LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Employees at a Little Rock office building have been asked to leave their deer hunting rifles at home because the president and three former presidents are coming to town to open Bill Clinton (news – web sites)’s presidential library.
Acxiom Corporation distributed a memo to the 420 employees in its 12-story sales and marketing building in Little Rock’s River Market district — near the Clinton library — reminding them of its policy forbidding weapons on company property.
“This would not be a time to violate that policy,” said Dale Ingram, spokesman for Acxiom.
The Acxiom building overlooks the library, where President Bush (news – web sites) and former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Clinton are to speak.
Deer hunting season in Arkansas began last weekend, and overlaps with the dedication, on Thursday, of Clinton’s library.
Just asking
Why — after noting that Safire’s relationship with the truth has lately been a casual one at best — does Josh Marshall feel compelled to state that Andrew Sullivan would make an “excellent” replacement?
Josh is certainly aware that Andy’s own relationship with the truth — and for that matter, with reality — is at least as tenuous as Mr. Safire’s.
Is this just the sort of insider-pundit bonhomie you see on the shouting head shows as the credits roll, filtering down to the B-list on the blogs?
Oh Condi, Condi
The thought of Condi as Secretary of State made me think of that business management book from the Seventies, the Peter Principle, which posited that
employees within an organization will advance to their highest level of competence and then be promoted to and remain at a level at which they are incompetent.
Of course, you could argue that Condi has long since passed her level of competence and has continued to be promoted nonetheless.
On a related note, the one quotation for which Condi should ultimately be remembered:
“I believe the title was Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States.”
Party of values
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to protect Majority Leader Tom DeLay, House Republicans want to change party rules to ensure that DeLay retains his post if a Texas grand jury indicts him as it did with three of his political associates.
The House Republican Conference, composed of all GOP members in the chamber, was to vote Wednesday to modify a requirement that would force DeLay to step aside if charged with a felony requiring at least a two-year prison term.
Party rules require leaders to relinquish their posts after a felony indictment, but the change would eliminate the requirement for non-federal indictments.
Signs of the times
I didn’t hear the story myself, so apologies if I get some small detail wrong — but NPR had a bit this morning on a small town high school in Texas, which has apparently had a wacky tradition for Homecoming (or some similar Big Game) day, on which the boys dress as girls and girls dress as boys. Well, as you can imagine, this outraged the local conservative Christians, who saw it as promoting homosexuality. So after a hue and cry is raised, the tradition is scrapped and replaced with —
— wait for it —
— Camo Day, on which the boys and girls come to school dressed as soldiers.
…here’s the story.
Davies, whose 9-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter attend Spurger Elementary, said she viewed the day not a silly Homecoming Week activity, but as an effort to push a homosexual agenda in a public school.
“It’s like experimenting with drugs,” said Davies, who also has a 2-year-old daughter. “You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. … If it’s OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?”