Next time, you fools, don’t wait until the last friggin’ minute to order. There could be delays in shipping

Sorry little Tommy and young Suzy, Mommy and Daddy were too busy to order your gift until the last minute and you didn’t get your dolly or your Blaster for Christmas.

I am trying to find some empathy for these folks, but really, the Christmas Holiday has been scheduled for several hundred years and if you didn’t realize until the last moment that you had to buy presents for your loved ones until 2 days before, well, that is a reflection upon you.

Didn’t know this, and of course, the media doesn’t bother to tell us because they have a bias.

But luckily we have the internet to tell us about it.

I know where I am going to be buying my wreaths from this point on.

Worth reading. 

On the other hand: THIS IS CRAP.

Respect.

There is a muslim family that runs a convenience store where I buy lottery tickets and smokes every Mon/Wed/Fri.

I think they are Palestinian, or at least the father was 30 years ago when he came to the US. He and his sons are now quite Americanized, still holding onto their culture, but yet very western in their views.

And both the father and one of his sons surprised me yesterday by warmly wishing me a “Merry Christmas”. (Not “Happy Holidays”)

I was surprised. “But you are Muslim” I said.

“Yep. We are. But you, my friend, are Christian” came the reply…”So, Merry Christmas”.

I was, frankly, touched. Nice people there.

Amidst the gift giving, the food, the drinks, the laughter and the over-indulgence and excesses….

Please, remember what the day of Christmas is celebrating.

It isn’t a commercial holiday, nor is is a mid winter festival (although many would change it to be one).

It is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of the Christ child.

And nothing can change that.

And while you are enjoying your cup of Christmas Cheer with your friends or family, take a moment to think about all those who cannot be with their family…your soldiers overseas, the policemen and firemen who are standing guard for you at home, and the other workers doing their jobs so you can enjoy your Christmas celebrations in warmth and  comfort and peace.

Footprints in the snow

Here.

Normally, my family gets together on Christmas Eve and has a dinner, then we do Christmas Morning for the breakfast and then a gift exchange, followed by a sybaritic meal. If people are unable to make it on Christmas Eve or Christmas day, we make it up later in the year or early January

This year, we did the gift exchange a few days early….It was good to see my brother and all, but it was odd.

And this year, there will be no gathering on Christmas Day.

But we did have a gathering and a meal on Christmas Eve, And the fellowship was good….and warming, and fulfilling and helps regenerate my sense of belonging.

Traditions, even fractured ones, are good.

“You’re lucky I didn’t fucking shoot you”.

See, this is an example of cops with the wrong attitude.

He fails to realize that HE was the one in the wrong. He was the one trespassing.

Hope this never happens at my house. I’d not open the door unarmed (probably wouldn’t open the door at all, but rather call 911 and let the police come and investigate the trespassing police), but if I did….likely for one of us the ending wouldn’t be good.

94 years old.

I own several examples of his design.

“I invented it for the protection of the Motherland. I have no regrets and bear no responsibility for how politicians have used it,”

Indeed.

via: Freeholder

And I thought we had it difficult building what with wetlands and Snail Darters and spotted owls and such…

Seems that in Iceland, there are issues with elf habitat.

In a conversation I overheard:

#1 “I am really getting tired of Obama”

#2 “yeah, I know what you mean”

#1 “We should invite him to visit Dallas”

I passed an entire drink through my nose