O Come, Emmanuel – Lindsey Stirling & Kuha’o Case
Good Tidings of Great Joy
Some happy news on the eve of Christmas Eve.
There’s no missing Trump’s ‘Merry Christmas’ message
Oklahoma mailman clips mailbox, falls out, gets run over
Man Gives the Shoes Off His Feet to Stranger in Need at Kentucky Chick-fil-A
That day Hallie was one of many customers who noticed an old man in need of some help. “His shoes were being held together with duct tape,” the teenager recalled to WBKO.
Another diner noticed the man too, and Hallie says she watched as he looked in him the eye, took off his boots and handed them to him. The good Samaritan, who was later identified as Mark Townsend of Scottsville, ate the rest of his meal wearing just his socks, then walked barefoot out into the cold.
My granddaughter said, ‘Pa, why did you do that?’ And I said, ‘because God spoke to me, and said to give him my shoes,'” Townsend later recalled to WBKO.
He continued: “God said, I’ll supply your needs, and that’s all that matters. I don’t worry about nothing. I have a roof over my head, shoes on my feet.”
‘I’m glad we were able to give back’: Nonprofit surprises 12 military families at Fort Bragg by paying off $2,000 worth of layaway balances in time for Christmas
•A national nonprofit organization paid off $2,000 in layaway balances for 12 Fort Bragg military families
•Pay Away the Layaway plans to pay off $10,000 in layaway balances for military families nationwide
•The families were called to the South Post Exchange under the guise of a customer appreciation exchange Tuesday
•The twelve families were selected based on the balance and items, with a focus on families that had put clothing and toys on layaway
Religious Jews Celebrate as Trump Commutes Sholom Rubashkin’s Sentence
There was dancing in the streets of Brooklyn on Wednesday as President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin, a former supplier of kosher meat who was sentenced to an unusually long prison term of 27 years in 2010 after being convicted of fraud the year before.
Rubashkin’s slaughterhouse and meat-packing plant in Iowa was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2008, who found illegal aliens working there. Later, he was arrested on various fraud charges. Though the charges relating to hiring illegal aliens were later dropped, he was convicted of the fraud charges. The judge, Linda Reade, handed down an unusually long sentence that critics suspected had been motivated by antisemitism. Critics pressed President Barack Obama for clemency, without success.
CRITICS PRESSED OBAMA FOR CLEMECY WITHOUT SUCCESS? FOR A JEW? BE SERIOUS.
I saw this on Yahoo and the comments were absolutely vile. Yes, he used illegals, the same as hundreds of other companies. But he served nine years. How many companies are even fined?
[CtH: Not the ones who donate to Democrats, you can be sure of that. Not in New Yuck City.]
The billionaire who is saving Bethlehem
GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS, DOESN’T HE?
Samer Khoury is not a diplomat, which makes his self-assigned mission of restoring the little town of Bethlehem that much harder.
Despite incredible odds against increasing violent protests in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, this businessman has been able to attract the support from heavyweight patrons of all faiths, including Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C.; Prince Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a senior member of the royal family of Saudi Arabia; and, more controversially, Sheikh Muhammad A. Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, the Sunni Muslim in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/03/the-billionaire-who-is-saving-bethlehem.html
Trump Praises “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”
OUR NEW PRESIDENT IS ONE OF THIS NATION’S GREATEST JOYS.
[CtH: I am SO GRATEFUL we have a president again who HONORS GOD and LOVES AMERICA.]
The gift that keeps on giving! A Christmas Story star Zack Ward, 47, reveals how much he STILL makes off the holiday classic 34 years on – and why he gives it ALL to his mom
Zack Ward, now 47, played iconic bully Scut Farkus, in A Christmas Story. He was 13-years-old when he scored the role and still receives royalties from it. The American classic was shot in Canada so his checks are in Canadian Dollars.
Ward says he is still recognized on the streets despite being over 20 years older. Zack Ward, now 47, who played iconic bully Scut Farkus, told Page Six he gets something, but it’s not make-me-rich money.
‘You’re going to be so disappointed,’ Ward said. ‘It’s basically about $1,800 every two years … and it comes in in Canadian money because we shot in Canada.’
Ward was 13 when he scored the role. He says he puts the extra money aside in a special account for his mother, should she ever need it.
True love lasts a lifetime
IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE LIKE THIS IN YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE TRULY BLESSED
Comatose woman unexpectedly awakens in time for Christmas, asks for water
ADA, Minnesota, December 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Sheila Lewis was in a coma and hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for 12 days. Her family expected her to die, but instead she woke up and asked for a glass of water. Now she’ll be able to celebrate Christmas with her family.
Arends said the “world-renowned doctors” at Mayo Clinic told her they had “never seen a case like” Sheila’s, according to a Twin Cities report. “They didn’t even know what they were dealing with,” the daughter added.
Sheila fell into a coma. She lay unresponsive for weeks. Arends explained that her mother’s condition was described as a “vegetative state.” Finally, the family decided to disconnect life support machines.
“Nothing more we could do,” Arends told Wallevand.
“We canceled plans and brought the kids down to say goodbye to grandma,” Brandt added.
Twelve long days – with no food, water, or oxygen assistance – went by. It had been six weeks since Sheila last uttered a word.
Then the miracle happened. Sheila asked for water.
“Did she just talk?” Brandt asked, according to Wallevand’s account. “Is she talking?”
Sheila not only awakened, but began to recover. When the Mayo Clinic heard about it, doctors asked to see Sheila.
THROUGH CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
12 days of Trump
YOU SIMPLY MUST WATCH THIS.
[CtH: “NOT HILLARY!” lol]
Peace on Earth? Not during New York suburbs’ Christmas light wars
Over-the-top Christmas displays have turned normally quiet neighborhoods in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut into tourist destinations – and pitted neighbor against neighbor in a battle of privacy versus holiday cheer.
Amid the bedazzled homes in the Dyker Heights section of New York’s Brooklyn borough, December crowds from as far away as Japan are expected to top last year’s 100,000 gawkers, said Fran Vella-Marrone, president of Dyker Heights Civic Association. Tour buses arrive nightly from Maryland and elsewhere during peak season from Dec. 15 to Jan. 1.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/peace-earth-not-during-york-suburbs-christmas-light-172336265.html
You Got Served! Bronx teen, 13, dance-battles his TEACHER in front of a wild crowd – with both showing off amazing Harlem Shake and Pop-Lock moves
An amazing video shows Amir Wilson, 13, battle his dance coach in front of a packed auditorium filled with his fellow students at a Bronx, New York, school.
‘Battled my dance teacher at my school talent show. He killed it. It was lit. I had to give it to him at the end,’ he said in the original post on Saturday
This Christmas tree topper will make you want to throw up … after you stop laughing uncontrollably
“The old dame was due a modern makeover, so we thought why not venerate the real women inspiring us in 2017,” says WomenToLookUpTo.com, explaining it’s campaign to modernize the traditional Christmas angels that sit atop fir trees.
The website also offers an “All Star” pack that includes Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, Angelina Jolie and Adele decorations.
[CtH: I’m wondering how many of these things they sold, seeing as the minority of Americans who still approve of Hillary are the same people who hate Christmas and the flag![
Did Melania design the White House decorations as a sweet snub toward Michelle Obama?
The First Lady’s candy room – full of ornaments made from sugar – seems to aim as a pointed response to Michelle’s healthy eating. Melania Trump decked-out the Red Room at the White House with sweet treats. It seems the First Lady might be mocking the health-conscious Michelle Obama. The Trump family previously debuted their holiday greeting card, which was a change from the Obamas’. The card read: ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’ – signed the First Family. The card axed the Obama family’s religion-inclusive note wishing Americans a ‘joyous holiday season’.
[CtH: Not likely, since I’ve seen Melania continuing the organic garden and talking about the importance of healthy eating in her own life.]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5204783/Melania-mocks-Michelle-candy-filled-Red-Room.html#ixzz526AcpA69
‘Christ’ Purged from Christmas and the Left Rejoices
Newsflash: The War on Christmas is over. Those who rightfully believe that Christ needs to be a part of Christmas and those rebelling against the politically correct tyranny looking to strip all spirituality from the holiday have lost.
According to the latest results from the Pew Research Center – and already being gleefully shouted from the rooftops of certain left-leaning media sites orchestrating the campaign against faith-based Christmas – while 90 percent of Americans still celebrate Christmas in one way or another, a majority find that the religious elements of Christmas are emphasized less and less and few of them care about that change.
If accurate, it not only tells us how truly lost we are as a nation, but underscores the dangers of absolute power, discrimination, and propaganda.
[CtH: We live in New Testament times.]
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Elitist Schmucks
The GOP’s tax bill will mean an extra $800 or $1,000 per year for a working family.
Lefties mocked this on Twitter, saying that wouldn’t matter A BIT to ANYONE. But the REALITY these elitist schmucks clearly do not understand is that $800 to $1,000 is YUGE for many families.
- More than half of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings and checking accounts combined.
- Most of these say they couldn’t pay for a $400 emergency without borrowing money or selling some of their possessions.
The true hypocrisy of those tweeting twits may be that they’d shriek tweet outrage the mere suggestion of reducing public benefits by $800 to $1,000 per year.
Writing in The Atlantic, a self-described “middle class” writer described what it was like to be one of those Americans who doesn’t have $400 to spare:
I know what it is like to have to juggle creditors to make it through a week. I know what it is like to have to swallow my pride and constantly dun people to pay me so that I can pay others. I know what it is like to have liens slapped on me and to have my bank account levied by creditors. I know what it is like to be down to my last $5 — literally — while I wait for a paycheck to arrive, and I know what it is like to subsist for days on a diet of eggs. I know what it is like to dread going to the mailbox, because there will always be new bills to pay but seldom a check with which to pay them. I know what it is like to have to tell my daughter that I didn’t know if I would be able to pay for her wedding; it all depended on whether something good happened. And I know what it is like to have to borrow money from my adult daughters because my wife and I ran out of heating oil.
CtH: This is us as well. Life got much easier once we had grown, well employed offspring who generously help out when we suffer a short fall. This year of the Trump Economy has been amazing! We were able to easily afford what we needed, plus splurge on some of the stuff we had done without for years (like a dehumidifier for the moldy basement FINALLY).
The fact is that architects are the worst paid white collar workers in the country. They live from job to job and woe betide the family budget if even a single client stiffs them. Blessedly, this happened to us only twice; it was devastating and hard to forgive since neither of these selfish couples were depending on a single income to care for a disabled adult and 3 minor children!
Dearest is well established in his profession now, but he was new and wet-behind-the-ears when Saddam invaded Kuwait. That recession put him out of work for a full year. I was disabled with medical bills and our three elementary aged daughters needed all the usual, plus child care help for me whenever Dearest wasn’t home and they were.
A few differences between us and that fellow who wrote in The Atlantic are that I know what it’s like to be down to my last three cents (for a month!); we’re allergic to eggs so ate oatmeal while waiting for the next paycheck; and our daughters knew from a very young age that they were on their own for cars, weddings, and college. We were just really grateful that God gave them all straight teeth!
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Stilton’s Christmas Toon
This is the Hope n’ Change cartoon we waited nine years to write.
Thanks to jolly old Saint Trump and his happy workshop of GOP elves, Christmas came early for people who pay taxes, people who want jobs, people who don’t want to be fined if they can’t afford Obamacare, people who support Israel, and people like us who are currently singing “O, Schadenfreude” to the tune of “O, Tannenbaum.”
Of course, the Democrats also gave us a significant gift: their unanimous opposition to all of the above. Meaning that when the rising economic tide lifts all boats, they’ll still be holding their breath in the backseat of Teddy Kennedy’s sunken car wondering when help from voters will arrive (spoiler alert: it won’t).
http://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-very-barry-christmas.html
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This, of course, does NOT apply to OUR comment section! LOL
From the Babylon Bee (Christian satire):
U.S.—Doctors speaking on behalf of the nation’s medical community Wednesday recommended that Americans not stare directly into the black, empty void encompassing the nation’s comment sections.
While doctors have long known of the harmful effects of dwelling upon the vast wastelands comprising comment sections on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and websites at large, the symptoms have become far more pronounced in recent years, according to medical professionals.
“We’ve found that severe psychological side effects may accompany thinking too long and hard about any comments you encounter while you’re on the internet,” Dr. Sherman Danforth, a leading psychology expert told reporters. “If you must browse a comment section for any reason, we recommend a brief, cautious glance to get a sense of it, but turn away quickly, lest you do irreparable damage to your psyche.”
Doctors also confirmed staring too long into the void of comment sections can have the undesirable side effect of having the void stare back into you.
“Each day, thousands of people stare too long into the black hole of vitriol present in online comment sections, correlating things which were not meant to be correlated in the human mind, and end up babbling incoherently about ‘the eyes in the darkness,’ ‘the black pit,’ and ‘the nameless one,’” Danforth added.
“Don’t let it happen to you.”
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http://babylonbee.com/news/medical-experts-now-recommend-not-staring-directly-comment-sections/
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Thinking of Our Warriors at Christmas Time
It’s unusual to post anything in the afternoon, but there’s a lot that needs to be seen this weekend.
Thinking of the Mascots and all the others who cannot be with family this year. God bless them all and keep them safe. We have your back, now and always.
CtH: Last year, Dearest and I were on our own and didn’t bother to decorate at all. I got feeling a tad guilty what with the neighbors and all, so I ended up blowing a whole $3 on a big red bow that I stuck to the door. This year, though, HURRAH!!! We are decorated and excited to be hosting Daughter #2 (aka, Army Princess), with Hubby, Son, Daughter, and Grandchild #7 who is still in the oven.
Daughter #3 (aka, Warrior Princess) is snowed in at the moment, but if the plows get out and they don’t get any more, she’s bringing Grandchild #6 to celebrate Our Lord’s birth and the renewal of the #2s wedding vows (10 years! wow!).
The Warriors aren’t military (any more), but Warrior Prince used up his days off on his sister’s nuptials, so he has to miss out. Daughter #1 (aka, Mama Buzz) is trying to be okay with sharing our joyful time via technology. My phone had 81 texts on it today! LOL Daddy Buzz is active duty and, unlike Army Prince and Army Princess, was not able to get enough time off to make the trip. This evening, Mama and Bunny did Mother-Daughter Christmas manicures. 🙂
We are all just super grateful that none of them are deployed! It’s hard to celebrate Christmas when one’s offspring are in harm’s way.
More than 200,000 Pounds of Turkey, Ham, and Shrimp Headed to U.S. Troops for Christmas
U.S. troops serving in the Middle East will be enjoying a traditional holiday meal this Sunday, thanks to the men and women of the Pentagon’s Defense Logistic Agency Troop Support.
- 112,092 pounds of turkey
- 59,430 pounds of beef
- 38,430 pounds of ham
- 29,304 pounds of shrimp
- 690 cases of cookies
- 16,002 assorted cakes and pies
- 6,564 pounds of marshmallows
- 3,743 gallons of juice
- 2,145 gallons of eggnog
“Our warfighters spend a lot of holidays away from their families and miss out on some of their favorite family traditions,” she said. “We take great pride in ensuring a taste of home is delivered to every warfighter,” said Robin Whaley, who leads a DLA Troop Support Subsistence team in Philadelphia.
Trump awards the Purple Heart to soldier, 25, who was injured in an IED blast in Afghanistan during Walter Reed visit after wishing wounded warriors Merry Christmas
President Donald Trump stopped by Walter Reed on Thursday afternoon to spread Christmas cheer to wounded troops. While there he awarded the Purple Heart to 1st Lt Victor E. Prato.
Trump conversed and took selfies with several recovering service members. In brief remarks to reporters, Trump said he wanted to ‘to say hello to some of the bravest people anywhere in the world’ and wish them Merry Christmas.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE FROM OBAMA’S “YOU GUYS MAKE A GREAT PHOTO OP.”
[CtH: Seeing this guy in a neck brace and maybe unable to move … it makes me furious all over again the way that John Kerry manipulated the system to get himself Purple Heart medals for tiny scratches. ::simmer::]
While Most of DC Slept, Sec. Zinke Wandered A Frozen Arlington Cemetery With A Christmas Wreath
Thousands of people lined up at the gates of Arlington Cemetery before dawn Saturday morning. It was a bitterly cold. The temperature was far below freezing. There was snow on the ground. None of it dampened the spirits of those who looked forward to laying a wreath on a gleaming white headstone of an American hero.
Upon entering, the family members line up behind a semi trucks full of wreaths.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/while-dc-slept-sec-zinke-stood-in-the-freezing-cold-to-lay-a-wreath-on-the-grave-of-a-friend/
Wreaths Across America At Arlington National Cemetery Attracts Thousands
[CtH: Daddy Buzz’s best battle buddy is buried here. I hope he got one!]
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/16/wreaths-across-america-at-arlington-national-cemetery-attracts-thousands/?utm_source=site-share
Watch the Guys From Black Rifle Coffee Play Christmas Songs With Guns
SOME HIGH VELOCITY CHRISTMAS TUNES
The small-batch, roast-to-order, veteran-owned coffee company is known for making fun videos of themselves shooting and blowing stuff up, but they just may have out done themselves with this one.
The video opens with the men, wearing Christmas sweaters of course (one of which features Sasquatch in a bikini), playing Jingle Bells by shooting at the musical plinking target. There are also appearances from Santa and a man dressed as Ralphie from the Christmas Story — complete with pink bunny suit.
[CtH: Thanks for this one, Pete! My offspring are going to get such a kick out of it.]
Watch the Guys From Black Rifle Coffee Play Christmas Songs With Guns
Military Dad Surprises Girls After They Ask Santa for Christmas Homecoming
Delingpole: Christmas Is Here, Everyone! EPA Officials Are ‘Leaving in Droves’
More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration. What marvellous news to ease us all into the festive Christmas spirit, eh readers?
Pope Francis: If You Take Away Jesus, Christmas Is ‘Empty’
Addressing a group of children who came to the Vatican on Sunday for the blessing of the figures of Jesus for their Nativity scenes, the Pope told them that only a Christ-centered celebration is the “real Christmas.”
After his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the pontiff thanked the children for their “joyful presence” in Saint Peter’s Square, and invited them to pray at home in front of the manger scene with their families, allowing themselves to be attracted “by the tenderness of Jesus child, born poor and fragile among us, to give us his love.”
Romans decry “mangy”, city’s threadbare Christmas tree, as symbol of decline
Romans are up in arms over the tree that has been dubbed “Spelacchio.” Roughly translated as mangy or baldy, the name given to the tree in the capital’s Piazza Venezia has become a symbol of what many see as the eternal city’s eternal decay.
“It’s a disgrace. It hurts even to look at this Christmas tree,” one Roman resident told Reuters Television, using an Italian term suggesting that it looked like a plucked chicken.
[CtH: Sickening!]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/romans-decry-mangy-citys-threadbare-christmas-tree-symbol-163602918.html
What a trashy decoration! Couple buys an ‘ugly misfit’ Christmas tree and then transforms it into Sesame Street’s Oscar the Grouch – complete with its own garbage can and festive lights
Featuring a trash can stand and Oscar’s pet worm, Slimey, the picture of the tree has since gone viral. The couple also opted for an alternative tree in 2015, transforming their fir into a creation named, ‘Rudog the Reintree’.
[CtH: Sad to say, these “mangy” trees are a whole lot nicer than what Rome put up!]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5194969/Couple-turn-Christmas-tree-Oscar-Grouch.html
THIS MOVIE WAS FILMED IN WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, WHICH HAS THE HIGHEST MEDIAN INCOME IN THE STATE. LIVING HERE AIN’T CHEAP
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Breaking: Nation Furious over Giving Government Less of Their Money
From The Babylon Bee.
U.S.—The nation was in an absolute uproar as the GOP tax bill passed Congress Wednesday and made its way to President Trump’s desk, with millions of irate citizens expressing their total fury over the fact that the federal government will now be taking less of their money week in and week out.
Hordes of protesters gathered in the nation’s capital to decry the decrease of government taxation of their incomes, sources confirmed.
“America is dead,” one weeping woman said as she found out she would be giving the government $2,000 less under the new tax plan. “If ever there were a time for Americans to rise up and revolt against government oppression, this is it.”
“George Washington died for our right to give large portions of our paychecks to the federal government, and today Republicans are dancing on his grave,” she added before screaming wildly at the sky in hysterics.
At publishing time, relieved citizens discovered that the new tax rates are merely minimums, and they are free to pay as high a rate as they wish.
Also from The Babylon Bee:
Worship Leader Who Reads Music Arrested on Suspicion of Witchcraft
Local Father Looking Forward to Spending Entire Christmas Holiday Assembling Family’s Gifts
Local Snowflake Resents Being Compared to Fragile College Students
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Hypocrite
People have been blackballed and fired for less than this … but only when it was right-wingers being rude to or about left-wingers. When the shoe is on the other foot, you get 21K+ “hearts” from folks who were outraged and offended by “Pocahontas.”
These are the same people who had nothing to say about Creepy Joe Biden pawing females of all ages, then practically peed themselves laughing about how Pence doesn’t dine with women unless his wife is present.
Flippin’ hypocrites.
On the plus side, it’s Twitter, so everybody who wanted to got to say exactly what they thought of it. My personal faves:
- Decades in pervy Tinseltown and you can’t even spell “fellatio.”
- “Trump’s tax cut is working already, and everything I stand for is a lie.” Fixed it for you.
Best of the day!
- Delete your account, meathead.
For those of you too young to remember, that’s Rob Reiner playing “Meathead” Mike.
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