Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is returned from a long weekend with no internet connectivity. Well… In all honesty, he was back yesterday. But he didn’t post out of a combination of having lots of stuff to do and laziness.

But he is back with a vengance today.

The big news of the morning appears to be that London has been awarded the 2012 Olympic Games. Cheers to the people of London and to the people of Great Britain. Your Maximum Leader is sure the games will be great.

Of course, for every winner, there are a series of losers. They are, in this case, Moscow, Madrid, New York, and (heh) Paris. In the final presentation to the IOC, Jacques Chirac said “You can put your trust and faith in France…” Heh. Faith and trust to do what? Be international contrarians? Make fantastic food? Continue to decrease the hours in a work week? Defeat the EU Constitution? Your Maximum Leader is still puzzling over that one. (Defeating the EU Constitution that is.)

Now, one supposes that Tony Blair can thumb his nose at Chirac for his comments about British food. Now say what you will, but British food is not really bad at all. It is much more international than you would think. London is one of, if not THE, most international cities in the wold. And their cuisine reflects the influences of the whole world.

Now that said, your Maximum Leader will go on the record saying that the best meals he’s ever eaten were prepared by two of the most fastidious cultures in the world. Namely the French and the Japanese. French cuisine is wonderful because of the mentality needed to truly do justice to French food.

But French food is likely the subject of another post…

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader doesn’t know if you all saw that footage of Turkish police killing the failed suicide bomber. (Failed in the sense that he failed to detonate his bomb - but was successful in the getting himself killed department. So that means that he was probably batting .500 in that respect.) The footage was rather graphic. But a follow-on news article from Reuters disturbed your Maximum Leader. Here is the article: Turk police shoot dead suspected suicide bomber.

Here are the disturbing points for your Maximum Leader. “Suspected” Sure the terrorist was “suspected” in trying to bomb the Justice Ministry building. But his bomb failed to detonate. That would lead your Maximum Leader to believe that once the boby was examined there was little suspicion of the terrorist’s intentions.

The other disturbing point is how sensitive the Turks have to be in this whole matter. The Justice Minister is quoted as saying the police weren’t trigger-happy but had to shoot the man because he had a bomb on his person that he was intent to use. Then the Justice Minister went on to say that Turkey will improve its human rights.

Wha? Your Maximum Leader is confused. You are defending the actions of the police who killed a terrorist bent on destroying himself and taking as many others as he could with him? Who are you defending your actions from? Oh… That’s right. Europeans. Those sensitive Euro-weanies.

Well Turkish Justice Minister Cemil Cicek, your Maximum Leader doffs his bejeweled floppy hat to you and the police who did the shooting. Job well done. One more dead bad-guy. Kill some more if you find them trying to blow up any other buildings.

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was perusing the blogroll and noticed the following post from Professor Chaos: Conditioned Response.

In it the good Prof muses what beer should one pour on the ground to symbolize your solidarity with your dead homies.

Well Peeps. Your Maximum Leader (aka: Fine Ass M Ice) thinks the answer if the dead homies were beer drinkers would have to be Colt 45. If they liked a little of the hard stuff it would have to be Stoli.

Of course, if you really loved yo bruthaz, then it would be Crystal.

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is surprised. He reads that O’Connor to Retire From Supreme Court. Your Maximum Leader (and everyone else) figured it would be Rehnquist.

Well… Batten down the hatches of partisanship. And let the battle begin!

Carry on.

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader found himself watching a little morning news today while getting up at the Villainschloss.

Particularly, your Maximum Leader was struck by a report that Alabama Senator Richard Shelby was writing Secretary of State Rice asking Secretary Rice to encourage the Government of Aruba to basically turn over the Natalee Holloway investigation over to the FBI.

Your Maximum Leader supposes the next step will be to send US Prosecutors, Judges, Defence Counsel, and Jurors to Aruba for the trial.

Now last time your Maximum Leader checked, Aruba was a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. One wonders what Queen Beatrix is thinking about this whole case. One wonders what the government of the Netherlands in general is thinking about this case. Afterall, a US Senator is pretty much asking the US Secretary of State to ask the Arubans (and Dutch by extension) to give up their sovreignty to the US for the duration of this investigation.

Your Maximum Leader wonders if we’ll next hear George W. Bush call for “Holloway alive or van der Sloot dead!”

Really now… You’ve got Aruban Prosecutors saying that they “are not a bunch of cowboys here.” How can you expect that justice be done when you have an attitude like that? Where is that famed Ole West Posse justice that the Arubans and Dutch are famous for?

Your Maximum Leader supposes that if the Arubans don’t move more quickly in resolving this matter the US will just have to invade. We just cannot stand by idly while our blondes disappear while on vacation after meeting up with exotic men in a tropical paradise. The real question would be what to do with Aruba after the US invasion. One can’t expect that the limpDutch will actually try to take the island back. So that leaves the US with two choices. Annex the island as a US Commonwealth; or hold local elections and let the Arubans decide what they want. Your Maximum Leader bets that Aruba is tired of suffering under the autocratic heel of a despotic monarch thousands of miles away anyway. They are probably chomping at the bit to be rid of their Dutch overlords.

Who knows what will happen?

Your Maximum Leader feels confident of one thing though… Natalee Holloway is dead and it is seemingly more unlikely that her killers will be brought to justice.

Carry on.