True facts about this sorry nation: | ||||
-Dan Quayle once said, "For NASA, space is still a high priority" -Number of Hooters Girls who visited a teenage leukemia patient at his request: 3 -Chances that an Alabama voter voted against legalizing marriage between blacks & whites: 2 in 5 -Average number of words in the written vocabulary of a 6-14 year old American in 1945: 25,000 -Average number today: 10,000 -Percentage of US teens who have participated in oral sex: 55 -Percentage of teens who consider the practice "gross": 55 -Chances that a young black man living in L.A.'s Watts neighborhood is unemployed or in prison: 7 in 10 -Average number of brand-name items requested per shopping trip by a a US child between the ages of 4 and 12: 14 -Rank of the Democratic Party and Nike, respectively, among 60 brand names tested for consumer loyalty:53 4 -Rank of the Republican Party: 60 -Weeks that a Massachusettes school prohibited a boy from crossdressing before a judge overturned the ban:13 -Percentage change in the gonorrhea rate among teens and young adults when the beer tax is raised by 20 cents: -9 -Number of murders committed in the US in 1999(US had the most): 35,000 -Number of murders in Germany(had second most): 1,200 -Every 1.3 seconds, a woman is raped -75% of high school students lie to their parents -75%of high school students have cheated on a major test -75% of high school students have shown up to school drunk What does that tell you about this country?????? Isn't it time for change???? |