The Don't Tase Me, Bro college student explains his motive behind event that led to national debate
Matt Lauer does a good job of interviewing the Don't Tase Me, Bro dude, Andrew Meyer from the University of Florida. There's the story, video, and email question and answer exchange found at MSNBC's Today Show site.
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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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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.
This Week’s Top Scrooge - October 26, 2007
By ALEXANDER
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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Thoroughbred named Montimiero runs in a corral on the 6,000 acre Rancho Temescal in Piru, Calif. (AP)
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Online giving information for the Southern California fires can be found at Network for Good.
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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