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Showing posts with label political. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political. Show all posts
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Friday, November 30, 2007
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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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Monday, November 26, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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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Friday, October 26, 2007
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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Monday, September 24, 2007
Fear Hillary Rodham Clinton? Get a T-shirt!
Earlier this year, Sen. Hillary Clinton presented herself as the Democrat top Republicans fear most, according to ABC News' Teddy Davis. While the competition between Hillary and the other Democrat candidates running for president is neck-and-neck, most conservatives fear Hillary Rodham Clinton more than anyone else. If you're afraid of Hillary becoming president, the items in this section are for you.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Get Your 'Don't Taze Me, Bro' Gear Now!
From St. Petersburg Times:
'Don't taze me, bro' becomes an instant fashion statement
It was inevitable, right? But you can't help but be impressed by the speed with which 'Don't taze me, bro' merchandise became available. It's been just a couple of days since University of Florida journalism student Andrew Meyer was Tasered and hauled off by campus police during an appearance by Sen. John Kerry on the Gainesville campus - the drama recorded on a videocamera and promptly posted on YouTube. But cafepress.com already has everything from T-shirts and throw pillows to boxers and even aprons with the now-famous 'Don't taze me, bro' printed on the front. There's even an organic cotton T.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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?
Vote on the top right column of this blog site!
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.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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.
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
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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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Jesus Cartoon: A Headline You Will Not Be Seeing In Today’s News
Thousands of Christians Riot, Protest Cartoon of Jesus Smoking Cigarette
SARCASM ALERT: Make-up headline shows contrasting belief systems. The “cartoon” is actually an altered “Sacred Heart of Jesus” image.
By ALEXANDER
TheScroogeReport.com
Today’s story about an irreverent depiction of Jesus in a newspaper makes me wonder…if a tree branch snaps in the woods and no one heard it, did it really make a noise?
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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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Monday, August 20, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
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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Friday, August 17, 2007
CNN: 'God's Warriors'
Just wanted to give you a heads up on some very good programming on CNN and CNN.com.
Here's a CNN Editor's Note: ...a series of reports CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
You can watch and read awesome stuff right now even though the series is Aug. 21-23.
Go to http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/
and for the first report headlined "Rejecting radical Islam -- one man's journey" go to http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/15/daveed.godswarriors/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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