TEEN GIRL SCOUT CALLS FOR COOKIE BOYCOTTA reportedly 14-year-old Girl Scout has joined with parents and Scout alumni to call for a boycott of the widely popular Girl Scout cookies, claiming the organization is using cookie proceeds to push a radical homosexual agenda at the expense of the Scouts' safety.
The girl, identified as Taylor from Ventura County, Calif. - but whose parents have asked her last name and troop number be withheld - made a YouTube video calling for the boycott after she was shocked to discover Girl Scouts USA, or GSUSA, has been admitting transgender boys who claim to be girls into scout troops.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
45 MILLION VIEWERS WATCH TEBOW GAME; MOST FOR OPENING PLAYOFF SINCE '88: MILLIONS GOOGLE JOHN 3:16You ever feel like there's too much Tim Tebow news? Neither do I. Here's a roundup of some of the most interesting Timbits from the aftermath of the Denver Broncos 29-23 overtime victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
* The fact that Tebow had 316 yards passing and averaged 31.6 yards per pass in the game didn't escape notice on Sunday night. Tebow wore "John 3:16" on his eye black in the 2009 BCS Championship game and has since become identified with the famous Bible message. The coincidental stats caused millions of fans to perform Google searches on the Bible passage in the past 24 hours. Here's one more unbelievable stat: John Ourand of Sports Business Journal reports that the final quarter-hour television rating for the Broncos-Steelers game was, you guessed it, 31.6.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEBOW WINS BIG, THROWS FOR 3:16 YARDSTo begin what turned out to be the biggest week of his professional football life, Tim Tebow was down in the dumps.
All the Broncos were down.
By now, the country knows the Broncos would snap out of their doldrums in time to stun the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 in overtime Sunday. Tebow's exhilarating 80-yard dart-and-run pass play targeted Demaryius Thomas, who capped the game-winning touchdown on the first play in overtime by pulling a Bo Jackson and running straight into the tunnel that led to the victorious locker room.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MORE ANALYSIS OF THE CHRISTIANITY OF TIM TEBOWHe kneels in prayer at times when many players would be pounding their chest, and is winning with a style the experts insist cannot work for long.
Tim Tebow's formula for success and fame is not typical for the NFL. So, is it a football miracle? Or the perfect blend of luck, timing and big plays? That's the debate that makes the tale of the Denver Broncos quarterback one of the most compelling stories in America these days.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOMELESS YOUNG PERSON STEALS TALENT SHOW |
Homeless Boy Steals The Talent Show |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ATTENTION SAN ANTONIO HUNTERS:
CAN YOU VOLUNTEER ON A CHRISTIAN YOUTH HUNT?
Over the course of my 20-year career as a radio talk show host, I've met and interviewed a lot of fascinating people.
Many of them are household names which you would recognize instantly.
Tom Snyder, the 46-year-old owner of the regional Colonial Life Insurance office here in Garden Ridge, has got to be
one of the most intriguing people I've met in a long time. He's not famous. He's not a political leader. And he hasn't even written a book.
But he's spearheading a unique Christian ministry in our own backyard whose vision is as big as the Texas sky.
Tom Snyder, founder of Trinity Oaks, teaches a young boy on a Youth Hunt.
If you would like to volunteer to be a guide, call 210.447.351.
Now that he has become a successful businessman, Tom, a member of
River City Community Church here in San Antonio, has a passion to give back to the community - especially to the children in demonstrable, life-changing ways.
That's why he founded
Trinity Oaks, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. At the heart of the ministry are the
youth hunts for 10 to 16-year-olds. Throughout their time, the young people experience firearms safety instruction, target shooting and actual big game hunting.
In the process, Tom wants to give the tweens and teens access to the great outdoors, to
build their character, and to teach them the importance of responsibility in our narcissistic culture.
10 to 16-year-old boys, like the ones pictured above on a Trinity Oaks Youth Hunt develop self-confidence, an appreciation of God's creation and connect with the volunteer hunting guides.
"Our goal with youth is three-fold. First, we want to teach kids that hunting is not just about 'killing animals', but also about building relationships and enjoying
God's majestic outdoors. Second, we want to promote
our country's hunting heritage to future generations," said Tom Snyder.
"Third and most importantly, we want to show children of all ages that they have value and let them know there are people who care about them, people willing to listen to them and mentor them. We have found
you can really reach a child and make a difference in his life just by sitting next to a campfire and listening to what he has to say."
During the 2010/2011 hunting season alone, Tom personally acted as the lead field guide for every one of the
20 youth hunts attended by 85 young people, 53 of whom were first-time hunters. Typically, each hunt is comprised of 3-5 youngsters along with their fathers and some volunteer guides. Each youth is assigned to an adult.
Their goal for the upcoming
2011/2012 hunting season is to have
30 youth hunts attended
by 100 kids and 75 first-time children hunters.
Amazingly, Trinity Oaks covers every single expense
including the cost of transportation, the lease of the land, the hunting license fees as well as the food, lodging and the mounting of the child's wildgame trophy.
All the
meat is processed for free by volunteers, ground up and frozen into family packs. It's then
distributed to needy families and homeless shelters throughout San Antonio as well as
orphanages in Mexico.
ACTION STEPS FOR ADAM'S ARMY:
1. If you would like to suggest a boy or girl between the ages of 10 and 16 to
participate in a future Trinity Oaks youth hunt, please
call 210.447.0351, and tell them you are a McManus subscriber, or
email.
2. If you would like to volunteer to become a guide or firearms trainer for some of the
youth hunts, please
call 210.447.0351 and tell them you are a McManus subscriber or
e-mail. 3. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Trinity Oaks to ensure that the
Youth Hunts and Wounded Warrior Hunts continue, donate on-line here. The cost of sending one underprivileged kid on a Christian Youth Hunt is $1,200. And now, thanks to the generosity of one sponsor,
anything that you give up to $100,000 will be doubled.
So,
if you give $150 today,
your donation will be doubled to $300 and fund one-quarter of the $1,200 cost for one kid to participate in this life-changing ministry.
You can also make a
tax-deductible donation by check made out to "Trinity Oaks." Send it to: Tom Snyder, Trinity Oaks, 9385 Miller Lane, San Antonio, Texas 78266.
(Write "McManus newsletter" in the memo)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MSNBC SUSPENDS PAT BUCHANANAn activist group whose leaders object to the beliefs of Pat Buchanan, a senior adviser to three American presidents, a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and the Reform Party's presidential candidate in 2000, is announcing victory in its campaign to have the author of multiple best-selling books removed from MSNBC.
"ColorOfChange.org welcomes MSNBC's decision to indefinitely supend (sic) Pat Buchanan," ColorOfChange.org Executive Director Rashad Robinson posted in an online statement.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUCHANAN DENIES MSNBC SUSPENSION, CITES HEALTH PROBLEMSIt has been months since MSNBC regular Pat Buchanan has appeared on the network, leading many to believe that his days there are over. These rumors were fueled when MSNBC president Phil Griffin hinted that their professional relationship could very well be finished, citing controversial passages from Buchanan's book, "Suicide of a Superpower."
But in an appearance on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Monday night, Buchanan said the issues were medical.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLENN BECK THROWS BACK OUT ON SET OF SHOW; TAKEN OUT ON STRETCHERWhy was Glenn not on air Monday?
Did he decide to just take a vacation? Has the news of the day finally made his head explode? Has he decided to move his show to a new time? No, he just threw his back out while jumping onto a coffee table* on the new GBTV set. Apparently, he was just a little too enthusiastic about all the changes that were happening in Texas. Don't worry - he's fine (although his back hurts... a lot) and he will be back on air as soon as possible (just not Monday night).
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ANOTHER PROTEST AGAINST SHERIFF JOE FAILSA protest against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Gov. Jan Brewer organized by transplanted attorney-activist Randy Parraz yielded exactly one protestor today as the state legislature met in Phoenix to begin its 2012 regular session.
"Join Citizens for a Better Arizona as we send a message to our Governor and legislators that the Russell Pearce brand of divisive and extremist politics is over," Parraz posted on his Facebook page, calling for protestors to join him at the state capitol Monday morning. Pearce was the state Senate president and Arpaio ally on immigration recalled last year in a campaign led by Parraz.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HUNDREDS THREATEN SUICIDE AT MICROSOFT SUPPLIER PLANT IN CHINASome 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met.
China Jasmine Revolution, an activist revolutionary organization with a name borrowed from the Tunisian revolt that set off the Middle East unrest, reported that employees made their demands for a wage increase for 100 employees on Jan. 2.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RUSH LIMBAUGH PREDICTS 2012 OUTCOMEWhile polls across America show Barack Obama in a tight race for president with potential Republican nominees, top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh doesn't think the outcome of the race will even be close.
"If the election were today, it would be a landslide loss," Limbaugh said this afternoon. "Let me define landslide: five to seven points. It'd be big. It would be huge."
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL EMPLOYEE FAKED HER CHILD'S DEATH TO GET EXTRA VACATIONA city school employee scammed a week off for a Costa Rica vacation by staging the mother of all hoaxes - convincing her bosses she couldn't work because her daughter had died.
Joan Barnett, a parent coordinator at the Manhattan High School of Hospitality Management, was so determined to make the spring break jaunt that she:
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OBAMA'S REVOLVING DOOR WIDENS AS WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF QUITSThe abrupt departure of Bill Daley, President Barack Obama's third White House chief of staff, reflects what pundits say is a highly politicized White House that is focused on only one objective: winning re-election in November.
"It's now totally a political operation - only politics," Democratic pollster and Fox News analyst Doug Schoen tells Newsmax. "Everything else, and everyone else, takes second fiddle. Everyone and everything is expendable, when re-election is at stake."
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REPAIRING THE AMERICAN SOULIt can't be a coincidence that I finished reading a wonderful new book, "What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song" just as a "news story" broke about a star high school football recruit changing his mind on attending a school as he made it known on Twitter. It's possible that Twitter was made for narcissists (I have an account), and this young man proves it by actually changing his mind on a school based on what he said was a failure of his Twitter followers to take him seriously.
Amazing.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SCHOOL CUSTODIAN ACCUSED OF SHARING PORN LINK WITH STUDENTInvestigators are looking for other potential victims after they arrested a school custodian on suspicion of distributing pornographic material to a minor.
Steven Llamas, who works for the Colton Unified School District, is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NBC LOVES 'SEXUALLY DYNAMIC ADVANCED DRINKER'NBC is touting a new television show about "a sexually dynamic advanced drinker"who "lives life to the fullest" - a memoir of comedian Chelsea Handler. The show is scheduled to premiere on Wednesday.
On Friday, NBC announced that the show's title had been revised to drop the word "vodka."
The original title:
"Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea"
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUPREMES: EPA ACTIONS 'OUTRAGEOUS'The government's actions in a dispute between the Environmental Protection Agency and a husband and wife targeted by the agency when they bought a residential lot in Idaho and started building their dream home are both "outrageous" and "very strange."
There were comments today from justices on the U.S. Supreme Court about the Environmental Protection Agency's actions in a fight with Mike and Chantell Sackett, of Priest Lake, Idaho.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF WILLIAM DALEY RESIGNS; BUDGET CHIEF JACOB LEW FILLS POSTWhite House Chief of Staff William Daley resigned Monday afternoon, less than a year after taking the job, shaking up the White House management as President Obama gears up for his reelection campaign.
During a brief appearance at the White House, Obama announced that Daley, 63, will be replaced by Budget Director Jacob Lew, effective at the end of the month. Daley will stay on until then to help ease the transition through the president's State of the Union address Jan. 24.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHITE HOUSE THREW SECRET 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' BASH DURING RECESSIONIt was the tea party the Obamas just couldn't resist.
A White House "Alice in Wonderland" costume ball - put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton - proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new tell-all.
"The Obamas," by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the top that "Star Wars" creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to mingle with invited guests.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OLD PENNY SELLS FOR $1.38 MILLIONAs Benjamin Franklin once wrote 'A penny saved is a penny earned'.
In Orlando on Saturday an old penny saved was sold for $1.38 million.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RAT POPULATION HAS 'EXPLODED' AROUND OCCUPY D.C. CAMPSThe rat population around the two Occupy D.C. camps at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza has "exploded" since protesters began their vigil in October, according to Mohammad N. Akhter, the director of the District's Department of Health.
Akhter said in an interview Monday that city health inspectors have seen rats running openly through both camps and spotted numerous new burrows and nests underneath hay-stuffed pallets occupiers are using for beds. Both campsites had working kitchens for weeks until last week, but protesters at McPherson Square voluntarily closed down theirs after health inspectors pointed out unsanitary conditions during an informal monitoring visit.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JOE PATERNO DONATED $100K TO PENN STATE WEEKS AFTER FIRINGFormer Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and his wife donated $100,000 to the university last month, just weeks after he was fired in the wake of the child sexual abuse scandal involving his former assistant Jerry Sandusky, The Harrisburg Patriot-News reported.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MICHELLE'S FAVE FASHIONISTAS JOIN OBAMA RE-ELECTIONThe clothing industry's top 22 designers favored by the nation's first lady of fashion, Michelle Obama, are coming together to help the Obama-Biden campaign raise money and put a unique look on the 2012 effort.
Called "Runway to Win," the "special pieces" that will be unveiled this week on the campaign's www.runwaytowin.com site will be from designers like Jason Wu, who drew up the first lady's eye-popping ivory-colored 2009 Inauguration gown, and Tory Burch, whose $495 leather and chain boots the first lady wore picking pumpkins right before Halloween 2010.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOMELAND SECURITY MONITORS JOURNALISTSFreedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.
Under the National Operations Center (NOC)'s Media Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking platforms.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW CHIEF OF STAFF: FORMER HEDGE FUND EXEC. AT CITIGROUP, MADE MONEY OFF MORTGAGE DEFAULTSPresident Obama's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once sat on the board of troubled federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac. Bill Daley, the president's chief of staff whose departure was announced today, was previously a top executive at financial firm J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. So of course there should be little surprise that Obama's latest chief of staff, announced today by the president himself, also has deep ties to the financial industry himself.
From 2006-2008, Jack Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank's alternative investments division. And it was his division that made billions of dollars betting "U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments," as the Huffington Post reported.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LAWMAKERS ACCUSE FACEBOOK OF DUCKING QUESTIONS ON ITS PRIVACY PRACTICESReps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) accused Facebook of evading questions about whether it tracks users in order to deliver targeted ads on Monday.
The co-chairmen of the Congressional Piracy Caucus said the social networking giant failed to adequately answer questions raised by the patent application that suggest Facebook could be tracking users on other websites. Facebook has denied tracking users, arguing its social plug-ins are voluntary.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEMS COLLECTED EVEN MORE MONEY FROM INDUSTRYWith the private equity industry grabbing headlines ahead of today's New Hampshire primary, MapLight is out with a new analysis that found PACs and individuals linked to private equity and investment interests have given more than $17 million to members of Congress since the beginning of 2007, with Democrats raking in more than Republicans.
Democratic members of Congress received $10.87 million from the industry between January 2007 and June 2011, while Republicans took in $6.55 million, according to MapLight. The statistics include presidential campaign contributions to candidates who were members of Congress at the time of their run, which helped push Barack Obama ($1.92 million) and John McCain ($1.25 million) to the top of the list.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WHITE HOUSE SCOLDS THE MEDIAUnder fire for allegedly hosting a secret Halloween theme party featuring movie star Johnny Depp at the White House in 2009, President Obama's spokesman punched back, calling reports about the party "irresponsible" and denying that the White House tried to hide the event from the public.
"There are outlets that have reported this as a secret party, which is just silly -- it's irresponsible reporting to suggest that you would have a pool report and the press at an event that's secret" White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today during the press briefing, adding that photos of Johnny Depp were available from the party. "This wasn't a publicity event, this was an event for military children," Carney also noted.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-MAIL REVEALS ANTI-SEMITISM AT US THINK TANKA senior employee of the US think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) appears to have admitted in an e-mail sent from his CAP account that a blogger for the policy organization used anti-Semitic language to attack supporters of the Jewish state.
CAP advises the Democratic Party on Middle East policy and is an important source of ideas for the Obama administration.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JOHNNY DEPP-GATE: WHAT DID THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?Frequently, I refer to the mainstream media as Obama's Palace Guards. But maybe "secret service" would be a better term today, because this time the MSM has apparently decided to take a public relations bullet for Their Precious One.
The story goes a little something like this. Over Halloween in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession, the White House threw a lavish party for children from all walks of life, including local DC kids, military families, and friends of the President's two young daughters, Malia and Sasha. The theme was "Alice In Wonderland" and director Tim Burton, whose film based on the classic story was about to be released in theatres, attended, as did his star, Johnny Depp, who reportedly greeted guests in character and costume as the Mad Hatter.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FEDS FIND FAILURES IN COOK CO. HOMELAND SECURITY PROJECTProject Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers' dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure.
The failed Cook County initiative was replete with equipment that failed to work, missing records and untrained first responders according to a report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
read story-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
