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I have been listening to and collecting Christmas music for over 30 years now. During this time, I have collected well over 3,000 songs. I consider practically every song in my collection to be of high quality and in the spirit of the Christmas season. My point is that there is a huge library out there of excellent Christmas music. My question is, why is so much of what we hear on the radio, at the shopping malls, and even in the movies, so horribly lame? Already there are many radio stations (including two on Sirius satellite radio) playing Christas...

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Air America radio has suspended talk show host Randi Rhodes for what has been described as an appalling rant against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro. Rhodes used obscene language in her choice remarks during a March 22 appearance in San Francisco, sponsored by an Air America affiliate station. In a statement issued on the liberal radio network’s Web site, Air America chairman Charlie Kireker said that kind of salty talk has no place in the political dialogue.

Executive Order: Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2007 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Monday, December 24, 2007, the day before Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 below. Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their...

A 70-year-old man working as Santa Claus says he was sacked from a Cairns department store for saying "ho, ho, ho" and singing Christmas carols. In a case of political correctness seemingly gone mad, retired entertainer John Oakes says he was fired from his job at Myer for his rendition of Santa’s famous laugh. His employer, Westaff, last month sparked national outrage when it ordered its Santas to say "ha, ha, ha" instead of "ho, ho, ho" because it could be derogatory to women but denied the words were a factor in Mr Oakes’s case. The word "ho" is also...

A shop has sacked its Santa Claus for saying Ho-ho-ho. John Oakes, 70, got his marching orders after the store decreed that women might be offended because 'ho' is American slang for a whore. Instead, he was supposed to say Ha-ha-ha. "They're are trying to kill the spirit of Christmas," said Mr Oakes, who has been a Santa for ten years. \ He was also found guilty of singing Jingle Bells at the Myer department store in Cairns, Northern Australia. He said: "The manager told me my services were no longer required. "When I asked her why, she replied, 'You...

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Santas in Australia are being told not to say "ho, ho, ho." http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22761386-2,00.html And why on earth are they being told that? Because the term "ho" could frighten children and even be derogatory to women. A Santa recruitment firm, Westaff, supplies Santas across the country but has been training them to say "ha, ha, ha" rather than "ho, ho, ho." But apparently Santas across Australia are rebelling. Two Santa hopefuls have already quit after being told he would be propagating an American slang for a prostitute. Westaff's national Santa co-coordinator says that the advice given to Santas is that they...

Ho Ho Ho Ofensive to Women.LOL

SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday. Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported. One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute. "Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B...

When kids hear Santa Claus bellow, "Ho, ho, ho," is their first thought prostitution? That concern has prompted an attempt to gag the traditional greeting, and many Santas are now fighting back. According to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Santas across Australia are rebelling against attempts to change their saying to a more politically correct, "ha, ha, ha." It all started when the recruitment firm Westaff – which has offices both in the United States and Australia – told its Christmas trainees that the "ho, ho, ho" phrase could frighten children and possibly be derogatory to women.

THERE'LL be no ho, ho, ho this Christmas. Aspiring Santas have been told not to use the term "ho" because it could be seen as derogatory to women. Thirty trainees at a Santa course in Adelaide last month, held by recruitment company Westaff, were urged to replace the traditional festive greeting with "ha, ha, ha".

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Tank tops, flip-flops, bare flesh and cleavage. It's the unofficial uniform of the summer interns, gaggles of college-age women and recent graduates who invade buttoned-down conservative Washington every summer, bringing a large dose of hotitude to offices from Capitol Hill to K Street. They're known as "skinterns." Those who think "belly shirts" are career wear. If the devil wears Prada, the skinterns wear nada. As if Washington wasn't sweltering enough. "All the guys I worked with here, they would love it when the weather got warm for that very reason. 'Ooohhh, the interns are coming,' " said Elizabeth Conatser, a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An exotic dancer who performed for Duke University lacrosse players the night of the alleged rape of a fellow dancer said in an interview the students behaved drunkenly, shouted racial epithets and made her feel unsafe.

‘Twas the night before “Holiday” And all through the House The Democrats were whining “George Bush is a louse” Their voters were all nestled In their cold little bed You see, those voters were actually dead. When up from the clattering voices I heard The sound of the KKK, So I knew it was Senator Byrd. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear But Senator Kennedy, clutching a beer. With words all a-slurred and eyes all a-red, I know in a moment it must be ‘Ol Ted. More rapid than eagles his curses they came, He grimaced and called...

Sunday, June 19: The one-hour documentary Penis Dementia: The Search for the Perfect Penis purports to be a ``fearless and uninhibited quest for honest and surprising answers in search of the perfect, modern penis.'' Modern? Can these things become obsolete or old-fashioned? And what defines perfect? The producers describe the penis as a unique piece of biological engineering with three primary functions _ urination, procreation and sexual pleasure. But the multitasking organ is also considered in terms of health issues and common mythology. (Discovery Health).

A Web site touting Paris Hilton's racy television spot for burger chain Carl's Jr. crashed for four hours as Internet surfers raced to see the seductive swimsuit-clad socialite doused in suds. The 30-second commercial, which features the hotel heiress washing a Bentley and chomping on Carl's Jr.'s Spicy BBQ Burger in a stringy black swimsuit, has generated media attention since hitting the TV airwaves last Thursday. Carl's Jr., a unit of CKE Restaurants known for its male-focused ads and hefty burgers, at the same time launched a special Web site called SpicyParis.com featuring a special 60-second version of the ad....

Giant adverts for a lap dancing club have been branded obscene by families who want them ripped down. The billboard features a naked woman on all fours wearing only a Santa hat, red gloves and thigh-length boots. The hoarding in Northfield's main shopping area has embarrassed parents walking their children to school. One six-year-old girl asked: "Mummy, where's the real Santa?" The advert promotes the Medusa Club, in the city centre's Suffolk Street. The club opened 12 weeks ago and has already caused a stir by overturning a rule which bans strippers dancing within 12 inches of punters. Coun Reg...