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With plummeting temperatures, the threat and promise of snow, and the turning of pages of the calendar, we are fully into the Christmas season. We hear Christmas hymns and other holiday songs on the radio, in TV commercials, at school and church pageants. But I wonder if we are all sufficiently aware of some of the deep historical meanings behind some of our favorite carols. For example: The Top Five Christmas Songs Associated with Major Historical Events 1: During the long, cold winter of 1979-1980, the Hunt Brothers famously attempted to corner a precious metals market. Remember those days? And...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Here are some of my favorite Christmas songs Darlene Love – White Christmashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BVYDdl2M0AThe Ronettes – Frosty the Snowmanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76sh1BWCQScThe Crystals – Santa Claus is Coming to Townhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7wD2XKFTZAThe Ronettes – Sleigh Ridehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXlsWB1UMcEDarlene Love – Marshmallow Worldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al896JFvQNgThe Ronettes – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIw0GvucbXMThe Crystals – Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLptF1HaM9kDarlene Love – Winter Wonderlandhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAC3jp8Z5c4The Crystals – Parade of the Wooden Soldiershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCvf5UABApgDarlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1cqGi8LCYoMariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas Is Youhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMYDaryl Hall and John Oates – Jingle Bell Rockhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AvocRz288MThe Pretenders – 2,000 Mileshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkWIqQ3oLYWeird Al Yankovic – Christmas At Ground Zerohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutUVince Guaraldi...

If I were going to write a dictionary, I might include this: vit·ri·ol·ic (adjective) 1.filled with bitter criticism or malice. 2. Example: read comments on YouTube. Unfortunately, YouTube does not have a corner on bitter criticism and malice. I can read it in the comments sections of almost every Internet blog and newspaper throughout this country. Sometimes it’s not easy to overlook some of the comments, but because of them, we need to thoughtfully consider our responses. We might give the most rational, well-constructed, evidence-filled line of reasoning. We might show from the evidence, from the premises, from the arguments,...

==================== HONEST REDNECK SWEAT ==================== [Verse 1] It's been another hard workin' day With my neck burned from the sun Out in these fields of the north forty And I know I must work before having fun; I plowed, I planted, and I pulled weeds Looking to the harvest that will come, And now I'm home to my dear family And embrace my wife and daughter and son! [Chorus] Oh Lord, when it's time for my reward Look at this honest redneck sweat; I may not have been the world's big shot But I tried not to forget That my...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, and several other Democratic Senators who voted for Obamacare, have exempted their own staff from Obamacare Yahoo News reports:Harry Reid exempts some of his Senate staff from Obamacare exchangesOne of the biggest public supporters of the Affordable Care Act has reportedly decided that some of his staff should be exempted from the new law.CNN reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.Yahoo News has reached out to the offices of...

A couple decades ago I was talking with a Christian friend about the vicissitudes of life, and about the maddening corruption and treachery we saw all around us. “This world is hopeless,” my friend said conclusively, in spiritual summary of what we’d discussed. I recognized his attitude as a core feature of orthodox Christian doctrine, which assesses a fallen world, full of sin, and resignedly accepts that fallen man is simply incapable of improving conditions. Incapable, that is, beyond temporary intervals of marginal revival and renewal, however worthwhile and glorious. Hoping for some kind of man-made, permanent solution to evil,...

Why isn't Obama firing anyone for the failed health care website? Could it be that if he fires someone, that someone will spill the beans on how large a part Obama himself played in the incompetent roll-out of the plan? Obama is too vulnerable to fire anyone. Maybe he should fire himself? No, it wouldn't work. His whole staff would then feel free to tell the truth. We must remember that he never fired anyone with the IRS scandal or Benghazi, either. If you work for Obama, you have a lifetime position. Unless you're murdered by the incompetency of your...

Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration, spoke candidly about health care at UC Berkeley on October 26, 2007. In this video he reveals what an honest politician would say, but doesn't for fear of not winning an election. In part: "... [W]hat I'm going to do is I am going to try to reorganize [the American health care system] to be more amenable to treating sick people. But that means you -- particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people -- you're going to have to pay more. And by the way, we are going to...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Obama asks us to “forget� his broken promise to reduce annual premiums by $2,500 In February 2008, Obama said:“We are going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2,500. We will not wait 20 years from now to do it, or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president.”However, by the time his first term was over, family premiums had gotten bigger, not smaller. The increase was $3,065 per family.Afterward, the Obama administration chose a video called “Forget About the Price Tag�...

Some of us are old enough to remember "perestroika." It was Premier Gorbachev's desperate move to reform the USSR or save a system that was falling apart dramatically. Perestroika did not work. It did not make the centrally planned Soviet economy any better at putting food on the table or manufacture tractors. Perestroika failed. And so will the latest effort by President Obama to save ObamaCare.

  Tally of Banks Sinks to Record Low... Small Lenders Having Hardest Time With NEW RULES...GUARDIAN: We Have Published 1% of Snowden Leak...Obamacare widens GOP territory in battle for Senate... Doctors rush in... Paul Ryan plays in primary... Scott Brown drafted to run in NH...Momentum Rising In Israel To Let Jews Pray At Holy Muslim Temple Mount...

Anti-Israel Activist Speaks at Open Doors Brazil “Bishara Awad is interestingly silent about Muslim persecution of Christians in Palestine. There were large numbers of Christians in Palestine just a few decades ago, but they are disappearing. Will Awad say that the culprit is ‘Israeli occupation’?” By Julio Severo In early May 2013, Palestinian Christian author Walid Shoebat warned that “Jesus at the Check Point” would soon be speaking at a church near you. “Jesus at the Check Point,” which is a “Christian” organization with a socialist twist, is touring the United States to muster support to alleviate “Christian Persecution.”...

by John UrbanTop Right NewsNew York City authorities aren't waiting for their new Marxist mayor Bill DeBlasio to take office in order to issue totalitarian gun-grabbing edicts. New York City last week started sending out dire notices to residents who own guns that now violate new ammunition capability laws, demanding they relinquish their weapons — and even though the notifications may just be standard police procedure, the text will come as a shock to most Americans aware of our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. At issue: Weapons that hold more than five rounds of ammo. That's right...FIVE! One such...

The Chinese Defense Ministry last week expanded its Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea, unilaterally increasing its claim on the Japanese administered Senkakus Islands. China is demanding that any aircraft in the Zone must identify themselves and obey air traffic control from Beijing. Any “threats” over the disputed area will be identified, monitored, or engaged according to Chinese policy. Past history has included verbal threats and close formation ramming by outdated fighters. U.S. Response China and Japan both claim ownership of the islets known as the Senkakus while China identify them as Diaoyu. Located in the middle...

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Late at night, in the middle of a weekend before a national holiday, Secretary of State John Kerry sat down in Switzerland, and reversed generations of foreign policy direction. Representing the Obama administration (since no treaty is final until ratified by the U.S. Senate, and this one won’t be, at least not in its current form), Secretary Kerry agreed on a new and dangerous path in our relationship with Iran. Iran has long argued – in English – that it has a right to develop nuclear power – and that case can indeed be made – but the West has...

As I sat to write this post, I thought about Thanksgivings past. My childhood Thanksgivings in the 1960's included aunts uncles and cousins. There was turkey, stuffing and arguments. In my house, where I tried to do things differently, we had turkey, stuffing and tense discussions. So for me today, Thanksgiving makes me think of: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was...

Beat Whitey Night, Polar Bear Hunting, The Knockout Game…it’s about time the major media began to scratch the surface of this long-occurring practice. It is, after all, merely the internet-video-driven, plainly visible tip of a much larger and deeper iceberg, which has been around for many years. We can argue endlessly about the causes of it, but the fact remains that for several decades, blacks have been statistically far more likely to do horrible violence to non-blacks than the other way around. But you’d be unlikely to know that unless you get your intelligence from somewhere other than establishment information...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Video shows Syrian terrorist, funded with U.S. tax dollars, cutting out and eating the heart and liver of his dead enemy The video at this link is very graphic, but it’s good that someone has documented it.Actually, the link is a news article with an embedded video. You can read the article without actually watching the video if you want.The first minute of the video is Glenn Beck criticizing Republicans and Democrats for funding this atrocity. The next 10 seconds is a warning about how graphic the video is. The graphic part starts at about the...

Some years ago, America learned of the popularity of the “Knockout Game.” Black teens either sucker punch or taze a white male (or female), a clean knockout scoring one point for the perp. Since that time I’ve searched the web–the national media has ignored news of the Game for obvious reasons–hoping to find the story of a black thug who happened to choose the wrong victim. That story has finally appeared! In Lansing, Michigan, Black teen Marvel Weaver decided to taze a White father who was

A Virginia woman with kidney cancer learned recently that the Affordable Care Act has forced the cancellation of her employer-provided health insurance coverage. Debra Fishericks, who has worked for Atkinson Realty in Virgina Beach, Va., for more than a decade, said the premiums she paid under her company’s health insurance plan were more than reasonable, according to a CBS News report that aired on WDBJ-TV. However, the company was informed recently that its plans did not conform with President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, so the company was forced to cancel them. “We were happy, we had great insurance. We...

Luiz Mott: Homosexuals Are Eunuchs “If your sexual organ causes you to sin, cut it off.” By Julio Severo “Homosexuals are modern eunuchs,” said Luiz Mott, considered the father of the homosexual movement in Brazil. In what sense exactly are eunuchs and homosexuals equal, according to Mott? Did eunuchs only want men? Luiz Mott and statue of a naked baby Eunuchs were castrated men who worked in the palaces of some countries. Daniel, the prophet in the Bible, had been brought as a young man to the palace of Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. There, he was castrated to work as...

The Blue Ridge Blog Life, Love and Liberty South of The Mason-Dixon Line MenuSkip to content LibertyLifeLoveTechnologyBeliefsBusinessUncategorized Obama and Me Leave a reply Some people who read my posts have somehow come to the conclusion that I hate Barack Obama, or that I am some right-wing, bomb-throwing anarchist Tea-Partier who is a closet racist at heart. But people who believe that are not paying attention, are not reading the news, and are not thinking. They have not read Mr. Obama’s books, as I have. They have not lived through eleven presidents, as I have. And they completely ignore the mounting...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog “Education� majors accuse UCLA professor of racism for correcting their spelling and grammar Here’s another reason why the “education� major should be abolished. Over at UCLA, approximately 25 “education� majors staged a sit-in, after accusing their professor of racism because he corrected their spelling and grammar. K-12 education would be far better in this country if the “education� major was abolished, and classes were taught by people who had degrees in the subject that they were teaching. Students who major in English literature understand the importance of proper spelling and grammar, and would never think that...

“If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.” - Aristotle Last week the animal right activists went into full doofus mode when the happy huntress, Melissa Bachman, posted pics on Facebook and Twitter of a lion she shot on her recent safari to South Africa. Being the most unhinged bipeds sucking air right now on God’s green earth, the anti-hunting lunatics, in a full-on hissy fit, demanded that Bachman be banned from South Africa for legally hunting a lion and stimulating their needy economy. In addition, they...

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Reflections on the succession process, on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination The historians of ancient Rome – both contemporary and throughout the ages since – have written a great deal about the difference between “bad emperors” and “good emperors.” Nero and Caligula, for example, were off-the-charts terrible, while Augustus, Trajan, Antonius Pius, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius were terrific. Of the dozens of emperors in Rome’s long-lasting empire, why were some good and others bad, when they all tended to have similar education, family background, ethnicity, experience, and military background? One of the theories was adoption vs. birth. Not...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog How come 100% of the drunk and sexually promiscuous imbeciles in the Obamacare ads are white? Whatever happened to liberals’ love of racial diversity?http://www.doyougotinsurance.com/

The school lunch drama continues, this time in Manitoba, Canada. Close on the heels of a federally sponsored preschool in Virginia disallowing homemade lunches without a doctor’s note, a mom in Manitoba was given this note and a $10 fine when her children’s preschool felt that the lunch she sent from home required “supplemental” Ritz Crackers.

Hangu, US drone target the Madrassa in Hangu district at KPK province, in the result of missile attack 8 people killed including the students of Madrassa. According to detail US drone has targeted the Madrassa Darulomm Ul Quran Tandoro early morning of the Thursday. They hit the building of Madrassa with 4 missiles. In the result of Missile 8 people killed including Molvi Ahmed Jan and Molvi Hameed Ullah, whose the head teachers of the Madrassa. According to the local source five students also injured in the attack, injured were shifted to a local hospital for treatment. Sources confirmed that...

<p>There’s a disgusting new trend among young people called the “knockout game.” Teens try to knock out innocent victims with just one punch. The trend has already caused seven deaths.</p> <p>Tonight on The Factor, Bill O’Reilly noted that these assaults are committed largely by young black men. Bernie Goldberg said the “game” goes by another name: polar bear hunting.</p>

Democratic leaders are again taking the temperature of their caucus on whether to finally go “nuclear” and change the Senate rules after Republicans blocked another judge Monday night, aides said. Conversation about the “nuclear option” between leaders and the rank and file began as members trickled back into town before a failed 53-38 cloture vote on the nomination of Robert L. Wilkins to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Though Democrats have threatened to change Senate rules on multiple occasions this Congress—and have yet to blow up procedure to remove the 60-vote hurdle for nominees—talking about rules change again would...

It would be interesting to do a study to see how many Democrats don't get the joke here...Joke...yeah...hehe.

First Barack Obama lied multiple times over a three-year span by telling people over and over again that if they liked their health care plan then they could keep their health care plan. That lie has now been widely reported and Obama's credibility has been widely, well, discredited. However, now people are starting to realize that the 'keep your health plan' lie from Obama was just the first of many. For example, Obama, his press secretary Jay Carney, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel and numerous other Obama surrogates have been repeatedly saying for the past few...

I need prayer for a 19 y/o boy who was hit by a car yesterday and is dying from his injuries. My life-long friend, who has always denied God, asked me for prayer,divine intervention, and a miracle. Please also pray for my friend to let God in to her life and salvation through faith in Christ and His blood. Thank you.

This is incredible. This guy slowed down the audio of crickets at the ratio of the length of their life to that of a human. What you get is what sounds like music, chorus singing! On he audio you hear both tracks, crickets at normal speed and crickets at the slowed down speed. No music or sounds effects had been added. Worth a listen.

Exclusive to gopbriefingroom.com By EC. Hi there. Gaming is fun, right? Take your down time to blow up enemies, complete complex logic puzzles and bask in the interactive creativity talented people have brought to your room. Or to just waste a few minutes in a boring meeting. Some games are things of cinematographic beauty. Others are more a matter of reflexes, hand/eye coordination and memory.

This is the piece I referenced in my latest interview with Elijah. It is now permanently on added to “The one about…� page. Preface: I originally wrote and posted this on March 29, ARSH 2010. This was fully a year before I went viral for the first time after my koran burning. I had a little bit of a non-agricultural readership, but nothing like now. I began screaming and yelling about politics and broad-market economics in 2008 when I saw that the U.S. was in the process of being overthrown, and lots of agricultural people thought I was nuts,...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog I guess this makes me a “bad� libertarian, but here’s my proposal for universal health care I guess this makes me a “bad� libertarian, but here’s my proposal for universal health care. It includes 33 things.This proposal requires that each and every one of these 33 things all be included in one bill – all in the same bill – so that the only way to pass any one of these things is by passing all 33 of these things at the same time. It’s going to cost money, so it includes cuts in other government...

Today President Barack Obama unveiled a so-called 'fix' for his 'Lie of the Millennium' about people being able to keep the health plans that they liked. But as with many other aspects of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, the fix raises more questions than it offers answers. For example, imagine a situation in which your home was completely robbed by a professional thief. After going through various stages of grief and feelings of loss, the thief suddenly shows up on your doorstep one day and says that he will give you back everything he stole from you. But then...

Looks like I may have been blessed. Had my surgery the 28th, and am recovering fine. Went to the surgeon today for follow-up, but it included the biospy results, which they only got yesterday!

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Obama wants to raise taxes so the government can continue buying soda for $3.40 per can We all know that President Obama wants to raise taxes. During his presidency, the federal government has been purchasing soda for a cost of $3.40 per can. Obama has not expressed any desire to switch to a cheaper seller, such as Costco, amazon.com, or Wal-Mart – or to an even still cheaper seller such as a wholesaler. Instead, Obama continues to force taxpayers to pay these outrageous prices for soda. I wonder whom the government is buying this ridiculously overpriced...

Yesterday Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius triumphantly declared that “The marketplace is working” as she announced that just over 106,000 people had enrolled in a health care plan using the new online marketplaces during the month of October. Given that the Obama administration had previously set goals of around 500,000 enrollees in the first month of open enrollment, it is curious to ponder how few people could have signed before Sebelius declared that the marketplace was not working. In addition to the enrollee figures, Sebelius also revealed that there were 975,407 who had applied for enrollment but had...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Why did Democrats give Obamacare an annual marriage tax of up to $11,028 per couple? In front of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Obama administration argued that Obamacare is a tax.According to the Obamacare calulator, Obamacare places an annual tax on married couples for being married instead of single. The amount of this tax depends upon the ages, incomes, and parental status of the married couple.According to the Obamacare calculator, the extreme case of this tax occurs with a 60-year-old married couple with no children, where the two spouses have identical incomes totaling $62,041 per year....

I don't know if waking up to this every Wednesday would fill me with joy, or strike fear. It's kind of doing both now...

I found this meme while surfing around online, and I'm curious if anyone wants to offer up their take. The term "feminist" is one that is so polarizing it tends to cut right down the left-right divide, but this one has me wondering.The rationale of people who defend the message this woman presents is that a woman isn't actually saying "yes" in certain instances, such as while under the influence of alcohol...Ok...This logic reminds me of a quote from British author Paul Johnson (from his book Enemies of Socieity), emphasis is mine... (I)t is essential to use words accurately and...

Writing for the Associated Press, Rachel Zoll notes that, "The Vatican ambassador to the U.S., addressing American bishops at their first national meeting since Pope Francis was elected, said Monday they should not 'follow a particular ideology' and should make Roman Catholics feel more welcome in church. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano noted the challenges from broader society to Christian teaching....'the Holy Father wants bishops in tune with their people....He made a special point of saying that he wants pastoral bishops, not bishops who profess or follow a particular ideology.' In a September interview, Francis said Catholic leaders should give greater...

Well, Redneck is looking at a job in Maryland again, after the one in Tennessee didn't work out. This time, Hanover. South Baltimore. Anne Arundel County. Big trouble, I hear. But can it be survived? Has anyone dwelt there and lived to tell the tale?

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