Either the best philanthropic endeavor I’ve seen in a while, or a masterful marketing effort:
So, so, awesome.
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The guy with the socks and underwear got screwed, the greedy people with the TV shoulda got the socks. -
Our hearts ache for you, prayers out for you and your family. God Bless.
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Rant for the day – still no innernet, we’re on some hotspot thingy for now. We move in Thanksgiving weekend, get DirecTV the Wednesday before, supposed partnership with DirecTV and AT&T we were to get innernet then too. No AT&T guy. Half day or more on the phone found somebody keyed in February 3rd – DirecTV/AT&T blame each other, nevertheless February 3rd date is carved in stone now and has to be undone to move forward which causes more chaos but finally December 10th, yesterday, is fitted in. AT&T said we were scheduled for between 8AM-8PM, not 8-12 or 12-5 but 8-8! Never showed, but Sweetie had to be here waiting all freaking day. Now another 2 hours on the phone this morning to see if we are scheduled for today or rescheduled.
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So DirectTV is as bad as Cumcast?!?! I find that VERY HARD to believe.
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Things have sunk to a new low in Syria. It is bad enough to kidnap and possibly execute two Orthodox Bishops, but now they are kidnapping orphans and the nuns who run the orphanage. I have not seen the video referenced below, however, I am sure I would need a full role of duct tape to keep my head together. Below is a letter written by Metropolitan Philip who is the Primate of The Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
Metropolitan Philip’s Letter to President Obama
December 7, 2013
The President and Mrs. Obama; The White House; 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW; Washington D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Obama,
Greetings and best wishes to you and to your two precious daughters in the spirit of this Holy Christmas season. I was honored to receive your invitation to attend a White House holiday reception on Friday, December 6th, 2013.
I remember fondly my attendance at the White House reception two years ago. The photograph which we took together on that auspicious occasion continues to adorn my office. Unfortunately Mr. President, I did not attend your holiday reception this year because while I do have the joy of Christmas, I do not have the peace of Christmas. This is the peace which the angels proclaimed on that Holy Night “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, goodwill toward men” (Luke 2:14). Although I am Lebanese by birth and a proud American citizen for the past fifty-seven years, I received my secondary education in the cities of Homs and Damascus, Syria.
Mr. President I do not have the peace of Christmas because there is no peace either in Lebanon or in Syria. During the time which I spent in Syria as a student and secretary to the late Patriarch Alexandros Tahan, I ate the bread of Syria, I drank the water of Syria, I breathed the air of Syria and I enjoyed the most generous hospitality of the Syrian people.
No Mr. President, I do not have the peace of Christmas while two of my brother archbishops Boulos Yazigi and Youhanna Ibrahim are still in captivity in northern Syria with no news since their abduction. Actually Mr. President, we do not know whether they are alive or dead. Two weeks ago, Mr. President, twelve of our Orthodox nuns were abducted from the convent of St. Thekla of Maaloula, Syria. These nuns are innocent women who care for some orphans in the convent. These peaceful women do not have arms and do not fight but pray for peace every day and night. I contacted the State Department and spoke to Ambassador Ford who promised me that he is doing everything possible to gain the release of the two abducted Archbishops and the nuns, but to no avail.
Recently a video appeared on Al-Jazeera network which reportedly showed the nuns and the Abbess of the convent, Mother Pelagia in captivity, and she said that they were living in a villa. What a mockery! If the abductors wanted the nuns to escape the bombardment of Maaloula, they could have sent them to the Orthodox Patriarchate in Damascus, which can accommodate one hundred nuns. We know the truth Mr. President. The truth is that the video was made under extreme psychological pressure, which these nuns are enduring every day. There is every reason to fear for their safety.
Finally Mr. President, anything that you can do as the leader of the free world to stop the bloodshed and destruction in Syria will be very deeply appreciated. May the peace of Christmas which this broken world does not understand dwell in your hearts and in the hearts of your family forever.
Sincerely yours,
Metropolitan PHILIP (Saliba)
Primate
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Well this can’t be good; Time Person of the year, Pope Francis, The Choice.
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Well this didn’t take long. I figured they’d at least wait until on into 2014 before the push started.
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Prayers up for the Headshaker family. Been a rough year for those folks.
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#8 Doooooodski: from your linkie:
“I don’t see why we can’t do what Europe is doing, what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing,” Powell said at the Dec. 5 event. “I am not an expert in health care, or Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to describe it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal health care in my 55 years of public life.”
Translation: I wear the badge R on my sleeve in order to give the spineless weanies cover and say that they like a black guy, however, I am nothing but a big govt terdnozzle who has never held a private sector job in my life. I claim to be an R, yet I fully support abortion on demand, affirmative action (which I have used to great effect to advance my career in the military), I actively campaigned for the most left wingnutbastige to ever curse the American stage -Obama- and voted for him twice, reparations are a good idea and now I want single payer healthcare so that the enslavement of white America can be complete.
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Good morning, Hamsterville.
I see Bronco’s selfie with the blonde Danish PM is still near the top on Drudge. Sam Malone (1070AM) was calling it Frat Daddy behavior at a memorial service. The series of zoom-lens pix showing Mooch’s sour face was priceless — although she sure had a reason to be PO’ed — but the eventual fix — Mooch switched seats to sit between Bronc and Blondie — was funny too. -
If you look at Twitchy.com, you’ll see that Michelle made Obama trade seats with her after the look of death.
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yet I fully support….. affirmative action (which I have used to great effect to advance my career in the milita
I have never seen something so incredibly incorrect in all my time on this forum or on LST. While I have much to disagree with Gen Powell politically, I will support and honor a military career characterized by outstanding performance and a record of exemplary achievement on the battlefield and off. I can’t think of anyone who’s career was less affected by affirmative action, and based more on reward for achievement than his.
Learn something about the man’s military career before you say things like this. A better soldier has not been produced by this country in many years. His military career has been distinguished by bravery, sacrifice, and a level of competence rarely seen in any endeavor. -
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#14: Wasn’t it Large Intestine himself who urged Bush #41 to stop the attack on the Republican guard prematurely during Gulf War 1, thus virtually guaranteeing that we would have to go back and do it again?
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16 Bonecrusher says:
December 11, 2013 at 8:42 am
#14: Wasn’t it Large Intestine himself who urged Bush #41 to stop the attack on the Republican guard prematurely during Gulf War 1, thus virtually guaranteeing that we would have to go back and do it again?No.
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I had previously missed noticing that Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett are sitting in the row behind the Obamas. Wonder who all else hitched a ride on AF-1? Besides the former Presidents and their wives, I mean.
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The integration of the military should have been the model for America at large. It was as close as you can get to being non-discriminatory to anyone. Had the federal, state, and local governments as well as the private sector been as successful as the military, “Affirmative Action” would be a minor glitch in a long list of failed “progressive” social engineering experiments.
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Found this little gem here:
Mohammed is the most common given name in the world.
Chang is the most common family name in the world.
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Changs may be limited to one child per couple. Mohammeds have no such limits.
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Another found item, on a related page to the above:
The American yew tree is used as shrubbery around most Federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Its scientific name is Taxus taxus.
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Holy cow!
A typical couple who retired in 1982 has received about a 17% return on their Social Security payments. Everyone born after 1937 will receive a negative return.
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This one made me laugh:
Legislators in West Virginia were flooded with calls opposing a state law banning stalking. The callers retracted their objections when it was explained that the law would not affect the stocking of state waters with fish.
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And then I clicked on “Animal GUF” and got this amusing 404 error:
You know, that page can’t be found right now.
I think I saw strange lights outside a few minutes ago. Maybe it was abducted by space aliens. Lot of that going around.
No, wait, the lights were just police helicopters.
Are sure you have the right URL (you know, the www thing)?
OK, OK, I was just asking.
You know, I’ve been slaving away all day over a hot internet, so cut me some slack.
If you are sure about the URL, then let me see…
….I’m sure I have the page here somewhere…
aha!
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Kevin Sorbo’s sense of humor strikes again:
With the Holidays upon us I would like to share a personal experience
with everyone about drinking and driving. As you may know some of us
have been known to have brushes with the authorities from time to time
on the way home after a “social session” out with friends. Well two
days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had several beers
followed by some rather nice whiskys. Feeling jolly I still had the
sense to know that I may be slightly over the limit. That’s when I did
something that I’ve never done before – I took a taxi home. Sure
enough on the way home there was a police road block but since it was
a taxi they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident.
This was a real surprise as I had never driven a taxi before, I don’t
know where I got it and now that it’s in my garage I don’t know what
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Affirmative Action played no part in Powell’s successful military career, regardless of his post-military politics.
I would have to agree with that statement. At the same time, I think it fair to point out that he’s become no less a useful stooge to the left than McCain.
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Wow. You’re really getting svelte there, squack.
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I will tentatively retract the military portion of my statement, I still submit that the AA climate propelled him indirectly if not overtly. That same climate absolutely propelled him after his military career. He has been the poster child of bad statesmanship as SofS, as he actually thought that negotiations with savages could achieve anything beneficial.
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Everything you could possibly want to know about your anterior cruciate ligament.
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I despise the man, he is as poisonous as cyanide.
I despise no one.
I’ve got a book on my bedside that constantly reminds me that its the best way to live my life. -
This whole thing about trashing the reputations of good men and despising them over politics is doing more damage to our country than Barack Obama ever could.
My political advice:
Despise no one. Honestly recognize their true achievements, especially when it comes to actual Heroes like Colin Powell and John McCain. Point out where you disagree with them. Adding insult and trashing their character and honorable deeds only serves to diminish you personally, and serves to illustrate that you really can’t back up your disagreements without ignoring facts.
You’ll get a lot further with people if you do that. I will not fight the hatred of the left by using hatred on the right. I hold my beliefs more dearly than that and have sufficient confidence in them that I don’t feel like I have to resort to that level. -
I despise no one.
I’ve got a book on my bedside that constantly reminds me that its the best way to live my life.That same book tells me that I have to confront evil and attempt to utterly defeat it. Further it says that if you quietly go along with evil it is if you are committing it yourself. I guess you haven’t discovered that part yet.
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That same book tells me that I have to confront evil and attempt to utterly defeat it. Further it says that if you quietly go along with evil it is if you are committing it yourself. I guess you haven’t discovered that part yet.
Dude.
If you think men like Colin Powell and John McCain are evil enough to despise, you need to go back and read some more. -
Fraud at the Mandela Memorial celebration.
Headline: Sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial ‘was a fake who made up his own hand gestures’
Count me as not at all surprised. Fraud surrounds our president like flies on poop.
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This is an interesting site. Plug in your numbers, follow the instructions and see how it fits; as it turns out I am a 5.
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Oh Bones, numerology?? Really???
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That’s right up there with astrology.
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Not to be confused with astronomy.
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What happened to the sun?
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What happened to the sun?
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It’s there visiting the pastrami.
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Its numerology said it didn’t exist.
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Another one from Kevin Sorbo:
Well…..I laughed. This joke is only an attack on the radical terrorists, so all muslims should not take it personally because we all know you are the peaceful religion. The media says so.
Joke:I was sitting at a long stoplight yesterday, patiently waiting for it to turn green, even though there was no on-coming traffic.
Suddenly, a carload of loud, bearded young Muslim men, shouting anti-American slogans, pulled up next to me. There was a half-burned American Flag duct-taped to the trunk of their car and “We Love 9-11” spray-painted on the side.
They gestured wildly at me, and started yelling, “Allah Akbar! Death to America!” and took off across the intersection, not waiting for the light to change. Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler came speeding through the intersection and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and killing everyone in it.
For several minutes I sat in my car, stunned, thinking to myself, “Oh, man… that could have been me!”
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38 Bonecrusher says:
December 11, 2013 at 10:58 am
This is an interesting site. Plug in your numbers, follow the instructions and see how it fits; as it turns out I am a 5.I tested the veracity of the system. You be the judge of the results. Says I’m a 2: Born Diplomat
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#48 – same same here Sarge (and I aint even BEEN to Ft. Sill 🙂 )
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#47 – LMAO
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Sarge, your numerology result plus your cable knit PJs ensures you a job as Ambassador to Mongolia.
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okay music buffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEi_4Cyx4Uw&feature=youtu.be
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I tested the veracity of the system. You be the judge of the results. Says I’m a 2: Born Diplomat
Heh!!! I am #1 THE ORIGINATOR
1’s are originals. Coming up with new ideas and executing them is natural. Having things! Their own way is another trait that gets them as being stubborn and arrogant. 1′s are extremely honest
and do well to learn some diplomacy skills. They like to take the initiative and are often leaders or bosses! , as they like to be the best. Being self-employed is definitely helpful for them. Lesson to learn:Others’ ideas might be just as good or better and to stay open minded(Bovine processed hay).I am a believer. 🙂
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I never said or even hinted that the system had much scientific validity, I said it was interesting; sometimes the couch, well, . . . . .never mind.
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Oh and forget that diplomacy stuff too.
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Over the weekend of October 6, 2001, the three major telephone companies—A. T. & T., Verizon, and BellSouth, which for decades have had classified relationships with the N.S.A.—began providing wiretap recordings of N.S.A. targets. The content of e-mails followed shortly afterward. By November, a couple of weeks after the secret computer servers were delivered, phone and Internet metadata from the three phone companies began flowing to the N.S.A. servers over classified lines or on compact disks. Twenty N.S.A. employees, working around the clock in a new Metadata Analysis Center, at the agency’s headquarters, conducted the kind of sophisticated contact chaining of terrorist networks that the Clinton Justice Department had disallowed. On October 31st, the cover term for the program was changed to STELLARWIND. Nearly everyone involved wondered whether the program was legal.
Three months later, the Defense Department started a new program with the Orwellian name Total Information Awareness. T.I.A. was based inside the Pentagon’s Information Awareness Office, which was headed by Admiral John Poindexter. In the nineteen-eighties, Poindexter had been convicted, and then acquitted, of perjury for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. He wanted to create a system that could mine a seemingly infinite number of government and private-sector databases in order to detect suspicious activity and preëmpt attacks. The T.I.A. system was intended to collect information about the faces, fingerprints, irises, and even the gait of suspicious people. In 2002 and 2003, Wyden attacked the program as a major affront to privacy rights and urged that it be shut down.
In the summer of 2003, while Congress debated a crucial vote on the future of the plan, Wyden instructed an intern to sift through the Pentagon’s documents about T.I.A. The intern discovered that one of the program’s ideas was to create a futures market in which anonymous users could place bets on events such as assassinations and terrorist attacks, and get paid on the basis of whether the events occurred. Wyden called Byron Dorgan, a Democratic senator from North Dakota, who was also working to kill the program. “Byron, we’ve got what we need to win this,” he told him. “You and I should make this public.” Twenty-four hours after they exposed the futures-market idea at a press conference, Total Information Awareness was dead. Poindexter soon resigned.More: State Of Deception
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Uh oh. He’s about to go on another crying jag.
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7 The intellectual. Got my weight wrong too.
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Says I’m a 2: Born Diplomat
No! Screw you, pal! I got a 2 and I’M the diplomat around here!
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interesting game to play on cold nights to figure out your friends.
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I got #2 also!?!?
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#53;
I am a believer. 🙂
Considering the source, I am too. 😉
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Here’s some nice Christmas material from where I came across the Kershinik Nativity painting (which really intrigues me).
The Irish “Wexford Carol,” named after the county in which it originated, dates back to the twelfth century — placing it among the oldest of all Christmas carols in the European musical tradition. It’s also, in my judgment, one of the most pleasant tunes of Christmas.
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I append, below, not only the English words, but for all of you Gaelic speakers out there, the original Irish lyrics. Don’t ask me why there are five stanzas in English and only two in Irish Gaelic, nor what the actual relationship is between the two texts. Unlike most of you, I don’t know a word of Gaelic.
Good people all, this Christmas time,
Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done
In sending his beloved son
With Mary holy we should pray,
To God with love this Christmas Day
In Bethlehem upon that morn,
There was a blessed Messiah born
The night before that happy tide
The noble Virgin and her guide
Were long time seeking up and down
To find a lodging in the town
But mark right well what came to pass
From every door repelled, alas
As was foretold, their refuge all
Was but a humble ox’s stall
Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep
To whom God’s angel did appear
Which put the shepherds in great fear
Arise and go, the angels said
To Bethlehem, be not afraid
For there you’ll find, this happy morn
A princely babe, sweet Jesus, born
With thankful heart and joyful mind
The shepherds went the babe to find
And as God’s angel had foretold
They did our Saviour Christ behold
Within a manger he was laid
And by his side a virgin maid
Attending on the Lord of Life
Who came on earth to end all strife
There were three wise men from afar
Directed by a glorious star
And on they wandered night and day
Until they came where Jesus lay
And when they came unto that place
Where our beloved Messiah lay
They humbly cast them at his feet
With gifts of gold and incense sweet.
Ó, tagaig’ uile is adhraigí
An leanbh cneasta sa chró ‘na luí
Is cuimhnígí ar ghrá an Rí
A thug dár saoradh anocht an Naí.
‘S a Mhuire Mháthair i bParrthas Dé,
Ar chlann bhocht Éabha guigh ‘nois go caomh,
Is doras an chró na dún go deo
Go n-adhram’ feasta Mac Mhuire Ógh.
I mBeithil thoir i lár na hoích’
Ba chlos an deascéala d’aoirí,
Go follas don saol ón spéir go binn
Bhí aingle ‘canadh ó rinn go rinn.
“Ghluaisig’ go beo,” dúirt Aingeal Dé,
“Go Beithil sall is gheobhaidh sibh É
‘Na luí go séimh i mainséar féir,
Siúd É an Meisias a ghráigh an saol.”http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2013/12/materials-for-advent-2013-day-10-2.html
Here’s a direct link to the Mormon Taberncale Choir’s rendition of that carol. The music is very soothing and the lyrics so peaceful. And, of course, how can there be music originating from Ireland without a Celtic singer also giving it a go? This also plays soothing music and peacefully pronounces the lyrics of the carol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWVYDKrba2s
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The conservative Republican Study Committee, the bastion of right-wing strategy on Capitol Hill, has fired its longtime executive director Paul Teller, accusing him of leaking conversations with lawmakers.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the chairman of the RSC, asked for his resignation, according to a senior Republican aide. Scalise announced the move at a Wednesday RSC meeting on Capitol Hill, a lawmaker present told POLITICO.
“Paul was divulging private, member level conversations and actively working against strategies developed by RSC members,” said the senior GOP aide familiar with the group. “Trust between senior staff and RSC members is paramount. No staffer is above a member.”http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/rsc-fires-executive-director-101021.html
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I’m getting hoody-footy pajamas for all the guys on The Couch this year.
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“Progressive” Game Plan
- Get three generations hooked on the government
- Watch the desperate population descend into anarchy
- Realize there’s no hope, and begin praying for divine intervention
- Secretly believe God answered your prayers and sent a hurricane
- Blame the hurricane and the devastation on the Republican president. Oh, and Halliburton.
- Outsource your criminal element in one fell swoop to Houston
- Elect a new Democrat mayor
- Declare your once crime-ridden city a Christmas miracle
As an added bonus you can blame the increased crime rate in Houston on those nasty Texas Republicans.
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Worst case scenario it has spread into her bones 3 months to a year maybe at best. This sucks.
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Prayers up, HS.
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OK so I just got around to watching the video, that was pretty neat. The logistics were the biggest obstacle, but them again they do fly jets. I’m betting that the guy that asked for socks and underwear is POed.
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Headshaker, our prayers are with you and your family, I know that you’ve had a tough year, just try to share some time with your mom.
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#70 Headshaker
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#69 Hamous
4. Secretly believe God answered your prayers and sent a hurricane
Looking on the bright side, at least he admits to believing in God.
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#67 Shannon
If I thought you had a place to put it in your house where it wouldn’t scare the daylights out of Max the Beagle, I would buy it for you.
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#70 – Shakester kneemail continues – be as STRONG as Ya can!
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Especially since your wife would probably shoot you with your own AR-15 if she found out you paid $103 for something like that.
For $103 she should start with the kneecaps! 🙂
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Here’s a t-shirt that might work for you, Shannon.
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They’re talking a 1989 type freeze for Christmas this year.
That was the year that Hubby has icicles on his mustache and hands as he was repairing broken pipes . That was the year that my brother-in-law had his plumbing truck blocked in his driveway until he looked at the neighbor’s plumbing. Brother-in-law was chased down in the traffic by strangers begging him to fix their leaks.
Okay, peeps – wrap your pipes. Make sure your plumber knows you are his friend. They’re going to take care of their regular customers first, and in that type of freeze, that will be all they can handle.
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#80 – who is this “THEY”?
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Headshaker #70;
Worst case scenario it has spread into her bones 3 months to a year maybe at best. This sucks.
This is an awful situation to endure. I do not know whom exactly you’re referring to but if it’s your wife then I deeply hope and pray for peace and comfort to you, her, and all your loved ones. I hope and pray all will turn out well. May God’s will be done.
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Tedtam
December 1983 was worse. I believe there were 31 days with the temperature below freezing. It began just as schools let out for the holidays and everyone left town to go see grandma.
Half the city came back to flooded, destroyed homes at New Year’s.
It was so cold when Shannon went out to start one of our company trucks, the crankshaft snapped in two. We had the engine rebuilt and unbeknownst to us, the mechanic had used a welded crankshaft to try and save money. -
I did not know this. Good for him!!!
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It was so cold when Shannon went out to start one of our company trucks, the crankshaft snapped in two. We had the engine rebuilt and unbeknownst to us, the mechanic had used a welded crankshaft to try and save money.
I was gonna say, that never happened to my family even in Chicago winters.
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It’s Headshaker’s mother.
Thank you.
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