Zing Alerts!

"Let's Move"...away from the buffet

2011-12-11T20:21:00Z

Posted By: Staff

"Let's Move"...away from the buffet

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Lets-Move...away-from-the-buffet/533564260557470279.html

Adults @ Disney World who wear Mickey ears

2011-12-10T14:55:00Z

Posted By: Staff

Adults @ Disney World who wear Mickey ears

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Adults-@-Disney-World-who-wear-Mickey-ears/838405369935751154.html

Te gusta el seguridad social?

2011-12-01T19:45:00Z

Posted By: Staff

Te gusta el seguridad social?

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Te-gusta-el-seguridad-social/950354397472187282.html

Over-the-top kid bday party alert!

2011-11-05T13:58:00Z

Posted By: Staff

Over-the-top kid bday party alert!

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Over-the-top-kid-bday-party-alert!/-192905955656736156.html

Holy Moly! 453 piercings later

2011-10-26T17:40:00Z

Posted By: Staff

Holy Moly! 453 piercings later

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Holy-Moly!-453-piercings-later/-437509834047375262.html

Halloween decoration mania...

2011-10-24T20:35:00Z

Posted By: Staff

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Halloween-decoration-mania.../-273996687995736225.html

Zing! Another terrible remake in the works

2011-08-09T12:17:00Z

Posted By: Staff

The AP reports:

Dirty Dancing" is coming back to the big screen.

Lionsgate says it is remaking the 1987 film that starred Jennifer Grey as a naive dance student and Patrick Swayze as her teacher and lover.

The studio said Monday that Kenny Ortega, who choreographed the original film, will direct the remake.

Ortega says he is eager to discover and cast "the next breakout triple-threats" to define dancing for a generation, the way Swayze did in the original "Dirty Dancing."

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Zing!-Another-terrible-remake-in-the-works/671114280797321160.html

The Coulter-Ingraham Show

2011-08-05T12:54:00Z

Posted By: Staff

From my most recent NRO article, on a couple of stars in the conservative firmament: “There is nothing like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham in other countries, nor much like them in this one. The packaging is leggy women with bright teeth and eyes and lots of blond hair, and they are charming, though not demure. The message is God, Christ, learning, and country. They are outstanding bearers of that timeless message that has reprehensibly few public champions, certainly not including the incumbent president.”

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/The-Coulter-Ingraham-Show/-486274634591452338.html

PDA PDI? Do you obsessively check your smartphone?

2011-07-28T14:40:00Z

Posted By: Staff

CNN reports:

There I was at a long-awaited dinner with friends Saturday night, when in the midst of our chatting, I watched my right hand sneaking away from my side to grab my phone sitting on the table to check my e-mail.

"What am I doing?" I thought to myself. "I'm here with my friends, and I don't need to be checking e-mail on a Saturday night."

The part that freaked me out was that I hadn't told my hand to reach out for the phone. It seemed to be doing it all on its own. I wondered what was wrong with me until I read a recent study in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing that showed I'm hardly alone. In fact, my problem seems to be ubiquitous.

The authors found smartphone users have developed what they call "checking habits" -- repetitive checks of e-mail and other applications such as Facebook. The checks typically lasted less than 30 seconds and were often done within 10 minutes of each other.

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/PDA-PDI-Do-you-obsessively-check-your-smartphone/-870398593563599204.html

Grief counseling for mourning muggles?

2011-07-15T16:58:00Z

Posted By: Staff

The Washington Times reports:

“The effect of ‘Harry Potter’ will be felt long after the movies are over,” said Daryl Frazetti, a California-based university lecturer and expert on the cultural anthropology of “Star Trek” fandom. “The franchise will be alive. It’s too large a culture. You don’t just deconstruct it easily.”

A wise man — probably William Faulkner; possibly the people who keep making “Saw” movies — once said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The same holds true for beloved movie and book franchises. If the examples of “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” are any guide, the greater Potterverse figures to live long and prosper, well after the last film boards Charon’s ferry to its Blu-ray afterlife.

Herewith, some advice for coping with loss and tending the flame of memory grief counseling for mourning muggles:

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Grief-counseling-for-mourning-muggles/-496429233855644252.html

'Manorexia' on the rise? Is it so they can fit into skinny jeans? (pg. 62)

2011-07-14T12:44:00Z

Posted By: Staff

The Daily Mail reports:

The pressure to look like a male model is driving more men to develop dangerous eating disorders, experts warned today.

GPs have been warned to be on the lookout for the potentially fatal conditions, which include anorexia and bulimia, after a rise in the number of those affected.

Men may be reluctant to admit they have a problem as the issue has until now been seen as something affecting mainly teenage girls.

Medical experts blame the surge on an obsession with looking good by having bulging biceps and a six-pack stomach.

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Manorexia-on-the-rise-Is-it-so-they-can-fit-into-skinny-jeans-pg.-62/-260259830382310386.html

The Free Museums

2011-07-07T15:48:00Z

Posted By: Staff

A museum for every single ethnic group? Well Congressman James Moran says why not celebrate everyone together? If you have been to the National Mall in Washington, DC. you know what this story is all about. After reading this you should check out pg. 226 in 'Zing.' You will find something to laugh about.

The New York Times reports:

Representative James P. Moran, a Virginia Democrat who is concerned about the propagation of ethnic museums on the National Mall in Washington, sees a possible antidote: a National Museum of the American People, dedicated, in the words of a resolution Mr. Moran plans to introduce in the House, to celebrating all immigrants, “from the very first to the most recent.”

It “may be idealistic,” Mr. Moran said in a telephone interview, “but I do think there’s merit in the idea of showing all the American people how all the various threads of ethnicities and races and religions came together.” He said he hoped that such a museum would reduce the pressure to create museums for different ethnic groups, like the National Museum of African American History and Culture, expected to open in 2015, and the proposed National Museum of the American Latino.

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/The-Free-Museums/-956201337202875700.html

Skool 4 Foolz: Liberal textbooks too liberal for liberals

2011-07-07T15:39:00Z

Posted By: Staff

You should check out Chapter 5 "Skhool 4 Foolz" in ZING! after reading this story.

Robert McCartney writes:

Rose, who lives in the Frederick County, Md., community of Knoxville, took her complaint to her school board and became a conservative media heroine, with two appearances on Fox News. Conservative commentator Glenn Beck, who interviewed her on Fox before he left the network, signed her copy of the book: “To Cindy. Remain Standing!”

I wasn’t about to take Rose’s word that the book was biased, so I drove to her home and looked for myself.

She was absolutely right. The 165-page book — “Social Studies Alive! Our Community and Beyond” — is unmistakably slanted to the left in numerous places.

It pushes pro-environmental views — by devoting four pages to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, for example. It suggests that health care and child care should be free community services, without noting that the public must pay taxes to support those benefits.

“Child care is important, but it is not free for most people in the United States. Families have to pay for child care. It can be very expensive,” says Page 104. “In some countries, child care is a public service. For example, in Denmark and Vietnam, child care is free or costs very little. This makes it easier for parents to work. Do you think child care should be a public service in your community?”

This controversy puts me in an awkward place, because I applaud the goals that the book promotes. Save the planet? Sign me up. Improve public services? I’m for it. Study foreign success stories? Point me to them.

However, in previous columns, I beat up on Virginia elementary schools for using an error-riddled textbook that included a Civil War falsehood promoted by some conservatives. It claimed mistakenly that African Americans in large numbers carried arms for the pro-slavery Confederacy.

So, fair-mindedness prompts me to give equal time to the other side. And there’s no doubt that if I were a conservative, this book would enrage me just as much as it does Rose.

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Skool-4-Foolz:-Liberal-textbooks-too-liberal-for-liberals/915375758016928900.html

4 in 5 parents fear their children will be Facebook addicts

2011-07-05T15:52:00Z

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The Facebook Generation? You know there is a Zing about this! Pick up your copy of ZING and turn to page 171 for Laura's hysterical take on people who can't stop Facebooking every single detail of their lives.

The Daily Mail reports:

A staggering four out of five parents worry that their children will become addicted to Facebook, according to a study.

Eighty per cent believe social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have the ability to take over their children's lives.

One in three parents, meanwhile, believes the internet has the power to 'rewire' brains without a person's knowledge and thinks their children are in danger from the web.

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/4-in-5-parents-fear-their-children-will-be-Facebook-addicts/892002424443244457.html

Repeal ObamaCare: Sign the Pledge!

2010-09-27T22:41:00Z

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Sign the 'Repeal Pledge' yourself, but force your represenative to sign it as well!

Congress and the Administration disregarded the clear will of the people in enacting the government takeover of our medical care; we must deauthorize, defund, and REPEAL it.

To do so, we must create accountability, so there is no more saying one thing and doing another. There are three interlocking building blocks that together create accountability:

Incumbents must take an action-oriented pledge that promises to DO everything they can do to make repeal a reality, and be held to it.

Challengers must take an action-oriented pledge that promises that if elected they will DO everything they can do to make repeal a reality, and makes clear what they would be doing now if they were the incumbent.

American citizens must let our political leaders know we mean it. As more of us sign the People's Promise, two things happen:

Members and candidates know we won't vote for them unless they've taken The Repeal Pledge, so there will be pressure to sign their own pledges.
And longer term we let the political leadership know that we expect this promise to be fulfilled, and are holding them accountable.

So sign the Pledge. Help us get other candidates to sign - your voice matters. ShareThis with other citizens who care about the future of quality medical care, and the future of America.

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/Repeal-ObamaCare:-Sign-the-Pledge!/-225621110261099762.html

DREAM Act Update!

2010-09-23T14:56:00Z

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Thanks to the activism of the Laura Ingraham Show listeners and concerned citizens around the United States, the US Senate was unable to meet the 60 vote threshold neededd to defeat the GOP fillabuster on this stealth amnesty plan!

Check back at the Action Alerts tab for future ways to keep the elites in check!

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/DREAM-Act-Update!/-495979794663183094.html

TELL YOUR SENATOR TO VOTE AGAINST AMNESTY

2010-09-21T20:58:00Z

Posted By: Staff

SENATE SWITCHBOARD -- 202-224-3121

AMNESTY COULD PASS SENATE TOMORROW (TUES)
-- DON'T PUT OFF YOUR PHONE CALLS

The pro-amnesty forces have now paid to set up phone banks across the country where they are calling all the cell phone numbers they picked up at open-borders rallies the last two years and then patching them through to Senate offices. They also are holding rallies at the offices of swing-vote Senators. They have all the money in the world to gin up pressure to vote for the DREAM Act amnesty this week.

ACTION: Go to your personalized NumbersUSA Action Board and send the new faxes to your Senators.

If you don't see a new fax, that is because both of your Senators have pledged to vote NO on the amnesty (congratulations).

ACTION: Look at the phone list below.

Call the Senators from your state.

Then, look at Senators from small and medium-small states and consider making calls to them (especially if you have any connection to that state in any way, or live in the same region).

YOU HAVE SENATE LEADERS CONFUSED & WORRIED

Your phone calls and faxes all last week are making some difference.

I'm not sure I've ever seen Senate leadership so confused about its exact course just a day before voting starts.

Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) continues today to tell Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-Ky.) that he will bring the Defense Authorization bill to the floor at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday and that the bill will have the DREAM Act amnesty in it.

But the No. 2 Senate Democratic leader, Durbin (D-Ill.), is telling the public that the bill will NOT have the amnesty in it. Rather, he says, the amnesty will be brought up as an amendment later in the week.

The first vote at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday will be a cloture vote requiring 60 YEAS to allow debate to even begin on the Defense bill.

Not knowing exactly what the form of the vote on DREAM will be, your best bet is just to keep calling Senators and saying that they must vote NO on anything that includes the DREAM amnesty.

TOP FENCE-SITTING PROSPECTS WHO NEED YOUR PHONE CALL BEFORE THEY WILL PLEDGE AMNESTY OPPOSITION

As far as we know, none of the following Senators has committed either to oppose or support the DREAM Act amnesty as part of the Defense authorization bill next week.

For a number of mixed reasons, we believe these Senators are the ones of the uncommitted who are most likely to listen to reasonable persuasion from constituents asking for a NO vote.

ACTION: Call the DC office of these Senators (the 202 number).

Calling the local offices (the number on the second line) will be most helpful, as well.

If you've never called a Senate office, it isn't hard. Just state your name to the staffer and quickly say you are calling to ask the Senator to OPPOSE the DREAM Act amnesty. Then give one reason for your opposition, say thank you and good-bye.

Find talking points in my blog.

DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED AGAINST AMNESTY IN 2007
BUT NOT YET RELIABLE THIS WEEK

Folks, if we don't hold these 7 Democrats, we may be in big trouble. Capitol Hill news services are reporting today that they don't find a single one of these who has yet committed to voting AGAINST the DREAM amnesty this week, even though they voted against it when NumbersUSA activists mobilized to kill it in autumn of 2007.

Not surprisingly, none of these 7 is up for re-election this year. So, you need to hit them forcefully enough to make them think you will remember when they DO come up for re-election in later years.

Some of these Senators are talking like there are significant changes in the bill that may allow them to vote for it this time. Talk about that when you call their offices. Tell them that this bill still:
covers everybody up to age 35
is wide open to fraud because people only have to CLAIM to meet criteria and the government has to PROVE that their claims are false
is open to at least 2.1 million illegal aliens (even before fraud)
allows illegal aliens to arrive as late as age 15 and claim that they don't know the language or culture of their home country and, thus, should not be forced to go back home
These are top priorities:

Sen. Pryor of Arkansas 202-224-2353
501-324-6336

Sen. Landrieu of Louisiana 202-224-5824
225-389-0395

Sen. McCaskill of Missouri 202-224-6154
314-367-1364

Sen. Baucus of Montana 202-224-2651
406-657-6790

Sen. Tester of Montana 202-224-2644
406-449-5401

Sen. Conrad of North Dakota 202-224-2043
701-258-4648

Sen. Dorgan of North Dakota 202-224-2551
701-239-5389

DEMOCRATS ON THE FENCE WHO ARE GOOD PROSPECTS

Senators Stabenow and Ben Nelson voted for the amnesty in 2007. But we feel they could be persuaded to vote otherwise now that we are in a Jobs Depression.

And Sen. Hagan is a new Senator who has been indicating opposition to the amnesty but still doesn't seem guaranteed.

Sen. Stabenow of Michigan 202-224-4822
313-961-4330

Sen. Nelson of Nebraska 202-224-6551
402-441-4600 or 402-391-3411

Sen. Hagan of North Carolina 202-224-6342
336-333-5311 or 919-856-4630

REPUBLICANS ON THE FENCE

Here are Republicans who still won't promise to vote against a massive new illegal-alien amnesty.

Frankly, friends, we need not only to defeat this amnesty but to crush it in order to scare off Senate leaders from bringing this or another amnesty up for a vote during the lame duck session after the elections.

Most of these Republicans (not all) tend to put the desire of greedy businesses for cheap foreign labor over the needs of their unemployed constituents. They can use your educational assistance.

Sen. Murkowski of Alaska 202-224-6665
907-271-3735

Sen. LeMeiux of Florida 202-224-3041
904-398-8586

Sen. Lugar of Indiana 202-224-4814
317-226-5555

Sen. Brownback of Kansas 202-224-6521
785-233-2503

Sen. Collins of Maine 202-224-2523
207-945-0417

Sen. Snowe of Maine 202-224-5344
207-874-0883

Sen. Brown of Massachusetts 202-224-4543
617-565-3170

Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire 202-224-3324
603-225-7115

Sen. Voinovich of Ohio 202-224-3353
614-469-6697

Sen. Hutchison of Texas 202-224-5922
214-361-3500

DEMOCRATS WHO MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO PRESSURE FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS

These tend to lean in favor of foreign workers over unemployed Americans.

But they have NOT co-sponsored the DREAM Act amnesty even though Party Leaders have almost made support of this amnesty a litmus test for being a real Democrat. So, something is holding them back. Provide them some more reasons.

Sen. Begich of Alaska 202-224-3004
907-271-5915

Sen. Shaheen of New Hampshire 202-224-2841
603-647-7500

Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico 202-224-6621
505-346-6791

Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio 202-224-2315
216-522-7272

Sen. Wyden of Oregon 202-224-5244
503-326-7525

Sen. Casey of Pennsylvania 202-224-6324
412-803-7370

Sen. Johnson of South Dakota 202-224-5842
605-332-8896

Sen. Warner of Virginia 202-224-2023
804-775-2314

Sen. Webb of Virginia 202-224-4024
703-573-7090

Sen. Goodwin of West Virginia 202-224-3954
304-342-5855

Sen. Rockefeller of West Virginia 202-224-6472
304-347-5372

SENATORS WHO ARE CO-SPONSORING THE 'DREAM' AMNESTY

Just because the following Senators are outspoken in their support for favoring illegal foreign workers over unemployed U.S. citizens and legal immigrants already here, they should not be allowed to feel that such a position is safe.

I know a lot of you want to shout in anger at Congress. Well, here's your list.

You can reach these through the Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or in our Congress directory (I apologize that this directory is loading sluggishly today).

Give special attention to Boxer, Gillibrand, Lincoln and Mikulski, all of whom are running for re-election in November.

(AR) Lincoln

(CA) Boxer
(CA) Feinstein
(CO) Bennet (not Bennett of Utah)
(CO) Udall (not Udall of New Mexico)
(CT) Dodd
(CT) Lieberman

(DE) Carper
(DE) Kaufman

(FL) Nelson

(HI) Akaka
(HI) Inouye

(IL) Burris
(IL) Durbin
(IN) Bayh
(IN) Lugar
(IA) Harkin

(MD) Cardin
(MD) Mikulski
(MA) Kerry
(MI) Levin
(MN) Franken
(MN) Klobuchar

(NV) Reid
(NJ) Lautenberg
(NJ) Menendez
(NM) Bingaman
(NY) Gillibrand
(NY) Schumer

(OR) Merkley

(PA) Specter

(RI) Reed
(RI) Whitehouse

(VT) Leahy
(VT) Sanders

(WA) Cantwell
(WA) Murray
(WI) Feingold

http://www.LauraIngraham.com/b/TELL-YOUR-SENATOR-TO-VOTE-AGAINST-AMNESTY/-508876652068416981.html