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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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
Friday, March 28, 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?
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Monday, February 25, 2008
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
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
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, October 24, 2007
Helping California Fire Victims Online
Thoroughbred named Montimiero runs in a corral on the 6,000 acre Rancho Temescal in Piru, Calif. (AP)
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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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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Big Boy, WKQI-FM Darken Radio with Britney Suicide Watch Contest
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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Monday, September 24, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
Entering the Andrew Meyer taser debate with both eyes wide open
This Week’s Top Scrooge - September 21, 2007
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
The definition of Taser as found in Wikipedia:
The name Taser is an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle". Arizona inventor Jack Cover designed it in 1969; naming it for the science fiction teenage inventor and adventurer character Tom Swift.
Modern taser-type weapons fire small dart-like electrodes with attached metal wires that connect to the gun, propelled by small gas charges similar to some air rifle propellants. The maximum range is up to 10 meters (30 feet). Earlier models of Taser needed the dart-like electrodes to embed in the skin and superficial muscle tissues layers; newer versions of the projectiles use a shaped pulse/arc of electricity which disrupt nerve and muscle function without needing the metal prongs on the projectile to penetrate the skin. Early models had difficulty in penetrating thick clothing, but the 'pulse' models are designed to bring down a subject wearing up to a Level III body armor vest.
Tasers are currently in use by a number of police forces worldwide to try to reduce firearms-related deaths.
Andrew Meyer is obnoxious. According to several reports, his is quite the attention seeker. However, did he deserve to be tasered while disrupting a John Kerry Q&A and then making quite a fuss while police attempted to subdue him?
You can look at it from many angles and judging by a few quick internet searches, opinion runs wide and wild.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Hit the Blogosphere Running with BlogRush
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