George Washington

Some say that today is historic for whatever shallow claptrap and charlatanism which is being perpetrated upon us by the press, politicians and a cowed populace.

Tomorrow is the true historic day of note.

God Bless George Washington!!

He was inaugurated on April 30, 1789.



His first 100 words revealed more humility, strength, consideration and, ugh...the last 100 days...gibbets cannot be made and filled with our current political class and fourth estate fast enough.

Washington's first 100:

"Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:

Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years -- a retreat which was rendered..."