Christmas Eve News Dump

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1 Re: porn mom - the story says she's 20 years old and has a 5 year old son. So she had her first kid at the age of 15. No issues there, nosirree.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:23 AM (kpqmD)

2 It's lonely down here in this bunker.

Posted by: son of porn mom, after everyone on the planet read the article at December 24, 2015 09:24 AM (326rv)

3 One more wheeze out of you, kid, and I'm going to take all your lunch money. And don't think your creepy granny is going to save you, either.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, asthma bully at December 24, 2015 09:29 AM (NeFrd)

4
A lovely post from the Seraphic Secret blog, "When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas:

http://goo.gl/fbpAkF

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 09:30 AM (X6fMO)

5 Porn mom is quite racktastic, I'll give her that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:33 AM (kpqmD)

6 You'll all be glad to know that after vigorous...

....uh...use of the scientific method last night

that our batch of George Washington's Eggnog is aging perfectly and should reach

Peak Nogosity(TM)

on Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Hurrah for Science!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 09:33 AM (KUa85)

7 I doubt the NYT article has pics.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2015 09:35 AM (q2o38)

8 NYP has the pics.

Meh...

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2015 09:36 AM (ptqRm)

9 insomniac , at least she is self supporting and she didn't kill off her child because of inconvenience,
(looking at the more positive side) lol

but yes she will have a tough road when she ages and no other skills

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:36 AM (ZKlDy)

10 Nice article on Trump and borders from at link at Maggie's Farm:

http://bit.ly/1PmDz2W

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 09:37 AM (Lqy/e)

11 Porn mom is quite racktastic, I'll give her that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:33 AM

Disappointing. I clicked the link expecting a story about Stanley Ann Dunham....

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 24, 2015 09:38 AM (z/vax)

12 I think porn mom might be getting paid a little too much.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 09:38 AM (W2YA6)

13 Will Connecticut's High Tax, Big Spending Policies Turn Out GE's Lights?

Used to have a coworker from Connecticut. He came here as a sailor on a boomer out of Charleston and when he got out he said to hell with Connecticut and stayed here.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 09:38 AM (t2KH5)

14 *trying to be self supporting

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (ZKlDy)

15 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, asthma bully at December 24, 2015 09:29 AM (NeFrd)

I'm thinking of getting To Save Us All From Ruin for my dad for christmas. His dad (who is 91) was also a Colorado farmboy who joined the army in WWII, although he was a mechanic in the Pacific theater.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (GDulk)

16 Merry Christmas, 'rons!

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (Wu2k4)

17 This is the first Christmas Eve I can remember it being 70 degrees outside.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (GdFQh)

18
Against Despair, A Christmas Credo For Republicans

Nothing but a GOPe apologia. Worthless.

And that's all I'm saying about politics today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (X6fMO)

19 Why Is It That Newspaper Staff Don't "Stand Up To" Left Wing Billionaires Who Purchase Their Company?

Because they don't need to.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (oVJmc)

20 9 insomniac , at least she is self supporting and she didn't kill off her child because of inconvenience,
(looking at the more positive side) lol

but yes she will have a tough road when she ages and no other skills

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:36 AM (ZKlDy)

Cause there's no place in the world of porn for women over 30....

Posted by: Cougar and MILF pron at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (zt+N6)

21 Mom did porn to buy son Christmas gifts.

***

Sad.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, asthma bully at December 24, 2015 09:40 AM (NeFrd)

22 And yes, people do not have savings accounts. If the banks don't pay you for the use of your money, why would you let them touch it?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 09:40 AM (Lqy/e)

23 Re: porn mom - the story says she's 20 years old and has a 5 year old
son. So she had her first kid at the age of 15. No issues there,
nosirree.

She's an accomplished bad decision maker, that's for sure.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (oVJmc)

24 So,they're out to get a female Republican Hispanic governor. Did the Boston Globe report on any of the countless occasions when Ted Kennedy was 3 sheets to the wind at Christmas parties?

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (P8951)

25 "Is The Republican Party Over?"

Yep.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (u5gzz)

26 1 Re: porn mom - the story says she's 20 years old and has a 5 year old son. So she had her first kid at the age of 15. No issues there, nosirree.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:23 AM (kpqmD)

Actually 13.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (fWAjv)

27 Cause there's no place in the world of porn for women over 30....
Posted by: Cougar and MILF pron at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (zt+N6)

there is?
see what i can learn at aces?

i did see mentioned midget porn, so i suppose it's a real deal.

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (ZKlDy)

28 1 Re: porn mom - the story says she's 20 years old and has a 5 year old son. So she had her first kid at the age of 15. No issues there, nosirree.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at Decembe

Great grandparent by age 39, awesome, just f*cking awesome.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:42 AM (voOPb)

29 Sorry, actually gave birth when she was 14. Conception happened when she was 13.

*she is in favor of giving sexually active 10 year olds contraception.

But yeah, no issues there O.O

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:43 AM (fWAjv)

30 I was friends with a woman that had her first child at 15. She was on welfare long enough to get her son and daughter into school, then went to work. She was barely 5 foot, but worked as a carpenter tender and pulled green chain at a lumber mill. She was tough and never whined about her lot in life.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 09:43 AM (Lqy/e)

31 i guess i should actually read the porn mom link. but i just can't bring myself to click.

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:44 AM (ZKlDy)

32 So,they're out to get a female Republican Hispanic
governor. Did the Boston Globe report on any of the countless occasions
when Ted Kennedy was 3 sheets to the wind at Christmas parties?

Posted by: DonnaV (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM

Preemptive strike in case someone wants to vet her for the v-p slot on the repub ticket. I voted for Susana Martinez in the 2010 election just before I left the state because I respected her platform and also Dollar Bill Richardson, the serial groper. Also, Santa Fe is a wholly democrat owned town.

Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2015 09:44 AM (NSb9d)

33 So the kid sees his bike and thinks of mom in the remake of Long Schlong Silver

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:44 AM (voOPb)

34

DAY 1,142

320 to go (393 to Inauguration Day )

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, McKesson's, Mizzou malefactors, mewling mattress-myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:44 AM (uRmWf)

35 It's just a click-bait article, willow.

Most of porn is just women paying for drugs or their kids. Usually both.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (W2YA6)

36 "Against Despair, A Christmas Credo For Republicans"

Pukeworthy.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (u5gzz)

37 Megan Oakley believes that if children are sexually active, even if they are not of the age of consent, they should be provided with contraceptive.

Speaking on This Morning the 19-year-old said: 'I'm obviously not saying for ten years old to go out and have sex but if they are having sex before the age of consent they should be using contraceptive to avoid teen pregnancy.'

http://tinyurl.com/gqsp2s8

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (fWAjv)

38 Is The Republican Party Over?

Does a bear shit in the woods?

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (t2KH5)

39 Notsothoreau, i like reading of redemption and personal strength

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (ZKlDy)

40
As they say in old Lagos, "remain blessed."

Yuletide greetings to you all. Tonight at the chez Sefton, our annual screening of "Stalag 17."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (uRmWf)

41 34

DAY 1,142

320 to go (393 to Inauguration Day
________________________________

Yay!! J.J. with his countdown calendar

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (voOPb)

42 Hey Ben, did you hear the Feds are going to stop accepting certain states IDs as legal identification?

It's true!

http://tinyurl.com/oer7y5n

Personally, I think this is more important than another round of "Trump is a poopyhead" articles from Gopey writers like Rich Lowery.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:46 AM (Dj0WE)

43 27 Cause there's no place in the world of porn for women over 30....
Posted by: Cougar and MILF pron at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (zt+N6)

there is?
see what i can learn at aces?

i did see mentioned midget porn, so i suppose it's a real deal.

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (ZKlDy)

Rule 34

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:46 AM (fWAjv)

44 41 Yay!! J.J. with his countdown calendar
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (voOPb)

Be careful what you wish for . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:46 AM (uRmWf)

45
Be careful what you wish for . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:46 AM (uRmWf)

At this point in my life, i do like the surprises

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:47 AM (voOPb)

46 17 This is the first Christmas Eve I can remember it being 70 degrees outside
______________________

Not me. Of course, I live in AZ, where 70 in December is not unusual.

However, it's a chilly 52 here right now. LOL.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (a31sM)

47 Rich Lowry can kiss my ass. He's a pure Party man.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (t2KH5)

48 43 i did see mentioned midget porn, so i suppose it's a real deal.

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:41 AM (ZKlDy

Midget transexual foot fetish coprophiliac golden shower fisting lesbian grannies. With strap-ons.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (uRmWf)

49 Santa, if you could use your magic...
Just a sprinkle of reindeer dust, a sprig of mistletoe.
Santa, make her my Christmas bride!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (NO4j+)

50 Me being in lefty-land, I don't really know any other people that vote Republican, but are any Republicans that any of you know happy with the direction of the party?

The article makes it out to seem like there's a rift right down the middle, I that's not the read I get from the electorate.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (W2YA6)

51 RWC, ha, i'm certainly not going to go check and see if it's true. I'll take your guys word for it

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (ZKlDy)

52 Speaking on This Morning the 19-year-old said:

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:45 AM (fWAjv)

Good grief, is there anything ever in the history of ever that followed that phrase with ANYTHING anyone needs to hear?

A 19 year old? And this 19 year old is... who now?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (Dj0WE)

53
Aw nuts! Left out "lactating!"

My Christmas is ruined!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:49 AM (uRmWf)

54 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (uRmWf)

ow.

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:49 AM (ZKlDy)

55 If you want to know what this Dump is about, follow the Monet.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 09:50 AM (DLIIY)

56 1.

According to the story at the Daily Mirror, Mother-of-the-Year was preggers at 13.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 24, 2015 09:50 AM (mPyCN)

57 off to do chores, merry christmas to you all. keep our moronette Sherry in your thoughts, and be kind to eachother .

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:50 AM (ZKlDy)

58 52 A 19 year old? And this 19 year old is... who now?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (Dj0WE)

The only 19 year old I ever want to hear from is someone who was 19. In 1944 and either facing a banzai charge on Saipan or enduring a foxhole in Bastogne.

And something similar from all our wars.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (uRmWf)

59 Rich Lowry can kiss my ass. He's a pure Party man.
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (t2KH5)

We sure do like to give him an audience though, don't we?

This is the one thing that mystifies me most about this place, how much respect is given to these jerkwad media types, both on tv, and in their webzines.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (Dj0WE)

60 "are any Republicans that any of you know happy with the direction of the party?"

I'm in a conservative state, but no. I don't know any Republicans who aren't livid with the Republican Party.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (u5gzz)

61 And this 19 year old is... who now?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (Dj0WE)

The current poster child for making poor life choices, apparently.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (GDulk)

62
Midget transexual foot fetish coprophiliac golden shower fisting lesbian grannies. With strap-ons.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM (uRmW

I suggest this as a warm up to Stalag 17
What could go wrong?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (voOPb)

63 I stopped reading that "Against Despair" article at Sentence #3.

"The House of Representatives is now run by one of the most eloquent spokesmen for the ideas of our party and our movement"

What a load of bullshit.

Posted by: Cougar and MILF pron at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (zt+N6)

64 not that i'm the boss of you.

out.

Posted by: willow at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (ZKlDy)

65 The only 19 year old I ever want to hear from is someone who was 19. In 1944 and either facing a banzai charge on Saipan or enduring a foxhole in Bastogne.

And something similar from all our wars.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (uRmWf)

Pretty much.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (Dj0WE)

66 /off porny sock

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 09:52 AM (zt+N6)

67 Is The Republican Party Over?

Sold old dead white dude said something like "A house divided against itself, cannot stand"

Can't remember his name but I think he was a Illinoisan via Kentucky. He was a pretty smart guy, in some ways.

Are the repubs divided against itself?

Yupp

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at December 24, 2015 09:52 AM (WVsWD)

68 My favorite story about my friend has to do with her son. She'd been trying to potty train him but he just wasn't getting it. She hit the fed up point, took him outside and hosed him off. He never messed his pants again and doesn't seem to be scarred for life. Both her kids turned out okay, but she is a strong willed woman.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 09:52 AM (Lqy/e)

69 55 If you want to know what this Dump is about, follow the Monet.
Posted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 09:50 AM (DLIIY

Golf Clap, Sir

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:52 AM (voOPb)

70 62 I suggest this as a warm up to Stalag 17
What could go wrong?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:51 AM (voOPb)

Now now. No peeking at this evening's Playbill. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:52 AM (uRmWf)

71 However, it's a chilly 52 here right now. LOL.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 24, 2015 09:48 AM

It's 53 here at the moment, and in my California Days I would have considered that damn cold. I remember plenty o' Christmas Eves when shorts and t-shirts were more than adequate.

That said, wishing all y'all a Merry Christmas!

Me, I'll be over here in the corner drinking the blood of goyische kiddies and plotting financial shenanigans....

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 24, 2015 09:52 AM (z/vax)

72

A 19 year old? And this 19 year old is... who now?

A 19-year-old 100 years ago could be independent, employed, married, stable, and responsible.

Nowadays, that's very unlikely.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 09:53 AM (oVJmc)

73 Aw nuts! Left out "lactating!"

My Christmas is ruined!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:49 AM (uRmWf)

Ha!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:53 AM (Dj0WE)

74 72 Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 09:53 AM (oVJmc)

Time to make the voting age 26. After all, that's the age a "child" is covered on Obamacare.

Feh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:54 AM (uRmWf)

75 Sucking *blank* for an X-Box

Being a ho to get a GI Joe

Golden shower pee to get a Wii

Girl on girl dike to get a bike

Back door rocking to fill the Christmas stocking

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:54 AM (fWAjv)

76 18
Against Despair, A Christmas Credo For Republicans

Nothing but a GOPe apologia. Worthless.

And that's all I'm saying about politics today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (X6fMO)

Ayup. When it opens with a "Keep calm it won't be Trump" graphic you know what's next.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:54 AM (kpqmD)

77 55 If you want to know what this Dump is about, follow the Monet.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 09:50 AM (DLIIY

Huh?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2015 09:54 AM (JO9+V)

78 "I'm in a conservative state, but no. I don't know any Republicans who aren't livid with the Republican Party."

I should have qualified that. I'm talking about voters, not party operatives.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 09:55 AM (u5gzz)

79 >>>The House of Representatives is now run by one of the most eloquent spokesmen for the ideas of our party and our movement
--------
1) I might have been born at night, but i wasn't born last night

2) Don't piss down my back & tell me it's raining.

C) What are you, fucking nuts?

Red State my ass, more like red shit for brains

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 09:55 AM (voOPb)

80
66 and heading to 72 here in Hymietown. I think it's warmer here than in SoCal.

Wow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:55 AM (uRmWf)

81 53
Aw nuts! Left out "lactating!"

My Christmas is ruined!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:49 AM (uRmWf)

You also omitted Laplander reindeer testicle biting.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:56 AM (kpqmD)

82 Morning all

I am running errands in a short sleeve shirt today here in NJ. Merry Fuckin Christmas?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 09:57 AM (gf8BH)

83 18
Against Despair, A Christmas Credo For Republicans

Nothing but a GOPe apologia. Worthless.

And that's all I'm saying about politics today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM (X6fMO)

Did you say "credo" or "GREEDO?" Emphasis on Greed.

The party is worse than dead. It is now an appendage of the Democrat-Socialist movement.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:57 AM (uRmWf)

84 Apparently here there were two funnel clouds in the sky yesterday. Tornado warnings are not common 2 days before Christmas. Must be Global Warming!

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 09:57 AM (zt+N6)

85
Watched Spotlight last nite. Not as bad as I thought it would be due to Michael Keaton. Problem is is that the subject has been done to death. Also, it is the msm praising the msm. And yes, people knew this crap was going on. Gloria Alred of all people was constantly railing about it in the 80s and early 90s. Plenty of blame to go around including the parents.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 09:58 AM (iQIUe)

86 81 You also omitted Laplander reindeer testicle biting.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:56 AM (kpqmD

That's a movie title, not a perversion. But you win a cookie anyway.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:58 AM (uRmWf)

87 >> Cause there's no place in the world of porn for women over 30...
>> Posted by: Cougar and MILF pron at December 24, 2015 09:39 AM

Yet another horrid example of The Man keeping people down through patriarchal, heteronormative bias.

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at December 24, 2015 09:58 AM (nSW/N)

88 I should have qualified that. I'm talking about voters, not party operatives.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 09:55 AM (u5gzz)

That's the really scary part. You know there are states and districts where, if you were a Republican, and you were willing to run for office on a platform of "the Republican Party is broken, and beyond repair," you would win landslide victories.

Where are these guys? Where are the guys already in office, talking about the destruction of their Party?

Sure, we hear rumblings, but nowhere near matching the anger and sense of betrayal people (i.e. voters) have.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 09:59 AM (Dj0WE)

89 Sexy Syrian refugee marries men, then takes off with the gifts

http://tinyurl.com/hsnlvhs

Ummm, yeah. About that word 'sexy.' I don't think you know what it means.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:59 AM (fWAjv)

90
The Hated Eight or what ever it is called is the worse movie ever. I cant believe people like his crap. Acting bad, dialogue bad, plot bad. Jennifer Jason Leigh gets punched in the face repeatedly thru the entire movie. Not funny.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:00 AM (iQIUe)

91 Why is it so warm?

You are destroying the planet with your carbon sin! For shame!

Posted by: Prophet Al Gore at December 24, 2015 10:01 AM (NO4j+)

92 Latest on PP shooter: claims his jailers are poisoning him, that he fears becoming a zombie, and wants to fire his lawyers and represent himself in court.

Alrighty!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (NOIQH)

93 Ummm, yeah. About that word 'sexy.' I don't think you know what it means.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 09:59 AM

Unless you like chix who have a heavier beard than Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (z/vax)

94 Watched Spotlight last nite. Not as bad as I thought it would be due to Michael Keaton. Problem is is that the subject has been done to death. Also, it is the msm praising the msm. And yes, people knew this crap was going on. Gloria Alred of all people was constantly railing about it in the 80s and early 90s. Plenty of blame to go around including the parents.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 09:58 AM (iQIUe)

That's the one about pedo priests?

Yeah, I'll wait for the movie about lesbian softball and soccer coaches, grooming and recruiting 14 year old girls into the club.

Now, that would be a movie!

I don't mean sex scenes, you pervs. I'm talking about an untold story.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (Dj0WE)

95 86 81 You also omitted Laplander reindeer testicle biting.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 09:56 AM (kpqmD

That's a movie title, not a perversion. But you win a cookie anyway.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:58 AM (uRmWf)

Yum, patronizing flavor, my favorite!

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (kpqmD)

96 I don't mean sex scenes, you pervs. I'm talking about an untold story.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (Dj0WE)

Yeah you want the college coaches for the sex scenes.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:03 AM (zt+N6)

97 Latest on PP shooter: claims his jailers are poisoning him, that he fears becoming a zombie, and wants to fire his lawyers and represent himself in court.

Alrighty!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (NOIQH)

Ah. So a typical reich winger.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:03 AM (Dj0WE)

98 Yeah, I'll wait for the movie about lesbian softball and soccer coaches, grooming and recruiting 14 year old girls into the club.

Now, that would be a movie!

I don't mean sex scenes, you pervs. I'm talking about an untold story.

Isn't that pretty much common knowledge at this point?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:03 AM (kpqmD)

99 I tend to say something like 'have a good holiday' to strangers because it covers more than just the day of Christmas, especially if it's early in the season. But if Christmas is tomorrow (for instance) or otherwise pretty soon I will say merry Christmas.

In that vein, merry Christmas!

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 10:04 AM (EDW3H)

100 The party is worse than dead. It is now an appendage of the Democrat-Socialist movement.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 09:57 AM (uRmWf)

I've been saying that for a while. They've become a "loyal opposition", they're completely on board with the agenda and just playacting in order to provide a pressure valve to keep the public in check.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 24, 2015 10:04 AM (HalrA)

101 93. Unless you like chix who have a heavier beard than Paul Ryan. - Mr Scribbler

Just how much do you think his wife weighs?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 24, 2015 10:04 AM (mPyCN)

102 >> Does a bear shit in the woods?

Ahem.

Posted by: Leonardo da Caprio at December 24, 2015 10:04 AM (nSW/N)

103 Yeah you want the college coaches for the sex scenes.
Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:03 AM (zt+N6)

True story: I have a passing acquaintance with a fairly successful college wimminz soccer coach.

Drop dead gorgeous. Yes, she's a lesbian.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:05 AM (Dj0WE)

104 I hope everyone's enjoying my Christmas gift to the country!

Posted by: RuPaul Ryan at December 24, 2015 10:05 AM (Dwehj)

105 That porn mom is just using her son as an excuse to do this. She should instead be teaching him to be grateful for what he gets.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 10:05 AM (EDW3H)

106 Isn't that pretty much common knowledge at this point?
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:03 AM (kpqmD)

Not for a lot of parents of 14 year old girls, apparently.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:06 AM (Dj0WE)

107 Seasoned Greetings, gentlefappers.

Merry Christmas Eve to all the Hordelings and their families.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 24, 2015 10:06 AM (LUgeY)

108

Rep. Paul Ryan
defended his omnibus bills controversial expansion in the H-2B visa program, which would allow foreign workers to fill blue-collar American jobs, by arguing that if the provision were not included, American companies would be forced to shut their doors.

Breitbart

????
FIRST this putz RINO traitor argued the numbers were so small to be insignificant and not worthy of further comment. NOW those numbers are saving American Business????

Must be the new improved RINO talking paoints?

CUE THE SHILL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 10:07 AM (gf8BH)

109 What a lovely and touching holiday story about porn mom! Seriously? Great parenting there dummy.

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:07 AM (oiNtH)

110 *I thought it was a cane at first.

http://tinyurl.com/zwgff6v

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 10:07 AM (fWAjv)

111 90 Jennifer Jason Leigh gets punched in the face repeatedly thru the entire movie. Not funny.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:00 AM (iQIUe)

I never got the appeal of Tarantino at all. I thought his movies sucked. My friend and writing partner raves about "Inglorious Basterds" but I refuse to see it. And after his public beclwoning of himself with BLM and anti-police garbage, I will likely never see it. I consider that a blessing.

On a side note, I always thought Jennifer Jason Leigh was a damn good actress. Too bad she kind of faded away after "Hudsucker Proxy" and "Washington Square."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:08 AM (uRmWf)

112 What a lovely and touching holiday story about porn mom! Seriously? Great parenting there dummy.
Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:07 AM (oiNtH)

You don't happen to have her phone number? Asking for a friend

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 10:08 AM (gf8BH)

113 The Christmas Spirit
Is that hope
Which tenaciously clings
To the hearts of the faithful
And announces
In the face
Of any Herod the world can produce
And all the inn doors slammed in our faces
And all the dark nights of our souls
That with God
All things are possible,
That even now
Unto us
A child is born!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:08 AM (qES5k)

114 >>What a lovely and touching holiday story about porn mom! Seriously? Great parenting there dummy.

She's giving him the gift of a lifetime - a lifetime of being teased by other boys about seeing his mom's porno movie. Thanks, mom!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:09 AM (NOIQH)

115 103 Drop dead gorgeous. Yes, she's a lesbian.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:05 AM (Dj0WE)

As with Hotspur, you must try, try, try again!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:09 AM (uRmWf)

116 Is the Republican Party over?

Dear Lord, grant me a Christmas wish.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 10:09 AM (jfGh+)

117 She's giving him the gift of a lifetime - a lifetime of being teased by other boys about seeing his mom's porno movie. Thanks, mom!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:09 AM (NOIQH)

Ah your mother wears Army Boots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 10:09 AM (gf8BH)

118
Watched Spotlight last nite. Not as bad as I thought it would be due to Michael Keaton. Problem is is that the subject has been done to death. Also, it is the msm praising the msm. And yes, people knew this crap was going on. Gloria Alred of all people was constantly railing about it in the 80s and early 90s. Plenty of blame to go around including the parents.

Agreed. But I'm a contrary SOB. Whenever I hear anyone screeching about pedo priests, I always counter with, "can you tell me, by percent, what the average of priests molesting kids is compared to government school teachers molesting kids? And once you've done that, perhaps you'd like to ask all these hot-shot, crusading lawyers why they're gung-ho to go after the evil Catholic Church, but not one of them will take on the predators of the Teacher's Association?

"And when you've finished, you can blow me."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (X6fMO)

119 On a side note, I always thought Jennifer Jason Leigh was a damn good actress. Too bad she kind of faded away after "Hudsucker Proxy" and "Washington Square."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:08 AM (uRmWf)

Yes, she was wonderful in Hudsucker Proxy... such an odd movie, that was. But entertaining as all heck, viewed as a straight up parody of Capra movies.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (Dj0WE)

120 100 I've been saying that for a while. They've become a "loyal opposition", they're completely on board with the agenda and just playacting in order to provide a pressure valve to keep the public in check.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 24, 2015 10:04 AM (HalrA)

Well said. It's why I refer to them as "The Potemkin Patriot Party."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (uRmWf)

121 Gee mom, thanks for the calendar. Is that you? Every month? Gee, thanks mom, can't wait to show it to all my friends.

Porn son

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (7v/r5)

122 I don't mean sex scenes, you pervs. I'm talking about an untold story.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:02 AM (Dj0WE

Stay tuned for the rest of the "untold story"

Sure Burt

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (voOPb)

123 But Paul Ryan is a very eloquent spokesman. Have you heard the guy talk?

http://tinyurl.com/h8vkmel

You can not like the guy and still think he is an eloquent and gifted man.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:11 AM (uZNvH)

124 I never got the appeal of Tarantino at all. I thought his movies sucked. My friend and writing partner raves about "Inglorious Basterds" but I refuse to see it. And after his public beclwoning of himself with BLM and anti-police garbage, I will likely never see it. I consider that a blessing.

On a side note, I always thought Jennifer Jason Leigh was a damn good actress. Too bad she kind of faded away after "Hudsucker Proxy" and "Washington Square."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:08 AM (uRmWf)

==========
His formula is simple. Just a lot of crazy skits with lots of violence, no real plot.

I cd not get thru Inglorious Bastards. Every thing he does comes across as bad parody.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:11 AM (iQIUe)

125 Porny XXXmas Family Sing-a-Schlong

Frosty the Snowman
Had an enormous carrot schlong
With two acorns nuts
That he stuck in butts
In pornos all day long...

Everybody sing-a-long!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:11 AM (KUa85)

126 The Defense Department doesnt want more guns in the hands of stateside troops, but the Republican commander-in-chief hopefuls do.

This week, presidential hopeful Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reiterated his support for arming military recruiters in shopping malls and public spaces to ensure their safety against the threat of terrorist attacks.

A few days later, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul offered legislation that would not only arm recruiters but also allow any service member to carry a concealed weapon while on duty, in accordance with local laws.

Now THAT would be a great Christmas Present!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 10:12 AM (gf8BH)

127
That porn mom is just using her son as an excuse to do this. She should instead be teaching him to be grateful for what he gets.

Now that she's outed herself, I daresay what her son will get is all of his school chums showing him their cell phones loaded with pics of his mom.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

128 That porn mom is just using her son as an excuse to do this. She should instead be teaching him to be grateful for what he gets.

Posted by: Lea

Yep. A trainwreck in the making.

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:12 AM (oiNtH)

129
Ah your mother wears Army Boots
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 10:09 AM (g

Some of those Moms don't look to bad IYKWIMAITYD

Oh thats right youre Navy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:12 AM (voOPb)

130 Stay tuned for the rest of the "untold story"

Sure Burt
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (voOPb)

You can blame me for going there first, but the rest of you pervs would have gotten there eventually without my help.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:13 AM (Dj0WE)

131 >>"can you tell me, by percent, what the average of priests molesting kids is compared to government school teachers molesting kids?...

Also, did this go against the church's teachings?

OK, now how about what Boko Haram is doing? Or what happened in Rotterham?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:13 AM (NOIQH)

132 The Catholic Church handled the sex scandals terribly. That's a pretty commonplace observation at this point.

However, the industry that drove "the Coreys" to suicide and excused Roman Polanski's behavior is not one to be lecturing anybody else on covering for pedophiles.

And "heroic reporters?" Don't make me plotz. They went after the Church with glee because Christians are the enemy. Show me a NY Times or Boston Globe reporter who uncovers the secret of Obama's college transcripts or the funding behind BLM, to name just two areas of interest, and I'll show you a heroic journalist.

Also one whose stories would be killed by the editor or buried on page 32 of section D.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 10:13 AM (P8951)

133 112 What a lovely and touching holiday story about porn mom! Seriously? Great parenting there dummy.
Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:07 AM (oiNtH)

You don't happen to have her phone number? Asking for a friend
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 10:08 AM (gf8BH)

She gets $743 a scene per the story.

*checks couch cushions*

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:13 AM (kpqmD)

134 Yep. A trainwreck in the making.
Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:12 AM (oiNtH

Well he is in a country thats going more and more Jihadi. What better act of conversion than to stone his mom or fling her off some castle

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:13 AM (voOPb)

135 Hey, dude. Isn't that Cartman's mom?

Posted by: kyle broflovski at December 24, 2015 10:14 AM (DLIIY)

136 You can blame me for going there first, but the rest of you pervs would have gotten there eventually without my help.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:13 AM (Dj0WE)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:14 AM (voOPb)

137 Apparently Republicans can't party like it's 1999, unlike say this President with buds like JayZ.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:14 AM (xIOm+)

138 And "heroic reporters?" Don't make me plotz. They went after the Church with glee because Christians are the enemy. Show me a NY Times or Boston Globe reporter who uncovers the secret of Obama's college transcripts or the funding behind BLM, to name just two areas of interest, and I'll show you a heroic journalist.

Let me know when they start looking very deeply into the life of Obama's former Safe School's Czar.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:15 AM (zt+N6)

139 Not only are most of the movies listed on the best of 2015 list in the sidebar bad, the worse are really awful and many with big stars. Hell, I never even heard of these movies even tho they had major stars.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:15 AM (iQIUe)

140 127
That porn mom is just using her son as an excuse to do this. She should instead be teaching him to be grateful for what he gets.

Now that she's outed herself, I daresay what her son will get is all of his school chums showing him their cell phones loaded with pics of his mom.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:12 AM (X6fMO)

I would hope that a bunch of 5 year old boys don't have cell phones loaded up with pr0n of the one kid's mom, for lots of reasons.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:15 AM (kpqmD)

141 I thought about replacing the volume knob on my guitar, and searched for one that would go to Eleven. The internet is a constant reminder that there are no more original ideas.

Except a porn parody of Downfall. Surely that's never been done.

Posted by: bourbonchicken at December 24, 2015 10:15 AM (/NaQx)

142 Show me a NY Times or Boston Globe reporter who uncovers the secret of
Obama's college transcripts or the funding behind BLM, to name just two
areas of interest, and I'll show you a heroic journalist.

Or the mystery money in Barack's campaign coffers.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 10:16 AM (oVJmc)

143 Cum, she told him,
Pa-rum-pum-pum

I have no gift to bring she said,
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 24, 2015 10:16 AM (KCQo0)

144 Nice of porn mom to put her kid's picture in the story.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 10:16 AM (oVJmc)

145 You don't happen to have her phone number? Asking for a friend

Posted by: Nevergiveup

You don't want to do that.....her face tells me that she's been down some roads that may have not been too clean ya perv!

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:16 AM (oiNtH)

146 124 I never got the appeal of Tarantino at all.

Me either.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 10:17 AM (P8951)

147 I saw Mommy banging Santa Claus

Posted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 10:17 AM (DLIIY)

148 Except a porn parody of Downfall. Surely that's never been done.

Posted by: bourbonchicken at December 24, 2015 10:15 AM (/NaQx)

Yeah.... I think Nazi porn might be a thing... So don't go saying that too quickly.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:17 AM (zt+N6)

149 His formula is simple. Just a lot of crazy skits with lots of violence, no real plot.

I cd not get thru Inglorious Bastards. Every thing he does comes across as bad parody.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:11 AM (iQIUe)

Actually, his method is to watch a bunch of drive-in and "B"-"F" movies,

find the effective scenes

rewrite them into his storyline and context

film them with top line Hollywood actors and production values.

I'll give the guy credit. He can write great dialogue and scenes-

the opening of "Inglorious Bastards" is a perfect example.

But, he's either gotten lazy or surrounded himself with "yes-folk" and no longer bothers to edit himself-

as a result...long, mostly boring movies with interesting scenes sprinkled throughout as opposed to movies with one great scene after another (his earlier stuff).

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:18 AM (KUa85)

150 Would pron kid's mom be named "Stacy," perchance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 24, 2015 10:18 AM (LUgeY)

151 137 Apparently Republicans can't party like it's 1999, unlike say this President with buds like JayZ.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:14 AM (xIOm+)

If you want to see a perfect example of what Marxism and the Great Society wrought, look no further than those two.

History really did go off the rails after 11/22/63.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:18 AM (uRmWf)

152 Surprised nobody has tied the porn mom story together with MWNP's comment yesterday

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 10:18 AM (fWAjv)

153
Not sure if there are any Connecticut Morons here. If so I'm sorry for you.

But fuck CT with a barbed pineapple. Leave GE, leave now

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:19 AM (voOPb)

154 Porn mom is 20.

Her son is 5.

Math.

Posted by: blaster at December 24, 2015 10:19 AM (zEhEm)

155 "Mommy, this candy cane doesn't taste right."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 24, 2015 10:20 AM (KCQo0)

156 141 I thought about replacing the volume knob on my guitar, and searched for one that would go to Eleven. The internet is a constant reminder that there are no more original ideas.

Except a porn parody of Downfall. Surely that's never been done.
Posted by: bourbonchicken at December 24, 2015 10:15 AM (/NaQx)

Steiner will Cum

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:20 AM (kpqmD)

157 About every other day as I walk among the natives I come across an old fart or two who have more money than Gawd and still bitch and moan about everything. I ask them politely where they hail from and the answer always seems to be "Commienecticut" or "Massholechusetts". Seems all the old retired fascists fucked up their home states and are now spreading their filth elsewhere. Bastards.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 10:20 AM (ZK4rU)

158 119 Yes, she was wonderful in Hudsucker Proxy... such an odd movie, that was. But entertaining as all heck, viewed as a straight up parody of Capra movies.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2015 10:10 AM (Dj0WE)

I thought that performance gave Rosaling Russell a good run for her money in "His Gal Friday."

Coen Brothers. Now THOSE guys can make movies with originality and flair. Tarantula-face Talentless Tino is a ripoff artist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:21 AM (uRmWf)

159 Cooking a prime rib tomorrow for Christmas Dinner. We have a meat company here that sells awesome meats and fish. Expensive but well worth it.

What are the rest of you cooking?

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:21 AM (oiNtH)

160 Re: Pr0n mom - the freak-show of post-modernity continues

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 10:21 AM (Wu2k4)

161 I was looking around for Christmas presents to see what mommy got me. I checked her sock drawer and I'm getting a lightsaber!

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:21 AM (zt+N6)

162 Seems all the old retired fascists fucked up their home states and are now spreading their filth elsewhere. Bastards.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 10:20 AM (ZK4rU)

The nice thing about WI, its going from blue to red, slowly but surely for at least a while. The retired leave and no one comes to take their places. Still a hell hole here but a GOP that is conservative helps

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM (voOPb)

163 I saw Mommy banging Santa ClausPosted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 10:17 AM (DLIIY)The Fools had a song, "Santa Bird-Dogged My Baby," along with their classic, "I Shot Santa In My Underwear (Now Christmas Won't Be Coming Anymore)."Yeah.... I think Nazi porn might be a thing... So don't go saying that too quickly.Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:17 AM (zt+N6)"Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM (X6fMO)

164 CalExoticsWaterproof Candy Cane Vibrator

Would give 0 stars if possible. Came in what looked like a used status with several brunette head hairs on it. The package does not fully seal, which is very disturbing. Beware

O.O

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM (fWAjv)

165 Oh, yeah, those top tem movies of 2015 includes..

"Carol" - NYC lesbian love story set in the 50's, looks like a sort of a sort of 'brokeback co-op"

"The Danish Girl" - the story of the first transgender and it's being marketed as a love story?

"Truth" - Um, seriously, Dan Rather's delusion set to film?

No thanks, Rex Reed.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM (NOIQH)

166 RICH LOWRY writing for Politico.

That is all you need to know.

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at December 24, 2015 10:23 AM (YtbIl)

167 159 What are the rest of you cooking?
Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:21 AM (oiNtH)

Oyster stew and lamb meatballs tonight.
Pot-roasted chicken in cider with chorizo and leeks for tomorrow.

And the Jews go out for "Chinks!" (can I say that?)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:23 AM (uRmWf)

168 Coen Brothers. Now THOSE guys can make movies with originality and flair. Tarantula-face Talentless Tino is a ripoff artist.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:21 AM (uRmWf)
****
Hell, Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talking about ethics.

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 10:23 AM (Wu2k4)

169 Isn't GE in bed with the Obama admin? Didn't Jeffrey Immelt, GE's CEO, chuckle when Obama made jokes about "shovel ready jobs?"

I'd say GE and CT deserve each other.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (P8951)

170
Steiner will Cum

This boner will last a thousand years!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (X6fMO)

171 "Mommy, what's a DP? Is that what Indians sleep in?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (LUgeY)

172 166 RICH LOWRY writing for Politico.

That is all you need to know.
Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at December 24, 2015 10:23 AM (YtbIl)

Levin had them nailed years ago. It's where the GOP-e leaks stories to destroy conservatives.

Scum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (uRmWf)

173 Porny XXXmas Family Sing-a-Schlong

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Liked to bite testicles
Though if you were a lady
He would bite your chesticles
All of the other reindeers
Were tired of getting sodomized
when Rudolph would get horny
and that crazy look into his eyes...

Everybody sing-a-long!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (KUa85)

174
"The Danish Girl" - the story of the first transgender and it's being marketed as a love story?

Wait that's a story about a transgender? Gee the commercial make no mention of that. I wonder why.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (zt+N6)

175 170
This boner will last a thousand years!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (X6fMO)

Die Tasend-Jahr Sclong-Schvanschtucker!

Heil!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:25 AM (uRmWf)

176 If I live that long-because I have a bad virus, but am just tired of being in bed-I will cook imperial duckling with a sauce of current jelly and port wine and orange peel, etc. (It's like something you get from a Chinese restaurant.). Otherwise, I won't care who'd doing the cooking but it won't be me. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:25 AM (qES5k)

177
No thanks, Rex Reed.

Come on, it's Rex Reed. He's queerer than Liberace's boyfriend's houseboy's poodle's hairdresser.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 10:25 AM (oVJmc)

178 No thanks, Rex Reed.Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM

Seconded. I went down that list and didn't see one movie I'd care to watch. If that was the best I can't imagine how bad the rest is.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 10:26 AM (7v/r5)

179 Wait that's a story about a transgender? Gee the commercial make no mention of that. I wonder why.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:24 AM (zt+N6)

It has him cross-dressing though.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA -@DMS1974 at December 24, 2015 10:26 AM (fWAjv)

180 "Christmas Ever tradition," you say, BenK? Hmm.

Morning, Glories! Late start for my day - from staying up late last night. Late to bed, late to rise, Poor Richard something but probably lies. Merry Christmas Ever, y'all!

♥

Fresh-baked last night in the Mindful Webworkshop, a short but sour little Christmas ditty I wrote in 1991 and finally got around to recording. For some reason.

The Terrible Christmas Song
http://bit.ly/terrible-christmas-song

A darkly humorous video that will surely make you say, "Well, that's 40 seconds of my life I'm never getting back!"

Posted by: mindful webworker - what, me cynical? at December 24, 2015 10:26 AM (UOsvH)

181 177
No thanks, Rex Reed.

Come on, it's Rex Reed. He's queerer than Liberace's boyfriend's houseboy's poodle's hairdresser.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 10:25 AM (oVJmc)

Any queerer and he'd be straight. Yowza.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:27 AM (uRmWf)

182
Yeah, who doesnt want to hear about more TG crap? Another subject done to death.

The Thousand Year Boner! Yeah, that has possibilities. Hitler parody or full fledged porn?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:27 AM (iQIUe)

183 I think part of the reason reporters don't stand up to left wing billionaires who buy the newspapers they work for is stupidity. Reporters simply aren't nearly as intelligent and well-informed as they think they are.
They even lack the fundamental attribute of intelligence known as self awareness--which is, in my mind--a big part of the reason they are capable of the stunning levels of hypocrisy shown in that whole Ted Cruz cartoon thing.
Just my opinion.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:27 AM (hJrjt)

184
Come on, it's Rex Reed. He's queerer than Liberace's boyfriend's houseboy's poodle's hairdresser.

He's never recovered from Myra Breckinridge.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 10:27 AM (X6fMO)

185
And now to the market.

Later kids. Keep it IS-real and have a better one!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (uRmWf)

186 The Dainish Girl (from IMDB): A fictitious love story inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (NOIQH)

187 Well I could not copy-paste Paul Ryan's speech comments because of Pixy's stupid 500 error crap.

But if you read the transcript of what he said, it could have come from Ted Cruz or Carly Fiorina. There is no inconsistency in praising his rhetorical gifts while still criticizing his actions.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (uZNvH)

188 "How Romney and McCain can help propel Rubio to victory"

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..........

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (ZK4rU)

189 I appreciate that if people are going to do porny versions of Christmas songs thats they're doing it with secular ones (Gives a new meaning to "ho, ho, ho", doesn't it?) and not with lovely religious ones. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (qES5k)

190 182 Hitler parody or full fledged porn?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:27 AM (iQIUe)

"Sproing-time for Hitler?"

Now, I go, ja?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (uRmWf)

191
I like this Noah Hawley guy who writes Fargo the tv show. He puts in a lot of talmudic and other religious stuff, too.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:30 AM (iQIUe)

192 No thanks, Rex Reed.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM (NOIQH

yet another f*cking a$$hole who never leaves the metro area & has no idea what the country is.

Is there some type of San Andreas fault line along the east coast?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:30 AM (voOPb)

193 190 182 Hitler parody or full fledged porn?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:27 AM (iQIUe)

"Sproing-time for Hitler?"

Now, I go, ja?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (uRmWf)

Eva Gobbles Goebbels

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:30 AM (kpqmD)

194 Bertha Bangs Berlin

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:31 AM (kpqmD)

195 Later J.J.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:31 AM (voOPb)

196 Mamma Got Run Over by A In-Rut Reindeer

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:32 AM (voOPb)

197 "The Danish Girl" - the story of the first transgender and it's being marketed as a love story?

Meh.

Go rent "The Crying Game" if you want that.

"Carol" - NYC lesbian love story set in the 50's, looks like a sort of a sort of 'brokeback co-op"

Meh.

Go rent "Mona Lisa" if you want that.

Both of those are sure to be better movies.

I guess Neil Jordon was just 20 years ahead of the curve.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:32 AM (KUa85)

198 In the theme of porn for Christmas, here is the obituary of Madame Claude. Her business practices were the first to be described as a Call Girl service

bit.ly/MClaude0

Posted by: tmitsss at December 24, 2015 10:32 AM (1nj96)

199 Merry Christmas Eve!

Posted by: Carol at December 24, 2015 10:32 AM (sj3Ax)

200 I had no idea Rex Reed was still around. I remember him being on Hollywood Squares a few times in the late '60's or early 70's, and he made Paul Lynde look like John Wayne in comparison.

I honestly thought Reed died of AIDS about 35 years ago.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 10:32 AM (P8951)

201 Hooooorde!!!!
Merry Christmas Eve!!!!!!!!
God Bless Us, every one!

Posted by: ginaswo at December 24, 2015 10:33 AM (qxNrP)

202 Heinrich Rimmler

Posted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 10:33 AM (DLIIY)

203 "Mein Fuhrer! Steiner..."

"What about Steiner!"

"He failed to cum."

"Verdammit! I'm surround by eunuchs and I only got one itchy ball!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:33 AM (xIOm+)

204 I know it's not the book thread but I'm reading "The Most They Ever Had" by Rick Bragg. If there is ever a book that will make you feel grateful for what you have, it's this one. It's about mill workers and what the loss of their jobs meant. Bragg is one of my favorite writers.

He tells a story about a worker that was told to hook up a downed electrical wire. The company wouldn't shut down the power for him to do it and he was electrocuted. His wife sued and lost. The company argued that he should have known better.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 10:34 AM (Lqy/e)

205 I like this Noah Hawley guy who writes Fargo the tv show. He puts in a lot of talmudic and other religious stuff, too.Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:30 AM

That parts fine. Season two they have Ronald Reagan in a bathroom in 1979, completely losing his train of thought. I kid you not. Nothing remotely related to the central plot.

F*ck the insidious historical revisionism of suckers of c*ck.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 10:34 AM (7v/r5)

206 Nein, nein, nein!

Hitler never said 'Baby'!

What is this 'Baby'?

Posted by: Franz Liebkind at December 24, 2015 10:35 AM (KCQo0)

207 And the Rex Reed worst films list sucks too. All it does is say who is in it and says "this actor/actress was awful" without describing the plot or going into any details unlike the (b.s.) precis of the Best list.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 24, 2015 10:35 AM (DLIIY)

208
WaPo: If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party

by George F. Will

If you look beyond Donald Trump's comprehensive unpleasantness -- is there a disagreeable human trait he does not have? --

http://tinyurl.com/hqzezx8

Bitch, please.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:35 AM (kdS6q)

209 The rest of the story about The Danish Girl? Apparently the person died after the final surgery to give them a vajayjay. As for the wife, well the dear State ruled they no longer had a valid marriage and she went to find another man.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:36 AM (xIOm+)

210 WaPo: If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party

What conservative party?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:36 AM (kpqmD)

211 If I live that long-because I have a bad virus, but am just tired of being in bed-I will cook imperial duckling with a sauce of current jelly and port wine and orange peel, etc. (It's like something you get from a Chinese restaurant.). Otherwise, I won't care who'd doing the cooking but it won't be me. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:25 AM (qES5k)

Recipe, please!

Sans the virus sprinkles, si vous plait.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:36 AM (KUa85)

212 "Savings." Heh.

Between the rent, utilities, IRS (yeah, they came after me for the year I was unemployed), student loans and the ex, double-heh.

MOAR VALU-RITE.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 24, 2015 10:36 AM (vgIRn)

213 I thought the song was funny, MWW, and I liked hearing your accent.

And on a related note, one of my favorite memories of Christmas was when the boy was young enough to do the NORAD tracking for Santa; he was so excited.

Can I just be grouch here for a moment, and say that I can't stand pompous people who wonder whether we're doing kids a disservice by lying to them about Santa? I understand if you have religious objections to it, but Hot Air has some article in its headlines with a link someone from a website Called "Real Live Science" mulling over whether its harmful to teach children a belief in an invisible being.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:36 AM (qES5k)

214 Okay, finally.

Would you consider voting for a guy who said this?

And this is the thing [progressives] miss: More bureaucracy means less opportunity - because big government and big business don't fight each other so much as feed each other. This is how it works: Smart, talented people go into government thinking the only way to fix complicated problems is with complicated laws - laws that only people like themselves can understand. They make new bureaucracies. They put up red tape. And then? And then they go into the private sector and help businesses navigate the very maze they created. If the insurance industry does not understand how Obamacare works, why not hire the person who ran it? This works out great for them. But what about the rest of us? What about the people who can't get ahead because costs are too high . . . or who don't create jobs because the laws are so confusing? And so round and round the revolving door goes, all while the people stand on the sidelines.
That's how today's experts become tomorrow's cronies. And that's why we don't think government should bulk up the bureaucracy. We think it should break up problems so people can solve them themselves. Don't hire more bureaucrats. Don't leave it up to their discretion. Set clear, firm rules that all of us can live by - rules that tell us what's expected and what's off limits. And then let the people go to work. That, to me, is the conservative insight: Don't outsource to the bureaucracy. Crowdsource.
That kind of government would not only preserve equal opportunity. It would protect the dignity of the individual. Bad government tries to blunt what makes each of us unique. Good government defends it. Bad government tries to tie us all down. Good government frees us to be our best. And so is government important? Absolutely - it's essential. But there's no mistaking the field for the game. What government is supposed to do is create an environment where the individual can thrive and communities can bloom. In other words, government makes things possible, but the people make them happen.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (uZNvH)

215 Ben,
I followed you on Twitter.

Posted by: Carol at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (sj3Ax)

216 There is no inconsistency in praising his rhetorical gifts while still criticizing his actions.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:28 AM (uZNvH)

He's a very articulate fucking liar, I'll give you that.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (u5gzz)

217 There is no inconsistency in praising his rhetorical gifts while still criticizing his actions.

You want us to give him kudos for being a fucking liar?

Posted by: that makes sense at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (dbDB8)

218 Merry Christmas Eve Carol!

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:38 AM (uZNvH)

219 Porn Mom gives a whole new meaning to "Here comes Santa Claus"

Posted by: Flaccid Member at December 24, 2015 10:38 AM (5fSr7)

220
He's a very articulate fucking liar, I'll give you that.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (u5gzz)
You want us to give him kudos for being a fucking liar?

Posted by: that makes sense at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (dbDB

How about: kudos for having some good ideas even if he does not fully follow them himself?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:39 AM (uZNvH)

221 Crock-pot pot roast, mashed spuds, corn off the cob, french beans sauteed in butter & garlic, huge salad a'la Mrs Eez, bean soup w/ bacon and sausage.
Maybe other stuff too, just don't remember.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (rock salt and fire-hook at the ready !) at December 24, 2015 10:39 AM (erRNA)

222 Dagmar Does Dusseldorf

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at December 24, 2015 10:40 AM (nSW/N)

223
Thanks Dubya!:

Missouri residents soon will not be able to use their state driver's licenses as identification to get into most federal facilities, making it at least the fourth state to lose a federal exemption from complying with national proof-of-identity requirements.

A letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Missouri informs the state that its exemption from federal Real ID requirements will come to an end Jan. 10. That means Missouri driver's licenses cannot be accepted as ID at most federal facilities. It also could eventually mean that Missouri driver's licenses won't be accepted as identification for commercial airplane flights.

llinois is in the same boat, as are Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington.

http://tinyurl.com/optbnd8

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:40 AM (kdS6q)

224 I use to like Joe Bob Briggs until he wrote this puff piece on that American terrorist in Peru, Lori Berenson. What was he thinking??

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:40 AM (iQIUe)

225 chemjeff: what Ryan says and what Ryan does are two different things. There's a reason the Horde liked him in 2012 and not so much now.

And honestly, it seems like you are just trying to pick a fight now. Can you give it a rest on Christmas Eve? Focus on brownies - and steak

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (P8951)

226 So I don't see anything wrong in praising Ryan's gifts while disagreeing with Ryan's actions.

But I understand how the game is played, praising Ryan in any way, even *honest deserved praise*, is to give aid and comfort to the socialist enemies, so we can't have that

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (uZNvH)

227 Rex Reed didn't die. He just blended in.

As one of about 10 famous gay personalities in entertainment at one time, he just got lost in the sea of gay everything in the 1990s.

"Oh, you're gay, Rex? So what. It's 2015, sweetheart. Who isn't?"

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (KCQo0)

228 I like this Noah Hawley guy who writes Fargo the tv show. He puts in a lot of talmudic and other religious stuff, too.Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:30 AM

One more thing -- isn't the character played by Billy Bob Thornton the one who speaks these religious lines?

Then minutes later blows someones brains out at point blank range? Are you accepting the subliminal message without complaint?

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (7v/r5)

229 WaPo: If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party
by George F. Will
If you look beyond Donald Trump's comprehensive unpleasantness -- is there a disagreeable human trait he does not have? --
http://tinyurl.com/hqzezx8
Bitch, please.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:35 AM (kdS6q)

Somebody tell George something that never was cannot die. And take off that stupid ass bow tie you pasty elitist.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (ZK4rU)

230 You want us to give him kudos for being a fucking liar?
Posted by: that makes sense at December 24, 2015 10:37 AM (dbDB8

Paul Ryan. Wheel chair. Cliff.

Some assembly required

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (voOPb)

231 Most americans have less than $1k in savings?

FFS, that's less than the floor I keep on my active bill paying checking account. Nevermind the actual savings or retirement fund.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (tM4uk)

232 But I understand how the game is played, praising Ryan in any way, even *honest deserved praise*, is to give aid and comfort to the socialist enemies, so we can't have that
Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (uZNvH)

I think you're just being a dick now, Chemjeff.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 24, 2015 10:42 AM (u5gzz)

233 Can I just be grouch here for a moment, and say that I can't stand pompous people who wonder whether we're doing kids a disservice by lying to them about Santa? I understand if you have religious objections to it, but Hot Air has some article in its headlines with a link someone from a website Called "Real Live Science" mulling over whether its harmful to teach children a belief in an invisible being.

That's precisely why I don't have a problem with kids and Santa Claus. It introduces them to the idea of a nice person seeing your innermost thoughts and your actual behavior 24/7.

And it works well as a behavior modification for unruly young'uns, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 24, 2015 10:42 AM (LUgeY)

234 I've got a question for Grammie Winger, if you're hanging around. How do real, home-made crafted with love Swedish meatballs, differ from the stuff you can buy at Ikea?
I take they're far superior but what's the difference?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (hJrjt)

235 Okay, I will shut up for the time being.

But I do think you all are being way too hard on him. I do think most of the criticism of him around here is emotion-driven, not fact-driven or reason-driven.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (uZNvH)

236 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:40 AM (kdS6q)

Wait what?
We just updated our state IDs to include a metric ton of security features.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (tM4uk)

237 kudos for having some good ideas even if he does not fully follow them himself?

He doesn't remotely follow them. So you want to praise him for being a great liar. Go ahead.

Posted by: you've lost all credibility anyway at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (dbDB8)

238 71 degrees and I just hung the bed sheets on the clothes line. No. They're black.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (b+df9)

239 229 WaPo: If Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party
by George F. Wil
-----------------

oh my, what will George & Charles have to discuss at the next DC cocktail party? That O'Reilly is a wind bag? Nah, that would cut into Chaz's paycheck. Baseball? Yeah you two can talk about baseball and continue with your clueless notions of what this country is about.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:44 AM (voOPb)

240 Since I'm the one that made chemjeff start doing his typical crap allow me to say, that it not whether Ryan is some eloquent speaker that is some problem. Its that the third sentence is about that. It tells you how the article is going to go. And its bullshit.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:44 AM (zt+N6)

241 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (hJrjt)

Not Grammie Winger, but just FYI Alton Brown has a sweedish meatball recipe. Pretty easy to find with the googles.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at December 24, 2015 10:45 AM (tM4uk)

242
Meanwhile over at RedState, blogger and Rubio Superfan "Baseball Crank" continues to beclown himself in thousands and thousands of words of beta male whinging:

Against Despair: A Christmas Credo for Republicans - Keep Calm, It Won't Be Trump

By Dan McLaughlin

www.redstate.com/2015/12/23/despair-christmas-credo-republicans/

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:45 AM (kdS6q)

243 Global warming update-

75 degrees and 95% humidity

Ho Ho Ho

Posted by: weirdflunky at December 24, 2015 10:45 AM (/KZXp)

244 Most americans have less than $1k in savings?

FFS, that's less than the floor I keep on my active bill paying checking account. Nevermind the actual savings or retirement fund.
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist

That's less than a Moo lunch tip.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 10:45 AM (FkBIv)

245 238 71 degrees and I just hung the bed sheets on the clothes line. No. They're black.
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (b+df9)

So what you're telling us is the sheets are well-hung?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:45 AM (kpqmD)

246 238 71 degrees and I just hung the bed sheets on the clothes line. No. They're black.
_______________________________

I hope the neighbors won't think they're Taliban flags.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (KCQo0)

247 Yes, Merry Christmas eve!
I am not making Christmas eve dinner (going to parent's) but we'll be eating cheese fondue - yum!

I am making Christmas breakfast, including apple coffee cake, maple sausage, and fresh fruit.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (NOIQH)

248 241 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (hJrjt)

Not Grammie Winger, but just FYI Alton Brown has a sweedish meatball recipe. Pretty easy to find with the googles.
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at D

The reason I ask is that I don't believe I've ever had anything other than commercially-produced Swedish meatballs.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (hJrjt)

249 Classic Nazi pron of course is Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS that was shot on the same sets as Hogan's Heroes when that crew was done for the day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (xIOm+)

250
Nazi Porn Sing-a-schlong:

When the Furher says
Bukkake, si vous plait!
We cum
We cum
Right in the Fuhrer's face...

Everybody sing-a-long!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:47 AM (KUa85)

251 That's less than a Moo lunch tip.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 10:45 AM (FkBIv

But about what he spends in dry cleaning in a week.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:47 AM (voOPb)

252 I keep next to nothing in "savings". Now, I do keep money in Roth CD's: all the benefits of a savings account once the money hits 5 years old, with all the tax advantages of a retirement account.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 10:47 AM (W2YA6)

253 249 Classic Nazi pron of course is Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS that was shot on the same sets as Hogan's Heroes when that crew was done for the day.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (xIOm+)

I thought that was more grindhouse than pr0n

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:47 AM (kpqmD)

254 249 Classic Nazi pron of course is Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS that was shot on the same sets as Hogan's Heroes when that crew was done for the day.
___________________________________

I see NOTHING! NOTHING!

Posted by: Sgt. Schultz at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (KCQo0)

255 oh my, what will George & Charles have to discuss at the next DC cocktail party?

"Bow tie or not" discuss.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (FkBIv)

256 >>>Can I just be grouch here for a moment, and say that I can't stand pompous people who wonder whether we're doing kids a disservice by lying to them about Santa?

FS, my parents always told us Santa was mom and dad and a game we were playing. They didn't believe in lying to their kids. I guess that's sort of odd and I don't know if it made any difference one way or the other but I told my brother it's probably best that I'm not even more cynical than I already am : )

It also led to a childhood where every year we got the lecture before we went to my grandmothers to not tell one particular cousin who really should have known the truth earlier than she did.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (EDW3H)

257 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (hJrjt)

Nor have I really. My dad would occasionally make the sauce homemade but buy the meatballs!

I'm sure it's like most things, better texture and flavor (I find the Ikea ones to be a bit over processed.)

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (tM4uk)

258 One more thing -- isn't the character played by Billy Bob Thornton the one who speaks these religious lines?

Then minutes later blows someones brains out at point blank range? Are you accepting the subliminal message without complaint?
Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 10:41 AM (7v/r5)

==========
No. I'm thinking of Gus's neighbor, the rabbi, who answers a question by asking a series of questions. Other characters do it, too. But not BBT.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (iQIUe)

259 249 Classic Nazi pron of course is Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS that was shot on the same sets as Hogan's Heroes when that crew was done for the day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (xIOm+)

Did Bob Crane stick around to watch?

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (zt+N6)

260 He came upon a midnight clear.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 10:49 AM (Nwg0u)

261 Sheriff Dave Clarke on the Blaze yesterday.
He so completely gets it.
Cruz/Clarke baby.

Most of the country doesn't vote for the #2 slot anyway so I don't think the "just a Sheriff from Milwaukee" thing would do more damage than would be offset by (a) genuine enthusiasm from true conservatives, (b) swinging a significant portion of the AA vote, or at least discouraging kee jerk mass/bloc Dem voting by AAs, (c) blunting the whole "racist meanie" theme they so love to toss out.

Also puts law and order front and center. This is 1968 all over again, potentially in a good way.

Once he gets four (or 8 years) in the Veep slot, no one can claim he's "just a Sheriff" anymore, and is positioned for the top of the ticket.

I can dream can't I?
Merry Christmas everyone.

Posted by: Ex NY Peasant at December 24, 2015 10:49 AM (k8tEg)

262 Life isn't fair, and as you get older you'll find the things you believe aren't really true.

I think Santa's a great introduction to that.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 10:49 AM (W2YA6)

263 yes yes, my "usual crap" of pointing out that criticizing Ryan for being an eloquent speaker is too harsh and unreasonable

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:49 AM (uZNvH)

264 214 Okay, finally.

Would you consider voting for a guy who said this
-------------------
Fucking use paragraphs. No, I won't read it.

C'mon chemjeff, you're starting to be a dickweed

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:50 AM (voOPb)

265 Believing a pol's silvertongued lies and ignoring his actions is not acting emotionally at all? Really?

That's a very silly statement - and I think you're bright enough to know that. You're just picking fights now.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 10:50 AM (P8951)

266 C'mon Jeff, it's Christmas. Can't we talk about all the ham we're going to eat?

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 10:50 AM (W2YA6)

267 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:25 AM (qES5k)

That dish sounds amazing.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2015 10:50 AM (GDulk)

268 Well, I think this is funny:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/hzkozem

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (rock salt and fire-hook at the ready !) at December 24, 2015 10:51 AM (erRNA)

269 Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:36 AM (KUa85)

Well, the disclaimer is it really works best in a large crockpot with a rack to put the duck on (or you can cut the duck into four smaller pieces) because you don't want to deal with all that fat from the duck. I may have to try it in the oven this year because I don't have that large of a crockpot or a rack that would fit in it.

One 4 to 5 fine pound ready to cook duck
2 Tbs grated onion
1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon
1/2 cup orange juice
1/8 tsp salt
1/8 tsp dried mustard
1/4 cup currant jelly
2 tbs grated orange peel
2 tbs port wine
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 orange, peeled and sectioned into chunks

Place duck in slow cooker. With a fork, prick skin of duckling all over at approx 2 inch intervals. Place ducking on rack in slow cooker (If you cook it in a smaller crock pot cut it into four pieces. In small saucepan combine onion, tarragon, orange juice, salt mustard, jelly, orange peel, wine and corn starch. Cook over medium hear until thickened. Brush 1/3 cup sauce over duck, reserving remaining sauce. Cook on low 6 to 7 hours or until duckling is tender. Remove fat with a bulb baster.
Take it out and put under broiler a bit to get the skin a little crispy. Stir orange sections into remaining sauce , heat and pour over duckling right before serving.

It's about four servings.

Nice rosy color and looks festive

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:51 AM (qES5k)

270 I have no idea really. Never ever had the urge to watch that movie ever. Really.

And on the Top 40 Nazi Pron songs, Adolph covers the Tom Petty song "Don't Cum Around Here No More."

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:52 AM (xIOm+)

271 I've got a question for Grammie Winger, if you're hanging around. How do real, home-made crafted with love Swedish meatballs, differ from the stuff you can buy at Ikea?

I take they're far superior but what's the difference?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (hJrjt)

Here at Chez naturalfake, the main difference is that-

we grind up fresh Swedish hobos.

The cheap aquavit they drink gives their flesh a most piquant flavor.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:52 AM (KUa85)

272 Something I remember hearing/reading from Wes Craven (I think it was him) was that a lot of the directors of his time got their starts making porn. So it wouldn't surprise me at all that there'd be some crossover between the legit and porn worlds.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 10:52 AM (W2YA6)

273 ChemJeff, how goes the brownie experiment?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:52 AM (xIOm+)

274 This is the first Christmas Eve I can remember it being 70 degrees outside.

-
Bill Neigh the Science Donk isn't having a merry federal holiday because not enough cretins are citing the warm weather (not around here) as proof of global reawakening.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 10:53 AM (Nwg0u)

275 Nothing better-smelling than bedsheets sun-and breeze-dryed. Except Mrs. E. lounging on same. Of course. too early in the morning? Well off to Super-1 for celery and pineapple rings.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 10:53 AM (b+df9)

276 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 10:46 AM (xIOm+)

Anna, your knowledge of um esoteric trivia is truly amazing. Military history to uh various other things.

Pretty sure I'm one of if not the first reviewers of Isis on Amazon so I can encourage any of the foot dragging horde, BUY ANNA'S BOOK. It's Christmas after all.

Posted by: weirdflunky at December 24, 2015 10:53 AM (/KZXp)

277 Nice rosy color and looks festive
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:51 AM (qES5k)

Looks good, I have sent this to my email to print off and try sometime in January. Thanks F.S. Hope you feel better!!!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:53 AM (voOPb)

278 Thoughts on doing that in a smoker, Fenelon?

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 10:54 AM (W2YA6)

279 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:51 AM (qES5k)

Arigato!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 10:55 AM (KUa85)

280 Did Bob Crane stick around to watch?
Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (zt+N6)

Bob Crane was wayyyyy ahead of his time.
His neighbor was Carol O'Connor and they used to watch Bob's homemade porn over cocktails in Bob's basement. Check out his son Scotty's website for a laugh riot. Bob was apparently hung like a donkey.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 10:55 AM (ZK4rU)

281
Meanwhile, in Crumpetstan:

London firefighters are worried about men in London using [censored]. Apparently, calls to firefighters from men trapped in [censored] has seen a spike.

The firefighters have put out a special PSA that hopes to piggyback on the current obsession with all things Star Wars. The PSA is written in the franchise's iconic opening scroll text.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6JZIqatyc

http://tinyurl.com/nb4rs44

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:55 AM (kdS6q)

282 Someone remind Will that this is the same shit he typed about Reagan circa '76.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 24, 2015 10:55 AM (oVJmc)

283 Damn succumbed! Not "reawakening", "enwarmening", a perfectly cromulent word.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 10:55 AM (Nwg0u)

284 Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 10:43 AM (uZNvH)

No. We simply aren't impressed by lies no matter how eloquently expressed. "Actions speak loder than words" and now that we've seen the actions we don't care about any further words.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 24, 2015 10:56 AM (GDulk)

285 Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (EDW3H)

Well, that's different than people writing articles lecturing people about not lying to kids about Santa. That was between you and your parents. The article is also a gratuitous slap about people with religious faith who believe in an invisible being although the article does presents the pro and cons of Santa.

When I have to go before God it's going to be a boring and lengthy recitation of my sins if it includes things like "lying" about Santa. There are much greater sins I'm guilty of.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:57 AM (qES5k)

286 Archiving! Not "succumbed", "autocucumber".

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 10:57 AM (Nwg0u)

287 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 10:53 AM (voOPb)

Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:58 AM (qES5k)

288 "How Romney and McCain can help propel Rubio to victory"

Excellent! Those two sure ran stellar campaigns that ended in victory! Oh, wait...

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 10:58 AM (oiNtH)

289 London firefighters are worried about men in London using [censored]. Apparently, calls to firefighters from men trapped in [censored] has seen a spike.

The firefighters have put out a special PSA that hopes to piggyback on the current obsession with all things Star Wars. The PSA is written in the franchise's iconic opening scroll text.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6JZIqatyc

http://tinyurl.com/nb4rs44
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 10:55 AM (kdS6q)

Sounds like a job for the jaws of life.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 10:58 AM (kpqmD)

290 Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (EDW3H)

And apparently your parents made a point of not ruining the fun for other kids; That's good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:00 AM (qES5k)

291 I want to try that duck recipe too, FS! Thanks for posting it!

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 11:01 AM (P8951)

292
It appears that when Lori Berenson was released from parole and returned to the US, the msm called her an activist. No, she belonged to a terrorist organization and was conspiring with them for a major terrorist attack. Her arrest saved hundreds of lives. Well, the Peruvians are pissed off with her being called any thing but what she really was/is.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 11:02 AM (iQIUe)

293 Shnikies. Brianna Wu is seriously in need of some plastic surgery, if xe wants to make it to the cover of Vanity Fair.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at December 24, 2015 11:02 AM (NO4j+)

294 Anna, I am going to go get the brownie supplies in a little bit

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (uZNvH)

295 >>>And apparently your parents made a point of not ruining the fun for other kids; That's good.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:00 AM (qES5k)

Oh sure. I don't think anyone should be lecturing about it.

I feel the same way when my cousins ex started in on me about reading Harry Potter or some shit like that. Give it a rest.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (EDW3H)

296 Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Crane didn't end up so well. He was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment. That is where the police found his extensive video collection.

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (oiNtH)

297 296 Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Crane didn't end up so well. He was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment. That is where the police found his extensive video collection.

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (oiNtH

They made a movie about it. Auto Focus

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 11:04 AM (zt+N6)

298 John McCain.

NO ONE in his family has not worked for the Federal government in a 100 years. NO ONE

He finished Annapolis almost dead last, only got an appointment because of dad.

His only claim to fame to have married a Bud distributor after watching his first wife die,

ASSHOLE

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:04 AM (jJRIy)

299 They made a movie about it. Auto Focus

Posted by: buzzion

I didn't know that. Was it any good?

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:05 AM (oiNtH)

300 At least McCain raised a great kid!

*snort*

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 11:06 AM (W2YA6)

301
Rep. Steve Scalise Defends House Planned Parenthood Strategy

After months of innaction, the House is poised in early January to pass a measure and send it to the White House. President Barack Obama will, of course, decline to sign it.

That's beside the point, according to Scalise.

http://tinyurl.com/huuyy5h

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 24, 2015 11:06 AM (kdS6q)

302 Crane didn't end up so well. He was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment. That is where the police found his extensive video collection.
Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (oiNtH)

Yup...the poor bastard. The cops also theorized that he was beaten to death with a...wait for it....camera tripod! Talk about irony.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 11:07 AM (ZK4rU)

303 Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 10:48 AM (EDW3H)

Well, that's different than people writing articles lecturing people about not lying to kids about Santa. That was between you and your parents. The article is also a gratuitous slap about people with religious faith who believe in an invisible being although the article does presents the pro and cons of Santa.

When I have to go before God it's going to be a boring and lengthy recitation of my sins if it includes things like "lying" about Santa. There are much greater sins I'm guilty of.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 10:57 AM (qES5k)

Actually, I've come to the conclusion that all the Santa whinging-

is just a cover for militant atheism.

Honestly, the fabrication is so minor-

and the joy, my siblings and I, and now my kids receive from it is so great,

that I can't conceive of anyone getting that upset or really upset at all over their parents telling them about Santa Claus.

Only weird hatchet-heads with Daddy or perhaps Mommy Issues or other delightful personality issues could possibly be upset over such a harmless thing.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2015 11:07 AM (KUa85)

304 Auto Focus was great. Well worth watching. Greg Kinnear and Willem DaFoe were awesome as a total pair of creeps.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 11:07 AM (W2YA6)

305 Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (oiNtH)

Yeah. There was a movie made about Crane's life. It was pretty sad and creepy.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 11:07 AM (P8951)

306 Or a pair of total creeps. Whatever.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 11:08 AM (W2YA6)

307 299 They made a movie about it. Auto Focus

Posted by: buzzion

I didn't know that. Was it any good?

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:05 AM (oiNtH)

Beats me. I just know it exists. Its about 10 years old or so.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 11:09 AM (zt+N6)

308 Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS

-
Robbed of the best picture Oscar by The Godfather Part II, a sequel!

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 11:09 AM (Nwg0u)

309 @300

My lawyer's daughter spend a summer with her in Europe. She, lawyer's daughter, is NO rocket scientist and she said McCain's kid was brain dead.

Still trying to figure out how she knew.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:09 AM (jJRIy)

310 I raised my kids believing in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Leprechauns on St. Pat's day. They grew up pretty well adjusted and have not exhibited any harmful effects.

It is called fun and fantasy. Any scold that lectures against it as harmful needs a full colonic and then go on a ten mile hike.

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:09 AM (oiNtH)

311 WeirdFlunky thanks for the shout out.

To the Horde, all of you rock. Thanks.

Time for me to scoot. Weather is actually nice so best be on the road before that changes and cancels family holiday plans.

Everyone have a blessed time and when temper flares, step away from the cage match if possible.

Will post a song sung by Hayashibara Megumi. From All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku called Touch Me Softly
https://youtu.be/Vog9A5Rf_eg

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2015 11:10 AM (xIOm+)

312 Crane didn't end up so well. He was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment. That is where the police found his extensive video collection.Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:03 AM (oiNtH)Robert Graysmith (author of Zodiac) wrote a book about the case, The Murder of Bob Crane, which puts forth the theory that Crane's "best friend," John Carpenter, was responsible for the murder, believing that Crane had tired of Carpenter's company and, when Carpenter realized that Crane was dumping him - and, as well, cutting off the supply of women he got secondhand from Crane - he snapped and bludgeoned him to death.The book was retitled Auto Focus when the 2002 film came out. Greg Kinnear played Crane and Willem Dafoe Carpenter. It's OK, but no great shakes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 11:11 AM (X6fMO)

313 I was pretty depressed when I figured out that there was no pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. I even took off one time looking for it. But it got dark and cold so I head home. Got about 6 blocks, too.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 11:11 AM (iQIUe)

314 And my irritation about people lecturing others about not encouraging a belief in Santa comes from having to deal with militant Atheists who apparently think it's the apex of profundity and intellectualism to say, "Well gee, Santa's just like God isn't he-an invisible being who's knows whether you're naughty or nice and rewards or punishes- you?

uhhh-no. God is not Santa Claus and neither is Jesus. Do you want to talk about the Bible, tradition, reason and experience or do you just want to get off t a stupid guip, cackle and high five your homeboys?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:11 AM (qES5k)

315 Someone needs to tell the LIVs that Santa Commie doesn't exist.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 11:12 AM (Nwg0u)

316 That dog piece in the sidebar kinda......got to me.

*sniff*

Eh, well.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:12 AM (jfGh+)

317 Back from checking out the morning thread. Meh. No Vic News for Christmas Eve. Guess that's okay. He had to anniversarize, after all.

♥

Here's an hour-long video about the Apollo 8 mission (with too much Walter Cronkite, apparently the only news anchor in existence in 1968, but otherwise watchable). The moon landing the next year gets all the historic glory, but this was the first time people went to the moon. I watched it twice yesterday. Very moving. And Christmasy. Even religious! Also, lots of people smoking right there in mission control!

Earthrise: The First Lunar Voyage
https://youtu.be/xfmtFO2eAag

Posted by: mindful webworker - let there be light! at December 24, 2015 11:13 AM (UOsvH)

318 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Thanks, I'll check it out as I like crime stories. I do know that Carpenter was acquitted of his murder and that he maintained his innocence until he died, but that may have more to do with the ineptitude of the Scottsdale police in the original investigation.

Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:14 AM (oiNtH)

319 I didn't know that. Was it any good?
Posted by: Cheri at December 24, 2015 11:05 AM (oiNtH)

I always like Bob Crane and the movie shows he was a total sex maniac who banged every broad on Hogan's Heroes as well as cruising bars and nightclubs with his buddy and using his fame to get women. Kinda like Clinton in so many ways.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 24, 2015 11:14 AM (ZK4rU)

320 Yeah, I want to do The Thousand Year Boner, as enacted by the AoShq Playas!

You can pick a historical figure from that time period and go all porny talk. Adlib of course.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 11:14 AM (iQIUe)

321 The Murder of Bob Crane, which puts forth the theory that Crane's "best friend," John Carpenter, was responsible for the murder

THE John Carpenter? Or just a guy who happened to be named John Carpenter?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:14 AM (kpqmD)

322 It's snowing here so I'll be enjoying a white Christmas.

Actually I've had about 60 of them so I'm ready for a palm tree Christmas--although I'll enjoy this one.

And I just bought a spur-of-the-moment gift for the stepson. And, honestly, I'm good at that so I'm totally confident he'll like it.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:14 AM (hJrjt)

323 I think I'll finish this little last shot of Peron and then go back and take a nap.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:14 AM (jJRIy)

324 What's a really good Christmas movie to be found on Netflix? I'm thinking my hyperactive, workaholic wife might be willing to sit down for a movie either tonight or tomorrow.
Any thoughts.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

325 Different John Carpenter. This guy was more of a creepy hanger-on.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (W2YA6)

326 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

"The Bishop's Wife" with David Niven, the lovely Loretta young and handsome Cary Grant/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:18 AM (qES5k)

327 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

Can't go wrong with "It's a Wonderful Life." Makes me weep like a b*tch.

Or "Die Hard."

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 24, 2015 11:18 AM (vgIRn)

328 >>I didn't know that.

You can learn a lot from the dead.

That's why we have the Ouija Board in the Break Room.

Posted by: Garrett at December 24, 2015 11:19 AM (DwuRM)

329 Yes,Virginia, There Is A Karl Marx

- NYT

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 11:19 AM (Nwg0u)

330 326 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

"The Bishop's Wife" with David Niven, the lovely Loretta young and handsome Cary Grant/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:18 AM (qES

Thanks Fenelon. I think we watched one starring Denzel Washington (I don't watch a lot of movies these days) a few years ago.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:19 AM (hJrjt)

331 Well, Jimmy McCain served in the Marines and not as an officer, just another enlisted grunt. He was in Iraq.

So the family is not completely useless.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 11:19 AM (P8951)

332
I know I've told this before, but John Banner (Schulz) was originally from Vienna, and finally retired to live there with his wife.

One hour after stepping off the plane, he dropped dead of a heart attack.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 11:19 AM (X6fMO)

333 325 Different John Carpenter. This guy was more of a creepy hanger-on.
Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (W2YA6)

Ah. Thanks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:20 AM (kpqmD)

334 324 What's a really good Christmas movie to be found on Netflix? I'm thinking my hyperactive, workaholic wife might be willing to sit down for a movie either tonight or tomorrow.
Any thoughts.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt

There's something called "A Very Murray Christmas" available.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 11:20 AM (zt+N6)

335 Yes, they re-did it with Denzel Washington as the angel, I believe. i didn't see it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:20 AM (qES5k)

336
ASSHOLE
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:04 AM (jJRIy

Merry Christmas Nipster

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 11:20 AM (voOPb)

337 And speaking of dogs, mine just finished off a B-O-B. I went and got us both one this morning. He's full as a tick.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (jfGh+)

338 Any thoughts.Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

Lena Dunham in Happy Christmas?

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (7v/r5)

339
I think I'll finish this little last shot of Peron and then go back and take a nap.

Juan or Evita?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (X6fMO)

340 Thanks for the suggestions horde. FYI my Queen likes "nice" movies.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (hJrjt)

341 338 Any thoughts.Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

Lena Dunham in Happy Christmas?
Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (7v/r5)

See above for my wife's preference for nice movies.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:22 AM (hJrjt)

342
What's a really good Christmas movie to be found on Netflix? I'm thinking my hyperactive, workaholic wife might be willing to sit down for a movie either tonight or tomorrow.
Any thoughts.

I always say you can't go wrong with White Christmas. Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Der Bingle and a score by Irving Berlin. Who could ask for anything more?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 11:23 AM (X6fMO)

343 341 338 Any thoughts.Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:16 AM (hJrjt)

Lena Dunham in Happy Christmas?
Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (7v/r5)

See above for my wife's preference for nice movies.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:22 AM (hJrjt)

The Green Inferno

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:23 AM (kpqmD)

344 I know some people who saw both "The Bishop's Wife" and "The Preacher's Wife" and they preferred the former, but they're people who love older films.
It's a very "nice" film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:24 AM (qES5k)

345 Can I just be grouch here for a moment, and say that I can't stand pompous people who wonder whether we're doing kids a disservice by lying to them about Santa?

--------------------------

A Catholic blog (I'm Lutheran) I used to follow had this discussion. The cries of lying being a sin and one poster going on about how it ruined his trust in his parents for decades afterwards left me stunned at their thinking.

Posted by: WOPR at December 24, 2015 11:24 AM (LTDSy)

346
I always say you can't go wrong with White Christmas. Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Der Bingle and a score by Irving Berlin. Who could ask for anything more?

Yes, that's a great choice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:25 AM (qES5k)

347 She was barely 5 foot, but worked as a carpenter tender and pulled green chain at a lumber mill. She was tough and never whined about her lot in life.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 09:43 AM (Lqy/e) Haven't heard the term "green chain" for years and years. She has to be one tough lady. My first job out of high school was working in a lumber mill. Hot nasty dirty work.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 11:25 AM (22uju)

348 "FYI my Queen likes "nice" movies."

"A Christmas Story" is always good.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:25 AM (jfGh+)

349 Gonna have my traditional drunken Tarkovsky film-fest this evening.

Stalker, for starters.....

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:25 AM (Wu2k4)

350 It's that wonderful time of year when you're told there's no war on Christmas right before being ordered to remove all decorations from public places and say holidays in the workplace. Joyful generic greetings citizen.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 24, 2015 11:25 AM (vptMd)

351 340 Thanks for the suggestions horde. FYI my Queen likes "nice" movies.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (hJrjt)

=======

One of the newer films is Brooklyn. About an irish girl who immigrates to the US in the 50s. Very sweet.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 11:26 AM (iQIUe)

352 The Long Kiss Goodnight is a Christmas movie.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:26 AM (kpqmD)

353 345
Can I just be grouch here for a moment, and say that I can't stand
pompous people who wonder whether we're doing kids a disservice by lying
to them about Santa?

--------------------------

A Catholic blog (I'm Lutheran) I used to follow had this discussion.
The cries of lying being a sin and one poster going on about how it
ruined his trust in his parents for decades afterwards left me stunned
at their thinking.

---------------
Cue the "first world problems" theme. My parents prided themselves on being good modern Lutherans, and so disabused my sister me about Santa Claus about the time I was in first grade.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 24, 2015 11:27 AM (ry4ab)

354 "The cries of lying being a sin and one poster going on about how it
ruined his trust in his parents for decades afterwards left me stunned
at their thinking."

Never, ever in my life thought anything about it. Much less hated my parents over it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:27 AM (jfGh+)

355 http://netflixlife.com/2015/12/17/best-holiday-and-christmas-movies-on-netflix-happy-christmas/

Actually the Happy Christmas movie with Lena Dunham was the first choice in that link. So beware.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:28 AM (7v/r5)

356 Lizzy: Latest on PP shooter: claims his jailers are poisoning him, that he fears becoming a zombie, and wants to fire his lawyers and represent himself in court.

See? Just your average Tea Party guy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - zombie? at December 24, 2015 11:28 AM (UOsvH)

357 354 "The cries of lying being a sin and one poster going on about how it
ruined his trust in his parents for decades afterwards left me stunned
at their thinking."

Never, ever in my life thought anything about it. Much less hated my parents over it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:27 AM (jfGh+)

Yeah, they have other issues going on.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 11:29 AM (zt+N6)

358 354 "The cries of lying being a sin and one poster going on about how it
ruined his trust in his parents for decades afterwards left me stunned
at their thinking."

Never, ever in my life thought anything about it. Much less hated my parents over it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:27 AM (jfGh+)

Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to hate one's parents.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:29 AM (kpqmD)

359 Good Morning MoronLand!!!!

Posted by: BB Wolf, Lost Boy at December 24, 2015 11:29 AM (f7rv6)

360 Christmas n Connecticut is one I always like.

About to head out on the road.

Merry Christmas and many Blessings in the New Year to the Horde.

Posted by: Infidel at December 24, 2015 11:30 AM (cojT9)

361 "Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to hate one's parents."

No, didn't have any other reasons. They were fine.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:30 AM (jfGh+)

362 Merry Christmas Nipster

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 11:20 AM (voOPb)

Back at you MH!!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:31 AM (jJRIy)

363 Well, one thing you never want to do is tell a white lie. Black lies are OK, though.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 11:31 AM (Nwg0u)

364 agh - I reply to an old comment back upthread then see BurtTC said about the same immediately after the old comment. Better lurk til I get caught up!

Posted by: mindful webworker - monkeying at the keyboard at December 24, 2015 11:32 AM (UOsvH)

365 361 "Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to hate one's parents."

No, didn't have any other reasons. They were fine.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:30 AM (jfGh+)

That was tongue in cheek. Well, mostly.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:32 AM (kpqmD)

366 I think my overnight depression has gone way.

Obviously I was not subtle. Four friends called this morning to check on me.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM (jJRIy)

367 Horde, put me some knowledge, would ya?

Why is it that palatable rum sells for less than valurite vodka? it's a mystery to me.

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM (Wu2k4)

368 363 Well, one thing you never want to do is tell a white lie. Black lies are OK, though.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 11:31 AM (Nwg0u)

Affirmative action strikes again.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM (kpqmD)

369 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:11 AM (qES5k)

Wait... THERES NO SANTA???

You... are a Denier!

Posted by: BB Wolf, Lost Boy at December 24, 2015 11:34 AM (f7rv6)

370 Three gifts you can give Jesus-from Pastor Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. A Christmas Eve devotional i do like this guy; I hope someday I can navigate the train/bus subway system and get to a service he preaches at:

http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/devotional

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:34 AM (qES5k)

371 366 I think my overnight depression has gone way.

Obviously I was not subtle. Four friends called this morning to check on me.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM (jJRIy)
***
Yeah, a lot of us go through that dark patch, this time of year.

Right around Thanksgiving, I start wondering: "Do I hang the Christmas decorations, or myself?"

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:35 AM (Wu2k4)

372 Christmas movies?

A Christmas Story

Scrooged

Posted by: weirdflunky at December 24, 2015 11:35 AM (/KZXp)

373 I think my overnight depression has gone way.

Glad to hear that. Merry Christmas to you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:35 AM (qES5k)

374 Well, I'm off to the gym.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 24, 2015 11:35 AM (Nwg0u)

375 "
I think my overnight depression has gone way."

Buck, up, buttercup.

Have some drinks and watch some John Wayne movies.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:36 AM (jfGh+)

376 367
Horde, put me some knowledge, would ya?

Why is it that palatable rum sells for less than valurite vodka? it's a mystery to me.

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM (Wu2k4)

Most rum is made in Puerto Rico. They have special tax deals, aka sugar used for rum, can be imported without US import fees

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:36 AM (jJRIy)

377 376 367
Horde, put me some knowledge, would ya?

Why is it that palatable rum sells for less than valurite vodka? it's a mystery to me.

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM (Wu2k4)

Most rum is made in Puerto Rico. They have special tax deals, aka sugar used for rum, can be imported without US import fees
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:36 AM (jJRIy)
***
Well, I'll be damned - a subsidy that actually does me some good.

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:38 AM (Wu2k4)

378
I think my overnight depression has gone way.

***pushes voucher for case of Val-U-Rite through USB port***

I know how it feels, brother. Glad you're better.

Merry Christmas and many, many more.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 11:38 AM (X6fMO)

379 Meanwhile among the Republican presidential candidates, Trump is having a very merry Christmas. Rubio Cruz are hanging their stockings with care, the others are probably doing their best to enjoy the Nativity and not think about poll numbers.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 24, 2015 11:38 AM (ry4ab)

380 Well, time to drive to Houston to catch a plane.

Merry Christmas, y'all. May Santa bring you what your hearts desire, and may you and whoever you're spending it with be in good spirits.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 24, 2015 11:39 AM (HalrA)

381 Why is it that palatable rum sells for less than valurite vodka? it's a mystery to me.Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 11:33 AM

Visit the Caribbean sometime. The coke or pepsi they import from the USA is more expensive than the locally produced rum. The rum and cokes are potent in order to save money.

In the great state store system in Pennsylvania, bottom shelf vodka is cheaper than bottom shelf rum. Cheap rum, imo, tastes terrible, while cheap vodka is quite good.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:39 AM (7v/r5)

382 Nothing says love like the gift of porn.

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:40 AM (XMCo0)

383 370 Three gifts you can give Jesus-from Pastor Jim Cymbala of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. A Christmas Eve devotional i do like this guy; I hope someday I can navigate the train/bus subway system and get to a service he preaches at:

http://www.brooklyntabernacle.org/devotional
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:34 AM (qES5k

I've read a number of Cymbala's books. I used to have a CD by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir (probably still do but lost track of it with a couple of moves and my switch to iTunes.)
Brooklyn Tabernacle seems to be a genuinely impactful church.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:40 AM (hJrjt)

384 Thanks for all the support.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:41 AM (jJRIy)

385 No thanks, Rex Reed.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2015 10:22 AM (NOIQH)

All those movies were gay, lefty or both. Great list

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 24, 2015 11:41 AM (45oDG)

386 375 "
I think my overnight depression has gone way."

Buck, up, buttercup.

Have some drinks and watch some John Wayne movies.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:36 AM (jfGh+)

Ewww... John Wayne.... Christmas...

Donovan's Reef.... GREAT IDEA!

Posted by: BB Wolf, Lost Boy at December 24, 2015 11:42 AM (f7rv6)

387 382
Nothing says love like the gift of porn.

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:40 AM (XMCo0)

Your wife is DAMN hot!!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:42 AM (jJRIy)

388 Well, time to drive to Houston to catch a plane.

But you live in Maine you fool!

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:42 AM (XMCo0)

389 White Christmas is my absolute favorite Christmas movie and the clothes are gorgeous.

In other news, my candy thermometer is apparently broken and I ruined the fudge. Oh well.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 11:42 AM (EDW3H)

390 "
Thanks for all the support."

I hope that was cheerful.

Christmas Day is just another day off for me. A chance to get out and not answer the phone.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:43 AM (jfGh+)

391 Three gifts you can give Jesus

Gold, frankincense and myrrh?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:43 AM (kpqmD)

392 Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings

But the economy has never been better, comrades. And let the peasants stare in awe of Barry's golf game.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 24, 2015 11:43 AM (45oDG)

393 Merry Christmas, y'all. May Santa bring you what
your hearts desire, and may you and whoever you're spending it with be
in good spirits.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at December 24, 2015 11:39 AM (HalrA)

Santa, make my dick 15 inches and work!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:43 AM (jJRIy)

394 Thanks for all the support.Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:41 AM

You're a Philadelphia eagles fan, right? If you're not manic/depressive the past four months than something IS the matter with you. Chin up, two more wins this season and its the playoffs.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:44 AM (7v/r5)

395 If anyone is going to church and has a new pastor/priest this year, please keep them in prayer. No matter how many times you've officiated at a Christmas service, it always makes the pastor nervous to have to officiate in front of new people-many of who they've never met before. If you're a person who is naturally an introvert you get performance anxiety because you want to do a good job and you know that with some of these folks it's your one and only chance. Pray that they feel upheld and strengthened the peace and love of Christ, and affirmed in their calling. if your pastor has never done a Christmas service before because they started at another time of the year they need extra prayers.

And I worry this year because of threats of violence in order to shut churches down

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:44 AM (qES5k)

396 "Your wife is DAMN hot!!"

There he is!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:44 AM (jfGh+)

397 Nothing says love like the gift of porn.

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:40 AM (XMCo0)

Your wife is DAMN hot!!
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:42 AM (jJRIy

You too can have her if the price is right.

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (XMCo0)

398 Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 11:43 AM (kpqmD

No; Some folks already gave those. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (qES5k)

399 Well, I'll be damned - a subsidy that actually does me some good.

Sorry, we couldn't help overhearing... Can we count on your financial support to keep the gravy train running?

Posted by: The GOPe at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (Z58Xa)

400
I'm spending Christmas eve and day with Huma because Bill is off doing some charitable work for the Clinton Foundation. Well....something like that!

Posted by: Sir Edmund the Scrooge at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (OiFtZ)

401 Merry almost Christmas! Sooo, what's new?

Posted by: donna at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (/dSsq)

402 "But you live in Maine you fool!"

Well, then, he better get on the road. Long day ahead.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (jfGh+)

403 389
White Christmas is my absolute favorite Christmas movie and the clothes are gorgeous.

In other news, my candy thermometer is apparently broken and I ruined the fudge. Oh well.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 11:42 AM (EDW3H)

NO NO NO. It was called Holiday Inn
http://tinyurl.com/qgwdk2o

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:46 AM (jJRIy)

404 I saw holiday inn too and I see the comparisons but I love white Christmas so much more.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 11:46 AM (EDW3H)

405 It's getting harder and harder to find plain valurite vodka, everyone's doing the flavored vodka thing these days, two dozen flavored vodkas at $40 a fifth and nary a bottle of valurite to be seen.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 24, 2015 11:47 AM (vptMd)

406 404 I saw holiday inn too and I see the comparisons but I love white Christmas so much more.

Holiday Inn is a kick! I particularly like the scene in Black face! Can You imagine them doing that now?

Posted by: donna at December 24, 2015 11:48 AM (/dSsq)

407 I believe this explains it all

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/CW964eDWkAAMCbA.jpg

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 11:48 AM (voOPb)

408 You too can have her if the price is right.

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:45 AM (XMCo0)

I've done that twice. You know the three F's rule right?

If it flies, floats, or fvcks. rent it.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:48 AM (jJRIy)

409 Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 11:40 AM (hJrjt)

It's very impactful and they have started churches in lots of other places. I always find it inspiring that it started out as a storefront church and it's now huge, and it's not a "Mane it and claim it church". thank goodness. Ads you know Cymbala attributes the growth not to anything he did-really- but all to the grace of God and fervent prayer. The prayer is foundational for their church as you know. I have read some of his books too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 11:48 AM (qES5k)

410 Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings

I just find that so hard to believe and very scary. I thinik it means the middle class is almost gone.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 11:48 AM (Z58Xa)

411 "Most Americans Have Less Than $1,000 In Savings" They mean in a traditional passbook savings account at 0% interest. Anybody who has substantial money in a 0% account is financially illiterate.

So the story is a big nothingburger.

Posted by: gp at December 24, 2015 11:48 AM (+Jpqc)

412 >>>>s going to church and has a new pastor/priest this year, please keep them in prayer. No matter how many times you've officiated at a Christmas service, it always makes the pastor nervous to have to officiate in front of new people-many of who they've never met before. -FS
------
On the bright side the Preacher won't see a lot of them until Easter or the following Christmas

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 11:49 AM (voOPb)

413 I am going to take nap. Blowing off church. Can not get family organized.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 24, 2015 11:51 AM (jJRIy)

414 " Anybody who has substantial money in a 0% account is financially illiterate."

Money market earning 1.5%.

Won't mention the bank.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:51 AM (jfGh+)

415 It's getting harder and harder to find plain valurite vodka, everyone's doing the flavored vodka thing these days, two dozen flavored vodkas at $40 a fifth and nary a bottle of valurite to be seen.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 24, 2015 11:47 AM (vptMd)

You can still get your wild turkey.

Posted by: StrawMan at December 24, 2015 11:51 AM (XMCo0)

416 Grocery store was filled but manageable

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 11:52 AM (k0xxN)

417 They mean in a traditional passbook savings account at 0% interest.

Ah. I've had $50 in savings for thirty years in order to qualify for a credit union checking account. That's the only reason to have a "savings" account in that sense.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 11:53 AM (Z58Xa)

418 Good news!!! Last minute filing for republican primary in NC7 congressional district. Mark Otto. May not be better but at least he is not Rouzer-e. Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Agitator at December 24, 2015 11:53 AM (VA4Sx)

419 "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus....

...on his pee-pee"

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 24, 2015 11:54 AM (5QNWJ)

420 FenelonSpoke: I thought the song was funny, MWW, and I liked hearing your accent. ...

Glad you could appreciate it, FS, but... Accent? What 'r y'all talkin' 'bout?

Next year, maybe I'll get around to doing my (non-porny!) Rudolph parody.

Posted by: mindful webworker - jingly bells at December 24, 2015 11:54 AM (UOsvH)

421 George Will's whining about how if Trump is nominated, the conservative party is done for.

What conservative party George?

There is no conservative party. You and others of your ilk have made being a conservative something no self respecting young idiot would ever think of being.

As a result our number shrink and the GOPe has made sure we never get mentioned or allowed to make any laws or stand up to any crap from the Democrats.

It's YOU that's the problem George. Not Trump.

(gotta laugh he has to write this in the Washington Post. The irony is apparently lost on him.)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 11:56 AM (Xo1Rt)

422 FS: ...one of my favorite memories of Christmas was when the boy was young enough to do the NORAD tracking for Santa; he was so excited.

I remember Dad coming into the bedroom I shared with my brother, late on Christmas Eve, to give us the NORAD report on Santa's progress.

I remember the year one of our daughter's friends told her the "truth" about Santa. She was old enough (if one can ever be) that it wasn't too bad. We gave her the "now you get to be Santa, too, for little kids" talk.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ho ho ho at December 24, 2015 11:58 AM (UOsvH)

423 OK, I'm back. Had to do some work and tidy up the kitchen.

Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 12:00 PM (IPirI)

424
SMOD!
SMOD!
SMOD!

Bring it baby!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 24, 2015 12:02 PM (iQIUe)

425 It's YOU that's the problem George. Not Trump.

(gotta laugh he has to write this in the Washington Post. The irony is apparently lost on him.)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That

Maybe George is drawing a cartoon of Trump as organ grinder. Or would it be schlong grinder?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 12:03 PM (FkBIv)

426 What conservative party George?

There must be a themed cocktail party that they hold every week where they wear the old wigs and pretend to be Founders.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:04 PM (Z58Xa)

427 Miracle on 34th St. features a humorless career woman who doesn't believe in lying to her daughter about imaginary beings like Santa Claus. Obviously the story is imaginary (really!) but the viewer is meant to see O'Hara's character as initially narrow minded and joyless.

As are those who hold similar views 60 years after that film was made. Dull modern day killjoys and puritans, the lot of them.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 12:04 PM (P8951)

428 Hah.... you silly Christians...

Your NORAD GIVES us tracking data so we can shoot down your SAINT NICK???

Posted by: Abdhul, in charge of SAMs for ISIS at December 24, 2015 12:05 PM (f7rv6)

429 I really must congratulate myself for inventing the idea of going to the beach for Christmas week.

Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 12:07 PM (IPirI)

430 So I'm making the rice pudding, right? I mix all the ingredients together - the eggs, the brown sugar, the half and half, the butter - all the stuff in the bowl. Whip it all up and pour it in the baking dish. Then I think to myself - why isn't this bowl full? This is way too small of a batch for rice pudding. Then it hits me - I forgot the rice.

See, this is why I don't cook.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 12:07 PM (dFi94)

431 I felt so un-American when I read that less than 1K in saving but then clicking thru, yup I have very little in my saving account. The interest rate is so pitiful its not worth bothering to shift money into it. If I have a big unexpected expense I'll take the hit to the money market and otherwise I'll just keep some cushion in checking.

Sheldon should have just announced he bought the paper but everyone would have a chance to keep their jobs IF they actually report real facts.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 24, 2015 12:07 PM (chkUd)

432 Going to work early on Christmas Eve. Then visit some friends and come home to have my Christmas Eve steak.

Posted by: Soona at December 24, 2015 12:08 PM (Fmupd)

433 Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 12:04 PM (P8951)

Too bad the little Girl (played by Natalie Wood) didn't ask for a House with a Pool...

Swimming lessons... ya know...

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 24, 2015 12:08 PM (f7rv6)

434 My mother-in-law =(RIP) once forget cinnamon making cinnamon rolls, and she was a good cook

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 12:09 PM (k0xxN)

435 The movie Holiday Inn was made in 1942, It was later remade as White Christmas in 1954.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 12:10 PM (t2KH5)

436 You can still get your wild turkey.

Wild turkey just doesn't give me that waking up in an alley with my face in a hookers ass feeling that valurite does.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 24, 2015 12:11 PM (vptMd)

437 Sheldon should have just announced he bought the paper

Can you imagine a bombastic Trump Media Empire of papers and TV stations? Entertaining, at the very least.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:11 PM (Z58Xa)

438 I was just looking at the ad with the baby and creepy Abuela and Abuelo? Hil and Bill.

That is one infant that needs prayer. Growing up in wealth is good and all but that baby will have the moral equivalent of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). It could be called fetal depravity syndrome (FDS).

Poor child.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:12 PM (hJrjt)

439
429 I really must congratulate myself for inventing the idea of going to the beach for Christmas week.

Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 12:07 PM (IPirI)

1985... first year stationed in Hawaii... no leave....

So planted Christmas Tree in the Sand, on the Beach, at Waimaha Beech...

Turned into a HELL of a Party...

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 24, 2015 12:13 PM (f7rv6)

440 428 Hah.... you silly Christians...

Your NORAD GIVES us tracking data so we can shoot down your SAINT NICK???
Posted by: Abdhul, in charge of SAMs for ISIS at December 24, 2015 12:05 PM (f7rv6)

I'll have you know that the reindeers shoot drones out of their asses! You can't stop Christmas, you goat humper!

Posted by: Jolly Old St. Nick, now with Extra Scary Assault Rifle at December 24, 2015 12:13 PM (P8951)

441 I'd say that when the papers were partisan shills on their face, the country had more of the facts.

This whole pretending to be impartial thing has done us a grave harm as a nation.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 24, 2015 12:13 PM (XiVKO)

442 435 The movie Holiday Inn was made in 1942, It was later remade as White Christmas in 1954.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 12:10 PM (t2KH5)

Used the same song... but totally different stories...

Not really a remake IMO....

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 24, 2015 12:14 PM (f7rv6)

443 436 You can still get your wild turkey.

Wild turkey just doesn't give me that waking up in an alley with my face in a hookers ass feeling that valurite does.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at December 24, 2015 12:11 PM (vptMd)

-------------------------

Pro Tip: Mad Dog.

Posted by: Soona at December 24, 2015 12:14 PM (Fmupd)

444 Turned into a HELL of a Party...

Wasn't there a country song with the refrain "Wasn't that a party?"

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:15 PM (hJrjt)

445 "Wild turkey just doesn't give me that waking up in an alley with my face in a hookers ass feeling that valurite does."

Well, bottom-shelf does have its qualities.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:15 PM (jfGh+)

446 There are times I get depressed because we have a party where insufferable twits like Charles CW Cooke delude themselves into believing they are "Paid Thinkers", with some unique and interesting perspective on conservative dogma.

Then I read someone like Peter Beinart on the left torturing logic trying to make people believe America is moving left.

We are the stupid party, but not the stupidest party.

Posted by: jwest at December 24, 2015 12:15 PM (Zs4uk)

447 WeaselDog has been enjoying the hell out of running along the beach and sniffing to her little noses content.

Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 12:17 PM (k9lXi)

448 "Wasn't there a country song"

What's the temperature in Canada right now?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:17 PM (jfGh+)

449 Super slow day at work. I think I've set a personal best for clicking the refresh button.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:17 PM (hJrjt)

450 T-bird. Well I have this fantasy of finding a conservative manager and having a coalition to buy papers and every new purchase there would be a speech. "Tom and Harry are fired, their stories have been so partisan and fabricated we don't believe they can reform; the rest of you are on a probationary period. We are not asking you to do P/R for conservative candidates but you had better get actual facts and write straight stories that simply report those facts w/o trying to spin for your favorite progressive or you'll join Tom and Harry in the unemployment line"

Posted by: PaleRider at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (chkUd)

451 We are the stupid party, but not the stupidest party.
Posted by: jwest

Bumper sticker!

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (Z58Xa)

452 Posted by: BB Wolf at December 24, 2015 12:08 PM (f7rv6)

Heh. Natalie was lovely, but not the brightest bulb, perhaps... I remember reading a story that she and some other starlet had a menage a trois with Warren Beatty going and Natalie had the bright idea of filling her bathtub with champagne so they could all decadently wallow around in it. She got in first - and started screaming because when your hooha is submerged in alcohol, it's not a good feeling.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (P8951)

453 That old guy Vic doesn't recognize a strong schlongservative like Rich Lowry speaks for all schongservatives everywhere, like George Will and Jonah Goldberg. And he also did us the favor of kicking Mark Steyn to the curb. Don't mess around with strong schlongservatives

Posted by: A Strong Schlongservative at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (msVAP)

454 448 "Wasn't there a country song"

What's the temperature in Canada right now?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:17 PM (jfGh+)

It was -13 celsius driving in to work. It has probably warmed up a few decrees so make it about 20 degrees fahrenheit.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (hJrjt)

455 I never taught my kids to believe in Santa Claus. I guess that makes me a horrible person. Oh well.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (kpqmD)

456 Can you imagine a bombastic Trump Media Empire of papers and TV stations? Entertaining, at the very least.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:11 PM (Z58Xa

The splodey heads would be fun to watch.

FNC purchased by Trump would even be better. FOAD Will & Kraut. Jerry come here and shine my shoes. LOL

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 12:19 PM (voOPb)

457 I find that Class 6 shops on military bases have good valuerite prices. As all you military morons and ettes know that is old fedcal. It ain't Stoli nor Buffalo Trace but hit sho do gits the job done. Only problem is the gate guys and that firearms thing.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 12:19 PM (b+df9)

458 Finished all my errands and will dine with conservative friends tonight. And that is that.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:20 PM (DUoqb)

459
I'll have you know that the reindeers shoot drones out of their asses! You can't stop Christmas, you goat humper!

Posted by: Jolly Old St. Nick, now with Extra Scary Assault Rifle at December 24, 2015 12:13 PM (P8951)

St. Nick.... St. Nick.... Please deploy stealth at this time.. but be advised we have CAP over your entire flight path...

and the Russians have been given our IFF, marked you as Friendly...

We note you have no flight path over Washington DC... good call Sir...

NORAD, out....

Posted by: BB Wolf at December 24, 2015 12:20 PM (f7rv6)

460 "It has probably warmed up a few decrees so make it about 20 degrees Fahrenheit."

Ma-fucker, damn.

*thanks for doing the Celsius-to-Fahrenheit thing there for me*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:21 PM (jfGh+)

461 Don't they all perform sex acts to get presents? Is this something new?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 24, 2015 12:22 PM (vgIRn)

462 From Wiki The success of the song White Christmas eventually led to another film based on the song, White Christmas (1954), which starred Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. It was an extremely loose remake of Holiday Inn, with a plot again involving an inn, but otherwise different from the earlier film.

I have the 1954 version.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 12:22 PM (t2KH5)

463 I find that Class 6 shops on military bases have good valuerite prices. As all you military morons and ettes know that is old fedcal. It ain't Stoli nor Buffalo Trace but hit sho do gits the job done. Only problem is the gate guys and that firearms thing.
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 12:19 PM (b+df9)

Yeah I never found the liquor prices on base that great a deal, HOWEVER, the proximity is inviting

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:22 PM (DUoqb)

464 460 "It has probably warmed up a few decrees so make it about 20 degrees Fahrenheit."

Ma-fucker, damn.

*thanks for doing the Celsius-to-Fahrenheit thing there for me*
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:21 PM (jfGh+)

You're welcome. I did grow up in Fahrenheit. The odd thing is this feels not bad to me.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:23 PM (hJrjt)

465 I am mixed with the Santa Claus hoax on kids. I was around 6 and had much older cousins and still remember almost 50 years later where and when (and it was in July) it happened.

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 12:23 PM (k0xxN)

466 DHS Planning Raids To Deport Hundreds Of Illegal Central Americans And Announcing It Across Media Before Hand

Who announces raids before you make them? Unless you want to alert your target

Weasel Zippers

But then again this brain dead Admin also announces all troop movements and withdrawals years in advance. Top men!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:25 PM (DUoqb)

467 Posted by: PaleRider

I've thought of going a different route: offering these papers as well-paid finishing schools. Hammer the hell our of the Left for us as you hone your craft as a propagandist. I think it's the Debate Club model: the issue or side doesn't matter. Hone your technique and become eminently employable.

The catch, of course, is that when they go back to the Left, they'll no longer have Reality on their side.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:25 PM (n22zQ)

468 yes the republican party is over. they failed to reform after 2008

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 24, 2015 12:25 PM (F+xWX)

469 457 I find that Class 6 shops on military bases have good valuerite prices. As all you military morons and ettes know that is old fedcal. It ain't Stoli nor Buffalo Trace but hit sho do gits the job done. Only problem is the gate guys and that firearms thing.
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 12:19 PM (b+df9)

My kids get a huge kick out of it when my Dad visits and shows his ID at the gate of the Academy.

'Course, when my Dad was my age, he was a general. I work in a cubicle.

MOAR VALU-RITE!

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 24, 2015 12:25 PM (vgIRn)

470 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at December 24, 2015 12:25 PM (GwIKd)

471 I'm somewhat mixed on the Santa thing myself. I don't have a problem in principal. And Santa at Christmas parties is fine--but I prefer to have the grandchildren know their presents came from an Opa and gramma who love them and think about them, rather than from Santa Claus.

Personal preference.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:26 PM (hJrjt)

472 We did Santa Claus with our kids but never made a huge deal of it. It was pretty much in the background, limited to stockings and that sort of thing. We did take them to the mall to sit on Santa's lap. However, we skipped the Easter Bunny thing completely. Those Easter Bunny people are creepy.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 12:27 PM (dFi94)

473 gotta laugh he has to write this in the Washington Post. The irony is apparently lost on him

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he ran to the teacher after bully trump pantsed him

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 24, 2015 12:27 PM (F+xWX)

474 470 Yo!
Posted by: Yo! at December 24, 2015 12:25 PM (GwIKd)

FYI yo means yes in Plautdietsch, or low German. I just wanted to share.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:28 PM (hJrjt)

475 "Haven't heard the term "green chain" for years and years. She has to be one tough lady."

She is. When she was a carpenter tender, she would lug sheets of plywood bigger than her. When she worked at the mill, her boss had to talk to her. She would sometimes get fed up with the work and jam things up so she could have a break. Fortunately, the boss had dealt with that before.

Her ex brother in law's new wife once asked her why she worked in a lumber mill. she just looked at her like she was nuts. You work in places like that because you've got kids to feed.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 12:28 PM (5HBd1)

476 One of the fathers traveling with the Muslim family banned from entering the U.S. this week has denied any alleged links to Islamist extremism after a Facebook page set up at his home address was discovered, praising al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Breitbart

Moderate Muslim?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:29 PM (DUoqb)

477 There was a guy as Santa Claus was walking around the grocery store talking to little kids, I did think it was a good idea.

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 12:29 PM (k0xxN)

478 Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 12:18 PM (kpqmD)

No; it doesn't make you a terrible person. You are clearly not a terrible person. :^) What I don't care for from either religious or non religious folks is lecturing others about how they must not pretend about Santa-as if anyone who does so is a liar and a terrible parent.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 12:30 PM (qES5k)

479 yeah, good article on Trump, Borders, Masculinity ... whoever linked it upthread.

"He's a breath of old-timey, masucline cologne in an increasingly feminine world"

I'd quibble with that a bit. The US and much of the west is becoming feminized in many ways, but mostly in charging white males with rape, the KKK gene, white privilege, and being too manly.

The cutthroat treacherous left at its core is not feminized at all, it will castrate others so it can have all the power. While Obama has a feminine side, the Democrat/commies are unapologetic in their vicious attacks on the right, and Kennedy and Clinton rose to the top seemingly on the wave of their negligent homicide and multiple molestations (alleged).

And the rest of the world is still invading and chopping heads off, right up to the border in Mexico where cartels kill off whole police forces. The Muslims we invite in are maybe westernized, but not all. They don't shed all their male tendencies but they are approved since they are part of the diversification that will help break down our coherent society.

The commie plan is a 100 years old, and in the 60's it became clear they wanted to feminize US, to weaken us. But Putin or Mandela were still strong male warriors. Winnie did take up the slack for her man while he played protester, and she made sure the necklace tortures and murders continued ... but that is not exactly feminism.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 24, 2015 12:31 PM (5Gpe2)

480 I confess that grammie used the whole "naughty or nice" threat on the 4 year old grandboy. He sorely needed threatening.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 12:32 PM (dFi94)

481 We always had gifts from Santa and gifts from mom and did.

And we gave Easter baskets for a short time but they were always from us-not the Easter Bunny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 12:32 PM (qES5k)

482 Wasn't that a party.
Could have been the whiskey.
Might have been the gin.
Could've been the three four six pack I don't know.
Look at the mess I'm in.
My head is like a football, I think I'm going to die.

Posted by: WOPR at December 24, 2015 12:32 PM (LTDSy)

483 482 Wasn't that a party.
Could have been the whiskey.
Might have been the gin.
Could've been the three four six pack I don't know.
Look at the mess I'm in.
My head is like a football, I think I'm going to die.
Posted by: WOPR at December 24, 2015 12:32 PM (LTDSy)

Now I remember.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:33 PM (hJrjt)

484 George Will. Putting the Fuddy in Fuddy Duddy.

Didn't he want to be baseball Commissioner or something?

I say give him the job to shut him the hell up.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 12:33 PM (Xo1Rt)

485 but I prefer to have the grandchildren know their presents came from an Opa and gramma who love them and think about them, rather than from Santa Claus.

We had Santa, but you always knew who the presents were from. Eventually, something would click in your six-year-old brain, "Oh, I get it!" Santa is just an idea, a shorthand, and therefore he exists.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:33 PM (oFSUK)

486 Lea: ...ruined the fudge.

Read that to Milady. She "aawwww'd" in sympathy.

Then said, her brother Jack used to make fudge. One year everybody said, that was the best fudge ever.

He said, that's because he burnt the first batch and didn't want to waste it, so, after he made up the second batch, he broke up the first batch and stirred it in.

Had a kind of a... smoky flavor!

Posted by: mindful webworker - oh, fudge at December 24, 2015 12:34 PM (UOsvH)

487 Went last night to get presents -- 24-hour Meier and WalMart FTW! Youngest went to work (she got some great hours this week, so she will be basking in the double time. Have to run the vacuum before I spread out to do the wrapping/labeling.

My parents enjoyed Santa (Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, etc), but they put the twist that Christmas was the one night of the year the animals talked -- pets had better be treated well, or else! We also put out carrots for the reindeer rather than milk and cookies. Apparently, we gave parents a hard time because we didn't have a chimney so when my Dad became a Grandpa, he looooved giving us 'Santa Keys' for our front doors.

If you don't believe, you don't receive.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 24, 2015 12:34 PM (MIKMs)

488 No matter how many times you've officiated at a Christmas service, it always makes the pastor nervous to have to officiate in front of new people-many of who they've never met before.

====

I listened to a new priest completely lose it once during his first outing on Christmas. wasn't the most comfortable thing, and its now many years later an odd memory to have still.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 24, 2015 12:35 PM (F+xWX)

489 The other part of maybe why I mixed about Santa is I use to work with a guy (from a few years to 24years ago) is he would tell the story that at the age of 15 he still believed in Santa. I heard the story often and he did seem proud of it so could only take it as true.

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 12:36 PM (k0xxN)

490
Good Tidings of Great Joy to all rons and ettes.

I hope you all have great holidays.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 24, 2015 12:36 PM (ODxAs)

491 Protest babe alert!

Brazilian Femen chicas strip down to to their lovelies in a mock-castration protest against a Brazilian politician who said something sexist:

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/ loathsome-rhetoric-transforms-communist-into-conservative-t17343.html (remove space)

Higher resolution here: http://tinyurl.com/oloh582

Even the intentional uglification cannot overwhelm the innate succulence.

Funny coda from the comments:

"The woman on the right on the photo was one of the founders of Femen in Brazil, a loathsome activist called Sarah Winter, who incorporated all the cliches of the radfem movement.

The funny and ironic thing is that she married to a meathead a few months ago and turned 180 degrees. She became a radical anti feminist, anti anything she once stood for and joined a ultra conservative group."

Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2015 12:37 PM (jBuUi)

492 "We had Santa, but you always knew who the presents were from.
Eventually, something would click in your six-year-old brain, "Oh, I get
it!" Santa is just an idea, a shorthand, and therefore he exists."

Zackly. You always knew where stuff came from but Santy was fun.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:38 PM (jfGh+)

493 Oh and CT has been driving business out of the state for over 40 years.

One of the highest sales taxes, over regulation, lousy schools for the poor (great ones if you've got money), Zoning laws that are ridiculous, the Electric infrastructure is the worst in the nation because the New Yorkers who live in Fairfield county won't allow the Power Company to run any new lines.

And the local sub stations, feeder lines and street lines are also decrepit. And on top of that the rates are very high.

Connecticut was once was one of the cornerstones of American Industry in firearms, military contract, engineering, transportation and innumerable small outfits supplying those larger companies.

Now? The entire industrial belt and up and down the rivers are now wastelands with rampant poverty and crime.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 12:38 PM (Xo1Rt)

494 Abdhul: Hah.... you silly Christians... Your NORAD GIVES us tracking data so we can shoot down your SAINT NICK???

No need. the SCOAMF already ordered that.

To reiterate (40-sec video webwork)
http://bit.ly/terrible-christmas-song

Posted by: mindful webworker - Rudolph! Duck! at December 24, 2015 12:38 PM (UOsvH)

495 we going to do a virtual caroling thread like so many times before?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 24, 2015 12:38 PM (F+xWX)

496 The Easter bunny is indeed creepy.

youtube.com/watch?v=fp4wJ2a92KU

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 12:39 PM (kpqmD)

497 A moderate Muslim is one who hasn't killed anyone . . . yet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 12:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

498 So my take is under 5 why not.

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 12:41 PM (k0xxN)

499 The county I used to live in had been full of poor people for some time. There were two types of women - those that looked on their children as a way onto welfard and those that didn't want to be on welfare at all. The only jobs in the area were physical labor. I think about them this time of year, because they would get food stamps the first of the month. With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming at the end of the month, they had to really learn how to manage resources to have treats for the holidays.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 12:41 PM (5HBd1)

500 I think one of the key points of Santa was watching your kid's minds begin to work around the age of six. They were figuring it out. My daughter came up to me around the Fourth of July when she was 7 and told me Santa wasn't real.
"Figured it out did ya?" says I.
It was great.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 12:42 PM (r65B3)

501
The movie Holiday Inn was made in 1942, It was later remade as White Christmas in 1954.

With respect, Vic, White Christmas isn't a remake of Holiday Inn. It was actually designed to be a partner to the movie, reuniting Crosby and Astaire as the army men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, but Astaire decided he didn't like the script.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 12:42 PM (X6fMO)

502 The Rovers, "Wasn't That A Party."

Fun song.

Posted by: Butch at December 24, 2015 12:44 PM (hXu8T)

503 Brazilian Femen chicas strip down to to their lovelies

Sorry to demean your righteous cause, chicas, but my first thought was, "wow, really nice tits". My second and third thoughts, too. I promise to do better.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:44 PM (oFSUK)

504 485 but I prefer to have the grandchildren know their presents came from an Opa and gramma who love them and think about them, rather than from Santa Claus.

We had Santa, but you always knew who the presents were from. Eventually, something would click in your six-year-old brain, "Oh, I get it!" Santa is just an idea, a shorthand, and therefore he exists.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 12:33 PM (oFSUK)

Fair enough--my personal preference as I said.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:46 PM (hJrjt)

505 I'm thinking I should find something product to do--but I don't know what.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:48 PM (hJrjt)

506 Northernlurker...I'm working from my den today, but did find time to make hot buttered rum batter.
Very productive!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 12:49 PM (r65B3)

507 Also in White Christmas trivia, note that Vera-Ellen never wears a costume that shows her neck. This is because the poor thing was a compulsive anorexic and it showed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 12:49 PM (X6fMO)

508 It's odd but I have come to believe that one of the big problems with modern society is the easy availability of contraceptives. It seems to lead to cultures that don't value life or children. Women that don't have kids seem to have that same Peter Pan syndrome we see in young men (and I say that as someone that doesn't have kids). And it also seems to lead to the feminization of cultures. I don't know of a solution.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 12:49 PM (5HBd1)

509 480 I confess that grammie used the whole "naughty or nice" threat on the 4 year old grandboy. He sorely needed threatening.
Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24

I remember taking the youngest out of church at about that age, saying, "Goddammit _________ if you don't knock it off"

Lightning did not strike me.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 12:49 PM (voOPb)

510 505 I'm thinking I should find something product to do--but I don't know what.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:48 PM (hJrjt)

Salmon brined
Cornish Hens in brine.
I feel a nap coming on. Mrs. MH won't be home til 4ish

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 24, 2015 12:51 PM (voOPb)

511 Test test test

Posted by: antisocialist at December 24, 2015 12:51 PM (cDs+4)

512 the barely readable Scots version of the Christmas story:

Twas a cauld, cauld nicht i' the back o' the year;
The snaw lay deep, and the starns shone clear;
And Mary kent that her time was near,
As she cam to Bethlehem.
When Joseph saw the toon sae thrang,
Quo' he: 'I houp I be na wrang,
But I'm thinkin' we'll find a place ere lang;'
But there wasna nae room for them.
She quo', quo' she: 'O Joseph loon,
Rale tired am I, and wad fain lie doon.
Is there no a bed in the hail o' the toon?
For farrer I canna gae.'
At the ale-hoose door she keekit ben,
But there was sic a steer o' fremmyt men,
She thocht till hirsel': 'I dinna ken
What me and my man can dae.'

And syne she spak: 'We'll hae to lie
I' the byre this nicht amang the kye
And the cattle beas', for a body maun try
To thole what needs maun be,'
And there amang the strae and the corn,
While the owsen mooed, her bairnie was born.
O, wasna that a maist joyous morn
For sinners like you and me?

For the bairn that was born that nicht i' the sta'
Cam doon frae Heaven to tak awa'
Oor fecklessness, and bring us a'
Safe hame in the hender-en'.
Lord, at this Yule-tide send us licht,
Hae mercy on us and herd us richt.
For the sake o' the bairnie born that nicht,
O, mak us better men!

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 24, 2015 12:51 PM (F+xWX)

513 Contraceptives have also been responsible for the decrease in the feminity of Western Women.

It is a known fact that increased hormones will cause women to be infertile, changes in their voice and temperament, how they are able to deal with children and Males, and leads to cancer and other problems later in life.

It's also getting into the water supply and changing males too.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 12:52 PM (Xo1Rt)

514 501
Holiday Inn is the better of the 2 movies. The pairing of Crosby and Astaire cannot be beat. Astaire's Independence Day dance number is particularly memorable.

Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2015 12:52 PM (JSovD)

515 My boss is Ismaeli Muslim and I have a number of Muslim co-workers (most are MINOs). The boss has no problem with saying Merry Christmas around him.
These more serious Muslims seem to draw the line at having photographs in ads that say Merry Christmas. They approve Christmas decorations around the building but not in their own offices.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:52 PM (hJrjt)

516 Merry Saturnalia Fappers!

I will immanentize the next thread by posting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 24, 2015 12:54 PM (jR7Wy)

517 I gave up on "from Santa" gifts this year. One set of grandkids in WA state, one set here but with three places to open stuff. Too much to keep track of. My mom would be ashamed of me.

Posted by: antisocialist at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (cDs+4)

518 >>My parents enjoyed Santa (Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, etc), but they put the twist that Christmas was the one night of the year the animals talked -- pets had better be treated well, or else!

My mom did that too. She raised horses and dogs so we always had a few underfoot and on Christmas Eve they all got special treats.

But the best traditions we had when we were little was that Santa didn't just bring the presents, he brought everything. We'd go to bed on Christmas Eve and Santa would bring the tree and decorate the house, inside and out and put out the stockings and the presents. It was like magic when we were little.

I forget how old we were when we found out the truth but it helped explain why my father was always so exhausted on Christmas morning.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (/tuJf)

519 I never understood the Easter Bunny.

But then I was raised in an Evangelical house so Easter was the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.

I had no clue where a fcuking Rabbit came into all that.

The candy was cool though.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (Xo1Rt)

520 My boss is Jewish and has not problem with Christmas...wait I am my own boss

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (DUoqb)

521 "
I'm thinking I should find something product to do--but I don't know what."

Pfft. Don't worry about it. Get da fook outta there.

Watching a Richard Harris movie, "Abraham," that is actually sorta okay. About, well, Abraham.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 12:56 PM (jfGh+)

522 Funny thing about Easter--no bunny around our place but we do have Easter egg hunts for the little ones and maybe chocolate bunnies.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:56 PM (hJrjt)

523 520 My boss is Jewish and has not problem with Christmas...wait I am my own boss
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (DUoqb)
***
Then you're in a world of hurt - you got a hard-ass for an employer, and a 'ron for an employee

Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 12:57 PM (Wu2k4)

524 523 520 My boss is Jewish and has not problem with Christmas...wait I am my own boss
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (DUoqb)
***
Then you're in a world of hurt - you got a hard-ass for an employer, and a 'ron for an employee
Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at December 24, 2015 12:57 PM (Wu2k4)

Best boss, worst employee.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:57 PM (hJrjt)

525 Eros isn't that next week?

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2015 12:57 PM (k0xxN)

526 I never understood the Easter bunny either. Thought that was stupid.
Not big on the candy either...always got a crap-load of jelly beans. Hate those things.
Love the Easter story though. That's what it was about.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 12:58 PM (r65B3)

527 When rock-ribbed conservative Jeb! is in office, it'll be illegal for butterfaces to do porn. Even in the UK.

Posted by: Begonia being extra topical and stuff at December 24, 2015 12:58 PM (k9qR4)

528 520 My boss is Jewish and has not problem with Christmas...wait I am my own boss
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (DUoqb)

Ahem. The head needs cleaning.

Posted by: Admiral of Dentistry at December 24, 2015 12:58 PM (vgIRn)

529 bunnies and eggs and even baskets == fertility. rolling eggs by children across a field, same thing.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 24, 2015 01:00 PM (F+xWX)

530 "My boss is Jewish and has not problem with Christmas...wait I am my own boss"

You better be in their earning your ass some money.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:01 PM (jfGh+)

531 I do find Santa Claus's creation to be interesting. Mostly a combination of Catholic German and Danish, Protestant German, and English traditions.

Take the gift giving of Sinterklaas(Saint Nicholas), the shift to Christmas of the Christkind(Kris Kringle), and coming from the north on a sleigh pulled by reindeer of Father Christmas. Shake well and stick it in America.

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:01 PM (zt+N6)

532 If I remember correctly Ukrainian Catholics have reasons for the prominence of eggs in their traditions.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 01:01 PM (hJrjt)

533 Here's a story about how NORAD started tracking Santa.

The guy who fielded the first call and handled it like a mensch would probably get fired these days.

http://tinyurl.com/pwxxdeh (money.cnn.com)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:01 PM (Xo1Rt)

534 "there"

fook....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:02 PM (jfGh+)

535 You better be in their earning your ass some money.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:01 PM (jfGh+)

Nah Christmas and New Years is a loss for me and Family is at Disney so I'm losing at both ends

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 01:02 PM (DUoqb)

536 I forget how old we were when we found out the truth but it helped explain why my father was always so exhausted on Christmas morning.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2015 12:55 PM (/tuJf)
___________

Single parent here -- I still have no idea how I managed two days without sleep. As soon as presents were opened Christmas morning, I was literally passed out and have no real memories of any time after 9am.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 24, 2015 01:03 PM (MIKMs)

537 It was like magic when we were little.

Wow: That's quite a tradition. Isn't that wonderful your parents made things so special in that way!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 01:05 PM (qES5k)

538 499 The county I used to live in had been full of poor people for some time. There were two types of women - those that looked on their children as a way onto welfard and those that didn't want to be on welfare at all. The only jobs in the area were physical labor.
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 12:41 PM (5HBd1)
Shasta County in northern California?

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 01:05 PM (22uju)

539 >>501
The movie Holiday Inn was made in 1942, It was later remade as White Christmas in 1954.

With respect, Vic, White Christmas isn't a remake of Holiday Inn. It was actually designed to be a partner to the movie, reuniting Crosby and Astaire as the army men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, but Astaire decided he didn't like the script.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 12:42 PM (X6fMO)

Oh I never heard that part!!

I love Danny Kaye so that's fine by me.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (EDW3H)

540 "and Family is at Disney"

DisneyWorld?

Where are you?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (jfGh+)

541
There is a link at hot air from George Will. Man, that guy can't see the forest for the trees.

Conservative party? what conservative party?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (ODxAs)

542
OK, 'rons and 'ronettes, time to fly.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 01:07 PM (X6fMO)

543 The guy who fielded the first call and handled it like a mensch would probably get fired these days.

The micro-aggressing bastard probably wears a Patriarchy Hate Shirt with pinup girls on it, too. Good riddance.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 24, 2015 01:08 PM (8ZskC)

544 I need help. If I have a 10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15 minutes per pound, how long is that? I told you I was bad at this.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:08 PM (dFi94)

545 @538,
Skamania County, WA state. About 40 miles east of Portland OR area. Used to be a timber economy till the environmentalists shut it down.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 01:09 PM (5HBd1)

546 I love Danny Kaye so that's fine by me. Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (EDW3H)Lea, when Paramount recast, they put Donald O'Connor in the Kaye part, but he got sick right at the start of filming and had to pull out. . .so Kaye got the part. And he was perfect, too.Now I'm out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 01:09 PM (X6fMO)

547 541
There is a link at hot air from George Will. Man, that guy can't see the forest for the trees.

Conservative party? what conservative party?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (ODxAs)

That's Georg "Illegal Immigration is necessary for the welfare state" Will. Rock ribbed conservative!

https://youtu.be/9CIi6Af8hMY

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:09 PM (zt+N6)

548 I need help. If I have a 10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15 minutes per pound, how long is that? I told you I was bad at this.

15 meters.

Posted by: Lincoln Chaffee at December 24, 2015 01:10 PM (8ZskC)

549 >>Wow: That's quite a tradition. Isn't that wonderful your parents made things so special in that way!

Yea, they really went all out for us. They made us go to bed real early on Christmas Eve because you never know when Santa is going to show and if your awake he won't stop.

They needed the whole night to pull it off.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2015 01:10 PM (/tuJf)

550 545 @538, Skamania County, WA state. About 40 miles east of Portland OR area. Used to be a timber economy till the environmentalists shut it down.
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 01:09 PM (5HBd1) Same for Shasta County. Spotted owl, my butt.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (22uju)

551 "
I need help. If I have a 10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15
minutes per pound, how long is that? I told you I was bad at this."

30 minutes. Well done.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (jfGh+)

552 I need help. If I have a 10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15 minutes per pound, how long is that? I told you I was bad at this.
Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:08 PM (dFi94)

*****

2 hours 6 minutes to 2 hours 37 minutes.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (cygkw)

553 466
DHS Planning Raids To Deport Hundreds Of Illegal Central Americans And Announcing It Across Media Before Hand

Who announces raids before you make them? Unless you want to alert your target

Weasel Zippers

But then again this brain dead Admin also announces all troop movements and withdrawals years in advance. Top men!
--------------

I believe the correct term for this course of action is "going through the motions".

Posted by: exdem13 at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (ry4ab)

554 142 minutes

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (FkBIv)

555 Damn...more math on Ace.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (r65B3)

556 126 minutes to 157 minutes.

OR

2 hours 6 minute to 2 hours 37 minutes.

Buy a calculator like the rest of us.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:12 PM (Xo1Rt)

557 30 minutes. Well done.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:11 PM (jfGh+)
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30 minutes ? That doesn't seem right. Okay 30 minutes it is.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:12 PM (dFi94)

558 >>>546 I love Danny Kaye so that's fine by me. Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (EDW3H)Lea, when Paramount recast, they put Donald O'Connor in the Kaye part, but he got sick right at the start of filming and had to pull out. . .so Kaye got the part. And he was perfect, too.Now I'm out.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 24, 2015 01:09 PM (X6fMO)

I don't think that would have worked! Danny Kaye had the right combo of funny and charming.

Posted by: Lea at December 24, 2015 01:12 PM (EDW3H)

559 544
I need help. If I have a 10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15
minutes per pound, how long is that? I told you I was bad at this.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:08 PM (dFi94)
126-157 minutesso, 2-2.5 hours

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (uZNvH)

560 Black Lives Matter marching in Chicago.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (FkBIv)

561 I guess we only get two threads today.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (t2KH5)

562 @550 Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 01:11

Nice. Used to go deer hunting up there when I was a kid. Grew up in Vancouver.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (r65B3)

563 30 minutes ? That doesn't seem right. Okay 30 minutes it is.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:12 PM (dFi94

Trichinosis will thank you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (8ZskC)

564 Grammie winger, do you have a meat thermometer? That's the best way to tell if it's done. Ballpark, two to two and a half hours.

Posted by: antisocialist at December 24, 2015 01:14 PM (cDs+4)

565 I would like to thank God for the fact that we had our church Christmas service on the evening of 20th, and so I don't have to get up and do any kind of Christmas service tonight when I'm running a fever and feel terrible. I feel bad for pastors who are in that position.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 01:14 PM (qES5k)

566 2 hours 6 minute to 2 hours 37 minutes.
============================

Okay that soundsl like it might be right. So I put the ham in the oven, go to church, pray that the oven doesn't start on fire while I'm gone, and come home and serve Christmas Eve dinner.

I hope they all go home quick. This is tiring. People cook everyday? That's nuts.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:14 PM (dFi94)

567 Trichinosis will thank you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (8ZskC)

Your liver might be a bit upset though.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:15 PM (Xo1Rt)

568 544
about 2 - 2 1/2 hours

Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 01:15 PM (IPirI)

569 I need help. If I have a 10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15 minutes per pound, how long is that? I told you I was bad at this.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:08 PM (dFi94)

I would cook it like I cook a pork roast: ignore what it says on the package, cook it for 2 or 3 hrs at 275F in a dutch oven, run the temp up to 450F or more, take the lid off and when the smoke alarm goes off, it's ready. (or when the skin gets crispy. If your ham doesn't have skin, then you just need to wing it)

Then again, it's pre-cooked, right? It doesn't matter how you cook it, as long as it tastes good.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at December 24, 2015 01:15 PM (k9qR4)

570 Hanukkah Harry brought me a nice warm hat last year.

He also told me not to be such a hot shot.

Posted by: eman at December 24, 2015 01:15 PM (mR7Es)

571 I believe the correct term for this course of action is "going through the motions".

Probably do it on Christmas Day. And make sure it leads all the network news shows. Just to show you how very awful it is, you racisss bastids!

Posted by: tu3031 at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (YFFpo)

572 So, I just caught some idiot from town using our burn pile. His truck is stuck in the mud. He has 4 wheel drive, I can't even figure out how he did it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (BHl9S)

573 I feel bad for pastors who are in that position.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 01:14 PM (qES5k)
================================================

I know a pastor who was so sick with the flu last year - high fever, no voice, sick to his stomach, and had to do back to back Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. He could barely stand.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (dFi94)

574 Don't leave home with the oven on. What if your car breaks down?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (FkBIv)

575 It's good to see people get the Christmas spirit. I mentioned to a friend that I was going to get the wife a Glock 43 for Christmas and he says, "Hold on." He ran inside and brought out a Walther PK380 and says "Tell your wife I said Merry Christmas".
Pop gun, but still...

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (nu+il)

576 That's Georg "Illegal Immigration is necessary for the welfare state" Will. Rock ribbed conservative!

https://youtu.be/9CIi6Af8hMY

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:09 PM (zt+N6)
In your clip, George Will was citing Rubio's statement that illegals are necessary to sustain the welfare state. He did not say that he personally believed illegals are necessary to sustain the welfare state.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (uZNvH)

577 "2 hours 6 minutes to 2 hours 37 minutes."

I was fcixin to cuss these bastards but then I whipped out the the calulator. Yeah, needs like 2.5 hours.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:17 PM (jfGh+)

578 Yep, local folks used to have those bumper stickers about spotted owls being tasty to eat. Plenty of spotted owls up towards Canada - they just lost their Southern range. And since the local schools were funded by timber sales, it made a bad situation even worse. Then they turned it into a "National Scenic Area", restricting development. Some folks made money on that, but not most of the folks that had originally settled the area.

Never understood why places like Monterey, CA didn't get the National Scenic Act treatment. Oh wait, rich people live there.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 01:17 PM (5HBd1)

579 Then again, it's pre-cooked, right? It doesn't matter how you cook it, as long as it tastes good.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at December 24, 2015 01:15 PM (k9qR4)
====================================

Yes, it does say it is pre-cooked. One of those spiral thingies.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:17 PM (dFi94)

580 575 Hey! That's what I have!

Posted by: antisocialist at December 24, 2015 01:17 PM (cDs+4)

581 563 30 minutes ? That doesn't seem right. Okay 30 minutes it is.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:12 PM (dFi94

Trichinosis will thank you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (8ZskC)

Nah. It's a ham. It'll just be cold.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 01:17 PM (kpqmD)

582 562 @550 Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 01:11 Nice. Used to go deer hunting up there when I was a kid. Grew up in Vancouver.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 01:13 PM (r65B3) Really miss being there. So beautiful. Not sure where anyone one hunt there anymore. Darn shame.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 01:18 PM (22uju)

583 At least it wasn't a damn word problem with trains leaving New York and Los Angeles....

Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 01:18 PM (IPirI)

584 Funny thing about Easter--no bunny around our place but we do have Easter egg hunts for the little ones and maybe chocolate bunnies.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 24, 2015 12:56 PM (hJrjt)
________

Santa brings indoor toys, games and candy. Easter Bunny brings outdoor toys, games and candy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 24, 2015 01:18 PM (MIKMs)

585 If grammie has a good oven (unlike me) it'll have a timer for the oven.

Man I'd kill for a timer on my oven. I've got a timer but it won't turn on or off the oven.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (Xo1Rt)

586 Don't leave home with the oven on. What if your car breaks down?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (FkBIv)
==================================================

See, that's the kind of thing that makes me nervous too. I never use my oven so I don't know what it will do when I'm not around. Fortunately we are taking two cars so I should be okay that way.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (dFi94)

587 583 At least it wasn't a damn word problem with trains leaving New York and Los Angeles....
Posted by: Weasel at December 24, 2015 01:18 PM (IPirI)

Hated those with a passion.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (kpqmD)

588
Used to get crap loads of jelly beans for Easter, hated them until I discovered that hardened jelly beans made great ammo for my slingshot.

Bluejays would disappear the instant I came out the back door.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (jeCnD)

589 Ace is awake.

Posted by: HH at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (DrCtv)

590 Taking my youngest (10) to my church for the first time shortly.

Her only experiences in a church have been two dismally boring Presbyterian services with her grandmother, in only one of which said grandmother was alive.

Here's hoping something takes.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (vgIRn)

591 That doesn't seem right. Okay 30 minutes it is.

He was just pulling your leg. 17-23 parsecs will do it. And don't forget to stuff it with horseradish first.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (mxCgt)

592 It's good to see people get the Christmas spirit. I mentioned to a friend that I was going to get the wife a Glock 43 for Christmas and he says, "Hold on." He ran inside and brought out a Walther PK380 and says "Tell your wife I said Merry Christmas".

How many more lives will be lost before we enact commonsense legislation to close the Christmas Gift Loophole?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 24, 2015 01:20 PM (8ZskC)

593 Here's hoping something takes.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (vgIRn)
=============================================

It will. I just know it.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:20 PM (dFi94)

594 30 minutes ? That doesn't seem right. Okay 30 minutes it is.

Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:12 PM (dFi94)

Chipotles Revenge

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 24, 2015 01:20 PM (fWAjv)

595 Yeah, I wouldn't mind having a timer on my oven either.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 01:20 PM (uZNvH)

596 Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (uZNvH)

he's still an ol' fuddy duddy and he's pro immigration and just about pro anything else these idiots get up to in Congress.

He's more worried about Trump being crass than the Congress giving away the store.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:21 PM (Xo1Rt)

597 Ewok must of scored a gagle of hobo's last night.

Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at December 24, 2015 01:21 PM (YtbIl)

598 Hated those with a passion.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 24, 2015 01:19 PM (kpqmD)

****

Ehhh, those are just arithmetic problems with numbers dressed up as words.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 24, 2015 01:21 PM (2z4UX)

599 Posted by: grammie winger, Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 24, 2015 01:16 PM (dFi94)

Poor guy; If you do this long enough you're statistically likely to have at least one Christmas service where you feel terrible. It's worse when you have a Sunday service in the morning and then two or three the same evening.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2015 01:21 PM (qES5k)

600 More of George Will talking about the needs of the welfare state. Yay for Illegal immigrants!

https://youtu.be/XTQHb_Is9xY

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:21 PM (zt+N6)

601 Dave at Buffalo Roam @ 575- Walther .380
Still does the job with proper shot placement. Eromero has been know to give similar 'items' as gifts.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2015 01:22 PM (b+df9)

602 DJ Jazzy Mel...last deer I took was over by Larch Mountain. I loved that area. Too crowded now.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 01:23 PM (r65B3)

603 Also in White Christmas trivia, note that Vera-Ellen never wears a
costume that shows her neck. This is because the poor thing was a
compulsive anorexic and it showed.

I thought that was debunked? http://preview.tinyurl.com/za4pdvw (sfw)

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 24, 2015 01:23 PM (YJmuy)

604 Bitter Clinger: ...how NORAD started tracking Santa...

Thanks for that! Added a link to it from my terrible Christmas song page because related - with a h/t to you, Clinger.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Christmas pleasant! at December 24, 2015 01:23 PM (UOsvH)

605 that illegals are necessary to sustain the welfare state.

They must really be worried about running out of clients.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2015 01:24 PM (mxCgt)

606 George Will: We need a path to citizenship for illegals. https://youtu.be/6Ie80gRmrsI

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:25 PM (zt+N6)

607 337 And speaking of dogs, mine just finished off a B-O-B. I went and got us both one this morning. He's full as a tick.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 11:21 AM (jfGh+)

--------

What's a B-O-B?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 24, 2015 01:26 PM (/f6Nd)

608 More of George Will pushing for citizenship for illegals.

https://youtu.be/_8GE9iYas68

Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:26 PM (zt+N6)

609
Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:26 PM (zt+N6)
Well thank you for posting those subsequent links. It's unfortunate that he wants citizenship for illegals. I still think, however, George Will is a good writer and a good conservative thinker, just wrong on this issue.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 24, 2015 01:30 PM (uZNvH)

610 602 DJ Jazzy Mel...last deer I took was over by Larch Mountain. I loved that area. Too crowded now.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2015 01:23 PM (r65B3) My last one was many moons ago on US Plywood land up by Mt. Lassen. Will mention it was a lever action 30-30 so we can make this a gun thread.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2015 01:30 PM (22uju)

611 Is Schlafly really a post constitutional Republican, when she says Trump may be the country's last hope?

From that Trump supporter bashing article: "You can be forgiven for thinking that in Trump's world, constitutional niceties - indeed any constraints whatsoever - are for losers". Sorry ... don't forgive/accuse me, I don't think anything like that, nor do any Trump supporters I know.

I wish "they" would stop projecting their views of the Trump supporter as Troglodyte, into their pieces. It is the constant straw man, where the Trump haters misrepresent his grandiose statements (or at least fail to present context), then go on to build their straw man ignorant Trump supporter, so they can ride off as the noble constitutionalist conservative ... that loses like a Huckleberry backed Akin candidate.

Cruz or Trump ... fine, as Adelson said when asked what he is looking for ... "someone that can win". Do he and Schlafly want no constraints whatsoever? I'd argue that almost all of what Trump proposes in grandiose simplicity to the masses, can be accomplished in constitutional procedural ways.

Fiorina addressed this briefly, in saying that she would get it done, basically by effective use of the bully pulpit ... "address the nation, press one for yes on your ipad ..." Public opinion wins, guided by their representative ... the POTUS in this case. That is how congressional stalemate is defeated.

Yes, there is a sort of 'prima donna class versus blue collar class' within the Republicans, but the Trump hate is another class, where some desire to be 'pure' even if it means losing. That purity crown leads to this chest beating, straw man creating, pompous blogger type, that must demonstrate his superiority over the lowly Trumpeter.

The argument is whether a Cruz can win over Hillary, or whether we'd need a Trump to crash those Overton windows for the next eight years. The "bully pulpit" is constitutional, and maybe Trump is the only bully that can effectively reach beyond PC.

oh, and new thread up ... I'll leave this rant sitting here

Merry Christmas

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 24, 2015 01:30 PM (5Gpe2)

612 grammie winger: ...10.5 pound ham, and it says bake for 12-15 minutes per pound, how long is that?

Hold on. I know the Ewok's awake, but I gotta figure this out. Soon as I can untangle my shirttail from this here slide rule....

Posted by: mindful webworker - math is haaarrrd at December 24, 2015 01:31 PM (UOsvH)

613 #512, thank you, it was worth the effort to read, especially the last few lines, very edifying.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 24, 2015 01:31 PM (pxwYc)

614 I played for the only field hockey coach in America who was not a lesbian. Checked in every semester, just in case. Straight as a T-square. Or maybe I just wasn't pretty enough.

Posted by: Spellcheck at December 24, 2015 01:33 PM (j+aWk)

615 In the great state store system in Pennsylvania,
bottom shelf vodka is cheaper than bottom shelf rum. Cheap rum, imo,
tastes terrible, while cheap vodka is quite good.

Posted by: free range jihadist at December 24, 2015 11:39 AM (7v/r5)

You want a good, smooth, mid-priced rum? Try Flor de Cana from Nicaragua. The seven year old stuff is very fine for mixed drinks. The pricier 12-year old stuff, is smooth enough to drink straight.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2015 01:37 PM (UsLZp)

616 Posted by: buzzion at December 24, 2015 01:25 PM (zt+N6)

That path should lead right back to the nation that they were born in. You know the ones they're already citizens of.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:37 PM (Xo1Rt)

617 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2015 01:37 PM (UsLZp)

No. No. You dont' understand. the State Liquor stores buy only certain brands and types and sizes. You can't even order anything other than what they stock.

It's so stupid. But guess what, there's a Union behind it so it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Corbett would've got reelected if he hadn't caved to the Unions and forced the privatization of the Liquor stores.

Had a Republican House and Senate to get er done too.

Dumb idjit.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 24, 2015 01:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

618 Yes and you can't get rid of a liquor board. We voted to get rid of the one in WA state. So, when we voted to legalize pot, guess who they put in charge? The old liquor board! And they did about as good a job there as they did with booze.

In WA state, if you try to get rid of something the bureaucrats want, they get very vindictive.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 01:44 PM (5HBd1)

619 Where are you?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 24, 2015 01:06 PM (jfGh+)

Home working.. Since I am in Uniform over 90+ days a year i have to work in my civilian yob sometimes..The bank insists upon that!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 24, 2015 01:51 PM (DUoqb)

620 Never understood why places like Monterey, CA didn't get the National Scenic Act treatment. Oh wait, rich people live there.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 01:17 PM (5HBd1)

I have a ball cap, with a fake label on it: "Loggers' Cream of Spotted Owl Soup"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2015 01:56 PM (UsLZp)

621 "Will Connecticut's High Tax, Big Spending Policies Turn Out GE's Lights?"

No, too many of the big execs live here & don't want to move.

They're just rent-seeking for more subsidies & tax breaks.

Which they will get.

Posted by: West at December 24, 2015 02:02 PM (3v/ng)

622 In WA state, if you try to get rid of something the bureaucrats want, they get very vindictive.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 24, 2015 01:44 PM (5HBd1)

Ha, you should try passing a property tax limitation measure. Talk about vindictive. They start loudly weeping and wailing and shedding those big crocodile tears and then they cut funds for police, fire, libraries, any public-facing government service, all under the guise of "well, you wanted to reduce the size of government, didn't you?"

And all those multiple layers of municipal bureaucrats with their 6-figure salaries? Their jobs are secure.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 24, 2015 02:03 PM (pxwYc)

623 where is cj the dickwad ?

Posted by: smoothie-naysayer at December 24, 2015 02:26 PM (qQk+U)

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