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Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
 Sh*t, the number of attacks against coalition forces is now at 33 a day (up from the 25 a day average before this week). Of course, we don't hear about 30-31 of those that don't result in fatalities. Here is an interesting chart on fatalities in Iraq since the end of the conventional war:
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Month |
Deaths |
Deaths per Hour |
| May |
5 |
(1 per 149) |
| June |
18 |
(1 per 40) |
| July |
28 |
(1 per 27) |
| August |
13 |
(1 per 57) |
| September |
17 |
(1 per 42) |
| October (1/24) |
24 |
(1 per 24) |
| Total / Average |
105 |
(1 per 40) |
12:36:19 PM 
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Michael Kinsley points out the reason that so many people react negatively to Bush on a personal level: stem cell research. For people that have Type I Diabetes, MS, Parkinson's, etc, Bush's religiously motivated restrictions on stem cell research is at best an extension of the extreme hardships of dealing with these diseases and at worst a death sentence. Add up the millions of people that have these diseases and the members the families that care for them and you have a huge voting block that hates Bush regardless of what happens in Iraq and the economy (these issues matter little when you are dealing with these diseases). It is hard to get anything done when a large group of people hate you on a reflexive level.
9:48:09 AM
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Krauthammer: "Dean's problem is television, famously a cool medium."
9:31:30 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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