What occupations are the most dangerous?

(Click on figure to enlarge.) Data on how dangerous different occupations are can be found here.  

How many people die each year in the US from firearms? Closer to 25,000 than to 30,000

How many people are murdered with firearms in 2008? 9,484

How many accidental deaths in 2007? 613


How many suicide deaths from firearms in 2005? 14,916

Charlton Heston on Global Warming

You can listen to him here. The discussion is from Michael Crichton's book, "State of Fear."

John Fund on Charlton Heston

John Fund at the WSJ's Political Diary:

Charlton Heston, who died over the weekend at age 84, once had impeccable credentials for acceptance in Hollywood circles. In addition to his acting talent, Mr. Heston served as a six-term president of the Screen Actors Guild and chairman of the American Film Institute. He backed John F. Kennedy for president in 1960 and three years later accompanied Martin Luther King on his famous March on Washington.

But Mr. Heston began to feel that liberalism lost its moorings in the turbulent '60s and in 1972 he broke with his fellow actors and attended his first Republican convention, explaining to reporters he wanted to be at a place where they "didn't spell America with a 'k.'" He later became a staunch supporter of Ronald Reagan and told Britain's Daily Telegraph in 1989: "Today, I am about as right-wing as a man can be." But he spurned appeals to enter politics, saying: "I'd rather play a senator than be one."

In Hollywood his political conversion did not go unnoticed. He was shunned in many circles when he became president of the National Rifle Association, a job he said was consistent with his "record of supporting civil rights." Blogger Ed Morrissey notes the irony of how "Hollywood turned its back on one of its biggest icons for the sin of supporting gun rights" at the same time the industry was churning "out more and more films dedicated to mass shootings and indiscriminate violence."

Charlton Heston has died

Heston was always very nice to me when I talked to him. He always impressed me as a really decent person.

Some of Heston's movie clips.

The Ten Commandments - Moses Parts the Red Sea

Original I Am Legend Trailer Omega Man

Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape

Ben Hur