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I awakened the other morning from a dream to a vivid certainty. The certainty is that America is in mortal danger. Our country has reached a pivot point in its national existence, and the American people must now decide whether this country will be victorious or join the long line of historically vanquished nations.

Pictured: The Tiny Kingbird That Took A Piggyback On A Predatory Hawk And Lived To Tell The Tale By Daily Mail Reporter 28th September 2009 How far would you go to get rid of an unwelcome visitor? This is the moment a tiny kingbird decided it was time to see off a potential predator circling his home. In a bold move, the aggressive little bird launched itself at the fearsome red-tailed hawk and sank its talons into the larger bird's back. [Pic in URL] Enlarge Time you were going: The red-tailed hawk shrieks in pain as the brave kingbird sinks...

WASHINGTON – Hey, kids, don't try this at home. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk on Friday took a brief ride at the White House as part of a Father's Day celebration. Hawk, 41, skated in the grand foyer and the nearby Old Executive Office Building, with the permission of White House officials.

Avigdor Lieberman - branded a racist by critics - set to be foreign minister James Hider in Jerusalem Israel's next foreign minister looks set to be Avigdor Lieberman, the Soviet immigrant whose controversial policies have been condemned widely by the country's regional neighbours. His critics accuse him of being an Arab-hating racist but he is hailed by supporters as a strongman who will deal harshly with the state's enemies, in particular Iran, which he has threatened to bomb. Mr Lieberman has threatened to bomb a number of Israel's neighbours, including Egypt, with whom the Jewish state has a peace treaty....

VIENNA, Va. -- For a Virginia doctor, squirrels are a man's best friend, too. Thomas Shepler, a hand surgeon, shot a hawk to death in his backyard when he said the bird was eyeing a young squirrel that he and his wife had helped raise.

This is how I spent my day, too pretty to watch anything on TV! This is an immature bird, I'm only 90% on the ID, several of the hawks have similar young. I got through a whole day without being busted by a rentacop!

TVland begins the M*A*S*H series

Bird of prey found dead along road had claw sticking through its chest A hawk was found dead along a California highway with the claw of a songbird protruding from its chest. It's not clear, however, if the partially digested meal, one claw somehow managing to get back out from a terribly wrong location, had anything to do with the hawk's death. On the evening of Sunday, March 30, Julia Di Sieno of the Animal Rescue Team in California noticed the dead sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) while driving a sick night heron to the Solvang Veterinary Hospital. Sharp-shinned hawks are...

"Professional golfer Tripp Isenhour is charged with killing a bird on purpose with a golf shot...." "...According to court records cited by the Orlando Sentinel, Isenhauer hit a number of shots, once hitting a tree trunk. The paper reported that on Isenhour's 10th swing, the ball hit the bird."

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour was charged with killing a hawk on purpose with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show Isenhour was with a film crew for "Shoot Like A Pro" on Dec. 12 at the Grand Cypress Golf course. The 39-year-old golfer, whose real name is John Henry Isenhour III, was charged Monday with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. According to court documents, Isenhour got upset when a red-shouldered hawk began making noise, forcing another take. He began hitting balls at the bird, then...

Red-Tailed Hawks and Hen are a mixed family and only see their mother as another hawk. Mother has learned to speak a little red-tailed hawk sound. This is a short film animation by o7jimmy (Revski).

Kremlin hawks feed conspiracy theories with 3,200 white mice Mark Franchetti RUSSIANS bored by today’s predictable presidential election have turned their attention to a puzzle that emerged from the corridors of power last week: what on earth did the Kremlin want with 3,200 white mice worth more than £10,000? The Federal Guard Service, the Russian equivalent of the American Secret Service and guardian of both Vladimir Putin’s security and the Kremlin grounds, advertised for the rodents, specifying that they should be female, white, laboratory-bred and weighing no more than 18 grams (just over half an ounce). Delivery to be arranged...

This video is good footage of a Red Tailed Hawk, also known as a Chicken Hawk and it’s Song. I redid this video with a little more effects. I'm sure you will enjoy this animated video. Revski :)

Not funny. This video is good footage of a Red Tailed Hawk and it’s Song. If you click on this footage of a little less than a minute, I'm sure you will enjoy it. Revski (o7jimmy)

I love McDonald’s food but if you ask for your choice of bread on your order and that choice is wheat bread, no deal. Check out this short funny rap on, wheat bread. Revski

I am sure that some of Freerepublic readers like hawks. Check you-tube link and find a polish hawk. Revski

Hawks are rarely seen up close and the song they sing differs from different types of hawks. Hear the sound of a Red-Shoulder Hawk when it sings from a branch.

All or most of us have heard the fraise, a bird of prey; this short video is from a Revski-pun, Bird of Pray. Revski

Top of the food chain in my yard, this female Red shouldered hawk sees everything that moves. I can get within 10 feet, haven't tried to get closer. I've been watching her for about 3 years, and she watches back.

Near home, Cabbage Hammock, Florida, almost Heaven!

A female Red shouldered hawk, near my home.

When I saw this bird I assumed it was my old regular neighborhood Red shouldered hawk. It's a Cooper's Hawk, first I've seen around the swamp, or maybe the first time I noticed.

My favorite bird again.

Cold weather up North has the birds moving. We have resident Red Shoulder Hawks, but this weekend there was a hawk almost anywhere you looked. This is a local bird, it has a toe tip missing on the left foot. The newcomers aren't as easy to approach.

I guess I'm hooked on watching these guys hunt. This one is a regular over a hayfield close to my home, he almost totally ignores me. There is another Red shouldered Hawk that is a newcomer, may be a female, it stays about 1/2 mile out of this birds territory. They can see a mouse or rat an amazing distance away, you think they are dozing, and all of a sudden they're airborne. I'm still trying for flight shots, so far I'm just not fast enough.

Red Shouldered Hawk, he showed up right on schedule this year. Cool thing is, he remembered me, I can get up close with the camera.

Things have been slow as summer winds down, but, along about this time, last year, the Red Shouldered Hawks were hunting over the hay fields. I figured they would show up again. This is most likely the male, the female is a bit stouter. It is almost for sure the same critter I watched last year, it wasn't the least bit afraid of me.

Sep. 25th, 2007 -- Attention all thrill seekers, extreme sports enthusiasts and coaster aficionados -- Six Flags Over Texas, The Entertainment Capital of Texas, is proud to announce plans to welcome another addition to its already amazing roster of thrills – Tony Hawk’s Big Spin! Tony Hawk’s Big Spin, making its debut on opening day of Six Flags Over Texas’ 47th season, will give riders the sensation of freestyle skateboarding as they sit facing one another in 4-person cars all decked out in skateboard motif! Riders will grab some serious airtime as they twist and turn in 360° rotations while...

July 14, 2007 -- The Upper East Side's beloved hawk, Pale Male, was the target of a cruel attack yesterday when a construction worker pummeled him with rocks - and now bird lovers are fearing for Pale Male's life. The famous fowl was struck and likely wounded with at least one thrown object in an incident that one steamed cop called "a crime against nature." Witnesses said the bird was perched on a piece of masonry on an upper floor of 1040 Fifth Avenue at E. 85th St. at 3 p.m. when the worker, standing on the roof above, started...

An injured hawk owes its life to a man in Connecticut. Nick Skoloski spotted this injured red tailed hawk on the side of a busy road on Friday. He pulled over to help the grounded bird, running across the highway and stopping traffic to do it! Doctors at the Suffield Veterinarian Hospital said they would do what they could to mend the bird's wing and get it back into the air as soon as possible

Cash-strapped Communists hawk treasures By Kim Willsher in Paris, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:56am BST 10/06/2007 It was once France's biggest political party, feared by the bourgeoisie and the CIA alike as a red menace with the power to spark another revolution. The party is considering selling Mona Lisa with Moustache Nicolas Sarkozy's sweeping victory in last month's presidential election, however, and the prospect of another landslide for his party in the parliamentary elections - with the first round today - have spelled disaster for the French Communist Party. So bad were the presidential election results that the "people's" party...

Desert Hawk Takes Command of Aviation Ops By Sgt. 1st Class Krishna M. Gamble Task Force Pegasus Public Affairs Office FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2007 -- Soldiers from the active, Reserve and National Guard components of the Army formed one of the largest attack aviation task forces to operate in Afghanistan, Feb. 17. Task Force Talon passed its mission of providing air-assault, attack, convoy, troop and supply and movement along with a myriad of other aviation operations to Task Force Desert Hawk, headed by the 1st Battalion, 285th Aviation Regiment of the Arizona National Guard, in...

Black Hawk makes "hard landing" in Iraq-US military 21 Feb 2007 13:31:43 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds police captain saying helicopter hit by projectile) BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter with nine people on board made a "hard landing" north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, citing initial reports. It was unclear why the helicopter made such a landing, but Iraqi police captain Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said he saw some type of projectile hitting the aircraft before it came down on Wednesday in a rural area known as the Line, 30 kilometres north of Baghdad....

Hawks knock surge plan's command structure Buried in the Bush escalation plan is a who's-in-charge nightmare that violates U.S. military doctrine. Now even John McCain and Frederick Kagan are balking. By Mark Benjamin Jan. 29, 2007 | As the Senate nears an unprecedented debate on President Bush's escalation of the Iraq war, almost all the public criticism has been aimed at the inadequate size of the new forces being sent to Baghdad (21,500 troops) and the extreme difficulty of reversing the course of the civil war. But last week, little noticed by the press and public, the Bush plan began...

Kid fights off hawk to save dog By Norman Miller/ Metrowest Daily News Sunday, December 10, 2006 Call it a case of suburbia red in tooth and claw. Young Chris Campo had to fight a wild beast for his puppy’s life on Friday when a red-tailed hawk tried to turn the Weston youngster’s Dachshund into dinner. But a well-placed kick by the courageous Campo to the hawk’s head freed 5-month-old Dimi, who quickly high-tailed it to safety. “I took the dog out to go to the bathroom and he started to run around like he was kind of scared,” said...

I left the house Monday afternoon, heading to the store. The Red Shouldered Hawk left the roof, and landed in one of the pines in the front yard. It chose the wrong tree. The squirrel came in so fast I wasn't sure what was happening, actually managed to pull some feathers, and was turning around to go after more when the hawk took off. Yeah, I never go anywhere without a camera!

Indian Navy eyes 100 aircraft by 2020 IANS Tuesday, July 18, 2006 08:08 IST NEW DELHI:After the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Indian Navy is looking at acquiring close to 100 aircraft in a mix of fighters, patrol planes and trainers by 2020. On the shopping list are 40 to 50 MiG-29K fighters, 30 long-range maritime patrol (LRMP) aircraft and 10-15 Hawk advanced jet trainers (AJTs), navy chief Admiral Arun Praksh told India Strategic magazine in an interview. According to him, as the IAF was acquiring the Hawk trainers, it was logical for the navy to go in for either...

5/15/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Battlefield awareness has reached new levels with Global Hawk production-model aircraft flying in the U.S. Central Command Air Forces theater. Reaching a breakthrough point in April, the Global Hawk team has maximized the aircraft’s sorties, collecting more than 96 percent of the target area -- nearly 5,000 images of enemy locations, resources and personnel. The Global Hawk, surveying large geographic areas with pinpoint accuracy and giving military commanders near real-time information, has proven its worth in recent operations, said Capt. Ty Gilbert, senior intelligence duty officer at the combined air operations center, or CAOC,...

Cynthia McKinney’s reaction to the obvious and blatant favoritism enjoyed by Patrick Kennedy is likely to be something to savor. She is already on the record about the indignities she received at the hand of a white cop. But now she sees that for the white boy, supervisors stepped in, relieving the officers at the scene and driving the staggering Kennedy home. She faces potential legal jeopardy, and now a rich white boy walks away without so much as a breathalyzer test from circumstances that would ordinarily demand a drunk driving investigation. At least one cop reportedly says he smelled...

WASHINGTON -U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that he had consumed “no alcohol” before he slammed his Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier near his office, but a hostess at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole told the Herald she saw him drinking in the hours before the crash. “He was drinking a little bit,” said the woman, who works at the Hawk & Dove and would not give her name. Leaving his office late last night, Kennedy refused to say whether he’d been to the Hawk & Dove the night before. Earlier in the evening, Kennedy issued a statement...

VETERAN PAKISTANI ARMS DEALER CONVICTED IN PLOT TO ILLEGALLY EXPORT U.S. FIGHTER JET COMPONENTS TO MIDDLE EAST SAN DIEGO – -- United States Attorney Carol C. Lam announced that today a federal jury in San Diego found Arif Ali Durrani guilty of multiple violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Specifically, the jury convicted Durrani of four counts of Exporting Defense Articles Without a License and one count of Conspiracy to Commit Offenses Against the United States. According to Assistant United States Attorney William Cole, who prosecuted the case, the evidence at trial established that Durrani intentionally conspired with other...

In foreign affairs, a "dove" refers to someone who opposes war and a "hawk" refers to someone who supports war.

/20/2006 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- After supporting the global war on terror for three years, Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle No. 3 (UAV-3) received its official homecoming Feb. 20 when its wheels touched down at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. During its overseas deployment, UAV-3 logged more than 4,800 flight hours supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Combined Task Force --Horn of Africa. On hand at the homecoming event were Maj. Gen. Curtis Bedke, commander, Air Force Flight Test Center; Randy Brown, director, Global Hawk Systems Group; Gary...

2/14/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- A high-flying prototype “Airman” is heading home after being deployed more than four years and flying 4,245 hours supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Combined Task Force-Horn of Africa. Global Hawk Air Vehicle No. 3 began its journey back home at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Feb. 10, and is expected to land there Feb. 16. This unmanned aerial vehicle, AV-3, first deployed as a prototype during the build-up for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2002. It returned to Edwards for a couple of months and then was recalled by U.S. Central...

bill's bud explains1.... by Mia T, 11.26.05 Hillary, it seems, is not only "watching me like a hawk," as Bill puts it at one point,1 Having failed to snare the Nobel Peace Prize by ignoring terrorism, clinton has apparently decided to intensify his America-bashing on foreign soil, the method employed by Jimmy Carter to great (if somewhat belated) effect. (The Nobel committee, sufficiently mollified only after 24 years of the peanut president's America-bashing, awarded Carter his 1978 Peace Prize finally in 2002.) Meanwhile, back in the Senate, the missus, the other half of the clinton construct, maintains her hawkish...

Hawk crashed through window Peder Hansen was relaxing at home, listening to some music over the weekend, when his peace literally was shattered by a bang and splintering glass. A fully grown hawk, flying at high speed, crashed through his veranda window and landed on his living room floor. "What a surprise!" the 69-year-old fisherman in northern Norway told newspaper VG on Monday. "There was glass all over the room. And in the middle of the room stood this gorgeous bird." The hawk wasn't injured and immediately started making himself at home, proving to be a messy houseguest in the...

Around 10 o'clock Friday night, A.J. Hawk will do what he does on the eve of every game. He'll pick up the phone and call his parents. But before you cue the Waltons music and get all sappy about the family bonding, consider the ritual subject matter between the Ohio State linebacker and his mom, Judy. She's not just there to say nighty-night. "She's straight-up mean," A.J. says, laughing. "She's not a mean person, but she tells me what she wants me to do to the other team. She's crazy." Judy's general instructions: Hit 'em all. Hit 'em hard. Violently...

A squirrel uses a bench on the common in Worcester, Mass., to protect himself from the talons of a hawk earlier this month. It turned out to be the squirrel's lucky day -- he dashed away while the bird looked away for a moment.

Bush makes a foxy pick By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, US President George W Bush has nominated Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, widely considered the most unilateralist and least diplomatic of senior US officials during Bush's first term, will have to be confirmed by the US Senate, where some Democrats, a few of whom were said to be stunned by the nomination, are expected to put up a fight. One aide called the nomination "incredible", particularly...