Sunday, June 1, 2014

We Have Been Had by the Obama Administration: The President in a Possible Conspiracy with Robert Bergdahl to "... free all Guantanamo prisoners...."

ALERT: WE'VE BEEN HAD BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN A POTENTIAL CONSPIRACY WITH FREED ARMY SGT. BOWE BERGDAHL AND HIS FATHER, ROBERT BERGDAHL!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, in one manner or another, we have been had. President Obama via his liaisons within the Islamic state of Qatar along the Persian Gulf have brokered what perhaps is the most corrupt bargain in a swap of five Taliban prisoners for the lone U.S. military personnel known to have been held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan in Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. It appears as if all is not as it seems when you have the opportunity to read the series of tweets from Sgt. Bergdahl's father Robert Bergdahl below.

In accessing records of the history behind Sgt. Bergdahl's capture, I found several articles from the past few years suggesting that he was, in fact, a traitor who deserted his post as a disgruntled soldier having provided correspondence material with his family, most notably father Robert Bergdahl. Having watched my next door neighbors being brought to their knees in grief and prayer over the loss of their nephew, Danny Lee, from a fatal gunshot wound to the chest that I understand killed him instantly, this disgusts me far more if what I have read is indeed true.

The first news outlet in which I read this information was The Miami Herald. Around midnight when I accessed the page, it was filled with very revealing, provocative details about Sgt. Bergdahl's past, which were covered very little prior to the past few days; what was discussed was in a sprinkling of random articles over the span heavily concentrated from 2012 to the past 24 hours. The article within The Miami Herald, however, has been removed from the website, and the reasoning for this was neither revealed nor do I myself have any knowledge of why.  If you wish to look at the link yourself - and please read the URL provided on your screen - you may do so here.

To grasp the full gravity of what we may have just witness unfold, I want to direct you to a video shot of Sgt. Bergdahl by his captors within the Taliban:



Now, read a blog post from the June 13, 2012's The New York Times below:
New Report Says Captive U.S. Soldier Left His Post Willingly
By MARK MCDONALD  JUNE 13, 2012 12:01 AM 6 Comments
HONG KONG — Two weeks from now, a young soldier from Idaho, Bowe Bergdahl, will have been in the hands of the Taliban for three years. He is America’s only prisoner of war.
How he was captured is in serious dispute — whether he simply walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan in disgust over the army’s prosecution of the war, or whether he was captured as he lagged behind on a patrol, or whether Taliban fighters grabbed him out of a latrine.
A new article in Rolling Stone says categorically that Mr. Bergdahl, then a 23-year-old private, left his weapon and other gear behind and walked away from his combat outpost after being deployed for only a few months. An excerpt from the article, written by Michael Hastings:
In the early-morning hours of June 30th, according to soldiers in the unit, Bowe approached his team leader not long after he got off guard duty and asked his superior a simple question: If I were to leave the base, would it cause problems if I took my sensitive equipment?
Yes, his team leader responded — if you took your rifle and night-vision goggles, that would cause problems.
Bowe returned to his barracks, a roughly built bunker of plywood and sandbags. He gathered up water, a knife, his digital camera and his diary. Then he slipped off the outpost.
A furious search ensued when it was discovered that Private Bergdahl was missing. The effort included Predator drones, tracking teams with sniffer dogs, an electronic intercept plane called Guardrail, F-18s, F-15s and Afghan Army helicopters.
“No one knew whether Bowe was a deserter, a prisoner or a casualty,” Mr. Hastings writes. “At that point he was simply listed as DUSTWUN — short for ‘Duty Status: Whereabouts Unknown.’ ”
The military newspaper Stars & Stripes reported last week that even now “the Pentagon has never presented a detailed account of Bergdahl’s disappearance, but he is not classified as a deserter and has been promoted twice while held in captivity.” (He is now a sergeant.)
In July of 2009, the Taliban released a video of Sergeant Bergdahl. Over the years, four more have followed. The latest video, with desperate pleas from Sergeant Bergdahl for his release, is the most difficult for his parents to watch.
“The videos show a steep decline in Bowe’s appearance and mental health,” Mr. Hastings says. “In the first two videos he displays a measured calm, a kind of doped-out serenity that is missing from the most recent installments. Each is typical jihadist propaganda, using Bowe to recite lines criticizing American foreign policy.”
He is now believed to be held, “alive and relatively well, by the militant Haqqani network across the border in the tribal area of Pakistan’s northwest frontier,” my colleague Elisabeth Bumiller recently wrote in a story from Mr. Bergdahl’s hometown of Hailey, Idaho.
Elisabeth’s piece, which includes extensive interviews with Sergeant Bergdahl’s parents, and Mr. Hastings’ story describe him as a plucky, adventurous, outdoorsy kid. Home-schooled by his parents using a Calvinist curriculum, he rode horses, became good with a rifle and danced the role of the Nutcracker at a local ballet academy. He took up fencing, crewed on a sailboat, traveled through Europe, worked as a barista in Hailey and tried to join the French Foreign Legion but was rejected.
During training as a gung-ho recruit in the army, Mr. Hastings writes, he “earned the nickname ‘SF,’ short for Special Forces — but it wasn’t a compliment.”
Upon deployment in Afghanistan in the spring of 2009, he quickly became disillusioned with military life. His unit was known for its lack of discipline, Mr. Hastings writes, due in part to frequent changes in its leaders. Three days before his disappearance, he wrote an e-mail to his parents that said he was “ashamed to even be american. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting.”
From the Rolling Stone article:
“He then referred to what his parents believe may have been a formative, possibly traumatic event: seeing an Afghan child run over by an MRAP. ‘We don’t even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks. . . We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them.’
“Bowe concluded his e-mail with what, in another context, might read as a suicide note. ‘I am sorry for everything,’ he wrote. ‘The horror that is america is disgusting.’ ”
Elisabeth writes that a deal has been in the works that would “trade five Taliban prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay for Sergeant Bergdahl,” a deal that apparently has stalled. His father, Robert Bergdahl, said he went public with the media “to try to push the Obama administration to revive the talks.”
In comments on MSNBC, Mr. Hastings said, “There are elements within the Pentagon who don’t want to make the trade for Bowe Bergdahl.”
Robert Bergdahl has also “reached out to the insurgents,” Elisabeth writes. “He is now in regular e-mail contact with a man he believes is a member of the Taliban with accurate knowledge of his son.”
“Why wouldn’t a father do this? This is my job,” he said, adding that he now believes the Taliban would not harm his son. A recent video appeal by Mr. Bergdahl is here.
About a possible trade for Sergeant Bergdahl, Mr. Hastings writes:
Unofficially, however, his status within the military is sharply contested. According to officials familiar with the internal debate, there are those in both Congress and the Pentagon who view Bowe as a deserter, and perhaps even a traitor. As with everything in Washington these days, the sharp political discord has complicated efforts to secure his release.
One White House official told Mr. Hastings that the details of Sergeant Bergdahl’s capture are irrelevant.
“He’s an American soldier,” the official said. “We want to bring him home.” 

Five days earlier, CBS News by way of the Associated Press, reported this:
APJune 8, 2012, 2:51 AM
Bowe Bergdahl, U.S. soldier held by Taliban, was "ashamed to be American," emails show
(AP) WASHINGTON - Emails an American soldier reportedly sent to his parents before he was captured by the Taliban three years ago suggest he was disillusioned and considering deserting.
Bowe Bergdahl told his parents he was "ashamed to even be American" and was disgusted with the U.S. mission in Afghanistan and with the Army, according to emails quoted in Rolling Stone magazine.
Bergdahl, a 26-year-old Army sergeant from Hailey, Idaho, was taken prisoner on June 30, 2009, in Afghanistan.
The military has never detailed circumstances of his disappearance or capture, and he is not classified as a deserter. He was initially listed as "duty status unknown" and is now considered "missing-captured." He is the only U.S. prisoner of war from the Afghanistan conflict, and U.S. officials say they are actively trying to free him.
Bergdahl's dad vows POW son will come home
Bowe Bergdahl: Prisoner of war, politics and diplomacy
Pentagon: We're doing "everything" to find POW
The White House declined comment on the emails or Bergdahl's possible motivation for leaving his base in eastern Afghanistan in 2009.
Bergdahl is the subject of a proposed prisoner swap in which he would be traded for five Taliban adherents imprisoned by the United States at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Taliban have walked away from the deal and larger negotiations with the United States, but the Obama administration is still pushing a negotiated settlement between the Taliban and the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan.
The Rolling Stone article, to be published Friday, also quotes other soldiers and associates of Bergdahl's as saying that he had talked about walking to Pakistan if his deployment was "lame" and that shortly before his disappearance he had asked whether he should take his weapon if he left the base. Friends and other soldiers describe a survivalist mentality, and Bergdahl's father, Bob, told the magazine that his son was "living in a novel."
"The future is too good to waste on lies," one email reads. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong."
The emails were provided to the magazine by Bergdahl's family in Idaho, which has gone public with its own discontent with U.S. efforts to free their son. There is no way to authenticate the emails.
Some of Bergdahl's reported words read like a suicide note.
"I am sorry for everything," he wrote. "The horror that is America is disgusting."
He mailed home boxes containing his uniform and books.
© 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 
Finally, in an article far too long to also provide a hard copy as I attempt to usually, the British publication The Daily Mail published this including the outline just three months ago on March 3, 2014, the day prior to the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula: 
  • Did American prisoner of war abandon his unit? U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl faces accusations he walked away from his comrades when he was caught
  • U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been held captive by the Taliban since June 2009
  • He is the only American to be taken prisoner in the Afghan war
  • Bergdahl is said to have abandoned his unit a few months after arriving in Afghanistan
  • He is believed to have been captured at a makeshift latrine
  • Pentagon continues to try and have him freed
  • Legal and military experts say he will likely be tried for desertion upon return to U.S.
  • Under American law, his captivity will not be viewed as punishment
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I will leave the judgment duties solely to you and not me. I do believe, however, you know exactly where my thoughts lie. We've been had, sold down the river to the Taliban and now Israel is in the greatest danger in its history. Having engaged in research over what foreign alliances are unfolding prior to the Russian invasion of the Crimean Peninsula and have yet to be able to find a means to host it over my blog since Google has yet to address this issue dating to the last week of March, I may have to complete it in the form of a Word document and attach it to its own article. What you will read in this is beyond frightening.
Dating to October 13, 2013: Robert Bergdahl's Potentially Treasonous Tweets Which May Lead to the President's Desk in the Oval Office:



Robert Bergdahl @bobbergdahl
Message of Felicitation of the Esteemed Amir-ul-Momineen (may Allah protect him) on the Occasion of Eid-ul-Odha http://www.shahamat-english.com/index.php/paighamoona/38618-message-of-felicitation-of-the-esteemed-amir-ul-momineen-may-allah-protect-him-on-the-occasion-of-eid-ul-odha …

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S.M @redsteeze
The @bobbergdahl account has deleted this tweet

Collin Edwards @collinE83
5 Gitmo prisoners were traded for the American POW. The father's twitter is a little strange... https://twitter.com/bobbergdahl/status/471723375543336961 …


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S.M @redsteeze
This is why Obama might have another scandal on his hands..

  1. wendy worden @wendykjohns
    @mflynny @RichardGrenell @jeannebodine look at his timeline
Nied's Dead Horse @mflynny
@wendykjohns @RichardGrenell @jeannebodine I just now checked it out. Egad.

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Deborah Cleveland @Dbeb311
"@RichardGrenell: RT @wendykjohns: bowes dad is working to free all gitmo prisoners pic.twitter.com/c5QySLLady"@whiskeytengo Yikes!

Christian Ziegler @ChrisMZiegler
Wow. This is the father who appeared alongside Obama today. RT @bobbergdahl: I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners.
 Sarasota, FL, United States

TFC3Tweets @TFC3Tweets
So, it seems Bergdahl's father is sympathetic toward the Taliban at Gitmo. That's fucking fantastic.



  1. Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell
    RT @wendykjohns: bowes dad is working to free all gitmo prisoners pic.twitter.com/aBQIoI3dVR
Janice Chilcoat @jchilcoatva
Reading Bowe's father's TL feels like an episode of "Homeland" @RichardGrenell @GayPatriot @wendykjohns


  1. HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN ™ @tracieeeeee
    R U KIDDING??? Five of the Most Dangerous Taliban Commanders in U.S. Custody Exchanged for American Captive | The We http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/five-most-dangerous-taliban-commanders-us-custody-released-pow-exchange_794017.html …
The Birds Word @The_BirdsWord
@tracieeeeee I want to know why the soldiers father is so adamant about the release of all the Gitmo detainees.


  1. HETEROSEXUAL WOMAN ™ @tracieeeeee
    Is anybody rose thinking like me that and the Taliban and the crazed looking father that something ain't right here at all
Sharon Andreas @SharNeal
@tracieeeeee I agree -the father wants ALL Gitmo terrorists released - I don't like this


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Mary A @JoanOfArc1909
@irritatedwoman Why is Bowe Berghdahl's father trying 2 free Gitmo prisoners? This POW story has been odd since day 1


  1. Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell
    RT @wendykjohns: bowes dad is working to free all gitmo prisoners pic.twitter.com/aBQIoI3dVR
Deborah Matthews @DeborahMatthew1
@RichardGrenell I am sick to my stomach! God save us from our leaders.

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Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Veterans Affairs Scandal and You: Don't Trust Your Piggy Bank Nor Life to Your Government

Subject: The Battle of "He Said, She Said" Over the VA Scandal

Ladies and gentlemen, of all the dozens of scandals we have witness during the Obama presidency, there perhaps is no greater tragedy from the perspective of morality than the one involving so many deaths due to red tape causing waiting lines within the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals. Within any government-operated program is joined with it enormous waiting periods and far worse treatment. When you read about the military being required at the directive of both the president and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to switch from religious chaplains to Humanist atheist ones at the outright rejection of personnel, there is an issue with which side the administration is favoring: his constituents comprised of the minority demographics in that classification or the troops who serve their Commander-in-Chief, albeit against their druthers if one reads of the frosty reception received of the president by this year's graduating class at West Point. Ironically, both PBS News Hour as well as the U.S. Department of State edited out the reception to the president's speech from their video footage. The Daily Conversation, however, will be the talk of this speech:


Now compare the current president's reception by the graduates of 2014 to the 2002 class preparing for President George W. Bush's famous trip to Iraq for Thanksgiving in 2003:


 Now, if you see this difference, compare these videos to Ronald Reagan from 1986 in Iceland:


The bottom two presidents, particularly "The Gipper," win hands-down. As for President Obama, well, he rewarded the troops in Afghanistan on Memorial Day 2014 by revealing the identity of a major CIA operative. The aphorism by a true genius in Albert Einstein, "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” is a gross understatement for the current president since he at least owns a very expensive television likely paid for with millions of our taxpayer dollars.
Sen. Richard Burr (R - N.C.)
Addressing the Issues of Organization and Accusations by the Left of the GOP Nixing Funding:

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C) warned us what was occurring in VA hospitals nationally in February. The Senate GOP attempted to cut as much of the red tape as possible; the Democrats refused to even come to the bargaining table. They now place the sole blame on the GOP Senators. 

Excerpt courtesy of The Washington Post:
On Tuesday, GOP lawmakers tried to trim the VA bill and add sanctions on Iran for that nation’s nuclear program. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) blocked those attempts. (Sen. Reid refused to compromise.)
Veterans groups expressed frustration with the bill’s failure, saying it fell victim to Washington’s partisan politics. The measure was four votes shy of a 60-vote threshold required for it to have advanced.
Aside from the costs, Republicans also were concerned that the bill would add more veterans to a system already struggling with extensive wait times at VA health clinics and a long-standing backlog of disability claims. The legislation would have extended the period of time veterans are eligible to enroll in the VA health-care system from five years to 10 years after deployment.
Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), the ranking Republican on the panel, said on the Senate floor this week that the bill would not provide the resources needed for the program expansions to happen without more frustration and delays for veterans already in the network.
“We have veterans dying from long waits for basic, necessary tests like colonoscopies,” Burr said Thursday. “Veterans waiting for their disability claims to be processed know all about frustrations and delays at the VA, and adding more individuals to an already broken system doesn’t seem wise.”
The measure failed to reach the mandatory 60 votes to advance to the floor 56-41 because of Sen. Reid's refusal to come to the bargaining table. The Huffington Post is placing sole blame on the GOP for the deaths of the patients at the VA.
41 Republican Senators Voted Against a Landmark Veterans Bill in February, Today They Blame the VA
Posted: 05/27/2014 8:27 am EDT Updated: 05/27/2014 8:59 am EDT

Earlier this year, the GOP had a chance to prove that it could fund veterans' health care as eagerly as it borrowed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long before the current VA crisis, an event described as "a gift from God" by Dr. Ben Carson, Senate Republicans had a chance to vote on a landmark bill. Before the Senate vote, organizations devoted to the needs of veterans and their families offered widespread support to the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014.
On January 21, 2014 the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) wrote a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsing the legislation. The IAVA believed, "This legislation would accomplish many of the goals for which veterans and military service organizations have been advocating for years, including strengthening the Post-9/11 GI Bill, expanding advance appropriations for more of the VA's budget... and much more." The Veterans of Foreign Wars was just as enthusiastic in its support, and wrote a similar letter explaining how S.1982 would help veterans:
If signed into law, this sweeping legislation would expand and improve health care and benefit services to all generations of veterans and their families. Most notably, it would expand the current caregiver law to include all generations of veterans and provide advance appropriations to ensure monthly compensation and pension as well as education payments are protected from future budget battles. The bill also offers in-state tuition protection for recently transitioned veterans, improves access to mental health and treatment for victims of sexual assault in the military, and authorizes construction of more than 20 Community Bases Outpatient Clinics to serve veterans in rural and remote communities.
Echoing the IAVA and VFW, The Paralyzed Veterans of America stated that "This legislation marks one of the most comprehensive bills to ever be considered in the Senate or House." The PVA went on to state that, "If enacted, S. 1982 would accomplish some of the highest priorities for Paralyzed Veterans and its members." VetsFirst, another group devoted to disabled veterans, also explained "this legislation goes a long way toward fulfilling many of the current and future needs of our disabled veterans."
Furthermore, The American Legion lent "its full support" to the bill since it "addresses several high priority issues for The American Legion, like repealing the 1 percent retiree COLA provision, funding the stalled CBOCs for the VA, increasing access to health care for veterans at VA, employment and education fixes, and other programs that are important to us." In addition, The American Legion explained that the Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 was essential to veterans in other ways:
The American Legion also appreciates the many areas in which this bill addresses needed attention regarding Military Sexual Trauma counseling, additional training and assistance for Traumatic Brain Injury victims, improvements and much-needed updates to the Dependency and Indemnification Compensation program, VA's Work-Study program, and its On-the-Job Training program.
Therefore, with so much positive feedback from veterans groups about the bill, it's only logical to assume that Senate Republicans would do everything possible to ensure it became law. 
Unfortunately, S.1982 was killed by Senate Republicans, with a vote of 56-41 -- only Republicans Senators voting nay and with only two Republicans voting for the bill. The logic behind every vote against the bill being Republican rests in the following statement from North Carolina Senator Richard M. Burr:
With $17 trillion in debt and massive annual deficits, our country faces a fiscal crisis of unparalleled scope. Now is not the time, in any federal department, to spend money we don't have. To be sure, there's much to like in the Sanders bill. And if those components were presented as separate, smaller bills, as part of a carefully considered long-term strategy to reform the VA, hold leadership accountable and improve services to veterans, we would have no problem extending enthusiastic support.
Also, Republicans called for sanctions on Iran to be included within the veterans' bill, and since it wasn't included within the bill, they voted against the landmark legislation. As stated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell regarding the Iran sanctions, "There is no excuse for muzzling the Congress on an issue of this importance to our own national security."
So how did veterans feel about the February 26, 2014 vote where 41 Republicans voted against a sweeping bill to help veterans? American Legion National Commander Daniel M. Dellinger expressed his frustration with the outcome by stating, "There was a right way to vote and a wrong way to vote today, and 41 senators chose the wrong way. That's inexcusable."
As for Senator Richard Burr, he recently received a scathing letter from the Veterans of Foreign Wars pertaining to his open letter to veterans groups about the VA crisis. In addition, Burr received another response letter from the Paralyzed Veterans of America stating that, "Rest assured, you do not speak for or represent the interests of Paralyzed Veterans' members-veterans with spinal cord injury or dysfunction or any other VSO."
It should not be overlooked that veterans have been committing suicide, enduring long wait times for disability benefits, and dealing with a wide array of others issues ignored by Congress for the past decade. Also, the most indignant Republicans like Sen. Burr of North Carolina have also voted against S.1982 and now blame bureaucratic issues, rather than funding problems, as the cause of the VA crisis. Therefore, it's safe to say that the latest VA crisis and the deaths of veterans in Arizona served as convenient opportunity for the GOP to feign indignation over issues veterans have faced for years.
What better way to circumvent responsibility for underfunding the VA and voting against veteran's legislation than blaming big government? Somebody should tell Sen. Burr and the GOP that we funded both wars with "money we didn't have" and we should fund veterans health care as enthusiastically as we paid (borrowed) for two war. 
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And if this is true, have all of these veterans died since February 27, 2014? How long has this been occurring without any attempt by President Obama to fix the issue that was left over from the Bush administration? In attempts to curtail further deaths due to more red tape contributing to greater waiting time, the measures to cut funding were reshuffled by the GOP to include sanctions against Iran; this was denied in favor of the president's soft-handed approach and support for the current regime in Tehran.
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According to The National Journal, the following can be attributed to the Obama presidency:
"And as claims soared during Obama's first years in office, so did wait times. In 2009, there were about 423,000 claims at the VA, with 150,000 claims pending for more than four months (the official wait time it takes a claim to be considered "backlogged"). By 2012, claims had exploded to more than 883,000—and 586,540 of those sat on the VA's backlog list.
The administration did request—and get from Congress—additional funding for the department. The VA's budget totaled $100 billion in 2009. In 2014, it was up to $154 billion. But that money doesn't instantly transfer into an expanded capacity to meet veterans' needs: It takes approximately two years to fully train a claims worker; the blame for the staff crunch doesn't rest on Obama's shoulders alone." 
But to read The Huffington Post, the sole blame is again on George W. Bush. According to the following report from Fox News via The Daily Caller, the most damning indictment on mismanagement of tax dollars is exposed:
"Despite liberal claims that VA needs more funding, based on a report from the labor union the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) that VA is underfunded, the scandal-plagued department actually has a surplus in medical-care funding.
VA expects to carry over $450 million in medical-care funding from fiscal year 2014 to fiscal year 2015. VA received its full requested medical care appropriation of $54.6 billion this fiscal year, which is more than $10 billion more than it received four years ago.
This is part of an ongoing trend.
VA carried over $1.449 billion in medical-care funding from fiscal year 2010 to 2011, $1.163 billion from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2012, $637 million from fiscal year 2012 to 2013, and $543 million from fiscal year 2013 to 2014.
The Daily Caller reported that VA spent more than $3.5 million on furniture the night before the government shutdown on the last day of fiscal year 2013 so as not to lose that money in the department’s budget the next fiscal year."
Apparently, the Democratic Party is even more incompetent with monetary matters when they have a surplus in one area. Why did they have a surplus? The answer may be found in why the president decided through Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel to impose the largest cuts in both military funding by percentage as well as number of troops since 1940, and why they made it an under-the-radar de facto Affirmative Action measure for the automatic inclusion of any undocumented illegal alien to join, no questions asked. 

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Conclusion: Never Trust Your Piggy Bank nor Lives to a Democrat

"What difference at this point does it make?" Hillary Clinton, who the socialist media has already inaugurated her as president, just hired this very stupid young man to work for her, perhaps on her campaign, provided she reveals her brain damage and more dead bodies in Chicago materialize with ten votes per:
"Dude, that was like two years ago!" This is a prime example of why you never trust a socialist with your life. It is a democratically-elected variation of Stalin's gulags, Mao's labor camps, Pol Pot of Cambodia's "killing fields," and the North Korean regime's variation. If the president and Mrs. Clinton managed to sidestep responsibility with Benghazi just this year by first blaming a director for producing a film with an anti-Islamic message and then four days later acknowledging what all Americans already knew that it was a terrorist attack, why would we be surprised of the VA issues? This has been an issue always difficult for sitting presidents dating to the JFK years to manage, but there have been four years of surplus budgets within the Veteran Affairs budgets, and the president touted this on shrewd budgeting by Sec. Eric Shinseki. Coincidentally, there is a separate Cabinet position for the VA, and yet today we continue to read or watch over the news of the most grotesque incident perhaps in our nation's history of where there is a surplus and yet one hand does not know what the other seems to be doing. I have always said with regards to the continual declining academic standards domestically despite more funding being pumped into the U.S. Department of Education and the state coffers than ever before that more money does not necessarily render to the public a good return on their taxed incomes. When I read that undocumented illegal aliens are receiving better care than naturalized Americans and now the VA hospitals, I am appalled and nearly ashamed to call myself an American citizen save for the fact that I, as a voter, am determined to address the situation as best I can with my vote. 

Still worse is how the Obama administration is working to confiscate firearms from veterans under the guise of preventing each and every one since all have post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) might kill innocent victims; it is more likely that the president fears a possible uprising upon further measures to destroy the Second Amendment. Watch again Sen. Dianne Feinstein's very horrifying comment (R-TX):

With more attention paid to kidnapped Muslim girls in Nigeria than an imprisoned Christian pastor in Iran or the Marine in Mexico, I cannot bear to watch what another two years of the Obama presidency has in store. The GOP is on the cusp of perhaps winning super majorities in both houses of Congress, and yet so many of those are borderline Democrats. The party now wants to run another Bush to continue blackening the eyes of conservatives nationally with his initiatives to accelerated Obama's plans for unconditional amnesty and Common Core while killing the will of the voter within the conservative demographic to have a true conservative or a populist like Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to hopefully shape up Washington or force those who will not to ship out. The Constitution once meant something; it has not for more than 100 years, and it has been all but placed into the president's shredder as he continues to govern by means of executive orders. As drones are completely legal by the president's revelation to be used against all Americans, the day where I so proudly pledged at Brickey Elementary School here in Knoxville "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty" is no more. The government through Obamacare now has the legal rights to determine who is to live or die; the VA scandal is a precursor to this very dangerous issue of the elderly being allowed to die while homosexuals will be fully funded for transgender operations. America is not yet dead, but we can no longer afford to procrastinate acting.
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Reaction to the National Labor Relations Board's (NRLB) Decision in Favor of NCAA Unionization (From March 27, 2014)

Northwestern University Football Program's Militant Propaganda Lithograph


Reaction to the National Labor Relations Board's (NRLB) Decision in Favor of NCAA Unionization (From March 27, 2014)

May 18, 2014 at 11:12pm

As a matter of coinciding conservative and libertarian ideological principles, I detest labor and trade unions and am strongly in favor of the outright abolition of the Wagner Act (1938) that legalized unionization since we could go into semantics by stating that in principle, this right was implicitly guaranteed due to the provision with the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights (1791) providing the American people for all time the right to peaceful assembly. This to me is the only reason why I am not at all opposed to today's NLRB ruling in favor of the Northwestern University football players in their victory in attaining the right to unionize. However, this does not entail that those who choose to strike are immune from the latent consequences which follow. Labor unions have far too great a mandate for bargaining power in the negotiation processes between labor representatives and the legal teams from the corporations against which the workers are striking.

The NCAA has been guilty for its entire existence of profiteering off of the labors of the players while they play their respective sports for nothing further than the scholarships they are granted and the meager stipends they receive for costs of living. And while no one is stating that to be paid to attend classes and to in theory and principle graduate is not to imply that there is not a major breach of the ethical standards of the academic honor code of conduct, a plurality of fans are aware that the two sports for which this will serve as the pivotal factor in what I believe is a fundamental shift of which schools are to not suffer the greatest hit to their programs while those that do may in the end fold wings and disband their athletic departments are football and men's basketball. And the greatest irony of all are the programs like Northwestern University which struggle to produce a profit and therefore contribute their fair cut of the budget to the university's war chest that will be the institutions whose athletic departments will be crippled to the point that not only will they be forced to their knees financially due to their inability to "keep up with the Jones'," but also cut out all athletic programs from the academic budgets due to the lack of any profitability nor simply to break even.

The next series of questions which will lead into a snowball effect that becomes an avalanche is what the pay scale standards are going to be slated in principle, if there will indeed be a base minimum wage or salary and a firm or soft salary cap, how the controversies regarding profit sharing within the athletic departments will be reconciled since the majority of intercollegiate athletics reside within the public universities, what the NCAA is prepared to do in order to protect the interests of private universities that do not have the large war chests of finances nor capacities to earn large revenues for their departments, and finally how this will affect the trend of early entries into the NFL and NBA drafts. More questions have now been raised than answers provided, and many years more of further litigation are bound to occur before the final settlement(s) are to be reached.

Today's court ruling in favor of the Northwestern University football players right to unionize has spelled the imminent death of the intercollegiate student-athlete. In a matter of a generation or less, the legitimacy and economic viability of the NCAA will no longer be a quantifiable nor qualitative entity nor presence in our culture. And this has not even attempted to reconcile the matter of how this diffuses to the NFL and NBA as of yet.

What I want to know is how this will affect the salaries paid in both the NFL and the NBA, plus the WNBA? I am prone to believe that the pay scale will not be as major a factor in the NBA since it already pays the second highest average salary per player behind Major League Baseball. It will hurt substantially the plight of the WNBA, which already struggles to fill arenas and accrue television audiences. The WNBA athletes do not earn even a sliver of what the average player in the all-male leagues do because of the low revenue margins inhibiting the capacity of the league's franchises are to pay.

The NFL, however, has just passed the $10 billion in revenue threshold and is only slightly ahead of Major League Baseball which is now well over the $9 billion total. The NFL has thrived upon raiding the colleges for players while not having to foot the bill to develop its own talent aside from the failed experiment with NFL Europe. Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL, has already set his very ambitious goal of reaching $25 billion in total revenue within a few years. And while the league is experience steady profits and growth in revenues (the NFL was worth $1.3 billion in 1990; it is now at $10 billion today), he has failed to ameliorate the fans by doing next to nothing to decrease, and in most cases, dramatically increased prices on tickets league-wide,  NFL Shop gear and NFL Sunday Ticket season packages. Drinks at these events, as with all leagues, are extremely expensive, but the NFL's prices are the highest as I have been informed. He also is planning to expand the total days of the week in which games will be played by adding one game on Wednesday and Saturday. He has tried now for the entirety of his tenure as commissioner to add two additional games to the season schedules, and also is close to formally proposing adding a new franchise in London, England, while also in Los Angeles, the latter where no franchise has succeeded while the idea to add a team in London has proven to be very unpopular with fans especially when he is hell bent upon Wembley Stadium hosting a Super Bowl. Most of my friends do not have access to NFL Network because it is either not available through their cable or satellite providers or if it is, they cannot afford to pay the subscription costs; they therefore heartily despise the fact there are Thursday night games as it is. With this poor economic planning, the failure to decrease prices and instead to continue to increase them as he continues oversaturating the market with the NFL brand, and worst of all, the salary caps have been decreased rather than increased while revenues increase leading to lower average pay scales for players means nothing more to me than this new court decision requiring the NCAA to permit student-athletes to unionize which leads to paying living wages as part of the rights to work laws will fundamentally alter how professional football will operate and furthermore, to simply exist. They have lived off of sponging the talent from major college football programs for more than 90 years, and I dare say that not only will more scholar athletes opt to stay in school unless it is too lucrative to turn down early entry into the draft, but if the NFL chooses to aggressively pursue these player, they will be required to dip into the piggy bank and either increase substantially the hard cap total, or perhaps do as Major League Baseball has done for more than a generation: replace the hard salary cap with one that is soft and can be surpassed in total so long as the teams agree to pay a luxury tax.

We have not yet addressed the issue of the current barrage of litigation faced by both the NFL and NCAA regarding traumatic head injuries in which the NFL just recently was instructed by a federal court to pay more than $800 million (remember, the league's total revenue is $10 billion), and just a few weeks ago, a federal judge announced plans to increase dramatically the total restitution to be paid to well over $1 billion. When we consider that this was just the first major class action lawsuit of its type and there will be many more like it in the near future, the league is on the verge of authoring its own demise due to decades of mismanagement, living beyond its means while not awarding due compensation in correlative salaries nor post-career pensions and health care benefits. This is not simply a problem with Roger Goodell and the owners controlling the league as an absolute monopoly over the NFLPA, but also the NFLPA, especially under the late Gene Upshaw, that stifled and finally destroyed those efforts.

For more on the topic, read this editorial from The New York Times, 27 April 2014
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My Response to Bristol Palin's Blog Article Reposted from March 27, 2012 "How I Got Over My Very Public Mistakes"

My Response to Bristol Palin's Blog Article Reposted from March 27, 2012 "How I Got Over My Very Public Mistakes"

May 20, 2014 at 12:27am

(Below is first the article posted by the daughter of former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's eldest child, Bristol, who runs a blog on faith and the choices we make with regards to our lives. I read it periodically as I constantly am consuming some book, magazine or newspaper article, or academic journal on history, politics and philosophy. I am also subscribed to her Facebook page, and I find how our younger counterparts within the millennial demographic actually adhere to conviction rather than the consensus of the mainstream. This post, more than two years old as its date will reveal, is her discussion of how she has forgiven herself for her errors in judgment exacerbated by her being a public figure. Many of you may find solace in her words of candor, while others will find reasons to continue issuing harsh criticisms of her moral and intellectual dearth. Regardless, I adhere to the fact that as Aristotle was once quoted to state how integrity requires each of us to value truth over our own friends, and I am unapologetic if it means someone I have known since childhood is no longer an individual with whom I can continue engaging in business as usual due to irreconcilable differences. Miss Palin is one such lady willing to roll the dice, and I consider myself another. The role of the moral absolutist is most malleable in that the principles differ with each individual. I do not judge my critics who disagree with me due to this reason; that is not my job, and I would find myself miserable if I sought to alter everyone's modus operandi on account of my bruised ego. To each his or her own; let us continue living what for each of us is an individual mandate to live our life of virtue.)

Bristol Palin and her son, Tripp

How I Got Over My Very Public Mistakes

March 27, 2012 by Bristol Palin

Last week, I was amazed at all the people who read my posts and left comments. (This post about expecting a call from the President got almost 2,800 comments and was shared 131,000 times on this site alone… And, no, my phone didn’t ring.)

Most of the comments were wonderful and supportive. (I’ve addressed some of the not-so-nice comments here.)  But there’s one constant criticism I didn’t talk about:  some of you insist on calling me a hypocrite. After all, I became a mother before I walked down the aisle – how can I talk about waiting until marriage for sex?

I find it strange that the culture rightfully applauds former drug addicts who warn children of the dangers of drug use. They are happy to listen to former alcoholics talk about how they finally are living a clean life. But when it comes to me talking about waiting until marriage for sex, it’s almost like people want me to slink away in shame… unable to show my face in public again because of my past mistakes.

I want this blog to be a place where we can all be honest, so let me start. I’ve struggled with feelings of guilt and shame. I know (judging from my inbox) many of you have too. A Christian counselor named Ed Welch helpfully writes about what to do after you’ve made a huge mistake:

It feels so right – so spiritual – to live with regrets. It means you feel bad for the wrong things you have done or think you have done, and that sounds like a good thing. If you forget those wrongs, you are acting like they were no big deal.
…
We live with regrets because we think we should. We think it’s the right thing to do—that it is our duty before God. But…
The Kingdom of Heaven is regret-free. The truth is that the triune God liberates us from past regrets. His will is being done. Bank on it. Neither your human limitations nor your sins hinder the good plans of your sovereign Father.
Let’s go one important step further. It is God’s will that you jettison past regrets.

So what does that mean?

Stop.

Stop living under a cloud of guilt, stop wondering what life could have been like had you made better decisions, and stop beating yourself up over that thing you’ve done.

Read the rest of his post here, and get over the regret you’ve been carrying for far too long.

I have.

***

(My Response to Miss Palin)

Miss Palin,

I first want to laud your efforts to put at ease the minds of all God’s children upon their darkest hours experienced due to a regrettable act that would render scorn and derision from those within the private sector's contemporaries. For you, your pregnancy served as the source of ostracism from an unscrupulous socialist left-wing fringe that truthfully opposed this news due to its desire to control who has the right to live. Having adopted a perspective of the world that only God may judge us upon the appropriate point in time, it is not anyone else’s place to apply the same in kind to you, to ridicule you or even to support me, or to follow suit with respect to the rest of our society.

We reside today in a world where the heaviest premium is placed always upon the concept that if someone is arrested for a felony like armed robbery, rape or capital murder, those guilty of committing crimes automatically are victims of the establishment which espouses that piety and its visions of only the best within each individual, but instead is a prejudiced institution. If you eat any meat, you will doubtlessly be declared a murderer of animals by rabid PETA activists, that essentially you are complicit of being a solo contributor to the eventual extinction of all animals, or in the words of George Orwell from Animal Farm:

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”

When special interests are allowed to dominate polity, it stands to reason how the majority of our elected officials, inclusive too the ones we so champion, are accepting bribes and possibly are accomplices or directly responsible for illegal participation in money laundering schemes with organized crime. Most of these special interests lean in support to those of abortions. Planned Parenthood is most pervasive in my mind in how the organization has declared war on the male establishment, declaring it to be generally a demographic of chauvinists; and those among the nation's women who are devout followers of Jesus Christ and believe in the sanctity of all human life. Unfortunately, as history’s lessons are all but completely lost upon yours and my generation thanks to our inherently flawed system of public education and will only grow worse under Common Core, few have ever been taught of the evil that was the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, and her designs upon birth control as a tool for sterilization of society’s undesirables, or the infamous practice she introduced to the world in earnest pre-Hitler known as eugenics. And the figures we may use to evaluate Ms. Sanger's evil are most frightening (Courtesy of The Washington Times, May 4, 2014)

Margaret Sanger, eugenist and founder of Planned Parenthood

1. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”

2. In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939).

3. Stated Ms. Sanger further, “While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit. They are excellent means of meeting a certain phase of the situation, but I believe in regard to these, as in regard to other eugenic means, that they do not go to the bottom of the matter.” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review). Further still, “Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review). Also, “Stop our national habit of human waste.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 6).

4. In support for a regulatory body for controlling the world’s population, she stated, “The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” (“A Plan for Peace,” 1932).

5. To me, her most offensive remark from the perspective of my being the older brother of soon-to-be 30 year old autistic woman could only be this in the 1957 interview with Mike Wallace: “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world — that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin — that people can — can commit.”

6. For the socialist far-left to declare itself the lone platform that can secure for all a just and viable peace and tranquility, it can only be achieved through dictating terms behind who and how the population will live, as well as how many. An estimated 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of black or Hispanic communities.

6. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Abortion Surveillance report revealed that between 2007 and 2010, nearly 36 percent of all abortions in the United States were performed on black children, even though black Americans make up only 13 percent of our population. A further 21 percent of abortions were performed on Hispanics, and 7 percent more on other minority groups, for a total of 64 percent of U.S. abortions tragically performed on minority groups.

The socialist far-left relishes its self-proclamation as the platform with the moral mandate to care for the poor and to provide social sanctuary for the role of absolute feminist equity, but at the cost of 54 million abortions domestically since World War II, Ms. Sanger was responsible for the deaths of more people by eugenics by some 54 times over the total accumulation of war casualties our military has incurred throughout its history. They might call it "trimming the branches of our nation's tree," but I am only willing to declare this vile institution to be genocide. Institutionally, the principle of our society's public demagogues with its moral imperative is abundantly clear: the unapologetic slaughtering of millions of unborn children leans very heavily in the highest percentage (64 percent) comprise of our minority racial demographics, our brothers and sisters in God regardless of their religion. They were also those who spoke in opposition to your mother and, as a result, indirectly to you as if due to your status still as an adolescent, you were not competent enough, Miss Palin, to listen to their harangues. If Planned Parenthood today remains true before its founding tenets, your brother Trigg would have never been born. You were criticized not because you are a Christian, but because you stand for something; socialists stand for nothing other than to sell their souls to acquire the next vote, only to take even that right away. You stand for one and all to have the God-begotten rights to the Founding Fathers' concept of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Through you and your mother, the rest of America’s women with the faith to believe this now-very radical notion that we have the right to simply be born continue to be chastised and will always be under attack by an immoral intelligentsia. They may be Christian or Jewish, Hindu or Buddhist, Muslim or Sikh, or simply a humanist, but the matter of adherence to a chosen faith is a mere impediment of the mind for the conceived ovums guilty only of being born to a person with a true sense of the moral imperative; it makes no difference even if the mother and father are both atheists. A person can be upstanding morally and still be irreligious. If our children are likely to be taught good virtue and moral principles, they stand to be the future enemies of the state who well may topple a corrupt regime. Socialists do not want that, nor any other variety of independent thought processing in which they do not have direct control in harvesting. And if socialists have it their way, we will have no legal right at all granted to the free exercises of any other faith but to serve as pawns to worship our statist rulers.

Thank you again for being a lady of excellent scruples and intellect, Miss Palin, and for upholding the Jeffersonian principle of building an “aristocracy of virtue.” I pray for the day when the conservative establishment finally realizes how much it owes your mother and the entire Palin family for providing the hard echo from those of us residing in Middle America who vote, but possess no other realistic measure for lending our voices in dissent without being ignored or ridiculed as extremists as opposed to serving as the sycophants for the president. More importantly, I wish you and your family well in continuing to return the role of conviction statesmanship to the party that once stood for principle over any absolute compliance to the state. Upon the setting of the final sun's conflict with a corrupt order, a patriot will always shine his brightest as he assumes the role of the polemicist to the establishment he intends to achieve unbridled liberty from the shackles of slavery. And as "mankind" is mutually inclusive for both men and women, so too is your role as one of America's greatest patriots born into a family of many others.

Yours in Spirit,
Jonathan Henderson (aka. "The Son of Liberty")
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

Oh, How I Long for the Time When Grownups Were in Charge: Comparing the Duet of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher vs. Barack Obama

Left: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013); Right: President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

Subject Heading: Oh, how I long for the time when grownups were in charge....

When you watch this video, please take note at the facial expression of the foreign ambassador to the United Nations (UN) from the Soviet Union. His fear of President Reagan is abundantly clear, and if I may be so bold as to proclaim the following, his petrified face read as if it was the prose of Tolstoy, of how he narrated the Soviet ambassador's racing mind as he thought there would be either a final war or a harsh dictation of the terms for communism's final peace.


President Reagan capitalized upon the weaknesses of communism to topple an evil empire whose designs were to supplant an eternal hope for Huxley's brave new world in exchange for a posterity of Orwellian dystopia. Through his serving as the arbiter for peace though American ingenuity's begotten strength, the Soviet Union would collapse beneath the weight of its tyranny through liberty's toppling of the final wars of a people's repressed suppression.

Ladies and gentleman, the last duet of Cold War heroes in Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who without firing a shot orchestrated the penultimate fourth symphony before a fifth was ever necessary are now well past that frontier of rosary bushes found within those blessed woodlands upon their sweet chariots crossing over the River Jordan. Their legacies, however, have not been disembodied, and may be witnessed as most of the world is still free of systematic totalitarian despair. But aside from the known clandestine radical Islamic terrorism that continues to add to its 270 million estimated necrometrics by the day, a new threat from beyond the western steppes into Mother Russia threatens to subvert the legitimacy of Uncle Sam, his victory gardens and our fair lady Rosie the Riveter secured of a global peace so long preserved. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers died to ensure that their progeny could have the right to choose for as many generations as their liberty would remember. But their stories told of horror that brought about mankind its brightest light shining during its darkest hour is being sanctioned to be forgotten.


Today, a European Union that still has not learned how appeasement never brokers but a conditioned unilateral peace for all time and an American president who armed through tweeted hashtags and delete buttons on Facebook have made democracy to a tsar in his troika a joke before the world yet to know him as do we now. We know this president well enough that we truthfully recognize how we really do not know the community organizer Barack Obama from the possible pseudonym of one Barry Soetoro. And if the president's heavily guarded secrecy at home is not credible for his citizens to trust his judgment to lead, the former Soviet KGB operative will surely allow an old sickle to slice through the exposed underbelly of democracy's once-beating heart while the hammer pummels what remains of liberty's soul.


Will the sun set upon America's promise for the spirit of 1776 to for all time shine as the world's brightest beacon for liberty as it did nearly 70 years for the British who never believed how the scourge of socialism would set the long risen sun upon Her Majesty's empire? Signed documents, political correctness and most especially hashtag polity will never bear the fruits for yielding a brokerage of a just and everlasting peace. Actions will always speak louder than one's words, and so too did our dear beloved Dutch Reagan and Maggie Thatcher.


Oh, how I long for the time when grownups were in charge....
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