HEADLINES FROM THE SCROOGE REPORT
Showing posts with label The Scrooge Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Scrooge Report. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
This and That
It's been too long since I freshened things up in here...and too long since I updated you. So here we go! Be sure to check out Alexander, where you can really get into the devotionals by famous and not-so-famous Christian authors. I love them all, but let me recommend my Delayed Gratification post. Those of you in Alcoholics Anonymous or any type of recovery...or maybe even considering trying to kick an addiction should check it out!
The Scrooge Report is still rocking! Here's some highly recommended reading:
• The First Educated Opposition to Obama
• Mount Vernon Hosts ‘Expelled’ II
• Voting Out Alex
I will be having a health related blog soon. Meanwhile, you may want to check out MonaVie. It's something I've been drinking lately and its helped my health a lot. If you are not consistent with your premium fruits intake I highly recommend MonaVie.
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Sincerely,
Alexander
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Bloggers Unite: Algeria and Christian Persecution
You still have a chance to visit the great work of bloggers in an effort called Bloggers Unite for Human Rights.
Here is my contribution:
Algeria: Carry a Bible, Go to Jail
While many of the cultural battles centered on religion in the U.S. involve legal positioning on church and state issues, very real physical persecution of faith exists in many other parts of the world.
A few websites monitor and report on these atrocities, many of which go with little mention or unreported in the mainstream media. Two sites whose mission includes reporting on religious persecution are Compass Direct News and Persecution Blog
Here’s a recent example of persecution. This from Compass Direct News:
ALGIERS, Algeria, May 9 – An Algerian Christian detained five days for carrying a Bible and personal Bible study books was handed a 300-euro (US$460) fine and a one-year suspended prison sentence last week, an Algerian church leader said.
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
America Gone Wild
As Ashley Dupre continues to wait for the dust to settle from her paid sexual liason with ex-NY Governor Eliot Spitzer via the Emperor's Club, there's only one question: How much will America pay her? 
UPDATE: Video of Ashley's 2003 "Girls Gone Wild" encounter is now overflowing the pockets of the fresh out of prison, GGW founder Joe Francis. Ashley graces the porn site version of the video company on its homepage and subscription page...cost: $29.86 for one month.
By ALEXANDER
Some guess that Ashley Dupre made $100,000 a month selling her body to high-paying clientele, including the now-resigned governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer. Reports include that her going rate was $1,000-per-hour.
However, that's chump change compared to what's being offered her now and probably in the near future as the result of her part in bringing down Spitzer and the pimping Emperor's Club.
Porn publishers at Penthouse magazine say they would "love to have her in the magazine" and would consider offering her a cover shot. Before Dupre's MySpace page was deleted Thursday, it had received 4,612,397 views and her song "What We Want" touted 711,334 plays, according to Reuters. Fox News reports that a million people have paid as much as $.98 apiece to download her song.
My question to America: Is the marketing and consumption of all-things Dupre "what we want?"
Leading media research analyst Neilsen//NetRatings, which tracks Internet traffic and trends reported a few years ago that more than 38 million people visited adult websites that year. America's obsession with sex is evidenced everywhere, including the proliferation of sexual performance enhancing drugs.
Will America be hooked on Dupre...and will she oblige?
READ FULL STORY
Monday, March 10, 2008
Croskey Needs to Get Schooled
What's most shocking about the California state appellate court ruling that says parents that homeschool their children must have teaching credentials is the wording that goes with the decision.
By ALEXANDER
Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the two other members of the district court:
"Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children."
What the heck? It's amazing how liberals are so opposed to big-brotherism, yet often have rulings and ideas that would lead to nothing but such.
Here's the lead in the L.A. Times:
Parents who lack teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home, according to a state appellate court ruling that is sending waves of fear through California's home schooling families.
Advocates for the families vowed to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court. Enforcement until then appears unlikely, but if the ruling stands, home-schooling supporters say California will have the most regressive law in the nation.
Regressive, by the way, can mean "backward reasoning"...and this legislation certainly is. Talk about the manipulation of our most precious gift, children. Apparently, a group of California legislators feel they can do a better job of decision making in regards to what's best for our kids.
More from the Times:
"This decision is a direct hit against every home schooler in California," said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which represents the Sunland Christian School, which specializes in religious home schooling. "If the state Supreme Court does not reverse this . . . there will be nothing to prevent home-school witch hunts from being implemented in every corner of the state of California."
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Brodsky Defends Peterson, Encourages 'Enjoyment' for Married Client
Suggested "Win a Date with Drew" radio contest by Brodsky takes the lawyer blunder top honor
"If she's entitled to be out there with another man, he's entitled to have some enjoyment in his life, too." - Attorney Joel Brodsky
This Week’s Top Scrooge - January 25, 2008
By ALEXANDER
Worst defense attorney move ever just may well be the one made by the lawyer for alleged serial wife killer, Drew Peterson. Attorney Joel Brodsky and Peterson called WJMK-FM morning show host Steve Dahl and proposed the "Win a Date with Drew" game earlier this week.
Peterson, as you may recall, is suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife and has caused another look at the bathtub "accidental death" drowning death of his third wife.
Nevermind that Peterson shows zero concern for the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, whose case police call a possible homicide. Forget that Peterson has toyed with the media spotlight ever since the 23-year-old mother of his two children has been missing, and simply saying she ran off with another man. What kind of lawyer would defend this creep?
I'll tell you what kind. The kind that turns out to be just as creepy as his client.
This from NewsSunOnline.com:
Hours after radio host Steve Dahl agreed to the suggestion by Joel Brodsky, the attorney for former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson, WJMK-FM officials said the game would not take place.
"Steve never intended on doing this promotion or any promotion that would put his listeners in harm's way," station vice president/general manager Peter Bowen said in a prepared statement. "The dating game idea was conceived by Peterson and Brodsky, not by Steve Dahl or anyone else at the radio station."
OK. So radio host Steve Dahl is a little creepy, too. But This Week's Top Scrooge goes to Joel Brodsky.
It's his (alleged) murder and he'll play as he want to
Brodsky defended his client's planned participation in the radio show, saying that Peterson didn't do anything wrong and that he believes his wife just ran off with someone else.
"If she's entitled to be out there with another man, he's entitled to have some enjoyment in his life, too," Brodsky said.
Celebrity and creep defender chimes in
"It is still the mother of your children, and she's missing," defense attorney Mark Geragos said. "Besides being a bad idea for the criminal case, it's in incredibly poor taste."
Last add
Daniel Bibb, a private attorney who handled high-profile cases when he was a prosecutor in New York, also couldn't believe that Peterson was willing to participate in the competition.
"If I'm a prosecutor I'm salivating now. If I'm his attorney, I'm ready to commit suicide. I'm ready to quit," Bibb said.
Quit indeed...something Brodsky probably has no gumption to do...he's too creepy.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Britney Watch Gets Wierd...er
Britney Spears paparazzi hit alltime low with ambulance chasing antics
This Week’s Top Scrooge
By ALEXANDER
First, there was the Britney Death Poll contest introduced by a radio jock. Then, months of inane Britney videos and photos of her in cars, and getting in and out of cars. Now, photographers competing for the best ambulance shots featured photags literally chasing her ambulance Thursday night, sticking cameras in the emergency vehicle window.
As of Friday morning, Spears was still at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on a "5150 hold," meaning there's evidence she's a danger to herself or others, TMZ said. This news after the Los Angeles Police Department was called to Spears' home to investigate a custody dispute around 8 p.m. PST.
Iowa Caucus news ended last night with the Breaking Britney News and video of the shark attack-like scene of photographers. Close to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a photographer can be seen trying to hang on to the back of the ambulance, camera in one hand, shooting inside through the window as the vehicle approaches.
One on-scene reporter from a major cable news channel said she felt sick watching the meltdown of Britney unfolding before the parasitic media. Understandably so.
This Week's Top Scrooge goes to news agencies driven by Britney exploitation. It got ugly and I hope it doesn't get worse.
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Christmas Scrooges Assault Boy Scout Tree Lot
NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio - Three thieves threaten Christmas tree lot volunteers, hit boy scout with shotgun and escape with less than $400 Monday night.
This Week’s Top Scrooge - Dec. 7, 2007
By ALEXANDER
The three men, This Week's Top Scrooge(s), are still on the loose, but a pissed-off community rallies to support the local Boy Scout's effort to raise money for educational trips...and police are resolved to find the heartless thugs.
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Community's Christ-like spirit kicks into high gear for Boy Scout Christmas tree lot...and the search is on for the robbers.
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The moral of the story?
What the devil attempted to make evil, God turned to good. The community of North College Hill is just a little bit more loving this week...and some people arose to giving a whole lot more of themselves then they ever knew they had.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Merry Tossmas for the 'Holiday' Catalog Hater in You
Tossmas for the rest of us! (apologies to Festivus celebrants)
Hey Y'all! Trailer Park Christmas Shoppin'
Taking care of your gift needs the trailer trash way...and I mean that in a good way!
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Freethought Society Mocks Christmas Tree Tradition
A Tree of Knowledge
Atheists in Philadelphia have apparently chosen Christmas time to start their own tradition of putting up a cut pine tree…only instead of Christmas decorations, the tree is adorned with book covers.
The Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia's ‘A Tree of Knowledge’ is displayed at the Chester County Courthouse beside three traditional holiday displays.
Ah yes, “A Tree of Knowledge”…nothing brightens an atheist’s “holiday” time more than a tree decorated with copies of covers of books, including “Why I Am Not A Christian,” “Why I Am Not a Muslim” and “Judaism Beyond God.”
Oh, yes, there’s a cover of the Koran and Bible, too! What a gloriously all-inclusive holiday this is!
Despite a large portion of Americans giving reverance to the Christmas tree and it’s relation to a holy day in the Christian calendar, none have called for the members of the Freethought Society to be whipped, jailed, or even executed.
The Tree of Knowledge stands next to three other religious displays and as the group’s president Margaret Downey said, is “welcoming to agnostics, atheists, humanists, skeptics, rationalists of all kinds.”
This from The Philadelphia Inquirer:
As there was last year, there is also a Chamber of Commerce tree - 32 feet high - meant to attract shoppers, as well as a Christian creche and a Jewish menorah.
When told of the Freethought display, Colin Hanna, a former county commissioner whose organization - Pennsylvania Pastors Network - is sponsoring the creche, said, “Their intention is to use the courthouse to make a political statement?
“That seems to me a pretty fundamental perversion of the purpose of holiday displays . . .”
Downey said her display, which she is calling “A Tree of Knowledge,” is decorated with covers of works such as the Bible.
“The reason we advocate reading the Bible,” she said in an interview, “is because so many people become atheists upon completing the entire reading of it.”
What a loving group this is! What a “thoughtful” group, too! Never mind that many more become SAVED after reading the Bible, deciding to accept Jesus Christ!
I have no problem with the Tree of Knowledge going up whatever time of year. I think it’s a great time to ask atheists what they are so really angry about. Why do they have to mock Christmas and Christians (apparently really dumb because they don’t read enough books)?
I’ll tell you what, Freethought Society. You go ahead and put “free thought” above all else and we’ll see where your best thinking gets you.
As for me, I’ll be happy to recognize that I’m really not that smart, but for the grace of God.
I’m happy to recognize something else as well:
I’m living in a country where no one is calling for your heads, even for such obvious mockery.
- Alexander, TheScroogeReport.com
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Friday, November 30, 2007
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Perceived Insult To Islam Turns To Assault on Reason
Sudan: Officials seize a British teacher's approval of students 'Muhammad' teddy bear to play the culture card
This Week’s Top Scrooge - November 30, 2007
By ALEXANDER
I suppose there are worse atrocities in the world.
Sure, the Sudanese government's imprisonment of a kindly-looking teacher for the "hate crime" of allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad may not seem like a big deal to some.
After all, her sentence is only 15 days (five of which she has already served) and the maximum 6-month sentence and 40 lashes were not dished out by the Sudanese judge. I guess to prison veterans (and Muslim jailers), this is just a walk in the park. But for a teacher?
In finding that British primary school teacher, Gillian Gibbons, is guilty of insulting Islam by allowing her seven-year-old pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad, Sudanese officials have deliberately assaulted reason.
The Sudanese leaders have attempted to use Gibbons and Teddy 'Muhammad' Bear to call the rest of the non-Muslim world ignorant for not bowing to them. They are saying that all of us must walk on egg shells, careful to not accidently be offensive or we will be lashed, imprisoned, or killed...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Teddy Muhammad Bear Teacher Says Sudanese Jail Not Bad
This from Reuters:
Jailed British teacher says Sudan treating her well
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM - A British teacher detained in Sudan for insulting Islam after her students called a teddy bear Mohammad has said she is being treated well, British diplomats said on Wednesday.
Outside the jail where Gillian Gibbons, 54, is being held, many ordinary Sudanese said they were ready to forgive her if she apologised.
Leaflets were distributed in Khartoum calling for protests, but many people had still not heard of the case and others called for calm. Lawyers say Gibbons could face 40 lashes, a fine or six months in jail if convicted.
"When we heard we wanted to demonstrate immediately but some said we should wait and see what the concerned authorities find out," said Abdallah, a science student.
Shopkeeper Sabir Abdel Karim said that if Gibbons had not intended to insult Islam, an apology to Muslims would be enough to end the problem.
"If the teacher apologised to the Sudanese people and to all Muslims because she insulted the Prophet Mohammad then this is enough to end the matter," he said.
"Any one can make a mistake and Muslims are forgivers. She will be forgiven and God will be the judge."
"If there was a misunderstanding as to what happened this can be resolved peacefully," said Omar, a 30-year-old unemployed man.
Most Sudanese papers have not given much coverage to the affair, which began with Gibbons' arrest on Sunday evening.
Seven-year-old Mohammad, a student in her class, told Reuters that he had named the teddy bear after himself and most in the class agreed with his choice.
Many Sudanese had not heard the full story and thought she had made a model of an animal and named it Mohammad after Islam's Prophet.
Rumours of riots, violent protests and cars burning near the school were rife but the streets were calm and there was no sign of demonstrations.
Not all were ready to forgive and forget, however.
"She is a teacher and should be teaching her pupils to be respectful and have morals but instead she is doing the opposite," said Mohamed Toum, a law student.
And a leaflet was being handed out in Khartoum calling on Muslims to protest after Friday prayers.
On Wednesday, three British embassy officials and a teaching colleague from the Unity High School where Gibbons worked were allowed to visit her for more than 90 minutes.
"I can confirm that we have met Ms. Gibbons and she said she is being treated well," said British consul Russell Phillips. "We remain in close contact with the Sudanese authorities on this case," he said, declining to give further details.
A pale-faced Gibbons walking with her head down and a thin blue blanket wrapped around her shoulders was taken from her prison cell to the meeting room.
Sudan's Justice Minister, Mohamed Ali al-Mardi, said preliminary charges against her were insulting religion, and final charges would be levelled once the investigation was over.
Monday, November 26, 2007
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