Month: October 2005

We’ve all heard about bloggers who secretly dish the dirt on their employers. Here’s another one. I wonder how long will he remain employed by AOL? Or, maybe he’s fully sanctioned by the company to blog its every move? That’d be cool, but I don’t they’re that smart, anymore.

Next time you consider cuttin’ the line to the microwave, think again.

A Walgreens employee allegedly stabbed a co-worker in an argument over who could microwave her soup first, authorities said.

Both women wanted to use the microwave in the employee break room Wednesday afternoon, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

While they were fighting over who could use the microwave first, Mellesia Grant grabbed a large kitchen knife off the counter and stabbed Merloze Tilme in the abdomen, the sheriff’s office said.

“They didn’t get along to begin with. Who could use the microwave first became a major issue,” Broward County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jim Leljedal said.

The two women then wrestled for the knife, each cutting their hands, before the store manager could stop the fight, Leljedal said.

Tilme, 20, was hospitalized early Friday in good condition, officials said.

Grant, 23, of North Lauderdale was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after being treated at a hospital for her wounds, officials said. She was being held on $50,000 bond.

Word up, homie. Don’t no one be thinkin’ ’bout gittin between Tilme and the girl’s cup-o-soup.

American Girl, manufacturer of an outrageously expensive line of dolls and children’s books, has hacked off leaders of a big conservative group. They’re threatening to stop paying the hundreds of dollars it costs to own just one of these demon possessed life-like dolls unless the toy maker stops giving a small portion of the billions they gross each year to a youth organization that supports abortion rights and acceptance of lesbians.

The protest is directed at an ongoing American Girl campaign in which proceeds from sales of a special “I Can” wristband help support educational and empowerment programs of Girls Inc., a national nonprofit organization which describes its mission as “inspiring girls to be strong, smart and bold.”

American Girl, whose often patriotic products have long had a loyal following among conservatives, issued a statement Friday defending its support of Girls Inc. and assailing the protest campaign.

“We are profoundly disappointed that certain groups have chosen to misconstrue American Girl’s purely altruistic efforts and turn them into a broader political statement on issues that we, as a corporation, have no position,” the statement said.

The Mississippi-based American Family Association, in a campaign launched Wednesday, is urging its members to demand that American Girl halt support for Girls Inc., which it called “a pro-abortion, pro-lesbian advocacy group.”

“Let American Girl know they are making a terrible mistake,” AFA chairman Don Wildmon said in a statement. The AFA says it has more than 2.2 million members.

And they’ve got lots of cold, hard, doll buying cash burning holes in their pockets. American Girl, you’ve been warned.

Via CNN

Thousands of polling stations across Iraq have closed after millions of Iraqis voted today on a draft constitution that would set up a democratic framework to govern the strife-torn nation. CNN correspondents in different parts of the country said voting appeared brisk. Early reports suggested there had been comparatively little violence during the day.

There’s ongoing blog coverage of today’s events in Iraq. Omar at Iraq The Model voted ‘Yes’ today.

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Schroeder is a sore loser and reacts like one. Bush could have easily snubbed the man, but that’s not the kind of person he is. He did the right thing.

It must drive the left crazy.

I have no idea how I got here, but I did, and man, do I regret it.

How can you tell when there’s not a lot of news worth reporting? Just look at the majority of the headlines on the Drudge Report.

— Poll: Americans are Getting Ruder

— Melissa Etheridge: I Used Medicinal Marijuana

— Meet Five Toes, the Two-Tongue Cat

— Confirmed. Blond. James Blond.

— Exorcism Course Continues at Vatican

— Chinese astronauts change underwear once

— Nude Disco Launched in London

— ‘Ur dumped’; research shows text a popular way of ending romances

So, now I don’t feel that bad about the lack o’ news on this blog today. Besides, I’m really sick and tired of debating Miers, and the non-story about the so called ‘staged’ Bush military teleconference is nothing more than an MSM attempt to fill the lack o’ news void. It’s all smoke and mirrors.

There’s lots of other nonsense being talked about here, but I wouldn’t think of directing anyone to it.

The WaPo has an interesting piece on Harriet Miers, detailing her day-to-day role as White House counsel.

Uncle Teddy has been hittin the sauce.

In an AP story, the senator from Massachusetts said he’d support John Kerry in a 2008 run for the White House.

Sen. Edward Kennedy called John Kerry, the 2004 nominee, an “able, gifted and talented political leader.”

He criticized President Bush’s leadership and said of the American people: “Every day, I think they regret that John wasn’t elected.”

Hiccup.

Peggy Noonan has a few suggestions for the Bush administration as the Miers matter continues to swell. The column today is one of her better ones. She provides plenty of memorable quotes, like this one regarding the ‘sexism’ charge:

Sending Laura Bush out to make her first mistake as first lady, agreeing with Matt Lauer that sexism is probably part of the reason for opposition to Ms. Miers, was embarrassingly inept and only served to dim some of the power of this extraordinary resource.

As for Ed Gillespie and his famous charge of sexism and elitism, I don’t think serious conservatives believe Ed is up nights pondering whiffs and emanations of class tension and gender bias in modern America. It was the ignorant verbal lurch of a K Street behemoth who has perhaps forgotten that conservatives are not merely a bloc, a part of the base, a group that must be handled, but individuals who are and have been in it for serious reasons, for the long haul, and often at considerable sacrifice. They don’t deserve to be patronized by people they’ve long strained to defend.

Go read the rest.