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“Our courts are our last defense for democracy and the rule of law, and NORRA should die in the Senate.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/lowe...
Lower Courts Are Saving The Rule of Law — Now the GOP Wants to Stop Them
Opinion | We can’t always count on our courts to do the right thing, but we certainly need them to be empowered to try.
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April 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Our high death rates remain hidden. Click ALT to see discussion below graph with note to see raw data displayed in graph and more discussion. 🧪💡☠️ #sociology #dumptrump #government
Here is the data for the graph: Age group USA N/1000 Canada N/1000 0 5.6 4.6 2.5 0.3 0.2 10 0.1 0.1 15 0.2 0.1 20 0.6 0.4 25 1.0 0.6 30 1.4 0.8 35 1.8 1 40 2.3 1.3 45 2.9 1.6 50 3.7 2.1 55 5.3 3.1 60 8.0 4.8 65 11.8 7.3 70 16.4 11.2 75 23.9 17.3 80 37.5 28.4 85 62.7 49.2 Sometimes just plain old words says more than the graph. The most common tool, a ranking of countries by life expectancy is here: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/life-expectancy-at-birth/country-comparison/ Canada with a life expectancy of. 84.2, ranks 5th from the top, Trump suggests getting United States life expectancy is a reason for Canada to join the USA. The United States life expectancy is 80.9 and ranks 49th. I cannot assume he doesn't know this because it is just another case where he will lie if the truth doesn't help him get what he wants and humans are afflicted with automatically believing lies if they hear them more than five times. I like to add Puerto Rico with a life expectancy of 82.1 and ranks 34th just to add embarrassment as a motivation to change things. But it has never worked. Afghanistan is at the bottom of the list, number 227th with a life expectancy of 56.4. What is life expectancy? the age by which half the people die. That is the median an ordinal measure because frequency of death is not normally distributed , it is high at age 0 but goes down after that and then the percent dying increases to 100% when the oldest person dies. I think the 24.3% in the text I added to the graph can be rounded to 25% to make the statement: Our death rate is almost 25% higher than Canada's. About four of us die for every 3 Canadians. I have finally figured out how to add more groups to receive my posts, if you can think of any others that would find the kinds of things I post useful, let me know.
March 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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