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Ah. Seems the ACLU (ya gotta love 'em) has forced the Secret Service to turn over logs of Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House, reportedly over 200 times in the first ten months of Bush's tenure.
If you're like me, you initially just brushed that aside into the "very large Biblical" numbers bin, and moved along.
If you're also like me, though, in a pique of boredom in traffic or on the train, you found yourself actually calculating the rate of those visits during that time.
This is fun, easy puzzle stuff, kids; have a seat and put on your thinking caps!
Ok. Let's divide a month into four weeks of five days each. That's simple; twenty work days a month. Standard.
Next, let's multiply that by ten, the number of months recorded in this particular log (er, allegedly). And that comes to, lessee, ten times twenty is....
Right! 200!!
It appears that Jack Abramoff may well have visited the WH every single work day at least for the first ten months of Bush's presidency.
Which would also mean that Jack was working far more than the President, of course.
Now wasn't that fun?
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doc, looks like you and I were blogging on the very same subejct at the very same time. But we covered it from different angles. Nice stuff!
I might as well make obvious a point that the doctor merely implied. Bush spent much of his first year back home in Texas. So whoever Jack came to see at the WH was someone other than the prez...
thanks, joe, and right backatcha!
just heard keith olbermann make my "jack a day" point on "countdown." but, did he credit my math?? heck, no!
guys - your rawstory link goes to the wrong story.
cheers.
lukery, my apologies. not sure why that link got switched, but it's corrected now.
thanks again.
Your post still says it was the ACLU when the article says it is Judicial Watch, anindependent-minded conservative organization. Also, the article says nothing about 200 logged entries in ten months. Where did that number come from? I have been looking for such a number everywhere and can't find it. I hope you are right, but can you back it up?
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