[Aquamarine]

Come on in and savor another great essay by JohnHuang2!

[GeronL]

To be fair, no faxes, no phones nor other communications gear was found at Saddam's former hideout,

We now know they also found a lot of pagers

[dixie sass]

Wooooooooooooohoooooooooooo! Roaring with laughter! This is the best so far John - oh wait- everyone is the best yet!

Aqua, thanks for the ping and the graphics are great! What a team!

[dixie sass]

I received this from my brother the minister just now. I am asking for y'alls prayers for him and his family. Thank you.

"Hi Lee,
Need your prayers, been having chest pains and am having a heart cath Friday at 9 in the morning. If there is a problem, they will set me up for surgery. Don't know anymore yet, so like I. Said, please pray. You can call Nick and Toni and let them know. Love Mike"

[Diver Dave]

Gore........ You got Him!
Dean........ You Got Him!
Kerry....... You Got Him!
Lieberman... You Got Him!
Braun....... You Got Her!
Gephardt.... You Got Him!
McDermott... Extra Bonus Got 'em!
Geragos..... Extra Bonus Got 'em!

Pulitzer Prize Essay and Graphic!

I knew we were in for something extra special this week.

Great Job John and Aqua!!! Take a bow.

[JustAmy]

Excellent as always and so very funny!!
You portray the DemocRats perfectly.
"Please don't let anything good happen until after I'm elected!" LOL
Thanks, John!

[JustAmy]

Beautiful presentation, as always.
Thank you both.

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Aqua.

[The Raven]

My favorite liberal at work is hand wringing that it really isn't Sadaam - it's one of his doubles.

Then 'Mad' Albright wondered if Bush was also hiding Bin Laden for an October surprise.

It never ceases to amaze how on one hand we have a bumbling administration that can't do a thing right and on the other is carefully orchastrating the demise of the Democratic party through conspiracy and deception.

OK...if we're talking conspiracies - how is it that all liberals speak with the same tongue? How is it that the French keep sneaking into every sentence from every liberal spanning the NY Times complete through my favorite liberal at work? Could this conspiracy have started with Bush's high poll numbers? If we didn't have an election coming - would the liberals be talking sense?

Ughh

[GailA]

Good Morning..another home run John. Did any of you catch the media survey on FNC Bret Hume report..the alphabet soup media did over 60% negative reports on W last month.

[The Mayor]

[God] comforts us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble. —2 Corinthians 1:4

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

[The Mayor]

December 18, 2003

They Understood

Read: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11

[God] comforts us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble. —2 Corinthians 1:4

Bible In One Year: James 1-2

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A few days before Christmas, we received a beautiful floral arrangement with a card that said, "Remembering your loss and wishing you and your family a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year. Love and prayers, Dave and Betty."

Seven months earlier, my sister Marti and her husband Jim had been killed in a traffic accident. This was our first Christmas without them, so it was a great encouragement to have friends acknowledge our loss and express their love in a tangible way.

Dave and Betty understood our need to grieve and find God's healing because two decades earlier their daughter had taken her own life. They had experienced the Lord's comfort over the years, so they were able to come alongside us in a sensitive and caring way.

That loving act came as a striking example of Paul's words: "The Father of mercies and God of all comfort . . . comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

When God touches our broken hearts with His peace, we are uniquely equipped to share that with others. What a wonderful gift to give and receive at Christmas! —David McCasland

The comfort God has given us
He wants us now to share
With others who are suffering
And caught in life's despair. —Sper

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

[The Mayor]

Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous!!!!

[Donaeus]

*standing ovation* Bravo! Bravo! Good show I say!! No column or layout shall be published before its time--well its time has come! Aqua and John you have knocked it out of the ballpark again. I can't offer you wine and cheese as it's all been returned to France via the curb. We'll celebrate instead with some Texas originals: Pangburg's Millionaires and RC Cola.

Today, one whole day later, the joy has given way to overwhelming resentment on the part of an overwhelming 3 people in Baghdad -- a stationary store owner, a dentist and a building contractor, all interviewed in this blockbuster report.

Weren't these three "randomly" interviewed by the New York Times man-on-the-street team a few months ago during the zenith that was HRC's book tour?

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy JohnHuang2 Day !

I can't wait to come back and see John's words of wisdom in a bit !!

[dansangel]

Experts wondered why Saddam did not resist. (After all, despite getting killed, Uday and Qusay's resistance proved remarkably successful!) Saddam wouldn't even fire his fully-loaded, deadly new audiotape.

LOL!! Yep, the Dims and saddam-lovers are falling all over themselves to show the cowardly rat as a victim - feh! I love the way you calls them as you sees them (((((JH2)))))))

((((Aqua))))) Thank you for bringing us our weekly dose. Love the graphics that you have used - very nicely done.

(((((((HUGS))))))) to all and to my missing-in-action fuzzy brothah:

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[Temple Owl]

Wonderful! It's the best thing I will read today. Have a great day.