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Dollar Sign                Why We're "Floriduh"
Today  – By an act of Congress, the Dollar was chosen as the official currency of the United States 226 years ago today. Named after the Northern European taler or thaler, the American dollar’s value was back by gold, then silver and now China. The first US dollars were coins minted gold. The first paper dollar was printed  in 1862. Of interest:  Other than George Washington’s portrait, the average American doesn’t have a clue as to the meaning of most of the symbols on the dollar -- although the $ sign has become a global symbol for more powerful than the Mogen David, the Christian Cross, or the Muslim Crescent.   
Birthday Boy –  The second least popular US president  after Richard M. Nixon, George W. Bush was born 65 years ago today . Elected the nation’s 43^rd President thanks to a voting debacle  in Florida, Bush believed in Jesus Christ as his personal savior, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the designated hitter. Which is how and why most American comedians still mourn W’s leaving the White House*.
Click here for Bush at his Bushiest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMhffi8SHM

*Trouble is, reality suggests 
George W. Bush was about as 
funny as a global dose of clap!

The Cost of W’s Wars
American Casualties To Date**
Total Killed           5,998               
Iraq                                4,408        
Afghanistan                  1,590
Total Wounded            43,099
Iraq                                31,377
Afghanistan                  11,722
Total $ To Date    $1.380 trillion
Iraq                                $823 billion
Afghanistan                  $557 billion
**Being more than a month old, the
real numbers are certainly higher!