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Here is the Sunday Talking Head line-up. Read it and weep.
C-Span's Washington Journal: 7:45am – Donald Lambro, Washington Times, Chief Political Correspondent; 8:30am – Phoner From Baghdad: Larry Kaplow, Cox Newspapers, Middle East Correspondent; 9am – Corinna Gilfillan, Global Witness, Head of U.S. Office | Blood Diamond Action; 9:30am – Pauline Baker, Fund for Peace, President.
Meet the Press (NBC): Dr. Rick Warren, author of the international best-seller "The Purpose Driven Life," and Jon Meacham, Newsweek's Editor and author of "American Gospel," discuss Faith in America: Can religion unite the country for the greater good and what role will God and values play in the 2008 presidential election. Then, Robert Frost from Christmas weekend 51 years ago and a special performance of holiday music from the United States Navy Band Brass Quartet.
This Week (ABC): Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; United Nations Secretary-General-designate Ban Ki-moon; and former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara; plus George Will, Johnathon Karl, and Melinda Henneberger of HuffPo.
FOX News Sunday: Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney; Archbishop Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and Anne Graham Lotz, founder, AnGeL Ministries.
Face the Nation (CBS): First Lady Laura Bush.
Late Edition (CNN): Today’s holiday edition features the best interviews and reports of the past year, including segments with President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass.
No, I'm not making any of this up. I swear to you — this close to Christmas, I wouldn't risk that kind of coal in my stocking, thank you very much.
Inifinitely more interesting is the story behind this morning's bird photo — a lovely peacock — and you can read it at Taylor's blog. The story of Jack's Christmas freedom is a dear one, and I'm thankful that Taylor shared it with all of us because, frankly, a whole morning of Lynn Cheney, Laura Bush, George and Bar, Huckleberry Graham, George W. Bush and Condi Rice? Not so much on the holiday cheer. So bless you, Taylor.
I'm done with the wrapping, and the food is as prepped as need be at this point. Today's big Smith family project is the picking up of the big Peanut present this year: a big girl bed and nightstand. She's outgrown the toddler bed, and we've bought her a bigger bed. This is going to be awfully fun, but it's a bittersweet moment because our Peanut is no longer a baby. They do grow quickly, don't they? Plus, I have to refill the bird feeders or there is going to be a winged mutiny.
What's going on at your house this morning? Give me a sec while I get myself another cuppa coffee…
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Heading to the airport in three minutes…hope to make it all the way to Colorado Springs before tomorrow. Happy Holidays everyone — Be Well, Be Safe, Be Good to Each Other!
PS — Wow. That’s a…Fitz!!
rufo at 0 — Safe travel to you, and happiest of holidays. :)
Greetings All and Let it Snow!
But not before rufo_firenza gets to Colorado Springs.
We’re doing the celebration today, so the ribs are already smoked, the cognac’s in place, the potato salad, black-eyes peas and turnip greens are all ready to go.
What, you don’t like the idea of barbecue for Christmas dinner? :-D
It’s yummy. All the kitties got new kitty toys and they’re already tearing them up. No children here. BYTM.
DairyMaid at 2 — Morning! Hope you and yours have a great Christmas. :) Any snow up your way? We’ve got nothing but drizzle here. The Peanut keeps asking when the snow will start.
Guitar at 3 — I say you just bring that yummy barbeque over here. Nummy! I found the most amusing cat toys for our kitty this year — they have a cloth ball that is weighted a bit at one end, and the other end has long feathers. You throw it out in front and then the kitty can bat it around. It drives ours absolutely crazy into a kitty frenzy. So hilarious.
Christy-
Very depressingly green and brown here in Vermont. And the weather forecast is for more temps in the mid 40’s for today and tomorrow. Our front-row seat to global warming…
Mornin’ all.
If the Peanut is 4 years old, umm Redd?
She hasn’t been a baby for going on 2 years.
We’re watching our Church on teevee this morning and headed to the Chrismas Eve program at 3 where they have real Camels, llamas, sheep, pigs and you name it grazing in the yard before the service.
Last year big Little T-, who was 3, wanted a closer look at the pageant so I carried up towards the pulpit. Of all the things to gaze in wonder at, he looks up this big ‘ol camel character and says to me, “look Dad, it has people feet.” I looked up there and the two folks making up the camel had bare feet. We still laugh about that one.
We’re then headed to my wife’s Granny’s for that side of the family’s Christmas present opening extravaganza and dinner.
Santa’s sleigh cranks back up for the ride back to the T- household for dreams of sugar plum fairies.
Hope ya’ll have a spledid day!
GPB, how long did you smoke your ribs?
Dry rub, or mopping sauce?
zzzzzzz…. morning all.
Woops…didn’t mean to be a holiday spoiler with my last note!
My Peanut is just thrilled that lots of out-of-town friends will be visiting, and her father and I are thrilled because other people will be cooking. Yippee!
CHS – did you see your elf self from last night’s craziness?
Twisted Martini @
93
Hi Christy and Happy Holidays to your family,
We are heading out to our youngest daughter’s house in Reading with our grandson who spent
the night with us.
Our oldest daughter will hook up with us
there, to open a few presents, watch the Patriots and have some Holiday cheer…
Tonight we attend Mass…
The weather will be in the 50’s so when I get back I might mow the lawn…
Jack
Happy Holidays to all. I still have a lot to do. Yesterday morning there was a cat outside on my window sill, begging me to let it in. So now I have this cat in the house. Problem is I have a daushand who doesn’t take to other animals. Keeping them separated is becoming a chore. Lady my dog will and has scratched up doors. I called my neighbor, no pet missing. She’s a pretty cat, very skinny. Perhaps someone dumped her.
T- at 8 — well, she’s still three, and I still think of her as my baby. SIGH But my momma wish of continued baby-hood is pretty much deflated. SIGH If only they could just stay tiny…
My munchkin and hubby and I are making veggie squares for taking to Sis’s house this afternoon, after those we have to bake the Chocolate Chess pie. Ok, the munchkin is 12(or “nearly 13″ as she insists) but she’s still my munchkin. Christmas Eve here in Connecticut looks to be green and around 50. My irises are blooming again….weird.
My old kitty’s favorite toy is a stick with feathers and when she wants to play she carries it around in her mouth and meows around it until someone plays with her.
Happy Holidays to all, or as they say at my daughter’s middle school:
Merry Happy ChrismaChaunaKwanzakuh and a Hopeful Solstice.
Bay State at 13 — have a wonderful trip and a safe one. Merry Christmas to you and yours. :)
twolf1 at 12 — I haven’t seen it…and now I’m a bit afraid to click thru. *g*
DairyMaid at 11 — Yes, other people cooking is the very best way to enjoy the holidays. *g* Hope you all have a great one. :)
Our third one is Maddie, our own 3 year old “peanut”. Yes they grow too fast and I too often wish they could stay at this adorable age. Best wishes to the lake community on this coming new year. Happy Fitzmas to all.
Christy,
Why buy a bed? Our youngest has sworn off beds for, I kid you not, cardboard boxes. He’d much rather sleep in a box with his blankets than anywhere else. With the boxes left over from presents shipped in, and more on the way after opening gifts, he’ll be able to sleep in a new box every night for quite a while.
I have visions of “Down and out in Beverly Hills” every time I see him sleeping like that, but at this point, if it gets him to sleep, so be it.
T- @
9
About six hours. Dry rub, consisting of extra-spicy Mrs. Dash and some organic herbs I got at Costco.
Yummy!
NaNOO at 14 — oh, goodness. Dachshunds can be so territorial — I know that ours is the mighty defender of the household (all nine pounds of her miniature doxie self — lol). But she and our kitty co-exist in a sort of mutally assured ignore each other pattern most of the time. Hopefully, yours can get to that point. One thing that helped for us was to allow the kitty to sleep on a towel for a bit, and then introduce the smell to the pooch on the towel first. Maybe that will work for you as well.
Embrace at 16 — I know. It’s in the 50s/60s here and my pansies are still blooming away. My dianthus has bloomed again as well. This weather pattern this year is freaking all of my perennials out.
Noonan at 21 — Too funny! She likees to sleep inside her Tinkerbell tent sometimes, like she’s camping out in the middle of her room. Too cute.
Jim at 20 — This is an awfully adorable age, when the whole world is full of magic. We are enjoying it immensely. Hope that you all have a very merry Christmas. :)
Nice and peaceful here this morning. Soon enough the kids and grankids will be up. We will open gifts this evening after dinner. A good friend of mine called last night. She said she has a lump in her breast the size of a marble, so that was a bummer to hear.
Speaking of weather… Here in WI/MI land, not only do we have no snow (although we had a couple inches of rain the past two days) it isn’t brown either! I was talking to my dad last Sunday as we were walking back to our car after the Packer game and noticed how green the grass was. Then my dad tells me that he may have to cut his grass before Christmas. He put down his winter fertilizer and we’ve had no snow since, so his grass is still growing!
Merry Christmas all you wonderful people.
Thanks for the well wishes earlier in the week for my Mom during her double mastectomy. I told her if sheer quantity of praying counts for anything she is going to be just fine. So far so good with no complications. She is doing as well as can be expected given that she woke up the day after the operation and her mother had passed away! When it rains it pours!
I hope all of you have a great Christmas and even more so a very happy and peaceful New Year!
MsAnnaNOLA at 29 — Am so glad your momma is doing well, and so sorry to hear about your grandma. I wish you more joy in the coming year — you have earned it and then some this past year. Hugs to you, and a very merry Christmas. Hope whatever lymph testing they did on your momma was minimal and that it is smooth sailing for her from here on out…
Christy Hardin Smith @
6
I gotta find one of those weightd ball with feathers!
You wanta-da barbecue, ya gotta get a smoker. one that burns charcoal, not one of those gas things that’s little more than an outdoor oven.
Barbecue is a process, a labor of love. There’s nothing convenient about it. You get dirty and you smell like smoke when you’re done. your kitchen is a mess and you have to have a place to chuck the ashes from the smoker when you’re done. But oh mah gawd, that smoked pig meat, corn bread, beans, greens and ‘tater salad is just too good.
Other thing smoke up nicely as well, but a slab or two of ribs is just about as “fine dinng” as I can stand,even if it’s on paper plates. :D
Nectar of the gods. :)
GPB-
That sounds like a good way to go. If I use a dry rub, I’ll get a spray bottle with apple juice and spritz ‘em with it. Kind of like a day at the spa.
For those that like the traditional sauce: after you smoke them 6 hrs., you can slather them and cover them in tinfoil and put ‘em back on the grill for a few more hours.
They’ll steam in that foil and fall off the bone when you try to pick them up.
T- @ 32
If you really want your juice spritz to taste great, you need it to be about 50 percent Jack Daniels. That’s one of my secrets. Jack Daniels and apple juice or Dack Daniels and diet-rite cola. Last night it was JD and Diet-Rite.
Dammit — you guys are making me hungry for this great BBQ place that we always eat at when we go on vacation at Hilton Head. Considering I am many hours away from there at the moment, this is BBQ torture.
Oh, and speaking of Hilton Head, we’re going to be vacationing down there in January, and I thought some of our readers in the area might want to get together for coffee. Thought I’d mention it now…and will mention it again after the holidays, since everyone is doing family fun this weekend…and maybe we can figure out a good place for coffee and conversation. :)
Barbecue is good stuff. Aren’t you in Atlanta? I bet Fat Matt’s is open. Go for it!
Blessings to you and yours and all firepups
Good Morning, All and Happy Holidays…
coffee just finished, anyone want some?
Guitar at 35 — Nope, I’m in WV. And the one place that used to have decent BBQ here is no longer open. So I either have to make it myself (which I do not have time for today) or just sit here and live vicariously through your BBQ tales. *g*
Organic at 36 — To you as well. Hope you have lovely holidays. :)
OC at 37 — Morning! I’ll take another cuppa — just got back inside from refilling the bird feeders. Man, they are hungry little birdies this week.
Christy my dog is getting on in years, a little gray in the muff. She is not friendly to any other dogs ever. She goes into attack mode and it doesn’t matter how much bigger another animal is. A couple years back, I had let her out, then I’m gazing out the window and I see a timber wolf running the ice. I’m excited to see the wolf, and then theres another one. I then remember Lady as she is running down to meet them and she is in heat. I’m thinking this it it for her. But you know, those wolves they stopped and stared her down, one came and sniffed her butt and then they walked away. She was lucky that time.
Noonan @ 28
Humbug!
Googling for an mp3 of John Facenda’s famous line about that Ice Bowl of legend. Imagine my disappointment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Facenda
…lump of coal, indeed.
But I can still hear that resonant voice in my head. Brilliant stuff.
Cheers anyway!
Guitar_Playing_Bastard @
33
I’ll bet you make some hellacious good coffee ….btw, why can NORAD track Santa but they were cluelessly lost in 9/11?
I had to drag this up from EPU
rumi @
252
…also
As we have a huge mix of both hardship and celebration here, I just want to let folks know that all are kept in thought here.
NaNOO at 41 — Sounds a lot like our PJ — who launched herself at a huge German Shepherd and scared the poor dog so badly that he rolled over and urinated on himself out of fear and submission. The dog’s owner said “Man, I bought this dog for protection.” PJ was strutting right back up on the porch just as proud as she could be — and she is the tiniest little dog. She just sounds large. *g* Must be a dachshund thing. Our other doxie was the same way, too.
NaNOO – did your dog recognize the wolves as wolves? or did she think they were really big dogs? My big guy likes other dogs and is excited to see them, but with wild things, he gets very quiet and contemplative… sits silently and watchs…
Christy Hardin Smith @ 18
don’t be scared :) It’s harmless and silly. Peanut may even enjoy it.
Has anyone heard from GrandmaJ recently? Was wondering how she and the family were doing. Or from marksb? Haven’t seen either of them the last couple of days, and they could both use some cheer this year — was hoping that, perhaps, they’d gotten some.
we had a rollicking good time last night – I laughed til I cried…
is this women thinking about running for president in 08 or something?
what the frig.
here’s what’s happening;
everytime cheney opens his mouth crap comes out and the “tubes” on “the interets” show everyone what a moron he is.
so it’s harder to call lynn a moron when she repeats the rubbish that dick told her to repeat.
I’ll tell you what though…if they started this strategy 6 years ago I bet she’d be running for vp in 08
anyway, time to take of the kid gloves when she repeats the rubbish her husband tells her to repeat
twolf1 at 46 — OH MY GAWD! That is freaking hilarious! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Anyone see Chris Dodd and Huckleberry on Greg Steph? Short Chris Dodd: believes diplomacy with Syria is good, and also sounds like he will be running for President. Short Huckleberry: We should never talk to Syria because the dicators will pull the wool over are eyes and magically get stronger.
OldCoastie, I don’t know if she knew or not. We live kind of isolated here. Visiting tho, she has attacked a full size poodle and a springer. She has gotten bite a couple of times. So goes for the hind quarter. Three weeks ago she went after a fisher here, there are not small either.
Short UN Secretary-General-designate Ban Ki-moon: Interesting.
…”because the dicators will pull the wool over are eyes and magically get stronger.” – Huckleberry should know. He helped here.
oh, got to go off topic for those of you wondering when santa gets to your neighborhood, you can track santa on the internet tubes
I’m on ie, can someone correct spelling in my link to read “track santa…”
‘preciate it
Christy was that your dachshund with a ball in the picture a few threads ago?
T- at 57 — Not our current doxie, no. But it looked an awful lot like our Tasha, who passed away a few years ago. (Miss her terribly, still — she was the best dog.) PJ is a black and tan short hair. Will put a pix up of her and the kitty at some point for you guys — they are cuties.
Wow, sorry I missed the elf thread last night. It was painfully funny even this am. If you are recovering from abdominal surgery, do NOT view ANY elfyourself links. It hurts, but I can’t stopppppp….ARRGGGHHHHH
I did one of my 14yearold daughter, and am gleefully anticipating being beaten about the head and shoulders with a pillow when she checks her email this morning!
It is a BEAUTIFUL day here in the bluest county in Iowa. Sunny, high in the upper 40s. green grass. If it keeps up, the trees will bud out. Iowa, the new winter destination, post Global Warming.
Best wishes to all you FDLer’s Joyous Festivus and Happy 2007
heya CHS and good morning
Looks like no white Christmas this year?
Huckleberry denounces Virgil Goode. Steph is surprised(?) that the WH and many Repugs remain silent.
George Will says he would swear on the Federalist papers instead of the Bible. *cough*
My little Lady also acts like a cat. She kills mice, doesn’t eat them tho. She also lays up on the inside window ledge, looking out the window a lot of the time.
OK, I didn’t wanna interrupt the holiday spirit. This Op/Ed from today’s Globe is interesting. Looking at the headline I first thought it was neocon mocking (to soften the surge on the way…) But it is real:
http://www.boston.com/news/glo…..verywhere/
Funny thing is: you’d think w/election results and ISG for cover, THIS would indeed be at least closer to ‘reality’. Does anyone else feel sorta anticlimatic, like the election was more or less ’stolen’ AGAIN with the ISG being superceded by “The Surge”?
Still, good the see a MSM running with THIS version.
Christy @44, I think it is a doxie thing, I had one growing up and she used to chase the neighborhood St Bernard, all 300 pounds of him, out of our yard all the time ( she was a miniature doxie so she weighed in at about 5 pounds!)
My daughter is sad there’s no snow again this year for Christmas. She wants to use her sled but so far nothing. We live on the coast so we don’t always get snow until January, but I always hope.
Hope the Peanut loves her new bed.
Ah wait! Happy holidays to all of yous.
I’ll have to try to control myself today and not talk to much politics and piss others off. Hope you all have good day and much cheer.
Good morning everybody. Bill Moyers’ “A Parable For Our Times” is worth a read, I think.
http://www.tompaine.com/articl….._times.php
CNN – arrest made in the polonium poisoning case. Italian security expert arrested
-update – he was “arrested on other charges”
Merry Christmas!!! Everybody.
awright! Everyone have a real good day…. I’m off to meet the Christmas “challenges” of my oh so very interesting family… I’m SURE I can do this!
Curious in Central Texas — how close are y’all to San Antonio?
Maybe we can find a compromise between politics and holiday
NORAD Tracks Santa
If the following is describing a highly classified center, why is the official describing it to Foxnews? Btw, it was a similar exercise that contributed to NORAD failure on 9/11
perris @ 49
Recently at 4Am in the morning *insomnia*, I saw an interview with Lynn Cheney and O’Reilly in full slavish mode. Her ladyship says she doesn’t pay attention to the polls or the mean things that are said about her, because as a “historian” she *knows* that time will correct the record. Ha! Think Dick is the scary one?
Today’s offerings surely deserve a Keith Olbermann “WORST . TALKING . HEADS . ON . TV . IN . THE . WORLD” award. Every Sunday ya think, “Can it get any worse?” and Yeeeeeeesssssssss, My Precious, it surely does!
Love & best holiday wishes to all the firepups out there……I’m passing ’round the rum balls; please take two – there’s plenty for all!
The networks are still keeping ninety percent of their eggs in the right-wing propaganda basket, in spite of the majority public opinion. The determination to shove the right wing message down our throats remains unfettered. Religio-crazies, neocons and right wing idealogues with a smattering of centrist (republican lite) democrats continue to rule the idiot box.
We’re all sittin’ ’round watching the old Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney flick, “Boys Town”. We love this film. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
It was quite the frenzy in the bird feeding area this am. Birds lined up on the fence waiting their turn, Blue Jays and Blackbirds swooping down not waiting their turn, fluttering and flinching everywhere you look.
Here’s to a happy, safe, and bright holiday to all. Cheers.
Waccamaw @ 75
Ooh I love rumballs. So good when you have a cold. I bet Ted stevens would know how to get those rum balls through the internets tubes with clogging them.
I’ll be on the glamourous Amtrak today leaving from Chicago to Minneapolis. I have a huge new book – Lawrence Wright’s “The Looming Tower” – and loaded up the ol’ Ipod mini with lots of good tunes and some BBC podcasts … so hopefully time will, er, chug along quickly. Mom has promised warm Lund’s lefsa with melted butter and cinammon sugar upon my arrival, so all is good. I wish you all a wonderful holiday!
mui @ 74
wow
shorter lynn;
“when the neo cons retake control they will write it the way they want it read”
You will be shaking me all of the night long, eh?
Josh Marshall found Celine Dion covering AC/DC.
-GSD
Better than the all Gooper line-up on the squawk shows.
Had a couple of folks request the rum balls recipe yesterday — so here it is. I use toasted pecans instead of walnuts in them, but this recipe is the best that I’ve found for rum balls.
jjk at 80 — Have a safe trip. I love riding the train, always have, and being able to do so with a good book and a loaded iPod sounds like fun to me. (Okay, it’s Amtrak, not the Orient Express, but still…) Wishing you a quiet ride. If you get a chance to upgrade your ticket to business class, do so — it’s MUCH more comfy and quiet.
perris @ 49
Perris ole’ bean,
Nice pickup. Think about it. Cheney just decided that he wants to testify for Irving and SuddenlyCheny’s wife is doing TeeVee?
Call me cynical, but I think they are up to somehting
looseheadprop @ 85
u think?
hmmm
Perris,
This means I have to watch FOX this AM, doesn’t it? Ewwh
If you don’t want to watch the talking heads try this. From Bob Harris over at thismodernworld.com another bit of Christmas WTF??? this one features Bing Crosby with Bob Crane and the Cast of Hogans Heros….BizzaroWorld indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P5nkhkNyS8
World update:
*Iran says FU to UN.
*Ethiopia sends fighter planes and helicopters on bombing raids in Somalia.
*Turkemnistan shrouded in uncertainty after death of Niyazov.
*Santa Claus taken into custody by ICE for traveling without his papers. Reportedly being remanded to a Halliburton detention camp for questioning about the growing problem of “anchor elves”.
-GSD
retirin’ in five @ 72
I’m in Round Rock.
Shorter Father Russ: Ladies just imagine being cornered in a bar by the talkative Reverand Rick Warren. *shudder*
Iowa Dem,
Wow, that is wierd. A very Gestapo Christmas indeed.
-GSD
Curious in Central Texas @ 90
Had to dig out the Rand McNally. Retirin’s better half has us slated for Boerne — also hill country, I’m told.
Merry Christmas to all. I usually lurk here but want to express my gratitude for all the wonderful information here in the articles and comments. I have never been better informed.
As to dachsunds – I have seven standard wires and two Airedales that I share my home with.(Also five month old wire pups) so I send a Merry Christmas to all the FDL critters. Mine all peacefully co-exist fortunately. It is a requirement to stay. I do think the minis are more territorial than the standards.
Brace yourselfs for this one and get ready to kick something.
Bush is reportedly mulling a “New Deal” to create jobs in IRAQ.
Incredible.
-GSD
Good Morning Firedogs,
extremely brief drive by – have to go to work for a few hours and am still trying to make arrangements to go to the Prayer Vigil t/b held at the private prison for the ICE detainees our Pach has been posting on – a 10 minute drive from chez cbl !!! and it’s stench is encroaching upon my Christmas spirit !!!)
a little different from a year ago in that it just doesn’t feel like Christmas without checking in with my toobz family here
mad progressive love to y’all, hope to check in this eve (if not in jail myself -lol)
US CONCENTRATION CAMPS – IN WYOMING!
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE MEXICANS, BUT I WAS NOT MEXICAN, SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.
NEXT THEY CAME FOR THE DRAFT DODGERS, BUT I WAS TOO OLD TO BE DRAFTED, SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.
THEN THEY CAME FOR ME.
If the linked photos and maps are accurate, odds are these dude ranch owners are within 20 miles of it…and they’ll know the deal if so.
People who herd cattle for a living know everything about all the land around them. Trust the old timers.
Silke Simon Bucking S Ranch Hanna, WY 82327
google it.
The location shown below (north facility) resides in a north/south
running stretch of river valley with irrigated hay pastures on either side.
View the area adjacent to the Pathfinder Reservior and the Seminoe
Reservoir IN CENTRAL WYOMING SOUTH OF CASPER on Google Earth / Google Maps relative to the larger Wyoming map found here:
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-…..7403/posts
CBS Sunday Morning just signed off w/the most beautiful footage of bluebirds in snow-covered trees……….well, that’s the last of the “good” stuff for the a.m. *g*
looseheadprop @ 87
lhp –
naww. time better spent clicking thru this listing of .wav files:
http://duryea.org/pinky/PB1stSeason.html
(but, OTOTH, the ‘home’ page has neocon bent included. What to do?)
I’m left imagining Cheney and Cheney as cartoon voices. But, I tend to agree. They ARE up to something.
Oh, and — ‘Happy Holidays’ lhp and lil prop and all!
GSD @ 89
You taking about anchor elves like this?
Quick, shameless plug, but it’s for a *really* good cause. I’ve got a page set up for donations to Heifer International–doing this in honor of my Mom. It’s got a modest goal of $250, and is just over half way there. Two hundred and fifty dollars is enough for a water buffalo. Daughter in Ohio is even likely to kick in a few bucks for the venture, because she loves her Gram *and* the Veggie Tales song “Everybody’s Got a Water Buffalo“.
Mom’s a puppy raiser for Canine Companions for Independence, and her wish list for Christmas *last* year included a donation to Heifer, but I couldn’t manage it at that time. Anyway, I know it’s the holidays, but if anyone is willing to kick in even 5 or 10 dollars, it would be awesome.
Posting on an alien computer, and won’t be able to follow up today. Thank you in advance to anyone who helps out with this–I’ll be sure to follow up after the holidays. In addition to this link, I’ve got banners for Heifer here and here.
Beat the Press: Meacham makes Jeffersonian/Madison argument in favor of separation of church & state. Reverand Rick Warren argues that killings of past century were caused by atheists (he categorically states Hitler was an atheist). Father Russ declines to resolve the issue and turns instead to Reverand Rick’s “controversial” olive leaf offered to not-pro-life-enough Barack Obama.
cbl @ 96
Oh please give us a long update if you manage to go to vigil. Is there anyway we can help the detainees (other than talking to stank congresscritters like Holy Joe)? Please share all you can.
Tomorrow on the farm for Christmas dinner. Smoked ham, deep fried wild turkey, venison, oyster stew, home made veg. soup, turnip greens, fried okra, (frozen from the garden), sweet potatoes, corn bread, (fried), biscuits and sausage gravy, pecan pie, home made cherry ice cream, Mexican beer, champagne, soda, iced tea, milk, and kids, kids, kids. From South Texas to New Mexico. And I don’t have to cook. Not much, I don’t.
Going for a change of pace tonight, we are doing make your own taco night. Then off to midnight mass if we make it. Gonna be a long day!
And sorry about the elf Christy, Balrog made me do it!
Now here’s a New Year’s Resolution I can get behind:
New thRedd.
Twisted Martini @
105
Guilty as charged. My sides ache this morning from all of that silliness.
A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you fine folk.
Then it’s back to work. There’s still evil and silly people out there that need to hear from us.
Christy Hardin Smith @
84
thanks Christy! It is suppose to be blue sky all day thru upper IL and WI, so think I will take my Amtrak coffee and read in the “scenic” car instead of my assigned seat (what a rebel *g*).
Did you happen to see PowWow’s comment at LastHurrah on EW’s CIPA 6(c) thread (from yesterday)? I thought it was really interesting.
Merry Christmas, y’all! I decided to sleep in instead of watch that horrible lineup on MTP and This Week – they run at the same time, here. Had NPR on–I did catch the bluebirds in snow on CBS – there’s always something nice at the end there. Now have (oh, how this Yankee has evolved) on Texas Country Reporter – sound off – pretty pictures of small town Texas decorations and people. Pleasant.
On a subject discussed here several threads ago (or was that another blog?), NPR actually had piece on the Left Behind video game, with discussion of whether it’s really a Christian game. A man(didn’t catch name) who’s usually on the other side from “liberals” said eemphatically it was not a Christian game “I don’t know anywhere the Gospel tells us to go out and kill people of other religions.”
And a comment about Wal-Mart – which responded that they will continue to sell the game for “their customers who want to buy it.”
Hmm. So what bout customers who want to buy “An Inconvenient Truth,”, uncensored music, etc.?
Oh well. I plan to look on the bight side today. When Weekend Edition goes off the radio, Christmas mujsic goes on the CD player. I like the classic, especially the Rennaisance, Baroque, etc. My favorite discs are the various Christmas Revels, with lots of old, old traditonal English, mountain America, and a few other countries’ trad Christmas tunes.
Ah, epu’d again.
well, maybe no one will notice my typos then — all the fault of the cats scattered about, between me and the keyboard.
tejanarusa @ 111
Keeping with my Texas theme this morning, where are you, Lone Star-wise?
retirin’ in five @ 112
Keeping with my Texas theme this morning, where are you, Lone Star-wise?
Hi, retirin’in five — I am in San Antonio. Are you also? I notice your question was based on relationship to SA. OTOH, if you were, you’d probably know where Round Rock was.
tejanarusa @ 113
Hi, retirin’in five — I am in San Antonio. Are you also? I notice your question was based on relationship to SA. OTOH, if you were, you’d probably know where Round Rock was.
In Michigan but looking to be in Boerne in five. Wife’s a tad older so she’ll be fully retired but I’m gonna still have to partake of the rat race for everything to financially meet. Commute from Boerne to Texas each day! Ha! Currently commute to metro Detroit — 73 miles one way.
Should have read Boerne to SA.
Boerne to San Antonio? You;ll find that MUCH easier — Boerne’s maybe 10 mi from the edge of town — although development out I-10 that way is exploding, so traffic can get pretty bad.
Do you mean you’ll be here in 5 years, 5 wks, or 5 months?
Years, unfortunately :-( Ready for a change now. The last great adventure of a lifetime — major continental relocation.
Well, give me a shout-out when you get here. I’d love to retire, but am not sure I will ever be able to. About 10 yrs till SS eligible. Detroit to Texas…whew. It’s a culture shock – I came here from Boston witha stopover in Oklahoma – the big culture shock was there, made arriving here much easier. Merry Christmas! I’m off to actually do some Christmas Eve stuff!
tejanarusa @ 118
Thanks for the discourse. Happy holidays to you and yours. (And Boston to Texas? You win, I think, the culture shock thing.) Talk to you again on future FDL tube-threads-internets- thingies.
Those Concentration Camps have been available for YEARS folks. Nothing new about them at all. Back in the early 70s the anti-war movement was fully exoecting to be sent there. Get ahold of a DVD of Peter Watkins’ superb “Punishment Park” (1971)
I got to surfing my favorite blogs very late today, so I’m sure everyone is long gone from this post. But blessings to you too, Christy. This story is a very dear one to me that I just knew you’d appreciate so much.
Jack’s a star. He made it into Christy’s Firedoglake Sunday morning bird post, special Christmas Eve edition! He’ll expect extra walnuts now.
Merry Christmas to everyone. Blessings to you all.