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…Lots of good food and nice gift exchanges on Christmas Eve plus some bonus presents from Santa on Christmas morning. Whereupon we got in the car and visited my Grandmother…

Merry Christmas and Holidays from the Bears to our readers….

Been knocked around quite a bit since 2000; but, I m still here and fighting. I hope you and family have a good Christmas and New Years with family and…

…more fortunate than those around you or others in the world today, it is Christmas today and a time to give of yourselves in celebration of this day. Peace to…

…military convicted them of or charged them with war crimes, clearly because he likes the idea of indiscriminate killing–and so do some of his supporters.” Paul Krugman, who won the…

 – by New Deal democrat Our last bit of news before Christmas continued the positive news, as initial jobless claims declined back to 214,000, while the four week average also declined…

From Dan and Bill, and contributors to all our readers….