Witsend Here’s Index for February 2006

Number of standing ovations during President Bush’s State of the Union Address: 31

Percentage of people at State of the Union Address who thought they were at a Catholic wedding: 62

Number of times Bush winked at Rex, thus acknowledging the Bomb-Sniffing Dog’s presence at the State of the Union Address: 2

Number of times Bush acknowledged God at His address: 1

Number of jokes Bush told during the State of the Union Address: 1

Number of jokes that bombed during the Address: 2

Number of times Senators probed Judge Alito during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings: 864

Number of times Senators apologized for extraneous probing: 0

Number of times Alito’s wife cried and had to excuse herself from the hearings: 1

Number of times during the hearings Senators apologized for making Alito’s wife cry and leave the hearings: 312

Estimated number of people who watched the Super Bowl: 90.7 million

Percentage of people who said they only watched the Super Bowl for the ads: 73

Percentage of people who said the only reason they watched the Super Bowl was a fear they might miss seeing
Mick Jagger’s nipple: 22

Cost per second to run an ad during the
Super Bowl: 2.4 million

Cost of entire marketing budget of Witsend Here since
its inception: $0.00

Estimated cost of war in Iraq since its inception: $244,225,450,000

Estimated cost of hiring 4,232,458 additional public school teachers for one year: $244,225,450,000

Percentage of voting-age Americans who thought the occupation in Iraq ended on 5/1/03 when President Bush announced “Mission Accomplished”: 52

Percentage of voting-age Americans who tuned in to the latest episode of “American Idol”: 64

Number of American military casualties since “Mission Accomplished”: 2159

Number of Americans wounded in Iraq War since it began: 16,742

Number of times the Commander in Chief took full responsibility for those wounded in Iraq War: 0

Number of hunters wounded by the Vice President while protecting “our way of life” from despotic quail: 1

Number of times the Vice President took full responsibility for those wounded during the Quail Crusade: 1
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