Happy Valley News Hour: More Least Likely Christmas Specials
Donklephant: Russia's Christmas message to Obama: We will use force
The Hill: Scientists eager for stem cell policy change
Corrente: My candidate for post of the year
Instaputz: TNR Flashback
Matthew Dowd Calls Komen Backlash 'Corrupt, Poisonous Part of Democracy'
Stephen Colbert Defends Pappa Bear O'Reilly Against the 'Pinhead' Bloggers
The Muppets Hit Back at Fox News
Fox News Launches Campaign To Fire UN Ambassador Susan Rice
'60 Minutes' exposes the 'sovereign citizens' as the nation's most serious domestic-terrorism threat |
Ellen Responds to Anti-LGBT Group: 'My Haters Are My Motivators' |
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Fox News Launches Campaign To Fire UN Ambassador Susan Rice |
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'60 Minutes' exposes the 'sovereign citizens' as the nation's most serious domestic-terrorism threat |
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Lawrence O'Donnell: The Single-Payer Solution |
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Santorum's Victory Speech: Popular President Not Listening, Deplored GOP Candidates All Ears |
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Ellen Responds to Anti-LGBT Group: 'My Haters Are My Motivators' |
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Jon Stewart Knocks Romney For Saying He's 'Not Concerned About the Very Poor' |
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Alan Grayson's Opponent's Creepy Slave Ship Ad |
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YouTube Yanks Clint Eastwood Chrysler Ad After NFL Copyright Claim |
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Michael Steele Loves States' Rights Argument Against Gays, But Not Against Blacks |
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President Obama Asks to See Betty White's Long Form Birth Certificate |
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SNL: GOP 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate |
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Jon Stewart Explains What Happened to Rick Perry During His Bizarre Speech in New Hampshire |
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Colbert Makes a Mockery of Santorum Refusing to Refute Elderly Birther at Campaign Stop |
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Martin Bashir Exposes The Great Republican Hoax |
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Happy Fristivus!
It's about time.
Lets hope for significant progress in the near future.
Too much time has already been lost.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I observed it on Dec 21 at 7:04 AM EST by sleeping in.
The days in the Northern Hemisphere are now getting longer.
That much is good.
As for the rest of it:
Bah, humbug!
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Take heart, tomorrow is the first day of the 13 days of Scroogemas.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Delusion and Happiness…
Sam Harris here.
He is researching the neural basis of religious belief. I await his results with anticipation.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I ended up "moving" the first week of December.
As a result my "Christmas" has been spent emptying boxes and deciding which drawer the whisk wants to live in.
No shopping, no tree and at the last minute I found an old box of unused Christmas cards and UPS'd my boys each a check and a card. Then I asked the electrician if he and his wife liked Christmas cards so I gave him one.
I was going to go to church last night but decided not to since it seems every time I do I get sick.
So I drank a bottle of organic Pinot Noir, ate a carton of really good pistachios for dinner and watched "Pride and Prejudice" for the hundredth time with no tree and no cookies. Boo fucking hoo.
I think today I'll make one batch of cookies with rose water to make the house smell good and I'll share them with the cute, little "Happy Holidays" bear I bought at the grocery store (he looked so down). Maybe I'll listen to my piano Christmas carol C.D. too.
It seems every Christmas I feel worse and worse about it as a holiday. All the crass commercialism is really depressing.
Oh, and I have to put my 20 year old cat to "sleep" tomorrow (really bad bleeding malignant tumor on his mouth.)
Oh boy.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I am sorry about your cat. We bring animals into our lives, we become intertwined. It is so difficult to know what is best.
I had a dog, a sheltie for 17 years, she came to me by accident. She exceeded the life expectancy of the breed by maybe 5 years. In the end she was deaf, blind and could barely move. I cared for her almost like a person. I don't think she was suffering, I probably was. The last day she could not walk and I put her down. It was very difficult.
I will never have another animal.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
my simpathys on your cat , its a hard thing to do, this time last year i had my ten and a half yr old sheltie to sleep, kidney failure was the culprit, anyway good luck !
Saying goodbye to a pet is one of the saddest things about life, but you got to share twenty years of happiness with each other.
Christmas is always slightly depressing to me as well. I didn't shop much this year either (it was too cold and the roads were too dangerous). Strangely enough, it was liberating.
Peace and happiness to you.
A big congratulations to Mike Finnigan and Skippy on their Monkeyfist Award. Well done, guys!
The holiday is only good for being with family for once out of a year. That's the joy I get out of it. Church? Christianity? I leave all that hocus pocus out of the picture. I find the "gospel" totally ungraspable. A virgin. Gets pregnant. And it isn't to the man in her life? Right. Happens all the time. I'm not Scrooge, just cannot for the life of me understand why people believe this claptrap, but call believers in UFO's or the Easter Bunny nutcases. Too strange.
Sorry about your cat. It is terrible to have to put down a family member. I did the same a year ago. But, we did replace him with another character that is truly one of a kind.
Here's to all the best in 2009! How bad can it get?
Off topic here, but when the 'new comment' icon appears on the screen, I have to go back to the main page and then come back to the thread in order for the comment to appear. Anybody else?
Click on it if there is!?
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Yes, there is, but when I click on it nothing happens. I noticed it last night too.
At least I can still post. I don't mean to complain ... especially on Christmas Day!
:)
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
We had a dog that's probably been dead for a good 20 years, but ocassionally he shows up in my dreams looking young and healthy.
The English have the tradition of the ghost dog, usually protecting unwary travelers from robbers on misty byways.
If so dogs, why not cats?
We had to put down our father this year.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I'd like to see a new Rankin/Bass Christmas special. Randolph the Shiney Gun Cowboy, starring the voice of Willy Nelson as Randolph and our narrator.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why wouldn't the Russians be justified in saying they would use force?
We invaded Afghanistan - under false pretenses
We invaded and occupied Iraq - under numerous false pretenses
We are sending more troops to Afghanistan
We, by a proxy nation Georgia, attacked Russians in S Ossetia
We, by virtue of the Neocons, and the PNAC policymakers, documented our intent to surround Russia and cut off her spheres of influence
We have proceeded with our Star Wars programs
I don't think this comes as a complete shock to most of us:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?contex...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
God only knows what shrub and Darth Cheney have said to the Russians. NATO was created specifically to thwart the former USSR's ambitions. To think the Russians would sit back and let NATO expand is silly. And one quick look at the map shows Poland is NOT the place to put an anti-Iranian missile defense. It's transparently, obviously, an intentional provocation on Darth's part which reflects his "go fuck yourself" style of diplomacy.
does NATO serve, now that there is no one great evil to combat? Seriously, how many billions are wasted away on this military circle jerk? Disband it. Replace it with the UN, with no veto power for any nation. Majority rules.
For the Rest of Us.
Hopefully the Future of the Ship of State and the Nation will be better with a new Captain at the Helm.
Sawatdee Khrab everyone.
And now for a warm and fuzzy moment, kind of like my face, expressing my Christmas sentiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3m-gOelA8g
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
LEON RUSSELL - It Takes A Lot To Laugh (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLx0FliTNg
Everyone is busy today I am sure. Wanted to take time to wish all a very Merry Christmas.
..and a Cosmic New year full of Peace Love and Happiness.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?cod...
Abbybwood.....
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
and clicking on the links is like opening Christmas presents!
Is the thing to say
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
What do y'all think of buying soaps and bathbeads for gifts?
Or is that just telling the recipient
You stink!
or
I like picturing you nekkid.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It's Dove for me. My word, you have an active imagination, ysb!
It ain't imagination.
I seemed to have bought more for myself this year.
Two cakes of my favorite scent of Marius Fabre soaps (10 dollars a cake, but hard-pressed and can last three months of regular use, and made in Marsailles France, so probably can last a year for the French.)
Two vials of Pre de Provence Bath Beads, one scented with Agrumes, and the other with Verbena.
But for the life of me I can't seem to get anyone online to mail me Gauloises Brunes.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You have to read this to believe it. http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2008/12/...
No wonder they lost in a landslide. Any bunch of folks this delusional should. Next they'll be making the case of what a misunderstood great economic steward George Bush was and how, like Jimmy Carter, Cheney goes out and builds houses for the poor (when he's not making America safe by outing covert CIA agents for political purposes) but no one knows about it because, you know, the big hearted Mister Cheney is such a humble giver! Now go f*ck yourself!
Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
"Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice."
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Yeah, I'm sure he did. It's a form letter with a fill in the blank for the soldier's name, probably with a pre-signed signature at the bottom...
If Bush actually wrote letters, proofing them would consume hours of someone else's time...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Bush had plenty of time to stamp those form letters when he took that break from playing golf to show support for the troops who died.
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