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Maybe if they put a huge tariff on bullets.. https://wydaily.com/latest/alerts/2025/12/24/police-man-shoots-self-in-foot-at-williamsburg-premium-outlets/ I'm willing to bet he skipped those open carry classes held down the street

Players bumping into each other fumbles, sacks..... Sombody needs to turn off the Dan Campbell bot and reboot the program. It's stuck in 2020

I don't see any listed in a reasonable distance from me. I haven't been to one in over 30 years. A couple of local places here serve much better Fish & Chips anyway

The people are speaking

You could also include the absence of led paint in many of the older lower income apartment buildings

Did it have the spinning disc with different colors that would shine on the tree? The ones we've had usually had the lights attached. We just needed to add whatever other ornaments. Just hauling the box in and out of storage became a hassle, and after a couple of years it would be brelagated to a giant garbage type plastic bag. My major seasonal decoration these days are single candles in the windows

I have no problem with them flying in their machines, but around here there are a number who seem to transfer their piloting skills into their driving. I guess that's what you get putting a 20 or 30 something into a jet then have them transition into "rush hour" traffic. The same goes for young sailors who buy their first "muscle car"

My dad was a nurseryman, we spent many of years with a tree "borrowed from the farm" so to speak and replanted for later sale. I dislike cut trees and falling needles, no matter how well you keep them watered. We've gone the artificial route a few times, just too much work for a short period of time and with just the two of us at home if we don't travel around Christmas it's not wort the hassle now that our son is grown. I do have a wooden tree, it works well and gives me the same symbolism.

Or float

Today's JVL post. Plus what is DJT's obsession with naming everything after himself? Traditionally one has to be dead to have government buildings on non battleship battleships named after them. Especially a military weapon when he avoided serving in the armed services because of fake bone spurs https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-class-battleships-are-the-navys?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

December 23 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-23

The former Tiffany Network is now Sarah Coventry (showing my age) bad costume jewelry

It is, in effect, a declaration of war, since the establishment of a blockade is an act of war.

Now they're targeting the Smithsonian...

December 22

That was the rumor. I was there he was tossing underhand. Probably from about 15-20 feet if I remember correctly. If he blew it doing that, his arm was toast anyway. (He also wasn't expected to be there, he was hanging with Jeff Weaver when he tried the toss

December 21 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-21?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2025-1221-12212025

Actually I prefer another viewing of Lion in Winter. The ultimate family gathering at Christmas. Katherine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Terry and a very young Anthony Hopkins.

Not a peeve, just a full out WTF. We've been going round and round the past week with Wayfair. My wife decided she would like an electric fireplace after visiting family over Thanksgiving. She found what she wanted on Wayfair. OK, the price was reasonable, it's Christmas, let's do. She ordered a combination TV stand and fireplace. Two boxes were delivered around December 6. One contained the TV cabinet the other a fireplace insert. We put the cabinet together, the fireplace insert was two big. That started a whole chain of calls and texts to Wayfare. Pictures included to show the boxes and the problem. OK they shipped a second box, this was supposed to be the correct stand. Nope, its another insert, the same size as the one they sent before. Wayfare is blaming it on the manufacturer. Meanwhile I'm trying to get clarification on whether or not we need to return something since they are giving us mixed symbols. I forgot to add, I broke down the box that contained the stand, trying to be helpful, and get it ready for the recycling center. We spent the morning taking apart the stand and taping together the box that evidently they now either do or do not want depending on who we get on the phone. The stand and both inserts are now sitting in the garage either waiting to be returned or put on the next neighborhood yard sale.There is another delivery coming at an undetermined time with either a new stand or a third insert. Meanwhile the TV is sitting on the floor, waiting for someone to attach it to the wall tomorrow morning.....

Gadsden left no record of why he chose the rattlesnake, although it was already established in his home city of Charleston as a symbol of defense and vigilance. One patriot there called it a “noble and useful” animal, and it was drawn there and elsewhere on militia flags and drums. Benjamin Franklin made the snake an icon of America in his 1754 cartoon “Join, or Die,” depicting the colonies as severed segments of a serpent. This illustration was much reproduced in the years since and is elaborated upon by Franklin in the Pennsylvania Journal on Dec. 27, 1775: ”She has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders…The Rattle-Snake is solitary, and associates with her kind only when it is necessary for their preservation. “Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces. “The power of fascination attributed to her, by a generous construction, may be understood to mean, that those who consider the liberty and blessings which America affords, and once come over to her, never afterwards leave her, but spend their lives with her.”

December 20 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-20