Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Hanging Out Among Them on Halloween

California fires, terror, and Little Bo Peep
What will I be doing this evening? Going out among them! Them, you know the ones…them. The ones that…oh, my gosh…celebrate Halloween.

As I cruise town on the way to my church’s Harvest Festival to man the Jungle Jump bounce house as a volunteer, I will probably see a few revelers. Even at the community outreach event, which is expected to draw about 10,000 people, I’ll have a chance to gawk at the costumed.

Will I think that the guy who made himself look like he is carrying his own bloody, severed arm is ingenious? Probably not. Or that the kid dressed as a skeleton is oh, so, cute? Well, maybe, but I’ll still wonder what’s the fascination with dressing “spooky.”

There’s been a few open forums about Halloween in the blogosphere, including at TheScroogeReport. I’ve learned a lot. But it hasn’t been so much through the blogs that I’ve pondered, but on memories, including those of last week in California...

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Friday, October 26, 2007

California's Lt. Governor Plays Political Arsonist in Firestorm

While fires were still scorching vast amounts of land and lives were still in the balace in Southern California, the state's Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi had time to politicize the relief effort and throw darts at President George Bush.

Lieutenant Governor Garamendi

This Week’s Top Scrooge - October 26, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

Garamendi also had time to appear on several news shows earlier this week to erroneously say that the war in Iraq was to blame for a limited amount of National Guard troops able to fight the fires in California.

Without missing a beat, he also said the president's visit to the disaster scene Thursday was a distraction.

In one interview the Democrat said, "OK, President Bush comes out, we'll be polite. But frankly, that's not the solution. How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq so that we have those people available here to help us?"

Savvy reporters were able to dispute Garamendi in a heartbeat with these facts from the Pentagon...

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Helping California Fire Victims Online

Horse runs in a corral in Rancho Temescal, Piru
Thoroughbred named Montimiero runs in a corral on the 6,000 acre Rancho Temescal in Piru, Calif. (AP)

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Monday, October 22, 2007

Offend Atheists 101: Simply Recommend Church

Colorado School District Sued for Listing Religious Activities as One of ‘40 Developmental Assets’

This Week’s Top Scrooge - October 19, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

It’s funny how your conscience works. For example, your friend could say to you, “Maybe you should go to the gym.” The next thing you do is say, “Why are you calling me fat?”

You don’t say, “Thanks for the recommendation!” Instead, you go to a therapist and tell them you feel offended and alienated. You say you are thinking about filing a lawsuit against your friend because you don’t believe in exercise and yet he or she violated your right to believe in a no-exercise lifestyle.

“How dare they recommend something that may possibly be good for me!”

Such is the case with an atheist family in Colorado who is suing the Cherry Creek School District. Only it’s not about the district recommending excercise, it’s about suggesting as one of 40 ways to help students be successful that they spend “one or more hours per week in activities in a religious institution.”

Funny how our conscious works.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

U2's 'The Joshua Tree' Sprouts 20th Anniversary

Get ready U2 maniacs to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "The Joshua Tree."

This from Billboard:

NEW YORK - To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its landmark album "The Joshua Tree," U2 is reissuing the set in four different incarnations on November 20.

The album will be available as a remastered single CD, a 2-CD set housed in a hard back case, a 2-CD/1-DVD box that includes five portfolio prints, and a double-vinyl package.

The DVD is understood to comprise a July 4, 1987, show at the Paris Hippodrome, and the documentary "Outside It's America."

Although details have yet to be announced, demos, alternate versions and B-sides from the period are expected to appear on the expanded versions. Band members have also contributed new liner notes.

"The Joshua Tree," boasting such singles as "With or Without You," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "One Tree Hill," won the coveted album of year Grammy.


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Friday, October 12, 2007

Mrs. Fields Scrambles to Add Christmas to Online Site

Type in “Christmas” into the Mrs. Fields website search box and you get a page that states: “Sorry, no records were found with the search parameters you provided. Please try a new search now.” (See UPDATE)

This Week’s Top Scrooge - October 12, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

Pity, apparently some of us are shopping Christmas gift ideas now and thought cookies, maybe even Mrs. Fields cookies, would make a good gift…especially if they were Christmas-themed.

At least that was the case laid out recently by the American Family Association (AFA) in an Action Alert email headlined “Mrs. Fields bans Christmas from their products.” The alert stated that “Diane H. of Michigan called Mrs. Fields and asked to speak with a supervisor in customer service about why they banned Christmas, the supervisor told Diane that they do not offer anything with Merry Christmas because they don’t want to offend anyone.”

AFA has been monitoring these sort of Christmas shortcomings by retail companies for three years. The first one on its radar this year? You guessed it…Mrs. Fields...(READ MORE/BLOG)

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Movie Trailer: Jumper

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Friday, October 5, 2007

Big Boy, WKQI-FM Darken Radio with Britney Suicide Watch Contest

WKQI-FM 95.5 Detroit’s Britney Suicide Watch

This Week’s Top Scrooge - October 5, 2007

By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com

Poking fun at people can be fun. How many of us have wisecracked about Britney Spears? Maybe you were not the originator of a Britney "observation", but you're certainly up on her recent trials and join the finger pointing with seemingly the entire nation about her weak parenting skills.

How can we not help but shake our head as we are deluged every day with her tabloid headline making actions?

That said, DJ Big Boy and radio station WKQI-FM, better known as Channel 95.5 in Detroit displayed gross insensitivity when they announced a "Britney Suicide Watch" contest Tuesday night...

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Don't Taze Me, Bro on Halloween

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