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December 25, 2013

Christmas Morning Open Thread
— andy

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. ~ Luke 2:9-11

Merry Christmas

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1 Merry Christmas! And, first.

Posted by: whis at December 25, 2013 03:16 AM (CgWN8)

2 Too much nog, horde?

Posted by: whiskey tango at December 25, 2013 03:17 AM (CgWN8)

3 Third! YES!!!

Posted by: Ohiogal at December 25, 2013 03:18 AM (kLgFt)

4 Mama is working today. Kids are with their other parents this year. We are doing Christmas later today. I got mama a CCW course.

Posted by: blaster at December 25, 2013 03:20 AM (4+AaH)

5 Merry Christmas, y'all. I'm having some coffee with Frangelico in it, topped off with Reddi Whip. Mmmmm...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at December 25, 2013 03:21 AM (0HooB)

6 Luke, chapter 2: 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David

5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. 6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 03:27 AM (uzmcT)

7 Stupid emoticons. It isn't supposed to be a smiley face.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 03:28 AM (uzmcT)

8 Merry Christmas, Horde!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 25, 2013 03:29 AM (UAMVq)

9 I got home from work, started watching the Christmas Eve at the Vatican, heated up some Gluvine, ate crackers and that awsome cheeseball of calories my sister made (its really really good). A nice Christmas morning as I watch the sun rise on a very cold Northern Virginia morning. Merry Christmas all and have a great day. I'm going to bed eventually because I have to go back to work at 6pm. Later!

Posted by: puddleglum at December 25, 2013 03:29 AM (b2Aan)

10 7 Stupid emoticons. It isn't supposed to be a smiley face. Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 07:28 AM (uzmcT) I think being of the house and lineage of David rates a smiley face, don't you?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 25, 2013 03:30 AM (UAMVq)

11 I think being of the house and lineage of David rates a smiley face, don't you? Posted by: Insomniac at December 25, 2013 07:30 AM (UAMVq) True. In fact, the whole story deserves one.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 03:33 AM (uzmcT)

12 Good Morning Morons. Today is Wednesday, December 25, 2013. Merry Christmas Morons. Sorry I missed yesterday. And to make matters worse I slept late today so no news.

And for today instead of more bad news we have this

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark street shineth the everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee to-night.
For Christ is born of Mary; and gathered all above
while mortals sleep the angels keep their watch of wondering love;
O morning stars! Together proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the King and peace to men on earth.
How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven;
No ear may hear His coming ; but in this world of sin
where meek souls will receive Him still, the dear Christ enters in.
O holy child of Bethlehem, descend to us we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in--be born in us today!
We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell--
Oh come to us, abide with us, Our Lord Immanuel.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 03:34 AM (T2V/1)

13 Merry Christmas!

Posted by: scottst at December 25, 2013 03:35 AM (lgpOZ)

14 Beautiful Vic. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Posted by: TiminAL at December 25, 2013 03:36 AM (tatLV)

15 Pass the aspirins

Posted by: Zakn at December 25, 2013 03:36 AM (zyaZ1)

16 How are the Rons and Ettes , on Christmas everyone? I loved the quote for,m the book of Luke in the post # 6. Thanks for that. I bought myself some Christmas presents. UF55 Enfield Case V44 combat fighting knife M39 Finn mosin M44 Tula hex receiver Enfield .22 trainer (no insert) M69 .22 trainer MD57 Yugo Tokarev (I have 2 already) CZ82 (see above) Mossad 2 tone pistol Chinese 213 set (9mm and 7.62 x 25 mm ) it has 2 barrels that interchange..Sweet! Type 99 Arisaka Jap WWII rifle. I can't wait to get back stateside to open my Christmas Presents in 2014!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 03:38 AM (F47Qc)

17 Merry Christmas to the fine folks that make up the Horde.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 25, 2013 03:38 AM (KlVdw)

18 DAY 416 1,045 to go (1,116 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 03:39 AM (olDqf)

19 Testing

Posted by: joncelli at December 25, 2013 03:40 AM (/AYWV)

20 All I want for Christmas is my country restored. That and a three-way with Esti Ginzburg and Audrey Fleurot. As they say in Nigeria, remain blessed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 03:41 AM (olDqf)

21 Very nice, Vic. Much better news than the usual everyday stuff.

I always hear that sung in my head in the voices of aunts and uncles and my parents from the days when I was a kid and my great-aunt had everyone for Christmas dinner. There were always a few carols sung in the evening. She even had little booklets of sheet music we used. It sounded 'as good as church' to my child's ears.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Posted by: Retread at December 25, 2013 03:41 AM (cHwk5)

22 Merry Christmas to the Horde and its kith and kin!

Posted by: joncelli at December 25, 2013 03:42 AM (/AYWV)

23 Thank you, Vic. Have a Merry Christmas. BTW, I saved Baen & other site you & CAP.Chatles told me about on Sunday. Did you get your library back on Kindle?

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 03:42 AM (z4WKX)

24 Pass the aspirins MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! Feel better now?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at December 25, 2013 03:42 AM (0HooB)

25 No news is good news, or good tidings. Merry Christmas Morons and Moronettes.

Posted by: ontherocks at December 25, 2013 03:44 AM (40yBb)

26 Marry Christmas to the horde, and hopes for true peace and rest.

Posted by: John the Baptist at December 25, 2013 03:45 AM (Xs981)

27 Type 99 Arisaka Jap WWII rifle. I can't wait to get back stateside to open my Christmas Presents in 2014! Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 07:38 AM (F47Qc) My grandfather brought one of these back as a war souvenir. My dad has it now.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 03:45 AM (uzmcT)

28 23 Did you get your library back on Kindle?

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 07:42 AM (z4WKX)

Yes I did. The "new" Kindle app came up with a icon that said "all books on this device". That was not there before. So I pushed that button and wham, they all came back even though none had showed up in memory when I tried looking using IE from the computer.

Strange be the ways of the tablet stuff.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 03:46 AM (T2V/1)

29 Bought the grandsons boxing gloves, fishing poles, and more bb shot on Monday. No electronic stuff this year. Anyway this was at K-Mart, who keep all the shot and bb guns under lock and key, so had to wait for someone to get the key. I saw a little bb pistol with a CO2 charge. Anyone have any experience with them? When I whack the deer with my standard pellet gun, they run, but still come back the very next day. I'm not looking to kill 'em, just make 'em remember the sting a whole lot longer.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at December 25, 2013 03:46 AM (6Nqkf)

30 Merry Christmas!

As I sit here finishing off the coffee, I can hear the snowplows going by. Which means the hour and a half I put in yesterday to clear the driveway and sidewalk so that our guests don't slip, fall, or track in a bunch of snow, was a waste of time. So in a hour or so back outside I go!!
Ho HO HOOOOO.

Posted by: Bruce at December 25, 2013 03:47 AM (nZ561)

31 29 I'm not looking to kill 'em, just make 'em remember the sting a whole lot longer. Posted by: Regular Moron at December 25, 2013 07:46 AM (6Nqkf) You'z gotta rub da bb's with garlic. That's what a young Jack Nicholson recommended in "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 03:49 AM (olDqf)

32 I'm not looking to kill 'em, just make 'em remember the sting a whole lot longer.

Posted by: Regular Moron at December 25, 2013 07:46 AM (6Nqkf)

I had one of those CO2 pistols years ago. With a full charge you could kill a squirrel with it. And I did until busy-body neighbor called the cops on me for shooting them.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 03:49 AM (T2V/1)

33 32 Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2013 07:49 AM (T2V/1) The obvious solution would be trap and release in the neighbor's attic/crawl space/underwearÂ… Merry Christmas, Vic.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 03:51 AM (olDqf)

34 Wifey just got up. As soon as she has her "breakfast" (in a can) we can open goodies.

Too bad I can't crack the bourbon today because we are going over to MIL's for dinner.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 03:52 AM (T2V/1)

35 Merry Christmas Horde, Ace & the COBs. Vic, I'm glad you found your library. I have iPad & before September? Upgrade, it had .com key. I miss it.

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 03:53 AM (z4WKX)

36 The obvious solution would be trap and release in the neighbor's attic/crawl space/underwearÂ…

Merry Christmas, Vic.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

When I first read this, I thought you were talking about the deer.
I thought, that would be interesting.

Posted by: Bruce at December 25, 2013 03:53 AM (nZ561)

37 @29, They are gonna shoot their out! (Red Ryder Christmas quote). All joking and kidding aside I like to use plastic pellet low brass loads for horned rats (deer )jumping in my garden for salad buffet. I would just shoot them straight out and eat em up (Love venison) but the local LE's and Game wardens frown upon that. See Here..http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/index.php/cName/12-gauge-specialty-ammo The rubber pellets discourage them and they rarely come back. Used them on some chicken killing neighborhood dogs too!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 03:54 AM (F47Qc)

38 33 Merry Christmas, Vic.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 07:51 AM (olDqf)

Merry Christmas JJ. I did get to watch the George C.Scott scrooge yesterday while pouring down the brown. .

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 03:54 AM (T2V/1)

39 Merry Christmas to all and God's blessings on this day. Many times in the last two thousand years the faithful were tested, as in today. The Lord has been always faithful. Blessed be the name of The Lord.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 25, 2013 03:54 AM (h0W5Q)

40 I am up to 80 squirrels this year so far. No busy bodies here. Waiting for my two year old little man to wake up to go see his trains trains trains and remote control car.

Posted by: traye at December 25, 2013 03:55 AM (YnNBJ)

41 @35 carol the keyboard on the iPad is context sensitive, If you are in the browser address bar you have a ,com key. I think maybe also in an email field. Otherwise it isn't there.

Posted by: blaster at December 25, 2013 03:56 AM (4+AaH)

42 I had one of those CO2 pistols years ago. With a full charge you could kill a squirrel with it. And I did until busy-body neighbor called the cops on me for shooting them. Then that seems like the ticket. I have squirrels that run across my roof, jump over my head into a nearby tree and dump berries all over the deck. When I shoot them with the pellet gun they run away and come back a couple hours later. There are so many of them I wouldn't mind thinning the herd. Thanks and Merry Christmas. Colonoscopy clear?

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at December 25, 2013 03:56 AM (6Nqkf)

43 Have a Holly Jolly y'all. Imma be setting the sink and terlit into the refurb bathroom today. Then..... DRINKS!

Posted by: RolandTHTG at December 25, 2013 03:56 AM (qyoyx)

44 Merry Christmas!

Posted by: eman at December 25, 2013 03:56 AM (EWsrI)

45 My kids are still sleeping and won't budge for hours yet. 5 years ago we'd have been up with them for 2 hours by now. Better?

Posted by: spongeworthy at December 25, 2013 03:56 AM (r5w1L)

46 Merry Christmas to all, and thanks Vic for all your info every day. I snag in the choir in gramer school, still enjoy singing Christmas carols at Mass on Christmas.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at December 25, 2013 03:57 AM (nN7cn)

47 42 Thanks and Merry Christmas. Colonoscopy clear?

Posted by: Regular Moron at December 25, 2013 07:56 AM (6Nqkf)

They found one small polyp that was of no 'concern". I get the full results on Jan 2.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 03:57 AM (T2V/1)

48 John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the FatherÂ’s only Son, full of grace and truth. Verbum caro factum est Happy Christmas Horde

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy Christmas at December 25, 2013 03:58 AM (u8GsB)

49 >>>And I did until busy-body neighborcalled the cops on me for shooting them. That's what conibears are for.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at December 25, 2013 03:59 AM (Iqlwb)

Merry Chistmas you funny, funny and irrevrent Morons.

I bring you Seasons Greetings from the Arizona Stronghold of my Apache Brothers.

May Christ the Savior bring you Peace and Joy in the coming year.

God Bless Y'all!

Posted by: solitary knight at December 25, 2013 04:00 AM (aqRJx)

51 spongeworthy, more restful certainly, but not more fun. My sister expressed similar sentiments last night: 'They figured out that Christmas will wait, so now they sleep the morning away and I'm the one who wants to wake up the household. Not what I expected of a second childhood.'

Posted by: Retread at December 25, 2013 04:01 AM (cHwk5)

52 Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 25, 2013 07:54 AM (h0W5Q) Very nice. Thanks and God bless. I am up looking at Christmas Day on a lovely internet Christmas calendar. Spouse and I are having egg nog in a coffee which is actually good. Soon we'll get the teen up and open presents, We don't have a lot but that's o.k. Then I will go to church with spouse and grumpy teen if he wants to go, so that I can enjoy a lovely church service where I don't have to officiate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:01 AM (BC6cY)

53 meant "Advent Calendar"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:02 AM (BC6cY)

54 dang it, I sang in the choir, not snag in the choir

Posted by: Cicero Skip at December 25, 2013 04:04 AM (nN7cn)

55 I get the full results on Jan 2. Then you're probably as good as it gets. Had a BIL who went under for the test, woke up a couple hours later minus twenty feet of colon. Related my wife came home from the OB/Gyn who years ago told her she had a mass in her lady parts the size of a grapefruit. The Dr scheduled her for an MRI a couple months (yes months) later. I called BS and we found a new OB/Gyn Dr who discovered nothing. Zada. Zip.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at December 25, 2013 04:04 AM (6Nqkf)

56 What a busybody! I hate squirrels, they gap have bee eating my roses since 2002. You would think they'd get thorns in them, but they don't care. I have a thorn embedded in my right elbow since summer. I always get some in my fingers, but after a week or so, they come to the surface & I get them out like a splinter. I can't get at my elbow. It will come out one of these days, at least i hope it will.

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 04:04 AM (z4WKX)

57 Just suggested to wifey that I could crack a bottle of bourbon and stay here while she goes over to her mom's house for Christmas dinner.

Suggestion was not "warmly" received.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 04:05 AM (T2V/1)

58 54 dang it, I sang in the choir, not snag in the choir Posted by: Cicero Skip at December 25, 2013 08:04 AM (nN7cn) Well, Harry Reid snagged something in the boys choir.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 04:05 AM (olDqf)

59 And for my Jewish friends, see you at Wo-Hop around 1 or 1:30???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 04:06 AM (olDqf)

60 Your pellet gun won't kill a squirrel? Ouch. My sub $50 Daisy rifle takes care of em fine with 7 or 8 pumps. Use teh hunting (pointy tip) rounds. The little rats seem to think I hand turned (removing lots of rocks and old farm house debris) and chopped with a shovel (no tiller) raked out and seeded just to make it easier for them to dig in. I swear they passed the word and were coming from blocks away.

Posted by: teej at December 25, 2013 04:07 AM (3R0Zs)

61 Kids are stirring. Second daughter taking the dog for its morning piss. Then. off to church . Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at December 25, 2013 04:07 AM (Iqlwb)

62 55
Then you're probably as good as it gets. Had a BIL who went under for the test, woke up a couple hours later minus twenty feet of colon.

Related my wife came home from the OB/Gyn who years ago told her she had a mass in her lady parts the size of a grapefruit. The Dr scheduled her for an MRI a couple months (yes months) later. I called BS and we found a new OB/Gyn Dr who discovered nothing. Zada. Zip.

Posted by: Regular Moron at December 25, 2013 08:04 AM (6Nqkf)

That happened on my first one. But I only lost 14".

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 04:07 AM (T2V/1)

63 @27 (Zombie John Gotti) , I don't know much about Jap rifles. I was trying to pick all the low hanging fruit for my WWii collection. Got the K98 and the Czech Nazi marked 98. Have the p-38, the arisaka, The enfileds etc. I am missing US guns, they be pricey. My Dad has several M1911's and a M-1 Carbine he promised to me. I still need to pick up The 03 springfield and the Garand.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 04:08 AM (F47Qc)

64 I had a Crossman CO2 pistol back in the day. I didn't have the money to keep buying cartridges/cylinders.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 25, 2013 04:09 AM (V70Uh)

65 Fenelon, That was an awful thing you posted last night about the 98 year old woman at Mass & neither of her sons went with her. They will regret it when she's no longer with us.

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 04:09 AM (z4WKX)

66 38 Merry Christmas JJ. I did get to watch the George C.Scott scrooge yesterday while pouring down the brown. . Posted by: Vic at December 25, 2013 07:54 AM (T2V/1) The double feature was "Christmas Story" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner." Wifey cooked her traditional oyster stew and it was delish. She gets all my Hungarian favorites on Jewish holidays so we're all ecumenical. Except for politics but we'll pass over thatÂ…

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 04:09 AM (olDqf)

67 And for my Jewish friends, see you at Wo-Hop around 1 or 1:30???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 08:06 AM (olDqf)

Heh. When I lived in Northern Virginia, my Jewish boss always took his family to the Smithsonian museums on Christmas Eve. 'Nobody there but us jews.'

Posted by: Retread at December 25, 2013 04:10 AM (cHwk5)

68 J.J., a blessing on your tribe. We stand and fight with you.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 25, 2013 04:10 AM (h0W5Q)

69 I have a CO2 pistol that I use for the raccoons around here. It's nice because you can get 6 or so shots at them to keep them moving. The downside is, when you pull the gun out a month later to do the same, the cartridge is dead.

Posted by: Bruce at December 25, 2013 04:11 AM (nZ561)

70 68 J.J., a blessing on your tribe. We stand and fight with you. Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 25, 2013 08:10 AM (h0W5Q) Sadly, you guys are more driven to do that than most of my own tribe. But it's appreciated, more than you may know. Reminds me that I have to get a check off to the Friends of the IDF (my charity).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 04:13 AM (olDqf)

71 Nice try Vic. Same plan for me but no courage to ask. Brown will have to wait. Merry Christmas Horde!

Posted by: Golfman in NC at December 25, 2013 04:13 AM (/djtm)

I found this place in 2007, since then I have spent countless time reading many an enjoyable post and comment running the gamut between serious and hilarious. Like the man said "by God, it`s been quite a party".

Merry Chistmas to y`all.

Posted by: rightlysouthern at December 25, 2013 04:14 AM (uOxBm)

73 The downside is, when you pull the gun out a month later to do the same, the cartridge is dead. The inconvenient truth is you've let all that planet destroying CO2 escape into the fragile atmosphere and contributed to the rape of Mother Earth.

Posted by: Al Gore [/i] at December 25, 2013 04:15 AM (6Nqkf)

74 If you are in the browser address bar you have a ,com key. I think maybe also in an email field. Otherwise it isn't there. Posted by: blaster at December 25, 2013 07:56 AM (4+AaH) Blaster, you are probably right. I know it had the .com key until the upgrade. I notice itÂ’s gone now. IÂ’m not very observant & you are probably right. I was up before 5 this morning. It was 17 degrees when I looked at outside thermometer, now with the sun up, itÂ’s 14 & one with windchill.

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 04:16 AM (z4WKX)

75 rightly southern, I like how your apostrophes go both rightly and southern.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 25, 2013 04:16 AM (h0W5Q)

76 The inconvenient truth is you've let all that planet destroying CO2 escape into the fragile atmosphere and contributed to the rape of Mother Earth. Posted by: Al Gore

But it's not rape rape, and I'm okay with that.

XOXO

Whoooopi

Posted by: Bruce at December 25, 2013 04:17 AM (nZ561)

77 Gee thanks. Was thinking about scheduling my first scope things out this coming year. I'll be 59. Think I'll pass. When the Big Guy decides it's time for me to leave this hell hole... Hope you all have a wonderful day. Vic, thanks for the on this day and the news. Fenelon, keep puttin' out the Word. It won't come back empty.

Posted by: teej at December 25, 2013 04:17 AM (ma+gB)

78 Vic, just knock one back and tell the wife you needed a brown belt for Christmas festivities.

Posted by: ontherocks at December 25, 2013 04:17 AM (40yBb)

79 Kindest regards to you all.

Posted by: backhoe at December 25, 2013 04:18 AM (ULH4o)

80 19 and sunny here in NYC. My neeples are bursting with excitement!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 04:18 AM (olDqf)

81 J.J. Happy Day, I know you are Jewish. Is it okay to wish you a Merry Christmas? I think you listen to Levin and he plays Christmas music because he loves it. Blessings to you and thank you, I guess,for the countdown to the day SCOAMF is gone.

Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 04:22 AM (z4WKX)

82 Nice and sunny here. Just looked out the window at the street. No kids on new bikes. Gee how things have changed since I was a kid.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 04:23 AM (T2V/1)

83 Merry Christmas Horde!

Posted by: steevy at December 25, 2013 04:23 AM (zqvg6)

84 78 Vic, just knock one back and tell the wife you needed a brown belt for Christmas festivities.

Posted by: ontherocks at December 25, 2013 08:17 AM (40yBb)

I would probably get "knocked back" alright.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 04:24 AM (T2V/1)

85 Good morning and Merry Christmas to all my friends in the little box. I woke up a little but ago, turned on the bigger box and "the Yule Log" is on one of the local antenna channels. Yes, the same Yule Log from the ONT. I 've never seen that before. Regular Moron, don't waste your $ on the CO2 airgun. The cartridges are too expensive, inconvenient and don't last. I have a Crossman ten-pump pistol I bought at a sporting goods store a few years back that works great, and is super accurate. I've picked off the fuzzy-tailed rats at 120 ft with it.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 25, 2013 04:25 AM (D0Qc2)

86 >>>Then that seems like the ticket. I have squirrels that run across my roof, jump over my head into a nearby tree and dump berries all over the deck. When I shoot them with the pellet gun they run away and come back a couple hours later. There are so many of them I wouldn't mind thinning the herd.<<<

I use a Ruger Airhawk pellet rifle for squirrel control. 1000+fps, they won't be running off if you hit 'em with it!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Posted by: Anthony L. at December 25, 2013 04:25 AM (34n6F)

87 Fenelon, keep puttin' out the Word. It won't come back empty. Thanks for the encouragement, teej. Grace and peace to you from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:26 AM (BC6cY)

88 Interesting observation from Rob Long at Ricochet: "one thing is incontrovertibly true: as the television business gets more and more fractured and the viewing audience gets more and more scattered, the balance of business power shifts away from network executives and towards guys like Phil Robertson. And that's fine with me." The whole piece is worth the time. http://tinyurl.com/md5esbn

Posted by: ontherocks at December 25, 2013 04:27 AM (40yBb)

89 I am so blessed this morning to live in ETEX in the land of America. May GOD Bless Us All! And may we still live in the land of America next year this time.

Posted by: EROWMER at December 25, 2013 04:28 AM (OONaw)

90 Good day. Hope you're warm and safe. When I first read the Gospels for myself as an adult, I was persuaded that the better chunk of it was most likely valid history, as much as humanly possible. I did not read through the filter of Christian exegesis and interpretation, only with the filter of the Gospel authors. And my education and experience. I read skeptically, critically.Some things they attribute to Jesus, I doubted. My best example is that the fig tree withering, whatever one may draw as lesson from the story, seemed out of character for one who employed nature so admiringly in his teachings. Just my sense; believe it if you need it. But integral to the whole drama, Christmas to Easter, is his claim to have pre-existed, even eternally. He was unquestionably mortal, eating, touching, bleeding. If you or I claimed that pre-existence, we would rightly be hauled away to the longsleeves retreat. But aside from random withered fig trees, he seemed to me to be the most sober, intelligent, charming, loving revealer of truth, head and shoulders wiser than anyone he lived among, common folk or educated. Well-balanced, clever, wisely confident, not usual traits of the self-deluded, of which we have so many examples to compare. So, I had to conclude, either he had that one nutty quirk of a claim to pre-mortal, super-mortal existence. Or, he knew it and meant it. I could not call him crazy. I well knew what Christians taught, but I wasn't sure what he was and what that meant, and I thought, I might never know in this life. But I knew, I believed that he believed it. And that challenged my world, and set me seeking. More than four decades later, my theology has expanded considerably. But I have the same challenging mystery, and powerful inspiration, of the Son of God incarnate. Merry Christmas

Posted by: mindful webworker at December 25, 2013 04:31 AM (z+Xap)

91 Vic, my hunting buddy and I have a tradition called a Whiskey Front. That's when the first cold front that comes down has geese moving with it. No matter what you are doing when you hear them honking you have to take a shot of the water of life. It has led to some inconvenient moments, like when everyone else is in the car going to church.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 25, 2013 04:31 AM (h0W5Q)

92 Peaceful this morning. Ten inches of snow in the drive, ten degrees on the thermometer. No traffic on the highway, not even a snow plow.

Posted by: Permanent Cookies at December 25, 2013 04:32 AM (Ey2sZ)

93 Did they wipe it off?

Posted by: W.C. Varones at December 25, 2013 04:32 AM (QMAPJ)

94 Vic, somewhere around here I have a pic of myself out front of the house in coat and stocking hat on my new bike. A Schwinn Sting Ray knock off. Real Schwinns were for the rich kids. Big wipe out that spring on the way to school (6th grade) rounding a corner way too fast and too close to the curb left me and my clothes ripped up and me bleeding head to ankle. The look on my teachers face... Me? Meh. This ain't nuthin' compared to what a manhole cover did to my big toe a couple years ago. I'll be fine by recess.

Posted by: teej at December 25, 2013 04:34 AM (PNi9V)

95 81 Posted by: Carol at December 25, 2013 08:22 AM (z4WKX) I make it a point to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, especially in the heart of the evil empire because it drives people nuts. Most of the time it surprises them and they return the wish. The same to you and yours. Blessings of peace and good health!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 25, 2013 04:37 AM (olDqf)

96 I woke up a little but ago, turned on the bigger box and "the Yule Log" is on one of the local antenna channels. Yes, the same Yule Log from the ONT. I 've never seen that before. There are about a dozen different versions of that on YouTube. Some with just the sound and image of a crackling fire, some with Christmas music. Some only an hour long, some up to three hours long. I watched/listened to this one yesterday with my Apple TV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL56qqwlsRc

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at December 25, 2013 04:37 AM (6Nqkf)

97 As I sit here finishing off the coffee, I can hear the snowplows going by. Which means the hour and a half I put in yesterday to clear the driveway and sidewalk so that our guests don't slip, fall, or track in a bunch of snow, was a waste of time. So in a hour or so back outside I go!! Ho HO HOOOOO. Posted by: Bruce at December 25, 2013 07:47 AM (nZ561) You're lucky. Down here, we don't have smowplows. If we want our driveway blocked with snow, we have to do it ourselves.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 04:38 AM (uzmcT)

98 Nice thoughtful post. mindful. Thanks. I always suggest if people are reading the Bible after a long time or for the first time is with the Gospel of Mark because it's action packed and moves very quickly. And you're right . Jesus had a winning personality. One of the most interesting books I read about him is "The Jesus I Never Knew" by phillip Yancey.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:38 AM (BC6cY)

99 Merry Christmas friends.

The BB pistol wasn't very accurate either. Either that or I am a terrible shot, but mostly because I am a terrible shot.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at December 25, 2013 04:39 AM (V70Uh)

100 especially in the heart of the evil empire because it drives people nuts. Good for you, JJ. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:39 AM (BC6cY)

101 Happy Merry, everyone. Was going to spend the day pig hunting but nursing a leg injury so not so much today. I suppose just a little eating and drinking instead. Like the Mil-Surps. No Springfield (though want one) but do have an Enfield and a Carcano. Keep thinking I need to add a cheapo Mosin but just haven't done it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 25, 2013 04:40 AM (kaE/8)

102 Teej Real Schwinns were for the rich kids.Â Big wipe out that spring on the way to school (6th grade)Â ________ I don't know how many times my bell bottoms got caught in the chain on my knockoff Schwinn (no chainguard!) - so many bloody elbows and knees

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 25, 2013 04:41 AM (D0Qc2)

103 Have the p-38, the arisaka, The enfileds etc. I am missing US guns, they be pricey. My Dad has several M1911's and a M-1 Carbine he promised to me. I still need to pick up The 03 springfield and the Garand. Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 08:08 AM (F47Qc) My dad was looking for a pistol to carry hunting with him (to use on snakes). He saw a guy advertising a P38 for $50. He bought it. It turned out the receiver had the Nazi eagle stamped on it, and the holster had a swastika stamped in it.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 04:41 AM (uzmcT)

104 98 Nice thoughtful post. mindful. Thanks. Worth repeating.

Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2013 04:41 AM (Ua6T/)

105 Merry Christmas Morons! May you have a wonderful day fill with family/friends, good food, laughter and stored valued gift cards!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 25, 2013 04:42 AM (bCEmE)

106 I noticed this year while shopping that nearly everyone wished me a "Merry Christmas".

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at December 25, 2013 04:42 AM (DoZD+)

107 Thanks for the Gospel of Kuke, Andy. Good morning from NW wisconsin where it is a white Christmas. Nothing special planned today. Merry Christmas fellow morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 25, 2013 04:43 AM (HVff2)

108 ***Luke****

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 25, 2013 04:43 AM (HVff2)

109 The little CO2 pistols are fine in my book. The cartridges are pretty decent for the first couple dozen shots but then peter out. That said, the first shots will put decent dents in 55 gallon drums and there's no pumping, just quick reloading, between 'em.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 25, 2013 04:45 AM (kaE/8)

110 I noticed this year while shopping that nearly everyone wished me a "Merry Christmas". I noticed that, too. I was telling B'Gal the other day I kinda felt a little militant, what with my insistence on saying, "Merry Christmas" instead of anything else. There's just nothing like sticking it to Teh Man.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at December 25, 2013 04:46 AM (0HooB)

111 Carol, I wish I were near you, because I would surely come and take some out for you. I hate the bushy tailed rats. My prepper garden was in no way meant for them. The worst thing is when they clip the fruit bearing limbs off of trees before the fruits can get going. If they would take an actual fruit now and then, I would share but they will take out an entire crop with their limb clipping. I do not wish squirrels a merry Christmas, I wish them a quick death.

Posted by: traye at December 25, 2013 04:46 AM (ynDKF)

112 Good morning Horde! Merry Christmas. God bless all of you and your families.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 25, 2013 04:48 AM (60Vyp)

113

Breaking News:

Typos Running Amuk at AoSHQ Christmus Mourning.

Posted by: rightlysouthern at December 25, 2013 04:49 AM (uOxBm)

114 merry Christmas from heathen Japan, everyone. day is almost done here, but the spirit lingers on. Got my wife a high pressure washer for her car per moron advice. Wife got me 12 jars of american peanut butter (a luxury over here.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at December 25, 2013 04:51 AM (LWu6U)

115

62 I call Christmas BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT on both those stories. Had both the colonoscopy AND the colectomy two months ago. Not only two different operations, two different facilities and doctors and much in between.

They did a partial colectomy without a chest x-ray or an ekg first? Tell me more...

They found cancer on my first colonoscopy at age 50. Cured in a month because I caught it so early. It's hard to get people to get their screenings done early and regularly when they hear stories like these.

Posted by: DAve at December 25, 2013 04:51 AM (b7yum)

116 I liked the Gospel of "Kuke", actually . ;^) Making so many typos myself, I appreciate when others make interesting ones.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:51 AM (BC6cY)

117 I came hear to wish y'as
a Merry, Merry Christmas!

WhoaaAAAAAA!

Posted by: All hopped up on Rig Juice at December 25, 2013 04:51 AM (ymdAS)

118 Merry Christmas to one and all.

16 -- JRBean -- nice haul, I've got an M39 (good shooter), and a Cz82 (sweet little pistol). Good catch on the 44 Tula (the only ones worth having...)

23 -- Carol -- Good to hear, have you had a chance to poke about the Gutenberg site yet?

Vic -- glad to hear that the mysteries of flash memory gave you an early Christmas present... ;-)

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 25, 2013 04:52 AM (lJaja)

119 Merry Christmas everyone.

Posted by: Weird Aunt HeatherRadish at December 25, 2013 04:52 AM (xW2bf)

120 Merry Christmas Horde!

For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given.

Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 25, 2013 04:53 AM (P6QsQ)

121 Fenelon, I like to direct the doubters to "The Case for Christ" by Lee Stroebel. hope I spelled that right There is a lot of great stuff and one major take away about human nature that will cause any honest, thoughtful person to, well, think.

Posted by: teej at December 25, 2013 04:53 AM (e0nsQ)

122 You're lucky. Down here, we don't have smowplows. If we want our driveway blocked with snow, we have to do it ourselves.
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti

So you miss the fun of having the drive all done and the plow coming by to dump more on it?
That, and the letter that the village sends every year about NOT putting your driveway snow back into the street provides me chuckles, but then again I'm easily amused.

Time to go and face the snow monster.

Posted by: Bruce at December 25, 2013 04:53 AM (nZ561)

123 Merry Christmas all. I hear the pitter-patter of little feet so I have to cease and desist reading comments for now.

Posted by: small town girl in wyoming at December 25, 2013 04:54 AM (2tljF)

124 Not wearing my glasses I read that as "I got a high pressure washer for her cat" which gave me a start. ;^) My sister has lived in England for about 30 years. When she comes here she likes to eat things they either don't have or don't do very well over there such as good Kosher Dill Pickles and pickled tomatoes. So you'll have a lot of PB to eat and enjoy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:55 AM (BC6cY)

125 Morning!

Merry Christmas.. moving a little slow this morning. need coffee!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 25, 2013 04:55 AM (b/lt+)

126 113 - Heh, just noticed my own, with a wish for a "Marry" Christmas! Old, fat and blind is no way to make comments early in the morning, son.

Posted by: John the Baptist at December 25, 2013 04:55 AM (Xs981)

127 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 08:51 AM (BC6cY) Glad that I could give a small present :-)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 25, 2013 04:56 AM (HVff2)

128 Beautiful if cold day here in Slower Delaware. The turkey's in the oven, with everything else already done, so I'm just waiting for it to warm up enough to take the dog for his morning run. A very merry and blessed Christmas to the Horde!

Posted by: Empire1 at December 25, 2013 04:57 AM (oqEU4)

129 Merry Christmas for the far north of MN.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 25, 2013 04:57 AM (l0lja)

130 FROM

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 25, 2013 04:57 AM (l0lja)

131 Right back atcha Heather.

Posted by: Crazy Uncle teej at December 25, 2013 04:58 AM (erYRT)

132 >>> Old, fat and blind is no way to make comments early in the morning, son. Don't lose your head over a couple typos, Old Boy.

Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2013 04:58 AM (Ua6T/)

133 Posted by: teej at December 25, 2013 08:53 AM (e0nsQ) Yes, very good book too. Strobel brings his skills as a lawyer in sifting through evidence in the books he writes. I like Yancey because the Jesus he presents a masculine Jesus. We sort of have lost that sometimes in the church as well as discipleship as a heroic adventure, not followiing rules in order to be nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 04:58 AM (BC6cY)

134

Merry Christmas to everyone up there and over a bit -from me in Sydney Down Under where it's Boxing Day!

Boxing Day here means for us at Chez Aussie - roll out of bed just in time to watch the first ball bowled in the cricket Test (Aussies v Poms) and then watch the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race at 1pm - always a great sight - and then watch cricket all day

It's going to be strenuous day lying on the couch I'd say

Best wishes to everyone who posts here - and a big thank you to Ace and the cobloggers who make this blog my favourite US site

Posted by: aussie at December 25, 2013 04:59 AM (guXLk)

135 Heh. Heh. Heh. We're just getting warmed up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa's Hungry, Hungry Computer Hamsters at December 25, 2013 04:59 AM (0HooB)

136 Merry Christmas everyone

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 25, 2013 04:59 AM (JivuR)

137 124 Not wearing my glasses I read that as "I got a high pressure washer for her cat" In related news, my wife's cat is arcing over the rice fields as I type and should be landing on the other side of the levy within the hour.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at December 25, 2013 05:00 AM (LWu6U)

138 Well, off to church in the woods. Take care everybody.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2013 05:01 AM (BC6cY)

139 121>> Teej, I would highly recommend the books by Chuck Swindoll. They're easy to read and laid out to build a logical and compelling case for the acceptance of Christ as a savior.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 25, 2013 05:01 AM (60Vyp)

140 @ 103, (Zombie John Gotti), Dad has a P-38 too but later production (not WWII). I have a Nazi Marked one with 1 "dirty bird" on it. Those are great guns BTW, real shooters fir sure. I don't have no safe queens, everything gets shot, except for that Han Yang (Chinese GEW clone) from back in the day. That things a hundred years old or so. I am kind of afraid to shoot it. I only bought it for the cartouches (which are amazing). It was relegated to second line forces when the T-53 went into production! If that thing could talk it would tell a story of Chinese rebellions, WWII Jap invasion and a Commie revolution.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 05:02 AM (fEzLG)

141 A merry and blessed Christmas to all, in whatever part of the country, or the world, this holy day finds you! And special blessings to all our armed forces serving overseas; may you stay safe!

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at December 25, 2013 05:03 AM (/sohm)

142 It's hard to get people to get their screenings done early and regularly when they hear stories like these. In my BIL's case he wanted to live the Rush Limbaugh lifestyle. Big cigars every day and night, big 22 ounce beef dinners, because he worked hard dammit, not like all the layabouts on welfare he supported. Angry dude who spent his early years as an alcoholic, destroying cars and his own body. His Irish genes and age (~50) and some complaint about bleeding brought on his first in-hospital scope. (My wife also had her first scope in hospital after his diagnosis out of fear of what they might find.) Long story short they scoped the extent of his cancer and started cutting. But it had already metastasized through his body into his liver. The liver cancer was what finally got him about 16 months later. After the initial screening of my wife, finding nothing, she can now go to an-outpatient clinic which only scopes, no chance of immediate surgery.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at December 25, 2013 05:03 AM (6Nqkf)

143 Dump up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa's Hungry, Hungry Computer Hamsters at December 25, 2013 05:03 AM (0HooB)

144 113 - Heh, just noticed my own, with a wish for a "Marry" Christmas!

Old, fat and blind is no way to make comments early in the morning, son.

Posted by: John the Baptist at December 25, 2013 08:55 AM (Xs981)

I had the chance to intentionally use 3 in 1, couldn`t pass it up. I`m gettin` older, fatter and blinder too.

Posted by: rightlysouthern at December 25, 2013 05:04 AM (uOxBm)

145 Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day, Aussie, from a chilly Pennsylvania. Enjoy your day on the couch. (College bowl games here -- my agenda for the day is set.)

Posted by: joncelli at December 25, 2013 05:05 AM (/AYWV)

146 Dump up, y'all. Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 25, 2013 05:07 AM (N/cFh)

147 103 -- ZJ Gottie -- lucky buy

... however, I'd get a gunsmith to give that P38 a once-over if you intend to shoot it. No sense courting trouble.

As to the typo's... fumbling fingers, and the evil 'auto-correct' could be at fault, but given this crowd, I suspect Bourbon eggnog may be the root cause.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 25, 2013 05:07 AM (lJaja)

148 Merry Christmas, everybody.

Posted by: rickl at December 25, 2013 05:08 AM (sdi6R)

149 I say Foghorn, I say listen to me when I'm talkin' to ya there boy. I know a certain Kansas moron that would consider a small cooler full of yellow perch fillets a most marvelous Christmas gift. D) Can they, I say, can they even show Foghorn any more what with him being so racist and such? And the violent threats. I'm a chicken hawk and your a chicken. Now are ya gonna come along quiet like or am I gonna have ta muss ya up some.

Posted by: teej at December 25, 2013 05:08 AM (J3IzX)

150 merry Christmas horde would anyone like to discuss healthcare?

Posted by: navycopjoe Santa hates the Packers and their drunk waste of life fans at December 25, 2013 05:08 AM (JFrBt)

151 114 -- Have fun in the Land of the Rising Sun... btw, did you indulge in the time-honored custom of KFC for Christmas? ;-)

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 25, 2013 05:09 AM (lJaja)

152 damn, new thread already? I feel like willow

Posted by: navycopjoe Santa hates the Packers and their drunk waste of life fans at December 25, 2013 05:10 AM (JFrBt)

153

145 joncelli

Thanks and enjoy your college bowl games - footy I assume not lawn bowls!

BTW I have that funny cricket rules thingie I mentioned the other day - I'll post it on the new thread for you

Posted by: aussie at December 25, 2013 05:10 AM (guXLk)

154 I thought Boxing Day was the day after Christmas????

Posted by: Vic[/i] at December 25, 2013 05:11 AM (T2V/1)

155 I thought Boxing Day was the day after Christmas???? It is *now* the day after Christmas in Australia. The current time and date right now in New South Wales, Australia is 1:14 AM Thursday, December 26, 2013

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at December 25, 2013 05:15 AM (6Nqkf)

156

Merry Christmas everybody, and many more to you!

Up at 5:45 to drive my teenage son to work, and Sheetz has free coffee all day--I'd forgotten they did that, but son was warmed and pleased when he got on line with his change and the lady pushed it back and said "Merry Christmas!"

Came home and let dogs out and in, fed them, and started cooking.

Turkey breast with herbs and wrapped in bacon in crockpot, prepping vegs and stuffing now, ham to go in oven later, and a five flavor glazed poundcake wrapped and ready for dessert. They may even get corn muffins! Cheeses, pickles, olives, nuts &etc ready to be replenished all day.

First cup of coffee, second will have nog instead of cream, and maybe some Myer's dark Jamaican. Here's to my husband's Uncle Bill's sister Evelyn, who gave me just the right size mug years ago, and is gone now.

Survived Christmas Eve with my mother-in-law, who has somehow lived to be 78 in spite of keeping score instead of counting blessings, and did her passive aggressive best last night to make a new chapter in the saga.

Have to hand it to the upcoming generation: they said no politely and firmly as needed with smiles on their faces, and a great time was had by most! My poor MIL; unfortunately she is NEVER happy...unless everyone ELSE is miserable.

Old blind dog passed out in patch of sun in dining room, puppy curled up with bone from Christmas Eve veal after pigging out on breakfast kibble.

Some rough spots this year, and some new missing faces at the table forever, but a beautiful day and a good one.

Thankful.

God bless us every one, truly.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 25, 2013 05:16 AM (WWeoI)

157 @ 118, CPT Charles, I like to collect military surplus firearms. But those M-39s are 1 MOA rifles, Like the K-31's and some of the Mosin snipers. I have all and they are joy to shoot. Darn accurate for a milsurp! I had a friend tell me once.. "If you want accuracy..buy a remington 700" I replied.."It has no history, or character". BTW those CZ-82's are sweet. I love the high capacity mags. I bought a couple of P-64's too , great pistols but a little snappy on the hand. Don't even get me started on Tokarev's.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 05:17 AM (fEzLG)

158 I don't have no safe queens, everything gets shot, except for that Han Yang (Chinese GEW clone) from back in the day. Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 09:02 AM (fEzLG) The P38 has had the hell shot out of it over the 40+ years he's owned it. I once saw the entire mag emptied in the time it took him to jump in the air and land. Of course, he had almost just stepped on a rattlesnake. I also contend to this day that he emptied his shotgun as well, but he disputes that.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 05:27 AM (uzmcT)

159 157 -- JR Bean -- I hear ya... I got lucky several years back and got my hands on some Czech Sniper/match grade ammo for my M39. Doubt I'll ever get that luck again... I'm saving that stuff for a special occasion.

Heh, my Cz82 is only second to my East German Mak... the best of the WP Makarov's IMO.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 25, 2013 05:28 AM (lJaja)

160 Mommy got me a new set of flannel pajamas, 4 cases of juice boxes and a sweet new 60" TV for gaming!!!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at December 25, 2013 05:29 AM (pPwoz)

161 Guns scare me!!!...especially Nerf guns -- I almost killed myself with one once!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at December 25, 2013 05:31 AM (pPwoz)

162 I always suggest if people are reading the Bible after a long time or for the first time -FenelonSpoke At age 20, although I was raised with Gospel and Epistle readings, soaking in Bible Belt culture, it took a Jewish college professor and an academic turned mystic to make me realize, I'd never actually sat down and read them for myself. Two impressions, somewhat contradictilory, but strong, I recall. One was, oh, now I understand why people have been so excited about him for centuries! and How come nobody ever told me about this!

Posted by: mindful webworker at December 25, 2013 05:31 AM (dfp3p)

163 Two impressions, somewhat contradictilory, but strong, I recall. One was, oh, now I understand why people have been so excited about him for centuries! and How come nobody ever told me about this! Posted by: mindful webworker at December 25, 2013 09:31 AM (dfp3p) Religion tends to get in the way of the Gospel.

Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at December 25, 2013 05:35 AM (uzmcT)

164 Merry Christmas 'rons and 'ettes. Getting ready to put homemade cinnamon rolls and Mexican egg scramble in oven. Breakfast at 10a. Come on over.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 25, 2013 05:41 AM (teFlO)

165 "I like Yancey because the Jesus he presents a masculine Jesus. We sort of have lost that sometimes..." Can't recall if it was from the fine little book "This Fellow Jesus" or elsewhere, but... updating slightly... Hearty Galilean fishermen weren't going to give up everything to follow some pajamaboy.

Posted by: mindful webworker at December 25, 2013 05:41 AM (zr7nZ)

166 The dog was likely put in a garbage bag, thrown into a dumpster specific for construction material, picked up by a garbage truck and hauled to a dump, Reed said. Once in the dump, the dog survived large piles of debris piled on top of him, only to be scooped up by a tractor and dumped onto a conveyor belt. While riding along the conveyor belt, Gem went through the shaker screen which removes excess dirt and was on her way to a 20-foot fall down a chute to end up in a landfill. Workers are stationed at the end of the conveyor belt to further inspect the material to see if anything else can be recycled before heading to the landfill. When trash sorter Greggory Foster noticed something moving on the line, he sprang into action. http://goo.gl/gLr54w Good on you, mister! That is one pathetic looking little pup. All's well that ends well and there are plenty of people who want to adopt her.

Posted by: Bean Pies! at December 25, 2013 05:43 AM (Qev5V)

167 Overdo it on the Val-U-Rite vodka last night? Skin more than your quota of hobos this year? Disown a family member or friend because they support Obamacare? Troll too many liberal web sites? Spend too much time mocking Glenn Greenwald's sock puppets? Whoa. Who am I kidding? None of these are real offenses.

However, in case you committed any real sins *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*, a Savior, who offers us forgiveness, love, hope and peace, is available to all Morons and 'Ettes. Remember Him today!

Merry Christmas, y'all!

Posted by: Conservative Belle at December 25, 2013 05:47 AM (bUn8f)

168 Chobani Dropped From Whole Foods Shelves Why? Because the cows that produce the milk they use are feed genetically modified food. Leftards like to whine that conservatives are antiscience but really it is just the opposite.

Posted by: Bean Pies! at December 25, 2013 05:48 AM (Qev5V)

169 poo on new threads. I'm staying here. I've got my coffee, this thread's all broken in, it's all warm... cozy... although... I do feel a draft, tho. ... hello? (..lo ..lo)

Posted by: mindful webworker at December 25, 2013 05:48 AM (dfp3p)

170 A video of that poor little pup: http://goo.gl/opllv3

Posted by: Bean Pies! at December 25, 2013 05:51 AM (Qev5V)

171 Merry Christmas everyone!

http://tinyurl.com/5hgyo8

Mary did you know that your baby boy would some day walk on water?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered, will soon deliver you.

Mary did you know that your baby boy would give sight to a blind man?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would calm a storm with his hand?
Did you know that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when your kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God.

Oh Mary did you know

http://tinyurl.com/26czlln

The blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dead will live again.
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak, the praises of the lamb

Mary did you know that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day rule the nations?
Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding is the great I am

Posted by: it's me at December 25, 2013 06:14 AM (OroYa)

172 Sorry link to lyrics:

http://tinyurl.com/26czlln

Posted by: it's me at December 25, 2013 06:15 AM (OroYa)

173 "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. ~ Luke 2:9-11" Never heard of him.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 25, 2013 06:20 AM (XO6WW)

174 New Thread smell, but I'm hanging here for a bit. @ 158 (Zombie John Gotti). Dads and Guns. Oh the stories! Your's cracked me up. reminded me of the time my Dad and me were travelling to his camp (120 acres In W Va on a mountaintop). He kept saying they had no snakes up there. I hate snakes BTW. So I bounce my Camaro all the way up there, need to get out of the car and turn over a big stump blocking the little 1 lane dirt path (officially the "harper Trail") and what do I find? A baby copperhead! Then we are sitting in front the hunting camp, and I am sitting on an old frige turned on its side. I hear this sound like a scraping. I look down and 1 snake is slithering into the fridge, while another one is slithering out and under a piece of corrugated roofing on the ground I had my feet on. I yelled 'Snakes"! Dad said "Where"? I said right here and under that corrugated roofing. I picked up the large piece of roofing and it was a hollow under there with lots of snakes so I dropped it back down. Dad's eyes got big as pie plates. He took that M-1 carbine and went to shooting. Darn roofing looked like swiss cheese when he was done. Snakes went flying everywhere. Some of them ran under the camp building. So Dad stuck that rifle under the camp building and emptied the mag. After it was all said and done , I lifted the roofing and it was empty. Not 1 dead snake or drop of blood. We still laugh about it to this day. I call jokingly Dad 'snake killer".

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 06:24 AM (fEzLG)

175 @ 159 CPT. Charles, I don't have an East German Mak but love the CZ-82's. Good at ya on Match ammo. I snagged a couple of crates of GP-11 for the K-31's And a lot of M-75 sniper ammo for the 8mm's. Merry Christmas all from China. It's bedtime for Bonzo so I need to sign out.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 25, 2013 06:48 AM (Ez1JD)

176

Merry Christmas, Morons and Moronettes!

Last night at Christmas Eve dinner, I had a pleasant surprise. My older brother - once very liberal but becoming gradually more conservative - told us he had just applied for a CC permit and completed a gun safety class with his son. My SIL's mother, visiting from Florida, who is a lib in most respects, urged everyone to join the NRA to "preserve our 2nd Amendment rights" and got into a friendly argument with my sister's conservative hunter husband over the best revolver for a woman to carry - she's a big Glock fan, he is not.

I remember a family gathering about a dozen years ago where this same brother was shouting at me across the table about the need for gun control. If the gun grabbers have lost people like my brother and my SIL's mother is a card-carrying NRA member - that's a very good sign that all the left's propaganda is not working.

Posted by: Donna V. at December 25, 2013 06:49 AM (R3gO3)

177 From the Bob Newhart thread... 433 "...strapped to a chair, with an intravenous viagra drip going..."

Hmm, at my age, where might one find such a set-up?"

Socalconn, with a Viagra IV and a Leisure Suit Larry cartridge, this was as close as I could get... http://tinyurl.com/mn7o8r5

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 25, 2013 08:12 AM (XO6WW)

178 :-(

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 28, 2013 08:33 PM (lgKyC)

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