The long, depressing march into massive discontent among the American people regarding the unwinnable war and their firm opposition to it and yearning for Hope and Change™ is further documented in this Rasmussen poll, which LC Darth Bacon pointed us to:

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Voter confidence in the War on Terror is at the highest level ever recorded since Rasmussen Reports began regular tracking in January 2004. Fifty-four percent (54%) of American voters now think the United States and its allies are winning the war. The previous high-water mark for optimism–52%–was reached a handful of times in September and October 2004.

Optimism about the situation in Iraq is also at an all-time high. Forty-eight percent (48%) now expect the situation in that troubled country to get better over the next six months. Only 17% expect things to get worse. In addition to being the most optimistic assessment ever recorded, these numbers reflect a remarkable turnaround over the past year. Last August, just 27% thought things were going to get better while 47% were pessimistic.

Stop it, please, we cannot bear anymore of these depressing reports of growing dissatisfaction with… Wait? What? Dang, we must have been reading too many inside spy reports from MorOn.org again.

And what’s that with the sudden turnaround since last August? Whatever could have possibly happened between then and now that could have so dramatically changed the situation on the ground? Sorry, we’ve got nuthin’, because it surely can’t be that hopelessly failed before it even started “Surge” that The One™ himself told us would not only not work, no matter how many troops we threw at it, it would actually make things worse!

Except, of course, that’s not what he said at all once he decided that he’d said the opposite and new talking points had been distributed to the happily cooperating MSM.

And don’t you forget it, or Zeus the Obamessiah himself may strike you with a thunderbolt from his temple tonight!

As we breathlessly await The One’s™ descent from Mt. Olympus at Invesco Field, complete with Greek temples, Greek choirs and only Bob knows what else, LC & IB Potfry brings us the second installment of The Chronicles of the Obamessiah (h/t LC Azygos):

This just keeps on getting funnier and funnier.

Turns out we spoke too soon.

There are, indeed, reports of vicious, blatant oppression of free speech going on in Denver:

DENVER–Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Can’t have reporters walking around in public, taking pictures of Democratic Communist Senators receiving their well-earned kickbacks from their sugar daddies, can we now?

The bloody cheek and nerve of those “reporter” types, thinking they can just walk around in public and report on the comings and goings of The Most Ethical Congress Evah!™.

Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.

Pre-meditated intent to report the news, perhaps? Just give them some time. Bullshit “charges” take a while to come up with, you know. In the meantime, the Democrats’ Communists’ “donors” remain safely anonymous, as well they should be in an open, free society.

A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order.

Trespassing in public, interfering with The Most Ethical Congress Evah!’s™ Constitutional right to keep their bribes and the ones handing them over hidden and failure to follow a lawful order to quit exercising his First Amendment rights. Gotcha.

During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, “You’re lucky I didn’t knock the f..k out of you.”

That must have been the Denver PD’s manager of Public Relations.

Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.

Trying to, more like. They’ll have to be a bit more covert to get pass the Schutzstaffel of the Democrat National Socialist Party first, obviously.

Undercover Agent for the Empire, LC Rainy, went to take a look at the advertised massive crowds of people that would shut Denver DOWN in their patriotic dissentifying, once and for all putting an end to social injustice, wars for oil and… bird porn. No, really. We didn’t make that last one up:

No, we have no idea either.

Anyway, the crowds showed up and they were, indeed, massive. Or not:

So massive were they, in fact, that the cops who were supposed to keep the city under lock until 3:00 pm decided to call it a day at 12:30. There simply wasn’t enough caffeine in the city to keep the poor suffering LEOs awake for two and a half hours more of that kind of excitement.

Meanwhile, the patriotic dissentifiers were reminding people of the potential squashing of dissent from the ever-present, ever-vigilant Big Brother:

Big Brother couldn’t be reached for comment. He had fallen asleep and turned out to be impossible to rouse from his slumber.

Thanks, LC Rainy!

We guess it’s buh-bye to the floor vote at the Democrat Communist convention today:

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention are casting ballots for the party’s presidential nominee at their hotels this morning.

The vote, negotiated by the campaigns for presumptive nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to speed proceedings from the floor of the Pepsi Center tonight, when totals will be read from the floor as part of a roll call vote.

“Speeding proceedings”, huh? So that is the official “explanation” now?

Well, that certainly settles our Imperial Doubts about your motivations for scrapping the delegates’ opportunity to declare themselves in public. Silly and overly skeptical that we are, we were wondering if it could possibly have to do with you not wanting to have any public displays of disunity at your carefully choreographed Party Rally. Yes, we know, awfully silly of us. After all, yours is The Most Unified and Ethical Party Evah!™ and who are we, a mere mortal (though of divine descent as we Emperors must, perforce, be), to question your motivations?

Hot Air shows us just how deep this sense of all-conquering, solid, unwavering UNITY goes among the Hillary delegates:

Some of the Clinton supporters in the delegation raised questions about how the process would work and said they wanted an observer there to ensure that the ballots were counted accurately.

Don’t forget the hanging, dimpled and pregnant chads, now. You know how ugly things can get if you don’t remember those, don’t you? But we’re sure that you need not worry. After all, how can you doubt the fine vote talliers from the prestigious firm of Obama, Rezko & Ayers, LLC?

The Dalai Bama could not be reached for comments. He was busy trying on togas, laurel wreaths and halos for tomorrows grand coronation on Mt. Olympus.

Just your Ordinary Guy™, you know.

And it’s bloody long, but if you’re in the least bit interested in the actual truth behind the current Georgian Gruzniyan-Russian conflict, then you owe it to yourselves to read this.

Short version?: All of the remaining pieces fall into place for His Majesty. There were a number of discrepancies that didn’t quite “gel” but, given that you have to work with the intel that you have and given that you can’t set down “I think that it might be possible that…” in stone without corroborating evidence if you want to go beyond speculation and into the territory of actual analysis, I couldn’t quite do anything with it other than saying “yes, that could be true and, if so…” etc.

But Michael Totten’s excellent work provides me with a lot of information that wasn’t previously available to me, and for that he deserves a lot of credit. Particularly because he went to the trouble of asking actual questions rather than just accepting “conventional wisdom” at face value. What he was told could still be bullshit, that’s always a possibility, but the fact that the total of his intel fits perfectly with the facts on the ground and answers a lot of confounding questions at the same time leads me to believe that he may just have caught the tail of the tiger here.

Bottom line: We were all taken in by faulty reporting and we were, once again, reminded that nothing compares to the hard work of a few individuals with the courage to go in and try to find some actual facts, regardless of danger.

Good job, Michael, and everybody please go read the whole thing if you’re at all interested in the conflict in the Caucasus.

It may not be, actually it probably isn’t, The Whole Truth™, nothing rarely ever is, but it certainly fills in a whole lot of gaps.

F.E.T.E.

Or, if you prefer, their creator, Chris Muir, who draws the Day by Day cartoon in which they appear, could use a hand at the moment, since he’s currently without an income.

Being himself without an income at the moment, His Majesty can certainly sympathize with that deplorable situation, so I’m more than happy to spread the word. Not to mention that Day by Day is an awesome cartoon that really deserves some support.

We may have to hook up the spare microwave if we’re to have any hopes of keeping up here:

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.

“No he didn’t! Unity! Unity! UNITYYYYYYYYYYYY! Dammit, even the highly respected, totally unbiased and definitely NOT in the tank for anybody weekly Time quite clearly states, in an article by somebody who is quite probably the single most intelligent, neutral and analytically superior reporter EVAH!:”

Given all that buildup, it may come as a surprise that the Democrats who will gather around the gavel in Denver are actually more united than perhaps at any other point in the past 30 years.

We have to admit that we had to take a brief break after having read that in order to clean up our keyboard, monitor and just about everything else in the vicinity after it had all instantaneously and inexplicable become covered in a sticky, sugary film of a brownish liquid that smelled rather a lot like coffee.

But back to Billy Jeff:

He said: “Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?”

See? It’s just an innocent hypothetical. Don’t believe us? Ask Billy Blowjob hisself:

Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”

And, goshdarnit, if Billy “I Didn’t Have Sexual Relations With That Woman” Klintoon says it, then it’s damn well good enough for me! Nothing to see here, move along. And nothing to see at that wonderful, unity-filled love fest going on in Denver right now either.

This is getting to be so much fun that it ought to be illegal. And if Obama bin Ayers were to become President, it probably would be.

And the Hildebeest’s grudging speech tonight. We WILL be on the radio. I know watching the Kommie Klownshoe Konvention is an endless comedy venue. Nonetheless, others things continue to go on. So, as is our custom it’s Rottie Radio Night.

I’ll be on deck from 7-9:30 pm CT with Tuesday Truth and can be reached via Yahoo IM at: tuesdaytruth or the RadioCIA request line: ciarequestATgmail.com. Just remember it’s LIVE radio and it might take awhile to get to your IMs pups.

Immediately followed by His Imperial Invectiveness™ with Keep The Home Fires Burning at 9:30 pm CT until HQ pulls his plug around midnight.

The Emperor can be reached via Yahoo IM at: emperor_misha and of course at the RadioCIA request line as above.

All of this fine conservative talk on The Empire’s First Choice in broadcasting -RadioCIA.

We do get rather busy on the console, so your patience is appreciated and please, no IM “Buzz” that’s reserved for technical emergencies.

We’re sure you’ve already seen the American Issues Project’s ad about the Obamessiah’s comfy friendship with and ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist, William Ayers, but let’s just take it one more time, shall we? Before it disappears, we mean:

The Obamanation’s campaign, once again ignoring The First Rule of Holes, promptly responded with this piece of inane fluff (which we can’t embed since the only copy we’ve been able to find on YouTube has half the sound cut out).

[Amateurs... You just gotta know how to do it -- DJ]

A few things from the Obamessiah “response:”

“Talking about the sixties?”

No, you bloody morons. The American Issues Project ad was talking about, specifically, 9/11/2001 (never happened in Lefty La-La Land, we know, but try to stick to the reality you claim your community is “based” on all the time) where Ayers was bragging about his terrorist acts and lamenting that he and his fellow terrorists “didn’t do enough.” It was also talking about the Dalai Bambi’s cozy ties to him in the late 90s and early 00s. Not the sixties either. Really, now. We know that you guys are barely literate, but at least try to find somebody who can explain the use of calendars to you.

“Obambi denounced Ayers’ acts!”

Sure. While still talking about the unrepentant terrorist as a “respectable, mainstream” guy.

“Well, um, ahhh, I obviously don’t agree with a single thing that he did and continues to be proud of to this very, uhm, day except he wishes he could have done even more of the things that I obviously disagree with but, uhm, er, ahhh, he’s such a respectable, mainstream guy nonetheless… There. Have I covered my dumb ass sufficiently now or is that above my pay grade too?”

“Ayers committed his crimes when Obambi was only 8 years old!”

That’s hardly the issue here, now is it? Well, we suppose that it is, seeing as how that gave the Obambi about three decades’ worth of opportunity to learn about his terrorist actions and still not have a problem with striking up a friendship with the terrorist, work as director for the terrorist’s Board of Stealing and Wasting Tax Payer Funds and have the terrorist launch his political career for him.

Are you sure that you want to pursue this angle? No? Too late now, isn’t it?

Obviously, anybody working for the Dalai Bama campaign with half a brain would have done all they could to ignore an ad like the American Issues Project’s, hoping that whoever might chance upon it would soon forget it, since every single word in there is a fact. But brains are in short supply on the Hopen’Changitude Obama bin Biden campaign.

“Damn, this bloody ad could really hurt us if people notice it. Say, I’ve got an idea! Why don’t we stir up a controversy over it and make sure that all the news networks have to carry it in order to let the viewers know what they’re talking about?”

Bloody brilliant. Pardon us while we take a break to laugh hysterically.

You think that’s stupid? You’re right, but you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Apparently not content with boosting AIP’s ad by issuing a non-counter of their own, the Obama-Rama-Ding-Dong campaign decided to take it one step further (thanks, Sir Christopher):

Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 “Swift Boat” campaign.

Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and asking the Justice Department to intervene. The campaign also planned to compel advertisers to pressure stations that continue to air the anti-Obama commercial.

Typical liberal playbook: When you can’t counter with facts because the opponent has a death grip on all of them, counter with lawsuits and intimidation. Free Speech, Democrat Communist Style™.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.

“Other stations that follow Sinclair’s lead should expect a similar response from people who don’t want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks,” Vietor said.

We don’t know about you, but that sounds like a bona fide threat, right there. You might even say “blackmail.”

“Nice little station you got there. It’d be a great pity if something were to happen to it, don’t you think? Like, your mail servers getting buried in a sudden influx of angry emails or, I don’t know, maybe a criminal investigation?”

Didn’t we use to have laws against this sort of thing?

But look at the bright side: The brownshirts at the Adolf Hitler für Deutschland Obambi for America campaign, by their actions, have pretty much guaranteed that the AIP’s ad will be aired over and over and over and over and over again.

That’s some Brain Trust you’ve got working for you, Obambi.

Mheh.

House stretcher Lugosi was recently caught opening her stupid face on the subject of Catholicism and abortion, claiming that this whole “nonsense” about life beginning at conception was just something that silly Christofascists had brought up within the Catholic Church over the last 50 years or so.

“After Mr. Tom Brokaw, the interviewer, pointed out that the Catholic Church feels strongly that life begins at conception, she replied, ‘I understand. And this is, like, maybe 50 years or something like that. So again, over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy,’ ” the release said.

That is, we admit, an awfully convenient position to take if one were to try to call oneself a Catholic while, simultaneously, being in favor of infanticide.

Unfortunately for Pelousy and other Buffet “Christians” like her, it isn’t so, and we turn to an actual Catholic Bishop for support here, even though G-d knows, literally, that we don’t need to:

Wuerl strongly disagrees.

He said, “We respect the right of elected officials such as Speaker Pelosi to address matters of public policy that are before them, but the interpretation of Catholic faith has rightfully been entrusted to the Catholic bishops. Given this responsibility to teach, it is important to make this correction for the record.”

Wuerl pointed out that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear, and has been clear for 2,000 years. He cited Catechism language that reads, “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception … Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.”

It’s quite simple, really. If you view religion as a club, party or organization that you wish to belong to, and there’s really no difference as far as our point goes, then you can only be a member if you follow the rules laid down by said club. For instance, and we’ve noticed that this, too, baffles liberals and is the source of endless screeches and protests on their part, to be a “boy scout” you have to be, you know, a boy.

Awfully complicated, we know, but we don’t have the time to design the visual aids necessary to penetrate the average liberal wall of ignorance that they refer to as their “skulls.” Besides, we’re fresh out of Crayolas. School just started and we gave the last ones we had to the Heirs.

If you’re pro-abortion, then that’s your position. Obviously His Majesty has issues with that position, but that’s beside the point. You’ve made your choice, we’ve made ours, and we’ll just agree to disagree. But don’t come blabbering that there’s some hidden exemption in the Bible allowing you to ignore the rules you don’t like. The Bible isn’t a “living document” that you can interpret in any bloody way you like, leaving out the “inconvenient” bits so you can still can yourself a “Christian.” Either you are or you aren’t. If you aren’t then, again, that’s your choice. We’re not going to harass you over that. G-d knows it took us a while to find our way from our youthful heathen excesses and back to G-d, so we’re not exactly in a position to judge, nor do we want to. Find your own path. Just don’t follow a different one from the one described in the Bible and, at the same time, claim that you’re true to the path you’ve left.

You may fool some people, but you won’t fool G-d and, as we say in church, that’s one Dude you don’t want to be seen as trying to play for a fool. He has a nasty reaction to that sort of thing.

The same with the Protestant denominations that, somehow, have decided that Eretz Yisroel and G-d’s chosen people aren’t that big of a deal, proclaiming their support for the terrorist paleosimians and demanding that their churches divest themselves of investments in the Holy Land.

Really, numbnuts. If you can’t stay awake all the way to the 12th chapter, 3rd verse of the FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, then you really need to go find something else to belong to that is less demanding of your severely impaired attention spans. Go fondle aural rocks or something, why don’t you?

We mean, that passage isn’t rocket science. There are parts of the Holy Book that are hard to understand, but that isn’t one of them.

Of course, what it all really comes down to is that career politicians like Pelousy realize full well that nine out of ten Americans (read: voters) are Christians, so it’s not awfully convenient to declare yourself at odds with that particular belief system if you’re hungry for power. So they lie.

Pelosi, a Roman Catholic whose district includes most of San Francisco, said she has not encountered such difficulties in her church.

“I think some of it is regional,” she said, “It depends on the bishop of a certain region, and, fortunately for me, communion has not been withheld and I’m a regular communicant, so that would be a severe blow to me if that were the case.”

No, you lying heathen whore. That’s not a “blow.” The real blow comes when you find yourself in front of the Pearly Gates and realize that the piper’s done playing and it’s time to pay. G-d’s mercy is endless, and we do believe that He has a soft spot for those who didn’t believe for reasons entirely their own and were honest about it.

Your kind, however? The ones who willfully pervert His word for their own ends and lie, deceive and mislead their fellow human beings in search for nothing but personal, Earthly power and wealth?

You’ll get used to the smell of sulphur eventually.

Rapture Imminent!

No, seriously (h/t LC & IB Mike)

TUSCALOOSA | When former Senate Majority Leaders Trent Lott spoke here two weeks ago at the annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner sponsored by local Republicans, he had some revealing things to say, both about GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his own party.

First the usual crap about “falling in line”:”

When I first committed to John [McCain -- Ed.] in January of ‘06, a lot of people thought I was crazy because we had just lost [a midterm] election,” Lott told some 400 of the party faithful gathered at the Bryant Conference Center on the University of Alabama campus. “I said, ‘Okay, John, I’m going to support you’ because I thought if he could get the nomination, he would be president [and] I think he will be president.

…

“So I said, ‘I just want one thing from you John. Will you let me talk to you some time before you take off on some of these wild tangents you get off on?’ And he said, ‘I probably should do that anyway — you’ve got it.’”

In that case, he needs to give you a call. Right away. No, make that several months ago.

Give us more, O Emperor! »« AIIIEEEE! My EYES!

Because we certainly think that this sounds like a gross violation of Constitutional Rights:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefly evacuated from her downtown Denver hotel on Saturday when a man carrying two hunting rifles and two pistols tried to check in to the hotel.

Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said 29-year-old Joseph Calanchini of Pinedale, Wyo., faces a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon after police officers at the Grand Hyatt hotel noticed him carrying a rifle-type case while checking in. Calanchini did not have a concealed weapons permit, said Lance Clem, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Public Safety.

Wiley said authorities were not releasing information about whether the weapons were loaded because the case remained under investigation. Wiley said the charge is the same whether the weapons were loaded or unloaded.

Before we say anything else, allow us to add that, violation of rights or not, we agree with LC & IB Nicki that it probably isn’t the brightest idea to check into a hotel carrying firearms when that same hotel is being infested by some of the worst fascists in the country, the Democrat Communists.

No, hear us out. We’re not saying that he was wrong to do so, but even somebody with the IQ of a fruit fly should have been able to guess that it would lead to some unpleasant inquisitiveness from the SS.

Now, to the second part. Since His Majesty is obviously not intimately familiar with CO gun laws and, furthermore, hasn’t ever tried to check into a hotel in TX carrying his legal weapons while some Congressional dipshit was there too and thus doesn’t know if there are any exceptions to our own laws, we’re not going to launch into a tirade on the issue until somebody informs us.

We will, however, question the “whether the weapons were loaded or unloaded doesn’t matter, the charges would have been the same”, because that sounds like a bunch of fucking hooey. But, again, CO laws may be more in tune with the Brady Bunch than ours. If it’s true, however, it must truly suck to be a hunter in CO, since you obviously can’t go hunting unless you have a CHL. With a gun, anyways. We suppose you can always throw rocks at the deer or hurl insults at them (although the latter would probably incur the wrath of PETArds everywhere but, then again, what doesn’t?)

No? Then kindly explain to me how the blazes you’re supposed to go hunting if carrying your weapon (unless you have a CHL), whether it’s loaded or not, is strictly verboten? Are you supposed to be accompanied by a Designated (and properly licensed) Weapons Carrier whom you have to ask politely for your rifle if you spot a target worthy of your attention?

Finally, before anybody starts pointing out that there’s nothing unreasonable in the SS showing an interest in people carrying around rifle cases while their principals are in the neighborhood: No, of course there isn’t. It’d be bloody hard for those fine guardians to do their jobs if they were to look the other way no matter how many people were traipsing through the neighborhood with Barrett .50 cals or the like, legally owned and carried or not.

“Oh sure. We saw Mr. Oswald walk into the Book Depository with a rifle and walk to the upper floors but hey, it was in a case, so who were we to be all oppressive and fascist by asking him just exactly what he was doing?”

But there’s a long way from polite inquiry and investigation to throwing somebody in jail with a $10,000 bail, no appeal, no protestations allowed. Even if there are exceptions to normal, peaceable transport of weapons laws, what’s to stop the SS and local law enforcement from saying, politely, “sorry, Sir, but we have high-risk dignitaries in this hotel at the moment, so we’re going to have to temporarily put your firearm under lock and key until they’re gone. They will, of course, be returned to you as soon as they’re gone or you yourself choose to leave. We apologize for the inconvenience, Sir.”

If the Obamessiah clown show was in town and His Majesty were to be approached in this fashion while checking in to the same hotel as they, he would have no problem with it. It’s called common sense and, besides, with the SS presence in said hotel, His Majesty would feel profoundly certain that any goblins dumb enough to try raising a ruckus would be dead before the noise could even rouse him from his slumber. Plus, it would relieve His Majesty of his citizen’s duty to jump in and protect the Obamessiah himself. Yes, we would. We may despise the communist bastard, but that doesn’t give anybody the right to kill him, or anybody else, and we’d happily blow anybody away who tried to do so.

What His Majesty is not even remotely “OK” with is this constant assumption of guilt and treating innocent (remember “innocent until proven guilty?”) citizens like criminals.

Thatisall.

UPDATE: And, once again, the best readers in the Blogosphere come to the rescue. This time, our thanks are owed to LC Rainy, who reminds us of Denver’s blatantly unconstitutional gun laws.

It doesn’t make it right, obviously, but it does show that apparently Denver was acting within the framework of their own laws. Until they’re struck down and bitchslapped by NRA and the Supreme Court, that is. Thanks again, LC Rainy.

Its is announced, with the greatest of pride, and to the everlasting glory of the United States Army, that we raise a glass in salute to Princess Natasha, who now wears the insignia of a Second Lieutenant, to enjoy the privileges and duties of that rank.,

May her service be long and honourable.

May we be worthy of her service and courage, and may we always be grateful that she stands watch while we sleep.

May God bless and keep her.

May God bless and keep all those who stand in harms way. in the name of freedom, in the name of hope….in the defence of all our tomorrows.

To Princess Natasha, our deepest thanks and immense pride. To the Armed Forces of the United States, our undying gratitude.

And perdition to our enemies

[Emperor Misha I]:

Stealing the Imperial Thunder, are we? We’ll have to deal with that later, we suppose…

Let it be known all over the Empire (and outlying counties) that, on the 22nd day of August, the year of our L-rd 2008, the Princess Natasha joined the Imperial Officer Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant with all that that entails.

Let it be known to our enemies that we pity them, for she will pity them not at all, as they will soon find out, much to their immediately pre-immolative dismay. As she performs her duties, we shall miss the colorful bitch slaps to our local trolls for which she has become famous, but we shall find immense consolation in the fact that those very same skills, that intelligence, mercilessness and occasional use of the word pipyets, shall now be put to good use in a much more lethal fashion against the Empire’s foes. Some of them may realize what hit them, but it shall benefit them not since they will be worm grub fractions of a second later.

And thus we welcome her into the Brotherhood of Imperial Arms and shall henceforth refer to her as “sister.”

May your service bring you much glory, may you strike fear into the hearts of those who wish us ill, and may they always suffer from extremely poor aim. Actually, make that read “may they suffer extremely.” Period. We thank you for your commitment and your service to the Empire.

Watch six, kick arse and come home safe.

G-d Bless,

Misha I
Defender of the Clue and Emperor of all of the Universe. If we feel like it.