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

TheScroogeReport.com

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!

Fat Is King in Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama

WASHINGTON - Loosen the belt buckle another notch: Obesity rates continued to climb in 31 states last year, and no state showed a decline.

Mississippi became the first state to crack the 30 percent barrier for adults considered to be obese. West Virginia and Alabama were just behind, according to the Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention.

Colorado continued its reign as the leanest state in the nation with an obesity rate projected at 17.6 percent.

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Pit Bulls Conspiracy Theory

Pit Bulls angry with Michael Vick plan attacks on humans

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Two Washington pit bulls committed a grizzly act on a woman Tuesday, mauling her and killing a neighbor's pet Jack Terrier. The pit bulls eventually surrendered to Pierce county officers after fighting and being pepper sprayed. As one of the dogs was led away it was heard muttering, "Put Vick in jail and throw away the key!"

Associated Press:

Pit Bulls Break Into Washington Home, Maul Woman

GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - Two pit bulls entered a house through a pet door Tuesday and attacked a woman in her bed, mauling her badly, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said.

The woman was able to grab a gun and attempt to shoot the dogs, then broke away from the attack and locked herself in her car, calling 911 for help, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.

The woman, who was not immediately identified, was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, where she was listed in serious condition.

The pit bulls killed a Jack Russell terrier that entered the house during the attack, Troyer said. The Jack Russell belonged to a neighbor.

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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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NYPD: homegrown terrorists 'are not on the law enforcement radar'

I wonder if U.S. homegrown terrorists have a counter-intelligence team that coaches recruits how not to act like a terrorist? All they would have to do is look at studies like the recent NYPD report.

- Alexander, TheScroogeReport

NYPD Warns of Homegrown Terrorist Threat

NEW YORK (AP) - They preferred bookstores or hookah bars to mosques. They stopped listening to pop music and instead surfed Web sites promoting radical Islam. They threw away their baseball caps and grew beards.

New York Police Department intelligence analysts have concluded those were some of the telltale signs of homegrown terrorists in the making—a mounting threat as grave as that from established terrorist groups like al-Qaida.

An NYPD report released Wednesday warns of a "radicalization" process in which young men—otherwise unremarkable legal immigrants from the Middle East—grow disillusioned with life in America and adopt a philosophy that puts them on the path to jihad.

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