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America #1? 36 Facts That Prove That The United States Is An 'Exceptional' Nation

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

Is the United States an “exceptional” nation?  Well, the facts show that we are, but not for the reasons that you may think.  Now that it is election season, we have all sorts of politicians running around proclaiming that America is the greatest nation on the entire planet.  And just this week, Warren Buffett stated that “America’s great now — it’s never been greater“.  But is it actually true?  Is the United States still a great nation? 

I would submit that the numbers suggest otherwise.  I love America, and in my opinion there is not much hope for us until we are willing to admit to ourselves just how far we have fallen.  The following are 36 facts that prove that the United States is an “exceptional” nation…

#1 According to a brand new report that was just released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States has the fattest population in the entire industrialized world by a wide margin.

#2 That same report from the OECD also found that we are number one in child obesity.  In fact, at 38 percent our rate of childhood obesity is even higher than our overall rate of obesity.

#3 According to USA Today, the obesity rate in the United States has more than doubled over the past 25 years.

#4 The Washington Post has reported that Americans spend an average of 293 minutes a day watching television, which is the most in the world by a wide margin.   And as I have discussed previously, more than 90 percent of the “programming” that we absorb is created by just 6 enormously powerful media corporations.

#5 One study found that the average American spends more than 10 hours a day using some sort of electronic device.

#6 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.

#7 The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.

#8 Out of 22 countries studied by the Educational Testing Service, Americans were dead last in tech proficiency, dead last in numeracy and only two countries performed worse than us when it came to literacy proficiency.

#9 In more than half of all U.S. states, the highest paid public employee in the state is a football coach.

#10 The percentage of wealth owned by middle class adults is lower in North America than it is anywhere else in the world.

#11 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.

#12 It turns out that Americans are very good at locking people away in prison.  At 716 per 100,000 members of the population, the United States has the highest incarceration rate on the entire planet by a very wide margin.

#13 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.

#14 In 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people.  During that same year, police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all.

#15 One recently published study found that one out of every six young Americans has stolen something during the past year.

#16 There are more car thefts in the United States than anywhere else in the world by far.

#17 According to Fox News, approximately 70 percent of married men in the United States admit to having cheated on their wives.

#18 Americans spend far more on health care than anyone else in the world, and yet we only rank 26th in life expectancy and our entire health care system has been transformed into a giant money making scam.

#19 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and an astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.

#20 According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 31 percent of all food in the United States gets wasted.  In case you were wondering, that amounts to approximately 133 billion pounds of food a year.

#21 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.

#22 A survey conducted by the Barna Group discovered that 77 percent of Christian men in America in the 18 to 30-year-old age bracket view pornography at least monthly.

#23 There are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.

#24 70 percent of Americans do not “feel engaged or inspired at their jobs”.

#25 When LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, less than 10 percent of all U.S. children were growing up in single parent households.  Today, that number has skyrocketed to 33 percent.

#26 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all babies in America were born to unmarried parents.  Today, that number is over 40 percent.

#27 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are 20 million new cases of sexually-transmitted disease in the United States each year.

#28 Today, the United States has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world.

#29 According to a survey that was just released within the last 30 days, only 29 percent of Americans want to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood even after all of the shocking undercover videos that were released this year.

#30 America has the highest rate of illegal drug use on the entire planet.

#31 Doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.

#32 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12 percent of them said that they were “very happy”.

#33 Every single year, the United States has the largest trade deficit in the entire world by a very wide margin.  But most Americans still don’t seem concerned that thousands of businesses and millions of good jobs have been leaving our country.

#34 As you read this article, there are 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a job.

#35 We are supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, but only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are in total.

#36 On average, we have been stealing more than 100 million dollars from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day since Barack Obama entered the White House.

 

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Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:00 | 6668643 wharfdaddy
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WARNING$$$$THIS A BI-PARTISAN SCANDEL$$$$$

I DON'T EVEN NEED TO WATCH THIS BEFORE I RECOMMEND IT TO YOU. All of you republicans collectively put this human trash in office, a pedophile, put him second in line to the presidency and kept him there 6 years. CLINTON BLACKMAILED HIM with impunity and Bush kept him in place to do his DEEP STATE bidding. YOUR PRESSITUTE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WON'T SAY SHIT ABOUT THIS KNOWN PUBLIC PEDOPHILE BECAUSE THEY are actually OWNED by the same OWNERS that OWN the government. WATCH AND LEARN how YOUR GOVERNMENT REALLY WORKS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urz-79upuLg

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:16 | 6668697 TruxtonSpangler
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I dont have a long enough attention span to read all those. Is there one about the most guns? 'MERICUH!!!!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:21 | 6668718 Thought Processor
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Proving once again that .........  'Exceptional' is just another name for 'Retarted.'

 

 

 

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:29 | 6668744 TBT or not TBT
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Idiocracy happens.  

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:42 | 6668776 Chupacabra-322
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#35 We are supposed to have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, but only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are in total.

Wrong. What we do have is a Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. posing as functional "Government" of the people, by the people & for the people.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:17 | 6668899 RafterManFMJ
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America: Dial set to "Full Retard."

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:03 | 6669056 Macchendra
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We need Trump soooooo bad! Sooooo freakin' bad!  He'll fix all of this, by allowing us to feel good about it all.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 03:28 | 6670028 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"#1 According to a brand new report that was just released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States has the fattest population in the entire industrialized world by a wide margin."~

"Hmmm. Do you think this country makes me look fat?"

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 05:06 | 6670076 Miles Ahead
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Proving once again that .........  'Exceptional' is just another name for 'Retarted.'

So "Thought Processor" needed all that white space just to be able to spell 'Retarted' like a retard. Cue dueling banjos...

rotmff

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 09:17 | 6670577 kralizec
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Transformed into not exceptional, with no small assist to B Hussein O.

Murca, fook yah!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 07:55 | 6670243 BarkingCat
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Trump cannot fix this.

You can't fix stupid.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:09 | 6669723 Antifaschistische
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where the one that says most American's today....aren't Americans.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:07 | 6668861 buyingsterling
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The 10,000 hours of video games is the equivalent of forty hour work weeks for five years. WTF?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:05 | 6669012 JonNadler
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#6 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.

 

they would have to watch 6 murders a day from day 1 to 18th birthday?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 22:04 | 6669589 WOAR
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If Call of Duty counts, kids see that many deaths in a single year.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 22:07 | 6669597 Abbie Normal
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Or they could just watch a 9-11 documentary 20X.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:37 | 6669783 yrad
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+1 to both of ya

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 08:51 | 6670436 Dental Floss Tycoon
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"they would have to watch 6 murders a day from day 1 to 18th birthday?"

Sounds about right.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 08:51 | 6670437 Dental Floss Tycoon
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"they would have to watch 6 murders a day from day 1 to 18th birthday?"

Sounds about right.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 22:17 | 6669616 Oldballplayer
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I would put more faith in you if you could spell.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:26 | 6668730 TBT or not TBT
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Weird fact about #29 (PP):  PP has prevented the existence of tens of millions of blacks and hispanics(PP operates mostly in racial minority areas)  Democrats nevertheless love PP and it sounds like most Americans are OK with continued federal funding.  This one is a bit of a moral and political rorshach test.  

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:01 | 6668837 CheapBastard
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Another weird fak is we hab moar peeples killed our own home-grown thugs then by fereign tearrists! Not only that but our own POTUS has moar sons roaming around then any other POTUS in American history!

 

It be paradoxical!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:16 | 6668895 juangrande
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Those videos were dubious, at best. 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:26 | 6668928 cheech_wizard
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Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:19 | 6668904 RafterManFMJ
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Really?

*cuts first check ever to PP*

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:11 | 6669081 Mr. Magoo
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All by design

The communist goals were entered into the Congressional record by Albert
Herlong, Jr. (a Floridian who served in Congress from 1949-69).

4) Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist
affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

7) Grant recognition of Red China, and admission of Red China to the UN.

11) Promote the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is
rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one world government with its own
independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be
taken over as easily by the UN as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers
compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo).

12) Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US.

16) Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American
institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for
Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get
control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.

20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments,
editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22) Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of
artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all
good sculpture from parks and buildings," substitute shapeless, awkward,
and meaningless forms.

23) Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to
promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24) Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship"
and a violation of free speech and free press.

25) Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography,
and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26) Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal,
natural, and healthy."

27) Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social"
religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual
maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

28) Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools
on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and
state."

29) Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old
fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation
between nations on a worldwide basis.

30) Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish
aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man".

31) Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of
American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big
picture": Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took
over.

32) Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any
part of the culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs,
mental health clinics, etc.

33) Eliminate all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation
of the Communist apparatus.

34) Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35) Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36) Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37) Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38) Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social
agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no
one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.

39) Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a
means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40) Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy
divorce.

41) Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence
of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children
to suppressive influence of parents.

42) Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate
aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest
groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic,
political, or social problems.

43) Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready
for self-government.

44) Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45) Repeal the Connally Reservation so the US can not prevent the World
Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World
Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court
jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

Going just as planned, the globalist takeover is almost complete, very sad

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 02:39 | 6669993 ImGumbydmmt
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please cite source.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 05:52 | 6670110 Memedada
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Some Koch Brother finanzed ’libertarian’ (in the ’new-speak’ meaning of the term) website. Just a guess.

It’s a waste of time to discuss ‘ideologies/philosophy’ with the absolute majority of US-people. The terms used in the rest of the world have been made useless by decades of corporate propaganda. They have no clue about what communism, anarchism, socialism, fascism, liberalism, conservatism etc. means – and worse, they think they do.

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:16 | 6668893 Bangin7GramRocks
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"Exceptional my ass!" - Pat Healy

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 20:54 | 6669378 Thought Processor
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Great Movie.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:33 | 6668754 junction
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TIME Magazine just released a poll showing the top 10 fears of Americans in 2015.  As expected, this poll from a mainstream media source is a pack of lies.  Number 9 on the list is "running out of money in the future." Just a few days ago, there was a news report that 62% of Americans don't even have a $1,000 in a savings account. 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-have-less-than-1000-in-s...

Part of Walmart's problem is that many of its customers run out of money before the month is up.  Over 90 million Americans are on food stamps.  Yet, according to the poll in TIME Magazine, bio-warfare is way more important to most Americans than running out of money in the future.  Maybe the subject should have been just "running out of money."  TIME should identify the researchers of this poll and, if possible, test them for the drug "hopium."     

"The researchers asked a random sample of 1,541 adults to rate the level of fear for 88 different fear options across a variety of domains (like crime and natural disasters). Based on their findings, here were the top 10 fears for 2015:

  • Corruption of government officials (58.0%)
  • Cyber-terrorism (44.8%)
  • Corporate tracking of personal information (44.6%)
  • Terrorist attacks (44.4%)
  • Government tracking of personal information (41.4%)
  • Bio-warfare (40.9%)
  • Identity theft (39.6%)
  • Economic collapse (39.2%)
  • Running out of money in the future (37.4%)
  • Credit card fraud (36.9%)"

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:24 | 6668921 juangrande
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I think the #1 fear is WAKING UP!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:25 | 6668924 RafterManFMJ
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Dear imbeciles of WalMart.

Beans and rice can be purchased in 25 or 50 lb sacks, and will provide the base for hundreds of meals. Tabasco and other condiments can be added cheaply and at will.

A king size bag of kettle fried chips is expensive and provides junk calories.

You're to damn dumb to figure out IQ 80 shit, maybe it's time you were given a free year of cable for volunteering to be sterilized.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:09 | 6668863 ZH Snob
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sure, if you're warren b or part of the .0001% this is the greatest nation on earth.

where else can you influence (buy, blackmail or murder) the government to allow you loot its people to your heart's content?

TBTF, baby. 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:00 | 6668644 WTFRLY
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White House still ignores murder of American reporter Serena Shim who filmed western aid to ISIS

American reporter Serena Shim had video proof of Islamic State in Turkey using UN World Food Program vehicles. She was killed one year ago on Oct 19. The Turkish government called her a spy and 2 days later, they said she was killed in a strange car accident. The White House has been covering up her murder. Share her story.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:01 | 6668847 o r c k
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Are we #1 in invading sovreign Countries and removing their legal rulers? #1 in supplies and ammo to terrorist groups? #1 in police arresting people for video-taping? keep it going if you wish

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:02 | 6668648 Don Pancho
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#37

We only have to pay $16 for silver...

LOL rest of y'all suckas

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:25 | 6669755 Tom Servo
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you might want to inquire about the "premium above spot" - it's ridiculous here...

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:01 | 6668649 WTFRLY
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Americans will be living in squalor at this rate. The country will look like the fucked up Earth in Elysium and Judge Dredd combined lol.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:06 | 6668672 venturen
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you mean Detroit?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:01 | 6668650 venturen
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#36....Liberal just love #36

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:07 | 6668674 Dr. Engali
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Seems to me the conservatives like to spend the future generation's share of the fed's funny money just as well as the liberals do.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:26 | 6668731 headhunt
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Liberals disguised as Republicans, but not conservatives

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 09:10 | 6670533 Memedada
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Military, war, police, surveillance, prisons, torture…yep, the conservatives knows how to spend money too.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:02 | 6668651 Dr. Engali
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Yes! A list! I was hoping for a list, and we got it!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:13 | 6668693 XqWretch
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At least this list was good, had a sense of irony to it. Getting the shit about the moons and greek gods and shit was getting pretty boring

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:29 | 6668939 cheech_wizard
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And it's not even Friday yet...

Standard Disclaimer: New Zero Hedge feature - Hump Day Porn Lists!

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:02 | 6668653 Rainman
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Look at the bright side. At least we kicked the German's ass when they bombed Pearl Harbor. 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:04 | 6668663 nuubee
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I think you're thinking of the injuns at the Alamo in WW1.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:20 | 6668709 bamawatson
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or was it when butch reno fried those whackos in waco

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:04 | 6668853 o r c k
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The war of the roses.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:47 | 6669187 Lorca's Novena
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I chuckeled heartily

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:03 | 6668660 will ling
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we would be exceptional except de Tocqueville said over 200 yrs ago that we would eventually go down the tubes. time's up!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:14 | 6668695 A Lunatic
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Who cares what some dead Mexican thinks........

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:01 | 6668845 Bananamerican
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lol

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:05 | 6668856 o r c k
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Wrong. He's 228 and lives in San Diego.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:10 | 6669079 Crisismode
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Oh he is the guy that turned in Whitey Bulger?

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:18 | 6668670 JustObserving
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The land of the free is a fascist, police state masquerading as a democracy.  And the press, completely owned by the CIA, does a fine job of covering that up.  Eat you unlabeled toxic GMO foods, drink your IQ-reducing fluoridated water, consume vast quantities of mercury-laden high fructose corn syrup, overdose on fast food and football as these are all indications of an exceptional nation:

Who rules America? 

The secret collaboration of the military, the intelligence and national security agencies, and gigantic corporations in the systematic and illegal surveillance of the American people reveals the true wielders of power in the United States. Telecommunications giants such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, and Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, provide the military and the FBI and CIA with access to data on hundreds of millions of people that these state agencies have no legal right to possess.

Congress and both of the major political parties serve as rubber stamps for the confluence of the military, the intelligence apparatus and Wall Street that really runs the country. The so-called “Fourth Estate”—the mass media—functions shamelessly as an arm of this ruling troika.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/10/pers-j10.html

Snowden's documents revealed that the NSA spies on everyone:

The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”


 

The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html

GMO foods are toxic as is fluoride

Study Shows Dramatic Correlation Between GMOs And 22 Diseases

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/study-shows-dramatic-correlation...

50 REASONS TO OPPOSE FLUORIDATION

http://fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:30 | 6668750 Chupacabra-322
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#4 The Washington Post has reported that Americans spend an average of 293 minutes a day watching television, which is the most in the world by a wide margin. And as I have discussed previously, more than 90 percent of the “programming” that we absorb is created by just 6 enormously powerful media corporations.

Proof positive how PsyOp'd, Mind Controlled the Sheeple are by Scripted False Narratives & Propaganda courtesy of the Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths at the CIA. And , a Presstitute Media ever so eager to Propagate / Peddle the Scripts.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:39 | 6668775 giggler321
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reading ZH is still programming, no matter what the media or form

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:42 | 6669177 TeethVillage88s
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Here Fixed:

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"TBTF Banks and Mammoth European Banks "Control and Develop" the Congress (both political parties), the military, the intelligence apparatus and Wall Street that really runs the country. The so-called “Fourth Estate”—the mass media—functions shamelessly as an arm of this ruling troika."

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:15 | 6668675 combatsnoopy
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Actually I read that the cops killed 600 people in 2013.  Considering that there were over 14,000 homicides in the U.S. - I'm not going to find fault with them.

Esp. when Fast and Furious Obama wants to open borders to narco trade from the most violent countries on earth in Latin America so they can bring their weapons and guns in the U.S. while the boomer junkies in power rob our ability to protect ourselves from dangerous narco  dealing gangstas.  

Seriously - the gangstas follw INNOCENT people on campus, SUBURBS....OTHER peoples' neighborhoods.  We stay out of their hoods if we don't want to put up with their crap. Until garbage boomer real estate flippers and "investors" mug us with a real estate bubble.   

This is what the loser ecstatic wannabes want.  Then they and their braindead libertarian shadows snivel along about how "compassionate" "englightened" and kewl they are since these creepy violent parasites think that drugs are more important than people. 

I'm defending the cops.  I agree that the U.S. is in shit shape, but I'm defending the fucking cops.  I was not helped by black lives matter when I was robbed by a 6'5 black thug, I was helped by the cops.   Suck it up and deal with it stupid self loathing trashtards.  

"oh my friends won't think I'm kewl if I can't complement the deceased on his dope ecstacy/heroine overdose"...

"oh my friends won't think I'm kewl if I don't condone homicides against innocent people by drug smuggling illegals in Honduras and protect them from the FEds like Gavin Newsom did- then whine that the drug war isn't working".  Uh, drug war isn't working because junkies got into power and protected violent thugs. 

Self loathing bitchboys are scared of the thugs.  just like the nerd in OfficeSPace cranking that rap and rolling up his windows when he sees a sketchy black guy on the street.  But americans are actually worse than that.  

Man losers, get a grip - I know that you'll bend over for NWA & Sinoloa AND their rival gangs and LIKE it .  Gangstas wouldn't ben over for their own rival... punk ass douchefuckingfairies. 

Why else would you blindly toss chemical COCKtails prepped by homicidal sociopaths without quality control? Fear of rejection by losers is scaaaarie- poor fools.  
 
"SEX DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL!"  -  bitch boys pushing their annoyance onto others who did not need it... then they piss and moan because we don't like them.   Like a whiney 3 year old.

You're working too fucking hard to defend your stupid inferiority complex.  NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT.    

God I miss the days when Granny warned us about the dangers of doing drugs- now Granny is doing the drugs. 
Nevermind just that- junkies have gotten UGLIER since the 80's too.  You're not novel, special or anything of the sort.  We don't like violence from criminals, it's a fucking human right to exist in your own neighborhood wihtout a threat of violence from some garbage dealers/hoodlum. 

Shut up.  

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:27 | 6668733 farflungstar
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Everything's gotten uglier since the 80's...because everyone running the show is so completely full of shit.

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:02 | 6668849 Bananamerican
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the creamy stool rises to the top

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:10 | 6668872 o r c k
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okie dokie.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:12 | 6668875 XqWretch
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Get the fuck out of here with that fascist bullshit. You know why I am scared of cops? Because I know they can fucking murder me and not serve a day in jail 99% of the time. If I told you that you could bang my wife 99 times out of 100 without any repcrecussions, would you kinda push the envelope a little bit? Yeah, you would. because my imaginary wife is fucking hot. Thugs? Especially ones with criminal records? Theyre not getting any fucking leeway with the jury or the judge or the fucking executioner. Fuck the cops and fuck you too while were at it

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:09 | 6668679 IronForge
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FUBAR'd 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:11 | 6668684 danster82
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You guys in Americans shouldnt knock yourself too much thats all you ever seem to do latley. America is exceptional and if you live there you are a steward of the freedom that is anchored there for the rest of the world. Dont fail in your position.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:23 | 6668722 Keynesians say ...
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US Navy - "A Global force for good" 

lol

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:42 | 6668786 TBT or not TBT
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It's a humanitarian armada.  

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:11 | 6668685 Sudden Debt
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A 100 million per hour is going up in smoke...

you can do a lot with that kind of money.

But I'm pretty sure that will go up to 150 million when the next dicator is put in office.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:12 | 6668879 o r c k
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Have we nuked China's fake islands yet?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:18 | 6669108 Crisismode
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Exactly, what the hell are we waiting for???

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:28 | 6669137 TeethVillage88s
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True.

The Trend is clear.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:13 | 6668690 toady
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USA! USA! USA!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:36 | 6669781 toady
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oops.... guess I shouldn't post based solely on the headline...

My bad.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:14 | 6668694 PTR
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Snyder gonna snyder.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:16 | 6668701 SmittyinLA
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Greatest nation = nation being looted fastest

USSR used to be "greatest nation" then they wised up, before them NAZI Germany was greatest nation.

Greatest legal system = most open to looting 

"Exceptional Americans"  = ream job coming 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:21 | 6668715 Chupacabra-322
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The Exceptional Trifecta. Fat, Lazy & Stupid.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 00:39 | 6669872 Creepy Lurker
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:21 | 6668717 Teh Finn
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America is lurching headlong into Sodom.  God will not withhold judgement forever.  So when grace is over and the rod is used, hold on to your hats.  It's going to be brutal.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:26 | 6668729 where_is the_nuke
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Which God?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:33 | 6668755 Seek_Truth
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There is only one God.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:52 | 6668811 trulz4lulz
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Death is the one true God. Anything past that is mearly speculation.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:19 | 6669113 Seek_Truth
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Death is but a door one passes through in order to meet the one true God.

FIFY

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:14 | 6668886 XqWretch
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The FED?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:15 | 6668890 o r c k
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Spare the rod, spoil the fun.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:31 | 6668946 iClaudius
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Sticks an stone may break my bones,
but whips and chains excite me.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:12 | 6669089 playdoh
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Not Exceptional, SPECIAL 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:22 | 6668719 Keynesians say ...
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Yeah but is Lamar Odom going to be ok? Will it air on Keeping up with the Kardashians? Who will win the big GAME? At least we have our priorities straight in America! Suck it third worlders while I sip my starbucks at Mcdonalds while watching Netflix on my Apple device made in sweatshops!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:27 | 6668734 SILVERGEDDON
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Just like a helicopter mommie, tell the golden child that they are special number one doing real good, everything is great, here's your participation trophy. 

It's all rainbow skittle shitting unicorns - until it isn't.  

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:27 | 6668735 Give up. Realit...
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All these social ills could be remedied by the passage of one law.

Make murder completely legal.

Just think how the country would change for the better.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:27 | 6668737 stant
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Obama" mistrust of .gov and Christians holding the us back from great things" don't think the rest of the world can stand anymore of our great things

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:30 | 6668749 Duc888
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NAFTA, GATT, TPP, The Patriot Act, NDAA.

Ayup.

dem Polititians sure are lookin' out.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:32 | 6668753 SharkBit
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Strategy #1: Keep 'em entertained

Strategy #2: Keep 'em stupid.  IQ Rates declinging.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Briton...

Do you think all the GMO crap fed to Americans these days is genetically modified to achieve #2.  Pretty easy to do.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:40 | 6668778 Mockery
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I got 30 out of 36!  except the 6 garbage politically biases reasons.

The rest are EXACTLY why I so f'ing love America and why the rest of the socialist, do-gooder world are so jealous.

After church on Sunday I sit on the couch all day with a pizza, watching football, and down an entire bottle of scotch with my mistress while my wife is out shopping with my credit card.

On Monday afternoon I drop $5,000 at my doctors office to give me engough drugs and repairs so that I get to next Sunday's funday.

Tuesday I drop another $5,000 on at my lawyer's office to keep gold-digger mistress from last weekened out of my pocket book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:19 | 6668903 o r c k
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You is dang smart thar boy.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:21 | 6668909 Lea
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"The rest are EXACTLY why I so f'ing love America and why the rest of the socialist, do-gooder world are so jealous."

Mockery, is all that empty space at the end of your comment supposed to sum up your life?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:42 | 6668784 Son of Captain Nemo
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#32 One survey of 50-year-old men in the U.S. found that only 12 percent of them said that they were “very happy”.

Because those of us that remember how good it was 30 years ago through our "indifference"... know well and understand what an unmitigated fraud and failure our generation was that contributed to the mess we are now in!

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:44 | 6668793 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Look at it on the bright side. At least America is still #1 in manufactured bullshit via media. Propaganda is a long lost art IMHO. America is the #1 Propagandist in the entire world, and that's a fact.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:47 | 6668796 SillySalesmanQu...
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If 'Murcians didn't have Smartphones, just imagine how much more stupider we would be...

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:00 | 6668820 RopeADope
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If only exceptional lives mattered, debt could not grow.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:04 | 6668826 nnnnnn
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"#7 The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21."

+20000 hours watching porn

 

"#11 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings."

you mean the money soon worth less than the paper its printed on?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:56 | 6668827 Who was that ma...
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In America there are more guns than people.

I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing, just something else that makes us exceptional.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 17:58 | 6668831 loregnum
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Yep, great nation because some idiot Americans say so. You know what? Spouse and child abusers say they are good people too.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:33 | 6668934 Lea
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"Yep, great nation because some idiot Americans say so. You know what? Spouse and child abusers say they are good people too."

Well said.

No POS will ever say "I'm a POS". They all bullshit themselves, and try to bullshit others, on how "good" and "great" they are.
All their faults, they blame on others.

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:00 | 6668838 wisebastard
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good thing we got zerohedge here to document this fucked up god damn place

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:01 | 6668846 JR
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In an exceptional nation, a man stands in front of the citizens to declare the truth.  Like Sam Adams and unlike America’s current candidates for president, one of Canada’s political candidates, Dr. James Sears, an Independent, on live television ignored the political lies and hit his countrymen in the eyes with the unvarnished truth:

"Why are we murdering people in foreign countries ...in Palestine, in Ukraine, in Syria- instead of spending the money here in Canada? The three major parties support Israel no matter WHAT Israel does, no matter what atrocities they commit.. I'm sick and tired of our money being used to advance the interests of the United States and Israel... the IMF wants us to owe money to sleazy bankers... The media is Zio-Marxist controlled. I don't know what's happened to Canada. Canada used to be the peacemaker..Now we're just Israel and United States, I don't know, can I say 'BITCH' on the air? I don't know, but that's what we are. As far as I'm concerned I've won this debate..."

VIDEO:

http://popularliberty.com/9913/canadian-candidate-live-tv-im-sick-tired-it-canada-israels-americas-bitch

Sears is both the founder and leader of The New Constitution Party of Canada.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:21 | 6668911 o r c k
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And his running mate Roebuck.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:09 | 6668868 ThrowAwayYourTV
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And nobody cares because anything besides pushing buttons, flipping swithches and turning dials is way too confusing to us.

Instead of naming this "The United States of America," they should have named it, "The Land of the Play People."

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:24 | 6668922 Infinite QE
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36 facts that show that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were not only true but are now a completed plan.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:25 | 6668925 I AM SULLY
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We can save America, and the economy, and the space program at the same time ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKS-pcyNERQ

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:27 | 6668932 iClaudius
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#31 Doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.

After reading that list, I'm not at all surprised.

USA, the greatest nation on earth, inhabited by the worst dregs of humanity.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:23 | 6669125 ThrowAwayYourTV
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Back when I was a kid I had a lot of weird friends. Hell! Maybe I was a little weird myself.

But nobody was on drugs, (cough) Persciption drugs.

Today if you're not perfect in someones little perfect world, you need to be on a drug.

The Teaches want to look at their class and say, "Look at all my perfect little children. They will do well in my perfect little world."

Mom and Dad want to look at their children and say, "Look at all my perfect little children. They will do well in my perfect little world."

If not. Drug them to perfection so they may join us all perfect people in our perfect little world.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:54 | 6669213 iClaudius
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Homogenized humanity.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:38 | 6669168 Who was that ma...
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How depressing.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:36 | 6668964 JR
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#17 According to Fox News, approximately 70 percent of married men in the United States admit to having cheated on their wives.

The “cheating statistics online “used by this Fox Magazine writer to prove her wannabe conclusion are very suspicious. And when the so-called facts presented are so outrageously untrue, a red flag goes up.

Infidelity statistics from WomanSavers.com previously show that the large percentage of men, at least 70 percent, are faithful to their wives:

…22 percent of married men have strayed at least once during their married lives

…22 percent of men and 14 percent of women admitted to having sexual relations outside their marriage sometime in their past.

…5 percent of married men and 3 percent of married women reported having sex with someone other than their spouse in 1997.

…About 24 percent of men and 14 percent of women have had sex outside their marriages, according to a Dec. 21, 1998 report in USA Today on a national study by the University of California, San Francisco.

I wouldn’t go by the statistical “gatherings” used by authors and the MSM that exploit sex and the downfall of man, particularly females, who are looking for sensation, causes and a raison d’etre to sell their agenda and feminist hopes.

In short, don’t trust the MSM for your view of the average man.

http://www.womansavers.com/infidelity-statistics.asp

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:34 | 6669153 Crisismode
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Women Savers

 

Helping to save womens' delusions that their husbands are faithful.

 

What utter bulshit?
Denial much??

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:58 | 6669228 JR
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People who engage in immorality always look for support and "tolerance" while engaging in intolerance themselves, like ordering removal of the Ten Commandments from public view because they don't want a moral standard that judges their behavior.

Regardless, pushback from the people is in the air.  "Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) said that the state’s controversial [sic] Ten Commandments statue is staying put despite a state Supreme Court ruling ordering it to be taken off the statehouse grounds."

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:39 | 6668973 cheech_wizard
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and oatmeal consumption didn't even make the list... 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:44 | 6668997 Reaper
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For the sake of total equality, the exceptional American students receive the same education training as those in Special Educationa classes. Equality ueber alles.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6669007 Sparehead
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Not true, if you're talking resources special education students receive way way more than exceptional students, though I think that supports the point you're making.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:45 | 6669000 Sparehead
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That's progress for ya.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:52 | 6669014 ThrowAwayYourTV
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Just another reason we're screwed. A small reason but it's the little things that get you.

So where I live there are walnut trees everywhere, all around me.

So the other day Im out with my 5 gallon bucket grabbing some walnuts and a kid about 9-10 years old walks by wearing a little league uniform.

So he look at me, looks at my bucket and says, "What are those things?" WTF I'm thinking. You live around here where every october these thing litter the ground and nobody ever told you what they were?

But I dont say that. I say, "these are walnuts, this is a walnut tree."

The kid says, "how come they're green? I say, because the nut is inside. You have to peel off the green shell to get to the walnut.

The kid says, "I'll just buy some at the store." then walks away.

So that is a very small reason, but a huge cloud over our heads.

The kids dont know shit about anything but computer games and i-phones anymore.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:51 | 6669015 Solio
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Here I am!

Buy me, baby!

You, too, can have it all!

Sincerely,

Politician mr/ms

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:57 | 6669036 Crocodile
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That partial list describes mankind's greatest problem; sin.  Man has a sin nature and we were blessed by Almighty God as a nation and now we have been turned over to reprobate or useless minds to do the things that are evil and we are quite exceptional at it apparently 

 

It took several steps over a period of years to reach this point and you can see the progressive sequence (3 major steps) in Romans 1:18-32, just look for the phrase "God gave them over".  However, for most it ends badly, indescribably or unimaginably badly and man has quite the imagination when it comes to badly; it will be worse & permanent.

 

That list shows the evidence of the assault on the very things God has ordained for our good.  If you do not believe that, the look up the 10 commandments and look at commands 5 thru 10 and ask this basic question; what would the U.S. look like as a culture and society and government if people practiced just those 5? - PEACE!.  How would that list be different?  God cares and that is why he gave us these "rules", for our good although we cannot abide by them, but they show us what the divine standard is and how we fail and why we need Jesus. 

 

Foolishness; isn't it?...but nonetheless it's all true & observable as such.

 

 

An old Chinese proverb says this, "One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade."

We are still living in the shade of some, very few, trees that were planted by our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents. We are shaded, to some degree, by their moral standards (different than ours), their spiritual commitment (vanishing), their value system, their sense of right and wrong, their commitment to duty. We are partially shaded by what our parents and grandparents planted.

The question that faces us today is what kind of trees are being planted today to shade the future generation from what may well be the blistering heat of an Antichrist dominated world.?

 

Are we planting anything or are we leaving our children totally exposed? It is obvious or should be to every one of us that our culture as to morals, values, ethics, duty, commitment is disintegrating. The very systems on which we base our life are convoluted, skewed and out of sync with God's divine order. We allow in our country the massacring of millions of unborn children while at the same time sentencing a man this week to six months in jail for killing a hummingbird, which demonstrates to us that we don't understand that man is made in the image of God, very different than any animal. - End  written by, John F. MacArthur, a person who thoroughly understands the Bible and has a profound relationship with Christ Jesus.  Folks he wrote this in 1990, only 25 years ago.  https://www.gty.org/resources/print/sermons/80-69

 

I really do like the people here at ZH; most are very tolerant of different opinions and I am thankful.

 

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:58 | 6669039 TeethVillage88s
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#1 #2 #3, Yeah why is America so Fat?

This is national Security.

Why?

Should this be a federal agency investigation? Which one?

If HHS doesn't investigate or CDC, then CBO, SS admin, GAO?

Could be criminal GMOs, criminal marketing?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:07 | 6669070 TeethVillage88s
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#25 LBJ's War on Poverty.

Today we need a war on foriegn wars, hidden federal spending on black programs like NSA, CIA.

How about a war on refugees from places our Elites blew up?

How about a war on Money in Politics, gift giving in government, in court justices, in medical doctors, and in influencing our universities and school systems including our federal government influencing K-12?

How about a war on sending jobs overseas, mergers & acquisitions that raise executive compensation while putting workers out of work, Oligopolies/monopolies and Anti-Trust activities including those by US Congress

How about a war on ZIRP/LIRP, Zero Interest Savings Bonds, LIRP interest savings and checking accounts, and University Trust Funds, Retirement and Pension Funds deprived of low risk Returns through Bonds or Treasuries,... how about a war on Banks not having enough good quality collateral to increase their Bank Reserves?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:21 | 6669101 TeethVillage88s
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#12 It turns out that Americans are very good at locking people away in prison.

This is like a multiplier of Debt, multiplier of pushing people into lower labor rates in the USA.

High incarceration = force multiplier, but not for national security or consumer spending

edit: Plus when you incarcerate great numbers of your young men, you multiply social problems, suck the role models out of the system, confuse the young who might look up to people with prison tats, crime tails, prison tails, and guys that are false role models who are just thugs, criminals, and Brokers.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 22:58 | 6669104 Manipuflation
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I notice details because that is the way I am.  It is both a gift and a curse.  I can tell you this though and I found it to be surprising.  Once we were west of Bismarck North Dakota you enter into a whole different world.  The space becomes wide and vast.  You see a lot of signs that might name a town but there are a lot of signs that say "No Services" or "Next Fuel 148 miles".  Forget your fucking smartphone.  Might as well through that thing out the window.  

Probabaly the most important thing to note was that in the 2500 miles west of Bismarck through Montana and through Idaho I only saw two cop cars.  One was at a weigh station and the other was, get this, actually assisting help change a tire on his trailer.  No flashing lights or sirens.  The cop just pulled over to help the guy and get him out of traffic because that was creating a safety issue on that steep incline.  I think that is way it supposed to be.  That is first class so I know that there is at least one good cop in Idaho.

I never had one single problem with anyone out there.  Not one.  I can't even go a half a day in Minnesota without getting pissed off at somebody and having some words.  I never had to reach for my guns or knives.  Not one damned issue to bitch about.(well, there were some forest fires but that is nature and not people being assholes)  Me of all people not having an issue with some assholes?  I didn't.  Mrs. M and I talked about it because we had plenty of time to talk while driving and we figured that people are decent to each because you might be 40 miles from help and if you need help out there you will take what you get if anything at all.  It is the complete opposite from Washington DC.  I would love to shove those assholes from DC out of a plane, in their pantsuits, onto the dry plains of Montana and say "Good Luck".

 

I saw six cop cars on the way home from work today.  What the fuck?  I there that much crime out in rural Minnesota that justifies this?  No.  I saw two unmarked cops cars but they are so god damned obvious that it is easy for me to see them.  You really are not hiding in the black $100K+ Cadillac Escalade in farm country.  Who do these cops think they are around here?  There is a difference between trying to help somone out and trying to generate revenue and fuck everyone over to justify your wages and your ride. 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 22:58 | 6669703 astitchintime
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Hey there Manipuflation!  What are y'all doing out there in the wilderness of the high plains?

+1 for your reference that it's a whole different world ... yes indeed it is and I will take it a step further.  It's a BETTER world out there for the very reasons you detailed.

FULL DISCLOSURE:  I am not out there.  Still stuck in metropolis here in Virginia, working for the man.  But I have indeed made that trip across the high plains, and it is exactly as you described.  I was born in Oregon and have family there in the eastern part of the state along the Columbia.

Thanks for the memories and best wishes to you and yours!

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 00:16 | 6669842 Manipuflation
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+1 back.  I am thinking of moving out there.  The trip was a recon mission.  That means that I have to move a lot of stuff though.  I needed to go see it first.  I just wanted to know and you can't believe everything you read.  I have been to Virginia and that is nice state too but it is way too close to bullshit for me.  North Carolina is nice too and the folks seem to be friendly there.  No complaints.  The high plains are some rough country for sure.  It is beautiful desolation out there.  If anyone wants to chase you, you will see them coming for miles and miles.  You can just pull off the road the road and piss where ever you want.  Even Mrs. M had to do so.  No words can do justice to how huge the place is. 

Montana is no place for New York HFT traders.  That is the way I grew up so I loved being there.  I didn't have any problems with the people there.(all five of them)  People out there don't throw anything away and they just accumulate metal.  If you ever want to find a classic car it would be there but they are not for sale.  No one is selling anything.  There is no hurry to get rid of anything.  Oh yeah, look at that GTO over there, no, we don't want to sell that.  Nice folks though and I don't get along with most folks around here because they are assholes.  I did not detect that out there.

I pulled my daughter out of school for this impromptu trip.  I didn't plan this trip, I just did it because I can.  We just got in the car and drove like the devil was after us.  3000 miles.  My daughter is ten years old and has been to Russia twice.  I told her that you can't believe everything you read.  Daughter's parent/teacher conference was yesterday where we where told that our daughter is the best writer that the teacher has ever had.  Fucking eh, I would hope so because I did not cheat her.  You have to write about what you have experienced.             

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:18 | 6669738 red1chief
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Huh? Two cops? Try going 6 MPH over the limit out in the middle of nowhere like I was, they'll find you & grab your money.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:44 | 6669182 JR
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It’s ludicrous to blame the American people for the loss of America’s exceptionalism. The Supreme Court of the United States decision of homosexual marriage was not a decision of the people - the people had registered their opposition in state after state, just recently supporting a thousand years of marriage history.

This latest decision underscores just how powerless the people have become in deciding issues for their nation -- from the definition of pornography to the “right” of abortion to foreign policy, to opening the borders to a counter-culture and millions of potential political supporters of socialism.  

It all happened when a booming, growing, healthy America was attacked by a foreign power - European bankers who came to devise a secret plan to confiscate America’s wealth and growth and replace her system of representative government of the people with one to benefit themselves. Their method was to establish a wealth-transfer system in order that the labor of America’s middle class could pay for the operation of a globalist system benefiting the world’s financial oligarchs and an eventual “new” world order.

They could print their own money, they would use it to buy power, they would use it to buy the Congress, they would use it to control all US commerce, they would use it to buy America’s free press, and they would use it to put their people, their puppets, in every key position of power in America, including the Presidency of the United States and the U.S. Supreme Court. 

This foreign power established the “U.S.” Federal Reserve System; and in one stroke, they sabotaged the American dream.

TeethVillage, above. has the facts.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:56 | 6669223 TeethVillage88s
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Thanks, after 5 o'clock with tv running in the background.

I'll keep this window and re-read it later.

Clearly we systematically have been corrupted.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 03:30 | 6670026 shutterbug
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Just like Obama O-I-Can-Drone-Bomb-Civilians: The "others" outside our country have done IT.

"We" are not to blame! Russia and China and A and B and C are very bad and We Are Only Good. We CAN bomb hospitals, doctors, patients, women and children....

 

Someone else his/hers sexual preference is very important for you ofc.

Dream on zombie!!

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 04:04 | 6670051 JR
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The "others" outside our country have done IT.

One of the dangers in having one’s national financial system primarily in the hands of Jewish families is that when the country goes to war there can be a dangerous bias connecting that effort to the foreign policy of the Jewish homeland, Israel. The unlimited ability of a fiat banking system owned primarily by Jewish families, the Fed, transfers wealth from Americans to pay for wars to support the foreign policy of Israel rather than the national interests of the United States.

“The U.S. national interest should be the primary object of American foreign policy. For the past several decades, however, and especially since the Six Day War in 1967, the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering U.S. support for Israel and the related effort to spread democracy throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized U.S. security.

“This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries is based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives. As we show below, however, neither of those explanations can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel.

“Instead, the overall thrust of U.S. policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the 'Israel Lobby.' Other special interest groups have managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored, but no lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical.” -- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Farrar & Straus, Sept. 2007), by professors Stephen Walt of Harvard University and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago.

This river of Fed money is going to buy power. To buy war. To acquire power over you and me and our country.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 20:39 | 6669322 didthatreallyhappen
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police in china killed 12?  BULLSHIT LIE  You believe this garbage?

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 22:51 | 6669688 alphahammer
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It's all part of the agenda. America has done everything evil and will do everything evil in the future. You didn't get the memo? 

Meanwhils this one some how missed the list. Gee wonder why...

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Americans gave a record $358 billion to charity in 2014

Americans gave a record $358 billion to charity in 2014, showing that philanthropy has fully recovered from the recession and surpassed its all-time peak.

"The 60-year high for total giving is a great story about resilience and perseverance," said W. Keith Curtis, chair of the Giving USA Foundation and president of The Curtis Group.

He said individual giving is driven by disposable income, household wealth and growth in the S&P 500—and all three improved in 2014.

 

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 02:33 | 6669987 Christophe2
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Most of that donated money is wasted on 'non-profits' that are merely scams, like 99% of the environmental groups, to say nothing of the billions sociopaths like Bill Gates 'donates' to depopulate Africa...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 02:36 | 6669989 AChinese
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I thought charity has a nick name "tax free".

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 07:10 | 6670176 daedon
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Obviously you are not referring to the Americans on food stamps, you are referring to the Exceptional Americans like Gates, Soros and their superiors who donate to "their" own non-profits to advance their own personal agendas.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 10:56 | 6671073 gezley
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"Giving to charity" is just Judaeo-Masonry's way of eradicating Christianity while providing an alternative so the people never suspect a thing. Would I go to a Masonic hospital for treatment? Not on your life. Pretending to do good is how they cover up their evil deeds.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:13 | 6669731 red1chief
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No, I'm sure it's over 20.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 21:12 | 6669442 kappal_toba_dhu...
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"Every single year, the United States has the largest trade deficit in the entire world by a very wide margin.  But most Americans still don’t seem concerned that thousands of businesses and millions of good jobs have been leaving our country."

 

Americanos are too busy pretending that their country is the BEST in the world.  Of course, anyone that travels abroad to developed countries this to be FALSE.  

BTW, it is not just jobs and businesses that are fleeing the country - many Americanos are too.  So are many "immigrants."  We lived there for 20 years and realized there was little hope to stay there and do we so we got the hell out.  We were not alone. There are many Americanos here in Singapore as well as former Americanos, as there are in Thailand, Japan, etc.  Many are well-to-do.  They left because they did not feel safe there and, from what I have been told, NOT for tax reasons.  

Times are only going to get tougher for USA.  A look at the almost daily mass shootings is one sign that the entire country is in a massive decline.  A look at the presidential candidates is another.  The front-runners are Trump -  a neo-fascist rightest and Sanders - a radical socialist.  Whether either will be allowed to actually compete for president is another thing, but the fact that such extremists are able to garner so much popularity is another sign that things are onthe way DOWN. Like Germany when the Nazis took control.     

So Americanos who can leave should, well, leave!  If you stick around for this situation to get worse you and your loved ones will only suffer.  A very sad state of affairs, but that is the case.   

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:12 | 6669727 red1chief
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#37

The high number of Americans who believe every right-wing list proves the wisdom of the right-wing.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:19 | 6669740 Bunga Bunga
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#37 By the time an American reaches the age of 25, he/she will have incured at least $100,000 in debts.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:22 | 6669747 Bunga Bunga
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#30b America has the highest rate of legal psychotic drug use on the entire planet.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:23 | 6669750 Bunga Bunga
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#38 America has the highest rate of children killed by own parents.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 23:27 | 6669760 Bunga Bunga
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#39 American main stream media have worse geography skills than an average 6th grader in the rest of the world.

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