Merry Everything!

egregious
Merry Christmas. Official now in EST.

Care to tell us how you selected your screen name?

EG!

hey eCAHN, nice to see you :)

Oh, and I’m all about gifts that no money can buy. The others aren’t worth the credit card signatures.

Thanks egregious!

“Yet”. I like the sound of that word… it has possibilities.

Merry Christmas to all the Firepups that celebrate it.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Hey, thought you indicated beddy bye for you on prio thread, so I EPU my message

Good night & Merry Christmas to you. Let me tell you how much I look forward to the warm weather & your returning to dive again.

tis a wonderful video, eg. thanks

Thanks Egregious, those are gifts we can all use right now.

Egr! Love it!

a gift from me to all of FDL

sorry, eCAHN, i was dealing with stuff backstage and was just saying goodnite to those that were leaving. i’m here for a good while yet tonight :)

Bless you & your generous heart.

OK. So let us know what you do in the non-diving season.

Merry Christmas from the east coast!

Thanks ecahn. Been wrapping and choosing for weeks! REALLY!

Thanks Betsy!

that’s a lovely basket, thanks (((tex)))

Thank you, egregious.

Hope this Yule season is joyous for all, and hope you have the good fortune to be with those you love.

Merry Christmas, firepups!

Thank you Betsy – got any dark chocolate Macadamia nuts in there?

Shift in Iowa, where the tall corn grows: http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..-the-pack/

Awww, Betsy. That is very nice, but I was hoping it would be something like, you know, “Impeachment”….

Your typing fingers must be worn to the bone.

About that asparagus casserole, can I get the recipe?

of course Newt. There is something for every appetite.

Egregriously wonderful hopefully Hamsherian and Phoenixish womenly and Eli-ogious Trexiffic, Chrityopherous, Peanutological [and adjectivize yourself in this space_______) wishes to one and all.

Heartfelt thanks to posters and commenters for your many gifts, for you have been all Wonderful Counselors (with apologies to Isaiah 9:6 and to Handel).

Can you all smell the banana bread baking in Casa De Eureka? Mmm Extra walnuts.

Merry solstice/Christmas everyone!

In honor of the season & Mittens, here’s a pic
http://images.google.com/imgre…..&cd=2

Adeste Fideles, sung by Andrea Bocelli

neuro, impeachment is off the table. maybe it’s so all the food will fit. who knows?

what asparagus casserole?

I can’t remember where I saw it, but there was a story sometime in the last couple of weeks about participation in the Iowa caucuses that was very enlightening. Seems less than 40% of voters in the state actually participate and most do not make up their minds until the last week. And we let these people basically decide who will be the presidential candidates? Because after Iowa and New Hampshire most of the candidates are toast.

Delurking to wish for peace on earth and goodwill among men. Blessings on all of you!

Like a Phoenix rising from the asses.

-G

I want ya’ll to know that when the Freeway Blogger came by this past week and we made signs, I kept one and I most certainly do have IMPEACH on the table.

welcome msauna – blessings to you!

Here is my idea of Christmas music. ;-)

Thank you!
Happy Yule, joyeux noel, peace on earth.

Was catching up on facebook, something from Thanksgiving that caught my tongue…

And to you, msauna.
Stick around if you can!

veryverynice

egregious
Merry Christmas. Official now in EST.

Care to tell us how you selected your screen name?

Thanks eCAHN! “egregious” is my favorite word and so a natural for a nom de plume. It means they have gone too far, crossed a line, all summarized so nicely in that one word. My daughter does one better, with a favorite word “irk.” Much contained in only 3 letters.

Hope you all are enjoying the music tonight!

Msauna may that which believe in bless ou for the following year.

I’m actually of two minds about this. You are right that so very few people in Iowa & NH get to winnow the candidates. And they are almost ALL white.

But the other side is that they really get to see & talk to the candidates. That could happen in very few other states. Certainly not in NY where I live, or in any other high pop state. So in some sense I’m willing to let a small group of people with real time effort vet the candidates for me.

Merry Christmas…..

=G

Pax vobiscum to you too.

Welcome to your Christmas Eve de-lurking celebration.

Sit down, put up your feet, and stay a while. Tis awful hard to go back to de-lurking I gotta warn ya (wink wink)

Joyeux Noel and apologies to our French speakers, I tried very hard to find a youtube of this in the original French.

Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes sung by Westminster Cathedral Choir.

Speaking of toast as opposed to toasting, let’s all remember all those who went down in flames this year in part thanks to the attentiveness of Jane and the pups (which I guess makes us Janeites) and Josh and the Muckrakers and Kos and the Kossacks and Glen and the Glenzillers and be glad that they are gone.

There names are…I can’t recall….

Thanks for your presence, and please try delurking again.

and so it is christmas now on the east coast… merry xmas fellow pups…only gift i requested is impeachment of bushco!! thats it for me….night all

Thanks all for your gracious welcome. Since you’re all talking food, I have a question that’s been bothering me for awhile now:
There’s mayonnaise sauce, there’s hollandaise sauce, is there such a thing as punaise sauce?

I second that emotion!

I’m fond of the word egregious too. Something onomatopoeic about it.

unfortunately, I just got back from dinner at a house in my city’s northern burbs where the war is just going dandy, McCain’s da man, and shrub’s doing a dandy job too, or would be if it wasn’t for the various she-witches of the Democratic party (Hillary, Nancy, whoever). It’s like another world up there. A strange place, the burbs. Duke Cunningnham’s district.. why should I be surprised? rwcole, you live in a scary part of town…. :)

Our punaise is saucy, but to make a sauce of the ordinary punaises would be very hard, because they are either thumbtacks or fleas, interchangeably.

French is sometimes as weird as English.

Don’t think punaise is her right now, but come back with the Q when he is, and if he doesn’t have a recipe, we’ll make one up.

HUggles!

hehehhehe twas a fine virgin pun too

That’s beautiful, thank you!

Hear. Hear.

NH voters did have the good sense to vote against Chimpy in the 2000 primaries.

The 2000 general, not so much.

-G

That is funny I was just notified my account was fraud debited and I owe the bank $1040.00 in over draft. Someone seems to be having a merry time. Can’t take all this that seriously.
Brotherly love takes you farther than wealth. Best every day wishes. I’ll take brotherly love over all the religion that was ever invented. No I think religion is bad bad bad. Look at the horror it has inflicted on this beautiful planet and its creatures.
There is a wonderful photo essay called “The family of Man” may have been a Time/Life series. It is an eye opener. Drs without borders are trying to get MSM to spotlight the calamity that is being visited on these people and there lands while the “civilized world turns exploits them”. Please spare me how great god is that allows this. It is a joke. When you ask your god why you won’t get an answer. John Edwards answer of tolerance is not enough for the people. If FDL is clubby then you have a club is that what id intended. I thinl otherwise. I like the open atmosphere of social comment. EW’s site is more legal and I think proactive and you have made a place for both. That is good. Humanism has a place. ypu ceretainly have your religion until it impinges on the freedom of others. That is why church and state are separate. When the religious drum is pounded in an election as in the past two I hear a warning: now look at the devatation.

Punaise sauce occurs only when Punaise is out-punned.

It’s their names are, of course. It’s the late hour.

Ah, clear as mud. Could you use them thumbtacks as little flea flickers?

IMHO, the North County folk are subject to moral intimidation. Duke is the first albatross to hang ’round their necks. But there are many others.

Punaise out-punned? Not gonna happen.

Hope your overdraft gets straightened out.

And echo your sentiments.

New Year’s resolution… I WILL LEARN the new Hinky Linky
Dance.

but when it does … you will see punaise sauce.

I have a high-punning friend. I offered to eintroduce him to punaise & he demurred on the basis that pun wars can be lethal. I checked it out with punaise, who agreed.

Personally, I wonder if they’re both afraid of the competition.

Will he PUNish us?

i taught Loo Hoo in 2 minutes. wanna learn?

And obviously NOT tonight!

Merry Christmas everyone, be sure to tell O’Reilly I said “go fuck yourself”!

It was a landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Curated by Edward Steichen, first shown in 1955, and the biggest selling photo book of all time.
Not showing off, just hate to see Time/Life credited with something they did not do.
It used to be cool for the photosophisticats to diss its humanism. Was rehabilitated when historians discovered that the show (but not the book) concluded with a mushroom cloud photo.

Fröliche Weihnachten:

Stille Nacht by St. Thomas Boys Choir

Angelic.

I have a high-punning friend. I offered to eintroduce him to punaise & he demurred on the basis that pun wars can be lethal. I checked it out with punaise, who agreed.

These “PunSkirmishes” have to happen organically. Never know when one will break out.

I always thought of punaise as a spread (not reall a sauce) gone wild. Very zesty but not at all a Dijon.

Night Wangdang. Sleep well and a merry C-Word to you.

I once had my New Years res printed in USAToday. It was

I resolve to do no thankless tasks in yyyy. And I am sure that if I don’t break my resolution on January 1, it will last no longer than Jan 4.

What was curious is that it was on a page mainly with business people. The thrust of the other resolutions was stuff like cutting costs, or increasing revenues, or being a real leader, leading one to wonder what they had been doing for their prior business career.

g’nite wangdang and merry christmas

I saw Hillary and Edwards talking about faith on CNN, sort of like a town hall thing with a ditzy moderator. Obama was there, I think, but I didn’t see that part.
The people clapping as they panned the audience…that part gave me a chill. They were clapping so fervently, as if to say, “Yes! THIS is what we want to hear: How religious are you?” I didn’t stick around very long.
I could only imagine my late mother, the preacher’s kid, being horrified at the question and simply walking out.
Most people have a grocery list of things they want in a candidate and, especially with food prices and gas prices so high, they are practical.
“Do you let go and let God?” is not even on their list, not on the back of the envelope, nowhere.

Sleep well Wangdang!

*standing on chair clapping*

eGreg, thanks for the wonderful words and wishes. Right back atcha, luv.

Blessings to you…

{{{MWAH!}}}

Yes, they can be deadly unless you do right. I’m a low punner myself. A groan is just as good as a laugh. Preferable actually. Example: I’ve been a fisherman for a good forty years now. I used to fish exclusively with worms and became quite well known, until my friends began introducing me to women as their friend the master baiter and I had to switch to fly fishing.

eg, thank you for the virtual christmas eve gathering in front of the fireplace tonight.

As a musician I always liked the story of how Stille Nacht/Silent Night got written. The organ wouldn’t play, so they had to make up something on the spot for guitar and voice. Musicians, like physicians, have to go by the rule “First do no harm” but I think they got this one right.

So here I ask a Q stemming from my being a history moron. The U.S. has experienced these other Great Awakenings in the past. Is this what it’s like to live thru one? And if so, what did the rest of the population think at the time?

Be careful with the hook.

Yes, they can be deadly unless you do right…

msauna throws down!

It gets worse,

also means:
flat like une punaise, to be servile or to be hungry.
a punaise is also a woman who is disrespected, a camp follower(Punaise de caserne) or a religious bigot,

In Marseilles, it is an exclamation of surprise or spitefullness.

But at the lake, it is an expression of joy.

See, if I had gone to bed when I said I was, I would have missed this.

That’s a cheery Christmas thought… they could use some intimidation up there. Or at least a reality check. I mean, seriously, you just wanna scream at these people: get a clue, your congressman is in an agricultural work camp for 17 years.. he used your tax dollars to buy a solid gold commode.. your hinterland is either on fire or about to be sold to Blackwater, no affordable gas for you to drive your luxury SUVs to and from your sprawling mcmansions, no water with which to water your lawns, no energy for you to heat and cool your climate-inappropriate villas… get a clue :) Am I being unfair?

Would a “yuck” help?

Oh, you missed one! Master baiter, get it? Know what I mean, know what I mean? Wink wink nudge nudge

I want to share this centerpiece my creative and talented sister made for our family meal tomorrow…hope it works. If it doesn’t and you are so inclined, it is under photos on my fb page. Cheers!
http://www.facebook.com/photo……=636199743

Now that you mention it, I think it may be at that. I am not sure that the rest of the country was necessarily even aware of some of the earlier one (1790s and 1830s) as those tended to be somewhat regionalized and confined to frontier regions (upstate New York in the first and Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio Valley in the second). The revival in the early twentieth century was better advertised, however. My impression (unduly influenced by Clemens, Bierce, Mencken, and the like) is that most of the country thought they were deranged.

I doubt that any of us lived through any of the prior awakenings.

No but he may be a bit saucy

BlueStateRedHead’s head is hitting the pillow. Good night to all pups in all time zones and keep the home fires burning till tmr.

Wesolych Swiat!

W Zlobie Lezy

And few relish the thought.

Oh dear, I’m afraid you’re asking the wrong person.
What little I know is from wondering why the hymns sounded so odd at a local church. Found out they were all written at around the turn of the last century, the 1900s, and I read a little about that awakening:
The Third Great Awakening

Dru that is awesome!

(But I think we should serve dinner first.)

Night BSRH.

most of the country thought they were deranged.

Is that a valid historic judgement? I ask in ignorance, without any snark. That’s certainly what it seems like now. Perhaps I should read wiki? And wigwam, though we didn’t live thru the priors, we seem to be living thru one now.

Night DrDick and thanks for many good lessons.

sleep well my friend

oh my stars, dru that is forking gorgeous – she made it? dang

g’nite bsrh

Agreed. But “the country” is undereducated and knows nothing of those prior events. Nor would I, had my alma mater not dragged me kicking and screaming to some semblance of a liberal education.

Hmmm. Too much to think about tonight. Will return to subject in more alert state.

The creaky Democratic establishment is trying to ‘get religion’ just at the time most of America seems to be getting a little tired of the snake handling extremists.

Not exactly leaders, these Democratic establishment mooks.

-G

As to the Third Awakening in the early 20th century, pretty much. If you read the authors I mentioned, they all make fun of them. The movement, however was quite widespread, particularly in rural America, but also LA. It was where our modern evangelist tradition and the tent revival were born. I think, perhaps, the great divide this time was urban-rural.

Never know when one will break out.

Acne-ally, zits kind of thing isn’t so bad if you practice the KIPS Method: Keep It Pimple, Stupid.

A good pun-off doesn’t happen by Oxydent.

I’m fond of the word egregious too. Something onomatopoeic about it.

I’m fond of anyone who can spell onomatopoeic

Evening all..

Now that’s what I’m talking about!

Good information I would like a copy the family should include all life forms if we see ourselves in this way it will be better…Carl Sandburg was a lierary contributor… peace

*groaning*

Thanks TexBetsy and Suzanne. She makes one every year and every year they get better! (I’m very proud) The rings are butter cookies filled with marzipan and decorated the traditional way with flags and a little nisse man (elf)!

Hell I’m fond of anyone who can say it!

707. You get tonight’s First Place!

Good night to you.

I had to look onomatopoeic up in the dictionary, as it was not in Microsoft’s. why am I not surprised.

hey sunny

And wigwam, though we didn’t live thru the priors, we seem to be living thru one now.

No doubt about it. And, it’s my worst nightmare come true.

Going back 35 years, sage friends told me these days were coming. I acknowledged the “possibility,” but gave it low “probability.”

But, it’s now here among us. And, we must eradicate the notion that someone’s claimed “higher power” should hold sway in this nation’s political discourse. “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”

Well, I think I will head to bed. Want to be asleep when Santa comes so he brings me what I asked for: impeachment, widespread prosecutions, RICOing the GOP, and dismembering corporate media. Night all and dreams of sugar plums. May the elves bring you what you most want in the coming year.

No one was prescient enough to warn me in advance, and I am truly in culture shock.

goo night Dr. Dick. If wiching could make it so.

About that asparagus casserole, can I get the recipe?

Nine or ten-inch caserole
alternating layers of:
either lightly-steamed fresh or canned asparagus
cream of mushroom soup
Ritz crackers
intersperse small pats of sweet butter
very lightly peppered

bake with foil loosely covered for 35 min @ 375, uncover and complete baking until crackers are browned

“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
The Rabbi Yeshua al Nazarat’s injunction of separation of church and state (which is exactly what it was). I think he feared corruption of his religion by politics. Prescient, he was. Now I really am off to bed.

g’nite dr (hug) dick

It is now Christmas in CST. Merry Christmas, or whatever it is that you celebrate this time of year, to all.

Nite everybody! Happy everything.

g’nite dru

A very merry Christmas to you, egregious, and all you FirePups!! Wishing you much happiness in your stockings and in your heart at dawn.

don’t get all rambunctious, neuro, still got the left coast with a good 2 hours to go still

Hey Rayne,

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.

Peace to you all. I’m off too. Thanks for the warm welcome! (And for the groan, Suzanne!)

Rayne!
Happy whatever!

My late father warned me, among others. I heeded at some level, but never fully acknowledged the danger. These are extremely evil people, religious fascists with doomsday weaponery. Evil incarnate!

night msauna. welcome.

I couldn’t agree with you more.

does the first amendment prevent us from wishing punition for rightwing bloggers who pursue and persecute real life people. That’s would be a real stocking stuffer.
turly, that’s truly good night.

Well, I think I will head to bed. Want to be asleep when Santa comes so he brings me what I asked for: impeachment, widespread prosecutions, RICOing the GOP, and dismembering corporate media. Night all and dreams of sugar plums. May the elves bring you what you most want in the coming year.

Best part. If Santa brings you that, we know you’ll share.

g’nite msauna, delurk more often :)

hey rayne

“evil people, religious fascists with doomsday weaponery. Evil incarnate!”

Who? Huckabee supporters?

rambunctious

Just back from singing in the choir at midnight Mass — All the very best wishes to all of you. And so to bed…

Good night to you Marion. Hope midnight mass was spectacular. Merry Christmas.

Huckabee has emraced Hagee. That’ll do for starters. But it gets worse from there.

Snarkless, you made it up!

Thanks and goodnight everybody!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

(Relurking and toddling off to bed.)

I’m wondering about this.. people are all up in arms ’cause Huck has embraced Hagee, sayin’ that Huck is pandering to the fundie right. But is it really pandering when you ARE a member of the fundie right? I mean, is there any reason why we think that Huck isn’t every bit as loony in his beliefs as Hagee?

I second the motion;
and have a suggestion;

Let each of us contributr $100.00 to an impeachment fund and let Emptywheel and here legal beagle team shepherd a legal effort to unseat the Busho vampires.

Found in the middle of a highway yesterday, I’ve named her Noel.

not a bad idea.. it beats hoping that we wake up tomorrow to find that Santa has brought us an impeachment pledge from Nancy and Harry

Lindy, she’s beautiful. Merry Christmas to you both – and all possible blessings to you for giving Noel her home.