"$149 per minute since Jesus was born that's how much $$ has been spent on

[ElsewheresDaughter]

this (bush) war"...Senator Byrd on the senate floor just now.

i can't even begin to wrap my brain around that!
how many minutes have pasted since Jesus Christ was born?

[Goldeneye]

1. That'll freak the fundies out.

Not only does Byrd know about jesus, he used him in a way that made Bush look bad. Nice, nice, nice.

[htuttle]

2. You couldn't hardly even burn the money that fast

If you had 149 dollar bills, you'd be hard pressed to completely burn them in one minute without a very hot blast furnace. You'd have to do some serious shoveling, 24/7, for two thousand years to even BURN that kind of money...

[Roland99]

3. What a quote!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. He's really something!

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[ET Awful]

4. Hmmm, I think Byrd is pretty close actually, I like his thinking.

Let's see, 365 days a year x 24 hours per day x 60 minutes per hour = 525,600 minutes per year (approximately).

Now let's multiply that by (approximately) 2,000 years since the alleged birth of Jesus, which gives us 1,051,200,000 multiply that by $149 and we have:

$156,628,800,000

[Justitia]

6. Wow! He was right on target wasn't he? What a fabulous point.

and made with such color and conviction.

I love speakers who can create such an impacting visual, as the esteemed Sen Byrd.

:loveya:

[ET Awful]

11. I just wonder how many Senators did exactly what I did and reached

for a calculator when he said it :) n/t

[RobertSeattle]

8. Hmmm. How about 10 dollars per year since the Big Bang?

(Using estimate that universe is 20 Billion years old)

:evilgrin:

[merbex]

12. People that were that good in math - and that quick to pull out

the calculator- I've always had a healthy respect for!!

[wicket]

7. I got chills when he said that

n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Let's see..... 149 x 60 x 365.25 (average number of days per year) x 2005.

...give or take a few years because of calendar discrepancies....

Pretty fast on a calculator for a guy who's pushing 90. Go Byrd!

[Eloriel]

10. You forgot 24

$149 x 60 minutes per hour x 24 hours per day x 365.25 (average number of days per year) x 2005 years since the purported birth of Jesus