My favorite Christmas Carols. Top three in order.
O Holy Night:
Joy to the World:
(always the recessional for Christmas morning Mass)
Adeste Fidelis:
In general (actually, specifically), I like Christmas carols that are actually church music. In other words, hymns.
I generally detest Christmas music that is really pop music, e.g., “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, “Holly Jolly Christmas”. They are not only poor music, but are overplayed on the radio and in other venues because they are the only songs that are relatively secular, but seasonal. They are also 60 years old and sound it.
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Wagonburner,
I agree with your comments on Christmas Music. It is over played on
the radio and in the malls way too much, but I am still a sucker for
Silent Night and have been so since I was a kid. This big tough Marine
still gets a tear in his eye when I hear it at the right time.
Simple
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WB,
Not everything over 60 years old isworn out,tired,
boring, andover played.
Hmmmm….you may have a point
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Saw last night where Bonez had a complaint about Wordpest search. Yer right it stinks. Here is a suggestion how to search a site with Google.
Ferget Wordpess search function. Google it that you seek. Also if you really want to search for something on a specific site say speedo on hamous.org……. Go to google type in speedo then site:hamous.org. (everything in bold you type)
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I really like Feliz Navidad sung by Jose Feliciano. In spite of how much I hate hearing “Press 1 for English…”
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You know what Baby Jessica’s favorite Christmas Carol is?
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I’ve always been partial to this Christmas song by two Beaumont brothers.
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Mornin’ Gang
I don’t think that I could pick a favorite but I do like all the old ones. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been flipping over to Ch 4 on the satellite radio in the old truck and listening to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby , Nat King Cole and the like. -
Here’s a little Christmas cheer from KP and the family.
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When I got home last night my wife said that a couple of our friends wanted us to meet them @ BJ’s on Bay Area Blvd, my huntin’ buddy and his wife were going to be there also. About that time the boy showed up to drop of some presents for my wife to wrap for him and he decided to go to. When his wife got off work she came over and we all loaded up and went. After a while, my huntin’ buddy’s son and our friend’s son showed up. This would be the three boys that we started hunting together with back in 1999 and they’ve not seen each other much in the last 4-5 years. They’ve been chasing the dreams/careers. Anyway, we later noticed that they had gathered together at the end of the table to talk. They talked for over an hour and one of the moms took a picture of them and I reminded them of the time back in 99 that I took pictures of them shooting clays at a ranch outside of Lampasas Texas. FWIW: One of the boys was the Marine Honor Guard at the White House, he works for the Department of Defense now. We left about 10:30 and went over to the friend’s house because two of the boys had not seen it yet. The boys played pool until about 1:30 and it was almost 2 before I got to bed, LATE for ole Dave. I just wish that daughter could have been there.
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#104 Squawk from last night and #3 this am:
Ferget Wordpess search function. Google it that you seek. Also if you really want to search for something on a specific site say speedo on hamous.org……. Go to google type in speedo then site:hamous.org.
Thank you for increasing my ability to search and teaching me a new techinque.
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Pandora.com on Chet Atkins Radio is playing some really good stuff this morning.
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Unfortunately, Frank Zappa did not do a Christmas album before he died—-
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Unfortunately, Frank Zappa did not do a Christmas album before he died—-
But he did play the bicycle on the Steve Allen show.
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Not technically a Christmas song but it is spiritual metal.
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Bonez
My pleasure to be of service.
Seeing that I am a bit of computer geek , I do not mind typing in the separate “operators”, but for real convenience try out and bookmark Google’s advanced search page. -
Simple;
This big tough Marine still gets a tear in his eye when I hear it at the right time.
Good for you, sir. That makes you a big, tough, and righteous Marine. Such makes an unstoppable force when called upon to act.
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Great post, Wagonburner.
Those young boys sure do add a unique sound to O Holy Night. Cathedrals are architectural marvels to look at, and I really liked the background painting of the wise men bowing down before the newborn King. O Holy Night is a great hymn which renders due reverence to the Lord and the miracle of His birth.
I recently told Super Dave that the new tabernacle for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was rectangular. The first shot of the second video you posted clearly told me that I remembered it incorrectly. It’s ovular which is accoustically smart. I like the “joy” that MoTab adds to Joy to the World. Having the Christchild born in the world is very much reason to express joy.
As for the third video, wow. Great rendition of Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful. I think it’s the lady in the red which really carries it through at the very end. They obviously sang in at least two different languages and I wonder if there were more.
Question: do you know if that a concert hall they performed in? -
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Daniel Peterson and William Hamblin are two BYU professors. The former teaches Islamic studies and the latter teaches ancient history (I think). They are scholars and Mormon apologists who I greatly enjoy reading. They write columns for Deseret News and here’s one on O come, O come, Emmanuel. They both write of the Advent observance preluding Christmas and how the hymn sings both of Christ’s birth as well as His Second Coming.
Latin “adventus” is equivalent to the Greek term “parousia,” which commonly refers to Christ’s Second Coming. Not coincidentally, therefore, Advent celebrations typically anticipate his glorious return in addition to commemorating his birth in Bethlehem. Just as ancient Jews longed for the coming of the Messiah, modern Christians yearn for his Second Advent. For this reason, some theologians call Advent “the season of already/not yet.”
Advent isn’t biblical — the first plain references to it appear late in the sixth century — and it surely isn’t required for salvation. But then, the same can be said of virtually every one of our Western Christmas traditions. And, amid the high-pressure commercialism and rat race of contemporary Christmas observance (if that’s really the word for what our society does), it seems a pretty good way of preparing spiritually for what is, after all, a supremely spiritual and religious holiday (i.e., “holy day”).
Various Advent candles, calendars, and wreaths are used to mark the season and to mark off its days as they pass, as are different colors (e.g., in candles and vestments) — notably purple, blue, and, sometimes, rose.
The ecclesiastical Latin hymn “Veni, veni, Emmanuel” is a metrical version, in seven verses, of part of the vespers or evening liturgy for the final week of Advent. Its origins are unclear, but the text goes back in some form or another to at least the 12th century, and possibly to the eighth. It’s based on the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 that God will give Israel a child symbolically called “Immanuel” (literally, “God with us”), which Matthew 1:23 says was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. The music appears to come from a 15th-century processional hymn for French Franciscan nuns, although it, too, may have eighth century origins in a Gregorian chant.
The lyrics also echo a number of other prophetic themes. The “Rod of Jesse” refers to the prophecy in Isaiah 11:1 concerning the father of David and the Davidic messiah. The term “Dayspring” stems from a prophecy given by Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, and recorded in Luke 1:78. The reference to the “Key of David” is inspired by Isaiah 22:22 (“the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder”), which in turn refers to Isaiah 9:6 (“the government shall be upon His shoulder”).
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Congrats, same-sex spouses: Here’s your tax bill
Same-sex couples in Washington state rushed giddily to the courthouse earlier this month after Washington became one of three states where voters approved laws giving them the legal right to marry.
Those newlyweds will probably be less excited the first time they get to file their tax returns together.
The gap between state laws that recognize same-sex marriage, and federal laws that don’t, makes tax season complicated at best, and costly at worst, for same-sex spouses.
“It’s certainly a big headache for people. I’ve literally seen them reduced to tears,” said M.V. Lee Badgett, research director of the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.Equal opportunity.
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Sniff sniff I can remember the days when we would all sit around the yule log as a kid and sing this christmas song.
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In honor of our Newnited States of Socialist
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And a Christmas song from the happier days of NASA
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Merry ChristmasHappy Kwanzaa? -
Happy Birthday Jesus by little Cindy.
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Good afternoon Hamsters. Another frost last night that wasn’t supposed to be, but we kept the plants covered from the night before just on the chance that out here in the sticks it would dip below 32. Stayed 31 for an hour or so after we got up. Won’t be needing wraps for a few days.
More folks we encounter lately are suffering allergies even though the ragweed count is kaput. Thinking the culprit is cedar fever, with pollen coming in from all over on the wild winds of fronts. This last one must have brought any pollen or allergen left in Canada.
Wonder if there is any Saturnalia music we ought to know about. Can’t leave anybody out, it just wouldn’t be fair.
Back to wrapping Christmas gifts. Adios -
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Adee #29;
This last one must have brought any pollen or allergen left in Canada.
Why can’t the Canadians just keep their pollen and allergens to themselves?
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I don’t know what “RINGO” means (other than Ringo Star from the Beetles) but that sounded like a fun song. -
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#30 Squawk
Boy have we swerved into somethin’–yikes. Kind of Gregorian chant before there was a Gregory, ‘cepting it’s a modern composition, in Latin, and clever, clever, clever. 🙂
Hey, this is perfect to be played at the White House, no?
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#31 Darren
Guess our friends in Canada are just being generous in the Christmas spirit. -
Although it’s an Advent song and not technically a Christmas carol, I love “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”.
I’ve never been a fan of “Away in a Manger”. My top two Christmas carol favorites are “O Holy Night” and “What Child is This?”
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I’ve been out and about most of the day today. I would have loved to have gone digging in the backyard (even though the yard is probably still soft). The weather today was perfect for it. Instead, I ended up running errands.
One of those was going by the Half Price Books in Pearland at Highway 288 and FM 518. The Humane Society had some adoptable animals there. I soooooo wanted to take one (well, all) of the puppies home. Hubby would probably shoot me, and that’s AFTER Barf Kitty clawed my face off for bringing in competition.
Then I went grocery shopping at the fancier HEB nearby, and ended up getting some items for a cut-above-my-usual dinner. I thought I might have the in-laws over for dinner, since Monday I’ll be at my Dad’s to help cook the lasagna and get ready for Christmas Day, but I didn’t get the callback until after 4:00 pm, and I still had to visit Mom in the nursing home and swap the dirty/clean clothes. So we postponed dinner until tomorrow, and we’ll probably swap presents then, too, since they’re going to FIL’s daughter’s house for Christmas Day. I’ll be helping decorate the church after the last mass tomorrow morning, so I’ll probably start working on dinner after I get back from making God’s house all pretty for the birthday celebration.
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63 wagonburner says:
December 21, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Extremely good post/article on gun control and why it’s a bad idea.What an awesome article! It was extremely long, but well worth the time. Larry Correia manages to rebuke every gun banner argument point for point.
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It sounds like everyone in my extended family that I will be seeing over Christmas is getting sick with one thing or another. A cousin’s wife has H1N1. Several aunts/cousins have some type of stomach bug and Dad has a cold. Hopefully the family and I will make it through the visit without catching any weird bugs because after Christmas we are headed to Colorado to enjoy some snow. I have never been skiing before and I am looking forward to giving it a whirl. Hopefully I will come back in one piece. 🙂
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#40 TexMo, “Break A Leg” 😀
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I don’t know where you’re going for skiing, but Winter Park has a great program for beginner skiers. That’s where I learned. I wish I could have spent more time practicing.
I pick up speed, more than I plan.
And I have a hard time stopping.
Not a good combination.
Some day, I’ll share my “yard sale” story. It’s funny now, but when I was tumbling down that hill, I thought I was going to dislocate a shoulder. I did make a beautiful “rooster tail” stop when I had to, so my instincts are one reason why I’m not dead yet. My second ski trip went better. I would love to go again, but time and money circumstances seem to conspire against me.
Oh, and I need to tell you about “Rock” sometime, too. What a jackwiss. -
Next time you re in Amsterdam
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The end may actually be near.
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In the mail….
There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won’t come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?
This week, I found out.
From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.
-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.
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-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke &John.
-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.
-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit–Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit–Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.
-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.
-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles’ Creed.
So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol…so pass it on if you wish.’ -
Adee #35;
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Shannon #47;
Wow. Heaven forbid (pun intended) that the Church of england allow people to express their faith in Jesus Christ, the Bible, faith, hope, and charity, the first four books of the gospel, The Law, the creation, gifts of the Holy Spirit, the beatitudes, fruits of the Holy Spirit, the ten commandments, faithful disciples, and the points of the Apostles’ Creed. I mean, just how un-Church of England can you get!!!??? 😕
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Who was Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHI8M1K2LXs
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And where’s barf kitty when you really need him (her?)?
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I think I watched this espisode many years ago. I remember liking it.
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OK (assuming my #55 was the espisode I think I watched years ago), I liked it except for the liberal crap of man invading the world.
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OK, come to think of it after watching a bit, it’s not what I watched. The episode I watched was about the similarities between wolves and domesticated canine. That was fascinating.
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Speaking of dogs. i got a video link for all to see but especially for Bonecrusher and Hamous. Enjoy “the girl” caught eating dog food. 😉
http://darren-familycomesfirst.blogspot.com/2012/12/breehlan-eating-dog-food-in-hiding.html -
And a Merry Christmas from my family to all Hamsters.
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December 22, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Who was Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.?Depends. You talking Jr. or Sr.?
Efrem Zimbalist was a concert violinist and the father of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr, and grandfather of Stephanie Zimbalist. -
Depends. You talking Jr. or Sr.?
I thought I made that clear 😉
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#59 Darren
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Darren: I am sure that she will be thrilled to have that clip played at her rehearsal dinner. Maybe she will re-enact the scene to test her future husband?
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This disturbing report dropped in my inbox. Does anyone have any evidence supporting or refuting what is contained below?
December 23, 2012
All Jews Living In US Ordered To Be Disarmed
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A grim Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report prepared for the General Staff of the Armed Forces is warning today that the Obama regime has ordered a mass propaganda offensive against the American people which has a stated goal to “completely and totally” disarm all peoples of Jewish descent-heritage currently living in the United States.
According to this report, intelligence received from the US this past week claims that Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of the American cable and news television giant Comcast-NBC Universal Corporation, and who was appointed last year to Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, was chosen by the American President to lead the assault against gun ownership utilizing the combined power his, and the other massive corporations that dominate the US media landscape.
Important to note about Roberts, this report says, is his longstanding ties with the much feared Zeta Psi Fraternity (ΖΨ) organization which, since 1847, has insinuated its members throughout the power chambers of America, including (perhaps) its most dangerous member, Prescott Bush (1895-1972) former US Senator from Connecticut, father of President George H.W. Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush, and the main American financier of Nazi Germany.
The Roberts-Bush connection is critical to note, this report continues, due to the power of US corporations foisting upon the American people the dreaded Gun Control Act of 1968 which, according to Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership (JPFO), who describe themselves as “America’s Most Aggressive Defender of Firearms Ownership,” proved this law was lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation.
The new Obama law being pushed by Roberts and his fascist propaganda media baron cohorts, GRU intelligence analysts in this report state, is an addition to the 1968 gun law called the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB).
Though the AWB was a US law beginning in 1994, it was allowed to expire in 2004, but since the shocking 14 December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre is now being hailed by these media barons, and their minions, as a sort of “cure all” against this type of senseless violence.
Even though the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) studied the assault weapon ban, and other gun control attempts, and found “insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence,” noting “that insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness should not be interpreted as evidence of ineffectiveness,” this report says that the “true reason” lying behind this new push for an AWB lies, instead, in a provision which would outlaw anyone holding duel citizenship from owning any type of weapon.
GRU intelligence analysts in this report note that the targeting by the Obama regime of Israeli duel citizens from their being able to own guns, and whose list includes 13 US Senators and 27 US Congressmen, will effectively disarm all Jewish people in America thus making that nation the first since Nazi Germany to forbid this entire ethnic-religious minority from being able to defend themselves.
Even worse for the Jewish people in America, this report continues, is Obama’s pushing to have former Republican US Senator Chuck Hagel appointed as his next Secretary of Defense, who has been described as “anti-Israel” and “anti-semitic” and in 2000 was one of only four Senators who refused to sign a Senate letter in support of Israel.
Though Obama’s support of Senator Hagel for Secretary of Defense has been praised by Iran, this GRU report warns that this nomination, when combined with the disarming of all Jewish peoples in America, could very herald a major US policy shift toward the Arab-Persian world and away from Israel.
Equally disturbing, this report continues, was the US social media giant Twitter suspending the account of an Orthodox Jew who posted an anti-Obama cartoon about Israel, but who was not defended by anyone who supposedly cherishes the American citizens longstanding right to openly, and without fear of retribution, criticize those in power.
For those peoples of Jewish heritage and descent living in America, this report concludes, they face no less of a danger now than they did in Hitler’s Germany, but, like those of their brethren sacrificed to madness by the Nazis, they continue to ignore the very real danger they are in and how the corridors of power in Obama’s Washington D.C. are increasingly being shut to them.
To if the American people themselves will succumb to the propaganda assault against them to deny their Jewish citizens the right to own guns will succeed it is not in our knowing, other than to note that like all such efforts in the past, these people are uniquely programmed to accept whatever they are told to believe without ever searching for the truth.If the above is true, it will not happen without a lot of bloodshed; G_D help us!
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Sounds like Prison Planet or World Nut Daily stuff to me, Bones.
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We have eaten our Christmas holiday meal at Chez42. Stuffed now and taking a break before cutting the pecan pie. Then a long post-prandial nap. Life is Good!
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Sounds like Prison Planet or World Nut Daily stuff to me, Bones.
Pretty much. It comes from whatdoesitmean.com. Another troofer nutter site.
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#59 Darren
The gift box is opened and the presents revealed. Dad Darren is a koala bear this year. The stuffed violet kitty is one of your daughters, and the blue horse is the other girl. The oldest boy is a lizard/frog/chameleon; the next-to-youngest boy is a turtle again this year; possibly the new baby is the little blockhead being held by the brown dog. The green blockhead is a complete mystery, as is the 5-legged white blockhead looking into the box. Recognizable items include Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and a seahorse. Unrecognizable items include the small dog(?) with odd arms/claws, and the scattered components to make an orange blockhead. Charming artwork! Thanks for posting. 🙂 -
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Old Man Bush isn’t really in Methodist Hospital.
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Well mixed results day for football teams followed in this household. Packers stunned the Titans 55-7 at Lambeau Field, the Titans managing their only score in the last few minutes. This is very disappointing for the former Oilers of Luv Ya Blue days who are associated with the Titans now either actively or with relatives active (Matthews clan).
Texans had an oops and lost 23-6 to the Vikings, and that is apparently another wakeup call. Only saw snippets of that game as it was on the same time as the Packers-Titans. That is not encouraging. 🙁 Packers play the Vikings next week in the season closer. -
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Happy Festivus to you all.
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Went to mass, had breakfast with the fambly, helped decorate the church, met someone for coffee, now I’m back home to fix dinner for the in-laws. “The Sound of Music” is coming on, and I’m all alone with the TV and my cooking.
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“The hills are alive, with…”
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Ain’t nobody cooler than this cat.
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I missed the End of the World. How did it wrap-up?
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Google, multiple sources therin, does not shed a favorable light on Sorcha Faal.
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This woman get the prize, she puts that facts on the table and shames the gun grabbers.
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Even the nutjobs at 2012 Scenario don’t buy into the Sorcha Faal stuff.
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Drudge gots the Holiday spirit — all text red and green.
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On to Christmas Eve and whatever wintry weather is in store for us. Forecast keeps changing slightly timewise. G’night all.
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Adee #62;
Thank you very much, mam. May you continue to enjoy your holidays.
Bopnecrusher #63;
Heh. Yup. I can get a lot of usage out of that video. It’s adorable though. Soon after we told Breelahn “no!” to eating the dog food from the dog dish and drinking the water from the other dog dish, she simple started to grab the food dish and move it somehwere out of sight and eat from it. Gross but smart.
Also:All Jews Living In US Ordered To Be Disarmed
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A grim Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report prepared for the General Staff of the Armed Forces is warning today that the Obama regime has ordered a mass propaganda offensive against the American people which has a stated goal to “completely and totally” disarm all peoples of Jewish descent-heritage currently living in the United States.Dude, as soon as you read something like that, roll your eyes and see if you can get off theemail list of whomever sent you that. If it came from a website, spam it. You don’t need useless consiracies like that to cloud your mind and judgement. It’s a bearing of false witness. Focus on what you do know to be true and fight for what is right.
mharper #70;
I tell ya’, one of the challenges of having more than one child (which I would not trade for anything in the world; nor do it any differently if I could) is that you forget about them from time to time. I totally forgot Janisen. Sheesh. Yes, she’s the violet cat. Cats have become a favorite of hers and she’s becoming quite the artist, just like her mamma. Thank you for the appreciation. I do enjoy the feedback. -
Darren,
Agreed on the Internet conspiracies. I used to listen to Alex Jones and others
of his ilk just for the sheer humor of it. Slowly, it ceased being funny when I figured
out that some folks took these clowns seriously.
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I’m back from my Dad’s house. We have a lot of stuff ready for tomorrow: marinara sauce and ricotta filling for the lasagna, eggplant marinating in it batter waiting to be fried, and cauliflower cut up.
I’m back home ahead of time, getting ready to go to midnight mass tonight, since I have to be back in Dad’s kitchen right after we open presents tomorrow morning. MIL will be bringing sticky buns, which she does every year since I told her that one of my favorite memories of Christmas as a child was smelling the cinnamon rolls and coffee that my parents would prepare every Christmas morning. We may have our issues, but she does have her gestures of kindness.
I may actually bake something to take to Dad’s tomorrow. I have all these pecans….
and I think I left my power cord at Dad’s house, so I may not be on for long, anyway.
In case I don’t make it back, I wish for each of you the blessings of the Christmas season. And may those blessings stay with you each and every day hereafter.
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