Peace on Earth, can it be
Years from now, perhaps we'll see
See the day of glory
See the day, when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on Earth, can it be
Every child must be made aware
Every child must be made to care
Care enough for his fellow man
To give all the love that he can
I pray my wish will come true
For my child and your child too
He'll see the day of glory
See the day when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on Earth, can it be
Can it be
It's all I want
Merry Christmas
Mel
Years from now, perhaps we'll see
See the day of glory
See the day, when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on Earth, can it be
Every child must be made aware
Every child must be made to care
Care enough for his fellow man
To give all the love that he can
I pray my wish will come true
For my child and your child too
He'll see the day of glory
See the day when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on Earth, can it be
Can it be
It's all I want
Merry Christmas
Mel
Good will to men.
ReplyDeleteAs I said the other day, it's safer being a soldier or Marine, than a civilian, at home.
ReplyDelete(AP) — An Army soldier who survived a suicide bombing while serving in Afghanistan was hospitalized Friday after being shot at his homecoming party.
Family members tell the San Bernardino Sun (http://bit.ly/sjycMA) that 22-year-old Christopher Sullivan was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
"My son didn't deserve this. He served his country," his mother Suzanne Sullivan told the Sun.
She said her son suffered two gunshot wounds to his back, which shattered his spine, leaving him paralyzed.
Sullivan was shot Friday night at a party that friends threw for him at a home in San Bernardino.
Police said Sullivan's brother and a partygoer got into an argument. When Sullivan moved to break up the fight, the man pulled a gun and opened fire at Sullivan.
The gunman fled the scene before police arrived.
Laying the groundwork for the...
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Coming to America in January, 2013.
"Only a failed system excludes four out of the six major candidates seeking access to the ballot. Voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender, especially leading candidates. We will work with the Republican Party of Virginia to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign to make sure that all the voters of Virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice."
Of course Newt blames others, for the failings of his own campaign.
ReplyDeleteBoth Mr Romney and Doctor Paul, men with experience and organization had no trouble qualifying for the ballot, in Virginia.
Those tat failed to meet a well known standard ...
Not Ready for Prime Time.
Saturday Night Live will have a guest spot for the Newt, tentatively scheduled for March 2013.
tat = that
ReplyDelete... of course.
mea culpa
I wish you a Jew-free Christmas and may Israel be destroy and put in the wastebin of history...
ReplyDeletethat fits this blog....
Moron.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the boys here, anon, like that Ron Paul, anti-semite and racist.
ReplyDeleteAlso wants to legalize heroin, cocaine, shit, anything.
Ron made some big money putting out a racist and anti-semitic newsletter some years ago, and is in some shit over it now. Kinda embarrassing for his supporters.
What, no death threats this Christmas Eve, crapper?
Nice tune, Melody, best to you and your family.
HoHoHo!
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How can we have a Jew free Christmas, as much as some here would like, when the Savior Himself was a Jew, that's what I'd like to know.
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I find it quite odd that those who are all about the Jesus thing the most are, by and large, the ones who froth most bellicosely for more war in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteThe story of Jesus is about peace. It contrasts with the first two books of the Old Testament. There's a lot more killing and god is vengeful and jealous.
Those two books are more appropriate for those who take pride and pleasure in those cute heroes bombing stables and mangers in Afghanistan. Sure, they have to leave the drama out (bits of blown up human flesh and so forth) but there is plenty of sickly sentiment on offer.
As an adult I have never been able to reconcile the vengeful and often capricious Old Testament God with the version that starry eyed born again Christians seem to worship who seems to have a very personal interest in all their comings and goings, however trivial.
I thought we could have a truce for Christmas day where nobody mocks anybody at all; maybe goodwill could manifest itself; I guess not.
ReplyDeletetry this:
'The tree is the world axis, displayed in Christian homes at winter solstice: the moment of rebirth or return of the sun (a joyous custom inherited from German paganism' (Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1993, p. 213)
Nice try Mel.
ReplyDeleteLogos
ReplyDeleteOur common roots, the pagan ones.
It's all a big misunderstanding.
ReplyDeleteIf only we could all adopt a "live and let live" philosophy.
What's going on?
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ReplyDelete100,000 pilgrims, both Christian and Muslim, visit Bethlehem, up significantly from the past few years.
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At least 25 dead in Nigeria church blast: officials
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ABUJA (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed in a bomb attack on a church in a satellite town on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja on Sunday, emergency services said.
"I cannot give an exact figure of casualties now. But we (National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA) came with 25 body bags and we have exhausted them all. So at this point we are talking of 25 bodies in those bags," said Slaku Lugard, a NEMA official.
(Reporting by Tim Cocks Writing by Maria Golovnina)
The Christmas Truce of 1914
ReplyDeleteNice try Mel.
ReplyDeleteOne can only hope.
Right? Or would it left?
No Christmas truce in Nigeria:
ReplyDeleteIslamist militants explode five bombs in Nigeria
ReutersBy Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh | Reuters – 15 mins ago
ABUJA (Reuters) - Islamist militant group Boko Haram said it planted bombs that exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one of which killed at least 27 people on the outskirts of the capital.
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Merry Christmas to a special someone
ReplyDeleteChristianity was created by Paul not Jesus. The message of Jesus was to seek Inner Truth rather than put your trust in priests and religions.
ReplyDeleteJesus fell foul of the more powerful Jewish sects, as radical thinkers often do. But then everyone in the story is Jewish because it's a Jewish story, set in a Jewish place, in a Jewish time of military occupation by pagan Romans.
Jesus said:
"He who lives by the sword dies by the sword". Jesus didn't need to fight with the sword. He healed the paralized and raised the dead. It is claimed that these actions can only be done by God, so Jesus' actions were in themselves claims to be God. They then did their best to get him silenced, if not in one way than another. This was a sectarian power struggle, and it ended as these things tend to do in division and a kind of apartheid.
In the Book of Acts which is a travelogue, Peter a Galiliean fisherman, who became the leader of group of Jewish Jesus-believers in Jerusalem.
Paul, a Jewish Roman citizen who was born in Asia Minor and who was asked by Jews to preach Jesus' rabbinical message in Jewish synagogues throughout Asia Minor (Turkey). Peter and Paul disagreed over the issue of whether it was acceptable for Jesus' followers who were all Jewish to eat / mix / social with the increasing number of Jesus-believers who were not Jewish,known to Jews as Gentiles.
Paul the pragmatist won the debate and within 300 years this group of outcast Jewish Jesus-believers had exploded across the world to be the official religion of the Roman Empire. This was most definitely a mixed blessing as it meant going from being a persecuted church to being a persecuting church within generations.
I forgot:
ReplyDeleteHappy xmas. Peace out.
Religion and politics are indivisible. That has always been so. The first known suicide bomber is biblical; Samson who took out the Philistines by pulling down the pillars of the temple.
ReplyDelete(Samson took down twin columns, killing himself and his enemies. Sound familiar?)
Then Samson prayed to God, "remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes" (Judges 16:28)". "Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!' (Judges 16:30)He pulled the two pillars together, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more as he died than while he lived." (Judges 16:30).
Violence, pettiness, revenge, all celebrated by people that call themselves modern and civilized!
Robinson Crusoe is a nice story. An audio book Christmas present from an old near-forgotten friend. How sweet! :)
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ReplyDeleteReligion and politics are indivisible. That has always been so. The first known suicide bomber is biblical; Samson who took out the Philistines by pulling down the pillars of the temple.
(Samson took down twin columns, killing himself and his enemies. Sound familiar?)
Samson, a prisoner.... pulls down the pillars that imprisoned him, hardly a "suicide bomber".
More distortion & lies from an equally distorted, twisted and perverted blog.
If anyone has doubts that Samson was anything less than a terrorist read on:
ReplyDeleteSamson's activity takes place during a time when God was punishing the Israelites, by giving them "into the hand of the Philistines". An angel appears to Manoah, an Israelite from the tribe of Dan, in the city of Zorah, and to his wife, who had been unable to conceive. This angel proclaims that the couple will soon have a son who will begin to deliver the Israelites from the Philistines.
The wife believed the angel, but her husband wasn't present, at first, and wanted the heavenly messenger to return, asking that he himself could also receive instruction about the child that was going to be born.
Requirements were set up by the angel that Manoah's wife (as well as the child) were to abstain from all alcoholic beverages, and her promised child was not to shave or cut his hair. He was to be a "Nazirite" from birth. In ancient Israel, those wanting to be especially dedicated to God for a while could take a nazarite vow, which included things like the aforementioned as well as other stipulations.
After the angel returned, Manoah soon prepared a sacrifice, but the Messenger would only allow it to be for God, touching his staff to it, miraculously engulfing it in flames. The angel then ascended up into the sky in the fire. This was such dramatic evidence as to the nature of the messenger, that Manoah feared for his life, as it has been said that no-one can live after seeing God; however, his wife soon convinced him that if God planned to slay them, he would never have revealed such things to them to begin with.
In due time the son, Samson, is born; he is reared according to these provisions.
When he becomes a young adult, Samson leaves the hills of his people to see the cities of the Philistines. While there, Samson falls in love with a Philistine woman from Timnah whom he decides to marry, overcoming the objections of his parents who do not know that "it is of the Lord”.
The intended marriage is actually part of God's plan to strike at the Philistines. On the way to ask for the woman's hand in marriage, Samson is attacked by an Asiatic Lion and simply grabs it and rips it apart, as the spirit of God moves upon him, divinely empowering him. This so profoundly affects Samson that he just keeps it to himself as a secret.
He continues on to the Philistine's house, winning her hand in marriage. On his way to the wedding, Samson notices that bees have nested in the carcass of the lion and have made honey. He eats a handful of the honey and gives some to his parents. At the wedding-feast, Samson proposes that he tell a riddle to his thirty groomsmen (all Philistines); if they can solve it, he will give them thirty pieces of fine linen and garments. The riddle ("Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet") is a veiled account of his second encounter with the lion (at which only he was present). The Philistines are infuriated by the riddle. The thirty groomsmen tell Samson's new wife that they will burn her and her father's household if she does not discover the answer to the riddle and tell it to them. At the urgent and tearful imploring of his bride, Samson tells her the solution, and she tells it to the thirty groomsmen.
Before sunset on the seventh day they said to him,
"What is sweeter than honey?
and what is stronger than a lion?”
The Philistines find out why Samson burned their crops and they burn Samson's wife and father-in-law to death. In revenge, Samson slaughters many more Philistines, smiting them "hip and thigh”.
Samson then takes refuge in a cave in the rock of Etam. An army of Philistines went up and demanded from 3000 men of Judah to deliver them Samson. With Samson's consent, they tie him with two new ropes and are about to hand him over to the Philistines when he breaks free. Using the jawbone of an ass, he slays one thousand Philistines. At the conclusion of Judges 15 it is said that "Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines".
ReplyDeleteSamson said to them,
"If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have solved my riddle.” (Samson is convinced they fucked his wife.)
Samson flies into a rage and kills thirty Philistines of Ashkelon for their garments, which he gives his thirty groomsmen. Still in a rage, he returns to his father's house and his bride is given to the best man as his wife. Her father refuses to allow him to see her and wishes to give Samson the younger sister. Samson attaches torches to the tails of three hundred foxes, leaving the panicked beasts to run through the fields of the Philistines, burning all in their wake.
No American children lost their Mommies, or Daddies in Iraq this Christmas.
ReplyDeleteLater, Samson goes to Gaza, where he stays at a harlot's house. His enemies wait at the gate of the city to ambush him, but he rips the gate up and carries it to "the hill that is in front of Hebron".
ReplyDeleteHe then falls in love with a woman, Delilah, at the Brook of Sorek. The Philistines approach Delilah and induce her (with 1100 silver coins each) to try to find the secret of Samson's strength.Samson, not wanting to reveal the secret, teases her, telling her that he will lose his strength should he be bound with fresh bowstrings. She does so while he sleeps, but when he wakes up he snaps the strings.She persists, and he tells her he can be bound with new ropes. She ties him up with new ropes while he sleeps, and he snaps them, too.She asks again, and he says he can be bound if his locks are woven together.She weaves them together, but he undoes them when he wakes. Eventually Samson tells Delilah that he will lose his strength with the loss of his hair. Delilah calls for a servant to shave Samson's seven locks.
Since that breaks the Nazirite oath, God leaves him, and Samson is captured by the Philistines,n who stab out his eyes with their swords. After being blinded, Samson is brought to Gaza, imprisoned, and put to work grinding grain.
One day the Philistine leaders assemble in a temple for a religious sacrifice to Dagon, one of their most important deities, for having delivered Samson into their hands.They summon Samson so that people can gather on the roof to watch. Once inside the temple, Samson, his hair having grown long again, asks the servant who is leading him to the temple's central pillars if he may lean against them (referring to the pillars).
"Then Samson prayed to God, "remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes" (Judges 16:28)”. "Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!' (Judges 16:30) He pulled the two pillars together, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it.[Thus he killed many more as he died than while he lived." (Judges 16:30).
After his death, Samson's family recovers his body from the rubble and buries him near the tomb of his father Manoah.
The story of Samson is one of revenge and terror. This is being taught to young children today.
ReplyDeleteThe same fools that tell these stories are the same fools that want to drive the world into hunger, and chaos with another bloodletting in Iran. All, so other fools can sit around and tell the same stories to each other in the Mideast. It's madness.
ReplyDeleteTaught by whom to whom,oppo?
ReplyDeleteAnother Zionist Terrorist.
ReplyDeleteGood that he is dead.
Rufus II said...
ReplyDeleteThe same fools that tell these stories are the same fools that want to drive the world into hunger, and chaos with another bloodletting in Iran.
It's the Jews...
Just kill then all then we could have middle east peace... Hell we could have WORLD peace...
them not then
ReplyDeletemea culpa....
Are myths so important that the very questioning of them is so threatening?
ReplyDeleteSuspend all logic please.
That oppo piece on the story of Samson is quite startling when you consider the present reality of our world.
desert rat said...
ReplyDeleteYou better believe it, doug.
A man's religion is not that important, to me.
Performance is.
Nothing performs better than that .45ACP, up close and personal.
Though the 9mm Hi-Power has its virtues, too.
The Final Solution eh?
Consider the mentality of taking the story of a delusional psychopathic killer and turning it into a child’s story on Samson being the victim.
ReplyDeleteOne may as well get creative with Charles Mason.
And all these religious fanatics universally have problems with woman.
ReplyDelete…and body hair.
ReplyDeletePoor Samson goes on a mad killing and martyrdom operation because he thinks someone plowed his wife’s furrow.
ReplyDeleteYeah, what did he think he was, a Hillbilly? :)
ReplyDeleteI don't blame'em about the Wimmin, and body hair, though. I'm getting kinda tired of shaving every day, my damned self. And women? I'll never figure them out.
ReplyDeleteI knew I wouldn't get peace on earth but geez peace somewhere would have been nice.
ReplyDeleteManoah's wife (as well as the child) were to abstain from all alcoholic beverages, and her promised child was not to shave or cut his hair.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is why my work neighbor has a four year old son that looks like a girl. He said it was a religious thing but never got into details. Hm...
Joy to the Whirled.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is a warm gun.
This my weapon
This is my gun
One is for fighting
One for fun
Have a great day, y un Ano Nuevo mejor.
I don't care that the Christians stole the tree, after all the cross is kinda like a tree, or that they stole the solstice, but they went to fer when they stole the grail.
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Reposting Christmas With The Mormons\
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I Ween I Hung On A Windy Tree Nine Full Days Hung I
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Leave it to the Fighting Irish to take a stab at solving the world's energy woes. Notre Dame researchers have successfully developed solar cells that can be easily painted on to any conductive surface.
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ReplyDeletePoor Samson goes on a mad killing and martyrdom operation because he thinks someone plowed his wife’s furrow.
She was a hard ho to row.
According to the Imperial War Museum, more than four million horses perished in the so-called Great War
ReplyDeleteWe are not to the "Guernica" yet, the end of the useful horse, but we are getting there.
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In one particularly sensational sequence, Joey is trapped in barbed wife and rescued by two soldiers, one German and one British, who momentarily put aside their differences through a mutual compassion for an injured animal, use wire cutters to save the horse’s life, and take a minute to share memories of their homes on opposite sides of the conflict.
The Schopenhauerean valid metaphysical breakthrough - we are all one behind the scenes! The Egyptian Secret of the Two Brothers!
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Instead of puppets, Joey is played by 15 different horses, but the one featured most prominently is American equine Finder, who starred in Seabiscuit. Finder is a four-legged superstar who can do everything but talk, even though he has a way of communicating with Albert that is awesome
He is no Mr. Ed, but good enough.
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Get off your Christmas duffs and go see this movie.
Warhorse
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ReplyDeletepeace on earth...why not
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ReplyDeleteI knew I wouldn't get peace on earth but geez peace somewhere would have been nice.
Nice try Mel.
But other than you and Rufus' Xmas carols the last two days here have just been typical EB.
You did give it a good effort though. Thanks.
Merry Christmas.
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Hey I reposted my Christmas With The Mormons, if that isn't cheery, what is?
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Here In Case You Missed It Quirk
ReplyDeleteThat's three times.
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2020.10.04【酒店小姐】【酒店公關】不敢來酒店上班-酒店打工的原因其實很多人~對酒店有些不了解與誤會~以為酒店小姐的基本介紹跟工作內容會去酒店上班的女生是愛慕虛榮，其實就我們多年經驗，會入行真的都是有旁大的經濟壓力。酒店小姐酒店公關酒店上班到底都在做麼?酒店也許不是最佳的選擇 卻是賺錢最快的方式之一 (有頭髮誰願意當禿子!!)為什麼呢!!!
ReplyDelete因為去喝酒的人有千百種理由~有開心的人/有難過的人~
以下是我們家姐妹的想法:
當她遇到心情不好的客人時~【她會靜靜的聽客人發牢騷】適時的給予安慰與溫暖的笑容(做好桌面清潔服務)當客人喝多了:她會要一杯熱茶給客人~提醒他喝多了~
若遇到開心的客人~她會感染那一份快樂與喜悅~，真心的祝福那個人~
其實說穿她就是做客人的專屬服務生罷了~
她只是付出了她的關懷體貼跟細心跟桌邊服務，其實就達到8成了。
每個人的生長背景環境不同所選擇的生活方式也有不同 沒有什麼對錯~
當別人批評妳的工作時，除了批評以外真的對妳沒有任何實質幫助 妳還是得面對自己的困難和人生啊!!