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Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it had parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in a utility sink in one of its restaurants in a video that ended up on his MySpace page.

Possibly to avoid being one-upped on Indiana national security politics, former President Bill Clinton told a crowd in Columbus, Indiana, today that his wife had tried to join the Army. "I remember when we were young, right out of law school, she went down and tried to join the Army and they said 'Your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you,'" he said, after heralding her record on issues of concern to the military, such as body armor and access to health care. I assume this is a version of the "Hillary Clinton tried to join the Marines" anecdote...

A rather funny take off on those Burger King commercials. NOTE: rather salty language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGTYb9Hu6iY

Energy: Bill Clinton's back, now touting tax hikes for ethanol to California voters. "If Brazil can do it, so can we," he said, claiming an ethanol switch ended Brazil's need for foreign oil. Once again, he's telling whoppers. (snip) No, he smashed a champagne bottle on the spaceship-like deck of Brazil's vast P-50 oil rig in the Albacora Leste field in the deep blue Atlantic. Why? Brazil's oil independence had virtually nothing to do with its ethanol development. It came from drilling oil. Which is the very thing Clinton, in his Proposition 87 television ads, seeks to pile taxes on....

Miserly Burger King charges hurt kid for ice By Jennifer Roy/ Daily News Tribune Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - Updated: 10:35 AM EST Ice does not appear on Burger King’s menu, but it should after a Newton teen limped into the Moody Street fast-food restaurant last week looking for some cool relief of a sore ankle. John Michael Jasset staggered into the restaurant about 5 p.m. last Thursday after being hit by a car. He was thrown from his bike and also scraped his knee, arms and hands, his mother, Cheryl Jasset, said. But when he asked for some ice...

PALMDALE, Calif. - And you thought Kobe beef was expensive. Four burgers at his neighborhood Burger King cost George Beane a whopping $4,334.33. Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo cheeseburgers when he pulled up to the drive-through window last Tuesday. The cashier, however, forgot that she'd entered the $4.33 charge on his debit card and punched in the numbers again without erasing the original ones - thus creating a four-figure bill. The electronic charge went through to George and Pat Beane's Bank of America checking account and left the couple penniless. Their mortgage payment was due and they...

Teen Accused Of Burglary, Assault DAVIE, Fla. -- A clerk at a Burger King was arrested after police say a disagreement with a customer turned into a brawl. Kevin and Dana Gillis of Pembroke Pines were in the Davie drive-through with their three daughters on March 18. Dana Gillis said that the clerk, 18-year-old Michael Perez, was rude and snatched the money from her husband's hand. Then when Kevin Gillis tried to hand Perez some extra change in exchange for bills, Perez said he didn't want the change, and the men exchanged angry words, according witnesses. At that point, the...

Scott Ritter is a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq (1991-1998) and Marine Corps intelligence officer. He is the author of "Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the U.N. and Overthrow Saddam Hussein," published by Nation Books. He is speaking at Town Hall, Eighth Avenue and Seneca Street in Seattle, at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Guest columnistIraq: a solution to nothingBy Scott Ritter As the United States and Iraq approach the third anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, it might do all Americans well to take some time out and reflect on how we...

History of Cloning Cloning is not new. Experiments with frogs and toads date back to the 1970s . And experiments involving plants and animal embryos have been performed for years. But experiments involving human beings have never been tried or thought possible, until "Dolly." Her birth shocked the scientific community and has spurred discussion about the possibility of human clones. Dr. Lee Silver, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, is optimistic that "human cloning will occur," and that "it might take five years, ten years at the outermost." Lee notes that at this time, "no ethical doctor would do...

Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69            By August Wayne, THG NewsJohn Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.There are plans to extend the interstate from Indianapolis through southwestern Indiana all the way through Texas into Mexico in the coming years.  While most believe this highway will be good for the state’s economy, religious conservatives believe “I-69” sounds too risqué and want to change the...

THE CBS document drama has generated a new wave of media reflection, with plenty of criticism to go around. No one, not even the paper's toughest critic, is suggesting the Globe did anything remotely as lamentable as CBS did when it broadcast unverifiable memos detailing George Bush's National Guard lapses in 1972 and 1973. But some readers say the Globe erred on a smaller scale by writing about the memos without first confirming they were real and, later, by being too slow to report inconsistencies and doubts as they quickly surfaced on the Web and in other papers. "As ABC...

Bush Vs. Kerry By The Editors An exclusive interview with the two presidential candidates on gun rights, conservation and other issues that affect your hunting and fishing. September 2004 OL: Do you support a renewal of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, a bill that outlawed certain models of semi-automatic firearms? Why or why not? Bush: The best way to reduce gun crime is to vigorously enforce existing gun laws, so that guns are kept out of the hands of criminals but are not denied to responsible and law-abiding citizens. I support reauthorization of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, but I...

ByTimothy Noah Posted Friday, Sept. 3, 2004, at 3:56 PM PT When I was a boy, the Soviets occupied part of Austria. I saw their tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes. I remember the fear we had when we had to cross into the Soviet sector. Growing up, we were told, "Don't look the soldiers in the eye. Look straight ahead." It was a common belief that Soviet soldiers could take a man out of his own car and ship him off to the Soviet Union as slave labor. My family didn't have a car...

From Hugh Hewitt's weblog:Wow. Another Kerry whopper, this from U.S. News & World Reports of May 8, 2000. Here's the entire article. Is a trial deal near? by Kevin Whitelaw Sen. John Kerry made his first forays into Cambodia during the Vietnam War as a Navy lieutenant on clandestine missions to deliver weapons to anticommunist forces.

As the truth comes out about John Kerry's whopping Vietnam lies, will the DNC's damage control have to resort to this?

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead." The offenders are reportedly tapping into the wireless frequency at the restaurant in Troy, Michigan. Police believe the culprits are watching and broadcasting from close range. Officer Scherlinck said the men are telling customers who order a Coca-Cola that, "We don't have Coke." And...

May. 23, 2003. 01:00 AM Ruben's big night on Idol plays small VINAY MENON "I feel great. Thank y'all. I love y'all." After uttering those not-so-memorable words, Ruben Studdard stared ahead, almost blankly, as rivulets of sweat dribbled down his ample forehead. Inside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheater, as hot lights illuminated his stunned face, giddy fans hollered and clapped, chanting, "Ru-ben! Ru-ben! Ru-ben!" a two-syllable hallelujah to pop culture's newest demigod. The big man with the big voice was the big winner as one of television's biggest hits capped another big season. Too bad it seemed so small. In what may...

CAVEAT: Newspapers and TV stations are reporting the story. His attorney admitted that he was arrested. I am making no accusation, but it is fun to stick it to someone who is interfering with foreign policy and appears to be out of his freaking mind. MIDI - I SAW HER STANDING THERE Well, she's not quite seventeen…so my interest was keen And before too long, we'd meet at Burger King Like weapons she has me exited….ooooohhh I'll be showing her my thing So she promised me…total secrecy 'Cause if I got caught, much trouble it would bring She really has...