Comments on: That’s Not the 200,000 I Knew http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=6681 "The hobgoblin of little blogs." "A knack for taking the already disturbing and turning it into the abjectly ghastly." Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:47:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Thoughtful http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=6681#comment-35657 Thoughtful Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:30:21 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=6681#comment-35657 Too bad Bill couldn't have run for another eight years; at least most of the international community liked us then. I might be sounding like a true Republican when I make this statement, but screw the rest of the world; we have issues of our own at home that we're not attending to. We should work on our economy, unemployment rates, energy and global warming issues, and debts to pay back. There isn't going to be a "victory" in Iraq because that place is so damn scewed up to begin with, nor would there ever be a "victory" in the first place. A victory in Iraq was would be like a victory in the Vietnam War; non-existant. That region is going to tear itself apart anyway, so let them fight themselves instead of us. It may just turn out like Japan in WWII; the little buggers wouldn't stop coming at us so we had to drop a few bombs to shut 'em up. Too bad Bill couldn’t have run for another eight years; at least most of the international community liked us then. I might be sounding like a true Republican when I make this statement, but screw the rest of the world; we have issues of our own at home that we’re not attending to. We should work on our economy, unemployment rates, energy and global warming issues, and debts to pay back. There isn’t going to be a “victory” in Iraq because that place is so damn scewed up to begin with, nor would there ever be a “victory” in the first place. A victory in Iraq was would be like a victory in the Vietnam War; non-existant. That region is going to tear itself apart anyway, so let them fight themselves instead of us. It may just turn out like Japan in WWII; the little buggers wouldn’t stop coming at us so we had to drop a few bombs to shut ‘em up.

]]> By: martino http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=6681#comment-35656 martino Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:29:59 +0000 http://bloodthirstyliberal.com/?p=6681#comment-35656 James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal thinks the whole discrepancy has something to do with the metric system: Adherents to the metric cult like to rave about how easy it is to multiply by 10. It's a familiar enough refrain: "We were only following orders [of magnitude]." A blog post by John Rosenthal of World Politics Review casts further light on this theme. Most news reports put the attendance at Obama's big Berlin rally last night at 200,000. According to Rosenthal, however, "the estimates given by German public television ZDF actually during the event, however, were as many as 10 times lower"--which is to say, one-tenth as high..." What accounts for the discrepancy? Maybe when Obama himself showed up, the reporters mistook him for a zero. James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal thinks the whole discrepancy has something to do with the metric system:

Adherents to the metric cult like to rave about how easy it is to multiply by 10. It’s a familiar enough refrain: “We were only following orders [of magnitude].” A blog post by John Rosenthal of World Politics Review casts further light on this theme. Most news reports put the attendance at Obama’s big Berlin rally last night at 200,000. According to Rosenthal, however, “the estimates given by German public television ZDF actually during the event, however, were as many as 10 times lower”–which is to say, one-tenth as high…”

What accounts for the discrepancy? Maybe when Obama himself showed up, the reporters mistook him for a zero.

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