Christmas....What Christmas?

We're not talking Chestnuts here!!

Bargains roasting on an open fire ...

Holiday shoppers in Ohio keep buying despite electrical blaze in store

MENTOR, Ohio - An electrical fire that filled a department store with thick smoke didn't deter holiday shoppers, and firefighters had to block the doors to keep customers from coming in.

No one was injured in the fire at Dillards South at Great Lakes Mall on Wednesday, but some bargain hunters were inconvenienced.

"It was amazing," said Mentor fire Battalion Chief Joe Busher. "Even though there was heavy smoke in there, they all wanted to stay and shop. We even had to put people at the door to keep people from coming in.

It's the Christmas season. The bargain hunters are not gonna let little things like fire and smoke slow them down.

Those firefighters that blocked the doors to keep the customers out had a much more dangerous job than the ones fighting the fire!!!









Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! Be of good cheer!!

Float Driver in Parade Charged With DUI

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A man driving a float in the Anderson Christmas parade has been charged with drunk driving after he passed another float then sped down Main Street.

When officers caught up to 42-year-old David Allen Rodgers, he had an open container of alcohol in the truck he used to haul the children and adults on the float for the Steppin' Out Dance Studio, Anderson Police spokeswoman Linda Dudley said.

Witnesses said Rodgers was driving in line in Sunday's parade when he pulled out to pass a tractor in the float.

Rodgers sped down Main Street and ran a red light, while a witness on the float called 911 on a cell phone.

Officers started chasing Rodgers, who didn't stop for three miles. Once he pulled over, he tried to attack an officer, Dudley said.

Rodgers, whose child was on the float, faces more than three dozen charges, including DUI, 18 counts of kidnapping and assaulting an officer.


OK this can't be the first time anyone met this guy and guys like him are obvious.

So my question is who picked him to drive the float?

There is a TV commercial with the Waltrip brothers racing floats - that should be his defense; I saw it on TV so it must be OK!!!







Dis ain't no Game Boy

12-year-old gets a bad unwrap

Mom has son arrested for allegedly playing with present before Christmas

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great-grandmother's things and playing with his Christmas present early.

The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother's house next door and played it. He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.

"My grandmother went out of her way to lay away a toy and paid on this thing for months," said the boy's mother, Brandi Ervin. "It was only to teach my son a lesson. He's been going through life doing things ... and getting away with it."

The mother said that her son was found in the last year to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder but that his medicine does not seem to help.

She said he faces an expulsion hearing at his school Wednesday. Rock Hill Police Capt. Mark Bollinger said the boy took a swing at a police officer assigned to the school last month. He has been suspended from school since then.

The boy's case will be presented to Department of Juvenile Justice officials in York County, who will decide what happens to him, Bollinger said. His mother hopes he can attend a program that will finally scare him straight.

"It's not even about the Christmas present," she said. "I only want positive things out of it. ... There's no need for him to act this way. I'd rather call myself than someone else call for him doing something worse than this."

Scared straight, no presents from Santa Claus, you have been a bad boy!!

It's going to be a blue blue Christmas without you! This boy deserves hard time, nothing less!!!







We can't celebrate Christmas anymore!!

Airport Removes Christmas Trees

SEATAC, Wash. - All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested.

Maintenance workers boxed up the trees during the graveyard shift early Saturday, when airport bosses believed few people would notice.

"We decided to take the trees down because we didn't want to be exclusive," said airport spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt. "We're trying to be thoughtful and respectful, and will review policies after the first of the year."

Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, who made his request weeks ago, said he was appalled by the decision. He had hired a lawyer and threatened to sue if the Port of Seattle didn't add the menorah next to the trees, which had been festooned with red ribbons and bows.

"Everyone should have their spirit of the holiday. For many people the trees are the spirit of the holidays, and adding a menorah adds light to the season," said Bogomilsky, who works in Seattle at the regional headquarters for Chabad Lubavitch, a Jewish education foundation.

After consulting with lawyers, port staff believed that adding the menorah would have required adding symbols for other religions and cultures in the Northwest. The holidays are the busiest season at the airport, Betancourt said, and staff didn't have time to play cultural anthropologists.

Hanukkah begins this Friday at sundown.

"They've darkened the hall instead of turning the lights up," said Bogomilsky's lawyer, Harvey Grad. "There is a concern here that the Jewish community will be portrayed as the Grinch."


Mel Gibson do you want to enlighten this guy?

Oh, now there is concern that the Jewish community will be portrayed as the Grinch. Well, hello, what did you expect? Give us the poor me speech!

Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, who made his request weeks ago, said he was appalled by the decision. He had hired a lawyer and threatened to sue if the Port of Seattle didn't add the menorah next to the trees, which had been festooned with red ribbons and bows.

He was appalled by the decision! Ha, I am appalled by him!!

He had hired the lawyer and threatened to sue and he criticizes the port authority?

We are spiraling out of control. We can no longer celebrate Christmas.

When will the majority speak up?

Oh, wait, I forgot the minority rule!!!





Now don't these stories give you the Christmas spirit??

Oh I mean the Season spirit. I gotta be correct ya know!!

Bah!!