MWN: Christmas edition

This week, I thought I might search the news for Christmas stories, and the first one I found is so cool... and so wrong...

Fox News- She likes it!  Hey, Mikey!

I Tried Giving My Daughter The Worst Xmas Gift Ever & I Didn’t Expect This Reaction 😢 pic.twitter.com/44cJytI83m

— LGND (@iamlgndfrvr) December 20, 2019

Her reaction is so precious- but TRYING to give your kid a bad present?  Thankfully, it wasn't a rock, or a snake, as Jesus suggested...


CNN:  Generosity- if you look for it

CNN ran a story about the Christian Assembly Church of Eagle Rock, CA, working with an outfit called RIP Medical Debt to pay off $5.3 million in medical debt for 5,555 Angelino families.  A great story- but finding it?  After seeing only two stories on the front page- one about a columnist who still gives out Christmas cards and the other about Mariah Carey making more money off her song- I decided to search "Christmas" on their site.  And while the first story that came up was about Christmas music, the next three were about Eddie Murphy on SNL last weekend, "To see how Trump is changing America, look at India", and a campaign advertisement article on Cory Booker campaigning in Iowa- all of which nicely fit into CNN's agenda, though I seriously doubt they have anything to do with Christmas...


Much in the same vein, the BBC's first headline featuring Christmas read, "The story of impeachment, by a Christmas choir:  How President Trump's Impeachment inquiry unfolded, as sung by the Washington International Chorus."   Thank you for making it easy to make you idiots look bad.


Mirror Online- Come again, Santa-zon?

British Amazon customer Danielle Long wanted to buy herself a Christmas present- a gadget that holds phones and such and clips to your bed.  It retails at $6.46 American.  But it showed a standard delivery expectation of mid-January, and she thought she'd see what an expedited delivery before Christmas would cost.

That, folks, is a $12,936.56 shipping charge.  And they STILL can't get it there for Christmas!!  Needless to say, she'll be getting a late gift to herself.  Mirror online says, "Amazon has been contacted for comment."  Betting it will be something like, "Well, after all, our delivery guy IS swimming it there from China..."


Moscow Times:  A different way to look at Santa

In St Petersburg, they celebrate on the 21st with the Grandfather Frost Race.  You get a costume (some of it optional, apparently), and a hat; you have to bring your own beard, though.

News AU:  And they didn't figure on this?


Obviously, Australia- at least the Westfield Parramatta mall in Sydney- never watched the famous "Thanksgiving Turkey Drop" episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.  They decided to fill hundreds of balloons with gift certificates and drop them on the Christmas shopping crowd.  Those of us who have seen the episode, or at least have common sense, knew what would happen next...

But as a mass of balloons was dropped from a net, the bargain-grab turned dangerous as the crowd rushed forward to grab them, creating a crushing stampede.

Panicked shoppers desperate to escape ran in a frenzy, toppling onto one another and knocking down barricades. People watching from the levels above could only watch in horror as the chaos unfolded.

Twelve people were treated at the scene; five of them had to be taken to hospital for further treatment, including four men and one woman, a NSW Ambulance spokesperson confirmed.

Three victims taken to Westmead Hospital were suffering serious issues including traumatic chest injuries, neck and back pain as well as nausea and dizziness.

The rest of the victims suffered minor aches and pains to their neck, back and ankles.

And once again, the Mall "has been contacted for comment".