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The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday.

The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute …

—Washington Post, Saturday, September 22, 2007; Page A11

My neighbor AdvisorJim posts a jawdropper.

Tidbits from discussion with dittohead relation:

• DHR: “How do you know that there’s such a thing as ‘objective reality’?”

• DHR: Republicans are “more Christian,” but “Jesus would lose the war on terror.”

On the Jawdrop Scale — that I just made up, that ranks listener response to smart people making sudden declamations unmoored from logic and internal consistency — I think this tops even Wil Wheaton’s holiday experience.

Thanks, Jim. Miles to go.