Christmas | MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Play Adventure Elf

This is a Christmas game I found following links from the NORAD tracker…below the fold ’cause it’s a Shockwave thing.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Merry Christmas!

Mary and Jesus

It’s Christmas all over

…at the Christmas Carnival, put together by my Cotillion sis Kat. Find all the good Christmas stuff there!

Baby Jesus

Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica

Better than watching NORAD: watching Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s. Watch it on EWTN or on the internets HERE. It’s on now!

NORAD tracking Santa

He’s in Norway now! (As of 4:50pm Central.)

Candidates’ Christmas ads

These are the best, in my opinion.

John McCain - this tells the story of the spirit of Christmas better than anything. The NH Union Leader’s Drew Cline writes:

McCain sent this mailer to New Hampshire households this week:

“As a POW, my captors would tie my arms behind my back and then loop the rope around my neck and ankles so that my head was pulled down between my knees. I was often left like that throughout the night.

“One night a guard came into my cell. He put his finger to his lips signaling for me to be quiet, and then loosened my ropes to relieve my pain. The next morning, when his shift ended, the guard returned and retightened the ropes, never saying a word to me.

“A month or so later, on Christmas Day, I was standing in the dirt courtyard when I saw that same guard approach me. He walked up and stood silently next to me, not looking or smiling at me. After a few moments had passed, he rather nonchalantly used his sandaled foot to draw a cross in the dirt. We stood wordlessly looking at the cross, remembering the true light of Christmas, even in the darkness of a Vietnamese prison camp. After a minute or two, he rubbed it out and walked away.

“That guard was my Good Samaritan. I will never forget that man and I will never forget that moment. And I will never forget that, no matter where you are, no matter how difficult the circumstances, there will always be someone who will pick you up and carry you.

“May you and your family have a blessed Christmas and Happy Holidays,

“John McCain”

It’s the best piece of direct mail I’ve ever seen. And to top it, today the campaign released this television ad version of the mailer.

Fred Thompson - Pure class. A comment from The Fred File says it all:

Senator Thompson’s ad has the proper focus during this challenging time in our nation’s history - on our courageous men and women in uniform, who are protecting us and ensuring that we can celebrate Christmas. The Senator rightly humbles and subordinates himself, and elevates and magnifies our troops. It is certainly my hope that all of our citizens adopt this perspective toward those who serve.

Merry Christmas to All ~

Allen
SheetAnchor.org

Indeed.

And last but certainly not least–this really needs no description, does it?

Christmas is near!

And not so coincidentally, that’s the name of the new theme I just loaded here, thanks to the generosity of the brilliant Nicki (an Alabama sister!) at Nitallica.org. Do me a favor–vote for Nicki’s free Wordpress Christmas theme here, please!

101 Christmas shows to watch online

Who needs teevee when you have the internets? It’s all at the link, but here are the first six:

The Essentials

I’m reposting these from last year’s list because these are the items most people want to see. If you can only watch a couple of holiday specials, these are the ones to watch. This is the proverbial ‘hall of fame’ of Christmas programming.

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (click to watch)

2. A Charlie Brown Christmas (click to watch)

3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (click to watch)

4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (click to watch)

5. Frosty the Snowman (click to watch)

6. A Christmas Story Movie (click to watch)

Ehh…I’d be remiss in not posting these as well, because if you haven’t already seen them, you haven’t been around the internets much:

Viral Christmas Videos

Because you will always be subjected to your distant cousin or long-lost friend sending you links to these videos long after you originally watched them on YouTube.

91. Christmas Fight! Two Toddlers Battle Over a Gift (click to watch)

92. Dick in a Box (click to watch)

93. Crazy Christmas Light Display (click to watch)

94. Rabid Child Gets Nintendo 64 from Santa (click to watch)

There are actually some others I can think of off the top of my head that aren’t in the list, mainly music videos (no Christmas in Hollis in the list?), but I’m not going to slog through YouTube finding all of them now. Maybe later.