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For more, see io9's interview with the group's mysterious founder The Potentate.
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"Most wise and noble Potentate of Foxville," said the captain, addressing the King in a pompous voice, "I humbly beg to report that I found these strangers on the road leading to your Foxy Majesty's dominions, and have therefore brought them before you, as is my duty."
Love Letters 2010
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Obama's abject obeisance before a Saudi Petro-Dollar Potentate.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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As for the veracity of friends, I have a couple who, for enough bourbon, would swear before the Supreme Court that I'm the Imperial Potentate of The Mystic Shrine.
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If a legislator votes the right way four times on pro-choice bills and once to name GWB Emperor of North America and Grand Potentate of Puerto Rico, she gets an 80% grade.
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In April, 2008, Imperial Potentate Bernard Lemieux issued a statement about the most recent joint board meeting, highlighting a consultant's plan to "more efficiently structure Shriners Headquarters" and how the board approved a new Strategic Action Plan (SAP).
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Astute readers wil have noticed I'm blogging from Athek in Western Gobi and that I'm an Eastern Potentate.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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The Potentate of PNAC by meremark on Thursday, Mar 1, 2007 at 3: 55: 32 AM
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You should more appropriately call him King Smitherman, or Potentate Smitherman.
General Smitherman Attacks The Herald Nathaniel Livingston 2007
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The logic being that in 2008 DUHbya can issue another signing statement to a bill as innocent as the accolades to President Ford that will make him President King, Dictator, Emperor, Potentate, et al ad nauseum for the duration plus six months.
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