[lbryce]

This is a true story. I remember how incensed I would get when in the very early days of George W. Bush's second term when some moonbat began a countdown to the end of Bush's presidency with about 1300 days left. I don't think the countdown was that widespread but occasionally I'd end up eye-to-eye with the egregiously annoyingly hemorrhoidal-type icon, a constant reminder of Bush's presidential mortality that would piss me off mainly because I didn't want the moonbat to somehow gain whatever existential reward he might derive by continuously sticking it to me even though it was mainly something of my own doing.

Well, in the waning days of Obama's presidency I toyed with the idea of doing a countdown of my own on Obama's remaining days, actually having done it for a grand total of one day. But my intuition got the better of me and gave up on it simply because his chance of winning loomed too large to believe otherwise.

So, today thinking about Hillary and Christie I reminded myself that Obama was already in his second term. I checked this inauguration site that said there was 1,444 days from today February 6, 2013 until the next inauguration which had me thinking that the sooner Obama's countdown began the more it would give his political vitality a sense that time was ticking, while not quite sitting duck, his time is already counting down and of course, there will always be too much time with OBozo at the helm.

So, here I am inaugurating my Obama Countdown to Oblivion, Day 1, 1444 days left until simply because the countdown is therapeutic in itself, giving a sense of freedom I really don't have, but drawing closer offers even an infinitesimal modicum of relief.

[gorush]

What does a trillion dollars look like?

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

[Olog-hai]

Uh-oh. LiveScience used the phrase “black hole” . . . wonder if (but doubt if) John Wiley Price, Dallas County Commissioner reads LiveScience? He’s the genius who declared the phrase “black hole” to be “racist” back in 2008 (remember, Mr. “All of you are white—go to hell” when he also misinterpreted “mullah” as “moolie” . . . he’s being investigated by the FBI of late).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

π

[FatherofFive]

Humans have difficulty comprehending numbers over 1,000. In our development, we would seldom see more than 1,000 people gathered together at any time.

[Berlin_Freeper]

If you have a number you can’t handle multiply it by zero.

[Oatka]

That’s why I get so incensed when the Media routinely rattles off some figure like $10 billion [fill in the blank] being wasted on some govrrnment boondogle.

Better to say “The entire taxes paid by the City/State/County/people whose names beging with [fill in the blank] have be wasted on [fill in the blank]. Maybe if you start personalizing the waste, instead of eye-glazing anonymous numers, people might start saying “Hey! Wait a minute!”

Surely in this computerized age, those figures can be dug out of the IRS.

[Mike Darancette]

2^57885161-1 is the largest prime number found so far.