Iraq

I always think that the person who will bring peace to the middle east is the one who brings the AC. I'm telling you right now if I lived in a desert in those kind of temperatures, I'd be ready to fight all the time, too. If they had air conditioning and modern amenities I don't think they'd be so quick to get out of that. I know I wouldn't. He may want to go blow up the bus, but as for me, I will stay in the house and play some Wii. The reason the middle east is on my mind is because of the shoe throwing incident. I remember seeing this a couple years ago when they were throwing shoes at the statue of saddam hussein falling and I thought, this is one of the oddest things I've ever seen. That guy just took his shoe off and ran up there and slapped a statue with it, and then celebrated like he just scored a touchdown. Then you had the reporter last week who became a local hero by throwing his shoe at President Bush. You may or may not like his politics, but the man was pretty quick to avoid a shoe. I'm thinking this isn't the first one he's come across. Laura must have given him a little practice. In our culture people throw whatever they can get their hands on... shoes, plates, glasses. Oh, it's to disgrace...with bodily harm. We Americans know how to stick and move, though. I just picture the secret service thinking it was a gun or a bomb and just going crazy, only to realize he had thrown a shoe, and thinking what the?. Apparently, this is a big sign of disgrace in their culture. I'm kind of hoping this makes its way into our culture. I would love to drive down the road and just throw my shoe at the idiot who can't drive. Catch them right during the middle of a text as they're doing 10 miles under the speed limit. That would get expensive though. You go to throw a shoe and are like, "I can't disgrace you today, I've got on gucci's." Or, if you got on boots it would take a lot of work to get out of them. I would forget why I wanted to disgrace them by the time I took them off. Yeah, probably not a good idea, but the next time I'm going to the store with my slip on grass cutting shoes and somebody looks at me wrong and says, "What? Bring it" They're getting a shoe to the face, just to try it, see how humiliated they feel. Then I'll look at them and say, "It's just been broughten."