We all have our favorite Christmas movies. The movies (all decades old, for me) we watch year after year, even knowing every scene and every ending.
Here’s a few of mine:
This one is for the guys (I love this movie, too)!
https://youtu.be/9zMBTviVg_k
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Share with us in the comments!
DCG
Posted in Fun
Tagged Christmas movies, Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Die Hard, Elf movie, It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas
According to Buddhism, karma is supposed to work after death, but sometimes karma is visited on deserving people when they are still alive.
Joe Biden may have won the 2020 election (see a Brookings Institute analysis of judicial votes on 2020 election irregularities), but his presidency is, predictably, an utter disaster.
That disaster is even being acknowledged by Democrat useful-idiot voters as Biden’s poll numbers continue to plummet (NewsMax):
Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris’ poll numbers are even worse:
Not only has Kamala Harris been strangely MIA on her job, she is described as a “soul-destroying” “bully” by staffers, four of whom had quit in the space of two weeks, with more “eying the exit” (Daily Mail).
The New York Post reports:
Vice President Kamala Harris is described as a “bully” in a new report that brands her as the “common denominator” behind a recent exodus of high-level staffers.
Harris’ allegedly “soul-destroying” management style was revealed by staffers to the Washington Post just days after spokesperson and longtime aide Symone Sanders announced her departure….
[F]ormer Harris aide Gil Duran…said Harris’ “destructive patterns” were behind the recent turmoil and exit of Sanders and communications director Ashley Etienne….
One former staffer claimed the vice president fails to read briefing materials, then lashes out at others when she’s unprepared.
“It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” the staffer said. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully, and it’s not really clear why.”
Oblivious to his own failings, Biden has grown hostile toward Harris and shows signs of dumping her as a VP running-mate for the 2024 election.
The New York Post reports that according to a CNN report, based on interviews with nearly three dozen insiders, Biden is “sidelining” Harris “amid growing tensions” and that the two have a dysfunctional relationship that has reached an “exhausted stalemate”.
At the funeral for Bob Dole at the U.S. Capitol last Thursday, behaving like immature high-schoolers, Biden did not acknowledge Harris as he walked past her. Both Biden and Harris did not make eye contact and averted their gaze. Then Biden asked his wife Jill to switch seats so he wouldn’t have to be next to Harris.
https://twitter.com/Knesix/status/1469039920115335174?t=eB8Qzxx5OldempU1ilimpg&s=09
~E
With joy you will draw water
from the fountains of salvation
Shout for joy, O daughter Zion!
Sing joyfully, O Israel!
Be glad and exult with all your heart,
O daughter Jerusalem! […]
The LORD, your God, is in your midst,
a mighty savior,
Who will rejoice over you with gladness,
and renew you in his love,
Who will sing joyfully because of you,
as one sings at festivals.
Rejoice in the Lord always.
I shall say it again: rejoice!
Your kindness should be known to all.
The Lord is near.
Have no anxiety at all, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
make your requests known to God.
Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding
will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
The Bible is replete with injunctions that we be joyful; the above three passages are examples.
What is joy?
The dictionary defines “joy” as “a state of happiness or felicity.”
Joy is different from happiness in that happiness is a fleeting emotion, but joy is a”state” — the condition of a person — of happiness. As someone once said, “Joy is not a season, it’s a way of living.”
Joy is not based upon whether things are going well or not. Joy is an emotion that comes from the anticipation, acquisition or expectation of something great or wonderful.
Joy consists of at least two components, gratitude and optimism, both of which are beneficial to our health (see my post of October 24, 2021, here).
Have you noticed how what God instructs us to do always turns out to be good for us?
St. Paul tells us joy is one of the fruits or results of having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 1:6; Romans 14:17), which is why we can be joyful even in the midst of great trials and suffering.
I recently was subjected to malicious rumor-mongering from three nieces-in-law, which reminded me of two aphorisms: (1) No good deed goes unpunished; and (2) Never underestimate the human potential for evil.
Instead of getting angry, I thought of what our Lord Jesus had endured — betrayal by a beloved disciple, abandonment by His friends when He needed them the most, followed by torture and death by crucifixion, the most extreme form of execution that the Romans reserved for the worst criminals.
How can any of our trials and tribulations ever compare to His?
At that thought, I became joyful.
Joy even helped our Lord Jesus Christ endure the cross: “who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).
So be joyful!
Praise the Lord, and let your heart burst with joy!
May the joy and peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you!
~E
Remember in 2017 when a professor’s kids interrupted his live BBC TV interview?
With so many people being quarantined/working from home during the past almost two years, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more interviews end up like this!
Happy Friday!
DCG
Posted in Funnies
Meet Winston, a miniature steer who lives at Delmar Farm. The farm is a equine and farm animal sanctuary in Florida that is home to horses, donkeys, pigs, goats, sheep, a cow, dogs and a barn cat. The majority of their animals are rescues, special needs, seniors or have been donated.
Delmar obtained Winston when he was two months old. He had a hard time making friends on the farm until he met Ronny!
Read more about Winston and Delmar Farm here!
DCG
John Gizzi, formerly a writer for Human Events, is currently the chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax.
Yesterday, Dec. 7, Gizzi reported for Newsmax, “Vatican Preps for Conclave as ‘Pope Is Dying“.
The brief article is behind a paywall, which you can access for $1.
According to Novus Ordo Watch:
Gizzi writes that a “secretary of one of the most powerful Vatican Cardinals” told him straightfowardly: “Pope Francis is dying.” Furthermore, Gizzi asserts that sources inside the Vatican do not expect Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) to see the end of next year, 2022, and are in “pre-Conclave mode”.
Without more details, one can only speculate as to what exactly the situation is, but apparently Francis is said to be terminally ill and not expected to live another 13 months for that reason. A diagnosis has not been revealed or rumored, but colon cancer would be a possibility, considering Bergoglio’s colon surgery back in early July. At the time, some Vaticanists expressed concern that this surgery had not been announced days or weeks in advance, as would have been customary….
The question at issue, then, is whether it is Francis and the Vatican public relations machine that are downplaying the reality, or whether certain officials in the Vatican are exaggerating it, perhaps due to wishful thinking. Time will surely tell.
Last July 7, Luis Badilla Morales of the Francis-friendly and well-connected Italian Novus Ordo blog Il Sismografo reported that Francis’ condition was more serious than the Vatican was letting on: “the disease that has struck Pope Francis is severe and degenerative. It could also be chronic.”
~E
Posted in Christianity, The Left
Tagged Catholic Church, John Gizzi, Luis Badilla Morales, Pope Francis
When taking a family photo, there’s always one member who won’t cooperate!
H/t John Molloy
~E
Posted in cats, dogs, God's creation
Christmas will be here before you know it!
Awhile ago I had heard rumors that packages and Christmas cards could be late if you didn’t mail them early. The supposed reason for this was “supply chain issues.”
Whatever the case may be for anticipated mail/package delays, NPR put out a list of shipping company deadlines to make sure your cards and packages make it on time to their intended recipient(s). Here’s the deadline dates:
USPS
FedEx
UPS
NPR has more information for mail/packages to Hawaii, Alaska and international shipments here.
Hope this helps!
DCG
