Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Morning, Wee! Morning, all! Well, tomorrow the regular old schedule resumes, and we have our countdown to Christmas. Lots to do yet. We had beautiful weather this weekend until last evening when it began to rain. Still not too cold, and none of that snow stuff.
Mornin’ sports fans and happy Sunday. The last day of our long weekend! Getting the coffee started, let’s see what’s been going on…
Here’s “Occupy Wall Street Has Vindicated The Tea Party”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-has-vindicated-tea-party
“Tea Partiers have at least, during their short existence, conducted themselves relatively peacefully and responsibly.”
Tea Partiers have conducted themselves very peacefully and responsibly. How many people have been hurt or arrested as a result of Tea Party actions? When have millions of dollars of cleanup and police overtime ever been necessary at a TP rally? No, they always clean up after themselves.
“Of course, this isn’t to suggest critics won’t still cry foul whenever a Tea Partier shows up to a public event concealing a firearm…”
They weren’t concealing a firearm. They were carrying openly in accordance with their state’s laws. Nobody was threatening anyone with a weapon. Liberal pantywaists see a gun and they think that = brandishing.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-has-vindicated-tea-party#ixzz1eviAxJoP
Who wrote this crappy opinion piece?
The Occupy movement continued its outreach program of thuggery, harassment and intimidation on Black Friday.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47764
And here come the light bulb police.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/26/time-to-stock-up-on-light-bulbs/
Rotten RINOs.
Good news for those of us here in the north: Canada is postponing their ban of the incandescent lightbulb. Skip over the bridge, or through the tunnel to Windsor, Ontario, and I can buy all of those that I want, at least for a couple of more years. Or I can ask our salesman, Fred, to buy some for me and deliver them to the office when he makes a periodic visit.
Bet nobody saw this one coming!! “Putin Formally Nominated to Reclaim Presidency”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_ELECTIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
WOW – check out this photo from Drudge – “Beam of light shines on fallen soldier’s miracle dog.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/not-photoshopped-beam-of-light-shines-on-fallen-soldiers-miracle-dog/
That is SO amazing. Love this story.
In other news, I have a headache for some reason.
Rick Perry’s Thanksgiving ad thanking our military.
That is great, WW. The following is a casual comment on the story about Perry and Marcus by my friend, Linda H.
“Whenever a Texas soldier is killed/wounded in Iraq/Afghanistan, Governor Perry calls them on his own cell phone, and offers his condolences…then tells them to call him – on his own cell phone – if they need anything.
Are you familiar with Marcus Luttrell from “Lone Survivor” fame?
Well, Marcus was having a really tough time after he returned from Afghanistan. A trauma like that would make anyone a little off center.
So Rick and Anita took Marcus in. They gave him things to do and made sure he got to San Antonio for all his medical visits.
Rick, having also been in the military, had long talks to the wee hours with Marcus about the aftershock of Marcus losing all his team members.
After Marcus moved back home, some thug teenagers killed his dog, the rehabilitation dog (DASY…an acronym of the guys he served with/lost during the mission) Marcus was given at Walter Reed.
What happened then can be found on the internet. Basically, some crazies shot his dog and Marcus chased them through several counties until the Marshals arrested them.
What is not reported is that Marcus called Rick on his cell phone and told Rick that punks had killed his dog.
Rick sent the Texas Rangers to intercept the thugs. They are now in jail.
When Rick Perry tells you he’s a friend and will always be there for you, he means it.
Up to now, Rick and Anita have taken in even more Navy Seals who have had traumatic experiences, trying to help them like they did Marcus. To me, that says a LOT about the measure of a man.”
Read the book, folks, if you haven’t already. It underscores that being a hero is no easy task–either in the doing of the heroic thing or surviving it to be able to tell of the heroes who died. On his very worst debating or campaigning day Rick Perry is like Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer’s: 200 times the man than you-know-who is on his very best day with a body man and teleprompters running at high speed.
Can we start just calling you-know-who ykw? I’m sick of his face. I’m sick of his voice. I’m sick of his deeds. I’m sick of everything he is and represents. 2012: take the trash out. theonewhoshallnotbenamed perhaps? Regardless of the outcome for our nation, he will go down as The Betrayer. Maybe that’s what we could call him.
I like the last one, Sharon.
Thanks for sharing this. This is much more meaningful to me than some ill-considered comments at a debate.
Thanks, W2 and TXMom. Good, good stuff.
Marcus is a True American Hero, who will quickly tell you that “I’m not a hero, I’m a Patriot”. He and his wife have a baby boy, named after his friend, Axe.
I don’t know if this has been linked here before, but it is important enough to repeat.
SSI Exclusive: Hiding mass murder behind “national security.” What Newsweak & the FBI didn’t want you to know about PATCON and the OKC Bombing.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/11/ssi-exclusive-hiding-mass-murder-behind.html
Please post this again in tomorrow’s open thread. I need to read this to find out what PATCON is exactly, but I don’t have time today. Thank you!
So the FBI is responsible for the Oklahoma bombing?
Wow. I just don’t know about this one. Seems really contrived to me, but hey…you never know these days.
I just don’t know about this one.
Tebow Train Continues to Turn Out W’s!!! LOL! Oh, sorry, I’se watchin’ the football….
Any of y’all heard anything about this??? (after long week-end I’m playing catch-up) This is unbelievable.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being
I agree. Don’t know the details, or the murky motivation behind it, but I don’t trust Mark Udall or his bill that’s supposed to “fix” this thing. At this point, relying on “an orderly Congressional review of detention power” doesn’t make me feel all giddy about it. Congress is going to protect us? Really? When was the last time in this administration that they succeeded in doing that exactly? Not feelin’ it.
Who on earth really believes Congress is going to protect us from anyone, foreign or domestic? I haven’t believed that for many, many months now.
I think they expect insurrection within the US – maybe as a result of a serious financial collapse.
I agree, why else would they write such a bill?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8917077/Prepare-for-riots-in-euro-collapse-Foreign-Office-warns.html
If John McCain and Limpy Graham are supportive of this, I am certainly against it. Over 900 days since they last passed a budget and this is what they flippin’ come up with? This ain’t good.
Just got back to the big city after 4 days of gluttony! Hope all are well.
Gluttony! Yum! Well, we’ll just ‘roll’ into work tomorrow, huh??
Does put a different “spin” on it eh? Almost wore out my new sweatpants with no drawstring!
sundance…just in case you didn’t see it, Tebow and the Broncos won again today…in OT.
Another happy football weekend – my SAINTS won their playoff game against Azusa Pacific yesterday and Tim and the Broncos pulled off a great one today. Love me some football!!!!
Oh yeah I saw it…….
Good game, but poorly coached by Bronco’s. Several doofus mistakes by the coach including that last time out. But a most excellent result 
I’m sure John Elway is gnashing his teeth and seething behind the scenes….
Yup. Beginning to understand why Janet Elway decided to bail on the Stanford Wonderboy.
Just wanted to add something here to this thought. The kid always deflects praise to his team. The team, especially the defense, really appear to play their heart out “for” him, and for themselves. Listening to the team, (players not mgmt) talk about it is actually quite inspiring. Strange too that ESPN appears to have a lot of Tebow detractors as commentators, while NFL network has commentators that are positive about him and talk about his inspiration.
Best comment I heard a couple of times from Michael Irvin was about so much emphasis being placed on “skill”, with no-one really understanding, or emphasizing, the value of “will”.
Shannon Sharp asked him twice yesterday in an interview “Do you think that the Broncos management and coaches are 100% behind you?” Why don’t you ask them? How is that possibly something he could answer with any kind of certainty…and why should he be concerned about it in the first place?
I’m finally realizing how humorously disfunctional the Grunt family is. At the dinner table, I was explaining a video (posted today on iOTW) called “An Engineer’s Guide to Cats.” I thought one of the geek sons would appreciate that they were measuring the lengths and widths and calculating the “aspect-ratios” of 3 cats to see how aerodynamic they were. When I noted that one of the cats was so wide, it’s AR was nearly one, Mrs. Grunt retorted: “So, it had a big ass…pect ratio?” She’s REALLY immature.
I need to be friends with this woman.
So did you show this post to your mrs also? Hey mine just took a nice wet towel and left me a nice b and b on the leg. Man shes a killer shot with that thing. Well I gotta get outa the kichen its tooooo hot. Lol
Oh BTW the Mrs went outside and the boys were target shooting with a ruger 22 rifle and missing a small target. She then takes the rifle amid jeers of “awe mom you can’t hit that” and promptly shoots all 5 in a row at 100 yards all the time I was laughing my guts out at what the young boys hormones are dashed to shame amid manifestations of amazement. Hell of a shot freestanding and I could not do it myself but she has an eagle eye and a steady hand. I told the boys “after all she picked me didn’t she”. ROFL
DON’T MESS WITH MOM!
Not yet! Well, your mrs needs to be a good shot with all the sons and the husband she needs to deal with!
For anybody still up, Philly police are getting ready to take out the trash, so please say a quick prayer for our men and women in blue.
Will do. That could be a real mess. Rough overtime for those folks.
You got it, Tilda. God bless them with wisdom and strength of all kinds…whatever they need.
Absolutely. Will Do. Los Angeles supposed to do the same at midnight pacific time.