Fun with Graphs

Filed in National by on April 14, 2009

LOL.

Update: But then again:

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  1. anonone says:
    April 14, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    Hopefully, we’ll reach a point someday when killing human beings is no longer used as a way of keeping score.

  2. anon says:
    April 14, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Speaking of graphs…

    It is well-documented that “…there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.”

  3. Unstable Isotope says:
    April 14, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Time for global cooling, anon!

  4. anon says:
    April 14, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Madison was a moderate.

  5. John Tobin says:
    April 14, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    If you are judging your presidents by the number of pirates killed, you need to go back to Thomas Jefferson, who took out the Barbary Pirates during the period 1801-1805.
    It sounds like at the Battle of Derna in 1805 had Barbary casualties in the thousands, although with cannons bombarding the city I am thinking a lot of the dead were civilians.

    On February 15, 1804 Stephen Decatur led a group sent to retake the ship “Philadelphia” from Barbary Pirates. As a pirate reported later, the Americans “sent Decatur on a dark night, with a band of Christian dogs fierce and cruel as the tiger, who killed our brothers and burnt our ships before our eyes.” Decatur’s men wielded tomahawks and killed twenty pirates in as many minutes, chasing the rest over the side. Only one raider was wounded before the Philadelphia was set afire in four places. Then the Americans withdrew (Castor, 1971).

    http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/terrorism.htm

  6. Delaware Dem says:
    April 14, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    Indeed, hence the second graph.

  7. John Tobin says:
    April 14, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    Sorry I missed the 2nd graph.
    I was scrolling down too fast.

  8. cassandra_m says:
    April 14, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    For heaven’s sake anon — that graph now means that wingnuts will blame Al Gore for pirates now.

  9. mikeb302000 says:
    April 15, 2009 at 5:56 am

    Wonderful graphs which prove that in the modern era, Obama is truly The Pirate King

  10. Susan Regis Collins says:
    April 15, 2009 at 10:17 am

    What happened to my comment? It was # 3.

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