Yes....probabilities in ONE risk factor of death.

One who smokes is liklier to die before one who doesn't based on that ONE risk factor.

Someone Black is liklier to die than someone White based on that ONE risk factor.

To properly assess ones TOTAL risk....you need to assess and weigh them ALL.

Perhaps you missed the usage of a simple punctuation mark.

The one highlighted denotes the asking of a question.

I understand your desire to quibble over "investigations"........very few things in life can draw on your desire for an exact comparison....so none is made.

Somehow you believe the sin of one is just peachy and the accused given a "pass"....and the other is a sin of the first order and the accused strung from the nearest tree.

How very........Democrat of you......

Right, but in the real world 83% of heart attacks are in people over the age of 65. Roughly speaking, this makes a man McCain's age aroung 4 times as likely to die of a heart attack than a man Obama's age. It suggests that age is one of the biggest risk factors.

Please go to this youtube and watch Obama himself discuss his attempt to stop smoking. Want the real deal? Vote Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGU4hpONJw

And when asked if he had ever used drugs he said that he had. And that he had inhaled. "That was the point," he said. Ya gotta love the guy.

Unless, of course, you are slavering for more tax cuts for the rich and don't care that our health care system is bankrupting businesses and leaving 47 million Americans without health insurance.



Where's McCain? Didn't anyone invite him to the game? Oh, that's right. He was too busy vetting his VP nominee.

I don't believe McCain picked Palin, I believe that he accepted the choice, but that it was made by the people running his campaign during Obama's speech, and that it is a gimmick.

The problem with Palin, considering she is running on the Republican ticket, is that she has a child with Down's Syndrome and a pregnant teenage daughter, and accepting the position of VP isn't really keeping in line with the ideals of the Republican party, that a woman is the heart of the home and should be mother first, career woman second (like, when the kids are grown). The image of her holding a gun... wearing the attitude glasses... etc, it's all some erotic fantasy a man has of what a woman in office should be, in a man's world. She is no Hillary, and I am ashamed of the women who would support such a monstrosity. She might as well keep her mouth shut with that annoying accent, ("The Highest and Hardest Glass Ceiling!"). Ugh.

Obama won me over, despite Hillary not being VP, and I'm defintiely voting Obama '08. It's too bad that every white woman I hear from, including the poorest among them, think he's the antichrist.

I think her extreme anti-abortion stance fits into this. Belief that rape victims should be forced to carry the attackers seed is a hard stance against women's rights.


I'm shocked by this choice from McCain's strategist. Ultimately I don't think this gimmick is going to work. The fact that it has a decent enough chance for them to try it is alarming to me. The deeper issue here is anti-politic, people have come to feel powerless then apathetic about unresponsive government and it becomes something of a joke.


Following McCain's campaign is like reading Maxim Magazine, except that it gives me no insight into the consumer electronics market, and the chicks are older.

The Globe and Mail [Sept 3, A12] also reports that she prohibited anyone working for her to talk to the media without her permission--and extremely unusual policy for a small town.

She's Bush with an up-do.