Yankees Win The World Series!!!!!!!!!

Behind a stellar performance from Andy Pettite the Yankees won Game 6 of the World Series securing their 27th title!! CNNSI.com has the story.

Yankees win 27th World Series title

NEW YORK -- The Yankees christened the first season in their new ballpark the same way they opened their old stadium in 1923: with a World Series championship.

Hideki Matsui's record night powered the offense, Andy Pettitte held Philadelphia's offense in check and Derek Jeter started a pair of key rallies with base hits, as the Yankees beat the Phillies 7-3 to win their 27th title and first since 2000, a relatively long drought by this storied franchise's standards.

Hideki Matsui was absolutely on his game last night, blasting in 6 RBI's in the Yankees 7-3 win. A struggling Texeira knocked in the other run. The Yankees had the number of Pedro Martinez, again, as he struggled against the Bronx Bombers.

Many people, and I was one of them, criticized many of the decisions that Joe Girardi, the Yanks manager, made during the year as well as the playoffs. I thought pitching Andy on short rest was a mistake and the Yankees would surely pay for it, but Pettite really played his heart out.

On a cold November evening, matching the latest date a World Series game had ever been played, Pettitte allowed three runs over 5 2/3 innings to extend his postseason records for career wins (18) and series-clinching wins (six). Pettitte also won the final game of all three playoff rounds, matching Boston's Derek Lowe in 2004 as the only pitchers to do so.

Congratulations to the New York Yankees, 2009 World Series Champions!!!!!!!!!!

Farewell To A Genuine Hero

A read a very sad story today. Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid, a British Army explosives expert, died only a few days before he was set to go home for 2 weeks on leave. Fox News has the story:

Bomb Disposal Hero Killed in Afghanistan Just Days Before Leave

A British Army explosives specialist who became a legend by risking his life to defuse more than 60 Taliban roadside bombs was killed in Afghanistan during his final mission before he took leave, the Times of London reported Tuesday.

Very disheartening. Yet, we are so lucky that men such as Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid existed.

It never ceases to amaze me to the types of people that the military of not only the United States, but as in this case our allies can produce. I cannot imagine the nerves of steel required to do a job such as Sgt. Schmid. How many soldiers and civilians lives has he saved by disarming multiple bombs?

“Oz was a phenomenal husband and loving father who was cruelly murdered on his last day before two weeks off after a relentless five-month tour," she said.

Please keep his family in your prayers. As the holiday season approaches, remember those who defend our way of life on a daily basis so that we can enjoy them with our loved ones.

God Bless them all.

Rangers Shut Out Boston Bruins 1-0

The New York Rangers shut down the Boston Bruins on Sunday, winning 1-0. Gaborik has continued to be a scoring machine as he scored the only goal of the game.

The signing of Gaborik has been a big reason the Rangers' offense has shown a greater spark. He scored for the fourth straight game, following a pair of New York losses while he was out, and raised his season total to 11 goals.

New York Ranges Henrik Lundqvist has been on his game this year and the game against the Bruins was no exception. They seem to be firing on all cylinders and are second in their division to the Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins.

It was a fun game," Lundqvist said after his 150th NHL victory and 21st career shutout. "This is what I was used to last year ... low scoring and tight. I got a little spoiled this year. We have been scoring a lot."

The Ranges travel to Canada this week to face Vancouver and then Edmonton.

Giants Downward Spiral Continues

To say the New York Giants were dominated on Sunday would be an understatement. As my brother put it, "Other than the horrible play of the offense, the defense, and the special teams, they played pretty well."

The Giants were completely destroyed, 40-17 at the hands of one of their biggest rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles. From the opening kickoff the Eagles owned the Giants scoring 13 points in the first 5 minutes of the game. It didn't improve as the Eagles scored 2 more touchdowns in a span of under a minute just before halftime making it 30-7 at halftime.

It's a complete embarrassment and disappointment," said linebacker Antonio Pierce after the game. "We didn't tackle, we gave up big plays, we didn't cover. We're not communicating. We all have to look at each other in the mirror and we all have to make a change, because what we're doing right now is not working."

Indeed. Coach Coughlin has his work cut out for him as the Giants have dropped 3 straight games after starting 5-0. Many critics have stated that the Giants good start was the result of an easy schedule. In their first 5 games the Giants faced the Redskins, Cowboys, Tampa Bay, Kansas City, and Oakland. With the exception of the Cowboys all the other teams are well below .500. It appears the critics were right. Until the Giants beat a solid team, they will continue to be criticized and questioned.

Next week the San Diego Chargers enter Giants Stadium, so the Giants have a chance for a good win before their bye week.

The Giants are a good team, however, they are completely lost right now. They need to get back to fundamentals and remember how good that they COULD be!!!

Come on G-Men!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama Too Busy Playing Golf To Think About Afghanistan

Remember how insane the left went about all the "vacations" that Bush took? One could barely turn on a news program or open a newspaper without hearing about the details of all the "time off" he had taken. Naturally, they were working vacations, but don't expect the media to admit it.

Interestingly enough, it turns out that Obama doesn't plan on "rushing" a decision on Afghanistan.

Obama Says He Will Not 'Rush' Decision on Afghanistan Strategy, Troop Levels

President Obama pledged on Monday not to "rush the solemn decision" to send more troops to battle in Afghanistan as he weighs military options on what to do next in the troubled war.

Fine, you don't have to rush it. You've been campaigning for two years and now you've been president for almost one, HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU NEED??? I would think that a man who was running for president surely would have had some kind of idea on what he was going to do, right?

"I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary," Obama told service men and women at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. He promised a "clear mission" with defined goals and the equipment needed to get the job done.

Of course, dear leader is risking lives by not making any decision at all, but why bother with details.

So what has the president been doing? What has been keeping him so very busy that he can't be bothered with something as insignificant as Afghanistan?? Apparently......golf.

Obama plays more golf than Bush – where’s the outrage?

President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.

CBS’ Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, “Today – Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.

Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months.”

Yet there are no complaints at all from our watchdog media and the usual suspects on the left.

What a difference an Obama makes!!!!!!!!!

Question Of The Day: "Why Do People Hate You?"

Yes, supposedly, another random question, this time from a FOURTH GRADER. During a Q&A the child asks "Why do people hate you?". This seems to be a habit among Obama's Q&A sessions.

Via Hot Air:

This makes twice now in two months that a child’s stood up during a Q&A with The One to ask why people are being so mean to him or his policies. The last time it happened, the questioner’s mother turned out to be a state organizer for his campaign, but it’s foolish to assume that these kids are all plants.

Well, he may have a point. Not ALL children are plants, however, I'm sure this child heard similar questions from his parents. Children don't normally ask questions like this, except if its in an Obama Q&A. Hmmmmmmm.

Anyway, check out the video.

Pic Of The Day!!!!

Gotta love it!

White House Considering New Strategy In Afghanistan, Declaring Taliban "Not Really An Enemy"

We see the "smart power" that earned Obama his Nobel Peace prize in action once again. Apparently, one of the ideas is moving the Taliban back into the "political sphere".

New White House spin: Taliban not really an enemy, has role in Afghanistan’s future

Though aides stress that the president’s final decision on any changes is still at least two weeks away, the emerging thinking suggests that he would be very unlikely to favor a large military increase of the kind being advocated by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal…

Remember now, this is the same Obama who told us all during the election that Afghanistan was the "real war" and that we lost focus when we went into Iraq. Now, it seems he's looking for a way out and his best idea is snuggling up to the Taliban.

That could mean paving the way for Taliban members willing to renounce violence to participate in a central government — though there has been little receptiveness to this among the Taliban. It might even mean ceding some regions of the country to the Taliban…

Obama kept returning to one question for his advisers: Who is our adversary, the official said.

Who is our adversary? Are you kidding me? THE TALIBAN!! The same people who harbored and helped Al Qaeda wipe out 3,000 Americans on 9/11, that's our adversary.

Interestingly enough, while Obama ponders the Taliban's future and its place in the Afghanistan government, the Taliban has been very busy. While the dems are busy declaring Taliban is not too dangerous, they're attacking Pakistani Army Headquarters:

Militants Hold Hostages After Storming Pakistan Army Headquarters

Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan's army headquarters Saturday, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital that killed four of the assailants, two senior officers and four other soldiers, authorities said.

Yeah, they're not dangerous at all. They just took over the Army headquarters of a nuclear armed nation.

Smart power, indeed.

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize For.............Nothing.

It was bad enough when they gave Al Gore the Nobel Prize for his dedication to the junk science of global warming. Now the same geniuses have decided that Obama, a whopping 10 months into his presidency, deserves the Nobel Peace prize.

For what, you ask? That's the same thing we're all asking:

Fox News has the story. Obama Wins Prize for 'Hope' and 'Change'

The prize was officially awarded to Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” When I saw the news alert in my e-mail this morning,

So, if I may paraphrase, he was given one of the most (or at least what used to be) prestigious awards for efforts in reducing conflict and war because he gives good speeches. Oh, my sides. If only it were a joke.

It's been somewhat amusing across the blogosphere, though, as I have watched the drooling, babbling Obamazombies defend his getting the Nobel Peace prize. Of course, when people question them on WHY he deserves this award, they tend to disappear.

Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician on the committee, openly acknowledged that Obama hasn’t done anything yet, saying: “There will be criticism, because he hasn't achieved his goals yet. It will take time, but this is a support.”

Well, gosh Agot, what if I WANT to eliminate all war and conflict from the planet, will I win?? I mean, if what Mr. Valle says is true, you could just as easily award the Peace prize to every Ms. America pageant contestant who wishes for "world peace", right???

Of course, the usual cast of liberal news media talking heads are wetting themselves in joy after this. Apparently, you had better be joyful or else the White House will let you know what they think of you.

White House: Scarborough 'A-Hole' For Mocking Nobel

But the Messiah will not be mocked, and it wasn't long before NBC's Savannah Guthrie, on the set, announced that she had received an email from "a senior White House official" telling Joe to "stop being an a------e" [spelled out in the original, according to Savannah]. Mika Brzezinski tried to soft-pedal the insult, claiming the White House was "joking."

Impressive, isn't it? Again, I challenge anyone to tell me of another time when the White House has gone after reporters, private citizens, and entire news networks like this.

Taking a cue from their spineless leader, the democrats quickly jumped on the bandwagon with one democrat accusing Republicans who mock Obama's Nobel Peace prize of being as bad as the Taliban. Yep, that's right folks. Read for yourself:

DNC: If you laugh at Obama’s Nobel, you side with terrorists

“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists - the Taliban and Hamas this morning - in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO. “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize - an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride - unless of course you are the Republican Party.

So you see folks, if you laugh at this ridiculous turn of events, you are the same as the people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center. Got that? Gosh, I see good things on the horizon for this country!!!

I swear, I keep wanting to wake up and believe this is a bad dream, but it isn't.

White House Tired Of Fox News Not Worshipping Obama, Has Plans To Confront Opponents

Once again, I can never think of something like this happening in our history. Apparently, Obama is tired of Fox News broadcasting the truth about his administration full of communists and criminals as well as uncovering the dems lies at every turn.

Enough is enough, so says Obama:

All the criticism, both fair and misleading, took a toll, regularly knocking the White House off message. So a new White House strategy has emerged: rather than just giving reporters ammunition to "fact-check" Obama's many critics, the White House decided it would become a player, issuing biting attacks on those pundits, politicians and outlets that make what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims, like the assertion that health-care reform would establish new "sex clinics" in schools.

In other words if you criticize dear leader, expect to hear about it. What stunning arrogance. However, I guess this is what happens when 98% of the media is in your backpocket. Unfortunately for Obama the 2% that isn't in his back pocket is being read and viewed more than any other news media. I guess Obama will see to that.

The take-no-prisoners turn has come as a surprise to some in the press, considering the largely favorable coverage that candidate Obama received last fall and given the President's vows to lower the rhetorical temperature in Washington and not pay attention to cable hyperbole. Instead, the White House blog now issues regular denunciations of the Administration's critics, including a recent post that announced "Fox lies" and suggested that the cable network was unpatriotic for criticizing Obama's 2016 Olympics effort.

It gets better.

White House officials offer no apologies. "The best analogy is probably baseball," says Gibbs. "The only way to get somebody to stop crowding the plate is to throw a fastball at them. They move."

Threats from the president? You stay classy, B.O. There's only one problem with lackey Gibb's analogy. Sometimes when you throw fastballs at people, they don't appreciate it:



UPDATE: Just spotted this little gem over at Newsbusters. This appears to be the White House declaration of war on Fox News. Absolutely mind boggling.

The White House is stepping up its attacks against the Fox News Channel, labeling it a bastion of stilted and opinionated journalism. A top administration communications official has called the Fox "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and vowed to wage a war of ideas against the network.

Glenn Beck has been a favorite target of the left and the White House (Is there a difference?) and why?

They have derided his "disregard for the facts" and his "attempt to smear" the administration for, among other things, lobbying the Olympic Committee for the 2016 games.

Because Beck criticizes the president.

Well, I'm just glad all that talk of Obama stifling free speech was just a bunch of rantings from a vast right wing conspiracy!!! Whew, I was starting to get worried there for a minute.

Be afraid......be very afraid.