A little this, a little that...

Leading off tonight, a bit of that irony I love.  A lady whose blog I follow was just mentioning an earlier trip to Florida, in which she expressed a desire to avoid Atlanta traffic at all costs.  She said the thought of driving around the Atlanta bypass put her "in a fetal position, which isn't a good thing when you're driving."  Lo and behold, tonight as we listened to Pat Miller on the way home, he got a call from a frequent-caller truck driver who was at that moment on that very stretch of road.  I about died laughing when the trucker called it the "Watermelon 500".

And next, I have a one-person who's dumber.  From FoxNews:

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper seems to have a knack for imbuing run-of-the-mill political introductions with sexual imagery.

After he introduced his lieutenant governor last week as a "sex star" to an audience of school children, the Democratic governor went two-for-two on Tuesday -- reportedly evoking a shower scene while introducing Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.

According to the Denver Post, Hickenlooper dug himself into the rhetorical tar pit while introducing Hancock before a crowd of hundreds at a luncheon. He was apparently trying to make a reference to the singing career of the mayor's wife, Mary Louise Lee, but it went downhill quickly and he couldn't escape the metaphor.

"We read about how President Obama sings to Michelle in the shower," Hickenlooper said, according to the Post. "So you can just imagine what the mayor gives his wife in the shower. Uh, I mean what she gives him in the shower."

Too late.

The governor turned red, according to the Post.

Hickenlooper's office had no comment on the slip when contacted by FoxNews.com.

The joke may have been doomed from the start, as there is scant mention in the public record about Michelle and Barack Obama singing in the shower. The first lady said a month ago on "The Tonight Show" that the president sings to her all the time -- no mention of a shower.

Something about shower scenes, though, runs in Hickenlooper's political history. One of his most notable 2010 ads in the race for governor showed no fewer than a dozen shots of him taking one, fully clothed -- to make a point about how negative ads make him want to clean up.

But it's hardly the first risqué gaffe for Hickenlooper. Last week he mistakenly called Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia a "rising sex star" at a childhood literacy event. "I mean symbol, not star," he then said, correcting himself.

Never mind why the governor thought it prudent to invoke Garcia's hunkiness at a school event.

Well, I hate to say it, but when you vote for someone with a name like Hickenlooper...  exactly why last election, when I had no intention of voting for soon-to-be-criminal Charlie White, I chose the libertarian for Secretary of State over Democrat Vop Osli.  "Vop"?  (Note: I just looked it up- he was a gabby toddler and thus got the nickname "Vop", which stands for Voice Of the People.  I'd have considered if he'd have run under his given name Samuel.)

Speaking of which, didja hear the one about Democrat Candidate Dave Roach, running for Allen County Commissioner?  Kicked off the ballot because the nickname he filed under- "Legalize Marijuana"- was ruled invalid.  Maybe he should have tried Dave "Cock" Roach, but that might have led to even more problems.   "Vop" Roach?

Uhhhh.... no.

THE NEXT ITEM IS VERY NON-PC.  IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, PLEASE STOP READING NOW, SINCE WHAT COMES AFTER WILL BE HOCKEY STUFF.

I'm sorry, I know this headline was attached to a serious story, about a man trying a dangerous feat, and he did a skillful job at completing this very questionable endeavor.  But just pretend you are back in grade school for a moment, and tell me your first reaction to this headline:

Polish kite surfer fights off sharks for two days in battle to survive Red Sea crossing

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The first two games of Lokomotiv's series against VMF St. Petersburg were yesterday and today.  Game one was in front of a capacity crowd in Yaroslavl, and we put up a good effort, outshooting HC VMF 32-13.  However, it was VMF goalie Dmitri Shikin, a second stringer who was 6-11-6 in the regular season, who starred.  He kept our boys out of the net, and was backed up by a 1st period goal by Ilya Grebennikov from a bad angle from the side of the goal, and a third period score on a wrap around by Albert Konzov, and VMF won 2-0.  The one bright spot was a fight between our Rafael Akhmetov and their Yegor Chuguev.  Rafael caused it by running at one of their guys.  Chuguev landed a couple good punches before Akhmetov began walloping Yegor with his helmet and accidentally tripping him.  Both men got a 5-minute fight and a 20-minute game misconduct.

Today, it was the same in shots- 40-15 in our favor- but the score was different right from the start.  A minute and a half into the match, Vitaly Zotov- who had scored exactly zero goals and 6 assists in 22 games this season- put one behind Shikin for a 1-0 lead.  Despite the VHL website's mention that all the goals scored in this game were even strength, VMF's first- and only- goal was actually a power play while somebody sat in the box for goalie Nikita Lozhkin who was whistled for a trip.  And the scoring party was our friend Yegor Chuguev, tying the game at 1-1.  Less than three minutes later, at 15:04, Daniil Apal'kov untied it with a goal that made it 2-1 for us.  Maxim Zyuzyakin scored halfway through the second- with suddenly high-scoring Zotov getting an assist- to make it 3-1.  And Oleg Yashin, who seems to have a real talent for scoring when the matter is near decided, tallied inside the first minute of the third for a 4-1 final.  With a split of our home games, the series heads to Pitir for the next bout on Saturday.

Obama screws someone... but who?

In the spirit of last night's conversation about getting it all out, I read the text of the President's speech on Mideast policy that has right-thinking Americans howling in disbelief and our enemies once again chuckling over our incredible naivete and arrogance in our worldview.  To me, I realize what a huge step backwards that returning to the 1967 borders would be for Israel.  Hell, anyone with a little golden book world map and an ability to read a distance scale oughtta be able to figure THAT out.  If you read the rest of the surrounding story, it becomes obvious that this "policy statement" was the result of Obama's pitiable lack of any geopolitical or strategical sense.  Not surprising since Chicagoans typical idea of world geography includes a vast Terra Incognita south of the Chicago River (at least those who admit to being Cub fans).

What I don't get, though, is how, in all the uproar over Obama's casual shafting of Israel, seemingly everyone missed THIS:

"...Second, we do not want a democratic Egypt to be saddled by the debts of its past. So we will relieve a democratic Egypt of up to $1 billion in debt, and work with our Egyptian partners to invest these resources to foster growth and entrepreneurship. We will help Egypt regain access to markets by guaranteeing $1 billion in borrowing that is needed to finance infrastructure and job creation..."



Are you all asleep out here??? Everyone's so busy roaring about a suggestion to Israel that we all know what their answer is, that NOBODY is talking about the BAILOUT Obama wants to give Egypt- an Egypt, BTW, which is odds on to remember more clearly our 30 years of supporting Hosni Mubarik that our 2 months of non-support.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised that this was the ONLY reason he mentioned the 1967 borders- to distract everyone from  the kissing of $2 billion of taxpayer money goodbye to buy favor with a constituency that I guarantee will never vote for him.  And for a change, it worked.

He even predicted it would work , sort of, in the speech:

"...In the face of these challenges, too many leaders in the region tried to direct their people's grievances elsewhere. The West was blamed as the source of all ills, a half century after the end of colonialism. Antagonism toward Israel became the only acceptable outlet for political expression. Divisions of tribe, ethnicity and religious sect were manipulated as a means of holding on to power, or taking it away from somebody else. But the events of the past six months show us that strategies of repression and diversion won't work anymore..."


Except for me, nyah nyah nyah!!!  I appreciate that Pat Miller is giving out the phone #s of our reps so we could call them and show our support of Israel.  I agree completely with him- if Obama says "We believe Israel should go back to their 1967 borders"- that WE does not include this ME.  But hey,guys, while you have Stutzman, Pence, et al on the line, howsabout telling them that BAILOUTS DIDN'T WORK HERE- LET'S NOT DO ONE THERE!