Our Gal Maxine

1. Jim Baker and Jimmy Swaggert have written an impressive new book.It's called .........'Ministers Do More Than Lay People'

2. Transvestite: A guy who likes to eat, drink And be Mary.

3. The difference between the Pope and your boss, the Pope only expects you to kiss his ring.

5. The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.


4. My mind works like lightning, One brilliant flash and it is gone.

6.I hate sex in the movies. Tried it once. The seat folded up, the drink spilled and that ice, well, it really chilled the mood.

7. It used to be only death and taxes. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling.


8. A husband is someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression that he just cleaned the whole house.

9 My next house will have no kitchen - just vending machines and a very large trash can.


10. A blonde said, 'I was worried that my Mechanic might try to rip me off. I was relieved when he told me all I needed was turn signal fluid.'

11.Definition of a teenager? God's punishment...for enjoying sex.

12. As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way.



Thanks to Ann.

It's Still Christmas - Day 4

 

The angel of the Lord encamps
around those who fear him, and delivers them.
O taste and see that the Lord is good;
happy are those who take refuge in him.
(Psalm 34:7-8)

Please Pray For TheMeThatIsMe

TheMe had surgery for gallstones, but suffered complications from an infection and a resurgence of his Crohn's disease. In addition, the powers at the hospital dumped him out and sent him home before he felt ready to go. You can read the details at his blog.

Pray for a speedy healing and no further complications.

Celebrity In Our Midst!

(From the Anglican Periodic Table by Clumber)

Father Tobias Haller, who writes at In a Godward Direction, was interviewed by the BBC! You can listen here at the BBC website on the 24 Dec 08 podcast titled "Christmas and Consumerism". Tobias' interview starts near the beginning.

As a US ambassador to the Brits, he represented us quite well. His own review of his performance is at his website at the link above. He's much too modest.

Christmas At Wenchoster

THE BISHOP'S COLUMN:

Hello! Es the popular tune declars, ‘It’s the most popular tame of the yar.’ Indeed it is. Not jest a tame for celebrat-i-on but also a tame of surprises. Peeking ite from under my tree is an anonymous gift of a strange shape. What glorious mysteries lie under the wrepping paper of snowmen and holly? What is it? How will I use it? Cen I shar it? Will it requar betteries? Awl of these quest-i-ons cen be asked of Christmarss es we draw near to the greatest gift of awl. How will we use it indeed? We will, won’t we? End shar it with others, of course.

It is awlso good to recall are blessings as we tuck into the bainty of the Yuletide season. Remember that not awl of Gawd’s people cen sit dine to relish a goose end stuffing. Es ay prepar to sit dine et table I will say a prar for those less fortunate then areselves and ask the Lawd to bless them. Then end only then will I sip may fane claret. Won’t ay.

Gawd bless, us every one!

Message from the Archbishop of Canterbury:

Walking the banks of the River Wye is something I like to do even on the most inhospitable of weather days. N will pack me a small lunch and I will happily spend a morning, even a day, engaging with the natural beauty around me, and pondering the deeper theological strata of stylistic elements within the theonomy of twentieth century thought. And so it was only last week, as I took in the miles between Tintern and Monmouth. Here and there I saw a high flying hawk, and thought that the liturgical symbolism of the Spirit in the western ecclesia could be reinvented....

Read the rest of the message at the link above.

From the Carol Sheet:

Away in the "Nine Bells", no room at the bar,
We sit in the "Snug" with our pipes and a jar.
The logs in the fireplace all crackle and hiss,
As we laze in the warmth and give Compline a miss.

The Choirboys are singing their carols so sweet,
Whilst outside the window, snow falls in the street.
Our ancient cathedral is glowing with light,
And shines like a beacon through the depths of the night.

"Another, dear landlord! Come fill up my cup,
With the nutty brown liquid that I love to sup!"
A Wenchoster Christmas is a time of good cheer,
If I get all my stuffing, and a firkin of beer.

Could it be that a hacker with a streak of wickedness sometimes gets into their website?

Ready For Cracker Jokes?

Ready or not, here they come:

Q.) How do crazy people go through the forest?
A.) They take the psycho path.

Q.) What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work?
A.) A stick.

Q.) What do you call cheese that isn't yours?
A.) Nacho cheese.

Q.) What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
A.) Frostbite.

Q.) What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
A.) A nervous wreck.

Q.) How do snowmen get around?
A.) On their icicle!!

Q.) What kind of pump can you eat?
A.) A pumpkin!!

Q.) What is white and crumbly and swings through trees?
A.) A meringue!!

Q.) Who babysits for the kids?
A.) A nanny-goat!!?

It's Still Christmas - Day 3

 

Pictured above is the other of a pair of Christmas stockings in needlepoint, which depict Fra Anglelico's musical angels from the paintings in the Museo San Marco in Florence.

The 16th century biographer [Giorgio] Vasari says of Fra Angelico:

"But it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holy father, who was so humble and modest in all that he did and said and whose pictures were painted with such facility and piety."

From Wiki.

Please Contunue To Pray

From Renz:

As I write this Mary Ann's mom, Mrs. Eudith Stewart, is undergoing emergency brain surgery to attempt to remove the blood clot from the burst aneurysm. Late yesterday they did a procedure to put a coil in the aneurism and had stopped the bleeding, they put in a shunt to keep her intercranial pressure down, and she was on a ventilator and kept sedated to rest her. However, the pressures were rising today and the decision was made to actually perform brain surgery. Mary Ann is very thankful for the international prayer circle and called me specifically to request further prayers. Thank you to you all.

Not To Be Believed!

From David Sirota on Fox News via The Huffington Post.

As you'll see, on that latter issue, Fox News is starting its campaign to stop Obama's big spending plan by stating - as assumed fact - that "historians pretty much agree" that Franklin Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression, and that therefore, Obama shouldn't try another New Deal.

When I say Fox News' assertion about historians is patently false, they literally laugh at me as if I've said something so clearly untrue, something Americans supposedly assume is so obviously stupid, that it's worthy of ridicule.

The Depression issue was brought up by conservative pundit Monica Crowley - not surprising since this is the conservative talking point du jour ever since the "center-right nation" meme started looking idiotic....
....

If the right wants to try to stop a serious economic recovery package and financial regulations by trying to vilify one of the most popular presidents and popular policy programs in American history, then I'll say what George Bush once said: Bring it on.

"Bring it on!" indeed.

Watch the Fox News clip here. The comments on Roosevelt's policies during the Great Depression begin at about 3:14 minutes into the clip.

Doxy Eats Crow And Loves It

Doxy brings you news of great joy. I'm giving the good news away, but do read her post. It's so much fun to watch my friends eat crow.