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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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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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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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HUD Pulls a Scrooge, Visited By the Ghost of Christmas Emails

Even Ebenezer Scrooge had an awakening.



This Week’s Top Scrooge - November 10, 2007

By ALEXANDER


Although it took the visits of three ghosts for Scrooge to change from his miserly and anti-Christmas ways, it apparently only took the miracle of the internet to change the minds of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Earlier this week, HUD was at the center of a controversy surrounding a directive it issued banning “any religious symbols or religious words associated with Christmas.” Under the guidelines issued by HUD, an elderly Florida grandmother living in a mostly seniors apartment complex was directed not to place a small Christmas tree outside her door if it contains any religious symbols or religious words...and as the American Family Association alerted..."even an angel!"

Well, lo and behold, the AFA responded with a petition drive to overturn the decision. The family advocacy group set up a link to allow constituents to send e-mails to the HUD secretary or President Bush expressing their objections to the policy. And as WorldNetDaily reports, within a day, the response was forthcoming...

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2,000-plus Scrooges Nix Nativity Scene at Berkley City Hall

By a 55 to 45 percent margin, residents voted no on allowing a nativity scene to return to the lawn outside their City Hall Tuesday.



Church and State

They just wanted to take our nativity away. - Georgia Halloran

This from FOX News:

Voters in Berkley, Mich., turned down an amendment to the city charter on Tuesday that would have allowed a nativity scene to return to the lawn outside their City Hall.

The charter amendment failed by a 55 to 45 percent margin with 4,136 votes cast in total, according to unofficial results from the city clerk’s office.

Some residents of the town of more than 15,000 were outraged that the city and a local clergy association cut a deal with the American Civil Liberties Union to move a crèche, which had been displayed on public property for about 25 years, away from government grounds and onto a patch of grass outside a church.

The display spent its first Christmas at its new location last year, but those who want to return the nativity scene to public property petitioned to get the measure on Tuesday’s general election ballot.

"They didn't try to resolve it; they just wanted to take our nativity away," said Georgia Halloran, 62, who has led the drive to return the crèche to its former location. "People are very upset that the ACLU came in and told us to get rid of our nativity and the city capitulated to them."

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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
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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)