A Subliminal Message From Dear Leader

Why is Obama now calling himself the North Star?

I looked up some information on the North Star:

One of the most famous stars is Polaris, the North Star. Strange, isn't it, that many people are unable to locate it in the sky. It is always there in approximately the same place, day and night. Even though it can not be seen in daytime, a person well-versed in astronomy could point to where it is located. My column today is written in hopes that readers will be certain they can locate this important star and that they know some interesting concepts associated with it.

Many people assume that Polaris must be very bright, but it is not. Its most outstanding quality results from its location, rather than from its relative brightness. Most people start by finding the Big Dipper in the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Currently the Dipper is low in the north-northwest evening sky. Go from the end of the handle of the Dipper to the pair of stars marking the end of the bowl. The bottom star of the pair is Merak and the one at the lip of the bowl is Dubhe, Utah's Centennial Star (100 light years away). Sometimes this pair is referred to as "the Pointers," since the line from Merak through Dubhe extended onward about five times the apparent separation of the two stars leads to Polaris.

Polaris marks the end of the Little Dipper formed by the brightest stars of Ursa Minor, the Smaller Bear. Four of the small dipper stars are faint, making it difficult to locate, especially from lighted cities. When you have learned to locate Polaris, you know one of the most significant stars in the heavens, for Earth's axis of rotation points almost directly toward this North Star making it remain nearly motionless in our sky.

Polaris is the mariner's star. Alluding to this, Carl Schurz wrote:

"Ideals are like the stars. We will never reach them, but like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them."

Ancient Chinese people called Polaris the "Emperor Star," and many Native Americans knew it as "The-Star-That-Does-Not-Walk-Around." I think my favorite concept about this star comes from the Skidi band of Pawnee Indians. These people referred to Polaris as the Chief Star. It was the supreme example of how Chiefs should behave. In the Skidi mythology we find instructions given by the creator to this star:

You shall stand in the north. You shall not move; for you shall be the chief of all the gods that shall be placed in the heavens, and you shall watch over them.

The Chief Star was said to communicate with the chiefs of the people to help them resemble the star that presides over his people in the sky. The pole star, then, was a symbol of stability, leadership, and guardianship, a concept deeply ingrained in Skidi society. The Chief Star, always present in the sky, represented all of the leadership qualities bestowed to the people through the chiefs. Skidi chiefs emulated the qualities they recognized in the Chief Star: they maintained rigorous control over their actions, voices, and temperaments, doing all they could to keep the type of order among the people which they perceived in the constant and consistent movements of the stars, especially in the stability of their mentor.

The North Star, the Great Chief in the sky, always visible in the night, was the supreme example known to all the Skidi and clearly related in their thought to their own chiefs. The people looked to these leaders to be like the celestial prototype and to guide them in smooth, consistent, and repetitive paths. They would perform needed ceremonies; they would plant and hunt and in all ways live in a well-ordered sequence. They would repeat the sequence each year, just as the stars of heaven repeat their seasonal aspects relative to both Earth and Sky. In this sacred way, under the guidance of both heavenly and earthly leaders, the Skidi believed that they should live as the sky gods had intended.

From Jawa Report:

A savior was born at the White House, he speaketh to us:

Carry on and remember there are no red states or blue states but the United States of Bronco Bama and our dear leader Bronco Bama has the Presidential Seal of the fallen Eagle to prove it.

Update: Dear leaders White House twitter account's background image has a fallen Eagle as in upside down.