And that's game 1

The Red Sox beat the hated Yankees last night 6-4.

David Ortiz hit a monster 2 run shot and Pap ended the game with a strikeout of A-Rod.

Video immediately after showed Cameron Diaz ripping three phone books in half, bending a steel bar over her neck, then climbing the Empire State Building where she swatted at airplanes for a couple of hours.

Tito's moving of Carl Crawford into the 6 hole has paid dividends all around as C.C. has brought his average up about 50 points in the last month. And Oritz has benefitted because pitchers now have to pitch to him, much like when Manny followed him in the line-up. He's responded with a month so huge I think he was named offensive player of the month or something.

This gives the Sox a solid 1-6 lineup of power and average that will be good stuff for the rest of the season.

Now if they can only keep their pitchers off the dl *raps on wood*

Also worth mentioning that the Sox are up 7-4 as I write this behind my boy Wake and Papi's hit another homer. yippee!

Update:
Boston wins 11-6! This puts the Sox in first place in the East and gives them a 7-1 record against the Jankees. heh

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And also for no reason other than her general hotness, here's an early released pic of the anti-Megan Fox, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley from her July layout in Maxim:

you're welcome

This is the hottest thing in the last decade?

So Spike TV held their annual awards show last night and feted Jennifer Aniston for a decade of hotness.

Really?

Not Mila Kunis? Not Eliza Dushku? Not Salma Hayek? Not Angelina Jolie? Not . . .*goes on ad nauseum*?

And as if to emphasize the head scratching nature of the award, Jen shows up looking like this:

Seriously, honey? You're being awarded for being the hotttest thing going for the last ten years, and that's the best outfit you can bring? And nice hair, by the way. Piss off your stylist?

I don't actually have anything against Jen, but the continuous whining about Brad & Angie, and the serial douchbag dating, and the endless magazine covers about how happy she is alone quickly followed by another stating she's in love again!

*groan*

Something tells me Spike TV needs a testosterone booster or something, 'cause at this rate, they'll be annoiting Florence Henderson as the hotty of the year.

Rule 5 Sunday -- Carmen Electra

This week's Rule 5 submission is the ageless Carmen Electra.

Of course I say ageless, but actually Carmen, born Tara Patrick is only 39. But still, when you look at how other celeb types are aging in dog years -- she's still bangin'! And we like that :-)

Her career isn't the stuff of legend, but she stays busy -- starting off in Playboy and moving into Baywatch and other tv and movie roles. I'm actually a fan of her work in 2005's Dirty Love with Jenny McCarthy. Carmen plays this ghetto-wannabe white chick, perfectly doing the exaggerated mannerisms you see in other white girls trying to act like sisters. It's a meaty role and she's pretty funny in it. Worth checking out if you see it on cable.

*click on the thumbnails for full-sized images*

Rule 5 Sunday suggested by this.

Oh hell yeah!

This is what I needed to get my weekend started -- some Duffster hotness:

woof, how about my Hilary rockin' the cut-offs with some stems that look like they could crack a couple of your ribs?

Hmmm, looks like she could use some help with that pesky shaving thing. See, if she wasn't married, this is where I'd offer my expert help in that area . . . hot bubble bath, candles, champagne . . . *thinks impure thoughts* . . . ummm, gonna need a minute alone here boys . . .

Tell me again, why this isn't like socialism

From the early days of this administration, even back during the campaign, President/candidate Obama has made statements that had a socialist tinge to them.

He's spoken about "spreading the wealth around" and how there comes a time "when you've made enough money" and on and on. And concerned citizens have wondered aloud about the notion that a sitting President feels he has the authority, moral and legal, to decide how much money you can make.

Of interest to me is that he never makes these statements to his friends in the movie/music/sports industries, who are some of the highest paid people in the world. No, he only says this stuff to businessmen, entrepeneurs, and blue collar workers. Go figure.

But anyone who wonders about the socialist/marxist hue to policies from this administration are called racist fearmongers or told we're jumping to illogical conclusions, etc. But like they tell you when you're a child, the longer you try to keep a lie going, the harder it is to keep everything straight. It's just too complex. And we see another example of that today.

As more and more states object to the unconstitutionality of Obamacare, there are legal challenges everywhere. In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, the president's acting solicitor general, Neal Kumar Katyal, under questioning made the following statement:

“If we’re going to play that game, I think that game can be played here as well, because after all, the minimum coverage provision only kicks in after people have earned a minimum amount of income,” Kaytal said. “So it’s a penalty on earning a certain amount of income and self insuring. It’s not just on self insuring on its own. So I guess one could say, just as the restaurant owner could depart the market in Heart of Atlanta Hotel, someone doesn’t need to earn that much income."

*emphasis added*

Got that? Don't like the individual mandate, just choose to make less money!

Everything conservatives have railed against in this legislation has been proven to be true -- you can't keep your doctor, there is end of life financial decisionmaking, the law will ruin businesses (over 1300 waivers granted and counting), medical care in general is being degraded, and more. And as Republicans found out in their meeting with the President yesterday on the budget, his answer to everything is raise taxes. Punish the job creators, redistribute wealth, control every aspect of your life.

That is not what government is for. The purpose of the Constitution is to keep the government out of our personal lives. That's why it allows us to worship as we please, assemble freely, be safe from unreasonable search & seizure, keep & bear arms, not be forced to testify against ourselves, etc. The government was not created by the founders to be our nanny. It is to provide general protection and services necessary for the country to function -- military, currency, infrastructure.

Like I've asked hundreds of times -- where are all the 60s hippies now? Where are all the "keep the man out of my life" protesters? What happened to you guys?

It's not exactly Weiner-gate

So the other day, celeb blogs were all a-twitter about some supposed nude self-shots of psuedo-celeb Blake Lively that appeared online.

And there was the usual righteously indignant claims of fake and so on by Blake and her publicists. Then another series of pics appeared, the image above is from that group. And suddenly all those other pics are looking a little more . . . authentic.

Here's my thing -- these young folks today think they are so worldly and savvy, and yet time and again they do foolish stuff like leave compromising images in their cell phones no matter how many times these devices and accounts get hacked and they get embarrassed.

Below are the original nudes -- sanitized for your protection:

And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it looks like someone got some fake boobs for their 18th birthday or something, because Blake looks a little gravity defying here. Anything to help your career, I guess.

Update:

Rumors abound that the pics in question were taken to be sent to either another actor or a director or both. And with Ben Affleck out and about sporting a fresh black eye, inquiring minds think maybe he's one of the intended recipients.

Wherein I respectfully disagree with The Hammer

Now I'm always lovin' me some Charles Krauthammer -- he's witty, insightful, articulate, well informed to a freekish degree, and of course, a conservative. I also enjoy his self depricating sense of humor where he gleefully admits he's an effite beltway elitist. He has said he wears Sarah Palin's crack about him being hoity toity as a badge of honor.

But Chuck has a palpable disdain for the afore mentioned Governor of Alaska that is . . . well, palpable. The Hammer commands great respect among conservatives and lefties know it. And when they get him on their shows, they know all they have to do is mention Sarah Palin and they'll get enough dismissive rejoinders about her to fill a YouTube site.

And the intelligent commentator falls for it every time. The left plays him like a fiddle on Sarah.

The other night, I caught The Hammer on Bill O'Reilly's show. Now I rarely watch The Factor because I find O'Reilly to be tedious and a bit of a fake. He's no where near the conservative idealist firebrand liberals would have you believe.

But in a convesation about Sarah Palin, Chuck talked about how intelligent Sarah is, how her views fit perfectly with the Republican party and the new fiscal conservative Tea Party. He went on and on about how great she was. Then the "but" moment.

Charles said Sarah wasn't "schooled" enough in foreign policy. And if that wasn't bad enough, he said she seems to have no desire to school herself on those topics.

?!?

Where is that coming from? Since the campaign ended in the '08 election, Sarah has spoken out often and with informed certitude on everything from domestic policy to foreign policy. It doesn't take a great deal of effort to find op-eds and articles and speeches she has given on everything from Libya to Israel to Afghanistan to the START treaty.

And she's spoken out with enough credibility and often prescience on these topics that even lefty newspapers have been forced to admit she's been ahead of the curve on many situations.

Plus you have everything she's written/spoken about here at home -- border security, fiscal crisis, energy production, etc., she's given more intelligent and informed speeches on these topics than the President himself.

So . . . what up Chuck?!

The problem is beltway insiders like Charles, George Will, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich and the rest would rather run a loser like flip-flop Mitt for President because he went to the right schools, comes from the right part of the country, he just looks so darn Presidential, and so on.

Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if there's just a little hint of mysogyny at work here. I don't think any of these "old boys" are comfortable with the idea of a woman in charge of the country. Oddly, these guys always wet their pants when they talk about Margaret Thatcher, or Golda Meir. Now those were real leaders who just happened to be women according to these experts. But a charming hockey mom former Governor who fought corruption within her own state and won, who ran her state with such fiscal astuteness that they have billions in surplus and who is savvy enough to run rings around the bloodthirsty press, well, she isn't properly schooled on the ways of the world. Not enough gavitas they say.

Whatever, I say.

Here's my thing -- she won't kiss these guy's asses. And they don't like it. She's showing she doesn't need them, and they hate it. They make their incomes as influence peddlers, and she isn't buying. And they can't stand it.

So, sorry Charles, not with ya on this one.

Update:

Here's the exact quote from Charles about Sarah's lack of "schooling:"

"The problem with her, I think, is that she is not schooled. I don’t mean she didn’t go to the right schools. I mean when you get into policy, beyond instincts — I like her political instincts, I like her political overall view of the world — but when it comes to policy, she had two-and-a-half years to school herself and she hasn’t and that’s a problem. … It’s not only the lack of schooling; it’s the lack of effort to school herself and the lack of insight to see that she needs it."

My mistake was to mis-remember this as a critique of her foreign policy decisions when in fact he's bemoaning any policy thoughts she's had . . . which sort of makes my points above even more valid.