Couldn’t Help But Notice (112607)
Statistics only the KKK could love:
The CDC shows a majority of women who get abortions are white (53 percent) compared with 35 percent done on African-Americans, 8 percent on women of other ethnic backgrounds and the race of the woman was unknown in four percent of the cases.
However, the abortion ratio for black women (472 per 1,000 live births) was 2.9 times higher than the ratio for white women (161 per 1,000).
Examined another way, nearly half of all pregnancies among black women end in abortion while just 16 percent of pregnancies among white women end in abortion.
The abortion rate for black women (28 per 1,000 women) was 2.8 times the rate for white women (10 per 1,000).
Those statistics continue to worry pro-life leaders in the African-American community.
Why don’t those statistics worry every leader in the African-American community?
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Ho-hum hiring headline (bold is mine):
Cessna to add 1,500 jobs in 2008
Cessna Aircraft plans to add 1,500 jobs next year, the majority of them in Wichita, company officials said this week.
Cessna plans to increase Wichita employment by about 1,200 in 2008, said senior vice president for human resources Jim Walters.
“It’s primarily, if not solely, driven by growth,” Walters said.
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Here’s an interesting juxaposition:
This extraordinary lost data discs business is, I think, particularly wounding to the Brown regime, for it gives off that same vibe, of a government descending into anarchy, and not in a good way. The whole world is now sniggering at Britain.
….. (instead of 25 million affected by the British data loss, it’s) only seven million. That’s okay then.
The author is, of course, being sarcastic.
The Brits haven’t learn how to manage the PR around data losses as Ted Strickland and the State of Ohio have. Instead of starting with a high number and taking it down, you should, as Ohio’s government did last summer start with a very small number, and work your way up. By the time you get to a really big number, people have long since stopped paying attention.
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This ID theft story looks like a tough one to top.
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In France, somewhat-conservative and general Bush-backer Sarkozy has the trains running on time, and appears to have beaten a transport strike designed to cripple his attempts at pension reform.
In the meantime, former French President and Bush-basher Jacques Chirac is “under formal investigation for corruption” for “front jobs at City Hall to individuals from Chirac’s Rally for the Republic Party (RPR)” when he was Paris Mayor in the 1970s and 1980s.
Expect Old Media, which is bent on perpetuating the myth that “the world hates us” because George Bush is president to give these stories short shrift.
