EMT 11/26/15 [krakatoa]

Is everyone feeling the post-holiday euphoria? Waking plump and content?

Remember, only 364 shopping days until Christmas.

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1 It's game day
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 05:58 AM (C1Suc)

2 Good Morning Morons. Today is Saturday, December 26, 2015. On this day in 1846 while trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, some members of the Donner Party resorted to cannibalism. The location of that act became known as Donner Pass and if you are driving from the Bay Area to Reno Nevada you will go right through there.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:03 AM (t2KH5)

3 New year coming up with new laws going into effect. Note that a number of States are raising their minimum wage (bluer than blue States). A very stupid activist is quoted here saying that raising the minimum wage creates jobs. Some people are too stupid to breath.

http://fxn.ws/1PoicMN

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:03 AM (t2KH5)

4 In keeping with his policy of a very open and transparent administration Obama released 16 heavily edited e-mails regarding Benghazi on Christmas Eve.

http://fxn.ws/22sqESc

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:04 AM (t2KH5)

5 Latest Reuters poll for GOP. Everyone below the top 4 should drop out.

Donald Trump 39.3%
Ted Cruz 12.8%
Ben Carson 9.6%
Marco Rubio 8.5%
Wouldn't vote 7.4%
Jeb Bush 6.1%
Mike Huckabee 3.9%
Rand Paul 3.5%
Chris Christie 3.1%
Carly Fiorina 2.3%
John Kasich 2.0%
Rick Santorum 1.2%
George Pataki 0.3%

http://bit.ly/1TkBdkc

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

6 Scankles is out raking in more ~~bribes~~ campaign dollars again.

http://bit.ly/1YH8Cak

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

7 Recall those Brit muzzies who were denied visas to go to Disneyland. Well it turns out they were denied because they actually going to CA to visit relatives who attended the same radical mosque that the SB terrorists went to.

http://bit.ly/1JzvqSw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:05 AM (t2KH5)

8 Three black trolls beat a homeless white man to death with hammers and chair legs in the city of brotherly love.

http://bit.ly/1J8PeBk

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

9 BB takes note of the rise of third world diseases in the US that had been eradicated. The last time I reported on this I included a quote from the CDC who said it had nothing to do with all the illegals pouring from those third world shitholes. Like everyone else in the corrupt Obama regime, they lied.

http://bit.ly/1YDecQi

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

10 An illegal beats, chokes, and tries to take a border patrol agent's gun. The feds reduce the charges to a misdemeanor. I am surprised Obama can hire and keep border patrol agents.

http://bit.ly/1Poc5YT

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

11 The MFM is lying to the public about the actual translation of Alahu Akbar.

http://bit.ly/1PobSVC

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

12 Obama plans to bypass congress who tightened the visa requirements for Iran. He can still do anything he wants with impunity because they have taken all their weapons off the table.

http://dailysign.al/1PojyqY

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

13 Ramirez (Note IBD locked up my computer again so I tried Pale Moon instead of FF and it worked.

http://bit.ly/1YDtGUy

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

14 The foreign press exposes the US media lies about AGW. Could our MFM be doing all these lies to kiss Obama and the Democrat's ass?

http://bit.ly/1Iv36pi

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:07 AM (t2KH5)

15 That massive transportation bill that had everything but the kitchen sink in it allows the IRS to revoke your passport. So the corrupt LL organization has been given even more power instead of being punished. AND Republicans are doing it.

http://bit.ly/1QNiYX7

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:08 AM (t2KH5)

16 IBD says commie Bernie doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

http://bit.ly/1RLaP5v

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:08 AM (t2KH5)

17 The Daily Deals

http://amzn.to/1GBp6fN

That's it for today folks.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:08 AM (t2KH5)

18
Is everyone feeling the post-holiday euphoria? Waking plump and content?

Remember, only 364 shopping days until Christmas.
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I ate like a pig yesterday. Gained almost two pounds overnight.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:09 AM (t2KH5)

19 Andrew C McCarthy has a new article at National Review
And found a good explanation of the U.S. getting between Sunnis and Shia at Asia Times by Angello Codevilla a professor at Boston university. Two parts are up and a third is promised on Monday.

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 06:12 AM (C1Suc)

20 Also saw British Muzzy family head male listed his job as Taliban leader

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 06:14 AM (C1Suc)

21 Arrival is called Romancng the Sunni : A U.S. Policy Tragedy in Three Acts

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 06:21 AM (C1Suc)

22 I guess me and Skip are the only ones hear this morning.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:27 AM (t2KH5)

23 Waking plump and content?

And then some. Heading to the gum in a few minutes to try and burn some of it off.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 26, 2015 06:28 AM (HMt16)

24 22 comments in 27 minutes. Slackers! I demand entertainment from you people. Dance monkeys, dance.

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at December 26, 2015 06:29 AM (aeeHw)

25 "I guess me and Skip are the only ones hear this morning."

On the intertubes, no one can here you microaggress.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 26, 2015 06:31 AM (u5gzz)

26 Hah!
Well, I have a new story idea. Still in the fumbling toward a concept stage, but the words are flowing.

That is the important thing.

The words must flow.

Posted by: Pierrer3312 at December 26, 2015 06:33 AM (s/vC3)

27 Nah, I'm here...thanks for the news Vic...back to being constantly pissed....took yesterday off.

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2015 06:34 AM (x9c8r)

28 I need to go to the grocery store this morning and I am dreading that.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:35 AM (t2KH5)

29 Thankful this morning for kind words from various Christians in the ONT at the end of my long and difficult day.

Almost balanced out the cheap trollery from twatwaffle Donna yesterday morning. Almost.

Back to the rock face...

Posted by: Spellcheck, 48 hours into a 72-hour on-call duty at December 26, 2015 06:35 AM (j+aWk)

30 Checking in from work. Back at it.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas.

Thought of something regarding the AG in Virginia re: CCW reciprocity.

Could other states refuse to reciprocate recognizing Virginia driver's licenses or vehicle registrations?

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:40 AM (bPXBn)

31 30 Could other states refuse to reciprocate recognizing Virginia driver's licenses or vehicle registrations?

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:40 AM (bPXBn)

Probably not.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:42 AM (t2KH5)

32 Wonder why, Vic? Notice I used could instead of would.

I've been told for years, driving is a privilege not a right.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:43 AM (bPXBn)

33 Because the Consitution says other States must recognize such things as licenses etc. But they have never applied that to gun control laws because nearly every State had different laws and it wasn't until Heller that the second amendment was incorporated, and even then it was only half-ass incorporated.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:46 AM (t2KH5)

34 VA's AG's rationale was that some states CCW requirements weren't as stringent as other states. That's why 5 states' reciprocity remains.

Using the AG's rationale, we could slide down many favorable slippery slopes. Some states license illegal drivers.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:47 AM (bPXBn)

35 Thank you Vic.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:48 AM (bPXBn)

36 IOW

Article IV, Section 1:

Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public
acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the
Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts,
records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:49 AM (t2KH5)

37 Speaking of licenses, note the new FEDERAL registration required on drones.

Will no states object to this?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 26, 2015 06:50 AM (u5gzz)

38 That's why I love this place.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:51 AM (bPXBn)

39 37 Will no states object to this?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 26, 2015 06:50 AM (u5gzz)

No, because the States are just as power hungry as the feds.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:52 AM (t2KH5)

40 For betters looking for inside knowledge (since the American government won't do anything to stop it you may as well profit) the Archbishop of Canterbury is taking the side that this year will be the year Christianity is finally eliminated in Syria and many parts of Iraq.

http://bit.ly/1YDUKCY

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 06:53 AM (TxJGV)

41 I don't know this but pilot licenses are state or federal issue

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 06:54 AM (C1Suc)

42 34 Some states license illegal drivers.

Posted by: Golfman - Xenophobe Extrodinaire at December 26, 2015 06:47 AM (bPXBn)

In the States that refuse to license illegals there is already movement by illegals to force them to give them licenses. Because States like CA have licensed them. But that whole driver's license kerfunckle is about to explode because the requirement to have licenses that conform to the federal regulations put in place by the 9-11 commission is about to actually go into effect.
And not all States meet those requirements.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:57 AM (t2KH5)

43 This election will worth the wait. Hillary calls Trump a sexist, Trump responds "Who are you calling a sexist, you criminal? Why are you even allowed to run?"

http://bit.ly/1IvmgLM

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 06:57 AM (TxJGV)

44 41
I don't know this but pilot licenses are state or federal issue

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 06:54 AM (C1Suc)

Pilot licenses are federal and issued by the FAA.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:58 AM (t2KH5)

45 WaPo says the "immigration bomb" is about to blow up in Hillary's face. That they're even reporting this is a reflection of the Trump campaign success.

http://wapo.st/1RLciJ4

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:00 AM (TxJGV)

46 Hawaii, very intelligently, has named nothing at all after native son TFG. WaPo is surprised.

Maybe they should check in Kenya or Indonesia.

http://wapo.st/1MAfkrN

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:05 AM (TxJGV)

47 45
WaPo says the "immigration bomb" is about to blow up in Hillary's face.
That they're even reporting this is a reflection of the Trump campaign
success.

http://wapo.st/1RLciJ4

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:00 AM (TxJGV)

As long as the Republicans sell out on amnesty she doesn't have a thing to worry about there. And yesterday the story broke about her new fall guy who will take the heat for all her illegal shit with the classified government material on her home computer.

The Clintons have always managed to find someone to pin their illegal shit on.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 07:06 AM (t2KH5)

48 I'm dying!

Posted by: The Rule of Law at December 26, 2015 07:08 AM (u5gzz)

49 Drunk old woman, forgetting where she is standing, whips out fake southern accent while campaigning in Iowa.

http://bit.ly/1NQ0Iq4

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:11 AM (TxJGV)

50 The Clintons have always managed to find someone to pin their illegal shit on.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 07:06 AM (t2KH5)
-------------------------------------------------

You gotta wonder, Vic, how dramatically having Trump standing on the other podium changes things. Where other Republicans will give her a pass, he will just filet her for lying and evading responsibility.

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:15 AM (TxJGV)

51 Word is, Ann Telnaes may be asked to illustrate Sabrina Rubin Erdely's journalism memoir.

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:18 AM (TxJGV)

52 Remembering from last year looking this up today (or give a day or week depending on calendar) is the feast of Steven

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 07:19 AM (C1Suc)

53 Rule - the republic has only a heart beat left

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 07:21 AM (C1Suc)

54 48 I'm dying!
Posted by: The Rule of Law at December 26, 2015 07:08 AM (u5gzz)
______________________

You're way past that point, dear.

Like Lazarus, only Jesus Christ can help you now!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 26, 2015 07:21 AM (a31sM)

55 Christmas day fireworks in Chicago..... 435/2954

Two people are deadand at least sevenothers have been wounded in
separate shootings since Friday morningin Chicago, police said.

Posted by: Colin at December 26, 2015 07:26 AM (T3Tpd)

56 While the world burns, Nero is loving golf and ice cream on his multi-million dollar taxpayer-paid vacation.

He doesn't even thank us either, the graceless pig.

Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:27 AM (TxJGV)

57 Chicago: From HeyJackass: 500 and 3000 is still possible, 5 full days until the New Year. If the
dindus just put their hearts into it anything is possible, its what
they excel at. All that shiny new bling should equate to carnage as it
changes ownership

Posted by: Colin at December 26, 2015 07:31 AM (T3Tpd)

58 I was supposed to go home for Christmas a couple of weeks ago, but I ran into Visa issues, so I wasn't able to leave Saudi Arabia. In fact, I had to drive to the King Fahd causeway twice in a week to get it straightened out. This is a 5 hour one way trip from Riyadh, where I live. That is, it is 5 hours if I don't go under 75 the entire way (and the Saudis rarely go that slow).

The issue wasn't my fault as the Saudis hadn't stamped my passport when I left the kingdom, nor did they stamp it when I reentered, though the Bahrainis did - both ways. Anyway it is now fixed. However, I did learn that come 2016, they will no longer check visas at security when leaving Saudia.

However, I am returning home for three weeks starting early January, so it isn't all bad news...

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 26, 2015 07:31 AM (hHQIG)

59

DAY 1,144

318 to go (391 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 26, 2015 07:32 AM (uRmWf)

60 51 Word is, Ann Telnaes may be asked to illustrate Sabrina Rubin Erdely's journalism memoir.
Posted by: MTF at December 26, 2015 07:18 AM (TxJGV)

The children's version of "Mein Kampf."

"Adorable Adolf and the First Stormtroopers."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2015 07:35 AM (uRmWf)

61 Hmm, I wasn't around yesterday so I don't know what brought on @29 but I was under the impression that directing comments of that type towards someone who isn't here was a no-no.
Am I wrong?

Posted by: teej at December 26, 2015 07:35 AM (1dy4V)

62 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 07:38 AM (ptqRm)

63 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2015 07:39 AM (KCxzN)

64 Christmas is over,back to the fresh hell.

Posted by: steevy at December 26, 2015 07:40 AM (8HTq1)

65 Mornin'.

Posted by: Weasel at December 26, 2015 07:41 AM (IPirI)

66 The Boston Herald reports today that Heb! is really stepping up his teevee ad buys in the NE before the NH primary.

The worthless shit already seems to have more ads running than Toyota and Bob's Discount Furniture combined. How many times can one watch this insufferable prick proclaiming that he will destroy ISIS!!!11!!! and face down teh eeeeeevil bully Donald?

All this from a guy who can't even break the top three in polls. He should just give his money to me...I'd be rich and he'd be doing just as well.

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 26, 2015 07:41 AM (z/vax)

67 11
The MFM is lying to the public about the actual translation of Alahu Akbar.

At first read, Aloha Akbar.

Posted by: gracepc at December 26, 2015 07:42 AM (OU4q6)

68 F.B. - Vistas no longer being checked in 2016,
Saudi Arabia joining the Middle east union otherwise known as IS?

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 07:42 AM (C1Suc)

69 "At first read, Aloha Akbar. "

AKA, Aloha Snackbar.

Obscure old reference

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 07:44 AM (ptqRm)

70 Also last week on a local radio show promo that Virginia calligraphy teacher who tried to pass of it as a one off class was a little more involved in Islamic study training.

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 07:45 AM (C1Suc)

71 "was a little more involved in Islamic study training."

My shocked face....where did I leave it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 07:48 AM (ptqRm)

72 It's effn freezing in LA.

Trying to watch Danish Girl. Forget it! The guy was mentally ill and treated by mengele type doctors. They whacked off his penis and transplanted ovaries and a uterus into they which killed him. This is 1931. Did they even have effective antibiotics back then? Sick. But the movie will be praised.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 26, 2015 07:48 AM (iQIUe)

73 Jeb! should do a tv commercial showing his momma changing his diaper when he was a little child and again today as a grown man. LIV's love being taken care of by mamma.

Posted by: Zombie Spiro Agnew at December 26, 2015 07:50 AM (ZK4rU)

74 Eddy Redmayne announced that his wife is knocked up which is good because he has been doing way too many of these kinky roles.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 26, 2015 07:51 AM (iQIUe)

75 Well, battery saying feed me.
Leofb

Posted by: teej at December 26, 2015 07:52 AM (1dy4V)

76 FSnatch, I lived in Arizona Compound for 6 years. How's life in Riyadh? I hear women are peeling down at the Kingdom Mall without consequence

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at December 26, 2015 07:52 AM (msVAP)

77 "Is everyone feeling the post-holiday euphoria? Waking plump and content?"

No. More like waking up at oh-three-hundred with a sense of deep, abiding dread of the future, and being unable to get back to sleep.

Those utter assholes of the GOP establishment with their thoroughly compromised and thoroughly corrupt omnibus budget deal right before the holidays made for one giant turd in the punchbowl -- or, if you will, in the Christmas eggnog. An especially redolent and nasty turd.

So what woke me up was the realization that our country is going into the pivotal 2016 election, coupled to the parallel realization that whichever of the two parties wins in November, the country loses. I have no one at all to look forward to pulling the lever for. Shitweasels or shitweasels. What a lovely prospect.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 26, 2015 07:54 AM (noWW6)

78 No more exit visas required? There goes the visa forgery racket of the Filipino mafia

Posted by: Asscheeks of Saturn at December 26, 2015 07:54 AM (msVAP)

79 Ahem

Posted by: Weasel at December 26, 2015 07:55 AM (IPirI)

80 Morning all.

I'm at the mall getting cheap tinsel and whatnots for next Christmas.

Mammon must be worshipped!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 26, 2015 07:55 AM (73ec4)

81 I have no one at all to look forward to pulling the lever for. Shitweasels or shitweasels. What a lovely prospect. Posted by: torquewrench at December 26, 2015 07:54 AM

You're not alone. Go read Jonah Goldberg's column in the New York Post. The little prick thinks he's a Great Humorist as well as a Political Genius.

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 26, 2015 07:58 AM (z/vax)

82 >>>79 Ahem
Posted by: Weasel at December 26, 2015 07:55 AM (IPirI)

WeaselLivesMatter

Posted by: m at December 26, 2015 07:59 AM (d4uu4)

83 Plan on running 6-8 miles. After I buy fuel. For the car.

Posted by: David W. at December 26, 2015 08:00 AM (RGSL6)

84 Good morning.

Here's your daily dose of EZ Dog.

Dec 26, 1943 - The EZ Dog Journals
Cold and windy. SSF continuing attack. Little other action.

Attack continues along the ridges of Mount Sambucaro (Sammucro)
(As we learned earlier this week, the SSF is the Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian special warfare unit that trained in Helena, MT. They would later be known to the Germans as the "Schwarzeteufeln" or "Black Devils". In the U.S. they are more commonly recognized as the "Devil's Brigade".)
The SSF left flyers or patches with their insignia and the phrase "Das dicke Ende kommt noch" on the bodies of killed German soldiers at Anzio to instill fear in the enemy.

"The worst is yet to come!"

SSF unit insignia on propaganda sticker:

http://tinyurl.com/nhqacgt

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 26, 2015 08:05 AM (NeFrd)

85 @81

Jonah Goldberg is a charter member in good standing of the "Concerned Conservative Commentariete Collective" which means he's a Con-servitive and just uses conservatism to peddle his bullshit books.

They all are.

National Review ran off their only real conservatives, Derbyshire and Steyn.

I hope these pukes suffer extreme mental torture and duress under a Trump/Cruz administration.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 26, 2015 08:07 AM (NJVHq)

86 >>>I'm at the mall getting cheap tinsel and whatnots for next Christmas.

Hitting the after Christmas sale at the container store later I think. Morning walk canceled due to thunderstorms, even though I probably need it!

Because, and I'm totally bragging here, made my best chocolate pies ever this year!

Posted by: Lea at December 26, 2015 08:08 AM (zKzBM)

87 Morning!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 26, 2015 08:11 AM (UpGcq)

88 Today is Christmas Feasting.

SIL worked last night so we postponed the feasting until today. Plus, it is her 60th birthday today. So tomorrow AM I will feel like a tick about to pop.

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:12 AM (8ikIW)

89 Three black trolls beat a homeless white man to death with hammers and chair legs in the city of brotherly love.

http://bit.ly/1J8PeBk

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

And not a word of it in the MFM. Where whitey/the cops are always the villain.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 26, 2015 08:13 AM (45oDG)

90 I hope these pukes suffer extreme mental torture and duress under a Trump/Cruz administration.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 26, 2015 08:07 AM

Pretty sure you can count on much bewailing and bemoaning from the Republican Nancy-boys as their faves fade out. The rise of boorish, not-our-kind candidates probably has them involuntarily making weewee in their rompers.

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 26, 2015 08:13 AM (z/vax)

91 So, someone help me out here.

I keep hearing and seeing articles about "Giving back to the community".

The "back" part is bothering me, as it strikes me as another way to imply that success for one has come at the expense of others. In other words, just another way to say that success is evil, and others are owed for your success.

I would feel linguistically better if it were just "Giving to the community".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 08:15 AM (ptqRm)

92 An illegal beats, chokes, and tries to take a border
patrol agent's gun. The feds reduce the charges to a misdemeanor. I am
surprised Obama can hire and keep border patrol agents.

http://bit.ly/1Poc5YT

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 06:06 AM (t2KH5)

Another story the MFM won't touch because it flies in the face of their narrative/lies

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 26, 2015 08:16 AM (45oDG)

93 I would feel linguistically better if it were just "Giving to the community".

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Probably why the "You didn't build that " came about

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:16 AM (8ikIW)

94 "National Review ran off their only real conservatives, Derbyshire and Steyn."

Kevin Williamson is still worth reading much of the time. Or would be worth reading, if it weren't necessary to wade through the reeking swamp of RINO excrement which that outfit has become.

David French wrote one absolutely brilliant piece for them about the similarities of G.W. Bush and B.H. Obama which I quote to this day.

If only it were possible to have the occasional good bits of _National Review_ without the rancid nonsense of Richard Lowr(ent)y and Jonah Goldbrick and their lot.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 26, 2015 08:17 AM (noWW6)

95 Chicago: From HeyJackass: 500 and 3000 is still possible, 5 full days until the New Year. If the
dindus just put their hearts into it anything is possible, its what
they excel at. All that shiny new bling should equate to carnage as it

changes ownership

Posted by: Colin at December 26, 2015 07:31 AM (T3Tpd)

The damn po-lease just won't stop shooting all of those innocent people

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 26, 2015 08:18 AM (45oDG)

96 Idea for an invention: hollowed out strap-ons for men who aren't good at sex.

Posted by: Jeb Bush at December 26, 2015 08:19 AM (B3EeS)

97 Well, I'm back after long call from brother. But I need to go take a shower and run to the store. So BBL

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 26, 2015 08:19 AM (t2KH5)

98 Waking plump and content?

Indubitably!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Butt at December 26, 2015 08:21 AM (B3EeS)

99 If the community ever gave me anything I might give something back. As it is I give and give and don't get squat.

Well I suppose I get fire and police protection but I'm forced to "give" for that so that doesn't count.

Posted by: freaked at December 26, 2015 08:22 AM (BO/km)

100 So the Jalal brothers thought it would be cute to dress as a terrorist and throw fake backpack bombs at people on the street.

One of the brothers got shot in the stomach and is in critical condition.

http://tinyurl.com/oww93s5

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 26, 2015 08:23 AM (u5gzz)

101 Seasoned Greetings, gentlefappers.

Is it too soon for fresh hell to recommence?

Axing for a friend.

#WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 26, 2015 08:25 AM (LUgeY)

102 One of the brothers got shot in the stomach and is in critical condition.

http://tinyurl.com/oww93s5

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed

This happened in Australia. I thought they were most civilized and didn't allow any kind of guns.

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:26 AM (8ikIW)

103 "One of the brothers got shot in the stomach and is in critical condition. "

Being stupid should indeed be painful.

Great incentive to not be stupid.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 08:26 AM (ptqRm)

104 I would feel linguistically better if it were just "Giving to the community".
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 08:15 AM (ptqRm)
Most of that giving back nonsense is to make you feel guilty for having stuff you worked hard for so some water walker can take it from you and give it to some layabout swine and take all the credit "for caring". Like what I did.

Posted by: Zombie Karl Marx at December 26, 2015 08:29 AM (ZK4rU)

105 Waking plump and content?

Actually, that is a lot of content for a morning thread.

Posted by: rickl at December 26, 2015 08:29 AM (sdi6R)

106 After that terrorist attack in Australia, how could those idiots think it was funny?

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 26, 2015 08:32 AM (iQIUe)

107 torquewrench didn't that Goldbrick fellow write a book?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 08:32 AM (voOPb)

108 Good morning morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 08:33 AM (voOPb)

109 The "back" part is bothering me, as it strikes me as another way to imply that success for one has come at the expense of others. In other words, just another way to say that success is evil, and others are owed for your success.�I would feel linguistically better if it were just "Giving to the community".Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 08:15 AM (ptqRm)

That is exactly what my company has done, and exactly why I've never participate.

It's manipulative wording designed to subliminally guilt people into believing something false: "X corporation gives back". Yeah, what have they taken away? is always my question.

�If the community ever gave me anything I might give something back. As it is I give and give and don't get squat.�Well I suppose I get fire and police protection but I'm forced to "give" for that so that doesn't count.Posted by: freaked

Paying for sevices like fire and police protection is a separate issue from charity.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Butt at December 26, 2015 08:34 AM (B3EeS)

110 Most of that giving back nonsense is to make you
feel guilty for having stuff you worked hard for so some water walker
can take it from you and give it to some layabout swine and take all the
credit "for caring". Like what I did.

Posted by: Zombie Karl Marx

This.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm giving back by not beating the crap out of those that so richly deserve it.

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:35 AM (8ikIW)

111 Sometimes I feel as if I'm giving back by not beating the crap out of those that so richly deserve it.

See? Restraint is good.

And I'm just enough of a curmudgeon that I'll challenge that ridiculous saying too. "Yeah, what did they take that they need to give back? How much more tax money was paid than if they hadn't gone into business?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 26, 2015 08:39 AM (LUgeY)

112 So this was mildly amusing. The CEO of the company that employs my wife sent a Holiday message to all employees.

"Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical..."

Ummm, thanks?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 26, 2015 08:40 AM (NeFrd)

113 80 Morning all.

I'm at the mall getting cheap tinsel and whatnots for next Christmas.

Mammon must be worshipped!

.................

Did my duty this morning and hit Wally up for half price wrapping paper and bows. I do this every year and pretty sure I have enough wrapping paper to last the next 5 years. It's the thrill of the bargain I suppose.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 26, 2015 08:40 AM (mcIvU)

114 Please know that much of your work every day is noticed

Posted by: NSA, reminder from the at December 26, 2015 08:44 AM (d4uu4)

115 "Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical..."

Ummm, thanks?

Did it include a donation to the Human Fund?

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:44 AM (8ikIW)

116 I just read the ONT content now. Thanks MisHum & CDRM.for great content.

Thanks for the EMT Krak, and thanks for the links, Vic.

Happy Boxing Day everyone.

Posted by: @votermom at December 26, 2015 08:44 AM (cbfNE)

117 Got in and out of the mall with surgical precision, all objectives met.

The remainder of my weekend shall be minor indulgences and perusing books.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 26, 2015 08:48 AM (73ec4)

118 Magical work?

Well how about a magical raise so I can notice more money in my pocket?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 08:49 AM (voOPb)

119 No shopping here today, but I do have fences to mend.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 08:50 AM (voOPb)

120 Well how about a magical raise so I can notice more money in my pocket?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

What?? You still have pockets left??
Someones not giving back near enough!!

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:50 AM (8ikIW)

121 Did it include a donation to the Human Fund?

Posted by: Bruce

****

No, but that same thought occurred to me.

She went on to say: "I created a short video to personally share with you my thoughts. Just click here or on my picture to hear it!"

It's high on my "Must Do" list, fer sure.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 26, 2015 08:50 AM (NeFrd)

122 I agree the "giving BACK to the community" phtase is annoying.

I suppose it makes sense for the welfare crowd.

Posted by: @votermom at December 26, 2015 08:52 AM (cbfNE)

123 Raises index finger to mouth, shhhhhhh Bruce

Not so loud

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 08:52 AM (voOPb)

124 So this was mildly amusing. The CEO of the company that employs my wife sent a Holiday message to all employeees.

"Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical..."

Ummm, thanks?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon

I think he CC'd them by mistake.

Posted by: Santa Claus at December 26, 2015 08:54 AM (B3EeS)

125 Molly K, I got wrapping paper too, including Joo paper with dredels. Hey, it was on sale!

Saturnalia cards were half off (the bottom half, wink wink)

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 26, 2015 08:54 AM (73ec4)

126 ...only 364 shopping days until Christmas.

Yeah, I've already got all my shopping and wrapping done.

Morning, Glories! Now to (Jump to top of page) for the Vic updates....

Posted by: mindful webworker - two turtle doves at December 26, 2015 08:56 AM (DfQBn)

127 "stupid activist is quoted here saying that raising the minimum wage creates jobs."

Forced "giving back to the community". It builds the commie ideas, that everyone deserves a higher paying job, even if they don't work efficiently enough to earn it. Then they act like the guy that works so efficiently he can manage to build a factory, he is taking.

It is the divide a pie, or make a lot of pies idea of capitalism. The "you didn't build that" nuts don't realize capitalism and individual sacrifice DID indeed build that. Much they built directly, other parts they built by being so industrious they generated wealth that government could then take (tax).

But I do like the concept of building "community", as opposed to all this top down command and control. Putting money in a local bank, investing locally where you can see what is being done, for the people around you ... all that is being short circuited as NY/DC confiscate all power. Big banks are encouraged to get even bigger, most of our assets flow through the big brokerages and banks.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 26, 2015 08:56 AM (5Gpe2)

128 Yippee Humyay! No more seasonal affective disorder.

Posted by: Ebeneezer Scrooge at December 26, 2015 08:59 AM (B3EeS)

129 "So this was mildly amusing. The CEO of the company that employs my wife sent a Holiday message to all employees.
'Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical...'"

Jeff Zeleny, is that you?

(Zeleny being the _NY Slimes_ correspondent who had famously slobbered all over Barack Obama at an early press conference by asking Obama what had "enchanted you the most" about being President.)

Posted by: torquewrench at December 26, 2015 08:59 AM (noWW6)

130 I completely agree (as usual) with the comments regarding the 'giving back' BS. I am retired CS (I know, i know...) and am back as a contractor with a three-letter agency (i know, i know...), in a training capacity. The 'giving back' sentiment is rife at work, not just with contractors but staff CS as well. Usually our clueless senior management expresses it. We all collect paychecks, so i'm not clear as to the giving part.

Posted by: goatexchange at December 26, 2015 09:00 AM (dxbr7)

131 happy gift card redemption day ya morons!

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 26, 2015 09:01 AM (F+xWX)

132 You think you're being funny with that "only 364 days" crap, but I was already warned about making plywood cut-out lawn decorations for the neighbor.
Last night, over a few drinks, she let me know that she already has a couple new templates ready to go for next year...

Posted by: Chi at December 26, 2015 09:03 AM (mUsVF)

133 So did anyone here have a Minister Of Social Justice sermonize and argue with you at Christmas?

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:03 AM (hCdMd)

134 Just got back from grocery store, damn near empty

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2015 09:03 AM (C1Suc)

135 Chi, do you let Tucker paint?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 09:05 AM (voOPb)

136 115 "Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical..."
---!

Ummm, thanks?

Did it include a donation to the Human Fund?
Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:44 AM (8ikIW)
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That magical moment when you realize that you work for George Costanza.

Posted by: @votermom at December 26, 2015 09:05 AM (cbfNE)

137
The #FeministXmasSongs hashtag was spurred earlier this week by Gemma Correll, a British illustrator, who got Twitter to parody famous Christmas songs with feminist lyrics.

SFGate

Katy Chalmers katyannc Dec 22
Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright, round yon woman whose sexual status is none of your business

Lena DeaExLena Dec 22
Rudolph the red nose reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
and if you ever saw it
You wouldn't pass judgement b/c yr body positive

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 26, 2015 09:06 AM (kdS6q)

138 @133 Mr. Wizard, no. But I belong to a very conservative Lutheran synod. Thursday nights musical service was quite uplifting

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 09:06 AM (voOPb)

139 Vic: New year coming up with new laws going into effect.

D'ya think if we quit calling them "lawmakers" and started using the term "law rescinders"...? Naw, because basically they're "lawbreakers"!

...GOP. Everyone below the top 4 should drop out.

How about everybody below "Wouldn't vote 7.4%"? Bye, Jeb.

...the actual translation of Alahu Akbar

Appreciate the reminder. I knew this, hearing the lie often enough, I began to sort-of forget.

Thanks, Vic!

Posted by: mindful webworker - two turtle doves at December 26, 2015 09:06 AM (DfQBn)

140 Weather dot com:

>>Through the day [Sat], and especially Saturday night, the storm will really begin to crank up in the southern Plains, with snow or rain changing to snow increasing across parts of New Mexico, west Texas and western Oklahoma.

It's okay, my mom isn't trying to move from NM to west Texas until Tuesday at least.

*sigh*

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 26, 2015 09:10 AM (nXeSu)

141 So this was mildly amusing. The CEO of the company that employs my wife sent a Holiday message to all employees.

"Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical..."

Ummm, thanks?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 26, 2015 08:40 AM (NeFrd)

Does she work in a fortune cookie factory?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2015 09:10 AM (TOk1P)

142 Merry Christmattress

Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz at December 26, 2015 09:11 AM (B3EeS)

143 Did it include a donation to the Human Fund?

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 08:44 AM (8ikIW)

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That magical moment when you realize that you work for George Costanza.

Posted by: @votermom

One Christmas one of my suppliers sent me a card and that they had donated to some charity in my name. What the hell is that? I've got other suppliers that are sending me at the least a bottle of booze or candy or fruit or a lunch out and I'm going to remember you when contract time comes around next year?

I didn't even get a thank you from the charity. So I'm thinking "Human Fund"

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 09:11 AM (8ikIW)

144 Those effing Citi ads are blocking the text.

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at December 26, 2015 09:12 AM (vFmT2)

145 Charlotte-Meckenberg shooting. How many gun laws did the little thug break before assuming mall temperature? My guess is a minimum of 3.

Possession of a handgun by under age of 21
Possession of a gun with a record
Possession of a gun in a gun free zone

Yup. Gun show loopholes my a$$

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 09:12 AM (voOPb)

146 138 Misanthropic Humanitarian
If you heard the Homily I heard on Christmas Eve....I almost threw the little Unity candle at the Minister....

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:13 AM (hCdMd)

147 Does she work in a fortune cookie factory?

Posted by: BurtTC

Now that's funny

Posted by: Bruce at December 26, 2015 09:14 AM (8ikIW)

148 142....ISWYDT.....364 days to get off the naughty list

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:14 AM (hCdMd)

149 @135
Ha! I tried that once in the back bedroom. I still have a couple purple mini paw prints on the floors that I never scrubbed up.

Ugh. It's too early. But I now have to go disconnect a battery charger, then ride to auto zone with Shirley so she can get a replacement battery.
Girls can be so funny sometimes.

Posted by: Chi at December 26, 2015 09:16 AM (mUsVF)

150 No, but that same thought occurred to me.

She went on to say: "I created a short video to personally share
with you my thoughts. Just click here or on my picture to hear it!"

It's high on my "Must Do" list, fer sure.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 26, 2015 08:50 AM (NeFrd)

I am not a management person, and have no desire to ever become one, but I have to wonder what that looks like in their pea brains before they hit send. All the narcissistic emails sent out by bosses everywhere... does it not occur to them that the vast majority of their employees never read the damn things?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2015 09:16 AM (TOk1P)

151 Sorry to be so negative. Yes taxes are one thing and charity is another. It's when they all get mixed together is when I have a problem wid it.

Threadwiener to Burt that was pretty funny.

Posted by: freaked at December 26, 2015 09:18 AM (BO/km)

152 @146 Mr. Wizard, how sad. Our Savior's humble birth has nothing to do with today's politics.

I had the similar feeling at a Methodist funeral in October.,

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 09:18 AM (voOPb)

153 Here's hoping to a year in which liberals are finally able to decouple the issues they raise from the narratives and "solutions" they are so in love with.

Posted by: Skittles factory unicorn at December 26, 2015 09:18 AM (B3EeS)

154 All right, y'all relax and have fun. I have to go to the good bakery across the river, wrap birthday presents and make cupcakes.

Wouldn't be bad to prepare for The Gurl's b-day tomorrow, but I'm still not 100% after the flu. Getting better, much better, but still tire out quickly. And hubby's post-flu sinus infection is not better yet.

Happy Boxing Day, whatever that really is...

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 26, 2015 09:20 AM (nXeSu)

155 >>>Chi Girls can be so funny sometimes.
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Yeah, funny sometimes? Yeah, I guess you could say that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 09:21 AM (voOPb)

156 @130 goatexchange

"The 'giving back' sentiment is rife at work, not just with contractors but staff CS as well."

I used to tell my former govt. employer, "I give every paycheck if I want to or not." Also ask where does the donations go? If they say it goes to United Way, be sure to say "the charity whose head embezzled millions from? Why not just sent it directly to his offshore account."

Yeah, my department head learned to avoid me.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 26, 2015 09:21 AM (kjZ8H)

157 I had the similar feeling at a Methodist funeral in October.,

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, bamboozled by love at December 26, 2015 09:18 AM (voOPb)

Sorry, I read that as "method acting funeral."

I'm picturing a bunch of people standing around trying to figure out what their motivation is to cry.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2015 09:21 AM (TOk1P)

158 I have a cousin who lives near this accident site, I haven't talked to him about this...

A man is accused of driving drunk in a vehicle crash that seriously injured a pastor and his daughter.

Deputies say Lopez-Contreras is an illegal alien who was previously
deported. We're told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
will be placing a detainer on him. He is being held in Monroe County
Jail at this time.

Posted by: Colin at December 26, 2015 09:21 AM (T3Tpd)

159 The remainder of my weekend shall be minor indulgences and perusing books.

====

wait i missed this. Eris is doling out indulgences?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 26, 2015 09:21 AM (F+xWX)

160 @152....
"Mary was an unwed mother who was a refugee from Herod...."
why preach this...from the pulpit...what's the agenda?

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:25 AM (hCdMd)

161 back in my employed days, at a really big company, it was common to hear the newly minted managers grouse privately about how much they were encouraged to give to United Way

Posted by: @votermom at December 26, 2015 09:26 AM (cbfNE)

162 Mary was an unwed mother?

Posted by: @votermom at December 26, 2015 09:26 AM (cbfNE)

163 In communist China, fortune cookie crack open YOU.

Posted by: Yakov Smirnoff at December 26, 2015 09:27 AM (B3EeS)

164 162....I've heard it twice from hipster ministers this week....

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:27 AM (hCdMd)

165 Here's hoping to a year in which liberals are
finally able to decouple the issues they raise from the narratives and
"solutions" they are so in love with.

Posted by: Skittles factory unicorn at December 26, 2015 09:18 AM (B3EeS)

Oh, Skittles factory unicorn, what it must be like to live in your wild world of imaginative, cockeyed optimism...

Posted by: Little Orphan Annie and Prof Pangloss at December 26, 2015 09:28 AM (TOk1P)

166 nood

Posted by: m at December 26, 2015 09:28 AM (d4uu4)

167 who was a refugee from Herod

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being hunted by arabs, iow

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 26, 2015 09:29 AM (F+xWX)

168 @152....
"Mary was an unwed mother who was a refugee from Herod...."
why preach this...from the pulpit...what's the agenda?
Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:25 AM (hCdMd)

Both lies told to cover the current lies. The churches must be infiltrated to better disseminate my program of nonsense. And make money but mostly to cover our flanks.

Posted by: Zombie V I Lenin at December 26, 2015 09:29 AM (ZK4rU)

169 This was at the biggest Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX...
(went with the new in laws)

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:31 AM (hCdMd)

170 Seamus Muldoon's wife's company's CEO: "Please know that much of your work every day is noticed, and in many ways it is quite remarkable and magical..."

Hahahaha. That's really sad.

"Much of your work," but not necessariy all.. in fact, maybe not the majority.

And merely "noticed," not necessarily appreciated, although "remarkable," which means nothing.

And, of course, "magical" as in "you didn't really do that."

A real way with words, there!

Posted by: mindful webworker - two turtle doves at December 26, 2015 09:31 AM (DfQBn)

171 ""Mary was an unwed mother who was a refugee from Herod."

Christian Americans must seek refuge in our own country, since King Obama is trying to destroy us ... is that the message? ... ha. But Mary followed UN guideline and found TEMPORARY sanctuary in a NEARBY country, then returned to her homeland. iirc

They were considered married even when they were just "betrothed" back then. But didn't the angel say "be not afraid to take unto thee thy wife", or something like that? Virgin conception, not virgin birth.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 26, 2015 09:34 AM (5Gpe2)

172 Actually, 365 shopping days til Christmas. February has 29 days in 2016.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 26, 2015 09:35 AM (KQTmr)

173 Laurie David's Cervix: #FeministXmasSongs

Wow, those sure are as amusing as ... getting your tit caught in the wringer. Feminism, famous for its humours.

Posted by: mindful webworker - two turtle doves at December 26, 2015 09:36 AM (DfQBn)

174 Elijah told Ahab that Israel would be punished with drought because of his evil ways.

Elijah was just like our modern climatologissts, warning us about climate chaos that will result if we do not curb carbon pollution. You're welcome.

Posted by: liberal theologian at December 26, 2015 09:37 AM (B3EeS)

175 This was at the biggest Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX...�(went with the new in laws)

Posted by: Mr. Wizard

Ooo ooo. Lemme guess...PCUSA?

If it's PCA, OPC or EPC, I'm going to start drinking heavily.

Posted by: liberal theologian at December 26, 2015 09:42 AM (B3EeS)

176 171...the family "put Mary away" (hid her) and Joseph chewed on the situation for a couple months...not even long enough for her to show...and the Angel told him to buck up and marry her..."And all these things were done" Matt 1:25

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:42 AM (hCdMd)

177 Nied's Nood - too topical-political too early in the day. I think I'll just wallow here, alone if need be, instead of moving on. Ah, I know, I'll go feed the pets. & stuff

Posted by: mindful webworker - two turtle doves at December 26, 2015 09:44 AM (DfQBn)

178 175....since they don't make it clear...and a question about that has been unanswered on their web page for a couple years, I'm guessing PCUSGAY

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 09:47 AM (hCdMd)

179 Well, if we are going to re-write the birth of Jesus, it shouldn't be too hard to re-write the life of Mohammed, right?

Maybe reflect little harder on the events leading up to his marriage and the consumption of it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2015 09:47 AM (ptqRm)

180 Is there any actual Biblical support for (or against) the theory that Mary remained a virgin all her life? Or is that all rooted in later doctrine? Googled on both sides of the argument, and it seems like everyone is asserting, but nobody makes an actual argument.

Posted by: Spellcheck, 48 hours into a 72-hour on-call duty at December 26, 2015 11:01 AM (j+aWk)

181 180...Jesus had a brother...James...

Posted by: Mr. Wizard at December 26, 2015 12:29 PM (hCdMd)

182 Florida Time Traveler: better excuse - Death and Taxes; couldn't avoid them.

Posted by: nnevets at December 26, 2015 12:58 PM (3hEZa)

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