“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
Wishing you all a joy-filled Christmas!
“Gloria in excelsis Deo” – King’s College Choir:
Please keep our troops in your prayers. In Afghanistan, our soldiers are hard at work:
”This is my third Christmas away from family, the first two were in Iraq and then one here,” Sgt. David Nix, from Charlotte, North Carlina, said, adding that he misses waking up on Christmas morning with his wife and kids. ”It’s the only thing that goes through my mind … being around my family,” he said.
“A Soldier’s Christmas Poem,” written by LCDR Jeff Giles, CS, USN, stationed in Al Taqqadum Iraq:
A Christmas video from the soldiers of the Dragon Brigade:
Here’s a look at the plight of Christians in Iraq.
Pope Benedict XVI recovered from the bizarre attack yesterday well enough to deliver Christmas Day mass this morning.
Lombardi identified the woman who toppled Benedict as Susanna Maiolo, 25, a Swiss-Italian national with psychiatric problems. He said Maiolo, who was not armed, was taken to a clinic for necessary treatment.
She was the same woman involved in a similar incident at last year’s Midnight Mass, Vatican officials said. In that case, Maiolo jumped the barricade but never managed to reach the pope and was quietly tackled by security.
In both cases she wore a red sweat shirt.
During Thursday night’s service, Maiolo jumped the barricade and lunged for the pope as he processed down the aisle toward the altar. As security guards brought her down, she grabbed Benedict’s vestments and pulled him down with her, according to witness video obtained by The Associated Press.
After a few seconds on the floor, Benedict stood up with the help of attendants, put back on his miter and took hold of his staff, and continued to process down the aisle to the cheers of “Viva il Papa!” (“Long live the pope”). He continued to celebrate the Mass without incident.
It was the first time a potential attacker came into direct contact with Benedict during his nearly five-year papacy. Security analysts have frequently warned the pope is too exposed in his public appearances.
After getting up, Benedict, flanked by tense bodyguards, reached the basilica’s main altar to start the Mass. The pope, who broke his right wrist in a fall this summer, appeared unharmed but somewhat shaken and leaned heavily on aides and an armrest as he sat down in his chair.
Benedict made no reference to the disturbance after the service started or on Friday.
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Merry Christmas everybody — especially to our military and their families!
Wishing all a Merry Christmas as the Good Shepherd watchs over His flock both here and abroad.
“…and he shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 9:6)
A very Merry Christmas to everyone, especially to our troops. And thank you, God, for the gift of Your precious Son.
Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas and a great big thanks to our military. God Bless you all.
Merry Christmas, folks.
My gift to the group here: Paul Washer’s sermon, “The True Gospel.” God bless.
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Merry Christmas to all! We always have evil and mental illness near us–why would someone want to injure the Pope? Or to kill someone unless it is in self defense, defense of others, war, or as a just punishment for murder or treason?
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The murder of the innocents in Bethlehem by the evil King Herod and the persecution of Jesus and the early Christians closely followed Jesus’s birth. The angel choir announced His birth, and the rest is history.
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And Jesus’s message of peace, love, hope, and salvation is still rejected by so many in the world. Israel and many parts of our world are still afflicted by evil and war. But God has lots of patience, and His word will be done in the end of time. The Word is still alive 2013 years later and is still working in our lives.
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John Bibb
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Merry Christmas to all. I hope Santa Claus brings lots of good conservative candidates to vote for.
Mele Kalikimaka, y’all!
A blessed Christmas to Michelle, family and all here. I pray God will be with all our wonderful military and their families today and always. I pray God will be with our Republic and if it is in His will help us with the mess going on in dc with elected there.
Merry Christmas y’all.
L
Merry Christmas to Michelle, your family, and the MM posters. Jesus the Christ came to save us from our sins, praise be to his name.
Merry Christmas everyone. Judging by the numbers of people in the Sky Harbor concourses, there are a lot of us on the road today. Here’s to hoping we all make it home, and to those servicemen women in the concourse, Godspeed.
A special prayer to those who are on the frontlines–soldiers, intelligence community, all the other support folks out there making our nation safer on this and every day. Thank you.
Did anybody just catch the liberal environmental crap that they just inserted into the Christmas mass from Washington D.C? I turned it off after “suffering in Antarctica because of global warming.”
And as usual, using children to peddle their nonsense. No shame at all…
Merry Christmas, Michelle, and to those of you with enough common sense to want to post here.
Thoughts and Prayers to the TROOPS and a very Merry Christmas to the Malkin Family!!!
Merry Christmas to all Malkin readers and conservatives.
Special prayers today from me (in snowy Big Sky, Montana) for our troops away from home…the sacrifices of our brave men and women and their families are appreciated. God bless you all on this day of Jesus Christ’s birth.
THanks, Michelle, and blessings for all you do.
Merry Christmas everyone. Take time to reflect on this wonderful holiday, and what it means to be able to celebrate it openly and freely, for there are many who do not have such luxuries.
Merry Christmas to all and God bless us, every one.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
Merry Christmas to all!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
May all have (or have had) a happy Christmas filled with family, friends, and the recollection of God’s blessings to us. (Ok, it sounds like Thanksgiving recycled, but why not?)
Merry Christmas to all and may 2010 be a much better year!
Always brings a tear to my eyes. My son in law was hurt in the 82nd ABN. He still walks today, though, at the time, they said he was wheelchair bound for life. Merry Christmas to all, and to those who don’t believe in Christmas, “Merry Christmas” anyway. Don’t forget a prayer to our brave soldiers and sailors today.
My sin nature wants to retaliate on the blasphemers of satanic islam but the new nature of the Spirit of God constrains me.
Happy Birthday Jesus. Thank you for dying for my sins. Cover your own under your eagles wings in such parts of the world.
Protect and open the eyes of the generations coming behind us that may find themselves forced to live under this seventh century cancerous paganism because we who could have, here now, didn’t contain it when we had the chance. Even as we see now happening in Europe. God forgive us.
To all our men and women in the MILITARY, a very, very SAFE and MERRY CHRISTMAS… And to all of us on the MM post, a most HAPPY, HEALTHY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR, from your friend in the desert…
Merry Christmas to all, and may we survive as a republic !
Krisdos Dzunvav yev Haydnetsav!!!
Merry Christmas and may God bless all of you today and always. Talked to SSgt. Marine loved one today – he’ll be off to Afghanistan soon and knows your prayers and thanks go with them as well as their military partners and their families.
Yes indeed Wishing you all a joy-filled Christmas!
I fully understand simcoe: between my wish for revenge and my Christian belief there is my cousin and her husband-they manage an Outreach to the Muslims. This is a good thing of course but my heart aches for our Christian Brothers and Sisters under the thumb of mohammedan thugs.
Again this year my most fervent prayer is that this is the last Christmas our young people have to serve in foreign lands.
A blessed Christmas to you and yours, Michelle.
Krisdos Dzunvav yev Haydnetsav!!
Joyeaux Noel!
We went to church last night for the first time in years. It was standing room only. We went to celebrate the birth or Christ and to pray God heals our republic.
May God bless you and your family Michelle and may he watch over you and our warriors in the field and at home.
Merry Christmas, and to Michelle, Malagayang Pasko. When Irving Berlin wrote “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,” it was with the thought on his mind of millions who were serving in World War II in the desert of North Africa, the jungles of Guadalcanal and New Guinea and on the high seas, just as our thoughts are with our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Merry Christmas, Michelle!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas Michelle!
Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia!
I offer for this Christmas season the prayer that Mel Gibson, as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, prayed with one of his soldiers in We Were Soldiers shortly before their unit departed for Vietnam:
Our father in Heaven,
before we go into battle
every soldier among us
will approach you
each in his own way.
Our enemies, too,
according to their own understanding
will ask for protection
and for victory.
And so we bow before your infinite wisdom.
We offer our prayers as best we can.
I pray you watch over the young men
like Jack Geoghegan
that I lead into battle.
Use me as your instrument in this awful hell of war
to watch over them.
Especially if they are men like this one beside me
deserving of a future in your blessing and good will.
Amen.
Oh, yes, and one more thing dear Lord,
about our enemies,
ignore their heathen prayers
and help us blow those little bastards
straight to hell.
Amen again.
(Joy to the World!)
To Michelle and everyone else, Happy Holiday—that holiday being Christmas, of course.
Not one friend, nor family member, nor stranger to whom I said “Merry Christmas” over the last few days did not reply in kind to me. Warms the cockles of one’s heart, dun’nit?
Mele Kalikimaka, me ka Hauoli Makahiki Hou to all my MM buddies online.
And……..no, I won’t be driving to Kailua to see Barry Soetoro and his family enjoy the beach.
Went over to one of my daughter’s house for Xmas dinner (I have 3 daughters). It was great. One of them brought a young man as a date, which was fine. Anyway, I was standing with one daughter, who is a nurse, this young man, plus my son-in-law, and we got into a discussion of Obamacare. Normally, on Xmas, I don’t discuss politics, but since the topic came up, I listened. This young man chimed in that he didn’t have health insurance and didn’t want to spend the money. That’s okay to him, he’s quite healthy. He then started on Obamacare and how awful it was, and how it was unconstitutional. I asked him if he ever read about the Constitution and how it was made. He said “yes”, and then discussed Madison. I smiled and nodded, while my brain was saying, “welcome to the family, son!”
Merry Christmas everybody! God Bless our troops! Currently reading Tom Clancy’e Shadow Warriors. About our Special Forces and their beginnings. Real men!
Merry Christmas to MM and all here! May God bless our great nation in 2010.
My family and I hadavery Merry Christmas. I hope you had one as well.
Merry Christmas to all from Brookfield Ct. especially our servicemen and women
This has been the best Christmas ever. Merry Christmas to all of you, and to Michelle for giving us this venue.
This has been the best Christmas ever. Merry Christmas to all of you, and to Michelle for giving us this venue.
Merry Christmas to all of you patriots and even to our liberal friends who post here.
I want to extend my thoughts and prayers to all of our men and women in uniform. May God Bless each and every one of you while keeping you safe in His arms. Amen.
Well, except around here. Here, we expect you to whip yourselves up into spewing, mouth-foaming hatred over each and every tiny, insignificant thing done by anyone at all who disagrees with us in even the slightest, most trivial ways. Because the constant niggling over the First Lady’s dress, the First Family’s Christmas ornaments, the First Dog, fictitious rantings about the personal lives of appointees and utter fabrications over non-existent international protocol, the duly elected Congress and conspiracies swirling around vaccines makes us look totally awesome and superior in the eyes of…everyone who already agrees with us. Just like linking to and providing unquestioning support to neo-Nazis, white supremacists and outright racists puts such a gleaming polish on our positions.
Just like the hypocrisy oozing from the referenced quote puts us head and shoulders above the vast majority of reeking commie Americans.
Some encouragement from words of everlasting truth…
“God rest you Merry Gentlemen, let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we had gone astray.
Oh! Tidings of comfort and Joy!!!”
Wow…you are one sick dude! How sad to be so steeped in anger (pointed in the WRONG direction, I might add)! This is a thread about Christmas and God’s Son. Why would you tarnish it with your hate? May God grant even the likes of you peace for your tortured soul.
Merry Christmas to all and May God the Father Almighty continue to Bless and Protect our fighting men and women and our great country.
This was my favorite Christmas message as a kid. Times were bad both here and abroad. Some how, this message was very comforting during that tumultuous time.
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HI SIXDEGREES–#49. Some of the posters here get a little “loco” at times. However, most are pretty rational most of the time.
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As far as “cheapshotting” President Obama–IT’S HIS ACTIONS–not because he is (half) Black or (half) White. I sincerely believe he is a socialist / statist / marxist / communist enabler who is doing a lot of damage to our country. I support my thesis and call him Comrade Obama (PBUH)due to the openly communist Van Jones, his communist father and uncle, and his marxist supporters (Black Congressional Caucus). If the shoe fits–wear it!
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I don’t read a lot of Nazis here. Many have served and defended our country honorably in the military. Most here respect good people of all races and do not wish President Obama and his family ill. I do wonder why the Prez and his wife Michelle seem to hate our country–they are examples of how our country provides great futures and opportunities for all–regardless of race, ethnic background, or country of origin. Why do we want to become Cuba or Zimbabwe–where most live in equal misery and scarcity?
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Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his ilk pale in comparison (no racism intended) when compared to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Condi Rice, President Ronald Reagan, General Colin Powell, and many other great Americans.
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I hope your day will be a little brighter as it goes on. Step away from the Koolade and Jack Daniels!
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John Bibb
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Certainly this is a season for our best hopes and wishes for good things for all men.
For our president, Barak Obama, I’d want him to know that I recognize that he is still a young man, not yet fully formed in all his ideas and dispositions. I think a time out of the maelstrom would be good for him, a time for calm and reflection.
I’d wish him a winter vacation at the Stanley Hotel were he would have time and space to grow and, if needed, receive a little correction.
Very well said, Rocketman…and by the way, I don’t hate Obama because he is black, I hate him because he is RED. Pure and simple. Playing the race card is no longer working, but some people continue to try it anyway.
happy, I just ~hate~ the need we all feel sometimes to distance ourselves from racism, and I try very hard to resist it. And when someone makes a nod in that direction, as rocketman did, it tends to create a crescendo of denials. I understand this so well because I am part of the problem, even though I try to resist. I can recall only last week making exactly your point (and rocketman’s point): our problem with Obama is not that he is black but that he is red.
Still, I ~hate~ it; I hate that those who wag the accusing finger have set up a presumption of guilt in this country that turns the bill of rights on its head: We must prove ourselves ~innocent~. I am especially sensitive to this, because I am a Southerner and, of course, there is historic guilt. I used to hear Larry King (a true scumbag) in his more raw radio days cocked and loaded night after night willing to call anyone — especially Southerners — who did not tow exactly the Teddy Kennedy line, a racist.
And then there is the problem — happily somewhat faded now — that any defensive statement might evoke drippingly sarcastic comments like, “Sure…I know…some of your best friends are black.” Even now when that is rarely said, those of us who are especially sensitive in this area can still detect it in the air or from a arched eyebrow.
I am rereading Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind and he makes a telling point about early 60s college students who went South to participate in civil rights demonstrations. First, it must be acknowledged that their action was virtuous and made a contribution to the putting right of a great moral shame.
Unfortunately, though, it was not a sufficient act to earn a lifetime badge of righteousness. In fact, to many of the students it was a big adventure and involved little danger. It was a thrilling crusade, and it had no cost for them. They were all righteousness and they were confronting evil-doers.
Many, many of them have never gotten beyond that moment, the most thrilling of their lives. Chris Matthews would be this type. They live to smite those racist evil-doers again, sing the old songs, feel the thrill and romance of it all. And so they look everywhere for racist evil-doers, especially among Southerners.
So I try hard not to play, not to let the accusatory righteousness that they have permanently embedded in the culture bait me into denying something of which I am not guilty and is not even on my mind. Something that is on ~their~ minds. But sometimes, as I said, I have to say — like you and rocketman — “Hey, I’m not a racist.”
Christmas was good for my family. I think everyone had a great time. Now, that the 25th is over, it’s time to pop the popcorn, get out the chips and soda, and settle back on the couch for some, hopefully good, bowl games.
On a bit more of a Christmasy note, anyone who has not seen this Franz Family video should not miss it: Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel
(I’m always the last to get the word.)
From the “Peoples’ Cube”, first media reports of the nativity story:
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1658
Happy New Year to my MM website friends! Thank you for encouraging me to not give up, to trust the Lord in this mess, and for all the laughs and fun and wisdom I have witnessed in many of you!
This was in yesterday’s online newspaper edition. Wish it was in there before Christmas. If you can’t get the video via the long link (with article) then click on the shorter youtube version. VERY moving.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-mount-dora-songwriter-video-20091224,0,6375426.story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x_SvCH1K3Q
God bless our troops.
Lord, please use my prayer to bless all of those who post here. They are instrumental in increasing my knowledge and awareness about so many issues of the day and, also, please accept my prayer to your will to bless All of our military families and Ms. Malkin who provides us an opportunity to be heard.
Merry Christmas one and all.