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SPEAK THE FIVE WORDS BOLDLY TO OUR PRESIDENT!
“I AM PRAYING FOR YOU!“
AND WHAT TIME IS IT?
TIME TO….
DRAIN THE SWAMP
Our movement
Is about replacing
A failed
And CORRUPT
Political establishment
With a new government controlled
By you, the American People.
Candidate Donald J. Trump
Also remember Wheatie’s Rules:
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Let’s begin this CHRISTMAS EVE’S EVE (and some of CHRISTMAS EVE) thread with a great song just posted by Gail Combs!
This morning and afternoon – TODAY – is when you need to finish all those preparations – unless you’re going out for Chinese!
But even then, you may still need a few LAST MINUTE PRESENTS, and other things.
And what about Christmas Eve services? Anybody going? I’m actually very surprised by how MANY families I know, don’t go to church ANY other time of the year, but they ALWAYS go on Christmas Eve!
It’s good to know that people are staying connected to God with other people – even if it’s just once a year. There is a hidden BASE out there – just waiting!
Then there is CAROLING on Christmas Eve! Which may be INDOORS…..
OUTDOORS…..
On a truck in Miami in the distant past….
In a park in New York City….
Or in the same church as the one for Christmas Eve services….
And then there is the REALLY BIG QUESTION…..
Did you open DOOR 24 on your ADVENT CALENDAR???
JUST KIDDING!!!
No – the real question is this. Are you “wait and open presents on Christmas”, or are you “go ahead and open presents on Christmas Eve” in your family?
I think I may be able to convince the “WAITERS” that the “CHEATERS” ain’t such bad people with this charming video!
Because we can ALWAYS keep in mind this PSA from SANTA HIMSELF….
And trust me – I have that on Good Authority from Santa’s Air Safety Commander in Chief!
So ANYWAY, let me give you just a hint of what it’s all REALLY ABOUT…..
Coming….
SOON!
W
PS….
Gotta have some SHOUT OUTS at the end, too. They are WHY WE ARE HERE.
A Merry Christmas to Q….
A Merry Christmas to Q+ and “Q++”, the latter seen here preparing GIANT Q ORNAMENTS!
And last but not least – not by a long shot – Merry Christmas to those who are away from their friends and family, serving this nation and their countrymen – wherever they may be.
We saved the best of us for last.
PEACE ON EARTH | Little drummer boy | HD With Lyrics | DAVID BOWIE cover by Chris Landmark
Come they told me
Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
A new born king to see
Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Our finest gifts we bring
Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Rum-pum-pum-pum
Rum-pum-pum-pum
Peace on earth, can it be
Years from now, perhaps we’ll see
See the day of glory
See the day when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on earth, can it be
Every child must be made aware
Every child must be made to care
Care enough for his fellow man
To give all the love that he can
I pray my wish will come true
For my child and your child too
He’ll see the day of glory
See the day when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on earth, can it be
Can it be
Beautiful, Michael. Much appreciated ✝️
Great Christmas Eve thread, boss!
😄🤩👍🎄🤶🎅🦌🌟
Ya know…I really wouldn’t mind having Chinese takeout for Christmas.
Hah. 😄🥡🥢🥠
I love Chinese food!
We always let the kids open ‘one’ present on Christmas Eve night…but they had to wait till morning to open the rest of them.
Now they are grown and doing the same thing with their own little ones.
HA! What a great solution! I seem to remember one Christmas Eve as kids, getting to open the “stocking stuffers” early! But when we were older, we started doing Christmas Eve opening, because that was the way my mom’s family did it when she was a kid, and we were old enough not to need that “Christmas morning, SANTA CAME” ritual any more!
Wheatie I ordered Chinese take out tonight for the wife and I 🙂
Mmm it was good too. Broccoli Beef, Sesame Chicken, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Spring Rolls, Fried Rice, Lo Mein noodles…
I ate my egg rolls dipped in asian mustard… mmmm so good…
The kids of course got pizza 😉 Convenient that the Chinese take out and the Pizza shop are right next to each other – and both run specials!
Haaa…cool.
That sounds yummy!
So I’m not so weird after all.
😄
I know what we’re having the day after Christmas!
T-BONES!
Forget the turkey….
Doing ribs tomorrow for my wife and I. Keeping it simple this year. We usually do the ham and big dinner for the rest of the family, but we are going skiing in CO. for a New Years vacation and don’t want to wear ourselves out before we go.
Wheaties, that’s what we’ve always done too! Each child, grown or not, gets a new set of pajamas for morning photos, and then gets to open one gift.
That’s what we ended up with after I was about ten and my sister was five. I think it was to help abate the competition.
In my family, Dad’s family celebrated on Christmas Eve and Mom’s on Christmas day. So we kids got TWO Christmases and a chance to celebrate with both branches.
Ours is still similar……
2 places = 2 days.
Play “Dirty Santa” at both places.
Everyone brings a gift…….
Put them all in pile….
Draw numbers….
Pick a gift……or
take someone else’s 🙂
(After gift is taken twice, it is locked down and can’t be taken away)
Person #1 gets to choose to keep what he/she has or take one from another.
Game over.
BTW…… the Kids still get there loads of gifts.
The “Dirty Santa” game is for the adults)
Christmas Eve at our house was the one night of the year Mom insisted we dress for dinner. I mean dress. China and candles on the table. Some fancy pork roast with a sauce Emeril LaGasse makes with bacon and shallots.
Then, we’d go to the Christmas Eve Mass, come home, and one present.
That’s in the years AFTER we no longer had a Christmas Eve shindig at Aunt J’s house. That was when we were little, and we’d come home. Dad would get us in bed. Mom went to sing Midnight Mass, and she would pick up our loot, uh, presents from the baby sitter’s house. See, she’d pay the baby sitter and her sister to wrap them. At about 2 in the morning it was all done, and we were up by seven.
Wheatie, thanks for all your comfy tree havens this year 🥰🎄🎄
AMEN!!! When 🐺 needs to rest and lick his wounds, he curls up under a WHEATIE TREE! 😀
I ran across this Santa Claus gif…and loved it because of the irreverence toward the Steve Spielberg signature icon.
Heheh.
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http://www.vector-logo.net/logo_preview/ai/a/Amblin_Entertainment_logo.png
“STAY IN YOUR LANE, PENCILNECK!” 😉
Did you know??
“Christmas”, said in spanish, means “More Christ”. 🤓👍
Merry merry!!
.
City sidewalks
Busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there’s
A feeling of Christmas
Children laughing
People passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every
Street corner you’ll hear
Feliz navidad
Feliz navidad
Feliz navidad, prospero año y felicidad
A-ha!
I want to wish you a merry Christmas
I want to wish you a merry Christmas
I want to wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart!
Wonderful Christmas Eve opening post, Wolfie! O Holy Night is such a magical song and this is a lovely version.
Christmas Eve was the big deal in my home, always. It is THE time for Christmas celebrations in Scandanavian culture. Christmas Day was always a big dinner with extended family, but Christmas Eve was the gift exchange, church, lights, candles, music—the magic.
My Christmas celebration will be very scaled back this year. I almost didn’t even put up a tree, but I finally did that today. It will be simple, but we’ll honor Christ’s birth.
Merry Christmas to each one of you.
Thank you, Sylvia. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you, cthulhu!!!
Merry Christmas and God’s Peace! <3
Thank you, Wolfie! Same to you! ❤❤❤
Merry Christmas, Syl.
🥰🤗🤶🎅🎄💖
Love and hugs!
Merry Christmas to you, dear friend! I hope you have a wonderful time with your family. ❤❤❤❤❤
Merry Christmas, Sylvia! 🙂
Merry Christmas to you, churchmouse!
Thank you, Sylvia!
Today an expectant hush falls across the world. Businesses close early, freeways become passable, phones go quiet….
Shopping takes on an eerie desperation, as many items are simply GONE – others are spilled everywhere in abundance – the parking lots get EMPTIER – the roads get QUIETER – the last few shoppers ECHO in the emptying stores……
WOLF makes his final GRAB of JUNK FOODS…… 😉 😀
Phones ring everywhere as far flung families get in touch
Our local mall (Westfield Valley Fair) was just nuts — I had to drive by it to get to somewhere else and the traffic was hideous.
Decades ago when Westfield Valley Fair, was Valley Fair, fun times. Ride bikes there as a kid, then drive as a teenager.
Great memories.
I am guessing San Jose, Stevens Creek as I recall. Was a fun place to grow up…back in 60s… have not been back since mid 90s.
OK. I’m officially impressed.
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1209384088559390720
May not be the same occasion, but…..
Fun little bit for Sci-Fi fans…..listen for the “Atreides”.
Haaaa…I love it.
😄🤣
“Thank you, Trumpy Bear!” 😀
Progressives Officially Redefine ‘Hate Speech’ As ‘Speech We Do Not Like’
^^^^ Is from Babylonbee. Looks real doesn’t it?
I wish he was still with us.
😞😔
I think that Andrew would be loving it that we elected Pres Trump…and I think he would be glad to see that Citizen Journalists are answering his call.
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1209268915593007106?s=20
Wow – that is a GREAT speech!!!
If it weren’t for Bill Whittle, I was ready to go “all-in” when Andrew Breitbart left us. I continue to regard him as a saint and a martyr.
I profoundly regret that his children could not mature with his presence, but hope they recognize that the blood of a hero flows within their veins.
WaPo is clearly going over a cliff of some kind. Check this out.
WaPo went over that cliff a long time ago.
When Bezos bought it, whatever minimal integrity that the paper still had, was thrown out the window.
I hope they do SUE the Washed-up Compost.
And now for something TOO CUTE….
https://youtu.be/aKsMxp7nSWg
Babies and Kitties…that is some maximum cuteness right there.
I think they slipped in some puppies, though…at the 3:28 mark.
😏😉
Just a guess…Pomeranian pups?
Yeah, kitties —
.
Snicker, that is a lot closer to the true nature of cats.
Sorry, I would not trust a cat near a baby unattended.
lol true, I would’ve truncated it: “Sorry, I would not trust a cat” 😉
Verse of the Day
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“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!
Tuesday Blessing
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Good Morning Duchess!!!
gonna be warmer this week…hope you have a Blessed Day!
Hi, Pat! That’s wonderful!
Have a Happy Christmas Eve Celebration!!!
and you as well!!
peace and joy to you and yours in this wonderful season!
Thanks, Pat! I thank God for you!!!
God Bless You Real Good!!!
I thank him for you and your wonderful spirit all year through!
Awww…how sweet! * Smiling *
😀
was this posted yet? 12 days of Trump!!! pretty cool…
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/12-days-of-trump-christmas/
That was Absotutalutely Awesome, Pat! Thanks for posting – shared widely!!!
A LOT of work went into that vid.
It is amazing how much support President Trump is getting from some very creative and talented people.
One for the good guys.
EVICTION FAIL! heck, YEAH, baby. Go Bannon go.
I agree with Matt Gaetz here:
we definitely need that second step–for the Senate committees to start investigating and doing their part to expose the Dem corruption as well…
It’s almost as if the Senate, house for that matter canNOT chew gum and walk at the same time.
House, impeachment and nothing else.
Senate Judges and nothing else.
Please don’t get me wrong, I am ecstatic about the Judges, AND would NOT trade Judges away.
Just find it ODD, these over paid, under worked fools in Senate and House can seemingly only do ONE thing at a time.
AND, AND, yes, it is way past time the Senate did something about corruption. Admittedly, Senate and House investigations are 99.99% bluster.
WILL settle for MOAR Judges, shred impeachment AND AG BARR investigations yield impeachments, trial and jail for bad guys.
when these congress people run again, what on earth can they point to that they are accomplishing for their salaries? what peoples’ business are they doing?
Yea. Short of Judges, and that is huge, Senate has done nothing that comes to mind. House can claim impeachment, a farce it is.
Inept fools.
ON THE POSITIVE SIDE…this morning…
– Sent President Trump may daily thank you email.
– Daily email DART between the eyes of my democrat socialist Senator’s Masto and Rosen.
– AND, donated to Trump 2020.
you’ve had a productive morning!!
in my Christmas card to POTUS and the First Family, I remembered to send holiday greetings to the Secret Service…LOL…and say hey–it’s me again…LOL
With the House doing NOTHING for months on end, except looking for a crime to hang on President Trump, The Senate is shackled. Therefore Yrutle has put the time to good use by pushing through multiple judges a day. Mitch also said, on the impeachment, he would leave how it is handle up to President Trump and his lawyers.
We really do not need any more meaningless ‘show investigations’ instead we need INDICTMENTS and I think we will be seeing them shortly.
Investigations are NOT the true function of the legislative branch. This is why the COMMUNISTS have intentionally forced the system – ON BEHALF OF CHINA – into investigations.
CHUCK THE FINACRATS. ELECT REPUBLICANS.
As far as I am concerned these ‘Show Investigations’ muck up the REAL trials and may in some instances make it impossible to try a person because the jury pool (the entire USA) is so badly tainted. That is one reason the AG NEVER mentions much about DOJ investigations.
The fact Barr HAS brought up a few, like Soros would indicate the indictments are very close.
Ironic that FAKE NEWS may have PROTECTED actual jury pools for actual crimes.
so now our homes are racist…Democrats are the spawn of hell…maybe I just need coffee…
FTA
“Single-family housing zones would become two-zoned,” Samirah told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Areas that would be impacted most would be the suburbs that have not done their part in helping out.”
“The real issues are the areas in between very dense areas which are single-family zoned. Those are the areas that the state is having significant trouble dealing with. They’re living in a bubble,” he said.
He said suburbs were “mostly white and wealthy” and that their local officials — who have historically been in charge of zoning — were ignoring the desires of poor people, who did not have time to lobby them to increase suburban density.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/virginia-house-zoning-environment/
Isn’t that lovely, move in the drug dealers, thieves and rapists into your neighborhood while taking your guns. Virginia is about to become a California type HELL HOLE.
agreed…
Splitting up big houses into multiple family dwellings is a massive fail any time it happens. Trust me. And it isn’t just the pathologies the ghetto dwellers bring with them. Zoning is only the half of it. All utilities are designed for single family dwellings, and may not have room for twice the capacity.
It looks to be an asset grab. We’ve had issues with that here. Long story that involves the latest effort to put the city back into the county. Turns out they wanted county municipal assets. NO WAY JOSE. The city comes back into the county, they are just one more big municipality. No confiscating equipment and parks.
when the little town over upgraded their water/sewer facility they had to determine possible population growth in their planning to figure out the if the size plant they were planning could fulfill possible future requirements. you simply cannot double an area’s sewer usage and not expect to overload the wastewater treatment facilities…that’s one of the local zoning board’s function: to determine if the proposed structure can comply with existing utilities.
“Planning? You must be daft. How would we create exploitable crises if we plan?”
— any petty tyrant with a title
there are some who plan with an uncanny eye for the future tho…
the county seat here was in the stages of revamping their wastewater treatment plant years ago and someone on the planning board had an eye to the future–they thought fracking might boom in this area, and recommended building a facility that could not only handle the borough’s wastewater but also treat the brine water that fracking would produce.
now their system is the only around in a large area capable of doing so and it has brought tons of revenue to the borough.
what Christmas is all about…
greatest jobs President…
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2019/12/23/donald-trump-before-he-was-elected-makes-prediction-on-his-performance-as-president-100-right-45-sec-clip/
Ummm . . . “Contributions or gifts to the Republican National Committee are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.”
Nice thought but, no thanks. A donation to the RNC, not to Trump-Pence, is required!!!
fun physics tricks to try at home…
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2019/12/23/fun-physics-tricks-you-can-do-at-home-kids-love-these-fast-142/
https://twitter.com/lucytraves/status/1209446238434856962
Christmas music is a special cultural achievement of Christian civilization. The lyrics of so many Christmas songs are beautiful poetry, and the melodies memorable and moving.
My personal belief (not required to be believed by anybody except me) is that Christmas music is inspired of God every bit as much as the Gospels.
One which means so much to me is The Holly and the Ivy (video and lyrics below).
The imagery of the refrain describes a Christmas morning from hundreds of years ago. You can picture a family approaching their church, feeling the exhilaration of history’s greatest fact, the life of God among us.
And the song describes that life perfectly, the Incarnation repeatedly presaging the Suffering and glorious Resurrection. Just as Mary labored to give Jesus life, Jesus labored to give us Life.
I have seen the question asked why the Holly gets the “crown” and not the Ivy. I must admit, the very obvious answer eluded me longer than it should have.
The ever-green Ivy represents Eternal Life with our Savior, basking in the Love of God.
But that Eternal Life was given to us by the events perfectly and beautifully reflected in the Holly. Almost as if God meant it that way.
The holly and the ivy
When they are both full grown
Of all trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
The holly bears a blossom
As white as lily flow’r
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our dear Saviour
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
The holly bears a prickle
As sharp as any thorn
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas Day in the morn
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
The holly bears a bark
As bitter as the gall
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
The holly and the ivy
When they are both full grown
Of all trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O, the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing in the choir
This one of my favorites that I never get to sing because the current music directors don’t like it. I don’t get why.
My wife and I are in our Church choir. Christmas is my favorite time for singing. Agree, the songs are all beautiful.
Christmas Eve Blessing
To me there is something very sad about this. 🙁
wow! BOMBSHELL email…LOL…the SMOKING GUN…finally!!! LOL
FTA
This email is so “explosive” that it completely contradicts the Democrat narrative.
Notice what it actually says. In the second sentence, Duffey says the hold is temporary and will not interfere with the execution of the final policy direction. What that means is that this hold was never meant to go past the legal date by which the aid was supposed to be released. This was not an email laying out a nefarious plan to go around Congress and break the law. It was a ho-hum advisement of a completely legal, brief pause.
There is nothing new here. We already knew that the administration wanted to hold the aid temporarily until they got reassurances about Zelensky as the new leader of Ukraine. There’s nothing improper about that, nor was it improper for the President to have concerns about corruption within the country, including involving Hunter Biden. The Democrats still lack evidence of any intent to do anything impeachable here, much less an actual impeachable act itself.
https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/12/23/democrats-push-explosive-email-ukrainian-aid-hold-actually-contradicts-narrative/
Here is the letter posted by a commenter.
Letter to OMB from GAO on Ukraine Assistance
The statute authorizing security assistance thatrequires Ukraine to crack down on corruption:
https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/hrpt840/CRPT-114hrpt840.pdf
A good explanation: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/president_trump_never_impounded_even_one_dollar_from_ukraine_aid.html
>>>>>>>>>>
The DemonRats just want another excuse to go on yet another fishing expedition.
ICE picks up a paroled “refugee” convicted of murder in CA…article mentions a “private government contractor” = bounty hunter?
FTA
A 2017 California law bars local and state agencies from cooperating with immigration authorities involving cases against those who have committed certain crimes, mostly misdemeanors. The rights groups say it also applies to the state prison system.
Ton was picked up Monday by a private government contractor in what immigrant groups contend is a violation of federal law, his attorney said. Newsom this year vetoed a bill that would have blocked private companies from picking up paroled immigrants in California.
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/12/23/refugee-parole-murder-case-california-ice-detained/
“….a private government contractor….” That sounds like really good news.
sounds like employment opportunities…LOL…to get around working with ICE specifically…
Uh, I really like the idea of bounty hunters for the felony type illegals.
I’m sure you’re not alone…LOL
Elizabeth Carter 23 Dec 2019 at 15:41
Indictments Incoming
Oh . . .
Indictments incoming
Dark changes to light
Indictments incoming
There’s dancin’ tonight
Let’s log in to QTree
Join with friends all to see
Indictments incoming
And there’s dancin’ tonight
Dimms tried a coup, they spied and lied
They set up traps, fake facts supplied
They used DOJ and FBI
But now it seems, they’ll be denied
Perp walks are a-comin’
All in our plain sight
Perp walks are a-comin’
There’s dancin’ tonight
Let’s log in to QTree
Join with friends all to see
Perp walks are a-comin’
And there’s dancin’ tonight
Soros and Brennan, in crosshairs now
The Bull’s got ‘em, they’re both his now
And Comey and Biden, speared by his horns
Time to harvest that whole field of corn
Justice is a-comin’
All will be set right
Justice is a-comin’
There’s dancin’ tonight
Let’s log in to QTree
Join with friends all to see
Justice is a-comin’
And there’s dancin’ tonight
Happier times are comin’ at last
The Dimms will pay for deeds now past
Liberty’s torch shows us the way
And freedom shines brighter these days
Hard time is a-comin’
All will be set right
Hard time is a-comin’
There’s dancin’ tonight
Let’s log in to QTree
Join with friends all to see
Hard time is a-comin’
And there’s dancin’ tonight
. . . and popcorn, too!
Soros Roasting (with help from TheseTruths)
So, after hours and hours of back breaking work this afternoon, here’s my aria . . . uh, modified a bit ‘cause TheseTruths is singing harmony.
Soros roasting on an open fire
All his bank accounts froze
Hunter and Joe behind barbed wire
And the fat cat Dimms are deposed
Everybody knows, indictments and some prison time
Will help to make the season bright
Corrupt Dimms and turncoat RINO’s
Will find it hard to sleep tonight
They know that Durham’s on his way
With lots of cuffs and perp walks any day
And those Dimms and helpers and allies
Are goin’ down with the agents and spies
And so I’m offering this simple phrase
To all you members of the coup
Although it’s been said many times, many ways
PTrump’s gonna get you!
Run! There’s a giant boulder of coal rolling downhill and headed for Washington, DC (District of Crooks)!!! 😀
OH NOES!!!
Great post, Wolfie.
Christmas Day get togethers, Christmas Eve, it matters not.
What I do miss are the several days long get togethers…. chance to eat leftovers together.
that’s one of the reasons we always have our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve–so mama gets to enjoy Christmas Day too—we make cinnamon buns for breakfast with coffee while opening gifts, then holiday movies and leftovers to relax with in the afternoon…
That makes sense.
One year, I was maybe 5-6yrs old, still believed in Santa. Grandparents came to our house for Christmas in Chicago. We were so happy to see each other, we opened presents that day, Christmas Eve.
As Grandma’s story goes, I said, “Wow, my presents are all so terrific, I can’t imagine what Santa would bring me?”
Grandma and Grandpa looked at each other, blank stare.
They couldn’t NOT have any toys in the morning.
Thus beget one of Grandma’s favorite stories, “The Midnight Run to K-Mart on Christmas Eve”
It was a blue-light special Christmas for the two of them.
They sent very little money, but Grandpa found an 8’long wooden shuffleboard combo set. Played over 200 games. He bought it for $7 and it was one of my favorite toys as a kid. It was the year of the Easy Bake Oven, on sale, turquoise blue, my JANE doll, as tall as I was, a dart board with REAL pointy darts – tuff I layed with for years………
When they came home from KMart, they were laughing and giggling, the car was filled with BIG boxes of stuff. Mom and Dad frowned at the extravagance, according to Grandma, but it was one of their favorite moments as a couple.
Grandkids are great.
we have to do our family holiday get together earlier in December due to schedules and traveling 200 miles in the whatever weather December cooks up–so from the very beginning, our Granddaughter knew that the gifts we gave her then were from us–and the gifts she received on Christmas morning were from Santa…
thus began the Labor Day tradition of making Grandma & Grandpa’s Christmas List. She and I conspire for hours figuring out what to put on her list–going thru every catalog I can find and then online. We get to pick whatever we want from the list and then we pass the list on to mom & dad who distribute any leftover ideas to other family members…we have fun…and we never wonder to get her…LOL…poor mom and dad have to figure something else out…
Christmas is special when we’re young!
We get a lot of C&E (Christmas and Easter) people for Mass this time of year hence a lot of the uptick in music making. Various choirs I’ve been in over the years have gotten notes from some of them as to how inspiring it is, and how it helped the journey back to the Church.
That being said…one of the reasons I love this time of year with all the music, is that we connect with the past in ways we don’t normally. The oldest piece we still use is “Of the Father’s Love Begotten,” a 5th century chant. Frankly, this recording, musically speaking, is stilted and note, note, note, but this is the way it was written.
The others came to us as the centuries went on: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel is 9th century, Adeste Fideles 15th, and then there was an avalanche during the Baroque period. Still, we connect with the past.
Of the recent offerings, the one I’m really liking is this one conducted by the guy who is the organist at the Enterprise Center and Blues games. (GREAT guy, Jeremy Boyer)
“Behold A Mystical Rose” was actually written for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
Hello, everyone!
I’m working my way through the Q Tree December posts for the next few days but jumped ahead here to wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thanks, Wolf, for an excellent Christmas Eve post!
‘Tis the morning of Christmas and all through the house
The whole family is stirring, even the mouse.
Love it!
Merry Christmas churchmouse!!!
Thank you, Pat!!!
Great to see you, churchmouse! Merry Christmas!!! <3
Thank you, Wolfmoon! <3
To answer one of the questions in your post, I just got back from midnight service.
Not many have attended in recent years. (Twenty-five years ago, it was standing room only, and our church can hold a few hundred people. Midnight service was where one went after the pubs closed. No longer, even though we still have the same pubs.)
Tonight, I would say we had about 45 to 50 max. This one was 50% regulars and 50% who 'haven't been in a while'. Several asked for a blessing rather than Communion.
“Coming From Evening Church” ~ Samuel Palmer, 1830
A very expensive concentration camp.
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The $3billion, state-of-the art city just for the HOMELESS: Activists hope a private community with free rent, 16-story dormitories, cafeterias, TVs and underground tunnels will help solve the crisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7818615/Activists-hope-solve-California-homeless-crisis-building-3billion-private-city.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus
Not to appear too cynical but I think they this private group needs to send their members to a few human psychology courses. They could benefit from an informed perspective. It might save their donors some money as well.
I will give the inhabitants of their ‘model city’ less than six months — A LOT LESS— to tear out the TVs, copper wire, plumbing, doors…. and anything else salable and sell it for drug money.
I had a friend who was a ‘slum landlord’ He would buy these gutted places, fix them and sell them. The horror stories he would tell, like the cat lady who died leaving a house with inches deep cat feces and dead cats behind the appliances…
Wish Everyone a lovely Christmas holiday filled what love from above, love from & toward family, love of country and great appreciation for all we have received…before we even open a single present.
We here in the US are Blessed!
Merry Christmas MAGAmom!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1209462718899638273
Nancy Pelosi is a desperate mob tool. PERIOD. Her time is up.
Great thread. Mob + CIA is looking VERY likely in 1963.
Others have recorded it, but this song is hers. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFbnYwRzSyY
A quick Thank You for prayers re: health & traveling. We are all Amazed at how well I did over the trip and even now. Postponed the dr. appointment I had made for yesterday prior to leaving “knowing” that I would be in great need as soon as I got home. Not feeling perfect but doing well enough to not want to go through the down day or two post treatment since the down days from yesterday would be today and possibly tomorrow. Doing well enough I will postpone for a few days.
Considering the incidents I experienced on trip to DC much less just the over all high level of activity + how I felt through the night Thursday and then Fri morning we are so grateful and so thrilled! I was able to bounce back and keep going, have a wonderful time & Much More Importantly, take my son into DC on Fri and not go on bedrest!
Our Fri afternoon was Exceptional, just blessed and God’s timing. Son chose to go to National Archives and we spent Hours there. So much I could share but Most wonderful were some men who worked there who spoke into his life on history, civics, etc., but also about life, entrepreneurship, work, thinking about longterm goals, etc. – things we have talked to him about and prepped him for those Fri conversations but hearing from different points of view, other people and reinforcing the seeds that have already been planted by us. Just an amazing afternoon! And we almost missed it but thanks to prayer we were able to get up and go. Thank you!
Home safe and sound. Wonderful trip. Would never choose to travel so close to Christmas. Got much of Christmas activities accomplished before we left but not all + missed church activities, parties, etc. esp. son and his groups. But Important and Impressive family event (graduation w/PhD – so proud of the hard work, dedication and accomplishment of this family member!) that we just wouldn’t miss for the world. By the time we traveled 2 days each for that + days spent there for the event, well might as well add a few more days on to the trip & give son time in DC & a vacation of sorts since we really don’t take proper vacations or travel outside of camping or visiting family. And it was all just wonderful!
But esp. with my health issues in mind it all went exceptionally well. Thank you all for being there when I & my son needed you.
Need to get breakfast and help for special things for tomorrow (directing others – I am the manager! ha) so can’t really share the actual DC part of our trip right now but do know that we wore our Trump hats often and our OT t-shirt from 2016 (lion emblem, etc.) in the White House….SO much good feedback! 🙂
I do NOT agree with everything or even most things Z-man says in this article or at other times, but he is a very good writer and has many great, provocative insights. He speaks approvingly of DiGenova (something I DO agree with) and otherwise presents a good analysis of what may be happening – – more of a summary of the competing POVs.
Z-man seems influenced by the Eeyorism of Sundance, particularly about the Rosen case, which remains a seemingly disturbing fact of Deep State Privilege.
But his explanation of possibly why “nothing has happened” explains a lot which is very encouraging and hopeful. Short preview – – the Obama corruption is so deep, so entrenched, so longstanding, that the investigation is taking far longer than the “mere” investigation into the Brennan-organized coup:
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=19417
Ugh!!!!
🤢 BARF!!! 🤮
Insect control should take precedence over just about everything else given the tick borne diseases out there. Not to mention termites, carpenter ants, and more. Just keeping fleas at bay is expensive for pet owners.
The difference between a “conservationist” and a Developer?
The “CONservationist” already has his home in the woods.
I hope this was caught on video. 🙂
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American Man Dressed as Pope Arrested Outside Vatican
ROME — Rome police arrested a 69-year-old American man dressed as the pope as he tried to enter the Vatican Monday.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/12/23/american-man-dressed-as-pope-arrested-outside-vatican/
Another one I love to sing. I actually did get to do this one recently, though. Last year, maybe? The Luciano Pavoratti video of this is exquisite, but he sings it in Italian.
https://youtu.be/i8cT86xfm1Y
We did this one this year and 2 years ago. Always a good one to perform!
Just took a minute to look at the actual intro to the thread. We have done a Christmas Eve present since son was
t-tiny & it is always something he can do quietly but happily by himself while the adults visit, read Christmas cards, listen to carols, drink eggnog, eat special desserts and look at pictures of Christmases passed, refinancing, etc. A lovely but to a child boring evening.
We have gave him a fisher price style nativity set when he was a toddler and then lego sets (small to med size – big enough to keep him busy and happy but not so big as to overshadow the big set he received for actual Christmas). Funny thing was that about 5 yrs old his Christmas Eve set starting being lego knock offs that were army themed – he really liked them, they were historically accurate (always the homeschool mom even on Christmas Eve). The tradition became funny as here is Christmas Eve, we are reading the Christmas story, carols, Christmas Eve services, etc. and son is building and playing with WWII jeeps, tanks, soldiers and guns! And sometimes they mixed into the nativity play set when Herod’s soldiers were coming – ha!
Now he is receiving wooden brainteaser puzzle sets as he is purposefully maturing out of legos – but I just know he secretly would love to get a set on Christmas Eve.
(Like this:
He is at that age that he feels like he can’t follow his heart because some of his fun is too young by most people’s standards and is now waiting to be old enough that he can again do childhood things and have it just seem like a hobby. He and my husband will be present but also partially occupied through the visiting of Christmas Eve.
Wonderful to see them mature and grow through stages but almost hate to see him let some things go because he thinks he is “supposed” to at a certain age. Growing up so fast!
You should have seen the model train set my neighbor and his sons had. It took up the entire attic! They are lots of fun for Dad as well as the kids and teach a lot of skills. The great thing is you can start simple and keep adding.
How to Build a Model Railroad
https://www.model-railroad-infoguy.com/Painting-model-trains.html
fun for all ages – children want to grow up so fast and yet we adults really do have fun playing with “their” toys!
Pictures Of Santa Coming Down The Chimney In Blackface Surface
December 24, 2019
from The Babylon Bee
https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/12/pictures-of-santa-coming-down-the-chimney-in-blackface-surface/
NORTH POLE—Santa Claus has become embroiled in controversy yet again, this time as new pictures have emerged of the magical fat man sliding down a chimney in blackface.
The pictures, sent to news outlets by the Easter Bunny, clearly show Santa Claus popping out of multiple chimneys with his face covered in offensive dark makeup.
“Santa is canceled!” one blue checkmark wrote on Twitter. “Christmas was already an oppressive holiday celebrating the birth of a child when our climate is in peril and there should be no more humans coming into the world. This is just the last straw.”
“This is extremely offensive,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “Rather than dress up in an authentic African-American disguise that respects their culture, Mr. Claus has culturally appropriated dark skin and incorporated it into his European-inspired red outfit. He didn’t even get the skin tone right!” Trudeau then offered to help Santa Claus apply makeup correctly the next time he decides to dress in blackface.
[Excerpt] Read more at the link above…
Disgraceful – Only A Leftist Would Sabotage Salvation Army…
Posted by Kane on December 24, 2019 9:15 am
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/disgraceful-only-a-leftist-would-sabotage-salvation-army/
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Another salvation army chapter in Missouri is struggling this Christmas.
Over the weekend, some vandals damaged a fleet of vans that belong to The Salvation Army in Kansas City. Between Friday and Saturday night, someone punched holes in the gas tanks of the Chevy Vans.
I bet this is connected to chikfila called them homophobic.
Dunno – but, all they know is how to destroy the good others are doing – they are hateful, evil people – so sad –
May God send Repair Angels – and Comfort Angels – and Distribution Angels to this site – in the name of Jesus – I pray – Amen
No Chinese this year Wolf. And no opening presents early although I used to open 1 on Christmas Eve. Kiddos presents dont go out til tonight. My mother was terrible about Christmas…she even made me wrap my own gifts after they were in a box. Yeah thats bad. I have never seen carolers except at events.
We are having a cold wet Christmas. It would be awesome if like 4 years ago we got a surprise bit of snow.
Also its EXTREMELY important to include the NORAD SANTA TRACKER!!!
Hes somewhere over Indonesia now.
https://www.noradsanta.org/
Merry Christmas Gil,
You’re a wonderful Mother, and I’m sure your child will have terrific memories of Christmas. ((((Gil))))
Merry Christmas PR. To think a year ago we were all finding each other after the purge and just grateful to have landed here. Niw we have had a year and are still growing. Heres to very merry Wolf Den Christmas!
http://rlv.zcache.com/beautiful_wolf_in_snow_photo_custom_christmas_card-r80eb1b2e042940529f4446241664f48a_xvuak_8byvr_512.jpg
Lovely wolf pics… thank you Gil… !
Agreed! Thank you, Gil!!! <3
Hi Wolfie, thank you for this sanctuary… wishing you and your bride and family a very
Merry Christmas… God Bless all
Thank you, and same to you! Merry Christmas and God Bless! <3
It’s a box! A BOX!!! OMG – IT’S A BOX!!! WHAT’S A BOX???!!!
It’s for the day after Christmas, the 26th December 🙂 Boxing Day 🙂
(just kidding – it’s really about Johann Sebastian and his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann, and Johann Christoph Friedrich, and, of course, PDQ Bach, and Burt (Bach-a-rach) 😎 )
Just wanted to pop in and say MERRY CHRISTMAS and GOD BLESS everyone here, our great host, Wolfm00n, all treepers near and far, and their families. May you all have a Happy Happy Happy Christmas, and good health, good cheer, and success and prosperity in the New Year.
And GOD BLESS President Trump, Melania, and their family, Vice-President Pence, his wife, and their family, the Administrationa and MAGA folks near and far. And frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!!!
And to NYguy54 and our Jewish treepers, Happy Hanukkah and may your oil never run out.
<3 AMEN!!! <3
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all!
And Happy Boxing Day, too!!! 😀
The Collingsworth Family do a great version of “Christmas TIme Is Here” (as well as other Christmas songs and Hymns). This is on (one of their) Christmas DVD(s), but there’s no video that I could find (sorry).
And remember, in this time of Raclette and other warm, cheesy foods, Fondue unto others as you would have them Fondue unto you 🙂
(dodges flying chunks of bread, hot melty cheese, and empty bottles of Kirschwasser 🙂 )…
And if you’re serving Tex-Mex, may you be the Taco the town…
Fondue….oy. We arent having anything that fancy but I hope youve had a nice non halal Christmas!
Thanks. Hope you and yours are having a Happy Christmas!
We had tacos tonight (reminder of home), fajitas tomorrow (aka leftover) and then on 2te. Weihnachten (Boxing Day) we’ll have Fondue (basically Cuppa’s adventures in cheese 🙂 )… The taco meat is decidedly non-halal, a mix of pork and beef. Just made me think of Chile Verde with Pork…hmmm… have to try that… (just need a recipe)…
It’s actually kind of common here in the cold part of the year, with even ALDI carrying Fondue mix (sort of like Trader Joe’s) – they even had a packet of “authentic” Fondue like they have in Switzerland… we did the bargain route, and then added chunks of whatever else that was lying about that would melt 🙂
Sometimes it gets really interesting, especially with cheeses that have a bit of a rubbery consistency, like Mozzarella or Provolone… you go to take the bread out of the pot (stuck to the fork, of couse), and the cheese keeps going, and going (and stretching) and won’t let go… There’s a comic book called Asterix where they visit Switzerland and have to eat Fondue, and mayhem ensues (as it usually does for Asterix and Obelix).
Aldi has invaded CA. Trader Joe’s isnt growing as much but Aldi is sticking around. Ive never been there though.
Theyre just big pups. Getting their squeeky toys. I wouldve gotten them some giant ones too.
WOLFIES!!! 😀
so I feel like I’m among friends here so here goes…
My name is Pat and I do not like Chinese food, Mexican food or bacon….there I said it…
OMG – no bacon – this is YUGE!!! 😉
{{whispering}} no booze either…so I happily apply for the designated driver position next week!!!
No Mexican? Sacrilege! But I understand.
Yeah, that’s me. My wine goes into the cook pot. I only use wine as a pain reliever to relax the muscles that spasm in my back on occasion.
🤔 …..That just leaves more for the rest of us! 😁
gladly!!
Pat…saying it with love…you need an intervention! 😂. PLEASE tell us you like chocolate!
HA!!! My doctor would have a fit at that kind of “intervention”!!! 😀
MOAR processed and burnt meats
MOAR spicy ethnic foods
MOAR alcohol
MOAR fattening sweets
Although it sounds like something fun to investigate before asking the doc. 😉
But pat, the extra extra dark chocolate is good for you (if you are not allergic to it.)
The Best Ways to Enjoy Dark Chocolate When You Have Diabetes
A sq of 85% Cocoa chocolate doesn’t seem to spike my insulin like a lot of other ‘sweets’ do. Also Cinnamon seems to help keep the insulin spike in check BUT too much is bad for the liver.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/expert-answers/diabetes/faq-20058472
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/natural-therapies/cinnamon.html
oooooohhhhh yeah….
. . . or a least pickled herring!
LOVE pickled herring!
AND Bagels & Lox
And Hamantaschen
So much good tasting food out there and most of it I can no longer eat.
And Lutefisk??? 🙂 (the Nordic answer to Haggis…)
Gail I can agree with that, Herring, Bagels& Lox and Hamantaschen 🙂
I was in Columbus and brought back Lox for Bagels with cream cheese and lots of onions.
“Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends”
“Merry Christmas to our Christian friends”
“Season Greetings to everyone else”
Peace and Joy to Everyone.
As my Skandahoovian Father-in-law said, T H A T D…M S T U F F!
At least it is not Surströmming…
https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1209505108506996737
Have Yourself a Very Liberal Christmas
Feeling so happy today….
full of joy, thanksgiving and hope…
and Always Focused Determination! (whether it be to cook for family, to enjoy holidays with family, to do what to me/us was a Big Trip, to make a difference in our US politics, to help President Trump win and then to help him accomplish his platform and now to get reelected…determined to do what I can, to bless and be blessed by those I know and love and to Delight in the company of friends and family.
Song begins at 1:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYjm7DwGMg
Merry Christmas, Wolfie and all you Q- Den-izens 🥰 💖💖💖 #WWG1WGA 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄✝️
Merry Christmas!!! 😀 💖 🎄 ✝️ 🐺 🇺🇸
I am SOOOOO grateful for this! They did not ignore this after all. Those dogs had been neglected and abused even after the first interventions. No dog deserves this, especially from a “partner” country.
This is a great gift. Now they should take back the dogs still there.
“WASHINGTON —
Military dogs like Conan, who took part in a recent U.S. special operations raid that led to the death of Islamic State founder Abu Bakr Baghdadi in Syria, get headlines and a White House visit.
But other U.S. working dogs are deployed overseas as well to sniff for drugs, ferret out explosives, guard civilians and do other important tasks. Many are under the control of local handlers.
A new report by the State Department’s inspector general says some of those dogs are dying from neglect, heat stroke, poisoning and disease. The report did not say how many dogs had died, but it appeared to be about a dozen.
State Department officials, who oversee the dog program through the Diplomatic Security and Counterterrorism bureaus, said Monday they were alarmed by the report and were taking measures to ensure better conditions and the safety of the animals.
After initial resistance and the additional deaths, the U.S. has suspended new deployments of non-military working dogs overseas and will send veterinarians to sites where the animals are posted, the officials said.
“We will take every measure possible to prevent this from happening in the future,” a senior State Department official told reporters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because, apparently, the death of dogs is a sensitive topic.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-23/after-canine-deaths-u-s-stops-sending-dogs-for-overseas-assignments
Can’t speak for Department of State dogs.
Military working dogs, including Conan are EXCEPTIONALLY well cared for.
Its the ones that they sent into Jordan and a few other places being killed and abused. Its not our people caring for them so no more dogs to these places.
The 2019 Lump of Coal Awards
Santa’s got a lengthy naughty list this year but these nominees deserve special opprobrium.
Julie Kelly – December 23rd, 2019
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/23/the-2019-lump-of-coal-awards/
HA!!! Hilarious!!!
https://twitter.com/cjtruth/status/1209515845422059520
https://twitter.com/EyesOnQ/status/1209530808287006720
Catholics who actually know the faith and know that this guy is talking out of his backside are going to stand off to the side so that when the lightning strikes, we don’t get hit.
Honestly, just told my mother he said this and she’s like, St. Paul….
Dep Pat, “this (Francis) too shall pass”
and yes, you need to stand off to the side…
a very Merry Christmas… and hoping you knock their socks off with your solos !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deep down, I get where Francis is going – that “lifestyle” actually IS the best seller of faith (in my opinion), but that lifestyle has to be bold, too.
Francis is somewhat mish-mashing the ideas of forced conversion (always abhorrent), pushy proselytism (always annoying), spoken defense of faith (always admirable), spoken explanation of faith (an awesome sales tool, and an ORDER by Christ, subject to only differing interpretations), and quiet example (the most effective sales tool, IMO, but requires patience).
I’m going to give Francis the benefit of the doubt here, because I think he’s trying to say that the optimal combination of the things I’m citing above is to avoid annoying proselytism, with which I heartily concur. Even explanation of faith does best to be extremely honest and measured. I offer DP’s defense of Catholicism here as a MODEL of doing it right. I have never felt the slightest compulsion or coercion, yet I feel brotherhood and a call to defend a faith that is arguably both mine at a very high level and not mine in practice.
I think Paul’s secret was that he was a master of the soft-sell where people RAN TO HIM for the Good News of God, finding him wherever he was, rather than him having to go out and do the Jehovah’s Witness thing.
Francis is onto something, IMO. Make Catholicism a HOT SELL by making it seem less like a pushed product that probably doesn’t fit you, and more like something that is going to fit almost anybody – just walk into the boutique and check it out – no pressure. In a weird way, Trump and Francis generate a kind of “faith field” that is awakening people’s defense of Christianity, and making Christianity seem fresh.
I continue to believe that God knows what he’s doing with this guy – that Francis just needs help to sort out his message into something that everybody gets. Satan thought he was getting a good deal with Francis, and is gonna get BURNED.
What God is doing is exposing the St. Gallen mafia for the heretical chaf they are before tossing them out. It’s happened before.
Was he this nutty before being Pope? I hope he is gone and the Vatican is restored soon.
He’s St. Gallen mafia. Yes.
Well…no white Christmas in the Northeast this year, it’s almost 50 degrees and sunny outside, but I’ll take it…no shovelling or big clunky boots…
Merry Christmas to everyone at the Q-Tree! I hope you all have a splendid Holiday!
Holiday Inn (1942)
Wonderful Holiday to you Harry…
Great weather here in S Carolina… glad you don’t have to shovel where you are!
Harry if you need some snow, I am also in the northeast and will gladly ship you some!
we live in the shadow of the mountain so it doesn’t melt quickly…
altho this sounds racist, it’s not–I promise only white snow…no yellow…LOL
Merry Christmas, Harry! Thanks for the many gift nuggets and tips you have given me all year long! 😀
And then there’s the memes! 😎
Hi everyone…take a sit down tea break before continuing on with The List. Just wanted to wish everyone a lovely Christmas.
Today is our 44th anniversary and we are going to a neighborhood taco party….that’s definitely a first! LOL
BTW, Second Table apparently is a winner….right now we’re expecting about 30! DH went out to buy another ham this morning! We’re scrambling to add more Second Tables. Thankfully, the weather is quite mild and several will be able to go out on the terrace. Going to be lively, for sure, but it will work out just fine.
Happy Anniversary and Merry Christmas Teagan!!!!!
Ditto that neighbor !
To all our Treepers…
Happy Hanukkah ….
Merry Christmas …..
and remember… if you’re alone this holiday, you’re not, not really…
we’re always here, just a click away…
hugs and prayers to all.
AMEN!!!
Have a wonderful holiday phoenix!!!!
You also Pat, and your family… !!
Wishing all treepers far and wide a very merry Christmas!!
Tomorrow were taking a 98 year young friend out for a Christmas community lunch at the local Catholic church and going to my sister’s for dinner ,she thinks I need it low key after surviving several heart attacks,surgery and a week in the hospital to which I say BAH! I feel fine keep the Q talk going Lol! So here’s to wonderful day for everyone and remember our Saviours birth with wonder and awe.
Glad you are up and about, Sue….wishing you a much better 2020, now that you are “repaired.”
Thanks Teagan😁 heart surgery is almost an out patient procedure these days.i went home the day after with a bunch more meds to take arrg….I told my nurse you know I used to collect paper weights now I collect meds! 2020 will be amazing!yay to being here to witness it.
Wishing you a gentle recovery Sue… best wishes for a Merry Christmas to you and yours. We’re all so glad to hear your good news…
Merry Christmas Sue!
wishing you a joyous and peaceful season!
Merry Christmas to you Pat!
BCP had a real nugget @ 17 minutes 30 seconds. He showed an OAN news clip of three Ukrainian officials FLOWN IN TO THE USA who testified about the Bidden and DNC Corruption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-EMR4lpHms
THINK❗️
NATALIA VESELNITSKAYA was NOT allowed into the USA BUT Natalia was granted permission by Loretta Lynch.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/loretta-lynch-allowed-russian-lawyer-allowed-u-s-parole-loretta-lynch-allowed-stay/
So WHO was over in Europe recently??? AG Barr and Durham.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amid-impeachment-furor-barr-and-durham-flew-to-rome-to-hear-a-secret-tape-of-joseph-mifsud-mysterious-professor-at-center-of-mueller-probe
Barr says he was there to make introductions. He also says he is not involved in Durham’s work and not involved in the Ukraine nonsense he was only in Europe to make sure leaders understood just WHO Durham was and that he was authorized.
…
The takeaway is EX-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, BLOCKED VISAS per Rudy BUT Barr can 😁TRUMP😁 her blocks… So we have a lot of theater and misdirection via Rudy while Barr and Durham are quietly doing the real work.
And now we have George Soros and his CORRUPT foundations showing up in the news.
….
If it were up to me, I would take out Soros first to suck the money out of the ANTIFA Astro-turf riots and election fraud schemes. THEN I would go after the politicians and Fake News.
You’re spot on wrt the money Gail. POTUS has been going for that and doing a RICO on all the human trafficking will be soon. Gotta get the money if he going to drain the swamp, get the Cabal, not just the low-lying fruit…
Thanks for the good news you bring ! Happy Holidays to you and yours…
Merry Christmas one and all!!
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1209486138848796673
TRUTH spoken to EVIL POWERS.
Before the hustle and bustle begins for this evenings celebrations, just want to wish everybody in the Wolf Den Tree house a very Merry Christmas!! 🎄
Merry Christmas to you, too, and everybody else! <3
Yup – got some chores now – back when I can!!! 😀
After Receiving Green Light From Francis: The German Bishops Start the Aberrosexual Revolution, “Homosexuality is Normal”
(Rome) Pope Francis announced the next revolutionary “resolution” for 2020: to “normalize” the relationship of the Catholic Church to homosexuality. On this point, too, he appears to be a compliant, driven man of the Church in Germany.
Pope Francis gave to understand that the “normalization” of homosexuality is in his program for 2020 on December 16th, the day of his 83rd birthday. The President of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich-Freising, immediately followed and announced the revolution as an early “Christmas present” in 2019:
https://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2019/12/after-receiving-green-light-from.html?m=1
Just a quick note (it’s late here), the “rank and file” are rather less than thrilled with this latest development; and the more conservative Catholics are being silenced, probably by Merde-Kuh’s “agents”. Kardinal Marx (no accident, it seems, that it sounds like Karl Marx) is a FLAMING leftist (looks like Burl Ives), and München-Freising is a liberal envlave (student area for one), with 20% non-Germans, and 44% non-Christians (let alone Catholics), many of which are Atheist or note no religious affiliation (perhaps to avoid church tax).
We Evangelicals don’t have it much better: the “leader” of the EKD, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, is at least as bad, or worse. He considers “St. Greta the Greenhearted” to be a prophet(ess). More like PROFIT. I call him Bedford-Stromausfall (stromausfall means power failure in German)… I don’t know where they keep picking up these idiots. BOTH Marx and Bedford-Strohm are from Bayern, which is typically the MOST CONSERVATIVE state in Germany. But, they are politicians first, and clergymen second, if at all. Kind of a perverted inversion from when the Church installed the kings…
http://www.jungefreiheit.de has a great article (with great comments on it). I’ll try to post some highlights (lowlights?) tomorrow. The article is at https://jungefreiheit.de/debatte/kommentar/2019/zentralkomitee-der-katholiken-gegen-konservative-laien
Here’s a pic. He’s the dweeb in the middle…
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA
So beautiful!! Merry Christmas, Phoenix!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Foxy…
https://twitter.com/JuliansRum/status/1209522172525522950
That ending was ominous.
I don’t know about him. Didn’t 2 of the witnesses against him die in unexpected ways? Can’t remember details at the moment..busy with Christmas Eve!
Same here! 🎄
https://thetruthrevolution.net/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-accuser-suddenly-dies-amid-lawsuit/
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
by
Major Henry Livingston Jr. (1748-1828)
(previously believed to be by Clement Clarke Moore)
Merry Christmas Everyone !
Have a beautiful peaceful holiday
https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1209561707216916480
What Happened During the Christmas Truce of 1914?
Starting on Christmas Eve, many German and British troops fighting in World War I sang Christmas carols to each other across the lines, and at certain points the Allied soldiers even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing
Deep down, I think they REALIZED what was going on.
To the Qtreeper family, May you all awaken to Joy in the Morning❤
Christmas Eve Prayer
Loving God, Help us remember the birth of Jesus,
that we may share in the song of the angels,
the gladness of the shepherds,
and worship of the wise men.
Close the door of hate
and open the door of love all over the world.
Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting.
Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings,
and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children,
and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts,
forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’ sake.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
https://twitter.com/kabamur_taygeta/status/1209629544044355584
oops, forgot to say, tweet is part of a THREAD
Well worth reading is the article underlying that tweet:
https://theamericanreport.org/2019/12/24/fisa-judge-rosemary-collyers-order-destroy-surveillance-data-collected-on-and-before-march-17-2017-date-the-hammer-cia-fbi-wiretap-on-trump-was-exposed
OK, I’m aff (about two week past my bedtime 🙂 )….
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, and to all a GOOD NIGHT!
Merry Christmas Cuppa !
Merry Christmas to all who come here to share, care, and love
http://fishwolfeboro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/heart-warming-religious-christian-christmas-poems-2016-merry-for-christian-christmas-poems.jpg
A very Merry Christmas Duchess…
Merry Christmas to You, too, PR! Warm thoughts and blessings I send to you – in the name of Jesus – I pray – Amen!!!
Thank you Duchess for the blessings and the prayer… Amen. (((Duchess)))
Most welcome, PR – comes from the heart!!!
😉
FOR LITTLE KIDS AND BIG KIDS
#AnimatedCartoonsForKids #Boo #CasperTheFriendlyGhost
Veggietales Full Episode 🎄Merry Larry and The True Light of
Christmas 🎄 Christmas Cartoons For Kids
Hello, everybody!
A Merry Christmas to all!
Over at Marica’s blog, I just posted a “virtual smorgasbord” for Christmas Eve — feel free to add your own ideas / recipes!
Merry Christmas to you CV… going to ck out the smorgasbord !
That advent calendar is a VERY COOL web page!!!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/adventcalendar/
Yes, it is, Wolf!
really interesting calendar…
58 trees ! Go Melania !
THIS!!!
I just wanted to wish everyone here a very Merry and Blessed Christmas! We are lucky to have this band of brothers (and sisters) as we go into 2020!
WWG1WGA!
AMEN! <3
Merry Christmas and WWG1WGA2020!
Lol
48m
Majortomf @Majortomf
My son is in a social experiment, for school. He has to wear a “Bernie Sanders For President” T-shirt for two weeks to see how people react.
He’s been punched, kicked, spat at, verbally abused, and had a bottle thrown at him.
I wonder what will happen when he leaves the house.
“Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign indirectly used prison labor to make telephone calls, according to a Tuesday report. …”
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/24/michael-bloombergs-campaign-used-prison-labor-to-make-calls/
Have you all seen Boris Johnson’s Christmas Message? It’s available on YouTube and I would love to post it, but can’t seem to do it. It is quite surprising to me, his reference to the birth of Jesus Christ and his stating his concern about suffering Christians.
I couldn’t believe his quoting the Iliad in Ancient Greek. Now, this message.
Jeff Sessions got a ton of Q responses to this tweet:
I immediately counted the balls and stars……several responses to his tweet beat me to the total 😉
And it’s instantly deniable by pointing out the additional balls and stars BELOW and BEHIND the bow (which are in darkness, but – yeah don’t mention if DENYING). 😎
There are 17 ornaments on the wreath!
😀😁
https://twitter.com/ROHLL5/status/1209668876579065857?s=20
Beautiful entrance, ruined by the “press”.
And he is such a gracious host to those ungrateful press curs!
He gives them nice quarters and feeds them well, there at Mar A Lago.
They don’t deserve his generosity!
First Pig-Monkey Chimeras Were Just Created in China
😬😖 This just seems so…wrong.
you know that research is going to be used for EVIL.
It has no possibility of being anything but wrong.
The cabal needed communist ethics, or lack thereof.
Post humanism. Its a movement.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/professor-invents-wearable-garden-fertilized-by-human-waste/
Posthuman Habitats:
http://www.foreground-da.com/posthuman-habitats
Part of this exhibition that opened recently in Beijing:
https://ars.electronica.art/export/en/human-unlimited/
A collaboration between Russia, China, Korea, and the West. Check out the subject matter of some of the exhibits: radar mapping of the Black Sea, distributed review of videos for possible war crimes, etc.
These US exhibitors should be operating under an active FISA, IMO.
Wow – sounds like a convention of useful idiots! But under Obama – THE NORM.
The linked article says that they previously created pig human chimeras that had to be killed at 2 months for fear that the pig could develop human consciousness. Disgusting.
Isn’t one of the most basic principles of being green to not create waste in the first place? Some research should never happen…
IMO, the script of Blade Runner was created by taking an unflinching look at what socialist, unrestrained capitalist, and globalist ethics (or lack thereof) would do to science.
I find it very odd that the demoralization of science seemed to begin with CARTER, who was the ultimate moralist president. The problem? He moralized according to SOVIET lies and hoaxes, so it was all built on a trash-heap.
“Comfort women.”
I know it’s Christmas but OANN is having a series of reports back-to-back. Topics are the Cabal & NSA, the LV massacre, and Trevor Loudon on antifa. I bet they will re-run them tomorrow.
We used to be able to take a breather from regular life for Christmas but that may no longer be possible.
God bless America because we sure ain’t gonna make it on our own.
Merry Christmas – remember that it’s what you give that matters.
This video is 17 seconds long.
😀😁
https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1209653707303981058?s=20
https://twitter.com/cjtruth/status/1209655733408747520?s=20
I LUV 17 !
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1209549065085751296
Hah! 😄👍
THREAD – DIMs still in denial, still unwilling to admit they’re losing their voters… to Donald J. Trump
Members of the military are being advised not to use consumer DNA kits, which have private companies collecting the information.
According to a Pentagon memo, take-home DNA kits could pose security risks to U.S. service members.
Companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry sell testing kits that require consumers to send in a cheek swab or saliva sample to get a DNA profile.
The memo said military personnel are being targeted by some DNA kit companies offering discounts.
https://is.gd/HqBO4n
Good. Our people are starting to figure out what’s going on.
I trust Brin-Wojcicki Soviet Industries (the GooglePlex) about as much as I trust CHYYYNNAA.
@ThomasWic @Debradelai
This is a British Royal.
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
He’s rotting from the INSIDE out.
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
That is very sad. Everything eventually comes full circle, and there is no escape.
I think he’s about to falloff his perch anyway.
I wonder what his wife…the queen…thinks about him making a statement like that.
She was of a generation that divorce was unthinkable for. See hr uncle Edward the eighth. There was a period of estrangement for some time where he was rumoured to have had affairs but they did their duty in public with iron determination and discipline.
Phillip was a very harsh strict father .
I’m undecided on the queen.
Regarding the significance of her not wearing the crown at parliament . It is Very heavy and she has significant osteoporosis-note the dowagers hump. It would be very painful for her.
A beautiful example of people who have been taught to believe HARDWARE SUPREMACY – one of Satan’s greatest tricks.
Hardware supremacy sees hardware as a necessity, rather than an impediment.
To demonstrate this error, I challenge him thusly:
“Why would you not prefer to be reincarnated as a GOOD VIRUS – a social or information virus – like a godly teaching or a religious idea – to lower human population levels?”
We have already seen how JAPAN was able to achieve zero population growth, mostly through cooperative social thought alone, and they are not even that godly.
This duke is a VICTIM of THEIR teaching which keeps humanity down on the farm.
I call it the “Bad Human Narrative”. It’s a satanic idea – that humans are so bad in hardware that they cannot be redeemed by software.
UNTRUE.
These people LIMIT THEMSELVES by worshiping Satan or by listening to satanically dumbed-down forms of Christianity.
He wants the herd of commoners thinned now there are so many labour saving devices
I won’t argue that an optimal number of people wouldn’t make us all happier than a non-optimal number. The thing is, optimality itself is a function of the methods of both achieving it and maintaining it. How we achieve a healthy state matters – and basically has to be healthy, or we’re automatically in an unhealthy state.
When the people who want to fix things start sounding like Hitler or Stalin, I’m off the wagon!!! Maybe sooner. Maybe a LOT sooner!!! 😀
Merry Christmas to all here in this amazing QTree I hope your day was grand.
Merry Christmas, Rodney!
Sorry to check back in as the day is almost over, but hey – BIG DAY!!! 😀
I like the fact that many of the folks here have been very busy for Christmas Eve and Christmas. A GOOD SIGN for America!
Big days are very good for America Wolf