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It's Another Manic Monday (Wish It Were Sunday...)

For Those Snowed-In This AM...

I've Decided to be Grinchy...

I've sent my last greeting card. Period.

I sent my niece a birthday card for her birthday mid-December. I've sent my brothers, nieces, and nephews birthday cards, and until a few years ago I sent Christmas cards. I also used to send the nieces and nephews Christmas and birthday folding money until I ran into a streak of unemployment about six years ago. I used to get acknowledgment of said gifts and cards from some the nieces and nephews, but in the last 20 years (or so) nothing from the brothers.

This acknowledgment no longer happens.

I received one card for my last birthday, a postcard from my insurance company (the kind where everyone signs a stack of them January 1st for the entire year). I received a couple of Facebook well wishes (thanks to those who sent one), a couple of forwarded messages from an online calender reminder system (hit the REPLY button on the email toolbar, add a comment, and be done in 20 seconds), and a phone call the following weekend from some friends in San Francisco who were driving to Reno for a holiday dinner with family.

Nothing for Christmas.

So I've quit. I'm tired of the cards going one way . I have no idea if the cards have reached their destination unless I make a point of asking the addressee directly. I don't know if the cards will be missed at all.

But I'm tired of it all. I made an effort. Now I've given up. To the greeting card industry I offer my humble apologies.

A Song for an ACLU Christmas Party

Now that's an oxymoron, an ACLU Christmas

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The 5th I'll Take is Bourbon...

Visiting a Blog Near You...

Unfortunately he hasn't shown up on my list of visitors:
Benedict XVI surfs the web and uses email

Congress Has Released A New Version of the Healthcare Bill!!!

Review Immediately!!!

2010's Guest Patron Saint

Angela's doing it again. She's up to her yearly antics and is offering, free of charge, to match you up with a "temporary" patron saint for liturgical year 2010. Last year, Philip Neri filled that role for me and received a few dings in his halo for doing so. He has a new charge as of All Saints' Day, so

Fidelis de Sigmaringen

will take me over from Philip for 2010. Here's Filly's bio

3 class acts in this story- Gaines, Mullins, and Ole Miss

Twenty Years Ago, One Hit Changed Two Lives Forever

Uz Bean Warnd...

moar funny pictures

Now Father Has No Excuse (if he understands Eyetalian)

Manual for proper celebration of the Mass officially presented to the Pope

..it is soon (probably in a year knowing the rate Vatican translators work) to be in Anglish

Students go speechless for Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity

Students go speechless for Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity

Rome - 1 Henry VIII - 0

Pope Benedict XVI has approved a structure for admitting large groups of Anglicans wishing to come into communion with the Catholic Church

One Way to Get On the News...

Die!!!!

It's A World of TMI...

This Just Cracked Me Up...

see more dog and puppy pictures

My Dog Asked Me to Post This...

moar funny pictures

Why he needed a spotting scope beats me

It's About Time...

Details Here

For All Those (Like Me) Having Lab Work Done...

I Have a Headche...

Do I qualify for this treatment?

Public Service Announcement...

After a spate of cute kid pictures and Cathy_of_Alex's posting of cute kitties, I've had ENOUGH and issue

THIS DECREE

Being a Bratty Brother...

Rumor has it that today is Gemmy's Birthday so here's your opportunity to go and rub her nose in it! (Karen, you can thank me in small unmarked bills, lots & lots of them).

A Snooty Observation on O-No's Speech...

I don't like to write about politics (as my POV is sure to raise ruckus on both sides of the aisle) but I'm PO'd with the TV News. I was watching the coverage of O-No's speech to Congress yesterday, and the networks made it look like Congress was a bunch of Jack-in-the-boxes (especially the odd couple - Pelosi & Biden, the couple from CINO), but they made the mistake of showing a view from the Speaker's rostrum which showed that the only people jumping to their feet during one of these "butt-lifting" occasions were the Cabinet members sitting in the front row; most of Congress, Asses & Trunks alike, were sitting in their seats with arms crossed. How about reporting FACTUAL, REAL, ACCURATE, NEWS folks? I'd like to know what my representatives actual actions are, so I know whether to give him/her a severance package next election

The Next Time You Need Tech Support...

For the Next Time Your Youngster...

gets into "Mommy,Mommy,Mommy"
or
"Daddy,Daddy,Daddy"
mode...

Thanks to my niece Jen for calling this to my attention

I Wish My Diet Worked Like This...

Happy Feastday St. Augustine!

A great "catholic" tune in honor of St.Augie ( Doggie & Doggie Daddy )

A Little Trinket I Picked Up This AM...

Not For Those With a Case of Scruples

C.S. Lewis' devilish tale The Screwtape Letters adapted for stage in U.S. tour

Another Great Movie Line...

I pray "God, please don't take me off this Earth 'til I learn how to forgive..."
I'll be 83 next month

the Parson in Blue Valley Songbird with Dolly Parton

Thank God for COFFEE!

or Why I Drink the Stuff...

Twitchy on Caffeine


from the movie Hoodwinked!

Brad Has Done It Again!

...our look at all things American which we came to realize as we were writing this song are pretty much borrowed from somewhere else. We are a country of mutts.

Brad Paisley - Invitation Only: Brad Paisley - CMT - August 2009

Makes that feldercarb between that Harvard "perfessor" & the police officer look idiotic. This song points out that we're not Italian, African, etc.; we are 100% American Mutts! (Can't wait for the video!)

Just As I Needed a Reason to Take Monday Off...

Please Don't Answer This Question!

Finally! The 100th Post!

Never thought we'd make it! Thanks to all my viewers over the last 2 years.

Happy Feastday!

I consider myself an Ignatian in my spirituality, and I'm sending out a Happy Feastday to all my fellow Ignatius fans out there!

I think the Church has done a great disservice to Iggy by not making him a Doctor of the Church, as his spirituality has, positively and negatively, influenced modern development of Catholic theology and philosophy since the Protestant so-called Reformation. Most of the negative influence was not generated by Iggy himself, but by 1960's & 70's pseudo-intellectuals of his Society who thought psychology and sociology were more important than Orthodox Catholic Teaching. In my not-so-humble opinion, this distortion of Ignatian spirituality (along with the suppression of the Society in the 18th century) have kept Iggy from getting his "Doctorate".

Another Year Down the Tubes...

I'm glad (today at least) that I'm not married. I seem to have this bad habit of missing anniversaries. But Gem is celebrating her's and when I looked I found out I started this blog on 07/15/2007. Sorry dear, I'm bad.