OK people! Time to put your imagination to work once again. This time, the subject is Señor La Vida Loca himself, Ricky Martin!
Hey...wasn’t he “involved” in that payola scandal Sony just admitted to?
But I digress. Get to work!

Thanks to the Skipper over at BMEWS, I discovered the works of a photographer named Marian Jordan Lewandowski. A native of Gdańsk, Poland, Jordan wields quite a few different cameras (and of course I DROOL at the Canon Digital Rebel XT). He tried linking to some other prominent photographers in New York City, but got blown off because of his views on the War on Terror.
That’s OK Jordan! You still got friends here in the USA...people who are lot closer to the country! We’ll take you in! Check his pix out!

I personally urge everyone who reads this blog to take the survey over at SecureAmericasBorders.com. NOW!

Fortunately, I’m not talking about my ex-wife here....

SITUATION: You are a member of a grieving family, at a funeral for a male member who was killed in Iraq. An uninvited guest shows up. It is the Lieutanant Governor, she sits down next to you and hands you her business card, and whispers “I want you to know that our government is against this war.”
What do you do?

Well I’d be damned FURIOUS for starters! Now, if this broad were Lieutenant Governor of MY state, I’d be clamoring for her resignation! But since she isn’t I’ll leave that to the People in Pennsylvania to handle this. Better yet, I issue this call to my friends in PA: GET RID OF THIS A**HOLE AND HER BOSS TO BOOT!
It won’t matter to me one damn bit even though the Governor has issued a written apology to this family! This crass b*tch had no right whatsoever to crash this ceremony of final rest to push her anti-war “McChimpy BusHitler kills our boys so Cheney and Halliburton can reap the profits” agenda!
Oh, and I did I mention that both of them are DemocRATS!

Y’all remember this little lady, don’t you? Good, now I won’t have to waste time and bandwidth in describing her past. Anita Hill, a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University, now says President Bush’s nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr. to SCOTUS is a return to a “Good Ol’ Boys Club”:

“With O’Connor on the bench, the Supreme Court was the most diverse in its history. If confirmability through the Roberts “primer” becomes the rule, it is not hard to imagine a return to an all-white-male Supreme Court.”

Just that one line in her article wipes out the rest of it. But wait! There’s another line:

“I don’t know enough about John G. Roberts’ positions on any issues to pass judgment on his suitability for the court. The concerns I have today are directed more to the process and standards for the nomination.”

OK, so there are two lines which should tell you that Professor Hill doesn’t give a rat’s a** about a judge’s qualifications: only that they can’t be male, white, and constructionist in their Constitutional interpretation! If that’s not RACISM, what the hell is?

Now comes word from the People’s Socialist City-State of Chicago that four unions are about to walk out of the AFL-CIO convention...taking $35 MILLION in back dues with them! OWIE!
Somewhere in my collection of papers, I still have a Union Card from my days at Cub Foods in Kalamazoo, when in 1991, UFCW Local 951 organized the store’s workers to compete against Meijer...only to have Cub Foods close the store three months afterward! I actually got to participate in the Union election by being sent as an observer to Local 951’s HQ in Grand Rapids, where I saw the votes being counted:

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

Some people were pretty jolted about that, but I didn’t care one way or the other. It was a job, so I went out and got another one. So Meijer won that little grocery war...only to have its a** kicked a few years later when Wal-Mart crashed their little regional party!
I know of at least one person who ranks pretty highly in the UFCW hierarchy, and I’ll bet he and his comrades aren’t too happy that Wal-Mart continues to kick its a**, and I daresay the members of said union (and quite likely those members of the other three renegade unions) aren’t too happy that The Powers That Be in the AFL-CIO continue to siphon Union Dues into Democratic Party activities, when instead they should go to concentrate on improving the lot of the members! In fact, I might contact my friend there and see what he’s up against.

He’s done it! Lance Armstrong has won his seventh consecutive Tour de France...in a manner which wasn’t exactly expected. Race organizers called it early due to rain, as Lance was heading into Paris.
I guess the French didn’t want to submit themselves to watching Lance cross the finish line again at the head of the pack! Nevertheless...Lance retires from professional cycling AS A CHAMPION of the highest caliber...beating cancer to boot!
Now I also read that the junior Senator from Massachussetts was in the area taking in the race. I wonder where?

Seeing as how two Lizardoids were touched by history when they were younger, in this case by Sir Winston S. Churchill, I felt I had to respond in kind and share my touching of history. Here is what I posted over at LGF:

In 1971, as a fifth-grader at Asmara American Dependents’ School in Ethiopia (Asmara is now the capital of Eritrea), I met Haile Selassie. He came to Kagnew Station every year to get his teeth examined because they were filled with GOLD!
I was in the front line of kids and His Imperial Majesty, a man who descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, a man who pleaded to the League of Nations for help when his country was attacked by Mussolini (and it fell on deaf ears), shook the hands of every one of those kids.
He was a short little guy too! 4’11” (as short as my ex-wife!). I RAN home and said “Mom! Mom! I shook Haile Selassie’s hand!”
Mom replied with an old wives’ tale: “Don’t wash it for a week!”
AND I DIDN’T.
Just that little encounter started my path toward the fascination with history which I hold today. When I found 20 years later what the Communists did to him after they murdered him, I cried. What a sad end.
But I touched history, and history touched me back.

YAY! The Hockey Lockout is Officially OVER, as the NHL owners met and unanimously approved the new six-year Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and the players. Who won this? THE OWNERS, that’s who, because they got a salary cap in place, where players will get 54% of total revenues.
In addition, there will be some rules changes, as well as the new logo (pictured here) to help bring back fans:
• NO MORE TIES: Enough of this “kissing your sister” routine. There will be a shootout at the end of regulation during regular season games. Hockey purists will likely cringe, but I believe this sport had to make this major change in order to survive. Leave the draw bulls**t to soccer!
• SMALLER GOALIE PADS AND TRAP ZONE AREA: Let’s face it, guys like Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek, and Curtis Joseph were damn good, buy Roy (especially) had some pads that were a wee bit oversized, and a lot of teams bitched to the league about it. In addition, goalies could play anywhere behind the goal line to gain control of the puck. Now they will be restricted to a trapezoidal area defined by lines that begin 6 feet from either goal post, and extend diagonally to points 28 feet apart at the endboards. If they play the puck outside that area, they will be hit with a delay-of-game penalty (2-minute minor).  Now we’ll see how the current crop of goalies perform.
• LARGER ATTACK ZONES: The Blue Lines have been moved to 75 feet from the end boards, this increases the size of the attack zone. The goal line has been moved back 2 feet, to 11 feet.
And that’s just for starters. More rules changes are located at NHL.com. Now the ‘Yotes will have to learn how to win games, that’s for sure! I can finally await the arrival into town of my beloved Detroit Red Wings!

I actually found this in Wal-Mart of all places! A small way for me to show my support!

Take a good look at him, folks. He’s already figuring out how to bulls**t the world when he goes on trial. Wait, I take that back. He’s already doing that!
How, you ask? Well he appeared in another hearing on July 21 (according to Al-Arabiya TV), and in it, he launched into a tirade of how he doesn’t have access to a lawyer:

“The lawyer only sees his client when there is an investigation session. Is this the law?”

Yet the video shows another man sitting beside him. Probably his lawyer...and a newbie at that, considering how his old barrister quit on him and blames us.
Later on, he whines about not being “greeted” properly:

“When someone like me says ‘Peace be upon you,’ and no one responds, then this is a big insult for someone like Saddam Hussein.”

Maybe it’s because he’s got a big ego for starters, and the judges are probably resisting great temptation to tell him P*SS be upon you! We gotta continue to keep an eye on Saddam, or else when he finally is brought to trial it’ll turn into another circus like what happened with Slobodan Misonofabitch!

Allow me to extend a grateful welcome to those readers coming from Roger L. Simon’s blog! The Man With The Fedora linked to my small insight” into the Saudi Ambassador situation.
I guess I’m gonna have to get one of his Moses Wine novels now! Thanks Roger!

Much to the chagrin of other readers, it isn’t often where I write about sex. However, I will make an exception this time.
Remember when I’ve written here (and elsewhere) about how NARAL should have massive ”Screw Abstinence” demonstrations to protest against SCOTUS nominee John G. Roberts? Well, they can take a cue from the Dutch, as it seems the cops are unable to stop large outdoor orgies taking place in their picnic areas and national parks!
It’s probably just as disgusting to the regular Dutch citizenry as it is to us, so it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to see this actually happen here...and then watch out! The ACLU will get involved. ACK!

HAT TIP: The Ranting Right Wing Howler

One reader of this blog will find this post near and dear to their heart. You know who you are.
AO is to the video game industry what NC-17 is to motion pictures. Rockstar Games, the manufacturer of the video game ”Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” was forced to change the rating from M to AO after word got out that a third party hack unlocked a feature which depicts graphic sex scenes!
And look who’s going apes**t over this...Shrillary and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT...remember, he’s one of the few sane Democrats left)! Time for them to invoke the Giant Government Nipple Solution to the problem! No, this won’t stop it, but merely drive it underground...and people will flock to it, as one particular reader of this blog has probably already done!

Scotty is gone. He died today at the age of 85, due to complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer’s.
James Doohan embodied the fighting spirit of Canadians during World War II. “Ready, Aye! Ready!” He stormed the beaches of Normandy at Juno Beach. It was there he lost his right middle finger, the hand that was rarely seen on television. A miracle (in the form of his silver cigarette case) saved him from certain death, and he went on to become one of the most loved characters in Television history, a miracle worker: Captain of Engineering Montgomery Scott, a role he played in both the Original Series and The Next Generation.
Did he ever get irritated at the fans who quipped to him “Beam me up, Scotty?” In his own words:

“I’m not tired of it at all. Good gracious, it’s been said to me for just about 31 years. It’s been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody. It’s been fun.”

Indeed. And with 9 kids from three marriages (the youngest being only 5 years old!), he certainly lived life to the fullest. Thanks Scotty! You’re Home now, you’ve earned your rest.

“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.”