Friday, December 31, 2010

Numbers for the year 2010

In 2010....

There were 94 major terrorist attacks/plots worldwide, Muslims carrying out over 75 percent of them.

151 earthquakes resulting in over 260,000 dead.

2.7 million photos uploaded on Facebook, with users "liking" 7.6 million pages every 20 minutes.

1,559,780,676,305.37 additional federal debt added, raising the current debt to 13.8 trillion dollars.

6 meetings by President Obama with his cabinet took place in 2010. The president also took 6 vacations and played 29 rounds of golf.

17.1 million albums sold by Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, and Eminem worldwide.

575 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan, almost doubling from the year before, and nearly quadrupling the total from 2008.

927 Taliban fighters killed, including 12 senior leaders, in 118 US drone attacks, and 3,200 Taliban were killed by British and American special forces during a 3 month stretch of 2010.

63 seats gained by Republicans, the highest margin of victory for a political party in America's congressional elections since 1938.

205.8 million gallons of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico.

9,884,343 Avatar DVDs sold.

2 million people packed into downtown Chicago following the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup win.

8 million Kindles sold in the United States and Britain this year, making it Amazon's best selling product of 2010.




Happy New Year!

7 comments:

Gorges Smythe said...

Good to hear from you, Hack. Interesting numbers. Happy New Year and God bless you!

Silverfiddle said...

Those are some numbers to ponder...

Six vacations? I have the feeling that even when he's in DC he's on vacation. Even scarier, when he's gone, Biden's in charge!

Unknown said...

May you all have a happy New Year and may you be enriched with prosperity throughout.
Hack, that goes double for you! :)

Christopher - Conservative Perspective said...

HAPPY NEW YEAR HACK TO YOU AND YOURS!!!!!!!!!

Hack said...

And a Happy New Year to you all as well!

tha malcontent said...

Have a wonderful and happy and healthy new year.
All my best
Mal

Kid said...

obama, what an imbecile. Then imagine what his supporters are.

Those are numbers to ponder.

Have a great 2011 and an even better 2012.