Links For Hard to Find Christmas Gifts

Looking for that hard to find Christmas Gift, can't find the link to your favorite MUST HAVE gifts? Have no fear, Almost the News has the LINKS FOR YOU!

Here is a list of hard to find Christmas gifts....
Peeping Maxwell Night Vision Goggles
My Little Pony Glue Factory
Bump 'em..Hump 'em Robots
Play Do Bling Factory
Road Kill Racoon with Action Maggots
Easy Bake Meth Lab
Lawn Dart Tag
Honka Trucks for White Trash Kids
Rubic's Pube
Mary-Kate's Binge and Purge Game
Shiite Pet
Junior Electrician Home Appliance Repair Kit
Hollywood Clue

How About A Cow For Christmas?

Christmas is the time for giving, a time to think about someone other than self, the one time of the year when people seem in the mood to be generous of spirit and heart. How many of us take a moment to toss our spare change into the Red Buckets of the Salvation Army on our way into our out of the Mall? If you are not, then SHAME ON YOU.

This year, how about giving someone on your gift list a gift that keeps on giving to someone they do not even know? I'd like to introduct you to OXFAM's where you can shop for numerous charitable gifts to help those in need. A big fan favorite is a cow for only $75, or how about helping to start a villiage savings account? These are but two of the wonderful Humanity Gifts you can find on this wonderful site, and it's my hope that a few of you will click over to give them a hello, and hopefully be moved to make a purchase or two.

Hot, Sexy, Sizzling and GREEN

Here at Almost the News, we like GREEN COMPANIES, and on occasion try to give a green group or green product a plug, such as our piece on the Ecobabes efforts to raise funds to fight Global Warming by selling calendars. Which by the way, for those of you looking for a great Christmas gift, there are only 5000 of these rare treats. Another project that I've personally been following, and am very excited about is the Tesla Motor Company's entry into the environmentally friendly automobile category.

On an early blog I abandoned, this sexy car was featured a few times, and thought now was a good time to introduce my readers to it again. This is not your father's electric car, it's bold sleek styling flat out beautiful to behold, and the convertible is to die for. Earlier this year they offered up a limited edition of 100 cars that sold out so fast they had to offer up another 100 for those car aficionado's that can afford this luxury GREEN CAR...yes, sadly they are not cheap with a price tag right around $100,000. That being said, if Santa Claus is reading this article, I would not mind finding one under my Christmas Tree.

At the other end of the spectrum is one of the UGLIEST entries into the Green Car race I have ever seen, but then what can we expect, it's from HUMMER.

Need Christmas Shopping Time? PLAY HOOKIE

We all know the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season...cookies to be baked, dinners to be planned, decorating our homes inside and out, and of course SHOPPING...lots and lots of shopping and it all has to be done by Christmas Eve, squeezed in between Christmas Parties and drinking some serious Holiday Cheer. Looking at all these responsibilities and duties falling on the average American worker, what is and employee supposed to do?

PLAY HOOKIE...That's right, call in sick, fake a cough, whisper hoarsely into the phone that you ARE DYING! Not to worry, every one (almost) is doing it. What choice do we have? Let's be serious, our children, friends and family are counting on us to deliver the goods on Christmas, and sometimes getting those hard to find toys and gifts require some serious standing on line time. So, feeling pressured, need a few additional hours to take care of the real business of the season...TAKE THE DAY OFF, use up one of your sick days, tell them one of your children is vomiting all over the living room rug.

Holiday season rings in the phony absences
POSTED: 11:43 a.m. EST, November 29, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/11/29/work.sick.reut/index.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- One in three workers has called in sick when they're not in the past year, and the end-of-year holiday season brings a rash of phony absences, experts and studies say.

Harried workers are juggling shopping, holiday preparations and family obligations this time of year, on top of perhaps having run out of the year's legitimate vacation days, they say. And the mornings after holiday parties don't help.

"We do know just anecdotally in dealing with employers that there certainly is a higher rate ... associated with holidays, catching up on shopping, or spending time with family and friends," said Jennifer Sullivan, spokeswoman for CareerBuilder.com, which conducts an annual survey of employee absenteeism. "You do see a higher incidence."

The firm's survey, released this week, showed that 32 percent of workers said they called in sick when they felt fine at least once in the last year, and one in 10 said they did so three times or more.

Women were more likely to take a sick day when they are not sick than men, by 37 to 26 percent, the survey said.