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December 24, 2010

Probably The Most Heartwarming Story You'll Read Today
— DrewM

It's Christmas Eve so the competition for moving stories will be stiff but n:twit:rtbutton"> this one is going to be right up there.

Sorry, I don't remember where I saw this first but it's all over Twitter.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:22 AM | Comments (91)
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1 Thanks for sharing, Drew. And merry ... forgive the expression, Nina Totenberg ... Christmas.

Posted by: Andy at December 24, 2010 07:39 AM (veZ9n)

2 See what some good home training and Catholic morays and values instills in a young man. This boy is going places, and I don't mean just up and down some stairs...

Posted by: Bob Reed at December 24, 2010 07:40 AM (2dlWi)

Thank you Drew. That was beautiful and precious.

Merry Christmas, dear ones.

Posted by: kevlarchick at December 24, 2010 07:40 AM (Gi51u)

4 ...very touching; thank you, Drew for sharing. Merry Christmas to the Greater Moron Community!

Posted by: billygoat at December 24, 2010 07:41 AM (6DDE+)

5 A very good story to post on Christmas Eve. Well done DrewM.

Posted by: ed at December 24, 2010 07:42 AM (QLhy5)

6 Well thank God I just got up and I can explain it as normal morning red-wet eyes to everyone.

Posted by: arhooley, conflicted Californian at December 24, 2010 07:44 AM (cIfeD)

7 @4 Catholic morays

Man, those Jesuits really got around!

Posted by: pep at December 24, 2010 07:45 AM (8lSIO)

That's the Spirit! What a great story.

Merry Christmas to all my Moron friends.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 24, 2010 07:46 AM (b6qrg)

Wow.

Great link, Drew, thanks.

I'll be remembering there are good people out there as I make my way into the abyss of misery and general ba humbugness as I prepare for last minute shopping.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 24, 2010 07:46 AM (a90Ib)

10 Other heart-warming story in Top Headlines: a 6'6" tall redheaded woman? Scary, wrong, possibly sexy, and yikes. (It's the man-killing giants story BTW.)

Posted by: cali grump at December 24, 2010 07:46 AM (hL0k8)

Posted by: ef at December 24, 2010 07:47 AM (c7Pp2)

12 I was just noticing that no one had mentioned Gabe or DADT in this thread yet.

Posted by: ef at December 24, 2010 07:47 AM (c7Pp2)

13 (It's the man-killing giants story BTW.)

Which just goes to show that Native Americans were quite happy to violently eject competing groups from their land.

Really though, with archaeologists turning up hobbit people in SE asia, what seems so strange about finding out that another set of Homo-whatever relatives grew the other way. This puts a bit of a crimp in the "alien visitations explain ancient Central American images of giants" theory too.

Posted by: ef at December 24, 2010 07:56 AM (c7Pp2)

14 Good to see these public schools instilling these kind of values...oh wait... nevermind.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at December 24, 2010 08:00 AM (xQAv5)

15 Looks kinda scrawny for a linebacker... oh heck, it's a nice story. I can't find anything snide to say about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2010 08:05 AM (yBGc3)

16 Amazing story.....

The merriest of Christmases to all of you.

Posted by: I'm Dolemite, bitch at December 24, 2010 08:05 AM (PET8M)

Tarrou nodded. 'Yes. But your victories will never be lasting; that's all.'

Rieux's face darkened. 'Yes, I know that. But it's no reason for giving up the struggle.'

Posted by: Paper at December 24, 2010 08:07 AM (VoSja)

Thanks, Drew. Yeah, I sniveled my way through the whole thing....

And Merry Christmas to everyone ....

Posted by: davis,br at December 24, 2010 08:12 AM (uCShA)

19 Meanwhile, in liberal land we have their version of Christmas cheer;

http://tinyurl.com/2885ldu

A suicidal Apple Valley woman explained that she torched her home and doused her husband with gasoline because she wanted him to utter her name and say that he loved her, according to charges filed Wednesday.

Note, this is a former electoral opponent of that "crazy" woman, Michele Bachmann.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 24, 2010 08:14 AM (bgcml)

Damn Christianists

Posted by: Your Average Leftard at December 24, 2010 08:14 AM (AnTyA)

21 Thanks for the story, Drew M. Good to know there are people still willing to give out a helping hand, even in these trying times.

Merry Christmas Eve to all.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 24, 2010 08:17 AM (9hSKh)

22 Other heart-warming story in Top Headlines: a 6'6" tall redheaded woman? Scary, wrong, possibly sexy, and yikes.

(It's the man-killing giants story BTW.)

DEATH BY SNU-SNU!

Posted by: Alex at December 24, 2010 08:20 AM (yY28H)

23 My monitor is all blurry. Damn computer.

Thanks Drew, that was sweet.

Posted by: Tami at December 24, 2010 08:22 AM (VuLos)

24 Awesome.
Just when you're about to give up on the youth of today...

Posted by: antisocialist at December 24, 2010 08:27 AM (Rwudm)

Damn allergies are making my eyes red.

Posted by: Matt at December 24, 2010 08:30 AM (ecpMe)

26 @27: You're allergic to a half-gallon of Val-U-Rite? Huh.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 24, 2010 08:34 AM (tJjm/)

Great story. Thanks, Drew.

Merry Christmas to everyone. God bless us, everyone, and God bless our fighting men and women who can't be home for Christmas.

Posted by: mikeyslaw at December 24, 2010 08:35 AM (QMGr1)

28 Why is there a can of paint on the stairs waiting to trip someone? Is that the kind of forethought/intelligence that makes some people with a crippled family member live in a house with stairs?

Posted by: Practical Grinch at December 24, 2010 08:36 AM (gbCNS)

What a wonderful young man. The story gives new meaning to the adage "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."

And my monitor is getting all blurry, too.

Posted by: Taxpayer at December 24, 2010 08:39 AM (NpmCe)

30 2 Ahem.

Speaking of heartwarming, does anyone have a recipe that they would like to share for a hobo standing rib roast?

It's too late! If you haven't dressed them out and started dry to age them last week, they'll taste like shit.

Posted by: Martha, the jailbird and hobo cook at December 24, 2010 08:40 AM (JpFM9)

31 Good boy. Contrast this humble kid with that greedy piece of criminal shit Cam Newton.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 24, 2010 08:41 AM (tappe)

"He's done more for me than I have for him."

That's the remarkable thing about giving of yourself. Somehow the giver is blessed even more than the recipient.

Thanks Drew. Merry Christmas morons.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at December 24, 2010 08:42 AM (Wh0W+)

Got something in my eye, that's all...

Great story, Drew. Heartwarming, uplifting, and provides a great sense of perspective.

And, to all my fellow morons and moronettes, Merry Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas, and God bless (yes, even you heathen pervs...you know who you are)!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 24, 2010 08:44 AM (JoKbG)

34 My prime rib recipe.

Let prime rib come to room temp.

Rub with salt pepper, olive oil, and garlic.

Bake prime rib at 200F until desired doneness. (125-130F)

Rest prime rib under foil no less than 45 minutes.

Get oven fucking hot. 550F+ if she can take it.

Put prime rib back into oven for 10 minutes or until crust is nice and crusty.

Serve to the freeloaders that come over to your house now because you are the only one in your family that ponies up $70 for a piece of meat.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 24, 2010 08:45 AM (Eo1wN)

O/T...

I heard the funniest damned thing on NPR yesterday regarding the mail bombs in Rome a few days back.

The reporter, Sylvia Poggioli, stated there was a communique from a group called the Italian Anarchists Federation claiming responsibility.

Apparently, the concept of "anarchy" is lost on the group...and the irony sailed right over Sylvia's head

Posted by: beedubya at December 24, 2010 08:48 AM (AnTyA)

36 Serve to the freeloaders that come over to your house now because you are the only one in your family that ponies up $70 for a piece of meat.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 24, 2010 12:45 PM (Eo1wN)

You know, there's a plethora of jokes in there about your female family members, but a) it's an easy pitch right over the plate and b) it's Christmas, so it just wouldn't be right...

Posted by: Insomniac at December 24, 2010 08:49 AM (JoKbG)

37 Merry Christmas Morons/ettes. Thanks for providing this lurker with hours of free infotainment this last year. I raise my glass to toast you. To a better 2011 for us all.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 24, 2010 08:49 AM (yQWNf)

You know, there's a plethora of jokes in there about your female family members, but a) it's an easy pitch right over the plate and b) it's Christmas, so it just wouldn't be right...

Posted by: Insomniac

And for that I thank you sir.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 24, 2010 08:51 AM (Eo1wN)

39 Speaking of heartwarming, does anyone have a recipe that they would like to share for a hobo standing rib roast?

If you can't find a rib roast recipe, the traditional "Beer Can Hobo" is a pretty reliable standby. Their natural grime holds a dry rub well.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at December 24, 2010 08:51 AM (+lsX1)

40 Made me cry but then I thought, "I wish someone would carry me to bed."

Posted by: Birdbath at December 24, 2010 08:55 AM (/DOcw)

41 #34 That's the remarkable thing about giving of yourself. Somehow the giver is blessed even more than the recipient.

Which is why it is always better to give (willingly, freely) than receive. Something liberals don't get - forcing people to give up their hard-earned money and/or time only makes one less willing to give and robs giving of its true spirit.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 24, 2010 08:55 AM (9hSKh)

42 OT - Will we have chronic shortages of anti-freeze because of global warming?

Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, Europe's 2nd busiest, cuts flights because of antifreeze shortage - Bloomberg http://bit.ly/g3W1P0

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 24, 2010 08:58 AM (9hSKh)

43 The most heartwarming story that I've heard today is that Publix is having Italian saugage and Italian meat ball subs on sale at half price in their deli.

Posted by: Brian at December 24, 2010 09:00 AM (sYrWB)

44
Will someone put up a burning yule log, please?

I don't ask for much.

Do this for me.

A yule log. Burning.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:00 AM (6cqZX)

45 Merry Christmas all!!! I hope and pray that 2011 is far and away better than 2010. If you are employed, I hope you stay that way. If you are looking for a job, I hope you find the perfect one. Love big, write witty things, and have a blessed Christmas and New Year!

Posted by: moki at December 24, 2010 09:02 AM (dZmFh)

46 Somehow the giver is blessed even more than the recipient.

Overwhelming evidence that greed is the mother of altruism.

Posted by: Ayn Rand at December 24, 2010 09:03 AM (gbCNS)

47 @47
For Soothsayer.

Thanks for asking for it. I have bronchitis which our wood-burning fireplace is exacerbating, so this will have to suffice until I'm better.

Posted by: Y-not at December 24, 2010 09:05 AM (IDL9N)

48 And this is one of the most heart breaking stories of the year.

Sarah Palin was correct in the death panel assessment.

To no avail. In America, the FDA has spoken. Those super responders to Avastin like Mrs. Turnage, if not Mrs. Turnage herself, must die, the sooner the better.

Posted by: sTevo at December 24, 2010 09:06 AM (VMcEw)

49 CDR M is too quick for me!

Posted by: Y-not at December 24, 2010 09:06 AM (IDL9N)

50 Merry Christmas Everyone. Thanks for the grins & smiles & giggles & laughs this year.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at December 24, 2010 09:07 AM (xQAv5)

51 **news from Los Angeles**

Lakers coach Phil Jackson is not a douche bag.

repeat...

Lakers coach Phil Jackson is not a douche bag.

"I don't think anybody should play on Christmas Day. It used to be Phoenix and L.A. and New York and Boston and New York or Philly or somebody on the East Coast. Now, I see they have like six games on Christmas. It's like Christian holidays don't mean anything to (the NBA) anymore. You just go out and play and entertain (on) TV. It's really weird."

Weird isn't quite the right word, coach.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:08 AM (hBqOU)

52 Will someone put up a burning yule log, please?

That's what she said!

Posted by: Michael Scott at December 24, 2010 09:09 AM (JoKbG)

53
Yule logs are pretty and they crackle.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:09 AM (6cqZX)

54 Thanks, Drew, for the nice story.

Merry Christmas to you, to Ace, to the other cob loggers and to all the morons and moronettes, big and small, all over the world.

As we know, it takes a village, and every village needs at least one idiot. I am truly blessed and thankful to live among all of you in this, the village of morons.

Posted by: Z as in Jersey at December 24, 2010 09:10 AM (sXUiz)

55 And for that I thank you sir.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 24, 2010 12:51 PM (Eo1wN)

What can I say, I'm a giver. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 24, 2010 09:11 AM (JoKbG)

56
what's a yule, btw?

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:11 AM (6cqZX)

57
'yuletide' is in the song "Let it Snow," I think

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:12 AM (6cqZX)

58
Cereally, I think it would be cool if a burning yule log .gif can be posted on the sidebar for the next 24 hours.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:14 AM (hBqOU)

59 Forget the Christmas Downfall Parody. Jack Bauer don't fool around: http://tinyurl.com/yll6b4z

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 24, 2010 09:14 AM (tJjm/)

Sniffle.

Have a very merry Christmas, friends. I think I need to be off the computer and with my family for the next couple days.

Sniff.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 24, 2010 09:15 AM (XdlcF)

61
or perhaps the banner can be changed to a burning yule log.

At least out some tinsel on the banner and some candy canes and shit.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:15 AM (hBqOU)

62 61
what's a yule, btw?

Its a log, well, more like a tree, that the Vikings and other Nordic tribes burned for 12 days to ward off evil influences.

Sacrificing virgins may have also been the in-thing to do around Yule time IIRC.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 24, 2010 09:16 AM (9hSKh)

63 @63: Oh God, I knew it: a Cereal Killer.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 24, 2010 09:16 AM (tJjm/)

64
'yuletide carols' were sung while sacrificing virgins?

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:17 AM (hBqOU)

65 Phil Jackson also mocked the anti-Arizona crap earlier this year. Took a lot of heat for it here in Los Angeles, but he doesn't give a shit. --- Really though, with archaeologists turning up hobbit people in SE asia, what seems so strange about finding out that another set of Homo-whatever relatives grew the other way. This puts a bit of a crimp in the "alien visitations explain ancient Central American images of giants" theory too. Posted by: ef at December 24, 2010 11:56 AM (c7Pp2) Also makes you think about how we have a worldwide "myth" of bigfoot. Couldn't possibly be that there are still a few undiscovered extinct species that survived up until the last few thousand years that matches the damn description, hunh?

Posted by: CAC at December 24, 2010 09:18 AM (lV4Fs)

66 Sacrificing virgins may have also been the in-thing to do around Yule time IIRC. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 24, 2010 01:16 PM (9hSKh) I sacrificed a virgin once. By impalement.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 24, 2010 09:18 AM (tJjm/)

67 Here's a heart-warming story for you all:

I just got back from a successful hunting trip, and am frying up a fresh hobo heart. But I cannot fit it in my tiny mouth.

Posted by: Boffy tho Hobo Sloyor at December 24, 2010 09:18 AM (Py/v5)

68 Footnote to #46 - Ah, those Italians.

Posted by: Brian at December 24, 2010 09:18 AM (sYrWB)

69
not Let it Snow, it's...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:19 AM (hBqOU)

70
oh yeah, CAC, I forgot about that.

Jackson didn't understand why the law was controversial. Perhaps he, too, does not belong in this Bizzarro Universe we're all stuck in.

Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 09:21 AM (6cqZX)

71 Will someone put up a burning yule log

A neighbor mounted a flat panel TV above the fireplace, and for Christmas built a fire in the fireplace and tuned the TV to the burning yule log. We were seeing double before ever taking a drink of the egg nog.

Posted by: Retread at December 24, 2010 09:22 AM (gOvwr)

72 Oh well, since I've kicked off a debauched Christmas Eve I may as well go all the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpVus64-39E

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 24, 2010 09:26 AM (tJjm/)

73 That's Malden Catholic outside Boston. Probably a bunch of RINOs.

Posted by: swamp_yankee at December 24, 2010 09:27 AM (3DIBw)

74 Thanks, set off the waterworks early. I do love a good cry. Have a wonderful, safe Christmas Eve everybody. See you one the ONT.

Posted by: twiceblessedmom at December 24, 2010 09:32 AM (HjxoE)

75 Perhaps he, too, does not belong in this Bizzarro Universe we're all stuck in. Posted by: Soothsayer has a yule log he wants you to see at December 24, 2010 01:21 PM (6cqZX) It was surreal to hear the reaction out here. He wasn't defending the law or refuting it- just saying the controversy over it was silly. THAT alone laughably led to a mini-protest outside Staples Center. You have to be with the illegals or you are evil incarnate, apparently. Thank God I live in the Inland Empire. Lots o' illegals, but none of the political clout like in LA. Even with fraud, Fiorina still got the county by a 10 point margin. 20+ here in Rancho.

Posted by: CAC at December 24, 2010 09:40 AM (lV4Fs)

76 Do you modify the recipe according to hobo gender?
Posted by: Zombie Julia Child

I use fresh rosemary for the females to get rid of the stench of the menses.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at December 24, 2010 09:47 AM (Eo1wN)

77 OK OK YULE LOG!

http://tinyurl.com/yse62q

Posted by: Kemp at December 24, 2010 10:22 AM (JpFM9)

78 Just another reason why my kids go to Catholic School.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 24, 2010 10:25 AM (mM7dK)

79 "what's a yule, btw?" It from A Christmas Story: "yule shoot your eye out, kid."

Posted by: cali grump at December 24, 2010 10:37 AM (hL0k8)

80 Obviously the kid has not been counseled by Big all Sharpton.

Posted by: Buffalobob at December 24, 2010 11:00 AM (GwH6h)

81 Don't let anyone in the government hear about this!!! They'll crack down for non-licensed medical care or some stupid crap like that. Then they'll make the family pay thousands a month for some government-certified care provider that will probably have multiple felony convictions.

Good work by those young men, though. Great story, thanks Ace.

Posted by: NC Ref at December 24, 2010 11:32 AM (ITv9V)

82 I was good up until the point that the young man asked that the story be about the child. That act of sheer humility tugs at one's heart. Great story, great young man, and I'm sure some very proud parents somewhere.

Posted by: NumberTwo at December 24, 2010 11:36 AM (LxTng)

83 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. Then the King will say, Â‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.Â’ Then the righteous will answer him, Â‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?Â’ Â“The King will reply, Â‘Truly I tell you, whatever you for the least of one of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Matthew, Ch. 25

Posted by: MikeD at December 24, 2010 12:28 PM (jmoS0)

84 I doubt this fellow has the training certification and local and federal government permits. Also, we haven't received any dues checks.

Posted by: SEIU at December 24, 2010 01:17 PM (Z4T49)

85 Okay thanks for making me bawl.

Posted by: Aunt Cranky at December 24, 2010 01:42 PM (S/q5/)

86 Miracles, love, and kindness surround us every day in this world. We should never forget it, even on the bad days. I'm the worst offender about forgetting the good and dwelling on the crud. But things like this are a wake-up call.

May God bless them and keep them.

Posted by: sifty at December 24, 2010 02:10 PM (fH5CI)

87 Just got back from taking my parents to dinner on Christmas Eve. Read this story and I am just bawling. What a beautiful story of compassion and what a great young man. Amen to you post MikeD.

Posted by: Rightwingva at December 24, 2010 05:32 PM (QSd6W)

88 Restores your faith in people.

Posted by: Thomas Jackson at December 24, 2010 08:35 PM (PTpqi)

89 Merry Chrismas, morons! And a Blessed New Year!

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 25, 2010 05:04 AM (mHQ7T)

Single. level. home......duh!!!!!

Posted by: Gabe's Army RumpRangers at December 25, 2010 08:15 AM (PqLK/)

78 Of course, the original words were:

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
While smoke rose from a virgins' bones

Posted by: Pseudohistory Buff at December 25, 2010 11:06 AM (5WkxB)

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