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Rickles makes fun of Obama. Crowd did not like it. Libs can’t laugh at anything. This is from November 11th.
That crowd is so uptight and politically correct. Shows how far we have fallen as a nation. Years ago the crowd would be rolling in laughter. Today everyone is so afraid of insulting this group or that group. Rickles is an equal opportunity offender and a national treasure.
The late night commedians have commented about ‘who will we talk about now’….they KNOW they won’t criticize Obama. But really, what are they going to do……keep kicking Bush for four more years? And a lot of that fear they have comes from the racist Michelle and Barack Obama playing the race card their entire election.

LOL…..“These are new jokes, I’m trying out in front of a bad crowd.”
Priceless.

Don Rickles on Dean Martin Roasts Reagan

Wild Thing’s comment…….
The ad is so corny I was sure it had to be a fake ad, a joke. But it is for real, here is the website.
Victory Plate.com
Also one of my cousins said she saw the ad on TV and almost threw up. I don’t blame her. haha
I told her I thought I would wait for the Velvet painting version, and she screamed into the phone. hahaahha
I am so inspired I can hardly stand it! Everyone will be getting this for Christmas ( only kidding). heh heh
I showed this to Nicholas LOL…..here is his comment……
“I only have one thing to say,…..PULL! ”

The President-Elect, Talking Turkey
Washington Times
By Dana Milbank
Thursday, November 27
President-elect Obama had nearly finished his third news conference in as many days yesterday when he decided to favor his audience with one more tasty morsel of information about the just-announced members of his economic team.
“I want you to know that both Paul and Austan have special turkey-cooking recipes, if anybody out here needs some advice on how to make the ideal turkey,” Obama offered.
Let’s leave aside the question of whether credible cooking advice could come from Carter Fed Chairman Paul Volcker or University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee. Let’s also look beyond the question of whether, at a time when the economy has gone afoul, we want it run by people who specialize in making “the ideal turkey.”
The real news is that Obama had clearly run out of things to say.
It is a case of being careful of what one asks for. When Obama went to ground for about 10 days, making no public announcements and furtively slipping in and out of the gym, pundits wondered what had become of the “transparent transition” he promised. But Obama buried that complaint this week with an extraordinary blitz:
His second, third and fourth news conferences set a new record for a modern president-elect, and he still has nearly two months to go.
But Obama is not in charge yet — a point he makes with such regularity it seems to have become a tic. And so, after he makes the day’s personnel announcements, voices concern about the economy and speaks vaguely about his plans, there isn’t much left to say.
In an interview with ABC News’s Barbara Walters broadcast Wednesday night, Obama found himself talking about giving up his BlackBerry (“This is a problem”) and his daughters’ chores:
Michelle Obama: “They’re gonna need to be able to make their beds and . . .”
Walters: “Really?”
Michelle Obama: “They do that now.”
Walters: “In the White House they’re gonna have to make the beds and clean up their rooms?”
Barack Obama: “Doing that since they were 4 years old.”
Michelle Obama: “That’s gonna be one of my goals. Don’t make their beds. Make mine.” (Laughs)
Barack Obama: (Laughs).
At yesterday’s news conference, the president-elect discussed his shopping plans in response to a query from the New York Daily News’s Tom DeFrank.

“Well, we are going to do some Christmas shopping,” he said. “And Malia and Sasha have already put their list together. It’s mostly for Santa. They send their letter every year. But — but we may do some extra shopping as well.”

At Tuesday’s news conference in Chicago, Obama found himself discussing a reporter’s headgear:

Obama: “I didn’t recognize you because you don’t have the floppy hat that you had during the campaign.”

Reporter (picking up hat): “I actually do.”
Obama: “There it is. Man, that’s what I’m talking about.”
The overexposure of the president-elect seems designed to reinforce two points.
First: He plans to hit the ground running. “We need people who are going to be able to hit the ground running,” he said yesterday. This was the same wording he used on Tuesday, his strategist David Axelrod used Monday, his adviser Valerie Jarrett used on Nov. 12, his transition chief John Podesta used on Nov. 11, and Obama used back on Nov. 8.
Second point: that “there is only one president at a time,” as Obama put it yesterday. And Tuesday. And Nov. 18. And Nov. 8. And Nov. 7. Axelrod, Goolsbee and Jarrett have dutifully echoed the point on the airwaves.
That’s technically true — but the actual president seems to have no interest in making news of any sort. Yesterday, he ventured into the Rose Garden to deliver the news that he was pardoning two turkeys, Pumpkin and Pecan. “Pumpkin and Pecan have an exciting trip ahead of them: Later today, they will fly to Disneyland aboard ‘Turkey One,’ ” the commander in chief announced, before turning wistful. “This is my final Thanksgiving as the president. Over the past eight years, I have been given many reasons to be thankful.”
With that act to follow, Obama can’t be surprised that people are treating him as if he’s already the president. At yesterday’s session in Chicago, CNN’s Ed Henry gave him the business, demanding to know why he had tapped so many former Clinton aides and even a Bush man, the Pentagon’s Robert Gates.
“Paul Volcker has been around a long time,” Henry pointed out. “You talked about [how] John McCain was going to come back to Washington if he won and would just move people into different chairs. We got Tom Daschle, Hillary Clinton, Bob Gates –”
Henry didn’t even get to mention Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Greg Craig, Ron Klain, Eric Holder, Bill Richardson and the rest before Obama cut him off.

“First of all, that’s not the topic,” Obama instructed Henry. “We’re not talking about my Cabinet, because I haven’t made those appointments yet.”

Wild Thing’s comment………
LMAO I love how this article is written….. they are seeing what a bore and egomaniac Obama is.
“The real news is that Obama had clearly run out of things to say.”
Oh my, Obama is not even the president yet and his libtard media has grown bored with him.
“First of all, that’s not the topic,” Obama instructed Henry.
Wonder how long until the press gets tired of Obama thinking that because he’s in charge he can speak to them with such impunity.

Russia to Obama: Normalize Iran ties
source
Russia says it is in contact with the Obama administration in a bid to convince it to normalize ties with Iran and solve the nuclear issue.

Moscow hopes that “the new administration understands that there is no alternative to the political process and dialogue at all levels,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

He said US President-elect Barack Obama would have to normalize ties with Iran to reach a solution to the nuclear dispute.

“We are doing it bypassing the Bush administration and reach Obama’s team] through our embassy in Washington D.C. and our contacts with people who are around Barack Obama,” Ryabkov added.

The Russian official stated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to Obama was a sign of Iran’s intentions that could open a new chapter in Tehran-Washington relations.
Russia has repeatedly voiced support for a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear issue.

additional source Bloomberg.com
Russia Has Contacted Obama Aides to Pursue Iran Nuclear Deal
Bypassing the outgoing Bush administration, Russian officials have approached aides to Obama, 47. The president- elect takes office Jan. 20. “We are doing it through our embassy in Washington D.C. and our contacts with people who are around Barack Obama,” said Ryabkov.
The Bush administration refused to hold high-level talks with Iranian leaders until they agree to suspend uranium enrichment.
A letter of congratulations from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Obama was a “welcome sign” of Iran’s intentions to turn a new page in its relations with the U.S, Ryabkov said.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Russiai sure loves to stirring the pot.
Medvedev also announced in a speech in Lima, Peru, that the Obama administration may renounce the US Missile Defense.
Article HERE…..Medvedev Sees Possible Compromise With Obama on Missile Defense
I guess we didn’t know we actually elected Medvedev as US president — I doubt Obama will stand up to him.
There is an excellent analysis by John Bolton:

“If President-elect Obama carries through on where I think his real instincts lie on missile defense, which is not to continue it, I think in Moscow they will read that as responding to the threat and indeed the intimidation reflected in Medvedev’s speeches. “

Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration by John Bolton November 24, 2008

This was made by the children of Vietnam Veterans and it is something very special. — Wild Thing
Please CLICK HERE TO SEE the VIDEO

….Thank you Mark for sending this video to me.

Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, left, walks alongside his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro as they participate in a flower offering in honour of Cuban national hero, Jose Marti, in Havana on Nov. 27.

Russian president visits Cold War ally Cuba
AP
HAVANA
Russia’s president visited old Cold War ally Cuba on Thursday after meeting with his nation’s new friends in Latin America in a tour aimed at reviving relationships that have frayed since the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Havana from Venezuela, where he met with socialist President Hugo Chavez and agreed to help the oil-rich South American country start a nuclear energy program.
Russian officials deny that Medvedev’s trip to Latin America — traditionally considered in the U.S. sphere of influence — is meant to provoke the United States, but the voyage included meetings with Washington’s staunchest opponents in the region.
In Havana, Medvedev was greeted by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and Ricardo Cabrisas, the island’s chief of foreign trade and investment. He was immediately sped away in a limousine without addressing reporters.
Medvedev later met with President Raul Castro, who was especially friendly with the Russians during the Soviet years.
Earlier Thursday, Medvedev and Chavez toured a Russian destroyer docked in a Venezuelan port, one of two large Russian warships that arrived this week for training exercises in the first deployment of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War.

Chavez saluted the captain, and while touring the vessel joked to reporters from the deck: “We’re going to Cuba!”

The warships will hold joint exercises with Venezuela’s navy next week. ….
Wednesday’s accords included a pledge of cooperation on peaceful nuclear energy.
Moscow plans to develop a nuclear cooperation program with Venezuela by the end of next year, said Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency.
Cuba is the last stop on a four-nation tour, which also included visits to Peru and Brazil and talks in Caracas with Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Aw, look at the cute picture of Che in the background. How adorable…..not.

Thank you and thank you to all our Troops and to all of you Veterans. And I would also like to thank those of you that have loved ones serving now, sons, daughters, husbands and wives. You are serving too in such a special way. You are all in my thoughts and prayers every single day.
Love
Wild Thing

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C.J. Chivers and Staff Sgt. Gerald R. White. Chivers, formerly a Marine infantry officer, is a foreign correspondent for the Times. White is a dad, a soldier and a veteran three times over.
Both spent Thanksgiving in Afghanistan, and the former told the story of the latter today:
After all the turkey had been eaten, a huge soldier appeared for dinner. He was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 260 pounds.
He introduced himself: Staff Sgt. Gerald R. White, 29, of Sistersville, W.Va. He was an artilleryman serving his third combat tour, this one as a noncommissioned officer who coordinates and directs fire from artillery, mortars and helicopter gunships.
As he prepared to fill his plate with the leftovers, the setting sun illuminated a fresh purple scar on the back of his neck.
Then came his story. He was wounded when a three-vehicle patrol was ambushed on Sept. 15 in Jalrez.
His vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade; shrapnel tore open his buttocks and his neck. The ambush blossomed. More and more of the rockets flew toward the broken vehicles and wounded soldiers, he said. Machine gun fire smacked their windows and doors.
Rockets struck the second vehicle’s turret alone three times, he said. Ten other soldiers had been wounded by the time reinforcements arrived and pushed the Taliban off.
Sgt. White spent four weeks recuperating at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul. He returned to his tiny base without having been home to see his wife and three children, who are at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
Now he pulled something from his left breast pocket. It was a miniature metal placard of a Purple Heart. “I will never quit,” its engraving read.
Many of the soldiers here Thursday said that Thanksgiving meant football and beer. Sgt. White, scarred and as large as a fullback, spoke of his children, ages 11, 5 and 3.
“My little one, he’s my hero,” he said. “He was on his deathbed. He was born six weeks premature, and he had internal bleeding. He took three blood transfusions, but by the time he was 9 months old, he was fine.”
“His name is Gerald,” he said. “Gerald Jr.”
He added: “I’m proud of all three of them. I wish I could be there today. It’s a special moment. But I’ll make it up to them once I get home.”
After eating, Sgt. White returned to his post. A Polish patrol was heading north up Highway 1. Intelligence reports said that the Taliban’s spotters on the highway were organizing an ambush.
He paced beside the radios as darkness fell, listening for the Poles, ready to call down fire.

Some fun with our awesome troops!

Thank you Glenn M. Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET for the photos of our troops.

Pfc. Katty Marie Le Blanc, a native of Boston, and Spc. Reuben Jones, a native of Gainesville, Fla., both of whom serve as cooks with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, display eight of the turkeys that will be used for the brigade’s Thanksgiving dinner throughout the Adhamiyah and Sadr City Districts of Baghdad.

Strikers Prepare for Thanksgiving in Northeastern Baghdad
By Scott Flenner
3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
FORWARD OPERATING BASE WAR EAGLE, Iraq
Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, will enjoy a feast of fresh turkey with all the fixings this Thanksgiving holiday.
Three months ago, food service technicians and officers began planning for this celebration to ensure that every Soldier operating in their area was provided with a traditional Thanksgiving meal Nov. 27 – they have succeeded.
Warrant Officer Darryl Goddard, a food service officer with 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., who has been planning the Thanksgiving dinner at Forward Operating Base War Eagle, is ready for the challenge of feeding the more than 300 Soldiers there.

“I am ensuring that Soldiers at FOB War Eagle and 4th Inf. Div. are supported with a little taste of home … and I am working diligently to ensure they get the necessary feeling of home here in Iraq while in Iraq,” said the Norfolk, Va., native.

That taste of home includes more than 800 pounds of fresh turkey, which will be prepared and fixed at the larger dining facilities and then pushed out to the smaller combat outposts and joint security stations.

“Every Soldier will get a good Thanksgiving dinner based upon patrol schedule,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey, a Palmerton, Pa., native, who serves as the senior enlisted leader for the 3rd BCT, 4th Inf. Div. “It will be a continuous operation throughout the day.”

But turkey is not the only traditional food being served to the troops this holiday season. Sweet potato pie, apple cobbler and Baskin Robin’s ice cream are just a few other treats to accompany the feast.

“I feel that it is important from a biblical standpoint and a moral standpoint for Soldiers on the battlefield be able to be comfortable and enjoy the Thanksgiving tradition that has been going on for centuries,” said Goddard.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates expressed his gratitude to the nation’s service members and their families in his annual Thanksgiving Day message.
Here is the text of the secretary’s message:

“In this season of hope, I want to say how uplifting it has been to get to know so many Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines during the last 24 months.

“Many of you are far from home, and I’m sure there’s no place you would rather be than with your loved ones. But know that they, and all Americans, are free and secure because of what the men and women of the U.S. military are doing all over the world – from Fort Lewis to Fort Drum, from Korea to Kosovo, from Bagram to Baghdad.

“The holidays are a time to reflect on the kind of nation we are: a nation whose character and decency are embodied in our armed forces. Those who risk life and limb every time they set foot “outside the wire.” The medical personnel, engineers, and civil affairs teams who improve the lives of thousands. And all are volunteers.

“To the families of our forces: thank you for sharing your loved ones to defend us all. To our troops: we admire your selflessness and pray for your success and safe return home. And to all: happy holidays.”

Robert M. Gates
Secretary of Defense

A suicide car bomber targeting an American convoy exploded outside the US Embassy in Kabu
FOX news
KABUL, Afghanistan
A homicide car bomber targeting an American convoy exploded about 200 yards outside the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least four Afghan bystanders as people entered the compound for a Thanksgiving Day race.
Four Afghans at least 18 more people were wounded in the 8:30 a.m. attack, said Abdullah Fahim, a health ministry spokesman.
Police officer Abdul Manan said the explosion was set off by a suicide bomber in a Toyota Corolla.
No U.S. Embassy personnel were killed or injured in the blast, an Embassy statement said.
The blast happened on the last day of a visit by a United Nation’s Security Council delegation. The U.N. had warned its staff in Afghanistan of possible terrorist attacks coinciding with the visit.
The U.S. Embassy was hosting a Thanksgiving Day fun run beginning at 9 a.m., so Americans and other Westerners were entering the embassy compound when the bomb went off, sending some participants sprinting for the embassy gates.

“I was about 30 or 40 yards inside the gate. There was a large explosion. I felt the shock wave, though it wasn’t all that strong,” said Danny Cutherell, a 26-year-old aid worker from Virginia. “We were about 200 yards from the blast when it went off, but we were behind the embassy wall and that protected us.”

Cutherell said about 20 participants in the run had been locked inside a room with double-locking doors at the embassy’s security checkpoint and that guards would neither let them in or out. “We’re here for a while,” he said.

“It was a bit shocking but it’s also not that shocking because it is Thanksgiving and we had heard there was going to be tightened security today,” Cutherell said. “It’s just scary to be that close to it.”

Insurgents attacks in Kabul have been rare this year, although they have launched a few spectacular assaults, including one targeting the Indian Embassy on July 7 that killed 60 people and left over 140 others wounded.

Wild Thing’s comment……
God bless and protect our awesome troops.
It seems the terrorists are putting the world on notice in the “CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN”.