There's no real news. It's Thanksgiving. Go listen to Alice's Restaurant.
Gives me an excuse to ramble about a minor but interesting and vaugely political item:
The United States Mint is planning a series of one-dollar coins to feature every deceased president, with the date stamped into the edge.
The first coin, displaying George Washington on one side and the Statue of Liberty on the other, will go into circulation in mid-February, in time for Presidents’ Day. After that, coins with John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison will be issued at three-month intervals.
So the William Henry Harrison dollar will be minted three times longer than his term of office.
Will the wingers be on edge?
Notice Something Missing From the New Dollar Coin? If you guessed “God,” then you guessed right. Don’t worry–it’s not missing, it’s just been relegated to the rim of the coin. Out of sight is out of mind. The timing of this announcement seems to indicate that the announcement was held up until after the November 2006 elections.
The announcement leads to various musings about the 35 year failure to persuade Americans to use dollar coins:
"As long as we have the paper currency out there, dollar coins will never be successful," Gillis said. "We're going to have to discard the $1 bill or mass produce so many of these coins so they'll be out there at retailers."
Sad stories of Susan B. and Sack o' Gawea abound. But no one mentions the 1971 Eisenhower dollar - the last non-commemoriative attempt to make a dollar coin in the size of the traditional, pre-1935 silver dollar.
But Ike will have his day again in 2015. And the wingers will finally get their wet dream of Reagan On Money the next year. Four quarters please.
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