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2009-10-12 Home Front: Politix

Obama wins Motor Trend "Car of the Year" Award

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Posted by Mike 2009-10-12 10:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Great Pic is he at the Rose Garden entrance ?

Emporer NortonI would be envious

Posted by Jomoth Scourge of the Infinitesmal8821 2009-10-12 11:39|| 2009-10-12 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 But he failed to win the Nobel Prize in Economics...LOL...

Posted by crazyhorse 2009-10-12 11:56|| 2009-10-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a shame that Norton had no heirs of the body.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-10-12 14:00|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-10-12 14:00|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd forgotten about old Norton the First. We learned about him and his 'reign' when I was a kid growing up in SF area (luckily parents moved to the mid-west soon after).

And he probably wasn't the first 'crank' (and won't be the last) from San Francisco, either.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-10-12 14:04|| 2009-10-12 14:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I heard that the Pope just named five new saints. Surprisingly none of them were Barack Obama.

Posted by DMFD 2009-10-12 18:03|| 2009-10-12 18:03|| Front Page Top

#6 "September 17, 1859 Joshua A. Norton, who lost his money in an attempt to corner the rice market, today declared himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

December 2, 1859 Norton I dismissed Gov. Wise of Virginia for hanging John Brown and appointed John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky to replace him.

February 1, 1860 Decree from Norton I ordered representatives of the different states to assemble at Platts Music Hall to change laws to ameloriate the evils under which the country was laboring.

July 16, 1860 Decree from Norton I dissolved the United States of America.

October 1, 1860 Decree from Norton I barred Congress from meeting in Washington, D.C."

Except for the dates, the beard, and the funny hat, sounds like Bambi (or what he would like to do). >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-12 20:10|| 2009-10-12 20:10|| Front Page Top

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