"But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?
This Week’s Top Scrooge - August 31, 2007
By ALEXANDER
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How many church sermons will include the story of Leona Helmsley and her dog, Trouble, this Sunday?
In case you missed it, Trouble...her pet...inherited $12 million. And for good measure, Trouble’s "fortunes" won’t be over even after her life ends. “I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum,” she ordered. And she left another $3 million to ensure that final resting place is well maintained, including money for a yearly wash or steam-cleaning.
Twelve million dollars. That's two more million dollars than two of her grandchildren are getting combined ($5 million each) and $12 million more than her other two grandchildren are getting...because they are getting zippo as in nada, nothing, and zilch.
I don't make this stuff up, folks. Read the online story at CityNews.ca if you want.
If this is not a modern day parable to be told to congregations everywhere on Sunday, then I don't know what is.
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Friday, August 31, 2007
Leona Helmsley Earns This Week’s Top Scrooge Posthumously
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Breaking ScroogeReport: Leona Helmsley Leaves $12 To Her Dog
Helmsley…hmmm, Helmsley… Wasn’t she the one well known as being a *word that rhymes with witch*? File this one under: “confirmed.”
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Fat Is King in Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama
WASHINGTON - Loosen the belt buckle another notch: Obesity rates continued to climb in 31 states last year, and no state showed a decline.
Mississippi became the first state to crack the 30 percent barrier for adults considered to be obese. West Virginia and Alabama were just behind, according to the Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.
Colorado continued its reign as the leanest state in the nation with an obesity rate projected at 17.6 percent.
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Evangelist Moves Prayer Show After Muslim Group Pressures TV Station
Internet and television evangelist Bill Keller takes “Live Prayer” to competing station; his remarks on Islam prompt switch.
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
Evangelist Bill Keller will move his late-night, live call-in prayer and faith program to another Tampa Bay area station after claims that his show was pulled off the air because of pressure from a Muslim group.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Housing Crisis? What Crisis?
Increasing mortgage and loan problems will not effect mansions in heaven
Awakenings by Alexander
I heard Pastor Chuck Smith, of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, say on the radio today that when he dies, reports of his death will actually be a misnomer.
"They will say, 'Pastor Chuck Smith died today', but actually that is wrong. The more accurate reporting will be, 'Pastor Chuck Smith moved'," Smith said, during his morning message on Christian radio.
What Smith was referring to was that for those that have accepted the Lord, their soul, their conscious self, will have a new dwelling place after physical death. They will have a mansion in heaven.
I was thinking about the recent housing crisis, and yes, I call it a crisis despite whatever financial reports you read these days. I see all the foreclosures, the debt problems, and people moving out of homes they can't afford anymore, and I believe it either is a crisis or will become one. I think about that and realize that for those that know their mansion awaits them in heaven, coping with housing in today's world is no big whoop.
Sure, it stings, it hurts to have to struggle to pay mortgages and loans, but if you as a Christian take a deep breath, know that you have a relationship with Him and that He will be providing you a dwelling place...a most magnificent dwelling place...it's easier to cope.
However, it does take a proper outlook to put our earthly dwellings, which in this case means our bodies, in proper perspective, but it can be done. There are even some who look forward to "moving day". Can you imagine that!?
Many will continue to struggle with housing...the physical building kind and the existing mortgage crisis. Who knows how long the crunch will go on?
Meanwhile, with our focus on all things eternal, we can say "Crisis? What crisis?"
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. - Matthew 6:20
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. - II Corinthians 5:1
In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. - John 14:2
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Friday, August 24, 2007
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NFL suspends Michael Vick indefinitely
RICHMOND, Va. - The NFL indefinitely suspended Michael Vick without pay Friday just hours after he acknowledged in court papers that he did, indeed, bankroll gambling on dogfighting and helped kill some dogs not worthy of the pit. Vick, however, insisted he placed no bets of his own nor took any winnings.
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Mother Teresa: Just Your Typical Saint or a Woman Crying to God?
This report by Time.com that reveals material from a new book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), wants to paint Mother Teresa as a conflicted person…even stating that for her “the deity had disappeared.” They use her letters to confidants to illustrate their point. However, even the most Godly are “conflicted”…read just one example.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Jesus Cartoon: A Headline You Will Not Be Seeing In Today’s News
Thousands of Christians Riot, Protest Cartoon of Jesus Smoking Cigarette
SARCASM ALERT: Make-up headline shows contrasting belief systems. The “cartoon” is actually an altered “Sacred Heart of Jesus” image.
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
Today’s story about an irreverent depiction of Jesus in a newspaper makes me wonder…if a tree branch snaps in the woods and no one heard it, did it really make a noise?
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Pit Bulls Conspiracy Theory
Pit Bulls angry with Michael Vick plan attacks on humans
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Two Washington pit bulls committed a grizzly act on a woman Tuesday, mauling her and killing a neighbor's pet Jack Terrier. The pit bulls eventually surrendered to Pierce county officers after fighting and being pepper sprayed. As one of the dogs was led away it was heard muttering, "Put Vick in jail and throw away the key!"
Associated Press:
Pit Bulls Break Into Washington Home, Maul Woman
GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - Two pit bulls entered a house through a pet door Tuesday and attacked a woman in her bed, mauling her badly, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said.
The woman was able to grab a gun and attempt to shoot the dogs, then broke away from the attack and locked herself in her car, calling 911 for help, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
The woman, who was not immediately identified, was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, where she was listed in serious condition.
The pit bulls killed a Jack Russell terrier that entered the house during the attack, Troyer said. The Jack Russell belonged to a neighbor.
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Monster.com hacked; users exposed to 'file ransom'
Internet hacking on a grand scale.
Hackers Hold Monster.com Users' Files Hostage
Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in the U.S., have been exposed to the risk of file ransom after the Web site of the world's largest online recruiter was hacked.
Personal details stored on Monster.com, a Web site that lists job seekers and job opportunities, were taken after a raid by hackers who posed as employers to gain access to the site.
Having stolen the information, hackers e-mailed the victims claiming to have infected their computers with a virus and threatening to delete files unless demands for payment were met.
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CNN's 'God's Warriors' Series Online Reports: Albright Interview
Albright: Ignore religion 'at our own peril'
In order to effectively conduct foreign policy today, you have to understand the role of God and religion. ... My sense is that we don't fully understand, because one, it's pretty complicated, and two, everyone in the U.S. believes in a separation of church and state, so you think, "Well, if we don't believe in the convergence of church and state, then perhaps we shouldn't worry about the role of religion." I think we do that now at our own peril. Religion is instrumental in shaping ideas and policies. It's an essential part of everyday life in a whole host of countries. And obviously it plays a role in how these countries behave, so we need to know what the religious influence is.
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Monday, August 20, 2007
BELGRADE: Bears Eat Man at Beer Festival
I kinda hate those photos of drunks asleep and what either their "friends" did to them while they were passed out or what happened to them on their own accord. On the other hand...they maybe shake up some people to the perils of drinking and drugging.
I am glad photos of this fiasco aren't circulating...however, all bets are off on them not showing up...in today's age, I'm sure there is a good chance they will!
A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in bear cage. His naked body was found in enclosure at Belgrade Zoo. The zookeepers believe man was drunk or drugged.
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
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Naked Bodies Aid In Glacial Shrinkage, Global Warming
This from Reuters:
Hundreds pose naked on shrinking Swiss glacier
ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland - Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.
My first thought? Aren’t those nearly 600 butts of volunteers gonna do some serious glacial meltdown?
Huh? Maybe not? Oh, well.
- Alexander, TheScroogeReport
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Friday, August 17, 2007
CNN: 'God's Warriors'
Just wanted to give you a heads up on some very good programming on CNN and CNN.com.
Here's a CNN Editor's Note: ...a series of reports CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
You can watch and read awesome stuff right now even though the series is Aug. 21-23.
Go to http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/
and for the first report headlined "Rejecting radical Islam -- one man's journey" go to http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/15/daveed.godswarriors/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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Crandall Canyon Mine: Mountain Bump or 'This Mountain is Collapsing'?
“I don’t think I’m going too far to say that this mountain is collapsing in slow motion.” - Lee Siegel, University of Utah seismograph station spokesman
As rescuers in Huntington, Utah suffer the loss of three of their own and the fate of the six trapped is still unknown, something strikes me as odd.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
NYPD: homegrown terrorists 'are not on the law enforcement radar'
I wonder if U.S. homegrown terrorists have a counter-intelligence team that coaches recruits how not to act like a terrorist? All they would have to do is look at studies like the recent NYPD report.
- Alexander, TheScroogeReport
NYPD Warns of Homegrown Terrorist Threat
NEW YORK (AP) - They preferred bookstores or hookah bars to mosques. They stopped listening to pop music and instead surfed Web sites promoting radical Islam. They threw away their baseball caps and grew beards.
New York Police Department intelligence analysts have concluded those were some of the telltale signs of homegrown terrorists in the making—a mounting threat as grave as that from established terrorist groups like al-Qaida.
An NYPD report released Wednesday warns of a "radicalization" process in which young men—otherwise unremarkable legal immigrants from the Middle East—grow disillusioned with life in America and adopt a philosophy that puts them on the path to jihad.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Duct Tape Replaces Ski Mask For Robber's Disguise of Choice
In the "going-to-great-lengths" crime department...this just in!
AP:
ASHLAND, Ky. — Laughter might be unexpected in a liquor store where a robbery just occurred.
But that's how employees responded to the "Duct Tape Bandit" who hit Shamrock Liquors in Ashland and fled nearly empty handed.
A man who had his head wrapped in duct tape to conceal his identity walked into the store last Friday, Ashland police said.
Store manager Bill Steele had some duct tape of his own, but his was wrapped around a wooden club that sent the robber fleeing, according to a report by WSAZ-TV in Huntington, W.Va.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
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One More WWE Wrestler Goes Down: Brian 'Crush' Adams Found Dead
Another WWE wrestler tragedy
FOXNews reports:
The Web site WWE.com announced Monday that wrestler Brian Adams — known as "Crush" — was found dead, less than two months after the murder-suicide of professional wrestler Chris Benoit and his family.
Tampa police told FOX News that Adams' wife found him unconscious in bed and called 911. He was pronounced dead in the home when medics could not revive him.
According to biographical listings at Wikipedia.org and IMDB.com, along with wrestlers "Ax" and "Smash," Adams was part of the face-painting, leather strap-wearing tag-team known as "Demolition."
Adams was arrested in 1994 on steroid possession and gun charges. He was later acquitted of the drug charges, the sites reported.
Adams was forced to retire from wrestling in 2003 after he injured his spine in a match.
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
1-800-FLOWERS Lawsuit: Texas Man’s Dirty Laundry Aired in Public…World!
This Week’s Top Scrooge - August 11, 2007
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
This one is short and sweet. Commit adultery? Don’t expect to shoot the messenger!
Apparently, Leroy Greer may not want to kill anyone from 1-800-Flowers, but he is suing the florist company for $1 million for revealing that he was cheating on his wife.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Flowers lawsuit? Dial 1-800-ADULTER-Y
Denial takes the form of a lawsuit against 1-800-FLOWERS. Fess up man! You goofed...now get right with God! Not much sympathy here for a man blaming a florist company for the exposition of his affair.
- Alexander, TheScroogeReport.com
Texas Flower Delivery Order Leads to Million Dollar Suit, Messy Divorce
FOXNews.com
MISSOURI CITY, Texas — A Missouri City, Texas, man has filed a federal lawsuit against 1-800-FLOWERS, Inc. after they sent his wife a thank-you card for flowers he ordered for another woman.
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Hi ScroogeReport fans! The host problems have been resolved. Thanks for your patience! Please enjoy This Week's Top Scrooge columns posted in brief here and remember to visit TheScroogeReport.com. Stay tuned!
--Alexander
TheScroogeReport.com
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Sean Penn takes ‘love thy enemy’ to another level
This Week’s Top Scrooge
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
I used to be a peacenik. You know the kind. The one that wants to get along with everyone. The give-peace-a-chance kind. Also, the one that asks, "Can't we all just get along?" ala Rodney King.
So, I still kind of understand where actor Sean Penn's head is at when he goes to totalitarian led countries and hobnobs with psycho leaders. But I only kinda of get it.
In fact, I don't have much sympathy for Penn's "fact finding" tour in Iraq or his recent visit with Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. The whole enchilada tastes of sour milk.
Thirteen years ago, I was naive and misguided. I thought evil was something you could shake a stick at and it would go away. I understand evil better now and it is real and not something you can invite for a cup of tea...or a jaunt in the countryside as our friend Penn did.
I'm not a sappy American patriot either, but I love my country. Penn's schmoozing with a guy that hates the U.S. shows that although the actor may be intelligent, may really think he is doing what is best, he is really is quite stupid. So stupid, that I've picked him as This Week's Top Scrooge.
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