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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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Hanging Out Among Them on Halloween
Friday, September 14, 2007
Betray Us: MoveOn.org or HateOn.orgy?
TheScroogeReport investigates HateOn.orgy on charges of being intelligent and patriotic. The investigation begins with an excerpt from the internet-chatroom-success-story group’s “About Us” page.
This Week’s Top Scrooge - September 14, 2007
By ALEXANDER
What is HateOn.orgy (MoveOn.org)?
The HateOn dysfunctional family of quasi-organizations brings real Americans (or Americans that love to really hate) back into the political process, i.e.; screaming in meetings of Congress, name calling to the nth degree, and general immature behavior. With over 3.3 million kool-aid drinking members across America – from carpenters to stay-at-home moms to business leaders (and from geeky bloggers to stay-on-the-couch dads to spoiled rich people) – we work together to realize the digressive promise of our country. HateOn is a “service” – a way for stressed-out but concerned global units to find their political voice in a system dominated by successful people and the Clinton News Network.
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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