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If the U.S. was a monarchy, what might we have called our leaders?

1. George I (the Father)
2. John I (the Advocate)
3. Thomas
4. James I (the Short)
5. James II (the Unchallenged)
6. John II (the Eloquent)
7. Andrew I (the Sharp)
8. Martin
9. William I (the Sick)
10. John III (the Successor)
11. James III (the Accomplished)
12. Zachary
13. Millard
14. Franklin I (the Faint)
15. James IV (the Stingy)
16. Abraham
17. Andrew II (the Impeached)
18. Ulysses
19. Rutherford
20. James V (the Unlucky)
21. Chester
22. Grover
23. Benjamin
24. Grover (restored)
25. William II (the Prosperous)
26. Theodore
27. William III (the Fat)
28. Woodrow
29. Warren
30. Calvin
31. Herbert
32. Franklin II (the Bold)
33. Harry
34. Dwight
35. John IV (the Young)
36. Lyndon
37. Richard
38. Gerald
39. James VI (the Peaceful)
40. Ronald
41. George II (the Elder)
42. William IV (the Fun)
43. George III (the Younger)
44. Barack

List of Presidential Nicknames

Whereas Expose Obama regularly made my blood boil during the election season with is left-field hyperbole and circular logic, now, post-election, it’s just hilarious.

The latest Obamaniacal vast left wing conspiracy? Decimating our military by forcing bigots to consider to choose not to enlist.

From the latest EO emailer:

The language and purpose of the [Military Readiness Enhancement Act] is geared EXCLUSIVELY toward promoting open homosexuality in the Armed Forces!

The MREA’s purpose is, as it admits, to replace the current 16-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of tacit acceptance of secreted gayness with — as an increasing number of government agencies have — an explicit sexual orientation non-discrimination policy. But in Bigotland, simply permitting people to be openly gay is explicit promotion of homosexuality. Homosexuality is so damned insidious that the mere admission of being gay turns other men gay, and the logical conclusion of all that gayness is that the human race will die out, because there are no sperm banks and no test tube babies.

By repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy — which already allows gays in the military, just as long as they don’t admit it — the MREA:

WOULD FORCE GOOD MEN AND WOMEN OUT OF THE SERVICE!

How would it do this, you ask? Well, by way of allowing gays to admit their gayness, homophobes, which apparently comprise 24% of our military, would be BRUTALLY FORCED to CONSIDER to VOLUNTARILY NOT RE-ENLIST.

A recent poll by The Military Times [posed] the question; “If the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy is overturned and gays are allowed to serve openly, how would you respond?” According to the poll, a full 24 percent of respondents said they would not re-enlist or consider not re-enlisting!

What makes it all the more sinister and damnable is that:

Obama’s NOT calling it a “reduction in force,” nor is he giving ANY indication that the REAL AGENDA is the wholesale destruction of our military.

The fiend!

Senator Maria Cantwell’s office (D-WA) just today responded to an email I sent her office in July about FISA.

The response was on-message, and Cantwell voted against the FISA bill, etc., and no, she’s not up for re-election, so… it’s not as if the timing was questionable. Just… reeeally slow.

Heh, they even apologized for taking so long to respond.

(more…)

The Treasury’s plan to bailout the failing banking and lending sector equals:

$2,324.50 per American.

I’ll take a check.

(By the way, that’s Korean for “please give me a lot of money.”)

Apparently, if you used direct debit to pay any taxes you owed…. you cannot use direct deposit to get your rebate.

Um? Why?

No one told me. Not even TurboTax, which asked me for both sets of information. Even though the first one made me ineligible for the second one.

I suppose that knowing that I’m probably getting a paper rebate check now is better than assuming the IRS screwed up on my rebate deposit. But instead of getting it May 9 I’m due to get it after June 27. (Yeah, yeah, dial 922, I know.)

Make that 31 delegates (well, delegate votes) in eight hours.

The delegate announcements are taking nearly all the attention away from the MT and SD primaries today — the very last primaries of the year.

Hillary Clinton would have to win both states by 75% to prevent Obama from getting the 10 remaining pledged delegates needed for him to win. And both are leaning against her.

But if the current rate of delegate announcements continues, they may not even matter when all is said and done.

Pick your HRC farewell song:

• Hit The Road jack
• Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Good Bye
• Another One Bites The Dust
• We Are The Champions
• I’m A Loser Baby
• Bye Bye Bye

Update: I totally did not even think of We Will We Will Barack You. Course, that would be three Queen songs in the mix, seems unfair. :)

On Friday, Obama was 41 delegates away from clinching the nomination.

Today, Monday, he is 43 delegates away from clinching the nomination.

You wouldn’t otherwise think that, perhaps, two significant landscape-changing events occurred over the weekend.

Yesterday I said that Clinton could stop Obama from getting the nomination if she got 59% of remaining contests and remaining supderdelegates. Well, today, with some superdelegate updates, that’s not quite enough.

Also, it’s pretty unlikely. To date, Clinton has 51.2% of the pledged superdelegates. Assuming she maintains that percentage (which, again, the recent trend does not support this) of superdelegates, she needs 70% of remaining contests to stop Obama. Not to win, mind you, but to stop Obama from tying it up. (She’d need 86% to tie it up herself.)

Let’s take the possibility I alluded to, that Clinton already has the remaining 270 supers in her pocket, waiting to be dropped like a bomb on the primary campaign. Then she would only need 40% of the remaining contests to win. Is that likely? Not sure. The trend of super endorsements is still higher for Obama lately… most of Clinton’s super endorsements were early as she was an early frontrunner. But the continued silence of the remaining supers is getting unnerving.

Just for fun, lets say the remaining supers are in Obama’s pocket. Then the game is over. In fact, with as few as 74% (200) of supers on his side, the game is over.

This delegate calculator at CNN is enlightening (and fun to boot).

Through this, we can learn the following:

• HRC needs 74% of remaining states and superdelegates to win the nomination.
• HRC needs 66% of remaining states and superdelegates to beat Obama.
• HRC needs 59% of remaining states and superdelegates to prevent Obama from getting the nomination.

Scenario #1 is incredibly unlikely. Scenario #2 is highly improbable but believable. So my guess is, at this point, given her numbers, given her track record to date, she’s now banking on scenario #3 — just keep Obama from getting the nomination, and hope for a Hail Mary (like seating Michigan and Florida delegates, or flipping a ton of O delegates) in order to prevail.

But with Hillary currently slipping in the superdelegate fight and even bleeding superdelegates, she’s unlikely to win a majority of the remaining players, unless she already has such a majority up her sleeve, sitting quiet until she needs them.