I don’t want you all wishing each other holiday greetings on a thread about the Republican front-runners. This is much better. So whether you’re celebrating Christmas or War on Christmas, I hope yours is both merry and bright.
It’s been an interesting year around here, and there’s some real evidence that it’s about to get a lot more interesting. So here’s wishing you all the season’s best from me, Jeanne, Horatio, and Fonzie Gromit Felber.*
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[*name still tied up in the negotiating process…]
Fanny Roborat
23 comments
Just Jay
December 25, 2007 at 2:16 pm
1I get to be first! Happy whatever, Merry Seasonal Appropriate Greetings from me and the cats. They’ve had their Christmas treat, and played with their Christmas catnip, although like some children seem to have more fun with the box it came in. The weather gods gave us a brief snowstorm earlier today. It’s a good day to settle in with the wood stove and a good book.
I hope you all have a shared holiday, even if like me you are sharing with furry and four legged friends.
Jay
YLlama
December 25, 2007 at 4:26 pm
2Wouldn’t Kwanzaa be more inviting if spelled with a u-less q?
Dale
December 25, 2007 at 4:51 pm
3Yllama, if Iraq and Al-Qaeda have taught us anything, it is to beware of the u-less q.
dee
December 25, 2007 at 6:48 pm
4This is much better. Merry season to all of you, from the frozen north of Michigan where I am resting in the bosom of my family. Figuratively, of course. Unless you count my Auntie Sally, who’ll be 87 in March and whose energy level makes me feel like I’m on Quaaludes.
Ann
December 25, 2007 at 10:52 pm
5Season’s Greetings! The days are starting to get longer, which I always take as a good sign and something worth celebrating. It snowed today in Seattle—great big fluffy white clumps—but it’s all gone now.
David
December 26, 2007 at 6:22 am
6So we’re looking at 80 degrees again in the next few days. But then I do remember going swimming on Christmas Day back in the 50s, and at our favorite spring-fed lake, surrounded by orange groves, swim suits optional, the same decade in which we had one of the four-flake blizzards in Central Florida (I’m talking about snowflakes, not my three friends and me standing outside trying to catch some of the snowflakes). Anyway, MerryHappy ChanukahChristmasHaajKwanzaaFSMBigLobsterDay to one and all from down here on the edge.
piglet
December 26, 2007 at 11:22 am
7It was a quiet Christmas here in Vancouver, USA. Our son is in Tasmania with the US National Track Cycling Team, getting roundly pummeled by the rest of the world, so it was just me and Drew, my personal chauffeur and firefighter, enduring the 30-somethingth day of rain and planning our upcoming illegal immigration to Mexico.
We have ham left over if you’re in the neighborhood.
Linkmeister
December 26, 2007 at 11:34 am
8It was swimming weather in Hawai’i too, but then that’s normal.
I hope all the Felberites had wonderful mid-winter celebrations by whatever name.
becca (and brian)
December 26, 2007 at 1:13 pm
9Merry Christmas (and belated Happy Hannukah) and Joyous everything else from the Rose City, where Brian got the first white Christmas of his life. Hopefully he doesn’t have to wait another 3+ decades for the next one.
We do wish all of the extended Felbernaut family a year of good health, laughter, peace and, dare i say, hope. I’ve got to keep believing that we can begin to find our way back again….
Becca (and Brian)
oh…and if anyone knows where we can find a Christmas-tree shaped/themed menorah, our little mixed family would be thrilled.
and piglet…forget the ham. any fudge left??
Murray
December 26, 2007 at 3:10 pm
10Happy Post Xmas discount shopping days! (As good a thing to celebrate as any). (For those of you who have recovered your vision).
BTW I just got back from a bike ride so my recent injury is of no impairment. That works for me.
sharon
December 26, 2007 at 3:47 pm
11Becca, this Tree of Life with the red and green is the closest I could come up with:
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-6851814-1321714?ASIN=B000JG7D DW&AFID=Froogle&LNM=B000JG7DDW|Tree_of_Life_Menorah_by_Karen_Rossi&ci_ src=14110944&ci_sku=B000JG7DDW&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001
And of course there are many more “tree of life” themed menorahs. I’m not Jewish, but I quite covet a few of them myself.
Blessed Solstice, everyone!
cooper
December 26, 2007 at 6:13 pm
12Murray, glad to hear you’re recovering from your misadventure. After some reflection, I wonder if that spade bit was meant for a power tool. Just a thought. Happy Holidays and stay out for the woodworking shop for a while. Oh, and do work the guilt angle.
It's Pat!
December 26, 2007 at 7:28 pm
13Happy Holidays from Minne-snow-ta! Got another few inches today, it’s all beautiful here. Wishing all of you good running snowblowers (if you need ‘em), good times with family, and good health. Drove through Iowa for Christmas, it’s interesting to note that their caucus will be determined mostly by white, mostly over 60, mostly rural people. Now that’s your typical demographic, huh.
Well. Hope your chestnuts roasted just right.
Pope Benny 16
December 26, 2007 at 8:22 pm
14Gott im Himmel! Oops, sorry Franco (what a guy, BTW! I can’t believe how lucky I am to such a famous celebrity working with me as a media consultant! Though I must say, I didn’t really care much for the cologne he poured all over himself this morning.).
So, let me start over again. My stars! That miter they stuck on my head for the Christmas Day mass at St. Peter’s Square weighed a ton and was almost as tall as I am! My neck was killing me after the first paragraph! I wish Mr. Zefferelli would next address the older vestments the Cardinals are picking out for me to wear for these occasions. Some press flack, Msgr. Marini I’m told, went in front of the gathering of reporters and gassed on for 15 minutes, about how the wardrobe symbolizes that, although the Church is constantly looking to the future, the fashions of the 40’s and 50’s are will never be out of style. I’ll speak with Cardinal Luigi about having Marini wear that miter for the next two weeks and then talk to me about styling. I’m just an old man - the Cardinals tell me where to stand and give me the script to read and when I’ve finished, they sometimes let me nap for a while.
Ann
December 26, 2007 at 9:05 pm
15Breaking News
Today, someone in Minnesota noted that a large percentage of Iowans are white, older, and rural.
Elsewhere, many people in New York City were found to be members of various ethnic racial/minorities, younger, and urban.
The investigation continues.
hedera
December 26, 2007 at 9:20 pm
16Merry Christmas to all, and I hope you all had a good night. We had the usual fat bomb dinner at the cousins’ on Christmas Eve (tasted good, though), followed by the usual fat bomb dinner at home on Christmas Day (standing rib roast, none of this bird business). The Bay Area has been having cold, clear weather (40’s and 50’s, and shut up, It’s Pat!) with light gusty winds - we have a frost advisory for tomorrow again, and then it looks like we may get some rain. We could use it.
You’re right, becca and brian - we need some hope. It’s about time for some.
I personally have no problem having older rural voters take the first crack at the candidates - they have the time to think the candidates over and the experience to judge them. Also they all seem to be political junkies. The race is kind of an issue, I admit; but I have confidence that everyone’s voice will be heard, sooner or later.
Zee Man
December 27, 2007 at 5:16 am
17You know, we Americans take great pride in the skill of our own home-grown right wing morons to be so artful in stepping all over their own tongues. Well, here comes the wing nut leader of Canada, trying to work our side of the street.
“I met the Dalai Lama in my office but I meet everyone in my office. I don’t know why I would sneak off to a hotel room just to meet the Dalai Lama. You know, he’s not a call girl,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told OMNI television.
The Canadians really have to stop aping everything we do here (with a five year time delay) and come up with their own ideas from time to time. I mean besides ice hockey.
Boomer
December 27, 2007 at 1:50 pm
18A sad day for Democracy in the Islamic world…
David
December 27, 2007 at 6:30 pm
19A sadness not without very dangerous repercussions. And assassination is an act of war, kith and kin to warmaking, only on a personal scale. But it is the same mindset. Kill those who stand somewhere politically that you do not want them to stand. I’m not talking about justifiable responses whose purpose is to stop some killing enterprise. I’m talking about starting a war and killing people, and throwing their country into turmoil and chaos, and in the instance I am referring to, not stopping until you have smashed the country, and even then not stopping, because they have something you want.
Anybody else signed Robert Wexler (D-FL!)’s petition to start impeachment hearings regarding the anti-Constitutional antics of Darth Vader Cheney?
hedera
December 27, 2007 at 8:16 pm
20So where’s the link to the petition, David?
SpottedDog
December 27, 2007 at 10:19 pm
21Happy New Year to everyone.
Boomer
December 28, 2007 at 4:05 am
22hedera and others, here’s the link.
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/
Sign it early and often.
David
December 28, 2007 at 7:26 pm
23Boomer, thanks for covering my incompetent ass. You are now in my Hall of People I Really Appreciate (along with all the other Felbernauts far and wide, of course).
There’s a “peachy” graphic at After Downing Street:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/cheney