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AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Santa Delivers 37,000+ Copies of Constitution to Bush - 0 views

  • Santa Delivers 37,000+ Copies of Constitution to Bush
  • Santa Claus (in the person of noted constitutional lawyer Bill Goodman) drove his sleigh to the White House to deliver thousands of copies of the U.S. Constitution to President Bush.
  • Americans from all over the country - more than 37,000 of them - asked that a copy of the Constitution be delivered to the President in their name and cordially requested that he make time in his busy schedule to read it.
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  • "While I was going over the list of who's been naughty and nice," Mr. Claus said, as he prepared for his visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, "I heard from many people who feel the President hasn't been doing a very good job of upholding his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution."
  • Claus stepped in to bring messages from Americans who felt the President might need a refresher course in the Constitution.
  • Citizens want to remind President Bush that the Constitution forbids torture and spying on Americans without a warrant, requires that prisoners get a fair hearing of the charges against them before a real court and makes the government's treaty obligations, such the Geneva Conventions, the law of the land.
  • "These Constitutions will make great holiday reading," Claus continued. "I want to be sure that the President has plenty of time to look at them before he decides on his New Year's resolutions."
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10 Rules for Fledgling Santas - BrooWaha Nation - 0 views

  • 1. Play the part 100%
  • 2. Learn your ho’s
  • 3. Control your beard
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  • 4. Don’t skimp on the costume
  • 5. Don’t get hammered
  • 6. No lap dances
  • If you believe you’re really Santa then everyone else will buy into it.
  • 7. Do your research
  • 9. Have a Mrs. Claus to help you
  • 10. Go tough love when necessary
  • A lot of teenagers will try to insult you to make themselves look cool in front of their friends.
  • 8. Bring a towel
  • Wearing the costume is a privilege, so don’t do anything that might spoil the big man’s image – like smoke, swear, spit, hit on women or break loud wind.
  • A weak “ho, ho, ho!” greeting is the quickest way to be labeled a panty-waist Santa Claus
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Santa Claus banned from Ho Ho Ho | NEWS.com.au - 0 views

  • Santa Claus banned from Ho Ho Ho
  • SANTAS working in shopping centres across Australia have been banned from bellowing "ho ho ho" because it might frighten children.
  • Westaff national operations manager Glen Jansz said the company's Santas had been urged to tone down their use of the "ho, ho, ho" phrase.
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  • "The reason behind that is we find that in some cases the little kids can get a little bit scared of the deep 'ho, ho, hos' and we ask them to be mindful of keeping their voices to a lower level," he said.
  • instructed to replace the traditional Christmas greeting with "ha, ha, ha".
  • "We were told to say 'ha ha ha Merry Christmas'," he said.
  • "Let's just concentrate on the kids having a good time."
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Tough alien mussels threaten Bay Area waters - 0 views

  • alien mussel, which multiplies so fast it chokes out natives species, clogs pipes and causes havoc, prompted the East Bay Municipal Utility District Thursday to ban some recreational boating
  • first in what is expected to be a widespread campaign to stop the tiny monster cousins known as the quagga and zebra mussels from ravaging Northern California reservoirs as they have the Great Lakes
  • believed to have spread on the hulls of boats
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  • invaded the Great Lakes as well as Lake Mead on the Colorado River.
  • ban would prevent all boats from outside California, Southern California, San Benito County and neighboring Santa Clara County from entering any of the district's reservoirs.
  • boats will be forced to undergo inspections
  • Industrial intake pipes 3 feet in diameter have been completely clogged and entire water systems ravaged.
  • single mussel can release 40,000 eggs at a time and up to 1 million
  • consume vast quantities of plankton, starving indigenous species.
  • Quagga and zebra mussel colonies might be contributing to a "dead zone" in Lake Erie
  • cost the power industry alone $3.1 billion between 1993 and 1999
  • overall economic impact is estimated to be more than $5 billion.
  • discovery by a fisherman of a clump of zebras in San Justo has created widespread alarm among water agency officials in the Bay Area
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Christmas is a Good Time to Catch a Cheating Mate - 0 views

  • Christmas is a Good Time to Catch a Cheating Mate
  • People don't usually associate Christmas with infidelity and extramarital affairs. But according to infidelity expert Ruth Houston, the Christmas season is a good time to catch a cheating mate.
  • "Christmas offers two prime opportunities to confirm that your spouse or significant other is cheating on you, or to get tangible evidence of an existing extramarital affair."
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  • Houston advises clients who suspect a workplace affair to attend the company Christmas party with their spouse or significant other.
  • Observing their partner in a social setting with opposite sex co-workers will reveal the presence r absence of workplace infidelity."
  • Houston says that if the suspected cheater is romantically involved with someone at work, their body language and their behavior around each other will give them away.
  • a cheating spouse or significant other can also be exposed by the gifts he or she gives or receives.
  • A gift purchased for the Other Woman or the Other Man will leave a paper trail, regardless of whether it's paid for with cash, check or credit card
  • If you've already found other signs of infidelity during the year, the telltale signs you find during the Christmas season could provide the final proof you need to confirm that your spouse or significant other is having an affair.
  • A hidden gift you discover before Christmas that disappears but wasn't given to you, receipts for 2 identical gifts, expensive gift items belonging to your partner that suddenly appear after Christmas that weren't purchased by you
  • The Office Christmas Party
  • Christmas Gifts
  • The Final Proof of Infidelity
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Chrsitmas trees banned in Chinese city | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz - 0 views

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  • China city bans Christmas trees
  • A Chinese city has beaten the Grinch at his own game, banning Christmas trees from shopping malls, restaurants and other public places because they pose a fire hazard, a newspaper reported.
  • Chen Ying, deputy mayor of Zhuhai, a city of 1.3 million people in southern China, said restaurants, malls, grocery stores and other entertainment venues had to remove trees and other "flammable decorations" immediately.
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  • "Those that fail to rectify the situation will be subject to legal measures like suspension or closure,"
  • The crackdown on Christmas trees was part of a three-month campaign to boost fire-prevention standards that started this week in Zhuhai, directly across from the Chinese gambling haven of Macau.
  • The Zhuhai ban came the same day that President Hu Jintao "reached out" to religious believers in China where commercial Christmas trappings have become increasingly ostentatious in recent years.
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Hollow Earth May Be the Weirdest Theory of the World at OddOrama - 0 views

  • Hollow Earth May Be the Weirdest Theory of the World
  • So wait, what? The Earth … hollow? Yes, it’s an insane theory, and yes it is as fictitious as the fairy tales that gave rise to it, yet at the same time it can’t be directly disproved. Why? Because we have never actually dug more than about 15 miles below the surface of the Earth, so there is no 100% direct evidence the Earth is solid through an through! Does this mean Hollow Earth Theories could hold true? Sure, and Santa might actually drop by 6 billion houses a year on a sled pulled by a glorified pack of deer.
  • some people believe them even today.
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  • One self-identified scientist and explorer is currently trying to raise two million dollars to mount a mission where no man has ever gone before: through a polar ice cap and into a supposed ‘Inner Earth’ with its own oceans, continents and of course its own sun.
  • Early theorists held that there were a series of concentric spheres within the Earth
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