The Czar is getting good mail lately and thanks you all for it.

Jennifer (you know her!) often visits the Castle, and generally leaves a fresh-baked pie in a neat cardboard box at our door, and rings the doorbell and runs away before ‘Puter answers. She read the Czar’s post on Obama’s startling nosedive in popularity and writes in to say, “You know why he’s going so low so quickly? He and his administration are demonizing and trivializing the concerns of approximatelly half of the population of the country. He needs to realize that he isn’t the President of the Liberals.” Yep, well, the Liberals are about to remind him that he isn’t doing so well with them, either!

Marcia writes in to say “Just discovered your blog through a Google Alert that I set up for the ATL mayoral race. Loved your commentary.” And we love Marcia for having just discovered us! We hope you stay and check us every day. And the Czar is pleased that when he speaks, it sets off alerts on the Google thing. By the way, Marcia offers an update on the mayoral race.

Mark is also very cool. Look what he says about the Czar’s concern about Obama’s upcoming Hitlerjugend rally: “Looked like you were about 3 hours ahead of Michelle Malkin and a full day ahead of foxnews.com. Nice work. I wouldn’t have known about this were it not for your site….Fortunately the principal at my kids’ parochial school is a former B-52 radar navigator, so he wasn’t planning to participate in this bullcrap anyway.” Thanks! Normally it’s the Mandarin who uses trans-dimensional technology to scoop the big guys. The Czar is hearing that many schools are upturning a centrally placed finger to the idea of the speech. The Цесаревич’s school is not participating (not surprising, given that Muscovy is strongly Republican). The union-run, liberally-led bastion of ignorance where the Царица teaches is also ignoring the request and will proceed with a standard schoolday. Wow. Looks like the Dear Leader can’t get the time of day from the hordes of masses. Pfft. What kind of dictator is that?

Thanks again everyone for writing in! Especially with nice stuff, which is a sure bet to get our favorable attention. Free bagels (one each) for Jennifer, Marcia, and Mark.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.