75/1 – Odds on the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series this year (Vegas)
12/1 – Odds on the Boston Red Sox
4/1 – Odds on the Evil Empire
7 – Months of state-side recovery time given to HQ 4th Infantry Division from Fort Hood, Texas before the deployment to Iraq that begins now (1)
10.5 – Months of state-side recover time given to 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, NY before also deploying to Iraq
13 – Percentage rise in civilian deaths throughout all of Iraq according to their government’s own data (1a)
1,645 – Number of Iraqi civilian deaths in February
1,861 – Number of Iraqi civilian deaths in March
2002 – Year in which MZM founder Mitchell Wade, currently under indictment for corruption involving Duke Cunningham (R-CA), was awarded its first federal contract (2)
50 – Number of competing contracts MZM bid against
140,000 – Dollar amount of the contract for providing computers, office furniture, and specialized computer programming services to the office of the Vice President
3 – Number of years Mitchell Wade worked underneath (then Secretary of Defense) Cheney
12/4/2006 – On this date the New York Post publishes a column written by marine Corporal Matt Sanchez concerning harassment of the military on the campus of Columbia University (3)
2 – Number of times Sanchez subsequently appeared on Fox News (Hannity and Colmes – VIDEO) (The O’Reiley Factor – VIDEO)
3/2/2007 – On this date the American Conservative Union honored Matt Sanchez with the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award at the 34th annual CPAC (4)
200 – Dollar amount required for a man to pay Sanchez for sex (5)
3 – Number of gay porno films Sanchez is known to have starred in
12,000 – Amount of money the Marines have accused Sanchez of stealing from various donors to fund a fictional deployment to Iraq (6)
3 – Number of weeks it took to cure the former President of the National Association of Evangelicals (Reverend Ted Haggart) of his homosexuality (7)
202 – Number of appearances at the White House made by right wing non-journalist, gay prostitute Jeff Gannon (Guckert) during the Bush Jr. Presidency (8)
? – Number of sexual encounters between Karl Rove and Jeff Gannon in the Lincoln bedroom during that time
47 – Number of Republican Senators who voted in favor of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in June 2006 (9)
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