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• ARTS BEAT: Iggy Scrooge, Santa Baby, Winter Gayla

  
  Spew — Authority: 442
  WEEKLY VOLCANO: THE INTERNETS CURATOR >>> Spew scans the local online art world so you don’t have to. There are some holiday traditions you just don’t mess with. Then there are those you mess with, screw with, change, alter, add stuff, cut stuff. The News Tribune art critic Rosemary Ponnekanti ...
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• Modern Day Scrooge Chapter 1

  
  LIBERTY POST — Authority: 429
  I drove past the food bank today. The parking lot was full. There didnt seem to be any shame or embarrassment on the faces of the people (375,000 every month in Ontario) going in with rumbling stomachs or coming out carrying big boxes . Their faces looked stoic and steadfast and sure, yet I ...
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• The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 137
  Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is the world’s top fashion photographer; he has an eye like no other, even if it means putting his models in total peril to provide the perfect shot. With the fame comes the dangerous self obsessed big head, and if he’s not saying exactly what he thinks, he’s seducing women for ...
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• P.S.A.: Buying A Christmas you Cant Afford

  
  THEBLACKURBANTIMES.COM — Authority: 458
  We have a lot of people now in the middle of a mad rush to purchase items to go under that Christmas tree. In an effort to do so, many people are putting themselves in debt that may take years to erase or may end up on their credit for years and years to come. Why so many people rush to ruin their credit for frivolous ...
  7 hours ago

• Bah, Humbug: Nominate the 2009 Scrooge of the Year

  
  The Conservative Media — Authority: 130
  It’s that time of year again, and national Jobs with Justice is seeking nominations for its 2009 “Scrooge of the Year” award . JwJ is looking to highlight the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year. This is the 10th year of the contest, but it’s back with a slight name change. In the past ...
  7 hours ago

• Bankers like Scrooge says Charles Dickenss great-great-grandson

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Modern day bankers are the spiritual successors to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, according to a direct descendant of Charles Dickens.
  10 hours ago

• Bah, Humbug Nominate the Scrooge of the Year

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 130
  Each year, national Jobs with Justice gives an “award” to the greediest, most cold-hearted company or person of the year. Past winners of this dubious honor include: Wal-Mart, George W. Bush, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber.  National Jobs with Justice is now accepting nominations for the 2009 ...
  11 hours ago

• Modern Day Scrooge Preface

  
  LIBERTY POST — Authority: 429
  I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little BLOG, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it....BUT wish day after day to read this holiday tale, served with ...
  19 hours ago

• “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” ~ Carl Schurz

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 120
  Sun Reflected in Frosty River “I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on the RoadWell, we survived Thanksgiving and my mother’s lovely running critical ...
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• Why You Should Give This Valuable (FREE) Present to All Colleagues & Managers in 2009

  
  CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary — Authority: 505
  What’s the one gift you can give that: A)  Will be truly appreciated. B)  Only takes a few minutes to give. C) Is good for co-workers, past colleagues, managers, or anyone else you feel you should recognize with a token gift this season. D) Shows what a thoughtful professional you really are! I’ll give ...
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• Film Preview: Christmas at Our House, 13 – 24 December, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

  
  itsonitsgone.com — Authority: 121
  I don’t need much of an excuse to get a Muppet-related item on this blog, so thank you to Edinburgh’s Filmhouse for arranging a short season of Christmas-themed films in December, one of which is surely the ultimate retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Muppet Christmas Carol. The cinema will be ...
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• Activision To Purchase Third World Country with Modern Warfare 2 Profits

  
  Sarcastic Gamer — Authority: 482
  Dont you think swimming in coins would hurt? Two and a half weeks after launch, Activision is boasting 3 billion dollars worth of sales of Modern Warfare 2. That’s “B” as in “boy” or holy f^cking “bananas” (by the way, good job MW2 boycotters, you sure showed them ). But what happens when you ...
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• Savor The Spirit

  
  Vagabond Journeys — Authority: 110
  Lovers brook not hours, Unless it be to come before their time, So much they spur their expectation. Shakespeare ************** Another thing I have never understood is why some actors show up for work at the last possible moment or even a few minutes late, and then rush to get ready. What are they doing? What is ...
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• Black Friday

  
  Kmareka.com — Authority: 431
  I spent it not shopping. That felt good. Most days I spend not shopping, but knowing I was supposed to be lining up in a mall somewhere on the day after Thanksgiving and resisting the pressure gave me a delightful sense of transgression. I don’t get much of that these days. Maybe I’ll not shop tomorrow too.
  3 days ago

• The Fairy Godmother Wands You!

  
  Hot Flashbacks, Cool Insights — Authority: 110
  Gift Ideas. Last year, I wrote a post about my gift for gifts called The Fairy Godmother . I invited readers to Comment and share some of their best gift ideas, too. The results were fabulous! Many of you said the exchange sparked ideas for your holiday shopping lists. We could all use a little help this time of ...
  4 days ago

• 12 Great Christmas Movies

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 137
  It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Perhaps the most iconic of all the films listed here. This one stars Jimmy Stewart as everyman George Bailey who stumbles upon bad times for himself and his family. Wishing he was never born, an angel grants his wish and allows Stewart’s character to see what the world would have been ...
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• New Jersey school district can ban Christmas carols

  
  TheScroogeReport — Authority: 115
  Judges rule that an ‘inclusive environment’ trumps singing songs about the birth of Jesus SCROOGE ALERT LEVEL: HIGH FOXNewsRadio/Todd Starnes: Judges affirm ban on Christmas Carols We three kings of Orient are no more thanks to three judges in Philadelphia. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld ...
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• Why I Think Thanksgiving Is a Crock

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 482
  The above photo is an example of what it was like to have a POTUS who cared about the country. Not having someone like that in office is enough to put a real damper on Thanksgiving.The Pink... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• The Daily Habit: Business

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 142
    11:59 pm Ho, Ho, Ho.  Classic Holiday Scams – AMERICA -   If you’re like everybody else in America, you’re dead broke, or damn close, and that no good money pit of a holiday called Christmas is right around the corner.  Yeah, you tried to put a few bucks away each pay but your weed habit and ...
  5 days ago

• Lone complaint prompts courthouse Christmas tree removal

  
  TheScroogeReport — Authority: 115
  “That tree holds the cards that contain the wishes and needs of those less fortunate than we are and shame on those who want to take that away from those of us who wish to give …” – Petition from courthouse employees SCROOGE ALERT LEVEL: HIGH The Orange County Register: Christmas tree removed from ...
  6 days ago

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