President Bush targeted by shoe thrower.....

President Bush today ducked a pair of shoes hurled at his head — one shoe after the other — in the middle of a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The shoe attack came as Bush and al-Maliki were about to shake hands. The assailant — later identified as television correspondent Muntadar al-Zeidi — leapt from his chair and hurled his footwear at the president, who was about 20 feet away.
My question to this whole mess is how the bloody hell could the secret service let this happen? where they in the back having donuts while the president was in harms way? i mean what the hell are we paying them for? in a high risk country such as Iraq, one would think they would be all over the place and keeping their eye on everybody.

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But the President always the joker that he is made light of the moment.
"Don't worry about it," the president said as the room erupted into chaos.
"So what if the guy threw a shoe at me?" Bush said, comparing the action to political protests in the United States.

"If you want the facts, it was a size 10," he joked.

And so the party begins.........

Just a month after they took both the White House and Congress, Democrats so greedy for power are about to show their true colors.
Today in a blatant disregard for the law the democratic governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges.
Blagojevich was accused of threatening to withhold state assistance to the Tribune Company because their editors were critical of him, and trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by fellow Democrat President-elect Barack Obama.
"The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor, said in a statement.


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The 51-year-old Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were charged in a federal complaint with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery. Both were taken into custody at their homes in Chicago.
This is exactly the reason why one political party should not have total control, because then they start to feel they are above the law. I am sure there will be a lot more of these kinds of stories in the future, so we better all get ready for the long roller coaster ride.

Georgia Sen. Chambliss wins re-election in runoff...

Democrats' hopes of winning a 60 seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate came to an end tonight with the re-election of Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
With 70 percent of the precincts reporting, Chambliss captured 60 percent to Martin's 40 percent. Chambliss' win is a rare bright spot for Republicans in a year where they lost the White House as well as seats in the House and the Senate. i could not have been happier. if the democrats had won this critical seat, it would have been like giving these Democrats a blank check to carry out their crazy left wing ideology. i keep telling people, i am still a democrat but a Clinton democrat who believe that the best way to run this country is from the center, and not the far left or far right.
There needs to be a check and balance in the senate, and Chambliss victory tonight will help ensure just that.

Turnout was light throughout the state Tuesday. A spokesman for Secretary of State Karen Handel predicted between 18 and 20 percent of the state's 5.75 million registered voters would cast ballots — far less than the 65 percent who voted in last month's general election.

Another reason again why America must win the war on terrorism.................

If there was ever any reason for President elect Obama and the Democrats to not continue the tough policies of the Bush administration on the war on terrorism, today that reason was taken off the table.
Ayman al-Zawahri Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. Al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — "house Negroes."
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.

"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.


He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.

"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.

I hope President elect Obama and the incoming government take this threat serious and finally do something about this menace, instead of only giving speeches about how they want to sit and talk to terrorist and people who supports them.
If we have to fight forever in Afghanistan to rid that country of these bastard, and protect America, so let it be.

Happy veterans day......................

Today is the day we honor our men and women of the United States Armed forces who sacrifice everything to put their country first.
We are grateful for your service, we honor you and we thank you for your service.

famous veterans day quotes............

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick .

Freedom is never free.
Author Unknown.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou.

Power hungry Democrats ready for revange and retribution.....

Joe Lieberman faces the possible loss of his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee for backing John McCain.

Just days after their victory in which the Democrats took control of both the White house and the Congress, they are ready for revenge and retribution against anybody who did not subscribe to their way of thinking.
The first in many casualties it seems will be Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.
Lieberman met privately with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who afterward reiterated Democratic concerns. Reid, in a sternly worded statement after the 45-minute meeting, said no official decisions have been made. But an aide to the Nevada Democrat said Reid was leaning toward removing Lieberman as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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Lieberman backed McCain over Obama for president largely because McCain, unlike Obama, supported the Iraq war. He appeared regularly with McCain on the campaign trail and spoke at the Republican Party's national convention.
In endorsing McCain, Lieberman became the first nominee of a major party presidential ticket to later support a candidate of the opposing party. He was Al Gore's No. 2 in the 2000 White House race.
Despite splitting with most Democrats on the war in Iraq, Lieberman tends to vote with them on domestic issues such as health care, education and the environment.
In my opinion these greedy and power hungry democrats are all hypocrites, Let's unite they say for the good of the country, but, NO, let's punish those who differ from the Democrat agenda.
Joe Lieberman is an honest, decent politician who votes with his conscious not just his party. He had every right to back McCain, just like some of us who supported Hillary Clinton decided to support Senator McCain for president. And by God if this is the politics of hope and change they have been preaching all along, then we are all in deep shit.
Joe is an asset to the Democratic party and Harry Reid and Nancy Polosi will be foolish in their thinking if they let him go.

Obama elected President of the United States......

Senator Obama made history today as the first black man to win the White house and thus becoming the next president of the United States. and though i did not support him for President, i congratulate him on this historic moment in the nation's history.
In choosing Obama as the 44th president, the nation took a historic leap beyond its legacy of slavery and toward healing racial tensions just four decades after the tumultuous Civil Rights movement.
But the hard part is still ahead of us, As the 44th president, Obama will move into the Oval Office as leader of a country that is almost certainly in recession, and fighting two long wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.
Obama has said his first order of presidential business will be to tackle the economy. He has also pledged to withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.
withdrawing the troops from Iraq and bringing them home in defeat when victory is just in sight is the main reason i voted against him. time and time again i have said that i was not in favor of the war in Iraq, but now that we are there we have to win the war and bring our young men and women who have pay so much in service to their country home victorious.
John McCain was a great man and i am proud to have supported him, but now the election is over and i hope for the sake of our great country, we will unite and do what is right for the benefit of the nation. God bless America, and God bless the the New President.