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Bruce

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A co-worker was telling me about how he was trying to find the text of the rosetta stone for his daughter. A quick look online, and I found it. Funny, I've known about the rosetta stone for a long time, but I've never read it. It appears to be a decree by Ptolemy. Funny, but sounds a awful lot light a piece of Bush campaign propaganda.

The Rosetta Stone Text

In the reign of the young one who has succeeded his father in the kingship, lord of diadems, most glorious, who has established Egypt and is pious towards the gods, triumphant over his enemies, who has restored the civilized life of men, lord of the ....

...being benevolently disposed towards the gods, has dedicated to the temples revenues of money and corn and has undertaken much outlay to bring Egypt into prosperity, and to establish the temples, and has been generous with all his own means; and of the revenues and taxes levied in Egypt some he has wholly remitted and others has lightened, in order that the people and all the others might be in prosperity during his reign...

...and of the tax on fine linen cloth paid by the temples to the crown he has remitted two-thirds...

...whereas he provided that cavalry and infantry forces and ships should be sent out against those who invaded Egypt by sea and by land, laying out great sums in money and corn in order that the temples and all those who are in the land might be in safety; and having gone to Lycopolis in the Busirite nome, which had been occupied and fortified against a siege with an abundant store of weapons and all other supplies seeing that disaffection was now of long standing among the impious men gathered into it, who had perpetrated much damage to the temples and to all the inhabitants of Egypt, and having encamped against it, he surrounded it with mounds and trenches and elaborate fortifications; ...

...in a short time he took the town by storm and destroyed all the impious men in it, even as Thoth and Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, formerly subdued the rebels in the same district; and as to those who had led the rebels in the time of his father and who had disturbed the land and done wrong to the temples, he came to Memphis to avenge his father and his own kingship, and punished them all as they deserved...

Could Bush be the re-encarnation of Ptolemy?? :shock:
 
Hmmmmm.... I wonder why the woo's have not latched onto this. It is a damn sight better than that wierd, incomprehensible french guy.
 
W can't be too similar to this Ptolemy....Bush Sr doesn't have any sisters he can divorce Barbara to marry, does he? To keep with the pattern, the new wife would have to be called Barbara II. Talk about insult to injury...
 

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