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Posted by admin on October 16, 2009 under Internet, Opinion, Religion | 
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Posted by admin on January 18, 2009 under Environment, Internet, Politics, Science | Comments are off for this article
As we bid a fond farewell to George Walker Bush, here’s a sort of retrospective. A Bush by the Numbers if you will, excerpted from Harpers Index.
Days Bush was President: 2922
Days Bush was on Vacation: 964
Minimum number of Bush appointees who have regulated industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 98
Days since the federal government first placed the nation under an “elevated terror alert” that the level has been relaxed: 0
Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden: 20
Percentage of the amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU: 50
Minimum number of laws that Bush signing statements have exempted his administration from following: 1,069
Number of all U.S. war veterans who have been denied Veterans Administration health care since 2003: 452,677
Estimated number of juveniles whom the United States has detained as enemy combatants since 2002: 2,500
Minimum number of detainees who were tortured to death in U.S. custody: 8
Minimum number of extraordinary renditions that the United States has made since 2006: 200
Percent of all U.S. income gains during the Bush Administration that have gone to the top 1 percent of earners: 75
Number of Republican officials who have been investigated by the Justice Department since 2001: 196
Number of Democratic officials who have been: 890
Percentage of EPA scientists who say they have experienced political interference with their work since 2002: 60
Percent of the five directors of the No Child Left Behind reading program with financial ties to a curriculum they developed: 80
Amount by which the federal government has underfunded its estimated cost to implement NCLB: $71,000,000,000
Rank of Bush among U.S. presidents with the highest disapproval rating: 1
Posted by admin on January 11, 2009 under Humor, Internet | Comments are off for this article
Posted by admin on December 28, 2008 under Economy, Humor, Internet, Politics | Comments are off for this article
Credit to Fukung.net where I found it, and Joe-KS.com where it apparently originated.