By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009).

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

That is a tub full of emails and a little simple math shows the revelation as absolutely astounding. This “find” is in addition to the emails already released by the Bush administration or those disclosed through other avenues. Let’s see if we can drill-down and see what the figures really mean. Keep in mind, we are looking at emails from the Bush White House … or so it seems:

• 22 million emails found
• 8 years of Bush administration
• 2920 days in 8 years
• 8178 total emails average per day
• 341 emails average per hour
• 5.68 emails per minute

I find the magnitude of the number, plus all the other emails previously accounted for, difficult to wrap my county-fried brain around. It is absolutely mind-boggling how the Bushies were able to find time to gore Gore, fix elections, lie about WMDs as accused, still manage all else  required of them, AND shoot emails and other documents all over the world.

This is one story I will be watching — I hope you will too. If you’re going to watch it, I guess I should leave you with a link to the story. Click here . Thanks Associated Press via Yahoo.

But, wait … there’s more. According to this article, the span of time the emails cover is at most two years, from 2003 to 2005. This information puts a whole new number to the numbing amount. Let’s see:

• 22 million emails found
• 730 days in two years (2003 to 2005)
• 30,136 emails per 24 hours
• 21 emails per minute

And, to make it even more difficult to fathom CNN reports this in the link above:

Monday’s settlement allows for 94 days of e-mail traffic, scattered between January 2003 to April 2005, to be restored from backup tapes. Of those 94 days, 40 were picked by statistical sample; another 21 days were suggested by the White House; and CREW, and the National Security Archive picked 33 that seemed “historically significant,” from the months before the invasion of Iraq to the period when the firings of U.S. attorneys were being planned.

So, even if my math was right based on a full two years, in actuality we may be looking at something in terms of numbers per day that is even more gargantuan than I thought, depending what the story is reporting in actual number of emails over the total number of days they cite in the above quote.

Just another day in the neighborhood of topical trivia, or not. Hm, Hm, Hm Hm, Hm!