Forget impeachment -- Here is the most
stunning political story this Christmas
Fox News,
by
Joshua Rogers
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
12/22/2019 3:32:45 AM
It was 2007 and I was feeling patriotic about the Iraq War. I was also getting to know my fiancee's extended family, and at a family get-together my future sister-in-law shared her anti-war views. I couldn't help myself. I had to respond.
My future sister-in-law said that the war was ruining America's reputation across the world. I said I didn’t care what the world thought, and then I proceeded to tell her what I thought of the rest of the world.
Finally, I shut down the conversation with a serenade.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GO3 12/22/2019 7:00:19 AM (No. 268967)
Every year I promise my wife I will not start any political discussions. True to form the liberals in the family start them, and then I finish them. Take a guess who the bad guy is.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/22/2019 7:21:06 AM (No. 268977)
Jesus was not born into poverty. He was born in a manger because Joseph and/pr Mary forgot to call ahead for reservations in Bethlehem, at a busy travel time.
It was not unlike someone who was going to Pittsburgh for the Super Bowl, but forgot to make hotel reservations.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 12/22/2019 8:04:27 AM (No. 269018)
Spot on, #2! At this time of year especially I get so sick of hearing that the Holy Family was poor or homeless. Joseph was not a deadbeat dad who couldn't support his family. Jesus' being born in Bethlehem fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament. There was no way to make reservations. It wasn't a case of poverty.
In an interesting side note, several times in the Gospels people seem to know of both St. Joseph, by referring to Jesus as the son of the carpenter, and of Jesus himself at the very beginning of his "public life". They must have had some reputation as carpenters.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/22/2019 9:29:18 AM (No. 269074)
Good perspective in this story. Instead of the Three Wise Men from the Far East, we are treated to the Three Idiots from California. The problem with trying to argue with a liberal is that their ears close automatically when the truth is spoken so you might as well discuss the problems of Penguins in Antarctica.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Moritz55 12/22/2019 9:59:11 AM (No. 269103)
Thanks for posting this, Miss Molly!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fayebeck 12/22/2019 10:51:57 AM (No. 269142)
January 2 is my favorite day of the year. Back to a normal routine life. Work and stuff. I always wondered why Christmas is the only holiday requiring news about suicide hot lines and mental health help. Wife and I after years of expensive stuff for the "children" and other shopping would become irritable with each other and depressed decided that we would just not get into the rat race. Besides Christmas is too commercial so why do people continue to make it commercial?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/22/2019 11:09:30 AM (No. 269156)
..Except it was Caesar Tiberius.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/22/2019 11:26:46 AM (No. 269164)
Christmas can become too commercial but it is all in the attitude. It is also a time of the year when you can do something special for someone. Perhaps, in the process, you can get to know that person a little bit better too. Sometimes people get too caught up in the ideology that Christmas is too commercial and get depressed. How about turning it into a positive time with family, friends etc.?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
fayebeck 12/22/2019 12:51:19 PM (No. 269209)
#8 a person can do all that any day of the year..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/22/2019 4:04:14 PM (No. 269303)
The custom of the day was for young women to marry older men who had become established in their business. Joseph was a successful woodworker, which meant harvesting the trees, sawing them into lumber, stacking it to dry, then making whatever he was contracted to make for customers. This required some financial wherewithal and physical strength.
The author might be understating the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth, in that he could very well have been born outside where the animals were fed, and placed in the feeder, as Scripture confirms. Jesus was the descendant of the obedient shepherd boy, David, who tended his father's flocks not far from Bethlehem before he became a national hero killing Goliath with a stone to the head.
By the time Jesus was born, religious rulers had ruled that shepherds were "ceremonially unclean" to enter the Temple or partake in religious festivals. So who were the first ones told of the Savior's birth? Why shepherds in David's field! And no, the Wise Men weren't there, but came around two years of age bringing His parents enough gold to pay for their journey to Egypt to escape the bloody evil of Herod.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/22/2019 4:50:51 PM (No. 269327)
I had to ask my wife to order her 95 year old father to shut up about Politics or I would leave dinner or any other part of the visit! I get it...you are a liberal and I'm an idiot. Not going to argue the point which is not important during the celebration of The King coming to earth as a baby!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/22/2019 5:43:11 PM (No. 269352)
What everyone on the left keep ignoring is the fact that Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem to pay TAXES, unlike about 47% of Americans today.
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