Ten Post Round-Up: Sweet Thursday

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From Shakesville, Jeff Fecke blogs about how web slackers can Waste Time on the Internets While Helping Actual Humans.

Jeff sez:

This site is seriously awesome — basically, it’s a vocabulary game, but for every question you get right, the site donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme. So it’s a three-fer: you improve your vocabulary, you help people in the third world, and you make a conservative angry by supporting the United Nations.

You can make a conservative angry by playing this game? Where do I log-on?!?)

From CNN.com, I hear the neon lights are bright on Broadway…Again! The Grinch will be stealing Christmas, tonight, and I ain’t talking about Dick Cheney!

From Yahoo News, a cell-service has a solution for Londoners to help them solve the pesky problem of not being able to find the loo when the urge to do the potty dance takes over, while they are out and about.

Tourists, theatergoers, shoppers and pub patrons in London’s West End can now text the word “toilet” — and receive a text back with the address of the nearest public facility.

Now if they could only come up with a service to tell you which stall has the only roll of toilet paper, before it’s too late!

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Ten Post Round-Up: Positive Vibration Wednesday

It’s Wednesday, yo! I’m sure that about three or four of you *wink* noticed that I did not post a positive round-up, yesterday (my Firefox browser updated itself, but didn’t update my add-ons which included an excellent html editor in which I transformed my posts into web worthy postings. Now, I have to do things the round-about way, which means my round-ups may be later on those days when my presence is required away from my computer…like, today, for instance).

Because I need it and I know some of you do, too, I’m sending out some positive vibrations which can be obtained by channeling a little Bob Marley, for your listening and viewing pleasure.

Now for today’s Ten (Positive) Post Round-Up.

From Bring It On!:

• The Three Horsemen of Shame Finally Retired:
  

  There are no tears in my eyes with the sudden announcement that the last of the three horseman for President Bush is leaving public service. He is following in the well respected footsteps of our first horsemen of shame, Tom Delay who never saw anything illegal and you or any court can not prove it. Then of course Trent Lott is also following in the footsteps of shame of former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, the second horsemen of shame who pretended that a congressiona l representati ve (Mark Foley) affection for boy pages was nothing to really worry about. Trent Lott was nothing more than a yes man for anything that would benefit the rich in this nation at the expense of the masses. That makes him the end of the Three Horsemen of Shame. Over at the New York Times they have this little diamond on Trent Lott’s retirement from the Senate…

  (Dizzy sez: Good news, even if only for a few blissful moments…)

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Ten Post Round-Up: Lazy Monday

Oh, snap! It’s Monday!

Don’t you just hate the Monday after a major holiday? Makes me glad that I’m a stay-at-home mom, Sunday thru Wednesday and that I home-school my children so that I don’t have to wrestle with them on Monday mornings. I can enjoy my morning cuppa in peace and snicker at the rest of the crazy world going by.

I know some of you are feeling lazy, what with that tryptophan still kicking your butt, three days on. So, why not indulge in a bit of nuttiness, this lazy Monday (drop by and enjoy a little parody, it will help your sanity).

Awww…don’t you feel better, now? Feel how that attitude was adjusted into the upright position.

Now we can proceed with today’s Ten (Positive) Post Round-Up.

From Anything Goes & General News:

• Malibu residents begin returning home:
  

  Residents began making their way through back streets and dirt roads Sunday afternoon into evacuated areas of this upscale community to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire that scorched surrounding brush-covered hills.Some homes along a road near the source of the blaze had been reduced to blackened wrecks, while others were barely damaged.

  “There’s no rhyme or reason to it,” said Frank Churchill, who returned home with his wife and four children to find his white stucco home largely undamaged, while three surrounding homes were leveled. “It doesn’t make sense.”
  

  (Dizzy sez: Sadly, not everyone will be able to come home to a house intact.)

• Puerto Rico pageant officials probe pepper spray:
  

  Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant’s evening gowns with pepper spray and spiked her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become the island’s 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite applying makeup and wearing evening gowns that had been coated with pepper spray, pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said.

  Rivera was composed while appearing before cameras and judges throughout the competition. But once backstage, she had to strip off her clothes and apply ice bags to her face and body, which swelled and broke out in hives twice.

  (Dizzy sez: The old saying goes, “the show must go on”! This chica was not exactly the “underdog”, but causing harm to someone in order to force them to quit is incredibly selfish and evil. One could totally use this experience as an analogy for future behavior of other organizations, like the anti-war movement. Eventually, the world will make note of all the dirty tricks and see to it that those who do evil will not prevail, even if many of us have to suffer serious “hives” before we defeat those who would bring us down…or something like that–they don’t call me Dizzy for nothin’…)

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Ten Post Round-Up: Sunny Sunday Morning

Dear reader, I promised you that starting today and for the next week, I would post nothing but good news in my Ten Post Round-Up and I will do my best not to disappoint you this Sunday morning.

First, we’ll start with a little music, this Sunday morning (a little Maroon 5, to appeal to your senses).

Now, prepare to adjust your attitude to a more positive setting.

We are now ready for today’s Ten (Positive) Post Round-Up.

From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

• Grateful farmers to give trees to military families:
  

  Gordon Hunter, owner of a Christmas tree farm in north Fulton County, is donating trees to families on Georgia military bases as an act of patriotic appreciation.“These are families that are giving up a lot,” said Hunter, who flew Navy fighters during the Vietnam War. “This is a way for people to open up and say thank you.”

  George and Brooke Hunter, owners of Hunter Christmas Tree Farm in Milton, are helping in the Trees for Troops effort.

  Hunter and other tree farmers in Georgia sent about 275 trees to military families last year through the Trees for Troops program.

From The Colorado Springs Gazette:

• Air your grievances in spirit of festivus:
  

  A Manitou Springs art gallery is celebrating an alternative winter holiday that’s designed for the rest of us.Partners of the Green Horse Gallery at 729 Manitou Ave. on Saturday brought out their pole of grievances and unleashed their complaints in honor of Festivus, a fictional holiday depicted in the sitcom “Seinfeld.”

  In the show, Jerry Seinfeld and friends visit Frank and Estelle Costanza, who celebrate the holiday in lieu of Christmas. Frank Costanza invented the concept after he fought another man for a doll at a department store on Christmas Eve — it’s a Festivus miracle!

  (Dizzy sez: Merry Festivus, ya’ll! I could start on my grievances, but there is not enough bandwidth in the world for all that…)

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