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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

Seriously, this isn’t funny:

I don’t understand how commodity (or currency) traders can possibly figure out the direction of their holdings.

Actually… I don’t think they do.

(See also)

I thought perhaps, I could gain a greater understanding of the direction of oil (and thereby gasoline) prices, if I added a news box for the term “oil” to my Google Homepage.

Not so much.

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!

Factories of insanity playing on your vanityas they distort your sense of self
Telling you what you need and how to succeed as they steal all of your wealth
Probing your mind, trying to find how to scheme on you best
From programmed schools with Devilish rules putting you to the test

It’s doing it again.

In fact it played two Last Poets tracks this morning. What kind of a day is going to be, oh Zune?

RADAR, SONAR, LASER BEAMS
JETS, TANKS, SUBMARINES,
MEGATHONS, H-BOMBS, NAPALM, GAS….
All this shit will kill you fast
All products of the Mean Machine

Don’t get me wrong. Revolutionary music is always win. In fact, it may be the only music truly worth anything, because beyond just entertainment it is an attempt to make a strong message. This is no doubt why in high school I was listening to Franti and Paris while others were listening to Color Me Badd and Boyz II Men. (Well, I listened to those too, a little.)

But it has this way of jarring your morning.

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.

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“Nothing you have ever experienced can prepare you for the unbridled carnage you’re about to witness.”

- Louis Winthorp III (Dan Aykroyd), on the way to the NYSE stock market trading floor, Trading Places (1983)

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.”)

Written with lipstick for added poetry.

h/t: Blue Hampshire