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Best Alternative Music Holiday Playlist

December 23, 2011 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

What is on your iPod for the holidays? Here is my “go to” playlist when I am bored of elevator music.

Name Artist
Father Christmas The Kinks
Mr. Heatmiser Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) The Ramones
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch Whirling Dervishes
St. Stephen’s Day Murders The Chieftains & Elvis Costello
Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses
Christmas at the Zoo The Flaming Lips
I Won’t Be Home for Christmas (Previously Unreleased) Blink 182
Mrs. Claus Bob Ricci
Daddy’s Drinkin’ Up Our Christmas The Christmas Jug Band
Don’t Believe In Christmas Smash Mouth
Red Water (Christmas Mourning) Type O Negative
Christmas At Ground Zero Weird Al Yankovic
Elf’s Lament Barenaked Ladies Feat. Micheal Buble [Read more...]

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Mom Sells Baby for Trip to Disney World

October 6, 2011 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

A trip to Disney World can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience…but you can always have more kids.

When a new mom decided, “I’m going to Disney World” she needed to figure out how to come up with a way to pay for the trip.

Turns out, ahead of saving money, a second seasonal job, or even a garage sale is….ta da…sell your kid!

Apparently that kind of stuff needs to be a bit more covert than throwing the kid on eBay or Craigslist. You have to ask around a bit.

NBC Philadelphia – A new mom is in hot water after selling her newborn son for $15,000 so she could take her other two sons on a trip to Disney World, according to court documents.

Bridget Wismer, 33, was arrested at her home in New Castle, Del. after she and the alleged baby buyer, John Gavaghan, 54, of Philadelphia, were caught on a surveillance camera taking care of the last bit of paperwork, according to New Castle County detectives.

The baby boy was born on Aug. 31 and according to court papers, Wismer didn’t want the child.

In early September, detectives were tipped off by Wismer’s grandmother, according to police. They investigated, but couldn’t substantiate the baby-selling accusation. In late September, police got another tip that led them to the place where Wismer and Gavaghan met to finalize the deal.

On Sept. 30, two days after Gavaghan had allegedly taken the 1-month-old boy home, police arrested Gavaghan at his Philadelphia apartment and placed the baby in foster care. Wismer was arrested that same day at her home.

Neighbors were stunned.

“I mean how can you do that,” said Iris Phillips. “Instead of selling, she should have given the baby to her sister of someone.”

Wismer held back tears Tuesday as she tried to explain what happened.

“My friend was helping me take care of my son that I just had,” Wismer said. “He’s always tried to adopt and I couldn’t raise another child.

“I wanted the best for my baby and he wanted the best for the baby and we did it the way we thought we were supposed to.”

Wismer and Gavaghan are both charged with Dealing in Children and Conspiracy in the Second Degree.

Read the original article here.

Oh, Bridget. If you sell the baby than how are you going to get access to the kiddy rides? People that go on those rides, without kids, well, they are just creepy.

On the plus side, she has since learned that if she lowers here standards to Sea World she only needs to “rent” her kid for a couple days for enough money to pay for the trip.

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US Government Spending Explained in 60 Seconds With Apples

September 26, 2011 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

Need an explanation behind the US Government’s spending philosophy? Here you go…

The US Government buys a truck to go into the apple business.

They drive from Washington DC to Washington state to pick up the apples.

They buy the apples for $1 each.

They sell the apples in Washington DC for $1 each.

They decide in order to start making a profit, they need 1 million more trucks.

Here endeth the lesson

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Why Get Upset about Facebook Changes?

September 25, 2011 By Godfadr 1 Comment

I am constantly surprised at the number of people that get all worked up when Facebook makes changes.

Sure, people don’t like change. But really? Such an outcry of emotion about a service that you don’t even pay for?

First off, you need understand that you are not that important. It is not like Aliens are going to come down in a thousands years and say, “Wow, they had lots of celebrities living on this planet.”

No, they will more likely say, “My God, they ALL thought they were important!”

Hey, I like Facebook (or is that “Like” Facebook?). But I also know Facebook for what it is – the highest form of narcissism we can have until someone straps a camera on us and watches us full-time all the while feeding us pellets when the bell rings.

Look with companies like Apple, you are the consumer. Changes are made to make you buy. With Facebook, YOU are the product.

I am sure there is some great plot behind all this madness that will make sense to many…

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Concealed Weapons Course is Big Seller on Coupon “Living Social” Site

September 22, 2011 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

I have to admit, I have been keeping an eye on Groupon and Living Social Deals a bit lately. They are fun and I get some pretty cool deals on stuff around town I was going to do anyway.

Since they both have an iPhone app I feel more like an in-tune techie than an 85-year-old coupon clipping senior. In reality, we are one in the same.

This struck me as funny…look out Central Florida, there are going to be a whole lot of new guns around town!

As many as 603 to be exact. Course I have to wonder, how “social” are these people going to be?!

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China: Teenager ‘sells kidney for iPad’

June 3, 2011 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

A 17-year-old in China recently sold his Kidney for an iPad 2.

After arranging the sale over the internet, the kid received enough money to purchase the iPad 2 and a laptop.

Apparently a kidney goes for around $3,392.00.

You only have two kidneys. Didn’t he think to wait until the end of the year for the iPad 3?

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Facebook Partners With the CIA

April 19, 2011 By Godfadr Leave a Comment

Facebook in bed with the CIA? Certainly the CIA could use some help from time to time and this video from Onion News clearly paves the way. – This would be even funnier if there wasn’t the remote possibility of being true…
 

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