Elton John Dies in Rocketship...and Other Rockers

Top Ten Rock 'n' Roll Spam Headlines

I'll be honest...this is my junk blog...although in all "modesty" there's some nuggets in here on occasion. Speaking of which, I recently went searching for nuggets in the least likely of places: spam email subject headlines.


This spam headline in my email inbox at work not too long ago, Elton John Dies in Rocketship, had me laughing...and thinking: How much do those spam headline writers get paid?

Now, I know some of you will say "Ya, I get those, too! You know those erectile dysfunction spams and the like." Well, sure we all get those, but it is this rock 'n' roll play on stars, their song titles and lyrics that got me going.

So, around work we came up with some really good ones, like "John Mellencamp Crushed By Pink House," "Jon Bon Jovi Found Shot Through the Heart," "Bob Dylan Flattened By Rolling Stone," and "Otis Redding Found Floating Under Dock By the Bay."

My next step was to take this "assignment" to my buddies at BlogCatalog. We had lots of fun with it over there. Out of the more than 100 submissions, I decided to chose my picks for Top Ten. These are in no particular order and you'll see the winning BC member's blog name, linked up.

Without further adieu, here are the

TOP TEN ROCK 'n' ROLL SPAM HEADLINES

Joe Walsh Shot By an Ordinary Average Guy
McWriters

Making Love in an Elevator proves fatal for Aerosmith
Mattias Xpress

Big Shot Billy Joel arrested in Allentown with Uptown Girl
McWriters

Jefferson Airplane Collides With Starship
The Electric Egg Cream

Billy Joel Goes to Extremes but Says He Didn't Start The Fire
Of Cabbages and Kings

Ozzy Osbourne Run Over by a Crazy Train
Tommy Buettner Blogging Sports

David Bowie Abducted by Life on Mars
Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely

James Taylor Flattened by Steamroller
Real World Connections

AC/DC Bus Crashes on Highway to Hell
Rob's Megaphone

Cat Stevens Run Over By Peace Train
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Many thanks to all those who participated at BlogCatalog. There were many winners!

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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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."

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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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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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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.

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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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California's Lt. Governor Plays Political Arsonist in Firestorm

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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