Joy!

Blessings of the season to everyone on this wonderful Christmas Eve!

The painting is by Marcel Rieder (1862 -1942)

Just listen to somebody making sense here!

So very painful

Interesting news from Iceland

Iceland Puts Forward Bill To Grant Snowden Citizenship

I have a lot of respect for Iceland. After all, during their economic crisis they bailed out their homeowners instead of their bankers.
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Yes.

Whatever else anyone may think of Jimmy Carter, he is most assuredly a true Christian.

AND (while I'm on the subject), if we had continued with his energy policy, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today in that regard.

Good point. Yes, indeed; good point.

Excellent point!

Well, there you go.

Oh, this is rich!

A very important factor

Simply beyond belief

This problem of religious bias in the military needs to be fixed. Really, it does.

 

A simple question and a good one

How do they sleep at night, anyway?

Once more with feeling...

I've probably posted this before. Never mind. It needs to be posted over and over and shouted from the housetops as well.

Indeed.

Ha! Well here you GO!

I literally laughed out loud when I found this:

Fairly obvious, actually....

Okay. Here you go:

Something to mess with your head

Good point

Not only good, excellent point:

Is this rich or what?

Excellent. Simply excellent.

When to get help

Some really good points are made here through all the snark!

Very impressive

As long as there are students today like this young man, I'll allow myself a little hope about the future of this country.

  

Love it!!

Well, isn't THIS interesting?

Yes, I certainly think so too.

Right.

What on earth is so hard about this?

Sadly typical

Road Rage shooter

Who knew?

New NRA Prez David Keene's Son Is a Convicted Road-Rage Shooter

Take a look:

"If all goes as expected in Pittsburgh today, American Conservative Union President David Keene will be elected president of the National Rifle Association at the organization's board of directors meeting. 

"One person who presumably will not be attending the event is Keene's son, David Michael Keene, who according to news reports and trial documents was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 2002 road-rage incident in which he fired a handgun from his moving vehicle at another car on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Virginia."  

I used to drive that Parkway on a regular basis when I lived in the Greater Washington area.
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Yeah, well, good luck with that!

For those folks who honestly believe they need their guns to oppose the tyranny of big government:

That old "people who live in glass houses" principle

Oh, this is so spot on!

Mm hmm.

Something you might not have known

Here you go:

Just a little reminder

How quickly some people forget:

Demonizing the word "liberal" - again

Oh, good grief.

Unpacking that amazing speech

"For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it." -- President Barack Obama

Here's an article that will help you take a good look at the president's entire message:

12 Ways Obama Smacked Down the Tea Party and the Right in Inauguration Speech

Click through and have a look. It's a fairly short article, an easy read, and it's both encouraging and inspiring!
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Did you know this?

The information referred to in this graphic has been making the rounds the last couple of days.

Yep.

Well, this pretty much sums things up.

A list worth reading

A lot of these points are regularly overlooked by those who claim to be Christians.

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A society that turns its back on reason...

This is a short video. And it's very, very good.

The Humanity Of Fox News In 11 Words

What is WRONG with these people? I mean it; what turns them this way?

Good point

Really, really, really good point.

They who live by the sword...

...will die by the sword.

Take a look:

Gun-toting soccer mom found shot dead

"A mother of three who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter's soccer game was fatally shot along with her husband, a parole officer and former prison guard, in an apparent murder-suicide at their home. 
...
"The couple's 10-year-old son and daughters ages 2 and 6 were home at the time, police said. The two older children ran outside and told neighbors that their father had shot their mother, neighbors said. The children are being cared for by neighbors and relatives."

Horrible.
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Enough said...

Indeed.

Dreadful people. Just dreadful.

One of the good ones...

I admire this man so very much.

Something that continues to disturb me greatly