THIS guy should be president

Lt Col Allen West.
Here is a man who understands terrorists. Here is a man who is not hobbled by political correctness.

Oh yeah, before I even start, some of you folks may be grumbling or whining about the good Colonel's "interrogation incident." Well, this article says it all for me:

Lt. Col. Allen West and Michelle Obama

That is reality.

Here is truth.

Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)


This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.

My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.

A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.

A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered... To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.

We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire into his Commanding Officer’s tent in Kuwait. We have seen the foiled attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to Yemen, receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting station. We thwarted another Islamic terrorist plot in North Carolina which had US Marine Corps Base, Quantico as a target.

What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.

What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into America, and possibly further into our Armed Services.Instead we have a multiculturalism and diversity syndrome on steroids.

Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.

However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim, not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter... A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious belief.

We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space of the Soldier Readiness Center shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, same chant as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation.

No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of “protecting the American people”.

The recent incidents in Dearborn Michigan, Boston Massachusetts, Dallas Texas, and Chicago Illinois should bear witness to the fact that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in America. And don’t have CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be disbanded.

We have Saudi Arabia funding close to 80% of the mosques in the United States, one right here in South Florida, Pompano Beach. Are we building churches and synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Are “Kaffirs” and “Infidels” allowed travel to Mecca?

So much for peaceful coexistence.

Saudi Arabia is sponsoring radical Imams who enter into our prisons and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one resulting in individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New York with plastic explosives. Thank God the explosives were dummy. They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric revisionist history in our schools.

We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society. We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our Constitutional Republic……that speech is not protected under First Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.

There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in America that has nothing to do with First Amendment, Freedom of Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional.

When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them, please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The tragedy at Ft Hood Texas did not have to happen. Consider now the feelings of those there and on every military installation in the world.. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a combat zone.

Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop thedenial, and realize a simple point.

The reality of your enemy must become your own.

Steadfast and Loyal,

Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)

Just so.
I don't think you'll ever find Lt Col West bowing unnecessarily before foreign leaders and then refusing to honor our own country's flag.

In addition, The One better damn well make sure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KLM) is found guilty and executed in the idiot NY trial. He better damn well make sure that not one U.S. civilian, or any civilian for that matter, gets so much as a scratch due to an attack on the trial.
No, actually, he better damn well make sure there IS NO ATTACK.
Because if there is, then he The One himself, will be directly responsible just as surely as if he were a member of the terrorist group.
But I have absolutely no faith in this government. We are now ruled by people who view murderers and terrorists as victims.
I will be surprised if this so called trial goes well. Pray for my surprise.

This is not some kind of threat of violence from me, so you can call off your dogs. Too bad the snitch email isn't around any more huh?

So, Bush was an idiot eh?

I can't help it, I just got another email that is too good not to post here. Once again, I cut & pasted it with little formatting.
Basically, Bush and some other republicans were considered complete idiots by the press and no error went unreported.
Now however, The One is revered and worshiped, no matter what.

Ask yourself these questions:

If George W.  Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter
installed to be  able to get through a press conference, would you have
laughed and said  this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is
really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If  George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of  dollars to take Laura
Bush to a play in NYC, would you have  approved?


If  George W. Bush had reduced your retirement  plan's holdings of GM stock
by  90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have
approved?


If  George W.  Bush had made a joke at the expense  of the  Special
Olympics, would you have  approved?


If  George W. Bush had given Gordon  Brown a set of inexpensive and
incorrectly formatted DVDs, when  Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful
and  historically significant gift, would you  have approved?


If  George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an  iPod containing videos
of  his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic
and  tacky?


If  George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi  Arabia , would you  have
approved?


If  George W. Bush had visited Austria  and made  reference to the
non-existent "Austrian language," would you   have brushed it off as a minor
slip?


If  George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle  of advisers  with
people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes,  would you
have approved?


If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as  to  refer to "Cinco de
Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it   was the 5th of
May(Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he   tried again, would
you have winced in  embarrassment?


If George W.  Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered
him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he
is?


If George W.  Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel  to go plant a
single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?


If George W.  Bush's administration had okayed Air  Force One flying low
over millions of  people followed  by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan
causing widespread  panic, would you have wondered whether  they actually
get what happened  on 9-11?


If George W.  Bush had failed to send relief aid to  flood victims
throughout  the Midwest with more people killed or  made homeless than in
New Orleans ,  would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue
with claims of  racism and  incompetence?


If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly
to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in
America, would you have approved?


If  George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO  of a  major
corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority  to  do so,would
you have  approved?


If  George W Bush  had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken
more than  two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you  have
approved?


If  George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10
years, would you have approved?


So, tell  me again, what is it about Obama that makes  him so brilliant and
impressive?

Just so.
Seems to me that The One is every bit as much of an idiot as Bush or Quayle. Heck, maybe more so, but I admit that's arguable.

It's all real simple!

For some time now, I've found it a little amusing that the very controlling, intolerant attitudes and actions that many liberals have been complaining about for a few decades have been adopted by them.
For years, liberals have said that conservatives have been trying to force their morals on everyone, have been trying to make the world in thier image, and have been intolerant of anyone who disagrees or is different from them.
The liberals said "leave people alone."
Now, it's reversed. Now,it's the liberals who are controlling and intolerant. No one is more in love with censorship than a liberal, no group wants to force their beliefs and lifestyles on others more.
I need to point out, however, that the libs I speak of are not the classic liberals of decades past. You never hear from those folks anymore it seems.
No, most liberals that are in positions of power or at least in the public eye are really statists as pointed out by one of the talk radio folks that The One and his statist friends wish to silence.
What a shame.

An email from a fellow named Troy in Dallas TX was forwarded to me. I chuckled over it and was about to delete it when I realized that this was a list of examples of exactly what I had been thinking, plus a few more.
The title of this post is that of the message.
So here it is:

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for
everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.
A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a black man or Hispanic is conservative, they see themselves as independently successful.
Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to
church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it’s a foreign religion, of course).

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for it.

If a conservative slips and falls in a store, he gets up, laughs and is embarrassed.
If a liberal slips and falls, he grabs his neck, moans like he's in labor and then sues.

I still find it amusing that today it's the conservative that champions individual freedom and the former liberals fighting for conformity as statists.

Ted Kennedy Remembered

I never much liked ol' Teddy Bear, as my dad called him. I shed no tear at his passing and pretty much ignored the Democrats considering him a hero and his death the passing of a great leader. 'Scuse me whilst I hurl, but then who am I to cast stones.

Further, I found it annoying that many of the same people who bitched about the "Bush Dynasty" and how they got where they were through money and political connections loved and worshiped the Kennedy's. Uh, yeah, well, when you say "Kennedy" you are talking about the most powerful long running political dynasty this country has ever seen. Oh, so sorry, it's not "Dynasty" it's "Camelot" isn't it? 'Scuse me whilst I hurl.

Though I disagreed with him in just about everything and did not like him (and considered him a murderer to boot), I did feel that he was a hard working guy and that he was not at all like The One who mostly decided not to vote at all, just show up and get paid. Or not show up and get paid. Whichever.
And, for all his partying, crashes and cancer, the bastard made it to 77, so he was obviously a tough ol' bird.
I grudgingly gave him some credit.

Ah, but this list of his past transgressions and idiocy was emailed to me recently, and I'm going to post the whole list along with the comments in the message right here.
I never researched the list. The list describes a man exactly like the Ted Kennedy that I saw and remember, so I am inclined to believe every word.

Now, there might be some inaccuracies in this list, it's even likely. So if any one out there can point them out, I'll look it up and print a retraction if you are correct.

I am also going to add a couple of links about the infamous Palm Springs Rape and the Dodd/Kennedy Waitress Sandwich affair as the author of the list missed these.

It isn't wrapped well due to copying from a text message. I aint fixing it.

Lest we forget the truth about this SOB...





The Last of The Kennedy Dynasty


As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at the
"canonization" of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are
saying
what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear &
not
twist the facts to change the real history.

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was
expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a
classmate
to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up
for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four! His
father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up
from
bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the
necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to
ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging. No
preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush
received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of
Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person
of
his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was
cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked
driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights
off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked.
Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized
for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was
admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests
remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed.
Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in
Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his
Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne,
a
campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard
rail,
Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses
and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the
accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he
already
knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to
the
authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer,
and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then
the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had
scratched
at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car.

The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry
would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family,
before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but
after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying
to
rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he
was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he
held
off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem
overnight.
Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as
the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pled guilty to leaving
the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS.
Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance
policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body
exhumed
and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court,
and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills... a "token of
friendship"?


8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but
considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or
argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased
the
minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent,
and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as
the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very first Senate roll, he was
the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside
down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every
expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including the latest
attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious
grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the
standard bearer for the nation in matters of "what's right". What a
pompous
ass!

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and
very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great
American". "A blonde in every pond" is his motto.

Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero -- how quickly the
American public forgets what his real legacy is. Let's keep this going for
truth, justice and the American way!

So, if you're a Ted Kennedy lover, prove at least one of the points wrong.

Then, there's the Dodd/Kennedy Waitress Sandwich (BTW, I don't like Dodd either, freakin' crook).

Go straight to Paragraph 9 in this one, but do read the rest, there are others on both sides of the aisle:

Sexual Awakening

Here's a quote that's all over the place:

Article clip, from the Hartford Courant:

"Dodd and Kennedy were also reported to have made a 'human sandwich' with a waitress at La Brasserie, another Capitol Hill restaurant. The report had it that Kennedy threw the woman on Dodd, who was slumped in a chair, and then jumped on top of her. She was said to have run screaming from the room."

Summary of 1989 Penthouse magazine article, summarized by the Washington Times:

"When she put in an appearance in their private retreat - 'The Teddy Kennedy Fun Room' - the Massachusetts senator picked her up and heaved her onto a table. The crystal candlesticks and champagne glasses shattered as he grabbed her again and flung her on top of Dodd.

"Then Kennedy threw himself on top of the woman. The waitress implored Mr. Kennedy to 'Get off me!'

"Another waitress entered to find 'things all tipped over and Kennedy was on top, [the waitress] was in the middle and Dodd was on the bottom.' At that point the sandwich was disassembled."

Well, I guess Penthouse, The Washington Times and the Hartford Courant got some 'splainin' to do if this is not true. Or should make it clear they never printed it.
In Dodd's defense ('Scuse me whilst I hurl), he was reported to have been passed out drunk and it was Kennedy who did it without his knowledge.

And the Palm Beach Rape.
Now, Teddy Bear didn't do it, it was his cute lil' nephew Will. But it seems that the Kennedy's did do a bit of stonewalling against the investigators. And lil' Willy did seem to have a taste for rape.
Ah well, 6 degrees and all that. I'm being a bit of an ass putting it in here, since it's not directly Ted.
But it was an event!
The linked article, being Time magazine, is mostly sympathetic. You can find unsympathetic articles all over the blogosphere, but I don't feel like it. I'll end on a milder note:

Then There Were Three

Health Care Debate

So far, I haven't weighed in on it. Not much time and I wanted to find out more before commenting as so much of what we hear from both sides seems self serving.

I recently did a long post on a forum I belong to, with many links. Just to be lazy, I'm reprinting the post here:


I would like to see government run catastrophic health insurance.
That's all.

On the other hand, it would be nice if there was single payer so that the big companies didn't have the advantage over smaller companies.

This whole thing needs more thought, but I am drop dead terrified of what's being shoved at us now.

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So, the evil insurance companies drop people who are too expensive. The govt would never do something awful like that:

Obama-Veterans

Dump the veterans on private insurers to save $540mil.
Sooooo, govt can do a better job insuring us all? Can't even afford injured soldiers. (note, BTW, that is CNN, not the evil, lyin' racist nazi FOX ).

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And speaking of veterans, how silly we brain damaged Nazi protesters are for thinking our beloved president would ever have "death panels."
Uh, well OK, maybe we are being silly on this one:

Your Life, Your Choices

But there's a bunch of other text in the bill itself that does seem to point to this. For me, this is one of those "needs more info" things.


But that inbred dimbulb Palin just mouths off with nothing to back her up:

Palin-Facebook

Oops, oh my, footnotes and direct references to the actual bill. How inconvenient. Here's a bit of that reading I need to do. Sometime.

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Now some Canadians think their health care is just spiffy and so much cheaper:

LA Times article

But then why:

Vancouver Sun article

Canadian Press Article

Freep-Eek!

And they have it very good compared to some.

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Let's have a taste of that gubbamint health care the triumviRAT of Pelosi/Reid/Obama want us all to have:

NHS Refuses Pain Killers

Birth Problem

NHS Sick Days

NHS aint sacrosanct

More Birth Follies

And the best of all:

Oops, wrong organ

"When the docs screw up.
They're incompetent boobs
Who you gonna sue?

NOOO BODY"
(sung to the Ghost Busters tune)

That guy can't do diddly about that cock up. BECAUSE IT'S GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE AND GOOD LUCK SUING THE GOVERNMENT.
Yeah, at first, we'll have private doctors and our loving benevolent gubbamint will just be the pocketbook. Don't be naive enough to think that will last. Just my opinion.

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Now this, THIS RIGHT HERE, is critical to understanding freedom loving people's fear of this plan and how our beloved president is not being completely forthright:

Keep your insurance?

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Champions of the health care bill will point to the profits of the insurance industry. But let's follow the money:

Obama connections

Shades of Cheney / Haliburton!

Aaaaand, speaking of money, those bad ol' insurance companies are just raking it in:

Profit Margins

Yeah, just look at all those insurance companies listed on the fastest growing chart:

Fastest Growing

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After all this, don't forget that at the beginning, I wrote that this whole thing needs more thought. I say we take a peek at the French system:

French system

It is having problems:

French Troubles

But it's still worth a look:

Another French system look

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Now, many folks point out how successful Medicare and Medicaid are. I do NOT think they are so damn successful, but until I get more info and links, I'll leave that one alone.

Go Ahead, Report Me

OBAMA SUCKS!

That sort of outburst simply isn't allowed. Won't be tolerated, at least not for long.

Further, I proclaim that The One's health care bill is a socialist dream. It's intent is to increase government control over us, nothing more.

Here's a few points about the healthscare bill I poached from a reply to an absurd editorial, which I will link to later:

Sec. 142, Pg. 42 - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your benefits for you. You have no choice.
Sec. 152, Pg. 50-51 - Health Care will be provided to ALL NON-US citizens.
Sec. 163, Pg. 58-59 beginning at line 5 - Government will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID health care card will be issued.
Sec. 163, Pg. 59, Lines 21-24 - Government will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Sec. 164, Pg. 65 is a tax-payer subsidized payoff plan for retirees and their families in unions & community organizations (ie. ACORN).
Sec. 205, Pg. 102, Lines 12-18 - Medicaid-eligible individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No freedom to choose.
Sec. 223, Pg. 124, Lines 24-25 - No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No administrative of judicial review against a government monopoly.

See, I'm passing on vile disinformation! I am dangerous! A radical! Villains like me must be stopped!

Better report heretics like me to:

flag@whitehouse.gov

For more information, go to:

Whitehouse Blog

This is one way it starts.

People like me will be in serious trouble by The One's third term.

Oh, here's the idiot article:

A Norwich Bulletin Dork

Sheesh.