The Freedom Bulletin

Each December I like to do a recap of the year’s notable people and events. This year, the format is going to be a little different than previous years. Instead of giving “awards” in different categories, I’m naming my top 10 people of the year. Below are the 10 most influential, important, and interesting individuals of 2008. The people on my list can be from local, national, or international news. Whether or not I like and agree with someone is a factor in determining whether or not they make it onto the list, but it is not a requirement. Listed in order of a combination of importance, goodness, and uniqueness, here are the Imperial Bulletin’s Top 10 People of 2008:

1. Sarah Palin
2. Ron Paul
3. Carla Howell
4. Bob Barr
5. Barack Obama
6. Neil Entwistle
7. John McCain
8. Michael Phelps
9. The Boston Celtics
10. George W. Bush

As you can see, there is a new layout here at the Imperial Bulletin! I’m very proud of myself because I made this WordPress theme from scratch. Thanks to Aneko Studios for an awesome tutorial that helped me out a lot.

I hope you like the new patriotic look!

Welcome to the new version of the Imperial Bulletin. After much consideration, I decided to move my blog from Blogger to my main website, where I can have more control over the code and presentation. Please change your links and bookmarks to blog.imperialkingdom.net. I was able to import all of my old posts, so this is still the same blog, just with a new look and a new location. 

I’m using WordPress, and right now you’re seeing the default WordPress theme, which is kind of boring. As I learn more about how to use WordPress, I’ll change the layout to something prettier. It will definitely have a flag in it and might even look a lot like my old Blogger layout. 

Also, I’ll be reorganizing all of my post categories soon to make everything more orderly, and when I’m done I’ll have a list of categories in the sidebar for you to browse. I was looking back on my old posts, and I think I’ve gotten a lot better at blogging since then! I might delete some old posts that are stupid and/or useless, or tweak them to fix any spelling and grammar errors that I find. 

I hope you enjoy the new Imperial Bulletin!

P.S. There’s a new post below this one, which you are free to check out.

The time has come again for my roundup of the notable people and events of the year. Without forther ado, here are the Imperial Awards of 2007:

Person of the year: General David Petraeus

Worst person of the year: Rick Perry, the Texas governor who tried to make HPV vaccination mandatory

Politician of the year: Ron Paul

Athletes of the year: Boston Red Sox

Trial of the year: Massachusetts vs. Alexander Pring-Wilson

In memoriam: Benazir Bhutto, Lady Bird Johnson, and many others…

Here is my yearly roundup of who and what was notable in 2006:

Person of the year:
Neil Entwistle – Nothing particularly remarkable occurred in politics, war, or any other field, so the title of person of the year goes to the defendant in one of the most interesting criminal cases in recent history

Worst people of the year:
Merck – they created Gardasil

Politicians of the year:
Tom Tancredo – said (accurately) that Miami is like a third-world country
James Inhofe – wants English to be our official language

Trials of the year:
Mass. v. Neil Entwistle
Fla. v. Justin Barber

Movies of the year:
Night at the Museum
High School Musical

Just in time for the new year, here is my roundup of notable people and other things, both good and bad, of 2005. I may add to the list, for example if I see a movie that deserves to be listed under “Imperial Movies.” Also note that no one is listed under more than one category. People who could fit under two or more categories are placed in the one I think is most suitable for them.

The Imperial Awards of 2005 A.D.

People of the year: It’s a tie between Pope Benedict XVI and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Worst people of the year:
John E. Jones III, the Pennsylvania judge who ruled that nothing but evolution can be taught in public schools
Cindy Sheehan, the “Peace Mom” who annoyed President Bush outside his ranch
The Rocha and Grantski families for being publicly rude to Scott Peterson, and Judge Alfred Delucci for sentencing him to death (go to http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/16/peterson16.TMP to see what they said at the sentencing)

Politicians of the year:
Harriet Miers
John Roberts
Samuel Alito
Rick Santorum for his accurate and insightful comments about the link between the pedophile priest scandal and Massachusetts’s acceptance of gay rights

Athletes of the year: the New England Patriots and Giacomo, winner of the Kentucky Derby

Criminals of the year (there seem to a lot, but here are the most notable):
Saddam Hussein
Scott Peterson
Eric Rudolph
Dennis Rader, also known as B.T.K.
Daniel Pelosi
Stephen Barbee
Mark Hacking

In memoriam:
Pope John Paul II
William Rhenquist
Stanley Tookie Williams
Rosa Parks

The Imperial Movie Awards:

Imperial movies:
The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Because of Winn-Dixie
War of the Worlds

Imperial actors:
The cast of “The Chronicles of Narnia”
The cast of “Because of Winn-Dixie”
Tom Felton, Jason Isaacs, and Alan Rickman for “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
Dakota Fanning for “War of the Worlds”
AnnaSophia Robb and Julia Winter for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Greetings, and welcome to the Imperial Bulletin. I call myself the Imperial Leader, and my blog will contain posts on a variety of topics, such as politics, sports, movies, books, and history. I may also give my opinions, which are often unusual, but hopefully interesting!