Motley Moose – Archive

And hopefully you have a better time with Santa than my beautiful baby girl did!

I just wanted to pass on, to all of you who have joined our community here at the Moose, how thankful I am to have you guys here. This is truly a community, as tight-knit and firm a bond as any. Amazing, in this day and age, with the anonymity of the Internet and the distances separating us, that a group of people could come together the way we have. In that light, I’d like to share a prayer.

Heavenly Father,

In your name we pray. Amen.

Wherever you are this Christmas, and whatever you’re doing, God Bless you all- have a wonderful day

The US Air Force, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), and Pentagon sources confirm that Santa’s Sleigh was lost from radar screens at 2,300 feet, somewhere over the western Bering Sea, after tracking a steep descent. Aviation experts said that if the descent continued at that rate, Holiday celebrations around the globe would likely turn somber this year.

Governor Sarah Palin (R – AK), has declared a state of emergency and insists that every available resource would be dedicated to the search and rescue effort. At a press conference with Gov. Palin, which included an odd ceremony in which a large caliber rifle was boiled then buried in her back yard, the Governor said, “We think Putin raised his head up over there in Russia, under the umbrella of job creation, also Maverick”.

I moved away from my small hometown in West Virginia more than seven years ago and vowed never to return for anything other than a visit.  Less than two weeks ago, I made such a visit under very unpleasant circumstances–to say goodbye to a dying relative.  At her funeral, I was reunited with family and old friends I hadn’t seen in many years.  Most of them were from the evangelical church I attended as a child.  We hugged and kissed and prayed and through the tears, tried to catch up and pledged to keep in touch.  I love those people and they love me.  And most of them are bigots.

I am what you might call a “recovering Catholic.”

Raised in the Catholic faith my whole life, after a recent experience with a priest who ended up getting arrested for statutory rape (no, don’t worry, not with me) and a church hierarchy that is more hypocritical than Snoop Dogg telling kids not to smoke weed, I’ve begun to realize that the Church does not share all of my values. While I have many Catholic friends and idolize President Kennedy, I think it’s about time I found a new “religion”–I believe in God, but as you’ll see, I don’t believe in hypocrisy and lies.

I heard the best joke earlier today.

Dear Governor Palin,

The economy isn’t doing so well, but I won’t ask for money to pay off my debts this Christmas.

My running shoes are falling apart, but I won’t ask for a new pair this Christmas.

There are so many wonderful books to read in this world, but I won’t ask for any this Christmas.

Hell, Governor Palin, I’m not even going to ask for world peace this Christmas.

All I really, really want for Christmas this year is simple:  Would you please stop talking?

Barack Obama – August 4

That pic is to fucking awesome to not share again.

Really.

I want to know.

Who was born on the same day as you?

http://www.famousbirthdays.net…

(yes, I went THERE with the url)

Spiff – March 13

1964 Will Clark (baseman)

1960 Adam Clayton (musician)

1956 Dana Delaney (actress)

1953 Deborah Raffin (actress)

1950 Williams H. Macy (actor)

1949 Donald York (singer)

1939 Neil Sedaka (songwriter, singer)

1934 Dick Katz (pianist, composer)

1933 Mike Stoller (record producer, songwriter)

1930 Peter Breck (actor)

Meh.

Not bad.

(wish it was better)

Come out of lurk mode and share peeps.

Before Franken-Coleman, there was the 1974 open-seat US Senate race in New Hampshire that pitted Republican Louis Wyman against Democrat John Durkin.

With Watergate fresh on voters’ minds, running as a Republican was not an easy task (man, this really is eerily similar). Still, New Hampshire remained a light “red” state, and the name of Wyman was a respected one in the region.

On election night, it appeared as though Wyman had won by 355 votes. Insurmountable, right?

Something occurred to me today as I was snowed in my house for the third consecutive day.

You see, that’s the curious thing about snow; a good lot of it will lock you down with your family, your books, your pen and paper. We’ve got a different kind of faith here up in the Snow Belt–a faith that’s just as strong as the Bible Belt and just as vibrant as the Sun Belt. The Snow Belt is nothing less than the center of New York’s existence and the heart of its politics. (Apparently, according to a bunch of richer people than I, the “brain” of such politics resides downstate on Long Island or Westchester County. Yeah, explain that–I don’t make the rules.)