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The radio was talking about Perky Katie Couric’s historic broadcast tonight and I really couldn’t care any less than I already don’t.

Hey! Ladies! The glass ceiling has been shattered! Katie’s got “big wing-tips to fill!” An historic broadcast! The first woman anchoring a network evening news show all by herself!

Isn’t she special?

Gag me.

Women in the middle east are forced to wear full burqas because their men have no self-control. If a woman is raped she is stoned to death for adultery. If she doesn’t want to wear a burqua or even a head scarf she’s killed by her family because she “besmirched their honor”.

NOW doesn’t care about that. But Katie breaking the glass ceiling? That’s worth caring about….

Welcome Radio Equalizer, Betsy’s Page, Wizbang!, Inkwell at the Independent Women’s Forum and Dr. Melissa Clouthier readers! Have a look around! We have a screenshot of the infamous Benjamin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Series Talking Doll from Target!

Ann Althouse liveblogged the “historic” broadcast – she wasn’t too impressed…

a blue poisonous frog photographed at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry in the Frogs! exhibit yesterday.

Yesterday was also the 4th anniversary of Dad’s death. The museum and dinner at Lowry’s The Prime Rib afterward was our tribute. Miss you Dad! (he was about 16 or 17 in this picture)

Scooter Libby hasn’t even been tried yet, let alone convicted.

There can be no “pre-emptive” pardons. That would only indicate that guilt is presumed (which we know is the position of some).

COgirl at Hang Right Politics thinks a pardon should wait until after the elections, I think it should wait for a conviction (if there ever will be one). I wonder if the Scooter Libby case might not quietly go away…

The Wilson’s lawyer seems to be saying that they won’t be adding Armitage to the suit against Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeld because he wasn’t ‘a part of the conspiracy‘(paraphrase). Joe, listen to the WaPo, it was you and you alone who “outed” your wife and that wasn’t even a crime because there was no “outing”

• Talking Action Figure has a 4 min. audio chip allowing it to speak 25 different phrases in the Presidents own Voice!
• Figures are limited in production and include an individually numbered certificate of authenticity
• Figures also include a biographical pamphlet that includes rare photos and a comprehensive timeline specific to each figure.
• Figures come dressed in period correct clothing that has been hand tailored to suit the figure
• Figure come in an attractive display box however, the figures also include a fully adjustable doll stand for displaying the figure outside of the box

Via Amy Welborn (read the comments!) H/T Instapundit.

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Captain Ed points us to the DCCC not paying minimum wage to workers it hires in Wisconsin to go door to door trying to raise money for the Democrats by highlighting minimum wage issues!

They don’t think they have to pay minimum because they are exempt under several excuses (with which the Wisconsin Department of Labor does not agree).

As Mark at Blogs for Bush says, kinda reminds you of the Unions hiring people to protest outside Walmarts and not paying either minimum wages or benefits.

Higher taxes for the rich, but only after we’ve sheltered our own riches…

Betsy’s on it too.

The kids are back in school and she’s got time to blog again!

Here’s her end of vacation post

Sensible Mom

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how is it? Still tweaking…

Omeed Aziz Popal takes his SUV and runs over many people in San Francisco, near a Jewish neighborhood and a Jewish Center and it’s just “road rage” according to Mayor Gavin Newsom.

The Anchoress is on a roll with this one today and I agree with every word she writes.

Can you imagine, if someone had (God forbid!) driven a car into 14 gay people, how quickly the press would have managed to cover the story? Can you imagine that Mayor Newsom would call it “road rage” and suggest that there really probably wasn’t a “hate crime” attached to the action?

The use of “hate crime” is wrong too. “Hate” can go to motive, but does it really make the crime any more of a crime? Harry Blow may have had more reasons to “hate” Joe Schmoe than Harry knew (or thought) that Joe was gay. Maybe Joe had done something in the past that festered in Harry’s memory…

related: Hate Crimes and Terrorism

These twins are [tag]albino Pygmy Marmosets[/tag], born earlier this week at the Froso Zoo in Ostersund, Sweden. They can grow to about 14 inches tall and nearly 1/4 pound. (35cm, 100 grams).

h/t: My fellow Illinoisan Trader Rob (and the lovely Mrs. Trader Rob) at Opinipundit!

Update: the story has changed since I linked it. One of the babies has died and the zoo is working hard to save the surviving brother. Poor baby boy, poor mommy monkey.

But now one is fighting for its life after his twin brother died just hours after they became the first albinos of their breed to be born in captivity.
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“We were so sorry when the twin died,” said zoo owner Ake Netterstrom. “We put in all available resources to save him but that did not help. It was very sad but it is likely he had a lower immune defence because he was albino.

“We don’t have time to mourn him as we have to focus on saving the other one.”

A conference of astromomers ([tag]The International Astronomical Union[/tag]) in Prague who had floated the idea of adding [tag]Ceres[/tag], [tag]Charon[/tag] and [tag]Xena[/tag] (aka [tag]2003 UB313[/tag]) to the list of planets in this solar system have, instead, demoted [tag]Pluto[/tag].

Textbooks will have to be rewritten.