And that is barely scratching the surface. I'll give him credit for admitting that bad intelligence lead to the invasion of Iraq but it was too little, too late. Just like Bill Clinton's apology for messing with Monica Lewinsky, Bush's words were those of a man that had been caught and had no where else to go.

Call the Secret Service if you want to, but our President needs a Bruce Lee "Enter the Dragon" style Kick in the Throat.

Politics (State) Charles Walker: If you live in the C.S.R.A. you know the story. He messed up and he got caught. His actions helped to turn the racial divide in this city into a racial Grand Canyon. He needs a Shawn Michaels "Sweet Chin Music" style Kick in the Throat.

Politics (City) The Augusta Commission: Pure government ineptitude. All of them black and white, male and female should be ashamed of themselves. It seems to me that if one of them can't get their way they make sure that everyone else suffers. These people are proof that stupidity knows no color. Next person that walks out of a meeting without accomplishing anything gets a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Game of Death" style Kick in the Throat.

Miscellaneous - Michael Brown: First off let me say that there were many problems with hurricane relief effort on ALL levels, local state, and national but I think the biggest problems were at the top. For starters is Brown was not qualified to be head of FEMA but when you are friends with the president qualifications don't matter.

He had the nerve to sit in front of a special congressional panel and call my home state 'dysfunctional'. This is the same man who went on national TV a couple of days after Hurricane Katrina passed and said that he did not know people were at the Convention Center. Don't get me wrong state and local governments in Louisiana messed up but Brown has no right to talk about ANYBODY. He needs to get his own act together first.

Mr. Brown deserves a Chuck Norris "Delta Force" style Kick in the Throat.

Miscellaneous (Part II) - The people responsible for keeping Michael Brown around: After he 'resigned' as head of FEMA, Brown was paid as a consultant to help FEMA assess what went wrong. This guy didn't have a clue what was going on so how is he going to help figure out what went wrong? You want to know what was wrong with Hurricane Katrina coverage, I'll tell you. It was Michael Brown himself.

Now I see that he is starting his own disaster preparedness consulting firm. That's like Ike Turner, O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake starting a marriage counseling service. Let this guy crawl under a rock and disappear, he has done enough damage.

Anybody that goes to this guy for disaster planning advice needs a David Carradine (a.k.a. Kwai Chang Caine) "Kung Fu" style Kick in the Throat.

That concludes our Throatie Awards for 2005. You might not agree with all of my nominees and winners but you have to admit that there are A LOT of people in the world that need a good Kick in the Throat. Hopefully you all had as much fun reading it as I had writing it. I am sure that the 2006 awards will be even bigger (unfortunately).

Belated happy New Years to you all.