The Good News For Friday

Today, "Some Assembly Required" has some very interesting items -- please follow link to original.

Here's a sampling
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Under-guesstimate: A new report says that one out of every 25 business leaders could be psychopathic. This is a serious understatement, the true percentage is much, much higher. I know, I've worked for many of them.

War Is Hell: Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal that US troops executed an entire Iraqi family, including a grandmother in her 70's and 5 children under the age of 5. All 11 were handcuffed and then shot in the head. The soldiers then called in an airstrike to hide the murders. This account differs significantly from the official US Army version of events.

Weakly Numbers: This week's magic number for initial unemployment claims was 409,000 and the moving 4-week average was 410,250. Usual prize for whoever can put the best positive spin on these numbers.

What's Wrong With These People? The GOP in Rep. Giffords’ district are raffling off a Glock handgun. No, not the one used to shoot her. Maybe she'll autograph it for them.

Bad For Your Health: In US hospitals there are 200,000 deaths a year from medical errors and preventable infections. In the US, 1.7 million patients pick up infections and 1 in 7 die from them. In Europe only 1 in 122 with hospital-acquired infections die from them. It's that inefficient socialized healthcare.

Quoted: “Mr. Obama wishes to be president of a country that does not exist. In his fantasy US, politicians bury differences in bipartisan harmony. In fact, he faces an opposition that would prefer their country to fail than their president to succeed. Ms Merkel, similarly, seeks a non-existent middle way between the German desire for its partners to abide by its disciplines and their inability to do any such thing.” Martin Wolf in the Financial Times.
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