Ah, okay.
I'm still pinging this website. Let me stop it for a moment and see the statistics...
1558 packets transmitted, 1487 packets received, 4% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 255.021/516.143/19483.397/1788.670 ms
Hahah, 4% only? I get 10% from the White House and 8% from my ISP.

I had this huge hiccup midway through...
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=472 ttl=44 time=266.982 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=485 ttl=44 time=18712.301 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=486 ttl=42 time=17718.005 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=488 ttl=44 time=15719.169 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=489 ttl=42 time=14720.981 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=490 ttl=42 time=13723.314 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=487 ttl=44 time=16727.148 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=491 ttl=42 time=12728.687 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=492 ttl=42 time=11730.190 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=494 ttl=44 time=9745.368 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=495 ttl=44 time=8748.796 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=496 ttl=42 time=7750.383 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=497 ttl=42 time=6750.339 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=498 ttl=44 time=5752.139 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=503 ttl=44 time=754.900 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=502 ttl=42 time=1757.177 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=500 ttl=44 time=3761.654 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=501 ttl=44 time=2763.350 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=493 ttl=44 time=10766.844 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=499 ttl=44 time=4769.730 ms
64 bytes from 96.31.94.83: icmp_seq=504 ttl=42 time=257.575 ms