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One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived
WirePosted writes "A CDC research study released this past week indicates that the physical and mental health of many Americans is being adversely affected by a lack of sleep. According to the study, a part of the organization's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, one in ten US citizens are consistently failing to get enough sleep every night. Almost 40% of the people surveyed didn't get enough sleep for more than a week every month. The article notes that this trend can have far-ranging implications for health beyond simple fatigue."
as well as 401K(aput). let yOUR conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/ts_alt_afp/ushealthfrancemortality;_ylt=A9G_RngbRIVHsYAAfCas0NUE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'. the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way. the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available. 'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet, & by your behaviors. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable. s
Actually, I think there's a pretty good case to be made that killing people does lead to mental damage.
Anyway, keep your head down and come back safe, oodaloop. With luck, after next January, you may be able to come home for good.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"Do people in the U.S. lose sleep over the fact that they are forced to pay to kill Iraqis? Will people in the U.S. lose sleep when they realize that the huge rise in prices, which has already started, is mostly timed for the end of Dick Cheney's and George W. Bush's terms in office? Whether or not they lose sleep, killing Iraqis definitely lowers the quality of life in the United States."
I definitely lose sleep over the fact that I'm forced to pay to kill Iraqis, and it's been going on for years. I mean, with all the modern weaponry and firepower at our disposal, I would have thought we'd have finished off the population by now, which would mean I wouldn't have to pay to kill Iraqis anymore.
I think our President needs to speed up this process. There's only about 24 million of them, so if we dispatched 2 million a month, this whole thing would be over in a year's time.
Mr President, end this war the easy way, for the sake of my wallet!
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
My grandparent comment was intended to be completely relevant. It seems to me that what a person does affects that person's ability to rest and the quality of rest. Sleep is one kind of rest.
To me, this is the whole issue: Does what you do in your life, the way you live your life, affect your ability to sleep? It seems to me it does, and that there is plenty of evidence that it does.
You said: "... I resent the implication that killing people leads to damaging a person mentally."
I've studied the issue a long time, and to me it seems true that killing other people, or helping kill them, causes thought process degradation. One woman told me, "After the men returned [from the 2nd world war] they were never the same." That seems to me to fit the observable facts.
I'm not saying anything that should cause resentment. I'm stating an opinion, an opinion that seems to fit the facts. For me it is an issue of logic only. I am certainly not against you; I believe I am on the side of anyone who wants to be healthy. I am not suggesting anything that would promote violence or even anger. The sole issue for me is whether what I say fits the facts, or not.
You said: "... choose to serve our country..."
When Saudis attack, invade Iraq? The war was started by people whose families, friends, and business associates are oil and weapons investors. Their purpose was to have a way to act out their anger, apparently, and to make more profit. The weapons investors, and their particular kind of oil investor, did not like the lessening budget for war after the breakup of the Soviet Union. They wanted a long-term war. The way the invasion was conducted made sure that Iraqis who were against being invaded had plenty of explosives and weapons.
If the deaths caused by destabilization are counted, the U.S. government has been responsible for the deaths of an estimated 9 to 12 million people since the end of the second world war. The U.S. government has bombed or invaded 25 countries since then. See the Wikipedia entry: List of United States military history events.
You said: "... neither I nor any of my coworkers kill anyone. We are intelligence analysts, providing strategic guidance to GEN Petraeus."
If you are participating in the Iraq war, you are helping kill. You are helping destabilize the entire region around Iraq. You are damaging the reputation of the U.S. government. You are helping Arabs and Muslims who say that the U.S. government is violent, corrupt, and should be attacked. Violence breeds violence. The 2nd war with Iraq has now killed more U.S. citizens than the World Trade Center bombers, and, according to respected statistical studies, more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein. If you didn't have the excuse of war, you would be an accessory to murder.
The general violence and support for violence seems to be a contributing factor to the people in the U.S. not being able to sleep. That theory may or not be correct, but it is not a radical theory; people often make statements that show they think that.
The alternative is to say that actions have no consequences, that what you do has no effect on your mental health. I don't think anyone truly thinks that alternative fits the facts.
If you need more support for what I said about the Iraq war, see, for example, Coups Arranged or Backed by the USA. Most or all of that corruption happened for profit, such as kickbacks of U.S. government foreign aid. When the governments of Israel or Pakistan buy weapons from U.S. manufacturers using money from "foreign aid", that is embezzlement of taxpayer money.
For one example of profiting from violence, read How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power or
I'm losing sleep in the way that I'm having to work harder to make money because SOMEONE in the white house is wasting my money. It's a huge drain to our economy, which is why we're so poor and why we have to work 2 jobs just to get by. That, of course, keeps us from getting enough sleep!