Monks Fight At Church Of The Nativity

Christmas is the season of peace, joy and good will toward men...not so at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks and priests, who share administration of the building, are doing the annual cleaning of the Church of the Nativity when a fight breaks out.

Instead of preparing for Orthodox Christmas celebrations, they are fighting with brooms, scrapping like thugs in the streets...in Jesus' birthplace.   

They should be ashamed of the epic disrespect they show in the place where Jesus was born and in the season of His birth.  Monks fighting at the birthplace of Jesus is the lowest of the low for 2011.

Although they behave like thugs, I'm grateful their weapons of choice are brooms instead of guns.

If it wasn't so sad, this video would actually be funny.  I have one question for the two rival groups:  What would Jesus do?

Forgive them, baby Jesus...

Peace

Crappy Christmas Presents

Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to give their kids some "crappy" Christmas gifts and record them opening the gifts. As you might suspect, he received quite a response.

But first, cute kids singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" in a Christmas program at school.




Now, the crappy presents...




LOL...the little guy at the end gets coal in his stocking for his language.

We usually open one small gift on Christmas Eve so maybe I'll try the "crappy" gift prank this year.

Until Monday,

Peace

Funny Christmas Songs

Don't you just love Christmas music? "Silent Night", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "The Christmas Song" are wonderful classics.

But these videos are a different kind of Christmas music that you won't hear everywhere.  

You may be familiar with the television show "South Park". The first video is from "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" and is called "Christmas Tree and Pie"

Adam Sandler, one of my favorite actors, sings a song he wrote for Hanukkah:




The last video is called "F**k You If You Don't Like Christmas" Warning: The "F" word is used consistently in this song so if this offends you, don't watch this video.



Now that we've heard from Scrooge, we can get on with the Christmas spirit.  I hope you enjoyed the videos...I hope you laughed.

Until Monday,
Peace

Frosty the Snowmen

Frosty, "with his button nose and eyes of coal", is everyone's favorite snowman because "Frosty the snowman was a jolly, happy soul..."  The song goes, "he came to life one day" and....pulled some pranks.



His carrot nose (should be a button nose) probably made him act mischievously in the video above.  But Frosty is grumpy in the next video...probably because he doesn't have his head.


"He led them down the streets of town, right to the traffic cop,
and he only paused a moment when her heard him hollar stop".

"Frosty the snowman had to hurry on his way, but he waved goodbye, saying don't you cry, I'll be back again some day."

"Thumpty, thump, thump..."

Peace

Naughty, Not Nice

The Christmas season is about goodwill, peace and love. But someone forgot to remind Ruth Wagner, of Plantsville, MA, that stealing and assault are not nice. While "shopping" at a crafts fair, she allegedly stabbed a woman in the arm with a Christmas ornament.

A vendor at the crafts fair noticed Wagner hanging around her tables and thought she might be stealing because a piece of jewelry was missing from one of her table. When Wagner again returned to the area, the vendor watched as she stole a seashell ornament and she confronted Wagner.

After being confronted, Wagner began to run, trying to get away. The vendor yelled "stop her". Another vendor attempted to block Wagner and that's when Wagner allegedly stabbed her with the seashell ornament.

Although Wagner managed to get away, witnesses saw her leave in a red car and were able to get the license number and called police.

The unidentified victim suffered serious, but non life-threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital to remove a piece of the seashell ornament from her arm.

Police found Wagner a short time later at her home where she was arrested and charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree breach of peace and sixth-degree larceny.  She was released on a $100,000 bond and her court date is 12/05/11.

Wagner, in her naughty theft, only managed to steal about $91 of jewelry, decorations and other items from several vendors at the crafts fair.

Wager apparently forgot Santa keeps a list and he's "gonna find out who's naughty or nice". So this Christmas, she gets to go to jail and she gets coal in her Christmas stocking for being naughty.

Peace

Sources: Huffingtonpost.com
               Southington Police Department Facebook

Bad Doll!, Bad Doll!

Parents are in an uproar at the "You and Me" triplet dolls sold by Toys R Us.  Parents say one of the dolls has a potty mouth; Toys R Us says it's just baby babble.

Did you hear a curse word...sure sounds like one.

Listen carefully to this next video of the doll.

Did it say b***h?  It sounds like the doll says, "Ok, you crazy b***h".  No way this is just baby babble. Obviously, the manufacturer and Toys R Us don't hear well; they say it’s no language at all.

The dolls are still on the shelves at Toys R Us and the company has no plans to remove them. Even if the manufacturer doesn't recall these dolls, Toys R Us should remove them from their stores.

Can you imagine families gathered around the Christmas tree, opening presents, enjoying conversation and a little girl shows her new doll to grandma?  Imagine how shocked families would be when the doll begins to "babble".

Could this be a prank interrupted?  Was someone counting on this reaction in homes around the world?  I can see it now…he/she, waiting anxiously for Christmas morning and expecting an enormous laugh, at the expense of children.

No way this is a mistake...the "babble" sounds too much like curse words.

  

What do you think? You be the judge...is the doll really cursing or is it baby babble? 

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Until Monday,

Peace