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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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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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Offend Atheists 101: Simply Recommend Church

Colorado School District Sued for Listing Religious Activities as One of ‘40 Developmental Assets’

This Week’s Top Scrooge - October 19, 2007

By ALEXANDER
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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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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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Presidential Race: The Woman Factor

This is how I feel: Hillary Clinton is a wash. Why no one has reported on the fact that a huge number of Americans (male and female) still do not want a woman president is astounding. I believe it is because this is America’s dirty little secret…there are more sexists, more fundamentalists opposed to women leadership, and more just plain “no woman in the White House” thinkers than anyone has really addressed. That’s why she can work herself all the way to the Democrat’s pick and still fail the final cut.

Poll: How many Americans would never vote for a woman president?

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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

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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.

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Blingo: Searching Your Way to Riches

Blingo is a search engine with a twist. Each search on Blingo is also a chance to win a prize. And guess what? It's powered by Google so you get the same high-powered searches. I'm not into gambling, but this doesn't really smack of it at all. No personal information is given other than your email address. I recommend bookmarking the search page and use it every time.



This from AP:

TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD?

A handful of companies, however, are really giving users something for doing nothing by combining two of the most common reasons people use the Internet: searching and winning.

Exhibit A is the search engine Blingo.com, a site that recently entered Nielsen's list of the top ten visited gambling and sweepstakes destinations. Here you'll find the same search results that you'd get using Google, but with one key difference: Users who search at the times closest to secret, randomly selected milliseconds designated by the site each day will instantly earn a prize -- anything from a $5 gift certificate to a car to $20,000 in cash.

Better yet, it requires no personal information. All it takes is a mailing address -- after all, if you win something, they've got to have a place to send the goods, right?

"We're the white hat of this industry," says the company's founder, Frank Anderson of San Francisco.

Anderson, who previously helped launched the internet company iAmaze, came up with the idea to bring a prize element to search engines in 2004. Unlike most give-away sites, all Blingo's revenue comes from the advertisers who pay for the Google-generated small ads on the top and bottom of the pages.

The income, Anderson explained, is split between his company and Google (many sites, including AOL, use Google's search engines and split profits in the same way. Similar prize-offering search sites, like iWon.com, partner with other search engines in a similar manner).

In Blingo's case, a percentage of the company's profit share goes toward giveaways and prize money.

To date, he says, the site has given away close to a $1 million.

So, let's give it a whirl! Go to Blingo.com now!

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Leona Helmsley Earns This Week’s Top Scrooge Posthumously

"But God said to him, 'You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?

This Week’s Top Scrooge - August 31, 2007

By ALEXANDER
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How many church sermons will include the story of Leona Helmsley and her dog, Trouble, this Sunday?

In case you missed it, Trouble...her pet...inherited $12 million. And for good measure, Trouble’s "fortunes" won’t be over even after her life ends. “I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum,” she ordered. And she left another $3 million to ensure that final resting place is well maintained, including money for a yearly wash or steam-cleaning.

Twelve million dollars. That's two more million dollars than two of her grandchildren are getting combined ($5 million each) and $12 million more than her other two grandchildren are getting...because they are getting zippo as in nada, nothing, and zilch.

I don't make this stuff up, folks. Read the online story at CityNews.ca if you want.

If this is not a modern day parable to be told to congregations everywhere on Sunday, then I don't know what is.

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Evangelist Moves Prayer Show After Muslim Group Pressures TV Station

Internet and television evangelist Bill Keller takes “Live Prayer” to competing station; his remarks on Islam prompt switch.

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Evangelist Bill Keller will move his late-night, live call-in prayer and faith program to another Tampa Bay area station after claims that his show was pulled off the air because of pressure from a Muslim group.

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Housing Crisis? What Crisis?

Increasing mortgage and loan problems will not effect mansions in heaven

Awakenings by Alexander

I heard Pastor Chuck Smith, of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, say on the radio today that when he dies, reports of his death will actually be a misnomer.

"They will say, 'Pastor Chuck Smith died today', but actually that is wrong. The more accurate reporting will be, 'Pastor Chuck Smith moved'," Smith said, during his morning message on Christian radio.

What Smith was referring to was that for those that have accepted the Lord, their soul, their conscious self, will have a new dwelling place after physical death. They will have a mansion in heaven.

I was thinking about the recent housing crisis, and yes, I call it a crisis despite whatever financial reports you read these days. I see all the foreclosures, the debt problems, and people moving out of homes they can't afford anymore, and I believe it either is a crisis or will become one. I think about that and realize that for those that know their mansion awaits them in heaven, coping with housing in today's world is no big whoop.

Sure, it stings, it hurts to have to struggle to pay mortgages and loans, but if you as a Christian take a deep breath, know that you have a relationship with Him and that He will be providing you a dwelling place...a most magnificent dwelling place...it's easier to cope.

However, it does take a proper outlook to put our earthly dwellings, which in this case means our bodies, in proper perspective, but it can be done. There are even some who look forward to "moving day". Can you imagine that!?

Many will continue to struggle with housing...the physical building kind and the existing mortgage crisis. Who knows how long the crunch will go on?

Meanwhile, with our focus on all things eternal, we can say "Crisis? What crisis?"

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. - Matthew 6:20

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. - II Corinthians 5:1

In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. - John 14:2

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Mother Teresa: Just Your Typical Saint or a Woman Crying to God?

This report by Time.com that reveals material from a new book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), wants to paint Mother Teresa as a conflicted person…even stating that for her “the deity had disappeared.” They use her letters to confidants to illustrate their point. However, even the most Godly are “conflicted”…read just one example.
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CNN's 'God's Warriors' Series Online Reports: Albright Interview

Albright: Ignore religion 'at our own peril'

In order to effectively conduct foreign policy today, you have to understand the role of God and religion. ... My sense is that we don't fully understand, because one, it's pretty complicated, and two, everyone in the U.S. believes in a separation of church and state, so you think, "Well, if we don't believe in the convergence of church and state, then perhaps we shouldn't worry about the role of religion." I think we do that now at our own peril. Religion is instrumental in shaping ideas and policies. It's an essential part of everyday life in a whole host of countries. And obviously it plays a role in how these countries behave, so we need to know what the religious influence is.

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Naked Bodies Aid In Glacial Shrinkage, Global Warming

This from Reuters:

Hundreds pose naked on shrinking Swiss glacier

ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland - Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.

My first thought? Aren’t those nearly 600 butts of volunteers gonna do some serious glacial meltdown?

Huh? Maybe not? Oh, well.

- Alexander, TheScroogeReport

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Shopping for Shoes Online...Two Toes Up!

Shoes are my personal favorite thing to shop online for. Why? I found shopping for shoes online much easier to navigate than visiting your local shoe store and dealing with the typical hassles found there. There's no waiting for the salesman to come out of the back room with your size here!

So, I give shopping for shoes online Two Toes Up!

MyConsumerGuide has compiled the web's top footwear merchants. From dressy to casual, boots to sandals, you'll find it all here.

Go to MyConsumerGuide's shoe catalog page now!