Happy New Year’s Eve to all of our blog family. We will be spending New Year’s Eve at home this year — preparing for our annual New Year’s party on January 1st. I will be toasting to everyone on our extended blog family. It has been quite a year with a number of changes on the blog, including the addition of our extraordinary team of weekend bloggers. We are now approaching 10 million hits and 10,000 posts. It is hard to believe how far we have come on the blog and yet manage to retain our civility and good humor. I am deeply appreciative to each and every one of you — your contributions and camaraderie on this blog.
Tonight Leslie and I will share our traditional bottle of Schramsberg Sparkling wine. This is my wedding anniversary. Fourteen years ago, Leslie and I eloped on New Year’s Eve after eight years years of dating. (There is an ongoing dispute over calculating the event, I insist that this is our 22nd anniversary but Leslie insists on not counting the eight years of dating). We always celebrate with a bottle of Schramsberg — the bottle I bought after we got hitched at Alexandria City Hall on New Year’s Eve. I used my house school ring to marry Leslie.
We are expecting 150 friends to share in Wasabi Bloody Marys) and our traditional soup: The Bowl of the Wife of Kit Carson Soup. I smoked a Turkey yesterday and will be making the soup this morning. It is like being a cook on a Navy destroyer — and I love it.
Happy Anniversary Jonathan & Leslie; and Best Wishes for many more!
To: JT, Elaine M, Mespo (hope you feel better soon), Nal, Gene H, Rafflaw, Mike Spindell, Mike Appleton and the Regulars – Thank-you for graciously sharing your wit and wise words; Happy New Year to All!
Professor, sometimes marriages by elopement are the best kind. My wife and I eloped and were married by a Justice of the Peace named J. Fred Gore. Judge Gore was one of Al Gore’s family members, an uncle if memory serves correctly. That was 55 years ago, so I guess the magic stuck. As for your family, happy anniversary to you and Leslie as well as happy new year.
Happy new year to all the regulars here. I have become close to some really wonderful and generous people, even though many miles separate most of us. I am sure we will meet many new friends in the coming year and look forward to more lively discussions and intellectual stimulation. May the snark be with you.
A Happy New Year to All! I’m a little under the weather so my posting will be delayed until I’m feeling a little better. Nothing to worry about just a bad cold.
Happy New Year to the good professor and his family, the fine guest bloggers and the regular denizens of this blog.
Please take the time to savor each and every second of 2012, after all, on 12/21/2012; it all comes to a glorious end:
“In addition to this, these cultures believed that there were a race of people who lived on Nibiru that were known as the Anunnaki. According to their creation mythology this superior race of beings came to Earth and genetically engineered human beings. They did this because they needed to get gold ore from our planet in order to help save their own environment. The humans that they created helped them by mining the gold from Africa. The basis for this mythology was found in ancient writings that were recently uncovered in relation to the ancient Sumerians, and they documented this creation in detail in their writings. If they are correct, then the end of the world 2012 that is depicted in the Mayan calendar will also coincide with the return of the Anunnaki. In essence, it would be the return of our creators, and this is also something that is closely linked in with the belief that the Mayan calendar signals the forthcoming Apocalypse.”
http://www.december2012endofworld.com/
I don’t plan on doing any Christmas shopping until after the 21st.
Catullus,
For more on the Anunnaki I would suggest reading “The 9th Planet” by Zitchin, where he expounds on this, if you as yer haven’t. In any event I wish you a Joyous 2012, hopefully of 12 months in duration.
Happy New Year to all!
Happy New Years and Happy Anniversary!!!!
Late to the party:
Put into wide screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJwbwWg8uc
The title says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGMNOwZPUo
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!
Another year behind us… Happy New Year to all.
(Bud, 🙂 )
Professor Turley, Happy Anniversary!
To you and to everyone a wish for a happy and prosperous New Year.
Buon anno nuovo a tutti!
“I smoked a Turkey yesterday …”
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he he he….
Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary Professor and Mrs. Turley.
Happy New Year fellow bloggers.
Happy New Years to all..
Happy New Year to one and all!
May the first person to cross your threshold during the new year, known as the first-foot, be a tall, dark-haired man. …
And, for those of you suffering a hangover, try Pliny the Elder’s recommendation to ancient Romans … fried canaries and raw owl’s eggs.
Professor, first off, my best wishes to you and your family now that we’ve survived 2011 and head into an exciting 2012.
Second, my thanks to you and those who support this blog As someone who has been blogging since the early days, your arrival and engagement only makes the rest of the community better.
Happy New Year to Prof Turley, his family, and his extended internet family!
A paint by mouse holiday greeting card from my big brother- I hope this works. Move your mouse across the picture.
http://www.elion.ee/docs/joulukaart/eng/
Jonathan Happy 2012 and 14th anniversary to you, Leslie. and the whole Meshpucha. Thank you for providing us all with the best blog around and the opportunity to share in a community dedicated to the Constitution and rule of law. On a personal note let me say how honored I feel that you have given me a place to express myself and make good friends in the process.
Prof. Turley,
It is always a pleasure to read your wit and experience in this blog. It is also great to get a daily updates on your articles and I would most certainly suggest to others to do this with your posts.
It is a pleasure to learn about nuances of the law not found in our daily news grind. Thank you for maintaining the blog with your posts and to those who assist. Have a great 2012 and hope you win Best Blog again. We voted for you.
Happy New Year, one and all!
A special thanks to you, Professor Turley, for the honor of being a guest blogger and I wish you and Leslie a very Happy Anniversary – no matter the dating convention followed (pun fully intended).
Happy New Year, Professor. I enjoy your blog every day. It’s good to know that there are still smart people out there, who aren’t willing to knuckle under.
This is a good blog and I appreciate the Turley humor and good graces. Some of us, self included, get cantankerous, or however you spell it, in an effort to be funny and lighten each others day. The Constitution is a serious item with me and I am glad to be able to read subjects which touch upon it and our lives.
As they say in the oil business, Tanks Jon.
Professor,
Enjoy the New Year celebration and thanks for the opportunity to express my strange opinions on your site! We had some wonderful hamburger soup with ground turkey instead of beef!