This is wrong on so many levels I don’t even know where to begin.

The Hannah Montana False Essay Story is all over the place, but I’ll recap for those of you who’ve missed it.

A Texas mom helped her 6 year old girl  win the first prize in an essay contest. The prize: Four Hannah Montana concert tickets, plus airfare. Her prize wining submission began with these profound words : My Daddy died this year in Iraq.

A sad enough essay it would have been, except that as it turned out the girl’s farther is not only alive and kicking in a nearby town, but has also never served in the army!

According to the mother who came up with the brainwave scheme for the tickets, “We did whatever we could to win.” Nice.

Will this deceit scar the little girl for life? No. Absolutely not. Telling your child to write an essay in her name saying that her father – who’s alive and well – has been killed in combat, and all for four concert tickets and a plane trip? What could possibly go wrong?

I wanted to squeeze in this post in 2007, so I could avoid a really creepy start to 2008.

Here’s a link to a shot that creeped me out when I had a first look at it, getting progressively more disturbing as I continued to look. I know I am not the only one with that reaction. Check it out at #2 on Top 10 Worst Realtor Shots.

It’s an ad for a realtor. Once I got past the over processed hair, the slash of red that passes for her mouth and the womanly pose, what got to me was the stiff and forced smile. I wonder if she’s the agent’s daughter. In any case, I can’t imagine what the parents were thinking.

I’ll say it again. Creepy.