Mr. Misanthrope
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| Registered on: | 11/4/2012 |
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re: The move of Jesus in and amongst Islam is truly a thing to behold these days
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/27/25 at 4:22 pm to Demonbengal
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Look at what Muslims are doing in and around these centuries old Christmas celebrations in Europe. That is not tolerance.
No it’s not. What ever they may say about Christ and Christians, Christmas really gets under the skin of Islamic Supremacists because it celebrates for twelve days the Feast of The Incarnation.
They cannot and will not tolerate it. It is a, if not the, distinguishing aspect of Christian doctrine from which all other doctrine and belief flow. God Incarnate. And it is this same Jesus who became flesh, whose gospel is converting people who were thought irredeemably lost and in places where few thought possible.
Which what was the original topic of OP’s thread until it was successfully hijacked by the usual suspects.
Jesus Christ is King of Kings, LORD of Lords, and the only God and Savior of Jews and Gentiles. There is no other name by which men and women can be saved from their sins and received into Christ’s Kingdom.
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re: Dave Portnoy running his mouth about LSU
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/27/25 at 3:45 pm to Jack Crevalle
quote:What’s his complaint?
frick this guy. Michigan holier than thou with morals doing things the right way? What a laughable, hypocritical bitch.
re: MAGA is dead, stick a fork in it. Has been successfully co-opted
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/27/25 at 3:35 pm to texas tortilla
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the perfect example now is john cornyn. to watch his re-election commercials, you would think he started maga
Cassidy in Louisiana is another. It’s nauseating.
From The Hill August 2025
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Cassidy has looked to make amends with President Trump after he became one of seven GOP senators to vote to convict the president in his 2021 Senate impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
The two-term GOP senator has since tried to repair his relationship with the president, including backing some of Trump’s more controversial nominees, such as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his confirmation vote earlier this year.
The ads I’ve seen are replays of his previous campaign ads where he wrapped himself in the American flag and blathered on about he and President Trump were going to fix everything.
re: Anyone ever been to Goodwill to do some shopping?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/27/25 at 2:56 pm to Arthur Bach
Never had before. Usually just took stuff to donate. GW or St. Vincent’s.
Went in one day to local GW and found a flawless Ralph Lauren tan fine wale corduroy sport coat that fit perfectly. About $12 if I remember correctly. Same with some pricy brand shirts. Those were about $5 or $6. I check them out now when I donate stuff maybe once a month.
St. Vincent’s had a flawless high end couch we got for about $100 and from GW a 10’ x 14’ rug that complimented it and the paint scheme we went with when renovating our condo. The rug was $65. They’re both in our living room now. Saved us a bundle and are way nicer than anything we’d seen new. What can I say? Mrs M is Scottish and her frugality is catching.:Casty:
GW has changed and they screen intake pretty carefully for valuable items and sell or auction them online. Gone are the days of finding Newcomb pottery or a Frederick Remington.
Now that I think about it, I did get a nicely framed Audubon Raven print from GW years back before they started screening intake.
Went in one day to local GW and found a flawless Ralph Lauren tan fine wale corduroy sport coat that fit perfectly. About $12 if I remember correctly. Same with some pricy brand shirts. Those were about $5 or $6. I check them out now when I donate stuff maybe once a month.
St. Vincent’s had a flawless high end couch we got for about $100 and from GW a 10’ x 14’ rug that complimented it and the paint scheme we went with when renovating our condo. The rug was $65. They’re both in our living room now. Saved us a bundle and are way nicer than anything we’d seen new. What can I say? Mrs M is Scottish and her frugality is catching.:Casty:
GW has changed and they screen intake pretty carefully for valuable items and sell or auction them online. Gone are the days of finding Newcomb pottery or a Frederick Remington.
Now that I think about it, I did get a nicely framed Audubon Raven print from GW years back before they started screening intake.
re: According to Liz Crokin Rob was a pedo, trafficked his son, that's why Trump was so harsh.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/20/25 at 12:35 pm to Sassafrasology
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Al Franken made sick pedophile “jokes” at Rob Reiner’s roast implying Rob’s dad not only raped him but that he also sex trafficked him to his buddies.
His buddy Billy Crystal made similar “jokes” about Reiner. For what that’s worth. Pretty sick stuff given it was supposed to be funny.
re: How long did it take you to know your spouse was marriage material? Study says 172 days
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/9/25 at 1:16 pm to dyslexiateechur
She got me in trouble with the Prof in French class by copping my translation of a passage from Baudelaire or some such leaving me hanging on the subsequent passage I was a little shaky on.
He ranted on and on in high gay dudgeon trying to embarrass me with my ineptitude and lack of idiomatic fluency.
I threatened her with violence if she ever did shite like that again and then asked her to coffee at the Union.
I knew before the third cup. Nearly fifty years ago.:LOL:
He ranted on and on in high gay dudgeon trying to embarrass me with my ineptitude and lack of idiomatic fluency.
I threatened her with violence if she ever did shite like that again and then asked her to coffee at the Union.
I knew before the third cup. Nearly fifty years ago.:LOL:
re: Anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/8/25 at 1:11 am to oldtrucker
We will remember until the sea gives up her dead.
My Uncle Steve, my Mom’s sister’s husband, was dockside receiving and checking in containers of provisions when the explosion blew him out of his senses, off his feet, and into a bunch of crates and gear.
RIP Uncle Steve and Aunt Leona.
re: Favorite obscure Christmas songs 2025
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/8/25 at 12:27 am to meeple
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I just replaced the version I have with this one, thanks!
Your welcome.
I stumbled on that a few years ago. Good set. Minimal accompaniment. Stunning vocals. Powerful message. Great music for Advent and Christmas.
I’m glad you liked it.
re: No green in the flag, Is that code?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/7/25 at 2:55 am to OWLFAN86
No Scottish women? Probably her skein dubh.
re: Favorite obscure Christmas songs 2025
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/7/25 at 2:07 am to Mr. Misanthrope
Forgot one. It’s my favorite version of Mary, did you know?
re: Favorite obscure Christmas songs 2025
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 12/7/25 at 2:06 am to meeple
re: Court Rules 12-Year-Old's Mother Cannot Read Her the Bible, Take Her to Church
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/30/25 at 8:43 pm to SlowFlowPro
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You have it backwards
Explain why.
re: Many (most?) companies still can’t bring themselves to use the word ‘Christmas’
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/30/25 at 6:12 pm to RFK
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This is a country of SEVERAL faiths.
Would you want “Happy Eid” shoved down your throats?
Or Kwanza?
It’s a Christian Holy Day, The Feast of The Incarnation. Christ’s Mass.
Honor it or don’t, but don’t inhibit, impede, or deny Christians’ faith and how they practice it.
But, it’s only the First Sunday in Advent and Christmas is weeks away, so I’m going to get back to some somber thoughts and devotions about why I desperately need a Savior to prepare myself for the Great Feast of Christ’s Incarnation.
This from Job is currently on my mind:
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If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.
That’s as clear a hope for a mediator who’s fully God and fully human as I can imagine. In one of the Bible’s oldest books.
re: 10 Things Old People Like
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/30/25 at 5:45 pm to shutterspeed
Does waking up on the sunny side of the dirt count?
re: Anyone here taking creatine monohydrate on the regular?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/30/25 at 5:43 pm to Sassafrasology
Yes. Five grams in my morning coffee. Clearer thinking and fatigue comes much later in the day. I’m 72.
re: Court Rules 12-Year-Old's Mother Cannot Read Her the Bible, Take Her to Church
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/30/25 at 5:39 pm to RelentlessAnalysis
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Dad got this right and does not want mom taking the child to some snake-charmer evangelical cult.
Come on man, surely you don’t believe he’s right and the church is a snake handling cult?
You don’t have a personal beef with Jesus Christ like the girl’s Dad evidently does?
The Dad’s a monster risking irreparably harming his own daughter. He’s using her to inflict emotional, mental and spiritual duress on her mother under the subterfuge of being concerned for the child’s mental wellbeing. And, very likely destroying any chances for the three of them to have a halfway healthy family relationship in the process.
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“ Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.“
re: Female Guardsmen not expected to survive… UPDATE: she has passed away
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/27/25 at 5:37 pm to BestBanker
quote:Amen. And give grace, wisdom, insight, and strength to all who are devoting themselves to her cure.
Be healed, in the Holy name of Jesus, the Great Physician. Amen
re: Can’t watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade with kids anymore.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/27/25 at 5:09 pm to Oates Mustache
quote::casty::Lol:
It was Captain Jack Sparrow, not Captain Jack Swallow
re: Now the Annual Thanksgiving Play by Play Thread
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/27/25 at 5:03 pm to MikeD
quote:That was code. He was telling you he’s a noisy nauseatingly stinky toilet plugging defecator who shouldn’t be allowed in a dwelling where food is cooked and eaten, much less actually “right off the kitchen.”:Lol:
One of the folks staying with us asked this morning if we had a bathroom “that wasn’t right off the kitchen.
re: Why don't you do Christmas?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/26/25 at 12:50 am to Chuck Barris
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All ICE resources should be redirected towards deporting anyone who puts up Christmas lights before Advent or keeps them up after Epiphany.
:Cheers: to the hardcore orthodox traditionalists yet among us-backs bowed, brows furrowed, stiff jointed, limping down straight paths worn deep over ages past by faithful sojourners before them.
I admit I compromised years back and started doing my outdoor lighting on the Fourth Sunday in Advent and lighting it all up on Christmas Eve and turning everything off on Epiphany at midnight.
It’s disconcerting and discouraging -this rush to Christmas-mostly treating Thanksgiving as a bump in the road in route to the great secular mid-winter commercial festival.
I’m in KC with Mrs M visiting/helping our youngest daughter, son in law with newest grandson, our tenth.The KMart near us is essentially already out of Christmas stuff having what’s left on picked over discount shelves. Maybe more is on the way but it doesn’t seem so.
re: ChatBot Jesus - Which OTr's are addicted?
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope on 11/17/25 at 5:54 pm to Shexter
I’m waiting for the “Play Frisbee with Jesus” robots. They look like the chatbot but have nicer sandals.
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