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The French hen at 3 is cracking me up.
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“Ooh la la”
non sequitur, much?
😀
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Maybe she’s just a bad actor and needs more Cochin.
Thst’s one of the few PG-13 ones I could come up with..
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Then again, there is the matter of all that mistletoe above her head.
So, maybe not a non sequitur. 😀
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You can tell I’m strenuously avoiding the more ‘R’ rated respobses, can’t you?
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Hello, Czar!
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Dobry dzien…again. Just talking to a retired Miami cop friend…seems you all had typical south Florida Christmas weather.
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Dzien dobry, and typical South Beach crazy crowds, too, including a bunch of young people in the apartment above ours.
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Until thry crash through their floor/your ceiling everything should be OK.
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It is funny Wooly, and I wouldn’t have noticed except for you.
I found this interesting and alarming article today. Unsurprising to me, but truly alarming. I’m interested in your thoughts.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/10/10/survey-finds-american-christians-actually-heretics/
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Even the Pope said this yesterday, referencing some fantasy Bible that only he has read:
“The painful experience of these brothers and sisters reminds us of that baby Jesus, who could not find shelter, was born in a stable in Bethlehem and was later brought to Egypt to escape Herod’s threat.”
Where, il Papa, in the Bible does it say that Baby Jesus could not find shelter?
It doesn’t. Anywhere.
Why does the Nativity always boil down to a Class thing with these Marxists?
Does the Bible say that Joseph and Mary were even poor? That they were denied a room because racism or something?? It doesn’t. All the rooms were booked. Whatever Class Joseph and Mary were in, whether rich, upper middle class, poor. All the rooms were booked. They weren’t turned away because of their class, wealth, or lack thereof, or some undesired racial reason. They were turned away because All the Rooms Were Booked.
Even the Pope’s knowledge of scripture is on par with that of Ricky Bobby in Talledega Nights.
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In fact, they were not even turned away. Some innkeeper said, “Yep, all the rooms in town are booked and full, but I got something for ya anyway. It’s not much, I know.”
Must have been Joseph’s “Jew Privilege”.
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Luke 2:7 “And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the Inn”
Remember scripture records not that there was no room in the inn but rather no room for them in the Inn. Mary and Joseph, as were their potential hosts were practicing Jews. If Mary gave birth in the “Inn” she would have made the entire home unclean. Most scriptural scholars I know and interpretations that I have read believe that this is reason there was no room for them at the Inn.
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“Dear Lord Baby Jesus… laying in your little manger… watching all your Baby Einstein videos.. learning your shapes and colors….”
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I agree, Menagerie. It’s alarming.
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It’s a lot worse than misguided social justice beliefs. When you can’t properly articulate the three Persons of the Trinity, and even what it takes to save your own soul, America, we got problems.
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People have a hard time explaining quantum physics and wave/particle duality.
The Creator is more complex than His creation, so is even more difficult to explain.
But He loves us, and that’s good enough.
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That didn’t come out quite right.
But the fact that God is complex is evident in the first verse in the Bible: “In the beginning God created . . .”
In Hebrew, “God” in this verse is plural, but the verb “created” is singular, rather like in English if someone were to say deliberately and with full knowledge, “They is”.
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There is a story that St. Augustine was walking on the beach contemplating the mystery of the Trinity. Then he saw a boy in front of him who had dug a hole in the sand and was going out to the sea again and again and bringing some water to pour into the hole. St. Augustine asked him, “What are you doing?” “I’m going to pour the entire ocean into this hole.” “That is impossible, the whole ocean will not fit in the hole you have made” said St. Augustine. The boy replied, “And you cannot fit the Trinity in your tiny little brain.” The story concludes by saying that the boy vanished because St. Augustine had been talking to an angel.
That said, there are some basic concepts that even though they are a mystery they are doctrine in almost all, if not all Christ based regions and that is that the Holy Trinity is One God, three persons, each equal, all uncreated. It seems the christians in the article do not have this fundamental understanding of an almost universal teaching of the Trinity.
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Hello, John, Happy Holidays! Granted He is more difficult, if not impossible to explain, but we are taking about basic knowledge, not understanding. Basic recall of known facts, if you will, as opposed to the higher critical thinking skills.
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Respectfully I disagree. I do not believe that is good enough at all. There are expectations that come with his love. He bridged the gap of sin with His own death through the Son on the cross, but we have a lot to do from there. Faith. Believing, Picking up the cross. Hope, charity, repentance.
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Exactly. Evidence of faith is action.
If I say I believe I can levitate, and don’t step out that third-storey window, I’m just talking.
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Of course your are right. Like I said, that didn’t come out right.
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https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/pope-under-heavy-guard-at-vatican-says-refugees-like-baby-jesus-who-could-not-find-shelter
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Hm. Somehow I cannot picture baby Jesus as 5’10”, with a heavy black beard, a scowl on his brow, a machete in his hand to cut off heads, and an anger problem.
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Different branch of the family, half-brother out of Hagar the Horrible.
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The Bible remains phenomenally popular, of course. Practically everyone has one in his or her home, and many families own four or five. But Briggs characterizes our love for the Bible as love for an “artifact,” a “keepsake,” or a lucky “rabbit’s foot.” This talisman of faith mainly stays on the shelf or mantle next to the urn filled with grandpa’s ashes.
Briggs says it was in a prison, not a church, where he encountered the most vibrant and intimate familiarity with God’s Word. Most everywhere else, his observations confirmed a recent Barna survey conducted for the American Bible Society, which found that less than half the country can name the first five books of the Old Testament, and that a similar number think John the Baptist was one of Jesus’s twelve disciples.
Why does it matter that we’ve become a nation of doctrinal dunces? What harm is there in flunking Christianity 101? Well, for Christians, the answer is obvious. If we really believe what we profess—that the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the single most important fact of history and eternity—then we’d better improve our grade. Knowing who the God we claim to worship is can no longer be a third priority if we want the world to take us seriously as his followers.
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Menagerie, when even the Pope himself displays a stunning lack of scriptural knowledge, it doesn’t come as a surprise that most laymen don’t know any of it, either. Sad and alarming, sure. Not shocking.
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With this pope it is deeper than a lack of knowledge, and a whole mother can of worms. You can bet your bottom dollar he has the scriptural knowledge, he is rejecting it. That is deeper yet, and alarming on a whole different level.
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I couldn’t agree more.
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Problem is, when he’s speaking ex Cathedra that seeming lack,of knowledge becomes fact.
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If the Pope calls a tail a leg, how many legs does a cow have?
Five?
Nope. Still four. No matter what anyone calls a tail.
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ex cathedra’s rule ends where reality begins.
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Or perhaps they are overlapping truths.
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I think one of his big audiences is the US Catholic population in that it’s not as wholesale accepting of Doctrinal rule as some 2nd and 3rd world members are. US ‘s lack of blind acceptance has been a thorn in the Vatican’s conservative’s side for a long time.
Then we have the Latin/South American activist priests’ actions that tend to go against the conservative Vatican grain. I do believe the Pope identifies more with the balky US and activist Catholics and if he can’t be around to see the Church lurch more left he can at least be a major instrument of change.
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Wooly, the Catholic Church does not believe that the pope speaks infallibly with impunity on whatever matter he chooses, the Dogma that defines ex cathedra speaks only of matters of faith. It has only been widely accepted as having ever been pronounced twice. Some Catholics believe that when the pope canonizes a saint that the proclamation of canonization is infallible but there as with most matters is debate as whether or not the act act of canonization is infallible.
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That’s a bullshit example and beneath you.
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http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/11/15/legs/
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So? Just because you have a link with this as example doesn’t make it a good one in this instance. We are on different sides on this one, my friend.
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I disagree. If even the Pope himself makes a claim we can obviously prove is not true, we can call him out on that. Otherwise it’s The Emperor’s New Clothes all over again.
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There isn’t much beneath me, Menagerie.
I even know quite a few good Yo Mamma jokes.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with calling the pope out. Not one single one of them has ever been perfect. There is a big difference between calling them out and equivocating that somehow with the infallibility teaching.
Nothing, absolutely nothing Francis has done or taught or written since he became pope is accepted by Catholics as infallible.
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(No matter what anyone calls a leg, I mean.)
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Muslims leave their shoes at the door. Christians leave their brain.
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Pope Benedict has not spoken ex cathedra (From the Throne of Peter), not in that he has made a pronouncement, not even sure with this guy that he has even articulated properly an ex cathedra pronouncement as the Vicar of Rome.
I believe there are only two pronouncements that have been officially recognized by the Catholic Church as spoken ex cathedra the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary.
The Catholic Church has many Dogmas and doctrines, the Dogmas are to be accepted by faithful Catholics as unassailable truths, divinely revealed even though the pope has not spoken from the throne of Peter. In all honesty it is a technicality which requires many hoops and rings of fire to be be threaded.
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God grief I meant to say Pope Francis.
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Not saying he has but that as he seems to be itching to make some fundamental changes in doctrine/dogma. He looks to be trying to lurch the Church in a different direction, Obamaesque, and his…shall we say…irritation with the conservative Church bureaucracy seems to be showing.
How long until his hope to change the Church starts him issuing Executive Orders?
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Pope Francis cannot do it. That is the simple answer. The Pope does not have the power of the Throne of Peter to speak on matters of faith with infallibly without the acceptance of the Universal Church (read consensus of bishops).
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Not saying he wiil, back to my first sentence.
Wasn’t that long ago the Italian faction had a death grip on the papacy and any odds that there’d ever be a non-Italian Pope were less than zero. Then add in the odds the first non-Italian Pope would be Polish…
He probably won’t be able to make those sea changes but Obama-like he can seed the bureaucracy with like-minded types and tilt the system to a more ’emerging world’ line of future Popes. Obama’s done that with the Federal bureaucracy, seeding it with his fellow engineers so that his work can go on long after he’s gone, I think Francis is doing that here.
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I believe he is itching to do it too, and he is pretty steamed that he can’t, but as lovely says, much as he might want to, he can only muddy the waters, he simply does not have the ability to nullify two thousand years of unbroken teachings.
The Church survived the Medici popes, she will survive Francis.
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He has never spoken ex cathedra and if the history of the popes is an indicator, he is unlikely to.
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You’ve said twice now in your responses to me that you didn’t say the Pope has spoken Ex Cathedra so it is this sentence that has me confused as it does seem to be what you are saying.
Problem is, when he’s speaking Ex Cathedra that seeming lack,of knowledge becomes fact.
Pope Francis has not and is never going to speak Ex Cathedra. Pope Francis’ twisted interpretation of scripture and faith will never become an Ex Cathedra pronouncement. Now do I believe he would do away with much Church Dogma and doctrine if he had the power to do so and substitute it with his own unscriptural interpretation of Christianity and thereby throw his lambs to the wolves? You betcha!
The two Ex Cathedra pronouncements that the Church recognizes were long standing Dogmas which the Church felt a need to define, defend and speak in finality about.
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In for one am shutting down my input here. I posited a thought only to have it blow up into a place I don’t want to go. I have very little personal interest at stake in the matter and I do not want my beliefs getting into conflict with anyone else’s, it ain’t worth it to me.
There are supposed to be checks in place to prevent abuse of power in every organization, but that doesn’t mean movers and shakers won’t try.
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My apologies Czar, I didn’t feel like the conversation blew up I thought we were simply exchanging viewpoints and I was trying to clarify what you were saying so that I could properly respond.
Anyhow I respect you and enjoy chatting with you, your beliefs are what they are and I wasn’t trying to convince you of anything I was just trying to clarify the Church’s position on ex cathedra pronouncements.
To your point that every organization should have checks and balances I couldn’t agree more.
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I was trying to keep it from blowing up. Politics, religion and the best barbecue sauce are topics that go ballistic quickly. Back to less sensitive topics.
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Your comment above about the Polish pope makes me smile with the memory.It was unthinkable at the time, and I do vividly remember the time, that a Polish pope would be chosen. I was quite taken with JPII from the first moments on the balcony, and like most Catholics, I only loved him more as time went on.
Years after his death, I learned about a Polish nun named St. Faustina and the story of the Divine Mercy Chaplet and Divine Mercy Sunday. Her revelations were not accepted by the Vatican, and her life’s work, so to speak, the diary she wrote, were little heard of outside Poland. And then came the day, out of the blue, when a Polish Pope dedicated to Divine Mercy was chosen. It’s a fascinating story, how his papacy intersected with an obscure Polish nun, and the great results that came from it.
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Joseph and Mary were of humble means, because:
“And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord . . . and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the Law of the Lord, “A PAIR OF TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS.” – Luke 2:22-24
“‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. . . . But if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’” – Leviticus 12:6-8
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Thank you, John.
I wasn’t sure exactly what their socio-economic status was. Now I know.
Still, all the rooms were booked.
It wasn’t because they were poor that they were turned away.
And they weren’t turned away. They were given the best room available.
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Oh yes, I totally with you on the All Rooms Were Booked page.
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Wooly see my above comment, Mary and Joseph were turned away because Mary was about to give birth and was considered unclean.
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Thank you, Lovely, that’s a good point of which I was unaware until now.
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BTW, my favorite on-line Bible site:
http://www.blbclassic.org
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Hello, Menagerie! Without getting into a definition of a heretic, I will just mention that in a nationwide survey of American high school students’ knowledge of geography and history conducted about a decade ago, someone said that Paris was a capital of Columbia, someone else placed Columbia in LA, and Hitler in Middle ages. I think lack of basic knowledge is not an indicator of lack of faith, but rather widespread ignorance.
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I also found the article interesting in that the person who wrote it is by the very definition of the word a heretic from the Catholic Church as he states that Jesus had a brother (James) whereas the Catholic Church Dogma states that Mary was perpetually a virgin.
Not arguing the Dogma just stating a fact about the author.
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Does the Bible state that she was always a virgin? I don’t remember ever hearing that before. And, I really can’t see why it matters.
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The Catholic Church believes that scripture does lend itself to Mary being a perpetual virgin. One of the portions of scripture that gives credence to this belief is the response of Mary to the angel Gabriel.
26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. 28The angel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”a
29Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30So the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you shall give Him the name Jesus. 32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, 33and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”
34“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be bornb will be called the Son of God. 36Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month. 37For nothing will be impossible with God.”
38“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.
The angel Gabriel told Mary that she would conceive a son not that she was pregnant with a son.
Mary’s response was “How can this be since I am a virgin?” Mary was betrothed so if she was planning a regular wedded life she would not need to ask “How can this be since I am a virgin.” Mary would have accepted that once she was married and having marital relations that she would conceive a son, it would not be a mystery to her. Instead she questions God’s angel as the announcement didn’t make sense to her as she was already a consecrated virgin.
Some young Jewish girls were consecrated in the temple as virgins and would remain so even after marriage. This is what the Church believes of Mary. Mary’s question makes no sense outside of her being a consecrated virgin.
Why would it be important? Entire books have been written on that subject. But a very short inefficient answer is that Mary was to remain pure in body heart mind will and soul.
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Thanks for the explanation, but I really don’t see how her saying she is a virgin, so how can she be pregnant makes someone think she remained that way.
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Why would Mary question how she was going to become pregnant if she planned on having sex with Joseph once she was married?
How would her questioning the Angel Gabriel as to how the event of her becoming pregnant would take place since she was a virgin make any sense?
Mary didn’t say say that she couldn’t be pregnant because she was a virgin she questioned how she would become pregnant since she was a virgin, a very significant difference.
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Hm.
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In addition to what lovely said, Catholics believe Mary’s womb was the new Holy of Holies, the new Tabernacle and God would have demanded it be reverenced and respected even more than the Tabernacle in the temple. It would therefore be utterly unthinkable that she not remain a virgin.
Anything less than her perpetual virginity would be, in essence, a statement like “I gave birth to God incarnate. Ho hum, let me get on with the rest of my life.”
Mary altered history forever. She gave her yes to God’s plan for her entire life in one moment. She would never go back to being a simple Jewish wife and mother after becoming spouse of the Holy Spirit, and Mother of God.
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Hm.
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You misunderstood me. I was not discussing lack of faith, but exactly what you state, lack of knowledge. I believe practicing your faith, developing a relationship with God requires us to do more than take Him for granted and make assumptions about what we believe about Him and His teaching, assumptions that always seem to be in our favor.
So, upon further reflection, maybe I do see it as lack of faith. If your faith is that shallow and self centered it seems to me not to be faith at all, just self worship.
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I was mainly addressing the first lines of the article. I agree with your statement about shallow faith, though, as I also believe that ignorance is antithetical to true faith.
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Awesome Dolly, you said it so much more eloquently than I can!
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This is one of those threads where I just sit back and listen.
Like those between Tex, Col. Ken, and Czar.
Thanks, Menagerie, Lovely, and all.
I’ll just sit back with my mouth half-open.
I used to serve 3:00 Tea in Boston, at the most expensive condo in town, right on the Garden, on Boylston. We had 29 kinds of Twinings, and a nice silver samovar. I polished it every day.
The conversations I heard. All I could do was stand back and listen, while pretending to work.
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Thank you, but it’s the topic that is close to me.
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Hello, Wooly! This is a collective image of the French, not a hen.
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It’s still Christmas Day here…
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Yes Mary, it’s Christmas Day everyday here……….
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On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me……
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Nye!!!!! I need more coffee, response is pending…….
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Seek and ye shall find… 😉
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Hello, Colonel, sir!
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The nice round box would make a nice bird house…
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Hello, Amwick!
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Tried Kilchoman the other day–from just across the island from “Bunn…” ^^^
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Hello, Miss Mary!
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Happy Tuesday (now) Dolly!
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True love, indeed. 🙂
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Hello, Nyet! Flying high – 40-year-old liquid gold!
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In Memory, adding to others already posted here.
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One of my favorites, thank you
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Hello, Derk! One of my favorites, too.
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Last one. To me, he was just so good, his voice was something else.
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Indeed.
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Time for another log…
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14.5 °F
Hope all had a
Healthy and Happy
Merry Christmas.
Stay warm…
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Yes, Big D!!
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We are expecting 60 degrees and rain today.
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43° is supposed to be our high today and we are already at 42° . we had lot of rain last night that melted a lot of our snow.
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It got into the seventies here yesterday. Had to cut the AC on with all the people in the house. The kids had a great time playing in the woods.
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I’ve always thought “cutting” something on was an odd Southernism, and wondered where it came from.
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When I got up and went out for a smoke at about 6 A.M., it was almost 60 degrees outside, and drizzling.
By tomorrow morning it will be 32 degrees.
I wish Michigan would make up it’s danged mind.
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28 here now, a high of 53 today. Surrounding mountains all got a good dusting Friday and is sticking around higher up.
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Hello, Impeach! Thank you, and thank Mr Trump on our behalf!
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8.6 °F
Time for another log…
Stay warm.
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55 ish here… The thermometer outside is actually in my screen room, so it is always a bit off. It is cloudy and threatening rain today… The weekend was just spectacular though.
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A little hot chocolate…
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A few cookies, too…
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Yay, cookies!
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Cookies! With chocolate!! Thank you, Impeach!
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Just in case Col Ken awakes before I…
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Impeach!!!! Thank you. It’s 42*, Winds ESS 12, chance of rain 40%. The fires banked, fell asleep last with the Christmas Oak burning……….
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Stay warm.
Life’s too short to be cold.
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Every morning I plug in a small electric heater and sit right in front of it.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Love that coffee mug.
Morning all!
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Notice teh Won is smoking??? 😀 😀 😀
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The Won….. love it… and smoking… hmmmmmm
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…but won did not inhale. 😉
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning WeeWeed 🙂 Perfect as usual. Someday a thousand years in the future perhaps the only historical documents explores will find will be Ramirez cartoon 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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My prediction is that there will be a special “ology” branch that combines archeology and sociology which digs through/summarizes blogs, and all the comments.
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Afternoon, Lovely! Don’t forget Maxine cartoons as historical documents!
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Morning Miss Wee! =D
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Mornin’ Derk!
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LOL! Good Afternoon, Miss Wee! What else does he have to give?
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Evenin’ Miss Dolly. Y’all won’t believe. I’m watching that stupid Breaking Bad marathon.
An’ I’m looking up the formula for fulminated mercury tomorrow.
Jus’ sayin’.
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What are you planning to blast?
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I recommend Feen-a-mint Gum for blasting…
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🙂
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Yesterday was so beautiful we went to the beach, the local state park. As I expected it was free, because they do not have people working at the toll booth. What made this trip unusual was a couple that had their giant Newfoundland on a flat bed wagon. The dog’s back legs were shot and they were rolling him all over the boardwalk. He was 14, and dog lovers will recognize that this is very unusual for such a large breed. Dh said that he must have been about 150lbs. He looked positively regal, alert, and would gently woof at people that stopped. Now that is love.
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BTW since there are many older, retired people here, it is pretty common to see people rolling a baby stroller, but a special kind that is made for a small dog. Sometimes you will see an older dog riding, and a younger one just trotting along, having a great time.
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Very touching, and on a holiday, too! Makes one stop and think…
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Christmas pastries with coffee
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Just what I wanted for breakfast. Thanks, Nyet. Mornin’ everyone. 🙂
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Good Morning Nyet, back to the basics. Bacon. Lots of it.
Thanks and a good day to you!
Most tech people down here take this week off, you?
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Back to a banana and cereal.. But yesterday I had my home made bread and cheese. Simple pleasure and all that.
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Homemade fruitcake, here, made by my SIL. He used all dried fruit (raisins, dried apricots, dates) and omitted the unnaturally colored candied fruit. Very good!
ADD: Also a tangerine!
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That is something I would like… that citron, those weird green candied bits, eww….
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My mother goofed one year and when she doubled the recipe, forgot to double the cake part of it. She sat down and cried. But, when she shared the fruitcakes, everyone loved them. So for about 20 years she made her fruitcakes that way. I can’t find her recipe, but I know she left out the citrun because she hated it, and halved the cake batter.
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My mother’s recipe involved a cake like batter, and a lot of coconut. She made a huge batch, and baked it in loaf pans, lined with wax paper. I remember the candied fruit, and raisins. Pretty sure there were walnuts involved. I never liked it, sorry Mom.
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Me too, toast and rhubarb/strawberry jam. Boys will get up in soonish. Bacon will once again be a’frying. Youngest son heads back today, got to send him off fattened up.
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I am an evil capitalist. I never get days off. Just moments of time that sometimes last longer than 24 hours.
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Ok, now that I’ve stopped laughing. I for one, do not consider you evil. More a necessity.
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Necessary evil? Going dialectical, Derk.
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Nope, just Nyet. =D
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Ha!
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Time is relative…
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my relatives are NEVER on time.
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Proves my point, and Einstein’s point too.
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Fantastic breakfast Nyet! Mornin’!
Morning all!
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Afternoon, S&S!
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Evening Dolly! I just saw this. I’ve been out shopping with my family all day. Great after Christmas sales! I hope you’re having a happy Hanukkah!
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I am, thank you, and I am glad you’re having a good time!
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Happy Hanukkah Dolly!
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Thank you, Lovely!
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The cookies almost make up for the half-buttered toast.
But only “almost”.
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A work friend gave me a Christmas gift wrapped in the daily funnies newspaper page, and on the back side of the page, there happened to be the food page, with a recipe for sufganiyot, a Jewish jelly donut, so I made them last night. 🙂
They’re yeast donut dough rolled out 1/4 inch thick, cut into 3 inch circles (my favorite coffee mug was apropos), let rise 1/2 hour, flatten the middle with thumbs, then fry 30 seconds on a side in 365 degree oil in a frying pan. Drain, dust with powdered sugar, and put a dollop of jelly or jam in the depression you made with your thumbs.
Best eaten immediately, but toasting them lightly in the toaster oven this morning resurrected them nicely.
Heh, a different take on playing with the wrapping paper more than the gift. 🙂
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A legend about the origin of sufganiyot that I included in my recipe post is that G-d offered them to Adam and Eve as a consolation when He expelled them from Eden. Just a story, but a nice one!
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Warning. We have a peeping Tom in the neighborhood.
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Now that’s funny. 😀
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Hello, Aus! The poor turkey is so cold, it is considering jumping into the oven and being roasted!
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Morning Lovely.
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Good morning Derk 🙂
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‘nuf tomfoolery around here!
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Mitch McConnell with feathers….
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Hello, Joshua!
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hiddee do from Texas…high humidity today and turned on AC because it was also warm.
woke up this morning and thought to my self, “fa la la la la la la la la” then remembered that was Sunday not today. Found no maids a milking in the kitchen, so just fixed a cup of coffee and fed the dogs. Excitement swells my life….
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Erk! I ate an apple the other week that I didn’t pay attention to until the about the third bite after taste changed…
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The worst thing than finding a worm in your apple, is finding one half of a worm.
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How about finding 2-3 parts of worm(s) attempting escape and realizing the flesh of the apple has already been eaten, digested, and expelled by said worm(s).
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TMI once again, nyet.
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😬
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well….parts ARE parts, I guess.
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I do, however, suggest throwing the rest of those apples out.
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So you’ve eaten in a Mexican street market?
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Nooooo! 🙊 What has been seen can not be unseen 🙈
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I was, repeat, was hoping this was a fake. 😦
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Never mind the smoke coming out of my scroll-wheel.
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Made me smile!
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Menagerie thinks I’m kidding. That’s so cute.
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NOW! For a limited time only at Starbucks, the Ragno Grande!
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Good Morning Stella, all,
Great Christmas here, as I am sure you had. I’ve made “Big Breakfast” 4 times so far, my boys will eat breakfast for lunch and dinner everyday if they had a cook. It is our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, and my oldest son has already called it as his wedding feast.
But, sad news to end the day. One of my all time favorite tunes.
Have a great day y’all.
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Very sad news…
Dh and I go out once in a while and have breakfast for dinner.
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Glad to hear you had a beautiful Christmas. So sad to sit down after a beautiful day and see that George had passed. Such a tragic soul.
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Truly was a great day. Kids split time between here and the ex, I get Christmas Eve and she Christmas Day.
Kids didn’t get back here till 5:00. but in that time we: sunset walk on Sundial Bridge, froze but gorgeous, tried for sushi, closed, decided on another Big breakfast for dinner, cooking while kids played Cribbage, flew mini drones, Grinch on the TV, jigsaw puzzle worked on, ate, Grinch switched to Cowboy Christmas music, and was in middle of a game of Yahtzee when…
Ouch. Definite damper.
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Sounds similar to here. My girls came in Christmas eve morning, we were supposed to go out for dinner but they changed their mind on the 23rd so we had dinner at home.
We played Parcheesi (I won 😊) A few games of Yahtzee and then opened presents. Sat around and talked.
Went to bed.
Got up in the morning and went to my folks house.
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A Lovely day indeed.
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I woke up in a bad mood Christmas morning, dreading going to lunch with a friend. She wanted me to go with her and join up with a couple of other friends. We were to be there at 11:30. I don’t eat that early. One of the friends is a liberal who refused to sit down with her before the election if she didn’t remove her Trump button. I wasn’t sure I could keep my mouth shut. And, it was going to be a long drive.
My little doggie, who does not pee or poop in the house, peed and pooped in the house just before I got up. {sigh} Horrible smell. Had to clean it up.
Then, my friend called and said one of the people wasn’t coming. Fine. But, she wasn’t sure the other one was going to be there. I said I wasn’t going to drive all that way if we didn’t know. She called, they were coming. It was a half hour to her house to pick her up. Then it was a 45 min drive to the restaurant…………that wasn’t open. Nobody had checked. We finally settled on the one other place that was open.
We arrived, got settled, the others FINALLY showed up, late. The turkey dinner was very good and things were going along swimmingly, except we had trouble finding our waitress. We asked, and asked, and finally the lady running the place came over to help us and we were told our waitress, who was very sweet and that we liked very much, had walked out on them. She was concerned because this waitress had worked there for several years and was very good. She said the owner would never allow her to come back. Too bad. We finally got our bills and paid. Then, drove the 45 min back to my friend’s and then the 30 min back to my place.
Weird day. But, it actually went better than I had expected it would. 🙂
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That is known as a Humbug day…..your little doggie sensed Humbug day, but unable to speak about it…he merely “deposited” his opinion on Humbug for you…..and frankly, I would rather clean up doggie pee and poop than have to break bread or even speak with a die hard Liberal…..Jesus was born to bring peace to us, just not always tranquility…that is up to us along. Shalom and Merry Day After Humbug day…..lol
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This is a die hard liberal female who said she flew helicopters in Viet Nam. She would have been 16 years old.
Fortunately, nothing about the election came up.
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ask her why we lost the Vietnam war and did she help evacuate Saigon. Then ask her if she met Robin Williams while she was in country. Then asked if she played The Flight of the Valkyries during helicopter attack flights, or if she and her group sang the Mickey Mouse Song….liberals are so not familiar with history…..but maybe they watch Hollywood History.
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Nah, it doesn’t matter enough to me to bother. I just know she is lying.
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Well at least the meal was good and you didn’t have to hear liberal’s yammering garbage 🙂
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True. And, I actually came home happier than when I left. For some reason, the plight of that waitress keeps going through my mind. Evidently, this was totally out of character and a couple of people said they wondered what somebody in the back said to her to make her mad enough to leave. I hope she can find another job. She was very nice.
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The story of the waitress is sad, maybe she was just tired of her situation and working on Christmas, I will keep her in my prayers.
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Thank you. I think the thing that bothers me is that we all had been saying how nice she was and how busy she was.
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Funny I read your post in the sidebar after reading our chat about Mary and her perpetual virginity and I thought your last post about the waitress was about Mary, and then I thought, well of course Mary was nice and busy 😜
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LOL
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I kept thinking you should have wrapped up your puppy poop and gave it to the liberal lady for Christmas telling her not to open it up until she got home and to have it with a cup of fresh coffee in the morning.
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😯
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But, up til then, it sounds delightful. 🙂 Merry Christmas, Derk.
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Love this song. Was singing this yesterday, thought it was Boy George. Thanks!
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I only began to realize in the last couple decades: a lot of that 80’s music was Christian, covertly.
Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors. Phil Collins’ duet with her on that.
Bon Jovi’s Livin’ on a Prayer. Genesis’ Mama, the best anti-abortion song ever written, though he denies that is the topic.
There was a lot of goodness in a lot of 80s pop music, despite the decadence of our culture at the time.
I think it was Ann Barnhardt who noted that a good song is one you would sing either TO Christ, or in front of him, with no shame, or could imagine Him singing TO you.
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Right you are. The BeeGees ‘Words”, I always picture as Christ singing to His church. Same with “To Love Somebody.”
I can visualize a stage play put forth justthrogh the BeGees songs. “Run to Me’.
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Thanks, Jaq.
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Like Pascal said, there’s a God shaped hole in everyone’s life until they find Him.
A guy at karaoke did a song I’d never heard before, “King Without a Crown”, by Matisyahu, which is kind of a reggae rap kind of song, and challenging to sing. He was totally stoked the first time he sang it, because he pulled it off and everyone loved it.
I was quite surprised by the lyrics:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/matisyahu/kingwithoutacrown54153.html
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Matisyahu is Jewish, a Lubavitch Chassid, brought up on Chassidic “nigunim” – songs that are based primarily on Psalms, but also on certain Biblical verses. His background definitely comes through in his songs.
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man we have a neighborhood full of Lubavs and I feel so sad watching them walk to synagogue on a cold day, all with black overcoats and hats, and not complaining…but man, gotta get COLD.
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They feel no cold, they are warmed from Above, just like we feel no heat as we walk in an air-conditioned cloud.
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Matisyahu is wonderful.
Used by God.
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He played here last year, quite the show. Lots of growers here, plus, some older ladies who were passing “cigarettes” back and forth. It was loud and beautiful.
One of my favorite songs as well. Used to play it here at the Juvenile Hall for the outreach ministry I was involved in. They loved it as well. But my leaders nixed it after deciding it was not “Christian” enough.
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Mumford & Sons isn’t Christian enough, either. Amazing.
Just not enough… right.
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What’s the fruit?
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I do Mumford’s, “The Cave”. 🙂
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Back from a post Christmas mission. A sort of upscale department store has 50% off Christmas decorations, so I ran out and bought a Waterford ornament. Perhaps I mentioned a friend who has an entire tree of these amazing crystal decorations, she is 80 and has collected them for a long long time… She bought one for me because I had admired hers, and with that my collection was born. Four years back I found one at a thrift store,, box and all.
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Good stuff.
Sorry, But Our Fight Against Liberal Fascism Has Only Just Begun
http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2016/12/26/sorry-but-our-fight-against-liberal-fascism-has-only-just-begun-n2263156
I wish I could tell you that, having dodged the naggy bullet that was Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, we can now spend the next four years being left alone. But that’s not in the cards. Liberals won’t – because they can’t – pause to reflect on how they should stop being such insufferable jerks and live with us normals in peace and mutual respect. Instead, they are doubling down on their gambit for unrestrained power over every aspect of our lives, fueled by a hatred for Donald Trump that is, in reality, a hatred for us.
Remember, they really do hate us. Just ask them.
…
Remember: Liberals are fearful because they know the kind of oppression they absolutely intended to inflict upon us if they had won, and they worry that we will do to them what they wanted to do to us. Well, I say let’s make their fears come true by demolishing their cultural edifice of hate and tyranny. Let them rule over the smoldering ruins of their dreams of power.
Look, none of us want to spend our lives in permanent battle mode, but there’s no time out for the foreseeable future. We don’t have a choice. Our enemies – and understand that progressives are our enemies, not just opponents of good will who merely disagree with us – will not give up. They can’t give up, because they are so invested in liberal fascism and in controlling us that they have nothing else, leaving them no option but perpetual cultural and political war. We would rather life get back to normal, but there is no “normal,” not anymore.
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Remember what Limbaugh said, often, years ago.
When they aren’t in power, they come out of the woodwork, and get crazier than when they are in power.
Zombie has been pretty much out of her best line of work for the last 8 years.
If I could buy stock or invest in Zombie, Inc. futures right now, I would, heavily.
CGNU graduates on January 20, 2017. Unleashed. Unchecked. Unbalanced.
(Crazy Go Nuts University)
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Too many people don’t see the battle, and most of the ones who do see it miss the mark because they see it as a secular cultural battle. At its root it is not secular at all. It is simply good versus evil, and because people refuse to see that they may lose.
I’m no soldier, but it seems to me the first step in winning a battle ought to be knowing exactly who and what the enemy is. Most of us don’t.
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Your posted link regards ignorance of Christian (and Jewish) scripture, and orthodoxy.
We have the same ignorance regarding the scriptures and orthodoxy of Islam.
That’s a bad, bad recipe, being ignorant of both.
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True. Waaaaaay too many people believe the “religion of peace” horse dung while refusing to see the mountains of evidence to the opposite which is right before their eyes.
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Christian and Jewish cultures are not stuck in the 4th century and have progressed with the world of technology and transportation into civil acceptance…unlike the Islamics from places that were not heavily influenced by the West.
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I’m no soldier, either.
Two years ago, I encountered a big sign on the cork bulletin board at one of our restaurants. Haloed-guru guy on it, advertising local Mindfulness Meditation (formerly known as T.M.). Knowing that my bosses and their parents are all Catholic, in name at least, I enquired to the lady working the counter as to why they would allow this to be posted in their restaurant.
Unbeknownst to me, the lady who actually pinned it up was in front of me in line.
She looked at me as she walked out the door and before she got into her luxury ride, eyes very wide, and said “Thouuuuusands of years… YOU don’t stand a chance.”
If I were a soldier I would have said, “Ma’am, on this we agree. Evil and deception have indeed been around for thousands of years. Have a wonderful day.”
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She said that I… me, personally.. don’t stand a chance.
The way she looked at me was Spirit Cooking creepy.
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Judge not…. etc. A good way to be. Not easy, but, less stressful.
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No stress here. I judge knowing I’ll be judged by the same metric.
In that encounter, I wasn’t the one judging a person, just the ideology that our boss let be posted on our bulletin board. I never told her, who posted the flyer, that SHE didn’t stand a chance. I know better.
She heard me opposing her ideology, her cultish religion, and made it personal.
When she looked at me like she did, and said what she did, I became even calmer.
It was like vindication.
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Hand her the holy hand grenade of Antioch on her way out maybe.
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She is one of the deceived. Pray for her.
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I did, immediately.
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The argument could be made that the seven deadly sins are being used against mankind to gain personal wealth and influence by a few that we call “elites”.
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Sometimes those elites are also know as evil capitalists… hmmmm…
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“Sometimes those elites are also know as evil capitalists… hmmmm…”
The “evil capitalist” comment just reeks of liberalism, like the hashtag that loons on Twitter periodically make trend while posting #DownWithCapitialism from their iPhones. So I”m gonna need more information about elites being evil capitalists before i”ll buy it.
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So often, folks forget Paul’s words:
Eph 6:12 (KJV) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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And even our “enemies” oftentimes don’t. Unless they are utterly committed to evil (Not “Thy will be done, but My will be done; nothing is more important than What I Want!), they are simply deceived by our true Enemy, who is the master of deceit and confusion. They merit our compassion.
” In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;” – 2 Tim 2:25
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“We would rather life get back to normal, but there is no “normal,” not anymore. “
That is perception only. There is no “normal”, and that is the only reliability there is.
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There was/is a “normal”, but it’s not on this earth. Yet.
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Sorry for the following rant. I pay property tax so the county can hire a nimrod to plow snow and berm in my driveway and burry my mailbox. I pay income tax to the Feds so their post office will not deliver my mail because my mailbox is covered with snow. My tax dollars at work.
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Franz Kafka nods sagely, says “Yup.”
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Ever wonder
why retirees
head south
to live their
golden years?
Wonder no more. 😉
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My dad related a story about his niece visiting them in FL.
She said “It’s like God’s waiting room.”
My dad said “Well, it sure is a nice one.”
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must have been talking about Lakeland…..geriatrics serving the aged….still driving 1977 metallic baby blue Lincoln Continental Towncars….
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Hard to do with two cats and dog. Not to mention lack of money.
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They head south to get behind the wheel and jam our roads – headless drivers!
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they are allowed to drive on both sides of I-95 at 40 mph and weave back and forth…it is the law now….lol
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Yeah, the law of So Fla.
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Menagerie, did you read the link I posted for you yesterday?
It’s embedded in Ace’s Sunday Morning Book Thread, called “Inventing Jesus”, and it’s fascinating.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=367520
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I clicked.
I looked.
And looked.
And looked.
Lots of hay, no needle.
I came back empty.
Why would you leave a comment for Menagerie at Ace of Spades?
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No, no no.
I left a comment here, which is still in Spam, for Menagerie, so she could read that post and thread, because it’s interesting.
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Oh, ok. My bad.
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Not in spam.
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Stella, this is for Wooly, right?
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For both – he said to you that it was still in spam, so I was letting you know that it isn’t. No criticism of you!
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The comment has been out of spam for hours.
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I was out too, got some at Tom Thumb Grocery
🙂
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SMH
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Just took a look at it, thanks. Boston lined, here is how I see it. Ancient Rome, her Empire, and all she clawed out of the world is gone. Inside Rome sits the Vatican. We won.
It’s strange you point this thread out to me, because I have recently been rereading stuff on the mistaken and commonly held views that early church fathers grafted the faith into paganism and pagan holidays. A little truth is there, but most of what so many people accept as fact is untrue.
A good source on this, and a crap ton of other fascinating things about theology, the history of our churches, and all kinds of fascinating stuff is Taylor Marshall. You would probably enjoy his writings Wooly.
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Sigh, not Boston lined, bottom lined.
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I like Boston lined myself.
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I’ve read ‘The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity: Hyam MacCoby 1986’ which was interesting from an anthropological perspective up until the rabbi put forth the hypothesis that Saul had a psychotic break on the road to Damascus.
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I’m in the spam dungeon, one for Menagerie.
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Okay, fine.
Just go to AoSHQ, scroll down to the Sunday Morning Book Thread.
Thought-provoking essay about Inventing Christ.
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Merry Christmas. 😉
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Hey Liberals……”Tora! Tora! Tora!”….we are coming for YOU…..MAGA
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Thirty-two years ago, video games looked like that.
Man, oh, man.
When I started they were just text. On a green-screen.
Now they look like this:
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We had Pong!
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And we LIKED it!
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absolutely pong.
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“You are in an open field west of a big white house…:”
That’s a video game intro. And we LIKED it.
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LOAD “*”
>PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
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I loved those games.
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Wasn’t there a Internet Java version of half the text games? I know I have Adventure and a couple of other games in my library.
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yes.
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This was my favorite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
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5-1/4″ floppy on a 2-disk IBM PC.
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Crowley’s Collosal Cave was my first video game, per se.
8″ Floppy.
It got bigger, and vaster, over the years.
But it was always just a flat text file. So primitive.
You had to map it out with paper and pen.
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Crowther, that is.
Crowley was that satanism m’fer.
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well, when the power was out….we had the manual version…
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Good afternoon, Stella and all the Beautiful People! I hope everybody is enjoying the holidays!
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Joshua don’t like jam bands, though.
😉
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not jam….but I dig gefilte fish bands….
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Hmmm… we all play different instruments. How can we use them all to Glorify God?
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^^ How to define Klezmer.
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when everyone got tired of listening to blowing the shofar and wanted melody without whole notes = klezmer
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Thank you, Wooly, you are a great DJ!
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I love this!
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~1 hour concert. Phenomenal.
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Not even Rush was this tight.
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No style of music on the planet ever made better use of the clarinet.
Ever. Not even New Orleans. Not even close.
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You can hear some of that NOLA in it, though, can’t you?
I wonder why that is.
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Well, let’s say, comparable to New Orleans.
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Like a Beetle is comparable to a Ferrari.
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The’re both cars. Klezmer is the Ferrari.
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no….the Klez boys drive the beetle themselves, but will rent you the Ferrari for a healthy fee.
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LOL
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:claps:
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So where did Louis Armstrong come from?
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Sachmo Armstrong was born in NOLA, and grew up in Louisiana under difficult situations, but he moved to Chicago and then to New York professionally. He did not stay in NOLA. Al Hirt was a trumpeteer with his own place in NOLA…where he grew up, but he did not consider himself a jazz musician…he was a buddy of Pete Fountain.
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Thank you!
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Pete Fountain was a goy.
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A cajun, born and bred in NOLA.
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Good afternoon Dolly. I am having a restful day. I hope your day is going well 🙂
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Thank you, very well: resting, cooking, resting, cooking…
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I can’t believe I forgot about Klezmer.
Oh, man. E.M.S. gonna find me, O.D.ed on Klezmer.
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Jew Jazz is better than American Jazz.
It’s got a focal point that’s real.
Klezmer is Jew Jazz. And, not surprisingly, it’s better.
Hey, those people play chess better, too.
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…and get more Nobel Prizes.
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I wonder why that is.
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Hmm…
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The founder of Russian Jazz, a Jewish boy from Odessa, claimed that Jazz was a Jewish klezmer’s invention. I have a vinyl with his explanation and musical illustration – hilarious! Not available in English – sorry!
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LINK! Plz!
I’ll use Web-Fu and translate.
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Two for the price of one:
Leonid Utesov himself – you hear his voice and the music, and you see my beautiful Odessa, and
a clip from a concert in his memory, with much better quality. Enjoy!
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Thank you, Dolly. This is an education.
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My pleasure! Utesov’s jazz band was the only one allowed under Stalin and Khruschev, the rest were prosecuted for anti-soviet cultural propaganda and served time.
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The first is a treat. From 1966.
When you think about politics, pull it out like guts from a deer.
Then you’re left with just the music.
Jazz is freedom; Freedom is Christian.
And now Russia has become Christian.
Very few people could have predicted this.
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I was always of the opinion that an old Jewish guy invented Rap.
Even the subject matter.
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LOL Never heard of him – thank you.
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He’s the Warner Bros. voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Porky Pig (and every other Warner Bros. animated character from the 1930’s onward.)
Yet another genius Jew.
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Same guy:
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Now I thank YOU for education.
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Teach me to cook, and we’re even.
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Deal.
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The focal point in Jew Jazz is God.
It’s Joy.
It’s Hope.
You can’t listen to Jew Jazz and not hear all three.
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The Spice House – the company recommended as a replacement for Penzey’s – now has a YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/chicagospiceboss
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http://jewishquarterly.org/2010/11/neither-fish-nor-fowl-the-jewish-paradox-of-russian-music/
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Russia just became a Christian nation, hated by the Western Left.
Azimov couldn’t have wrote that.
It’s not likely that anyone with a sound mind would predict that.
Or that Russia’s Red Army Choir would, in our era, be singing “God Bless America”, and with Feeling. And then that they would all die in a plane crash on Christmas, in what might be, and probably is, a terrorist attack.
Russia is Christian. And sufficiently nationalist to gain my respect.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen predicted it.
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Thank you. I needed someone new to read.
Click to access Plea-for-Intolerance.pdf
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A Plea for Intolerance — Venerable Fulton J.Sheen America,it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos.
Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
The man who can make up his mind in an orderly way, as a man might make up his bed, is called a bigot.
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Seriously. Thank you.
Why you gotta make me think and stuff?
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A little bit of magic.
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Tell you what.
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Oh no!!!! They found proof that the Russians were behind Hillary’s loss.
“Secret documents recently discovered in a bin behind a Kremlin-district 24-hour cabbage and tobacco store reveal for the first time the devious extent of Russian interference. These plans were decades in the making.”
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/russian-intervention-exposed/news-story/576784a3e4429d42901b65436d118021
Gee, I wonder if Snopes will label this article as “fake news?”
Take Care
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Fake.
Dearest Dimitri
I am pleased to report that phase one of Operation Cankles is total success!
Can’t. Stop. Laughing.
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Like a Stephen King novel, after the first sentence, you know it’s gonna be good.
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As if Iowahawk re-wrote The Screwtape Letters.
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