90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Odd Facts...

Men fart an average of 17 times a day, and women fart an average of 9 times a day.

If you fart constantly for 6 years, 9 months and 23 days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic bomb.

The longest ever penis recorded by scientists is 13.5 inches.

Humans are only second to cats for having the dirtiest mouths.

Beard hair grows at twice its usual rate when you're in a plane.

Around 15 men each year have their penises chopped off by their wives and the highest proportion of men who suffer this are Italians.

You use more calories eating celery than there are in celery itself.

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

Semen is one of the most fattening substances known to man.

An average of 76 people a year die playing twister, and about 23 of which are through playing the nude version!

Linda McCartney has sold more vegetarian ready made meals than Paul has sold records.

In the course of the 18 year run of Cats on broadway, 3,247 lbs of yak hair was used for wigs.

The shortest war in history was between England and Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

65 people become $millionaires every day.

The average human will eat one pound of insects in their lifetime.

You are more likely to be killed by a rogue champagne cork than a poisonous spider.

By the time a person is 18, they would have spent 12,000 hours in school, but 14,000 hours watching television.

Woman blink nearly twice as much as men.

Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce!

You could comfortably fit the entire population of the planet into a cube with sides 1km long.

Apporximately 69% of all Internet content consists of pornographic material.

Porn sites generated $970 million in revenue in 1999.

Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like competition.

Every 20 minutes a hapless person treads on a land mine.

The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning out the light.

6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.

Over one trillion matches were being produced every year at the beginning of the last century.

Elvis Presley had a twin brother.

Zeuxis a Greek painter in the 5th Centrury BC laughed hismself to death while looking at one of his paintings.

A Roman leap year had the same number of days as ordinary years but January 23rd lasted for 48 hours.

After being decapitated a human can still see for 20 seconds! (Not sure how 'they' worked this one out!).

Under EC law it is legal to have sex with inflatable dolls in the street.

Winners at the 2001 Ig-Nobel Prize ceremony for eccentric researchers, inventors and scientists include an American who claims to have invented anti-flatulence underwear, a Lithuanian who set up a theme park dedicated to Stalin, and two Indians who discovered that nose-picking is commonplace.

Right-handed people live on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.

Human stomachs produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks to stop it digesting itself.

Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs.

More boys than girls are born during the day, but more girls are born at night.

Julio Iglesias once had five gallons of water flown from Miami to L.A. so he could wash his hair.

Clark Gable was listed on his birth certificate as a girl.

Johnny Vaughan was born at the precise moment that England scored the winning goal in the 1966 World Cup final.

Bernard Manning did his National Service in the Military Police and one of his duties was guarding Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess in Spandau.

Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a srage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.

John Lennon shoplifted in Holland the harmonica he used on Love Me Do.

Mel Gibson broke the school record for the most strappings in a week - 27.

Tom Cruise and Robbie Williams were both voted least Likely To Succeed at school.

Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.

Michelangelo's cook was illiterate, so he drew her a shopping list, which today is priceless.

The arhcitect who built the Kremlin had his eyes gouged our by Iavn The Terrible so that he would never be able to design another building like it.

Pirates wore earings because they believed it improved their eyesight.

Cher's parents married and divorced each other three times.

Mike Myers (a.k.a. Austin Powers) is descended from William Wordsworth.

If you shouted for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Volleyball is the most popular sport at nudist camps.

Banging your head against a wall uses a 150 calories an hour.

On average, a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year!

If you mouth the word "colourful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

The fastest sevice in a restaurant in the world is 13 seconds from the order to the food on the table.

Wayne Static (from staticX) uses glue to stick his hair up.

The letter combination 'ough' can be pronounced in nine different ways.

Every time you lick a stamp you consume one tengh of a calorie.

Permanent marker is not actually permanent.

The shortest poem ever goes 'Adam, hae'em'.

To convert milli-inches to micro metres you must times by 25.4

There is an average of 3000 ft. of electrical wiring in every car.

During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the war and became a monk.

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roomates at Harvard.

Kermit the Frog is left handed.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

The Earth is hit by lightning 100 times a second.

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of the keyboard.

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This Is Why You Should Wear Your Seat Belt...

Licensure and Labor Unions: Two Sides of the Same Coin

As states increasingly move towards limiting labor union power through Right to Work laws, governments are finding other ways to restrict supply and inflate prices, by increasing occupational licensure requirements. Now, one might wonder why governments are motivated to do this, when it manifestly results in worse outcomes for consumers? It is not pure mean-spiritedness (although that undoubtedly plays some role), but the fact that they are barraged with misinformation from big-money trade groups who claim that without these requirements, the consumers will be endangered.

Of course, this is nonsense. Doctors don’t make money by killing all their patients. Chefs don’t make money by poisoning their patrons. It is in the businessman’s best interest to do a good job and to be honest about it. In our modern age of information, it is very difficult for a swindler to do well without being found out. A couple of bad reviews on a consumer information site and the would be crook is sunk. Meanwhile, millions of hard working, industrious individuals are prevented from practicing their trade by restrictions that are often insurmountable.

The effects of this are two-fold. One, those who are locked out of the labor market are regulated into poverty and dependence, forced to subsist on the public dole instead of becoming productive members of society. Two, incumbents are protected from competition, resulting in higher prices and lower quality for the consumer, not to mention less choice.

It should be noted that both the market power resulting from labor unions and that resulting from licensure requirements require government intervention to work. Labor unions operate under the fiction that they are a voluntary gathering of individuals to collectively bargain with employers. If this were true, I would have no problem with them, as their power would be limited to that achieved through voluntary exchange. In reality, however, they rely on a large number of coercive laws that prevent employers from exercising their rights to run their businesses as they choose. I have been critical of Right to Work laws for replacing one set of bad government regulations with another bad government regulation that restricts the rights of employers to contract. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that Right to Work represents an improvement on the status quo, although absolute freedom would be preferable to both systems.

This is the only paper that will have Obama's picture on it:

Grumpy Cat Weighs In On Obama...

EPA Chief Threatens To Go After Republicans Who Question Secret Agency Science

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy has issued a warning to Republicans who
continue to question the integrity of the agency’s scientific data: we’re coming for you.

McCarthy told an audience at the National Academy of Sciences on Monday morning the agency will go after a “small but vocal group of critics” who are arguing the EPA is using “secret science” to push costly clean air regulations.

“Those critics conjure up claims of EPA secret science — but it’s not really about EPA science or secrets. It’s about challenging the credibility of world renowned scientists and institutions like Harvard University and the American Cancer Society,” McCarthy said, according to Politico.

“It’s about claiming that research is secret if researchers protect confidential personal health data from those who are not qualified to analyze it — and won’t agree to protect it,” she added. “If EPA is being accused of secret science because we rely on real scientists to conduct research, and independent scientists to peer review it, and scientists who’ve spent a lifetime studying the science to reproduce it — then so be it.”

Republicans Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas have led the charge on pressing the EPA to make publicly available the scientific data behind its clean air regulations. McCarthy promised she would make such data publicly available during her confirmation process last year. Now her refusal to cough up the data has angered Republicans.

“EPA’s leadership is willfully ignoring the big picture and defending EPA’s practices of using science that is, in fact, secret due to the refusal of the agency to share the underlying data with Congress and the American public,” said Vitter.

“We’re not asking, and we’ve never asked, for personal health information, and it is inexcusable for EPA to justify billions of dollars of economically significant regulations on science that is kept hidden from independent reanalysis and congressional oversight,” Vitter added.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/28/epa-chief-promises-to-go-after-republicans-who-question-agency-science/#ixzz30Ew88ujm