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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next. Amen.”
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Marengo) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. No jumping on the furniture.
3) If you must run, run with dull objects.
4) Have a great weekend!
5) Enjoy a great vid from neverenoughcaffeine
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 9/28 - Teresa in Fort Worth gave an update: It has been 1 year since Teresa started “down the cancer rabbit hole”. She sends her thanks for the prayers as they have buoyed her and her family through this year. She has been blessed to exceed the original 6-12 months predicted, by the grace of God – and the prayers of many people. Her next CT scan is in November, and the surgeon is pretty sure that her tumors will be small enough to remove/destroy.
10/7 Update – A recent CT scan shows lots of calcification (indicating tumor cell death), and the oncologist didn’t see any sign on the small tumors. The area where the largest tumor was now shows lots of calcification and the largest tumor has shrunk by almost 90%! Her next CT scan will be 11/3, and they assume they will be discussing surgery to remove the lobe of her liver, where the tumor is located. Timelines are uncertain, but she is hopeful that she will get to spend Christmas with her family at least one more time, if not more! Thanks to EVERYONE who has been praying on her behalf. 9/29 – toby928 asked for prayers for a brother named Joe, who is being crushed by grief. Joe’s wife is in a coma and will likely die in the next few days.
10/12 Update - – Joe’s wife did pass away. She is safe in the arms of our Savior.
10/18 Update – Joe could still use prayers. Losing both parents and his wife in one year has hit him hard. 10/1 – Duke Lowell sent an update. He is home now, after 8 days in the hospital and every antibiotic known to man. He sent thanks for the prayers, and thanks to God for granting him another day in this glorious world He’s created.
10/11 Update – After a second stint in the hospital, Duke is home now. He was recovering nicely, but something “knocked him sideways”. Severe dehydration put him into renal failure. He is on the mend now. 10/2 – Bluebell passed along an update: grammie winger sends her gratitude for all the prayers – she feels they are working. On Oct 6 she will be starting a cancer treatment program because her doctors are “cautiously optimistic” that they can give her some more time. Monday she gets the port, followed by 6 hours of chemo infusion on Tuesday. The Rev is doing better because now he has some hope. Please pray for her as she starts this treatment program because in her words, “prayer changes things”.
10/18 Update – grammie winger sent an update, that she has had her first chemo treatment. There were no side effects. She noted “God is very kind.” 10/4 – Skip requested prayers for his dad, who fell at church back in August, hitting his head. He fell again at home and has had back pain since then. He is going in for more tests on 10/8.
10/11 Update – Dad has a brace to wear and has pain medication, so is doing OK for now. He will need an outpatient procedure soon for an injection in his spine to fill a void. Continuing prayers will help.
10/18 Update – Dad is in the hospital, needing some blood clots cleared up, and will soon have the outpatient operation for his back.
10/25 Update – Dad was released from the hospital and is in a rehab center near his home. 10/8 – fourseasons asked for prayers for a brother-in-law, Chris, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had another scan last weekend and there is another tumor. He is losing his vision and has lost his ability to speak. He will have surgery on 10/10, and the surgeon said he will probably lose the ability to walk. The family is devastated. Chris is a wonderful man and has always been healthy.
10/11 Update – Chris is recovering from surgery to remove his brain tumors now. He was talking last night, which he wasn’t able to do before surgery. They are hoping for a full recovery. 10/11 – NuclearJim requests prayers for spiritual strength to defeat prostate cancer. 10/11 – the lower depths asked for prayers for his/her mother Gail and her eyes (macular degeneration) and knees (bone on bone) failing. 10/11 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her son. He needs a job and has been diligently looking for one. His degree is in botany. 10/11 – tbodie Lurker requested continued prayers for a son with pancreatic cancer. He has been through 3 months of chemo that significantly shrank the cancer. This week he had surgery to remove the remaining cancer. They also removed his spleen. So far things look good. Thank you. 10/11 – Brother Tim asked for prayers as he has two more sessions of radiation. Prayer works and God heals.
10/18 Update – Radiation is done and now Brother Tim is recovering from the effects and praying for a clean PET scan. 10/11 – Ben Had asked for prayers for a very special man we know as olddog. May his medical issues be benign and full health restored. 10/13 – K requested prayers for a co-worker (Grant). Grant and his wife are expecting their first child, and they are experiencing some complications. K would appreciate prayers for peace and a healthy baby for Grant, his wife, and their unborn child. 10/15 – Bulg asked for prayers for an elderly neighbor, who used to babysit for them, is undergoing chemo for colon cancer. 10/16 – jrgunn5 asked for prayers for a son who is going through a very trying time. The son is almost finished with his teaching credentials and Master’s program. He sees other students being offered positions that he is more qualified for, yet he is ignored by the schools where he is working. He is becoming angry and despairing of gaining a position to pay off the enormous debt he has taken on to pursue this career. He needs to hear God’s voice, and a door opening soon would be appreciated.
10/18 – rhennigantx asked for prayers for his friend John. John was a functioning alcoholic while working, and then retired about 2 years ago, and is now in rehab. Prayers are also needed for Toni. She had to have a kidney stone crushed and says she will never do surgery again. 10/18 – From about That Time can use prayers, as a biopsy revealed some sort of lymphoma. 10/18 – J.J. Sefton wrote:
First of all I cannot even begin to express my appreciation for all the love, good wishes, support and of course prayers for me over this past year. On a positive note, I am essentially cancer free but glioblastoma being what it is means having an MRI done every 2 months to monitor for any new growth.
Right now, I humbly ask for your prayers for my spouse who was recently diagnosed with NPH, (normal pressure hydrocephalus) She's scheduled for a spinal tap to both drain excess fluid to relieve pain and hopefully restore her ability to walk and engage in routine physical activity. Then an MRI will also help them decide if she needs a shunt to be inserted into the brain to drain excess cerebral/spinal fluid away and into her stomach. I'm guessing she'll likely need it, fingers crossed that we can speed up this process and get her back to 100% ASAP.
God bless you, Prayers from me to all of you who are suffering, 10/21 – TecumsehTea wrote with prayers of praise that she has recovered from her heart attack. Areas of concern, though, are that they cannot keep her blood pressure stable and in a desirable range. This has brought several additional trips to the ER to bring it down and for observation. She is asking for wisdom and guidance for the doctor, and patience and peace for herself. She says this has been a scary ride, but God continues to show His faithfulness. 10/21 – Grateful wrote to ask for prayers for Pillage Idiot, that God would guide him in his search for employment – resulting in an opportunity that makes the best use of his unique skills. And that PI be blessed with acceptance of their love and caring for him, as he does for everyone else. 10/22 – Pennsyltucky requested prayers for his dad, who underwent cancer surgery on 10/21. Everything seems to have gone well (they’re confident they got it all!) but due to his age, his hospital stay and convalescence will be longer than usual. Dad is doing well, is awake and alert. A full recovery is anticipated but it will take a while. Thank you so much. 10/23 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant asked for prayers for TheJamesMadison, who recently lost his job. Please pray that he finds a new job quickly, and that God grants him peace of mind and calmness of spirit to face this unexpected trial. 10/25 – M&B would like prayers for M's sister. Suddenly, she got dizzy, and with no other symptoms, was diagnosed with a stage 4 glioblastoma brain cancer. Surgeons said that they were able to remove most of it but gave her an 18-24 month survival. She's just finished the first round of chemo and radiation, and she just feels awful. She has that "deer in the headlights" look, since this all happened so fast, with no real symptoms! M&B have been searching through all the recent news about other medicinal options that are working for this type of cancer. We are grateful for all prayers! 10/25 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her retired organist Jessie, whose dear daughter, S, died of cancer recently. Also prayers for Korean War vet, R, who has cancer and is not expected to live long. 10/27 – N asked for prayers for her youngest daughter, "LK", who needs prayers for safety and peace, and her best friend "C" for health and that stress not cause a flare up of psoriatic arthritis as they and another roommate work with the police and the landlord to have the 4th roommate "M" evicted because she is threatening them and making the living situation a nightmare. “M” is bipolar and medicating with alcohol. Prayers for her healing and that she find salvation from the self-destructive path she's on would also be appreciated. 11/5 – Mary Poppins’ Practically Perfect Piercing said she could use a prayer or two. She has a pain in her head which, it seems, is occipital neuralgia. It’s not fatal, thank heavens, but is painful until a proper treatment course is settled upon. Many thanks. 11/6 - D sent an update for Susan, his wife, and her battle with cancer. He sent his thanks to everyone for the prayers. They are helping and much appreciated. Susan had an infection which is being treated, but her sodium levels are bad again. She will be sent home soon, but is on restrictive fluids until this is cleared up. The good news is that she has gained some weight back and her voice is much stronger now. Thank you, and please keep up the prayers. They appreciate everyone! For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Al Bundy at November 08, 2025 07:59 AM (u73oe)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 08:06 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at November 08, 2025 08:07 AM (kOluj)
Prayers for all in need.
And praise God and our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, for another circuit of the sun in my book of life.
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Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 08:15 AM (q2Q7i)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 08, 2025 08:15 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 08, 2025 08:16 AM (wVcYX)
Prayers for all the Morons who are struggling. My problems ain't a hill of beans in comparison.
Posted by: fd at November 08, 2025 08:17 AM (vFG9F)
Prayers for all in need.
And praise God and our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, for another circuit of the sun in my book of life.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 08, 2025 08:10 AM (WL2lA)
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 08, 2025 08:17 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Moki at November 08, 2025 08:18 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 08, 2025 08:18 AM (tyC0D)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:18 AM (Yl2Ob)
John 16:33
Posted by: Marcus T at November 08, 2025 08:19 AM (OuiFV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:19 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: callsign claymore at November 08, 2025 08:19 AM (duopt)
Yes coffee would be appropriate
Posted by: Skip at November 08, 2025 08:19 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 08, 2025 08:19 AM (IBQGV)
Corinthians 10:31
Posted by: Marcus T at November 08, 2025 08:20 AM (OuiFV)
It's also a shame, because when we first met M she seemed very nice and like a wonderful person. I don't know if it was an act or if that wonderful person is buried under the mental illness.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 08, 2025 08:21 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 08, 2025 08:22 AM (OuiFV)
But to be fair it was balanced by the coffee comment meme!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:23 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Mick at November 08, 2025 08:24 AM (HFx9z)
I just hope y'all realize your responsibility to Our Underfed EBTtards:
https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1984362282642481385
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 08:25 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Bulg at November 08, 2025 08:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 08, 2025 08:26 AM (Sm0sq)
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference...
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The whole thing is a wonderful prayer, but this first part always makes me think of Burt Lancaster in Come Back, Little Sheba.
Prayers to all in need on this Moron list, and beyond.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 08, 2025 08:26 AM (qBdHI)
I am beginning to believe you are a bad influence. It is so easy to be lured into going down the meme rabbit hole!
But thanks anyway!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:27 AM (hOUT3)
31 A philosophical MisHum Prayer Thread, was not ready for that!
But to be fair it was balanced by the coffee comment meme!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:23 AM (hOUT3)
I try to keep it entertaining
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 08, 2025 08:27 AM (Eymsi)
Anyway, here's my questions. When do these folks have a day off. If you're saying 10 masses a week it must be hard. Do they have fill in priests?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:27 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 08:28 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:28 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: scampydog in the woods at November 08, 2025 08:29 AM (GPaCv)
Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Eternal God, whose mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase your mercy in us, so that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:31 AM (W7XSX)
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I must be a dense as a forest. How long have I been here and I didn't know MP4 was a woman?
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 08, 2025 08:31 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:32 AM (Yl2Ob)
I can relate.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 08, 2025 08:33 AM (7xrfc)
Priests usually get one day off in the middle of the week. If there is only one priest at a parish, there should be a substitute from a neighboring parish.
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:33 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 08:33 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 08, 2025 08:31 AM (qBdHI)
I didn't know either.
She doesn't advertise it, for sure.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 08, 2025 08:33 AM (7xrfc)
I say that chaplet on a rosary. It's very nice.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:34 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: fd at November 08, 2025 08:34 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Lady in Black a
MP4 is most definitely NOT a female!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:34 AM (hOUT3)
There are two at this parish and I guess fill ins also cover.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:35 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:35 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:35 AM (6ydKt)
https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1984362282642481385
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 08:25 AM (iJfKG)
The guy in the video is a parody account.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:37 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: dantesed at November 08, 2025 08:37 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 08:38 AM (q2Q7i)
don't give me that look, I said it with love
ffs now I see how rumors get started...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 08, 2025 08:38 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:33 AM (W7XSX)
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They also get vacations when either other priests in the parish take over more Masses or a visiting one covers for them. There are also days (usually secular holidays) where less Masses than usual are offered.
There are married Catholic priests, usually of the Eastern rites, but some are converts (lots of Anglicans) because celibate clergy is a rule, not dogma. There is an association of married priests whose position is that things should stay as they are as the workload is very challenging to do with a family.
It is worth noting that when Scott Hahn and Taylor Marshall converted to Catholicism, neither sought admission into the priesthood but chose to remain part of the laity (Hahn was a Reformed minister, Marshall an Anglican priest).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (ZOv7s)
Not being a catholic and only seeing it the movies or TV, I always assumed there's a priest sitting in the confessional 24/7.
Do they have set days/times for confessions or what?
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (6ydKt)
18 Relaxing instrumental music from hymns and lovely scenery:
https://tinyurl.com/6bvjzuat
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (q2Q7i)
But thanks anyway!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:27 AM (hOUT3)
As a wise t-shirt once said, "Don't be part of the problem. Be the whole problem."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:40 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (6ydKt)
Usually before the 5pm mass on Saturday.
Posted by: dantesed at November 08, 2025 08:40 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:40 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:41 AM (W7XSX)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:34 AM (hOUT3)
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I remember Ace's legal difficulties and the speculation that he was a she. I think it's remarkable how well he has concealed his identity. Probably the last of the old mystery bloggers (who drives the last of the V-8 Vespas).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (W7XSX)
https://shorturl.at/MScx3
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (Yl2Ob)
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 08:43 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 08:43 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 08, 2025 08:31 AM (qBdHI)
He's not.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 08, 2025 08:43 AM (lFFaq)
I have an urgent request for the prayer warriors. My co-worker and friend has been in the hospital since Tuesday with sepsis. It is extremely resistant to antibiotics, and has attached to the artificial heart valve she got less than a year ago. Her situation is tenuous. Please, if you can spare a prayer for her, I'd be grateful.
*heading back to the list now, to say my prayers for you all.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 08, 2025 08:44 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
I swear I thought you lived in Montana.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 08, 2025 08:44 AM (rZ6Ue)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)
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To be fair, it is difficult to tell the sexes apart among Ewok-kind. Lots of fur.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 08, 2025 08:44 AM (IBQGV)
MP4 is most definitely NOT a female!
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I knew that had to be wrong! Joan Blondell's ghost breathes a sigh of relief.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 08, 2025 08:45 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Eleven at November 08, 2025 08:45 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:40 AM (W7XSX)
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Given the size of his family, it would have been really hard on everyone.
Our deacons are getting up there, and when I was still in the Guard I figured that when I retired, I would look into it. As a start I became an extraordinary minister (no, it's not like that) and sacristan, which gave me a lot of insight, but life intervened and I'm starting to think that I my calling is just to help out where possible. I'd love to be an OCIA sponsor again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)
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Prayers to your coworker. Sepsis is such nasty stuff. I've known a few people who have died from it. And it came from out of nowhere for them.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 08, 2025 08:47 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: eleven at November 08, 2025 08:47 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 08, 2025 08:47 AM (2NHgQ)
I'm pretty sure the priest would have to order in lunch and dinner before I hit the worst parts of my 20s.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:47 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: no one
There was a guy doing a woman on the street interview. The women were gushing about how they loved dad bods. He showed them a picture of a shirtless Seth Rogan and as one, they said that wasn't a dad bod. Apparently, Daniel Craig was what they had in mind.
Best comment about it: "It's tough to know what a dad bod is when you don't have a father."
Posted by: NR Pax at November 08, 2025 08:48 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: eleven at November 08, 2025 08:48 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Weasel at November 08, 2025 08:48 AM (4Iy7D)
"This is not a Dad Bod. This is a Father Figure."
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (W7XSX)
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My middle daughter gave that to me as a birthday present.
The funny thing is, I no longer have a Dad Bod and am now at the same weight I was when I finished basic training.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:49 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: eleven at November 08, 2025 08:49 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
I swear I thought you lived in Montana.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 08, 2025 08:44 AM (rZ6Ue)
She lives in Alaska.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:49 AM (ExV1e)
The front half is under a blanket, but her back half is sticking out in plain view. It's adorable.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 08, 2025 08:50 AM (IBQGV)
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Posted by: TeeJ at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM (Sq4+7)
I have a friend who returned back to the church after 30 years. He said to the priest: "I have committed every sin but adultery and murder" The priest laughed and they had a good conversation.
He is the fellow who said to me. " Every day I pray "Show me something of yourself today , Lord" . I like it and have borrowed it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: Annies Stew at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM (VEsJT)
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!
Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have decided that the 10% graft and power are far more desirable than honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways and repent!
And lastly, prayers up for our President Trump, keep him safe from harm and may the many forces of evil arrayed against him and our country be made ineffective and come to naught!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM (XQo4F)
I'm pretty sure the priest would have to order in lunch and dinner before I hit the worst parts of my 20s.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:47 AM (6ydKt)
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I entered the Church at 33, and my first confession was lengthy. It is acceptable to go back and reflect on past sins later, especially when something happens to bring them to mind.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Annies Stew at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM
Around here? It happens.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 08, 2025 08:53 AM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 08, 2025 08:53 AM (2J/Lj)
You don't have to tell the priest the gory details of every sin. But he will want to know how many times.
Make a list. Make an appointment. The priest will be delighted.
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:53 AM (W7XSX)
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Best part is that Bill Gates hasn't been able to steal it yet!!
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Anyway fellas, she ain't gonna sleep with you, because she died in 1958.
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it's like getting a brand new laptop for free
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 08, 2025 08:57 AM (tljrc)
I have a friend who returned back to the church after 30 years. He said to the priest: "I have committed every sin but adultery and murder" The priest laughed and they had a good conversation.
He is the fellow who said to me. " Every day I pray "Show me something of yourself today , Lord" . I like it and have borrowed it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:51 AM (2sfNr)
I'd have to come up with a condensed version myself.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 08:57 AM (6ydKt)
Thanks. The other priest is an older man- probably in his 60's. I like him as well but he is more concise than the younger, newly ordained guy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:58 AM (2sfNr)
(This is my inner monologue at the moment. Don't mind me.)
Posted by: NR Pax at November 08, 2025 08:58 AM (7xrfc)
You don't have to tell the priest the gory details of every sin. But he will want to know how many times.
Make a list. Make an appointment. The priest will be delighted.
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:53 AM (W7XSX)
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I used bullet points.
When I made the decision to enter the Church, I assumed I'd never been baptized (my parents being very irreligious). Turns out both my mother and her mother secretly baptized me right after I was born. My mother was brought up Catholic, publicly rejected it, but still felt the need. My grandmother was not going to allow her grandson to go unbaptized, so she did the deed. Without any other witnesses, I got a conditional baptism.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1984362282642481385
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 08:25 AM (iJfKG)
The guy in the video is a parody account.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)
Of course, but it's still funny.
Or, do you think there's a truth requirement before anything is allowed on the internet?
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 08:59 AM (iJfKG)
You don't have to tell the priest the gory details of every sin. But he will want to know how many times.
Make a list. Make an appointment. The priest will be delighted.
Posted by: no one at November 08, 2025 08:53 AM (W7XSX)
Well, I'm nominally Southern Baptist.
Was saved and baptized in a church when I was 13, but that was the church my grandmother and other relatives were members of and I only went when I was staying with her for summer vacation as she lived around 120 miles away.
Haven't been to church much since my late-teens, other than for funerals and weddings.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 09:01 AM (6ydKt)
"God, give me patience.
Because if God gives me strength,
I'm going to need bail money."
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Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 08:59 AM (iJfKG)
That's just crazy talk.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at November 08, 2025 09:01 AM (PiwSw)
Dash, special prayers for your friend.
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Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at November 08, 2025 09:02 AM (bwviB)
Or, do you think there's a truth requirement before anything is allowed on the internet?
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 08:59 AM (iJfKG)
I think that what he was saying was true but Sassafrass84 said, "Please tell me that this is satire." It's satire. It's truth, but it's satire.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)
Certainly will pop in on Hobby thread
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at November 08, 2025 09:04 AM (+qU29)
Sorry, dear Grammie. Prayers up.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 09:05 AM (2sfNr)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 09:02 AM (ExV1e)
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Satire is dead. You can come up with the most outlandish fake story about liberals and they will actually go and do it. They may already have done it.
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Best part is that Bill Gates hasn't been able to steal it yet!!
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I shall see. fingers crossed.
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So far it seems so!
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Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)
It's so hard to tell these days. I've started to assume that everything is just rage bait.
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)
I think we could still make a case that he’s got much in common with the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:09 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:36 AM (ExV1e)
It's so hard to tell these days. I've started to assume that everything is just rage bait.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 08, 2025 09:07 AM (h7ZuX)
I only know because I saw someone else react to that video and they looked up his account which states that it's all parody. Apparently, a lot of the really bad SNAP videos are fake also. Rage drives engagement so these people make society worse for a payday.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)
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I will pray for your friend. As someone who recently dealt with sepsis, it is beatable.
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Yup.
It's all BS, fake and ghey. (AoSHQ style guide approved)
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Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 09:01 AM (6ydKt)
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As was my wife. Her decision to become Catholic was not a popular one in her family. To her the Church is like the Expanded Universe because the canon is bigger, lots of devotions and of course the body of literature is so vast.
My mother's parents were Catholic, so I went to Midnight Mass at Christmas and usually a Mass at Easter when we visited. My father's parents were United Methodists, and on weekend when I visited him (after the divorce) I stayed with them as he worked Saturday evenings, so I had to go to church, which I found very boring. At least in the Mass you can stand up, sit down, kneel and say stuff. All the Methodists did was sing and talk. So much singing, so much talking. I was not a fan, and neither was my father.
I was one of those "spiritual, not religious" types, and for about a year in college hung with the Campus Crusade for Christ types (imagine using that name today!), but drifted away, no doubt because I was too enamored of sin.
I was very much of St. Augustine in those days: "Lord make me chaste, but not just yet!"
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This friend adopted her grandchildren. They have no one else. They need her.
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Don't kick yourself for it. Having met him, I am sure it will find it humorous. As well, it was also a great test to see how may people read the prayer list, and how closely!
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Singing is the only thing I ever liked about church. So, that's one of my dislikes about the Catholic church. Not much, if any, singing.
Of course, there's nothing to stop me from singing on my own time, and I do, but there's something earnest and divine about bad singers making a joyful noise.
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Posted by: PabloD at November 08, 2025 09:07 AM (H1N8f)
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For a brief period in the 1990s, my mother came back to the Church, but eventually left again. I think she's Anglican now. She's changed churches multiple times, but her true faith - the Democrat Party - has never left her.
It's sad. She's not in good health, and yet she spends all her time fighting White Christian Nationalism rather than developing relationships with her grandkids and great-grandkids. The supreme irony is that my misanthropic father who never wanted kids and was indifferent to them has actually turned over a new leaf and loves spending time with the great-grandkids.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Not being a catholic and only seeing it the movies or TV, I always assumed there's a priest sitting in the confessional 24/7.
Do they have set days/times for confessions or what?
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Posted by: Sister Nunziato at November 08, 2025 09:17 AM (5xuJ/)
Confession to God is also important, acceptance of responsibility for one’s past actions is probably the most important of all. (For the psyche of the one confessing)
A mistake that is easily made is to tell oneself that you can confess to God, but forget about the ones you harmed. Because that’s the really hard part.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:17 AM (eQmnE)
Confessions in the West are usually at a set time; our parish has the on Saturdays before vigil Mass, and is starting to also offer them midweek.
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Of course, there's nothing to stop me from singing on my own time, and I do, but there's something earnest and divine about bad singers making a joyful noise.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 08, 2025 09:17 AM (h7ZuX)
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Even the daily Mass has quite a bit of singing. There are traditionally five hymns (usually more during Communion) during the Novus Ordo Mass. I've yet to go to a TLM, but I hear they are great.
When I can, I got to the Thursday morning Mass at our parish because that's when the school kids go, and there is something about children singing hymns that seems very angelic.
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Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 08, 2025 09:22 AM (lFFaq)
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Dash, this varies by parish.
Ours has s choir and we singssome of the liturgy -Gloria, the Great Amen.
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Thank you and, of course, pertinent prayers always!!
Posted by: TeeJ at November 08, 2025 09:23 AM (Sq4+7)
Daily mass is bare bones
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Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 08, 2025 09:24 AM (kTd/k)
Of course, there's nothing to stop me from singing on my own time, and I do, but there's something earnest and divine about bad singers making a joyful noise.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 08, 2025 09:17 AM (h7ZuX)
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At my parish I feel like we sing quite a bit. There are usually four hymns, plus singing Glory to God in the Highest, and singing Lamb of God in Latin.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 09:25 AM (Pek1+)
Short homilies. Those guys don't go on for an hour, or more if they're feeling inspired. Sometimes, a country Methodist preacher will keep you in the pew until lunchtime.
I like the ancientness of it--knowing that this is the same ritual that millions have done for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 09:21 AM (q2Q7i)
For my wife and I the singing was always the best part. (But not the new stuff which is 3 words 4 notes 5 verses) We love the greats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:27 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: Bulg at November 08, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
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I went to my first TLM last week! Amazing experience. Not any singing from the participants, though, just the choir.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 09:27 AM (Pek1+)
Daily mass is bare bones
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 08, 2025 09:23 AM (7gFa4)
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Military Masses in the field are quite the austere affair, but I found them to be deeply spiritual. The one I attended in New Orleans during the oil spill was profound. Held in an office conference room, truly "joint" so you had all services all ranks, yet we were one, united in Christ. The homily was spot on and we all left visibly refreshed by the Eucharist.
One of the few bright spots of that thoroughly miserable experience.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)
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Posted by: runner at November 08, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)
Prayers up for all of God's children this fine day.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 08, 2025 09:29 AM (kB9dk)
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Posted by: the way I see it at November 08, 2025 09:30 AM (EYmYM)
Anyway, here's my questions. When do these folks have a day off. If you're saying 10 masses a week it must be hard. Do they have fill in priests?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
When I was little, both Dad and PawPaw had three churches each, all receiving two services on Sundays, and all receiving a Wednesday evening service. Seemed like Dad never had a day off, ever.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 08, 2025 09:31 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 08, 2025 09:31 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Clive Staples Lewis at November 08, 2025 09:31 AM (XQo4F)
Had a priest that always started his homily with a short joke . I think he did that just to see if anyone was paying attention on a Sunday morning.
Posted by: dantesed at November 08, 2025 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 09:25 AM (Pek1+)
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I love the way the kids belt all that out, especially the high notes. "Hallejuuuuuuiah!" just makes me smile.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Joined the Mass in progress, and there were 4 vocalists (obviously extremely high quality) in a high balcony up over the worshippers, singing Mozart’s Ave Verum a capella. It was truly sublime.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:35 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 08, 2025 09:35 AM (EYmYM)
Glad to see you here. Sorry the chemo is giving you a hard time. Sending thoughts and prayers your way.
Posted by: Tuna at November 08, 2025 09:35 AM (lJ0H4)
Short homilies. Those guys don't go on for an hour, or more if they're feeling inspired. Sometimes, a country Methodist preacher will keep you in the pew until lunchtime.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
PawPaw would put a peppermint in his mouth and stop when it was gone. Dad could deliver his message and point in 15 minutes pretty consistently. Both were olde school fire and brimstone country methodists. Dad admitted that the breakup of the methodist church was the best thing that ever happened to the small country churches he loved.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 08, 2025 09:35 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 08, 2025 09:28 AM (2NHgQ)
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The 7 pm Mass at the student location last week for All Souls was candlelit, and it was amazing. Reponses were all in Latin, it was very cool.
Our pastor is Gen X, a year older than me, and he has systematically removed all the hippie 1970s stuff and replaced it with older art, proper icons rather than abstract angels, etc. It is a welcome change and attendance is up quite a bit. Lots of college kids converting, including the son of one of my best friends in college.
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Some names are repeated on road signs, which is interesting as well. It is a very peaceful experience, and we took the grandkids with us on one trip and they prayed for their father's soul.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:42 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Any updates on when you're going to make your move to the Indiana/Kentucky area?
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 08:27 AM (Yl2Ob)
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We have lots of retired priests that fill in one or two days a week for the parish priests, and while they're on vacation. We also have a couple of priests who don't have an assignment and fill in where needed.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 09:42 AM (Pek1+)
That a lot of services. The most I've ever had is two in one day . I am glad to hear of your family members and their devotion to the Lord and their congregants .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 09:43 AM (64qRd)
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Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 08, 2025 09:35 AM (QVmho)
My wife’s dear departed grandmother was a member of one of those all her life, devoted, and the wife has many fond memories of going to church with her when she was young. In Waskom, Texas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:44 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Retired people who shop on the weekend should be beaten with sticks by those who work.
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Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 08, 2025 09:45 AM (2NHgQ)
the greatest danger of having lived for so long in a very high-trust society of people with low time preferences (ability to delay immediate gratification for long-term gain) is that you lose the ability to imagine how low-trust people with high time preferences behave.
you assume that if you invite them into your system that they will act as you do.
instead they act as they always have.
accommodation is seen as weakness to be taken advantage of, and the harder you try to be nice or lenient, the more aggressive the depredations become.
it's a fundamental misapprehension of mindset and a desperately expensive luxury belief.
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I watched this happen in real time with my MN relatives and the Somalis. They wouldn't listen to the warnings, and now, what was once one of America's safest cities is a murder hole. They don't see you as tolerant, they see you as prey.
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Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 08, 2025 09:46 AM (06Hmj)
I never sing in church. One, I can't carry a tune in a bucket - never have been able to. Two, most of the music is affirmatively awful and I don't feel like caterwauling to a song I don't like. I know it's supposed to be about "worship," and God doesn't care that I can't hold a note - He's the one who decided to NOT give me a singing voice - but I just can't connect with it. I'm the exact opposite of those folks who feel uplifted by the singing.
Posted by: PabloD at November 08, 2025 09:47 AM (H1N8f)
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Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 08, 2025 09:48 AM (LjSYW)
In Waskom, Texas.
Posted by: Tom Servo
If she ever branched out into Greenwood's Methodist church across the state line between '75 & '79, she got to see Dad.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 08, 2025 09:48 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Sidney Poitier at November 08, 2025 09:42 AM (XQo4F)
I love that one! Seen it often. Fun trivia - filmed near Tucson on the ranch of Linda Ronstadt’s father.
One of my favorite lines - he’s sulking after it’s done, because he doesn’t think (with some justification) that he’s been properly thanked. The Mother Superior notices, and simply says “You think you built this chapel. God built this chapel. You are mad because you are not Him.”
(But she comes around and does realize he deserves to be thanked)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:51 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 08, 2025 09:46 AM (Riz8t)
At core, it's those people who are the real racists. They give zero point zero craps about if the weird brown people think they're good and kind and tolerant. They only care about if Karen and Other Karen next door are whispering in private that they're a Good Person or a Bad Person.
No one wants to Save The Whales so that a Humpback can swim up and give 'em a wink and a high five with a flipper. The whale is not the issue.
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)
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My priest retired last year, and my new one is pretty young; early 40s. I like him a lot. He's studying to be the judicial vicar, since our current one is retired and in his 70s, and basically does it as a volunteer.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 09:53 AM (Pek1+)
It's really beautiful.
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Prayers out for one and all, no matter how great or small the need.
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As I was walking back to my vehicle I saw a large headstone for a husband and wife. This was carved into the reverse side:
"Now it gets interesting."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 08, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 08, 2025 09:46 AM (Riz8t)
Just yesterday a good friend and I were talking about if it was possible for us to live with Muslims. He took the position that it was impossible, we shouldn’t try. I’m a bit more open, I believe it’s possible as long as we never forget what Churchill among others has said - you’ve got to always keep your foot on their neck, or they’ll be at your throat.
It’s not easy, and not a thing many of us like to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 09:58 AM (eQmnE)
I heard one congregant say of their church contemporary praise team, "It's like being in a bad nightclub."
Miss the hymns, and their meaningful lyrics, but I like sermons. I'm okay with "going till lunch" as long as it's the Word of G-d, and not the Woke of Mob.
There's a reason the Old Testament prophets were killed, and New Testament were martyred. And it wasn't because they preached too long, it was because they preached at all.
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Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 08, 2025 09:51 AM (06Hmj)
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Hence the Yard Sign Calvinism - by these yard signs they are saved. New ones are popping up that are even more strident: "It's clear that we don't have a difference of opinion, but a difference in morality."
Right, and you're the moral one, with the tranny flag who wants to kill inconvenient babies and sterilize the depressed ones who survive.
At least the former school board president - a white lesbian woman with a penchant for adopting black boys (that way she can fret about her black sons) - placed dead last in the city council election last week. The overall highest vote-getter was the school resource officer she fired because George Floyd overdosed and our local cops had to be kicked off campus because they would shoot her black boys.
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Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 08, 2025 10:02 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 08, 2025 10:03 AM (hlNLQ)
"Now it gets interesting."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 08, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)
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One of the graves had two stones placed next to it, his first and second wife. His first wife died at 18, presumably in childbirth. His second wife - whom he married seven years later, was older, and she died at 40. He outlived them both.
Another grave had husband and wife together. He was one year older, and died one year before she did, which is not uncommon.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 08, 2025 10:04 AM (Zi5fx)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 08, 2025 10:02 AM (DoBxX)
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Yes, lots of old things are new. A very different feel from when I converted in 2006. I like it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: callsign claymore at November 08, 2025 10:05 AM (duopt)
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Mr. Jordan61 is a big Volbeat fan.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 10:06 AM (Pek1+)
Skimming the prayer thread and...hold on...N and MP4 are shes? What the...since when?!?
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at November 08, 2025 10:07 AM (pNNfr)
Posted by: eleven at November 08, 2025
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Incredibly good OS!
Best part is that Bill Gates hasn't been able to steal it yet!!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025
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I need to sit down, prepare everything, and convert the older Win 10 laptop to Linux.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 08, 2025 10:07 AM (wzUl9)
The infiltrators and destroyers pretending to be Catholic prelates are living on borrowed time.
Posted by: callsign claymore at November 08, 2025 10:08 AM (duopt)
'His first wife died at 18, presumably in childbirth. His second wife - whom he married seven years later, was older, and she died at 40. He outlived them both.'
I'm guessing mid 1800s.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 08, 2025 10:08 AM (fd80v)
My funniest moment in an old cemetery was when I was doing oilfield work in the 80’s, in rural central Texas, and me and a couple of the guys had 3 or 4 hours to kill. So we decided to drive around a bit, and found an old country cemetery with one those old cast iron fences with faux spearpoints as finials on it, about 4’ tall. One of guys wanted to show off as to how he could jump it, and he almost made it - except one of those points caught his jeans just above the hem and he crashed to the ground with his foot pinned 4 feet up in the air , unable to move at all.
We let him wail and beg for help for a couple minutes while we rolled on the ground laughing . Then we finally helped him take his pants off (with his leg still up in the air) the only way for him to get loose of the trap.
We reminded him of that for years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 10:10 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 10:10 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 08, 2025 10:08 AM (fd80v)
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1870 to 1890.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
'except one of those points caught his jeans just above the hem and he crashed to the ground with his foot pinned 4 feet up in the air'
That could have gone much worse for him.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 08, 2025 10:12 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at November 08, 2025 10:07 AM (pNNfr)
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MP4 is definitely not a she, I've met him.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 08, 2025 10:12 AM (Pek1+)
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at November 08, 2025 10:07 AM (pNNfr)
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MP4 is definitely not a she, I've met him.
Posted by: Jordan61
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Also the "N" here is not the poster who currently goes by lowercase "n." This "N" is Polliwog, who is a she.
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 08, 2025 10:14 AM (rhIXr)
Posted by: barkingmad59,wandering lurkette at November 08, 2025 10:14 AM (R3yzU)
hoogwaardige expliciete inhoud. Kies voor geverifieerde platforms voor een discrete ervaring.
Spammer Johnson is right!
Posted by: Oddbob at November 08, 2025 10:15 AM (uXhTF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 08, 2025 10:15 AM (Vb3xW)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 08, 2025 10:16 AM (fd80v)
Posted by: Jordan61
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Also the "N" here is not the poster who currently goes by lowercase "n." This "N" is Polliwog, who is a she.
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 08, 2025 10:14 AM (rhIXr)
Oh, wonderful. I thought I was losing my mind.
Posted by: Robert, the Love Walrus at November 08, 2025 10:18 AM (pNNfr)
I have an MP 3 player on my nightstand, connected to a charger and so old, decent computer speakers. Used to play music while dropping off to sleep, haven't for many years now.
But its ready if I want to.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 08, 2025 10:19 AM (sl73Y)
Saw del Toro's "Frankenstein" yesterday.
Basically, Frankenstein with Daddy Issues and Sex appeal.
GdT continues his dealio with humans being the real monsters. So Frankenstein is the monster and the Monster is the Lost and Alone Hero who the girl falls in love with.
I would like a real Frankenstein movie adhering to the book one of these days.
Anywho, movie looks beautiful, which is GdT's real gift. As a movie though it just kind of peters out to a damp, soggy ending, because-
all the conflict is squeezed out of it by turning Dr F into just another terrible, white guy mustache twirling villain until the limp ending.
Eh, not horrible or anything but not really worth your time either. Flip a coin.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 08, 2025 10:19 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 08, 2025 10:08 AM (fd80v)
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1870 to 1890.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)
One of the patriarchs of my wife’s family was a man named Achilles, and he volunteered to be part of Washington’s Continental Army when he was 17. Lived through the war, married, went to Kentucky with Daniel Boone and had 9 children. Wife died in her mid 50’s, so when Achilles was 62 he married a pretty 16 year old girl. And they then had 8 more children before he died in his 80’s.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 10:19 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 08, 2025 10:20 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: barkingmad59,wandering lurkette at November 08, 2025 10:14 AM (R3yzU)
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Excellent advice. Never work for or with a friend. The only exception is that if you know the friend through work and have a relationship because of that. Otherwise, it's not a question of "if" but "when" the friendship will end.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"
You're gonna need a youtube tutorial.
Posted by: eleven at November 08, 2025 10:21 AM (fV+MH)
It looks like the gop cave has been postponed a day?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 08, 2025 10:15 AM (Vb3xW)
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The Dems' torpedoing the latest House carve-out for funding the military and ATC staff was stupid on their part. Putting active duty service personnel on food stamps while trying to prop up Obamacare subsidies is a national security issue and the Administration needs to state that stat.
Posted by: mrp at November 08, 2025 10:21 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Colored chalk at November 08, 2025 10:22 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: eleven at November 08, 2025 10:23 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 10:19 AM (eQmnE)
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My wife has an ancestor who went through a total of three wives, burying two, and all had 8 kids apiece (not all lived to adulthood). The third one must have known what she was getting into, but correctly figured she would be the one to outlast him.
The county is packed with their many descendants.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Chalk of Color at November 08, 2025 10:24 AM (uXhTF)
Posted by: Colored chalk
* ahem *
Posted by: Chalk of Color at November 08, 2025 10:24 AM (uXhTF)
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Bigot.
Posted by: BIPOC Chalk at November 08, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)
I am sorry. That sounds very difficult. I will pray that rough places are made smooth.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 08, 2025 10:25 AM (ELdpA)
"N" in this case is me, as it's the first initial of my actual name. Pretty sure the commenter N is actually a guy.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at November 08, 2025 10:25 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Chalk at November 08, 2025 10:26 AM (XQo4F)
Fervent prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 08, 2025 10:26 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 08, 2025 10:27 AM (+4S8X)
Posted by: Colored chalk
* ahem *
Posted by: Chalk of Color at November 08, 2025 10:24 AM (uXhTF)
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Bigot.
Posted by: BIPOC Chalk at November 08, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)
We burnin' this bitch to the ground.
Posted by: #chalklivesmatter at November 08, 2025 10:27 AM (pNNfr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Ha! I happen to agree with them on their sign. I find their wickedness and lack of compassion breathtaking.
But yeah, they are very strongly attached to their politics as a support system for their self-regard. They would face a devastating collapse of their world if they ever admitted the truth to themselves.
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:27 AM (FMtrg)
Right, and you're the moral one, with the tranny flag who wants to kill inconvenient babies and sterilize the depressed ones who survive.
And since they categorically reject the morality of the Creator of the Universe, the question then becomes, on what authority do they establish their "morality"?
If the person in the mirror, or a consensus of their Leftist idiot friends is that authority, the narcissism meter is pegged and they have been completely caught up in Mass Formation Psychosis. (aka Mimetic Theory's "Doublebind")
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 08, 2025 10:27 AM (a4flb)
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Maybe next time he should use lipstick.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:28 AM (dyewR)
Greatist dei tradr eva
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:28 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)
The Earth may or may not be inherited by the meek, but it is certainly inherited by the fertile.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 10:29 AM (eQmnE)
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Oh God, I remember the yarn-on-burlap hippie banners and Love daisies.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at November 08, 2025 10:30 AM (kpS4V)
But yeah, they are very strongly attached to their politics as a support system for their self-regard. They would face a devastating collapse of their world if they ever admitted the truth to themselves.
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:27 AM (FMtrg)
I remember in the high school some person stood up in class and said war is not the answer.
I ask What if the questions is Hitler?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:30 AM (gbOdA)
I am so late having trouble getting through all the comments so thought I'd post and then keep reading.
So happy to see everyone.
❤️❤️❤️
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 08, 2025 10:30 AM (t/2Uw)
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Meh. Those Romantics wrote a lot of tripe and their architecture was pure kitsch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:30 AM (dyewR)
Prayers for the horde and happy birthday wishes to Vmom!!
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:31 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 10:19 AM (eQmnE)
Uhhh ...
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:31 AM (FMtrg)
January 6th pipebomber has been named: Shauni Kerkoff, a then Capitol Police Officer
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM (WL2lA)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Uhhh ...
Posted by: Emmie
Hey! It gets lonely in the those woods!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 08, 2025 10:33 AM (cYBz/)
The prayer was beautiful.
It's in the 40's today in my part of Canada but I have yardwork and want to put up Christmas lights. I took the dog to Tim's and grabbed a coffee with the dog.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:33 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:30 AM (gbOdA)
You can't fight war with violence, man, you gotta fight with LOVE!
Posted by: Some Random Hippie High On Life And Maui Wowie at November 08, 2025 10:33 AM (pNNfr)
It's mostly churchy stuff. If you're non-religious, as I am, you can scroll over all that stuff and be caught up in about two minutes.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 10:33 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:27 AM (FMtrg)
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This is basically my mother. Over the last year, I've been talking with my father basically every other day, and it's been great. Something I learned is that she was always that way, always putting 'the cause' (really The Party) before all other things. It wasn't just me, it was him, her parents, etc. Once I reached adulthood and realized why my childhood had been trashed, I was angry, but now I'm sad because she's still unhappy and has missed out on the best part of life - having close, meaningful relationships with grandkids.
And now great-grandkids! It's a blessing to have them enter the scene so soon. Most of my great-grandparents were dead by the time I came into the world, but they know and love my father, and would love her, if they ever saw her. She's visiting a week from today, so we'll see how it goes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 08, 2025 10:34 AM (zzXla)
I ask What if the questions is Hitler?
Then you divide up in to factions, cancel out the ideologically impure, declare yourself the moral champion of the Planet and then bitch about how you are not being worshipped.
Meanwhile "Hitler" is getting shit done during the navel gazing.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 08, 2025 10:35 AM (a4flb)
January 6th pipebomber has been named: Shauni Kerkoff, a then Capitol Police Officer
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)
They know who bought the Metro card
They know who gave her a ride
They know the person knew of the church garden gate that connects to the RNC and DNC
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:35 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 08, 2025 10:35 AM (WL2lA)
January 6th pipebomber has been named: Shauni Kerkoff, a then Capitol Police Officer
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)
Hmmm. Was it her idea or was she carrying out someone else's plan?
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:36 AM (FMtrg)
2017 1.3 M
2021 1.2 M
2025 1.9 M
WTFO, the cheating is now just turned into a Fuck You Peasants.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:37 AM (gbOdA)
TBD!
She left Capital Police in mid-2021 for a job at - get this! - the CIA doing personal security detail.
https://tinyurl.com/mw3m66tx
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:39 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: barkingmad59,wandering lurkette at November 08, 2025 10:39 AM (R3yzU)
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 08, 2025 10:39 AM (rhIXr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm sorry for that pain in your family. We have lefty branches in our family as well, and it's heartbreaking.
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:39 AM (FMtrg)
Pure evil
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:40 AM (gbOdA)
Isn't she now a multi-millionaire from her relatively short tenure in Congress?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 08, 2025 10:41 AM (a4flb)
January 6th pipebomber has been named: Shauni Kerkoff, a then Capitol Police Officer
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM
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https://tinyurl.com/yym6fn5u
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."
Posted by: George Orwell at November 08, 2025 10:42 AM (XQo4F)
Aren't you going to yell at AHL for bringing up that subject that shall not be mentioned here?
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)
January 6th pipebomber has been named: Shauni Kerkoff, a then Capitol Police Officer
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM
Le me guess... She was rogue.. No connection to FBI ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 08, 2025 10:44 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)
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Crossbows?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Highly recommended.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 08, 2025 10:45 AM (t/2Uw)
*Sadly, the crazy congregant with a trans child has recently latched on to the pastor, managed to get onto the Vestry without a vote, now has a job working for the state's Bishop. hearing things are no longer so conservative and non-political,
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:46 AM (GbwPZ)
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The Ham & Egg Boys apparently had a lock on her early on and then were told by the higher-ups to focus elsewhere.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:46 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (q2Q7i)
It's in the 40's today in my part of Canada but I have yardwork and want to put up Christmas lights. I took the dog to Tim's and grabbed a coffee with the dog.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:33 AM
every time someone puts Christmas lights up before the Friday after the (US) Thanksgiving, an elf gets water-boarded
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 08, 2025 10:44 AM (VE6XX)
Special Agent CIA
security for foreigners
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (gbOdA)
https://tinyurl.com/22kfw9ey
Posted by: runner at November 08, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)
The RGB strips at the bottom are a nice touch.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: It's me donna at November 08, 2025 10:44 AM (VE6XX)
Special Agent CIA
security for foreigners
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (gbOdA)
To what end ? The election was over
Posted by: It's me donna at November 08, 2025 10:48 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:36 AM (FMtrg)
Three guesses and the first two don't count.
Also: Nan Peelosi announces her retirement the same week as this. Coinkydink?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 08, 2025 10:48 AM (g8Ew8)
Stupid getting older immune system!
Posted by: the way I see it at November 08, 2025 09:30 AM (EYmYM)
I'm taking Vitamin D, along with Magnesium Citrate (they need each other for some compicated reasons), and it seems to have helped my allergies and sinuses a lot. Been doing that since COVID.
I still get congestion and all of that but the headaches are much rarer and I don't feel as crappy when the seasons change.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 10:50 AM (6ydKt)
Yes, yes she is via her husband's consulting firm. I believe her office hired him, so she is essentially paying herself for her husband's campaign advice.
As for trying to get out of paying student loans. . . ? Diversity of cultures is our strength, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 08, 2025 10:48 AM (g8Ew
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No connection at all. Pelosi made it clear that she was retiring to spend more time with her millions.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (dyewR)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, Hot Mamma Wants To Ride at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (tljrc)
Because of the dog, Mom and I would close the house for Halloween. There were several years when the inside of the house was decorated for Christmas before Halloween.
Since I'm in Canada, the outside is usually done Nov 1st. Which is for us, after Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:52 AM (q2Q7i)
Anyway, it's perfect for this time in our spiritual journeys and for preparation for the challenges to come. I felt a more serious church is important since the left is itching to start some serious persecution. We've got to be spiritually prepared.
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:53 AM (FMtrg)
>TBD!
She left Capital Police in mid-2021 for a job at - get this! - the CIA doing personal security detail.
If you look at the surveillance photos there is at least one where she is talking on the phone to someone while she was on her bomb planting mission. I don't think there's a chance in hell she was acting alone.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 08, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (q2Q7i)
Kavanaugh always has a big kegger party at his house.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 08, 2025 10:53 AM (g8Ew8)
She said: "Go ahead! I don't have a problem with that."
I said there might be a spot of bother should someone happen to drop in. She said that with anyone else, yes, but with me, no. Everyone knows you're an odd duck, Lloyd.
So I stretched out and closed my eyes and began to settle in but after a couple of minutes was awakened by laughter. I opened my eyes and an 0-5 was standing there. I started to stand up and he said: "No, don't get up, carry on Lloyd. You're the only person I've seen today who is doing something productive."
The orderly smiled and said: "See, I told you so."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:54 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at November 08, 2025 10:54 AM (oftw2)
So that will hopefully help.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:55 AM (Sco7b)
Posted by: Emmie
Hey! It gets lonely in the those woods!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 08, 2025 10:33 AM (cYBz/)
LOL!! I was posting yesterday about a low budget Bigfoot documentary about Bigfoot, had an interview with some country guy who claimed Bigfoot was spying on him in the woods, and he said “yeah, and this one had real purty hair!”
If that’s the first thing you think when you see Bigfoot you been out in those woods way too long, buddy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 08, 2025 10:56 AM (eQmnE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 08, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
Garlic oil softgels. I use Nature's Life Garlic and Parsley, six per day. Nearly always knocks it right out.
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 10:57 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:51 AM (Sco7b)
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If you wait till the end of November in Canada, the snow is already four feet deep and you'd have to burrow into the snow to reach the outlets.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Denny Crane - The Smell is the Worst at November 08, 2025 10:58 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 08, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
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One of the best things about getting out of the Guard is not having to take the stupid flu shot, which never worked, and always made me sick.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 08, 2025 10:58 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
That's why we keep having to build new entrances/exits from our homes!
Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford and her Beach Friends at November 08, 2025 10:59 AM (oftw2)
Not crossbows.
I was yelled at for simply asking for a point to the thread where ace laid down the law about the subject.
Didn't ask what the subject was about. Didn't ask for the name of he who shall not be mentioned here. Didn't ask for the nic of the person who was banned. Just a point to ace's comment.
Just looking for a little consistency when it comes to yelling at other commenters who bring up the subject.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 10:59 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:59 AM (q2Q7i)
One reason:
Discovery of the devices between 12:40 and 1:05 p.m. respectively on Jan. 6 drew already depleted police resources away from the Capitol just as a huge crowd breached the grounds at 12:53 p.m. A joint session of Congress convened at 1 p.m. to take up challenges to the certification of the Electoral College vote from the 2020 presidential election.
Another possible reason: she attempted to plant one of the fake bombs outside of the Congressional Black Caucus building, as to make it about race (after 5 months of BLM riots, an attempted bombing of black Congressman would re-ignite the BLM mob).
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 11:00 AM (GbwPZ)
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And it squealed like a pig.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 08, 2025 11:00 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:00 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 10:55 AM (Sco7b)
Since you're in Canada, I would be cautious about what kind of "help" they might offer.
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 11:00 AM (FMtrg)
But thanks anyway!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at November 08, 2025 08:27 AM (hOUT3)
As a wise t-shirt once said, "Don't be part of the problem. Be the whole problem."
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 08, 2025 08:39 AM (ExV1e)
hahahahahahaha!
Posted by: m at November 08, 2025 11:01 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:59 AM (q2Q7i)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 08, 2025 11:02 AM (dyewR)
January 6th pipebomber has been named: Shauni Kerkoff, a then Capitol Police Officer
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 10:32 AM (GbwPZ)
Thank you, Lizzy.
Posted by: m at November 08, 2025 11:02 AM (RuTUS)
The person always seemed feminine in their walking to me.
This Shauni Rae Kerkhoff person looks like a lesbian.
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 11:03 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:03 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:59 AM (q2Q7i)
SINCE WHEN IS THERE ART ON A STAURDAY? YOU MUST BE A ROBOT. I WILL BEFRIEND YOU AND THEN BETRAY YOU.
Posted by: yEAH, i AM WRITING A MOVIE.... at November 08, 2025 11:03 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: m at November 08, 2025 11:03 AM (RuTUS)
Amen!
That's what recent sermons have been about - putting on your spiritual armor.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (hUzUC)
BTW, Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing is a he, not a she. Easy mistake to make, I know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (npFr7)
That's not normal journalism.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:05 AM (q2Q7i)
That's not normal journalism.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (Y1sOo)
To clear what they'd be reporting with their legal team.
Posted by: m at November 08, 2025 11:06 AM (RuTUS)
The Horde is the best!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 08, 2025 11:06 AM (dE3DB)
Is it still morning?
Elsewhere, I mean.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 08, 2025 11:07 AM (3/DKR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (npFr7)
When you read that in Rick Sanchez's voice, it really adds something!
Posted by: Denny Crane- I admire Rick Sanchez at November 08, 2025 11:07 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: Emmie at November 08, 2025 11:00 AM (FMtrg)
No kidding.
Since I took care of my parents, I have plenty of experience with the Ontario health care system. God always protected them and they always got great care....but I really had to advocate for them.
I've barely had interactions with them myself. Aside from pills for dental surgery, my last prescription had to be about ten years or so ago.
Time to start doing stuff. Everyone have a happy weekend.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 08, 2025 11:07 AM (Sco7b)
That is so dang funny!
Not his first bigfoot.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 11:07 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:07 AM (q2Q7i)
NEW: Starbucks releases apology after fights and arguments break out at various locations over their new Glass Starbucks Bearista cup.
Starbucks fans are fuming and fighting over the company's new bear cup. One fight broke out in Houston and even made local news.
https://is.gd/Fn8abK
And they want to see the manager!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 08, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
That's not normal journalism.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (Y1sOo)
To clear what they'd be reporting with their legal team.
Posted by: m at November 08, 2025 11:06 AM (RuTUS)
Beck probably didn't want to Richard Jewell someone.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 08, 2025 11:08 AM (g8Ew8)
That's not normal journalism.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:04 AM (Y1sOo)
To clear what they'd be reporting with their legal team.
Posted by: m at November 08, 2025 11:06 AM (RuTUS)
Or someone put a horse head in his bed, and told him to take it down.
Or whatever they use against people who they can't blackmail with kiddie diddling pics.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 08, 2025 11:08 AM (3/DKR)
I presume that was an on-going thing. Their legal team isn't the government.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:08 AM (Y1sOo)
"Churchy stuff" can generally be found in a 'prayer revival thread'...not to worry though, as I s l a m advances, churches and congregations will vanish.
Everything will be perfect then.
Posted by: Ju at November 08, 2025 11:09 AM (EgpoY)
Posted by: Denny Crane- I admire Rick Sanchez at November 08, 2025 11:07 AM (i49OE)
I read it in Mark Sanchez' voice.
Now there's blood everywhere.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 08, 2025 11:10 AM (3/DKR)
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Damn! They're making us do the time warp again!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 08, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
Possibly because she is part of a much bigger conspiracy and they wanted to make sure they weren't harming other investigations.
Among the people Biden pardoned on his way out the door were Capital Police officers who testified about the "insurrection". Now why would a cop need a preemptive pardon?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 08, 2025 11:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:12 AM (q2Q7i)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 08, 2025 11:13 AM (Sm0sq)
That's not normal journalism.
A guess? They are working with a less hostile administration, so maybe there's some cooperation happening, such as 'you give us time to prep for your bombshell in exchange for cooperation on continued reporting'? There must be more to come. No one would believe she acted alone. We can only pray that the Trump DOJ, et al are doing things behind the scenes to clean this up and prosecute.
[insert obligatory cynical remark about Bondi not producing here]
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 11:13 AM (GbwPZ)
Of course. No problem with it.
It's also an open thread, so I just scroll over the churchy stuff looking for the non-churchy stuff.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:14 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 08, 2025 11:13 AM (Sm0sq)
I always say think of your government like the mafia.
Then everything starts to make sense.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 08, 2025 11:15 AM (3/DKR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 08, 2025 11:16 AM (znHU2)
Ohio scientists say they've figured out how to turn mushrooms into "living computers"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 08, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
https://tinyurl.com/2s3e584b
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 08, 2025 11:19 AM (znHU2)
Posted by: EveR at November 08, 2025 11:20 AM (GMel5)
Getting ready to show The Big Dummy. He's likely to be the only Borzoi today, but the breed judge is the Group judge and we want a good first impression.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 08, 2025 11:21 AM (/qNvF)
'Kerkhoff was the star witness against Guy Reffitt during his J6 trial. 7.5 years, but never entered Capitol. Hope he sues her.'
I hope they find a judge that will sentence her ass to 30 years.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 08, 2025 11:23 AM (fd80v)
My brother got some from the local "New York Butcher Shop" store and they were awesome. Not cheap, but excellent.
He got a few huge slabs that were like an inch thick and as big as a dinner plate, and then four small filet mingons for his spousal unit and leftovers.
They were worth it.
He also got some 'homemade' cinnamon buns with icing in a bucket. Probably top 3 cinnamon bun I've ever had.
If you've got one near you and you're looking for some good meats: www.nybutcher.com
Posted by: SpeakingfOf at November 08, 2025 11:23 AM (6ydKt)
Good luck.
The last of our show dogs before my wife passed is going for her championship this weekend in Kalamazoo.
Hoping she gets it (needs 4 points with a major) so she can come home.
Posted by: one hour sober at November 08, 2025 11:24 AM (Y1sOo)
Now there's blood everywhere.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 08, 2025 11:10 AM (3/DKR)
LOL!!!! Oh you!
Posted by: Denny Crane- I admire murderous Sanchezs at November 08, 2025 11:27 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:28 AM (q2Q7i)
NOOD
K.T. is here with "Dreams of the Left - for the Left and the Right"
(15 minutes ago)
NOOD!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 08, 2025 11:29 AM (O7YUW)
Wow. Evil.
Also worth recalling: Who was in charge of the Capital Police on J6? House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. Someone who ultimately reported to her planted the fake bombs. The plot came from inside the Capital.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 08, 2025 11:29 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:12 AM (q2Q7i)
VOUS SIDE VOUS SID VOUSE SIDI JUST DO IT
Posted by: Denny Crane- Sometimes I channel CBD at November 08, 2025 11:31 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 11:28 AM (q2Q7i)
I believe so- he's the murderer, right?
Posted by: Denny Crane - Sometimes they are Guilty CBD at November 08, 2025 11:33 AM (i49OE)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 08, 2025 11:38 AM (cF45P)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:40 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 08, 2025 10:47 AM (q2Q7i)
Anyone willing to bet she's not a carpet muncher?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 08, 2025 11:50 AM (npFr7)
from the source.. b0tf0rlife99.blogspot.com/
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