A Navy SEAL was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day he shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling, and flatly stated, “God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am God. I’m still waiting.”

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the SEAL got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The SEAL went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the SEAL and asked, “What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?”

The SEAL calmly replied, “God was too busy today protecting America’s soldiers who are protecting your right to act like an asshole. So He sent me.”

Ahh, the anticapitalists are out in full force, and the press loves em…

Teachers, social workers and students, Woloshin and his fellow scavengers are far removed from the swollen ranks of New York’s homeless, belonging instead to a new faction on the fringes of the environmental movement.

As “freegans,” they regard over-consumption as a pernicious global trend and seek to demonstrate how people can feed themselves for “free” on the mountains of produce discarded by others.

On one particular evening, the group, kitted out with small backpacks and string bags, are on a mission in Greenwich Village, scoping the streets of the chic district before the garbage trucks rumble through.  via BREITBART.COM

Got to love the law, because women can wear a thong on the beach, it is now legal in Maryland for a man to moon someone else. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.

Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland.
“If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty,” Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge.
Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act “disgusting” and “demeaning.” The outcome could have been different, he suggested, if the man had been on trial for “being a jerk.”
The case arose from a June 7 argument between the defendant, Raymond Hugh McNealy, 44, and a neighbor, Nanette Vonfeldt. Vonfeldt pressed charges against McNealy after he allegedly yelled and, according to Vonfeldt, threatened to “blow up my building” as she and her 8-year-old daughter walked out of their apartment, in the 20200 block of Shipley Terrace in Germantown.
“Then, for whatever reason, in full view of my daughter, he mooned us,” Vonfeldt wrote in a court document. The two had a long-standing feud over issues before their homeowners association, which held a heated meeting the night before, McNealy’s attorneys said. McNealy wanted Vonfeldt off the association’s board, his attorneys said. via Washington Post.

Like many of you, Mrs Red and I have always enjoyed the Christmas season watching the many specials and movies. So many of them have a deeper message and some are just fun.

I have come up with what is my top ten of all times. It is a special time of year and sometimes its present enough to give the time to just sit down and spend time with the ones you love and just watch some a the greatest specials of the season.

The gift of treasured time spent together is sometimes one that we forget the most.

Add to the list of ones that you love the most in the comments or in the forums.

Merry Christmas to all

1. Its a Wonderful Life

 Far and away the greatest Christmas story.  Everyone of us has had a “George Baily” moment.

 Its Wiki Wonderful Life

 Its a Wonderful Life transcends time as we all touch so many lives and never really give it much thought.

 Favorite Quotes:

• “Bread — that this house may never know hunger. Salt — that life may always have flavor.” –Mary.  “Wine — that joy and prosperity may reign forever.” –George.
•  ”Dear Father, I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I’m at the end of my rope. Show me the way, oh God.” –George.
•  “A toast … to my big brother, George. The richest man in town!” –Harry Bailey

Audio quotes:

“You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money! Well, it doesn’t, Mr. Potter!

“Buffalo Gals” sung by Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed

“Every time you hear a bell rings it means some angel’s just got his wings.” –Clarence

2. Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer

 From the Island of Misfit Toys to Yukon Cornelius to the Bumble, a must see every year. The high ranking dates back to college drinking games where Red unfortunately had the mistake of picking Rudolf. Drink when he appears, drink when his name is mentioned and when he speaks. Oh my.

I am swayed also by the fact that I have a best friend who actually looks like Hermie, although he is not a dentist.

 Burl Ives as the singing snowman. It doesn’t get any better than that.

 And as the song goes … “he’ll go down in history”.

3. Charlie Brown Christmas

 A true Christmas classic discussing in such an innocent manner the commercialism of Christmas and its true meaning.

Any Christmas special that actually explains the real purpose of Christmas and references “Jesus” in it is more than worthy of a top three.

 Favorite Quotes:

•  I didn’t know it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe all it needs is a little love. (Linus)
• What is it you want? (Charlie Brown) Real estate. (Lucy)

Linus’ meaning of Christmas

“And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the lord shone round about them, and they were so afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you this day is born in the City of Bethlehem, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel, a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men’”. That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown. 

4. Santa Claus is Coming To Town

Fred Astaire playing the postman, delivering all our letters to Santa in that great vehicle. The Burgermeister Meisterburger, Winter and the Kringles.

Songs like “Put One Foot In Front of the Other” play and next thing you know you cannot get it out of your head.

 5. A Christmas Story

 Ralphie and the Red Rider B.B. gun.  The 1940’s nostalgia in this story through the eyes of a kid are classic.

This movie has more great quotes than could ever be listed.

Favorite Quotes:

•  Only one thing in the world could’ve dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.
• Mr Parker: He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
  Mother: He does not!
  Mr Parker: He does too, he looks like a pink nightmare!

• Schwartz: Well I double-DOG-dare ya!
  Narrator: NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a “triple dare ya”? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.
  Schwartz: I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!
  Narrator: Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!

6. A Year Without a Santa Claus

 Santa sick? Taking Christmas off? Say it isn’t so.

Two names describe this great Christmas special as most people remember it for them and not the actual name of the special.

Heat Miser & Cold Miser

Talk about infectious songs that never leave your head.

 7. A Christmas Carol

Take any one. One just as good as the other and the all have great details of Dickens classic that the others do not.

The immortal tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a timeless and must always see classic.

As Tiny Tim says, “God bless us, everyone”

 8. Frostie the Snowman

 How can you go wrong with Jimmy Durante  as the narrator? Professor Hinkle’s hat could do nothing for him, but did wonders for Frosty.

Although there are too numerous quotes to mention the most  memorable line and important is the following, “Happy Birthday”.

As much as this is a children’s fun story, I have always believed that the happy birthday reference was the miracle of birth that took place on Christmas Eve.

  9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

 From Whoville to up the sides of Mt. Crumpit. The Grinch learns the real meaning of Christmas.

• It came without ribbons! It came without tags!

It came without packages boxes, or bags!

And he puzzled and puzzled, till his puzzler was sore.

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!

“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.

Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.”

 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Wiki

 HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
by
Dr Seuss

Christmas is about love and peace for mankind and sharing it with one another, not only on Christmas Day but everyday. As Chuck Jones put it that evening, “When you work, only the love should show, not the work.” How The Grinch Stole Christmas has revealed that love for 30 years and will for many more decades to come.

10. Miracle on 34th Street

 The miracle of Christmas, nothing need more be said.

What a truly tragic and sad story. Paul Berkley, Navy Reservist, was murdered early Sunday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina.

From the Military Out Post, the accounts of this tragic story and the even more surprising arrests in the case. It is a sad day when a fellow blogger dies; but one who makes the extra effort to defend our country. That is a truly sad day. God Bless you Paul Berkley.

We are deeply saddened to report that Navy Reservist Paul Berkley, known to many of us by his nom de blog “Legibletrout,” was murdered early Sunday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina. Berkley was home on leave from his duty station at Fifth Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain. (Read the full story at the Military Out Post

Other Bloggers following the tragic story:

Smash at Indepundit; MilBlogger Murdered

The Moderate Voice; Tragedy In The Real World And In Blogtopia

General Quarters; Millblogger down

Mudville Gazette; MilBlogger Murdered

What is going on Down Under. First Australia has riots between the yaboo’s and the Muslims. Now we have rampaging Santa’s through Wellington New Zealand. Yikes!

A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus outfits, many of them drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, robbing stores, assaulting security guards and urinating from highway overpasses, police said Sunday.

The rampage, dubbed “Santarchy,” began early Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an overpass, said Auckland Central Police spokesman Noreen Hegarty.

She said the men then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage containers, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on office buildings.

One man climbed the mooring line of a cruise ship before being ordered down by the captain. Other Santas, objecting when the man was arrested, attacked security staff, who were later treated by paramedics, Hegarty said. Via CNN

Or, who gets the cats? Vermont’s first civil union couple are breaking up over allegations of violent behavior.

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Scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego  have succeeded in breeding mice human brain cells.  It’s all part of some research into Parkinson’s disease. The mice were born with about 0.1% human brain cells in their heads.  Mice with human brain cells? that 0.1% should be just about enough to force them to form a union.  When they reach 18 in mouse years those that don’t move to France will  register to vote Democratic.

Ever wonder how a Notre Dame Football Fan thinks? Well, after lots of hard work and research, we have found the answer.

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