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General Discussion, Monday, December 25, 2017
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, Menagerie!
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Merry Christmas, Stella!
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Merry Christmas, S&S!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, nyet!
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Merry Christmas to you too
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Hey nyet! Hear you Seattlites got 2″ of snow yesterday for a gen-u-wine white Christmas! Woo hoo! Try to stay clear of the idiots sliding down James Street hill, ok? And Merry Christmas to you and the Missus.
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I was living on campus at the U Dub during PA school over Christmas of 1990 when we got over a foot of snow in one big dump and it paralized the city for days. I had to walk home from Harborview Hospital because the buses stopped running. That was one for the books.
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I was in Seattle in mid-November in the mid 1990’s for a conference & same thing — snowed overnight, city completely shut down. Melted the next day, back to normal.
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We’re in S. CA for work. Merry Christmas to you too
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Hopefully you are safe then. Happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas Stella.
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Merry Christmas MTeresa!
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Merry Christmas Menagerie!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas Menagerie.
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Merry Christmas Menagerie 🙂 .
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Feeling any better? Hope so!
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Hi Menagerie, I’m on Valacyclovir,certainly that was not helping with the pain. I tried your vitamin C recommendation and read the article about it. I’m on 4000 mg of C a day and the pain is minimal!!!! I also am using Sovereign Silver on my skin which really helps, it sort of freezes the area.
I went to Good Harvest a nest of angry liberals and I asked for assistance in the vitamin department and no one came for about 7 minutes so I asked again and the the girl from customer service said she would try to help me until their vitamin person came (customer service girl was really, really, nice).
She showed me what C she takes and then went back to her counter.
About a minute later I hear a loud obnoxious voice “WELL SHE’S NOT THERE NOW!” So I peek my head around and there is an angry employee standing at the customer service desk and I say “I’m right here” . The lady huffs and stomps over, I explain that I have Shingles and that a regiment vitamin C was recommended by a friend, I then tell her that the Vitamin C bottle I am holding in my hand was recommended by a Good Harvest employee and she snaps “Well only if you don’t want your body to absorb it….you need a plant based C ….” and on and on. She then showed me a plant based C with Bioflavonoids and said that to was the best for absorption. She also recommended the Sovereign Silver which makes the whole area feel cold.
Anyhow I am happy I got a grumpy know it all because she really did know what she was talking about.
So thank thank Menagerie!
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas 🙂 .
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Glad you are feeling better!
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Merry Christmas Stella. Thank you for the pictures, the songs, the poetry, the food, the warmth, the camaraderie, the insanity(?) & the travels & travails of the handsome Tucker. :0) God Bless.
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Merry Christmas, litenmaus!
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Merry Christmas S & S, {waves}
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas! A big task today is keeping handsome Tucker out of trouble.
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Merry Christmas, litenmaus 🙂 .
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Good Morning, I want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, I know I don’t say much but all of you have found your way into my daily life and for this I eternally grateful. Peace, Safety, and Prosperity to All.
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Merry Christmas, Gary!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, Gary! The more the merrier here.
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Merry Christmas Gary!
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
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 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
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) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
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 Donuts
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Merry Christmas, Nyet!!!! Have a wonderful day and thank you for breakfast,
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Merry Christmas Nyet…If grab real quick maybe I can beat ZM to your yummy bacon. I heard on CNN this morning that an unnamed source is reporting that they heard a guy on a ham radio stating that ZM overdid it on the eggnog last night. Maybe I have a chance…. :0)
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Wow. So many choices. But, I am going to eat light and keep room for the turkey later. 🙂 Merry Christmas, Nyet, everyone. 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
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Merry Christmas, mom!
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, Stella. 😀 ❤ ❤ ❤
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Merry Christmas, Aus 🙂 .
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Mornin’ all. Cinnamon rolls & fruit this morning.
Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus ❤
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Beautiful B, wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas. Thank you.
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Merry Christmas to you too
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Coming back for seconds of the coffee cake. Trying to get Czar to post another New Orleans Santa song for ya’ll as our Merry Christmas gift to everyone!
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Merry Christmas Nyet!!
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Merry Christmas Nyet 🙂 !
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🌲🌲MERRY 🌲 CHRISTMAS🌲🌲
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, Hocus 🙂 .
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Merry Christmas y’all!
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Your wry wit makes me smile on a daily basis…:0) Merry Christmas & Bless You Wee….
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Merry Christmas Litenmaus!
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Merry Christmas Miss Wee!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas B!
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Merry Christmas Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!!
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Merry Christmas Colonel Sir!
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Merry Christmas, Colonel!
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Merry Christmas, WeeWeed!
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Merry Christmas Stella!
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Very Christmas, Wee 🙂 !
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May the Force and Merry Christmas be with you Lovely!
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Today’s commentary from Bishop Barron
THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD (CHRISTMAS)
JOHN 1:1-18
Friends, our Christmas day Gospel focuses on the Word made flesh. Ancient Jewish thought found all sorts of sophisticated ways to say that God was active in the world without ceasing to be transcendent over it. Above all, they spoke of God’s holy Word, a Word by which all things were made.
Now listen to the Prologue to John’s Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word…” He’s writing a new Genesis—and he is drawing our attention to this word of God, this powerful, musical breath of God that makes and governs the universe and speaks through the prophets, this Word that is the same as God.
And this Word became flesh. The Greek term means “pitched his tent among us,” the very phrase used of God’s Wisdom inhabiting the Temple in Jerusalem. “And we saw his glory…and he was full of grace and truth.” Glory, for he is beautiful to look on; truth, for he is the new Law. All the ways that the Old Testament spoke of God’s involvement with the world come together in this description of Jesus Christ. He is the powerful Word that will not return without accomplishing his purpose.
You are all in my prayers, today and every day. Don’t eat too…never mind, no need to be hypocritical.
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Merry Christmas Menagerie, hope you don’t mind, but {Christmas hug}…Thank you for your work, it has made a difference in my life. :0) God Bless
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What a wonderful thing to say! Thank you so much.
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I promise not to eat too much, but I do have seven bottles of wine in my fridge. My neighbor works for a winery. I won’t make any promises regarding the wine.
I second litenmous’s comment. You’re a blessing, Menagerie, and a great source of wisdom and light.
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Squeaks and I send you and TriPod the very merriest of Christmas wishes Wooly. You are a gem!
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I am but a servant of Christ, litenmaus.
Jesus is the gem. We can only try and be facets, and shine.
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When I think of wisdom and light, Wooly, I can absolutely tell you I am the last person I think of as a source for it. But if I have ever helped or encouraged you, then I am glad. You are simply one of my favorite people.
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I’ve come a long way, and grown, because of Stellars. I’m 46 and still trying to figure it all out, but you folks made it easier, Menagerie. I’ve figured some of it out. 🎄😁
Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. Douay-Rheims, Luke 2:14
Most other translations get it exactly wrong. “peace on earth, and good will toward men” — nope. Wrong. Translate, much? Etymology much?
Peace to men of good will.
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In the Douay-Rheims, there is an implied, unspoken threat.
In most of the other translations there is not. “Yay, thumbs-up to everyone!”
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It is not loving and merciful to fail to correct error, or to encourage a sinner to languish in their sin. God, loving us so much, takes every measure possible to bring us home to Him.
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The tabernacle described in Exodus is a foreshadowing of Christ.
There was one gate, one door. Jesus said, “I am the Door” – John 10:7 & 9
It contained the 7 branched candlestick. Jesus said, “I am the Light”
It contained the table of showbread. Jesus said, “I am the bread of LIfe”
It was gold plated inside, but covered in rams skins. “He had no form or comeliness that we should desire Him” – Isaiah 53
God dwelt in the tabernacle, covered in skin, just as Jesus was God in the flesh, covered in skin.
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Me-uh, meh-uh, meh-uh, merry Christmas, friends.
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Merry Christmas!
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I would put forth the assertion that all rap music stems from a very bad Porky Pig impression attempt.
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Mel Blanc was the first rapper. And he even rapped about the love of money. His DJ was an entire orchestra.
Run DMC was late to the party.
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Mel Blanc was an amazing student of people: every critter’s speech pattern was an actual variation speech pathologists can help people change. Sylvester & Daffy Duck had a frontal lisp. Yosemite Sam had an abused voice. Tweety substituted t for many sounds & used w for r & l. Bugs was hyper-nasal. Porky Pig stuttered.
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Merry Christmas, Wooly 🙂 .
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Here is a vintage Nativity painting by Corbet Gauthier:
It is the only one I have ever seen that shows the wash basin, which makes me think even more of how our Lord & Saviour came as one of His creations He tries to save.
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Merry Christmas G&C!
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Merry Christmas, G-d&Country 🙂 .
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One Solitary Life
He was born in an obscure village
The child of a peasant woman
He grew up in another obscure village
Where he worked in a carpenter shop
Until he was thirty when public opinion turned against him
He never wrote a book
He never held an office
He never went to college
He never visited a big city
He never traveled more than two hundred miles
From the place where he was born
He did none of the things
Usually associated with greatness
He had no credentials but himself
He was only thirty three
His friends ran away
One of them denied him
He was turned over to his enemies
And went through the mockery of a trial
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves
While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing
The only property he had on earth
When he was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
Through the pity of a friend
Nineteen centuries have come and gone
And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race
And the leader of mankind’s progress
All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that ever reigned put together
Have not affected the life of mankind on earth
As powerfully as that one solitary life
Dr James Allan Francis © 1926.
Have a wonderful & blessed Christmas 🙂
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Thank you, G&C.
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Merry Christmas, Stella….and to all who gather here in friendship and love.
Lots of merry making and food partaking and stomach aching ahead for everyone.
(I stocked up on Tums for the aftermath…they are in the bathroom cabinet….lol)
Love to all and may you be special blessed on the birthday of our Lord and Savior.
Joshua
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Merry Christmas, joshua! We did our main dinner last night, so I’ll spend the day enjoying a nap or two, and eating delicious leftovers!
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Much love, Joshua. You’re one of those facets of a Gem I mentioned above.
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Merry Christmas Joshua!
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Air temp (not windchill) in my former MN home town will be -7 Fahrenheit today. It is trying to get above freezing here in the Willamette Valley in OR this morning. They are saying it should make it there by afternoon. Nasty driving conditions. Worse in eastern OR.
All of you people in genuinely cold country – stay home and stay warm – both if possible.
Merry Christmas indeed! God “did Christmas” for sure and for always. It is He who made Christmas and we attend the celebration.
Back to bed now – I’m cold. Woke up at 5 which is too early!
(Psssttt: The days are getting longer no matter where you are in this hemisphere!)
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Yesterday, I bought a box of cat litter, and let Tripod in for the next week or so. It’s about to get that cold here. And he’s 14. We just got six inches of snow last night. Yesterday morning the city was bare concrete, now everything is perfectly Christmaslike, and it doesn’t look like it’s about to stop. Tripod is a really happy cat right now.
Last night was gorgeous, outside. It was a midnight snow-globe, with the big flakes falling straight down, in large number, no wind at all. Silence. Like Narnia winter.
This morning, when Tripod woke me up, thinking he wanted to go outside (he changed his mind real quick), it was snowing and blowing and drifting so hard, coming down in great sheets, you could barely see the streetlights 100 yards away.
I don’t know whether to break out the Toro today or wait until tomorrow morning. I do love me some snowblowing, but not when it’s still coming down, and windy.
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I’m so glad you let the old boy in, Wooly. I’ve been worried about him! Not even my cat, lol. You are a big hearted guy!
BTW, the expensive light weight cat litter is actually worth the extra money! We use Tidy-cat light weight 4-in-1, great stuff!
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Merry Christmas, Wooly and Tripod!
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Wooly, I’m so glad Tripod gets to spend Christmas indoors. Scratch ‘twixt his ears and scrunch his face fur for me………….
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I did.
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Gave him a good brushin’, too. Both sides. I mean him and the brush — wires and the bristles. Took off a good hunk of hair. He purrs like a Harley-Davidson.
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My thought would be – wait until the wind has died down to enjoy the snow blowing. Not worth the work and the chill if it’s re-piling as it’s being moved. Stay warm…
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Merry Christmas Sharon.
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Merry Christmas Sharon. Stay well and warm 🙂
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Merry Christmas, Sharon. 22 degrees here right now, but going into single digits tonight. Stay warm! Nobody is going anywhere here until later this afternoon, and the plows and salt have done their work.
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I guess we have gotten close enough to 32 degrees – I see that the car is dripping. Trash cans are ready to be set out for tomorrow’s pickup – one day later – and they are covered with icicles all around. All of the roads north of here and into the Columbia Gorge (I-84) are really treacherous.
Even thought that biting arctic cold can actually kill you dead, I really observed when our years in Minnesota ended and we removed to OR that there is this advantage in the serious cold: When Fall is over and it drops down to dead-cold, then the horrible roads, ice, and frozen mud is GONE. The humidity was always very low in MN during the winter so – yes – there was plowing of roads to be done when they were drifted shut with 2-3 feet (or more) but there was not the endless thawing and re-freezing with horrible road surfaces.
The fact is that in the really cold country (including further east than MN) people do go ahead and live out in it – – having acquired the clothing and equipment to do so safely. Even though 25-30 below isn’t happy this week in ND/MN, it’s happy next week for the ice fishermen! Those who hadn’t taken their fish houses out on the ice yet are now free to do so, since 25-30″ of ice will indeed support their 4-WD pickups, and they can set up housekeeping on the ice for the next two months, with couches and wood stoves – all snug and good.
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When Donald and Hillary were running for president in Wisconsin, they had an ice fishing contest, three rounds, different lakes. After the first, Trump got 20 fish, and Clinton got none. After the second, Trump got 40 fish, and Clinton got none.
She sent out a spy.
When Trump came back with 50 fish, Hillary Clinton exclaimed, “I have video evidence that he cheated! He CUT A HOLE IN THE ICE!!!”
🤣
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Wouldn’t surprise me in the least. She’s one I would love to take snipe hunting.
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But they are getting shorter in the Southern Hemisphere. Just saying.
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Merry Christmas Sharon, I hope that you are feeling toasty 🙂 .
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Merry, merry Christmas Sharon!
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Well, I’ll be.
Apparently Tex Williams, in 1954, was the grandpop of rap, and Mel Blanc was late to the party.
Our black friends in America are guilty of cultural appropriation, it seems.
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Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you have a great day with family and friends.
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Merry Christmas, Rhea!
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Merry Christmas, Rhea!
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https://twitter.com/smod4real/status/945123474170789888
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Not sure how that fits with Christmas!?! Explain…
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SMOD is a parody account – everyday is a good day to destroy the earth….. even Christmas! 😉
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Okaaaay… speaking of parody, haven’t seen any DPRK posts recently.
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Prolly took some days off – I check them, too.
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SMOD! It’s an ironic, sardonic, sarcastic rendition of the old “stop the ride, I wanna get off” meme. Sort of a riff on every person’s innate sense that we don’t deserve, as a planet, to survive.
The video starts with the author’s reason (and we all have one, at least): the industrialization and commercialization of Christmas. “Brang that meteor of death!!” is his response.
I wish I had a SMOD tee-shirt, sometimes. That and a MPAI* tee-shirt.
(* Most People are Idiots.)
Yet we love them all. We don’t bring the sweet meteor of death. We just love them actively, and “bless their hearts”. But everyone has that moment, every now and then, when dealing with most people, where we say, “Come on, sweet meteor. We’re RIGHT HERE.”
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Thank you for the explanation. I’ll look at it like DPRK & Seanspicier.
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Think of the scope and intensity of the spiritual battle behind the birth of Jesus.
This band is meant to be played loud. With a subwoofer.
Christian Christmas heavy metal. We live in amazing times.
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You got the whole album! The Lost Christmas Eve is another great one.
I love TSO. 😀
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YouTube has almost every full album I’ve looked up.
Type in “Artist full album” and see. Think of something obscure, even. It’s probably there.
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That album cover, the symbolism is superb.
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Album is phenomenal. Track #12 is Christmas Jam, and cements this album into my top ten. This is some sick s&%t. I would love to see these guys live.
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Been listening to Lost C.E. since you mentioned it. Astonishing music.
No other religion has the history of great music that Christianity has. None.
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We worship God well when we give back to him beauty.
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Merry Christmas Stella, Stellars!
Wonderful night of celebration last night. This creature did not stir till 9 this morning! Breakfast was great, practically perfect poached eggs, bacon that just melted in your mouth (what’s new), and a tasty batch of fried potatoes.
Cried twice during the giving of gifts. First was a calendar made by my daughters with pictures of the past year, mainly of the wedding. Brought on an overwhelming sense of joy, and what a truly amazing year it has been. Love my girls!
Second, gift from SIL, a round of golf at Pebble Beach! January 22nd at 11 am. Oh my. A bucket list item of mine for a long time now. Still stunned. He beat me by a stroke the other day, but thinking I’ll bring him down, heck, maybe even Pebble itself next time! 😀
Not the word I’d use to describe you all, but hey, I back my President 110%!
Here’s wishing you all joy and peace on this glorious day, here in this glorious country that is once again returning to the One who is responsible for it all.
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Merry Christmas, derk!
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Merry Christmas, Derk 🙂 !
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Merry Christmas, All!
Here’s Puddles the Clown, a fool for Christ. (1 Cor 4:10)
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Interstellar version for the Stellars. 🙂
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Merry Christmas John 🙂 .
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Merry Christmas Stella, Menagerie (wow, you were up early–or was it late?), Puddy, and Stellars all! Some o’ y’all got colder temps than Alaska today; we’re barely below freezing. But the snow’s 2 feet deep and in no danger of melting. Stay warm and eat lots of goodies. Tomorrow we diet (some of us, anyway).
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Merry Christmas, Tundra!
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Merry Christmas, Tundra 🙂 .
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I had just gotten home from Midnight Mass Tundra. Hope you’ve had a very Merry Christmas.
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A quiet one here. Our Christmas Eve Mass is actually at 9 pm, not midnight. It was beautiful, and the choir was outstanding. I imagine it was breathtaking in your gorgeous Basilica.
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Seen on Facebook:
Question: Why don’t liberals treat Trump with honor?
Answer: Because he’s like the parents who come home and bust up the party you promised you wouldn’t have.
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Merry Christmas Stella!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas Patriot 🙂 .
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Merry Christmas lovely ✨🌲✨
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I can understand that since Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was written by Jews, they didn’t understand the actual story of Christ. It needs to be re-written.
Hear me out. 😀
It’s foggy and cold. Santa and his 12 reindeer are starving, and they can’t see. Rudolph and Santa agree to cut his shiny nose off, and attach it to the sleigh. And they all ate venison that night. “This is my body…”, right? Poor Rudolph. Three days later he reappears, nose and all, and everybody celebrates.
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it was written by Robert Lewis May, who happened to be Jewish….May graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1926 as well though. I suspect he understood a great deal about the deal….he wrote pseudo ad copy for Montgomery Ward as some stories about a reindeer….
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Heck, you could make a Foxe’s Book of Martyrs/Acts of the Apostles sequel, where all the other 12 reindeer get killed, too. If a trilogy, Santa gets revenge in the last movie.
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I know both are Tolkein terms, but other than that, I’m stumped.
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And to round out the New Orleans Christmas music, Bennie’s other biggie: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwP0QH-zHw
Merry Christmas y’all
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Merry Christmas Czarina to you and Czar 🙂 .
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You know why Leftists never put on Christmas plays?
They don’t have three wise men, nor a virgin.
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Merry Christmas Stella and Stellarites ❤️ 🌟!
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Merry Christmas, lovely!
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Merry Christmas Lovely!
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Thanks Derk 🙂 !
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Im just going to set this down right here.
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“Breaking Bad” marathon starting this week!! 😀 Wait, too early??
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We’re on pins and needles waiting for ‘Just Call Saul’.
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Ive never watched it. Is it a good show?
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Record it. Start from the first show – it’s totally awful but consuming – one of those things that if you don’t see the first year you have no idea what’s going on. It’s why I didn’t watch it at the time.
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Ok. Thats like that with lots of shows. Will find it. All our regular shows are ended for series or season, so its good timing. Ty!
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A belated but still heartfelt Merry Christmas to all y’all, presently occupied listening to the happy (parent prompted) thanks from grand/great grandkids who found what they wanted (for this year at least) under their trees.
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Parent prompting (or nagging) is how they learn. My daughter asked yesterday how long she will have to remind her son he needs to change into clean underwear. One thing I noticed – my older grandson (17) has become much more helpful and offers. He did part of the dinner, and his brother helped with shoveling, walking dogs etc. They both helped with dishes.
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Yeah, 3rd generation of civilizing the tabula rasas, that ‘clean underwear’ thing included. “No, (fill in the blank), clean underwear DOES NOT mean turning them inside out!”. Kids are helping, leaning to cook and all, but it’s still a long way to go.
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen
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Amen.
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Amen.
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2017 candles…
That’s a lot of Blowin’ in the Wind…
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