Before I enter the two day whirlwind of family and friends coming and going at the Quinn household, I wanted to post a Christmas greeting and thank you to all TBP readers, members, contributors, and commentors, who have contributed to this truth seeking effort. I read many other excellent blogs, but only TBP has the kind of intelligent, funny, and sometimes nasty commentary that is both entertaining and informative. I think the average IQ and social intelligence of the average TBP reader/commentor is far above what you will find among the unwashed masses. There are a few dolts among our members, and they know who they are (bb). I know you have taught me far more than I’ve taught others.
Personally this was an extremely heart breaking year for me and my family as we lost my father-in-law Ray Romano, my young niece Jen Romano, and my son’s best friend Tyler Rizol far too soon. These tragic deaths, along with other family medical issues, made this one of the saddest years of our lives. But life must go on. The entire Romano clan will gather at our house today and we’ll honor the memories of the patriarch and my niece. We’ll light three candles on the center island as a remembrance of those we’ve lost.
I’ve had plenty of issues with the site this year and had to switch server companies for the 3rd time. The technical side of running a website is not interesting to me. The site loading problems and attacks from outside parties (yes NSA- I mean you) almost convinced me to throw in the towel. But, it seems some patchwork done by a couple new vendors has fixed the issues. That, and paying ten times as much for my server as I did in previous years, has allowed people to actually log-on and read the site.
TBP will end up 2013 with over 5 million visitors. That’s not bad for a blog I do in my spare time, with most of the articles written on my laptop while I sit in bed watching Duck Dynasty (just kidding). Sometimes the daily grind of keeping the site interesting can wear me down. I’m particularly crotchety on those days. I really appreciate when the other great contributors post their insights. It takes the load off my shoulders. AWD, Stuck, Harry P, and the other regular contributors are all owed a round of applause for their effort.
Lastly, I’d like to thank all of the generous readers who have supported TBP with their kind donations. I would like to list everyone by name, but I think most want to be anonymous. I’ve kept every letter and envelope that has ever been sent to me. They are piled up next to my computer. That will make it much easier for DHS to track you down when they kick in my door and take me away to the FEMA blogger camp.
I hope the readers of TBP have learned something over the last four years. I consider my efforts to be a crusade on behalf of my three sons and their future unborn children. I try to stay focused on the big picture and not be distracted by the day to day minutia from the propaganda arm of the establishment. I think we’ve opened the eyes of some people. I think we are starting to turn the tide. I think we’re on the right side of history. A tipping point will be reached and I don’t think it is too far away. I’ll keep slogging away and seeking the truth. There isn’t much more I can do.
Thank you for keeping this place interesting. I hope you all have a joyous fun-filled Christmas. There will be plenty of time for doom in the new year. For now, just enjoy the embrace of your family and tell them you love them.
thanks Jim for all you do running this site! to you and all the other TBP’s have a Merry Christmas.
Thanks for everything Jim, and have a good Xmas bash.
Merry Christmas Admin. May you and your family have a wonderful day and cherish the time with your family. Merry Christmas to all your readers and contributors.
Bob.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a great year of more doom and gloom….
Can you imagine life without TBP??
I sure as heck can’t!!!!
TBP ….. Jim, TeresaE, AWD, SSS, llpoh, juan …. and the rest of our many old-time beloved regulars …. and the new ones like Billy ……… without you all, I would be INSANE today.
God bless each and every one of you. (That goes for you too, Muck!)
Remember, Jesus is the reason for the season! John
” I wanted to post a Christmas greeting and thank you to all TBP readers, members, contributors, and commentors, who have contributed to this truth seeking effort.”
I read “commentors” as “tormentors.” Your way works too though.
Have a good vacation all.
Fuck yall for forgetting me. (jk). Merry Christmas, (really it’s the feast of Sol Invictus) and a happy Nowruz to everyone. Even the jews among us.
This has been a tumultuous year for me as well. I almost fucked everything and joined a hippie commune, then this french company that I’d never heard of contacted me through a head hunter and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, so I quickly packed up my shit and moved 2,000 away to strange land called Texas.
I share a large house here in a posh neighborhood with a divorced lady who has three boyfriends, neither of which knows anything about the other. For some reason she feels the need to tell me all about the strange, but interesting details of her personal life. She is a true Texan and has never lived north of Interstate 10.
Ahura Mazda only knows what next year will bring…
Admin: thanks for the best website anywhere! To the rest of you reprobates: Merry Crimmus!
Merry Christmas to all from Thailand.
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Merry Christmas to TBP STM. Jim, thanks for all you do and especially kind wishes to the Quinn/Romano clan. I’ll be thinking about y’all tonight at my family get-together.
Trying that again.
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@ AWD
OH MY GOD!!
Is that a UFO in the background?
To the rest of y’all… Fröliche Weinachten…
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From Gods Country and a Southern Redneck………Merry Christmas to one and all !!!!!!
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Billy-What, there is a background?
Billy just for you, a black guy even you might like.
Bob.
German Christmas carols are my favorite.
Bob.
@ Stucky
You’re right. We didn’t have Advent Calendars…
But my son does. The missus makes sure to make that phone call back to the Fatherland to get that care package of chocolate and other stuff, every year..
Nikolaustag is also celebrated in our household…
And yeah, I miss Germany sometimes… I remember my last New Year there. I walked outside through the snow that New Year’s morning and it was bright and sunny and cloudless. Stuttgart just sparkled and then, like it was choreographed, every church bell in town started ringing at the same time…
“German Christmas carols are my favorite.” ———- Bostonbob
After Stille Nacht and O Tannenbaum, this is my favorite.
“O du Fröhliche” by the Vienna Boys’ Choir
What does FSofA mean?
“Nikolaustag is also celebrated in our household… ” ——– Billy
The more I read your stuff, the more I like you. Really.
It was a big holiday in our home also. It also helps that my first name is Nikolaus. Really.
“What does FSofA mean?”
Fascist States of America.
Free Shitters of America.
Take your pick. Context matters.
Hey Stucky,
Remember this?
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Merry Christmas!
Those Germans, not only good engineers, but great singers.
Bob.
Merry Christmas to Admin and all the contributors, posters, commentators that make this blog a special place. Although I don’t comment much I do read most everything that is posted on the site. I appreciate all the efforts by everybody, the information you all provide, the insights, opinions and daily hilarity and of course the shitfests that make this site the most diverse blog on the internet. I raise a glass of holiday cheer and wish you all the best for the holidays and the coming year!
– Peaceout
Thanks admin!
Merry Christmas to all you shit flingers!
Merry Christmas to all,
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Bob
Click on the above video it is not what you think.
Bob.
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Jim – You’re one of the lights in the darkness; best wishes for this Christmas Season (remember that Three Kings Day isn’t until Jan. 6) and for the New Year. Merry Christmas and (B)est (C)onstitutional-(L)ibertarian (R)egards to all
@ Stucky
I remember salamanders!! From my grandfather!
(Trust me, this links in with salamanders)
My great grandfather, the one with the bookbinderies, well he retired and wanted to pass the business on to my grandfather. Gramps had no interest in running the company, so it fell to my great uncle Hans. Hans immediately ran the company into the ground, then sold it, then pissed the money away…
Gramps, meanwhile, used to work covering the best books with leather (while he was working there). He was seriously talented. After he left the company, he went to work for a company that made high-end luggage out of exotic leathers. He was cross-trained as a cobbler, so he also used to repair our shoes when they became worn..
Which is how I know about salamanders.
By the way, I inherited all of gramps’ tools… all his leatherworking tools and bookbinding tools… I’ve dabbled with them, just to get a feel for them. Also have some books on shoe and boot making… everything from “how to stitch” to making your own lasts and your own tools… which is doubly weird since the Missus? Her dad is a shoemaker back in Stuttgart…
Wheels within wheels… I’m starting to think everything is connected in some weird way, but I haven’t seen the pattern yet…
Merry Christmas James! Best wishes to Avalon & family.
The Burning Platform – A wonderful site, by an incredibly insightful writer.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
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admin said:
“That will make it much easier for DHS to track you down when they kick in my door and take me away to the FEMA blogger camp.”
I think you have your sights set a bit high. You’ll be taken away to the FEMA “pound you in the ass” camp but if thinking about it as a “blogger camp” helps…….
Merry Christmas to you Jim. Your work and efforts are appreciated. Also Merry Christmas to Avalon your children and the entire extended Quinn tribe.
I_S
I came across this site in October and have visited it everyday since. Instinctually, I had already turned against the Establishment in the summer of 2013 but couldn’t exactly pinpoint why I no longer was proud to be an American. All I knew was that 9-11 was a false flag and our senseless wars in the Middle East were only benefitting the war profiteers. After coming to this site, the Establishment’s corruption all fit together like a complex puzzle, yet made sense.
This site is definitely the shit and I think historians will look back at the alternative media during this era and commend the true patriots for speaking out against the MSM and the ruling class.
Swaddled in Baby Gap, little Jesus appears to be crying.
Mary tries to gently rock him in her hands, certainly a great moment to remind viewers that you are in good hands with Allstate.
The carpenter Joseph is trying to protect Mary and Jesus, he could certainly use the system he just won from our sponsor ADT.
The cow you see behind them is brought to you by ConAgra, the donkey by Halliburton.
The angels on high in the sky, magnificent 3D computer generated imagery, are from Pixar.
There were reports of shepherds in the area but ICE agents stopped and frisked them and are now herding them to the Fox Newsroom.
CNN experts are talking about the shepherds and talking about the shepherds and talking about the shepherds and talking about the shepherds ….
MSNBC libtards are foaming at the mouth over mixing religion with … well, religion.
Democrats have brought loads of free shit … frankincense, gold, myrrh, and Baby Jeebus’ weight in Food Stamps.
Republicans are giving the gift of Big Cutbacks … a shredder to cut up the food stamps …. insisting that Mary and Joseph become more self reliant.
Goldman Sachs promises a Big Donation so that Mary and Joe’s next baby will be born in better circumstances ….. but then retracts the promise when they realize Jeebus will eventually condemn them to everlasting hell.
Amerikan drones bomb the nearby fields killing Three Wise Kings … just for the helluvit. Amerika apologizes and promises to look into it. 2,000 years later America is still droning the shit out of the area.
Benjamin Netanyajoo’s great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Herod, tries to fuck-up Christianity by killing Jeebus. He fails. 2,000 years later, Christian America is fucked up by Netanyajoo.
Walmart sets up a booth and advertises mangers at 50% discount.
Mary and Joseph weep.
Yup. Modified somewhat from an article on Counterpunch.
No nativity scenes, no comments about gays allowed, change name of Christmas because it’s offensive to Godless liberals. It’s good to know some things are still allowed
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Gay Pride!
Alabama Residents Outraged Over Drag Queen Dance Group’s Routine During Christmas Parade
Jim, keep on rocking in the free world, as long as it lasts! You do a great service for freedom, but please burn those envelopes. I’m trying to stay one step ahead of DHS………
T4C, someone needs to tell I_S that cocker spaniels are worthless, annoying, needy and brain-dead before he makes a huge mistake.
TBP and Zero Hedge most kick-ass websites of all time…
I_S, my former girlfriend had one of those fuckers. It was spoiled and would whine every time we were eating. It was constantly underfoot in the kitchen. If it got outside without a leash, it would just run off. I hated that worthless piece of shit and daydreamed that I would kick it through a football goal post and shout, “Three points!!!”
Merry Christmas Jim. Even though Thanksgiving has passed, I’m thankful every day for all of the work you put into this site. My New Years resolution is to send you a few articles to help ease your work load for this site.
Here’s some music I think we can all agree on:
Merry Christmas and Happy (belated) Hanukkah to everyone that has taken the time to add a little joy here in the comments section.
“My New Years resolution is to send you a few articles to help ease your work load for this site.”
————- BOOSH!
+100
That should be EVERYONE’S goal this year. If every regular here posted JUST ONE article per week, that would be such a load off Admin’s schedule. Please participate.
Enormous Headache-You didn’t use your real return address, did you? Rookie move.
AWD that’s funny as shit, poor ole bb takes it in the ass everytime. LOL
Zara, much like kids, it’s all in how ya raise ’em! Our dogs have never begged because nothing they ever eat comes from our plates or dinner table. People food is not good for dogs (or people) and they are NEVER conditioned to expect anything we are eating because they NEVER receive anything we eat. Our dogs have always been happy to go out and play or even take a nap when we eat.
Train your dogs correctly and they will fantastically behaved companions. Let them rule the roost and they will train their owners. Dogs are hierarchical pack animals. They will gladly assume dominance if you allow it.
Sounds like your friends Cocker was never trained correctly. I can make any breed of dog behave as you describe with almost no effort. It takes a bit of effort, patience and a lot of consistency to train a dog properly. Just like kids!
I_S