FAT TUESDAY

It is 8:24 a.m. and40.5 degrees F. and everything is melting. Patrick is on the recliner.

Yesterday was "presidents day." I don't have the faintest idea what that means. I guess it's a day to honor Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Reagan, T. Roosevelt and Liar-boy Clinton. I don't know.

Martin Luther King gets his own day, unshared with other Civil Rights Leaders. That's becasue he was much more important and had a much bigger impact on our Republic that Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Jefferson. Oh, he didn't? It's just a scrap thrown to a voting block by cesspool-stinking politicians? Never mind.

This month's ungrateful moron entertainer using his stage for left-wing political statements:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Ricky Martin, who was a headliner at the 2001 inauguration ball for President George W. Bush, has a message for the American commander in chief about war.

At a recent concert, the 35-year-old singer stuck up his middle finger when he sang the president's name in his song "Asignatura Pendiente," which includes the words, "a photo with Bush." The gesture last Friday prompted cheers from thousands of fans in the San Juan stadium.

On Thursday, the Puerto Rican heartthrob repeated his criticism of the Iraq war and explained his changed position on Bush.

"My convictions of peace and life go beyond any government and political agenda and as long as I have a voice onstage and offstage, I will always condemn war and those who promulgate it," Martin said about his action in an e-mail statement sent to The Associated Press via a spokesman.

What a class act!!