Obama said "And on the 73rd day I will rest.", page 1
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Topic started on 10-5-2009 @ 04:01 AM by Now_Then
So what's that little phrase all about? link

I'm not usually one to assign suspicion to throw away sound bites but this one just sounded odd to me.

The numbers are (if I'm correct):

Inauguration, January 20th
+ 100 days = April 29th
so the 172nd day would be 10th July and he will rest on the 11th July (11/07/09 or in US format 07/11/09)

Does anythink he's just playing with the heads of people on sites like ATS or what? I mean 7,9,11?? And what with airforce one doing the new york fly by on (or around) the 100th day - actually 2 days before.

Thoughts

edit - daft mistake with date

[edit on 10/5/2009 by Now_Then]


reply posted on 10-5-2009 @ 08:25 AM by Gawdzilla
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I think you missed the obvious connect with "72 virgins". I caught it immediately. Very subtle poke at the extremists.


reply posted on 10-5-2009 @ 08:39 AM by Now_Then
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
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I think you missed the obvious connect with "72 virgins". I caught it immediately. Very subtle poke at the extremists.


Dammit!!! That was pretty subtle.

I guess I should watch the whole thing to get it in context - it was just the first thing I saw on the telly this morning when I checked the news channels - and the calculator in windows 7 has a function to add dates together, so I got carried away

Hey it was Saturday night last night y'know...


reply posted on 10-5-2009 @ 11:11 AM by human8
Dunno. Seems to fit right into the ratio whereby Solon in ancient greece reduced the ratio of silver in the talent and reconfiguring a continued trust in a private bank. Seems to happen when a people realize they can issue interest free money without private banking cabals. Let us pray he follows in the path of Lincoln and FDR in this respect.
It could be a golden age.
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
7. The Old Attic Talent, and the Solonian Talent.—We have already noticed, under Nummus (p. 812, b.), Plutarch's account of the reduction effected by Solon in the Attic system of weights and money, according to which the old weights were to the new in the proportion of 100 : 73. An important additional light is thrown on this matter by an extant Athenian inscription, from which we obtain a more exact statement of the ratio than in Plutarch's account, and from which we also learn that the old system continued in use, long after the Solonian reduction, for all commodities, except such as were required by law to be weighed according to the other standard, which was also the one always used for money, and is therefore called the silver standard, the old system being called the commercial standard, and its mina the commercial mina (ti fiya y ifaropiicit). The inscription, which is a decree of uncertain date (about 01.155, B. c. 160, according to Bockh, C.I. No. 123, § 4, vol. i. p. 164), mentions the commercial mina as weighing "138 drachmae 2rf(J>an;(f>ifpoi>, according to the standard weights in the mint " | \m;\ Rocopeion], that is, of course, 138 drachmae of the silver, or Solonian, standard. This would give the ratio of the old to the new Attic weights as 138 : 100, or 100 : 72£f, certainly a very curious proportion. It appears, however, on closer research, that this ratio is still not quite exact. It often happens that, in some obscure passage of a grammarian, we find a statement involving minute details, so curious and so inexplicable, till the clue is found, that the few scholars who notice the passage reject it as unintelligible, without considering that those strange minutiae are the best evidence that the statement is no invention; and that the grammarian, who copied the statement, without troubling himself to understand it, has preserved a fact, which more systematic writers have lost or perverted. Such passages are grains of pure gold amidst the mud which forms the bulk of the deposit brought down to us by those writers. A striking instance is now before us, in a passage of Priscian (de Re Namm.) in which, following a certain Dardanus, he says: " Talentum Atheniense parvum minae sexaginta, magnum minae octingenta tres et unciae quattuor." Taking the last words to be the Roman mode of expressing '\',',\, and assuming, what is obvious, that the minae meant in the two clauses are of the same standard, namely, the common Attic or Solonian (for, as a general rule, this standard is to be understood, where no other is specified), and understanding by the great Attic talent that of the commercial standard, and by the small, the niter, or Solonian, we obtain this result, — that the ratio of the old A ttic or commercial talent to tlte new Attic or Solonian, was as 83£ : 60, or as 138|: 100, or as 100 : 72. For the masterly argument by which Bockh sustains the truth of this statement, we must refer to his own work (c. viii.). It is easy to understand how, in process of time, the fraction came to be neglected, so that, in the decree quoted, the commercial mina of 100 commercial drachmae was spoken of as containing 138 silver drachmae instead of I.'!!;;;, and how, further, when Plutarch came to calculate how many drachmae of the old scale were contained in the Solonian mina, he gave an integral number 73, instead of 72M, and thus, by these two rejections of fractions, the true ratio of 100 : 72 w


reply posted on 10-5-2009 @ 10:32 PM by dooper
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I really don't think he's smart enough with numbers to have done this intentionally.

Right now I think he's soaked us for about $4,000,000,000, and he's not even warmed up yet.

Those millions of jobs he was going to create? Well, he's now millions in the whole, so again, I don't think he knows much about numbers.

Those numbers? Not his fault. It's a conservative thing.


reply posted on 10-5-2009 @ 10:58 PM by dooper
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I can only hope the 73rd day will be the end.

Can't stand a whole lot more of this crap.
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