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*sigh*
"When is a baby not a baby?" Honestly, I don't know what these people are all upset about. The girl had a dead baby in her shopping bag along with stuff she'd stolen from Victoria's Secret. She just terminated an unwanted pregnancy, you reactionary neanderthal rethuglikkkan nazi christian assholes! And while we're at it, have you seen the prices on the stuff from Victoria's Secret? This poor girl was obviously disadvantaged and seduced by our media culture into wanting things she couldn't afford to buy on her meager minimum wage pay, so--
*kahurk*
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The graph in this article shows you everything you need to know about the profligacy of American government.
The GOP-led congress of 1995-1996 was instrumental in reducing the rate of growth of the debt, as can be seen from 1995-2000, but if you plot an asymptotic curve you see that it merely delayed things. If it hadn't been for the "Contract With America" we would have reached this point--$17,000 billion in debt!--in 2007 rather than now.
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The Japanese birth rate is perilously low. More people died in Japan last year than were born, and that's for the sixth straight year in a row.
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As for me, I'm still recovering from spraining my brain on Friday. Well, that's how it goes.