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Daily Tech News 25 December 2021

Top Story

  • Is it even worth working on open source software anymore? (Gavin Howard)

    The world largely runs on open source software, but not only is 99.9% of the revenue swallowed up by huge corporations, those corporations work tirelessly to make sure that the people that made that revenue possible will never see a penny of it.

    This is why GPL - and AGPL - exist. Richard Stallman might be crazy, but he's not wrong.

    The same author notes that the problems are not isolated to open source software, but plague the entire industry.

    I think that's one reason so many developers jumped on cryptononsense - you can skim the money off directly without needing anything from Big Tech.


  • Yesterday we reported on upcoming dual-socket Threadripper workstations and today there's a benchmark of a dual-socket Threadripper workstation. (Tom's Hardware)

    Except that this benchmark is of current-generation chips, not next-generation.

    This is more marketing than engineering because Threadripper chips are exactly the same hardware as Epyc server chips, just configured with different power/performance curves. The motherboards are different, but there's no fundamental reason you couldn't just two Threadrippers into a server board.

Tech News

  • Gigabyte's 2022 Aero 16 will have the Four Essential Keys. (VideoCardz)

    And the new 12900HK CPU, new 3070 Ti or 3080 Ti graphics, and according to the article a 16" 3840x2600 display. That's an odd resolution but it's roughly 3:2 which is becoming popular. And it's an OLED display, with 100% coverage of DCI-P3 and HDR500 support.

    But looking at the photos it seems to have lost many of the ports of the 2021 model - it only has three USB-C and a headphone jack, where the current model also has HDMI, mini-DisplayPort, USB-A, and wired Ethernet.


  • Chrome release 100 will be out soon, wreaking havoc for users of badly-written websites. (Cyber Kendra)

    Not because it changes anything, but because those sites sort in alphabetical order rather than numeric and won't understand that version 100 is newer than version 99.


  • The Iodyne Pro Data is interesting but horribly overpriced. (Serve the Home)

    It offers 12 M.2 slots in a fairly compact case, and eight Thunderbolt ports so you can connect multiple computers to it. It handles RAID and some sort of filesystem sharing though it's not clear exactly what, since it's not a conventional NAS.


  • Door Dash will require all employees to spend a day doing deliveries once a month. (MarketWatch)

    All employees are understandably upset, but this is overall a good idea. A lot of companies would be less terrible if everyone had to spend a day a month performing the shitty jobs at the very roots of the corporate tree.


June

  • On June 1, Ryzen desktop CPUs received integrated graphics, the 3080 Ti arrived because why not, Wikpedia's own Wikipedia page got hit with a DMCA takedown notice, and Microsoft announced a package manager for managing packages.


  • On June 2, Russian hackers - which is to say, Russia - targeted meat processor JBS, everyone banned Belarus, Amazon scored 75,000 own goals, and magical metamaterial microscopes.


  • On June 3, Amazon's warehouse injury rates were somehow, like, totally off the charts, man, video cards were HOLY CRAP THAT'S EXPENSIVE, the next version of windows loomed, there would never be a Python 4, Huawei launched its own operating system - Harmony OS - which was a very hastily papered-over version of Android, and don't use Chinese web browsers.





  • On June 4, the Supremes reined in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which had been seen by prosecutors as a convenient way to double criminal charges on almost anything, we gave up and ordered pizzas, firewall your firewalls, and Cloudflare was a big fat bag of money waiting to be sued.


  • On June 5, Microsoft blamed "human error" for the suspicious disappearance of inconvenient search results, the Radeon Pro W6800 was a very expensive way to buy a Radeon 6800, Medium was the latest company to post a "no communism on company time" notice, there was nothing more expensive than a free tier, Apple really hated its own developers, and DON'T CONNECT CRITICAL FUCKING INFRASTRUCTURE DIRECTLY TO THE INTERNET.


  • On June 6, Apple fixed the problem frying M1 Macs' SSDs - which cannot be repair or replaced, all Zen 4 desktop CPUs would have integrated graphics (latest news is that it will just be four RDNA2 clusters, which isn't enough for gaming but is better than nothing), Big Tech discovered that getting socialists elected is a terrible idea, Windows 11, and Amelia from Hololive raised $18,000 for an animal shelter... In three minutes.





  • On June 7, Microsoft Edge continued its descent into crapware, Chia ruined everything, and the USAF contracted SpaceX to deliver rocketmail.


  • On June 8, Rule One of Never Trust Anyone Club, Quis stealodiet ipsos stealodes, it was the one week of the year when Apple pretended not to hate all its own developers, CPUs were back in stock, and antivirus software became indistinguishable from a virus.


  • On June 9, paging James Burke, laptop makers ran out not of CPUs or GPUs or RAM or anything like that but the power interface chip needed to provide Thunderbolt powers, patch all your Adobes, patch all your Windows, and everyone's favourite foul-mouthed shit-posting drug-dealing USDA-approved Yakuza dragon announced her retirement.





  • On June 10, Bitcoin vs. the volcano, ransoming cows, the 3070 Ti arrived in reviewers' hands to a resounding meh, Western Digital and Seagate ramped up production of disk drives - just a bit, knowning full well that Chia would crash, patch your Chrome, Ring said, and a certain foul-mouthed shit-posting drug-dealing USDA-approved Yakuza indie vtuber gained 200,000 followers overnight.


  • On June 11, networks didn't, Intel offered $2 billion for RISC-V designer SiFive, dirt as a service, hackers broke into Electronic Arts' network and discovered there are worse things than chipped Cthulhu on toast, Samsung's security kinda sucked, and Melbourne really sucked.


  • On June 12, Microsoft promised they would finally stop updating Windows 10 in 2025, the 11900KB was as fast as the 11900K at half the power and you couldn't have one, TSMC expanded the expansion of its expansion plans, BuzzFeed won a Pulitzer Prize - for documenting China's genocide, where the New York Times won the same prize for covering up Stalin's genocide, Slack considere harmful, and the New York state senate passed a right to repair bill - sort of but not really.





  • On June 13, Codecov got hacked because they are retards, Audi / VW got hacked because they are retards, McDonalds got hacked, blockchain ruined everything, China ruined blockchain which was maybe a good thing, no-one was silly enough to announce PLC flash, click on this link, and when in doubt bribe the reviewer.


  • On June 14, any sufficiently profound incompetence was indistinguishable from malice, 80% of the audience of the Microsoft / Bethesda E3 stream was watching Hololive, dude, where's my flying car, room 222 got banned, and a prebuilt system that didn't suck.


  • On June 15, Apple ruined everything, GaN chargers were small but expensive, there was a new Razer laptop which didn't have the Four Essential Keys because they never do, everyone got hit by ransomware, and the new US National Security Advisor was a complete wanker.




  • On June 16, Windows 11 leaked, Amazon blocked FloC too, RAID expansion arrived for ZFS, Google's phishing protection sucked, and exercise bikes got hacked, somehow.


  • On June 17, GPU prices were dropping - just not very much, upcoming motherboards for the upcoming Alder Lake CPUs where coming up, Tim Cook said that fundamental human rights were all well and good but not at the expense of, well, expense, President Biden gave Russia a list of things not to attack - yes, really, Amazon blamed everyone else, and Datadog left something unwelcome on the carpet.


  • On June 18, it was time to stop worrying and start panicking, update your Chrome - yes, again, Carnival joined the ransomware fleet, Ukrainian hackers actually got arrested, and AMD's latest high-end video card was not actually available to purchase, at all, anywhere.





  • On June 19, Windows had eight inconsistent UI designs, the US Senate proposed tax credits for new silicon chip fabs - which is far from the worst waste of money they've come up with recently, handy HTML tricks, Russia banned VPNs that were too secure for their liking - and hacked Poland's email servers, Oregon legalised human composting, and I forgot that I was the one who came up with that name


  • On June 20, DDR5 RAM was here - only to disappear once there was actually a use for it, QNAP had a dual 100GbE adaptor so you could get hacked 100x faster, North Korea hacked South Korea, yet another news story that was previously an episode of Doctor Who, and journalists turned mental illness into performance art.


  • On June 21, the New Yorker tried to blame anime on Donald Trump, carbonised chikuwas, the Asus ROG Swift PG32UQX was honestly not worth it, Intel promised that its GPUs would eventually not entirely suck, we all sang the Doom song, and I wisely excluded Rust from the list of the three most important programming languages.





  • On June 22, we got a leak of the upcoming Ryzen V3000 embedded chip and it looked exactly the same as the latest leak of the upcoming Ryzen 6000 laptop chip - because it is, China continued ruining crypto mining and therewas great rejoicing, being 100% compatible meant reproducing all the bugs too, and ADATA was in the news.


  • On June 23, AMD's upscaking solution worked pretty okayish sort of, SiFive caught up with Arm chips from 2017, Brave had its own search engine sort of, a bug found in 800,000 firewalls got patched sort of and the beatings would continue until the smiles improved.


  • On June 24, a couple of kids in South Africa made off with $3.6 billion in Bitcoin - I wonder if their remains were ever found, John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison, NewsBlur got hacked and held to ransom and restored from backups and was back online in a couple of hours, the Microsoft Store was crashing on Windows but fortuntely not on any of the other operating systems that it doesn't run on anyway, "What they should do is tell the Chinese government to shove a pumpkin up its ass and sing Lili Marlene.", and West Taiwain was working its way forward into 2014.





  • On June 25, Microsoft actually got around to announcing Windows 11, you need to fill out the TPM report first, Sydney had its first brush with Bat Flu lockdowns, we remembered when $600 billion was a lot of money, Hong Kong's Apple Daily got written to the blockchain, and someone needed to go into orbit, unplug the Hubble, blow on the connector, and plug it back in.


  • On June 26, Macs couldn't run Windows or corporate VPNs, update your Dell SupportAssist - or uninstall it, either works, we had no computers that could run Windows 11 either, kids these days, Mozilla announced Rally, a 100% secure data sharing system that didn't exist, making it really easy for the thiees, and right to unglue.


  • On June 27, Microsoft's own flagship Surface Studio 2 wasn't on the Windows 11 compatibility list, Google delayed Floc by two years after the entire world told them to shove it, genocide, schmenocide said YouTube, Huawei was sus, Microsoft signed the package of a Chinese rootkit, and NASA did a software update of a helicopter on Mars.





  • On June 28, the Eternal October begins, Windows 11 didn't need TPM, it just required it, Unicode 14.0 supported Toto, Cypro-Minoan - which no-one can read, Vithkuqi, Tangsa, and Old Uyghur, Binance was refused licenses to operate anywhere, and open offices sucked.


  • On June 29, Microsoft didn't know what hardware you needed to run Windows 11 so please stop asking, the Fuck You software pattern, the SafeDollar stable coin plunged in value by, uh, exactly 100%, and with everyone fleeing Google's AMP they rebaited the hook and started fishing again.


  • And on June 30, Microsoft apologised for the confusion over Windows 11 and explained that the cheese was supposed to go in the silver cup and the addled mice in the bronze soup bowl, the HP Pavilion Aero looked pretty good actually expect for the limit of 16GB of RAM, yes, those WD My Books got hacked, because the master password was, um, commented out, Russia hacked Denmkar's central bank, and the 700 million publicly accessible emails of LinkedIn users were publicly accessible because they were publicly accessible.




Party Like It's 1979 Video of the Day




For Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, and most of Central and South America, and people with VPNs, this studio version has much better audio.






Disclaimer: Not their fault. In 1979 New Zealand barely had writing, never mind television.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:00 AM




Comments

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1 Merry Christmas, Pixy!

Posted by: Doof at December 25, 2021 02:00 AM (mZUr4)

2 Merry Christmas Doof! Merry Christmas Horde!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 02:03 AM (MqQvv)

3 This sleeping child you're holding is
the
great
I
Am.

Posted by: Yes, I think Mary knew at December 25, 2021 02:05 AM (jYQlA)

4 Merry Christmas Pixy.

Posted by: Infidel at December 25, 2021 02:06 AM (qpolg)

5 Merry Christmas, everyone! We've got the Santa gifts out (mypillows for the kids) and the stockings stuffed. Yeah Santa brings the boring gifts, I'm not letting him take credit for the cool stuff. Good night all!!!

Posted by: Mishdog at December 25, 2021 02:06 AM (/VWLE)

6 Merry Christmas, Pixy! Thanks for 'working' today!

Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2021 02:07 AM (dB4Iz)

7 Merry Christmas Pixy.

Take a day or two off.

Posted by: Miklos expects to be unpersoned at December 25, 2021 02:08 AM (QzkSJ)

8 Merry Christmas all!

A belated one to Pixy Misa, who is probably drunk and back in bed by now..

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at December 25, 2021 02:08 AM (CjFDo)

9 Time to sleep... Santa will be here soon!

Merry Christmas, horde!

Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2021 02:10 AM (dB4Iz)

10 Dear Pixy, Merry Christmas, you ARE appreciated!

Signed, a techy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2021 02:10 AM (oHd/0)

11 Pixy. You are a wonderful giving spirit.

Could you just start giving two hours later each day?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 25, 2021 02:11 AM (Jzz++)

12 Oh, and as an American who is supposed to support our Precedent?

As HE said... indeed... lets go Brandon!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2021 02:14 AM (oHd/0)

13 I was looking for a laptop sale today. Gah, I don't need much to replace this old beast, just a large screen. No gamming or movies. AoS and remote to work VPN is all. They are pretty proud of their stuff.

Posted by: Infidel at December 25, 2021 02:15 AM (qpolg)

14 Santa over AZ. Hit up AoP santa.

Posted by: Infidel at December 25, 2021 02:16 AM (qpolg)

15 It's Christmas Day!

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 02:19 AM (2JoB8)

16 Merry Christmas to all!

Posted by: Jmel at December 25, 2021 02:19 AM (bVhJi)

17 15 It's Christmas Day!
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 02:19 AM (2JoB

Well... close.... I'm in California.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2021 02:21 AM (oHd/0)

18 Merry Christmas Pixy and all who frequent this *smart military blog*. God*s blessing to you all.

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Buffer Than That Fat Santa Guy and Baby Yoda Combined at December 25, 2021 02:31 AM (5NrLX)

19 I got a piece of coal.
But it's freezing cold here so it's really coming in handy.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 25, 2021 02:32 AM (jTmQV)

20 I don't think they have Christmas in Australia. Vegemitenacht is what they celebrate. The night The Great Roo delivers vegemite to all the children, especially the bad ones. I could be wrong though. The Australian language is hard to understand and presents certain translation problems.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 25, 2021 02:36 AM (QU5/8)

21 I was looking for a laptop sale today. Gah, I don't need much to replace this old beast, just a large screen. No gamming or movies. AoS and remote to work VPN is all. They are pretty proud of their stuff.
Posted by: Infidel

My advice is don*t buy a Dell. The laptop I purchased is a total piece of crap. My college student child had to purchase a course of study specific high end Dell. We bought the warranty package to cover her 4 years. Her original machine crapped out just prior to the end of a semester and it took 4 months of haggling to get Dell to replace it.

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Buffer Than That Fat Santa Guy and Baby Yoda Combined at December 25, 2021 02:40 AM (5NrLX)

22 20 I don't think they have Christmas in Australia. Vegemitenacht is what they celebrate. The night The Great Roo delivers vegemite to all the children, especially the bad ones. I could be wrong though. The Australian language is hard to understand and presents certain translation problems.

And then we burn the country down to get rid of the spiders, get blazing drunk, and blame it all on New Zealand.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 02:42 AM (MqQvv)

23 21 My advice is don*t buy a Dell. The laptop I purchased is a total piece of crap. My college student child had to purchase a course of study specific high end Dell. We bought the warranty package to cover her 4 years. Her original machine crapped out just prior to the end of a semester and it took 4 months of haggling to get Dell to replace it.

Don't know which model you got, and while none of my Dell systems have died outright over the years, I've had a few lesser problems. They're not perfect.

The reason I keep buy Dells though is they give you the service manual. If you're handy with a screwdriver you can take their laptops completely apart and replace every component.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 02:45 AM (MqQvv)

24 Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Buffer Than That Fat Santa Guy and Baby Yoda Combined at December 25, 2021 02:40 AM (5NrLX)

Two things. Look the model up and read the reviews?

CAREfully go over the specs.

My current desktop system is no longer OK to buy in Calif, because they say it uses too much energy (meaning, its too damn powerfull)...

Dells are OK, depending on the specs of WHAT you buy. Just like any other computer company.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 25, 2021 02:55 AM (oHd/0)

25 Good advice Pixy and Romeo13. Thank you! Merry Christmas all, I am shutting down to allow Santa to come and do his work!

Posted by: SuperMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Buffer Than That Fat Santa Guy and Baby Yoda Combined at December 25, 2021 03:02 AM (iMJet)

26
Hey Pixy -
What is your opinion on 'ethnicity' facial recognition? Say you had 20 photographs of an individual and while they did have some divergence - in the end the majority leaned in one direction.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 25, 2021 03:02 AM (dQvv7)

27 26 Hey Pixy -
What is your opinion on 'ethnicity' facial recognition? Say you had 20 photographs of an individual and while they did have some divergence - in the end the majority leaned in one direction.


I'd show it a picture of a grapefruit with Post-It note with the word "Irish" stuck to it and see what it says.

Those systems seem to work as long as they're fed data that's within the boundaries expected by their designers, but go completely haywire when the data goes outside those boundaries.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 03:08 AM (MqQvv)

28 Merry Christmas!!
(sips coffee)
Yep, I'm workin' today. It's fine. It will be slow.

Was watching 'Holidays at Murray State 2021' on PBS, briefly. They're wearing masks while singing. Dumb. I think I'll watch 'The Wonderful World of Golf' on Golf Channel. It's Arnold Palmer vs Gary Player when they were much younger.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 25, 2021 03:09 AM (sAmhv)

29
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 03:08 AM

Thanks. I think you can't expect anything accurate from one image alone, but it seems to work the best when fed multiple images. In the end, in the example I tried, once I disregarded the outliers, it was remarkably close to the results of a DNA map as far as location and percentages.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 25, 2021 03:18 AM (dQvv7)

30 Christmas seemed to come faster than expected this year. I guess it's because NYC just hasn't felt very christmassy the last few years between Covid and BLM justice looting the place, since everything closes at like 7PM. Also having a week from vacation starting until Christmas cut in to the usual time I'd roam around after work and enjoy the sights.

After a week of probably having Covid I reached the point where i have no real sickness symptoms (didn't have much anyway, just stuffy, little achy a day or two, and headaches the last few days) but now I really can't taste anything unless its strong, which blows the most since tomorrow is a day of chowing down. If I got this damn cold two weeks earlier or two weeks later i would have had 2 more damn weeks of paid vacation.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 25, 2021 03:23 AM (8gEhb)

31
but now I really can't taste anything unless its strong, which blows the most since tomorrow is a day of chowing down.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 25, 2021 03:23 AM


Zinc deficiency can cause taste and smell to be diminished. You might want to supplement for a while. The older you are the greater the odds you're deficient.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 25, 2021 03:27 AM (dQvv7)

32 Merry Christmas you filthy animals.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 25, 2021 03:28 AM (BkCjr)

33 Merry Christmas Pixy and the horde!

Pixy should go to the beach today...tis summer where he is. Me, I shoveled about 16 inches of global warming of the driveway this morning. Well, Christmas Eve morning. Need the snow, but the beach sounds pretty good right about now....

Posted by: Rafal Gan Ganowicz at December 25, 2021 03:29 AM (DN0pc)

34 "Is it even worth working on open source software anymore?"

1990-2020 - Open source software is the future. I don't like the corporate machine, so I will write code to be free as in beer. Itt is the true socialist/communist way. Nobody should be making money from ideas, it all needs to be free and open.

2020-today - Why should I develop OSS and not get paid for it? All these companies are stealing my hard work. I am giving away this code for anybody to use, and they are using it! I don't want a real job, I want to sit in my parents basement and get those big bucks and stock options while claim I have a moral high ground while fighting for the socialist/communist way.

If you don't like how open source software is used, stop writing it and demanding money for what is supposed to be "free" and "open".

Posted by: nohone at December 25, 2021 03:55 AM (HlOZV)

35
A lot of companies would be less terrible if everyone had to spend a day a month performing the shitty jobs at the very roots of the corporate tree.


I'll go it one step further -- every teenager / young person ought to spend a month collecting garbage, or cleaning public restrooms, or cutting grass in public spaces, or digging ditches, or washing dishes. There is dignity in work, even menial work. Dare I say it, there is egalitarianism in it.

Enough of the internships, compensated or not, into which you got because Daddy or Mommy. Find out what working class means, sophistos.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 25, 2021 04:03 AM (pNxlR)

36
At last night's family gathering (gasp!), the best time I've had in years was the fifteen minutes that I spent tapping a balloon back and forth with my two year old niece, who was laughing and giggling throughout and found real joy in simple play.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 25, 2021 04:09 AM (pNxlR)

37 'Truckstop' Jill Biden wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from a back-lot Kenworth cabover at the westbound I-40 Pilot station in Jackson,Tn.

Posted by: It's me... at December 25, 2021 04:33 AM (rLV5H)

38 Merry Christmas dear morons

June1979 is when the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front started to make serious inroads and the Somoza regime in Nicaragua started showing signs of collapse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2021 04:49 AM (EZebt)

39 Hiya

And Merry Christmas !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 04:59 AM (arJlL)

40 'Truckstop' Jill Biden wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from a back-lot Kenworth cabover at the westbound I-40 Pilot station in Jackson,Tn.
Posted by: It's me... at December 25, 2021 04:33 AM (rLV5H)


You have a problem with a lot lizard doing this?

Sheeshh, I can't even...

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at December 25, 2021 05:07 AM (ItDAh)

41 >>>networks didn't

heh
Took me a minute. Good one.

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 05:18 AM (PfCJx)

42 Hi, Pixy. When I clicked June 19, I got this ERROR message:

Safari can't open the page

https://ai.mee.nu/archive/2021/daily_news_stuff_19_june_2021

because Safari can't connect to the server

ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 05:24 AM (PfCJx)

43 'morning...

Merry Christmas Pixy and Horde
...and to all a good...

...um, nothing rhymes with horde...

Posted by: Oldowan at December 25, 2021 05:27 AM (Mfqer)

44 ...um, nothing rhymes with horde...

fjord

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 05:29 AM (arJlL)

45 Toward Fort Ord, Horde. Oh lord, i forgot my sword.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 25, 2021 05:38 AM (KAi1n)

46 42 Hi, Pixy. When I clicked June 19, I got this ERROR message:

Safari can't open the page

https://ai.mee.nu/archive/2021/daily_news_stuff_19_june_2021

because Safari can't connect to the server

ai.mee.nu


Server is taking a brief Christmas nap. Will be back in about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 05:39 AM (MqQvv)

47 32 Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 25, 2021 03:28 AM (BkCjr)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 05:40 AM (PfCJx)

48 37 'Truckstop' Jill Biden wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from a back-lot Kenworth cabover at the westbound I-40 Pilot station in Jackson,Tn.
Posted by: It's me... at December 25, 2021 04:33 AM (rLV5H)

It's me, it's me, it's Ernest T.?

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 05:43 AM (PfCJx)

49 43 'morning...

Merry Christmas Pixy and Horde
...and to all a good...

...um, nothing rhymes with horde...
Posted by: Oldowan at December 25, 2021 05:27 AM (Mfqer)

Lord?

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 05:44 AM (PfCJx)

50 Mornin', all

Merry Christmas

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2021 05:50 AM (Z/jzm)

51
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 25, 2021 05:52 AM (DUIap)

52
Merry Christmas to all the Morons, 'Ettes and ships at sea.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 25, 2021 05:56 AM (/U27+)

53 Merry Christmas MLiiGRAM !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 05:57 AM (arJlL)

54 Merry Christmas all . It's going to push 80 degrees this weekend here in west AR. I'll take it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 25, 2021 05:58 AM (lz5hY)

55 Ah, Usagi Drop. That is a wonderful anime.

Posted by: Ace's liver at December 25, 2021 06:00 AM (wGeit)

56 46 Server is taking a brief Christmas nap. Will be back in about 15 minutes.

Nap time is over!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 06:05 AM (MqQvv)

57 Christmas comes but once a year. so, make sure you enjoy every minute of it, beloved Horde.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2021 06:05 AM (9w/EW)

58 55 Ah, Usagi Drop. That is a wonderful anime.

The heartwarming story of a 30-something loner in a dead-end job who decides to go live with his aunt.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 06:06 AM (MqQvv)

59 "June"
I didn't understand a fucking word but it was awesome anyway.

Posted by: PointyHairedBoss at December 25, 2021 06:07 AM (wVjm9)

60 We're doing Christmas breakfast here with just our family.

Biscuits and gravy, apple cinnamon pancakes, (with real maple syrup, or apple cider syrup) bacon and eggs.

But coffee first and last minute cleaning.

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2021 06:08 AM (Z/jzm)

61 You'll remember as a small kid, my parents took forever to get up and start Christmas. Like who can sleep in on such a great day. My dad bought me a Lionel train set and he wisely didn't provide an extension cord so I couldn't plug it all in until he got up.....first world problem for me at the time....I was all of 5 years old and can still smell the soap a relative gave me...soap?

Posted by: Colin at December 25, 2021 06:08 AM (h+nlS)

62 Merry Christmas Ben Had !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:09 AM (arJlL)

63 56 46 Server is taking a brief Christmas nap. Will be back in about 15 minutes.

Nap time is over!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 06:05 AM (MqQvv)

. . . back on your heads!

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 06:10 AM (PfCJx)

64 Oh, and pineapple upside down cake as a coffee cake, because it was dad's favorite.

6 years today. Merry Christmas in heaven dad. You are missed!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2021 06:10 AM (Z/jzm)

65 back

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

66 A Merry Christmas morning to all!!! Chekov, the Cat of Cats, wishes good cheer to all!

(Well, actually, he doesn't; he wishes I'd give him his breakfast. But let's be imaginative and picture him spreading benedictions everywhere.)

Miss Linda and I went to church last evening, had our usual Friday night pizza, and watched some YooToob vids about cats -- Siberians in particular, and Maine Coons too. I'm up to work out in a while -- I plan to drive to the riverfront when it gets light and trot along the bike path, just for a change. After I clean up, I need to wrap Miss Linda's gifts. I'm good at that -- but they are different shapes, and I don't have many boxes. Oh, well.

I may have to wait to open and smoke the pipe I bought myself until this evening. Again, oh, well. It's Christmas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:12 AM (c6xtn)

67 Oh, and pineapple upside down cake as a coffee cake, because it was dad's favorite.

6 years today. Merry Christmas in heaven dad. You are missed!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2021


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My mother has been gone for 35 years this past November. I wish I could talk to her and tell her about the things I've been doing since 1986. My hope is that she'd be proud of me. She'd also love Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat more than is good for his already spoiled rotten self.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:14 AM (c6xtn)

68 Merry Christmas, Vic!

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 06:15 AM (PfCJx)

69 JT, Merry Christmas!!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 25, 2021 06:15 AM (9w/EW)

70 Merry Christmas, Horde!

Christ is born! Glorify Him!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 25, 2021 06:19 AM (PoI2l)

71 Christmas falling on a Saturday or Sunday always seemed so weird. You'd already be off from school or (most) work, so it didn't seem right, like you'd lost a day of the break. Two days if Christmas Eve was Saturday. And remember, when I was a kid, we didn't have endless holidays, spring and fall breaks, etc. Labor Day, then nothing until Thanksgiving, then a long slog until Christmas-New Year's; in Da Swamp we got the Monday and Tuesday of Mardi Gras; Good Friday at Easter; then an even longer slog, it seemed, until school let out for summer in late May. Losing 2 days from Christmas seemed like a gyp!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:19 AM (c6xtn)

72 Merry Christmas, Pixy !
thanks you for the Tech Thread !
And Merry Christmas to everyone else, too !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 06:20 AM (IJMH4)

73 Better get moving with preps for today.

Enjoy your day, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2021 06:23 AM (Z/jzm)

74 Looks like we are not going to get an EMT today

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:24 AM (mpXpK)

75 Merry Christmas, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2021 06:29 AM (ju2Fy)

76 Good Mornining Yall! Merry Christmas!

Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 06:30 AM (Tnijr)

77 Hiya Vic !

Merry Christmas !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:30 AM (arJlL)

78 Merry Christmas, Pixy !
thanks you for the Tech Thread !
And Merry Christmas to everyone else, too !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021


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"Deep in December,
It's nice to remember
The fire of September that made us mellow . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:31 AM (c6xtn)

79 back

Posted by: Vic

(pictures Vic holding a crucifix.....)

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:32 AM (arJlL)

80 Merry Christmas everyone!

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 06:33 AM (2JoB8)

81 " On Friday, Joe and Jill Biden did a video call into NORAD to see where Santa is. After speaking with some kids, a father said to the Bidens: "I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. Merry Christmas and Let's go Brandon."

"Let's go, Brandon. I agree," Biden said in response.

Luckily for us, the event was live-streamed and we have the video."

O frabjous day ! Calloo ! Callay !
*chortle, chortle*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 06:33 AM (IJMH4)

82 Good morning everyone. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2021 06:33 AM (mD/uy)

83 Good Morning Morons. Today is Saturday, December 25, 2021; Christmas Day. On this day in 336 the first documentary sign of Christmas celebration took place in Rome.

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:33 AM (mpXpK)

84 Merry Christmas

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 06:34 AM (yrol0)

85 Looks like we are not going to get an EMT today
Posted by: Vic

Who wants to wake up CBD and tell him ?

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:34 AM (arJlL)

86 Omicron variant causes Christmas flight cancellations and holiday travel headaches


Would not have effected me. I started driving anytime I had to go anywhere since my last boondoggle to Pittsburgh


https://tinyurl.com/2p874v59

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:34 AM (mpXpK)

87 A group of Republican Maryland legislators and voters is suing the state over the allegedly partisan congressional redistricting plan Democrats in the state legislature passed following the 2020 Census.


https://tinyurl.com/yckp8th3

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:35 AM (mpXpK)

88 Meanwhile voters in a VA school district are suing over the schools teaching CRT.


https://tinyurl.com/3s4v94aj

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:35 AM (mpXpK)

89 Biden staffers are bailing out as Biden's polls are sinking fast.


https://tinyurl.com/bdh8c66u

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:35 AM (mpXpK)

90 Our Calico kitty is walking around sneezing this morning. She started yesterday. Can cats get the Covid?

Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 06:36 AM (Tnijr)

91 Hillary Clinton is begging Democrats to consider her as an alternative to Biden


Haven't we had enough of this skank.


https://tinyurl.com/vpvy7fbu

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:36 AM (mpXpK)

92 Merry Christmas.

Saturday Christmas. Four masses in the next 9 days.

Doesn't bother me like it did when I was a kid.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 25, 2021 06:36 AM (rDgjh)

93 Joe Biden Granted Only 16 Interviews in 2021, Far Fewer than Trump and Obama


https://tinyurl.com/yrh5wuk8

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:37 AM (mpXpK)

94 Bogino Report It's Time to Abolish the Teachers Unions

[no link]

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:38 AM (mpXpK)

95 Political Cartoon of the Day From Friday


https://tinyurl.com/nynwkuy8

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:38 AM (mpXpK)

96 RAMIREZ


https://tinyurl.com/2p82a6ef


And that's it for today

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 06:39 AM (mpXpK)

97 Hillary just wants to skim 20% of the donations.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 25, 2021 06:39 AM (rDgjh)

98 This video is not available

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 06:40 AM (rxDDN)

99 Merry Merry!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 06:40 AM (rxDDN)

100 Saturday Christmas. Four masses in the next 9 days.

Doesn't bother me like it did when I was a kid.
Posted by: Been Lurking

I know, right? Seems as if being Catholic means so much more to me as an adult as it did as a child/teen/young adult.

Could it be I (shudders) matured somewhat? I worked so hard to not do that.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2021 06:40 AM (mD/uy)

101 . . . a father said to the Bidens: "I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well. Merry Christmas and Let's go Brandon."

"Let's go, Brandon. I agree," Biden said in response.

Luckily for us, the event was live-streamed and we have the video.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021


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Did the father say the expression knowing what the real meaning is? Of course F. Joe doesn't, or if he did last week he's forgotten, but did the father insert it on purpose?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:40 AM (c6xtn)

102 Merry Christmas, Pixy.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 06:40 AM (cTCuP)

103 Hillary just wants to skim 20% of the donations.
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too

And lure Hunter and Brandon into a sexual tryst....

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:41 AM (arJlL)

104 Hiya Skip !

Merry Christmas !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:41 AM (arJlL)

105 It's almost time for the Olympics, so I join the nation saying,

Let's Go Brandon!

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden at December 25, 2021 06:42 AM (rxDDN)

106 Merry Christmas Tonypete !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:42 AM (arJlL)

107 Our Calico kitty is walking around sneezing this morning. She started yesterday. Can cats get the Covid?

Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 06:36
-----------------

Not sure, but our fat cat sneezed several times yesterday. I'm calling her Kovid kitty.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2021 06:42 AM (ju2Fy)

108 Our Calico kitty is walking around sneezing this morning. She started yesterday. Can cats get the Covid?
Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021


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I've heard rumors. Linda is continually worried that Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat might get it and in his aged state he could be "carried off," as the old expression had it. On the other hand, cats be weird and sneeze any old time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:42 AM (c6xtn)

109 Thank you JT - Merry Christmas to you and your's also.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 25, 2021 06:44 AM (mD/uy)

110 Saturday Christmas. Four masses in the next 9 days.

Doesn't bother me like it did when I was a kid.
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 25, 2021


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I watched a couple of small kids at the mass last night. The suspense about Christmas must be killing them. I doubt they're thinking about Christ's birth or anything other than, "I hope I get that Star Wars Lego kit!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:45 AM (c6xtn)

111 My old cat Abby has been sneezing for a couple of days. Cats can catch a cold. I'm operating on that theory. Not going to drag the poor cats into the COVID nightmare.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 06:45 AM (cTCuP)

112 Santa left a bottle of Kahlua next to the coffee pot this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2021 06:47 AM (ju2Fy)

113 My old cat Abby has been sneezing for a couple of days. Cats can catch a cold. I'm operating on that theory. Not going to drag the poor cats into the COVID nightmare.
Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021


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There was an old legend that if the family cat sneezes three times in a row, something bad, like a storm, is coming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:48 AM (c6xtn)

114 It's still dark. I went outside. The stars were brightly shining. The quiet was deafening. There was peace and hope, if only for a moment.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 06:49 AM (cTCuP)

115 Snow White versus Anthony Mengele-Fauci.

https://tinyurl.com/2sx75bc8

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 06:49 AM (rxDDN)

116 I slept almost 10 hours with a small brake at 2am up above.

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 06:50 AM (2JoB8)

117 Having Christmas Brunch later this morning. Kids are cooking most of the food. Although, I have to make the Breakfast Bundt Cake.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2021 06:50 AM (ju2Fy)

118 Still dark here too, but 64 F. with a high today of 80. Disgustin'. I need to work out before it gets too warm -- but I don't want to get to the bike path before first light.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:51 AM (c6xtn)

119 Back in the day, there was no Christmas vigil masses. The first mass was at midnight. And we had the rule that we couldn't open any presents until after we had been to mass. Fortunately, there was a 6:00 am mass and the church was four blocks from our house.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 25, 2021 06:51 AM (rDgjh)

120 LIVE: Launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rARTOhbLDg

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 25, 2021 06:51 AM (BQwGr)

121 One of my older brothers would go to midnight mass (or so he claimed) and then come home and open his presents by himself. Yikes. No fun there.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 25, 2021 06:52 AM (rDgjh)

122 I slept almost 10 hours with a small brake at 2am up above.
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021


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Good for you. I didn't get anything like 10 hours, but I rarely do. A touch of heartburn, the first in a while, woke me at 1 am. I slid back to sleep after a little bicarb in water. This tells me I'm eating too much sugar again, or getting some corn syrup without knowing it, or both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 06:53 AM (c6xtn)

123 Merry Christmas creeper !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:53 AM (arJlL)

124 Wolfus have had that I think, but only eating just before bed time, I don't do that and been good.

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 06:55 AM (2JoB8)

125 Thank you, JT. Merry Christmas right back. I hope Santa filled your stocking.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 06:55 AM (cTCuP)

126 LOL @ youse guys waking up for various physical reasons. I was up at 0300 because that's the time the baby bumper car finished charging and the instructions said not to over-charge it.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 06:58 AM (cTCuP)

127 Wolfus have had that I think, but only eating just before bed time, I don't do that and been good.
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021


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I tried not eating for 2-3 hours before bedtime, but still got the heartburn. Only cutting sugar almost completely out of my diet in Nov. '20, and absolutely avoiding anything with corn syrup, seemed to fix it. This was the first instance in many months. Graham crackers are apparently free of the syrup, and so is the Scots dark chocolate, but maybe I did too much of one of them yesterday. Or on top of 2 slices of supreme pizza.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 07:01 AM (c6xtn)

128 Merry Christmas!

God's greatest gift

The compassion of the Father is ever moving towards the world. He so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, and from the great sea of His love He is aways giving us all we can use. That is the measure of the gift of Christ we can use, all that we can hold, filling out hearts and being, occupying, blessing, comforting, ever opening new fields before the heart and mind that we may look up and come more into God. It is a wondrous grace. It is a mystery which we can understand only as we come into possession of the Spirit. That is why God says that "spiritual things are spiritually discerned." To know anything of the redemption of Christ we must enter into Him. If we would know about the measure of the gift, we must speak more of His Spirit's enlightenment in our hearts."

Dr. Henry Foster
Physician and Christian

He lived until the early 1900's and started a sanitarium in the Finger Lakes Region of NY for depressed and overworked ministers, missionaries and others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 07:02 AM (KBCaU)

129 Joe did no traveling or work in 2020.

Where did all the money go??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:03 AM (yrol0)

130 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

131 FenelonSpoke

May your service be balm for their souls, and Jessie and her brother play the organ from her heart.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

132 Hope Krak is ok

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 07:05 AM (2JoB8)

133 Vic, appreciate the news.

May your [fishnet] stocking hung with car be filled appropriately.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

134 NASA is hawking t-shirts at their launch live link, so get 'em while you can.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:06 AM (rxDDN)

135 Ordered: That the defendant New York Times and its agents, employees, legal counsel, or other persons under its control are directed to immediately delete / destroy copies of the legal memoranda prepared by Project Veritas counsel, Benjamin Barr, from any computer, cloud server or other data collecting or disseminating sources.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:07 AM (yrol0)

136 Have a Merry Christmas, everyone.

We need peace on Earth, good will towards people more than ever. May it start in your locale.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:08 AM (u82oZ)

137 One sad thing, our CD player seems to die couple days ago so no Christmas music.

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 07:08 AM (2JoB8)

138 Merry Christmas, Salty.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2021 07:09 AM (ju2Fy)

139 Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, told the New York Times that the toy is normalizing the idea of surveillance.

I know a lot of families just see this as a fun thing, but its worth thinking about the messages its giving to children about surveillance by authorities, Stanley told the newspaper.

I am guessing that all other Liberties have been obtained and protected so ACLU is down to the final few.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:09 AM (yrol0)

140 Gee whiz, where did Defendant New York Times illegally get those legal memoranda? Maybe the FBI can inform the court.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:09 AM (rxDDN)

141 137 One sad thing, our CD player seems to die couple days ago so no Christmas music.
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 07:08 AM (2JoB

Alexa play Christmas music!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:09 AM (yrol0)

142 133 Vic, appreciate the news.

May your [fishnet] stocking hung with car be filled appropriately.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:06 AM (u82oZ)


Thanks but I no longer have a car. Gave my car to grandson and then he took it out and totaled it.

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 07:10 AM (mpXpK)

143 Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 07:08 AM (2JoB
=============
You may have to break down and run YouTube on an open, second tab.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:11 AM (rxDDN)

144 Hope Krak is ok
Posted by: Skip

"He's probly drinkin' coffee
and smokin' big cigars"

We're stuck in Pixy prison.....

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:11 AM (arJlL)

145 One sad thing, our CD player seems to die couple days ago so no Christmas music.
Posted by: Skip

Want me to come over and sing to yas ?

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:13 AM (arJlL)

146 One sad thing, our CD player seems to die couple days ago so no Christmas music.
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021


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Will your DVD player play CDs? Linda ran the d\Downton Abbey Christmas CD through my new DVD/Blu-Ray player last night; worked fine. Or maybe you could play it through a desktop or laptop computer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 07:13 AM (c6xtn)

147 My CD player gave up the ghost a few months ago. I bought a new one from Amazon but it was broke right out of the box. I decided to hell with it and I use my blue tooth to feed my stereo.

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 07:13 AM (mpXpK)

148 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:05 AM (u82oZ)

Thanks, Salty. Merry Christmas to you. We had the service last night-lessons and carols. Jessie was able to play a little bit, which is a miracle-thanks be to God- and her son who is a piano tuner and a great pianist played the rest of the service. It was a great evening of praising God! We do have a service tomorrow. It will probably be back to the downloading of music on the computer by FenSpouse. Thanks for the prayers for Jessie, everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 07:14 AM (KBCaU)

149 Thanks but I no longer have a car. Gave my car to grandson and then he took it out and totaled it.
Posted by: Vic

At least ya won't hafta lie awake at night, wondering where it is....

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:14 AM (arJlL)

150 Launch of the NASA James Webb Telescope is at 20 minutes after the hour

Live video feed

https://tinyurl.com/mrywu5pv

Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Gref at December 25, 2021 07:15 AM (AMIL/)

151 I wonder what the temperature was in Bethlehem 2021 years ago. When I was a kid I lived in Iowa and figured that since it was cold there in December it must have been cold in Bethlehem. But it's the Middle East, so it couldn't have been that cold, right?

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 07:16 AM (cTCuP)

152 Merry Christmas Fen, to you and Fam and our favorite piano player !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:16 AM (arJlL)

153 79 back

Posted by: Vic

(pictures Vic holding a crucifix.....)
Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 06:32 AM (arJlL)

Ha!

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:16 AM (SSiCQ)

154 Thank you Gref. Go, Go, GO!!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 25, 2021 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

155 Thanks, JT-Same to you and yours!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 07:17 AM (KBCaU)

156 52 degrees right now in Bethlehem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:18 AM (rxDDN)

157 Skip, if you play a CD on your computer, download the VLC Player. It's free and downloads fast, and it will play just about anything from movies and CDs to stuff you download from the 'Net.

There is a neat little utility, too, called youtube-dl.exe. Search for it and download it. You run it from a DOS command window, the "Run" command that brings up the black window, you remember that. Type "youtube-dl" followed by a space, then paste the URL of the video and press Enter. It downloads to that directory on your hard drive, or if you create a config text file, to the location you specify. This includes supposedly non-downloadable YooToobs, too.

I don't know if it works on Macs. But VLC has a version for Mac as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 07:18 AM (c6xtn)

158 Got a nice brisket flat that is going on the smoker soon.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 25, 2021 07:19 AM (bVYXr)

159 One sad thing, our CD player seems to die couple days ago so no Christmas music.
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021


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Maybe not, but deserts get cold at night. Moist air holds heat, but dry air doesn't. All that heat radiates back into space.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 07:19 AM (c6xtn)

160 Merry Christmas m !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:20 AM (arJlL)

161 Looking very white male-ish at the ESA spaceflight ops center.

They should stop the launch and fix that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:20 AM (rxDDN)

162 This is what I meant to copy:

I wonder what the temperature was in Bethlehem 2021 years ago. When I was a kid I lived in Iowa and figured that since it was cold there in December it must have been cold in Bethlehem. But it's the Middle East, so it couldn't have been that cold, right?
Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021


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To which I reply: Maybe not, but deserts get cold at night. Moist air holds heat, but dry air does not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 07:21 AM (c6xtn)

163 well folks gotta go My brother calls about 730 on Sat

Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2021 07:22 AM (mpXpK)

164 Caribbean weather being what it is, they've already switched to animation

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:22 AM (rxDDN)

165 well, it got off okay, disappeared in cloud cover

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 07:22 AM (IJMH4)

166 Stay safe Vic, and thanks for the VNN !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:23 AM (arJlL)

167 One sad thing, our CD player seems to die couple days ago so no Christmas music.
Posted by: Skip

Want me to come over and sing to yas ?
Posted by: JT

(Hmmm...no reply...guess its ixnay on atthay !)

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:25 AM (arJlL)

168 98 This video is not available
Posted by: Huck Follywood


If that's the last one, yeah, sorry about that. I couldn't find a clean version that's not blocked in the US. It's the same song as the one above just with better audio.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 07:25 AM (MqQvv)

169 165 well, it got off okay, disappeared in cloud cover
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 07:22 AM (IJMH4)

I hope rickl was hanging over the edge of one of those clouds.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 07:27 AM (cTCuP)

170 Are you kidding Pixy? Great post, and thanks for all you do!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:27 AM (rxDDN)

171 Merry Christmas all

Freezing rain this morning, supposed to go all day... hope it stops so I can get the kids to their grandparents tonight

Posted by: CanuckJack at December 25, 2021 07:27 AM (K/JUD)

172 150 Launch of the NASA James Webb Telescope is at 20 minutes after the hour

Live video feed

https://tinyurl.com/mrywu5pv

Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Gref at December 25, 2021 07:15 AM (AMIL/)

Thanks, Gref!

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:28 AM (SSiCQ)

173 When teenager at church we use to go caroling to people's houses usually shut in.

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 07:29 AM (2JoB8)

174 Frosty The Snowman is not gender inclusive enough so they are taking away his carrot.

Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 07:30 AM (Tnijr)

175 "norminal" - portmanteau of normal and nominal, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 07:31 AM (IJMH4)

176 You are supposed to say "Oh nose!".

Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 07:33 AM (Tnijr)

177 Tha is for VNN

On duty today all day unfortunately have to deal with mortuary first thing this morning but also looking forward to awesome Christmas buffet later

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 25, 2021 07:35 AM (EZebt)

178 I like to think he was, creeper

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 07:36 AM (IJMH4)

179 Merck says its new anti-covid ivermectin replacement delivers results statistically not different from placebos, until a few weeks are past, when the drug actually makes it more likely patients will need hospitalization. On top of that, it fosters faster evolution of new, more dangerous covid variants.

So, maybe no one should use the recently approved Merck drug.

https://tinyurl.com/36whukc5

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 25, 2021 07:37 AM (rxDDN)

180 That Frenchie rocket went faster expodentially after blast off!

Folks, many of you may not know this, but I designed half of the parts of that Charlotte's Web telescrope. My words as a Biden!

Posted by: Joe the secret rocket designer from Scranton at December 25, 2021 07:37 AM (AMIL/)

181 There's no escaping this all-important eternal truth: we are all in dire need of a savior. Your life can be filled with treasures and pleasures, but if you ignore Jesus and His message, you will regret it for eternity.
Your life can be riddled with poverty, sickness, and strife, yet if you repent and believe in Christ, the magnificent riches of eternal life await you. And whether rich or poor, sick or well, imprisoned or free, in good times or bad, we all need the gift that was given on that first Christmas.
Merry Christmas!

https://tinyurl.com/2p87uf5w

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 25, 2021 07:38 AM (BQwGr)

182 fun listening to the pack of rocket nerds doing color commentary on the launch ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, remembering Tami (IJMH4) at December 25, 2021 07:40 AM (IJMH4)

183 181 There's no escaping this all-important eternal truth: we are all in dire need of a savior. Your life can be filled with treasures and pleasures, but if you ignore Jesus and His message, you will regret it for eternity.
Your life can be riddled with poverty, sickness, and strife, yet if you repent and believe in Christ, the magnificent riches of eternal life await you. And whether rich or poor, sick or well, imprisoned or free, in good times or bad, we all need the gift that was given on that first Christmas.
Merry Christmas!

https://tinyurl.com/2p87uf5w
Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 25, 2021 07:38 AM (BQwGr)

Merry Christmas SMH. I always read John 1 on this morning. We're just a little bit of lightness in a dark world.

Posted by: kraken at December 25, 2021 07:41 AM (poje4)

184 launch site = Kourou, French Guiana

(I kept mishearing "Peru," "guru," and more.)

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:43 AM (SSiCQ)

185 Same to you, kraken.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 25, 2021 07:43 AM (BQwGr)

186 Everybody up? Let's open presents!

Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 07:44 AM (Tnijr)

187 Merry Christmas peeps. No kids and the wife is still in bed. Just me and the cat.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2021 07:45 AM (BFigT)

188 As a Methodist, I'm obligated to post the following:

Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all He brings, risen with heaven in His wings. Hark, the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King!

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 25, 2021 07:45 AM (8548M)

189 174 Frosty The Snowman is not gender inclusive enough so they are taking away his carrot.
Posted by: f'd at December 25, 2021 07:30 AM (Tnijr)

Use it as a front pole

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:47 AM (yrol0)

190 wow, live shots, wow

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:49 AM (SSiCQ)

191 So HRC Must have killed him:

Granted, she's not as spry as she used to be, but that didn't stop her from sending Major the White House German Shepherd to "live in a quieter environment with family friends."

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:49 AM (yrol0)

192 Hmmm. I am not sure I have ever seen a painting that depicts Christ with wings.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 07:49 AM (33O8j)

193 "It moves to its resting place about a million miles away from Earth."

!!!

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:50 AM (SSiCQ)

194 Wonder if they realize anything they say on Covid prevention or treatment has been compromised by their mismanagement?

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 07:52 AM (2JoB8)

195 Seeing the final views of the telescope before it heads out a million miles away, it's humbling and a little sad.

Think how much more humanity could have had accomplished if it weren't for sin.

Yet on this day, God sent us His son to save humanity, so imagine what we will accomplish when He returns.

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 25, 2021 07:52 AM (BQwGr)

196 wow, live shots, wow
Posted by: m

You in Chicago ?

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:53 AM (arJlL)

197 G'morning, all!

Anybody know how that possible hostage situation at Nakatomi Plaza worked out last night?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at December 25, 2021 07:54 AM (3D/fK)

198 Merry Christmas SMH and Ex-Ex !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 07:54 AM (arJlL)

199 188-Yes, you are obligated to post that, Mrs, Peel. Only some Methodists and a few others would know that hymn was written by the great hymnwriter, Charles Wesley and co-founder with his brother, John, of the Methodist movement. He also wrote this:

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 07:55 AM (KBCaU)

200 200

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:55 AM (SSiCQ)

201 193 "It moves to its resting place about a million miles away from Earth."

!!!

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 07:50 AM (SSiCQ)


Description of Webb's planned location at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point -

https://tinyurl.com/2p96pbav

L2 is about a million miles farther from the Sun than Earth is.

Posted by: Gref at December 25, 2021 07:57 AM (AMIL/)

202

People incarcerated as adolescents and teens are more likely to die at young age than the rest of the population, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:57 AM (yrol0)

203 Same to you, JT. : )

Hubby just got up, now will wait to facetime our elder daughter in an hour (she wants to see us open the gifts she sent, and vice versa).

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His birth at December 25, 2021 07:57 AM (BQwGr)

204 Looks like we are not going to get an EMT today
Posted by: Vic


I think that's a Christmas present for me.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 25, 2021 07:57 AM (y7DUB)

205 Posted by: kraken at December 25, 2021 07:41 AM (poje4)

John 1:1-14 was the final reading of our church service last night. I love the Gospel of John.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 07:58 AM (KBCaU)

206 People incarcerated as adolescents and teens are more likely to die at young age than the rest of the population, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 25, 2021 07:57 AM (yrol0)

Did the research go as far as the causes of death? I'll bet that lead and or steel poisoning are the top 2.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at December 25, 2021 07:59 AM (ItDAh)

207 Merry Christmas all

Posted by: iron moron at December 25, 2021 08:01 AM (UpnbY)

208 Listened to Christmas music on my 1942 Philco console radio/phonograph console I restored about 15 years ago. Bit of nostalgia, tuned to our local AM radio station.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 25, 2021 08:02 AM (Zvtjl)

209 My husband and I are getting our J&J boosters tomorrow but we both either have a slight cold or omicron Covid. Can't get a test so we don't know. No fever just sneezing and a little gunky throat and runny nose. I wonder if we should cancel the boosters. Do any of his have experience with this?

Posted by: Jaimo at December 25, 2021 08:02 AM (NXGjq)

210 1st John in exquisite song: https://tinyurl.com/46zzrn6n

Merry Christmas!

Posted by: lizabth at December 25, 2021 08:03 AM (L3Rsz)

211 Fen, I knew you would know that was Charles Wesley's work! Yep, he and Isaac Watts are responsible for a big chunk of the Methodist hymnal.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 25, 2021 08:08 AM (8548M)

212 Powerline week in pictures Christmas edition
https://tinyurl.com/24k7rkyf

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 08:10 AM (2JoB8)

213 Jaimo - I am pretty sure, but not positive, that it's contraindicated to get one of the shots if you have symptoms. I wish I could say ask your doctor, but I've lost faith in the medical establishment. If you do have a doctor you trust, I'd ask them.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 25, 2021 08:10 AM (8548M)

214 Can't get a test so we don't know. No fever just sneezing and a little gunky throat and runny nose. I wonder if we should cancel the boosters. Do any of his have experience with this?
Posted by: Jaimo

Probably omicron? It has more cold-like symptoms. Few get a fever or lost taste/smell. I would get tested before boosted. But understand that the boosters protection is limited and you will eventually get omicron.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 08:11 AM (bKdTl)

215 Got the Breakfast Bundt Cake in the oven. My work is pretty much done for the day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2021 08:11 AM (ju2Fy)

216 John 1:1-14 was the final reading of our church service last night. I love the Gospel of John.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 07:58 AM (KBCaU)


That passage always makes me cry. Merry Christmas Fen. Merry Christmas Horde.


Love took a breath, and a little cry. Emmanuel. God with us.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:12 AM (45fpk)

217 Mrs. Peel-My favorite story about Issac Watts is his complaining to his father about church music and his father's response, "Well, let's see you write something better" and he did:

https://tinyurl.com/28tftehc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:13 AM (KBCaU)

218 Good morning all and Merry Christmas!

It is warm and rainy, but we aren't going anywhere. Waiting for Kidsharn to appear so I can cut into the Christmas Coffeecake!

Posted by: Rosasharn at December 25, 2021 08:15 AM (PzBTm)

219 Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:12 AM (45fpk)

I got a little choked up late night too when I was reading it.
Merry Christmas to you, the Rev. and your family, dear Grammie:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:15 AM (KBCaU)

220 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:17 AM (45fpk)

221 I left my cake out in the rain and I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again

Posted by: Richard Harris at December 25, 2021 08:17 AM (dQvv7)

222 Merry Christmas, my pretty Hordelings!

Rainy day here.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 25, 2021 08:18 AM (ZjvPR)

223 Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:17 AM (45fpk)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:20 AM (KBCaU)

224 Supposed to have rain off and on, only day wish it was snow

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 08:20 AM (2JoB8)

225 If New Zealand was more interesting...I'd known more about it.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 25, 2021 08:21 AM (+frZ/)

226 Overcast and grey here at my parents. It is strange that even 25ish years after going to college, I feel larger than I should be in relation to the house.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:22 AM (33O8j)

227

John: Did you see where Biden repeated, "Let's Go Brandon"?

Paul: Someone left the cake out in the rain.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 25, 2021 08:22 AM (dQvv7)

228 Overcast and grey here at my parents. It is strange that even 25ish years after going to college, I feel larger than I should be in relation to the house.
Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:22 AM (33O8j)

Leon, is that you?

Posted by: Johnny from Airplane! at December 25, 2021 08:23 AM (4I/2K)

229 Wishing a very Merry Christmas to every member of the "Moron Horde", and a special thanks to Ace for giving all of us deplorables a gathering place, a place like no other on the internet. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 25, 2021 08:23 AM (Zvtjl)

230 Posted by: lizabth at December 25, 2021 08:03 AM (L3Rsz)

Thanks for that!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:24 AM (KBCaU)

231 More a height thing than a weight thing- although that is true too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:26 AM (33O8j)

232 Boker Tov Patriots
Merry Christmas

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 25, 2021 08:28 AM (Irn0L)

233 Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!!

Posted by: Witchdoktor at December 25, 2021 08:28 AM (lW8WD)

234 Local news is about all the flights cancelled because of Omicron. I guess the common cold never caused a ripple in airline schedules like this virus has.

Posted by: Colin at December 25, 2021 08:28 AM (h+nlS)

235 Well, when people had colds they did not figure they were going to die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:29 AM (33O8j)

236 Time to make the cinnamon rolls.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 08:30 AM (4I/2K)

237 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

238 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

239 Merry Christmas Horde!

Posted by: goatexchange at December 25, 2021 08:32 AM (APPN8)

240 Actual headline this morning
"Parent uses right-wing slur during Biden call.."
heheheheheh
Poor guy is probably #1 on the Eff Bee Eye and IRS list by now

And Merry Christmas to everyone

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:33 AM (DB16e)

241 The Cynical Hun
at_TheCynicalHun

Meanwhile in Finland: Tuomas Katainen BLEW UP his ModelS Tesla car, with an effigy of Elon Musk - after being told a new battery for his car would cost 20,000!

The whole thing is a scam.


8:42 AM - Dec 24, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3JhE6Dh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:33 AM (Do5/p)

242 Merry Christmas.

Pork butt is da smoker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 25, 2021 08:34 AM (WxJ7y)

243 Merry Christmas! Enjoy, and have a wonderful day!

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 25, 2021 08:34 AM (zO9D/)

244 Is in da smoker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 25, 2021 08:35 AM (WxJ7y)

245 Christmas Child-a devotional from "Our Daily Bread"

https://odb.org/2021/12/25/christmas-child

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:36 AM (KBCaU)

246 Ugh....the discomfort experienced taking a one a day vitamin on an empty stomach is amazing......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

247 Blueberry pancakes were a hit yesterday so a rare double breakfast day having them again

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 08:37 AM (2JoB8)

248 Merry Christmas.

Pork butt is da smoker.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 25, 2021 08:34 AM (WxJ7y)



Got my turkey injected and the skin powdered with rub. Just letting it sit for a spell before breaking out The Big Easy for it's 10 minutes a lb. roast.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

249 Psychologist Stanley Milgram found that 80% of people do not have the psychological and moral resources to defy an authority's order, no matter how legitimate the order is. Only 20% have critical capacity.

The Milgram Experiment - The Milgram experiment was a shock experiment by Stanley Milgram in the early 60's that tested people's willingness to shock others if instructed by an authority figure. Conclusion: 65% of the participants would kill someone if an authority figure told them to.

The Asch Experiment - The Asch experiments were a series of experiments by Solomon Asch in the 50's that tested the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. Conclusion: People were willing to ignore reality in order to conform to the group.

https://bit.ly/3qquA8k

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:38 AM (Do5/p)

250 246 Ugh....the discomfort experienced taking a one a day vitamin on an empty stomach is amazing......
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

----------------------

It's Christmas. Cookies are an acceptable form of breakfast. Should have started with those.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:39 AM (CAJOC)

251 Whatever the warm front blew in yesterday has my sinuses in a tizzy this morning.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

252
It's Christmas. Cookies are an acceptable form of breakfast. Should have started with those.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:39 AM (CAJOC)



Your point is valid. I did have a banana shortly after taking the pill, but it didn't work, it seems.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

253 (checks rule book)

Yes Christmas cookies are legal for breakfast

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 08:42 AM (2JoB8)

254 John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Blessings to all here- have a wonderful day.

Posted by: sal at December 25, 2021 08:42 AM (bJKUl)

255 248 Merry Christmas.

Pork butt is da smoker.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 25, 2021 08:34 AM (WxJ7y)


Got my turkey injected and the skin powdered with rub. Just letting it sit for a spell before breaking out The Big Easy for it's 10 minutes a lb. roast.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

-------------------------------

You mainline turkey? Hardcore, man!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:42 AM (CAJOC)

256 Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Mean Tweets at December 25, 2021 08:43 AM (BOJAx)

257 Your point is valid. I did have a banana shortly after taking the pill, but it didn't work, it seems.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

------------------------------------

Bananas are just more empty vitamins.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:44 AM (CAJOC)

258 The Early Morning Thread will be a misnomer .

Posted by: Mean Tweets at December 25, 2021 08:44 AM (BOJAx)

259 Merry Christmas Grammie !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 08:44 AM (arJlL)

260 Local news is about all the flights cancelled because of Omicron. I guess the common cold never caused a ripple in airline schedules like this virus has.

Posted by: Colin at December 25, 2021 08:28 AM


It's not really that so much as it is the airlines test their people for covid often and if they test positive they have to go home and stay there for 14 days or until they get two negative tests in a row. Right now that's what's causing all of these cancelled flights.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 25, 2021 08:45 AM (bVYXr)

261 Hiya Rosasharn !

Merry Christmas !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 08:45 AM (arJlL)

262 Give each cold a name. Or call normal pink eye....call it the XPinkEye#7.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 25, 2021 08:45 AM (+frZ/)

263 I think we'll be skipping past the EMT, and heading right into the coffee thread.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:45 AM (CAJOC)

264 Merry Christmas Eris !

Posted by: JT at December 25, 2021 08:45 AM (arJlL)

265 Merry Christmas JT! Merry Christmas to one and all. Joy to the world!

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:46 AM (45fpk)

266 but I've lost faith in the medical establishment. If you do have a doctor you trust, I'd ask them.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 25, 2021 08:10 AM

I finished watching the TV mini-series "Dr. Death" yesterday about Dr. Christopher Duntsch. That true story combined with what we have experienced last 2 years with the Plandemic, I will never trust the "healthcare" industry again.

Doctor played by Joshua Jackson. Also has Alec Baldwin and Christian Slayter as doctors trying desperately to work within the system to get him stopped, only to find the system completely broken. At the end, it states that as many as 440,000 deaths due to medical errors occur every year. During one episode they specifically blame the state of Texas for implementing Tort Reform for making it difficult to hold healthcare industry accountable.

As patients entering the operating room of Dr. Christopher Duntsch for routine spinal surgeries start leaving permanently maimed or end up dead, two fellow surgeons and a young Assistant District Attorney set out to stop him.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9179552/

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:46 AM (Do5/p)

267 Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Mean Tweets at December 25, 2021 08:43 AM (BOJAx)

Same to you. However, in order for it to be a "mean tweet" you should have posted, "Bah humbug!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:46 AM (KBCaU)

268 Rules Mormon women must follow!

I had forgotten how much less silly the internet is with an ad blocker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:47 AM (33O8j)

269 My colitis's name is Nancy Pelousi.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at December 25, 2021 08:47 AM (BOJAx)

270 Actual headline this morning
"Parent uses right-wing slur during Biden call.."
heheheheheh
Poor guy is probably #1 on the Eff Bee Eye and IRS list by now

And Merry Christmas to everyone
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:33 AM (DB16e)

The way the left treated PDT and his family, they have no standing, what so ever, so criticize anyone about manners. Fuck em

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 25, 2021 08:47 AM (Irn0L)

271 Merry Christmas JT!

Posted by: Rosasharn at December 25, 2021 08:48 AM (PzBTm)

272 Thanks for the advice Mrs. Peel and CAT. My husband says his allergies have been bothering him for weeks and is pretty sure his are allergies. Mine I'm not so sure. Thanks all

Posted by: Jaimo at December 25, 2021 08:48 AM (NXGjq)

273 Local news is about all the flights cancelled because of Omicron. I guess the common cold never caused a ripple in airline schedules like this virus has.

Posted by: Colin at December 25, 2021 08:28 AM

Hodgetwins at_hodgetwins

Check out the volunteer mask police on the plane everyone

Ian Miles Cheong at stillgray.substack.com at_stillgray

Mask Karen wishes you a merry Christmas.

2:00 AM - Dec 25, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3mzorFM

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:48 AM (Do5/p)

274 I'm actually considering having a couple of chili dogs for breakfast, I don't have sweet breakfasts anyway. Why not, I'm alone and if I get bored I can always light my farts.

Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (QX4+f)

275 We came home from church las night and watched about half an hour of "A Christmas Carol" with Alistair Sim. We''ll watch the rest today. It's a Christmas tradition!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (KBCaU)

276 Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:41 AM

Can you drink milk? I don't like eating when I get up and taking my supplements with a glass of milk gives my stomach something to work on along with the vitamins. It helps me anyway.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (DB16e)

277 274 I'm actually considering having a couple of chili dogs for breakfast, I don't have sweet breakfasts anyway. Why not, I'm alone and if I get bored I can always light my farts.

Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (QX4+f)

----------------------------

There's a relevant meme over at Powerline's Week in Pictures: Merry Xmas Edition

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:50 AM (CAJOC)

278 I think, but can't prove, that these airline flight cancellations were carefully coordinated and deliberate to create discomfort and chaos to promote Coviadism and anti-Christman. Just my opinion, but I'll put money on being right.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 25, 2021 08:50 AM (zO9D/)

279 We came home from church las night and watched about half an hour of "A Christmas Carol" with Alistair Sim. We''ll watch the rest today. It's a Christmas tradition!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (KBCaU)


We tried to stream that last night but we couldn't find it for free.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:51 AM (45fpk)

280 Actual headline this morning
"Parent uses right-wing slur during Biden call.."
heheheheheh


Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:33 AM

Saw that. My first thought was that this isn't a "right-wing slur", it's an anti-Biden slur. And if any journalists have read polls out there, a LOT more than just "right-wingers" are anti-Biden right now.

Not to mention, "Let's Go Brandon" is a creation of the media itself. They don't like it, they can blame themselves for its popularity.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:51 AM (Do5/p)

281 Those chilie dogs will drag you to hell.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 25, 2021 08:52 AM (+frZ/)

282 "Merry Christmas" is considered a mean tweet to some assholes. They know who they are.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at December 25, 2021 08:53 AM (BOJAx)

283 279 We came home from church las night and watched about half an hour of "A Christmas Carol" with Alistair Sim. We''ll watch the rest today. It's a Christmas tradition!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (KBCaU)


We tried to stream that last night but we couldn't find it for free.
Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:51 AM (45fpk)

-------------------------------

In years past, I've always looked for the George C Scott version, but couldn't find it. Finally just bought it on blu-ray. You'd think it'd be a no-brainer to make any and every Christmas Carol available this time of year.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 25, 2021 08:53 AM (CAJOC)

284 In years past, I've always looked for the George C Scott version, but couldn't find it.


We found that one last night for free with ads. Can't remember what streaming service it was though.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 08:55 AM (45fpk)

285 I always try to catch A Christmas Carol with Mr Magoo if it comes on.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 25, 2021 08:55 AM (QX4+f)

286 Ian Miles Cheong at stillgray.substack.com at_stillgray

Mask Karen wishes you a merry Christmas.

2:00 AM - Dec 25, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3mzorFM
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:48 AM (Do5/p)



One thing this whole stack of bullshit has proven is that people are reasonably easy to break. That woman is certifiably insane.

Yelling at someone to put their mask on as your mask is NOT on is, well, insanity. I hope she did get arrested.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

287 Merry Christmas to all. F this Happy Holidays nonsense.

Posted by: jim (in Kaiifornia) at December 25, 2021 08:56 AM (ynpvh)

288 And on a lighter note:

Only 18% of U.S. Family Households Include Married Parents

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

289 Can you drink milk? I don't like eating when I get up and taking my supplements with a glass of milk gives my stomach something to work on along with the vitamins. It helps me anyway.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM

I do the same. Only I have a breakfast shake. Milk, banana, yogurt, nutritional yeast flakes, Carnation Instant Breakfast packet, 2 ice cubes. Nice light way to start the morning.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 08:58 AM (Do5/p)

290 Break? I am not sure these people were ever unbroken.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:58 AM (33O8j)

291 One thing this whole stack of bullshit has proven is that people are reasonably easy to break. That woman is certifiably insane.

Yelling at someone to put their mask on as your mask is NOT on is, well, insanity. I hope she did get arrested.


Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:56 AM

Yep, see my #249. The majority of people being easy to break has been known for decades. They are just putting it to use now for the Plandemic.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:00 AM (Do5/p)

292
I think, but can't prove, that these airline flight cancellations were carefully coordinated and deliberate to create discomfort and chaos to promote Coviadism and anti-Christman. Just my opinion, but I'll put money on being right.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 25, 2021 08:50 AM (zO9D/)


Cases in my county have doubled in the past week. But local press is downplaying it. When Trump was in office they'd announce from the rooftops that according to the CDC we were in their highest risk category.

I think it's omicron, it's extremely transmittable, but low risk to most. People who get tested and have no symptoms, get inserted in the case count. I don't doubt for a second that pilots are contracting it. If they're then grounded, well I'm sure flying anywhere for the next month is gonna be a nightmare.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 25, 2021 09:00 AM (dQvv7)

293 According to one cartoon I saw, Mr. Magoo was the college class of 1886...

Posted by: jim (in Kaiifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:01 AM (ynpvh)

294 I always try to catch A Christmas Carol with Mr Magoo if it comes on.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 25, 2021 08:55 AM (QX4+f)

"Scrooge" with Al Finney is a good one.

Lots of singing...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 25, 2021 09:01 AM (6FtXF)

295 How do they know it's omicron? Is there a special test that detects that?

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 09:02 AM (45fpk)

296
Can you drink milk? I don't like eating when I get up and taking my supplements with a glass of milk gives my stomach something to work on along with the vitamins. It helps me anyway.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (DB16e)



I'll have to give that a shot.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

297 At the end, it states that as many as 440,000 deaths due to medical errors occur every year


That stat is as accurate as the fauci flu death count. If you die, and there is some sort of "error" in your medical record, you died due to a medical error. Stage 4 cancer, liver failure and bleeding brain? Yeah, but the nurse gave 325mg tylenol instead of 650. Medical error!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:03 AM (bKdTl)

298 Break? I am not sure these people were ever unbroken.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:58 AM

Good point. What's that saying about "adversity does not build character, it reveals it". The Plandemic has revealed a lot about the character (or lackthereof) of the general population.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:03 AM (Do5/p)

299 Unless the test for the specific genetic changes or outer coat molecular changes, they dont...

Posted by: jim (in Kaiifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:03 AM (ynpvh)

300 At the end, it states that as many as 440,000 deaths due to medical errors occur every year
=====

I heard that statement read in Klugman's voice as his Quincy character. Saw a couple of episodes this week and forgot how silly and preachy it was.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 25, 2021 09:06 AM (MIKMs)

301
I heard that statement read in Klugman's voice as his Quincy character. Saw a couple of episodes this week and forgot how silly and preachy it was.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 25, 2021 09:06 AM (MIKMs)



This is kinda how I felt when I was stuck watching MASH episodes when staying with my grandmother for a few days.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Only 18% of U.S. Family Households Include Married Parents
Posted by: Sponge


We (the royal we) look up to people like Nick Cannon. In the news because he is a celebrity whose 5 month old daughter died of cancer, but has a newborn, 9 month old, year old and 2 year old all with different mothers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:07 AM (bKdTl)

303 Can you drink milk? I don't like eating when I get up and taking my supplements with a glass of milk gives my stomach something to work on along with the vitamins. It helps me anyway.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 25, 2021 08:49 AM (DB16e)


I'll have to give that a shot.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

This sounds like a good idea. However, milk is often out or blinky here. Can I substitute Baileys?

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:08 AM (cTCuP)

304 That stat is as accurate as the fauci flu death count. If you die, and there is some sort of "error" in your medical record, you died due to a medical error. Stage 4 cancer, liver failure and bleeding brain? Yeah, but the nurse gave 325mg tylenol instead of 650. Medical error!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:03 AM

Yeah, the range they stated was pretty large. Stated 20,000 to as many as 440,000. Regardless of how many it is, the true story of Dr. Death was horrifying. Not just that this lunatic was allowed to continue butchering and killing people, but that the industry's love of money trumps the best interests of patients. As I said, combining that true story with what we have all witnessed throughout the Plandemic, I am never trusting anyone in the "healthcare" industry again. I'll have that luxury since I am alone and will never be married or have a family. So I just have to worry about me.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:08 AM (Do5/p)

305
We (the royal we) look up to people like Nick Cannon. In the news because he is a celebrity whose 5 month old daughter died of cancer, but has a newborn, 9 month old, year old and 2 year old all with different mothers.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:07 AM (bKdTl)



Piker.

Posted by: Shawn Kemp at December 25, 2021 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

306 Oven is on to heat up the coffee cake. Have a wonderful day, each and every one of you!

Posted by: Rosasharn at December 25, 2021 09:09 AM (PzBTm)

307 Guess we are going to be here all day, not complaining as we can take this thread to two thousand

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 09:09 AM (2JoB8)

308 It is a statistic designed to disparage the "American" healthcare system and imply the Canukistan or UK model is better.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:09 AM (bKdTl)

309 Merry Christmas y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at December 25, 2021 09:10 AM (Adlwz)

310 246 Ugh....the discomfort experienced taking a one a day vitamin on an empty stomach is amazing......
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)


Are you able to hold off taking your vitamins until you eat something? I generally skip breakfast but split my daily vitamin supplements between lunch and dinner.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 25, 2021 09:10 AM (DTX3h)

311 Opened my Christmas present (took the night cover off parrot's cage)! He is enjoying/destroying his first gift between bites of dried chili peppers.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 25, 2021 09:11 AM (AFtjH)

312
How do they know it's omicron?

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2021 09:02 AM


At this point it's an educated guess. If the R= value of Classic Covid was 1.4, and Delta was around 2.something, Omicron is somewhere in the range of 3 to 5, possibly higher.

R= reproduction. Subsequent infections from one case.

If cases skyrocket to levels never seen before, it's almost certainly Omicron. That's what I'm seeing in my county. Highest levels ever.

But very few deaths.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 25, 2021 09:12 AM (dQvv7)

313 This is kinda how I felt when I was stuck watching MASH episodes when staying with my grandmother for a few days.
=====

I really miss my grandmother sometimes even though she's been gone for 25years. Her favorite show was MacGyver.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 25, 2021 09:12 AM (MIKMs)

314
Are you able to hold off taking your vitamins until you eat something? I generally skip breakfast but split my daily vitamin supplements between lunch and dinner.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 25, 2021 09:10 AM (DTX3h)



I find if I don't take it in the morning (habit, now), I'm likely to forget later in the day. I'm sure I could just build a different habit, but......LAZY!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

315 311 Opened my Christmas present (took the night cover off parrot's cage)! He is enjoying/destroying his first gift between bites of dried chili peppers.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 25, 2021 09:11 AM (AFtjH)

You got a parrot for Christmas? Reminds me of the year we kids gave Dad an Indian Hill Mynah for Christmas. Best present evah.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:13 AM (cTCuP)

316 It is a statistic designed to disparage the "American" healthcare system and imply the Canukistan or UK model is better.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:09 AM

I didn't need that statistic to know that the American healthcare system is garbage. I learned all I needed to know on that based on the last 22+ months of the Plandemic. I am inundated with lies and bullshit every morning for the past 12 months when I wake up listening to my local Classic Rock station on the radio, where commercials from Michigan Dept. of Health and Human services have been telling outright lies about COVID and "vaccines".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:13 AM (Do5/p)

317
I really miss my grandmother sometimes even though she's been gone for 25years. Her favorite show was MacGyver.
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 25, 2021 09:12 AM (MIKMs)



Mine is 97 now. Amazingly enough, only takes one shot of Flonase in each nostril each morning. No other medication whatsoever.

Woman used to drink like a fiend. Her 4'9" ass would drink most under the table.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

318 Looks like Nyquil Cold & Flu can be a "vaccine" and/or treatment for omicron.

https://bit.ly/3Fxor0k

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:15 AM (Do5/p)

319  I generally skip breakfast but split my daily vitamin supplements between lunch and dinner.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 25, 2021 09:10 AM

I always Skip breakfast, rarely hungry afterwards for a few hours.

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 09:17 AM (2JoB8)

320 So it's 8:15, I've been up since 6:30. The kids in their 20's) are all still fast asleep.

Would a trumpet charge up the staircase be out of line?

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

321 Would a trumpet charge up the staircase be out of line?
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

Ummmmmmmm....No.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 25, 2021 09:18 AM (6FtXF)

322 Morning horde. Coffee is ready and tree is stacked.

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals...

Posted by: SturmToddler's phone at December 25, 2021 09:18 AM (jT7YH)

323 MERRY CHRISTMAS, PIXY!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 25, 2021 09:19 AM (xgimV)

324 Well it is a therapeutic- just like these vaccines are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 09:19 AM (33O8j)

325 Now you've done it. I have an earworm of my grandmother (who civilized me as much as possible) declaring, "A LADY doesn't DO that!"

Merry Christmas, Ethel. How I miss you.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:19 AM (cTCuP)

326 Would a trumpet charge up the staircase be out of line?
Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

Go for it. How many times did they wake you up at pigeon fart?

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (cTCuP)

327 The American system is garbage because for every doctor there are 20 nurses, ancillary staff, and administrators telling him he can't do it that way. Then when things go south, it is the doctor who "botched" it. This has nothing to do with Dr Death. That is a completely different situation. I am talking about every other doc and every single decision he tries to make.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (bKdTl)

328 Merry Christmas, Horde!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (lR7Oz)

329 I saw Pigeon Fart open for Pussy Riot at The Kremlin in '08.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

330 Merry Christmas y'all!

Posted by: Weasel at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (fI9Es)

331 Merry Christmas y'all!
Posted by: Weasel at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (fI9Es)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

332 Every morning is Christmas when uncovering my retired Psciticine Phlebotomist, for the last 24 years.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 25, 2021 09:24 AM (AFtjH)

333 6 days to the end of the emergency use authorization of the PCR test.

Finished chapter two of RFK Jr's book.

Fauci should die in jail.

Posted by: Clark Westfield at December 25, 2021 09:25 AM (4G/Pr)

334 Go for it. How many times did they wake you up at pigeon fart?
Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (cTCuP)

Many a sleepless night due to a colicky baby. Then as older teens, couldn't get to sleep until they were either home or had texted that they were back at the friend's overnight home.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

335 Merry Christmas everyone.

Posted by: Spypeach at December 25, 2021 09:25 AM (YmCPo)

336 The American system is garbage because for every doctor there are 20 nurses, ancillary staff, and administrators telling him he can't do it that way. Then when things go south, it is the doctor who "botched" it. This has nothing to do with Dr Death. That is a completely different situation. I am talking about every other doc and every single decision he tries to make.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM

Understood. That still does not give me comfort if I ever had to put my life in the hands of the "healthcare" system. Prior to the Plandemic, I naively thought that doctors and nurses had the best interest of their patients as the top priority. And it may be that the majority do. But the facts show from the last 2 years of the Plandemic, that they are completely helpless to prevent administrators and politicians from taking over the process. Hospitals denying treatments and people having to go to court just to get something as simple as Ivermectin. Hospitals not having the correct treatment protocols for COVID, even 22 months later. Hospitals making money from the CARES Act. That's unforgivable. And downright horrifying.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:26 AM (Do5/p)

337 Wouldn't trade a second of it. Would like some of my hair back, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:26 AM (4I/2K)

338 Merry Christmas, Horde!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 25, 2021 09:21 AM (lR7Oz)


Right back at ya!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

339 There are many things of course but owe it to my grandmother I know how to make gravy

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 09:27 AM (2JoB8)

340 Merry Christmas Morning Mouth Breathers

Posted by: weirdflunky at December 25, 2021 09:27 AM (cknjq)

341 But understand that the boosters protection is limited and you will eventually get omicron.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021


***
I've taken no shots of any kind, but I think (*think*) I had the original coof in Dec. 2019. If I did, is that proof against Moronic?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 09:27 AM (c6xtn)

342 Oddly enough I have to do some wash

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 09:28 AM (2JoB8)

343 332 Every morning is Christmas when uncovering my retired Psciticine Phlebotomist, for the last 24 years.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 25, 2021 09:24 AM (AFtjH)

Ah. So the parrot bites? So did the mynah but she was a fruit-eater and her beak was soft. Sis has a macaw. His beak is NOT soft. Buy Bandaids.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:28 AM (cTCuP)

344 A good story to read this morning is Conan Doyle's "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 25, 2021 09:28 AM (c6xtn)

345 Merry Christmas, cowboy.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:29 AM (cTCuP)

346 Morning all. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 25, 2021 09:29 AM (nxdel)

347 Give a man some gravy and he'll be happy for a day.

Teach a man to make gravy and he'll be happy for a lifetime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (33O8j)

348 I wonder if the name Brandon has increased/decreased in popularity recently???

It will probably be made illegal to name your child Brandon and if that is your real name you must legally change it!///

Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (UUBmN)

349 Hospitals denying treatments and people having to go to court just to get something as simple as Ivermectin. Hospitals not having the correct treatment protocols for COVID, even 22 months later. Hospitals making money from the CARES Act. That's unforgivable. And downright horrifying.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:26 AM (Do5/p)

Reminds me of "Down and Out In London and Paris" when Eric Blair went to the French "hospital" for some reason. Almost everyone in there was just waiting to die and the "hospital" was there to make it happen. He left pretty quickly after surveying the scene.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (6FtXF)

350
Fauci should die in jail.
Posted by: Clark Westfield at December 25, 2021 09:25 AM (4G/Pr)



He should be subject to every test he's done to anything over the last 40 years.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

351 'Morning, Jewells. Merry, merry.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (cTCuP)

352 But understand that the boosters protection is limited and you will eventually get omicron.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 08:11 AM

Apparently there is an ad in UK comparing "COVID vaccines" to rechargable batteries. Boosters are the recharge. If this comparison is valid, that means boosters will never end.

"COVID vaccines lose power like batteries. Recharge your protection."

https://bit.ly/3my9aF8

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (Do5/p)

353 In anime, Christmas Day marks the birthday of 'Nuku Nuku' Natsume.

https://youtu.be/_z1G9lH_fkU

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2021 09:31 AM (CaYl8)

354 Merry Christmas Horde

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 25, 2021 09:31 AM (eGTCV)

355 Merry Christmas all. Seems to be raining here. I definitely wasn't dreaming of a wet Christmas.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM (VwHCD)

356 Oldest daughter sent a "Shit Load" box of seasonings from Big Cock Ranch in Lexington, TX.

The names as follows: LMAO
- No Shit: no salt
- Aw Shit: hot & spicy
- Good Shit: sweet & salty
- Chicken Shit: poultry
- Bull Shit: beef
- Special Shit: all purpose

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM (BFigT)

357 I checked in all the corners. No Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time. Maybe next year, if I'm gooder.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM (4I/2K)

358 348 I wonder if the name Brandon has increased/decreased in popularity recently???

It will probably be made illegal to name your child Brandon and if that is your real name you must legally change it!///

Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2021 09:30 AM (UUBmN)

'tis a dirty word that should not be spoken in polite company. Means Spongebrain Shitpants.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (ynpvh)

359 The names as follows: LMAO
- No Shit: no salt
- Aw Shit: hot & spicy
- Good Shit: sweet & salty
- Chicken Shit: poultry
- Bull Shit: beef
- Special Shit: all purpose

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM (BFigT)


I've used Aw Shit a LOT. It's got a good heat to it.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

360 Just never read the sequel manga to Usagi Drop or how an author destroys his own work.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (CaYl8)

361 Merry Christmas, horde!

God is Love. For He so loved the world, he sent his only son. We are blessed!

In other news, DD#2 tested positive for COVID. (She had a cold last week with loss of taste and smell being one of the symptoms.) So she can't gather with us. We'll get together New Year's, but missing her! (And being her personal grocery delivery app!)

Posted by: Iris at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (6lKe4)

362 Fauci is going to go below, where the goblins go

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (2JoB8)

363 Merry Christmas all. Seems to be raining here. I definitely wasn't dreaming of a wet Christmas.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM

Same here in SE Michigan. Went to sleep with snow on the ground. Woke up to rain and all snow washed away.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:35 AM (Do5/p)

364 357 I checked in all the corners. No Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time. Maybe next year, if I'm gooder.

Posted by: Count de Monet, PureBlood at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM (4I/2K)

I'd rather have a .50 cal rifle, but alas, I live in the People's Republic of Kalifornia, where having a magazine that holds more than 7 rounds is verboten.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:35 AM (ynpvh)

365
Same here in SE Michigan. Went to sleep with snow on the ground. Woke up to rain and all snow washed away.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:35 AM (Do5/p)


It's going to be 83 and breezy here today.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

366 It is one thing when my colleagues throw up their arms and do whatever administration wants. It is totally different when they put themselves on TV and YT as "leaders in the field" and use the platform to push a political agenda. That f-ing Dr Schmidt TikTok fag is especially egregious.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:36 AM (bKdTl)

367 Since A Christmas Story has been mentioned will post this again.

Imagine if you will a man receives as a prize a strange lamp that is in fact a cursed object.

Thus you know the origins of Kolchak.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 25, 2021 09:36 AM (CaYl8)

368 "Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
God is not dead nor doth he sleep;
The wrong shall fail,
the right prevail,
with peace of earth, good-will to men."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 25, 2021 09:37 AM (H8QX8)

369 The kids are all patiently waiting for mom to get ready and sister to finish breakfast.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 25, 2021 09:37 AM (bKdTl)

370 Best laid plans and all -- we were all supposed to head up to Dane County, WI for the day and let the littles run wild with nerf stuff outside. Son's family is q-ed because of exposure (and DIL is 9mos pregnant); one of daughter's roommates tested positive; SIL is trying to stay under radar because testing in his office is q-ed; and I guess I am relieved because I don't have to leave the League of Extraordinary Elderly Pets for 6-8 hours to attend WI festivities.

This will be the first Christmas without my sisters since they shook the dust of Failinois off their feet and moved south.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 25, 2021 09:37 AM (MIKMs)

371 Fauci is going to go below, where the goblins go

Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (2JoB

I was kinda hoping he would go above, as in fired into the core of the sun while duct taped to a chinese rocket.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (VwHCD)

372 NOOD liquor-filled Christmas stockings

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (Do5/p)

373 359 The names as follows: LMAO
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 25, 2021 09:33 AM (BFigT)

I've used Aw Shit a LOT. It's got a good heat to it.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 25, 2021 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

I got a shirt from the Uranus Fudge Factory in Missouri. One review on the site had me laughing...
Linda F [Karen]: [1 star review] "Uranus isn't pronounced that way. You need to get your perverted minds out of the gutter and change your name"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (ynpvh)

374 It's going to be 83 and breezy here today.
Posted by: Sponge
---
About the same here...
That's why I have ugly Christmas T-shirts and sweaters. You never know whether it's going to be shorts weather for Christmas in CenTex.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (UUBmN)

375 Why has no one mentioned Herschel Walker's run for a US Senate seat in Georgia? Or did I miss it?

His pitch for donations has a $34 option. That seemed right, so I contributed. He seems like a good guy.

Posted by: creeper at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (cTCuP)

376 It's Christmas, I can't be down on anything today! No one around my house gets up before 9 or 10 on holidays like this, except me who's always awake at 6. So, I'm watching some Christmas moves and enjoying a sunny, amazingly warm Christmas day here in ET. (66 degrees now, headed to 80 this afternoon)

Time enough to excoriate the evildoers on the other 364 days. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (evAgx)

377 372 NOOD liquor-filled Christmas stockings

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (Do5/p)

One can hope it isn't Santa's own body-made beer in there...I guess it depends how naughtly that household was.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:39 AM (ynpvh)

378 the parrot bites?

He is a retired Phlebotomist. Given away for being "Vicious" three homes before we met. First meeting was rubbing my nose in his Parrot belly already.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 25, 2021 09:40 AM (AFtjH)

379 235 Well, when people had colds they did not figure they were going to die.
Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at December 25, 2021 08:29 AM (33O8j)

In which the word "figure" = something more like "fantasize."

Posted by: m at December 25, 2021 09:41 AM (SSiCQ)

380 Linda F [Karen]: [1 star review] "Uranus isn't pronounced that way. You need to get your perverted minds out of the gutter and change your name"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:38 AM (ynpvh)

From the Futurama ep where Dr. Farnsworth invented the Smelloscope:

Farnsworth: "Here have a try! Point it anywhere and see how it smells!"
Fry: "Heh heh heh, why don't you smell Uranus???"
Farnsworth: "You idiot, we changed the name of that planet centuries ago."
Fry: "What's it called now?"
Farnsworth: "Urectum".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2021 09:42 AM (evAgx)

381 LOL, Tom Servo, I remember that one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 25, 2021 09:45 AM (ynpvh)

382 360 Just never read the sequel manga to Usagi Drop or how an author destroys his own work.

Fortunately the anime never goes there.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2021 10:01 AM (MqQvv)

383 Merry Christmas.
And to open source software developers, welcome to the wonderful world of socialism.

From the other side of the fence (I'm a commercial software developer), it scares the bejezus out of me when I look at how much open source code is getting included in the applications we present to the public. Had some vendor supplied code that broke because it was trying to pull some code modules in from the internet AT RUNTIME and our firewall blocked it.

Posted by: mark at December 25, 2021 10:55 AM (hq+CF)

384 Merry Christmas! For breakfast just had the best venison summer sausage I ever ate with a poached egg, a side of avocado with salsa toast. Can't forget the cup of joe. It's going to be a great day in the neighborhood.

Posted by: sidney at December 25, 2021 10:58 AM (7/kmB)

385 Merry Christmas!

Now, what are the 4 essential keys?

Posted by: Dantes at December 25, 2021 11:20 AM (Srd6i)

386 Pixy, Merry Christmas, and best wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous (and peaceful) 2022!

With regard to Door Dash's policy of requiring all employees to do deliveries, I think that that is an excellent idea. Back in the early '80s, I worked for Mark William Company, which published the first C compiler for the IBM PC. Each of us, including developers, had to answers calls on the tech support line once a month. It was a pain in the tuchus, but it kept everyone in touch with the customers and their complaints. Some of the customers were simply too lazy to RTFM, but others pointed out bugs that needed fixing pronto. It's also good to put a face (or a voice) to the people for whom one is building the software.

As for Richard Stallman, the guy is a first-class nut ... but he gave the world GNU C, and that alone puts him head and shoulders above most of his detractors.

Posted by: Nemo at December 25, 2021 01:34 PM (S6ArX)

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