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Obama's election and other significant historical events
1/14/09
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Posted on 01/14/2009 6:33:34 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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The Tulip Mania.
The Event is explained in:
"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Mackay -- 1852
The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
Download at Project Gutenberg:Extraordinary Popular Delusions- text version
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Well, if he sells out completely to the Muslims and turns the White House into Sweet Home Al-Obama, I ranks this as number #1. But we’ll see.
Truth to tell, I just don’t have a good idea what he’s going to do. It’s hard to find something substantive he said that he didn’t contradict at another time.
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01/14/2009 8:12:11 PM PST
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Our man in washington
(Before Bush, there were no Iraqi journalists, shoe-throwing or otherwise)
To: gov_bean_ counter
The Spanish Inquisition-—NOBODY expects them!
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01/14/2009 8:36:01 PM PST
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pankot
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Sherman destroying the South and burning Atlanta under the orders of ole *honest*(insane) Abe
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01/14/2009 8:40:47 PM PST
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mojitojoe
(Not my president.)
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