Michelle Zipp, who recently outed herself as a Republican, has been fired for her political beliefs:
PLAYGIRL editor-in-chief Michele Zipp has been stripped of her duties after she revealed how she voted Republican in the 2004 election.
Zipp, in an e-mail, claims she was fired after an onslaught of liberal backlash.
“Hello Drudge,
“After your coverage of my article about coming out and voting Republican, I did receive many letters of support from fellow Republican voters, but it was not without repercussions. Criticism from the liberal left ensued. A few days after the onslaught of liberal backlash, I was released from my duties at Playgirl magazine.
“After underlings expressed their disinterest of working for an outed Republican editor, I have a strong suspicion that my position was no longer valued by Playgirl executives. I also received a phone call from a leading official from Playgirl magazine, in which he stated with a laugh, “I wouldn’t have hired you if I knew you were a Republican.
“I just wanted to let you know of the fear the liberal left has about a woman with power possessing Republican views.”
Once again, the left shows that they are the party of tolerance.
UPDATE: David at Viewpoint Journal has more.
They feel they have to get involved in this:
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Friday night lights in Texas could soon be without bumpin’ and grindin’ cheerleaders. Legislation filed by Rep. Al Edwards would put an end to “sexually suggestive” performances at athletic events and other extracurricular competitions.
“It’s just too sexually oriented, you know, the way they’re shaking their behinds and going on, breaking it down,” said Edwards, a 26-year veteran of the Texas House. “And then we say to them, ‘don’t get involved in sex unless it’s marriage or love, it’s dangerous out there’ and yet the teachers and directors are helping them go through those kind of gyrations.”
Under Edwards’ bill, if a school district knowingly permits such a performance, funds from the state would be reduced in an amount to be determined by the education commissioner.
Now we’re going to tell cheerleaders the types of movements they can and can’t make? I thought Democrats were for free expression. And who sets the rules? Does Rep. Edwards bring in a high school cheerleading team and have them run through the gamut of routines to decide? Then again, in order to know that’s it’s too sexually suggestive, I guess he’s done his research by staring at cheerleaders during the football games already.
What if the cheerleader trips and has to bend over to keep herself from falling down? That would seem sexually suggestive. And since when have Democrats told teens not to get involved in sex? They’ve been passing out condoms in schools, for Pete’s sake.
So eventually, we can end up in a situation where a cheerleader gyrates her hips too much, and the school gets its funding reduced. Do you think any sport will see the reduction? Not in Texas. High school football is nearly a religion here. Some poor kid who’s on the debate team, who might not ever have gone to a football game, won’t get to to go to a competition, because cuts had to be made somewhere.
This is just utterly ridiculous.
Published on
2005/03/19 in
Humor.
Waiter: Would you care for some dessert, sir?
Jeff: Yes, I would like a piece of cake.
Waiter: Sorry, some guy already ate all the cake. How about some pie?
Tomorrow, I will be attending a counter-protest protesting those protesting against the U.S. liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
I’m taking a camera, so hopefully I’ll have some lovely moonbat photos to post. I don’t know if the local variety are as moonbatty as the species found in San Francisco and D.C., but we’ll see. Should be fun, as long the peacniks don’t get violent and attack us, as they are known to do.
Published on
2005/03/17 in
Humor.
If you’re going to be shipping an inflatable love doll, take the batteries out first, OK?
A BLOW-UP sex doll sparked a bomb alert in a German post office after it started to vibrate inside a package awaiting delivery, police said today.
“Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and made strange noises,” a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said. “They were worried the package might be a bomb.”
Officers brought the sender to the scene and discovered the source of alarm was an electrical device inside a life-size female sex doll. The man told police he had wanted to return the doll because it kept turning itself on at the wrong moment.
Order was restored after the sender removed the doll’s batteries so the defective product could be returned.
You’d think some things would just be common sense.
Currently up for auction on eBay:
BE THE KING & QUEEN OF THE BALL!!
HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME ROYALTY!!
This auction offers YOU the EXPERIENCE of a LIFETIME!
BE THE “ROYAL COUPLE” DURING OUR COWBOY CAVIAR FETE!
(TESTICLE FESTIVAL)
The KING & QUEEN will reign over this event with potential WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION!
The ROYAL COUPLE will preside as LOCAL RESTAURANTEURS COMPETE in exhibiting their UNIQUE CULINARY ACHIEVEMENTS as they serve the EXOTIC ENTREE…..
THAT CUT OF BEEF THAT SEPARATES…….
A BULL FROM A STEER!
Following competition, the ROYAL PAIR will present the COVETED
BALLS TO THE WALL AWARD
So you get to bid for the chance to be the judge of a testicle cooking competition? There’s already eight bids, and the price is slightly over $500, so someone’s interested.
I think I’ll sit this one out.
Earlier I noticed that my site was loading slowly. Turned out to be the TrueFresco referrers list. So I took that out. About an hour ago, I noticed the Ecosystem was causing slow loads, so I took that out.
Now, Blogrolling seems to be down, and that’s causing my site to load slowly.
Arrrrgh.
Now there’s something I can get behind. Let’s see… So far today, I’ve had pepperoni pizza, and a turkey sandwich. I think a steak dinner is in order. A ribeye would do nicely.
Kevin posted some nice photos of grills, but who needs those?
I’ll turn on a space heater, go to the store and pick out a nice one, about sixteen ounces, bring it home, walk it through the warm room, and eat it with a nice Merlot and a baked potato. With bacon on the potato, of course.
See Meryl Yourish’s roundup of what everyone else is doing.
UPDATE: Even alligators are getting in on the action. (H/T: iBeJo)
