A friend points out that ...

[Bill Millard]

About that piece of alleged prophecy Dave Monroe passed along to the 
list the other day --
 
> > ... in 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
> >
> > "Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of greatest power,
> > the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader."

Sorry to be a semi-spoilsport on that, but check out Salon's 
Technology column today (http://www.salon.com/tech/inbox/index.html); 
this is circulating all over, and it's bogus.  Serious Nostradamus 
fans apparently can't find it in his known writings.  There's more to 
the story, though: a couple of other verses, real ones, have been 
interpreted as references to our new president-yclept.*  Check out 
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/election.htm.  Here are the 
potentially Bushy verses:

The following year revealed by a flood,
Two leaders elected, the first will not hold on
For one of them refuge in fleeing shadows,
The victim plundered who maintained the first.
	(Century 9, Quatrain 4)

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,
weak both in knowledge and in war.
	(Century 1, Quatrain 78)

Any Nostradamologists out there w/ more & better commentary on this?

--Bill Millard


*Not a typo.  Middle English, sort of.  I doubt I'm the only one 
around here who categorically refuses to refer to W. as a legitimate 
president-elect, considering the circumstances of his "election," but 
we have to call him something; if most of the world is going to call 
him president even though he's not a real one, then he's "one who is 
called president," and if you want to infer a pun on kleptomania or 
kleptocracy, I won't stop you....