Of course I was one of the first ones to be sceptical about all this Obama-mania. I'll wait just a little while and then I'll become a full-pledged Obama-maniac; just to counter the mainstream of Obama critics. The tediousness of avant-garde life.
Speaking of Obama, I read an article the other day which said that his plans to withdraw from Iraq are quite impossible, for the simple reason that to get all of the stuff and people out of Iraq would take at least 3 years. Just to give you an example of the dimension: If you were to make a huge parade of all the vehicles currently used in Iraq that belong to the US military, you would have to stand there watching for 75 days, 24/7.
(Don't you just love these spatial comparisons that make you visualize the numerary dimension of things? I know another one: All the cells in your head lined up one after another equal a distance from here to the moon and back. It's as if we could grasp quantity more easily through visualization in space. So here goes the next task for this kinda play of thought: If you were to align all the dollar bills lost during the financial crisis, they'd go from here to ... Can anyone please figure out that equation for me?)
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