Christmas Eve Open Comments
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Mornin’ Gang -
Received a somewhat cryptic text from Texpat that he is feeling much better after having a stent installed some time in the last 24 hours, with another one scheduled soon.
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Whoa. That’s disconcerting.
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No kidding.
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Wow.
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The OC video made Alexa play Jingle Bells. It’s too early for Jingle Bells.
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#2: Sorry to hear that TexPat has been having issues with the pump. Glad to hear that those issues are being dealt with promptly. Recovery from stent installation is pretty quick. Prayers up.
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The first stent was done about 5am EDT this morning. Second one tentatively scheduled for Monday.
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#9 Shannon: You in particular will appreciate #8 – sound up.
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I found out there is no bar in this fancy hospital.
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You don’t say
CDC Announces 79% of All US Omicron Cases Have Occurred in Vaccinated Individuals
According to the CDC data tracker, 77.3% of people age 5 or over are vaccinated.
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Waking up to a sunny Christmas Eve here in Big D. Might get out a little bit, but might not get out too. There are really some weird, disturbed people out on Christmas Eve, darting from place to place in a panic over this or that. Think I’ll just stay put.
Texpat, nice to hear that Santa is bringing you new parts for Christmas. Hopefully they will last a long time.
More later if anything develops. Have a great one you all.
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Here’s Ammo Grrrll to spread some cheer: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-407.php
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Well, Texpat’s Christmas will be different. Prayers for his complete recovery.
And Merry Christmas to all.
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Heard Hawaii cancelled their bowl game.
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Hang in there Texpat. It’s amazing what they can do today with ailments of the heart. Prayers up.
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Nasa Sis has been burning up the family text line about this.
Launch Date
Webb’s launch date is set for December 25, 2021 07:20am EST ( 2021-12-25 12:20 GMT/UTC).
Launch VehicleThe James Webb Space Telescope will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket. The launch vehicle is part of the European contribution to the mission. The Ariane 5 is one of the world’s most reliable launch vehicles capable of delivering Webb to its destination in space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has agreed to provide an Ariane 5 launcher and associated launch services to NASA for Webb.
The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope
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I always knew there was something untoward about those guys.
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#8
Posted that several days ago. A week ago?
It’s still beautiful, though.
Ave Maria – both Schubert and Bach – are among my favorites to listen to.
Here are some different compositions. Enjoy.
PS: Since I started Latin, I understand them so much better.
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Well, I found some frozen chili in the freezer, heated it up with some extra sharp cheddar, and slathered it over a couple of scrambled hen eggs just floating in real butter. Added some hot coffee to my cup, and the day just got a lot brighter. Chili and eggs – breakfast of champions.
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Texpat does hindsight now tell you that the respiratory issues you’ve been dealing with were in fact part this heart issue or are they totally separate?
In any case, prayers for a quick recovery and may someone bring you a special libation from their personal bar. I hear Katfish and Fay know a thing or two about that.
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It’s after 9am and the other 10 people in this house are still asleep.
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For you foodies out there.
He started the dinner with a seared Kobe beef tartare with sous vide egg yolk and microplaned truffle, followed by fresh semolina pasta with porcini and shaved truffle. Then he served petrale sole with celeriac and more shaved truffle. Next was a Liberty Farms duck with forbidden rice, quince and hazelnuts with shaved truffle. The last savory course was American Kobe New York steak with smoked parsnip, bone marrow and shaved truffle. For dessert? A selection of chocolate-based desserts with more black truffle.
Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting
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Morning, gang. Texpat, it was surprising to see you post from a hospital, fancy or not. Hope this doesn’t totally ruin your Christmas. Get well!
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I found out there is no bar in this fancy hospital.
Yeah and I bet all the pretty nurses get the holidays off.
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I won’t be able to listen any but Michael Berry is guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh show, or whatever it’s called now, today and I think some next week?
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I’ve had more sinus/upper respiratory infections in New Jersey than I did in 50 years in Texas.
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Good Christmas Eve morning, Hamsters,
A bright and beautiful today started out here with an appropriate to the season 59 at 6 and has made it to a sunny 72 with a light breeze that ruffles the candy cane banners on the front porch. After a week of house decorating for the winter season it is all finished, which is to say I have run out of ideas and energy. 😉
Truly amazing is the supply of Christmas/winter decorations that have piled up after adding one or two each year that were too lovely or cute to pass up in a store. And of course our recent several days in Fredericksburg produced a few more items not in the collection at home. Some date to our first Christmas as spouses, some of which I made that still are in good condition. Several can’t be cat-proofed and so stay in their boxes because Purrscilla has to inspect everything new in the house. Several times.
So let it be a Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates the day in various ways.
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Shannon says:
DECEMBER 24, 2021 AT 09:18
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Chronic sinus/allergy problems run in the family.Hmmm.
Runny noses run in the Johnson family. Who’da thunk it?
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I went to Krogers. On Christmas Eve. Unexpectedly, it wasn’t horrible. In and out in 30 minutes. Mask freakazoids are back up to about 80%.
Remember when you almost never saw anyone wearing a mask, and on the rare occasion you did, like during the swine flu freakout, they were always oriental? I think we will now have a permanent face diaper class of zombies who will never stop wearing them. It’s like a blankie to toddlers. It brings them some sort of perverse comfort. A face blankie!
Are you or someone you love suffering from mask addiction? The struggle is real. You don’t have to suffer any longer and you deserve compensation! Call 1-800-BLANKIE. Counselors are standing by (This is not a lawsuit against your employer).
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35 Hammie
I can attest that yesterday was the Zoo Day at the grocery store.
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SIL and grandnephew went duck hunting down at the big pond this morning but didn’t get anything. They saw 4 Wood Ducks but they came over about 40K feet at mach 2. An hour ago SIL was looking out the back window and noticed the water in the little pond rippling and thought that there were Wood Ducks back there. I gave him my binoculars and it turned out to be a pair of Hooded Mergansers, a drake and a hen. Last I looked they’re still there. 😉
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Trump should’ve pulled the funding of npr.
They “allowed white fans” to eat a Velveeta cheese version of black music. So much of this racialized criticism thrives on a vivid imagination of “allowance” and thievery.
Oh death where is thy sting?
Wokeism claptrap for fools like Ann Powers. Do you feel good about writing that Ann?
Are you all warm and tingly with self virtue as you sip your peppermint latte and wax unphilosophical and marvel at the contusion of your illusion?She, like all wokesters, are losers.
Those that can’t play become music critics.But here’s to the winners.
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Was Nat King Cole accused of thievery for singing smarmy cocktail music?
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Hendrix was a fantastic player but IMO he was not a better player than EVH or Jimmy Page or Pete Townsend.
Listen to Quadrophenia with headphones and you’ll see what I mean.
Townsend was brilliant.
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#37 Phil
I like this.
Are you all warm and tingly with self virtue as you sip your peppermint latte and wax unphilosophical and marvel at the contusion of your illusion?
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Hammy – did you get this email?
My Dear People,
On the early morning of December 23rd, 2021, at around 1 am, an individual jumped our fence, broke into the Foley House, and vandalized the Foley House and our beloved Church of the Annunciation.
I suspect the guy may have first thrown something through the first floor window (see photo #1 below) that faces Texas Street as a test to see if an alarm would go off. He then broke into the Foley House through the window of the reception door (#2), broke the receptionist control door handle (#3) and got into the receptionist’s area. He broke the receptionist exterior window (#4), ransacked the receptionist office (#5) and some other parts of the first floor, throwing the printer, computer equipment, emptying drawers and cabinets’ contents on the floor. He found some tools that were stored in a lateral file cabinet and attempted to break in to the drop safe, (#6) drilling into the keyholes and attempting to cut out the hinges with an electric grinder (#7). He took the drill and attempted to break into the church by drilling into the keyhole on the keypad security lock (#8) we installed on the round-topped door leading from the plaza into the Visitation Chapel. The door hardware and the door were damaged, but he couldn’t break in. He took a hammer and attempted to break through the Resurrection stained glass window (#9) but was unable to penetrate the impact-resistant glass that we had installed earlier this year. (#10)
After attempting to break into Fr. John’s car, and his failed attempt to get into the church, he stole some items and left. He was on campus for around 45 minutes.
The good news is that our protective impact-resistant glass did what it was supposed to and protected our stained glass window of the Resurrection from being damaged. Thanks to all of you who contributed to paying to have that protective measure done for our beautiful stained glass windows! Your contributions paid off in a big way! The protective glass will have to be replaced but that is a small price to pay compared to the cost of repairing or replacing the stained glass window. The special keypad security lock we installed on the round-topped door leading into the Visitation Chapel was damaged along with the door, but the perpetrator did not get in. It is horrible to think what harm could have been done if the guy had gotten into our church. He could have done severe damage and theft, but incomparably worse — he could have desecrated the Blessed Sacrament! Thankfully, our security measures prevented that from happening. Our new video security system captured this intrusion, and we hope to glean a good image that will provide a clear recognizable image of the perpetrator.
The security measures we have taken over recent years worked to prevent or minimize the damage that could have been done to people and property. However, this event opened our eyes to some things that we still need to do and that can help minimize our vulnerability. There are some additional video security cameras we need to install. Technology provides the means for setting electronic “no-go” zones so that, within predetermined timeframes, the cameras can detect movement in those zones and can send out notifications to a predetermined list of people who can respond and call the police, if appropriate. We will need to install better hardware on the entry doors along with more impact-resistant glass for areas vulnerable to break-in attempts.
Our insurance has a $5000 deductible per incident claim. We will need to replace broken and stolen office equipment. We will have to repair all the other damages. And, beyond the scope of what insurance will cover, we will need to take additional security measures to do all that we can to ensure the safety of our Eucharistic Lord, our people, our church and all of our other facilities and equipment.
We have all heard the expression “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Your past support has made a huge difference in preventing the harm of this incident from being worse than it was.
Please help us to repair these damages and take additional measures for prevention going forward. As we are about to celebrate Christmas and are nearing the end of the year 2021, I’m asking you to remember Annunciation in your year-end giving.
May God bless you and all your loved ones this Christmas Season and may you experience grateful joy throughout the New Year!
Fr. Paul Felix
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41. I did. I just assumed there was a monitored alarm system. With all the scabbones hanging around that should be a necessity.
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#41
Hope this perp is identified and arrested, that is one of the most despicable crimes I have ever heard of.
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I’ve offered College Buddy’s computer and printer, which were given to me when he passed. The computer ought to be top notch, as CB always bought the best. The printer isn’t laser, which I prefer, but it would be free to the church.
I guess I’ll hear from them when they are ready.
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On my merry way. Stopping to on load fuel and off load pee pee and there not being Buccee’s convenient to the location and timing, I am enjoying sammich and ice tea at a place called Big Gas in Bryan. While I appreciate the name, it is one of those places that aspires to be a Buccee’s but falls short of the mark. Well short. I mean a LOT short. The “I’m glad I brought the sammich from home” kind of short….
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Hi gang
Just poking my nose in to wish one and all a MERRY CHRISTMAS (and Festivus for the rest of us).
Michael Berry as some of you might know is sitting in for Clay and Buck on the Rush Limbaugh hours. Anyway this political cartoon was mentioned and well I will just say Yes I am a fan.
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Merry Christmas, Squawk and BSue!
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#46 – Merry MERRY Christmas Squawkster!
Fantastic cartoon!!!!
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Merry Christmas y’all! And prayers for Texpat and Bonecrusher’s friend.
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Sha-Na-Na – as we discussed kneemail is UP for TP!!
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Crummy news about the break in at Annunciation. Glad the damage was “limited”.
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The damage done to the Church of the Annunciation on Christmas Eve is particularly sick and evil and so is the perp.
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Who knew there’s a Tranny in Rasslin’? Makes sense, I guess. Fake wrestling, fake woman.
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I had to turn on the AC. The wimminz were all hot from cooking and wrapping presents.
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Ride safe Sarge.
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Merry Christmas, Squawkster and the Missus! Hey and thanks for the Limbaugh cartoon, I hadn’t heard of it, and it is spot-on hilarious!
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Normally Father Joseph does baptisms on Saturday morning before Pascha’s midnight service. Usually I am traveling at Christmas and I go to St. Elias in Austin. I thought Father would have had any baptisms last Saturday morning.
Tonight we have Festal Orthos at 6:30pm followed by Nativity Liturgy with baptisms beginning at 8pm. While I enjoy seeing people come into the Orthodox Church and take their first communion at the Liturgy that follows, I am not sure if I’ll last till 11pm. Afterwards there will be caroling in the temple and the parish hall will be open for people to break the fast together. I am sure some people will not head home until close to 1am.
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I had 4 of those little spice finches chowing on the patio after the larger birds had left. Here’s hoping they are not just the remnants of the larger flock.
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I turned on AC last night. Humidity was climbing.
Ever since the Feb 15th headache incident, I really can’t stand being uncomfortable. My head starts to feel…strained, I guess. I have determined that it’s outside environments that inflict the most discomfort. If I’m exercising, and I’m generating the heat that causes me to sweat, I’m okay. If I get hot from outside, I start to feel uncomfortable. Weird, but there it is.
I’ve become a wimp.
At least they are not nearly as frequent nor as intense. If I even notice them, they are very mild. Instead of every day for hours, they are occasional days for minutes. Progress. Progress is good.
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Yep, AC going here as well. We already had our immediate family Christmas just bit ago, the grandkids and their parents left to have Christmas at their church and will return later for the full in-law family Christmas gathering here. Got the ribeye roast boughten and dressed by the meat market in the oven at 250 as WB says and waiting. I hid my fancy Thermoworks meat thermometer from myself and I can’t find it anywhere. Luckily I got a nice Bluetooth unit made by GrillEye for Christmas so I’m set. If y’all knew how low tech I’m am you’d be amazed I’m watching this process on my phone. Fifty five degrees at the moment.
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So this story finally had a few details in the Dec 23 HouChron online:
Pilot, paraglider killed in Fulshear mid-air collision identified
The pilot of a small plane and a paraglider who died Tuesday after a midair collision near Fulshear have been identified, officials said.
Robert Gruss, 35, a San Antonio flight instructor, was piloting the single-engine Cessna 208 that collided with paraglider Kenneth Tuttle, 51, of Fulshear, officials with Fort Bend County’s medical examiner’s office said Thursday.
Gruss left George Bush Intercontinental Airport and soon hit the paraglider, who landed in Weston Lakes, a suburban neighborhood. His parachute and other paragliding equipment were found a few miles west.
The plane crashed at the Brazos River Sportsman’s Club, a shooting range, police said. Gruss was expected at the Victoria Regional Airport, roughly 150 miles southwest of Houston, according to the FAA.
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The whole freakout over Covid has been psychotic. C&C has been correct about the mental illness component of this whole ‘pandemic’. Much of it has been ginned up to keep certain folks in power. Or to keep the number of clicks up. Or to keep ratings high. Because if it bleeds, it leads. And there’s a frightening number of people who just feel better if they can control other people. Some because they just like it, and others because they themselves are insecure and feel out of control, and controlling others gives them some sense of stability. (Mental illness, again.)
Covid is a real disease. How dangerous exactly, we don’t know because so many numbers were exaggerated. There were/are people who are at higher risk and they should be sincerely concerned. Others, not so much. Yes, people died, but it’s not like walking outside of your door was an immediate death sentence without a mask or a jab.
Flu is also a real disease which kills people. Heart attacks, stroke, breast cancer – all real diseases that kill thousands of people a year.
It’s all about perspective. And that has been lost.
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Not a single thing on tv and something’s wrong with the Firestick.
The TV doesn’t even recognize that there is anything in that Input. -
‘Twas the night before Christmas,
when there in the White house
The Wooden Dummy was slobbering,
all drunken and soused;The syringes were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that Count Fraudcila, soon would be there;
The politicians were all nestled, with call girls in their beds,
While visions of kinky sex, danced on their heads;And Baby Jane Pelosi guzzled Vodka filled caps,
Passed out in a drunken stupor, for a long winter’s nap,When out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter,
The Wooden Dummy sat up, to see what’s the matter.
to the window he shuffled, his Depends pinched his ball sack
He let out a cry and threw up on the sash…He reached for the towels, to wipe up the mess
And shook out the cobwebs, his bearings they jest,When what to his plastic doll eyes should appear,
But a used, banged up sleigh and eight Communist reindeer,
With a vampire fanged driver, drunk on blood money and panacea
alas The Dummy knew, it was the undead, Count Fraudcila;slowly inhaling, his hisses they came,
And he spittled and stuttered and called them by name;
“Now, Omicron, now Delta, now Moronic and Lab leak!
On, Lockdown! on Booster, on ConJob and Mandate!Now dash away, fly away, be gone away all
I’m the great Count Fraudcila, I command you all
And then a rustle of bat flapping, The Dummy heard on the roof
And just right behind, he heard a great big poofSo he drew in his head, and was turning around,
When down the chimney the Count came, bat fluttering aroundHe was dressed in a cape from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all black with ashes and soot;A bundle of vaxxines, he had, flung on his back,
he looked like a drug pusher, just opening his pack
His eyes — were lifeless, his dimples were nary!
His cheeks were like candle wax, his nose all hairyHis red little mouth was drawn up like a gremlin
And the drool on his chin was like platelets and venom;The stump of a toad, he held tight in his teeth,
And smoke encircled his head, like a fogged sheath;
His face it was sunken and eyes were like coffins
That glowed red as he stared, into space out at nothingHe was skinny and pale, a quite dastardly site,
And The Dummy he shivered, in spite of the light;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave the Dummy to know, it was the walking undead;He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then twisted and twerked
And laying his finger upon the side of his nose,
He gave a quick nod, a puff of smoke up, it rose;He fluttered to his sleigh, to his team he gave lip,
And away they all flew, like bats on a ship
And the Dummy heard him exclaim, as fluttered out of sight,I’m the Great Count Fraudcila, I have gain of function rights
I spin up my lab and cook new variants with might
Bah humbug on Christmas, tell your family stay home
I’m the permanent kill joy, a devilish garden gnome
And to all of you serfs I say this very night,
cancel your Christmas, AND TO ALL A Fright-NIGHT! -
Fabulous, Phil.
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Thanks TP!
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Just saw on Dailywire (link from Twitter), a video of Joe & Jill at NORAD doing a “tracking Santa” photo op and taking calls. Ill was all smiles, Biden all clueless looking smiles. A man called in, wished them a merry Christmas and “let’s go Brandon”.
Jill quit smiling, while Joe said “Let’s go, Brandon, I agree.”
Just got an early Christmas gift. That was priceless. Scary, but priceless.
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#65 Phil
That was absolutely fantastic!
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I have to hand it to Father Joseph. He somehow manages to streamline services. I have never been to a Liturgy where the baptisms were literally interwoven into the service. A family of six were welcomed into the Church this evening.
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BREAKING: Terrorists have taken over a building in LA, over 50+ hostages.
Best response to the Tweet.
its ok, a social worker from New York is taking care of it
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Here is Biden parroting the Let’s Go Brandon.
The man is dumb as a stump.
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Night all. HO HO HO
#64 – Unplug the fire stick’s power cord and then check it at both ends. So9unds like it’s not getting power to me.
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