Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Merry Christmas to everyone. I’ll be at the in-laws today. Buck, thanks very much! The book arrived just in time - in the mail on Christmas Eve. I can’t wait to spend some time with it. Everyone take care & enjoy your time with your family!
… and see the Bean Nativity.

First time ever. Yay me.

Well, maybe you are.
With LRAD, you just aim it at a member of the crew, and have an interpreter “speak” to the sailor. It was noted that the guy on the receiving end was sometimes terrified, even after he realized it was that large American destroyer that was talking to him. This apparently gave the [...]

via One Good Move,
A Pause from Death… A longish quote, emphasis mine:
The United Nations General Assembly voted on Tuesday for a global moratorium on the death penalty. The resolution was nonbinding; its symbolic weight made barely a ripple in the news ocean of the United States, where governments’ right to kill a killer is enshrined [...]

Matthew 6:22-23 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, [...]

Damn

I disagree with the sentiment and substance on one level (and on another level, somewhat agree)… but the attack is clever… Ron Shank: ‘Look Mitt, just be honest and say, “You bet I’ll make a good president, I’m working my way up to ruler of my own universe - so I got a lot riding [...]

This is a cute parody of this (which is, in turn, a great parody of itsself).

I’m not sure they really meant this apology, but it’s good to see Fred Thompson is willing to reach out to Huckabee and build a coalition while they are competitors.

David Cutcliffe going to Duke?
That would be a dream come true for any Bulldog fan.
Man, David Cutcliffe absolutely owns Willie Martinez. 
It would suit me to never have to see him again on the football field.