The Guild 11-28-2004 HGTV's 12 Days of Christmas

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[BigWaveBetty]

Celebrate the holidays with HGTV's 12 Days of Christmas Specials, featuring all things festive, from decorating on a budget to finding the perfect gift. On HGTV.com, expanded coverage of each special includes videos, slideshows, step-by-steps and more to guide you through this busy season.

Hey Remember! Christmas
Premiere: 11/28 at 8 pm/7c
See how home products have been marketed to American consumers over the past 50 years. More...

Outer Spaces for the Holidays
Premiere: 11/29 at 8 pm/7c
Watch as the exteriors of two homes are transformed into imaginative winter wonderlands. More...

Year 'Round Christmas
Premiere: 11/30 at 8 pm/7c
Meet people around the country who make their yuletide celebrations last all year long. More...

Christmas Room by Room Style
Premiere: 12/1 at 8 pm/7c
Matt and Shari explore unique inspirational ideas for this year's decor. HGTV.com offers instructions for these projects. More...

Divine Design Christmas
Premiere: 12/2 at 8 pm/7c
Candice Olson takes the ultimate holiday challenge as the festive season quickly approaches. More...

Home to Go Holiday Special
Premiere: 12/3 at 8 pm/7c
Explore a whole new way of dressing up your home and table for holiday entertaining. More...

Holiday Design on a Dime
Premiere: 12/4 at 8 pm/7c
Each design team transforms a room with distinctive holiday cheer. Get in-depth instructions, video clips and 10 additional holiday decorating ideas on HGTV.com. More...

A Very Merry Curb Appeal
Premiere: 12/5 at 8 pm/7c
These festive facelifts are filled with tons of ideas to improve the look of any home year-round. More...

Holiday Windows 2004
Premieres: 12/6 at 8 pm/7c
Go behind the scenes as the world's best department store Christmas windows are sketched, built, installed and revealed. More...

White House Christmas 2004
Premiere: 12/7 at 8 pm/7c
HGTV goes inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a look at how the First Family decorates for the holidays. After the special, visit HGTV.com for a closer look at this year's decorations. More...

[BigWaveBetty]

Hey kiddo! How much do college kids charge to rake up a large yard? A six pack, she asks hopefully?

Examples of how the dims put the less in clueless from this Boston Globe piece.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, is investigating how Democrats can talk more effectively about religious issues in the run-up to the midterm elections, when the party of an incumbent president traditionally loses seats in Congress. He was reluctant to talk about his plans until his staff completed research he requested.

Wow, Kennedy has to do research to talk about religion intelligently.

But hold on, it gets better!

''Why is it that abortion is a litmus test and not the death penalty?" he said to applause earlier this month at a postelection round-table discussion organized by Gaddy and the Interfaith Alliance. Jennings cites the Roman Catholic ''prolife" tradition, which includes opposition to both abortion and the death penalty, arguing that some of the arguments on faith put forth by the right are incongruous.

Hello?! Anybody home?!

[Endeavor]

I tossed the flyer I got from the college leaf picker uppers and like a moron so I don't know what they charge.

Isn't it fun watching the dimwits try to figure out how to talk to Americans? Shows how far they've run from basic American beliefs. I hope they remain clueless for eons.

[CoCoJack]

Sounds like great fun.

Let us know how the party went.....pics??

[Timeout]

Another Dem with clueless proposals on how to get out of the ditch.
Sadly, it's Ed Koch, whom I really admire and am grateful to for his efforts on Bush's behalf in the election.

His proscriptions, however, are almost comical:

--gun control, but at the state legislature level
--civil unions/gays in the military
--force a "health-of-mother" exception for partial birth abortions.

He's closer to right on religion, but he doesn't even mention the left's knee-jerk opposition to the military.
All in all, it is even more clueless than most of the lefty tripe since election day.

http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_1_04_EK.html

[BigWaveBetty]

Ebersol 'very strong' despite tragedy

After two gut-wrenching days helping Dick Ebersol and his oldest son recover from Sunday's plane crash that claimed the life of Ebersol's youngest son, Bob Wright left Grand Junction, Colo., on Tuesday with increased respect for the injured chairman of NBC Sports and Olympics. More

[BigWaveBetty]

Just Ed being Ed and probably trying to get back into the good graces of those hateful dems he calls friends. Poor man, he will certainly get shunned, big time, because he had the temerity to endorse "Bush's war." Even though he hung on to his core dem beliefs the whole time, it won't earn him any brownie points with the party.

Ed hasn't had much contact with the group that now runs his party if he thinks this is a good idea.

Democrats should organize public discussion in different venues to seek feedback from various Democratic constituencies on what the party needs to do to reverse the recent losses. New ideas, hopefully, would be generated.

Hoo boy Ed, are you going to get an earful. Kooky ideas will abound. From abortion on demand at anytime up to and including the due date to federal funds to save whazoozie flies.

[rightinalabama]

Duh.. Hello, Teddy! Abortion IS a death penalty!!!!

[BigWaveBetty]

That paragraph was on the Best of the Web with a comment from Taranto that puts Kennedy's religious values into perspective. Taranto:

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

[Timeout]

...abortion on demand at anytime up to and including the due date...

You're behind the times. There are now Rats who think the "option" should extend BEYOND birth. Some ivy league professor proposes a mother should be able to kill her baby within some time frame (48 hrs? 2 months?) with no legal penalties. His philosophical basis had something to do with the "arbitrariness" associated with in-the-womb vs. outside the womb...it's all the same "thing".

He's been around for several years. If you haven't heard about this proposal, it's a testament to the biased media that such a proposal could float under their radar screen with little publicity.

[lodwick]

Christmas lights for the hunter in your family

[BigWaveBetty]

I remember him, but can't remember his name.

Hopefully Ed Koch has a sturdy chair to which he can strap himself while he listens to the different factions prattle their hogwash.

[Endeavor]

Hey TO,

What do you think about the court ruling yesterday allowing universities to get federal money even if they bar ROTC programs and the military from recruiting on their campuses?

[Timeout]

I've kinda got you beat on the "odd" Christmas lights story.

Remember my strange client/boss? He's gotten a novel idea for brightening up the 'hood for the holidays. Hurricane Ivan wiped out his boat slot, so he's had his 35-ft Marlin parked in front of his in-town home for 2 months. This is in a very nice residential neighborhood and I know neighbors aren't happy about it.

Does he care? Well, he thinks he does. He's going to string lights all over the boat for Christmas! Yeah, that'll make 'em happy. (This is a 52-year old man...going on 16).

[Timeout]

I think the best analysis I read was the one pointing out how happy these hypocrites are to be protected by that same "bigoted" military.

It's just another nail in their coffin, IMHO.

[BigWaveBetty]

Came across this fun holiday decor for the home. The sliegh is 59.50. Presents, set of three, 39.50. All the info at the link.

From Norm Thompson

[Endeavor]

Why doesn't he move that boat to a boat yard? My boat is only 26 feet long and I'd never consider putting it in front of the house! In fact, it's 1000 miles away in a boat yard in Maine. That guy is tacky!!! And, like you, I don't think the lights will warm the cockles of his neighbors' hearts.

[Timeout]

< That guy is tacky!!! >

LOL!
Keep in mind, this is the guy who suggested I "sneak out" of my MOTHER's WAKE because he'd been counting on my helping him with a party he was giving that night. Truly clueless and hopeless.

[Endeavor]

J- he really IS a piece of work, isn't he! Must be nice to go through life that clueless. A 35' Marlin is one huge boat -- why doesn't he put her back in the water? It's warm down your way so he wouldn't have to worry about ice. My girl has to come out in late September and gets stored inside on dirt (that's best for a wooden boat) until May. She gets her bottom painted and work done over the winter but she can't be in the water because of the ice. This guy could put his boat in and get it outta the neighborhood if he wanted to. If I was his neighbor, I'd be unhappy.

[Timeout]

The worst part is: he has a driveway that runs to the back of the house. He could park the boat back there...but that would mean he'd have to BACK down the driveway. Indeed.

[daisyscarlett]

Ebersole is married to Susan St. James. When Susan was very young, she was into the environment etc and was married to a like minded hippie type. She would not wear leather and this caused problems for her producers at McMillian and Wife cauz she played a fashion plate type character. But they complied with her wishes and did not make her wear leather. She and her hubby had two kids and named them Harmony and Sunshine.

Well, when she "grew up" she divorced the hippie, married Ebersole and became "normal". She named her three boys with Ebersole Charles (Charlie), William (Willie) and Edward (Teddy).