and since 1980 the number of people incarcerated in our prisons has quadrupled.

2,500,000 – According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, there are now 2.5 million homeless children in the United States.

4,000,000 – Right now there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

9,700,000 – Almost 10 million more Americans have enrolled in Medicaid since Obamacare first launched.

15,000,000 – More than 15 million Americans have cosmetic procedures done each year, and Christmas is the busiest season of the year for plastic surgeons.

30,000,000 – In America today, more than 30 million Americans are taking antidepressants.  And keep in mind that antidepressants are only one class of pharmaceutical drug.  Overall, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug according to the Mayo Clinic.

$40,000,000 – More than 40 million dollars has been spent just on vacations for Barack Obama and his family since he has been in the White House.

49,000,000 – An astounding 49 million Americans are considered to be facing food insecurity at this point.

110,000,000 – Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

156,600,000 – The population of Bangladesh (156,600,000) is actually larger than the population of Russia (143,500,00).  But nobody is scared of Bangladesh.

3,000,000,000 – For the first time ever, there are now more than 3 billion people on the Internet around the globe.  I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

$600,000,000,000 – Americans will spend more than 600 billion dollars this Christmas season.  That is an amount of money greater than the entire GDP of Sweden.

$1,200,000,000,000 – Student loan debt has hit a grand total of 1.2 trillion dollars in the United States.  That number has grown by about 84 percent just since 2008.

$2,000,000,000,000 – The war in Iraq cost U.S. taxpayers more than 2 trillion dollars, but now a radical jihadist terror organization known as ISIS controls nearly a third of the entire country.

5,000,000,000,000 – There are now 5 trillion little pieces of plastic floating around in the oceans of the world, and lots more plastic is being dumped into our oceans every single day.

$18,031,021,541,347.52 – The current size of the U.S. national debt.  It increased by more than a trillion dollars during the fiscal year that ended a few months ago, and it is on pace to approximately double during Obama’s eight years in the White House.

$40,000,000,000,000 – There are five “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have more than 40 TRILLION dollars worth of exposure to derivatives.  This is a “sword of Damocles” that could destroy our financial system and our entire economy at any time.  Let’s just hope that it does not happen in 2015.

 

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Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:03 | 5589593 junction
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59 percent – One very disturbing recent poll discovered that 59 percent of Americans are in favor of torturing our prisoners.

Plus Obama the Kenyan

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:12 | 5589613 brockhardman
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1 percent - The amount of the population needed to overthrow the government.  Again.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:16 | 5589628 General Decline
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"$20 – If you want to “lock down that new man for Christmas”, you can buy a positive pregnancy test on Craigslist for just 20 dollars."

This just reminded me of something... My company starts random drug testing on Jan 1st. Does anyone have any "clean" piss they want to sell me?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:21 | 5589637 83_vf_1100_c
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  I'd send you mine but it has a slight green tinge to it. 420.

  Buy a dog. The urine collection can be messy but it ought to work.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:28 | 5589651 Skateboarder
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Mike Snyder hits new record for number of list items in an article.

The last sentence is a bit troublesome. We hope the derivative bubble does not unravel in 2015? When should it, Michael? 2016, instead?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:34 | 5589670 DeadFred
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He uses bogus statistics anyway. Starting with #1 how many cartoon characters would die if you excluded Kenny?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:48 | 5589703 stacking12321
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hey snyder, you twat:

"a rumor that Santa and his elves are considering a permanent move to the Chinese city of Shenzhen."

santa claus, the easter bunny, and jesus are all fairy tales told to children.

grow up and be an adult.

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:52 | 5589722 stacking12321
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"Thanks in large part to unchecked illegal immigration, there are now 1.4 million members of criminal gangs living in our cities."

that number isn't accurate, it's about triple that if you are counting all criminal gangs.

accodting to new york times:

"In August, the federal government had 2,721,000 employees."

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:11 | 5589880 SAT 800
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Right on.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 06:37 | 5590551 chumbawamba
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OMG EBOLA!!

"Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States
(110 million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

So basically all adults and half of all children have an STD?  Right.

Also, if Americans plan to spend $600 billion this year, that's either about $2,000 for each man, woman and child in America, or a shitload of banksters and CEOs are going to unload some pocket change.  I think when you drill down into the details they aren't so much unreal as they are stupid.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 07:17 | 5590568 JerseyJoe
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Good points.  Somehow I think the Xmas spend acquired an extra zero.  

The source of many of these "studies" and "estimates" are from agenda orgs grinding a political ax or trying to raise money.  And some stats could be global data blended up against national data. 

One I loved that had legs with leftist non-thinking media parrots - The US killed 600,000 Iraqis - when the Iraqi government, the International Red Cross and the US military all had stats within a few thousand of each other (around 55-60K - at that time) and much of this was from sectarian slaughter.  (Christians? We don't need no stickin' Christians - for example.  A slaughter that continues all over the lands of the barbaric cult - to this day - only worse.  And the Marxist media ignores it.)  

Later it came to light (but ignored by the Media) that Soros has not only paid for the BS "study" (a mathamatical model with fabricated data) - but he also hand picked the clown who did the "study."  Shame on the Lancet for running the garbage.   

And this did not stop leftie talking heads from using this BS number for years - and some to this day.  AND interviewers in the media (like Bill O'Really? when he intereviewed "Mr Unsafe at any Speed" (another famous fabricated "study") Ralphie Nader) don't even call them on it.  I recall Ralphie upped the BS anty to one million.   (To Ralphie's credit though - cars are safer...perhaps a little sooner than otherwise.)

Lies told often enough...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:13 | 5590858 swmnguy
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I've heard those very high numbers tossed around, but usually on examination they include all possible civilian deaths that could be even imaginably imputed to the sanctions from 1991 - 2003, in addition to deaths from the 2003 US invasion on.  I remember 500,000 as a number during the later Clinton Administration, with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright saying in her opinion such a death toll, which she didn't contest, being "worth it."  At the time, those numbers were presented as the total deaths from treatable causes that couldn't be treated due to embargoes on medication, hospital equipment etc., as well as public sanitation facilities destroyed and not rebuilt due to import bans on such equipment, etc.

I'm not defending those numbers in any way.  But modern warfare is mostly directed against civilian infrastructure.  We in the developed West, who tend not to have to deal with the absence of such amenities, are often forgetful of how many lives such things save.  Before we had water treatment facilities and modern hospitals and antibiotics, we had much higher death rates.  If we were to lose such things, we'd see such rates again.  I believe that's what those estimates referenced.

Again, not to defend numbers I have no way to evaluate myself.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:20 | 5590866 winchester
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you forgot 45......

 

the best  gun caliber ever made, the 45 acp.  will be handy very soon, with it you can kill cops, hunt, shoot fergusons zombies, and a lot more funny stuff like scratching you balls, scare the shit out of mongoloid neightbors, get quiet place back after a shot in the sky, stop the tacco bumping car to car on the caly highway, etc... list is long, much more usefull than kitchen blender... one shot to the vegetable and this is instant soup, of course the 45 heal the ebola virus, definitivly.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 21:20 | 5590008 weburke
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I dont trust the govt figures on these items. they make up so much these days, why not make this up?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:53 | 5590256 Luckhasit
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The force is strong in this one.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:49 | 5589708 AlaricBalth
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Nemo's mom was savagely eaten by a barracuda 6 minutes into the cartoon. My kid still will not go in the ocean.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:09 | 5590286 PT
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How many cartoon characters would die if you excluded Kenny?

And characters from Dilbert cartoons.

And characters in other cartoons that die but then get up and live again...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 05:15 | 5590499 Arnold
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How are zombies figured into the statistic? Some MIT algor ithm I bet.

Vampires too.

It is statiscally shown that statistics are 82% statistics.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 22:16 | 5592123 PT
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Statistics show that 85% of statistics are just made up!

(something like that - Scott Adams of Dilbert fame)

Fri, 12/26/2014 - 11:53 | 5593170 detached.amusement
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at least 85% of all applications of statistics are misapplications of statistics

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:41 | 5589692 AlaricBalth
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$303,000,000,000,000
As in trillions in derivatives.
No worries Skateboarder. The taxpayers got this.
(Thanks to the recent "Cronybus" legislation.)

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:53 | 5589724 Skateboarder
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Hey, split between 300 million people, that's only a million dollars a head. It's our patriotik doody.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:24 | 5589905 logicalman
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It's called odious debt.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 02:41 | 5590426 IridiumRebel
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And I repudiate that shit....

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 06:21 | 5590536 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"43 – The new EPA regulations issued while Barack Obama has been president are 43 times as long as the entire Bible."~

And you were wondering what Cass Robert Sunstein had been up to in his tenure in the Obama administration?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 12:22 | 5590871 winchester
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actually half  usa people do not know counting over 1000.  that's not much a problem after all.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:35 | 5590223 BeanusCountus
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You are so right. I cant believe that America has not organized against every politician that allowed that to happen. Note to self: email Rolling Stone tomorrow.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:39 | 5590229 Yen Cross
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 I'm disputing your claim. Nor did the Vikings when they pillaged your land.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 11:34 | 5590818 TruthHunter
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No worries...

I'm sure there are lots of derivatives on the derivatives.

True Story;

Red State citizen was piling up brush to burn. When done, he 

poured on gasoline and stood back a little, commencing to throw

lighted matches. Soon an explosion set him back a little and singed

his brows. He noticed the shocked look on his neighbors face, who was

watching from a distance. He say's " don't worry, I've done this before!"

Moral: If someone say "don't worry" start!


Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:22 | 5589900 logicalman
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I was thinking along similar lines.

When it happens, things may not be much fun, but I think (hope?) I'm reasonably prepared.

Sooner the better, really.

The longer it goes on, the worse it's going to be.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 16:52 | 5591490 TheReplacement
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Some might be hoping it unravels in 2014.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:37 | 5589676 Stuck on Zero
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If have an answer to this question:  Can you name all three branches of government?

Answer: The Fed, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:09 | 5589876 Crisismode
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Nope . . .

 

NSA

CIA

FBI

There, fixed it for you

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:57 | 5590267 JAFAH
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Roll those 3 into Security/Surveillance

add "Finance" and Enforcement/Collection

Not too far off.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 05:32 | 5590516 Tall Tom
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The average American is far more interested in the Eight Conference Divisions of the NFL at this point...which...they can name.

 

Besides we are currently a Dictatorship. The Legislatures and Courts just rubberstamp anything that the big Zero wants.

 

Shrub picked that Roberts guy real well.

 

And Reid and Boehner, along with McConnell and Pelosi just want to suck Zero's dick.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 16:54 | 5591495 TheReplacement
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Eight?  Last I recall it was six. 

Your rant about Zero probably misses the mark.  He's a temporary marionette.  The real power is always behind the throne.  Think banks and spooks.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:56 | 5589965 logicalman
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Might have to dress up as a fire hydrant!

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:22 | 5589639 General Decline
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"80,000 – Back in 1980, there were only about 3,000 SWAT raids conducted in the United States. But today, there are more than 80,000 SWAT raids per year in this country."

If you love your freedom, thank a vet. Lol

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:24 | 5589646 Mr.Sono
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one word  "bullish"

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 19:20 | 5589787 TVP
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Long MRAV's, stun grenades, and battering rams. 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:25 | 5590307 Nobody For President
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Don't blame the vets - that's playing TBTF games. Bet yah the majority of SWAT team members are not vets - they are fuckin' wanna be's. It is so easy to wage war on (mostly) unarmed civilians - they don't shot back much. And who is running the so called swat teams? As a vet, just fuck you.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:10 | 5590289 boattrash
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If they're gonna make you piss in a cup, they should hold it for you, and the cup too!

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 05:27 | 5590509 Tall Tom
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No. Read my post below.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 05:29 | 5590513 Arnold
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That would begin a life style change for many effeminate young men.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 05:41 | 5590504 Tall Tom
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This just reminded me of something... My company starts random drug testing on Jan 1st. Does anyone have any "clean" piss they want to sell me?

 

Add a Bottle of MURINETM Eyedrops to your urine.. It must be that brand.

 

Anything that I can do to help fight against the War on Drugs.

 

I am glad that your company is wasting their resources.

 

(Now I have read that but I personally have not tested it. Do research. I think I will pay the homeless and get some of those Marijuana Test Kits at the Dollar Store.)

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 19:27 | 5589795 hardcleareye
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Polls are subject to spin.... and at first I thought that it was taken out of context...

"

Q: All in all, do you think the CIA treatment of suspected terrorists was justified or unjustified?"

59% said yes....  ok poll didn't call the "treatment" torture...... wiggle room...

But this question is the one that got me..

 

Q: Looking ahead, do you feel that torture of suspected terrorists can often be justified, sometimes justified, rarely justified or never justified?

The response was 58%  **Often/Smwht Justified**

 

Sadly shaking my head.....

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:49 | 5589957 Debt-Is-Not-Money
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It depends (female astronaut reference) if you are trying to whip-up a phoney reason to start a war.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:00 | 5589853 Smegley Wanxalot
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I am also in favor of torturing Obama the Kenyan.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:41 | 5589937 buyingsterling
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Obama has opened the door wide to dictatorship, both by acting like one and damaging the country beyond any ability of 'democracy' to fix things/hold things together. He must be a true believer, ready to die for the cause. I say this because if we go get a dictator, it won't be a leftist (people with kids will rebel before that happens) so it will be a traditional nationalist who courts the middle class and business. And they will survey the wreckage and have ZERO problem with torturing Obama, likely to death. It would not be a matter of revenge, rather survival: What other poison pills has the rancid piece of shit hidden from us? He clearly HATES this country, and some effort may be made to insure that someone like him never happens again. Being tortured to death is a good deterrant.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 02:04 | 5590394 drendebe10
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Time to sandpaper the fudgepacker's skin off and bury it in salt.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:36 | 5589931 didthatreallyhappen
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obama is in favor of torture or 59% are in favor of torturing obama?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:11 | 5590188 tplink
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my roomate's ex-wife makes $76 every hour on the laptop . She has been out of work for ten months but last month her income was $13335 just working on the laptop for a few hours. read... WWW.WORKS3.COM

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:54 | 5590337 Emergency Ward
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She's obviously a cheap slut doing phone sex for chump change.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:06 | 5590280 Bossman1967
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He is not from krnya and name is not Obama its barry marshall and born in Hawaii now thats 100 percent truth and ai am now among the unemployed thanks to that bastard we call our president thanks Barry you sucessfully took over the health insurance ondustry and replaced us salesman with a fucked up computer program. But to be thankfull guess Ill sell food and go from 200,000 yr to 50,000 30 year career right out of high school gone but not gonna beat me. In the end you destroy your tax base and who really looses?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 01:48 | 5590382 Diablo
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50%: the amount the SP500 is UP over the past two years, and the amount silver is DOWN over the past two years.

LOL merry xmas ZH'ers

#buysilvercrashjpmorgan

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:19 | 5589632 83_vf_1100_c
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0.1%. The group none of us will ever be asked to join.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:23 | 5589641 Spungo
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2/3 of men watch porn. The other 1/3 you would never want to meet.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:31 | 5589664 General Decline
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The other 1/3 are porn stars? Where do I send my resume?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 21:00 | 5589976 Raging Debate
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More like 2/3rds of the men watch porn, the other 1/3rd are too old to get hard.

Speaking of sex, I wonder how many men have figured out how to avoid family law taxation by getting a vasectomy and avoiding the state contract of marriage? Still can get a ring and have a ceremony ya know...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:02 | 5590276 Aussiekiwi
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lol, thats very good.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 20:49 | 5591963 acetinker
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You know why you can't take one Baptist fishing?

He'll drink all your beer.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:34 | 5589672 ebworthen
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Good thing I had that vasectomy.  If I'm good in bed can I stay at home and play video games?  Any towns left in the U.S. that aren't a neon version of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:35 | 5589675 General Decline
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"2,400,000 – There are currently more than 2.4 million people behind bars in America, and since 1980 the number of people incarcerated in our prisons has quadrupled."

If you love your freedom, thank a vet. I think I'm starting to see a pattern here.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:49 | 5589955 BigDuke6
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Accelerating into oblivion.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:02 | 5590275 Aussiekiwi
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We imprisoned some folks.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:39 | 5589684 buzzsaw99
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our financial system gracie?

not my financial system buster

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:39 | 5589688 General Decline
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"1,400,000 – Thanks in large part to unchecked illegal immigration, there are now 1.4 million members of criminal gangs living in our cities."

Most of which live in Washington DC. Are dual citizens considered illegal immigrants?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 18:54 | 5589731 22winmag
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Please Mr. Snyder get a grip on your grammar and usage.

 

Sound fake = bad. Appear false = good.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:43 | 5589944 buyingsterling
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stupid comment = meaningless indecipherable distraction

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 19:34 | 5589806 Yen Cross
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  A herp a derp da Juxtaposted serf, der answwer me dis derp a derp daa no can find der Christians on der hiltops being slaughtered ? Midle Earth on der fire. Iraq/syridea

 kolar me dis a derp a herp 56,000,000 Amrikans on der food stamps?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 19:45 | 5589834 Cymore Duttz
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I can Sovle the CIA torture issue. 

All we need to do is declare the CIA as not being part of the Federal Government, just like the Federal Reserve. They President can still appoint all the important people, jus tlike the Fed/ They can keep their guns, machine guns, tranining camps, and stuff. The USA can still back them with the full force and might of the Gov't, and we won't be doing the torture!! Also they don't need to comply with FOI request or subpenas.

 

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:11 | 5589879 Ignatius
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Note the lack of a $20 false positive test from Craigslist for being ass-raped by our government.  Why?  'Cause you can prove it for free and nothin' changes anyway.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:42 | 5589940 Osmium
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There are now 535 little pieces of shit floating around the halls of congress.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:54 | 5589963 Debt-Is-Not-Money
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little?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:35 | 5590224 Yen Cross
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   The Senate I understand. 100 seats

  The House makes me want to puke!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 20:41 | 5589942 Whatta
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Name the three branches of government....that's a cinch:

1) The Executioner Branch, includes the Prez, powers include the unilateral right to killz people willy-nilly where ever and then makes speeches on why they hate us.

 The ItsTheOtherSidesFault Branc, exists mainly to draw government pensions and point fingers.

and 3) The Janitorial Branch....to clean up after the other two.

What do I win?

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 21:36 | 5590025 Grouchy Marx
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34.6 - percentage of obese Americans, per the CDC. Stated to three significant digits. Number of people in the US with suspected or confirmed Ebola? 

They cannot say. 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 01:52 | 5590389 Yen Cross
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 You're delusional. 99% of Amercan men watch porn online, and 95% of American women watch online porn.

  FWIW, the porn thing is getting a bit passe'.

 It's kinda like the obfiscation of dislike for law enforcement. It isn't a racial problem.

 Everyone is Fed. up with LEO encroachment. People in general are tired of LEO. It's not about the MSM racial slant.

 Chew on that Grocho.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 16:23 | 5591405 Grouchy Marx
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Hard as I try, I cannot see the segue you make between porn and police, other than the first letter in these words. 

And as for "chewing on" something (and it isn't clear what the object of your statement is), I'd rather not chew on either porn or an LEO, for fear of, respectively, contracting an STD or getting shot.

As for my being delusional, well buddy, if I am delusional, then this marks the first time in my life to be included in the public majority on anything. Which means I can join the other delusionals in voting for an increase in *your* taxes. Ah, democracy.

Regarding LEO encroachments, you need to differentiate between the growing police state and good people who work as LEO'S and are caught in the middle. Where I live, the LEO'S I know are fine people, and I don't envy their jobs or position in the current political environment. 

 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 21:41 | 5590035 Grouchy Marx
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2/3 (roughly) of American men are watching online porn. 110 million have STDs. Clearly, computer viruses have gotten more sophisticated.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:59 | 5590270 Aussiekiwi
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Yeah, To my shame I got a virus from my computer, dirty piece of trash that it is, but I can't help going back for more.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 20:27 | 5591422 Grouchy Marx
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Practice safe text.

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 21:52 | 5590058 Grouchy Marx
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Lessee... 65% believe government is broken, and 33% are in the master FBI criminal database. So, the math tells me 2% didn't answer that multiple choice. 

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:57 | 5590268 Aussiekiwi
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Hey, those multiple choices are hard, often have to choose between A or B, sometimes there is even a C to think about!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:46 | 5590240 DeusHedge
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Things that you're wrong about: congressional millionaires and assisted suicide. To note, most young adults do try despite not having the industry that can guarantee even a good standard of living for our country in the future. Not to note: The number of ex-cons who would oppose any form of government like our current one, and fight for anarchy (and chaos). And yes cartoons should be for children!

Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:51 | 5590255 JAFAH
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According to a Pew Research Center study that was released earlier this year, 78 percent of U.S. women “want a spouse with a steady job

The other 22% want a spouse that stays home and makes thousands a month by working on the internet a few hours a day. Idiots.

Merry Christmas

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:14 | 5590296 Big Sky
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Anyone able to overlay charts of US reported deficit over time and DOW 30? I wonder if there is correlation.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:26 | 5590306 DeusHedge
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And despite all this, the system granted to us by our leaders and ancestors is a grave behemoth to behold. Watch what happens when we're really hurt, haha you're all scepts but to be honest I don't know if we aren't the last great nation on the planet earth, or in fact the last nation.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 00:29 | 5590308 socalbeach
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26%.

Number of Americans who think the sun revolves around the earth.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/26-percent-of-americans-say-the-sun-...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 09:22 | 5590667 therover
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Yup. And what's the percentage who think man walked with the dinosaurs ? 

 

Also, what's the percentage of people in those 2 categories who were part of the overall percentages of the other statistics ? 

 

Fucking statistics.....it's not the numbers, it's the questions asked and the methods used to get the numbers. 

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 14:54 | 5591160 MassDecep
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99.9% Number of Americans that think the universe revolves around them....

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 01:01 | 5590342 SecretlyElvis
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70 percent – Right now, about 70 percent of all government spending goes toward dependence-creating programs.

This is the most disturbing number to me as it clearly exposes the fact that we're past the tipping point to becoming a socialist/fascist state. How else to support this nanny state than to insanely tax producers without a hint of representation (I.e. FATCA). This administration has become the mirror image of the English monarchy, circa 1776.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 02:08 | 5590378 TeethVillage88s
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Movie just started with the line, "We don't have money, but we have Grit".

Well, it might be that way again.

You have Labor or Trade Goods like Agriculture, Salt Pork, Flour, Coffee, Salt, Fat or Lard, backing powder, Corn Meal, Eggs from Chickens you brought along, Lead, Gunpowder, Ammo, Primers, Casings, tools for reloading, tools for fixing transportation like cars, tool belt with hammer, nails, tape measure, square, plumb line, saw, level...

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 01:51 | 5590387 TulsaTime
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No ideological ax to grind here, how do you define a dpendency creating program? Is that like paying Lockheed to build airplanes that suck?

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 02:06 | 5590395 Sub MOA
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More bullets for x-mas more madness in missouri http://rt.com/usa/217523-stlouis-protests-killing-teenager/

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 04:28 | 5590477 petkovplamen
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where is the amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex? don't see it listed. interesting that THAT particular amount was deemed NOT worth mentioning but that 70% of people are dependent on the gov was....

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 15:00 | 5591190 rwe2late
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 the article did not say the recipients were dependent,

but presumed (and implicitly condemned) the spending as "dependency creating".

For some (self-centered anarchists?), having public schools or having city trash collectors

is always bad because by their definition, that makes people "dependent" on government.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 04:41 | 5590481 Your guess is a...
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58.3% of statistics are made up.

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 08:52 | 5590636 cart00ner
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And todays headlines in Aus... America's economy strongest in a decade!

I'm sure you heard the head-back-sarcastic-laugh from your side of the planet from the Aussies. Part of me wants to believe MSM but then reality slaps like a dead fish.

Mery christmas, and I hope 2015 is kind to you all   :)

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 10:26 | 5590731 Kprime
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The only number I take issue with occurs in the very last sentence, last word.

"Let’s just hope that it does not happen in 2015."

Please, Please, Please let it happen in 2015

Thu, 12/25/2014 - 17:35 | 5591406 anticultist
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Here is my dow forecast to 2020-22, it will be revised this far out but should be similar to this.

 

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m504/mtimothyj/dowqtr122514a_zps591a...

 

Here is my idea of the meaning of 2020-22 war lows.

Actually I may already know the next new world order operation after 2020-22 culling and depopulation. They may have already told you. Here is how it goes. The boy bush was the manchurian candidate to humiliate the evangelical Christians and block them out of government, then the orwellian buries the liberal ideology for eternity. Leaving the door open for the luciferian order. It is sort of a technological worship of false idols, wizardry, and oz theology, behind the curtain. After the wars, they bring out 30 years of suppressed technology to save humanity, medical miracles, free energy, this gets all the slaves worshiping the state technical apparatus. The pope already called it  krislam. You already had a test run of it, the clinton genocides ran while you were asleep, worshiping the new technology and chanting the new world order financial engineering wizardry. Some people that know the difference may be able to capitalize on the herd and still make it to heaven, if they know the difference.

 

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