"Bodybuilder" with 29" biceps

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This guy, Arlindo de Souza, is no more a bodybuilder than Chaz Bono is a man...just as a decoy duck ain't a duck. My, my, my what times are these where bona fide fakes are granted legitimacy!

click here to see a REAL bodybuilder

 What do you make of this?

The pimp dictator is fucked

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Moammar Gaddafi is fucked. That's it. Period.
But those bitches will kill ya if you gets too close to their Gaddafi. Booyah!

Mexican president IS trying to effect change

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Bless his heart, Mexican President Calderon is trying to make the buck stop but the drug cartels are as massive and slippery a problem to clean up as the BP oil spill. (I don't know why American motorists haven't effectively boycotted BP gas stations. Tea Party nuts like the symbolism of dumping tea in the ocean but, apparently, are not so bothered by oil in the same. Go figure)

 related AP news report

Pissed off by the super low conviction rates President Calderon is calling prosecutors and judges to the carpet about the essentially empty arrests. Hopefully he can inject action where before there is only show and tell. 

Amazing speech by war veteran

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I believe in war but I no longer believe in this war; I believe in peace and I believe this war will not bring it. 

Where gas costs arm and leg

Here's a clue: Se Habla Ingles? TIJUANA!

Yes, Tijuana, the poor man's Mexican getaway and hub of violent Mexican drug cartels is receiving more American motorists as car owners visit south of the border for regular fill-ups. The price of gas in Mexico is cheaper because it's subsidized but there are other heftier costs not found in the U.S.A. gas pumps such as:

1. Long ass waiting lines (time). We may have long lines at times but Mexico has long ass lines. How long ass? Try over an hour long! With no self-service filling stations each automobile is waited on by an attendant...and we all know how wonderful Mexican employees are at customer service.

2. Threats (stress). Drug violence, wild west shootings, white slavery...and that's just the morning police blotter. As one San Diego retiree reasoned, "I know they could kill me or kidnap me, but the cost of filling my tank in the United States is just too much." Right. So...he's willing to give his life for cheaper oil. Hell, sign gramps up for the army! Why get snuffed by a Mexican rancher when you can die in honor from a suicide bomber?

3. Violence (health). With the intense heat beaming down on you, exhaust fumes swirling up your nostrils, and homespun civility of ever anxious Californians it's bound to come to fisticuffs. Booyah! Frustrated drivers shout and curse at each other and some even throw blows. Also, foreigners make attractive prey for organized gangs as well as desperate natives. At last count, border towns are the most chaotic and Tijuana leads the country in homicides which stands at more than 1001, and this is just early summer.

I suggest my readers avoid more than the water in Tijuana.

Crude reality of crude oil

Only several weeks past the world stuttered when a prankster of sorts sold his lot of oil barrels for roughly ninety-nine dollars. He wanted to be the first. Well now the $100 tag is looking like the good 'ol days in lieu of the current $120 price tag for crude oil which pushed the national retail average to a record $3.50.

Welcome to the oil olympics! Get on your good running shoes because you'll probably not be able to afford to drive to the stadium.

As gas prices reach record highs our USD$ is crumbling to new lows against the euro, both of which keep me using public transportation and living abroad. Yeah!

American mainstream media touched on several possible reasons for rising gas prices but none of which concerned global warming or the Iraq War. That's hellaqueer. Surely waging war in an oil rich land plays some large role in the cost you see at the filling stations. Granted, I chose to study Intro to Constitutional Gov over Econ 101 but one needn't be an economist to deduce a legitimate case of cause and effect. In fact, one only need be a consumer---an informed consumer---to relate the escalating catastrophe of the war (still no capture of WMDs or Bin Laden...) with the dwindling economy and rising cost of living. Our interest rates are continually cut yet few voices besides Al Gore and Ralph Nader are stressing citizens to consume less and conserve more; consequently, those cut rates are only giving pause to the inevitable.

To get out of bed with the Saudi Emirates now would be to find ourselves kicked to the curb like a midnight cowboy as the Saudis' kindness in trading oil in dollars versus euros is largely keeping our oil dependent appetites from growling.